Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of interest to City and Country Readers. L Corn, 46c: oats 28c. Tillie Maichow is attending'normal at Terre Haate. “Tbe Manager of the B. & A.” Watch for opening chapters. Mrs. F. B. Hamm and children are visiting in Champaign, 111. Fountain Park Assembly will open at Remington next Saturday. Mrs. J. F, Warren, of Oklahoma City, Okla., is visiting relatives and old friends here. The biggest bargains in dress silks ever ofiered during the sale at tbe Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Eliza Renicker is reported Suite sick at the home of her son, obn Renicker, in Barkley tp. — ♦ J. J. Brenner is still living although in a critical condition and it U not thought he will recover. returned toßrooklyn, N. Y., after several weeks vacation with rela- - fives here. >Qt is reported that James Willis and Walter Sunderland have taken positions as brakemen on the Lake Erie railroad. New subscribers by postoffices: Remington, 2; Medaryville, 1; McCoysburg, 1; Rensselaer, 1; Tejft, 1; DeMotte 1. /Another excellent rain fell here Saturday night, the heaviest of the three good rains we have had in the past two weeks. Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Kindig of Chicago spent Sunday with former’s brother, Rev. H. L. Kindig and family of this city. Announcement advertisment of The Democrat’s new serial story, “The Manager of the B. & A.” appears elsewhere in this issne. f Dr J. W. Horton was here a few days the first of the week from 'Colgate, Ind. Ter., where he is. now engaged in the dental ousiness. C. C. Starr and daughter Miss Flosse are visiting the former’s half-brother, F. M. White, and other relatives near Battle Ground this week. Out of tbe old rut into tbe new oar new brand White Lilly Brand dour the best flour made. sl.lO per £ barrel at the Chicago BarStore, $sH. Porter and grand-daugh-r, Miss Ethel Shedd, left Monday for a three weeks’ visit at the former’s old home in Walpole, IJew Hampshire. Sherman Warner had his right foot cut off on the elevatad road at Chicago last week on which he was working. He formerly resided in Rensselaer. E. Strong, of Los Angeles, Cali., arrived in the city Monday for an extended visit with his brother, Mr. Lucius Strong, and old friends and neighbors. E. Hershman has moved ois law office from the Murray building into a suite of rooms in the I. O. O. F. building at the north side of the public square. Latest reports from E. B. Yondersmith of Remington are to the effect that he is gradually failing, is unconscious part of the time and is liable to die at any hour. From all accounts farmers hereabouts are getting more oats when they thresh than they had looked for, and it is thought tbe average yield will be above 30 bushels per acre. Lovers of good stories will enloy the new railroad story soon to appear in serial form in The Democrat, entitled "The Manager of the B, &A. Don’t fail tu read the opening chapters. Wm. Kenton returned to his home near Artesian, So. Dak., Tuesday, after a visit with relatives and friends here. He was accompanied by D. M. Worland and Sidney Holmes, who went to prospect a little. Mrs. G. D. Gregory left Wednesday for a three months visit with relatives and friends near Tomkinsville, Monroe oounty, Ky., down near the Tennessee line. Mr. Gregory will join her later for a couple of weeks and aocompany her home. The Wabash excursion to Niagara Falls next Thursday is an excellent opportunity to visit your friends in the east. Read the advertisment elsewhere in this paper and you will find that tbe return limit of tickets can be extended to Monday, Aug. 20.

