Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — Page 7

v - ; ■ . u,. Edward P. Honan, ATTO&VXT AT LAW. Law. Abstracts. leal Estate. Loans. WW practice ! n all tha coarta. Office over Van* RENSSELAER, INDIANA. - ' - Judson J. Hunt, loi. testracß. larcmnu a* RENSSELAER. IND. Office np-stairs In Leopold block, fleet stales west of VanKensselaer street Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The ». A. AC.Ry. and RensaalaerW.L.A P.Oa. (RuOfflee over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. V. If. Ban*bman. O. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work, Loans. Real Estate and Insuran e. bpecla' attention fflven to collec* lions of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store." 'Phone 830. Rensselaer, . Indiana. I J.F. Irwin 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. I ' I Collections, Farm Loans and Kir# Insurance. I Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. IR. W. Marshall, I ATTORNEY AT LAW. I Practices in all courts. Special attention I fflven to drawing up wills and settling deI cedent’s estates. Office in county building, I east aide of cjgurt house square. I suss volts. e. a. asm**. harry a. auaeie I Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, I (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) I ATTORNEYS AT LAW. I Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abaracta and I Loans. Only aet of Abstract Books in tba I County. I RENSSELAER. IND. lira W. Yeoman, I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. I Remington. Indian*. ■ Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance ■ |nd Farm Loans. Office upstairs tn Durand ■Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, I Physicians & Surgeons. I Dr. I. B. Washburn will give special attentlo* ■ to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat H and Chronic Diseases. Ha also teats area jff for glasses. I. Omoi Tiumssi No. 4A I Rssissmcs Pmons Ns. It ■Rensselaer, - - Indians, lE. C. English, 1 Physician & Surgeon. ■Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. | Orncs Pmons 177. ■ 0 NsSISRR.es pMOMSi lie. ■Doctor A. J. Miller, I PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON. I Rensselaer, Indiana. ■ Office np-staira In Forsythe block. General ■practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. ■Calls answered promptly, dav or night. Of* Es% a JssnrJS3&s ) ilm ” |w. W. MERRILL, M. D. I He n nod aimeni. mtENSSELAER. INDIANA. ■ Chronic Dlaeases a Specialty. ■Office ’Phone 308. Residence ’Phone MS Hdt. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Tntflas. I Drs. Turfler & Turfler, ( OSTEOPANHIC PdYSIOIANS. M Graduates American School of Osteopathy. ■Office over Hants Bank. Rensselaer. Ind. Bloats: • to 13m; 1 t04:30 p. m. Isl. O. Harris, R. T. Harris. J. C. Hants, ■ President. Vies-Pres. Cashier. 1 Rensselaer Bank. M Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing ■Certificates of Deposit Issued on time, Kx■•hange Bought and Sold on principal cities, Hiotes Discounted at current rates. Fan* made at A per cent B We Solicit a Share of Voor Business. mi. L. Brown, ■ 'DENTIST. B)ffice over La re h’a drug a tore IKKIjn. Crown. Bar and Bridge HWPiAI ) Work. Teeth Without . DM 4 Plates. Without Pain. Ivvx .. J. W. HORTON .. Est- taVCANSIN MgNSWUtg* cnrefnllr stopped with gold and other ■llings. Consultation free. Nitrons Oxide ■a# administered daily. Charge, within the ■eaohofalL ■Bb. ■ I^Mi.OFfOtltfl OtUflT HOUIL SoMi tar A* W* Lmc.

TO PASS STRICT LAW.

