Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — Page 5

fRU’ IEK NEXT WEEK ■Mil Fill Jan,3-4, . Public Library Hall 0 The. Farmers’ Institute and Ladies’ Auxiliary Combined. An excellent program has been arranged of both local talent and state Institute workers. Mrs. Lindley of Salem and C.B.Benjamin, of Leßoy, Ind., will be present. Everybody is invited to attend. All sessions are open for ladies and gentlemen alike. See Program on Another Page.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. 'Corn, 35c; oats 310. “A Happy New Year.” Farmer’s Institute next week. Oor merchants enjoyed an excellent holiday trade Saturday and Monday. Matt Yeager of Milroy tp , has gone to Kankakee, 111., to spend the winter with his son John. Goodlaud is talking Carnegie library. “Andy” has signified that be will furnish the spondulix. / Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Grant spent with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Chas Kasson, at Hammond. It is reported that Bruce Hardy has secured a job in the Chicago stockyards and will move to that city. ’“HObsrlie Rhoades, foreman on toe Chalmers Dispatch, spent Sunday and Monday with relatives here. Mrs. A. L. Willis was called to Anderson Saturday by the sickness of her daughter, Mrs. Vermont Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Brubaker of Hegewisoh, 111., visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blankenbaker of Parr over Christmas. \/Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Wolfe of "Jsjtammond, spent Curistmas here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold. js/ J. M. Knapp, the liveryman, is /nbstling mail on Route 3, during the few weeks vacation of the regular carrier, J. Q. Alter. JKFrank Fisher and son, Prof. Lee Fisher of the Stillwell, Laporte county schools, were in the city Wednesday and Thursday. IfcTom Bissenden has purchased a completeoutfit for making rubber stamps, and will add stamp making to his other lines of work. Keep in mind the fact that Rensseloer is going to have a big poultry and pet stock show the week of Jan. 7 to 12, inclusive. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dowler are visiting the family of T. F. Clark near Battle Ground, and relatives in Williamsport for a few weeks. (%/Mr. Robt. J. Overton and Miss Oiara M. Markin, both of Rensselaer, were united in marriage Christmas morning by Rev. G. H. Clarke at his residence. There will be a box social at Aix school house, Friday night, Jan. 4, for the benefit of the Good Hope Christian ohuroh. Everybody welcome. Ladies, please bring boxes. Dr. W. A. Noland, a well known pbysioian of North Judeon, was struok and instantly killed at that plsoe last Friday evening in stepping in front of a fast Erie train to get out of the way of a freight. The family of George Striokfaden received a dispatch from George Tuesday stating that bis mother, who has been in poor health for some time, was dead. She resided in the eastern part of the state.

Misses Edith and Mary Miller are visiting in Mt. Ayr. The Catbolio fair next week promisee to be one of the best ever held here. X’Geo. Markin was called to Nbirth Dakota Saturday by the serious sickness of his son. Begin the new year right by* subscribing for the Jasper County Democrat, “the taxpayers’ friend.” JA daughter was born last week 4oDc. and Mrs. Wallace Parkison of Ambia, formerly of near Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Natt Scott were called to Franklin Thursday by the death of the latter's grandmother. Monticello Herald: Miss Manda Hoyes left here Monday evening to spend Christmas with her sisterat Aurora, 111. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Michael of Chicago returned home Saturday after a visit here with the latter’s sister, MfibA. Prewitt. The report that Cooney Kellner, in view of the recent decision of the supreme court, would open up a “wholesale” liquor shop here, is not correct, he states, and he has no intention of doing so. Monticello Journal: Marshall O. A. Rothrock went, to Monon last evening and arrested Wm. Goldsbury as a deserter from the 26th Coast Artillery. He will be turned over to Federal authorities at Sheridan. Saturday’s Hammond Times: Miss Frances Hamacher will leave Hammond the middle of next week for Parr, Ind., where she will spend the holiday vacation. Miss Hamacher will give two elocutionary recitals during her visit there. In connection with the Farmers’ Institute there will be a bntter show. B. D. Comer has offered the following prizes for the best pound of butter made by a DeLaval cream separator: Ist prize, $1.50; 2d prize, $1.00; 3rd prize 50c. Judged by a competent judge. The Chinaman he eats rats and mice, the Frenchman he eats frogs, the Canibal he eats human meats, the African native dogs. Various tribes like various things, each cooked on his special plan, but the American gobbles ■ the whole layout when he takes his grub from a can. —Ex. M. Worland of Newton tp., ’who sold bis farm last fall, has bought the C. A. Roberts brick building just north from The Democrat office, and will move back to town and engage in the carriage and implement business. The consideration for the building and ground was $3,600, all cash. Attorney E. P. Honan returned from Indianapolis Monday night where he had been for nearly a week on a case in which the Catholic Order of Foresters was defendant. Mr. Honan was one of the attorneys for the defense and the defense won out. It was a case where a man joined the order and seoured insurance under false representations regarding hereditary diseases in his family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carter of Silver Lake, lnd„ visited friends and relatives near Mt. Ayr a few days this week. They have sold off their personal property and rented their farm at Silver Lake and will go to Pueblo, Colo., and may remain there for a year or two, where they have a son who has lung trouble. Charlie says he has refused <IOO per acre for bis farm, which he paid only $57 for some five years ago, and he has bad good crops from it every year also.