Charlie Mann, the mail clerk, is reported sick with fever. Miss Hazel MoOolly is visiting Miss Nora Leavel near Lagro, Ind. Miss Pearl Comer is visiting friends, in Indianapolis for a few days. ; ■ ___ Mrs. C. W. Rhoades is visiting her sister. Mrs. Mary Speice, at Ft: Wayne. 1 Greater reduction than ever to August 11th at the Chioago Bargain Store. Mrs. Harry Wemple. of Chicago, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Montgomery. ’ Mrs. Eli Gerber was called to Berwyn, Neb., a few days ago by the sickness of her father. Greater reduction tnan ever on everything to August 11th to make room for new fall stock at .the Chicago Bargain Store. Company M will go to Indianapolis on the early train Monday, August 13, to attend the annual encampment of the I. N. G. C. H. Price returned to wme in Middlesboro, Ky , Wednesday, after visiting relatives in this county for a few weeks. and Mrs. A. E. Deleoust of Fla., are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Halligan, northeast of town. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Boicourt, of Wolcott, are visiting tbe latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Baker, here a few days this week. W. H. H. Graham, a former resident of Rensselaer, died at his home in Indianapolis last SaturSrom cancer of the stomach. v. J. N. Davisson of OklqCity, Okla., returned home Wednesday after a brief visit with his sister, Mrs. Geo. A. Williams, of this city. \*fcshu and James Coovert of Ore’£on; are visiting relatives at Mt. Ayr. They formerly resided in this vicinity and this is their first visit back here for 35 years. s v s li is reported that Eli Arnold’s Barkley tp., yielded 63 binhels to the acre. This is a pretty big one for this season, and will no doubt require an affidavit to be swallowed entirely. Mrs. Roumany Caul, aged 84 years, died at the poor farm Sunday evening. She had been an inmate at the farm for abont two years. Tbe burial took place at Weston cemetery Monday. J. E. Spitler who has been in a hospital at Lafayette for some time, has been removed to the home of his sister in Tipton. He is in a critical condition and can probably live but a short time. Wesley Draper, a young man from Kokomo, employed on the Hanging Grove stone roads, was fined $3 and costs, $10.05 in all, by Squire Bussell, of Hanging Grove, last Saturday for assault and battery on a young man named Willetts. And now it is said-that tbe proposed Chicago. Indianapolis & Evansville railroad, which was to strike the northeast corner of Jasper county, is apparently dead, the company having forfeited some $20,000 in hard cash that it paid for options for its Indianapolis yards and depot.

One of our young high school misses was visiting in the country one day last week. She was standing on the porch in the dusk of the evening when she heard the low, mournful note of a cow. “Just listen to that poor cow,” said she, "mewing for her colt.” At a meeting of the library board Wednesday night Miss Bessie King was reappointed librarian for another year at a salary of S4O per month, an increase of $7 per month over last year. Out of this she is to provide an assistant to keep the library open while she is away to her meals. Mrs. C. A. Roberts was raising money Monday to assist Mrs. John Potts, who now has seven small children to care for, the youngest born last Friday night. Mrs. Potts declined aid ae long as Bhe was able to work Her husband died a few months ago from consumption, leaving her in destitute circumstances. Mrs. Roberts met with good success in her efforts to assist the family. _W. E. Boren and Miss Hattie Eiglesbach have lately resigned as teaohere in the Rensselaer schools, the former to take a position in the schools at Escanaba, Mich., and the latter to —well rnmor says she will soon be married. Miss Tillie Maichow will take Mise Eiglesbaob’s place, bat tbe other position has not been filled at this writing.

Mrs. W. J. Oram of Logansport is visiting relatives here this week Headquarters for Threshing Coal. All grades at Coen & Brady’s. You should buy your fall stock of shoes and clothing now and save 50 per cent at the Chioago Bargain Store. .*•- The six-year-old son of Rev. and|Mrs. M. V. Brown of Miama, Fla., died Thursday, and the remains are. being brought here for burial. Mrs. Brown is a daughter of D. H. Yeoman of this city. V Charley Ulm of Jordan tp., was Sijrested last Thursday on a charge of harboring a fish net, which was found by the officer when making the arrest. He plead guilty to the charge and was fined and costed *533.95. •> JuMvs. W. H. Parkison entertained the members of the Jasper county bar at her home last Friday evening in honor of her husband’s thirtieth birthday anniverversary. A very pleasant time is reported. >. D. T. Lanham’s traction engine through a small bridge in Jordan tp., Wednesday afternoon, near Charles Kessinger’s farm, and it took considerable lifting to extricate it. Not much damage was done to the engine The Rathboae Sisters gave a lawn party at the home of Mrs. George Bell Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs. G. D. Gregory, who left Wednesday night for an extended visit in her old home in Kentucky. An elegant supper was served, at which several of the husbands pf the “Sisters” were present and got in their work in good shape. Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Baughman are now at home in their handsome and practically new residence on North Cullen street which has been remodeled and added to, making a • neat and commodious home. George A. Williams has moved into the Parkison brick house which Mr. Baughman occupied while tbe repairs were being made to his own property. The marriage of Miss Orrie Vanscoy Clark and Joseph Ellsworth Carson, of Lafayette, took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs E, L. Clark, in this city at 3 p. m., Sunday. The Rev. H. L. Kindig, of Trinity M. E. ohurch officiated They will be at home at Lafayette September 1, where the bridegroom is a member of the Carson Drug Company. \Mf. Fred Chapman, the mail cld*k, and -Miss Freda Kohler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, will be united in marriage at the home of the bride’s praents ih this city on next Wednesday, August 8, at Bp. m. Mr. Chapman is a brother of J. H. Chapman in whose office Miss Kohler has been employed as a stenographer for the past four or five years. They will reside in Cincinnati.

