Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1906 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL? Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. . Corn, 45c; oats 31c. '"'■iMiss Tillie Ramp is visiting in Kentland this week. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Virgie, 1: Tefft, 2. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Washburn of Kentland spent Sunday here, returning home Tuesday. Make your preparations to spend the 4th in Rensselaer this year and you’ll not be disappointed. NLHenry Hildebrand came down from Chicago Monday to vote for the salary grab of the city council. < James D. Babcock, now of Wells county, was looking .after business matters here the first of the week. Ramp is out on the road in the interests of a Catholic]publication and is now traveling up in Wisconsin. "Mrs. F. L. Yeoman and baby of Hibbard, Ind., are here for a two weeks visit with her father, W. L. Bringle of Newton tp. Mrs. John Pullins, Sr„ of Barkhas been quite sick for the past three weeks but is some better at this writing.

Mrs. Joseph Yeoman has been quite sick for the past two weeks with congestion of the liver. She is reported better at this writing. The fifteenth annual convention of the Rensselaer district of the Christian Endeavor Union will be held at Ambia next week, June 56. Rev. Edward Day of Monon will hold services at Rose Bud Sunday morning. Childrens’ Day exercises will be held at Rose Bud at night. (rG, A. Strickfaden on Monday traded bis restaurant on South Van Rensselaer street to Hascall Bros, of Remington for a business lot in said town. The Democrat acknowledges an invitation to attend the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Rev. Augustine Seifert, C. PP. 8., President of St. Joseph’s College, June 19. I. A. Glazebrook has gone to Putnam county, her old home, for a two months visit. Miss Ara Glazebrook has already been down there about a month and will remain most of the summer. Squire James Yeoman of Newton tp., has been quite sick at the home of his son-in-law John McColly on Front street for the past ten days with a kidney or bladder trouble. At this writing he is some better. Constance Adams and Freda Kohler will leave to-morrow for a few days visit with relatives in Chicago Heights, after which the former will leave for St. Cloud, Minn., to spend the summer with her brother there. W. O. Scbanlaub of the Morocco schools came over Friday and spent several days with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub. He will go to Valparaiso June 12th to resume his studies at the University there. A. Cards are announcing the coming nuptials of Mr. Frank M, Haskell, of Rensselaer, and Miss Elvia Alice Gwin, to take place at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin, near Pleasant Ridge, on Tuesday, June 12, at 8 p. m.

and Mrs. Geo. Mustard, of "Wabash, are visiting relatives here this week. Only four ticketslwere sold here Sunday for the Indianapolis excursion. Mrs. Edwin Williams of Kansas City, is visiting her brother, James Flynn, of this city. —tMts. James Cowden and son-in-hjw, Manly Burk, of Logansport, are visiting friends here this week. Prof. Michael of Lafayette, a former resident of Rensselaer, got caught for S4OO or $450 on the Alberta, Canada, land deal of U. B. Kellogg et at.

The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer ia the beet paper published in the country for news. Leave vour order at Cox’s for a Sunday Enquirer delivered at your door.

The limit of salary for councilmen in cities up to 10,OCX) population is $100; the population of Rensselaer is 2,300 and its council voted themselves a salary of SBO a year. Comment is unnceessary.

Miss Maude Allen, for the past three years teacher of Latin and German in our city schools, left for her home in Y'psilanti, last Friday, and next Saturday expects to sail from New York for a few months’ trip to Europe.

Mrs. Thomas J. Ryan of Delphi and son Joe and daughter bailie, and Miss Ella Ryan of Logansport will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan next week. Mrs. Honan will entertain at cards Tuesday afternoon and give a luncheon Thursday in their honor.

There are now four steam drills at work just south of the Washington street bridge on the Iroquois ditch rock. Two others are at work near the Padgett bridge, and from the headway made it would seem that the drilling ought to be completed in a couple of months more at least.

The Monticello Baptist associations! Sunday School convention will convene with the First Baptist church Rensselaer, Ind., June 4, at 10:30 a. m. Rev. S. H. Huffman, State Superintendent, will be present to conduct the meetings. All are invited to be present.

