Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BKNBSELAER, INDIANA. | / M " - ~ " Judson J. Hunt, I 101, item, logos ond Real im RENSSELAER. IND. Office np-staln In Leopold block. End stab* west of Vinßenwelaer street. 1 Wm. B. Austin, Sawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The N.A. AC. By. and Renaselaer W.L.A P.Oo. RLOffleterar Chicago Bargain Store. RauaaelacrT Indian*. V. M. Baughman. O. A. William*. * Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. _ Law, Notary work, Loana. Real Estate aad Insurance. Special attention given to collections of all kloda. Office over "Racket Store.” « 'Phone 889. Kihiulaii, Indiana.

I, P. Irwin 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loana and Fire Inauranaa. Office la Odd Fallows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ’■ Practices In all courts. Special attention •Iren to drawing np wills and settling decedent’* estates. Office In county building, eaat aide of court honae square. i r " 1 ■ 11 " ■ “ MUSI POUTS. O. S. IffiTUa MAMMY M. IVBMS Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Socecacora to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loana. Only act of Abstract Book* In tbs County. RENSSELAER. IND.

Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, ... Indiana. . t " Lav. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance gnd Farm Loans. Office npstairs in Duand Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. and Chronic DUsases. Ha alao taste area Om«i Tiumsm Na. 4*. RiKtiHei Nsni Na. tr. Rensselaer, . . Indiana, C. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. OSes over I me*' Millinery store. Ran—elaaa. Ornoa Phohi 177. Naataeaaa Pho»«, tie, .

Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON. Rensselaer, • - Indiana. Office np-stairs in Forsythe block. General Atactica of medicine, sur»enr and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. OfSiw.iSSßsrJSs&s' °‘ ,J '

jw. W. MERRILL, M. D. iiecnc Went ood sunjeon, gENSSELAEH. - INDIANA. Chronic Dlnoasos a Specialty. {Office 'Phone 808. Residence 'Phone S4S j|>r. Francis Tnrflsr. Dr. Anna Tnrflea. Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTKOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. {Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. {Boars t Bto 19m; Ito 4:90 p.m. *• *• cnttiatDL vice-rre*. ctuuiri Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on Urns, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal eldest 'Notes Discounted st current rates, Farm Loans made at 8 per cent Wa 3aMctt a Shars sf Year Bsdssw. ti. L. Brown, DENTIST. {Office over Larsh’s drug store *3* uaftii jin. MBr Crown, Bar and Bridge A Work. Teeth Without 8 /A Plates. Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON .. ISYKARSIN atNUIUIR • ' {Teeth carefully stopped with geld and other (filings. Consultation free. Nitrons Oxide jSas administered dally. Chargee withia the peach of all. j tem CSV— noose. Ip"

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. u Find Relics of Poet Age—Bxpect to Itik, VortNoe from Kindling—Bereaved Man in Hurry to Wod—Moth* or Za Outwitted. Relics of a prehistoric town inhabited by mound builders lyave been discovered in Montgomery County. State Geologist Blatcheley has received samples of various articles. Ho says the collection is superior to any in the world. It comes from the farm of J. H. Allen, which he and Wiutpn Utterback have been years in exploring. In the course of their'research, without opening the mound to any considerable - extent, they have discovered an ax, fifteen arrowheads, a ceremonial stone and utensils for making bowstrings. The ax is a big one, much too large and unyielding for use in war. This specimen is almost perfect. The ceremonial stone is the relic that lias taken the fancy of the State geologist. It Is a smooth piece of stone resembling a donble-bladed ax, with two grooves cut in the blades, but gn uninitiated observer might take the stone for the petrified vertebra of some monster fish. Mr. Blatcheley says he believes this to be the finest of the kind in the world.

Fortune Out of Kindling. Gentryville has the only kindling factory of its kind in the world. The plant has been put in operation, and the machinery is the invention of H. L. Davidson. The kindling is made into tubes, each of which is designed to kindle a fire. Sawdust is used in the manufacture, with pine tar and other snbstancesThe plant employs about thirty men and is capable of turning out GOO gross daily. The owners of the plant expect to make a fortune. lYedat Deud Wife Unburled. Before the charred remains of his wife were interred Otis Gurensey, a farmer living near Hebron, secured a license to marry Miss Minnie Jones. The wedding took place the other day. Guernsey’s matrimonial experience has been unusual. He was divorced last March, his wife charging cruelty, yet she went back to him. Recently she left again with W. W. Potter and went to Cedar Lake. There she was burned to death in a hotel fire.

