Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — Page 5

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Circuit Court Allowances.

JURORS. IN. Hemphill I 810 John Marlatt 16 20 Wm. B Ott 17 00 John Hutchings Wl 00 Clyde Randle 16 40 B W. Kla worth 16 20 Leri Clouse 14 80 Benj Welsh . 16 20 Jshn Sehatxely 20 00 Ohms Harris 15 20 Ass Brown. _ 17 QO Jno H. Brown 4 80 Chas Dean.. 14 10 Ka ah McKilip 17 00 A 'bert Keene .4 60 William Brown io 50 MISCBLLANBOUB. T. H. Hood Co. Ballard Real Property VIK 8 60 Edward Thompson Co Am A Eng. Rncy 600 Clerksperdiem i 88 66 R. B. Harris, jury commissioner 8 00 Alice 61. Bates, preparing bar docket P. B Meyer P. M , postage 2 60 O. B Marshall, printing bar dockets 16 00 Jas Co Tel. Co., telephone messages 8 00 A. Halleck, telephone messages 8 00 Bruce Hardy, bailiff court room 48 00 Gum Grant, jury bailiff 14 00 Jno. W. Walker, court reporter 120 00 Jas. M. Babb, Special Judge 35 00 A. O. Hardy, sheriff per diem 48 00 do sere, venire A calling jury 26 00 do recalling jury 6 00 a R Jenkins, serricee 80 CLERK’S ALLOWANCBS. Clerk’s per diem, 24 days 48 00 Order and drawing gr jury " 25 Order and drawing petit jury 25 Venire forpetlt jnry 40 Recording and empaneling petit jury... 26 Oath and app jury bailiff 60 Oath and app court room bailiff 60 Oath and app J W. Walker, ct reporter 60 Recording & indexing 8 affi A informs- 4 00 Record of allowances to jurors 1 00 ” to bailiff A sheriff 60 General cert, of allowances. 1 00 Miscellaneous allowances 60 Oath and app. special judge 60 Oert. < f allowance to special judge 60 Cert, on change of venue 8 00 General indexing of causes 6 00 JAMES N. LEA THE UMAX, Auditor Jasper County.

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It Will Pay You to Investigate My Offers Improved and Unimproved FARMS for Sale in Bay County, Michigan. Unexcelled for sugar-beet culture. the moat profitable crop a farmer ean raise. Bay County has 80 miles of stone roads and la a good market gardening district. No better land in the United States for general crops. Low prices and easy terms. A postal will bring full particular*. . JOHN C. HARRIS 1 Bk. Blk, Win Bay, Mich.

The Sugar Beet County OF Mich.

“A Canvasbacked Clam.”

Traveling on the continent of Europe with a party of young Americans, I was witness of their dismay at being assailed from time to time by friendly English fellow travelers with such questions as these: “Is it not very lonely in America? Are there any Binging birds there? Any wild flowers? Any bishops? 4re there booths In the streets of New York? Do people read English books there? Have they heard of Buskin and how?” These were from the rank and flle of questioners, while a very cultivated clergyman lost caste somewhat with our young people by asking confidently, “Are Harvard and Yale both In Boston?” a question which seemed to them as hopelessly benighted as the remark of a lady just returned from the wonders of the new world who had been impressed, like all visitors, with the novelties Offered in the w r ay of food at the Baltimore dinner tables, but still sighed with regret at having been obliged to come away without eating a “canvasbacked clam.” —Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Atlantic.

Witty Response of Lecturer.

A professor who acted as chairman of a meeting at which Max O’Bell was to lecture Introduced the Frenchman in the following manner: * t “Ladies and gentlemen, when we wish to see ourselves as individuals we have recourse to the mirror. This we cannot do as a nation. I take pleasure In introducing a gentleman who will act as a French mirror, by means of which you will, I am sure, obtain an adequate and pleasing view of yourselves as a nation.”

The Introduction pleased O’Rell, and be responded in a vein as Jovial. “I am requested to reflect on a nation. However, I must take second place to the man In the moon, for he reflects on the earth. As an Imported French mirror, I shall do the best I can to give you a correct picture of the nation. And if your chairman remains where be Is, In the background, he will add greatly to the reflective power of the mirror.'*

Hope For the Sleepless.

