Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat

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A MATTER OF HEALTH it®H fcftMJll* POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS MO SUBSTITUTE

CHARLIE LANE DEAD.

Prominent Young School Teacher Succumbs to Dread Pneumonia. One of the most sudden deaths from disease that ever occurred in Jasper ecunty was that of Charlie Lane, eon of Joseph Lane of Newton tp., who died at the home of Elias Arnold in Barkley township, where he was teaching school, last Sunday morning at 7:30 o’clock. The young man had taught his school the Monday previous to his death, but had not felt well that day. Monday night he was taken down sick with pnenmonia, and the disease developed very fast. Two physicians were at his side a part of the time and a trained nurse was secured from Chicago Saturday. All that medical skill and nursing could do was done for him, but to no avail. Early Sunday morning his condition became so very alarming that his friends were sent for, and soon after day had dawned he breathed his last. The funeral was held Thursday forenoon from St. Augustine’s Catholic church in this city, and was largely attended, in fact one of the largest funerals ever held here. A great many of the teachers of the county were also in attemdance. Interment was made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. Charlie was about 21 years and 6 months of age, and was very popular among his associates. This was his first term of school, and he was well liked in the community in which he taught, and the tears of his pupils and the patrons of the school mingle with those of the sorrowing parents and family. A CARD. We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors and to Mr. and Mrs. Elias Arnold and neighbors for the kindness they have shown during the illness and death of our beloved son and brother; also to his many friends for their beautiful floral offering. Mb. and Mrs. Jos. A. Lane and Family. Finest line of wash goods ever shown in town, at Rowles & Parker’s.

A REMARKABLE MARCH.

The month of March, 1905, will go down in history as one of the most remarkable March months ever witnessed. Winter broke off short and sudden, and the entire month of March has passed without a single typical March day. Save for one “sap snow” the mouth has been devoid of winter or any semblance of winter, and there were no windy, blustering days at all. Farm work and garden making has been in progress for the past two weeks, and many farmers have finished sowing oats. Fruit and shade trees are beginning to put out buds and a day or two more of such warm weather as that of the past few days will cause the trees to be leafed out in full. The same conditions practically prevail the country over.

BIG GRADUATING CLASS.

mfhe graduating class of the Rensselaer high school will this year be the largest in the history of the school, and some pretty large classes have been graduated heretofore. While it is not known at this time the exact number there will be in this year’s class, yet it is expected that it will number at least thirty. 30 styles in Lace Curtains from which to select your new ones, at Bowles & Parker’s.

ANOTHER FREIGHT WRECK ON MONON.

A freight wreck on the Monon at Dyer Sunday evening at six o’clock, resulted in the smashing up of eighteen cars, practically making kindling wood of them and destroying their contents. All of the trainmen escaped injury. The wreck is said to have been caused by failure of the engineer to stop his train for the crossing. The train was running some thirty miles an hour at the time, and the engine and eighteen cars went down the embankment. It is considered remarkable that no one was hurt. Passenger trains were unable to pass over the track until Monday noon, but went around over the Three-I and Erie from Shelby.

DEATH OF GEORGE GOWLAND.

George Gowland, an aged and respected resident of Rensselaer, died at bis home in this city yesterday morning at 4:15 o’clock, aged about 77 years. Mr. Gowland was born in England and came to this country about fifty years ago. He had resided in Newton and Jasper counties for the past thirty years. He moved here with his family from Goodland some four or five years ago. He bad been sick all winter and for the last few months was bedfast. He leaves a widow and four children, one son and three daughters. The funeral services will be held from Trinity M. E. church tomorrow at 2:30 p. m., Rev. Kindig conducting the services, and interment made Monday at Goodland.

RETURNS FROM EXTENSIVE TRIP.

John Kimble of Barkley tp., returned last week from quite an extensive prospecting trip. He left several weeks ago with quite a party of Jasper county people who have located in Washington, amoftg the number being John A. Schreiber and family of Kankakee tp., J. M. Poicel and family and Willis Nearhoff and family. John stopped at Miles City, and some other points in Montana; North Yakima, Seattle. Tacoma and Spokane, Wash.; Priest River, Idaho; and Portland, Oregon. He was much pleased with North Yakima, Wash., a town of over 3,000 population, and may decide to locate there. Mr. Kimble was in a head-on collision near Bearmouth, Mont., in which the fireman and mail clerk on his train were killed. Fortunately the passenger coaches did not leave the tracks, and except for a severe shaking up no passengers were hurt. The wreck was caused from the conductor of a freight train misunderstanding his orders and going ahead with his train when he should have remained side-tracked for the express.

