Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — Page 7

HORSE BILLS. The Democrat would remind the owners of Btable horses that it is fully prepared to turn out folders, cards or large horse bills on short notice and at very reasonable prices. The best selection of horse cuts in the county. Give us a call if wanting anything in this line. I

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. iiciyirar. 4 2> Crown, Bar and Bridge A Work. Teeth Without ipr I Plates, Without Pain. J.W, HORTON .. 16 YEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. OFFICI OPPOSITE COURT HOURS.

Where to Locate? WHY INTHC TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD - THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Qrowers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United States to make "big money” by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms. Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at SI.OO per acre and upwards. and 500.000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock -raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps %nd all infoimatiou free. Address, R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY.

CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott f Jerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Janies 11. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. William* Civil Engineer J.C. Thrawls Fire Chief ;■ . C. B. Steward COUNCILMEN. Ist ward Henry Wood. Fred Phillip* 2d ward W.S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 3d ward J. C. McColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk .John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C. Bal>eoek Treasurer R. A. Purkison. Recorder Robert H. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COll MISSION EltS. Ist District Abraham Hnlleck 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRCBTF.KS. TOWNSHII'B. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrler Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John BilL. Jordan Geo. M. Wlloox Newton S. L. Luce. Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatheld Al'-ert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith ~ .Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse Remington Geo. O. Ste mbel Wheat Held JUDICIAL. Cireuit Judge.. Charles W. Hanley Proseouting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in Febru•ry. April, September and November. t’ttrar REVIVO RESTORES VITALITY eJS °1 ’*•’ rninran nsussr prodnoes the above results In 30 days. It Set* powerfully and quickly. Our** whan *ll othsrs fall. Young man will rsgaln their lost manhood. *sd old men will rscorsr thslr youthful vigor by using REVIVO. H qulokly and *ur*ly restores Narvou*. CSSS. Lost Vitality, Ini potency. Nightly Emissions, Lost Power, Falling Memory, Wasting Dlssssss, and all effsota of aslf-abuao or excess and Indian ration, whloh unfits one for atudy, business or mtrrlsge. It not only cure* by starting st tbo seat of disease, but la a great nerve tonto and blood botldar, bringing back tho pink glow to pale cheek* and reatorlng the fire of youth. It wards off Insanity and CoaaumpUon. Insist on having BETIVO.no otbar. It can be carried in vest pocket. By mall, •LOO per package, or alx for »5.00, with a poal tlvw written guarantee to cure or refund the money. Advice and circular free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO, . For sale in Rensselaer by J, A. Lursh, druggist. PLENTY OF EGGS •* ck ebldksn* wher# Wells’ Hootlsr Psnb try Powder is used. Cures Cholera, Osset end Bony. Keeps poultry healthy, rrice, Mewata, Sold by A. F. Long.

GREAT HUMBERT SWINDLE.

Colossal Scheme by Which n Bold Adventnress Got $12,000,000. Mme. Humbert, the greatest swindler of the century, an account of whose en-

reer in Paris reads like a romance and who fled to avoid punishment for her misdeeds, ,was apprehended in Madrid recently, together with her accomplices—her husband, Frederic Humbert, Eva Humbert and Rotnnin, Emil and Marie d'Auriguae. They were taken back to France for trial. The pris o tiers

MME. HUMBERT.

managed to extract $12,000,(XX) from their dupes before they were found out —one of them, a hanker of high standing, M. Girard, who lost $2,000,000. committed suicide when he found he was ruined. The victims chiefly were hanks and trust companies. Under pretext that an American millionaire, Itobert Crawford, had died between IS7S and 1883, in an unknown place, and left Mme. Humbert his fortune of $20,000.1 MX), by a will dated sit Nice, Sept. 0, 1577, she began borrowing on the strength of ihis, and kept it up twenty years. There was no such man as Crawford. In order to add plausibility to her story, she said Mr. Crawford left two nephews, who commenced an action to set aside the will in the French courts. Pending this, Mme. Humbert had the courts seal the safe wherein the packages were kept containing the $20,000,000 in securities in order to prevent tlieir being purloined by the contestants or their agents. The nephews.

Henry and Robert Crawford, were also myths, but tin* plot was so skillfully arranged by the wom : an that the courts accepted the contest placed in their name and for twenty years they wore made to appear as disputing the \vi 11 by attorneys from the highest to the lowest courts of France.

FRED. HUMBERT. HUMBERT.

