Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — Page 5

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Good woolen Pants at the Ideal from 11.00 to $2.00. They are easily worth double the money. The Kentland Horse Show will be held on September 13, 14 and 15, and a combination sale on the 16. Big reduction on - lace curtains, wash goods, and ready made waists at Rowles & Parker’s clearance sale. The social band of Kniman will give an ice-cream social at the M. E. church in that place Saturday evening, July 29. Come out and assist in a good cause. . A couple of plain drunks were bought over from Newton county Saturday and lodged in jail to keep Sheriff O’Connor from getting lonesome for a few days. Governor Hanly has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of Edward Donahue who was to be hanged yesterday for the murder of Aminter Northrop, near Hobart, in 1904. A move is being made in Monon to remonstrate the saloons out of that town once more, with assured success. There is also a move being made to make Monticello “dry” under the two year law.

Do not forget to attend the Wildberg Clothing Sale. Remember that wool goods of all kinds will be higher than for years the coming season and it is money in your pocket to bay all you can at once. FA horse belonging to Anson Hilton of near Laura, died a few days ago from what is supposed to have been the bite of a rattlesnake. The bite is supposed to have been inflicted on the nose while the horse was grazing. Its head swelled to double its natural size before death ensued. Young Overton, who was injured at Fair Oaks Saturday while trying to board a moving train, an account of which is given in The Democrat’s Fair Oaks correspondence, is getting along nicely and will soon be as good as new, notwithstanding bis hair-breadth escape from 8 terrible death.

W. A. Rinehart, A. McCoy’s son-in-law, with a Mr. Bowen of New York, was here Sunday, apparently looking around to see if there was anything else the McCoys had not laid claim to in their bankruptcy matters. He drove out to McCoysburg and looked over the heavily mortgaged land of his wife’s. • L. H. Hamilton bad a small dog that acted curiously Tuesday and the family thought it was going “mad.” It ran about from place to place, attempting to climb the wall and finally took refuge behind a cupboard, where it was shot. It was thought the dog bit Mr, Hamilton’s horse a short time before it was killed. The Morocco of Auditor Purkey of Newton county withdrew their names a few days ago and he was compelled to file a new bond. The action was Srompted by dissatisfaction with lr. Porkey’s course in the court house contest now waging, which they allege was unfair to Morocco, says the Goodland Herald. The widow of Wm. E. Hawkins is suing the American Tinplate Co., for 110,000 for damages by reason of her husband’s tragic death recently from being scalded in a boiler which be was cleaning. Young Hawkins formerly resided in Rensselaer, but was living in Anderson and had been married less than a week at the time of his death.

An x-ray examination of the injured hip of Mrs. Lilian Nowels McGimsey at the Chicago hospital, where she was taken after her injury near San Pierre last week, which was mentioned in these columns in our last issue, showed there was no fracture, as supposed; that the bip was severely bruised only. This being the case she will soon recover.

Ed Debo of near Remington, has bought R. B. Porter's 80 acre farm on the gravel road, three miles north of town, paying therefor 1110 per acre, also the Mrs Martha Donnelly farm of 176 acies lying along side, for 1100 per acre. He expects to move here and occupy the Porter farm, but will rent the other farm, we understand. Mr. Porter paid 984 per acre for bis farm four years ago. It lays well and is considered a very desirable place. The Donnelly farm is also good land and has been in the family for many years. The sales were made through Charles Dean’s agency.

NJWm. Merica, Sr., of Delphi, is yufiiing his son Billy and family on south Scott street. u Great reduction on everything but thread at the clearance sale of the Chicago Bargain Store. Dell Cooper, aged about 35 years, died at Demotte Monday from consumption, leaving a wife and tour children in indigent circumstances. The ice cream social given at the residence of Miss Dora Thornton Thursday evening for the benefit of the F. W. Baptist church netted over SIO.OO. You can procure deeds, mortgages, mortgage releases, cash or grain rent farm leases, mortgage notes and other legal blanks at The Democrat office. The Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso will hereafter be known as the “University of Valparaiso,” president Brown having incorporated the institution under that name a few days ago. . . That S3OO Chase Piano that The Democrat has been telling about for the past two weeks is now on exhibition in the show window of Rowles & Parker’s dry goods store, on East Washington street. Read the conditions on which it is to be given away in another column. A carload of breakfast food was found to be on fire on a three-I train last Friday soon after leaving Wheatfield, but the train was run on to Demotte where the car was side-tracked and burned to the trucks. The fire is supposed to have caught from sparks from the engine.

