Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City end Country Renders. Corn, 43c; oats 28c. Mina Ellen Donnelly is attending the State University. Attorney E. P. Honan was in Brook on business Tuesday. Mies Olive Harriott, of Union tp., is attending the Valparaiso Normal. P Miss Jennie Harris and Mrs. E. T. Harris were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Millinery opening at Mary Meyers’, Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8. Attorney U. M. Baughman was on business a few days this. week. W. L. Wishard is visiting Geo. Jenkins and family at Big Rapids, Mich., this week. George Spitler has joined the Forepaugh circus billposters’ gang again this season. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Renicker are prospecting near Larrimore and Minot, No. Dak. Jerry Healy and John Hallagan returned last week from their winter’s sojonrn in Florida. Squire W. E. Moore is visiting his daughter Mrs. J. C. Paxton, at South Bend this week. Mrs. O. M. Allen, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Unole John Coen has gone to Monticello to spend the summer with his daughter Mrs. John Sayler. Mrs. Mossier and son, of Hammond, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold, this week. Fred Kupke of Gillam tp., who was sent to the asylum a short time ago, has been discharged as cured. Brick laying on the new buildings of Duvall Bros, and A. Leopold, on South Van Rensselaer street, began Wednesday. > —.- Brook Reporter: Elwood Collier will move his family to near Kouts, on the Kankakee river, next week, where he will run a dub house. Will Woodworth was given a dollar and costs in Squire Irwin’s court Monday, $7.50 in all, for assaulting Harry Watson last Friday evening. B. F, Ferguson has sold the W. W. Watson property on South Weston street to Mary J. Bair of this city. The consideration was a little under SSOO. D. M. Worland and Charlie Nowels returned Saturday from their prospecting trip to Texas. Dave has quite case o's Texas fever, and may locate there. B. F. Ferguson, of the firm of Ferguson, Hershman & Ferguson, was st Medaryville last Friday and closed the deal for A. C. Wilcox’s land to the Crescent Oil Co. The city schools closed Wednesday afternoon for the week, to enable the teachers to attend the meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ association at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong returned last week from their winter’s sojourn at Los Angeles, Cali., and Mr. Strong is now busy with his duties as deputy assessor, assessing Rensselaer. Misses Ida and Bertha Dennis, who have been spending the winter with their aunt, Mrs. C. B. Steward, returned to their old home in York State Sunday. They will reside at Utica, N. Y. Joe Jeffries and bride arrived from Ohio Monday, and Joe has been the busiest man in Rensselaer this week, putting down oarpets, setting up stoves and getting accustomed to the duties of a married man. Alfred Collins moved in from the country this week and ocpupies the Lampoon property on the west side. Wm. Daugherty, who has rented the Collins farm, also moved ont from town onto same this week. F. S. Willard, Leslie Fisher and A. B. Cowgill of the Remington Camp, and William Grnbe and Thos. Jensen of Wheatfield Camp, were here Wednesday as delegates from their respective Camps to the meeting of the County Camp. Will Donnelly Is dosing np his business affairs here, preparatory to locating in Hullsmith, Texas, His family will not go until fall. Frank Donnelly will continue to carry on the lumber business of' the Donnelly Lumber Co., here.

Mr. and Mrs. Addison Farkison returned home Wednesday from spending the winter in California. The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the Christian church is “The Right of Petition;” In the evening, “The Freedom of The Will." All are welcome. Bowles & Parker will probably lease the room in the 1. O. F., building, now occupied by Haus’ restaurant, and add a clothing stock to their dry goods business. The Democrat is steadily crawling up toward the 2,000 mark in subscribers. Eleven new subscribers were added to our list this week, six of which oame in Wednesday. D.A. Stoner has recently traded his farm near Wichita Kan., for a store and a nine thousand dollar stock of goods at Altamont, Mo., and has uioved there and taken charge of same. At the county meeting of the M. W. A., held here Wednesday, F. S. Willard, of the Remington Camp was elected delegate to the meeting of the State Camp to be held at South Bend, and F. E. Babcock, of Rensselaer Camp, alternate delegate.

Prof. Schanlaub of the Morocco schools, come over Thursday to spend a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub. Will says the Morooo people feel sure of getting that new north and south railroad, which will lighten the blow of losing out on the county seat. Mrs. E. H. Morlan left Tuesday for Rugby, No. Dak., for an extended visit with her son Frank and daughter. She was accompanied by her son Charlie, the court house janitor, who will take a couple of weeks well earned vacation and view the wonders of the great state of North Dakota. She was the cheerful wife; he the pessimistic husband. . She thought she could sing; he, it seems, had doubts. “Well,’’ said she, “if the worst comes to the worst I could keep the wolf from the door by singing.” “I don’t doubt it,” replied he, “but suppose the wolf should be deaf?” Louis Keefer, a telephone lineman who fell from a pole at Kentland a couple of years ago and received injuries that made it necessary to amputate one of his legs, was awarded a verdict of $2,550 by a jury in the Newton circuit court this week against Will K. McCray, the owner of the telephone lines.