“My husband Is dreadfully troubled with Insomnia," said Mrs. Bounderby. “He wakes up about 2 o’clock every morning, and then be can’t go to sleep again. He tosses about until daylight and growls and fusses so that I can’t get any sleep myself." “My husband used to be troubled that way," replied Mrs. Smythe-Smytbe, “but I discovered a remedy which never fails. I noticed that my husband always slept the soundest when it was time to get up.” “That’s just the way with Bounderby exactly. But tell me what you did." “Well, when Mr. Smythe-Snjythe woke up in the night and began'To toss about and my he couldn’t get a wink of sleep I simply walked across the room, pretended to look at the clock and said: ‘Oh, that’s all right Ton mustn’t go to sleep again. It’s time for you to get up.’ That always pot him to sleep la a minute.”

Head The Democrat for news.

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. <

■awe of the Happening, oftfie Put Week Given In Condenaed Paragraph. for Busy People.

Thursday, March 10. George Frieser, a cobbler who bad s small fortune, died at Cincinnati and at bis funeral eacb mourner was paid for time lost In attending the burial service*.

The senate of Glasgow university has resolved to confer the honorary degree of LL. D. on Ambassador Choate.

The steamship Camboge sank off the coast of Cochin, China, and about fifty Annamese were drowned.

Mme. Patti has conceled all her concert engagements and is « route to New York, whence she will sail for home.

Andrew Carnegie, in a lecture at Cooper union, New York, says a distribution of wealth Is a sacred trust upon milionaires.

Friday, March 11. Chairman Jones, of the national Democratic committee, has issued a call for A meeting of the committee on arrangements at St. Louis on April 4. John K. Hammerstad.a Chicago boy, is dead of lockjaw acquired through a recent vaccination sore. The British commander in Somaliland surprised the Mullah’s forces, killed 150 of them and captured 8,000 camels.

Workmen drilling for water at St. Louis struck oil at a depth of 565 feet.

St. Petersburg editors are pessimistic as to the situation in the Balkans.

The floods in Pennsylvania are beginning to subside after doing great damage.

Saturday, March 12. Secretary Taft has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at Topeka, Kan., on May 30 next.

Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, who Is still confined to a hospital at Chicago, has recovered from her recent stroke of paralysis. Bock Island, 111., is threatened by a large Ice gorge forming In the Mississippi.

The entire east end section of Pittsburg is suffering from a water famine. George W. Tiebenor, tn a suit for damages against Chicago because of injuries received on a sidewalk, bus been awarded $4,500. The Associated Press has arranged that its Far East war news will come east instead of west, thus reaching this country first instead of Europe and Great Britain.

The earthquake at Lima, Peru, March 4 was recorded by the seismograph at the John Hopkins university, Baltimore.

Monday. March 14b

It is said that Patti took away with her $200,000 as her share of the proceeds of her concert tour. Grau’s share is said to have been $25,000 minus.

Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has signed the annual city appropriation bill, amounting to more than $38,000,000.

The Westchester county Bepublican convention held in White Plains, N. Y., waß the first in New York state to indorse President Boosevelt. The wife of Preston Green, in divorce proceedings at Chicago, testified that her husband spanked ber with a strap. District Judge Palmer, at Denver, Colo., has made an order for a special grand jury to investigate election and registration frauds there. The newspaper libel law enacted by the legislature of 1901 has been declared unconstitutional by the Kansas supreme court. *

Tuesday, March 15.

After fighting lasting two days San Pedro de Macoris, San Domingo, has been recaptured by the government forces from the rebels.

At a meeting at Pittsburg of the steel baT pool the price of steel bars was increased $1 all around. The Mayflower, U. 8. N., with Assistant Secretary of State Loomis and Admiral Dewey on board, has sailed from Havana for Washington. Fully six Inches of snow has fallen throughout the Wyoming valley. Royalton, Pa., has made an appeal to the citizens of Harrisburg for contributions of food, clothing and money for the flood sufferers there. Prince Po Lun, China’s commissioner to the St. Louis exposition, has sailed for Japan en route to the United States.

Wednesday, March 16.

An unknown man in a box at the American theater, New York, fired a shot at one of the performers on the stage and then escaped. According to the figures of Superintendent McQueary, of the Ohicago Parental school, 16 cents a day is enough to provide sufficient food for a boy or an adult.

William W. -Seeker, proprietor of a tailoring establishment at Chicago, has been sued for $5,000 for breach of promise by Charlotte Schulz, 68 years old, his former housekeeper.