. •; —■ —7 , • j NEW MEAGRE FOR THE BAFETY OF THE PRESIDENT. • Back Will Be Introduced Whan Can* grass Meets la Extra Session—Recent Incidents Keys Shown Necessity of Mnfclnn Access to President Difficult. Washington correspondence:

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neaT the President ae if he were a European sovereign. Indeed, tfttere are Borne of tixe Kings of the effete monarchies of tha Old World who are not hedged about Ay anything like the divinity and aixahooters that keep ill-willed and unbalanced pennons away from the head servant of the people of this democratic republic. Had it not been for the vigilance of the secret service officers who are on constant guard at the President’s home tha intention of Wellbrenner, the murderous lunatic who was arrested at Oyster Bay not long ago, might have been pnt Into serious execution. This incident startled the officers who have the duty of guarding the President igto a realisation of the danger in which every man who reaches the exalted office stands. Whatever his personal or political popularity, the very fact that he is President attracts the attention of the diseased intellects which seek to redress fancied wrongs or gain notoriety by the killing of persons in high places. The ptfblic has not the least idea of tha greet number of dangerons cranks who are turned aride by the President's bodyguard of secret service men. As far as possible these incident* are withheld from the newspapers. The cranks are not arrested unless they hare committed some overt act which dhows them to be dangerous persons. Many are handed over to the police merely as disorderly persons, and they find their way into the Insane wards of tha workhouses, without tha public knowing that they have been menacing the peace of the head of tha nation. But recent event* have convinced the federal officers whose duty it is to guard the President that more stringent measures are needed. What La required is a general law which will follow the President wherever be goes. The Weilbrenner Incident was really more serious than it was made to appear in the reports given out. The officials realize that the President had a narrow escape from a dangerous lunatic. Weilbrenner had repeatedly tried to pass the guard about the President’s home, and when in the scuffle Ms revolver was disclosed and he was placed under arrest he had penetrated to 100 feet of where the President waa standing on his porch with the light from tha open door streaming npon the Chief Executive and making him a good target. Following closely upon this incident came the, arrest- in New York of Francis M. Benque for sending threatening latter* to Secretary Hay. Benqne was a photographer, who waa expelled from Germany. He claims SIB,OOO damages from the German government, and because of the failure of the State De-

KILLING FROSTS WORK HAVOC WITH CROPS.

Cold ware sweeps orer 500,000 square mile* of territory. Shaded part of map shows where damage la greatest.

partment at Washington to collect the amount, he mads threats of bodily violence in a letter to the Secretary of State. It Is a fact, however, that the secret service officers feared that Benque’s disordered mind might seek his revenge at Oyster Bay rather than at Washington, as experience has taught that the crenka with grievances like that of Benque almost in variably get after the President before the matter is settled by commitment to a madhouse. A mote recent incident was the arrest of the man John Millar at Syracuse, who, k waa alleged, had made threats that he would kill the President on the occasion of Mr. Roosevelt’* visit to that city on Labor Day, when the President reviewed the parade of the Letter Carriers’ Association and formally opened the New York State fair. Miller denied that he had ever need threatening language towards the President, and said that the woman who had gives the information to fhs police had manufactured a lie out of the whole cloth. This case was entirely In the hands of the local police, and the federal secret service had nothing to do with k. It waa, however, but an Instance of the many such cases which follow the President wherever he goes. On his trip to Syracuse fa* anas guarded with acnpifietlß care. Probably so President Is time of peace was ever hedged about as Mi. ftooaevelt was os that trip. The recent inddems had caused « redoubling of for it is well knpwnthgt as uaMoceannl attempt of A* WhOfeeuner kind la calculated to iafleto* *h-

NE of the first measures to b* 'introduced in Congress when it meets in extra session will b* « bill designed to protect the Pcg&Jent of the uissa aute« atm other ftffietttl officials from the attacks and threats of cranks. - The precautions a t present taken to guard the Chief Executive make it as difficult for a person without an engagement to get

er unbalanced minds to Jump into notoriety by making a real or pretended attack on the President. It is generally conceded by those who have studied the question that there to' only one effective way of dealing with these cranks. While they are undoubtedly unbalanced, they are as a rule not so much so as to be irresponsible. Czolgosz of unblessed memory was a good type. There was no doubt that he was not altogether sane. But he was competent to know the difference between right and wrong. Weilbrenner may have been a little more unbalanced, but had he succeeded in inflicting bodily injury on the I*resident, or even in making an unsuccessful assault, the law would have regarded him as responsible. As it is, he has been sent to an asylum for violent lunatics. It is generally believed that stringent federal laws are needed to insure the increased safety of the President. At the last session the Senate passed such a measure, but it was permitted to die in tha House. This may be revived and amended or an entirely new bill may be introduced. The radical departure which this will mark from the early simplicity of the republic is made necessary by the changed conditions, the vastness of the population, the now and widely different of our people and the sad lessons of experience.