W. H. Blodgett, the Indianapolis News’ special correspondent, was here Wednesday, getting material for another article on the McCoy bank failure matter. Blodgett thinks it an outrage that the McCoys have not been brought to trial ere this, and a large part of tbia community agrees with him. * We must insist on our correspondents mailing their items earlier in the week. evening we received eight batches of correspondence, and as The Democrat goes to press as soon after noon Friday as possible, it does not give sufficient time to pnt these items in type when received so close to press time. The Crescent Oil, Asphalt and Gas Co., has recently given a mortgage on 290 acres of land in 29-31-5, Walker tp., Jasper county, for SIOO,OOO, to the People’s Trust Co., also a chattel mortgage for the same amount to the same trust company on their machinery, etc. This is the largest transaction in “oil lands” in this county for some time.

One of the beet ehow companies that has visited Rensselaer this season held forth at Ellis’ opera house last Friday night in “The “Holy City.” The Bcenery and oostumee were much above the average seen here, and the toting was well nigh perfect. Gordon & Bennett's “The Holy City” is deserving of a crowded house at every stand. Jasper N. Sample, who had been in poor health for several months, died at his home north of town last Monday, aged 67 years. He had residea in this oounty about twenty years. He leaves a wife, two sons and two daughters- The funeral was held Wednesday at 2p. m., from the M. E. ohurch and burial made in Weston cemetery. Kentland Enterprise: The suit of the town of Goodland against F. M. Coovert, ex-treasurer of Newton oounty, wherein the town seeks to reoover $3,000 which Fred D. Gilman as town treasurer drew in advanoe—before his departure henoe—Vras tried in the cirouit court Saturday, and Judge Hanley took the oase nnder advisement until the May term.

„ We have been getting a little mild March weather this week, with quite heavy frosts for a night or two, although as yet it is scarcely thought the freeze has been severe enough to cause much damage. In the vicinity of Valparaiso six inches of snow fell, but here scarcely enough oame to whiten the ground aud that melted shortly. Grass on the lawns about town is large enough for the lawn-mower in many places, oats are up and fruit trees are well advanoed. A severe freeze would no doubt settle the fruit. $ J. T. Randle and W. 8. Makeever have traded the land south of the A. McCoy residence property and a strip on the east about 120 feet wide for J. T. Huntzinger’s equity in the Collins farm, north of town, which the latter traded the River Queen flouring mills for, This leaves Messers. Randle and Makeever the McCoy house and barn and about 160 to 170 ft. frontage on McCoy avenue. The trade is generally conceded a good one for Randle and Makeever, as it places the McCoy property in much better shape to handle.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Sew Raaalaa Commuter. General Llnevltch, who is now chief In command of the Russian land and sea forces In the far east, has already passed his sixty-fifth birthday. He Is therefore half #,• decade beyond Dr. Osier’s dead line. He has seen extended service, having been In the army since he was twenty-one. He took an active part In the Russo-Turklsh war of 1877-78 and sfnce then has served In all of Russia’s Asiatie campaigns. General Llnevltch waa also prominent In the relief of the legations at

GENERAL LINEVITCH.

Peking, succeeding Admiral Alexeieff In command of the Russian troops in August, 1900, aud was congratulated by Emperor Nicholas for his services. For a time in 1904 General Llnevltch was governor general of the Amur territory, but later assumed command of the Russian forces at Vladivostok under Alexeieff and is understood to have placed that fortress in a state to resist a siege. During the Manchurian campaign he has been In charge of divisions in the field, and is said to be one of the few Russian commanders who possess Hie absolute confidence of his troops. Measured by the usual army retiring age standards, General Llnevltch is well along in years to conduct such an active campaign as the Russians would have to wage In the far east to stem Hie tide of Japanese advance. Still, there have been other commanders who have made military reputations after they passed the threescore mark. General Llnevltch, like the earlier Russian commanders, will probably find that campaigning against the Japs shatters rather than bnllds up military reputations.

