Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — Page 3

Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. Mo. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. N 0.83 Indianapolis Mall, (daily).. 1:46p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:25 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 3:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aocomm.. (daily) .... 7:31a.m. No. 33—Fast Mail, (daily) 8:55 a.m. •No. 30—Cin. to Chicago Vos. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 ppm. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSnnday only. No. 74 carnet passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has 'been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at £edar Lake. • Frank J. Rmd, G. P. A., W. H. McDobl, President and Gen. M’g'r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M g’r, CHICAGO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

CALIFORNIA Besi Personally conducted 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 Daylight. Direct connection to Los Angeles. Best Dining Car Service through. Write for information and literature to K. E. Palmkr, G. A. P. D., Peoria, 111. JOHN Sbbastiak. G. P. A., Chicago

CITY, romif ’ AMD COUNTY DIREGTORT. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor.. John Eger Marshal Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Eldenß. Hopkins COUNCI LMKN. Ist ward .....Chas. Dean, H. J. Kannal id ward I. 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. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillipa OOMMIBSIOXBBS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District ...Simeon A. Dowell 3rd Distrirt Frederick Way mire Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month.

COUNTY board op education. rHISTIM. TOWKBHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John RyanGillam Lewis ShrierWalker Elias Arnold»Barkley Charles M. Biue Mar 100 John BlitJordan Geo. M. WileoxNewtou S. L. LueeKeener Thomas F. MaloneyKnnkakee Stephen D. ClarkWheatfield Albert J. Bellows..,.Carpenter William T. SmithMilroy Barney D. Comer Union I<ouisH. Hamilton, Co. Suntßenaseleer G. K. Flollimrswort-hßeuseeiaer J.D. Allmanßemington Geo. 0. SsembelWheatfield

JUDICIAL. Oircult JndgeSimon P. Them peen Prosecuting attorney John I). Sink Terms of Court.—Seeond Monday in Pebrnary, April, September and November.

Milroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at bis residence in said township on the First and Third Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating ‘o making contracts or paying claims will M done on such designate/ May. WM. T. Sm ITJI, Trustee. Hanging Grove Township. Joseph Stewart, trustee of Hanging Grove township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on Friday of each week for thepurpcae cf transacting township businessi and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done en such designated day. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will 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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Edward P. Honan, attorney at law. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Hanley & Hunt, law. Mods, ms 01M rooi fsime. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stain west of Vanßensselaer street.

z Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry. and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. (^.Officeover Chicago Bargain Store. Reusselaer, Indiana.

U. M. Baughman. G. A. William*. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work, Loans and Real Esta e Special attention giveu to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store," Rensselakr, - Indiana.

Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray’* Rensselaer, • - Indiana.

J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collection*, Farm Loan* and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow*' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collection*, Insurance •nd Farm Loan*. Office upstair* in Durand Block.

FWAMK Fbin. •- •. •Firuaa. MA««V «. KtfßMia. 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.

Mordeeai F. Chilcote, William H. Park isoo Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. x . Law, Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makes ver's Bank, on Washington street. IIXMBLAU, - INDIANA.

H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris. President. Vico-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certifleates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent We Sslklt a Share of Your Buslooss.

Drs. I. B.&L M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give ipeeial attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat aud Chronic Diseases. He also testa eyes for glasses. Ornes Tslsrhohs Mo. 40. Rssiesaoa Phoms Me. 07. Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over I mes' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Offiob Pmori, 177. RaSIOBNCa PHOMIi lit.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Lareh’s drug store.

