Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Page 4

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Democratic County Ticket. Hor Clerk of the Circuit Court. THOMAS K. MALONEY, of Kankakee Tp. For Treasurer, CAREY L. CARR, of Newton Tp. For Recorder, WILLIAM LOCK, of Carpenter Tp. For Sheriff, JOHN A. McFARLAND, of Marion Tp. For Surveyor, For Coroner, Da. A. J. MILLER, of Marion Tp. For Commissioner, Ist District,

NOTICE. All members of the Jasper Co. Democratic Central Committee and also the members of the Ex. eentive Committee, are requested to meet at Democratic headquarters, Rensselaer. Ind., Saturday, July 9, at 1:30 p. m. U. M. Baughman, Ch’m. N. L Littlefield, Sec’y. The republicans of the Benton and Newton district have nominated A. B. McAdams, of Benton county, for representative, defeating Z. F. Little, of Goodland, who was an aspirant for the place. Senator Fairbanks in 1872 was a poor hoy, just starting out in life. Since that time, as a corporation lawyer, he has accumulated a fortune estimated at $5,000,000. Can a lawyer honorably accumulate such a vast fortune in thirty years? The Democratic national convention meets in St. Louis next week. It promises to be one of the most interesting and largely attended conventions the party has ever held. There will be no apathy there, such as characterized the ratification meeting of our friends, the enemy, at Chicago last week. Jesse Wilson has been treating his hands to alcohol baths, bay rum, glycerine, etc,, this week. The assistant sergeants-at-arms at the republican national convention last week, of which Jesse was one, were required to clap their hands loudly every time Teddy’s name was mentioned by any of the speakers, and it was rather severe on the soft hands of the ■city chaps. The Plymouth Independent takes a shy at the new district chairman with the following: "A. K. Sills of Monticello, has been selected chairman of the republican Tenth district committee to succeed Thomas J. McCoy, of Rensselaer, the bank defaulter. Not much of an improvement. Only a couple of years ago the Chicago papers contained several columns about Sills as a defaulter in honor and decency. The Tenth district republicans seem to think that anything goes.” Our republican friends would have the public believe that there is no politics in the McCoy bank failure, yet it is unfortunate that so many of the notes and overdrafts that are reported absolutely worthless in tin* report of the appraisero, which report is made under oath, are by republican office-holders and politicians. And one of these appraisers is a prominent republican who has held office in Rensselaer as deputy assessor and was a recent candidate for the nomination for township trustee, too. , It is too tedious to mention all the republican office-holders and politicians who owe the notes and over-drafts reported worthless in the appraisers’ reports, but we want to call the attention of the people who lost their hard-earned

dollars in this “confidence shop” to a few of these notes and overdrafts, and add that so far as we could determine the political complection of those owing notes and overdrafts in the schedules filed, nearly every democrat’s note and over-draft was appraised at one hundred cents on the dollar, and there were, too, several democrats in the list. We do not mean from this that democrats generally are bo much more responsible in financial matters than are republicans, but we do mean that business methods were used with democrats and few of them not responsible were given money on their own personal notes or allowed to over-draw their accounts beyond all reason, while the republican politician and wardheeler could apparently get anything he wanted, and he was not slow in wanting, either: There are six notes aggregating $28,761.59, and one over-draft of $1,502.55, by S. R. Nichols, the republican county treasurer, who is now a candidate for re-election on the republican county ticket, that are appraised as absolutely worthless.. The grand total of these notes and the overdraft is $29,964.14. There are four notes against Philip Blue, present superintendent of the poor farm and who has had some political job in Jasper county for the past 25 or 30 years, aggregating $274,16, and the appraised value placed on them is the same as on Nichols’, and reads “000 00.” One note of $1,400 of a former chairman of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee is reported of no value. ? There is an over-draft of sl,855.43 by F. B. Meyer, the republican postmaster of Rensselaer, appraised “0,000.00.” There is an over-draft of $717.60 by A. the republican sheriff of Jasper county, also appraised “000.00.” Three notes of H. E. Hartley, a former g. o. p. shouter and politician of Remington, aggregating $1,430; appraised value “0000,00.” Some notes given by H. B. Murray, ex-auditor of Jasper county and a would-be politician, aggregating $182.00; valued by the appraisers in ciphers only, thus, “000,00.” There is an over-draft by the Jasper County Republican Central Committee of $159.16, but its appraised value is “000.00.” Two ex-chairmen of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee were over drawn for $552.81 and $1,609.61, respectively, and both are valueless according to the appraisers. Another republican who lately sought the nomination for a high office is over-drawn over SIOO, and the valuation placed opposite the amount by the appraisers reads “000,00.” And so we might go on and enumerate note after note and over-draft after over-draft of republican office-holders and politicians (not including the $300,000 owed by A. McCoy and T. J. McCoy, the king bee politicians of northern Indiana) showing that politics did have something to do with wrecking this bank and causing hundreds of poor people to lose the few dollars they had accumulated by a life-time of toil, and making some of them practically public charges upon the taxpayers of the county.