HAVOC OF A STORM.

Two Score Ltves Lost in Hurricane on the Atlantic Coast. Two score or more lives lost and $2, 000,000 damage on sea and land —such i the result of the storm which swept tin eastern coast Wednesday. Stories oi death and loss and of thrilling escapes prove that the hurricane was one of-the meet destructive which ever visited the Atlantic. Off the coast of Maine, near Damans cotta, fifteen men lost their lives in the gale. The Gloucester mackerel seining schooner George F. Edmunds, commanded by Captain Willard G. Poole, the owner, struck on th* eastern side oi Pemaquid Point and was smashed te pieces. Fourteen of the crew of sixteer men perished in the breakers. The

schooner Sadie and Lillian, Captain Hardy, of Prospect, bound from Prospect Bay to Boston, struck on the western side of Pemaquid Point and her bottom was knocked oat on the rocks. Captain Hardy was drowned, bat his crew of two men were Rescued. One of tiie most thrilling experiences was that of the excursion and freight steamer S. E. Spring, which was driven ashore near the country mansion of E. C. Benedict at Greenwich, Conn. Captain McDonald; his crew of (even men and eleven passengers were rescued, largely through the hid of the Benedict servants. While a freight train oa the Long Island Railroad waa passing between Mineola and Hyde Park the roof of a box car waa carried away by the gale, with Walter Lewis and George B. Snyder, brakemen, clinging to it. The roof was carried almost a hundred feet from the track, where It collapsed by striking a tree. Both men were fatally injured. At Jamaica Bay, Long Island, scores of yacht* were wrecked. Most of them were torn from their anchorage and pounded to piece* on shore, but many were caught while sailing tn the bay. Th* beaches at New Rochelle, os Long Island, sad City Island are strewn with wreckage from yachts, and it la estimated that sot Idas than s6ooyooo damage was done to these vessels alone. The cap defender Rflance is reported to'have boen rtamggl through being rammed by e pQedmer whieh^bre^ lkusc#’s *tem* . ••

ON GUARD!

MONUMENT TO LATE PRESIDENT M' KINLEY UNVEILED AT TOLEDO.

The McKinley monument, which was unveiled in Toledo the other day, is a square column of gray granite bearing the inscription, “William McKinley,” cut on its face. On the four sides his Ufa history is briefly recited. The abaft ia surmounted by a heroic bronze statue of the late President weighing 1,800 pounds The statue itself is 8 feet high. The monument was erected with the contributions of 26,000 residents of Toledo and .he surrounding country.

MAY SEIZE THE ISTHMUS.