I'rom time to time the parties to whom the chief conspirator nppffed for loans would ask to see her securities. Then with a great flourish she would bring out big envelopes marked with seals and display packages of French three pier cents —a gilt edge security. Then she would exclaim: "What more do you want?” with the result that the skeptical went away satisfied. At the beginning of tile past year some of those who had loaned large sums began an investigation and pursued it relentlessly. They secured an order from the court removing the seals, and the police, in r.iail*any with some of her victims, were dismayed upon opening the safe, to find nothing but a venerable jewel box and some old papers—not a trace of the $20,I WO,OOO fortune. In the meantime the swindlers had decamped. This was ou May 0, They succeeded in eluding the law for nine months, though all Europe was ransacked in hopes of getting them, while a search was made in the United States.

THE RAILROADS.

Freight tariff on grain from Chicago «as been advanced 11‘j cents per 100 pounds. , The Dolawnre. Lackawanna and Western Railroad has decided to increase the wages of practically all its employes. Circulars announce a proposed increase of $20,000,000 stock by the Chicago Great Western system to extend and improve its lines. The Illinois Central and Southern Pacific railroads have formed a traffic alliance on business from Chicago via New Orleans and the Pacific coast. Santa Clans paid a welcome visit .to the 4,7<X( engineers and firemen on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul system, increasing their pay about 10 ikt cent. The Chicago and Northwestern has inaugurated a through sleeping car service from Chicago to Spokane, Wash., by a special arrangement with one of their w estern connections. The New York. New llaven and Hartford Railroad k-'is purchased twenty acres of ground on the Commonwealth Fiats, Poston, oil which it will erect the world’s greatest freight terminal. James J. Hill's proposal to the govern* incut to transport soldiers from Chicago to the Philippines for $25 and freight at $S a ton is expected to cause the government to abandon the transport service. The authorities of Washington, 1). C., arc investigating charges that tin* coalcarrying roads are diverting coni from the national capital to other cities. Washington has a veritable coal famine. It is announced by Vice-President and General Manager Hays of the Grand Trunk thnt lie will make application to the dominion parliament for authority to extend the lines of thnt company Jo the Pacific const from Worth Bay. Rock Island engineers have completed the survey from Waurika, Ok., to Ardmore, a distance of fifty-two miles. The company will soon commence construction of this branch. It is reported that the company will build from Little Rock to St. Louis. Passengers on the Northwestern limited of tile Chicago and Northwestern Railway to Minneapolis and St. Paul the other night enjoyed the first strawberries of the season, which were served by the dining car department of that line. That oil can be successfully used by locomotives as a substitute for coal has been thoroughly demonstrated by two big systems of the West, the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe, and these lines Will be equipped with complete systems for furnishing fuel to the oil-huming locomotives thnt will succeed all those consuming coal.

OKLAHOMA’S AWKWARD SHAVE.

i i'ONl.vin t<i tlte admission of Oklahoma Territory to stntehood say (\JJ there are many economic reasons why action should lie deferred. The present boundaries of the Territory are, they say, absurd, and refer especially to the little tail. "No Man's Land,” at the West end, that should logically be part of Texffs. The area. too. is said to lie out of proportion to adjacent States. Statehood demands should be deferred, it is held, until the existing Indian Territory enn be added to its urea. "No Man's Land” has (1,900 square miles, Oklahoma ;i\!isß square miles and Indian Territory 31,900 square miles. Oklahoma is considered'merely a temporary internal division of Indian Territory by some statesmen. In spate of its farming prosperity, Oklahoma, if it now becomes a State, will be a small one. ami will leave the probability of having to make another petty State of Indian Territory in the future.

HUNGER IN FINLAND

Failure of the Grain Crop Is Attended by Much Suffering-. Harrowing tales of misery now coming to the world from Finland- that bleak, forbidding dependency of Russia

where thy battle for existence lias ever been d e s per a to, again attract attention so a people wlto s e sufferings have been many. Starvation n o w stalks about the land and before spring thousands of TThlahders will have perished be : cause of a lack of food. Government

A FINNISH TYPE.

aid will be extended to lessen the suffering. but the deplorable condition of affairs cannot be wholly remedied and it is estimated that a great proportion of the 100.000 or .700.000 persons now literally starving will perish miserably before the passing of winter. A discouraging crop failure, the worst Finland has experienced in fifty years, is respoiisilde for the present suffering. The average grain crop of the country is valued at s.TU>iW,ik»o, and the estimated value of the crop of liWff is only f2O.iHW.OiW. the failure being almost total in the northern third of the country. Peas and beans have entirety failed and tin' potato crop has not been gathered. The hay rotted-in the fields or was swept away by floods, so it was a complete loss. The only food now available-'to thousands of Finlanders is a bitter bread made from unripe rye and barley which hungry horses refuse to eat, or bread

