Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — Page 5

THE 99 CENT RACKET STORE Our July Sale Is Now On We have not fired our last gun first, but still have enough Ammunition left after our Great Slaughtering Sale to make a noise which will be heard for miles arouud. ALL OF NEXT WEEK J jgfc' . ' , ' Commencing on July 11, 1904, and lasting up to July 18, 1904, We will make every person—man, woman or child—a present of a Cup and Saucer or a nice 7 inch Plate, of the finest Bavarian China, in plain white, thin and transparent, beautiful goods, ABSOLUTELY FREE ! All you have to do is to bring in two dollars worth of tickets or to purchase that amount while this sale is on. No matter how small your purchase you get a ticket with every sale, showing the exact amount of same printed thereon. When they amount to the required $2 you get The Cup and Saucer or Plate Free without any expense to you whatever. Do not miss this sale; no matter what you buy, it all counts the same. You will find Bargains galore here to select from. We have not the space to quote prices. Come in and see for yourselves, is the best way, and bring in your tickets. Yours for trade, E. V. RANSFORD, Proprietor, 99c RACKET STORE Second Door West of First National Bank, Rensselaer, Ind.

TOMP TRUSTEES' CARDS Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at hi* residence in said township on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month lor the purpose of transacting township business: and business relating to making contracts or paving claims will be do ne on such designated day John’ Bill. Trustee. P. O. Go >diand. Ind, R-K-D MAN WANTED We want a man in this locality to sell the world renowned WHEELER & WILSON, the only sewing machine so far in advance of all others that with it the dealer can readily overcome all competition. It is backed by a reputation of 50 years unparalleled success and thousands of the. first machines made are still giving their owners faithful service. We prefer a man with experience in some kind of canvassing (but this is not absolutely necessary) and who can procure a horse ana wagon: To such person we can offer exceptional inducements. We do not sell our machines to catalogue houses or department stores. We furnish them to our authorized agents only and protect them in their sale. This is a splendid opportunity for some energetic man to establish himself in a good permanent business. When answering, please give full information regarding yourself, age, previous occupation, etc. addacss Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. 72-74 Wabash Ava., Chicago, HI. j IIDHET DISEASES are the most fatal of all <fis» FOLEY’S B5L»y or motley refunded. Contains remedies recognised bv eminent physicians as the best far Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICB 60c. aad %IM,

LETTER FROM SOUTH DAKOTA.

Jasper Kenton Writes Entertainingly From That Country. Mitchell, S. D., July 3, ’O4. Editor Democrat: I write you this morning, thinkings few lines might interest your readers. I must still speak commendable of this great Northwest, and think it as beautiful as any one could wish, and equally as good. This neighborhood where we are staying for the summer is very levej, and three-fourths of it is under Cultivation—wheat, oats, speitz, corn, flax, broom grass, millet. It is common to see 160 to 310 acres in wheat, an evengrowth the entire field. Brother Will has 160 acres of corn knee high, one row equally as good as another; oats the finest I oversaw; all other grain equally as good. This section has had plenty and abundance of rain. Mrs. Kenton and I have just returned from a northwestern trip among the Wessington hills north, which included a part of our ride of 200 or 300 miles, more or less, there had been no rain. The people were getting uneasy, but still hopeful that rain would come soon. This brought us through the grazing lands and prairie dog villages. People tell me there is not so many cattle as there used to be kept on those grazing lands, and I thought it true, as we did not see the cattle. The lands are being fenced, and will probably be farmed later. The prairie dogs live on grass roots, are not very numerous and not dreaded much by the average ranchman. The Wessington Hills made ns feel lonesome, or ghostly, an unexplainable something; bat we did not see any ghosts, bat instead a very friendly people, that insisted we might stay a few days longer. We met the Rowen brothers, Doc and Sime, J. Wenrick, 8. Greenfield, George Keever and Mr. Halbower, land agent at Miller, all seemingly very well satisfied with their prospects for a livelihood. We also visited the Major brothers, and George Harris, who has lived iu Dakota for twenty-one years. He says he would rather spend two winters in Dakota than one in Indiana. He formerly lived at Remington, and is a brother of Mrs. Doo Rowen. On our way home w$ thought to visit Weesington Springs but missed the way, so we decided to wait till next time. The western towns are

up on the modern improvements as far as money will admit. Garden farming is a decided success, and small fruits, including strawberries are fine. The summer climate here is fine, not so extremely hot in day time, and always cool at night. It is daylight about eighteen hours, then a great many ranchmen do not get to bed till eleven o’clock, because there is # still something more to do. I ex’pected to put iu a good deal of my time chasing my hat, but I have not realized it yet. There is some wind, but only a few disagreeable windy days. If nothing happens to the Dakota wheat crop, Indiana can still have a bisenit if the biscuit material is needed. “Summing it all up,” “shaken down, and piled high in the middle,” Dakota is all right, if the thermometer does drop low in the winter season. The people are learning to take advantage of the disadvantages. They have school bouses and churches, have barns built to accommodate horses in bad weather, etc. Teachers are instructed to keep fires and keep children during bad storms till they are over. A good thing, too, I recommend. A good ranchman is supposed to have sheltering and feed handy for extreme bad

weather.