The General Association of Moulding Manufacturers of the United States Is in session at'West Baden, Ind. Washington; March 16. Secretary Wilson baa gone to Florida for a short period.

ESCAPE OF SQUADRON

Tokio Expects Big Naval Battle with Russian Fleet, if Report le True.

FORT ARTHUR SHELLED AGAIN

Muscovite Casualties Exceeded 800— Russ Paper Makes' 1 Comparisons —Building Armored Trains

Tokio, March 17. —Assuming that the reported escape of the Russian fleet from .Port Arthur is true and that the squadron has started in a dash for Vladivostok, news of a great naval battle la expected hourly. A serious situation would be created If the Russians should succeed in evading the Japanese fleet. The probability, however, Is that the Japanese are in touch with the Russians sufficiently to bring about an action, which must be decisive and put an end to the Russian naval power In the far east

Japs Bombarded March 12.

Yin-Kow, March 17. —The Japanese fleet again attacked Port Arthur March 12 as a challenge to Admiral Makraoff to come out and light, but the Russian vessels did not appear. The bombardment was terrific and the total Russian casualties in killed and wounded exceed 300. Thirty men were killed in one large fort. This is authentic. Feeble Reply by Forts.

During all this time the Japanese were in a position of safety from the guns of the fortress and very nttle, If any, damage was done to their ships. The forts made but feeble reply to the fire of the fleet. Mast of the shells fired into the city during the bombardment were obtained from the captured east Asiatic steamer Manchuria, which was bound for Port Arthur with 7,000 tons of war material.

ON THE WAT TO THE FRONT.

Sad Scenes Witnessed Traveling to the Seat of War In the Far East.

St. Petersburg. March 15.—A Bussian correspondent proceeding to the front writes to the St. Petersburg telegraph bureau from Irkutsk, Siberia, as follows: “Our express train travels slower than the slowest tram in European Bussia. The seat of war Is still remote, but its presence it felt. The long rows of cars filled with soldiers, the caravans and the primitive sleighs, drawn by sbaggy horses, which we pass along the way at the crowded stations, break the monotony of the snowbound wastes and endlesß forests, and the stillness is broken by the songs of the jolly reservists and the bells of the village churches sounding clear through the frosty air. “This bustle and activity amidst the Siberian desolation strikingly illustrates the Bussian giant stretching his limbs preparatory to punishing his foe. At Irkutsk we met the first victims of the war —women and children trying to get back to European Bussia. On onr entrance into the semi-darkness of the station we were greeted by the wailing of children issuing from the dirt heaps and baggage encumbering the floor. Their waxen faces and bloodshot, sleepless eyes would melt a heart of stone. The wild, panicstricken flight of their mothers from Manchuria after the startling outbreak of the war led to great sufferings. “They reached this place after untold hardships, only to find that they will have to wait weeks more till there is sufficient train accommodation to enable them to proceed further. So the children have been pining, sleepless and motionless in this fetid atmosphere. because outside reigns deathly frost.”

COMPARES THE FORCES.

ftnuln Superior In Land Armament, bat Inferior in Warships—Baltic Fleet, St. Petersburg, March IT. —The Journal Wednesday prints a most interesting article, comparing the opposing forces of Russia and Japan in the far east “Russia," says the'paper, “has the superiority in land armament byseven-ty-six cannon, but she is Inferior in warships. Without counting the squadron of Admiral Wirenius the superiority of the Japanese is represented by seventeen Ships and eighty-one guns." Continuing the paper says. “This is largely compensated for by the artillery in the Russian forts; the valor of the Russian sailors and the necessity of the Japanese to set opart a large number of warships to escort transports, to guard communications and to guarantee a food supply for the troops in Korea. “There is no doubt as to the Issue of a naval war being the destruction of the Japanese fleet. It is only a question of time. The Baltic squadron will make its appearance in eastern waters in a few months under the most brilliant of Russian admirals. The Japanese will not run the risks of a combat on the high seas when the Russian fleet is re-enforced by suchbattleships as the Nicholas I, Alexander 11. and Alexander 111, the Slsaol, the Veliki, and the Orel. In any case the issue of a fight on equal terms will be fatal to our adversary who has not sufficiently understood the valor of the nation it has defied.” The article was, to all appearances, written to calm public opinion, which Is beginning to be one of fear that

a serious Injury has been Inflicted on Russia’s fleet

TO AWE CHINESE BANDITS. Rut.U Building Armored Train* to Protect Manchurian Railroad. St. Petersburg, March 17.—The government is building some armored trains, for use on the Manchurian railroad, after the model of those used by the British in South Africa. They will not be employed so much on account of fear that the Japanese may cut the road as for their moral effect on the Chinese robber bands, who may become emboldened by the war. It is believed that when the bandits see the iron monsters they will not come dear the railroad.

