Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Item* of Interest to City and Country Readers. r Corn, 47c; oats 35c. Dr. English is driving a new •"Rio” automobile. St. Joseph’s College band played at Lafayette the 4th. Miss Maude Lally Reed of Rushville, spent the 4th with relatives here. H. Ritchey spent the 4th *wxb his daughter at Traverse City, Mich. Dr. Miller took Mrs. Wm. Miller to a Chicago hospital for treatjnent Thursday. \Mjsß Jessie Knox left Thursday lona sojourn of two months durationXt Winona Lake. Wm, Merica, Sr., of Delphi, is visiting his son William and family, on South Scott street. Kentland Enterprise: Mr. and Mrs. Angus Washburn are taking a trip through Kansas and Oklahoma. ■ G. Warren was thrown from a*wagon Monday by his horse running away and three ribs were broken. .zSlr. and Mrs. J. J. Hunt spent •'Sunday with the family of the former’s brother, L. L. Hunt, at Lowell. There will be preaching services at the First M. P. church to-mor-row at 3 p. m., by the pastor Rev. Edward Day. Miss Pearl Brogden, formerly of this city, but now of near Francesville, visited friends here Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Arthur Halstead of Twelve Mile, Cass county, and two sons, Newton and Frank, are visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. O. Cline. It is again rumored that a new democratic paper is to be started at Morocco, with our old friend Sidney Schanlaub at the editorial helm. S. C. Robinson is at Tuszcola; 111., helping care for his brother-in-law, Dr. Albert Overton, who is very sick with typhoid fever.

“Battling Nelson,” the champion light-weight fighter of the world, of Hegewisch, 111., accompanied by his father, visited J. H. Conway at Pajr Thursday. . Healy and eleven members of/ Co. M left yesterday to attend the annual encampment of the I. N. G., at Springfield, 111., as the guests of a Chicago company. New subscribers to The Demcrat during the past two weeks: Momence, 111., 1; Mt. Ayr, 1; Goodland, 1; Medaryville, 1; McCoysburg, 1; Breedsville, Mich., L/ ' J. W. Horton has gone to Colgate, Indian Ter., for a few months stay for the benefit of his health. Jake Wildberg has charge of bis dental parlors during bis absence. Mt. Hope M. P. church held their childrens’ day exercises last Sunday afternoon. A fine grsm was rendered. A collection of 112 26 was taken up for Foreign Missions. Medaryville Advertiser: The jury in the case of Bessie Cronin vs. Dr. Jones, which was heard at Valparaiso Wednesday and Thursday, found the defendant not guilty,of libel. Sternberg dredge has passed the Burk bridge and will soon be down to the Pullins bridge, where the mammoth new dredge will take up the work and push it on down through Rensselaer.

Mrs. Shivly and Clande Kious of Brookston, spent the 4th with their sister, Mrs. Charles Slaughter, south of town. MisS Ida Slaughter returned home with them Thursday for a short visit. urJKhg law firm of Hershtnan & has dissolved partnership and the business will be continued by Mr, Hershman. Mr. Hodges will probably move to some larger town in a few weeks. v£"Tffstead of joining his family on outing in Michigan, E. L. Hollingsworth was called to Desna oi nee, lowa, Tuesday by the serious condition of his uncle, Louis Hollingsworth, who was stricken with paralysis. Mrs. Joseph Sharp, who has been confined to her bed with sickness for the last two months, caused from a tumor or cancer of the stomach, for which she was twice operated on, is gradually failing and no hopes are of her recovery. She is liable to die at most any time or may live some •weeks yet.

See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans. 4-Miss Stella Shaady of Elkhart, ij visiting her sister, Mrs. David Yeoman, Jr., of Union tp. Fred Miller is still quite sick from appendicitis and it is not known whether an operation will be necessary or not. Prices talk and I make the prices so low that you can not help but buy, because lam determined to quit the clothing business. Louis Wildberg. Mrs. Isabel Hurley, recently married to Robert M. Hurley of Barkley tp, has left her husband and moved back to Rensselaer. She alleges that be didn’t treat her children well.

