Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1901 — Page 7

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Bales Lumber Company Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Doors, Windows, Sewer Pipe Flue Linings, Vitrified Brick, Hard and Soft Coal, Etc.’ Esiimiiies cWiiily miniM. We want your order for one piece or a cargo. “Tell It to the Neighbors.” Rensselaer, - Ind. Office and Yards Opposite Monon Depot.

» Commercial State Bank North Side of Public Square, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. siom qi wiioii oi Close 01 its Business, on me 3isi day 01 oor, 1901. RESOURCES. , n LIABILITIES. and DiscountsSl62.oMJSß Capital Stock Paid in $ 25.000.00 !l v S r SL raf t 8 570.00 || Surplus Fund 3,000.00 U.B. Bonds. 11,900.00 Undivided Profits 42.00 Due from Banks and Bankers.. 39 298.10 | Discount, Exchange and 1nt.... 4,445.13 Banking House 5.585 00 Deposits * 196.254.78 leak 9.321.28 , 0228,741.91 4 $228,741.91 We respectfully mill the attention of the public to the foregoing statement of our condition, as reported to the Auditor of State. We have money to loan on farm and city property and on personal security at reasonable rates and without delay. We pay interest on Savings, sell drafts on Foreign Countries, make investments on First Mortgage Security for our customers, rent safe deposit boxes for safe keeping of papers, and tansact a general banking business. We respectfully solicit a share of t.he public patronage, promising fair and courteous treatment to all. Addisos Pabkison, JamkhT. Rakdls, ) Jons M. Wasson. Gbo. E. MubbaY. j Directors. E. L. Hollisobwobth, ) 5 Per Cent Farm Loans a Specialty.

THE 99 CENT ..Racket Store.. The Greatest and Most Up-To-Date Store In Rensselaer, People come 35 and 40 miles to trade with us. No wonder, when they can get twice as much for their money as elsewhere; we have not been very long in Rensselaer but we have built up a business second to none, and for the short time of our stay we are known far and near as being the greatest bargain center of the 20th century. While we handle ever, thing you need for your daily wants for yourself and family, we are head and shoulders above all others for TOYS AND HOLIDAY GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Our toy department covers one entire side of our store and is a grand exposition of playthings that will give the little people a glimpse of Fairyland. Every little boy and girl will receive a present of a souvenir the week before Christmas. We have the finest line of China, Water Sets, Glassware, Silver-ware, Jewelry and kll the latest novelties known to mankind which will be on exhibition at our store from now on and until after Holidays. Make your selections early and avoid the final rush. Be one of the first and get the cream of the bargains before it is too late. The old saying is “the early bird catches the worm,” and the people that buy their Holiday goods first gets the best of bargains; we can save you money and that is what counts nowadays. Come in and see the grandest; store in Jasper County, the largest stock and greatest variety of goods ever put under one roof, and only just think for one moment, Nothing OVBT 99 Cents In the entire Stock, ought to be enough alone to almost entice the people on Jupiter and Mars to come here to do their trading. The Greatest Bargain House and only 99 cent store in Jasper County. Music free by our musical orchestra, pne of the finest in the state. Be sure and give us a call when in Rensselaer, it will pay you. Very Respectfully, THE 99 CENT. RACKET STORE Room formerly Modef’clothing house. Rom x From, woonem.

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Thoroughhrad Poland China Swine • Some Extra Good, heavy boned male pigs of the best breeding and fine finish for sale at $lO to sls each. Also several fine Brood- Sows at $25 each. EVERYTH IN G GUARANTEED. FRANK O’MEARA, Rensselaer, Ind. River Queen Roller Mills.

