Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A freight wreck near Pleasant Ridge Tuesday night delayed all mail trains for several hours Wednesday The north bound milk train did not get in here until noon.

Brook Reporter: The Goodland Herald says that the people over there are agaiust the legislature saddling Jhe county treasurer deficency, caused by the Gilman bank wreck, on the taxpayers of Newton county. They are of the same opinion over here,

Fire Friday destroyed two brick blocks at Knox, causing a property loss of $25,000, partially covered by insurance. The following firms suffered loss: Hartzler & Son, hardware, $10,000; Republican office, $4,000; Julius A. Arnsdorff, merchant, $7,000; ,A. O. Castleman, $3,000; O, B. Smith, attorney, SSOO.

John Bislosky and family moved to Chicago this week. They will reside at 607 West 63d street, and John will have charge of a coal business near there. He has some stock in an Indiana mine and will look after the Chicago end of this mine’s product. The Democrat wishes him much success in his new line of business.

The Farmers’ bank at Wolcott, has been in sore straits for the past few weeks, and has taken in no deposits nor paid anything out, we understand. Its former owner, Mr. Settle, is said to have drawn out most of the deposits on his personal notes, and the bank run out of cash. Efforts are being made to reorganize, and creditors are holding off, waiting developements. rrank Lakin of Union township has rented his home farm to Chas. Reed and Ike MoCurtain for a period of three wiUbava a _p»fel4e-sftle--oa-JilDn-day, February 174 b, after.which W will go to Tulsa, Indian Territory, where he has a son, and will perhaps locate there permanently. Mr. Lakin is an old and respected resident of Jasper county and we regret to see him leave.

Uncle Jacob Johns, an old resident of Milroy township, died at his home in that township Tuesday at 12:30 p. m. aged about 70 years. The funeral was held Thursday from the Milroy Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Morrow of Wolcott; burial at Benson cemetery in Milroy township. Deceased was an old soldier and leaves a widow and four grown children, three daughters and one son.

Rochester Sentinel: Ah, what a dandy old fashioned winter this is! Just snow enough to make it right, just cold enough to make us hurry, and just sunshine enough to keep everything bright and charming. Talk about the glories of the Florida sunshine and the southern California flowers if you will, but such a winter day as this is a dream for poets and a jubilee for the prosaic. Let ’er snow.

Francisville Tribune: The Jasper County Democrat is making a strong fight to prevent the legislature from passing Representative Wilson’s bill to relieve Treasurer Nichols of the loss of some $28,000 in the McCoy bank failure as was detailed in' our last week’s issue. It look 9 as though this requested legislation is another case of robbing the people to relieve a few men of wealth of their bond financial obligations.

We are informed by a gentleman who was in Chicago last week and had bnsiness at the stock yards, that Tom McCoy’s position there is that of a cowpuncher, driving cattle from one pen to another. This gentleman saw Tom at his work several times and talked with him briefly. He says that work doesn’t seem to agree with Tom, as he has apparently lost fifty pounds in flesh since he last saw him.

Indianapolis Sentinel: For the failure to pay a fine of SSOO for the fraudulent use of the mails, assessed a year ago, Stephen B. Kealing, who was arrested Sunday at Medaryville, Ind., by Deputy United States Marshal Tom Martin, appeared before Judge Anderson yesterday afternoon and was committed to jail until the tine is paid. Kealing says he owns a silver mine out in Colorado, but he did not have the capital to ’extract the ore.