THE 17-YEAR LOCUSTS

THEY ARE DUE TO APPEAR AGAIN THIS YEAR. Warnings Being Sent to Agriculturists—Weird and Interesting InsectsBuried in the Earth Seventeen Years —Only a Few Days Above Ground. One of the greatest pests to which the Agriculturalists of this country are subjected is occasioned by the insects known as locusts. Every year certain types of these winged creatures make their appearance, but they are always the worst during the period marked by the advent of the 17-year locusts, the last visitation of which was in 1885. Hence they are due again this year. Warnings are being sent out by the State commissioners of agriculture all over the northern and eastern parts of the United States. Rene Bache writes very interestingly of this little insect in the Philadelphia Times. He says:, This locust is the wierdest and in some respects the most interesting of all insects. No other known insect lives for anything like so long a time, and surely nothing can be more strange than a habit which requires an anipial to spend so extended a period in solitude in a subterranean cell, the whole of the open-air career of the 17year cicada, as it is properly called, comprising only a few days. Filling the ground from which they issue with countless exit holes, swarming over trees and shru'is. and making the air vibrate with their shrill, discordant notes, the locusts leave obvious marks of their presence in the small wounds, made for the purpose of depositing eggs, which cover all the smaller twigs and branches. Though no serious harm is done forest trees, fruit trees and young nursery stock are liable to suffer considerably.

Live* Seventeen Year* Underground. The young ant-like larvae hatched from the eggs escape from the wounded limbs, drop lightly to the ground, and quickly burrow out of sight, each one forming for itself a little subterranean chamber over some rootlet, where it remains winter and summer, buried and solitary, in this manner passing the seventeen year* of its underground existence, while preparing for a few weeks only of the society of its fellows and the enjoyment of the sunshine and fragrant air of early summer. With perfect regularity, at the end of the allotted period, millions on millions of the insects attain maturity at almost the same moment. For four or five weeks the winged male sings his song of love

ON THE ROAD TO THE TRANSPORT.

and courtship, and the female busies herself with the placing of the eggs which are to produce a fresh generation seventeen years later. For nearly two centuries there is a record of the recurrence of the eicoda at 17-ycar intervals, the first written notes on the subject having been made in 1715. Some of these insects measure more than six inches in expanse of wings. They are absolutely harmless, so far as causing physical injury is concerned, being unable to defend themselves against au ant or a fly. They are also quite beautiful in appearance. When the spring of the appointed year arrives, the locusts emerge from the ground with a rush, as it were, and climb upon every available tree or other elevation. They are in such vast numbers Maiotimes that one cannot step on the ground anywhere without crushing several as they come out of their holes.

WADE HAMPTON DEAD.

The Famous General Paaoeo Away at Columbia, 8. C. Gea. Wade Hampton died Friday morning at Colombia, S. C. His death resulted not from any disease, but was the result of a general breakdown. Gen. Hampton celebrated his 84th birthday last week. Wade Hampton was born at Columbia, 8. C., in 1818. He catne of a military family, both his father and grandfather serving in the American army, the latter having taken part in the Revolutionary war. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature before the Civil Wat and made a notable speech against reopening the slave trade. Hampton enlisted as a private in the Confederate army when the war began. He raised the celebrated Hampton legion, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery. He was made a brigadier general May 23, 1862; a major general Aug. 3, 1863, and lieutenant general Feb. 14, 1865. He commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. R. B. Lee and the cavalry of Gen. Joaeph E. Johnson’s army during Gen. Sherman's move through the Carolinas. After the war he again retired to private life and managed his cotton plantation until he was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1877. At the end of his term he was elected United States Ben-ator and served until 1801.

M. Santos-Dumont, the noted Brazilian aeronaut, is to come to this country soon to confer with the officials of the World's Fair in regard to prises for balloon races. C. M. Campbell, of Ardmore, has been appointed United States clerk for the southern district of Indian Territory by Federal Judge Townsend.

HORSES FOR BRITAIN'S ARMY.