Of Interest to Advertisers. WSA/N/WS/WW A^WWWW An exaaßnatlon 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 Is accorded te any other paper published in Jasper County.

TOMIP TRUSTEES’ CURDS. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that be will beat his residence in ssid township on the tecoud snd fourth Sstnrdsys of each month for the purpose of trsnsseting township business; snd business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee. P. O, Goodland, Ind,R-F-D Fob Sale: —A new, latest improved Jewett (No. 4) typewriter. Apply at Democrat office.

KUROPATKIN NOW LURING THEM ON

Headed for the North with the Japs Following ae Fast at It Is Safe. GENERAL STAFF BATS ‘RETREAT’ For Fear Kuroki Might Gobble the Whole Ruse Outfit Report of a Fight That Lasted Six Hours, Japs Winning—Another Engagement Expected Kuropatlcin Not Worried. Seoul, June 30.—1 tls announced from official sources that the Russian Vladivostok squadron, consisting of three cruisers and ten torpedo-boats and destroyers, appeared off Gensan Thursday and threw 180 shells Into the Japanese settlement. London, June 30.—-The Tokio correspondent of The Dally Telegraph says that severe fighting took place at KalGh&u on June 25, which resulted in the capture of that place on the morning of June 20. The Tokio correspondent of The Morning Post says that the Japanese second army has effected a juncture with the first nrmy, and that the whole force now has a fighting front of 120 miles. London, June 29.—Defeated In three battles among the mountains east of Liao Yang, with his retreat threatened to be cut off. General Kuropatkln Is retreating rapidly to the north according to reports from St. Petersburg and the Far East late yesterday. This move was ordered by the general staff at St. Petersburg, according to a report current in the Russian capital, because it was feared the entire Manchurian army was rapidly becoming hopelessly entangled In the meshes of Japanese strategy. Russian Situation Is Rad. It is thought extremely doubtful whether Ivuropatkin will be able to retreat beyond Liao Yang without sacrificing great numbers of bis men. The soldiers under Stackelberg and Sakhuroff are being abandoned to their fate, and must fight their way through the Japanese lines converging upon them. The Japanese now hold Motienllng, Fengchoulin and Talien passes in the mountains, having driven the Russians back, and there is nothing between them and Liao Yang now but a small force of the czar’s men. The losses in these battles have not been given. Jspi Win a Slx-Ilour Fight. Five battalions of Russian infantry, supported by two regiments of cavalry and sixteen guns, have been driven from Fensbuillng in disorder, after a desperate battle lasting for six hours. The Japanese casualties aggregated about 100 killed and wounded, including Major Oba, who was killed. A Russian battleship is reported to have been discovered stranded off Tiger Rock, near the entrance to Port Arthur harbor. RATTLE IS EXPECTED TODAV Kurokl's Movement* Seem About to Accomplish Tbeir OhjecL London, June 29.—A dispatch from Hal Cheng, dated yesterday, says: “The war picture has quickly changed, thanks to General Kurokl's movements. A heavy engagement is expected near the village of Si Mou Cheng, fifteen miles south-southeast of Hal Cheng, and an equal distance east of the railway. The Japanese have now passed Dalin bill and are twenty miles south of the Russian position. The Associated Press correspondent returned here from Ta Tche Kiao at dawn yesterday. A terrific rain rendered the roads almost impassable. “The Russian regiments are camped on high ground. Signal fires from the hill tops are constantly flaring, lighting up the bivouacs and the horse lines of the cavalry regiments. Long trains of soldiers are constantly passing and repasslng. The Russian troops ars in excellent condition. General Kuropatkin and his staff are apparently quite easy in their minds. The Japanese bnve given tbe Russians time to strengthen tbeir base and flank, while General Kuroki is not as secure as formerly from a flank attack. General Kuroki cannot get around the Russian position without forcing a fight” WHEN KUROPATKIN STANDS Then There Will lie s' Decisive l ight— Oku at His Heels. St Petersburg, June 29. —The situation in the Far East is undoubtedly critical According to dispatches received here, including one from General Kuropatkin, the Russian outposts and the Japanese advance are now in close touch at all points. The Russians after harrassing the Japanese advance from each oof the positions taken in the battle of June 26 and 27, are falling back on General Kuropatkin’s main body. General Kuropatkin le