Tbe success farmers of Jasper county have had with wheat growing the past few years, and especially this year, will probably resalt in s much larger acreage being sown here this fall. Some of the yields that have been reported to this office from Union township are: Barney Kolhoff, eight acres, 34 bushels to the acre; Amos Alter 15 acres, 32 bushels; Walter Harrington, 6 acres, 30 bushels; Cbas. Pull ins and son, 1,800 bushels, a part of which yielded some 35 bushels to the acre. Manager Ellis, of tbe opera house has an iron-olad contract with Ed Anderson of “The Midnight Flyer” Go., that every piece of soenery carried for this big production will positively be used. This includes the grand illuminated scene, "Brooklyn at Night,” “The Mammoth Ship Scene,” "The Realistic Ship Wreck,” "The Storm at Sea,” "The Adirondack Mountains in Winter” and the thrilling "Raihoad Scene.” With such a contract as this our theatre going people are aaaured a perfect performance in every detail. At opera house on Monday, Aug. 6. An exchange saya: Look at the condition of tbe working man today, where is he? The tinners are continually up the spout; the plumbers are always in the gutter; the paper hangers are up against the wall; bakers are compelled to raise the dough; the polieman has to be on the beat to live; the shoemakers have to work the uppers and get waxed to the end; the clock makers run on tiok and are never on time; the wash woman is always in soak, and she is the only one you see hanging on the line. The printer, tho sometimes hard pressed has a “rule” that he "stioks” to. .

HEAD CRUSHED.

Man Fatally Injured But Knows His Needs. WANTS A PRIEST AND NO DOCTOR Declares He Does Not Pear Death and Acts That Way—-Went Up "Agin”’ a Ram. Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 3. —With the top of his skull crushed nearly to a pulp, and his life ebbing away rapidly, James Jennings, 25 years old, sat in the Monon railway passenger station, and calmly discussed his approaching end. Persons who saw him say it was the most remarkable exhibit of nerve they ever witnessed. He boarded the Monon passenger train No. 4, at night, and climbed to the roof of the baggage car. He lay on the roof of the car until Lafayette was reached in the morning. His Head Strikes a Bridge. At Fourth street, in this city, an old overhead bridge crosses the Monon track. Jennings heard the train whistle for Lafayette station, and raised his head. His head struck the bridge, crushing his skull terribly. He clung to the roof, however, and when the train stopped he climbed down from the top of the car and walked into the station. The blood was flowing from his face, but he asked the first person he met to send for a priest. ■ - Not Aft-aid of Death. He said: “I don’t need a doctor. It’s all over." Rev. Father Leonard, a Roman Catholic priest, arrived, and seeing the young man was fatally hurt, administered the last rites of the church. Dr. George Beasley, the railroad surgeon, examined Jennings’s skull and announced that he could do nothing for him, to which Jennings replied: "I do not care: I’m not afraid." Entire Top of Head Crashed, He was taken to the hospital, and It was found that the entire top of his head was fractured. How he retained consciousness is remarkable. He gave his address as Clinton, Mass., where his mother resides. She was notified Physicians say he cannot survive. KNOCKED OUT BV A RAM Fate of a Man Who Undertook to Manage the Animal by Catching It by tbe Horns. Albany. Ind., Ang. 3. —M. A. Wilson, of this place, retired farmer and business man. is seriously injured, the result of mixing with a ram. Wilson wa? at his farm apd was trying to separate the buck from the rest of the flock. The mm made a break to pass him. and Wilson grapped the animal by the horns. There was a minute of excitement, and when the dust cleared away the ram was racing across the field, and Wilson was knocked out. In the melee his false teeth were dislodged, his nose was pushed to one side and flattened, both eyes were closed and blackened, and there were cuts and bumps and humps aii over his face and body. He was brought to this city and examined by a surgeon, who found no broken bones, but innumerable contusions. Wilson was very sick for several hours, and his condition caused anxiety, but he is now slowly convalescing. They Failed to See the Train. Indanapolis. Aug. 3. —While returning to their homes from Beech Grove, four miles east of this city, where they had been working on construction work, D. F. Sterling and Taylor Gappit were run down by a train. Sterling was instantly killed and Gappit died later at a hospital. The men did not notice the approach of a work train backing to the city.