AadMi Vermont Custom. Senator Bailey recalled a little ancient history of Vermont the other day that moved Senator Proctor to a correction. “When the lawfully constituted authorities of New York state sought to enforce the Judgment of her courts in what now constitutes Vermont,’’ said Mr. Bailey, “they used to meet these officers of the law, bounden to be free, and lay the laahes on their bare backs. They used to call that administering the ‘beech tree seal’ to titles In the state of Vermont” “I wish to set the senator right” interposed Mr. Proctor. “It was called administering a ‘beech es>—they left oat the word ‘tree’—with the twigs of the wilderness.” *T am surprised,” retorted Mr. Bailey, “that Vermont left out anything that was to be added on that or any other occasion.’*—Washington Poet middles. What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident? Absence of body. Why is a good soldier like a fashionable young lady? Because one faces the powder and the other powders the face. ▲ gardener, seeing four blrls destroying his fruit fired a gun at them and killed one. How many remained? None. The others flew away. VmiUi piars. To wean pigs before they hgve been taught to eat will give them a cheek for at least two weeks. j t An arm-load of old papers for n nickel at The Democrat office.

FIFTY MINERS IN A LIVING SEPULCHER

Forty of Them Believed To (Be Dead as a Result of an Explosion. TREACHEROUS GAS THE CAUSE Leiter Mines {it Zeigler the Scene of the Awful Disaster. Benton, 111., April 4.—Some fifty miners were entombed In Joseph Leiter’s mine at Zeigler by a terrific explosion of gas, and It Is probable that forty or more of the buried men are dead. Thirty-seven bodies have been found. The explosion was due to the fact that the Leiter mines are not worked on Sunday, thus allowing gas to accumulate in the lower workings. When between thirty-five and fortyfive miners had descended into the mine to resume work a horrible explosion blew the mouth of the mine high into the air. Effect of tha Explosion. One of the steel cages was blown 4o the surface from the bottom of a 500foot abaft. The shock of the explosion was felt at Benton, twelve miles northeast of Zeigler. A teamster driving along a road half a mile from the mine was covered with failing cinders, end debris covered the floor of his wagon half an Inch deep. One miner was killed and four were severely Injured at the mouth of the shaft in which the explosion occurred. The work of rescue was begun at once by the who were arriving when the explosion took place. But the main shaft was demolished so that rescue Work has to be carried on though the air shaft Herd to Identify the Deed. The bodies of the dead are so blackened that they cannot at once be identified. Roily Campbell is the injured miner brougfc out of the shaft, and it is said that be cannot live. Campbell is conscious, but be is unable to give any explanation of the accident. C. E. Childers, a striking Zeigler miner, last October predicted in a printed article that an explosion waa likely to occur on account of what he termed improper ventilation of the shafts. There was much excitement among miners when the accident became known, because there had been a strike of long duration and many conflicts bad occurred between strikers and non-union miners. Investigation tends to sbow that the catastrophe was due to the accidental explosion of accumulated gas. Death Dae to Asphyxiation. All the bodies found except two show no marks of injury. Indicating death by asphyxiation. AIT but four of these found worked in the abaft by numbers, and their names have not as yet been secured. An order for twenty cofflns has been sent to St. Louis, besides twenty ordered earlier. BT SOMEONE UNKNOWN Parhap* One of the Dead, the Zeigler Mine Horror Wm Caaaed Not a One Explosion, - Zeigler, 111., April 6. After-damp, due to an explosion of blasting powder set off by persons as yet unknown, caused the death of forty-three miners at Joseph Letter's coal mine on Monday, April 3, according to the verdict of a coroner’s t *<ury as rendered yesterday. Coroner J. M. Adams, of Franklin county, impanelled a jury to investigate the deaths of the miners killed by a double explosion at Leiter’s Zeigler mine the next day after the explosion. After two days’ inquiry a verdict was rendered, which says the deaths were caused as stated above, and that “we further believe that said mine was in good and safe condition for working purposes as far as gas was concerned on April 3, 1905.”

Patrick J. Healy Dead.

Chicago, April 4.—Patrick Joseph Healy, president of the*musical instrument house of Lyon & Healy, is dead of pneumonia. IJe "was a man of splendid physique, 05 years old, and a member of the Union League club and Chicago Athletic association, as well as an early member of the Lake Geneva Country club. He had been a member of the Lyon & Healy firm for forty-one years.

Indiana Bank Closed.

Ladoga, Ind., April 4.—The doors of the bank of Ladoga are closed. The Hoesler Novelty Works company, of which Harry E. Daugherty and O. E. Coffman, sons-ln-law of the cashier, are among the principal stockholders, has overdrawn to the amount of $9«.000, and as a result tha bank was forced to close its doors. Cashier Scott stated that he was ready to turn over all his property.

