Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — ANOTHER MISSOURIAN. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER MISSOURIAN.

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.

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.