The editor of The Democrat leaves this morning op the 4:45 south bound train for his visit in New York state, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. His trip as planned will be of about 3,000 miles, 600 of which is via lake and river, and will occupy two or three wegks. 'VJames Spencer of near Buffalo, /white county, was the guest of JS. S. Bates and family over the 4th. Mr. Spencer was a resident of Rensselaer a half century ago and was the editor of the Rensselaer Gazette for some time. He learned the printer’s trade in the old Jasper Banner office, beginning in 1854.. ‘ Fowler Leader: On Wednesday Theodore Hoss commenced to feed his cattle in the pasture. This is something that he never did before at this time of the year. It if doubtful if this country was ever so dry in June as now. While the corn is looking well, the oats can not make more than a half of a crop, and the meadows are very short.

An exchange tells of a newspaper reporter who interviewed thirty successful business men and found that all of them when boys had been governed strictly and frequently thrashed. He also interviewd thirty loafers and found that twenty-seven of them had been “mamma’s darling,” and the other three had been reared by their grandmothers. rJsy W. Williams left Thursday tor East Hampton, N. ¥., where he has a sister residing and where a family reunion will be held. He will be joined at Cleveland, Ohio, by his two brothers and they will make the trip from there together. They will visit New York City, Long Island and other points. Mr. Williams expects to be gone about two weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. John Eger and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eger spent Sunday at their farm, the former McCoy land near Fair Oaks. John brought back with him a handful of oats clipped from one of their oat fields that were about 3| feet tall. It is suspicioned that be got these from the tallest clump he couid find in the field, but, in any event, it wouldn’t do to show this sample to “Old Mao” or his attorneys. Cards have been received here .from Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Stoner or Wichita, Kan., announcing the marriage of their daughter, Miss Louie Gertrude Stoner, to Mr. Frank Pierce Windsor, to take place at the hotpe of the bride’s parents at * 405 South Market street, Wichita, Kau,, on Thursday evening, July 19, at 8:20 o’clock* They will be “at home” after Sept 1, at Claflin, Kan. The many friends of Miss Louie here extend advance congratulations.

In another column will be fonnd the advertisement of Prof. Joseph Bannach, teacher of music. The Herr Baunach studied under the best teachers in Munich and Berlin, and of late was a member of faculty of St. Joseph’s College, Collegeville, Ind. He withdrew from the college to give his time and attention exclusively to independent study and practice in the work for which he is so well fitted. His success has been very marked since locating in Rensselaer, be having a goodly number of pupils in both vocal and instrumental music.

Arthur Craig, a young man from Newland, became overloaded with corn juice here Saturday. When pulled before the Squire he claimed to be but 18 years of age, and said he got his liquor at “Strick’s place” of Frank Kennell, the bartender, and also of Fritz Mecklenburg, the bartender at Cooney Kellner’s. He filed an affidavit against Kennell for selling to a minor and the latter came up and plead guilty and was fined S2O and costs $29.40 all told. It is reported that the young fellow represented to some of those who s< Id him drinks that he was over 21, as his appearance indicated.

In spite of the big sale of suits we baa, we still have the choicest and newest styles left. The Ideal. Among the former Rensselaer residents visiting here this week, many of whom were drawn here at this time by ths celebration, are: Mrs. 0. A. Radcliff of Cincinnati; Monroe Banes and son Cecil, and Mr* and Mrs. J. W. Paxton, of South Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Robinson of Benton county; Jas. Spencer of Monticello; Mrs. T. J. Sayler and daughter Florence of Lamar, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sbane, Miss Mary Washburn, Miss Nellie Smith, J. E. Kohler and several others from Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Downs of Wichita, Kan; J. D. Babcock of Bluffton; B. F. Coen of Oconto, Wis.; Mrs. Geo. Kimberlin of Siddell, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson of Connersville; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mauckof Anderson. Commencing July 9th, the rural mail carriers out of Rensselaer, under orders received a few days ago from the postoffice department, will not leave Rensselaer until 8 a. m , instead of 7 as formerly. This, we believe, is a good change, for it will thus give them the milk train mail for distribution over their routes the same day. But another order that is not so good is that requiring them to be back at the postoffice here at 3 p. m., making their trips seven hours long. Unless good roads are provided for the carriers it will be impossible forthem to make their drives within the prescribed time, and some of the carriers will no doubt throw up their jobs when the bad road season begins. It behooves the road supervisors and patrons of the routes to see to it that the roads in their locality are placed in the best possible trim, or they may lose rural delivery altogether.