At the special meeting of the ooanty commissioners Saturday only one bid was filed on stationery classes 1. 2,3, and that by the Burt-Terry-Wilson 00., of Lafayette; two bids—F. E. Babcock and Leslie Clark—were made on class 4. No bids made on olase s—janitor’s supplies. The matter of awarding contracts was continued to the regular January term to allow the auditor time to go over the bids and see that they were within the appropriation and whioh was the lowest.

A package postmarked Hartline, Wash.* and direoted to Mias Ellen Imler (or Climer, or Elmer) Rensselaer, Ind., R. R. 3, is bothering the carrier on this route, as he oan find no one to deliver it to and the last name is so written that it might mean any o! the above names. The package is evidently a Christmas present and 16 cents postage was paid on the same. Any reader knowing who this package is intended for will confer a favor on the lady, no doubt, by telling her about it.

Buy your parohment butter wrappers at The Democrat offioe. The entries in the dairy contest at the Farmer’s Institute next week will be free, and a man from Purdue University will do the scoring. /vSllery Moorhead of Limon.Col., the guest of his brother Albert last Friday and Saturday. He is npw visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Moorhead, in Jennings county. The court of inquiry being conducted by special prosecuting attorney Geo. E. Hershman at Remington was adjourned last Friday until Thursday of this week, when it was resumed again. The Maude Henderson Co. will close their week’s engagement at Ellis opera house tonight. They have been putting on some good plays here this week. Next week they will show in Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wartena bad a pleasant party last evening in honor of their guests from Rensselaer, who are: Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Wartena and daughter, Adela. Thursday’s Hammond Times. It has been rumored that Congressman Crumpacker would come to Rensselaer during the holidays to "lift the veil” in the postmaster contest, but at this writing he has not made his appearance. Gr y hairs are fast accumulating on the heads of several would-be patriots. \/Yes, we had ideal Christmas whether. The ground remained frozen bard until Thursday of this week, when it began to thaw some and a little rain fell; thelightcovering of snow also remained until Thursday. We had a “white Christmas” and the weather was all that could have been desired.