Conger Sails for Home.

Pakln, April s.—Edwin H. Conger, who has just vacated the post of American minister to China, upon his appointment as ambassador to Mexico, has left for America via Hankow. Representatives of all the fsppign legation* assembled at the railway station to bid him farewell. The approach to the station was lined by Chinese troops.

Oxford Defeats Cambridge.

London, April B.—Oxford won the sixty-second annbal boat race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge defeating the latter by three to (oar lengths.

GORLEY'S DOWNFALL

Gorley and Miss Jennifer had been getting along pretty rapidly. Their affair began across the lake In the summer. A mighty pretty girl is Miss Jennifer. Gorley isn’t such a bad sort of fellow either. Nearly every one who watched the little romance wished him luck, and It really aeemed that he waa going to have It—all over but the announcement, in fact Then came the first snowfall of the season and with that the destruction of Gorley’s hopes. Life, you understand, is uncertain, and so Is one’s footing on a well worn coal hole cover on the sidewalk when there la snow on it. Miss Jennifer found It so. If there la sufficient warning beforehand and a girl has enough presence of mind she may be able to subside easily and in a decorous heap. Mias Jennifer had no .warning, and panic seized her soul the instant her heel slipped. Her descent was anything but graceful. That la the least that can be said of It and the moet merciful. To add to the horror of the thing, she was carrying bundles, and the one of them that burst contained articles that were by no means Intended for the public eye. The final touch was Gorley. That Gorley’s evil genius should have led him to that particular spot at that particular time only shows how evil a genius can be. But there he was unquestionably. Miss Jennifer saw him out of the corner of her eye when she fell. If he had been wise he would have pretended not to see her and proceeded on his way. As It was, he rushed madly up and assisted her to her feet. Miss Jennifer says he laughed, but that Is highly improbable. His eye may have twinkled, for he has a certain levity of character, but It la not likely that be laughed. If he did It waa out of pure embarrassment Still, he certainly lost his head, for when Miss Jennifer reached for her bundle he made a dash and Interrupted her. Then he began to paw Idiotically at her skirts, with the Idea of brushing off the mud and snow. “Please don’t, Mr. Gorley," said Mlsa Jennifer. As he persisted, she stamped her foot “Haven’t you any sense?” she cried. ‘‘Stop!” Her face was crimson, and the tone of her voice!

Gorley became aware then for the first time of the interested crowd watching them and desisted. “I'll carry my parcels, thank yon,” said Mias Jennifer icily as they proceeded, “and I think I prefer to walk by myself,” she added. “But”— “I hope you don’t intend to force your company on me,” she said. As Gorley stopped in amazement she walked away and left him. It was absurd enough, but It broke up the affair as effectually as something serious. Not all at once, but by degrees. Miss Jennifer was out when Gorley called that evening. . The next time he called she was decidedly cool. That made him angry, and he decided to stop calling, which he did. As the weeks wore on he heard that Jim Bentham was calling on the young woman pretty frequently. But what could he do? It surely was not his place to apologize. It did seem a rather hard tangle to straighten out One day Gorley took his skates and went to Washington park with a friend. He is a good skater and fond of the exercise, and he seemed rather to need distraction. He didn’t count on finding Miss Jennifer he would have stayed at home—perhaps. She was there, howevejjf with a crowd of her friends, among them the unspeakable Jim Bentham. Gorley waa warmly welcomed by the party, with the exception of Mlsa Jennifer and Bentham, and he started In to make himself agreeable. Perhaps, too, he tried to show off his skating a little. If he did, that was only natural, for he was a good skater, as has been said, and be made a rather stunhlng figure In his black sweater, knee breeches and crimson skating cap skimming and circling here and there. Miss Jennifer thought so, and Bentham suffered for It. Then Gorley said he would show them how to cut a figure ”8.” He did it beautifully and then proceeded to execute some flourishing Initials. He was Just putting the tall to a “G” when—a cigar Btub perhaps or a bit of stick—his skates left the Ice and flashed jerkily In the air, and he came down with a Jar that must have tried every bone in his body. There was a howl of mirth, of coarse, but Gorley was up In an Instant As he regained bis feet he beard Mias Jennifer say to Bentham quite Indignantly, “I think It's absolutely silly as well aa unfeeling to laugh.’’ A few minutes later she skated up to Gorley, who had detached himself from the others. "Tou are hurt?” she said anxiously. "Oh, no,” lied Gorley. "Bat yoa are,” she insisted. "You are pale as you can be. Come, you must take off your skates.” Gorley looked at her and then held out his band, and they akated to the bank together. The others may have wondered, but they didn’t care. The only thing that Miss Jennifer •aid as they went was, "I’ll forgive yon—now.”—Chicago News.