Bereaved Dog Kilts Himself. Yardmaster Turner of the Evansville and Terre Haute at Terre Haute was laid out by a highwayman and is unable to report for duty. His dog, which had been in the habit of spending the day with him at the yard office, was manifestly worried by his absence, and later in the day, when he jumped into a vat of boiling pitch, the railroad men wern convinced that he committed suicide. Halts a Wedding in Vain. While Rev. Mr. Taylor was marrying Charles Lamar and Mary Locke in Kokomo the mother of the bride stopped the ceremony, forcing the bride, aged 17, to her room and dispersing the guests and minister. At night, however, the girl eecaped by a ladder, without shoes or hat, and the interrupted wedding was solemnized at a neighbor's, while the mother supposed the girl was at home asleep. Finds Lore- Making Coetly A breach of promise suit was filed by Miss Phoebe Grismer, aged 20 years, against Julius Marvel, a wealthy bachelor of Owensville, asking SIO,OOO damages. Miss Grismer is of good family and has filed fifty-eight of Marvel’s letters as part of the evidence.

Brief State Happenings The convention of Indiana Baptist churches at Bloomington passed resolutions denouncing Senator Smoot of Utah. Fire at Indianapolis damaged the W. H. Armstrong Company, wholesale dealers in surgical instruments, to the amount of $40,000. “Doc” Martin, a negro, was found guilty in Evansville of rioting in July last. The jury was out only ten minutes. The penalty is from two to ten years in the State prison. The grand jury at Vincennes is trying to break up cigarette smoking by boys and has secured testimony from thirty lads which will lead to the indictment of prominent tobacco dealers. At Evansville, Levi Meyer, colored, was found guilty of rioting by a jury in the Circuit Court. The punishment is from two to ten years. Meyer is the third man who took part in the July riot to be convicted.

The Pennsylvania is planning to move its water tank from Marshfield. The removal of a water tank is not generally noticed in newspapers, but this particular one is a landmark of unusual interest It was at the Marshfield water tank that the first train robbery in the United States occurred. The indictment against Wilbqr S. Sherwell, charged with having choked to death Lena Renner, vans nollied in Evansville. Sherwell was tried a yeas ago on the charge of having strangled Georgia Raiiey and Fannie Butler, bat was acquitted on both charges. He wea a member of the police force when arrested. He came from Rock Island, 111. Total destruction of the mining tows of Montgomery has been threatened, in a letter received by a prominent business mao. The threat was to destroy the tdwn with nitroglycerine and fire, and many of the citizens arc terror stricken. Montgomery has been fired, dynamited mad citizens assaulted during the last your. Numerous threatening letters have been received, and last April one was received demanding $2,500 or the town would be burned and wrecked with dynamite. Benjamin G. Hudnut of Terre Haute has sold his Vincennes street railway to the E. M. Dean syndicate of Grand Rapids. Mich., for SIOO,OOO. The citizens of La Porte have agreed to pay a bon us'of $50,000 to the Hobart M. Cable Piano Company if the plant is removed there from Chicago. The company has no? yet decided to move. Lora Raymond, the 15-year-old daughter of Henry Raymond, a coal operator, •f Washington, eloped with John Snider. They went to some point in Illinois. Snider M • teamster and baa been driving A wagon for his bride'* father,

MAP SHOWING ALASKAN BOUNDARY LINE AS DEFINED BY THE COMMISSION

The published forecast of the result of the Alaskan boundary arbitration substantially confirms the American view as to the meaning of the original treaty provisions whereby Russia and Great Britain fixed this boundary In 1825. Those provisions are so clear that notwithstanding the chance that the British and Canadian arbiters would defer to the pressure of Canadian sentiment a verdict in favor of the United States was expected. The award is thus a surprise only as an instance in which the sentiment or prejudice of patriotism lias yielded (o the superior claims of exact justice. Because of the attitude of the British' member of the board of arbitration, Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, the highest judicial authority in England, the award has been made to afford a noteworthy and impressive instance of the possibilities of peaceable and fair Inquiry. The map shows the boundary between Canada and Alaska, as decided by the treaty commissioners. America claimed rights over the Portland Canal, but this contention, it appears, the commission has set aside and puts that channel entirely under British control. The Canadian claim interpreted the treaty as meaning the line from headland to headland of the coast, thus Including in Canadian territory not only Dyea and Sknguay, but almost the entire length of Lynn Canal; also Glacier Bay, in which the famous Muir glacier is situated, and other important points along the coast Under the finding all this territory will remain under control of the United States. The United States boundary, as defined by the deeisiori of the commission, now ascends slightly west of Portland channel, and the claim of the Canadians, that their boundary should start up the northern arm of the Behm Canal, is declared to be untenable. As an example of the advantages of arbitration when wisely and temperately nndertaken the award will have a highly beneficial effect. To a certain extent it may have-also the effect of stimulating friendly feeling between the British and American governments, thougVtlie Canadians can hardly be expected to take this view of the matter. The fact which will impress them is that they have been shut out from the sea by a decision which intrenches toe United States more firmly than ever in its position as the dominant power of the Pacific. Any resentment they may feel must be shortlived, iince their case was weak and they knew it, notwithstanding their labored efforts to make it look presentable.