now moving slowly northward along tbe railway, and wherever he make* his stand there will be precipitated what Is expected to be tbe decisive battle of tbe campaign. In tbe meantime General Oku is advancing along the railroad on tbe heels of the withdrawing Russians. He is hacked by a powerful army. How large a portion of this army he has detached to join General Kukorl has not been developed. The fight of the 26th and 27th which ended with the six hours’ battle reported In a dispatch from London, Is called the Dalin Hill fight. A dispatch from Hal Cheng says: “The total losses in the Dalin Hill fight are not yet known. Eighty wounded have arrived here and on Sunday last a hospital train with 200 passed, going to Liao Yang. The fighting lasted tbe whole of June 26 and June 27 and the Japanese successively pushed tbe Russians from three positions, occupying them with artillery as the defenders retired. “Wounded Russians recounting the two days’ fight soy that the Japanese again demonstrated tbeir reliance on their artillery, and that they were greatly superior, both in number of men and in guns. On the second day •f the fight they brought up a heavy battery which silenced tbe lighter Russian guns and caused severe loss.” Tsresty-Two Russians Drowned. St. Petersburg, June 30.—Twentytwo sailors were drowned at tbe Baltic works during experiments with the torpedo-boat Delfin, which had been converted into a submarine boat. Four officers and thirty men were on board when the signal was given to submerge the boat without first properly closing the manhole. The result was that the vessel filled and sank. Russian Battleship Rammed. St. Petersburg, June 30.—A report has just reached The Associated Press correspondent that the Russian ironclad Netron Menia rammed the Russian battleship Navarin at Cronstadt The circumstances and the extent of the damage have not yet been ascertained. Russian Defeat Reported. Tientsin. June 30.—1 tis reported that the Russians were defeated about sixteen miles east of Haicheng yesterday, and it is added that owing to the rapid advance of the Japanese, the Russians at Ta-Tehe-Iviao are hurriedly retreating north, feariug to be cut off. Russian Battleship Stranded. London, June 28. —A dispatch to the Central News from Tokio says it is reported that another Russian battleship has been discovered stranded off Tiger rock. It is presumed she was wrecked while returning to Port Arthur after the recent naval engagement. Japs Capture Three Forts. Tokio, June 29. —It is unofficially reported that three forts southeast of Port Arthur were attacked and captured by the Japanese on Sunday. No confirmation of the report is obtainable.

PROBABLY A WHITE MAN

Besides There Is Some Mystery About That Alleged Atrocity Down at Evansville, Ind. Evansville. Ind., June 28.—Harry Smythe, an express messenger, complained to the police authorities, that while escorting Miss Clura Weiubaeh to her home, he was attacked by a negro at the Chandler avenue school building and driven away, after which tbe young woman was raped. The authorities acted quickly, but were unable»to get trace of the alleged assailant, and finally settled to the conclusion that a jealous rival was at fault, and that the alleged assailant was not a negro and not unknown to the principals. Rumors of intense excitement, or of a disposition to evoke lynch law, so freely bruited in the sensational press, are entirely without foundation.

