Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — Page 4

m com Demi F. F. MBGOW. EDITOR Mil PUBLISHER Ua« 0>n»Ol T«UP»««M | ill. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper “ County. SI.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Entered at the Post-office at Keuaselaer, Ind. as second class matter. Office on Van Rensaeiaar Street, North of Murrey’s Store.

Of Interest to Advertisers. An examination of the latest Issue of the American Newspaper Directory, the recognized authority on circulation ratings of newspapers In the U. S. and Canada, reveals the fact that In Indiana THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT has a higher circulation rating than la accorded to any other paper published in Jasper County.

Township Conventions, The democrats of Marion Township are requested to meet in mass convention at the east Court Room in the Court House, at Rensselaer on SATURDAY, JUNE 18, at 2:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Township Trustee and Township Assessor for Marion tp. Geo, P. Ketchum, Chin. C. F. Stackhouse, Sec,

The date for the Democratic state convention has been changfrom duly 20 to August 3.

Orlando A. Yeoman has announced himself a candidate for the republican nomination for joint-representative of Jasper and Lake counties.

Grover Cleveland has come out in another letter endorsing Judge Parker for the presidency. No wonder the Parker boom is fast going into a state of “inocuous desuetude.”

Many Jasper county people, no doubt, remember reading in the republican papers here some months ago about A. McCoy going down to Kansas City and buying a whole colony of Angora goats and presenting to his daughter, Mrs. Rinehart, and the same being placed on the Rinehart ranch in Missouri. The question now presents itself: Whose money did McCoy use in paying for the goats and who ought they to now belong to?

Hon. Joseph B. Cheadle, for--mer congressman from the Ninth India na district and ex-depart-ment commander, Gr. A. R. of Indiana, died at his home in Frankfort last Saturday from heart disease, aged 66 years. “Private Joe” was formerly a republican, but left that party in ’96 on the eilver issue. He edited various newspa]>ers’during his lifetime and was an able writer. He had but recently retired from the editorship of the American Standard of Frankfort.

By a decision of the United States Supreme Court Tuesday Indiana will lose nearly $1,000,000 in taxes from the Vandalia Railroad. The suit was brought against the company a number of years ago by Attorney-General William Ketchum for the collection of back taxes from th.d railroad. The Marion Circuit Court and the Supreme Court of Indiana decided against the railroad company and the latter appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

ANOTHER MISSOURIAN.

Querie: If Assignee Chapman is to be cashier of Delos Thompson’s new bank, and there is a Stock Farm claim of $26,000 and interest pending against Mr. Thompson and in favor of the depositors of the McCoy’s bank, how long will it take Assignee Chapman to collect said claim from Mr. Thompson? Depositor.