They Are Supplied Almost Exclusively by New Orleans. The figures in the- animal army that the British have employed in their efforts in South Africa are amazing. Over 600,000 horses and mules have been employed in the war by that one side. Five hundred thousand of these have been slaughtered or have died of disease. Over 160,000 have been supplied by the Untied States, $95,000,000 has been spent mounting and remounting the British cavalry, supplying and resupplying the muscle with which to move their artillery and furnishing and refurnishing their pack trains. The British remount establishment at New Orleans is a tremendous affair. It is the largest agency for the equipment of an army that has ever been maintained by one country at war within the borders of a neutral country. It has attracted not only the attention of the Boers and their sympathizers, but the commercial and diplomatic eye of all the great nations; and it is claimed that without this "base of supplies,” as the Boers term it, the Transvaal army would eventually cope successfully with the British. A suite of rooms as an office at the St. Charles Hotel are the headquarters of the "American Commission.” On the river front several miles below the city are the corrals, covering thirty or forty acres. The stables will accommodate 7,000 animals and the pasture that many more. There is a large hospital department, where a corps of veterinary surgeons are always at work, a branding department and lanumerable others. Instead of falling AS ns the war progresses, the station is £fbwiug continually, and the output from ’t is considerably more to-day than it Wls at the beginning of the war. About three transports a month used to leave. The number is now about double that, with the cargoes averaging from 1,600 to 2,000 head. The shipments from other stations have fallen off and some of them have been closed altogether for the benefit of the one in New Orleans. Some of the other countries have been drained, practically, of worthy animals. -That is, they are so scarce now that it does not pay to purchase there any longer piecemeal and at the necessarily advanuced figures. The prices of animals in other countries were always higher than in this, and now, even though the prices here have more than doubled in consequence of the enormous draught, those of other countries are from 50 to 75 per cent higher. In the beginning Texas furnished all the animals, and the proximity of the ranches of that State to the port was the cause of the establishment of the shipping depot in the Crescent City. It was said by several of the British officers that Texas could supply all the

horses and mules the country would need, for the war would be over in two or three months. But Texas has been drained, and Arkansas, and Tennessee, and Kentucky, and they are now sought as far north as Oregon. In 1899 there was such a competition in the sale that mules of the best quality were procurable for S4O, but now more than half that figure in pounds sterling is the price, and the freight from the point of purchase has increased in proportion to the increase of distance from this [Kiint. The fleet of transports lie at anchor in the Mississippi just below the city. Generally three or four are in port at a time. When one is ready for loading it is docked and the animals are driven aboard through long runways, tapered like a funnel at first and narrowing down to a width in which au animal eauuot turn around.

RESPITE CAME TOO LATE.

Boy Hanged Shortly Before Governor’s Stay Is Received. Henry Flutcher, colored, was hanged at St. Louis at 6:06 o’clock Friday morning- Twenty minutes later a reprieve arrived from the Governor, in response to a telegram from Circuit Attorney Folk. The recommendation for the reprieve was made on a statement from the detective* that new testimony had been received that might show that the murder had been committed in self-de-fense. Flutcher shot and instantly killed Louis Roth, 14, white, on Aug. 17, 1900. The killing grew out of a quarrel between Flutcher and Roth's brother.

MANILA EDITORS AROUSED.

To Appeal to President Following Arrest for Sedition. Excitement prevails in Manila on account of the arrest of the editqr and proprietor of Freedom, a local publication, who is charged with sedition in publishing recently an article from an American periodical, to which the editor of Freedom agreed. He also added remarks of his own censuring the United States commission's rule. The editors of the Volcano have also been arrested on n suit of the government for demanding the removal of the judge who recently tried Senor Valdez (the editor of a local Spanish paper, who was fined 4,000 pesetas for libeling two Filipino members of the commission), and who is now trj'ln« the editor of Freedom under the sedition law. Frank Golden, a barber, was found dead in his shop at Haileyville, I. T. By his side was an empty bay rum bottle and it Is supposed that he committed suicide. Golden was alwit 30 years old.

FACES A BIG DEFICIT.