Artesian, S. D.

India Territory Settlers.

The summer and fall of 1904 will witness the greatest emigration to Indian Territory of any year in the history of the territory. Thousands of those who go will be entirely ignorant of the conditions, areas and people there. The total land area of Indian Territory is 81,000 square miles. The population in 1890 was 180,182, and In 1900 it was 892,000, an average yearly Increase of 2L76 per cent At this rate the population for the year 1908 was 657,855, and at the close of the year 1904 It will be 796,034. There are 87,000 Indians and 20,000 negroes on citizenship rolls.—Kansas City Star.

Impartfal.

When King Edward visited Kilkenny, the corporation of that famous Irish city presented an address to hb majesty. On the same day, with strict. Impartiality, the councilors granted the freedom of the city to John Daly of Limerick, lately discharged from prison, where he had served a term for using dynamite. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

Morris' English Worm Powtfw sag Sold bT k. K. Lon*.

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happening* of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Wednesday, Jana *9. Ex-Senator Vest positively declines to have his name considered as a Missouri delegate-at-large to St. Louis. In a postal card ballot members of the Chicago Bar association have declared against a reduction of court vacations. ■ Lon Smith, the murderer of Sheriff Harry Harris, of St. Croix county, Wis., has not been captured. Tbe British police are now at work on the theory that Kent J. Loomis was murdered. The meeting of Jewish rabbis at Louisville has postponed the Sunday vs. Sabbath question until the next annual conference. The salaries of all government employes in Panama have been reduced from 10 to 15 per cent Thursday, Jons SO. Four Chinese called at the mayor’s office at New York and left a gift of |657 for the Slocum fund. Albert C. Mink, state agent at Chicago of the Queen Insurance company, has been missing since June 13. Over 500 homes, business bouses, and school houses near Pittsburg, on the Panhandle railroad, were inundated in from two to ten feet of water by a deluge of rain. Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody has been given the honorary degree of doctor of law 9 by Amherst college. Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the immediate and vigorous re-lnspection of every passenger-carrying steamer In New York harbor. Friday, July 1. Rev. John Alexander Dowie, the Zion City, 111., faith healer, was welcomed by the whole town when he returned home from a trip around the world. In three hours the Republican state convention of Vermont nominated a state ticket and adjourned. George Frederick Watts, the painter, a member of the royal academy, Is dying at London of bronchitis. He is 87 years old. Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her children have arrived at their new summer home at North Sandwich, N. H. The thirty-first Chautauqua has opened at its old home under favorable circumstances. Officials at Paris interested In the search for F. Kent Loomis say they have practically abandoned hope that he will be found alive. The annual Yale-Harvard eightoared boat race—the “ ’varsity” race—was postponed yesterday because of wind. Saturday, J uly 2. Postmaster General Payne and Takahira, the Japanese minister, have signed a parcels post agreement between the United States and Japan. David B. Hill is credited In Washington with a desire for the permanent chairmanship of the Democratic convention at St. Louis. Great Britain has successfully brought pressure to bear on the porte for the relief of the persecuted Armenians. A mischievous boy, at New York, set fire to the 110,000 automobile of H. C. Phipps, of Pittsburg, .who was ou bis way abroad with the machine. Dr. Otto Gagzou. commissioner of agriculture and forestry of Germany, visited Minneapolis and inspected our flour mills.

Hoadijr, July 4. During the fiscal year ended June 30 $4,040,977.978 passed in and out of the sub-treasury at New York. There will be no base ball played in Brooklyn tomorrow. So orders the the police commissioner It is announced at Chester. m.Ttlia? under advice of the attorney general the prison will continue the manufacture of brick under the old law. President Francis of the St Louis exposition says that no action will be taken in the matter of the charges against Santos-Dumont without positive proof. National Chairman James K. Jones said positively that W. J. Bryah will not bolt the St. Louis convention if Parker is nominated. William R. Hearst in an interview at Waabington, reiterated bis purpose to support the nominee of the St Louis convention. The Socialist party of North Dakota nominated a full state ticket Taeaday, J aly 5. Edward Beaupre, aged 23 years, said to be the tallest and best proportioned man in the world, is dead at the World’s fair, of hemorrhage. There ia a movement on foot at the Populist convention at Springfield, 111., to make Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, the presidential nominee. President Gompers has approved of the fight for the “closed shop” being waged by the United Garment Workers. The Havana government boa discharged forty sweepers of the street cleaning force and fifteen cartmen for lack of funds. It has jnst been learned that Mrs. Mabel Baer (nee McKinley) is at her New York home suffering from a fracture of the right leg just above the knee.

