Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1907 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Item* of Interest to City end • < Country Reader*. Corn, 48c; oat* 40c. Come to Rensselaer the 4th. Ike Tuteur of Chicago is here. LaMpnt Bros. Circuax Monday. Miss Edna Tyner of Monon visited friends here this week. Remember the free street parade' of LaMont Bros, circus next Monday. Dr. Albert Overton of Illinois, was visiting relatives here this week. . - Fred Parcels is here from St. Louis for a visit with his wife and parent*. Mr. and Mrs. John Bislosky spent Sunday with relatives in Chicago, y j Ralph Jones of Chicago visited. I his brother, Chas, Chamberlain, here this week. Three dollhrs gets The Democrat and Chicago Daily Examiner each a full year. John Zimmerman is making some improvements to his residence on Cullen street.

"Mrs.' Mary E. Lowe went to Chicago Saturday to take further treptinent at a hospital there. Z\There was a large turnout Sunday to the Memorial sermon by Rev. Utter at the M. E. church. ' Mrs. Chas. Porter of Chicago is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Williams, here this week. /New subscribers to The Democrat this by postoffices: Rensselaer, 1; Chief Lake, Mich,, 1.

A. J, Brenner is moving to Evanston, 111., this week, where he ■lias the management of the Monnett hJtel. . O. W. Bridges of Indianapolis is visiting last week and this with the family of his brother-in-law, I. A. Glaze brook. Lee Kepner, who has been working for the Lafayette Bridge Co., at Mishawaka, Ind., returned home last Friday.

f FMiss Bailie Rishling, southeast of town, left for Indianapolis Sunday to visit her sister awhile and topwork in a bospitai. Bev, Father George Heldman of St Joseph’s College, delivered the memorial sermon for the G. A. R.’a Elwood last Sunday.

Councilman Gerber and son Guy were over the cyclone route Wednesday viewing the damage wrought in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr, '>4se Illinois 2-oent fare law goes into effect July 1, we understand, after wbidh date the rate to Chicago from Rensselaer will be >1.46. and Mrs. Roy Chisom and little daughter of Englewood visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy Saturday and Sunday. Benton Review: Charles Colvin, of Wheatfield, Ind., is here and will work for Jay Smith. He is an old time Fowlerite who has just returned.

Mr. John Stively, accompanied by his grand-daughter, Miss Opal Sharp, went to Ohio Monday for a month’s visit with relatives at the former’s old home in Yelverton, Coca-Oola is never bottled only in Coca-Cola bottles, with the CocaOola label and Coca-Cola crown. All others are imitations. Bay the genuine Coca-Cola at Viok’s 4 Stajeb. S<The frame is up and enclosed 4obElizur Sage’s big new 13,000 farm house in Newton, tp., and when completed it will probably be the best farmhouse in that township. of-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler of this city, was married last week in New York City to Mr. Jesse 0. Corvalho of Elizabeth, \N. Y., where they will reside. Evidently the blanket remonstrance law is not curtailing the number saloons in Hammond to any appreciable extent. 1 The Lake County News of last week contained notice of 22 applications for license. % The LaMont Bros., shows, which exhibit here next Monday afternoon and evening, travel overland and and come here from Kentland where they show Saturday. The show will probably reach here some time Sunday forenoon, and will pitch its tents in Milroy Park.

' Butter wrapper* printed while you wait at The Democrat office. Mr*. Rose Ladd of Fowler is visited her sister, Mrs. W. J. Imes. 160,000,000 bottles of Coca-Cola sold in 1906. On sale at Vick’s 4 States. - “ ' . - . . T _ J'’ Mr*. Carrie Lagen returned to her home In Woodstock, 111., Tuesday after a month’s visit with ber father, Nelson Randle. -V-BKeriff O’Connor received word yesterday that his daughters, Ella and Lottie, who are attending the St, Joseph’s Academy at philioothe, Mo., will graduate \this spring. ________ A. V. Farmer, who has been dredging on the Hodge ditch, near Wheatfield, has completed the job, and moved his family back to Rensselaer and occupies the former Tom Sayler property on Front street, now owned by A. Leopold.