The marriage license applications of 8. R. Nichols and Mrs. Hettie Reynolds are not on file in the clerk’s office and no record of them made. For that reason we were unable to give the age of tne bride in last week’s Democrat. From heiesay sources, however, we understand it to be 60 years, the same as that of the groom.

Last Friday afternoon a young cyclone visited the section of the country about Sharon, a few miles south of Rensselaer, and a double corn crib was blown to pieces on Mrs. Sophia Chilcote’s farm, a barn on Mrs. Peuwright’s farm, Charles Slaughter’s barn unroofed, barn of Mrs. Gish upset, some windmills blown down and trees uprooted, etc. The storm was accompanied by hail and a heavy downpour of rain. We want to call attention of the voters and taxpayers of Rensselaer to the fact that Councilman Gerber of the third ward voted against the outrageous salary grab of the city council Monday night. Mr. Gerber showed his usual good sense and regard for the taxpayers by voting against this proposition, and he should be commended for his action. \ye believe his vote will continue bn the right side of all questions that arise during his term of office.

XG. A. Williams delivered the Decoration day address at Demptte. pM-iss Ethel Perkins has been emgaged to teach the 7th grade in the city schools. / Geo. F. Meyers will go to the springs near Attica Monday for a rew weeks treatment. ;\Zj. H. Cox has bought C. H. Vick’s daily newspaper business and is now the whole thing in the newsdealer line in the city. Grant Warner is making some extensive improvements to his residence on Front street, by adding another story and a large porch. Read the Racket Store’s page ad in another part of this paper, and remember that the special enamel ware sale is today and next Saturday. The Ladies of the Christian Church of Valma will give an icecream and strawberry social on Saturday evening, June 9, at Wm. Bennett’s, on the W. R. Brown farm. Everybody invited. /Themes Lefler, Charley Bussel, Mrs. Mary E. Lowe and Mrs. Tillie Jacks left Tuesday for northern Wisconsin, where the latter will probably remain for the summer for the benefit of her health.

Regular preaching service at Barkley M. E. church Sunday morning. Subject, “Capital.” Sunday school every Sunday 10 a. m.; Epworth League 7 p. m. Everyone is invited to these services. A Newton county prisoner by the name of Atwood, from Roselawn, is the only occupant of our jail at present. He is charged with cruelty to animals, in whipping and over-driving a livery horse. XJj. W. Hunt and family, who passed through the earthquake at Sant Cruz, Cali., where they had recently located, have returned and are now visiting relatives in this county. They will not return to the “quake” country.

It is the intention of the delegates to the democratic state convention from Rensselaer and vicinity to go down to Indianapolis next Wednesday on the 2.-04 p. m., train. Delegates and others from Remington and vicinity who expect to attend the convention can join the Rensselaer crowd at Monticello, while the north end delegates can come here on the 11 a. tn., train and join the Rensselaer delegates here.

Mrs. Lucinda Monnett, aged 65 years, died at her home on the Range Line road at the west side of town Tuesday morning, after a sickness of several days of peritonitis. She had been in poor health, however, for a long time. She leaves a brother, Fletcher Monnett of Evanston, 111., and two sisters, Cordelia and Elmira Monnett of this city. The funeral was held at 2:30 p. m., Thursday and interment made in Weston cemetery.

Memorial day was observed in Rensselaer in about the usual manner. The rain in the early part of the day no doubt kept many country people from town, but there was a reasonably good crowd out in the afternoon. The procession was formed at the public square at 2 p. m., composed of St. Joseph’s College cadets, Company M., I. O. (). F, Uniform Rank K. of P., members of the G. A. R., and citizens, and headed by the Rensselaer band marched to Weeton cemetery and decorated the graves of departed soldiers. The oration was at the cemetery and was delivered by W. H. Parkison. During the afternoon exercises the business houses were closed.