THE CRIMINAL RECORD. Another skeleton has been found on the farm of Henry Bastian, near Rock ! Island, eight murders now being . charged. Robbers surrounded iu a bank at Archbald. 0., fought their way out, carrying $2,000 in plunder. James G. Green, who murdered E.’ V. Ben jh mln last March, has been hanged at Stevenson, Wash. James J. Hampton, colored, who committed a double murder at Fort White, Fla., nine years ago has been hanged at Lake City, Fla. A mob at Opp. Ala., threatened to lynch twenty-five negroes accused of taking part in the recent race riot State troops are on guard. Burglars blew a safe at Wharton, 0., and got no money. The safe wat blown forty feet into the street. Thirty-nine prisoners in jail at Birmingham, Ala., escaped. A footpad at Lexington, Ky., killed and robbed J. N. Hawkins. T. B. Waters, a traveling salesman of Toledo. 0., jumped out of the thirdstory window at the Hotel Lahr in Lafayette. lud., breaking his neck. The national capital has another crime mystery in the assault upon Mrs. Gilbert, a fashionable dressmaker. who was beaten with a pianostool top and fatally Injured by a miscreant hidden In her bedroom One of a gang of three robbers was killed and a second captured by officers in Strawberry Gulch, S. D. William Sharpless, white, was shot and killed near Oskaloosa, la., by Buck Williams, colored, as the result of an old grudge. Theodore Duerr, aged 50, a merchant of South Milford, Ind., committed suicide. Will McCowan and Willis Buckner, both colored, settled an old enmity by a street duel with pistols at Lincoln, Neb. McCowan was killed. Two more safe blowings are reported from Ohio—one at Felicity, the other at Shreve—but the robbers got nothing in either case. G. L. Rowell and J. S. Overstreet shot and killed each other in a quarrel over some trade matter at Zoifo, Fla. Ben Milam, a former negro slave, has been arrested charged with kidnaping negroes amt selling them as slaves to the manager of a plantation on a stockaded island near New Decatur, Ala. Anderson Norris, colored, who killed Mrs. Emma French at Waco. Tex., Dec. 5, 1960, has been sentenced to be hanged Jan. 5. A reward of $2,500 has iK’en offered for the arrest of H. J. Fleishman, the absconding cashier of the Merchant*' National bank of Loa Angeles. Oscar Anderson, a burglar awaiting trial in the ity prison at Alexandria, Ind., hung himself. Henry E. Gash, traveling salesman

WEEK’S HISTORY.

All the Important Happenings Chronicled in Very Brief Form. TELEGRAPH NEWS BOILED DOWN Attention Given to Events of Moment in Foreign Climes as Welt as Our Own Country. WASHINGTON NOTES." Bills have teen introduced for public buildings at Jacksonville and Pekin, Ills. Congressman Crumpacker has introduced his bill to reduce jsouthern representation in congress. The United States supreme court has taken a recess until Jan. 6. The president appointed Cornelius Van Cott to be postmaster at New York. Director of the Mint Roberts, in his - annual report, recommends an fn- ■ crease in the country’s stock of subsidiary coin, which, he says, is demanded by the country’s growing needs. < A bill has been introduced in the Senate providing for the repeal of the bankruptcy law. The Presbyterian revision committee, iu session at Washington, discussed the question of “election." A bill has been introduced in the house to pay Miss Stone’B ransom. THE POLITICAL FIELD. J. E. Iglehart of Evansville, Ind., is a candidate for successor to Judge Woods. Indiana senators and representatives are unable to agree on a candidate tc succeed the late Judge Woods. Democrats swept Boston by 19,000 plurality, the largest in Its history. Patrick A. Collins was chosen mayor and his party controls city affairs absolutely. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The November statement of the British board of trade show’s decreases of £2.923,200 iu Imports and £1,782,000 tn exports. The Chinese loan of 265,000,000 francs at 3 per cent, will be issued Dec. 21. A dispatch from Sofia to a London Caper says that Miss Stone’s release y the brigands is imminent. Filipino rebels in Luzon are fountf to have killed George Hayes and a party of prospectors who disappeared In March. 1900. It is now declared that Miss Stone has been located exactly, and that she Is alive. The public schools of the Philippines have been instructed to hold annual celebrations in memory of Jose Uizal. the patriot. Distress among German laboring men without employment has made necessary the establishment of soup bouses in large cities of the empire. Kitchener’s last wekely report gives 31 Boers killed. 17 wounded, 372 cap tured and 35 surrendered. King Edward has definitely fixed June 26, 1902, as the date for his coronation. Paul Kruger has taken possession of a new residence at Utrecht, Holland.