~vThe Democrat was favored Thursday with a brief call from Leander Wright of Fowler, Colo., who is visiting his brothers in Newton tp.Mr. Wright left Jasper county 39 years ago, and this is his first visit here since. Of coarse there is scarcely anything that has a familiar look to him now.

fcmong the recent new type faces adcaed to The Democrat’s job department is that of a large font of typewriter type, making it possible to print circular letters that cannot be told from original type-written letters. Prices for this class of work are no more than others charge for work printed in ordinary type.

The Goodland Herald says that the report that Dr. Prougb’s insanity was caused from brooding over money he had lost in the Gilman bank failure, is untrue; that the bank records show that he had no money there. He had shown symptoms of insanity previous to the bank failure, the Herald also states. Someone with neither the fear of God, man nor the devil in his make-up twisted off one panel of the tops oi the iron pickets on the iron fence around H. 0. Harris’ handsome residence one night recently. The work was done on the north panel, at the corner, and it has the appearance of having been done with a heavy pair of pipe tongs. Such acts of vandalism should meet with swift and sure punishment if the miscreat is ever found out,

The Wolcott Enterprise states that Mrs. John Flohr of near that place has left her husband and applied for a divorce. Mrs. Flohr was living in Rensselaer at the time of her marriage to Flohr, under the name of Lewis, which was her first husband’s name. She was married to Flohr last August, he being her third busband. The marriage resulted from an advertisment in The Democrat for a husband by the woman. She alleges cruel treatment. See the ladies’ fine kid shoes, all sizes, was $1.90 to $2.45, now per pair 75c, clearance sale. Chicago Bargain Stork.

GET YOUR LAWN MOWER SHARPENED.

I have just set up in my shop a fine new machihe for sharpening lawn mowers. It does the work to perfection. We also grind all kinds of edge tools, and do saw filing. M. L. Hemphill. Binder Twine at 9 cents a pound, guaranteed to be as good as others ask from 11 to 12 cents for, at ' John Eger’s.

MERICA’S NEW BAKERY.

Being now located in our new and more spacious quarters in the K. of P. building we are better prepared to furnish our patrons with anything to be found in a first-class bakery and restaurant.

Get in on that Piano contest of The Democrat’s.

BILLY MERICA .

WILL NAME DEHART.

Lafayette, Ind., July 16. — Jesse Wilson of Rensselaer, who will succeed M. W. Miller as Assistant Secretary of the Interior September 1, announced in this city to-night that Horace P. Dehart would be appointed as his private secretary on assuming his office. Mr. Dehart is the present private secretary of Mel W. Miller. You can save $ $ at Rowlers & Parker’s mid-summer clearance sale, in everything you need.

INDIANIAN DROWNED IN KANSAS

A card received here by Sheriff O’Connor, Thursday from Beloit, Kan., under date of July 17, says: “James Burnett, aged apparently 17 to 20 years, was drowned here yesterday. -Home supposed to be somewhere in Indiana. If bis people are known to you, please communicate with them and have instructions wired me at once. “T. H. Bracken, Undertaker.” Nothing is known here of anyone by that name. You can get new styles of shoes that wear at Rowles & Parker’s clearance sale.

NOT VERY COMPLIMENTARY.

There is one Brook in this vicinity that has gone dry in spite of the wet weather. It is the town of Brook in Newton county. That bis heretofore been one of the wettest and widest open towns of its size in this region, having four saloons, and they run with but little regard to law and order.—Rensselaer Republican.

Right you are, brother. Now you keep your “Boiler Avenue” females home and we will have a real peaceful town, and some of our married men can get home quite a bit earlier in the evening. —Brook Reporter.

Standard quality table oil cloth, per yard, 12| cents, at the clearance sale, July 10th to 22nd, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

HERE’S THE WEED LAW.

Here is a section of law regulating the cutting of weeds along the highways: Sec. 1. That all land owners through or along whose land publie highways are laid out and extended, shall between the first day of July and the twentieth day of August in each year, cause all briers, thistles, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing along said highways and contiguous to their lands, to be cut down and destroyed for the length and distance the said highway shall extend along or through their land. Best goods you ever purchased for the least money at Rowles A Parker’s clearance sale.

FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY.

