Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1906 — CLUB HOUSE IS COZY [ARTICLE]

CLUB HOUSE IS COZY

Indianapolis Democrats Provide Themselves with a Place to Take Their Ease. LANDIS IS BUBI OF NOMINATION Preacher Wants to Go to Congrese— Fire la Death to Two Children—State Ntw«. Indianapolis, March I.—Members of the Indiana Democratic club will throw open to their friends their new quarters in the Western Union Telegraph Company building at Meridian street and the Circle tins evening. The second floor of the building has been remodeled for the club and five convenient rooms have been provided. They are fitted In a comfortable fashion to meet the demand that will be made on them. No effort has been made to make the quarters "swell,’’but theyarehomelike and compact, where It will be a pleasure to spend a few sociable hours. Portraits Hang on the Walls. The location being in the central part of the city the club will be more accessible to the membership than it has been heretofore. This was the chief reason for moving downtown. The house committee has spent about $3,000 on the furnishings. On one side of the corridor there is a buffet and card room. Billiard and pool tables have been placed in another room. The reading room is a big. light, Inviting placed. The other room Is a sort of picture gallery in which portraits of departed leaders of the Democracy are displayed. The best picture is one of Thomas A. Hendricks, a full length oil that is very life-like. Preacher Runs for Congress. Richmond, Ind., March I. Rev. Thomas H. Kuhn, pastor of the First Christian church, this city, has issued a formal announcement of his candidacy as representative from the Sixth congressional district, in opposition to James E. Watson, the Republican nominee? Landis Sure to Get There. Noblesville, Ind., Match 1. Hon. Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, present incumbent, will be renominated by the Republicans of the Ninth congressional district at Tipton today. Although it is understood that O. B. Ratcliff, of Covington, will be a canddate in opposition. the programme for the convention has been arranged just the same as if Landis would have a clear Held. OLD LANDMARK DESTROYED Log House Built in 1818 Pulled Down —Scene of Much W’hitecap Deviltry. English, Ind., March 1. The tirst log house In English and long a landmark has been torn away. It was built In 1818 by James Evans, and at one time was the only house in the town. During the whitecap days it is said that more men were dragged out of this Jjullding and whipped than from any other building in southern Indiana. The last man to be whipped was .Tames Sellers, who was dragged across Camp Fork creek, and so mercilessly beaten that he died in a short time. English has now grown to a beautiful village of 1.500 people, with many comfortable homes and all modern conveniences. such as electric lights, waterworks, etc. During the civil war Crawford county furnished more Union soldiers in proportion to population than any other csunty in the state. Newcastle Gets the Epileptics. Indianapolis, March I.—tine of the longest and hardest tights for a state institution has ended' when the three commissioners appointed by Governor Ilanly decided to locate the new Indiana village for epileptics at Newcastle. Tentative selection of 1,0(10.8 acres of land was made, to lie modified slightly as necessity shall arise. The price to be paid is SIOO an acre, so that in all something in excess of sloo,ooo' will be spent for the site of the institution. Weather Too Streaky for Corn. Centerville, Ind., March I.—Farmers In this neighliorhood find that the alternate warm and cold weather is having a bad effect on corn. Much of the thousands of bushels of grain stored is so damp that dealers will not buy It. Half the corn shipped from Fountain City has not gone through properly. Farmers are anxiously aSvftlting warm weather, which will dry the corn sufficiently to make it marketable. Death to Two Children. Terre Haute, Ind.. March I.—Beatrice Osborne, aged 5, was burned to death, and Lizzie Osborne, aged 7. was fatally burned, dying later, by the explosion of a can of gasoline with which they were playing, at Burnett, Ind., eight miles from here. The father l« a coal miner. He was at his work and the mother was Iq Terre Haute shopping at the time of the tragedy. Adults Take Whooping Cough. Princeton, Ind., March I.—Whooping cough is epidemic in this city, there being several hundred cases reported. The public school attendance has been depleted two-thirds on account of the disease. A peculiar part of the epidemic Is, that many adults are sufferlog from it.