Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Wdl practice In all the courts. Office ovor Path dlT* Pair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, low, mm, Loans m Real Estate: RENSSELAER. IND. Office up-stain in Leopold block, first stain west of Vanßensselaer^treet, Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The .N. A. AC.By, and Rensselaer W.L. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. t - - - —■ U.M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work, Loans. Real Estate and Insurance. Special attention given to colleca tiona of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store.” ’Phone 880. Rensselaer, • Indiana. J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts.

Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insuranoe. Office in Odd Fellows' Blook. RENSSBLABR, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ' : ' - Wfc ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practices in all courts. Special attention given to drawing up wills and settling decedent’s estates. Office in county building, east side of court house square. mu VOLTS. o. a. imum «»»«t a. ciraaia 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. “Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington; - - - Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. • Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. L B. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Bye, Ear. Noae, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests evea for glasses. Omet Tslipmoni No. 4*. ftmoßMca Phoni No. *7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. OSee over Imes' Millinery stdre. Rensselaer. tnci Phoms irr. •taaiosMCs Phoni, lie.

Dr. Anna Francis, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Graduate American School of Osteopathy. over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. ours: 9 to 12m; 1 t04:30 p. m. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rensselaer, - - v Indiana. Office up-stairs in Porsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence ’phones. JO4 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL 1 , M. D. Eiecnc pmi onii sum. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. - ’ 0 Chronic Disease* a Office ’Phone 308. Residence 'Phone 845 B. O. Harris, E. T. Harris,* J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Prea. Cashier. « Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time. Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted st current rate*. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. Wa Solicit s Share of Year Business. at _ _ H. L. Brown, DENTIST. -S Office over Larah’s drug store, HtNJpnf. JjSgff / Grown, Bar and Bridge 3 Work.' Teeth Without Ymr i xgk Plates, Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTOI .. IS TEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other filling*. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide administered daily. Charges within the ownos onoini eeuirr nmsi. plenty OF sees a_s .t rhifkana Wg|W RAAgUr B-ml Bokl fcflf A# Lo&jr*

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MAPB BEING MADE FOR RURAL DELIVBRX EXPERIMENT. Indiana Will Be Completely Covered by System Within Two Years and Every Farmer Will Hava Hie Nail Brought Directly to Hie Door. The announcement ia made .from Washington that every farm house in Indiana ia to be reached by rural mail delivery carriera within two years, which means that the work of locating every house in the State will be completed in that time. -i Since April 1, seventeen Indiana counties have been supplied with rural mail service. In fourteen of these the work of making a complete record of the rural districts has been completed. Every farm house and the population of the country districts, have been set forth in carefully prepared maps, \\liick locate all roads and indicate their character—whether dirt or gravel, good or bad. These beautiful maps are rolled up and filed away in the office of Supt. F. B. Rathbone of the Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan district, located in the Majestic building in Indianapolis. So complete is this information, by

RURAL MAIL SERVICE IN INDIANA.

Counties ruled with vertical lines now have complete county service. Counties ruled with horizontal lines will be covered with county service July 1. Counties ruled with slanting lines will be covered with county service this year.

