Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — Page 5

BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of THU STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER at the oiose of businees September 6,1904. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and discounts 129,754 28 Capital Stock paid in I 25,000 00 Overdrafts 97 65 Disc’t Exchange and Interest .... 974 93 Due from bauks and bankers 65,596 67 Individual Deposits on demand... 80,528 83 Furniture and fixtures 1,025 00 ~lndividuafDeposits on Time 3,74168 Current expenses 1,164 75 Cash on (Currency 17,454 00 hand ... } Specie.' 2,531 94 10,085 94 Cash Items 521 20 t $110,245 44 $110,245 44 State of Indiana, County of Jasper. SS: I, Delos Thompson, Cashier of the State Bank of Rensselaer, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. [Signed] DELOS THOMPSON. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of September, 1904. „ ... FREDA KOHLER. Notary Public My commission expires Dec. 6, 1906. THE STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER, Opened June 1, 1304. DejMsits June 9th, 1904 f $17,988 48 Deposits September 6th, 1904 84,270 51 These deposits do not include a dollar of State or Oounty funds. DIRECTORS. John Eger, President, Delos Thompson, Cashier. Lucius Strong, Ovanville Moody. Warren Robinson. gjgflj We Respectfully solicit your busiuess. World’s Fair Daily Train Service:! To and From Lafayette via. The Wabash. • ! 1 Lv. LaFayette 8:08 a. m. Ar. World's Fair Sta. 1:31 p. m. St. L. Unio n Sta. 1:45 p. m. i j " “ 8:35 “ •* •• •• “ “ •• •* “3:00 “ \ 11 “ " 1:07 p. m. " “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 0:38 “ !' 11 « “ 1:34 “ “ “ “ *• 7:01 “ *' “ " 7:15 “ '! |i “ “ 7:54 “ “ “ “ *• * 3:00a, m. I 1 1 1 “ “ 11:56 7:19 a, m. “ “ “ 7:33 “ ]i “ “ 1:51a.m.” “ " “ 7:50 “ “ “ “ 8:04 " Return Leave St. Louis. <! Lv. St. Louis 8:30 p. m. World’s Fair 8:44 p. m. Arrive LaFayette 3:38 a. m. '! 11 “ " 0:05 “ .*• " 0:19 “ “ “ 3:50 “ |i ,| .. .. 11:33 “ “ “ 11:40 “ “ “ 6:00 " 11_ J> *• “ 3:45 a.m. “ “ “ " “ 8:46 “ |i( i| “ 0:45 “ “ “ “ “ “ 3:48 p.m. 1 1 '! “ “ 9:00 “ ' “ " 9:14 a.m. “ “ 2:24 “ |i 1; ** “ 13:30 p.m. " “ 12:44 p.m. “ “ 5:57 “ !| '! 7 day coach rates $5.10. Sale Tuesdays and Thursdays. Aug. and Sept, Good in'! !> chair cars and coaches only. 15 day ticket sale daily $9.15. 60 day ticket sale daily! l i! $9.55. Season ticket sale daily $11.45. Rate to World's Fair Station 20c higher. ! |i * THOS. FOLLEN, 1 1 Passenger and Ticket Agent '! Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CARE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OR OLD ONES-TO GROW RICH? Do you want to know about rich farming lands, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from $3.0) to $5.00 an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to $150.00 within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (0) short weeks? Ot places where truck growing and fruit raising yield enormous returns each year? Of a land where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable manufacturing industries; of rich mineral locations,and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. a A, PARK, General immigration and Industrial Agaat Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. UDUISVILLE, KY.

UNDER HEAVY RONDS

Willman Held in SIO,OOO to the Grand Jury in the Wells Murder Case. TWO WOMEN IN THE STOBY Coroner's Verdict in the Starbnck Case Sheds No Light-Poi-son in a Watermelon. North Vernon. Ind.. Sept. 9. Fred Willman, a wealthy fanner living north of this city, who was arrested Tuesday, charged with the murder of Mahlon Wells, has had a preliminary hearing before Justice Rash, who, after an examination, held the defendant to the circuit court in SIO,OOO bond. Willman seemed to expect such action and he was returned to jail without any show of agitation. It is expected that bond will be furnished for him today. The testimony against the defendant is largely of a circumstantial nature. Doubt is expressed of an ability to convict. Another Woman in tho Case* A telegram from Indianapolis aays that Allen Wells and Mrs. Placeucia, brother and sister of Mahlon Wells, have returned to that city and say that a bundle of letters found In Wells’ trunk at Cincinnati indicate that Wells had been intimate with a widow who lived in Mason, O. The widow had written a number of letters urging Wells to get a divorce that he might marry her. and there was every indication from the tone of the letters that Wells had proposed getting a divorce. Theory ot the Prosecution. The theory of the prosecution here is that while Wells was in Cincinnati and Mason, Willman was paying unusual attention to Mrs. Mahlon Wells, ind was infatuated with the woman. However, she objected to a yoposition from Wells to apply for a divorce. An attorney informed Wells ind his wife that they could not get i divorce without evidence of some kind. It seems that Wells and his rife, patched up their differences and ledded to move to California.