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, May 80. Dr. Edward lturton Livingston, of the University of Chicago, lias won a 9100 prize offered liy the Boston Society of Natural History for a scientific treatise. Sentaor Quay is reported by his physician at Beaver, Pa., as having an excellent chance of recovery. In an address to the Yale students Senator Ohauncey M. Depew warned them against public office. William J. Sagehorn, a Chicago Democratic politician and newspaper man. h<is been missing since May 13. Rear Admiral Cooper, commander-in-chief of Hie Asiatic squadron, has requested that he be placed on the retired list in the early fall. Friday, May 87. The Picket won the Brooklyn Handicap, Irish Lad second. Picket is the horse who won lust year’s American Derby at Chicago. The second international dairy congress will he held at Paris in October, 1905. The postoffice department has announced that navigation on the Yukon river in Alaska is reopened. Consul General McWade, nt Canton, advises the state department that the plague is spreading. Wilhelm von Siemens, of the Sie-mens-Halske company, is dead at Berlin. Saturday, May 88. The Episcopal diocesan convention of Missouri voted by a large majority against the use of the revised version of the Bible in the prescribed service of the churelv Cardinal Satolli has sailed from Naples for the United States. Yale university is given $250,000 for library purposes by the will of William It. Itoss, the New York lawyer, who died in January. Frank Niezorawski, commissioner of public works, was convicted at Milwaukee of accepting a bribe of SBOO to favor certain plans for a school building. In a tornado at Pleasant Grove, Kan., David Fellingham was killed and his wife'badly injured. Methodists in general conference at Los Angeles refused by a vote of 441 to 188 to modify the clause governing dancing, card playing and theatergoing- v Laurence M’Donald, formerly prominent in Democratic politics, iS dead at Seward, 111. Monday, May 30. The last witness in the Missouri litigation against the state of Illinois to enjoin the sanitary district trustees from letting the waters of laike Michigan into the Mississippi river has been heard. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, will sail for New York on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, leaving Cherbourg June 11. The project for the establishment of the Panama coinage on a gold basis lias been defeated in the legislature. Three men Mike Pescolieg, John Malz and Pete I’osorch—were killed in uu explosion in a stone quarry eleven miles south of Maysville: Mo. Sen Joe Katayama, said to be the foremost teacher of socialism in Japan, is among the recent additions to the World’s fair Japanese colony.’** The annual convention of the National Federation of Women’s Musical clubs is to 1h» held at St. Louis from May 30 to June 4. George J. Gould, railroad magnate and millionaire, is said to bo about to enter the race for congress as a candidate in the Lakewood, N. J., district. Tuesday, May 31. The Socialists of Ohio have nominated A. G. Swing, of Cincinnati, for secretary of state. Joseph R. Wyckoff, of Havana, has returned there from the United States, having organized a company, he says, to raise the wreck of the battlehip Maine. Patients in their cots nt the Samaritan hospital at Philadelphia listened by telephone to a sermon in the Grace Baptist temple, more than a mile away. Painters at New York struck because they did not approve the taste exhibited in the color scheme of a house. The late Senator Quay’s will disposes of $1,200,000 in value. Wednesday, J unt 1. The board of lady managers of the St. Louis fair entertained Miss Roosevelt at luncheon in the Woman’s building. The United States consul at Aden has cabled the state department that the' plague which has prevailed at that port is over. Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the UniUtl States Steel Corporation, has sailed for Europe again. Governor Odell, of New York, has arrived at Paris for a week’s visit. Oxford university has decided to confer the degree of doctor of letters on William Dean Howells. The family physician of Mayor McLane, of Baltimore, and many of bis friends, refuse to believe that he committed suicide. The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has elected M. Cadie, of Sedalia, Mo., first assistant grand chief engineer.

JAPANESE CRUSH GEN. KUROPATKIN

Russians Reported to Have Met Defeat in Desperate Battle. NEWS COMES BY WAY OF ROME Japanese Said to Have Captured Whole Squadrons of j .Cossacks. .. . ■ —— • War Officials at St. Petersburg in a Gloomy Sjate of Mind—Situation at Port Arthur Is Bad.

Washington, June 1. —The Japanese legation has just given out the following dispatch from the home government at Tokio, embodying a report from General Oku as follows: “General \ Oku, commanding the army operating against Port Arthur, reports that our troops occupied Dalny on May 30. Over 100 warehouses and barracks, besides telegraph office and railway station were found uninjured. Over 200 railway ears are available, but all tbe small railway bridges in the neighborhood are destroyed. All dock piers, except the great pier which was sunk, remain uninjured. Some steam launches were also found at the mouth of the dock.”

London, June 2.—A special dispatch from Rome says a telegram has been received there from Tokio reporting that General Kuroki lias completely defeated General Kuropatkin’s forces near Sumentse (probably Saimatsza or Simatsi.) All the Russian positions east of Hnielieng have been abandoned, according to the telegram, several guns have been taken, and whole squadrons of Cossacks captured. Land Attack on Port Arthur. Indianapolis, Ind., June 2. —A special cable from tlie staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News at Chefoo, dated June 1, says: “The Japanese land nttack on Port Arthur was begun yesterday morning. Russian forces that were driven southward from Dalny and Kineliou by the Japanese are assisting the garrison at Port Arthur and the Russian navy has joined in the movement to repulse the enemy. There may be several days of skirmishing outpost work before the Russiaft city is taken but it is the opinion of refugees who have arrived here from the beseiged ‘Gibraltar’ that the Russians eventually must succumb to overwhelming numbers.” Russian Officials Are Gloomy. Tientsin, June 2.—A courier who has arrived here from New C’hwang says: "While it is known that the Russians received reports from Mukden giving tlie losses sustained by them during the fighting at Klnchou and Nanshan hill and the conditions prevailing, they will not talk on the subject. The officials are desperately gloomy. The press bulletin giving the news of the fighting on the KwanTung peninsula with the European comments on the victory of the Japanese, wns suppressed on its arrival at New Chwang, but was released when the Russians learned that two copies of it were in possession of Englishmen and were being shown to other people. The Tientsin newspapers which reached New Chwang at night were eagerly snappid up. Knots of officers stood in the streets and in and about the club eagerly scanning the papers. Situation at Port Arthur. London. June 2. —The Daily Mail’s correspondent at New Chwang says: “Some Chinese fugitives from Port Arthur who have arrived here describe the situation of the inhabitants there as desperate. Famine prices exist. The cost of provisions increases weekly. Many persons are reduced to eating Chinese food, and even that is dear. Millet flour costs $6 a bag. Whole streets and several public buildings have been wrecked by Japanese shell fire. The hospitals are packed with sick and wounded.”

