Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — Page 6

m m Diwocßii. 1 1. bibcock, mm in WBtian tM« DimatlTlurHOiill j NisiVl iao’* »U ‘ ■ OfKalal Democratic P«p»r of Jasper County. *I.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rata* mad* known on application —4 Entered at the Poet-oflloe at Reuaselaar. Ind. an second elans matter. OfDoa on Van Ranaaaiaor Street, North or Murray’s Storo. SATURDAY. FEB. 4, 1905.

The private bankers of the state held a meeting at Indianapolis Monday and decided to “Btand pat,” and want no change in the banking laws of the state. Union B. Hunt, former Secretary of State and late candidate for the republican nomination for governor, is now serving as secretary to Gov. Hanly, we understand. How the mighty do fall sometimes. Judge C. R. Pollard, of Delphi, is an active candidate for democratic member of the board of state tax commissioners. Parks Martin, present incumbent, is also a candidate for re-appointment. Judge Pollard has strong endorsements for the place. The prospects are that the present legislature will amend the Nicholson temperance law by making a remonstrance against “any and all applicants” for licence or against the* business, rather, effective for a period of two years, “instead of requiring a seperate remonstrance to be filed against each and every applicant. We notice that Trustee Chapman has begun suits against several of those who owed the McCoy bank, but we have failed to hear of any suits being commenced to oollect the 11,200 overdraft of republican county treasurer Nichols nor the SI,BOO overdraft of the republican postmaster, nor the big overdraft of the republican exsheriff, nor any action been begun to foreclose the second mortgages held on the former’s lands. Why is this thusly? No one has yet come forward with any proposed relief for the hundreds of poor widows, orphans and laboring men who lost their all in McCoy’s sheepskin bank. Why ought they not be relieved as well as the bondsmen of the county treasurer, who is believed to have been paying a political debt and his own personal debts in depositing county funds in this rotton institution? The old grandmother who is ending her days at the county poor asylum, a public charge upon the taxpayers of Jasper county, is not to be recompensed for the loss of the few hundred dollars she had deposited in this rotten bank, and which would have saved her from accepting the charity of a public almshouse. Remember that it is not Nichols who is being “relieved” should the legislature enact a measure relieving him from loss of county funds deposited in the McCoy sheepskin bank,' but Nichols’ bondsmen. Nichols is generally understood and believed to be mortgaged for several thousand dollars more than all his property ia worth, and so far as dollars and cents is concerned this matter would make no difference to him The people who signed his bond did so for cold blooded business reason only. There was no sentiment whatever nor were they impelled byjfany regard that they felt for Nichols in the matter. It was simply a matter of making money out of the county funds with them, and if they have been Chadwicked they have no one but themselves to blame. The Remington Press timidly ventures the opinion that the move to reimburse the bondsmen

of Treasurer Nichols—or to save them from having the loss to pay, rather—is not right. , The trouble with the Press is that it seldom has any opinion on any matter of public importance, and if it has, and expresses it ever so timidly, it always apologizes for having done so, and is alwayl ready to take it all back when the Rensselaer politicians say the word, and close up like a clam. The Democrat has always had to fight the battle of the tax-payers of Jasper county unaided, so far as other newspapers are concerned, and we are sorry to say that there are a few so-called democrats in Rensselaer who are too much like the editor of the Press. Happily they are in the minority in the party, and their voice never oounts for any more in party councils than does the occasional feeble protests of the Remington Press. Young men and women wanted to learn telegraphy. Railroads need operators badly. Total cost six months’ course in our school, including tuition (telegraphy and typewriting) board and furnished room, SB9. This can be reduced. Catalogue free,. Write to-day. Dodge’s Institute, Monroe St„ Valparaiso, Ind.