AS VIEWED BY HARMSWORTH

English Business Men Are Too Stupid to Go Into Trust Schemes, the Editor Says. New York, July 6.—Lord Northcliffe, better known as Sir Alfred Harmsworth, the publisher, has arrived to visit forest tracks In Newfoundland! which the Harmsworth corporation has obtained from the colonial government for the manufacture of paper pulp for its publications. Of insurance matters Lord Northcliffe said: “I don’t believe American companies remaining in England, unless they pue up a surplus sufficient to meet their claims, will be able to do business.” “Do you have a paper trust in England?” he was asked. “We don’t have any trust at all,” said he. “No trusts. John Dull is so stupid that he won’t have any trusts. Say that Say those very words.”

“Tama Jim” Is Coming West.

Washington, July 6. Secretary Wilson tomorrow will start for Chicago, where he will confer with government meat inspectors In the various packing houses there with a view to forming uniform organizations and regulations to carry into effect the new inspection law.

Mrs. James Tanner Buried.

Washington, July 6. —The funeral of Mrs. Tanner, wife of the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, who was killed in an automobile accident at Helena. Mont., i-t week, was held here and her body was Interred in the national cemetery at Ilngton.

Mortgage on a Coal Company.

Terre Haute, Ind.. July 5. The Indiana Southern Coal company has filed with the county recorder a mortgage for $1,500,000 to cover a bond issue. The mortgage is in favor of the Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago, and Is for fifteen years. The purpose is to enable the company to increase its business and extend its t*.tidings. The property Involved Includes eleven mines in Vigo, Sullivan ami Greene counties with 3,195 acres of land and 9.061 acres leased. Gambling Devices Torn Out. West Baden Springs, Ind., July 5. Officers representing the state have begun tearing out the gambling devices at the casinos of the West Baden and Fernch Lick Springs hotels. The paraphernalia filled two large freight cars, and will be taken to Paoli and placed in the custody of the sheriff of this county. No raid was made at the Colonial hotel. Shot fbr Resisting Arrest. Vevay, Ind.. July s.—ln the presence of over 1,000 persons assembled to witness a ball game at Patriot. Ind., seven miles from here, Marshal Jacob Smith fcliot and fatally injured Charles Sutton, 30 years old, of Steele's Bottom, Ky. It is said that Sutton was resisting arrest. Badly Bitten by a Dog, Bedford, Ind., July 5. —Mrs. Schuyler Fox attempted to part two fighting dogs, one of which was her own, and in doing so the strange dog fastened its teeth in her arm near the elbow, and she was badly bitten before she could beat the animal off. Murder Over a Board Bill. New Harmony, Ind., July s.—David Alsop, aged 44 years, was shot and instantly killed in a saloon here by Newton Grady. The men had a dispute over a settlement of a board bid. Grady waa arrested.