Armwaian Bodies Darn River.

London, June 30.—1 tis stated from an anti-Turkish source that the victims of the recent Aremenian massa eres numbered nearly 6,000 instead of 3,000. At the village of Akhbi the number of persons killed was so many that their bodies, which were thrown from a bridge, dammed the river, which the Turks freed by firing artillery into the heaps of corpses.

Think Loomis Is in a Sanitarium.

Washington, June 30.—Frederick Kent Loomis, who disappeared from the liner Kaiser Wilhelm 11. off Plymouth, has been placed in a sanitarium by his friends until lie shall have recovered from his supposed fit of abstraction according to the theory generally accepted by official Washington. News of the missing man still is lacking.

Maine Republicans.

Bangor, Me., June 30.—With five nominating speeches to hear the Republican state convention continued well into the evening. Hon. William T. Cobb, of Rockland, was nominated for governor. The platform adopted declares for protection, the reciprocity of Blaine, Arthur, Harrisou, McKinley and Dingley. and indorses Roosevelt

Pleads Guilty to Bribery.

St Louis, June 28.—Edmund Bersch, former member of the house of delegates, pleaded guilty before Judge McDonald in tbe criminal division of the circuit court to the charge of bribery in accepting $2,500 of tbe $47,500 boodle fund for hts vote on the city ligbtiug bill. Sentence will be pronounced Friday.

Head Crushed Between Rollers.

Chicago, June 29.—While at work in the Gatea iron works, 650 Elston avenue, Andrew Falpynowski, 58 years old, was Instantly killed, bis bead being crushed between two steel rollers. He lived at 31 Wright street

BURR OAK GROVE STOCK FARM HERD OF REGISTERED DUROC JERSEYS. Jfl . I . I IFI THE MORTGAGE LIFTERS OF THE CORN BELT. A few fall boars and gilts for sale; also a fine lot of spring pigs; pedigree furnished. Five Miles West of Rensselaer, Ind. GUSS YEOfIAN.

BOODLE IT ST. LOUIS

There Was Lots of Easy Money for City Dads, According to the Ex-Dad Gutke. CONFESSES HIS SINS TO FOLK Tells of Wads That Were Divided Among the Boodiers How Prices Were Fixed. 8t Louis, Mo., June 29.—Charles ▲. Gutke, ex-member of tbe house of delegates, convicted on a charge of bribery and soon to be tried on another similar charge, has made u complete confession to Circuit Attorney Joseph W. Folk, in which he declares that ex-Delegate Charles F. Kelley told him he had received 350,600 for going to Europe when his presence in 8t Louis jeopardized men of prominence. Kelley is also resting under one conviction, and is soon to be tried in another case. West Right Into Business. When he came from the circuit attorney’s offlee, Gutke handed out for publication written extracts from his confession, of which the following is a part: “I became a member of the house of delegates in 1897 and at once became a member of the combine of that body, which was an organization composed of nineteen delegates for the purpose of selling legislation. Some of the Boodle Divided. “The first bill that came up after I had became a member of the combine was the ’Surburbau loop bill.’ The combine got $20,000 for their votes on this bill; on the Union Avenue bill we got $18,000; on the Central Traction bill we got $75,000; on the Third street line bill we got $15,000; on the light ing bill we got $47,500; on the Suburban bill we were to get $75,000, which is now in the safe deposit box in the Lincoln Trust company, beiug placed there with the agreement that it should be turned over to us when the bill had been passed. Plenty of Smaller Wads. “While these are some of the largest bribes secured during my term of office there were innumerable others ranging from SIO,OOO for switching bills to a few hundred dollars for some minor privilege.”