MOREE GATE IN DELHI. Where the Viceroy’s cavalcade entered the ancient Indian city to hold the Durbar

baked from barley husks and straw, mixed with a little flour, which contains very little nutrition. Fish cannot he had. as the heavy rains of the summer reason made the catch unusually small. Nowhere in tile north is there grain sufficient to feed even the birds of the air and thousands of them liavi 1 * died of starvation. “ The greatest famine ever known in the country was in ISO" when, because of a failure of crops, 100.000 persons died, blit the conditions then were not nearly so desperate as are tin- present. Ol' the 500 parishes in Finland. 104 are now nearly destitute, their food sufiply being sufficient to last only until Now Year's. No fewer than 1.200 school children are now without food and before aid reaches them many will starve.

To Abolish Grade Crossings.

Work will begin in the spring to rid the city of Cleveland of 154 grade crossings iu the several directions in which these dangerous localities now exist. The estimated cost of the work will he $lO,000,000 and ten years will be required to do the work. There are seven railroads concerned in the expensive improvement. Legislative authority hns been granted to begin the work, the city and the iailroads each bearing an equal share of the great cost.

A Mexican Patriot.

Pedro Alvarado of Pnrrul, Mexico, said to be worth $40,000,000, has offered his entire fortune to the government of that republic, the money to be used in liquidating a part of the national debt, which now amounts to uhont four times the amount named. Senor Alvarado explains that his wealth came from mines, title to which was given him by the government, snd that therefore he enn well afford to gratify his desire. The government has declined his offer. Old papers for sale at this office.

THEIR MILITARY STRENGTH.

Tin- figures represent the available fighting men of Germany and the British empire. Venezuela has a standing army of O.OUO men, but on the basis of population 200.1 NMI could be rallied in ease of popular uprising against foreign invasion.

INDIA HAILS EDWARD.

Hia Accession to 1 lirone Celebrated in Magnificent fc-tylc. The viceroy. Lord (’urzbn of Kedleston. made his state entry Monday into Delhi, the capital of the Moguls. This constituted the official opening of the Durbar held to celebrate the accession of King Edward as Emperor of India. It was a splendid pageant, probably unparalleled in its magnificence. At the head of the elephant procession rode Lord and Lady Curzon on the state

"grand tusker” twelve feet high, the largest elephant in India. Their howdah was decked with gold and silver, and the elephant itself was almost hidden under a gold worked saddle cloth. Surrounding them were footmen in scarlet and gold liveries bearing massive silver staves. The Duke of Connaught, who represent ed King Edward, ami the Duchess of Connaught followed. Their elephant was equally gorgeously caparisoned. Then, in order of precedence, came the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Manajarnh of Travailcore ami other ruling chiefs, seventy in all. their huge elephants forming a line n quarter of a mile in length. This glittering procession started from the railroad station preceded bv dragoon guards ami artillery, the viceroy's escort and by heralds and trumpeters. The route was lined by British and native troops. From the saluting battery, posted at the fort commanding the Lahore gate, guns thundered out a royal salute as the viceroy passed. The cortege passed in front of a line of 150 elephants carrying the brilliantly dressed retainers of the ruling chiefs. The colossal beasts saluted by trumpeting and throwing their trunks in the air, and afterward- fell in line behind the official iirocession. Huge crowds of onlookers witnessed the spectacle.

New union railway station will lie erected in Washington, to cost St.(XXJ,(XH). It will he located at Massachusetts and Delaware avenues. There will also be a plain park. The government will pay the Pennsylvania Railroad $1,500,UOO and the B. & 0- SS<X),OOO. All possibility of another general strike in Havana, Cuba, has ended, as the cigarmakers have voted to return to work nml the factories were running as usual. Mateo, bad Indian, Arizona, killed by offlem*. »

LATEST ROYAL SCANDAL.