BRITAIN WOULD TAX BREAD TO RAISE REVENUE. War Make* Necessary Revival of the Ancient Duties on Grain and Flour -Deficit Placed at Fifty-eight Million Pounds in Budset Statement. Great Britain, groaning under the financial burdens of the Boer war, will be forced to submit to a bread tax. In explaining the budget to the House of Commons, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, announced that the ministry had agreed to the reimposition of the ancient duties on Hour amt meal. Continuing, he said it had been decided to impose a duty of 5 pence per hundredweight on Hour and 3 pence per hundredweight on wheat and grain. The chancellor denied that the registration duties on wheat and flour violated the principles of free trade, or would increase the cost of food. He thought the duties had been recklessly abandoned and declared their remission did not reduce the price of food. Almost before the announcement had been completed in the House of Commons London’s streets were ringing with the newsboys’ cries of "Tax on Bread." It caused great excitement. The bulletin boards before all newspapers were liesieged by crowds of intensely interested citizens. Angry criticisms of the ministry’s action are reported on every side. It is claimed by some London papers that the bread tax will cause the overturning of the Salisbury ministry. Revival of the Corn Law*. The restoration of the duties on grain by the British government is an extremely Interesting occurrence, whether Tt denotes a permanent change of policy or not. At the rate of sixpence per hundredweight it is nothing more than a tariff for revenue, and, in the opinion of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, will not increase the price of bread. The tav will Jail primarily, it is anticipated, upon the importers and the bakers. In the end it will possibly be taken off the price and thus fall upon the farmers to a large extent —upon those who send their surplus grain to Liverpool. It will thus affect the wheat-growing countries of the world and will affect the United States more than any other country. The duty amounts to about 3% cents a bushel. It is fifty-six years since Sir Robert Peel ended his remarkable career as a statesman by repealing the so-called corn laws. The story of that political agitation is one of the most interesting in English annals. The repeal of the corn duties took effect in 1849. and from that day to this no Tory ministry has been courageous enough until now to revive’ those duties. Figure* from British Budget. Cost of war to date 3 825,170,000 Cost of war 1902-3 227,250,000 National debt 3.739,030,000 Increase in national debt 24M),000.000 Expenditures last year 873,043,000 Deficit to be met 226,620,000 New bond issue 1W.000,000 New Taxes Proposed. Six cents on corn, wheat, and other grain. Ton cents on flour and meal. Two cent tax on dividend warrants. Two cents added to stamp on cheeks. Two cents per 35 added to Income tax.

BRYAN’S BARN HOME.

Temporary Place of Abode, While a $20,000 House I* Building. The present residence of William J. Bryan and his family is a barn on his country place, Fairview, three miles from Lincoln, Neb. It is, however, but a temporary place of abode, pending the erection of a $20,000 home which the distinguished Nebraskan expects to oc-

BRYAN'S PRESENT HOME.

cupy permanently, aud the foundation of which is already laid. The barn is a two-and-one-half story structure of i brick and there is no hardship in living iu it, for it is more elaborate than the house in which Mr. Bryan lived when he first became the Democratic candidate for President.

OHIO'S NEW TAX LAW.

Corporations Must Pay Per Cent on Grose Karn Inga. All quasi-public corporations in Ohio must pay into the State treasury in the future a tax of 1 per cent on their gross incomes, and all private corporations, formed for the purpose of profit, must pay a tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent on their capital stock. These two laws, which in their earlier stages have been known as the Willis aud Cole bills, were passed by the Senate. The House had already passed them, and as the Governor of Ohio has no veto power they will go into effect nt once. Together the two now laws will add over $2,000,000 a year to the State treasury, but they have an even greater importance than this, for they are the main steps in Gov. Nash's taxation plan, which when fully carried out will work an entire reorganization in the tax system of Ihs State.

Because a number of boys made remarks about the hats worn hy two girls who were accompanied by two young men, George Stranz, 16 years old, and Sti nicy Goblinski, IS years old, of Chicago, were mortally wounded by one of the men. The stranger who did the shooting was pursued by n number of cit'zeiM and the police, but he made his escape. Arthur Linn, a young single man, was snitithered to death while working at the salt mines at Kingman, Kan., caused by a cave-in of the bins in the warehouse.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Jealous Man Kill* Wife’* Father—Car Blown Up with Dynamite—Conference Adjourns Without Making Waga Agreement—Case Will Held Valid. Crazy with jealousy, Richard Oliphant, a telegraph operator at Metamora, murdered Captain Peter Pellser, his wife’s stepfather, who was assisting her to leave her home. The 'shooting was done on the platform of the railway station in his wife’s presence. Then, after holding the town at bay all day long with his shotgun, Oliphant killed himself late in the afternoon by taking carbolic acid. The tragedy was enacted within view of many of the people of the town. Indeed, the whole domestic trouble leading up to it has been followed by the citizens from its early stages. Blow Up Car at Brazil. Strike sympathizers wrecked an interurban street car belonging to the Terre Haute Electric Company at Brazil. A stick of dynamite was placed under a rail in such a manner that it exploded when the car passed over it, throwing the car from the track, tearing off the front trucks, and breaking the windows. The motorman was slightly hurt, but the passengers escaped injury. One woman fainted from fright. The explosion broke a rail in two places and tore a large hole in the ground. Fall to Agree on Wage Scale. President Mitchell and other members of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, the full scale committee of the miners in the block coal fields, and Operators Zimmerman, Risher and Zellar met at Brazil to conside the wage scale for the year in the Indiana block coal district. The co iference adjourned without reaching at agreement.