for the Galesburg, Ills., branch of the Armour Packing company, has been arrested charged with embezzling sl,BUSINESS NOTES. * The Armours of Chicago have purchased 200 acres of land across the Missouri river from St. Joseph, where It is supposed a packing house will be erected. Street car employes at Minneapolis, St. Paul and Stillwater are to receive an advance in wages Jan. 1. R. It. Scott, proprietor of stores at Bicknell and Mooresville, Ind., has assigned. The Lenoir City bank at Lenoir City. Tenn., has closed its doors. Depositors will lose nothing, it is stated. A syndicate of Chicago capitalists has secured an option on the properties of tlie Bird’s-Eye Coal company in Whitley county, Ky. N. I'. Clark, lumberman of St. Cloud, Minm, has filed a petition In bankruptcy. ~ - Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas “Joint 1 ’ smasher, has announced the suspension of her paper, The Smashers’ JI ail. , The directors of the Omaha Loan and Trust company have decided not to ask for a receiver at present. Affairs of the institution are m the hands of the stock holders’ committee, Wymans having retired. N. \V. Harris & Co. of Chicago have secured the $50,000 sewer and water bonds sold by the city of Charlotte, Mich. Kansas farm products and live stock this year are valued at $350,000,060, an increase of $17,000,000 over last year and an increase In two years of $45,000.000. The Kokomo, Ind., plate glass factory has just turned out the largest pane of glass in the world. It is IMH4 by 122% inches in size and weighs 1,450 pounds. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company of New York has absorbed the American Life Insurance company of Lexington, Ky. The directors of the Western Union Telegraph company have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. The failure of the publishing firm of Butler & Alger, of New Haven, Conn., is announced.

MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Elisha Campbell of New Richmond, Ind., was killed in a runaway In Lafayette. Marion Lutes, Perry Mitchell and Elias Henderson were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Lutes’ sawmill near Seymour. Ind. Mrs. Louis Peterson of Duluth attempted to fill a lighted lamp and was killed. The remains of Major B. I. Bond, son of the Angeliean Metropolitan of Canada, were found in the ruins of his summer residence, which was destroyed by fire near Philipsburg, Que. John F. Wynne of Allegan, Mich., was thrown under a wheel and killed while trying to board a wagon to which a team of skittish colts were attached. M. W. Ament, of Litchfield, Ills., a traveling man, was caught by a switch engine of the Big Four near his home and killed. Five more deaths have occurred as a result of the head-end collision between two passenger trains on the St Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad near Malvern, Ark., making a total of eight Flossie Delabretonne, the 2-year-old daughter of H. V. Delabretonne of New Orleans, and Mary Ernest aged 17, his sister-in-law, were burned to death in a tire which destroyed the cottage of Mr. Delabretonne. Manager Johnson, of the Postal Telegraph company, bls son. and a negro driver were killed three miles from Newton. Miss., by a falling tree. The 10-year-old sou of Joseph Kmeller of Columbia City, Ind., was drowned in a pond near that place. Twenty persons were injured in a wreck on the Central of Georgia railroad near Macon. Jesse Oldham, a farmer who lived near Winterset la., fell over a precipice while walking in the timber and broke his neck. Mrs. Eli Clark and her little granddaughter were burned to death at Oden, Ind. Herbert Wallace, who served as trumpeter in Torrey’s rough riders during the Spanish-American war. was Instantly killed by a premature explosion of a shot in the Copper King mine at Tie Siding. Wyo. Engineer Cooper and a fireman were killed in a head-end freight collision on the Northern Pacific near North Yakima, Wash. John Daley, one of the proprietors of the co-operative coal mine in Fairbury, Ills., was killed' by a rock falling upon him while in the mine. Mrs. C. A. Baker of Delaware, 0., died in a Columbus. 0., hospital from the effects of an anaesthetic administered to rewove a small growth on her neck. NOTABLE DEATHS. Colonel John Doniphan, Who served with his uncle. General A. W. Doniphan. in successful campaigns In the Mexican war, is dead at his home in St. Joseph, Mo. THE FIRE RECORD. The convicts’ kitchen at the Chester, Ills., penitentiary has been destroyed by fire. Fire caused over $250,000 damage to the National Starch company's works at Des Moines. A cotton figure of Santa Claus in a store window at Wllkesbarre, Pa., caused a $260,000 fire. The plant of the Wabash Screen company, with its lumber yards at Rhinelander, Wls., burned. Loss, $400,000. The business section of Hoopestown, Ills., was destroyed by fire. Six business houses, a livery stable and eight dwellings were burned at Wayne, W. Va. Loss, $50,000, Fire destroyed the drykiln of the Tacoma, Wash., Mill company, with 75,000 feet of lumber, causing a loss of $20,000. with no Insurance. Fire at Wooster, 0., destroyed the main building of Wooster university. Loss, $250,000; Insurance, $70,000. A three-story saw factory in Brooklyn owned by Joshua Oldham & Sons baa been burned.