An Unsurpassed Program for the Season Opening August ia. Arg. 12, Old Soldiers and S. S. day. Aug. 13, Father Vaughn day. Aug 14, Scientific day. Aug. 15, Dr. Driver day. Aug, 16. Gov. Hanly day. Aug. 17, Athletic day. Aug. 18, Farmers tiay. Aug. 19, Gov. LaFollette day. Aug. 20, Dr. Spurgeon day. Aug. 21, Prof. Krebs day. Aug. 22, Elias Day’s day. Aug. 23, Childrens’ day. Aug. 24, G. R. Wendling day. Aug. 25, Stockho’ders day. Aug. 26, Rally day. Aug. 27, Closing day.

Florsheim shoes for men have no equal for style and wearing qualities, 75c per pair discount for this sale only, July 10 to 22d. Chicago Bargain Store si,ioo Worth Of Feed Just Received. One car Small Grain Wheat, 51.25 per 100 pounds. One mixed oar, Bran, Shorts and Middlings, 91 to 91 20 per 100 pounds. One oar Hominy meal—2s tons extra quality Meal—9lls per 100; per ton 922. A. L. Branch, Prop. 500 samples of E. Z. shoe polish to be given away for an advertisement. Beat in the world. One box to each family. Ask for it, at the Chicago Bargain Store. 10,000 pounds of Binder Twine at 9 cents a pound, guaranteed to be equal to any standard twine on the market or money refunded at

For Rent: —A desirable room for department store, also office rooms and basement at the corner of Washington and Front streets, Rensselaer, Indiana. Baughman & Williams. Ladies’ $3.50 silk capes now 91, all silk taffeta suits was 910.50 to 912.50, now 97.50, July 10 to 22 on clearance sale. Chicago Bargain Store.

Yesterday was the day set for re-selling the Moffirt ditch in Jasper and Newton counties, and quite a number of ditch men were in town. Only three bids were filed, however, ranging from $32,009 to $35,500. Gundrum & Taylor, of Royal Center were the low bidders and were awarded the contract. There is likely to be some litigation over this ditch, unless the former contractors can get together and fix the matter up, as part of it has been dug by the sub-contractor, 8. B. Moffitt. •As now let, the contract is $166 less than the first contract. For Sale:—Good second hand binder, guaranteed, at a bargain. A. L. Branch.

Wednesday night Sheriff O’Connor got a message from Lafayette stating that a man wanted by the police there would pass through here on a stock train going north that night, and giving a good descriptionof him. In company with Constable Vick the sheriff hurried to the depot to land the gentleman. It was then found that the train did not stop here, so an order was got from headquarters to stop the train, and when it arrived a search revealed a man, stealing a ride, who answered the description to the letter. He protested that he had done nothing to be arrested for, but was taken in hand and brought down and landed in jail. The Lafayette authorities were notified that the man was nabhed, and they said to hold him until the next morning, when they would come after him. Before the milk train came in, however, another message from Lafayette ordered the man turned loose, stating that the right party had been arrested there. The fellow was only too glad to be turned loose, but before leaving told the sheriff that he was thankful to have gotten to sleep in a bed and get a good breakfast, the first square meal he had had in three days. He said he was making his. way from Tennessee to Chicago, and had found pretty hard sledding. Wanted:—A reliable middleaged woman as helper in a family of two middle-aged women. Apply at this office.

hiss, But and don’t melt lose pavements hope while next tube winter the it up will climbs drop mercury like The this. The greatest event of the season, the big clearance at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Muly 14, Mr. and Mrs. George McElfresb of Barkley tp., a son. Standard McCormick Binder Twine 10|c per pound at A. L. Branch’s Store. For sale. miles west, S3O. J. M. Helmick & Son. (Aug. 12.) Wheatfield, Ind. Best binder twine made, only 10| cents per pound, at the Chicago Bargain Store. He H»i MB*? Recruit (with young lady on bls arm, meets his sergeant)—Oh, ah, good evenin’, sergeant. This is—er—er—my cousin.

JOHN EGER'S.

MOFFITT DITCH RE-SOLD.

A CASE OE MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

STRIKING THE AVERAGE.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Sergeant (with sardonic smile)— Yea, I know. She was my cousin once. —Aliy Bloper’s. Httttaar Baek. Mrs. am a true daughter of Eve. Mr. Laker—l’d like to know in what way? You can neither cook nor wash dishes. Mrs. Laker—Neither could EJve.— Chicago News. Laeky Deart Mrs. Kidder—Ob, yes. he leads a regular dog's life with her. Miss Oaussip—lndeed? Do you know I suspected she wasn't all that she— Mrs. Kidder—Yes, she's petting and kissing him all the time.—Philadelphia Press.