AWFUL DISASTER IN GREAT BRITAIN

Twenty - Three Passenger Tourists and Four Trainmen Are Killed. " 1 "'"■"y 1 ' LOCOMOTIVE JUMPS THE TRACK Nearly All the Dead Travelers to Europe from the United States. LUCKY DELAY ON TEN OCEAN Otherwise the Roll of Dead Have Been Much Longer Dozen Wounded—Names of Victims. Salisbury, England, July 2. Driving at a mad pace over the London Southwestern railway the American line express, carrying forty-three of the steamer New York’s passengers from Plymouth to London, plunged from the track Just after passing the station here at 1:57 a. m. yesterday and mangled to death in its wreckage twenty-three passengers who sailed brom New York June 23. and four of the trainmen. Besides those to whom death came speedily a dozen persons were injured, some of them seriously. Names of Those Who Died. Following is the list of the first cabin passengers, dead: Walter Barwick, of Toronto, Ont.: Louis Cassier, of Trumbull, Conn.; Frederick Henry Cossltt, of New York:Mrs. C. W. Elphicke, of Chicago; Dudley P. Harding, Mrs. L. N. Hitchcock and Miss Mary F. Howieson—all of New York; Rev. E. L. King, of Toronto, Ont; Frank W. Koch, of Allentown, Pa.; John E. McDonald and C. F. McMeekin, of New York: C. A. Ptpon, of Toronto, Ont.; Mrs. E. W. Sentell, Miss Blanche M. Sentell and Miss Gertrude M. Sentell, —all of New York; Mrs. Walter W. Smith, Miss Eleanor Smith and Gerard Smith —all of Dayton, O.; Mrs. Lillies Hurad Waite and Chas. E. Sentell, of New York. Second cabin passengers— Louis Goepplnger, Jules Keeler, William H. Thompson. Names of the Injured. The following are the first cabin passengers injured: G. H. V. Allen, of New York; Robert S. Critchell, Chicago; Miss I. S. Griswold; Miss M. Hitchcock, of New York; Mrs. Koch, Allentown, Pa.; Miss Anna E. Koch, Allentown. Pa.; G. 11. V. Allen, Fairhaven, Vt.; E. W. Eentell, New York. Second I cabin passengers—Miss M. Rask.

DELAY SAVES NUMEROUS LIVES

Night Ride Deters Many from Boarding the 111-Fated Train. The late hour of the New York’s arrival at Plymouth saved many lives. She carried more than sixty travelers for London, but many of them elected to travel on comfortably to Southampton in preference to the late landing at Plymouth and the long night ride across the country. If the New York had made a faster passage the somber roster of the dead and injured would have been longer. The big American line steamer reached Plymouth at 9:35 o’clock Saturday night, and half an hour later there was a tender alongside to receive passengers for England. Several who had planned to debark and packed their baggage decided at the last moment to remain aboard. It was a fateful decision, though not dictated by any fear.

The run across the Atlantic had been pleasant. There were cheery partings when the passengers for London transferred to the waiting tender, which steamed for the Devon|*ort landing, where the express was lying made up. The train consisted of a powerful express engine, three first-class corridor carriages and one combination guard’s van and buffet. The passengers were soon entrained and at 11:30 the express pulled out. It was given a clear track on the run of 230 miles to London, on which the express generally maintains an average speed of a mile a minute. Driver Robins quickly gave the en glne her head and the special was soon speeding swiftly through the night. It ran on safely and without incident until it entered the long railway yard at Salisbury, when the passengers noted that the coaches began swaying from side to side. Suddenly at the end of the long platform, when the track begins to curve towards the bridge spanning Fisherton street, the main avenue of the city, the engine, seemed fairly to leap from the track. It swung across the adjoining track with terrific force and destroyed the guards’ van of a milk train that was slowly steaming in the opposite direction, killing a guard. Lurching forward the locomotive plunged against the standards and girders of the bridge. The bridge withstood the Impact, and rebounding the engine crashed into another engine which was standing on a siding and overturned. The wreckagc of the two engines interlocked in a great broken mass of twisted steel and Iron. Throughout the wild plunging of the engine Driver Robins, whether alive or dead, remained in his cab. Hour* afterward his charred laxly was found grilled over the firebox. The first coach shot over the engine, and careened onward until It was hurled against the parapet of. the bridge and smashed into fragments, killing or maiming almost every occu-

pant One man was shot through the window, cleared the parapet and fell to his death to the street below. The second coach lurched forward and rolled towards a stationary train and practically destroyed' itself before its wild flight was ended. The third coach dashed forward with the rest, left the rails and encountered some obstruction, overturned and collapsed. The guards* van and buffet, the rearmost car of the train, was saved by the courage and quickness of Guard Richardson. With the first shock Richardson jumped forward and set the brakes and saved himself and his comrades. The van ploughed forward, in-' jurlng some of its occupants, but practically maintained its equilibrium.