Plan Suggested for Circa inventing Cupidity of Columbia. Washington correspondence: The Panama canal situation has reached a much more serious stage than has appeared on the surface, or than the information given out by the State Department would indicate. The real truth ia that the relations between th* United States and Colombia are badly strained. All this is the result of the duplicity of the Bogota grafters, who, having attempted to blackmail the French Panama Company into giving them $20,000,.100, are now endeavoring to rob th* French corporation of its entire possessions for which the United States ia willing to pay $40,000,000. The cause of the defeat of the Panama treaty by th* Colombian Senate was th* refusal of the French company to divide with Colombia the bonus offered by this country for the Panama franchise and plant. The offer we* made to the Panama company that if the “divy M were made the Colombian Senate would pass the treaty by which the United States would be given the privilege of completing the canal. The attempt to blackmail the French company wen* bo far that officials of the United States government were approached with the suggestion that they use their influence with the French company to secure the “rakeeff” for Colombia. At this otaga of the gams th* State Department sent to Minister Beaupre a series of telegrams advising him on a course of action which might have changed the attitude of the Colombian Senate. The department wae surprised to hear of no results from Minister Beanpre’s instructions, and when k was announced that the treaty had been defeated, cypher dispatohes were sent to the minister inquiring about the situation. It was ascertained that the instructions had never been received. Th* diapatritea which were withheld cover a period of about three weeks. Now the Colombian government is framing a reply to a peremptory inquiry from the United State* as to why the diplomatic correspondence between this government and one of Ks representative* has been interrupted. If the reply is not sufficient Colombia will be firmly requested to make ample satisfaction. v Since the Panama rests has been decided upon the engineering world baa come to recognize the overwhelming advantages it possesses over Its northern rival. The administration believes that if the country ia going to construct a canal it owes it to itself and the commercial world to choose the Panama way. The stubbornness of Colombia Will hare to be overcome. There are several ways suggested. On* kto proceed to condemn the property needed in the name of civilization and leave k to The Hague court what compensation will*be given to Colombia. Another ia to recognise the independence of Panama, which k tore to secede if it appears tha* the Bogota government stands in the way of the canal, which means prosperity to the isthmus. Therihird k to resurrect the old* treaty of 1846, which has never lapsed, and to (proceed to construct the canal ondtr its

CONDITION OF CROPS.

DAMAGE BY FROST HAS NOT BEEN SERIOUB. Ge vrrnmeiit Report Says Nearly All Corn la Safa— Wet Weather la Northwest Hampers Completion of tha Spring Wheat Harvest. The weekly summary issued by the weather bureau says while the week has been abnormally cool, with general froats throughout the central valleys and ae far south as the northern portion of the central gulf States, the damage has not been serious, except in the extreme western portions of Kansas and Nebraska, the Dakota.”, Minnesota, Wisconsin and New England. The south Atlantic States have suffered from excessive moisture, while the heavy rains of the previous week over the northern portions of the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys delayed thrashing of spring wheat and caused grain in rhock to sprout. Drought has been largely relieved in the east Gulf States, but continue® in the Ohio valley, Tennessee and in the central and western Gulf States. The Pacific coast States have experienced a very favorable week. {Notwithstanding the occurrence of Hgfit to henvy frosts generally throughout the corn belt, the corn crop has escaped injury, except in the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska and in th* Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A large part of the crop is now safe, bvc the bulk of the unmatured will require from one to two weeks of favorably weather. •The weather has been favorable for the completion of spring wheat harvest on the north Pacific coast. In the Dakotas and Minnesota spring wheat in shock has been injured and thrashing delayed by wet weather. , Except in portions of the eastern districts of the cotton belt, where cotton picking has been interrupted by rains, the weather conditions have been very favorable for gathering the crop, and this work has progressed rapidly. The prevalence of rust, shedding and boll worms is widespread, and the boll weevil in Texas continues destructive. The outlook for a ei*bp is not promising. Late tobacco has suffered from drought in Tennessee and Kentucky, mid heavy rains in North Carolina, and frosts caused some injury in Kentucky. The bulk of the crop is now housed. The reports continue to indicate extensive prevalence of blight and decay of potatoes. Plowing anil seeding have advanced satisfactorily except in the Ohio valley and Tennessee, where the soil has been too dry, and in the northern portion of the middle Atlantic States, where there has been too much rain.