THE CITY COUNCIL.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening. There was little business to come before them, however. A. Leopold was granted permission to erect a brick building on Van Rensselaer street. Fire Warden Steward was instructed to notify the custodians of a dangerous building near the depot and one on Weston street to make them safe from fire. The sewer committee was instructed to investigate the matter of putting in tile on River street near the ball park. The following bills were allowed: COPO RATION FUND. Leslie Clark, printing bond t 1.1 00 F. M. Abbott, salary 22 50 A. L. Branch, coal 1 30 Charles Morlan, salary aud fees 42 10 W. N. Jones, witness fees Nowelg case... 485 J. H. Chapman, salary 58 00 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C. Morlan, making light duplicate 5 P 0 A. L. Branch, hauling coal 115 90 Victoria Coal Mining Co., coal 199 87 Babcock A Hopkins, coal 98 24 Ben Smith, labor at plant 1 75 C. S. Chamberlain, salary 50 00 C. L. Thornton, salary 30 00 Lem Hnston, salary 30 00 J. H. Chapman, freight... 85 96 WATEH FUND. Conrad Hllderbrand. salary.. .T. 30 00 The Gould Co„ pipe 26 73 The Globe Oil Co., packing 8 25 Call at Rowles & Parker’s and see those new wash goods, in Mohairs, Batiste, Dimities and Organdies. A complete line of 9x12 ft. rugs from a Symra to a tine Wilton velvet. Chicago Bargain Store.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, April i, 1905.

A BASE FABRICATION.

High Constable Zea went out in Milroy tp., Monday to dispossess a tenant on Fred Saltwell’s farm —James Clark. Along in the afternoon a telephone message came in from Lyman asking for assistance, and it was reported that he had been knocked down several times by Clark and was unable to eject him. * A sensational story to this effect was published botd in the Republican and Journal, but Lyman informs The Democrat that be had no trouble whatever; that everything was peaceable and Clark went quietly. The fact is Lyman is a formidable candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff, some day, and the other fellows who also want to draw the salary and emoluments of that otiiice seem to be trying to belittle his official courage and ability. They appear already to have subsidized both the party organs in their endeavor to kill Lyman’s growing boom.

PETERSON DECLINES PROSECUTION.

Attorney Engaged to Prosecute HcCoy Cases in Lake County Retires From Case.

The Democrat is informed on good authority that John W. Peterson of Crown Point, engaged by Judge Hanley to prosecute the McCoy criminal cases pending in the superior court at Hammond, has notified Judge Hanley that he does not care to take the cases. His reasons for declining to take the prosecution of the cases is reported to be the improbability of securing a conviction in Lake county, owing to Tom’s having many influential friends in Hammond and elsewhere who will do all they can to keep him out of prison. It is understood that the Hammond cases will go over to the next term of court and that Judge

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. —o — Jerry Rarsner is laying out in jail a fine and costs of $18.75 for a plain drunk. —o — County Assessor Phillips attended the district meeting of county assessors at Logansport Thursday. —o — State Tax Commissioner John C. Wingate will be here Wednesday, April 5, to confer with the county assessors. County Assessor Phillips desires a full attendance of the township assessors. The meeting will take up at 10 o’clock. —o — John W. Walker, court reporter for this judicial circuit, has, through the intercession of his brother who resides in Arizona, received the appointment of official stenographer for the supreme court of Arizona. The position is alleged to carry a salary of $3,500 per year. John left Wednesday to take up bis duties there. —o — New suits filed: No. 6845. The State Bank of Rensselaer vs. Harvey J. Kannal; action to foreclose mortgage; demand $1,500 and costs. No. 6846. William A. Bautin and Hiram P. Stephens vs. The Indiana, Illinois and lowa Railroad Company; action for damages; demand $5,000. Plaintiffs allege that they were on July 8, 1904, the owners of a certain race mare; that it was shipped from Lebanon, Ind., to Mendota, 111., and while on side track of defendant at Kankakee, 111., a train of cars were carelessly run up against the car in which “Black Pet” was enroute and that the collission threw her voilently to the side of the car; that she suffered a nervous shock by reason of same from which she has never recovered, and that she was otherwise injured, etc. No. 6847. Plano Mfg„ Co., vs. Lawrence Sayler and Lewis Sayler; suit on note. Complete line of ladies’ silk shirt waist suits. All colors, $lO to $24.50. Caicago Bargain Storb.

WORKMAN MUST DISGORGE.