OTHER IMPEACHING EVIDENCE

Mian Love to Make a Deposition— Scrapping at DePuaw—Fatal and Savage Fight. Hertford. Ind., Feb. 2. —8. P. Lowe testified in the Miss Schnfer murder Inquiry that he did not know Browning. and had never seen Evans, the other defendant, until twenty days after the murder. He said he had never paid money to detectives to prevent their runnmg down clues against Evans, that he had never taken a buggy ride with Miss Love, and never hired any one to get any letter from Miss Schafer, and knew Miss Love only slightly. Lowe was not cross-examined. Several witnesses were put on the stand to nttnek the reputation of “Dude” Cook. Evidence Looking toon Alibi. Levi N’augle testified that he walked home with Evans the afternoon of the murder. They saw a woman on the other side of the street walking in the rain. The next morning, when the body was discovered In the shed, the witness and Evans visited the scene together, and Evans said the woman killed was the one they saw the previous evening. Evans was not excited, and talked calmly of the tragedy. Mrs. Josie Tapp, a neighbor of Evans, testified that she saw Evans standing on the veranda of his home and 7:30 the evening of the murder, and Joked with him a!n>ut not being able to go to lodge on account of the rain. Impeache* Rachael Kelly. Mayor J.Hickson Smith testified that no affidavit had been filed against Evans for fighting on the day of the Schafer murder, as had been contended by the state. He also testified that Robert Owens called at his office and told him that George Itiley had proposed that Owens secure a pair of Browning’s trousers and smear blood on them. Attorney Boruflf testified that Owens had related to him a similar story. Charles Tewell and Charles Lawrence testified that they were in the company of Rnchnel Kelly on the night of the murder, at the time she testified she was taking supper with Frank Evans at the Osborn restaurant. Ml»» Love I* to Depo<e. Deputy Prosecutor Fletcher testified that when “Dude” Cook told her story before him during the early investigation of the murder she had said Evans was not with Browning when the crime was committed. Court then adjourned to take the deposition of Miss Eva Love, who is ill.

ANNUAL SCRAP BEGINS EARLY Fr*ihlea and Soph* at DePanw University Are Hot oi Each Other*’ Trail. GrOenoastle, Ind., Feb. 2. The annual scrap between the freshmen and the sophomore classes of DePauw university began tills year three weeks earlier than customary. The initiative was taken by the freshman elass, which, encouraged by its superiority in numbers, began kidnapping the sophomores, and hidingthem inout-of-the-wn.v places. Monday night another attempt was made, but the sophomores organized nnd a fight occurred at midnight between representatives of the different classes which lasted almost an hour. The contest occurred In the middle of the street, and many or the students were cut and bruised by falling over the heavy stones of the street. The scrap was it friendly one. and no serious accident occurred. The faculty is opposed to the early beginning of this scrap, and. will take immediate steps to prevent any more clashes. Slot Hoe Ilia** Are Doomed. Brazil, Ind., Feb. 2.—The police force baa been 1 instructed by the mayor and city council to rid the city of slot machines.

WOMAN NOT TO HUNG

Vsrmont’s Gov irnor Grants Four Month’s Respits to a Fiend in Fair Form. MERCY ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED Condemned Woman Had Given Up AH dope, but bhe w eem« Unaffected by the Tidings. Windsor, Vt., Feb. 3.—A few hours after receiving the last rites of the Roman Cutliolic church and bearing her father confessor read the prayers for the dying Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, who was sentenced to die upon the gallows this afternoon for the most diabolical murder of her husband, listened to the announcement of High Sheriff Henry 11. Peck that Governor Charles J. Bell had granted her a reprieve of four months. 'The news from Montpelier that the governor had consented to defer the execution of Mrs. Rogers (tine as a surprise not only to the condemned woman, but also to all the officials, as it had been generally accepted that the governor would refuse to Interfere. Everything Ready for Her Death. Preparations for the execution had been perfected. The gallows had been erected, and when the news of Governor Bell’s action was carried to the prison the officials hesitated to believe the announcement until Governor Bell called up E. W. Oakes, the prison superintendent, by long distance telephone and formally notified him that Mrs. Rogers had been granted a reprieve that her allegation that she had not had a fair trial might be passed upon by the supreme court Thought It Wu Her Death Warrant. Sheriff Peck carried the news of the reprieve to the prisoner. Apparently supposing that the sheriff had come to read the death warrant she arose and moved tow ard the door. Sheriff Peck had never seen Mrs. Rogers before that moment. He told her the news—that the governor had granted her a reprieve until June 2 —she remained like a statue, as though unable to comprehend the meaning of the words. Without a sign of emotion jshe gazed at the sheriff a moment and then said: “I had given up ail hope, but I atn glad that the governor has granted me more time. He Is a good man.” Mrs. Rogers seemed unaffected by the tidingn and as the sheriff moved away from the door of the death cell she returned to the table and resumed writing a letter to her mother, -The reprieve was obtained by tremendous pressure put on the governor because the criminal was a woman.