The Russ prints a long leading article controverting a series of articles in The Novoe Vremya claiming that the war was brought on by the machinations of the Jews in revenge for the Ktebineff occurrences, declaring that The Novoe Vremya’s contention is absurd, and scoring the latter for sowing race hatred at such a critical time.

To I.und 150,000 Men.

Seoul, March 14.—Japan will have an army of 150,000 men in Korea within three weeks, including 35,000 which have already landed at Chemulpo. The scene here daily is one of well-ordered choas. The harbor’s edge Is piled high with 200,000 tons of 6tores, packs of equipment, light guns, carriages, and bullet proof shields for 5,000 cavalry and pack horses. Perfect system obtain*. The troops daily entrain from Seoul, whence they advance to the north In bodies of a few hundred, to march direct overland or to yroceed in open boats fifty miles to Malju.

Russia Still Holds Port Arthur.

London, March 15.—From two points the rumor that Russia had abandoned or Japanese captured Port Arthur Is denied. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated March 14, noon, says: “There is no truth in the rumors that the Russians have abandoned Port Arthur. Admiral Abaza, secretary of the commission on Far Eastern affairs, authorizes the Associated Press to deny the story. He says the situation at Port Arthur is unchanged and nothing of importance has occurred there in the last twenty-four hours.” A dispatch from Tlen-TsLn corroborates the foregoing.

Sconta in CnllUlon.

St. Petersburg. March 15.—General Ziiinski telegraphs as follows under Sunday’s date: “On March 7 our patrol discovered four of the enemy’s posts on the Chong Cheng Ang river, and a troop of cavalry acting as scouts near Patetcben. northwest of Anju. A Japanese cavalry patrol fell into an ambuscade prepared by our patrol, and was dispersed, losing one killed. Tbe Japanese left behind them a quantity of guncotton and some swords and blankets.”

Shell* Ton Large.

Moscow, March 15.—1 tls learned that the reason that Vladivostok forts did not reply to the shelling by the Japanese vessels on March 6 was that the officials at St. Petersburg supplied them with shells whose diameter was too large for the guns of the forts. As a result, the fortresses were reduced to a state bordering on impotence and had the Japanese lighters sailed into the harbor they could in all probability have taken tbe town without serious trouble.

Manchuria in a Bad Way.

Peking, March 14. —Private Chinese reports that are being received here state that the whole of Manchuria is in a state of utter confusion, owing to the Bussians having seized all food supplies and other commissariat necessities. |

Germany Is After Santo Domingo. |

San Juan. P. 8., March 17.—Information has been received from a reliable source that Germany Is secretly trying to purchase from Spain a debt of upward of $21,000,000 owed to Spain by the republic of San Domingo. The debt was contracted after the war of independence of 1803. tvhan a treaty was signed in which Spain recognized the independence of Santo Domingo and the latter recognized its indebtedness to Spain in the sum named. The debt has never been paid.

He Had No Faith In Banks.

Morgantown, W. Va.. March 17. Three burglars entered the home of James Pickenpaugh, a farmer living at Cheatneck, near here, and after torturing their victim secured $l,lOO in gold and silver and escaped. Pickenpaugh had no faith in the stability of the banks and carried the money, which represented his savings for twenty years, strapped about his waist in wallets.

No Money for Negro Schools.

Jackson, Miss., March 16. —The lower bouse indulged in a spirited debate on the veto of Governor Vardeman of the bill for an appropriation for the benefit of negro education. The vote to pass the bill over the governor’s veto was lost by a vote of 64 to 48, 72 votes being required. The bill, therefore, Is dead.

Pro Patria, Was Caught in Ice.

Halifax, N. S., March 17.—The French steamer Pro Patria, thought to have been lost, has arrived at St. Pierre. She had been out more than two weeks from St Pierre, bound for Halifax. She was caught lu the Ice and remained helpless for many days.

Deluge Passes Into History.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 14. The vast delugs of water for the past week la the Susquehanna river has passed lata history, snd the stream in this section has fallen to leas than eighteen feet above low water mark.