MERRILL MAY RETIRE.

Tenerable Preacher May Aak to Be Believed from Active Work, Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, probably will be relieved from active work, according to reports in

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church circles. The bishop is said to have told his friends that he had no desire to continue in the work ae an active officer of the church, and it is thought he will aak to be classed as an advisory bishop in the report of the episcopal committee to th<r general conference. Bishop Merrill is 78 years old, and has been in the Methodist ministry for more than half a century. He is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, received his appointment as a Methodist preacher from the Ohio conference in 1846, and was made a bishop in 1872. As a writer of books on religious subjects he la well known. It is said that he wishes mare time for literary work.

BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD.

•tate Official Cellecta Statlatica—Their Let a Hard On*. A Boston State official who has been investigating the subject for Prof. Friedrich Prinzing of Paris has discovered that Boston has more widows, in proportion to its population, than any other city In America, even Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and-other large centers. The young widow, he says, is one of the most unfortunate of beings, and not at all the gay butterfly which popular fancy baa pictured. Prof. Prinzing has collected a remarkable group of statistics which show that poverty sorely oppresses the widow, and that she is more subject to insanity, consumption, conflict with the law, and death than her marriHi sister. All these woe* fall more heavily on the young widow. Dr. Priusing’s opinion Is that the State should make provision for the support of the widowed and their children, directly, \ instead of indirectly through hospitals and insane asylums. There are widgwi In every * y Wv IllTf IWWIIWf BQ . ft

DIE IN BRIDGE CRASH.

Nine Killed by Crane Accident on the Monongahela River. As the result of the breaking of n traveler crane on the Pittsburg end of the new Wabash bridge over the Monongahela river nine men were killed and many were injured. The cause, as far as can be learned from the accounts of eye witnesses, was due to the traveler being overweighted. The traveler projects beyond the finished part of the bridge for the purpose of placing an addition iD position and allowing the builders to work. While many men were at work on this additional section the projecting bar snapped and fell. It landed on the section that was being placed in position and caused it to give way. On this section several men were at work and they were carried with the wreckage into the river. The traveler and section of the bridge fell on a barge loaded with steel anchored under the new bridge, on which several men were at work, and this was sunk. Those on the section of the bridge were crushed and some instantly killed while those in the barge were crushed or drowned. Near the bridge was the United States snag boat E. A. Woodruff, whose crew immediately began the work of rescue. The towboat John O. Watson came across from the opposite baric and joined in the work of relief.

The Comic Side oF The News

Bulgaria ia tired of living next door to a slaughter house. Chicago marble dealers and maitolo workers are giving each other the marble heart. King Edward may want to show bis strenuous nephew, the Kaiser, that there are others. With the corn crop threatened and the hop crop reduced compulsory prohibition may receive a great boost next year. Chicago la 100 years old and like some other centenarians has smoked nearly all its life, as Its atmosphere plainly show*. Not being able to think of any fresh offenses to charge against os, the amiable German editors suddenly have discovered that Uncle Sam is trying to grab HaytL It la denied that Alfonso is to wed. Perhaps he wants to wait until the feeling between this country and Spain grow* warmer, that he may pick an American girl. Apparently the next grave problem confronting the Postoffice Department is going to be tbe question where to find storage room for the Beavers and Machen indictment;. In further proof that the cause of education is making great strides in this co entry the increasing casualty lists ds# to “cans rushes" and “color rashes” an warihy of honorable mention, . *

CODIFYING STATE LAWS.

