Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — Page 3

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Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisrille Ry. . Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. H0.31-Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. S—Louisville Mail, (da11y).... ..10:55 a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:46 p. m. No. 89—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:25 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4-Mall, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40 —Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m, [■'No. 30 —Cln.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. I’.Wo. 38—Cln. to Chicago 2:57 p, m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M’g'r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic ll g’r, CMIOAOO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Bensselaer.

CALIFORNIA Besi Personally conduciefl Tourisi Excursions. Leave CHICAGO Tuesdays and Thursdays -VIA THEGREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE AND SCENIC LINE. Tourist Car via Southern Route Leaves Chicago Every Tuesday. Daily First Class Sleeper Through Between Chicago and San Francisco. Crossing the best scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas by Dsylfgbt. Direct connection to Los Angeles. Rest Dining Car Service through. Write for information arid literature to K. E. Palmer, G. A. P. D., Peoria, 111. John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY MMI CITY OFFICERS. Mayor John Eger Marshal Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Kugineer H. L. Gramblo Fire Chief Eldon R. Hopkins COUNCILMEN. Ist ward .. .Chas. Dean. H. J. Kannal 2d ward ~1. J. Porter, C. G. Spitler 3d ward J. F. McColly. J.C. Chilcote COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk .John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C. Balicock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Wnytnire Commissioner’s court—First Monday of each mouth. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. townships. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias A mold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Hill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheat field Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rcnsseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer J. D. Allman Remington Geo. O. Stembei Wheatneld JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. JOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. Milroy Township. Wra.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the First and Third .Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Wm.T. Smith, Trustee. Hanging Grove Township. Joseph Stewart, trustee of Hanging Grove township, gives notice that he will be at hi* residence in said township on Friday of each week for thegiurpcse t f transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on euch designated day. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he wilt be at his residence In said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee.

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Everybody reads The Democrat. 5 PER!CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know yon hate to smell the smoke. Stock op 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. Chilcote & Parkison.

When you have a legal notice to be published, such as notice of appointment, notice of final settlement, notice of survey, notice of administrator’s or guardian’s sale, non-resident notice, or any other notice not controlled by county or township officers, bring it to The Democrat office. Our prices for this work are lower than others by reason of our setting them without any padding whatever, and we will appreciate the favor.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Kendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Hanley & Hunt, low, Abstracts, logos and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street.

Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. Cft*.OiHceover Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loans and Real Estate. Special attention giveu to collections of all kinds. Office over “Racket Store," Rensselaer, - Indiana. Mo Gt*-> Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray’s Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections. Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block.

rua> roLT*. e. a. intui mammy m. kummim. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans, Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND.

Mordecai F. Chilcote, William B. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law. Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis Sc Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makeever’s Bank, on Washington street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit Issued on time. Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. Wc Solicit a Share of Your Business. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I.R. Washburn willgivespecialattention to Diseases of the Eye, Kar, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyea for glasses. Orno* Tals.homa No. 4S. Masidsmoa Phoni No. 17. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over I met' Millinery store. Bensselaer. OrnoA Pmons, ITT. Naaioahoa Pmona, tta. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larch's drug store,

COURT AGAIN IN PEKIN.

Moat Magnificent Scene Ever Witnessed In Imperial City. The young emperor and his crafty mother are again within the gates of Pekin. They once more have taken possession of the Temple of Heaven, and the puppet ruler sits again on the great dragon throne of the Manchu kings, wielding his impotent scepter ns he did before his abdication in the face of civilization's wrath. The imperial party made Its way slowly to the inner city, passed through the portals, up the long white flight of marble steps which lead to the palace gates, and disappeared into the looted temple from which it tied in terror a year ago. There were much burning of incense, beating of gongs and chanting of strange incantations about the imperial homecoming. All along the route from the station to the gates there were thousands of prostrate Chinese beating their breasts and singing in outlandish harmony. A double row of soldiers, kneeling, lined the roadway and kept back the populaee. The troops of Gen. Yuan-Shi-Kai, Governor of Pe-Chi-I.i, heralded the appearance of the emperor. Close behind was the jeweled car of the “son of heaven.” It was borne by a score of yellow giants dressed in magnificent silks. An immense

DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CUINA.

escort hovered around carrying gay umbrellas and colored banners. Kuang Hsu was a pitiable object. His lack-luster eyes stared into space; he seemed to see none of the ceremony about him. He looked sick and hopeless and melancholy, as if there was naught but despair for him beyond the yellow walls of the capital. Next came the wrinkled, yellow-wrap-ped figure of the dowager, sitting stiffly in her car, keenly watching everything

IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE HIM LOOK CROSS. —Denver News.

about her, the picture of crafty alertness. Her attendants scattered little silver tablets in the crowd as she passed nlong. After the dowager’s carts and caravels had gone by there was seen the painted young wife of the emperor, followed by the chair of the heir apparent. The princes of the blood closed the cortege, the last notable in the procession being Yung LI, minister of the grand council and the favorite of the dowager.