J. KENTON.

OCEAN ENTOMBS SEVEN HUNDRED

Steamer Norge, for New York, Sinks in the North Atlantic. WAS LOADED WITH EMIGRANTS Coming to the United States from Norway, Sweden and Finland. STRUCK A TREACHEROUS ROCK Only Twenty-Seven of Nearly 800 Souls on Board Hav* Reached Port—Railway Wreck Kill* Nineteen. v London, July s.—Over 700 Danish and Norwegian emigrants bound for New York are believed to have been drowned In the north Atlantic on June 28. Out of nearly eight hundred souls on board tbe Danish steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen, July 22, only twenty-seven are known to be alive and for tbe rest no hope is held oat. When last seen the Norge was sinking where she struck on the Islet of Rockall, whose isolated peak raises itself from a deadly reef some 290 miles off the west coast of Scotland.

Norge Wa* Out of Her Course. Early on the morning of last Tuesday the Norge, which was out of her course in heavy weather, ran on the Rockall reef, which in the distance looks like a ship under full sail. The Norge was quickly backed off, but the heavy seas poured in through a rent In her bows. Two Rost* Got Safely Away. Two boat loads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and many of the emigrants who were left on board, seizing life belts, threw themselves into the sea and were drowned. The Norge foundered suddenly, and some 600 terrified emigrants were thrown Into the water or drawn down with the sinking ship. Those who could swim tried to reach the boats, but these were already too full, and their occupants beat off the drowning wretches with oars. Officer Sacrifice* Hlinaelf. One of the survivors said that when he got on deck tbe Norge was half submerged and was rapidly getting lower in the water. Half maa with fright the survivors all struggled for places in the boats. They fought their way to the big life boat and an officer stowed in the six women and the girl and then told the men to get in. The officer then took charge and got the boat away from the side of the Norge. Seeing that the boat was already overloaded the officer, with great heroism, jumped into the water and tried to board another boat which was not so full. He failed and was drowned.

STORY OF A SURVIVOR Telia of th# Scene on the Iteclc—Greatest Tragedy of the Sea. The steam trawler Salvia put into Grimsby with the twenty-seven rescued Scandinavians aboard. Only one of them could speak English. He said: "We left Copenhagen, June 22. There were 700 emigrants—Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns—on board. The crew numbered about eighty. All went well until June 28th. I lay in my bunk waiting for breakfast. We heard a little bump, then another bump and then I rushed on deck. 1 saw at once that something serious had happened and 1 made a dash below to gather up my few belongings. "Scores were rushing on deck, and the hatchway was crowded with emigrants. They were launching boats and rushing into them, but there was no panic. Foutf or five were in the boat into which I got. and we cleared the ship. Luckily for us in our party was the only seaman from the Norge who escaped, and be was able to navigate our little boat. We saw two other boats capsize, owing to the heavy weather and because no one could navigate them. We made straight away and when we last saw the Norge a Urge number of emigrants were on the deck. Captain Gundei stood on the bridge. “Dozens of passengers had jumped into the sea. They wore life belts, but were drowned before our eyes. After twenty-four hours the SalvU bore down and picked us up. About TOO persons must have been drowned.” The Norge was last sighted off the Butt of Lewis (the northermost point of the Hebrides islands) on June 27. Rockall, the islet on which she struck, is about 200 miles west of the Hebrides. It is a. dangerous reef with a rock about seventy-five feet above water TERRIBLE WRECK ON WABASH MiSmo Deaths and Many Injuries Dae to Misplaced Switch. St. Louis, July 5.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Litcbeld, 111., says: Nineteen are dead and a number is missing 'as *a~result~of”the wreck on the Wabash railroad here Sunday