counties, that the 41,997 farm bouses in fourteen of the seventeen counties have beeir located down to their very acre. It ia found that the rural population of these 41,997 homes is 216,565 persons. Information can be had concerning ages and sex. The measurements of roads, both grave) and dirt, in counties whose records of this kind have been thus far left vacant, are being made now. The statistics tor the maps of Gibson, Posey and Delaware counties, whose complete comity service was instituted by experts from Washington, are now beiug compiled in Indianapolis, and they will be complete in a short time. It is not known yet how valuable complete' records will be. There are* many ways in which the maps, when completed for the entire State, can be used with very'great effect in promoting business, and they will be very valuable for the information of the public, if the government decides to give that information by a reproduction of the maps. The government has sent five expert draftsmen to Indianapolis to do this work, and maps are being turned out, county hy county, from the small section and township diagrams made by the ten traveling inspectors as they establish the routes. The draftsmen have had long experi'enee in mail route map making, and they are all agreed that the map of Madison -County, which has just been completed, and shows 4,412 rural homes, with a population of 22,060 people, in an area of 500 square miles, to be served by fortysix carriers, who daily cover 1,050 5-16 miles, over 941% miles of the finest gravel roads in the country, and 103 1-0 miles of good dirt roads, is the model rural route county to-day in the United. States, and should produce the best showing in the experiments now being made. The men who. have been working in Indiana, going over and reproducing section maps showing roads, elevations aud other natural conditions, say they are not surprised that Indiana was chosen above all States of the Union as the experimenting ground for complete county and complete State rural mail delivery service. Superintendent Rathbone is enthused with the progress being made in Indiana. He has just returned from Washington, where he Was in conference with those directing the rural route work. The reports that have been coming from Washington that the first complete State service would be established in Indiana within two years, he found to be true, He abo found that the paaaage of the law, by the Indiana Legialatare, permitting certain taxes to be set aside to keep rural route roads in good condition, had had good effect oe the powers at Washington.

Since returning . from Washington Superintendent Rathbone aaya he can announce that by July I—the end of the half year—complete county service will be instituted in the counties of Cass, Miami, Wabash, Huntington and Blackford, which, with Grant already covered, will complete the Eleventh Indiana district, a compliment given to Congressman G. W. Steele on his retirement from a long service in Congress. Other counties to he covered by July 1 are Adams, in Congressman Cromer’s Eighth district; Johnson County, in the Fourth district; Fayette and Union, in the Sixth; Lawrence, in the Second, and Warrick, in the First. This will make a total of twenty-eight counties, or almost! one-third of the State, covered with complete county service by July 1. Superintendent Rathbone announces that in the next half year, ending with the present calendar year, practically all of the central,!the northeastern section, and “thCpdsk4t” of the State, will be covered. Cromer’s Eighth, Congressman Watson’s Sixth and Congressman Hemenway’s First districts will have complete district service, and Congressman Charles B. Landis’ Ninth nud Congressman Robinson’s Twelfth district will receive a great deal of attention. The counties to lie covered between- July 1 and Jan. 1 are Steuben, Allen, Wells, Jay, Randolph, Wayne, Henry, Montgomery, Fountain, Hancock, Shelby. Franklqj, Spencer and Washington —fourteen counties, making a total

of fort.v-two counties, or almost half of the State. While the work of instituting comity service is going on in these counties, however, work is being done in all of the other counties of the State, from one to half a dozen routes at a time are being put in them. There are a large number of counties, not included in the forty-two named, that are half covered already. In this list are Clinton, Vigo, Clay, Morgan, Monroe, Knox, Howard, Floyd, Clark, Jennings, Decatur, DeKalb, Kosciusko, Marshall and Carroll. It is estimated that over half of the State is already getting the rural mail service and that when this year’s work of completing out co'unty services is„done that it will only leave 400 or 500 routes to be established next year. It is thought' that this can be done in the first nine mouths of the year, so that when winter comes on next year every farmer in Indiana will have his mail brought to his door.