We notice that. J. B. Workman, who “investigated” the taxpayers of Jasper county a few years a go at so much per, has lost out in his appeal to the supreme court in his case against the board of commissioners of Owen county. Before starting into the tax-ferret business, Joe served a couple of terms as auditor of Owen county. Later, an expert examination of the county records disclosed some discrepancies in his accounts, amounting to several hundred dollars. The commissioners sued to recover the same and secured a judgment for about SBOO, we believe. Joe appealed to the supreme court, which has just affirmed the decision of the lower court, so that some of the money that his “system” has taken out of the pockets of people of this and other counties, who paid rather than stand a law-suit, will probably have to go to settle for his own lapse of memory in dear old Owen.

Hanley will endeavor to get someone else to take the prosecution. In the meantime attention will be directed to the cases pending in White county, and negotiations are said to be pending with E. B. Sellers of Monticello to take the prosecution of them and to have something done with them at the April term of court in that couuty. The first anniversary of this bank failure is almost here. Jasper county has appropriated a thousand good hard dollars of the taxpayers money to bring these wreckers to justice, if possible, and yet they still breathe the free air of liberty and are likely to do so for an indefinite time to come, apparently.

LA FAYETTE-CHICAGO.

Revised Plans of an Air Line Traction Company Through Jasper. Charles F. Knowlton, general manager of the Indianapolis & Chicago Air Line Traction Company, which proposes to construct a through electric line from this city to Chicago, says that John A. Shafer, the chief engineer of the company, has run his permanent surveys for the proposed line from Indianapolis as far northwest as Francesville, in Pulaski county. The work has, it is said, been in progress for several weeks. The plans of those who are promoting the “Air Line” proposition have grown even more ambitious than at first, as they now propose to run a thorugh electric line from Lafayette to Chicago, which, as the Indianapolis line would be forced to do, would depend upon its through business between Lafayette and Chicago for earnings. They propose to run their Chicago surveys by way of Stoutsburg, where they would connect with the line of the proposed Chicago & Wabash steam roads, built from Stoutsburg, in Jasper county, southeast to McCoys burg, in the same county, This line, continued southeast, would reach Lafayette. By a continuation of the Chicago line northwest from Stoutsburg, the Lafayette line would get into Chicago. Mr. Knowlton says the company will lease that part of the Chicago & Wabash that has already been constructed of the builder and ownsr; Benjamin Gifford, of Kankakee, lll.—Thursday’s Indianapolis News.

NEW ACTS BEING DELIVERED.

The first printed copies of the acts passed by the last Legislature was placed in the hands of the Secretary of State Wednesday, about two weeks earlier than the first copy two years ago, which up to that time had been the record for earliness. The volume contains 866 pages, being larger than any volume of acts ever printed, even excelling the one published in 1881, when the laws of the State were all codified. It is likely that the laws will be put in force not later than April 15.

Don’t fail to see the new line of , lace curtains, in Nottingham, | Ruffled nets, Bable nets and Brus- ; sel nets, at Rowles & Parker’s.

NERVE OF INSOLVENT BANKERS

People Who Have Proved Recreant To the Trust Imposed In Them and Kept Their Nerve Right Up to the Hour of Exposure.