-VVery large hail fell during the last Sunday evening, in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr, but the town escaped the cyclone’s {rath, and it was fortunate it did, or standing on an eminence as it does, not much would have been left to tell the story had it been directly in its way.

Mis* Lillian Karch of south of Wheatfield, who attended high school here this winter, boarding with Mrs. W.*H. Parkison, died at her home last week of typhoid fever after about three weeks sickness. Funeral was held Saturday afternoon. A handsome floral offering was sent by her classmates in the high school.

T. A. Crockett and Mesdames Jesse Nichols and J. W. Childers were among those from here who attended the G. A. R. encampment at Ft. Wayne last week bat whom we did not learn of to give with the list appearing in our last issue. Mrs, John Duvall of Rensselaer vias elected delegate to the national W. R. C., convention which meets at Saratoga, N. Y., next September,

While raining on Wednesday evening of last week the lightning struck four large trees standing in the yard on the Grant farm southeast of town now occupied by Fred Rishling. Some of the tree* were standing within 25 feet of the house and to all was attached a clothesline which was torn np badly and ihe trees also, bnt no other damage was done.

The Yeoman boys, Ray and Roe, and other senior students of Purdue, are. home for the senior vacation. The junior students will not come home until June 8. Both the Yeoman boys will graduate this year in civil engineering and Emory Mills, also from Rensselaer, will graduate in mechanical engineering. Graduating or commencement exercises will be from June 4 to 12.

A move is now on foot to issue stock for the proposed LafayetteChicago electric line through a Chicago brokerage firm to the amount of $1,000,000, and for 60 days to offer same to people tributary to the proposed line. A contract to this effect has been signed up by the local officers of the road and as soon as SIOO,OOO worth of the stock is sold it is proposed to begin work on the line.

Dr, G. W. Proudley of Fair Oaks, who died of tuberculosis last week at Altooua, Pa., where he had gone for the benefit of his health, leaves a wife and five children, four sons and one daughter—Raymond of Washington, D. C.; Henry W. and Harry H., of Denver, Colo.; Edward, of Chicago,.and Mrs. Alice B. Erwin of Fair Oaks. He had resided in Fair Oaks a number of years.

Chester Aldrich, formerly of Remington, died at his Jfidme near Hutchinson, Kan., last week after an extended sickness from consumption, His brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Emerald Aldrich of Rensselaer, were with him when he died. He leaves a widow and nine children, ranging in age from two to twenty-two years. /He was a brother of Emerald and Granville Aldrich and Mrs. Lyman Zea of this city.

The cold, beastly weather is still in evidence most of the, time. Quite a heavy frost fell in various sections of the county Monday night. The wise man still hangs on to his overcoat, and while most people have taken down their base-burners the kitchen stove is kept going full tilt and the kitchen is at present the most popular sitting room in most of homes. Yesterday was cold and cloudy and overcoats and fires were needed to keep out the chill. No more backward spring than this is ever remembered.

A TWISTER.

Continued From Flrat Page. Coming west the next damage of importance and where the wind must have been of particular fierceness, was at the H. O. Harris farm, occupied by Michael Nagle in Newton >p., this county. Here no buildings were wrecked, the storm passing on the north side of the road, but the heavy timber was mowed down in terrible shape, most of it being from 6 to 20 feet above the ground and some being upturned at the roots, The path was perhaps 30 or 40 rods in width here. Many of the trees were one and two, perhaps some three feet through, yet they were broken and, twisted off like pipe-stems. At R. J. Yeoman’s several trees in the orchard were blown down, the wheel blown from bi* windmill and other slight damage done.

At the Curtis Creek ditch some damage to timber on the the east thereof was noticed at widely varying points, and the storm must have spread out somewhat. At A. K. Saylor’s the barn was completely blown away and some trees uprooted. Joseph Yeoman of Rensselaer and his brother-in-law, J. J. Moore of Trafalgar, Ind., were caught by the storm near A. K. Saylor’s while returning from a visit to R. J. Yeoman’s, and their buggy overturned and broken. Both gentlemen are quite well along in years and they were quite severely shaken up, although no bones were broken. Mr. Yeoman’s neck was quite severely strained bnt he is reported as getting along all right at present. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Sayler were also returning home and were caught in the storm when almost at their gate, their buggy upset and the occupants dumped out, but not seriously hurt. At Benton Kelley’s, west of Baylor’s, the barn was completely blown away and an out-building picked up and carried several hundred feet and dropped into an oat field.