Whin the Motive Coma la. .It is alleged that when Willman heard of the proposed removal of the woman to California he made no effort to conceal his feelings for her. He purchased the Wells property and urged the woman to leave her husband and live with him. Being afraid Mrs. Wells would go away to California. to prevent it he waylaid and killed her husband. COBONER FILES HIS VERDICT * Long Delayed Judgment In tho Starbnck Caao la Published Under Throat or Legal Proceedings. Newcastle, Ind., Sept. 9.—Coroner Charles W. Wright has filed his verdict in the Starbuek case, and he finds that the death of Mrs. Mollie Starbuck, who was found in an abandoned well near Greensboro on the night of July 9, was caused by acute congestion of the lungs. The coroner’s verdict says that "'the approximate and original cause of death was acute congestion of the lungs, and the remote and original cause is unknown.” The coroner’s original verdict was suicide, and he held that Mrs. Starbuck was a victim of puerperal mania, but he changed the verdict. He was withholding his decision until evidence against Haley Gipe could be secured by the officers, but threats of legal proceedings by Gipe’s attorneys compelled the coroner to file his verdict. Thru* Serious Accident*. Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 9. Three accidents out of the ordinary has occurred here. Wesley Orth. 12 months old. son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Orth, fell into his father's cistern and was drowned. John Katzmire was kicked in the head by a mule and fatally hurt. Robert Lester, a farmer of Westpoint, while driving in this city was thrown from his wagon, breaking his spine. Escape* from a Sanatorium. Richmond, Ind., Sept. 9.—There is no longer concealment of the fact that E. O. Ellis, formerly pastor of the SOuth Eighth Street Friends’ church, this city, has escaped from the Retreat sanatorium, at Oxford, 0., and his present address is unknown. He failed to report for dinner on Monday, and after a quiet search the superintendent notified his son, Arthur Ellis, of this city. Merchant cigars at J. W. King’s.

MUKDEN IS HELD BY THE RUSSIANS

St. Petersburg Finally Gets Dispatch from General Kuropatkin. GREAT BATTLE IS LOOKED FOR Japanese Force* to the East and West of the Railway Running into Mukden. Kturopatkln Says He Did Not Lose a Gun During the Ketroat—Great Relief at St. Petersburg Over the News. 8t Peetrsburg, Sept. B.—General Kuropatkin has arrived at Mukden. Ha was not cut off by the Japanese, aa was feared. Berlin, Sept. B.—Colonel Gaedke. war correspondent of the Berlin Tngeblatt, telegraphs that Mukden was ■till held by the Russians Thursday morning. Mukden. Sept. B.—The fighting has ceased and the Russian transport and army are moving without interruption. There Is much uncertainty concerning the movements and purposes of the Japanese. St Petersburg, Sept. B.—A dispatch from General Kuropatkin, timed 0:30 o’clock Wednesday evening, has been received. lie reported that General Kuroki's army was about twenty-sev-en miles eastward of the rai.road and that General Oku's army was twenty miles west of the railroad. The general staff expects that a big battle will be fought. Did Not Lose a Gun. General Kuropntkin’s official report sent from Mukden during the evening of Wednesday announced that the whole of his array had arrived at Mukden and was taking up positions around the city, and adding that the

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN MUKDEN.