HONORS SOLDIER DEAD

Monuments Erected ou Shiloh Battle* Field Are Dedicated. The twenty-two monuments erected on Shiloh battlefield, Kentucky, by the State of Indiana in honor of the twenty-two regiments that State had in the battle of Shiloh were dedicated Monday. A notable eulogy of the Indiana soldiers who fell in the famous battle was delivered by United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge. William Carey Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War, also delivered an address. James Whitcomb Riley recited “Old Glory.” Two special trains and a fleet of passenger boats brought 000 persons from Indianapolis. Gen. Lew Wallace presided at the dedicatory exercises. The monuments were presented to the State by Col. James Wright of the Indiana commission which has had charge of their erection. Gov. W. T. Durbin presented the monuments. to the government, and they were accepted by Assistant Secretary of War Sanger. The matronal commission was represented by Col. Josiah Patterson of Memphis, Tenn.; Gov. Frasier, of Tennessee was represented by Gen. Gordon of Memphis. „ v-«* With the Indiana party was Miss Kell Grant of San Diego, Oal., granddaugh-ter-of Gen. U. S. Grant. When the fleet of boats passed the Cherry homestead, which was Gen. Grant’s headquarters at Shiloh, tbe boats landed to allow Miss Grant to go ashore for a few minutes. The sister of George Kroenen, an Evansville Contractor, was driving when her horses became frightened at a passing train and dashed several miles down the railroad track and jumped a cattle guard. The young woman was net thrown from the buggy.

WASHINCTOH COSSIP

Although It waa argued at the time tha oleomargarine act waa under consideration in Congress that the tax of 10 cents a pound Imposed upon the product colored in imitation of butter would not injuriously affect the industry, the claim of the opponents of the law that it would la being realized. The official statistics given out by the commissioner of internal revenue show that, although the tax on the uncolored product was reduced from 2 cents to one-fonrth of a cent a pound, the revenue derived during the eight months ending Feb. 28 last was only |124,809, compared with receipts of 11,483,952 during the corresponding period of the previous year under the old law. The total receipts from oleomargarine under the new law during the eight months was $288,538, compared with sl,908,461 during the corresponding period under the old law. The revenue collectors have found that the consumption of oleomargarine under the new law is less than one-twelfth what it was under the old law. In the eight months last mentioned only 6,000,000 pounds was taxed, while under the old law 74,000,000 pound* was taxed. Naturally the number of retailers has proportionately decreased. Action by the President and the Secretary of War in two recent cases is an Indication of a policy changed for the better in the matter of resignations and reinstatements in the army. Secretary Root accepted the resignation of an artillery officer with the indorsement, “for the good of the service,” The officer had misbehaved repeatedly, until it was evident that he did not belong in the army. In other days it has been the custom simply to accept the resignation without written comment. The offending officer was thus placed on a par with faithful mon who retired for honorable reasons. Secretary Root’s course is designed to make the papers conform to the facts. In the other case, President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to place on the retired list an officer who had been cashiered some years ago. The record showed that the man was unworthy, and the President’s reason for his act was that the placing of each a person on the retired list would be unjust to every honest officer who had reached that list by faithful service.-

When the special session of the United States Senate was called to order there were thirteen new faces. Most in-

REED SMOOT.

Just before this Senator Hoar stated that any man having credentials could be sworn in, which was taken tp be* a reference to Mr. Smoot. The reported decision of the Democratic leaders In the House to follow up in the next session any advantage they may have gained in the last through their persistent filibustering „ has aroused . a great deal of feeling among the leaders of the majority side. A member of the ways and means committee, who Is the floor leader of his party, declares that further obstruction by repeated roll calls will lead to the adoption of some mechanical apparatus, probably an electric annunciator, for noting and recording eapff member’s vote. It is claimed that one of the instruments which have been submitted to the Republicans would lake a vote of the House in less than onetenth of the time now spent in the useless reading and rereading of the Jong list of names.

