Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 35c: oats 30c. Read second page for editorial news. Burglars have been operating at Kentland. Home-made sauer kraut at the Murray Co. Girl wanted at Reed Hotel. Good wages paid. H. Parkison is in Oklahoma City, Okla., this week on business. Blankets, cotton or wool, at prices to suit all, at G. E. Murray Co. Ed Wesner of Kankakee tp., was a business visitor in the city Monday. Twin boys were recently l>orn to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Overton, now of Aurora, 111. Commissioner J. F. Pettit, of Walker township, was in the city Tuesday. Thompson and family expect to leave shortly to spend the winter in Los Angeles, Cal. Geo. F. Meyers goes to Indianapolis to-day for a two weeks’ visit there and at other points. B. F. Fendig, the poullry buyer, has paid out about $15,000 in the past two weeks for poultry. The Remington Poultry and Pet Stock Show will be held this year on Dec. 17 to 22, at Remington. Acorn stoves and ranges have no equal; 50 per cent less than regular prices at the Chicago Bargain Store. Nicholas Krull, jr., of Kentland, is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramp, of South Division street. One carload of apples, 480 bushels, 160 bariels, just received, 20 and 25c per peck at the Chicago Bargain Store. Aaron Wood, of Brook, forme?ly of Rensselaer, was taken to Chicago this week to be operated on for appendicitis. Hon. Jesse E Wilson returned to his duties at Washington, D. C., Monday. Mrs. Wilson will remain here until after Christmas. The continued raius from last Friday night to Thursday made it impossible to do anything to the stone roads again this week. little Rosenbaum boy, who was so severely injured a few weeks ago from being kicked in the forehead by a horse, has completely recovered, and now seems as good as ever. The prizes to be given the contestants in the Catholic - Fair, one gent’s diamond ring, one gent’s gold watch and two ladies’ gold watches, are on display in the jewelry store windows. OCSquire Irwin officiated Satur/day afternoon in the marriage of Charles A. Pattee and Mists May Mellender, a young couple from Gifford, the marriage taking place in the county clerk’s office. The Democrat would greatly sppreciate having obituaries sent in at least immediately after the funeral services are held. This pan be easily done, and must be done hereafter to insure publication.

A few cases of typhoid fever are reported at Brook. “The Carters,” first number of the Library Lecture Course, at Ellis’ opera house Monday night. The M. E, Industrial Society took in a little over SB7 at their rummage sale last Friday and Saturday. The ladies of the Home Missionary Society will hold a market this forenoon at Moody & Roth’s meat market. Suits ! Suits ! Suits ! Suits ! and Overcoats! Overcoats! Overcoats ! Overcoats ! of all description, at Duvall & Lundy’s. The fanciest and best lot of northern Michigan apples ever received, $2.25 to $2.75 per barrel of three bushels at the Chicago Bargain Store. Season tickets for the Library Lecture Course (six numbers) are on sale at the library and at Jessen’s jewelry store, $2 each. General admission, 25, 35 and 50 cents. The Democrat is in receipt of a communication from Mt. Ayr that places an altogether different phase on the reoent acid throwing case there, and states that it was done by a woman, at her own home, and iu self-defense. The Littlefield jewelry store at Remington is closing out its entire stock at cost. Read about it in their ad in another column. A rare opportunity to secure elegant holiday presents at the lowest prices ever made in Jasper county. We wantyoutog men and women to learn telegraphy at our school. Unprecedential demand for operators. Good positions guaranteed. Expense very low. Catalogue explaining all free. Dodge’s Institute, Monroe St., Valparaiso, Ind. 45 Word comes from Mitchell, South Dakota, that Zora, the four or five year-old daughter of Reed Bauta, formerly of McCoysburg, was kicked in the head by a horse about three weeks ago and died from tbo effects thereof last Friday. The Democrat was awarded the contract for printing the catalogues for the poultry show, which will be held here the second week in January. The book will be of about 40 to 50 pages, and 1,000 or 2,000 copies will be printed. It is said that the Lake county jail is so full of prisoners that an extra session of court must be held to dispose of tbe cases. There are four murder cases now on the docket there. Nearly all the criminal oases grow out of the liquor traffic there. A prize-fight is to be pulled off at Hammond to-night. Perhaps Governor Hanly won’t like it, as his own town of Indianapolis seems to have had a sort of monopoly of the prize-fight business of late. We’re glad the lid has been put on at French Lick, however. H. Conway o } Parr, whose saloon license recently expired and who is unable to secure another one for that place by reason of the blanket remonstrance, was in tbe city on business Monday. He states that he does not intend to move to Monon unless he sells out at Parr, having bought the etand at the former place for an investment only.