army bad not lost a gun during the retreat. The news relieved the public anxiety and put an end to the many alarming reports which had been current here. From the general's report it seems evident that Kuropatkin is tentatively preparing to meet the Japanese again should Field Marshal Oyama continue to press northward. Nothing more important than rearguard actions marked the march to Mukden. The region south of the city is now clear of Russians. Is Taking Precautions. It is evident, however, that Kuropatkin is taking precautions to prevent the Japanese from creeping around his flanks, as he reports that the Japanese cavalry is actively scouting wide on his flanks. The Japanese are reported to be moving up about thirty miles on either side of the railroad, with the view to surrounding Mukden, but whether Kuropatkin will accept an engagement or continue northward will probably depend at the decisive moment upon the temper and condition of his troops, who, doubtless, have been much shaken by the long tight and the hardships attendant upon the retreat. General Kuropatkin lost about 17,000 men during the ten days’ battle at Liao Yang. FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR Chinese Tell of an Engagement—Russians Short of .Ammunition. Chefoo, Sept. B.—Chinese who left Port Arthur Monday have arrived here. They report that severe fighting occurred Sept. 3. The Japanese attacked certain positions on the east and west flanks and the Russians allowed them to approach within a short distance, when they opened a heavy fire and compelled the Japanese to retreat after three hours’ lighting. An incident in the engagement was a clash between Japanese and Russian regiments of cavalry, resulting in the retreat of the former. The Chinese report that the Russians are paying 50 cents each for unexploded shells manufactured for use during the Chinese-Japanese war. The persistency of this report during the pest two weeks entitles It to considerable consideration, as indicating a shortage of large ammunition at Port Arthur. Firing la Heard at See. Wgt-Hal-Wei, Sept B.— Firing at sea was board here during the night and

boats outside the harbor claim they aaw flashes distinctly. A British ship was among those which investigated the firing at sea. She reports that seven ships were engaged in the cannonade and that they steamed away and disappeared upon the appearance of the British vessel. '■ Japs Bombard Sakhalin. St. Petersburg, Sept. B.—Two Japanese cruisers bombarded Korsokovsk, Island of Sakhalin and fired torpedoes at tlie sunken Russian cruiser Novik. No attempt was made to land. Korsakovsk is defended by coast batteries.

THIEF TAKERS TO EAT HORSE MEAT

Novel Plans for Banquet of Horsethief Detective Association at Next Meeting. Logansport, Hid., Sept. B.—The National Horsethief Detective association, organized in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan with a membership of 13,000, will hold its annual meeting In this city Nov. 3-4. It will be a delegate convention, 220 delegates being selected. The principal business will be adoption of plans to extend the organization Into other states. Action also will be taken toward securing legislation in the four states where there la already a considerable membership, making the punishment for horsestealing heavier and securing requisitions for captured thieves more readily. The association was organized in 1859 in Montgomery county and one man, John G. Swearington, Crawfordsville, survives, who was a charter member. There will be a mass-meet-ing and banquet at which horseflesh will be served.

SEVEN PERSONS DIE IN COLLISION

Passenger Train Running at High Speed Crashes into a Street Car at St. Louis. St. Louis. Sept s.—Seven persons were killed and twenty-five injured, several fatally, in the wrecking of a Suburban street car by a Wabash passenger train at the Sarah street crossing. The train, east bound, which is said to have been running nt a speed of thirty miles an hour, struck the car, which was running north, squarely in tbe center. The occupants of the car had no chance to escape. Thp dead and wounded were curried into the Empire brewery, which adjoins the scene of the wreck. Five ambulances were summoned and the injured were taken to hospitals, while the dead bodies were conveyed to the morgue.

THRESHER BOILER EXPLODES

Kill* Vivo Men end Set* the Stack* of Wheat on Fire and They Are All Destroyed. Bricelyn, Minn., Sept. 6. —The boiler of a threshing engine exploded on a farm three miles north of here, killing Peter Daley, owner of the engine; Chris Sunde, James Seymour, Abe Foster and Willard Galiyon. The bodies of the men were badly mangled. The explosion scattered the fire under the boiler among the wheat stacks and they were destroyed. Foster's body was partly incinerated. George Halverson, another thresher, was badly injured. Tbe rear half of the engine was thrown forty rods away into a field by the force of the explosion.

Editors Visit Judge Parker.

Esopus, N. Y., Sept 8. —Editors of upward of 200 of the Democratic newspapers, representing various parts of the country, came to Rosemount to visit Judge Parker. They were received by the candidate and the visit was made the occasion of the first political speech he has made in many years, barring only that in which, on Aug. 10, he accepted the nomination.

Negro Lynched in Alabama.

Huntsville. Ala , Bept. 8. —After setting fire to the jail and smoking out tbe prisoner, while the fire department was held at bay with guns and the sheriff, bis deputies, and the soldiers “outwitted,” a mob. estimated at more than 2,000 persons, lynched Horace Maples, a negro, accused of murdering John Waldrop. Maples was hanged on a tree on the courthouse lawn.

Business Section Wiped Out.