Theodore Phillips, ex-trustee of Gillam tp., writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Medaryville to Ellinwood, Kan. He says: “Left Lafayette the 21st at 2 p. m., and arrived at Ellinwood Tuesday at 6p. m. Traveled through Indiana and Illinois in day time; was about three hours in Missouri, and 300 miles in Kansas by daylight. The first three states were needing rain badly. In Illinois farmers were plowing up their oats and planting the fields to corn. The hay crop is a failure there; wheat looked tolerably well in the first named states but the acreage is small. After we left Kansas City we found crops ever so much better; wheat will make an average crop, corn is in fine shape and some of it eight inches high. Potatoes look well and the acreage is large. Alfalfa is good and farmers are now putting %p the first crop; they expect three crops a year of alfalfa. Please send The Democrat to Ellinwood until further notice.”

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. —o — Tne county board of equalization will meet next Monday to hear complaints. —o — Six marriage licenses were issued last month, against 4 for the month previous and 6 for May, 1905. —o— . A decision handed down recently by the appellate court holds that on Labor other legal holidays of the state, saloons must be kept closed the same as on Sunday. The saloons in Rensno doubt through a misunderstanding of the law, remained open Memorial day, which is a legal holiday and is included in the prohibition decision of the court, we understand. —o — Marriage licenses issued: May 2G, John M. Dale of Montgomery. Ind., age 27, to Flossie Maye Torbet of Jasper county, aged 17. First marriage for_each. May 28, Lewis Messniger of Rensselaer, aged 19, to Mattie Martin of Rensselaer, aged 17. First marriage for each. May 30, Warren William Zellers, of Fair Oaks, aged 22, to Ida Pearl Mallatt, also of Fair Oaks, aged 19. First marriage for each. May 30, James Elias Davis of Jasper county, aged 21, to lea May Parker, of Jasper county, aged 22. First marriage for each.

TWO-LEGGED COLT FOALED.

A colt having but two legs,*the hind ones, was foaled up in’Union tp., last Friday. The mare foaling the colt was owned by young August Schultz, and we understand that it was perfectly formed and fully developed except that it had no fore legs. We have been unable to see any one from that locality for a complete description of the colt, but it is reported to have been smooth in front where the legs should have been. It lived two days.

PUNCTURED A WATER MAIN.

While drilling near the JWashington street bridge last Friday evening the drillers on the river rock contract punctured the city water main at that point and the west side of the city was without water until Saturday, when the damage was temporarily repaired. It wid be necessary to take up this main when the blasting is being done and it will be suspended underneath the bridge after the rock is removed. There is some talk, also of a new and better bridge here and the moving of the present Jbridge to the street just south of S. P. Thompson’s residence.

NEW THRESHING OUTFIT.

Herman Hordeman has recently purchased a complete Red River Special threshing outfit consisting of 18 H. P. Traction engine, 36x56 Separator, Wind Stacker, SelfFeeder. Mr. Hordeman has spent several months at the factory of the manufacturers, Nichols A Shepard Company, Battle Creek, Michigan, getting thoroughly posted relative to the proper handling of his outfiit so that he is fitted to get the very best results out of it. With his new Red River Special he is now prepared to 'make good |he claims of the manufacturers that it will save enough more of the farmers’ time and grain to pay his thresh bill.

EPWORTH LEAGUE ANNIVERSARY

The anniversary exercises of the Epworth League and the installation of officers will occur at the Trinity M. E. church next Sabbath evening at 7:30 p. m. The following is<the*order of service: V oluntaryCongregat ion PrayerPaator DuetMiraeiiLoia Clift and Grace Warren Reoponelve Reading Solo-Mies Georgia Harr’s Addresses—- " The Meaning of Our Organization Earl Bruner "How We Grow" ..Wallace Miller "The Cup of Cold Water,” Mrs. Stella Duvall "Our MarchingJOrders,” Miss Jessie Knox "Doing All to the Glory of G0d,”.... Mies Grace Nereis Song and Benediction. Pink Lips, like velvet.Kßough. Chapped or Cracked Lips, can be made las soft as velvet by applying at bedtime, a light coating of Dr. Shoop's Green Salve. The effect on the Ups or skin of this mosClexcellent ointment is always immediate land certain. Dr. Shoop's Green Salve takes o itj completely the soreness of cuts, burns, and all skin abrasions. It Is surely alwondetful and most highly satisfactory Cheating In ' glass jars at She. Sold by A. F. Long.