In the case against W. E. Walker, ex-olerk of the town of Wolcott, growing out of the election muddle there, Judge Wasson of the White circuit court granted defendant a new trial, holding that while defendant did wrong in withholding the booko from his successor, the evidence showed no criminal intent, and the verdict of the jury was too severe. A grewsome accident occurred at Delphi last Friday during the burial of John W. Fawcett, an old resident of that place. In lowering the casket into the grave one of the straps broke, letting the front end of the casket drop suddenly while the foot was lodged on the end of the grave. The force of the fall and the position of the casket forced the head of the corpse up through the glass and lid and into plain view of the friends assembled about the open grave, and the awfulnees of the sight caused some to scream in terror while others nearly swooned away. The straps used are said to have been new ones that had not been properly tested. The fact does not seem to be generally known that there is a section of the game law passed two years ago by which the punishment for hunting on Sunday is from $1 to SSO fine under section 606 of the 1905 acts, and under section 626 of the same acts if you plead guilty, a tine of S2O must be assessed for the benefit of the state game warden. Note the point if you “plead guilty” the justice of the peace has no option. If you have a trial the jury may only fine you sl. Anyway there are no hitches in the way the machine worked when Lee Martin, deputy game warden, caught George Sheetz, Peter Niichel, Jr., Henry Gerlaoh, Lon Weddle and Elmer Campbell hunting last Sunday, and it cost them over S3O each in Squiae Stevenson’s court Monday. Moral —Don’t hunt on Sunday.— Benton Review. Maude Irwin, assistant oashier in the State Bank, has tendered her resignation to take effeot next Monday and the day following will leave for El Paso, Texas, where she will be married Jan. 3 to Mr. M. C. Kenton of Globe, Arizona. Her place will be filled by W. H. Beam, who for several years has been the Monon’s railroad agent at Rensselaer. The groom-to-be is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kenton, former residents of near Surrey, this county, now of Burnett,Cali., and a brother of Mrs. A. Parkison of this oity and O. J. Kenton of Bnrrey J V , 'He has been in Globe for several years and is now treasurer of the Old Dominion Commercial Co., a large mining, banking and mercantile oonoern of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Kenton will go for a three weeks' wedding trip down through Old Mexioo, after which they will take np their residence in Globe. The many friends of Miss Irwin will join The Democrat in extending hearty congratulations.

BRIGADE POST IN VIEW

Fort Ben Harrison May Be Promoted, Much to Indianapolis Peoples’ Delight. STATE SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET Question Uppermost Is That of Better Pay—Governor at Work on HU Message. Indianapolis, Dec. 28.—Much interest has been aroused in this city by a report emanating from Washington that the war department will recommend that Fort Benjamin Harrison be made a brigade post. Should the plan be carried out over 6,000 acres will be added to the present regimental post, now in course of construction. This would make Fort Benjamin Harrison the training reservation for troops of the northern district of the United States army and the militia of the central states. A brigade post is a place where an entire brigade can be stationed and where the troops will receive the benefit of regimental and brigade drill and Instruction. The three arms of the service—lnfantry, cavalry and artillery—would co-operate at a brigade post In manoeuvers the same as if in active service. Governor and His Message. Indianapolis. Doc. 28.—1 tis understood that Governor Haniy is getting his message licked into final shape now, and that the last work will be largely that of elimination. Nothing has been given out concerning the message, but from the many consultations that the governor has had with different politicians, state officers, lawyers and others, the general situation as to the message has become pretty well understood around the state house. It seems that now the question Is one of cutting out and cutting down. State Teachers Assembled. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. The State Teachers’ association has begun its annual convention here, and 4.000 are expected to attend before the session closes. The prospects of this meeting being the one to accomplish the longdesired object of obtaining reasonable salaries for teachers seem good. B. F. Moore, of Marion, president of the assocltaion, and also chairman of the commission appointed by Governor Haniy to investigate salary and other legislation at the coming session of the general asesmbly. declared before the first session opened that he and the other officers of the association are full of encouragement. Plenty of Encouragement. “We hear nothing but the most favorable sentiment,” he said, “and look for the same sort of action. I have talked with a great number of legislators. and all have expressed themselves in favor of having salaries of teachers increased.” GIRL WHO LOVES AN ENGINE Runs Her Father’s Sawmill and Traction Machine, and Also a Locomotive. Shelbyvllle, Ind., Dec. 28. —Delouris Lizabeth Harrison, although only 15 years old, has filled for the last two years the responsible position of engineer at her father’s sawmill near Needham, Johnson county. The girl loves her engine. In speaking of her work she says: “I grew up in this old mill and always had a desire to be near an Engine. I never see steam but I can fairly feel every pulsation of the dear old engine. Yes, I have studied engineering some and intend to make It a business.” During the threshing season Miss Harrison is often seen In the cab of her father’s traction engine pulling the big separator and water tank along the road, going from one farm to another to thresh wheat. She also not infrequently can be seen in the cab of a Big Four locomotive in the place of the engineer, and understands her duties perfectly.