Clearfield, Pa., Sept. 7.—The business section of the small mining town of Ramey was literally wiped out by fire. Eleven houses were totally destroyed by the flames and the loss is estimated at $50,000. Several people had narrow escapes, but no lives were lost. The fire started in the hotel of Joseph Door and spread with remarkable speed.

Three Drowned While Boating.

Clarendon, Ark., Sept. 7.—. John H. Dlggie and Miss Mamie Johnson of Stuttgart and Mrs. Leta Vasgein of Mullen, Ida., were drowned in White river while boating in a gasoline launch. Two other members of tinparty —V. J. Dawson and Miss Gretchen Shaw of Stuttgart—were saved by clinging on to the boat.

Boy Killed by Foul Ball.

Chicago, Sept. 7.—Struck on the temple with a foul ball, 12-year-old Wendell Miller, the son of George Weilay Miller, president of Ruskin university, at Glen Ellyn, 111., fell dead from his seat in the grandstand during a ball game at that pretty suburb.

Davis Re-Elected Governor.

Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 7.—Sufficient returns from the Btate election have been received to Indicate the election of Governor Davis to a third term by a plurality of 20,000.

GIGANTIC SALE. Beginning Wednesday, September 19, at 9 a. m. The Ideal Clothing Store, Rensael* aer’e Greatest Clothier; Entire Stock, Consisting of $28,000 Worth ot Tailor-Made Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats and Shoes To Be Sold By The Great Western Salvage Company of Chicago For The Ideal. 10 Days at The Ideal Clothing Store Stand, Rensselaer. SAVE THIS AND WAIT. Rensselaer’s One Price Clothing House, known as the Ideal, has been placed in the hands of the Great Western Salvage Co., the world’s greatest bargain givers. On account of the backward season, and our entire $28,000 stock to be paid for, the Ideal Clthing Store finds itself in arrears with the payments, and the entire stock will be placed on sale at the Ideal Clothing Store stand for Ten days only, and sold at 39 per cent less than their actual cost to manufacture. The building is now closed and this great sale will begin Wednesday, September 14th at 9 a. m., at the Ideal Clothing Store stand, Rensselaer, Ind. When the world’s greatest clothing sale begins, everything will be sold exactly as advertised and every quotation herein mentioned is absolutely correct, and wejmerely ask you to come and test our statements. MEN’S HEAVY OVERCOATS, $2.98. Black and blue Beavers with double stitched edges, and double stitched seams, lined with, heavy sileccia linings, button boles worked through, warm Canton pockets; this coat is positively worth $6.50. Take it home and keep it five days and if you do not think it worth $6.50, or no matter what the cause may be, you mav return the same and we hereby bind ourselves to return the $2.98. Men’s fine Overcoats in English ulster cloth, also kerseys, meltons and beavers in black, blue and brown, some Italian lined, others worsted silk sleeve lining, lappel seams, $4.98. This coat is positively worth $lO, or money back. Men’s overcoats in English covert cloth, vicunas and Irish frieze (stamped), $5.85. Worth sl3 and the peer of any coat offered in Indiana for S2O or your money back. Men’s tine suits and overcoats $6.98. This enables you to pick and choose a suit, overcoat or ulster from fully twenty distinct lots, sls, sl6 and $lB qualities. Overcoats of imported Carr’s XXX melton and royal standard kersey, $7.98. Positively and actually worth $lB in any wholesale house in the U. S. At $8.98 each you are free to choose a suit or overcoat worth $22.50 to $25 from twenty lots of a finely made and as elegantly finished suit and overcoat as the most fastidious dresser could desire; fine home and foreign suitings and overcoatings of style and tone and in a great variety of effects, tailored into garments of faultless fashion —kersey, melton and whipcord overcoats, black, bine, brown, tan and drab diagonal cheviots, Vienna, homespun, tweeded and cassimera suits, single and double breasted, $8.99. Overcoats at $14.85 represent the products of the world’s celebrated looms and the world’s most skillful tailors. They equal and are guaranteed to excel any $35, S4O tailor-made to order garments in the world or we will cheerfully refund your money. A fine suit of men’s clothes, all to match, $1.98. This suit is positively worth $6.50 or your money refunded during the sale. Men’s splendid suits in Velour finished cassimeres, all sizes, $5.85. This suit is worth sl3 or your money back. Silk and satin lined dress suits in plain checks and stripes, $7.48. This suit is positively worth $16.50. Men’s fine dress pants 98c. Worth $2.00 or your money refunded. One thousand pairs boy’s knee pants 50c, at 19c. Boys’ heavy Reefers, storm collars worth $4, $1.49. Thirty distinct effects in boy’s