Princess Louise Deserts Her Husband and denounce* Rights. Another chapter in the long list of domestic tragedies which figure with monotonous regularity in the annals of

many of the royal houses of Europe was added when the King and Crown Prince of Saxony enused to be inserted, in the official journal at Dresden a notice to the effect that the wife of the latter, Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, had fled from home , during the night. For some time the news of

PRINCESS LOUIBE.

the disappearance of the crown princess was kept from the public, but it was at last given out, because the court fiction that she preferred to remain in retirement at Salzburg rather than return to her husband and children at Dresden could not longer be maintained. J: About a month ago Princess Louise, accompanied by her husband, went to the castle of Emperor Francis Joseph, near Salzburg, which is the capital of the duchy of Salzburg. A week after their arrival at the castle the crown prince broke his leg while hunting and returned to Dresden. The princess, however, remained at the Austrian castle, and it was from there that she disappeared. That her flight was premeditated is manifest from the following passage in a letter which the princess left: “I renounce all rights due me through mv relationship to Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince of Saxony.” Princess Louise went to Geneva. Switzerland, and is registered at a hotel under the name of Frnulein Yon Oben. With her is her brother. Archduke Leopold Ferdinand. At tlie same hotel Is mopping Prof. Ginm, a handsome Frenchman, who was formerly tutor to the princess’ children. This dashing teacher of languages was the cause of the last quarrel between tlie Princess Louise and her husband.

Archduke Leopold has written to Emperor Francis Joseph renouncing his rank and dignities ns a member of the Imperial IJouse and saying he will become a civil subject. The whole of the archduke’s career is redolent with scandal, dating from the time when he started to accompany the heir to the throne on a tour of the world. He only got so far as Colombo, where he was obliged to leave the ship on account of his scandalous behavior. The archduke has since been mixed up in a number of nffairs and was confined for some months in an asylum' On the other hand, the statement is made by partisans of the Princess Louise that lier life had become unbearable. What she complained of in the prince was bis intemperance, his infidelities and, as her partisans affirm, his cruelty of disposition. Princess Louise Antoinette Marie, Crown Princess of Saxony and an archduchess of Austria, was born Sept. 3, 1870, and was married to Prince Frederick Augustus, the present Crown Prince of Saxony and the son of Kiug George, Nov. 21, 1881. The couple have five children, three sons and two daughters, the last one born a year ago. Crown Princess Louise lias been described as a remarkably brilliant woman, of very high spirit, with a pronounced disregard for etiquette and a taste for cnricature and bicycling. In Dresden she was noted for her extreme democracy.

Few-Line interviews.

If I were hungry I would steal.—Rev. Dr. Charles 11. Purkhurst. There are some things worse than a strike—degradation, demoralization and a cowardly manhood.—Samuel Gompers. The highest honor lies in the king’s uniform. The highest work is die calling of arms.—William 11., Emperor of Germany. The trouble with English hospitality is that they make you feel you are doing them a favor in accepting it. —Maj. Gen. Young, r. S. A. No subject can be dealt with in half nil hour a week. The present Sunday school system is nil wrong.—President Eliot of Harvard University. The interests of both England and America are tho same. Prosperity for either moans prosperity for both.—ViceAdmiral Lord Charles Beresford. From tho viewpoint of health, hardly one girl in ten is fitted physically to stand the mental and nervous strain of a college course.—President Taylor of Vussar. I wish for the #crman people freedom of thought in religion and scientific research, but not freedom to govern badly at will.—Emperor William of Germany. The Irish, nlone of all the world, control neither tho soil they till nor the government under which they live; they demand the control of both.—MV. Bourko Cockran. The chance of a university to enlarge men's power of happiness is not lesa than Its chance to enlarge their capacity for gain.—Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. I do not know thnt a union of tho churches can be expected in the near future, but a spirit of live and let live is coming, and I see the prospect of admitting, to the heathen, at least, that we all worship the same God.—President Woodrow Wilson of Priuceton University. I think it is n good thing that Itobert Burns was not the Mayor of New York, for ho could never have written the lines, “O, wad some power tho giftie gie us to see tfursel* as ithers see us."—Mayot Low of Greater New York. Every man born in this country is a born policeman. He is burdened at birth with the responsibility for his own wrongdoing and for the shortcomings of his neighbors.—Dr. James H. Canfield of Columbia University,