COSSACKS CUT UP THE JAPS

Lane* Proves Too Much for the Mikado's Men at Vifenfuchu. Liao-Yang. June 2.—The Japanese lost 200 killed and a number of horses in the fight at Vangenfuehu. The Russians opened fire at 8 in the morning, and after two hours and a half of long-range firing the Japanese, under General Akkiama, prepared to charge and crush the force which had been harassing them for twenty-one days. Meantime General Samsonoff was approaching Vagenfuohu with a strong force of cavalry. It was a sight worth seeing when, at the word of command, the Russian squadrons formed and rushed like a whirlwind across the terribly cut up country, clearing away all obstacles, the batteries at the same time trotting along the frightful roads. Having passed the railroad station, the troops came under the fire of the Japanese machine guns, but withdrew without suffering much loss. The Fourth and Sixth companies of the’Eighth Siberian Cossacks furiously charged the Japanese cavalry with

lances, attacking both flanks. In a few tninutes they literally cut the whole squadron into pieces. This was the first time lances were used, and they struck terror into the enemy. In some cases the lances pierced the riders through and wounded their’ horses. Some of the lances could not be withdrawn from the bodies they bad entered. > A Cossack who had lost his lance and sword wrenched a sword from a Japanese officer and cut off the officer’s head. The Cossacks picked up boots which had been taken off by the Japanese to facilitate their flight and flourished them on their lances as trophies. Mukden, June 2. —A hospital train lias arrived here with wounded from the fighting nt Vafangow. One.of the wounded said: “These Japanese tight very well. Shooting is their strong point, but the Cossack's lance charge completely surprised them. Many of the Japanese were ridden down. Others ceased tiring and fled.”

TO END THE DEADLOCK

Ilel.gatn to the Illinois Republican Con- • veiitlon R«ani*iin|)l6 at tli« State Capital After Recess. Springfield, ill., June 1. —Replete with dramatic interest and charged with vital importance to the Republican party, the deadlocked state convention which adjourned May 20 reassembled at 2 oclock in tbe afternoon. Each candidate expressed the opinion that be was as strong, if not stronger, than when the recess was taken ten days ago. There were a few preliminaries and then the roll-call was ordered for the fifty-ninth ballot. The last ballot taken on May 20 was as follows: Yates, 483; Lowden, 392; Deneen, 385; Hamlin, 113: Warner, 53; Sherman, 40; Pierce, 29. The fifty-ninth ballot showed no material change. It was as follows: Yates, 487; Lowden. 390%; Deneen, 383%; Hamlin, 116; Warner. 41; Sherman, 50; Pierce. 28. Two more ballots were taken without result and the convention adjourned until 10 o’clock in the morning. Springfield, 111.. June 2. —The Republican state convention Wednesday took five more balots without breaking the gubernational deadlock, and without producing any material change in the standing of the candidates. Three important, propositions were presented to the convention during the day. all designed to end the contest, but two were rejected and the other referred to the committee on resolutions. It provided for releasing delegates from their pledges. Springfield, 111., June 2.—The committee on resolutions of the Republican state convention, by unanimous consent, ordered a favorable report of the Stewart resolution releasing delegates. The motion was jinade by C. J. Doyle, a Yates representative, when the convention was called to order at 10:20 a. in.. Reeves presented the report of the committee recommending the release of the delegates. Frank O. Lowden then addressed the convention, releasing his delegates. He was followed by the other candidates in the same strain. Reeves moved the previous question, and it was carried. Thd roll was then called for the sixtyseventh ballot. It resulted: Yates, 471; Lowden, 408; Deneen, 386; Hamlin, 118; Warner, 39; Sherman, 53; Pierce, 26. On tlie sixty-eighth ballot Sherman received 80 votes. Following is the ballot: Yates, 464; Lowden, 400; Deneen, 370; Hamlin. 107; Warner, 42; SJierman, 80: Pierce. 38. After taking this ballot the convention took a recess.