NOOSE FOR ALL THRE

Verdict of the Jury in the Famous; Chicago Car-Barn Bandits.” Murder Trial.

JURY WAB OUT MANY HOMES

Marx Only One of the Trio to Shews Feeling at the Finding—Trial Coot an Enormous Sum.

Chicago, March 14.—Hanging for all* was the verdict of the Jury Saturdbgc in the first murder case against too-so-called “car barn bandits,” Harsnjr-* Van Dine, Peter Niedermeier andGustav Marx, who attained notoriety by a desperate all-day battle tbatsr started in a “dugout” near Liverpool?Ind., where the trio had taken refuge' after a series of remarkable crimes,. Including the murder of two employes of the Chicago City railway at: one of the company’s barns in thiscity, the motive iu each Instasce being robbery.

Emil Roeekl. who was with the bomdits in the “dugout” and who participated In many of the crimes, is to betried separately, not being implicateddirectly in the particular murder loir which liis associates were first arraigned. Temporarily Divided on Marx.

The verdict of the jury was delays® from Friday afternoon until Saturday on account of a temporary division of opinion as to making the punishment alike for all of the defendants. A confession on the-part of Marx Jed to the discovery of the hiding place or the other bandits. Marx entered a? plea of guilty and begged for merey;while the other bandits attempted to* brazen out a plea of Innocence. Epilepsy, the result of heredity, was also* pleaded In the ease of Van Dine. The bandits heard their doom stolidly. The mother of Van Dine was lathe court room. Niedermeder’s motherwas also present. Neither woman made any outcry. The mother of Marx did not appear. She was said to be at home in a state bordering oix collapse.

Jury I* Polled.

The jury, after a long and bitter struggle over the terrible responsibility upon them.rendered their veydiet at 1(P o’clock Saturday. The verdict was read in Judge Kersten’s court, amkK the most solemn Incidents. The courtroom was filled to its utmost with an awe-struck crowd, which listened in> deep silence to the fateful words of Clerk Cummings, as he read. TheJurors sat in their chairs, and, in response to the usual custom, were polled. “Was this and is this now yonr verdict?” each man was asked, and each » In turn arose and saidi: "It was and is.”

Marx Looked for Clemency.

In Marx’s fate there was more irr-*-tertst because it was the belief off even the state’s attorney that his confession would cause the jury to be-’ lenient with him. Marx shared that belief until Saturday morning, when' Attorney Popham told him that be feared there was not much hroptr for him. So, when tbe clerk read: (iiewords that fixed Marx's doom therewas a shook. The prisoner Jumped! halfway out of his chair, but wasforced back by the bailiffs who- stood ■ behind him. Neidermeier laughed. Van Dine, too, sneered at him-, and' then Marx pulled himself together an*, did not move again.

Most Expensive Case Ever Trterf.

With the exception of the LeutgertU trials, the case has been the longest’ drawn out and mose expensive ever' tried in the Cook county criminal court. The work of securing a jury commenced on Jan. (’>. Four week*. - were consumed in filling the panel, onejuror having been dismissed after be had been accepted because of his false answers to questions put him in qualifying for service. The time of the jury will be 635 days, which, at $2, makes a cost of $1,266. exclusive of" mileage and their board at the hotel.'. The time of the court prosecuting attorneys. police, and deputy sheriffs represents an outlay in salaries of $50.000, exclusive of the cost of the stenographic report of the case. Total Will Amount to $60,000.

Another item of expense in the case" was the pay and mileage of some 700 veniremen who were summoned forjury service and not accepted. Thisi will aggregate at least $1,500. Other? expenses, including expert testimony*. expenses of travel of detectives, and* the fees and mileage of witnesses, whowere called from Indiana, Denver, and other points outside of the state, will bring the total expense of the trial t» about $60,000.

Takes Vote from Negro.

Annapolis, Md., March 12.—The* bouse of delegates by a strict party vote of 64 to 27 bas passed the bill proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the franchise in Maryland, thapurpose of which to to eliminate tbenegro vote. The measure has passed the senate *and now goes to Governor Warfield for bis signature or veto.

Boston Men for Olney.

Boston, Mass., March 17.—1 n erdfcr that there may.be no misunderstand* ing as to the position of the Beaten Democracy regarding its attitude aa to the candidacy of Richard Olney for president an appeal for his lndoma* ment, signed by every ward leader and hundreds of the party workers, wan obtained In a few hours Wednesday.