DEED THAT THE WOMAN DID How She Deluded Her Husband to Death by Binding Him. The crime for which Mrs. Rogers was sentenced to death was the murder of her husband, Marcus Rogers, on Aug. 12, 1902, at Bennington. He held u life insurance policy for SSOO, and they bad separated, she having another man in view who would have nothing to do with her while her husband was living. In order to carry out her plan she pretended to desire a reconciliation with her husband, and he went home to her. Shortly afterward she proposed a walk to the river bank near where they lived; heagreedonthewalk; they took with, them lycon Perham. a favorite of the woman, and also Estella Pates. As they sat talking on the river bank the woman brought the conversation around to Rogers’ physical strength and wondered if she could tie him so that he could not break loose. lie agreed to let her try and she tied his hands behind his back. When satisfied that he could not get loose she had him lie down. Then Perham held Rogers’ feet while she applied chloroform to his mouth with her handkerchief. He struggled frantically, but the fumes finally overcame him. The body was thrown into the river, with a note fastened to his clothes, written by the woman, stating that he had committed suicide. Perham was arrested and confessed. He was sent up for life. The Bates’ woman was set free, and Mrs. Rogers was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Perham. in prison for life, safe from further punishment, has row told a story that Mrs, Rogers did not apply the chloroform, but that he (Perham) did. Nothing has been left undone to save her life because she is a woman, and thousands of persons have pleaded in petitions and othefwise for her. Senate and Hon** In Rrleb Washington, Feb. 3. The senate spent much time discussing the tributlon of and garden seeds by the agricultural department, the agricultural appropriation bill being under consideration, and the usual attack being made. The bill was pending at adjournment. The postofflee appropriation bill was still under consideration when the house adjourned. The provision for special rail facilities on trunk lines was retained in the bill. Coavlcted Men Want Pardon. Washington, Feb. 3.—Diller B. Gross, convicted of postal boodlery, has petitioned the president for pardon. This petition, together with one for the par don of Samuel A. Gross, has been referred to Justice Pritchard, who presided at Lbelr trial.

KIMBALL WAS MISQUOTED

What Ha Says Ha Sold oad What tha Ip*clot Said Ha Said Ara fjalta O’ ■ DIOS rant. Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 3.—J. G. Kimball, general secretary and father of the first council of seventy of the Mormon enureh, who was credited In a special dispatch from Logan to the Salte Lake Tribune on Sunday last with defending polygamy and declaring before the Cache stake conference that congress would be unable to stop the practice, has issued a signed statement in which he dec-tares that the report attributing to him any defense of the practice of polygamy Is false. He says polygamy was not referred to In his talk In any way. What he said referred to the declaration of some eastern women that poor families should mot have so many children, and was: will have quite a time in trying to prevent poor people having large numbers of children.” Continuing Kimball says: T then bore my testimony that Mormomlsm Is true, and that ‘Mormonism cannot be destroyed, and the-more they try to destroy the more It will grow. I believe In It and I will live It.’ ”

HANDS ONE TO BAILEY

Pettne of Alabama Caroms Senator from Texas Daring a Senate Dlseasslon, Washington, Feb. 3. —While the senate was listening to the semi-annual attack on the seed distribution clause of the agricultural appropriation Pettus of Alabama took the floor and <’<■ fended that feature of the bill and Incidentally commended Secretary Wilson in high terms, saying he had done more good than all of his predecessors In that office. He dwelt on the Importance of having a farmer at tilt head of the department. “Oh. I wouldn’t put a lawyer there he said, turning and looking at Bailey, who had opposed the seed distribution, “even though he came from Texas Proctor said of the distribution of common seeds: “It Is a humbug, a cheap eliromo. but one that we can’t get rid of.”