corn has been husked the past two weeks, owing to bad weather. At least one-fourth the oorn is still in the field. SUJames Lefler and Charles Bns-' setbare up in Wisconsin this week, buuting and looking after the former’s lands up there. Secure reserved seat season tickets for the first number of tbe lecture course at Jessen’s, Friday and till 10 a. m., Saturday. E. P. Honan has been appointed a delegate to the Indiana Fraternal Congress, to be held at Indianapolis Deo. 4, to represent the Catholic Order of Foresters. Extra fancy Michigan Northern Spies, Baldwins. Talpabock, Wagoner, Jonathan and many other varieties. 20 afed 25c per peck at the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Maud Rodman, of Momence, 111., who is visiting her aunt, Mrs. John N. Baker, of Barkley township, is quite sick with malarial fever and other complications. ''Nfleorge Hopkins and son Vern, with their families, are moving back here from Wabash, where they have been working in the Barcus horsestocks factory for the past two years. Harrison Warren, of near Peru, has bought of Mrs. Galbraith, the former Chestnut farm of ten acres, north of town, and will move back here; consideration SI,BOO. Possession is given March 1. The young people’s societies will give their regular yearly Thanksgiving entertainment at the M. E. church next Tuesday evening. This is the time to bring yonr Thanksgiving offering to the poor. A good program has been prepared. • dA. G. W. Farmer and son HenryTiave sold their 160-acre farm, near Sharon, to the former’s son-in-law, W. W. Sage; consideration s4l per acre. Mr. Farmer is undecided at this time as to what he will do, but may decide to move to Oklahoma, where he has two sons in Oklahoma City. VPostmaster F. B. Myers’ commission expires next April, and it is likely that the appointment of his successor will be made ere long. The only interest The Democrat has in the matter is that the patrons of the office may be considered, and that someone of the numerous candidates be appointed that will give efficient service. Owing to an injury to one of his eyes, from a blade of a cornstalk cutting it slightly, J. O. Cline did not go to Winnipeg, Canada, last week to work on a grain elevator, as expected. The cut, while apparently rather slight, has been causing him a great deal of pain, and the eye is quite badly inflamed. 'XJ’he severe wind Wedneseay did considerable damage over tbe country in blowing down windmills, antopping bay stacks, etc. In town the bill-boards were about all blown down, and perhaps some other little damage done. It did some good, however, as it helped greatly to dry up the mud from the several days rain. is reported that some beer is being shipped in here to parties who are presumably “boot-legg-ing” it out. If the latter is true it is only a question of time until the offenders are brought up with a short turn, and then they’ll wish they hadn’t. It is safe to presume that these parties have no government license even, and Uncle Sam doesn’t mince matters when be gets after a fellow who is trying to beat him out of his share in the liquor traffic. A party from Parr writes The Democrat that the report that there was no insurance on the contents of the building that burned there last Thursday night is incorrect; that there was about SIOO insurance on tbe barber shop, but none on Mr. Myers’ property. He also states there had been no fire in tbe room for at least thirty hours previous to the fire, and that an oil measure was found close to where the fire is supposed to have started, indicating that it must have been of inoendiary origin. Bruce Hardy sold the big grey team Saturday to Clint Brown and left Sunday for Sioux City, lowa, it is reported, with the prooeeds, about $425. There are several local bills here that we are told he had promised to pay out of the proceeds of the sale of the team* one of which was $54 to John Bislosky for horse feed while working for the city, and others, but neglected to do so, and the creditors are wondering whether be will retnrn or not His wife is reported to be visiting her parents at Roselawn at present.