CYCLONE WRECKS BIG CIRCUS TENT

Huge Canvas Is Hurled on the Heads of Ten Thousand People. Aurora, 111., July 2.—ln one of the severest cyclones ever experienced in Fox river valley the three-ringed tent of the Ringling Bros.’ circus collapsed in the driving park here late in the afternoon during a performance. A panic followed, in which two persons lost their lives and seven others were injured severely. Forty elephants, performing at the time in the arena, became frightened and the attendants had difficulty in preventing them from stampeding. They were corraled, however, and with whip and prodder restrained in their quarters until the storm subsided. The dead: Matthew Bury, Aurora, struck by a falling tent pole and trampled by the crowd; William Cress, Geneva, died from heart disease, due to the shock. The injured: J. Abel, circus performer, hip dislocated; Mrs. Bertha Freeman. Geneva, cut and bruised; John Kehoe, circus performer, shoulder dislocated: John Ray, Aurora, ambulance driver, burned by live wire while engaged In rescue work; Mrs. Sharping. Shabbona, bruised and suffering from shock; Mrs. Stanfield, Shabbona, cut and bruised; Joseph Williams. Aurora, policeman, cut and bruised while engaged in rescue work.

KANSAS POPULISTS MEET

They Name a Full State Ticket, and Congratulate Themselves on Old-Party Progress. Topeka. Kan., July s.—The Populist state convention nominated a full ticket, including the following: Governor, Horace-Keefer, of Leavenworth: lieutenant governor, Joseph A. Wright, of Smith county; secretary of state, Robert Heiserman, of Riley; treasurer. D. C. Kay.of Graham: attorney general, G. H. Bajjey, of Jewell; superintendent of public instruction. D. O. Kemphill, of Norton; auditor, E. C. Fowler, of Shawnee. The convention was not well attended. Most of the afternoon session was taken up by discussion of the wisdom of nominating a full state ticket. Of late years the Populists and Democrats have fused on state ticket. Those who spoke did not fail to congratulate Populism that both Republican and Democratic parties were coming the Populistic way.

Mutiny Among Turkish Soldiers.

Hodeida, Turkish Arabia. July 2. i Another mutiny has broken out among the Turkish army reserves, serving in Yemen province. Sixteen batallions demanded that they be repatriated and ■ the commander in chief, Marshal Feizi ! Pasha, ordered the forts to open fire on the mutineers, who surrendered after a few hundred of them had been killed. The rebel Aral* forces are advancing on Amran and an important engagement is reported to have been fought, both sides sustaining heavy i losses.

Attorneys Sentenced to Jail.

Toledo. 0.. July 3.—Judge Kinkade, of the common pleas court, who recently sentenced the ice men to the workhouse. sentenced Attorney Thomas H. Tracy and Clarence Brown to ten days each in the county Jail and Alexander Smith, another attorney, to pay a fine of $250 for contempt of court in filing a motion charging the Judge with misconduct in the trial of the ice men. The three men sentenced are the most prominent attorneys at the Toledo bar.

Corperal Tanner's Wife Killed.

Helena, Mont.. July 2.—Mrs. James Tanner, wife of the commander-in-chlef of the Grand Army of the Republic, was killed here in an automobile accident. Commander Tanner immediately" announced the cancellation of his western dates. Including Butte, Spokane. Tacoma and Seattle. He will return east with the body. The funeral will be hold in Washington. Hits the Railway Unions. Cleveland, 0., July 2.—Grand Chief W. 8. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, referring to the effectsof the railroad rate bill,said: "Under the provisions of the law officers of railroad labor organizations are deprived of free tran«|»ortatlon, which they have hitherto enjoyed.” He said it wonld cost the order $25,000 a year.

Six Hundred Natives Killed.

Pietermaritzburg. July 4.—Transvaal volunteers defeated a force of 2,000 natives near Noodsberg, killing 600 and losing one killed and two wounded. Thenatlves showed amazing courage, charging repeatedly in the face of a terrible fire.