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Hntorman Killed in Trolley Wreck Crawfordsville Hotel Burns—lndianapolis Ministers Kvolve New IdeaHotel Thief Arrested. On the Union Traction. Company’s line between Anderson and I ildianapelis there was ao head-on collision between a limited carrying about twenty passengers and the private car Martha of President G. F. McCulloch. Barton Frazier, 35 years old, of "Muneie, motornian on the limited car. was crushed in the wreck and died. Horace G. Wilcox of Lapel was severely injured internally. Miss Patterson of Muneie, a sister-in-law of Mr. McCulloch, was cut about the face by glass. No other passengers of either car were severely injured, although til were dumped from their seats. The private ear telescoped the limited for about ten feet of the front end. » Hotel Guests 1 scape Fire. With the mercury at zero, the guests at the Bobbins Hotel in Crnwfordsviile were awakened at 4 o’clock in the morning to find the house on fire and escape by the stairs out off. Ladders were soon raised and all were rescued in various stages of attire. The loss is $15,000, with SIO,OOO insurance. I>rs. Wall and Helfrish, who conducted a sanitarium, are heavy losers. Novel Plan to Fill Churches. The Methodist ministers of Indianapolis have adopted a novel scheme to arouse interest on the part of their congregations and increase church attendance. It is a general exchange of pulpits to he arranged by a committee. Until Hear the time Tor services the pastors ivlll not know where they are to preach nor the congregations whom they are to hear. Merchant Stabs His Assailant. Meitiu Bay attacked (). A. Hawkins, a merchant of Shoals, on Main street, and knocked him down twice. Hawkins then cut Bay three times with a penknife. one cut directly under the heart being serious, Hawkins voluntarily stir rendered amr was immediately released on bond, furnished by his father and brother. Thief Gave the Alarm. .1. .V. Glenn was arrested in Brazil on the charge of robbing the Wavorly Hotel tie* other night, when two gold watches, a ring and a roll of money were secured. He gave the alarm to the authorities, and when questioned lie became confused and the missing articles were found ou his person. Kills Visitor from Indianapolis. William Dormidy, aged 52. of Indianapolis was shot and killed in the street at Madison by Frank Heilman, who is said to have been intoxicated and \\ ho gave himself up to Sheriff Crozier. It is supposed Heilman mistook Dormidy for another man.

State Items of Interest.

Leonard Mack, a coal miner at Burnett, shot and killed William Foster and escaped. Charles Belcher of Taswell killed himself with a revolver. Domestic trouble was the cause. A. 11. Cline's lumber yard at Biuffton was destroyed by incendiary fire. Loss nearly $20,000, insurance SO,OOO. Entire floor of a department of Jenkins glass factory in Kokomo dropped six feet. Nobody seriously butt. John Ray, n former Adams County hoy, is dead in South Africa, where he was serving in the British army. ” Poisoned candy was sent to Miss Matilda Baker at Michigan City, and after eating it she was taken violently sick. She was resuscitated after twelve hours of suffering. Miss Jessie M. Vandiver. Franklin, has been notified she will inherit $1,000,000, IJXXI acres of land and four houses from J. W. Dawson, New York, who has made ber his heir. Rev. John M. Linden has received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Michigan City. Mr. Linden has been a student at the Chicago University. The Standard Oil Compnny has purchased a large tract of land southwest of Marion, on which they will erect one of the largest refineries in the world. The work will begin early in the spring. The bodies of IVter Dalton and Henry Wetzel of Ramsey were found lying beside the suburban tracks at what is known ns the Half Way house at New Albany. The men had evidently been killed by a train. Fulfilling a vow, given his dying wife at hog bedside less than a month ago, J. T. Thomas, 5(5, of Marion, married Miss Martha Alexander of Youngstown, Ohio. They had never met until the hour they were married. The Panhandle Railroad, finding the casting work Incident to its business overcrowding the Columbus shops, has decided to put it in the hands of private industries. The work has been apportioned between foundries nt Steubenville, Ohio, and Ix>gansport. There is strong indignation over the action of the Central Union Telephone Company in Tern* Haute in making use of the memorial monument to the late exSocretnry of the Navy Thompson, dedicated recently, as a base for n gul rope to hold a telephone pole. A pretty, well-dressed woman, 10 years old, giving her name as Mrs. MV. C. Hazel of Covingtou, Ky., was taken to tho city hospital from the Morton Hotel in Indianapolis in an unconscious condition from poison and wounds in her wrist inflicted with a pair of scissors. She died. She was Mrs. Clarence Hazel. Mrs. Charles Davis and 4-year-old uuughter mimed to death at their homo near Frankfort. The mother attempted to save the child. Esther. 2-year-old daughter of Oscar Carter, fell from a second-story window of her homo in Kokomo to a brick eighteen feet below. VM’hen found she was playing ns usual, unhurt. A recent reunion of the Jackson family of Logansport reveals the fact the aggregate ages of the ten children of one family amount to 804 years. AUj these children are living. The .eldest ia 80 and the youngest 03. j