WAGON BOXES BEST MADE ONLY $15.00 RENSSELAER FEED STORE A. L. Trop.

WASHINGTON LETTER

(Special Correspondence.] The death of Secretary Hay will be felt in one of the enterprises of Washington about which little has been known and which has a distinctly philanthropic aspect. Mr. Hay was one of the moving spirits in the organization of the Washington Housing association, which had for its business the building of comfortable, spacious and modern tenements suited for the crowded sections of the city, where the working classes and those of moderate means have for many years been at the mercy of hard conditions in the peculiar landlord system in vogue in the capital. The society was started by a number of men prominent in official life three years ago. The District government lent its aid to the movement by forbiddlng the use of alley property for tenements.

This served to increase rather than lower rents for the poorer class of people. Then Secretary Hay and several of his friends came into the organization and gave it an impetus by the investment of large sums, which has resulted in the construction in all parts of the city of hundreds of houses planned on the flat system, but with only two stories. The rents are based on a 3 per cent return to the stockholders. This brings the rentals down to about half those charged by real estate agents generally throughout the city. The tenant who takes approved care of the premises receives at the end of every year one month’s rent free.

Mr. Hay invested upward of $1,000,000 in this philanthropic enterprise. He kept his connection with it quiet if not secret, and few knew that it was to his money that, the success of the association was in large measure due. New Naval Herniations. The wearing of swords aboard ship on ordinary occasions has been practically abolished by the new wording of the regulations respecting their use, a woven service revolver belt and revolver taking the place of the sword. It is explained by the department that a sword is an unhandy weapon under modern conditions on board ship or in boats and that it serves no useful purpose on occasions other than those of ceremony. The sword will be worn, however, at ceremonies and at infantry and artillery drills on shore. Navy’s Baa on Foreigners. The regulations governing visitors going aboard vessels under construction have been revised so as to give such permission only to those known to the senior officer present as American citizens of good standing and repute. Visitors representing foreign governments or known to be other than American citizens, it is provided, shall not be permitted to go aboard such vessels except by permission of the navy department and then shall be accompanied by a naval officer on duty at the navy yard or works where the vessel is building.

X»w Medal of Honor. Acting Secretary of War Oliver has issued a description of the new medal of honor. It Is a five pointed star made of silver, heavily electroplated In gold, and has as Its central figure the head of Minerva, sj mbollzing "wisdom and righteous war.” An open laurel wreath enameled In green encircles the star, and the oak leaves at the bases of the prongs of the star are likewise enameled In green. The medal is suspended by a blue silk ribbon spangled with thirteen white stars, representing the original states, and this ribbon Is attached to an eagle supported upon a horizontal bar. Upon the bar appears the word “Valor.” The reverse side of the medal Is en graved with the name of the person honored and the place and date of the service for which awarded. Printing Office Fnrnitnre. Visitors to the government printing office frequently comment on the larg? amount of massive oak furniture scattered through the various branches of the plant, the natural wood finish and neat and serviceable appearance of the pieces attracting particular attention. It is said that no printing office in the world is so completely furnished with working conveniences as the big United States Institution in this city, vfliat is termed the “carpenter shop” being largely responsible for this state of affairs.

What was once a plain everyday carpenter shop has been gradually transformed into a modern manufactory, expert cabinetmakers, finishers, painters, woodworkers and laborers being represented in the establishment under Superintendent A. A. Bundy. Modern machinery Is in use, and the best grades of wood In stock enable them to turn out any article which may be desired In the office in that line. All work Is turned out of the rough lumber.

Carlo Sam’s Meaey. Uncle Sam for the first time In eight years began to count his money on July 1, a job made necessary by the recent change in treasurers. The gold, sliver, currency and bonds approximate >1,300,000,000, and it will take three or four months to complete the task.

About 5,000 tons of coin will be counted. There are >150,000,000 In standard sliver dollars, >8,000,000 In gold coin, >100,000,000 in United States notes held as reserve to replace those now tn circulation when they become unfit for further use, >25,000,000 tn gold certificates held in reserve, >75,000,000 In silver certificates held In reserve, >550,000,000 in bonds held as security for national bank circulation and other minor items, aggregating between >1,200,000,000 and >1,800,000,000. The count eight years ago showed >750,000,000 In the vaults. In the count the coins will be tested by weighing rather than by actual count CARL SCHOFIELD.