DARING BANK ROBBERY.

Six Masked Robbers Loot Vaults at East St. Louis Stock Yards.

Six masked men entered the National Stock Yards Bank, north of East St. Louis, 111., Monday night, and after capturing and gagging the two night watchmen and firemen at the plant and blowing open the vaults with dynamite, took $5,000 in coin and currency, with which they decamped. For nine hours—from 7 o’clock Monday night until 4 o’clock Tuesday morning—they were at work on the vaults without meeting interference. The bank watchman was bound hand and foot and gagged with towels. With nitroglycerin the robbers blew open the steel doors of the vault. These doors, of a double thickness of steel, were shattered and the bank’s books and papers were torn into shreds. Entering the vault, the big steel safe, with quadruple plate doors, was encountered. These were drilled and a charge of the explosive inserted, which blew them off. The explosion destroyed more boolu and papers and scattered about SISOO In gold and silver on the floor. This money was not taken by the robbers. They took all the currency and the other coin, amounting to about $5,000, as nearly as the bank’s officers can estimate.

Plague Daring the Post Year.

The plague during the year has been reported in the following countries: Cape Colony and Egypt, In Africa; Arabia, the Argentine Republic, Australia, Brazil, China, England, Formosa, Germany, Hawaiian Islands, India, Japan, Madagascar, Paraguay, Philippine Islands Mauritius, Portugal, Reunion, Russia, Scotland, Straits Settlements, Turkey and Wale#—probably a wider dissemination than has ever been known In the history of the world. Old papers for sale at this office. „

“I WILL NEVER DIE!” DECLARED THE “ELIJAH,

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

John Alexander Dowie, who would uot swear in Judge Tuley’s court at Chicago that he was the second Elijah, loudly proclaimed to his followers on a recent Sunday that as "Elijah restored” he would never die. Speaking of the receivership litigation he said: “We will fight and we will fight until we win. If Zion should be stripped of money to-day, in a week it would be os strong as ever, for there are those who would give up their last dollar. Others have done it.” Dowie, it is said, is about to shake the dust of Chicago from his carriage wheels and go to live in Zion City, Lake County, where taxes are lower. As the preliminary step to his change of residence Dowie has reorganized his church, giving up the old Central Tabernacle in Michigan avenue and establishing fifteen minor tabernacles in different sections of Chicago. "I am tired of this unjust taxation,” shouted Dowie to his followers. "Chi-: cago differentiates between Zion and the other churches of this city, and I will stand it no longer. There is no more reason why Zion is not a church in the legal sense than why the other denominations are so classed. I will not have it taxed to fall the coffers of the county when they go free.”

CANADIAN FARMERS HAPPY.

Their Grain Crop Is One of the Largest on Record. The year has been a very prosperous one for the farmers of Manitoba, as. indeed, it lias for all the agriculturists of

the Northwest. It is estimated that UO,000,000 bushels of wheat have been harvested by them for export and they have received $12,000,000 more this year than they realized in 1900. One farmer produced 18,000 bushels, of wheat, besides oats and barley, and another put in 13,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 bushels of barley. So enormous is the quantity of produce which the railways are called upon to move that they are congested. Manitoba alone had a grain crop of 85,179,858 bushels.

The benefits to accrue from this unprecedented crop in western Canada will be felt all over the Dominion. The extra money which the farmers have received is being used for the payment of mortgages, the extension of barns and stables, the taking up of more land, and the introduction into the home circle of many accessories of refinement which have been wanting hitherto, and to-day the piano is the possession of nearly every well-to-do fanner's daughter.

WRECK OF THE ASPHALT TRUST.

Philadelphia Investors Will Lone A trout Twenty Million*, It I* Figured. The asphalt trust Is busted. Receivers have been appointed for the National Asphalt Company, capital $22,000,0X1, and the Asphalt Company of America, capita $30,000,000. It is said Philadelphia investors will lose $20,000,000. From papers submitted in the application for a receivership, It appears the company is confronted with no better prospect than that of an annual deficit of about $1,500,000. Excessive capital* ization, predicated upon overconfidence and False promises on the part of th« organizers, seems to be the cause of the trust’s downfall. Commissioner of Public Works McUann of Chicago, an expert on asphalt, says the application for a receiver is a trick of the trust to get the company in the hands of the federal court and secure the backing of the government to tho claims of the trust in the Venezuelan asphalt deposit.