Cuban Cabinet Resigns.

Havana. Feb. 3.—A1l five members of the cabinet visited President Palma and presented their resignatons. This was to give the president freedom to select his cabinet under his announcement of adherence to the Moderate party.

Illinois Man Nominated.

Washington, Feb. 3.—The president has sent to the senate the nomination of George E. of Illinois, to be consul at Amoy, China.

THE WEATHER Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois—Fair with slowly rising temperature; fresh northwest winds, becoming variable. Indiana—Fair and continued cold; flesh northwest winds. Lower Michigan—Generally fair: colder in east portion; fresh northwest winds. lowa—Snow flurries In west portion; rising temperature; north to east winds.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, Feb. 2. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May ...$1.16 $1.17 $1.15% $1.16% July ... .97% .99% .98% .99% Sept 93% .93% .93% .93% Corn — May ... .44% .44% .44% .44% July ... .45% .45% .45% .45% Sept 45% .45% .45% .45% Oats — May ... .30% .30% .30 .30% July ... .29% .30% .29% .30% Sept 28% .28% .28% .28% Pork— May ...12.82% 12.871% 12.80 12.87% Lord — May ... 6.92% 6.95 6.87% 6.90 July ... 7.07% 6.07% 7.00 7.02% Short Ribs — May ... 6.87% 6.87% 6.85 6.87% July ... 7.00 7.00 6.97% 7.00 Chicago I*l vo Bfoc'a. Chicago, Feb. 2. Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day. 33,000. Sales ranged at $4.20@ 4.55 for pigs, [email protected] for light, $-1.60 @4.70 for rough packing, [email protected]% for mixed, and [email protected] for heavy packing and shipping lots, with the bulk of the trading within the range of [email protected] for fair to good averages. Cattle —Estimated receipts for the day, 10,000. Quotations ranged at $8.70 (a 6.20 fbr extre steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, $4.90(05.60 good to fancy yearlings, [email protected] choice cows and heifers, $5.00(0.7.00 native veal calves. Sheep—Estimated receipts for the day, 15,000. Quotations ranged at $5.30 @5.60 for good to prime export wethers. [email protected] medium to good native sheep, [email protected] range sheep and yearlings, [email protected] good to fancy native lambs, and [email protected] western range lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 2. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts, 3 cars, market steady. Hogs—grades, $50(1. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 30 cars, market slow; best lambs, [email protected]; fair to good, $7.65 @7.85; best westerns, [email protected]; best sheep, [email protected]; culls and bucks, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]. Calves—Market steady; best, $9.00@ 8.25; fair to good, [email protected].

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Sehool Teacher Lashed by a Woman. Indianapolis, Feb. 2.—Miss Carrie Gray, teacher in the public school at Flat Rock, Shelby county, was called from her Ijoardjng house by Mrs. D. .T. Hawkins and lashed with a rawhide until she fell in a faint The teacher had punished Ray, the 12-year-old son of Mrs. Hawkins. Item Tell* of Savagery. Columbus. Ind., Feb. 2. Edward Williams is dying from knife wounds and his father, George Williams, is suffering from serious injuries inflicted with a soldering iron in the hands of his son during a fight which occurred in a hardware store at Huntsville, twelve miles east of this city. They Have Retired Rev. Leo. Evansville, Ind.. Feb. 2.—A special commission of regular Baptist ministers has decided to retire Rev. Josephus Lee who was formerly pastor tor of a Baptist church at Oakland City. Ind. The charge against him is heresy. Rev. Lee is now located In Missouri.

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Grata Elevator Burned. Wabash. Ind., Jan. 31.—The grain elevator of Marion Million at Lake Gicott was destroyed by Are with all it* contents, together with a car load of corn on the siding. The loss is $lO,000; Insurance,"ss,ooo. The Are, which started from friction of the elevator pulley, smoldered untid midnight Read The Democrat for netrs.