Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — Grau and the Gallery. [ARTICLE]

Grau and the Gallery.

Lafayette Democrat: By the way, our friend from Wheatfield, the editor of the Kankakee Valley Telephone, was advised by Uncle Sam to take to the cornfield and shock the corn, which he. did. And his newspaper which was onoe an interesting splatter of printers’ ink beauteous with paint* ings of Wheatfield’s most beautiful obscenry is now only a piece of news without a paper.

Attorney-General Miller has furnished Auditor of Staf& Slierrick with an opinion that the state cannot, under the laws, allow county treasurers for any monies paid out on account of tax-ferrets. This matter will be of interest to all counties where tax-ferrets have been employed. The ferrets gave out the idea that the state would stand its proportinate share of the tax-ferrets’ percent for recovering omitted taxes, but under this;, ruling the entire sum must come from the county fund.

And now it is said that' J. Frank Hanley of Lafayette has his political car out for the republican nomination for governor. J. Frank has in the past several years been after nearly every office for which he is eligible, and has been turned down in every case Bince he was congressman. Perhaps were he to go into retirement for a few years his star would shine with more brilliancy no his return to the political aren i There is such a thing as popularity being overdone.

August Russel, aged 60 years and a degenerate, was arrested at Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday for the murder of Theresas Keating, who was outraged and murdered in that city in November, 1900. Russel has confessed to the above murder, and points of similarity of same to the murder of Agatha Reichlin at Lorain, Ohio, recently. for which Rev. Father Walser was arrested and afterward discharged, lead the Ohio officers to believe that Russel also committ d the latter crime. It is said that he will give no satisfactory explanation of his whereabouts at the time Miss Reichlin was murdered.

Now that Maitfioe Grau, the successful has laid aside temporarily the CNtee of operatic management, reiflifeaecenoes are in order, When asked cmj tue oooaoion how he had managed % toake grand opera a paying igvnflttfcant where other managers had he *ep£wd: “The public paj9 me k> hear the singers; I pay the dtagers. 3 ’ An aequaintanos in search of Mr. Grau found him in the topmost gallery of the Mstoopohtan Opera House. He was throwing bits of paper in the air. Questioned, he said, “Trying to dfeborer drafts" “What an unusual interest you take in the people who fill the gallery !” commented the aoquaintanee. “A sneeze will interrupt and blemish a song,” said Mr. Grau. “A man in the gallery can sneeze as loud as a man in the box.”