S/J. F. Bruner, Jesae Nichols and B. Steward attended the I. O. O. F. grand lodge, at Indianapolis this week. /Mrs. Alfred Hoover returned Tuesday from Chicago where she has been taking treatment for tbe past two months. She is apparently considerably improved. The Goodland Plaindealer, while a little off meohanically at first, has continued to improve until now it is one of theneateat and newsiest exchanges that reach our table. In Lake county about 10,000 votes were cast at tbe late election, and of this number only 111 votes were cast for the prohibition ticket. Lake county presents a very fertile field for temperance workers. XDeloß Thompson, cashier of the Rensselaer State Bank, has just bought another new automobile, this one being a Mitchell 20-horse power runabout. Its cost was SI,OOO. He still has his $3,000 big White Steamer. The 13-year-old son of ‘ Doc” Hicks of Morocco was shot in the leg above the knee while out rabbit hunting Saturday by the accidental discharge of a gun, and the bone was so badly shattered that amputation was necessary. He was out with three other boys of about the same age when tbe accident occurred. Last Sunday, at 8 o’clock, death called an old resident, in the person of James Kendall. The deceased had lived for many years one mile east of Foresman, and was well known in this place, especially by the older residents. The funeral services were conducted at the church in Foresman. Burial was made ip the Goodland cemetery. Goodland Plaindealer. Of the 1,016 townships in Indiana 661 are without saloons. In sixteen counties there are Baloons only in one place and thirteen counties have saloons only in two places. In Tippecanoe county, for example, there is not a saloon outside of Lafayette, and yet farmers of the county are required to pay the burden of the cost of the crime and insanity caused by the saloons in Lafayette. During the last eighteen months there have been twenty-eight murders in Terre Haute and twenty-seven of them. were connected directly with saloons. Lyle Nicol, the 16-year-old son of Hugh Nicol, the atheletic director of Purdue University, was kicked in the stomach in a high school football game at Lafayette last week and died the next day in great agony. The father was preparing to go to Madison, Wis., with the Purdue football team for Saturday’s game, but the death of his son compelled him to remain at home. A dispatch from Lafayette says that the death of the boy will probably kill football in the public schools of that city. It is something out of the ordinary for us to have two feet of snow and a severe thunder shower all in the same week, yet that was precisely what occurred here last week. The snow of Monday seems to have been confined principally to northern Jasper, as very little fell in any other section of the country. Friday night quite a heavy thunder storm came, with sharp lightning and a great deal of rain, carrying off tbe last of the snow. No damage from lightning was done here, but a big barn on Robt. Anderson’s farm, west of Chalmers, is reported to have been destroyed, with most of its contents, causing a loss of some $1,500. Henry C. Dahncke, foreman for B. J. Gifford’s farms, while returning from Wbeatfield to Newland last Monday night was waylaid soon after he left the former place and badly cut aud bruised and left in an unconscious condition in the roadway where he was found the next morning nearly dead from his injuries and exposure. It is reported that the assault occurred while Dahncke was driving along the road, his team suddenly stopping and on getting out of his rig to investigate he was attacked and stabbed four times. One of the cuts is said to have nearly severed the jugular vein and he was also badly beaten. No cause for tbe assault nor the identity of the assailants is known so far as learned. Extra fancy cranberries 8j) cents qt. Bananas 10 cents dozen, fancy Mich, apples 20 and 25cts a peck. Chicago Bargain Store. If you want a nice X-mas present for your husband or your beau, don’t miss getting one of our swell smoking jackets or bath robes. We have a full line of them. Duvall & Lundy.