Reports by States. Illinois—Light to heavy frosts 17th and 18th, slightly damaging to vegetables; week closed warm nnd favorable; rainfall deficient In south, well distributed tn central and north and heavy lu places in north, where grain in shock and stack was damaged; corn practically unseathed by frost; slight Injury only in lowlands; effects of frost beneficial, tending to hasten ripening; some corn cut; pasture excellent; some potatoes rotting from excessive moisture: apples continue to drop; light crop of Inferior quality. Indiana—Warm Monday and Tuesday, general rain and cooler Wednesday and Thursday, clear and decidedly cold with frost In all sections Friday and Saturday; no damage to corn and prospects for this crop greatly improved; cutting In progress, but much yet green; good crop of tomatoes promised, but ripening slowly; light crops of apples nnd potatoes: fall seeding progressing; conditions favorable. Ohio—Light frost general 18th and 19th, no material damage; drought continues south; much early corn cut In middle and south and some in north, but mnch late corn will require ten days to ripen; considerable wheat sown in north; seeding delayed by drought in south; tobacco fair; clover seed light to fair; potatoes decaying In northeast; pastures and gardens good lu north, poor in south; apples continue dropping badly. Michigan—Ezcessive rains damaged beans and potatoes and retarded field work; early com being cut, but bulk of crop needs ten days good weather to fully mature; potato rot and blight general; buckwheat harvest slow; sugar beets fair; all gratu In stuck sprouting and damaged; quality of apples deteriorated. Wisconsin —Excessive tain In western counties damaged grain in stack and shock and delayed threshing; frosts 17th and 18th damaged com In exposed localities, but bulk of crop uninjured; some com cut, but bulk of crop will require week or ten days to mature; potatoes rotting badly; tobacco practically all lu shed, large crop of good quality; buckwheat harvested, good crop; apples light; cranberry picking under way, good crop. Missouri—Rainy weather first of week, with low temperature, retarded progress of late corn, but later weather conditions ideal; no damage by frost; two-thirds of com safe, and remainder will be safe in two to four weeks; cotton opening and picking begun, crop much below average; wheat sowing delayed by rains, but now progressing favorably; apple crop very light. lowa—First half of week cold, wet and cloudy and last half flue, ripening weather; reports Indicate the corn crop escaped serious damage by frost, even where temperature was lowest; eorn harvesters at work in most advanced fields and belated portion of crop now maturing rapidly; potato and apple harvest In progress; fall plowing well advanced; acreage more than usual. South Dakota—Cold and wet fore part of week causing injury to unthreshed grain; fair and warmer latter part, when threshing, haying and corn-cutting were resumed; frost on the 16th killed roliage of most unnurtured corn and damaged some flax and millet; reports Indicate probably threefourths of corn soft or uninjured, but much of balance will likely be unsound. Nebraska—Cold week, with light frosts Is extreme southeastern counties and heavy to killing in central and western; haying, threshing and sowing winter wheat progressing nicely; some wheat up well; corn In extreme southeastern counties uninjured by frost and damaged but slightly in a consMerable area In the eastern part of the State, but much damage in central and western rtmntles. Kansas— Haying, corn and forage cutting continue; late com damaged somewhat bg frost in northwest, elsewhere it is maturing, but ripening is delayed by cool weather; plowing continues, ground in good condition, except In west, where too dry; wheat sowing general; pastures good; killing frost in northwest destroyed gardens ; and damaged forage crops. Gov. Bailey of Kansas has offered a reward of SIOO eat* for the arrest and • conviction of the paries who tried to J wreck a Missouri Pacific train at Nearman An*. 22. Special Master Brook, in the suit of the Topeka Gas Company to restrain the ‘ city from enforcing its dollar gas ordinance, has decided on sH essential points , tn favor of tho company. A report that the members of th* crew if f|| t battleship Kearsarge are on th*