DASTARD HAND HURLS A BOMB

Devilish Attempt to Murder King Alfonso and His Fair Bride. ESCAPE IS NEARLY MIRACULOUS Explosion Takes Place in Front of Their Carriage, Killing Sixteen Persons. ONE VICTIM IS A LITTLE GIRL Another an Old Man of 70 Year*— Deadly Missile la Concealed in a Bouquet One Miscreant Is Captured. Madrid, June I.—-The public rejoicings over the marriage of King Alfonso and Princess Victoria had a terribly .dramatic sequel at 2:30 p. m. when a bomb thrown from an upper wihdow exploded with deadly effect near the coach occupied by the king and queen. Providentially King Alfonso and Queen Victoria escaped by an. electric wire deflecting the bomb, but at least sixteen persons, most of them being of the personal and military escort, aud the others spectators, were killed. Many others were injured. List of the Bed’s Victims. The following are the killed: Captain Barrosa, commanding part of the king’s escort; Lieutenant Reysient; Lieutenant Prendergast; six soldiers; Marquise of Colosa; her daughter; Don Antonio Calvo;his niece (aged 6 years); Jose Sola (70 years of age); Luis Fonseca; royal groom who was leading a horse drawing the coach carrying the king and queen. Several of those killed were standing on the balcony of the house from which the bomb was thrown. Explosion Shook the Building. The explosion occurred just as the royal couple was about to enter the palace. The procession had just passed through Mayor street, and was about to turn into tfig esplanade leading to the palace when an explosion shook the buildings in the vicinity, stunning n large number of people and throwing the cortege into inextricable confusion.

ESCAPED AS BY A MIRACLE People Delirious with Joy When They See Their Sovereigns Safe. The royal coach was brought to a sudden stop by the shock, officers and soldiers of the escort falling to the ground about the equerry and horses that had been killed. The screams of the terrified multitude mingled with the groans of the dying. It was immediately seen that the royal coach was intact, except as it had been damaged by flying splinters. King Alfonso immediately alighted and assisted Victoria out of the carriage. They then entered another coach and were driven swiftly to the palace. All this happened so quickly that people away from the immediate vicinity were not aware of the tragedy that had l>een enacted, and continued to acclaim their sovereigns. Soon, however, there appeared the empty royal coach with two horses missing and tla> others spattered with blood, several of'them bleeding from wounds; the grooms and drivers deathly pale in their spangled uniforms. Then came a boy shouting that a bomb had lxa*n thrown at the king. The appearance of the king ami queen in a coach brought out delirious ovations. The fact was recognized that the sovereigns had be<'n spared. The place from which the lamib was thrown is a boarding house. The chamber from uhlch the missile was burk'd was taken May 22 by a man from Barcelona, giving the name of Manuel Duran. When the police surrounded the house the man attempted to flee, but was captured. Another man twcaped over the roofs of houses. According to an official statement it Is not known whether one or more bombs were thrown. The statement continues that it is impossible to ascertain at present the author of the outrage, although ft is known that a Catalonian manuei Duran took an apartment In the house from which the bomb was thrown May 22, paying in advance with a TOO peseta bill. He was well dressed, of elegant appearance and showed a fondness for flowers.

MANGLED CORPSES IN THE ROAD Horrible Scene Presented—Bomb Concealed in a Bouquet. The scene in the vicinity of the explosion was horrible. As the municipal guards hastily Improvised litters to bear off the mangled corpses dense crowds pressed in upon them, causing indescribable confusion. Soldiers occupied all tlte streets leading to the locality, making It almost Impossible to

