Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 45c; oats 27c. To-day is “Old Settlers’ Day” at Monticello. Joe Reynolds, of Delphi, is visitmg here this week. Ethel Ferguson visited in .Monticello this week. .Fendig of Wheatfield wn in the city Monday. The Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis, Sept. 10 to 14. Fountain Park Assembly at Remington closes to-morrow. M. returned Wednesday from the state encampment. "AMr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins are sojourning at Eagle Lake, Wis. Don’t miss reading the Racket Store ad on page 6 of The Democrat. There were seventy-five tickets sold here Sunday for the Chicago excursion. Miss Louise Harmon of Pontiac, 111., is visiting relatives and friends here. and Mrs. 0. G. Spitler are sojourning in Michigan with Goshen relatives. New subscribers this week by postoffices: Remington, 1; Kniman, 1; Chicago, 1. Mrs. J. Regos and son of New Orleans, La., are visiting the family of B. S. Fendig. V/15r. English and family were Brbok visitors Tuesday afternoon, making the trip via auto. Mrs. B. G. Oglesby and three little daughters of Medaryville, are visiting relatives here. .j Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades returned Saturday from their trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto. Remember the dates of the Tip- § ecanoe County Fair, Sept. 4-7. ee ad. elsewhere in this paper. j>Mrs. Charles Kasson, of Hammond is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant, here this week. S,Sain Fendig went to Chicago Buhday and from there is taking a vacation and pleasure trip on the* lakes. Wm. E. Leek has bought of Martin Leobold the latter’s 160 acre farm in Newton tp., consideration $10,400. . Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Kurrie and Miss Edna Thompson left last Friday for a two weeks’ pleasure trip on the lakes. Thomas E. Willey, a former Rensselaer druggist, died at his home in Mt. Ayr Saturday afternoon from Bright’s disease. Don’t fail to read the large ad of the Logansport Business College on page five of this issue. Watch for ad next week. Money in it for you. The Wabash railroad offers a delightful outing at a very modest price. Read announcement of excursion to Mackinac Island next Saturday, in another column. Clark, late clerk in the (grocery department of the G. E. Murray Co. store, has moved to Olney, 111., where he has an interest with Geo. Liston in a grocery store. Henry Beaver of Milroy tp., made The Democrat force happy last Saturday by lugging in a Brest8 rest big luscious watermelon. lay your shadow never grow less, Henry.

Uncle William Bull is quite sick at this writing. J Mrs. J. H. Jessen and sister are visiting in Lebanon. Try a new coat shirt from Duvall & Lundy’s, from SI.OO to $2.00. -t-Misses Emma and Clara Schultz <|f Goodland, are visiting relatives in Union tp. this week. State Chief Ranger E. P. Honan was in South Bend Wednesday night to a C. O. F. gathering. 3 Miss Jessie Knox, who has been flFWinona Lake for several weeks; returned home a few days ago. To-day is “Towne Day” at Fountain Park, and the attendance from this vicinity will no .doubt be large. Robinson of Sentinel Butte, No. Dakota., visited his brother Warren Robinson here .Wednesday and Thursday. J. J. Brenner, who has been sick with Bright’s disease for some weeks, is reported in a very serious condition at this writing. Ellis with his father from Carroll county, is spending a few days with bis sister, Mrs. A. H. Hopkins at Eagle Lake, Wis. Newton County Enterprise: The population of Kentland has increased nearly two hundred within the past year, and is larger to-day than ever before in its history. Rev. H. L. Kindig is visiting his old home in Oscaloosa, lowa, and the pulpit of the M. E. church will be occupied to-morrow by Rev. M. V. Brown, late of Miami, Fla. Fred Irwin was arraigned before ’Squire Thornton Tuesday afternoon for intoxication, and on a plea of guilty was fined $1 and and costs, $9.45 in all, which he staid. Advertised letters: Miss Junia Wooldridge, Miss Hewy S. Hortz, Henry Shortz, Miss Edna Shortz, Sarah Shurtz, Chas. Minich, The. Archer, Dr. Clarence B. Tufts, Master Henry Hess. Mrs, J. F. Warren and Mrs. R. W. Spriggs, of Oklahoma City, who have been visiting here for some time, went to Whitehall, Mich., Thursday to visit relatives before returning to their home.