M’LANE IS A SUICIDE

Mayor of Baltimore, but Two Weeks Married, Does Himself to Death by Shooting:. Paltimore, May 31.—Mayor Robert M. McLane.of this city, shot and killed himself at his home yesterday afternoon in his bed room at his residence, 29 West Preston street. His bride of less than two weeks was at the time of the tragedy asleep in an adjoining room, and was awakened by the discharge of the revolver which Mcl.ane evidently fired while standing before the mirror of the dressing case.' The bullet entered the right temple, and crashing through the head escaped in the rear of the left ear. Mrs. Metane and other members of the household rushed to the mayor’s assistance, but he did not regain consciousness after he fell to floor, and expired within an hour. No cause can be assigned for the act by the members of MeLane’s family. Since the fire of last February he has been kept assiduously at work administering the affairs of the city* besides endeavoring to direct the rehabilitation and rebuilding of the burned district This, together with criticisms by his political opponents, are thought by many to have caused a temporary aberration of mind. Woman Disposes. At one time during the life of the Duke of Wellington It was currently rumored in London society that he was about to lead Miss Angela BurdettCoutts to the altar. Some friend ventured to ask the famous soldier If this was Indeed true and received as an* swer, “I said she deserved to be a duchess; I did not say I wonld make her one.” When tbe saibe friend repeated this to the young lady in question the latter observed quietly, “I think he ought to have said ‘conld,’ not •would.’ ”

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HAY DEALERS NOTICE. Wanted:—Men to cut hay.* The highest price per ton will be paid persons for cutting and stacking 10,000 acres of hay, by the Northern Indiana Land Company, who also have 5,000 acres of hay for sale by the ton, to hay dealers or persons wishing to do their own cutting and stacking. The Northern Indiana Land Company calls the attention of hay dealers and others to the fact that this will be a good opportunity to get good hay at a reasonable prioe. The hay will be ready to cut about June Ist. Contracts and terms can be had by applying to W. N. Pence, DeMotte, Ind. KEEP UP YOUR STOCK. Owners of horses, cattle or other live stock should bear in mind that there is a city ordinance against stock running at large, and unless the owners take care of their stock they are liable to be hanled up in court and. suffer the Snalty in good hard dollars. en who have spent time and money in Hxing up their lawns or who have contracted a ‘ ‘crick”' in their wife's back in making a nice garden, do not like to have some one’s horse or cow punch it full of holes and render it an eyesore, instead of a thing of beauty. People who make no effort to take care of their stock ought not be allowed to keep any. Head The Democrat for news.

CITY, TOWNSHIP UD COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor .1. H. S. Elli. Marshal.. .< , Mel Abbott Clerk ..Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble FfreChief C. B.Steward COUNCILMEN. Ist ward C. J. Dean, H. L. Brown id ward J. F. Irwin. C. G. Spitler 3d ward Richard Grow, J. Carmichael COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C, Warner Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor J. N.Leatherman Treasurer s. R. Nichols Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner. Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor.. .\ John R. Phillips COMMISSIONED. lst.Distrlct Abraham Halleck 2nd District.... .Frederick Way mire Brd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. , COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTED. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue .. ... Marion John Bill ..Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S.L. Luce. Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheat field A l h?, rt * -Bellows Carpenter William L. Parks Mllroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse Remington Geo. O. Stembel... Wheatneld JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge ...v......Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorney.* John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. NOTICE TO BREEDERS^ WILSON, the Beautiful Hambletoniau stalmake for the season of 1904 at my barn at Purr. ‘;W lud. Wilson is ms iire.i jU*'- \S*-: by No. 1070; Dam, Ola, by Modin. Service Fees :—IB.OO to insure eolt to stand and suck; $6.00 to Insure mare to be in foal. Parting with mare or leaving the county makes service money due and payable at once, KING PHILLIP, the Famous Black it Jack, will make the stand of IBM at my barn in Parr. This five old. was sired by Solomon; Dam by ■I f| Porter. Terms to insure eolt to stand and suck, $10.00; to Insure mare to be in foal, SB, Parting With mare or leaving the ootfnty renders service money due and payable at once. v' W. L WOOD, Owner. TAYLOR WOOD, Manager, - r~ -