On the road north from Wm. Augspurger’s several large black cherry trees were blown down, and quite a good deal of damage was done to John Makeever’s timber east of Benton Kelley’s. At the John Makeever farm, occupied by Joseph Schuerioh, the big crib was mo veer off its foundation and the entire roof of the main part of the barn carried away. This roof is supposed to still be going, as nothing ha* since been seen of it.

The worst damage done to farm buildings in this county was at the Churchill farm, about 2 miles northwest of Rensselaer. Here was a fine large barn, built only two years ago. It was blown over toward the northeast and practically all the lower studding broken, the east side mashed in and the entire structure so badly wrecked that it would seem that it is be* yond repair. Some five head of horses were in barn at the lime, and three of these were dragged along with the barn and were pinioned down by the broken timbers. 'They were extricated and were found to be practically uninjured. The other two, it is thought, escaped when the barn was lifted from its foundation, it being the theory that it was lifted up bodily and these two horses escaped from under it before it struck the ground again. A large double crib 32x16 with 10 foot driveway in the center, partly filled with com, was leveled to the ground, a good rubber-tired buggy completely torn to pieces, a new farm wagon wrenched and one axle broken, while orchard and shade trees were broken and uprooted and one tree carried several rods over near the railroad. A large balsam tree 18 inches in diameter that stood on the west side of the house was twisted off some six feet above the ground, carried completely over the house and is supposed to have knocked off the chimney from the main part in its passage. The wheel from the windmill was torn off here and dropped over the frame of the mill. Two currents of the wind apparently met at the Churchill place, and the damage wrought* is probably in excess of SI,OOO besides the loss to orchard and shade trees. Two or three panes of glass were hroken in the house, but this was apparently all the damage done thereto. There was considerable hail and the noise of the wind drowned the tearing of trees and buildings, so that the family saw none of the flying timber or trees. There is an open space of country east of the Churchill farm and the next obstruction in the way of the wind was at Bruce Porter’s farm north of Rensselaer 1| miles, where the south side of the house was unroofed, windmill plown dowp. oom crib carried some distance and partly demolished, hay

ladder*, carried across the road and smashed to pieces, etc, ; Next heard of the cyclone was at the R. A. Parkison farm, some 8 miles northeast of town, where some sheds were blown down and a hog killed. Its force seems to have been pretty well spent there and no further damage is reported. Most of the Newton-oounty people damaged carried cyclone insurance, but Mr. Churchill nor others in this county carried any so for a* learned. One peculiar feature of the storm is that farm houses were practically uninjured, while barns, cribs and other outbuildings, together with large tree* standing all about the houses in some instances, were destroyed. Perhaps this is due to the fact that a house is better braced by reason of the many partitions, while barns and cribs are openly constructed and practically empty of hay er corn at this season. Another peculiarity is the absence, of any fatalities or serious injuries, except a* noted, considering the distance the storm traveled.

OBITUARY.

Mary J. Towne was',born in Lafayette, Ind., July 4, 1859, and died at her home at West Vernon, Gillam tp., Jasper county, May 20, 1907, aged 47 years, 10 months and 16 days. The early party of her life was spent in Lafayette and near Goodland in Newton county. She was married to James W. Toyne, January 1877. To this union were born two children, Carl W. and Ella Josephine, who is now the wife of Mr. Frank Lefever. Mrs. Toyne, as a child, was reared in the Catholic faith and though she did not actively adhere to that church, she was always influenced by it. For twenty years she has been a resident in the community of her home. For the last five years she has been a sufferer and especially for the last two years has suffered much. She has always been known as a faithful wife and loving mother. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon. Short services were held at the home, after which the funeral cortege proceeded to Medaryville, where services were had in the Christian church, Rev. Will B. Warriner officiating. Interment followed in the Medaryville cemetery.—Medaryville Advertiser.