Yaat Amount of Preliminary Work Found to Bo Nacoooarv* The Codification Commission, since its organisation April 10, 1903, haa been laboriously engaged in trying to cany out the purpose of,its creation. Much time, in the beginning, was given to the adoption of ft plan of work. The work to be done was indicated by the Legislature, but the plan by which it was to be carried out had to be determined by the commission and was not easy. The law of Indiana as flow on the statute books is the work of the revisers of 1881, Judge Frazer, Senator Turpie and Mr. Stotsenberg and of the twelve Legislatures that have sat in the State capital since that date. But aside from this the courts have over and over again construed, distinguished and declared void very much of this legislative work. The result, the commission found, was. a mass of statutes from which it was not. easy to draw out a clear, consecutive statement of Indiana's statutes of 1881 nnd all the laws since enneted have l>een carefully examined by the commission, compared and the annotations entered on the margins of the several volumes. It has been found that notwithstanding the care taken by the able men who constituted the revision commission of 1881 many laws held by the court* to be still in force were omitted on purpose or else overlooked by that learned body. That the present commission might, if possible, not overlook any enactment by the Legislature since 1881 a variety of expedients has been resorted to. A list Las been drawn of the titles of all the session laws .nnd a typewritten copy of this list placed in the hands of each of the commissioners. From this list an alphabetical index of subjects has been made up, referring by volume and pago to every amendment or change on each subject of legislation since 1881 and a copy of this index is also given to each commissioner. The different duplications and repetitions, as well as modifications and amendments of the statutes may therefore be readily * examined and it ia the intention of the commission that no legislative measure, however minute, shall be overlooked. The revisers have been of opinion that not only the laws of this State, but also those of sister States should be examined and th« most important provisions carefully collated so that whatever should be thought most valuable in the legislation of other States might be adopted in Indiana. Extensive abstracts have accordingly been made from the statutes of other States. All the work is preliminary in its nature, nnd the actual work expected of the commission is to follow. The lines of labor have been marked, and the materials in some measure prepared, but the work itself is to build up along those lines and out of this material. However, much of the real work Itself is under wny. The first draft of the several statutes must be subject to revision before the finished product is made ready for the eye of the next Legislature.

INCREASE IN WEALTH.

Indiana Has Much More Taxable Prop ertjr Than She Possessed a Year Ago, Indiana’s wealth in taxable property has increased in the last year $118,625,402. This is shown by the table compiled in the office of the State Auditor from the final report of the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Besides the natural increase in the value of real estate throughout the State, there has been a great increase in tbe valuation of properties of every other kind. Indiana has been building many miles of steam and electric railroads, and her iiwirstrial interests have been increased materially by the addition of factories in a’most every part of the State. The millions of incrense in the assessed valuation of properties means the enrichment of county treasuries as well as that of the State. The total value of Indiana's taxable property of every sort and description is $1,513,433,044. The following table shows the total assessed valuations of real, personal and corporation properties: Value lands ? 504,367,296 Value of Improvement ou lauds 01,990,462 Total lauds and Improvements . $ 178,005,975 Value of lots 178,055,975 Value of Improvements on lots. 195,847,605 Total lots and Improvements.? 373,853,070 Grand total of real estate..? 970,211,428 Less mortgage exemption 44,290,297 Net value as originally assessed ? 925,951,131 Increase by State Tax Board.. 14,447,831 -—\ , .. .a ■■ ■ Net value as finally assessed.? 940,398,962 Value personal property ? 377,573,184 Total of all real estate and personal property ?1,317,972,146 Valuation of steam railroads..? 104,835,001 Interurban and street railroads 11,968,172 Telephone companies 6,739,091 Telegraph companies ......... 1,922,902 Express companies 1,983,380 Sleeping-car companies 379,891 Pipeline companies 7,634,331 Grand total valuation of all taxable property In Indiana for 1903 ?1.513,433,644 Grand total for 1902 1,394.808,242 Increase In 1903 ? 118,625,408

Minor State Matters.

John W. Hudson of Otwell, while at Pataka, was killed by a train. Ellen Mount, wife of Richard Mount, attempted suicide in Henryville by shooting herself with a shotgun. W. E. Walker, freight conductor on the Lake Shore, known ns one of the "Reckless Twins,” is dead at Toledo from railroad injuries received at Kendall ville. He passed unscathed through thirty-one railroad wrecks and accidents. Judge Newltn in Vincennes sentenced Charles Reed, a negro robber, to serve from one to twenty years in the penitentiary. Reed robbed the residence of James Grange and was captured. In August he broke jail at Lawrenceville and a number of robberies siuce then were attributed to him. Reuben Key, a negro, was found guilty of participating in the race riots in Evansville last July and sent to prison. His sentence was fixed from two to ten years. The Central Oil .Company of Hartford has sold out to an English syndicate represented by V. C. West and Mr. Sturgis of Chicago. Tbe edahideratkm was $150,000. Mrs. James Van Meter was killed and five other persons seriously injured by ft flash of lightning which struck a twostory frame building occupied by the Knights of Pythias at West Point