David Elder and family, who moved to Morocco several months ago, have returned to Rensselaer and occupy the former Mrs. Brown property in the east part of town, now owned by E. L. Hollingsworth. There will be preaching at the court honse on Sunday morning by G. H. Clarke. The morning services will be the final meeting held in this place before the congregation moves into the new church building. All welcome. Owing to the extreme hot weather, making it so unpleasant traveling, the excursion to Washington, advertised elsewhere in this paper, has been postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 18. See B. F. Ferguson for any further information desired. The Monticello Baptist Association will convene with the Baptist church, Rensselaer, Aug. 29, 1906, for a two days’ session. Representatives of the Home, Foreign and State Missions, and women’s work will be present and address the meetings. All are invited. from the appearance of what corn we have seen in Jasper county lately the wagon dealers are going to have a mighty poor season selling wagon boxes, for it will be much more convenient to handle the oom on woodracks, cording it up like they do 4-foot wood. Miss Jessie Parker, who has been clerking in the Racket Store for some time, has resigned and is now at the home of her mother in Gillam tp. It ik understood she will soon take another “position,” a life partnership, with a former Rensselaer young man who is now a chauffeur in Chicago. Last Sunday was quite a big day at the Fountain Park Assembly, and hundreds of people from Rensselaer and vicinity were in attendance. A heavy rain that came up about noon spoiled the afternoon’s enjoyment for many, rendering the grounds wet and disagreeable and no doubt kept many visitors away. Mrs. Mary Wilkins, an inmate of the Jasper county poor asylum who will celebrate her one hundred and seventh birthday anniversary Oct. 31, 1906, went to Remington Saturday to visit relatives for awhile. The old lady is in reasonably good health and may live for several years yet, althouhg her mind is failing considerably.

Mias Clara A. Peters, a graduate optician, is here making arrangements to open an office. Miss Peters is a sister of Dr. W. H. Peters of Lafayette. VMI C. McFarland and sister Miss Heleh McFarland of Camden, Carroll county, are visiting their uncles, James T., and Nelson Randle, and cousin, Mrs. J. N. Leatherman, here this week. The M. P. conference held at Greenfield closed Monday. Rev. J. L. Barclay of Frankfort was elected president. Rev. F. M. DeMumbrun, who served Dunkirk station, was assigned to the Rensselaer circuit. B. O. Gardner of Los Angeles, Cali., was here a few days this< week, shaking hands with friends. Mrs. Gardner is visiting friends in Illinois at present, where Mr. Gardner has joined her, but both will return here in a few days. The widow of Richard Herron, of Monticello, has instituted suits against John H Randall and John Vaughn, two saloon-keepers of Monticello, and their bondsmen, for $2,000 in each case, alleging that defendants sold her husband liquor which caused bis death last week from alcoholism, Goodland Plaindealer: Mrs. Thurlow is visiting with Mr. John Beecher of northeast of town. Her little son who had a leg nearly amputated a year ago by a mowing machine has fully recovered the use of the injured limb, and walks without a noticeable limp. This is a clear victory for clean intelligent surgery. An exchange says if you are superstitious about the number 13 you had better give us your quarter dollars, for on one are 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll of the eagle’s beak, 13 leaves on the olive branch, 13 arrow heads and 13 letters in the words “quarter dollar.” Now, it’s not safe to keep, them, so just bring them in and get credit on your subscription for the full amount. and Benjamin Welsh of Jordan township, were called to Chicago last week by the dangerous condition of their brother Jesse, a mail carrier in Chicago, who had undergone an operation for an aggravated case of appendicitis on Tuesday, August 14. Gangrene bad already set in when the operation was performed, but at latest reports he was getting along nicely and is expected to fully recover.

A dispatch from Kentland says; The Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad has caused an increase in activities at the stone quarries, two miles east of this city. A branch of the road will be built to the quarries; extensive improvements will be made there, and the Siuarries will furnish crushed stone or ballast, and blocks for the steel mills at Indiana Harbor and Gary. The quarries cover one hundred acres, and five hundred men will .be erpployed in developing them. \Brof. W. O. Schanlaub } of Morocco, who has been attending the Valparaiso University this summer, spent a few days with his {mrents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanaub, here this week, returning to Morocco to-day. He will attend the Newton county teachers’ institute next week, and the Monday following will again take up his duties as superintendent of the Morocco schools, a position he has held for the past three years. This will make his ninth year in the Morocco schools. Squire Joel F. Spriggs of Walker tp., was in the city Thursday. Mr. Spriggs is the oldest settler in his vicinity' and has lived almost continuously in Walker since coming to Jasper oounty with his parents, on April 14,1859, and is the only survivor of the election held at the home of Jacob Keener, in what is now the town of Virgie, in October, 1859, to vote among other things on a division of the county and the organization of Keener township. There were just 13 votes cast at that election, which perhaps accounts for Keener being so strongly republican. The Souvenir Albums of Rensselaer, now in press, are printed on heavy calendared paper with handsome deckle edge cover and tied with heavy silk cord. Only a few hundred of these are being printed and they will be quickly taken up. If you wish to secure a copy it behooves you to get in your order early. They will be sold here for 50 cents each, or will be sent postpaid to any address in the United States or Canada for five cents extra—ss cents, > Leave or send Jour order to John A. Sharp, lensselaer, Ind., at once to secure a copy of this handsome and historical souvenir of Rensselaer.