Bridegroom Disappears. Indlannpolls, Dec. 28. Miss Grace Mooreman and Henry Elliott, well known in the college suburb of Irvington, were to have been married, but Elliott did not appear, although the guests and the minister were ready. When search was made for him he could not be found. His Intended bride Is prostrated. Her condition Is such as to awaken serious fears on the part of her friends. First of the Sort at Anderson. Anderson, Ind., Dec. 28. —In the city court Mrs. Bridget O’Neill forfeited a bond of S2O that she had previously given when she was arrested on the charge of selling liquor on a holiday. Bhe Is the first woman ever arrested In this city on a charge of violating the liquor law. Had Been Let Loose Insane. Hillsboro, Ind., Dec. 28. Daniel Nine, a farmer, 45 years old, committed suicide at his home near this place by hanging himself In his barn. Nine had recently been released from the Insane hospital at Indianapolis, but preparations were making to have him returned. Murder Over a Line Fenoe North Vernon, Ind., Dec. 28.—As the result of a dlsputeover a dividing fence Eliajh Covert shot and instantly killed Charles Thorp near here. Both men are prominent farmers.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Disestablishment In France. M. Georges Clemenceau, premier of France, whose rigid enforcement of the separation law disestablishing the Roman Catholic church has aroused Catholics all over the world, was at one time a resident of the United States. During the last four years of the second French empire Clemenceau lived here, and iu the city hall. New

M. GEOROGES CLEMENCEAU.

York, he married Miss Mary Plummer of Greenwich, Conn. The marriage was not happy, and after living apart several years Mme. Clemenceau secured a divorce. She returned to America and died here several years ago. Premier Clemenceau has had an extraordinary political career. For years he was called the Warwick of France. He fought for Dreyfus with tongue, pen and the dueling pistol. Clerueuceau has been a member of several cabinets and last October became premier. Newspapers Kind to Secretary Moody. The new supreme court Justice, William H. Moody, Is coming in for no end of chaffing, both here and at his home In Massachusetts, over the publication in two Philadelphia papers of some remarkable photographs. Mr. Moody was snapped by the photographers while at the army and navy game in Philadelphia. When the pictures appeared in the papers one was labeled “Attorney General and Mrs. Moody,” and the other was “Secretary of the Navy Moody and daughter.” Inasmuch ns the new justice is an eligible bachelor, the photographs aroused loud laughter. Mr. Moody says the trouble arose over the fact that he happened to be sitting between two chnrmlng ladles, and the newspapers presented them to him, one as a wife and the other as a daughter.—Boston Post Little, bat Ob, My! Allessandro Bond, the new tenor of the Manhattan Opera House, New York, is the smallest singer who has ever appeared before the public. With high heels and every other aid to increased stature be is barely five feet high. In spite of this drawback Signor Bond is one of the two most famous tenors in Europe. The other is Caruso, and the extent of the rivalry between them may be understood from the fact that Signor Bond, who had booked his passage on the same steamer with Signor Caruso, refused to sail when he learned that his compatriot was also to be a passenger. Signor Bond says that, “although the Americans have big ships, there never was yet built one big enough to bold me and Signor Caruso.”

The Bellamy Storer AOalr. Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of the former ambassador to Austria, whose recent controversy with President Roosevelt excited wide interest, has been conspicuous in Catholic circles for some years. The interest which Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy Storer have shown in the advancement of Archbishop Ireland is explained by the fact that the prelate converted both to his faith. Mrs. Storer was one of the leaders in the movement to establish the Cath-

MBS. BELLAMY STORER.

olic cathedral in Cincinnati on the hilltops. Bhe offered Archbishop Elder her beautiful home for the church. The agitation following the offer was such that the archbishop decided to remain downtown. To the friendship of Archbishop Ireland and the Storers Is said to have been due the hearty support given to President McKinley by the prelate. Mgr. Ireland’s service for the Republican ticket In 1890 made President McKinley anxious to show hla gratitude. and the prelate Is said to have asked for preferment for Mr. Storer, which resulted In bis appointment as minister to Belgium.