Case Will Is Held Valid. The famous contested will case of William Case of Lafayette, a Spiritualist, who died July 23, 1900, leaving the residue of his estate, amounting to $15,000, to the National Spiritual Association and editors of Truth Seeker and Commonwealth, ended in a verdict for the proponents. The trial began March 12.

Costly Blaze at Kokomo. The Globe Steel Range Company of Kokomo suffered a $20,000 fire loss, the mounting and pattern departments being consumed. Fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of patterns were destroyed. Within Our Borders. Knights of Columbus organized a big lodge in Kokomo. Northern Indiana teachers will meet at Richmond in 1903. Lafayette has raised $25,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building. C. C. Hooper’s planing mill, Nashville, burned. Loss $5,000. The New Castle bottle factory was amaged $5,000 by fire. Macbeth lamp flue factory, Elwood, will use blowing machines. "Aunt” Jane Davidson, Greensburg, celebrated her ninety-third birthday. At Raber W. M. Crowell, stockman, shot himself. No cause is known for his act.

At Greenwood work has begun on ths electric line that will extend to Shelbyville. Joseph Martin, GO. farmer, Gibson County, accidentally took morphiue. Dead. Otto Shgu, Greenfield, is minus a hand which he placed on a saw in the novelty works. Nearly a thousand students are enrolled tor the spring term at the State Normal, Terre Haute. Jerry Thornton, a contractor. Ix>gansport, was perhaps fatally crushed while under a bouse. Interurban line from Richmond to Cambridge City will be completed about the middle of June.

Mrs. McDonald of Clinton, shot by her neighbor, Mrs. Kane, during a quarrel, is dead. Mrs. Kane is in jail. New Castle is trying to locate the Kreil-French piano factory, which recently burned at Springfield, Ohio. Lee Wilson, 19, colored, Lafayette, confessed to robbing six houses, and was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory. D. A. Mcssener, Oxford, who sold Dan Patch for $20,000, thinks Dan Patch's half-brother, Messener, owned by him, will down Dan’s record.

In Indianapolis a fire started in the nasement of the Journal building. The fire fighters were forced to rescue several arsons from the upper windows by bringng them down the ladders. The damage Jone was small, the principal danger being from suffocation by smoke. Miss Florence Thurston, 30 yeys of »ge, for years a teacher in the primary lepartment of the Hagerstown schools, was found by her mother in a dying conlition. She was dead when a physician reached her. Indications point to suicide by carbolic acid. She Itad. been worried over personal affairs. The residents of the townships bordering the Kankakee river iu LaPorte County bare petitioned the county commissioners to place a biunty of $lO upon wolt scalps. Wolves have killed large numbers of sheep, hogrf, cattle and poultry within the last six months and tho depredations are increasing to such nn extent that decisive action is needed t&t the extermination of the animals. Tho coyotes have lairs in the Kankakee swamps.

Samuel F. Winters, an aged Peru editor, fell and sustained serious injuries. Isaac Dishong, a farmer of LaPorte, is (lying of n dislocated heart. Three weeks ago, while attempting to steer a wagon down an Incline, he was thrown from the vehicle. The fall was of such forco that his heart moved four inches out of place. Fire of unknown origin broke out in ths big flouring mill of Hoops & Ressler at Dora, and the structure was destroyed. There was little grain or flour in the building, which, with its machinery, was valued at $40,000. $4,000 insurance, it Is believed the fire was started by an itrCtndiary.