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLA Woman Reveal Murder Because Coneteucee Hart —Old Feud Knde in Crime—l: nr glare Shoot Operator and Rob Bailway Station. Three women told the Terre Haute police of the murder of Linn Woodall, who was supposed to have accidentally been killed by the cars at Linton several weeks ago. As a result of their confession, forced by stricken conscience, Joseph Fiske is in jail, accused of the crime. The young women are Blanche Clark, Lillie Tipton and Minnie Meyers. They say that they were with Fiske, Woodall and a third man at Linton on the day Woodall was killed. A quarrel started between Fiske and Woodall, and Fiske struck Woodall on the head with a club, knocking him down. Fkke warned those who saw the deed that if they told he would kill them. He tihqp dragged the body to a track and laid it across the rails, where afterwards it was ■mangled by a passing train. When the women told the story the officers for the first time heard of the murder theory. The women said the tragedy had weighed on their consciences and they agreed to tell the story. Shoots Three and Himself. In the presence of a great number of persons at the Trkfcate fair grounds in Evansville City Detective Thomas Hutchens shot Police Chief Fred Heuke and Police Captain Fred H. Brennecke, accidentally wounded Jacob Lutz, a member of the City Council, and then committed suicide. Hutchens and Patrolman Crowe were sitting in the German village tent, when Heuke and Brennecke entered. Hutchens drew his revolver and began shooting at Brennecke. Brennecke was shot in the breant, Heuke received a bullet near the abdomen, and Lutz was shot near the heart. Hutchens then placed the revolver to his own temple and fired. He fell to the ground a corpee. It is feared the three men are fatally wounded. Exposes Alleged Murder Plot. Mrs. Edward Oasker, wife of a paroled convict at LaPorte, warned Harry A. McCormick that her husband had sworn to kill him and his father, and the plot had reached a stage where their lives were in imminent peril. The elder McCormick was formerly sheriff of the county and was instrumental in running down and sending Casker to the penitentiary. Young McCormick is a clerk in a bank. They notified the officials of the disclosures made by Mrs. Casker and a search is now in progress for the convict. Robbers Shoot Operator. Herbert Aughenbaugh, night operator of the Erie Railroad at Laketon, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by two robbers, who fired a bullet into hds head after he had resisted their demand for the road’s money in his poeseoerion. The robbers escaped. They secured several hundred dollars. “Blind Tiger” Is Blown Up. Brown County’s “blind tiger,” a saloon operated at Nashville in defiance of law for a year past, was blown to atoms at 2 o’clock on a recent morning by a charge of dynamite. All Over the State Fieid rats have destroyed many acres of eastern Indiana corn. A $50,000 appropriation for repairing the Goshen court house was defeated through a technicality. A Vandalia passenger train struck a carriage containing Frank Milner and Mira Kate Biiby near Terre Haute, killing both. Dr. Hugh Morriron Lash, one of the best known physicians in Indiana, died at Indianapolis. He was born at Athens, Ohio, in 1844. Fully 5,000 people attended the fourth annual musical festival at Brazil. Bands took part from Oroeneastle, Danville, HI., Decatur, TH., and Indianapolis. Etta Morgan, 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Morgan of Brazil, was run over by an interurban car on the Terre Haute electric line and almost instantly killed. Mrs. Rnth Bryan of Fort Wayne has discovered that her mother, whom she had believed dead thirty year\ res idea at Cookesville, 111. She is now Mrs. Rachel Parr. Mother and daughter were reunited Sunday. The people of Porter were thrown into intense excitement by an attempt to blow up the saloon of Fred Sievers. A dynamite cartridge was thrown into the building. The cartridge waa seen in time to prevent'an explosion. Death stopped the confession of Grace Deauacn at Griffith. She had begun a statement that she was implicated in the robbery of Michael Johnson, her employer, who was beaten by thieves two years ago. The housekeeper ran for help and saved his life, so that Johnson, who was a wealthy farmer, hailed her as his preserver. Mrs. Belle Fountaine pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill after she had confessed to chloroforming the Harnish family near Dora, and waa sentenced to from three to fourteen years in the Indianapolis reformatory. Miss Lola Harnish, of whom the prisoner waa jealous on account of the attentions of Albert Turner, is recovering. Several well-known Indianapolis business men offered to make affidavits that they had seen an airship with two men in it aail over the chy the other day. At noon in a field several miles from Irvington some boys found a large torpedoshaped, paper-covered craft, thirty feet long, with a canopy and two dummy figures in it. It is believed to be a modal of an airship. The Vigo County Commissioners hare purchased fire riot guns for the uee of the sheriff. The guns hare been placed in the jail and will be used In case of mob attacks. ’ The body of Nelson Lowry was found in the Big Four Railway yards at Lafayette by D. J. Clark, yard foreman. Lowry was a general roustabout.. He had been mangled by a train. The inrentory of the property of the Wabash bridge and iron work* at Wabash shows aaseUj>^sß6.ooo.^The^ht-