To Iive Grandly.

To Hve well la one’s place In the world, adorning one’s calling, however lowly, doing one’s moot prosaic work diligently and honestly and dwelling In love and unselfishness with all men, la to live grandly.—J. R. Miller.

Left Him Guessing.

He—As a matter of fact, I don’t believe you have a very high opinion of me. She—l don’t understand why you should say that I have never said what I thought of you.—Boston Transcript

TRAIN RUNNING WILD

Goes Through Fart of Indianapolis at a Forty-Mile-an-Hour Gait. BEINGS UP IN A BAD WRECK Three Men Hurt, bat None Killed «• Incident of a Harry Call to Marry—State Items. Indianapolis, April 7.—A runaway freight engine started slowly In the C., H. and D. yards, In Moorefleld, two mile* west of the Union station, and gathered speed until it was running about forty miles an hour. Near the middle of the city came the engine like a black streak, over the White river bridge and taking to the track* known as the east-hound main tracks. Like a comet It darted over the various crossings, and when between Capitol and Senate avenue*, within a few hundred feet of the many trains in the Union station, It crashed Into L. E. and W. switch engine No. 6, which was standing on the track waiting for a switch to be turned. Baglas* Wracked s Msn Hart. The collision wrecked both englnea and partly wrecked a C., H. and D. P. M. express car which was standing on a switch and partly over the main track. George T. Fish, L. E. and W. switch engineer, waa cut about thehead, left side, arm and leg Injured; Otto A. Kminger, fireman, was skinned and bruised and slightly cut; Edward Collier, switchman, was slightly cut and bruised. Fish, who was the worst Injured, was taken to his home In tha city dispensary ambulance in the charge of Dr. Reed. All the hurt are Indianapolis men. CaaM of th* Runaway Uaknowa. The cause of the runaway is unknown. Railroad men said no one waa near the freight engine l when it stood ir. the yards ready to be-pulled into the roundhouse. The engine waa formerly a passenger engine. It was overhauled recently, and this morning It came into the yards after its first freight run. It was said that some one may have tampered with the throttle. Engineer Downey had left the engine only a few minutes, and It started under a full head of steam.

Wu Eager to Got Away. Witnesses said the engine fairly jumped in its apparent eagerness to get away, and at each jump the throttle seemed to be jarred farther open. The straightaway track leading to White river bridge lending material to the increasing speed and when the engine darted across the bridge and wound its way through the network of tracks near the Kiugan packing plant it was running almost at full speed. YOUNG COUPLE COULDN’T WAIT Caught the ’Squlro Sharing and the Caromoay Was Performed with Lather on Hie Face. Columbus, Ind., April 7. —Justice H. W. Nickerson \flas shaving himself la his office, and while his face was covered with a thick coating of creamy lather, the door opened and in came Charles Kamp and Mrs. Lillian Monroe. They said they wanted to get married, and could not wait until the justice bad finished shaving. The ’squire made a few “swipe*” at his face, and, thinking the lather was ail off he proceeded to perform the ceremony. He noticed that the couple seemed amused about something, but turned the thought away with the belief that they wdre merely happy over being married. After the ceremony he found that in his haste he had married the couple with but one side of his face washed, the other side being still white and creamy with lather. Hatter*' Strike la Settled. Wabash, Ind., April 7. —Officials of the United Hatters of North America have effected an adjustment of the differences between the Pioneer Hat works and the 300 employes who were thrown out of work when the plant suspended operations one month ago following the refusal of the workmen to accept a reduction in wages. The plant will resume at once as a closed shop, the workmen having accepted the reduction. ”■ tartar* of a Lifetime, Indianapolis, April 7.— Pickpockets secured $1,685 from Daniel Weaver, a teamster who had drawn the sum from a bank to pay for a home. The sum represented the savings of a lifetime. Weaver was Jostled while taking the elevator to go to an office to pay the money and get his deed, and believes the money was taken then. There la no clew. Bmli| of • Sanatorium. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 7.—The Abbot sanatorium, located immediately east of the city, burned, entailing a loss of $35,000; insurance, $20,000. Two adjoining dwellings caught fire from the heat and were burned. Lost, $2,000; partly covered by Insurance. Killed While Creeala* a Track. English, Ind., April 7.—Thomas B. Cummins, Jr., aged 4b years, was run over by a Southern train. He attempted to cross the track to assist *d Wiseman, whose horses had become scared at the train. He leaves A Widow and four children. s,