* FALL TERM THE--- = Logansport 'Business College Opens Aug. 27 to Sept. 3. All persons interested in a proposition by which they can qualify for a position that will pay from S4O to SIOO per month, should call at once and make arrangements to enter August 27. SPECIAL NIGHT SCHOOL PROPOSITION. We will sell to the first twentyfive (25) persons who call at our office, one of our regular S6O scholarships for S4O. These must be paid for in cash on or before entering school, and are good for fifty-two weeks of actual schooling. Think of getting a thorough course in either Bookkeeping or Shorthand, without losing your present position for only S4O. Remember only 25 of these scholarships will be sold at this price. Make your arrangements early or you may be too late. If you can’t call at the college office, ’phone or write and we will send some one to see you. LOGANSPORT BUSINESS COLLEGE, Telephone 184, *"■ * U A?eT S M "th? Principal. Logansport, Ind.

SHORT AGEIS CURIOUS

State Official’s Accounts Square Except for One-Eighth of His Term. OLD RECORD HAS BEEN FOUND Gives the Items of the Missing sll,000 Bedford's Murder Mystery Up Again—ltems. Indianapolis, Aug. 24.—The discovery by the investigating committee of an old. musty record fn the auditor of stye’s office has revealed the exact n; ::e of the shortage of James H. IF . who was auditor of state from k » to 1887. And this discovery shows a nirious state of affairs, proving reguiir :y o faccounts for seven-eights of th ' time that Rice was in office, and sb nving irregularity for one period of six months during the four years that Rice served. Was Short SII,OOO in Bulk. Some time ago it was announced that the investigating committee, with Warren Bigler, the auditor, had found that there was a shortage of about SII,OOO in Rice’s settlements of insurance taxes with the state. This was ascertained when the amount received by Rice from the insurance companies was compared with the amount that actually found Its way into the state treasury. A comparison of these two sums showed that Rice turned over to the state about SII,OOO less than he received from the insurance companies. Book Shows the Details. This shortage, as then discovered, was a shortage in gross; in other words, it was not definite as to time or company. The book just found supplies these details, and shows that for seven six months periods Rice paid in every cent he received. He was in office from January, 1883. to December, 188 ft, and it was for the six months ended in July, 1884, that the shortage occurred. How it happened there is no solution. State’s Appeal Is Filed. The appeal of the state In the French Lick and West Baden gambling cases has been filed in the supreme court by Attorney General Miller. ’ The appeal Is from the ruling of Judge Thomas Buskirk, of the Orange county circuit court, that the facts stated In the quo warranto proceedings were not sufficient to warrant the spiiolntment of temporary receivers for the hotel companies and an injunction against gambling and also from his decision that the state had not proceeded in compliance with special acts to which he ruled, procedure was limited. KUNAWAY GIRL, IS FOUND She and the Man Who Ran Away with Her Arrested—Sarah Schaffer Case Again. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 24.—Nellie Rainey, 17 years old, of Bedford, Ind., whose alleged kidnaping last November has killed her mother and caused her father to spend a fortune uj>on her, was arrested here after Ernest Tanksley, a stonecutter, charged with the crime, had been taken on advice from the prosecuting attornw of Bedford. The presence of the pair here was made known by detectives searching for the infssiug girl. Tanksley admits his identity. Information from Bedford Is to the effect that he is also wanted on a charge of complicity In the murder of Sarah Schafer at Bedford more than a year ago, the solving of which has battled the Bedford police and detectives of other places. Mias Rainey is but a school girl. She is now in a pitiable condition. It is believed that she will tell the full story. Railway Agent la Missing. Fowlerton, Ind., Aug. 24. C. C. Conode, agent for, the 0., I. and E.

railway, at this place, Is unaccountably missing. He went to Matthews Monday last, returning at night, but failing to open the office on the following day. Wesley Baker, of Swayzee, former agent, came here to investigate company affairs, but he was unable to open the safe, as the combination had been changed. He May Get Oat in Two Years. Windfall, Ind., Aug. 24. George Zumbrum, the militiaman who pleaded guilty to the charge of throwing acid Jn the face of his former wife, Mrs. Ira Vandevener, seven miles west of this city, has been taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City to serve the sentence of from two to fourteen years imposed by the court. Colonel Robertson Is 111. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 24.—Colonel Robert S. Robertson, ex-lieutenant governor and now Republican cahdidate for circuit judge in Allen county, is critically ill at his home here with cirrhosis of the liver. He received a call from Vice President Fairbanks, and brightened up some, but he had a bad night. Revival at a Funeral. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 24. There was an affecting scene connected with the burial of the 10-year-old daughter of Captain Stanyon, of the Salvation Army. Burial services were turned into a revival meeting, two men coming forward and bowing over the little coffin, confessing their sins and professing conversion.