ENGINEER TAKES BLAME FOR WRECK

Weeping on Stand, Say* Be Wa a Heaponalble for tbe Reoent Oleaster in Indiana. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 22. —Weeping as be told his story, Frank tialnauer, engineer of the first section If the passenger train Involved In the recent wreck at Woodville, which cost more than sixty lives, shouldered entire responsibility for the disaster at the coroner’s inquest. As the result of his testimony he was arrested in the afternoon. Conductor Moste and Biakeman Woodward of the freight train also were arrested and all three were held In SI,OOO hail. The coroner recommended that they he brought before the giand jury for manslaughter. Galnauer said he got no answer from the freight train on the siding to his regulation whistle signal, and that his train was carrying signals for a following section. He asserted that he took It for granted everything would be all right. He declared he wished no one but himself to be blamed for the disaster, as he should have stopped his train when be received no Signal.

GOMPERS IS INDORSED

His Political Compaign Policy Meets Unanimous Approval When Voted Upon. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 21. —Amid scenes of enthusiasm the American Federation of Labor convention indorsed the political policy of President Gompers during the last campaign and urged a continuance of activity along Independent lines, strongly condemning, however, the idea of affiliating with any special party, and going on record as opposed to forming a national labor party. The vote was practically .unanimous. Subsidized shipping which involves the enlistment of the seamen employed thereon as members of the naval reserve was roundly denounced at the session, it being declared that this enlistment was forced and was simply conscription. Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Hindu labor were Included In a sweeping denunciation of Asiatic Immigration and a demand for further extension of the exclusion laws.

THANKSGIVING DANCE.

The regular two weeks dance will be given at Warner’s Hall on Thanksgiving night. Good music, and good order will be maintained.

Advance sale of holiday goods. Chicago Bargain Store.

WAS IT A JOKE?

Two of the high school boys who were mixed up in the late defacing of the school building went up to Shelby Sunday with an empty suit case, aud a telephone message from there to officers here stated that they were coming back on the milk train with the suit case full of beer. An investigation of the case on their stepping from the train showed that it was empty, and tbe boys then stated that tbe whole affair was planned as a joke on Lyman Zea, but others think they were appraised of a lookout being kept for their arrival here and that they made some disposition of the bottles of beer before reaching town. It would hardly seem that they would go to.all this expense and trouble to play such a questionable “joke.”

Another car Gold Medal flour, the world’s beet, just arrived. Chicago Bargain Store. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. Nov. 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Comer, near Aix, a daughter. Special Thanksgiving grocery sale, headquarters for the best of everything at wholesale prices. Chicago Bargain Store. Buy footwear of G. E. Murray Co. The largest and most complete line of ladies’ cloaks in western Indiana, at reduced prices. Chicago Bargain Store. FOR SALE. Twenty-five Shropshire ewes and two rams. Hall V. Zimmerman, R. R. 3. Remington, Ind. Oar mammoth holiday stock will be shown this year on second and third floors. . Chicago Bargain Store. We have a very fine line of holiday shirts, neckwear, hosiery, mufflers, caps, trunks, suit-cases, umbrellas, and combination boxes of suspenders, supports and armbauds, which will make a nice X-mas present. Call and see them. Duvall & Lundy. Look out for the largest and most complete Holiday stock ever shown in town. Chicago Bargain Store. Home-made minoe meat at Murray Co.’s. Special great linen sale. A complete new stock for Thanksgiving. Chicago Bargain Store.