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Judge Now Gives Her Any Quan* tity of Tim«» in Which to Repent. BAYS THE MARRIAGE MUST STIOK Lawrenceburg Experiences a Surprise —Terrible Accident to Thomas Nolan—State Notes. Marlon, Ind., De. 12.—Judge Paulus, a? the Grant circuit court, yesterday refused to annul the marriage contract entered Into a few weeks ago by Miss Rhetta Huff, daughter of William Huff, -a n’t i rod funner of Van Buren, this county, and John D. Ellis, of St Louis, Mo. This is a case which created a sensation when called in the local courts two weeks ago, It never having been known, prior to that time, that Miss Huff was married. Mrs. Ellis’ story is that she wfent to St Louis on an excursion one Sunday last August It was her intention to spend a few days there. The first day in the city she met Ellis. Flirtation the Cause of It AIL Their acquaintance was brought about through a flirtation, she admits, and he asked permission to escort her to her hotel. She consented, and when they arrived there Ellis Incidentally remarked that he knew where she could get rooms at a private boarding house for much less money than she was paying at the hotel, and offered his services In providing her with such apartments. She was willing, and the next day Ellis, she alleges, took her to the boarding house, followed her to the rooms assigned, and when they got inside told her that she must marry him. She was threatened, she claims, should she refuse. Finally Consented to Marry. On Aug. 17, she says, she consented to the marriage. They continued to live at the same boarding house, and on Aug. 27 she succeeded in making her escape and returned at once to her parents. When they were told of her experience they immediately notified Ellis that she should never live with him, and the case to annul the marriage was filed. Much evidence was Introduced, the most important being love letters from Ellis to the girl. It was these that influenced the court In its decision, for they had a seriousness which convinced the judge that Ellis had been loyal and frank toward the girl. Her story of being intimidated into marrying him was not fully relieved. The woman's father is well-to-do and prominent in this county. Ellis is said to hold a responsible position.

ALLEGED TO HAVE GONE WRONG Caught With a Key and Some Money Claimed by Another Man. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Dec. 12.—Genuine surprise follows the arrest of Charles Bookster. on complaint of I.ouis Matthews, general agent of the Big Four railway at this point, alleging burglary and grand larceny. The accused is a member of a good family. Last July he quit the service of the Big Four company, since Which time he has been doing nothing. Meanwhile General Agent Matthews missed money from his cash drawer and safe, and suspicion was finally directed to Bookster. Previous thereto one of the sate keys was missing, possession of which was denied by Bookster. but after his arrest it was found in his hip pocket, together with two five-dollar bills, which, as alleged, had been stolen from Matthews. The general agent reports that the shortage may not exceed SIOO, and it may reach S3OO. The accused gave bond, with his father as surety. Rinkard Must Pay the Penalty. Indianapolis, Dec. 12.—The supreme court yesterday decided that Joseph Rinkard must hang, and affirmed the decision of the lower court Rinkard murdered his wife at Marlon in June, 1900. He was first sentenced to hang on Aug. 23 last, but the supreme conn granted a stay. Rinkard does not deny the killing, but says he was insane at the time. Rinkard is 61 years old.