Elijah Wisdom, colored, who murdered Rev. ▲. J. Brooks near Mount Pleasant, Tenn., the day before Christmas, wat captured near Hohenwald and placed in jail at Columbia, Tenn. A reward of S2OO had been offered by Gov. McMillla.

FIFTEEN DIE IN A TUNNEL.

Trains Collide While Running Underground in New York City. Fifteen persons were crushed, |burned and scalded to death Wednesday in a rear-end collision in the New York Central Railroad tunnel in New York City. The list of injured includes more than twenty victims, a number of whom are said to be fatally hurt. Smoldering flames, smoke and utter darkness added to the horror of the wreck. The trains in collision were an accommodation on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road from Norwalk, Conn., and a suburban on the Harlem branch of the New \ r oi-k Central. The Norwalk train had stopped on signal, and while awaiting orders to'move was struck by the Harlem train, which came tearing through the darkness of the subway. The two rear cars of the Norwalk accommodation were telescoped and the tunnel was blocked with wreckage, from which were heard the screams of the* injured and dying. Escaping steam from the wrecked engine of the Harlem train scalded and suffocated a number of victims before assistance arrived. After the first few moments of darkness the wreck caught tire, and Jho living who ha;l escaped in the first shock of the collision were threatened with a more horrible death. All the ambulances in the • city were summoned and the work of rescue was begun in*the face of great difficulties. The promptness with .which assistance was given to the imperiled passengers caught in the wreck and the resourcefulness of the rescuers undoubtedly saved many lives.

MRS. LESLIE M. SHAW.

She Will Perforin Social Duties with Modesty and Delicacy. Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw in Washington will undertake, with modesty and delicacy, to maintain the social prestige she lias worthily won at Des Moines, since her husband became Governor. During the past four yeavs the Shows have been lavish entertainers, their generous hospitality luwhrj; made the maintenance of

MRS. LESLIE M. SHAW.

the family exceed the salary of the Governorship. Recent appreciation in oil lands in Texas and farm lands In lowa have increased the Governor’s fortune to an estimated value of $250,000 or $3(»0,000. and Mrs. Shaw will be euabled to meet all the social demands which are made on a cabinet lady. She is not a devotee of society, nor a club woman, but has a gracious personality aud is a charming hostess.

EXAMPLE SET BY MAYOR LOW.

Before Assuming Office He Severs Ties w ith Quasi-Public Corporations. Seth Low, before taking office as Mayor of New York, disposed of stocks and bonds worth more than a million dollars. They were good income producers, but Mr. Low thought he might be called upon to pass upon applications for franchises

MAYOR LOW

by corporations in which he held stock and that some persons might question his decisions if he continued to hold such securities. Mr. Low will reinvest the money derived from the sale in securities of companies that ure never likely to come in contact with the city government.

TREED BY WILD HOGS.

Indian Territory Man Had a Thrilling Experience. Since the Kiowa and Wichita reservations were opened up there has been a tremendous Influx of wild animals into Indian Territory. By fur the most numerous and dangerous are the wild hogs. J. P. McGee had a terrible experience in which, after killing a young pig. he was attacked by hundreds of wild animals and compelled to roost all night in the top of a pecan tree while the angry beasts at the bottom were rooting with all their strength to throw the tree dowu and attain their revenge.

Sockless Jerry a Cattle Buyer.

Jerry Simpson, the former Congressman from Kansas, has quit politics for good and all. The other day he burned the last ties that connected him with public life—the letters he had received from people during the period of his fame as a sockless statesman. There were eight tons of them in all. Mr. Simpson is now a cattle buyer at the Wichita stock yards.

Almon Streeter of Rensselaer Falla, N. Y., died, aged 107 years.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Btate Has Done Well Through 1901 Elkhart Girl Accused of Witchcraft —Soldier Goes to Porto Rico on Wild* Goose Chase—Hartford City Fire.