VIGO BANK MAY PAY

Looted Concern Still Seems to Have Enough to Satisfy Its Liabilities. HOW ONE OLD MAN WAS BOBBED Also How * Woman Was Robbed In the Hageratnwn Wreck—Fatal Storm-Items. f Terre Haute, Ind., July 20. The report to the government by W. D. Trayer, receiver of the Vigo County National bank, estimates the value of the assets as follows: Goodi, $858,048; doubtful, $203,104; worthless, $68,533. He estimates the bank’s liabilities as follows: Individual deposits, $581,798; public deposits, $264,668; certificates of deposits, $49,103; due to national banks, $33,008; due to other banks and bankers, $7,942 making a total of $936,520. If these assets work out as estimated by the receiver the probabilities are that the liabilities of this bank to creditors will be paid in full without recourse to an assessment of the stockholders.

Arrest of the Kx-Cashier. Presuming that the government made a choice of crimes on which to arrest Conzman, the defaulting cashier, the question with those who know most about the Vigo bank and banking responsibilities generally, is whether the charge preferred against him Is the most serious on which a case could be made. Much has been said of forgeries committed by in signing checks by which he depleted the accounts of depositors and It was supposed he would be accused of forgery, but there Is good authority for saying that no forgery has been found as yet. What Ha Really Did. What he did in the Touhey case was to put a memorandum In the drawer. No name was signed to it. It id true the memorandum was written on a blank check, but it simply said the SI,OOO was drawn “on account of a loan.” It is even doubtful if this will convict Conzman because the contention can be made that the money was taken as a loan. In short, there is a renewal of the comment that “’Gus” Conzman was not as black as painted.

Got *O,OOO of Touhey's Money. Patrick Touhey, who Is 80 years old. was a day laborer until a year or so ago, and lived so frugally that his savings accumulated into thousands. It is said lie lost a thousand or more dollars in the Beach bank failure in 1893. He had deposited in the Vigo bank $9,000. It was not on special deposit. and drew—no —ffiterest. He rarely cheeked out money. From his earnings lie retained enough to pay the living expenses for himself, and no one else depended on his earnings. Since the failure of the bank he learned that $6,000 had been taken from his account by Conzman, for all the memoranda were in Conzman’s handwriting. HER SON’S DEFENSE FUND GONE Ona of the Pathetic Incident* of tho Looting of the Commercial Bank, at Hagerstown. Richmond, Ind., July 20. Five hundred dollars, which Mrs. Knapp had raised through hard effort, for the defense of her son, John Knapp, who is awaiting trial here for murder, was lost in the wreck of thfe Commercial bank at Hagerstown. Knapp stands accused of murdering Geisler, marshal of Hagerstown. He Is now in jail here, and his mother has directed her energies toward procuring enough money to employ attorneys. Mrs. Knapp finally collected SSOO among relatives and placed the money In the Commercial bank with John Bowman, the cashier, who killed himself after looting the bank. The money is gone and Mrs. Knapp is perhaps the most wretched and despairing of the 800 depositors who lost their savings in the institution.

Oae of These India** Fl.h Stories. Evansville, Ind., July 20. Io a large hollow log raised by the snagboat on the Wabash river near New Harmony, Ind., the crew captured a catfish that weighed nearly seventy pounds. The fish was in the log head first and was not discovered until the log had been sawed off. A rope was placed around the fish and It took two men to pull It out. In the log tMth Che fish there were sufficient eggs to fill a five-gallon can.

Fatal Storm la Nothora ladl***. Indianapolis, July 20.—A severe electric storm swept over northern Indiana. At Wabash Calvin McCutcheon, and at Anderson John Ashbaugh, were killed by lightning. The latter's son Clarence, and Clara Douglass, aged 11, are In a critical condition as the result of an electric shock. Ceafuaina of Train Order*. Mount Vernon, Ind., July 20. Coroner Darnell, of this place, has finished his Investigation of the wreck on the Louisville and Nashville railroad here last Saturday, In which four persons were killed and eight Injured. He finds that the wreck was caused by a confusion of train orders. Tee Muoh es a Pointer tor Him. Muncie, Ind., July 20. William is suing for divorce, alleges that his wife “pouts” continuously, and that Spencer, a well-known electrician, who this has worn upon his peace of mind. The court has not yet ruled that “pouting” Is grounds for divorce.