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The famous Marine band, after an ex* latence of 100 years, may be forced to fall to pieces. The Federation of Musi-

LIEUT SANTLEMAN

clans, with the hacking of the Federation of Labor, are going to try it again next year. The unions object to the Marine band because it* members are employes of the government, but Lieut. Santleman says that of twehty-seven members of the local musicians’ union, which instigated the war on the band, seventeen are government clerks drawing more than SI,OOO a year each and the pay of some of them runs up to $2,000 a year. Some time ago the inusleians of the Marine baud applied for membership in the local musicians’ union. Their applications, fees, etc., were returned to them without any explanation. It appears that the Federation of Musicians has a clause in its bylaws which forbids members to play with any enlisted man of the United States army or navy.

Brig. Gen. Funston,' in command of the department of the Columbia, in his nnnual report made public at the WarDepartment had this to say of the enlisted man: “To get and keep a good class of men there must be a radical increase in the pay of the rank and file. There is no disguising the fact that recruits are obtained with difficulty, nnd that most of them are not satisfactory. Few men re-enlist, while the number of desertions and dishonorable discharges is phenomenal. The government cannot gtet something for nothing. The pay of the enlisted men of the army is ridiculously small. The wonder is, not that so few men enlist nnd that so small a percentage of them re-enlist after three years, but that we obtain and keep so many really good men as we do. In many parts of the United States Ignorant, unskilled laborers, working by the day, are able to save above their board and clothing twice the amount received by a private soldier on his second enlistment, and yet only a small percentage of these men could pass the test In a recruiting office. If the pay of a private on his first enlistment were made to approach that of a farm laborer, I am of the opinion that there would be a sufficient number of enlistments of a very superior class —young men from the farms, who are usually of good physique and have a common school education, and are not so much addicted to intemperate habits as men recruited in the cities.”

Congress will bp asked to appropriate at the coming session $102,860,449.34 for the support and increase of the navy during the next fiscal year. This is an increase of more than $23,000,000 over the appropriation for the preseut year, and contemplates an expenditure of $23,826,860 for the construction of new warships and $12,000,000 for armor and armament for new ships. The estimates also include an item of $250,000 for a naval training station on the great lakes. The earnest desire of the Secretary of the Navy and others who have conferred with him upon the upbuilding of the navy for n generous allowance for new vessels is demonstrated in the request upon Congress to allow over $23,000,000 next year for additions to the navy, whereas the appropriation for new ships during the present year was only $8,000,000. In other words, Secretary Moody will urge Congress to grant nearly three times as much money for new warships next year ns was allowed this year.

A systematic and extensive violation of the contract labor law hns been discovered by the Bureau of Immigration, and steps are being taken to deport a number of immigrants, some of whom have already arrived and others due at New York in n day or two. The immigrants are Welsh coa! miners, persuaded to come to the United States by advertisements for 3,000 miners, who are promised from 16 to 25 shillings a day. The Bureau of Immigration has collected evidence which shows that the advertisement was inserted by agents of a Pennsylvania coal company, the miners being brought over in violation of the contract law. It is charged that the Welshmen were lured on by photographs of the surface of the collieries and the best buildings of the town, which was described as the “garden spot of America.” 'w“ : * Reports which are daily received by the War Department show that as a result of the new regulations for smallarm firing the men are acquiring wonderful proficiency. These regulations require the men not only to hit the bull's eye but to estimate distances up to 10 per cent of a thousand yards. In firing outside the target range at dummies the reports state that the results have been remarkable. According to census figures in the countries where the postal union exists 50,000,000 letters were undelivered in 1901, and of 28,000.000 of these even the senders could not be traced. Laying astern 1,185 miles of the trouble! Atlantic at an average rate of fifteen knots an honr and for one stretch of fifty hours cutting the blue waters at the rate of 16.7 knots an hoar, the- new battleship Maine the other day completed an extremely fast endurance run. Hen performance stamps her the fastest American battleship now in commlatiom although the five of the Virginia daal building will doubtleea excel the Maine in long cruises. The ran was made M I Jest the boilers,

clans, having affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, attempted Inst year to get a resolution through Congress the effect of which would have been to forbid any member of the Marine band to play at any performance in civil life for pay. The resolution failed, bnt the must-