Robert H. Watkins ha* arranged some interesting data relative to the ages, the length* of service and the public careers of the members of the United States Senate. He shows that Senator Pettus of Alabama, now just beginning his second term, is the oldest man in the body. Senator Bailey of Texas is the youngest. The brilliant statesman from the Lone Star State is exactly one year younger than the junior Senator from Indiana— Senator Beveridge—their birthdays occurring Oct. 6. The compiler calculates that the average age of members in the Senate Is 56.7 years. The majority of the men who constitute that great legislative assemblage are therefore somewhat past middle life. - ; President Roosevelt will be in close touch with the White House at all hours of the day and night in his absence. Assistant Secretary Forester will be in charge st the executive mansion and a line of communication will be maintained at all times between him aud Secretary Loeb, who accompanies the presidential party. While the President is at Yellowstone Park the special train of the party will be sidetracked at Cinnabar, near the entrance of the park, and daily communication with the President will be had through telephonic or telegraph system or by courier. A direct wire between Cinnabar and the White House will constantly be maintained. In the event of untoward accident the White House will be notified instantly. 4 / When the Fifty-eighth Congress meet* In regular session next December, the presidential election will be the overshadowing topic of conversation and discussion. Unavoidably it will check legisladvs activity. Everybody will realise that by the time the aeasion ends the nominating conventions will be assembling. In each presidential year the country thinks of what it Is purposing to do, rather than of the things that are actually taking place. Patronise those who advertises

teresting of these was Iteed Smoot, the Mormon Apostle, against whose election to the Seagate so much objection has been made. Ut was thought that {when his name was ■called some persons [would make a protest, but he waa •worn in without opposition. There waa some applause from the galleries when he took the oath.

HARRISON FOR A FOURTH TERM.

Chicago’s Mayor Re-Elected by a Plurality of About 7,000. v Carter If. Ifnrrison hns been re-elected Mayor of Chicago, receiving 146,323 votes to 138,485 for'Stewart, 11,207 for Breckon, Socialist, and 9,989 for Cruice, the Labor candidate, who fell far short of the vote he counted on. The Democratic candidate for City Treasurer was elected by over 10,000 more votes than Mayor Harrison, but Alderman Smulski, the Republican candidate for City Attorney, and F. C. Bender, the Republican candidate for City Clerk, both received small pluralities. The campaign was free from personalities. It was confined to the intelligent discussion of municipal questions. An analysis of the returns on the mayoralty vote by wards shows that while Mayor Harrison lost henvily all through the city from his vote of two years ago, he still had too much of a start for his opponent to overtake him. This loss

CARTER H. HARRISON.

was pretty evenly distributed throughout the city, but was the greatest in what is known as the Harlan wards, the Sixth, Seventh and Twenty-fifth, showing that the friends of Mr. Harlan us a rule voted for Mr. Stew-art. Mayors were elected in other IlliiK’s cities ns follows: East St. Louis Silas Cook, Ind. Galesburg George Shorn way, Clt. Moline C. P. Skinner, Itep. Rock Island.... .William McConockle, Kep. Quincy John A. Stelnhach, Dem. In Illinois township elections. Republicans were successful in the following places: Bloomington, Clinton, Danville, Decatur, Effingham, Elgin, Fairbury, Joliet, Kenney, Maroa, Plano, Peoria, Paw r paw, Sycamore, Waukegan, Wheaton, Woodstock, Wenona, Centralia, Kewanee and Naperville. Democrats won victories in Bement, Chenoa, Galena, Havana, Kankakee, Lockport, Moweaqua, Ramsey, Toledo and Tnylorville. Non-partisan tickets carried in Assumption, Aurora, Alton and Alhambra.

LITTLE CHANGE IN OHIO.

Aggregate Pluralities Show Very Small Republican Gain. While the aggregate of pluralities in Ohio city elections showed Republican gains, the parties break almost even on the changes of local administrations. The most noted changes from the Democrats to the Republicans were at Columbus, Mansfield, Zanesfield, Defiance, Delphos, Van Wert and Shelby, the Republicans carrying Shelby for the first time. Among the cities that changed from Republican to Democratic Mayors were Youngstown,' Springfield, Akron, Troy, and probably Findlay. Although there were many fushion tickets in the field, notably in Cincinnati, the only successful ones were at Wellington, Marietta and Norwood. At East Liverpool W. A. Weaver and the rest of the Prohibition ticket were elected.