Mnrderer and Suicide. Portland, Ind., Dec. 12.—David Garle, the rejected lover of Mabel Darlington. adopted daughter of John Spahr, a wealthy farmer residing near Blaine, this county, fired two bullets from a revolver into the girl and then shot himself twice through the head. He is dead and the girl will probably die. Fall Into a Fly Wheel Fit. Muncie, Ind., Dec. 12.—-Thomas Nolan. aged 38, accidentally fell Into a fly wheel pit at the Whitely Malleable Iron works, coming in contact with a wheel making 560 revolutions. Botu arms were literally torn off, his face crushed, and he will die. Hanged Himself in Jail. Alexandria, Ind., Dec. 12.—A stranger giving the name of Oscar Anderson, nnd his home as Jamestown, N. Y., hanged himself In the city jail here, being found dead by a fireman. He had teen arrested on a charge of burglary. Sells to a Syndicate. Bluffton. Ind., Dec. 12.—The Superior Oil company, with headquarters at Geneva, will transfer its large oil properties in Wells, Adams and Jay counties to a New York syndicate Dec. 18. The deal Involves $300,000. Hoosier State Short-Cuts. Evansville—Jealousy inspired Mrs. Barbara Ferrell and Miss Gertie Lemmon to attempt to settle conclusions with their fists. Franklin—Robert Amos, of Needham. who attempted suicide some days ago by cutting his throat, is.dead. Ijifayette—Th? city council has resolved to abolish the office of police judge with the expiration of the term of the present Incumbent Lafayette—Harry Mpntelth undertook to accelerate a fire in a baseburner with coal oil and was sevenly burned. Seymour*—Henry C. Johnson ha* teen appointed assignee of George F. Beckman & Co., dealers In wall papet, •tc.

A A Medicine for Old People. Rev. Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Kas n is past 8} years of ace, yet he says: “I am enjoyiny excellent health for a man <4 my entirely t<> the rejuvenating influences of Dr. Miles’ Nervine. It brings sleep and rest when nothing else will, and gives strength and vitaL ity even to one cf my old age.” “I am anol<l sc’Jicr,” writes Mr. Geo. Watson, of Newton, la., “and I have been a great sufferer from nervousness, vertigo and spinal tiouble. Have spent considerable money fCr medicine and doctors, but with little renefiL I was so bad my mind showed signs of weakness. I began taking Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and I know it saved my life." Miles* Nervine Saved me from the insane asylum,” Mrs. A. M. Heifner. of Jerico Springs, Mo., writes. “I was so nervous that I could scarcely control myself, could pot sleep nor rest, would even forget the names of my own children at times. I commenced using Dr. Miles’ Nervine and it helped me from the first, and now I am perfectly welt" 8ol«* *»y all Druggist* on Guarantee. Dr. e« Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.

FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 73. Farm of 187 acres, large, new frame house of 6 rooms, barn 30x56 feet, fine orchard. acres of a vineyard of fine wine grapes. Farm mostly level with 12 acres in timber and well watered. This is a good grain or stock farm IK miles from R. R. Station, half mile of pike road that rune to Seymour and Columbus. Price $5,000, onehalf cash, balance to suit purchaserat 6 per cent. . No. 361. Farm of 108 acres, frame house of 5 rooms, two small barns. 30 acres in timber balance in nice shape for plowing. Fruit of all kinds and farm well watered. If of a mile from school, store, post-oftiee and R. R. station, a church on corner of farm. 214 miles of Vernon, on pike road. Price SI,BOO. SI,OOO cash, balance on short time at 6 per cent, secured by mortgage. No 270. Farm of 158 acres; 2-story frame house of 7 rooms; large frame barn 55x60; 3 wells of good water and tine stock water by springs; part level and part rolling; three orchards of all kinds of fruit; 35 or 40 acres in timber, some good saw timber; IK miles of railroad town. Price $4,000. No. 379. Farm of 300 acres; frar.se house of 5 rooms, large frame barn, ice house and other out buildings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced; 3 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. & 1., B. & O. S. W. or Big Four. Price S2O per acre. No. 380. Farm of 163 acres, 3 miles from Vernon with large two story brick house of 8 rooms, one large and one small barn; other small outbuildings and 20 acres of timber, balance cleared and plow land. The Miiscaiatuck creek runs through this farm. This la a splendid stock or wheat farm. Price $3,000. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants'. S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son. Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson 4c Son. J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur. Herbert (roti and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

» Having purchased the blacksmith business of Renicker Bros., on Front street, I wish to announce to the old patrons of th© shop that I keep the same old experienced smiths in my employ and respectfully solicit a continu anc© of their patronage as well as that of the public generally.

ISAAC BRUBAKER.

HOW IT IS DONE.

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Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcotr & Parkison. When you feel that life is hardly worth the candle take a dote of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Taolets. They will cleanse your stomach, tone up your liver and regulate your bowels makms you feel like a new man. For sale by Long.