HIS BRAIN WAS NOT INJURED

Although the Top of Hie Skull Wm Loosened Clarence Bell, Farmer, Missing. Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 23. James Jennings, who, three weeks ago, had his skull so terribly crushed that he called for a priest and received the rite of extreme unction, and at the same time heard the doctors say that he had only an hour to live, is ready to leave St. Elizabeth hospital as sound in body and mind as he was before the accident which left him bleeding and apparently dying on top of a Monon passenger train on which he was stealing a ride. Top of His Head loose. It Is the most remarkable recovery in the annals of the hospital. Jennings was on top of a baggage coach and when the train passed under the Fourth street overhead crossing In this city he rose and was struck by the girders of the bridge. The blow was so terrific that the entire top of his skull was loosened and when the train arrived at the North street station Jennlngs was near death. Father Leonard of St. Boniface Roman Catholic church, was called to administer the last rites of the church to the Injured young man. Bat His Brain Was Unhart. He was rushed to the hospital, however. and two surgeons said his case was absolutely hopeless. At the same time, however, a fight was made to prolosg his life. A dose examination revealed the remarkable fact that the skull bad been fractured in such a peculiar manner that the top of the skull bad been raised and left tbebrain practically unhurt. Jennings recovered consciousness and determined that he would get well. He made a gallant fight and every other patient in the hospital able to do so watched his struggle with great interest. Now He Is Up and Aboat. Finally the doctors began to havs hope. Jennings kept on improving and his skull began to knit. Tuesday night he dressed and walked around outslda the hospital to the amazement of the other patients. He has had more than 100 callers in the last week, most of them drawn to him by his remarkable victory over an almost certain death. WELL-TO-DO FARMER MISSING He Checked AU His Money Ont of Bank and Then Drops Oat of Sight. Whitestown, Ind., Aug. 23. Clarence Bell, a well-to-do farmer, 26 years

old, living three miles east of this place, is mysteriously missing. Last Tuesday Bell entered the bank and began crying, saying that his wife, who was visiting relatives at Colusa bus, had been taken seriously ill and was not expected to live. He checked out what money he had in bank, and was last seen at the interurban railway station, making Inquiry about connections at Indianapolis for Columbus. He bought a ticket for Indianapolis and left on the first car. Since then all trace of him has been lost. His wife returned home, thinking to find him here, while his relatives supposed he was with her at Columbus. Mrs. Bell has not been sick, neither had she written to that effect, and no explanation is had for Bell’s sudden flight, as his domestic relations were pleasant. Predicted His Own Death. Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 23.—John Grant, formerly of this city, continually expressed the greatest fear of automobiles, as he was partly deaf, and ha predicted his own death by the machines. Tuesday, in Detroit, Mich., ha was struck by an automobile and killed. The body was brought here for burial. Dog Disables a Wrestler. Terre Haute, Ind., A-ug. 23.—Alex Swanson, champion wrestler, who is training for a match with T. H. Turner, of Rock Island, while running in the southern part of town was bitten by a dog and the injury’ probably will cause the postponement of the match, which is set for tomorrow night. Boy la a Nervy One. Hillsboro. Ind.. Aug. 23. While pumping water with a horse-power pump, the 10-year-old son of W. T. Wilkinson caught his arm in the cogwheels. The boy remained fastened in the cogs for nearly an hour before he could coax the horses to back up and releaae him.

Seriously Stung by Bumblebee*. Boonville, Ind., Aug. 23. Arthur Hart, 25 years old, a farmer, was prostrated by heat, and while unconscious was attacked by bumblebees. He probably will die as the result of these stings. Lightning Strikes • Barn. Noblesville, Ind., Aug. 23. The barn on Alvin Helny’s farm, near this city, was struck by lightning and burned. The loss will reach $3,000, which is partly covered by insurance. Indian* Troop* Go Home. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Aug. 23. —The Indiana National Guard has left camp, each unit returning to Its home station. See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans. See G. E. Hersh man for farm and oity loans and fire insurance. If yon need a new hat Duvall & Lundy has what you want from 5c tofo.OO. Dont miss seeing our fall suits and overcoats, in all the latest styles and colors. Duvall & Lundy.

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