FIXING THE PRICE OF A BILL

Member* of the Combine Had Things on a Business Basis. Referring to the way it was decided how much to charge for any particular bill Gutke says: “The bribe prices were fixed iu meetings of the combine, tbe procedure being for some member to get up and move that a certain price be fixed on a certain bill. Other members would give their opinions and a vote would be taken nd the price receiving the highest number of votes would be adopted. “Then we would select an agent of the combine by ballot to negotiate for and receive tbe money. This agent would distribute the money amongst us. From my intimate knowledge of dealings with this combine, and from Information secured on wbat has been going on here for the last quarter of a century, I make the positive statement up for bribe money or bought official the city of St. Louis of $250,000 capital and over that has not either been held up ofr bribe money or bought oofflcial action from the combine In the house of delegates. “I acted as the agent of the combine in a number of these deals. In the suburban deal I went with Ivratz to Stock’s house and was present when the agreement wac made regarding the bribe of $60,000 for Ivratz. which is now in a lock box in the Mississippi Valley Trust company.” Gutke says that the boodle gang here is more powerful than the people of St Louis dream of, and has already planned to capture the circuit attorney’s offlee at the next election.

Miles Indorsed for President.

St Louis, June 29.—General Nelson A. Miles was indorsed for president and a state ticket was nominated by the Prohibition convention here. Rev. William Smith of St Louis threatened to bolt because of the statement of the temporary chairman that Prohibitionists should give less to tbeir church and more to their party. O. J. Rill received the nomination for governor.

Court Chamberlain Victim of Auto.

Wiesbaden, Prussia, June 28.—Court Chamberlain von Specht was killed while riding in a motor car in company with hereditary Prince Adolf of Scbaumberg-Lippe. The accident occurred near Langenschwalbach. In turning to avoid striking a dog the car swerved and dashed against a tele-

graph pole, which fell, killing the court chamberlain on the spot.

Illinois Corn Growing Fast.

Washington,,June 30.—According to the weekly report Issued by the weather bureau corn in Illinois, is growing fast and fields are generally clean and some laid by. Oats are beading short, but the outlook is promising. Tbe wheat harvest is well under way, and with good weather will be general the*ensuing week, with the output promising.

Four Killed in Nebraska Tornado.

Holmesville, Neb., June 30.—Two children of R. J. Harris and two men whose names have not been ascertained were killed in a tornado. Mrs. Harris was fatally Injured and her husband, his mother and three children are badly hurt Several buildings were blown to pieces and the property loss Is heavy.

The SPORTING WORLD

Golfer Travis. Walter J. Travis, the world’s amateur champion golfer, is now back In the United States looking for more scalps. His feat in winning tbe amateur championship title of Great Brltaih is unprecedented, and Travis should

TRAVIS AT THE TOP OF HIS SWING.

have no difficulty in winning in every tournament in which he enters on this side. Travis is to play in the American amateur championship contest He already holds the title, which, by the way, he has captured no less than three times. In the amateur tourney Travis will meet his old time rivals, Eben M. Byers of Pittsburg, the Egans of Chicago, Findlay S. Douglas, C. B. MacDonald and others. Well Filled Races. It is a matter for congratulation that the two SIO,OOO grand circuit purses opened by the Empire City (N. Y.) and Brighton Beach (N. Y.) management have filled in such a liberal manner. In both stakes the number of entries is tbe same, sixteen, but there 1b a difference in the horses, so that one race will not be an exact repetition of the first Four of the horses named for the Empire City event are missing when the list for Brighton Beach is scanned, and it is possible that the four horses added to the Brighton Beach purse may be in such form by the time the race is decided that one of them will be able to defeat tbe victor at the former track. For the purpose of maintaining interest in both events nothing happier could have occurred. A royal lot of trotters have been named in each event, and at the present time it looks as though they would not only be open races so far as picking the winner is concerned, but that they will both be very evenly contested, making them two of the star trotting events of tbe year. OatSeidera Who Befss la the Box. Many of the most prominent outfielders in baseball today and in the past formerly were pitchers. Every outfielder on tbe Cincinnati, team today was once a pitcher, three of them, Seymour, Donlln and Dolan, having worked on the rubber in the big league, while Odwell and Kerwin were minor league twirier* of some note before they finally took to tbe outfield for regular work. Manager Kelley of Cincinnati la another pitcher who developed into an outfielder, and one might go down the line of other teams and find any number of players who gave up the work on the slab for the steadier and more lasting position of guardian of the outer gardens.