Prick or a Pin Killed Him. Indianapolis, Aug. 3. One of tbe most peculiar causes of deatti on record has just been reported to the state board of health. Henry B. Smith died at St. Vincent's hospital, from septicoimla, or blood poisoning, caused by the accidental slight prick of a pin on tbe left thumb. The pin had been used to clean a pipe that Smith bad been smoking. Insanitary Slaughter House*. Indianapolis. Aug. 3. Reports received from 200 health officers by Secretary Ilurty, of the state board of health, indicate that 95 per cent, of the slaughter houses in Indiapa are in an insaniary condition. The board will l>e unable to accomplish a reform, because of the weakness of the laws. McCay’s Rond la 02,000. Frankfort, lud., Aug. 3.—The case against Charles McCay, of Kirklin, charged with starting the fire that practically destroyed the business district of the town, has been taken to the circuit court, the bond of the accused being fixed at $2,000. Lightning Kills a Boy. Lebanon, Iftd., Aug. 3.—Fifteen boys who had been swimming sought shelter under a tree from a thunder storm near here. Lightning struck the tree and killed Occie ltlce. aged 14. and the others were knocked down and seriously shocked. Honesty in Small Things. Corydon, Ind.. Aug. 3. A man registering as Stevens called on | a railway conductor here and paid him 20 cents, saying he beat the company oat of a 15-cent ride some years fore, and the extra 5 cents was for hfo. forest

BLOODY MUTINY Of RUSS TROOPS

Fierce Fighting Is Going on at Sveaborg, in Russian Finland. j • OVER 600 KILLED AND WOUNDED \ Artillerymen Join the Mutineers and Turn Guns on the Infantry. Helsingfors, Aug. 2, 12:10 a. m.—A rumor of the surrender of the entire mutinous force at Sveaborg 'was brought over to Helsingfors by the postmaster at Sveaborg. It Is impossible to confirm this rumor here. The mutineers have fatted in their efforts to secure provisions. Loudon, Aug. I.—A dispatch to a news agency from Helsingfors, FluLand. says that a portion of the garrison of Sveaborg, Finland, mutinied during the night and that a long and sanguinary struggle took place between the mutineers and the loyal troops, in which the former are said to have been victorious. The mutineers it is added, are now in possession of the fortress. Many were killed or wounded during the, fighting. A later dispatch from Helsingfors, Finland, says that fierce fighting continues at Sveaborg. Up to midday over 000 men have been killed or wounded. Warships are now- bombarding the fortress. The inhabitants of Helsingfors are in a state of panic. Plot Sprung'Prematurely. Helsingfors. Aug. t. A gigantic military conspiracy, aiming at the simultaneous capture of Russia’s three great sea fortresses —Cronstadt, Sebastopol and Sveaborg—arranged by the revolutionary military league, was prematurely sprung here Monday night by an attempt to arrest members of a company of sappers who bad mutinied on account of the death of one of their comrades, alleged to have been due to ill treatment. The entire garrison of the fortress at Sveaborg flamed out instantly in revolt. All the artillerymen and sappers garrisoning the place were involved. Only four companies of infantrymen remained loyal. The mutineers seized forty machine guns and practically all the quick-fir-ers and light artillery in the fortress, but even with this aid they were unable to hold the main fort against the loyal infantry. The fighting continued all night long. The heaviest firing was heard from 10 o'clock in the evening until 1 in the morning. Artillerymen Join Mutineers Stockholm. Sweden, Aug. I.—A dispatch received here from Helsingfors says that the artillerymen joined the Sveaborg mutineers, but that the Infantry remained loyal. The artillery trained guns on the loyal troops. 500 of whom were killed or wounded. An outbreak also occurred at Skatudden. The officers there were made prisoners and the soldiers elected leaders. One officer was killed. The Russian torpedo destroyer Finn is bombarding the barracks and the mutineers. Sveaborg is a strongly fortified town of Russian Finland, situated on Seven Islands, in the Gulf of Finland, immediately southeast of Helsingfors. The islands, which are connected by pontoons. form the site of a fortress which defends the harbor of Helsingfors and consists of numerous military works and batteries and a military arsenal. Sveaborg also has an excellent harbor. Report of Surrender Is Confirmed. Helsingfors. Aug. 2, 12:50 a. m.—The latest news from the fortress tends to confirm the previous report that the mutineers have surrendered. The mutineers undoubtedly had the upper hand until the battleships Slava and Czarevitch arrived on the scene and commenced to bombard them with such effect that the central magazine was blown up and the biggest guns in the hands of the revolutionists were rendered practically useless. Commander Toget and' 2.000 loyal Infantrymen then surrounded the barracks. They were under continual Are from the revolutionists, to which they could not reply. • Member Parliament Murdered. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—The report of the murder of M. Herzeusteln, the former member of the outlawed parliament. in which be was a prominent lender of the constitutional democrats, is confirmed. It turns out that he was assassinated at his country house near Terioki, Finland, by men in the pay of the Black Hundred organization. M. Herzenstein was wafting along the seashore with his wife and daughter when several shots were fired at him from an unoccupied building. M. Herzenstein was hit twice and fell dead. His daughter was wounded In the hand. The murderers escaped. M. Herzenstein was a leader In all of the zemstvo movements and furnished them ail of their financial data.