WIND ON A RAMPAGE

Works Both Death and Havoc ilk Indiana—Dark Hour at Evansville. CHICKENS HIE THEM TO BOOST Colored Settlement Thinks the End Has Come Steady Nerve Saves a Man's Life. Indianapolis, Nov. 22.—A high wind that reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour at times has caused much damage throughout the state. The temperature dropped 25 degrees and Indications point to colder weather. Reports show several men Injured by flying debris, and from Lebanon, Ind.. comes the report of a conductor of a Big Four train. A. J. Brown, of Indianapolis. being probably fatally Injured there. The roof of a box car on which he was standing was blown off, precipitating him to the ground. Cement House Demolished, At Fort Wayne a cement house was demolished by the wind and two Polish workmen were seriously Injured. Much damage has been done to telephone, telegraph and electric light wires throughout the state. At many points a rain fall of three inches has been recorded. K* Little Damage at Indianapolis. Considsrahle damage was done to> signs and boards that were not anchored securely in this city, but It Is not thought there was any considerable financial loss. Several street showcases were blown over in Washington street, and their contents were distributed. Phenomenon at Evansville. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 22. For about two minutes day turned Into night in Evansville. A few minutes of 3 p. m. dark clouds appeared in tbe sky and in a second it seemed as If the black heavens had become one vast black cloud,and it became as dark as night. Lights were turned on In all parts of the city, children were frightened and chickens went to roost. In Baptistown, a negro suburb of the city, there was great excitement among tbe negroes and many of them fell on their knees and prayed, thinking the world was coming to an end. “It’s an 11l Wind," Etc. Rushville, Inch, Nov. 22. —Farmers are elates! over the heavy rain fall of the last fpw days. The Hessian fly was making its ravages felt all over tl.c county and wet weather was needed to save the wheat.

HAD HIS NERVE ALONG That Is Why George Semans, and Old Soldier, Is Not a Dead One. Noblesville, Ind., Nov. 22. Presence of mind on the part of George Semnns, an old soldier, is the only tiling that prevented a fatal accident on the Lake Erie and Western railway bridge over White river, near this city. Semnns was crossing the bridge when a passenger train whirled around the curve close at hand. Throwing ids hat into the air to attract the attention of the engineer, ho hastily threw off his overcoat, dropping it between tlie rails and extending nimseif full length on it. The train passed over him. and Semnns was none the worse for his experience. The train stopped a short distance away. Meanwhile Semnns arose and donned his overcoat and walked away as if nothing had happened. Pickles and Calomel Are Poison. New* Albany, hid.. Nov. 22.—As a result of eating pickles after taking calomel. Miss Anna Polen is dead at her home here. She was ill about two weeks ago and took a large dose of the drug. At the next meal, an hour inter, she ate several pickles, and within n few hours was salivated. Physicians were summoned, but despite medical treatment she gradually grew worse and her sufferings were intense for several days before her death. Was a Strenuous Charivari. BoonevilJe, hid.. Nov. 22. Friend* ohnrivaring Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hart, a lp'wly-mnrried couple, living three miles west of Boonevllle. used dynamite in such quantities that the explosion broke window panes and made houses tremble for miles around. Two explosions took place, five sticks being used in each one. Hart takes it as a joke, and will not prosecute. Married with Four Ilroken Itibs. Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 22.—Thomas Miller stood up to be married to Miss Leona Richards at Auburn with four ribs broken and when the vows were exchanged and congratulations began, he swooned in n paroxysm of pain. His wounds were the result of an nccident which laid once postponed his wedding, but tie was determined not to postpone It ngain. Was It Murder or Suicide ? Indianapolis. Nov. 22.—Wiley Armstrong, assistant cashier at the freight house of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad in tills city, was found dead in the office at noon with a bullet hole In his right temple. One suspect was locked up, but some of Armstrong’s friends ascribe his death to suicide, saying he had been despondent. Her Heart Was Weak. Washington. Ind., Nov. 22.—Just a* she finished eating an apple, Mrs. Josephine Stmnpp, a large and apparently healthy woman, was seized at heart trouble and she cl I oil In five tpUfc utes.