The annual reports covering the various departments of the Indiana State government show a prosperous condition of affairs. During 1901 the State debt uas reduced $817,000 and the debt promises to be wiped out by 1907. The cost of running the State was $7,129,483. The balance left over for the new year was $042,299. an increase of $228,047 over 1900. Of the receipts the State tax produced $ 1,237.20 1. The total assessed valuation of the State is $1,300,445,139, and the number of acres subjected to taxation was 22,375,040. The assessed valuation of lands and improvements thereon aggregates $50,734,275; of town lots and improvements, $325,227,903; personal property, $332,857,739; tele phones and telegraphs, $7,330,102; railroad properties and holdings, $153,009,120. Ihe current tax on this property produced $21,825,127. and $2,904,201 was added by collection of delinquents. The thirteen charitable and penal institutions of the State were the greatest item of expense, the former using up $1,110,070. Thj? value of Indiana crops amounted to $2.i0,000,000. Despite short corn, wheat and oat crops the year was a record breaker in agricultural prosperity, as shown by the bank deposits, which increased largely. Remarkable increases are reported in all of Indiana’s lines of industry. Based on the reliable figures of the census report, the capital of Indiana manufacturing concerns has increased IS per cent over 1890, aud is now $234,481,528, and there has been an increase of (57 per cent in the value of production, which in 1901 was $378,238,100.

Soldier Duped by Fiancee. James Hicks of Irvington, a regular in the army when it camped in Porto Rico, met in San Juan a fascinating Australian woman 21 years old, who was doing missionary work. lie loved the young missionary and they became engaged. Afterward Hicks sent her money to come here and to buy her trousseau. She replied that she preferred being married in San Juan. LK>c. 4 Hicks sailed, and when he arrived there found that his fiancee was engaged to two or three others, from all of whom, he says, she had collected nearly $2,000. She said to Ilicks that she was “sorry,” and Hicks took the next boat for “the States.”

Girl Accused of Witchcraft. Bessie Currier, a pretty miss of 13, has been forced by Mrs. William Currier of Elkhart, with whom she and her mother, Mrs. Mary Currier, lived, to leave homo because of certain mysterious happenings which have alarmed the household and have been attributed to some occult power possessed by the girl. Plates, it ia said, have been caused to float through the air, water pails to upset and bed•teads to come apart. The mother does not regard the girl with supernatural awe, but thinks the phenomena the result of trickery on her part, though the child maintains that she is not responsible for the manifestations.

Holds Foe on a Hot Stove. John Yalasky, a crazed miner of Rosedule, made a desperate attempt to kill Henry Johnson, another miner, in a Crawfordsville saloon. Johnson and several others were playing cards when Valaskv came in suddenly and, seizing Johnson by the throat, raised him up bodily and held him over a red-hot stove with one hand while he kept the rest at bay with a revolver. Johnson was badly burned. Ho was finally released after the maniac was knocked senseless by the bartender, who stole up behiud him and Btrhck him with a poker.

Big Fire at Bartford City. At 5 o’clock on a recent morning fire broke out in the dry goods and clothing store of E. I. Winters in Hartford City. The flames had gained great headway when the discovery was made, and they could not be brought under control until heavy damage had been done. The stock was almost totally destroyed, and the building was laid in ruins. The loss Is $50,000, and the insurance $30,000. There was nobody in the store at the time, and it is not known how the fire was started. It is supposed to have been due to irregular gas pressure, however.

Within Our Borders. A millinery store at Goshen was robbed, the robbers carrying away the entire stock. Van Martin, (3, Washington, chased a pet rabbit, when he fell and burst a blood vessel, death resulting. A little son of William McCormick, Washington, was fatally burned. His clothing caught fire from a grate. Johu P. Edwards and Mrs. Nancy Reeder were killed on a Pan-llaudlo graffe crossing a mile south of Mount Summit when goiug to Newcastle to be married. A notice has bc’-n posted at the Elwood plant of the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company stating that the factory would closj indefinitely. Muuager Ilaruack said that failure of the gas supply was responsible. Willie and Mary Daniels, aged respectively 5 years and 7 years, living near Sand creek, were bitten in several places by a largo rattlesnake that bad taken refuge from the cold weather in a stock of wood. The piece of wood had been carried into the houso and placed behind the stove to dry. The parents of tho children were attracted by screams from the kitchen and were horrified to find the snake coiled in the little girl’s lap. Her brother the reptile by the tail and was bitten on the hand and arm. The girl was bitten twice upon the leg. Big Four train killed a man at Anderson, who is thought to be Fred Marker of Cincinnati. He was knocked front a bridge. A negro named Hensley was shot to death by a crowd of miners at Island City when he returned to tho scone of a fight he had with a few of them earlier. Elxa Bennett. 21 years old, shot and fatally wounded his stepfather, Edward Bishop, at their home in West Indianapolis. The investigation by the police showed that the boy had shot In defense of his mother, who had been struck and abused by Bishop.