There are seventy-one cities aud 615 TiUages in Ohio. Of the sixty largest cities heard from officially it is noted that the Republicans and the Democrats each carried thirty. In the notable exception of Toledo, Jones, the independent Mayor, will have little authority, as the Republicans control all the city government except the office of Mayor. Cleveland gives Johnson (Dem.) for Mayor a plurality of 5,985. Lapp (Dem.) for President of the Council has a plurality of 10,436 over Sontheimer, the Republican candidate. The Republicans elected Schreiner for Police Clerk and two of the four members of the School Council. Otherwise the Democrat made a clean sweep. In the new City CouueS the Democrats wil have seventeen and the Republicans nine members. In Wisconsin Judge Robert G. Siebecker, of Madison, is elected Supreme Court Justice by about four-fifths of the vote cast, which was light. O. T. Wilson was elected Circuit Jndge In the Second District, Judge O’Neil iu the Seventeenth, Judge Silverthorn in the Tenth and Judge Goodland in the Sixteenth. Municipal elections show Democratis gains. The constitutional amendment increasing membership of the Supreme Court was carried. Mayoral elections resulted as follows: Janesville A. 0. Wilson, Rep. Madison J. Groves, Itep. Racine P. B. Nelson, Rep. Oshkosh ...John Mnlva, Dem. La Crosse; ......John Torrance, Dem. Prairie du Chlen.. Leonard Cornelius, Dem. In Kenosha, Waukesha, West Superior, Eau Claire and Ripon the Republicans gained control, and .in Madison, Oshkosh, Appleton, Neenah and Sheboygan Democrats won.

NEW PENNELL CLOUD.

He Is Said to Have Been a Defaulter for $200,000: Arthur R. Pennell, the principal snspritt iu the Burdick murder case, was a defaulter, according to the Buffalo Commercial. The amount of his peculations, the paper says, amounted to between $15,000 and: $200,000. The paper also declares that Pennell contemplated suicide for two years. The whole story came out aa the result of a legal dispute over two life insurance policies. Incidentally, it lias* been learued. ghaff Pennell made provisions for the payment to Mrs. Edwin L.- of $23,000. This was to come out of hfs life insurance. Teunell carried more than $200,000 life insurance in order that after bis death the Eastern estates to which he "is alleged to have been a defaulter might be able to recoup the losses that they had sustained through hiin. In his will Pennell named as administrator of his estate hia brother, J. Frederick PennelL He left to hia administrator sealed instructions that upon his death be should make good all the losses.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. New City of Indiana Harbor Preparing to Bnild Important Canal—Small Fortune Clalmad by Rival Wlvea— Mrs. Drake Ia Indicted. Indiana Harbor, which has sprung into a thriving little city from a waste of sand in the last two years, is preparing for another long step in advance looking toward its upbuilding and the further development of the extensive steel mills and other industrial enterprises located and projected with its precinct*. Contracts have been signed for a canal twenty-one feet deep and 300 feet wide at its mouth from the harbor three rnd one-half miles south to the Calumet river, at a cost of $700,000. The canal will be built by Chicago men who own the new town. The second parties to the contract are the trunk lines running through east from Chicago. That the canal will prove a valuable adjunct in providing increased shipping facilities to the railroads the promoters of the project have not the slightest doubt. The Indiana syndicate is composed of the Potter Palmer estate; C. W. Hotchkiss, who will be chief engineer of the canal; F. It. Babcock and Frederick S. Winston, attorneys; Albert D. Erskine; Oakleigh Thorne of New York; John A'. Spoor, who has large interests in the stock yards; Owen F. Aldis, who haa large holdings in Chicago real estate, and Jarvis Hunt and Richard Fitzgerald, most of whom are well-known Chicagoans and who have been identified in the development of the city. A steamship line has alsp been organized, and extensive docks along the canal are projected. Two Wives Claim Wealth. Rev. M. N. Lord, formerly pastor of the Christian Church in Laporte, died recently, leaving n large estate. One of his sons, Henry C. Lord, married and his wife is now at Kansas City. After the deatli of the minister she wrote to a law firm asking it to look after her interests in the estate. In a short time a woman at Flint, Mich., said she was the wife of Henry C. Lord and was entitled to share in the estate. Wife No. 1 went to Kansas City and offered Mrs. Lord No. 2 S6OO to give up her claim, but lawyers advised No. 2 to hold out for $4,000. Wife No. 2 has begun suit against H?nry C. Lord for SIO,OOO damafes for marrying her when he had not obtained a divorce from the Michigan woman. Lord’s share of the estate amounts to about $6,000.