night, when train No. 11. from Chicago, left tbe track at a misplaced switch and crashed Into a line of freight cars standing ou a sidetrack. Seven hundred persons were bn the Illfated traiu at tbe time It dashed into the sidetrack. Two more bodies have been taken from beneath the wreckage. Tbe remains of Hon. 1. R. Mills, internal revenue collector of the central Illinois district, have been sent to his home In Decatur. * The list of dead now contains the following names: Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Perkins, Charles Galalse and Harry M. Dietrich, all of Chicago; Miss C. Luther, Milwaukee; Isaac R. Mills, Decatur; Übald St. Pierre, Montreal, Cab.; Jacob Barder, Park River, N. D.; L. A. Elchstadt, Chicago; James Sanford, engineer, Decatur; Rev.U.M. Mills, Bridgeton, N.Y.; Charles Ward, Chicago; H. L. Graves, train dispatcher, and W. F. Smith, fireman, Decatur; Richie Noack, boy about 8 years, Chicago; Wm. Camdalis, Chicago; three unidentified men. Those Injured severely enough to put them In bed are: James Fizzell, of Taylorville, 111., leg broken in two places, arm broken, hip dislocated and ao umbrella driven into bip; William J. Shrader, Chicago, hip and back; Henry M. Gassaway, St Louis, left arm broken, Internally; Train Collector Livingston, thought to be injured internally; Wilcot Kunocbt Chicago, legs crushed and hips injured; James Crashaw, conductor, Chicago, injured about bead and back; William Balls, Chicago, badly crushed; William Archibald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken hip; George Archibald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken leg; Hulda Noack, Chicago, badly burned; Miss Fannie Tipton, Chicago, Internal; W. B. Thorp, Chicago, leg broken; Henry Rink, Cincinnati, fatally; Mr. and Mrs. Aloise Gehrig, Chicago, both Injured about the head; Q. A. Ellis, Mansfield, Wis., wrist broken and badly cut about the face and shoulders; Mrs. Gertrude Kitt, Chicago, burned and bruised, and her daughter Mary, 12 years old, and son Joseph, 10 years old, burned about the face; Mrs. Eliza, Chicago, internally; Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Tenney, Ada, Minn., sprained leg; Jas. B. Roberts, Catlih, internal; Mrs. Canlyou, Milwaukee, internal; S. A. Asqulrth. Waterloo, la., internal; Mrs. Anna Kenyon, Kingston, N. Y., right leg badly mashed and face injured; Mrs. S. L. Smith, Chicago, bruised and Internal injuries; four others injured, unknown.

BOLD ATTEMPT BY JAPS

FOUR DESTROYERS DEFY DEATH They Try to Enter Port Arthur—Two Sink and One Damaged—Russian Repulse at Motion Pass. London, July 7.—The Liao-Yang correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in a dispatch dated July 7, 1 a. m., says: “A battle is proceeding twenty-five miles from here. Evidently the engagement is a severe one.” Tien-Tsin.July 7. —Advices havebeen received that at 9 p. m. on last Sunday four Japanese destroyers made a determined attempt to enter Port Arthur and attack the Russian fleet The destroyers were discovered by the shore batteries. One of the destroyers was sunk under Golden hill, another under shore battery No. 22, and a third one had its funnel shot away. The fourtfi one succeeded iu effecting a retreat General Kuroki’s Headquarters, via FUsau, July 7.—On July 4 two battalions of Russians attacked .the Japanese outpost of eighty men at the northern entrance of Motien pass. Before daylight they surrounded the outpost and charged the trench. A bloody encounter with bayonets ensued. The Russians attacked the trench three times, but were driven up the valley by a Japanese reinforcement. Tokio, July 7.—Dispatches indicate that the fight at Mo-Tlen-Lien paas on July 4 was a desperate hand-to-hand fight affair. The Russians left fiftythree dead and forty wounded on the field. The Japanese lost nineteen killed and thirty-eight wounded.

Another Fire at World’s Fair.

St. Louis, July *>.—Fire broke out at 2:30 o’clock In the morning in the kitchen of the American case in the Jerusalem concession at the world’s fair grounds, and for more than an hour threatened festival hall, the west pavilion and the whole Jerusalem exhibit. After considerable excitement among the Turks. Arabs and other oriental peoples who were asleep when the tire broke out, it was gotten under control. The American case, which is in two wings and elaborately furnished. was gutted in both wings. The loss is estimated at $15,000.

New Governor of Finland.

Helsingfors. Finland, July 7. —News of the appointment of Prince John Obolensky as governor-general of Finland was received here without any display of sentiment. He is, however, preferred to other candidates. The imperial rescript confirming the appointment is pleasing to the Finlanders, as It accuses only the direct accessories and not the country of connection with the assassination of Governor General Bobrikoff. It is believed that the rescript is a guaranty that a harsh policy wiH not be adopted.

July 4 Casualties Increase.

Chicago, July 7. —Additional reports, complied after the echoes of the fourth of July had died away, materially increase the totals of killed, and injured as the result of the celebration of this year's holiday. Special dispatches received in this city add five to the list of dead and eighty-five to the list of Injured, making the totals fifty-three dead and 1,630 Injured. >