reach the spot from a distance. However, the Associated Press correspondent was on t,he scene soon after the explosion, and received an account of the affair from the Duke of Veragua, who was one of the grandees participating in the cortege, and Colonel Rafael de Chagtie. the officer who assisted Queen Victoria as she alighted from her damaged coach to take another. The bomb was thrown from above, striking the ground and exploding not far from the royal carriage. One of the officers of the king’s escort and two soldiers were killed, and one of the horses drawing tlie royal coach was killed, while the injured numbered scores. The bodies of many persons were terribly torn by the force of the explosion. The news of the attempted assassination spread throughout the city witli great rapidity, turning the rejoicings of the populace to awe. The telegraph offices were invaded by struggling masses, but a rigid censorship was instituted. The explosion would not have occurred if the cortege bad followed the route originally planned; but returning it was determined to retrace part of Mayor street and give the people a further opportunity to observe the pageant, it was in front of No. 88 Mayor street that the bomb wits exploded. This is within half a block of the esplanade leading to the royal palace. The bomb, which was concealed In a bouquet. was of polished steel, half a centimetre thick. It was thrown from a third-floor window. The house, according to some reports, belongs to the queen mother, having been Ims queathed to her by a philanthropist, and being the only house she owns in Madrid. The house is opposite the Church of the Sacrament and the captain general’s residence. The royal procession had come to a temporary stop with the royal carriage exactly opposite the house when the bomb was thrown. The missile fell to the right of the royal carriage, between the hindmost pair of horses and the front pair of wheels. The explosion killed two horses and a groom. The Duke of Sotomayor, who riding on the right side of the carriage, was slightly wounded, and four of the soldiers who lined the route followed by the cortege were killed.

AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED Alfonso of Spain and Ena of Battenberg Are Man and Wife, Madrid, June I.—The dastardly attempt on the life of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Eugenia (as she will be called! made the marriage of the two a matter of secondary importance all over Madrid, and prcabaldy elsewhere. The attempt was made, it would seem to come as a horrible cli!»ix to one-of tbe liappb st royal marringes on record, if appearances are not very deceitful. anti was made as the young couple, just married, weie on their way "home."

The wedding took place in the Church of San Jeronimo, with all ths elaborate <-vremonial of the Roman Catholic service. An archbishop officiated. ami the witness's win* representatives of all the royal houses of Europe and special envoys from all the nations of the world. Preceding t.Le wedding was a brilliant cortege which escorted the young couple in separate carriages to the church, in which parade was a large proportion of tho-e w 1 io withesseiT th e~cet r eni'>ny, including the Prince and' Princess of Wales, the United States special envoy, and a magnificent display of military pomp.

The route of the [ranade —Isrth going and coming—was packed with a cheering arid happy ]M>pula<*o. All the world loves a lover and if Alfonso and his bride are not lovers they have played the part to perfection. The Spanish jieoiple are proud of their young king, and they are proud of his bride, and barring the miscreant who threw the bomb and his it would be hard to thiii a man or woman in Spain who doos not visit the young couple everything that is good,

As the wedding ceremony closed King Alfonso embraced bis bride anti her mother. Tills glimpse of domestic tenderness, as well as the democratic touch given by the presence of many jMX>r people in tin* galleries, wlio were there by tile king's request. made the scene an effective one. After the young couple had arrived safely at the palatw they received many congratulations on their miraculous escape. During the afternoon King Alfonso went with his bride to tlie palace chape), where they offered up prayers. As a curious coincidence it is just a year ago yesterday that a bomb was thrown at King Alfonso In Taris.

SCORES AT BASE BALL

Chicago. June 1. Following ara the base ball scores: League: At Pittsburg—St. Louis O, Pittsburg 3; at Cincinnati—Chicago N, Cincinnati 3; at Philadelphia New York 1. Philadelphia 5- eight Innings, rain: at Brooklyn—Boston 0, Brooklyn 1. American: At Boston—Washington 0, Boston 2; at New York—Philadelphia 3. New York 7: nt Itetroit—Chicago 2, Detroit 4: (second game) Chicago 4. Detroit 6; nt Cleveland St. Louis 4. Cleveland 3—eleven inn Inge. Association: At Minneapolis St. Paul 5, Minneapolis 2: at Cohimbna —Louisville 3, Columbus 2 fourteen Innings; nt Kansas City—Milwaukee 4, Kansas City o—seven0 —seven Innings, twin; at Indianapolis—Weather. Western: At Sioux City— 4, Sioux City 3; at Denver—Pueblo \ Denver B; at Des Moines—Lincoln 2, Des Moines 9.