W. H. Blodgett, special correspondent of an Indianapolis paper, writing from Elkhart regarding the feeling there towards the “busted” bankers who are now serving time in the government prison at Leavenworth, Kan., has the following interesting reading about the nerve of bankers who have proven treacherous to the trust the public had placed in them and went on with the work of relieving people of their money with hypocritical smile and cant up to the very hour of the crash that carried sorrow desolation and financial ruin to the homes of thousands: The people of Elkart are not anxious to have Walter Brown released from the Federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. The fact is that his attorneys oply are making efforts to secure his pardon. The same feeling exists toward Broderick, but since the day Collins was arrested the sympathy that was expressed for him has grown. Of all the bank wreckers who caused so much suffering in this community the only one believed to have been punished enough is Collins. He was the “weak brother” of the combination was a mere tool. Before the bank examiners notified the authorities at Washington that Collins ought to be removed as cashier of the Elkhart National Bank, they informed Collins of their intended report. Collins meekly consented to resign, and would have done so had not Broderick wrote to comptroller telling him that Collins would resign as soon as a suitable man could be found to succeed him. Broderick continued these letters to the department and held Collins in the position of cashier until the crash came. The result was that the trio went to the penitentiary. “Talk about men with nerve,” said a government officer who is here making a quiet examination of matters connected with the broken bank, “the chaps who wreck banks or who rob them while in official positions have more nerve than the holdup men the safe blowers. In the ‘yellowback’ romances, the man with the nerve is the the man quick with the pistol, but the real nervy man, in my estimation, is the banker, who robs under the cloak of business. Take Broderick and Brown, for instance. They knew for years what was coming, but they bluffed the thing through, though they knew the settlement day would be disastrous for them. Collins, of course, weakened at the start and gave the Government a good deal of information that was of great to the officers. “There have been a good many cold people in the banking business,” continued the Government officer,” but Cyrus E. McCrady, cashier of the bank at Seymour, was about as chilly a proposition as I ever knew. He was prominent in church circles, was a teacher .in the Sunday-school, acted as guardian for a number of wards, and was the administrator of numerous estates. In fact, he was a man in whom every one had confidence and to whom all went with their troubles. “The pastor of his church used to visit him frequently in his office, and one day when the pastor was sitting beside McCrady’s desk chatting with him, the president of the bank walked in with a newspaper giving an account of a defalcation in another State. The defaulter was just such a man as McCrady. ‘That description fits you exactly,’ laughed the bank president. McCrady read the article, handed it over to the minister, who also read it, and then the three laughed, aud McCrady said he wondered how that man felt, with the constant fear of exposure before bim. He was as cool aud unconcerned as a cake of ice, and at that very moment he was short in his accounts with the bank and knew that exposure was only a few weeks away at the most. And that is not all. Only a few hoars before his defalcation became knowrt, McCrady was told of the wrongdoings of the cashier of a Newark (0.,) bank, and remarked that the Ohio banker ought to have had more sense than to get

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into such trouble—that the only way was the honest way. A few days later an examination was made of the books of the Bedford National Bank. The examiner before beginning his work, had a social chat with Albert O. Parker, who was the bookkeeper of the bank. In the course of this talk he had told him of the wonderful nerve displayed by McCrady at Seymour. "That man Burely must be a wonder,’ remarked Parker. ‘I could not do that way. If there was anything wrong with my books I would show it at once. ! How do you suppose McCrady i felt when they were going over his books. I would not have such an experience as that for anything,’ and Parker chatted along i about men with nerve and how defaulters could face the public for years and never give a sign of weakening. Well, the examiner had not been at work long until he found that Parker’s books were wrong, and when he charged him j with crookedness, the bookkeeper laughed and admitted it, saying that he would save the examiner the trouble of going over them all and would show him how much he was short. The remarkable thing about these two nervy men wa3 that they went to the penitentiary together, and are still there as fellow convicts. “Another man of nerve was Dickie Davis, of Washington, Daviess county, who will finish his term next September. Evejy one in Washington knew that he was a gambler, and had lost large sums of money, but no one ever suspected that he was using the bank’s funds. After a night in the gambling house he would be at his window in the bank, bright and cheerful, greeting everyone with a smile of confidence, and there was nothing in his actions or demeanor to lead ono to suspect that he had frittered away thousands of the bank’s money the night before. He was spoken of as a nervy gambler. I do not think he displayed nearly as much nerve as a gambler as he did as a defaulting bank cashier. He played in desperation and with the infatuation of a man who does not care what comes to him, like the man who draws the opium that is certain death to him. I think he' displayed his nerve when he kept his reckless manner of stealing from the public, and when his face was able to deceive the officers of the bank. Talk about the nerve of the oldtime Western ‘bad man,’ it was nothing compared with the nerve of Dickie Davis. “Johnny Johnson, of Logansport, was another nervy man. When his bank, in which the poor people of Cass county had the utmost confidence, went under, Johnson quietly explained that the failure was caused by his inability to pay off his father’s debts. But the work of the bank examiner proved that this was not the case, and then it cam,e out that all the time he was supposed to be an honest, business man he was gambling in the Chicago wheat pit, and when Judge Baker sentenced him for ten years his face never even changed color. It took nerve to live among the people of Logansport and wear the mask he did. Now, Wood, of the Matthews bank, was a quitter. He weakened at the start and displayed no nerve at any time.” “Who do you consider the nerviest defaulter of them all?” Was asked the Government officer, whose business it is to protect certain banking associations. “You refer, of course to Indiana. The nerviest man I ever came across was the chap who started the bank at Andrews, Ind., on a cash capital of 36 cents and skinned the people oat of almost that many thousand dollars. And he would have got away, too, if he had not got drunk and missed his train. He is serving time in Michigan City prison and will soon be free. I suppose when he gets oat he will start another bank somewhere. H 6 surely has the nerve to do so.”

Full line of Carpets, in ingrains velvets, axminster and wiltons, at Rowles & Parker’s.