Widow Indicted for Murder. The special grand jury has adjourned at Covington. A true hill was returned against Mrs. Elmira Drake, who is now in jail there charged with murder in thd first degree, hy poisoning her husband with sulphate of zinc. She is indicted on three counts for murder. ' \.i Steal $2,000 from a Store. Five masked men blew open the safe at McPhillips’ store at Judson. They secured about $2,000 in money and uotes, and got away on a band car. All Over tine State. A Wabash freight ground to death Luther Cornelius, an old soldier, at Peru. The factory of the Indiana Box Company at North Anderson was burned. Loss $40,000. Fire destroyed the “Farmers’ Store” and other buildings in Owensville. Loss, 1 $20,000, with little insurance. Judge Simson of Terre Haute has derided hoards of health cannot exclude uu vaccinated children from public schools. John Luther, prominent farmer and stockman aud president of the Board of Trade, was killed at Hope in a runaway J accident. Blood poisoning has caused the death | of Curson Biddles of La Porte. The case | developed from a slight injury to the fin- f gcr received at South Bend. An attempt wash made to wreck the east-bound Lake Erie and Western pas- £ senger train near Frankfort. The gine struck a tie placed on the track. Mrs. S. L. McQuawn was robbed of | SOOO nt Marion. She had just drawa the money from a bank and at Third j and Adams streets was jostled by two men, who took the money from her pock- I etbook, which was hanging from her belt. A Superior Court jury decided that the loss of her scalp by Josephine Stephens ; while she was employed in the Tacoma laundry iu Indianapolis was, worth $7,SOO. Miss Stephens worked at a wash- . iiig machine and her hair- wound about , the shaft of the machine.

Walter McHale' of the firm of Me- , Hale Brothers, lumber manufacturers, :; while superintending the cutting of s tract of timber five miles east of Shoals, | was struck on the head by a limb of a falling tree. His skull was crushed ana ■' death was instantaneous. A crowd witnessed the singular per- l fonnanee of a full grown man crawling I on his bauds and knees from Miami to||j Wabash street on Market street, Wa-| bash. The feat was done to win' ft small ; bet made by the man, Fred PampnelV* who boasted that he could make the trigiu half nil hour iu that fashion. Ho really accomplished it in thirteen min-, utes. Pampnell got $2 for bis trotNjj ble. Benjamin Haynes, aged 70 years, who,! eloped from Napoleon, Ohio, March with the 24-year-old wife of his uephcWJ was taken back to the Ohio town by a| detective. The young wife was also *J prisoner. Haynes is a retired farmoHjl Mrs. Martha Haynes, his companion UtM arrest, has accepted the aged man’s afc-.| teutions for two years, according to th»-J nephew's charges. The pair were arresttg ed at Anderson. Theodore Doak, aged 53 yean, tIMM heaviest man in Knox County, died la; Vincennes. He weighed 405 pounds, bag , was active in business. j Harry G. Shriebeck, an lndtanapolM plasterer who has been working at Aag| derson, fell five stories and landed in g'j deep basement. He got up and bruslMjfl off hia clothes and was feeling hIQ bruises when his fellow workmen readS ed him. He said he was pot hurt saJl started back to work. ‘ There was much to tell about the trip downwa*®* be said. He remembered that be hit duH earth with a thump.