HAS THE LOOK OF WAR

Reports from Wahalak, Miss., Seem to Indicate a Large “Butcher’s Bill.’’ FACTS APPEAR HARD TO GET Many Whites and Negroes Reported to Have Been Killed. Latest Story of the Origin of the Affair Does Not Agree with the First—Labor Riot in Kentucky. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 26.—A longdistance telephone message from Scooba, Miss., says that seven persons have been killed in a race clash in that vicinity. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 26. Late at night Governor Vardaman received a telegram from J. A. Quarles, a prominent citizen of Seooba, Miss., stating that a further uprising had occurred in which five unknown negroes were killed and that their slayers had been captured, and asking that twenty-five troopers be dispatched to that place to help hold the prisoners. Governor Vardaman promptly instructed the colonel commanding at Meridian to ask for a special train over the Mobile and Ohio railroad and to go to the scene as quickly as possible. Men Are Slow at Responding. But at midnight the troops had not sur-eeeded in getting away because of an insufficient number responding. It was announced that a company of infantry and a battery of artillery would J?ave on the regular train. The best information obtainable confirms the report of rioting, and places the killed at six negroes and one white man, with another white man believed to be fatally wounded. Another report stated that the white dead reached four, making a total of ten. This, however, was not confirmed. Looks Like a Regular War.

Wahalak, Miss., Dec. 20. Conductor Robert Harrison, of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, who was ambushed and seriously wounded by a negro, is dead. The racial troubles at this place were caused primarily by the meeting in a narrow roadway of wagons driven by a white farmer and a negro, respectively. The negro abused the white ntan, who reported the occurrence to the white villagers at Wahalak. Whites immediately organized themselves, and in a fight with the negroes of the commanity a number of white men was killed, including one of the most prominent men of the vicinity. The number of negroes killed in the rioting ha* never been approximated, but dead negroes have been found in many parts of the settlement since the trouble started. SOME DETAILS ARE TOLD News Brought by Troops That Had Been at Wahalak. Meridian. Miss., Dec. 20.—From the officers of a force of troops who returned here yesterday from Wahalak. supposing the trouble ended, the following is obtained: After the arrival of the militia at Wahalak no disturbance occurred, although It Is believed that three negroes, including George Simpson, one of the principals in the disturbance aboard the Mobile and Ohio train, had been lynched just before the arrival of the troops. The citizens of Wahalak will not admit the fact that the men were captured by a mob, but say they were “lost in the swamp” while on their way to town. Two sons of Simpson were shot to death later As near as can be ascertained at this time the casualties resultant from the trouble are as follows: Unknown negro. shot by Conductor Cooper on the train: Constable O’Brien, killed by precipitator of the trouble, George Simpson, when an attempt at arrest was made; George Simpson, lynched: Tom Simpson, son of George Simpson, shot to death by a white mob near Wahn!ak: Jim Sltnpson, another son, shot to death: two unknown negroes, lynched; Conductor Cooper, seriously Injured by being cut nnd stabbed seven times by George Simpson on the passenger trnln; behind Sparkman, soldier, flesh wound In left knee, accidental discharge of his own pistol. Officers of the company state that on their arrival at Wahalak no county officials were on hand to which they could report, and thnt during their slay there none of the county officials appeared among the troops. Colonel McCant*. who was In charge of the troops, forbade armed bodies of men riding through the country, and would permit no acts which Indicated violence. The soldiers say they found armed men from other places In charge when they reached the scene. LABOR RIOT IN KENTUCKY Strikers and Mine Guards Indulge la a Fatal Fusillade. Owensboro, Ky„ Dec. 20. Three men were killed and four wounded In a battle between guards employed by the West Kentucky Coal company at Sturgis, Union county, and the strlkIng miners at that place. The dead are: C. J. Dougherty, mine guard; Billy Malloy and Will Gray, miners. The wounded are —L. I. Moore, mlna guard, will die; Sam Barneby, miner, dying; William Goch and Henry Delaney, miners, shot In the arm. The fight occurred In a downtown street about one mile from the min*.