ultra fashionable knee paut suits in all the swellest of novelty and. staple styles, reefer jackets, overcoats and ulsters, worth 16, $7 and $8; all go at $3.98 One thousand pairs boys’ knee pants worth $1.09, at 39c Men’s best quality reinforced laundered shirts worth sl, at 29c. Men’s fine trousers for Sunday wear in worsted and fancy stripes at $2.39. Positively worth $5, $6, or $7 or your money refunded. Good heavy work shirts worth sl, at 39c. Fine dress shirts, worth sl, at 39c. Men’s hats, the latest Dunlap and Knox shapes worth $2, and none less than $1.50, at 98c. A few hnndred boy’s hats and caps, worth SI.OO, at 19c. Men’s fine silk embroidered suspenders, at 6c. Good heavy socks, at 3c. Over 5000 neckties in all shades, worth from 50c to 750, at 19c. Men’s handkerchiefs at 30. One thousand pairs overalls, worth 75c, at 39c One thousand other articles too numerous to mention, among them many for the ladies. Remember the day and date, at 9 a. m., at the Ideal Clothing Store stand, Rensselaer, Ind. Be sure you find the right place. Look for the name over the door. No goods sold and no one allowed in the building until Wednesday, at 9 a. m. I hereby agree to refund the money on all goods priced above if not satisfactory to the purchaser. Manager for the Ideal. N. B.—Railroad fare paid to purchasers of S2O and over for a ladius of twenty miles.

ESCAPE OF PRINCESS LOUISE

It Was Not Accomplished «Ith the Aid of an Auto—She Tells the Story. Paris, Sept. 9. —Princess Louise of Coburg anti Lieutenant Count Mat-tasiscli-Keglcvieli are stopping in the central quarter of Paris, but their exact location is carefully concealed. The princess, however, received, a friend of Count Ma-ttu.siseh-Keulevich. a journalist, and told to him the story of her escape from Bad Lister. The count, she said, contrived to convey messages to her through a hotel waiter. When all was arranged the princess left the hotel at 2 o'clock in the morning, and the night watchman having been bribed he saw nothing. A carriage was waiting for her, in which she drove to Hos, where she took a train for Berlin and there remained concealed for two days, and later came to Paris.

DR. LORIMER DEAD

Eminent Preacher Fame* Away at Alx Le* Balnea—Twenty-One Tear*’ Bervlce at Boston. Boston. Sept. 9. —Private messages received in this city from Aix Les Baines, France, announce the death of Rev. George Lorimer, formerly pastor of TTemoht Temple in this city. Dr. Lorimer was 71 years of age. He ♦ad been twicepastor of Tremont Temple. his entire service here covering about tweny-one years. He also had held a pastorate in Chicago and at the present time was in charge of the Madison Avenue Baptist church. New York qity.

Geographical Congress Begins.

Washington. Sept. 9.—ln the presence of distinguished geographers of this and foreign countries the first session of the eighth International Geographical Congress was called to order in the auditorium of the George Washington university by Commander R. K. Peary, U. S. X.. president of the congress. Telegrams were exchanged with President Roosevelt and his congratulations were received.

Roosevelt’s Gift to a Library.

Oyster Ray, N. Y.. Sept. 9.—President Roosevelt has presented to the Oyster Bay free library tifty volumes of history and the chair presented to him when he was governor of New York. It is a high backed mahogany chair richly carved and upholstered in j leather. On the back is a silver plate bearing this inscription: “The State of New York. Theodore Roosevelt, Governor, 1 SOS-1900.”

Detroit Gets the Cup.

Detroit, Sept. 9. —The Walker cup returns from Chicago to Detroit as the result of the speedy local yacht Ste. Claire winning her second heat in the annual regatta of the Country club off Grosse Pointe. Yo San, the Chicago yacht which lifted the cup last year, was 1 minute and 17 seconds behind Ste. Claire at the finish. An alleged “Railway Employes’ Independent Pclitical League of America” affects to do business at Indianapolis. Circulars sent out by the “league” are unsigned, and it has no headquarters except in “Lockbox 116.” Of course this is a silly attempt cf the Republiacn managers to get in touch with railroad men andl attempt to influence them with unsigned literature denouncing Parker. Whether a man is a Republican or Democrat, he will resent such methods to influence his vote. Every responsible man, who has anything to any, says it over his signature, and only the coward and knave resorts to unsigned denunciation of candidates.