Voliva’s Election Is Urged.

Chicago. Aug. f. —At a meeting of the 300 officers of Zion City, Wilbur Glenn Vollva was loudly proclaimed the candidate of his factlou for general overseer of the city. Resolutions adopted earlier in the day by the ecclesiastical council, declaring Vollva the council’s unanimous choice, were read by V. V. Barnes.

DIDHEBURN KIRKLIN?

Charles McCay Charged With Starting the Devastating Fire There Last Weak. SLEUTHS CLAIM A GOOD CASE Dastard Assails a Woman and Get* Killed —Menzies Tor Congress in the First—State News. Frankfort, Ind., Aug. 2. Charged with having started the fire that practically wiped out the business section of the town of Klrklin, one week ago, Charles McCay, in whose place of business the blaze was first discovered, is under arrest and is now a prisoner in the Clinton county jail. The arrest was made by Sheriff Haggard on information furnished by J. F. Quigley, A. V. Adams, F. J. Bays and Miss Bowman, of the Union Detective bureal, of Indianapolis, engaged to work on the case by the insurance companies and the merchants whose property was destroyed. Had Agreed to Trade His Store. McCay occupied a two-story brick building, the first floor of which was used as a grocery and the second as a furniture store. The fire started about the center of the building near a pile of mattresses, and the detectives assert that they have strong circumstantial evidence that McCay fired tbe building. McCay is about 30 years old, married and has a family. He refused to talk about his arrest. A few days before the fire it is asserted that he made a contract to trade his store and bnilding to a Jennings county man for a farm. Both men gave bond to carry out the trade. The Jennings county man placed his son in the store, and it is said that McCay at once began discouraging the trade. Insured for More Than Value. Tuesday of last week the Jennings county man reached Kirklin, ready to carry out his part of the contract, and that night the fire occurred. MoCay carried $4,500 insurance on the stock and building, which, it is asserted, was worth $4,000. John McCay. of Tipton county, father of tbe prisoner, arrived, here, but left soon after for Kokomo to engage counsel for his son. It Is said Hint McCay will waive a preliminary hearing. HE MET HIS JUST DOOM Dastard Attacks a Woman and Gets Two Ballets Where They Benefit Society. Richmond, Ind., Aug. 2.—Edward C. Reed, a machinist, was shot and killed by Mrs. William J. Sincoke at her home in this city. Mrs. Sincoke is the wife of a traveling salesman, and her husband was out of the city at the time of the shooting. Site has not been arrested, the officers believing it to be a clear case of self-defense. According to Mrs. Sincoke’s version of the affair she was alone with her aged fattier when about 10 p. in. she answered a call to the door and Reed entered. She alleges that Reed caught her by the throat and tried to put a handkerchief in her mouth. Mrs. Sincoke says she had taken the precaution of having her revolver with her, and when she was assaulted she fired three times at her assailant. Two of the shots took effect in Reed’s breast: the third missing him eutered the wall, lteed after being shot ran about twenty-five Jvet before he toppled over dead. Reed Is 37 years old. and is a married man living only a few blocks from the Sincoke residence. According to Mrs. Sincoke’s story, which seems to be substantiated by circumstances, Reed has l>eeu bothering her for some time. Lanced by His Pitchfork. Shelbyvllle, Ind.. Aug. 2. W. E. Copple, an aged farmer, while loading shocked wheat, fell from the load to tlifc ground. In his hand was a pitchfork with the end of the handle broken off. In the fall the sharp point caught Copple In the right breast, and was driven through his body. It required three men to extract It Copple will die. Menziea Nominated lbr Congress Petersburg, Ind., Aug. 2. Major George V. Menzies, of Mount Vernon. Ind., was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the First congressional district of Indiana. The nomination was unanimous. No direct mention of national affairs wag made by the resolutions adopted. Had to Pay for Cars. Indianapolis. Aug. 2. —H. L. Bunck, a hay and grain dealer, of Preble, Ind., testified before the Indiana railroad commission that he was unable to get cars for his shipments over the Chicago and Erie railroad,without paying the conductors of freight trains $1 for each car. Prices of Meat Advanced. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 2. Terre Haute meat dealers have been notified by Chicago packers of advances In the prices of pork and pork products. The price of mutton Is also advanced. tnfknt Smothered in Bed. Rnshvllle, Ind., Aug. 2.— The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, near this dty, was smothered while asleep beside its mother.