OUGHT TO HOLD THEM

Both Parties Claiming the Terre Haute Mayor's Chair Are Now Enjoined. BIDAMAN’S ORDER IS TO STAND Meanwhile the Council Has Bidamau Restrained Gambling Apparatus at West Baden. Terre Haute, Ind., July s.—Mayor Edwin J. Bidaman took a change of venue front Judge Piety in the restraining order case and asked for a trial at once. Elmer F. Williams, a Democratic lawyer, was appointed special judge by Judge Piety. In his affidavit asking for a change of venua from Judge Piety, Mayor Bidaman says he cannot have a fair trial, because of Judge Piety’s bias and prejudice against the defendant. Argument, for Bidaman. There was a good-sized crowd in ths court room w T hen Acting Judge Williams took his seat. Ira H. Davis, representing City Controller Buckingham. asked that the temporary injunction be dissolved for the reason that the circuit court does not have jurisdiction to restrain a public officer from performing the duties and functions of his office. Louis Reichman, Bidaman’s attorney, made a long argument, consisting mostly of the reading of authorities to show that, while the court cannot restrain an officer from doing his duty, the court can restrain a public officer who is doing an unlawful act—who is violating the law. Judge Promises Quick Action/ Davis said the court could not pass at this time on the question of title to the office. All he asked was that that part of the injunction restraining Mr. Buckingham from performing the duties of his office be dissolved. Acting Judge Williams said he realized that ’this is a case of considerable importance not only to the persons interested, but to the whole people, and should be passed on as soon as possible. He notified the attorneys that he would pass on the motion to dissolve the injunction in the afternoon. Both Men Are Threatened.

When court convened in the after* noon Judge Williams refused to dissolve the restraining order, so Buckingham continues restrained. Then the council hearing that Bidaman was going to hold office by force, if necessary, obtained an injunction from Judge Stimson restraining Bidaman from interfering in any manner with the council. So that is the situation now. SUIT IS A FRIENDLY ONE Receiver Appointed for the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company to Benefit Creditors. Indianapolis, July 5. Charles L. Henry, president of the Indianapollst and Cincinnati Traction company, now operating seventy miles of interurban electric lines out of this city, has l*een appointed receiver of the company by Judge Carter, of the Marion county superior court, on application of W. M. Frazee, a stockholder living at Rushville. It is aleged that the company is unable to meet an outstanding indebtedness of $500,000, but as the assets are tn excess of the liabilities creditors will be given greater protection by a recel verslilp. The receiver's bond Is SIOO,000. It is announced that the action for the receivership is a friendly suit, brought for the purpose of expediting the readjustment of the company ** finances.

The Sammer Calves. Under circumstances which ordinarily prevail the summer calf fares less well than the one born in late fall or winter, writes a correspondent of National Stockman. The winter calf has hay. grain and his regular ration of milk. Too often the hot weather calf has scanty pasturage and milk alone. For the first month or two milk itself is sufficient, but after that time something more is needed. If grass is abundant that and the milk will develop the animal fairly well, but it would be better to add some wheat bran or ground oats to the ration, beginning with a small handful and increasing the quantity as growth seems to indicate.

Pat Bralna lata F*rnla(. Make farming a business. Put brains and money into its management, with the expectation that It will return a , profit. To run a farm in a half hearted way, being afraid to make improvements or apply fertilizing material In sufficient quantities for fear it will not pay, is a sure way of having one's fears realized, while if the effort is made to build up the farm by making It better year by year it is pretty sure to be a success. Hnndlinir Dacki. Never try to catch the ducks by the legs. Pick them up by the head or neck. Do not choke them, but carry them carefully. In this way you will not Injure them. Dry lime Is more of an Injury thaa a t>enefit to water fowls. Ducks especially dislike It and cease to thrive if It Is cast about their living quarters to any extent.—Feather. Take Care at Manure. Thousands of tons of fertilizer ara wasted annually by trying to grow new barns from manure thrown against barns built In the ordinary way. Take care of manure. It la valuable.—American Agriculturist.