A dear one from u« hat gone, A voice we loved la stilled; A ehair ia vacant in our home Which never ean be filled. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kind assistance during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother. J. W. Toyne and Children.

Dandelions With Bacon.

Clean thoroughly a half peck of dandelions and put over the fire, with boiling water to cover. Cook ten minutes, drain, return to the pan and cover barely with fresh boiling water. Add one pound bacon, two chopped onions, a teaspoonful of salt and a bit of red pepper. Cover and boil until tender and nearly dry. Take up the dandelions and mound on a hot dish, surrounded with a circle of the bacon sliced thin, and serve with boiled potatoes. Dandelions are also tasty cooked with corned beef or tongue.

A Nursery Convenience. The housewife is very often perplexed to find a good method of washing and draining nursery and other bottles. The health of children using nursing bottles depends considerably on keeping the bottles absolutely clean. Todo this properly a device suc> as the one shown here Is of great assistance. It

BOTTLE DRAINING BACK.

can be attached to the wall just above tin sink, and as the bottles are washed they can be put to drain by placing B position in the holders, usefulness of the rack lit Just below the holdes of hooks x ecured to e trough. There Is sufstween the holds to ad* be stood upright in the trough. - Remember The Democrat office for job printing.

LAW FOR SALOONISTS

Stat* Suweme Court Sustains an Ordinance That Fixe* Cer> tain City Boundaries. GIRL TRIES TO KILL HERSELi Does It Almost in the Hour Set foi Wedding—Hoosier State Her ... Miscellany. Indianapolis, May 29. The supreme court holds that a city ordinance, not only forbidding saloons outside of the business part of the city, but eiso defining the boundaries of the business part, so as x to include only a few squares surrounding the court bouse and the place where most of the business is done. Is valid. It holds that the only ground on which such an ordinance can be successfully attacked is that the city has beep guilty of an unreasonable abuse of its power and discretion In declaring such boundaries.

State Controls the Traffic. It also declared that a state may authorize saloons to be licensed and that the saloon business is lawful except as declared unlawful by the state. A judgment in favor of John W. Thompson, in a prosecution against him for violation of a city ordinance of Greencastle, by keeping a saloon near the Big Four station, was reversed and a new trial ordered. He Violated the Ordinance. The ordinance fixed the boundaries of the business part of town as Columbia street on the north. Market street on the west, Walnut street on the south and College avenue on the fast, and Thompson’s saloon was four squares north of Columbia street. It was surrounded by two railway stations, a beer depot, an oil storage tank, a livery stable, a poultry house and a restaurant, respectively, on different sides, and the nearest residence _was 800 feet away.

States Have Full Authority. After quoting the language of the new city and town act, that cities “may define such suburban or residence and business parts of any such city,” may “tax” saloons and charge a license fee for any saloon within two miles of the city limits. Judge Montgomery said that It is “well settled that the several states in the exercise of their sovereign power, have full authority, except as restricted by constitutional provision, to enact any measures deemed expedient to suppress intemperance and minimize the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors, whether by prohibiting or by restricting and licensing the sale of such liquor*.”

SAID SHE WOULD RATHER DIE Girl Quarrels with Her Fiance on the Day Set for Marriage and Takes Poison. Marlon. Ind., May 29.—After a quarrel which resulted in her refusal to marry William Burns, Miss Linnfe Lawrence, aged 17 years, attempted suicide in the presence of her fiance, at the hour set for the wedding. The nature of the disagreement has not been divulged. Burns called at the Lawrence home dressed for the ceremony. He found the girl talking with her mother and apparently unprepared for the marriage. He tried to persuade her to go on with their plans, but for some reason she refused stubbornly. Suddenly she excused herself for a moment and returned with a bottle of carbolic acid, purchased in the morning. “I would rather die,” she cried, stepping toward Burns. Then she swallowed the contents of the vial. Burns ran to the street to search for a physician and soon three were on hand, but it is believed that the girl cannot live.

’ Looks Like Going to Work. Indianapolis. May 29.—A mortgage sor 1 115,000,000 made to the Western Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago, on the property of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Evansville railroad, to secure a bond issue in this sum for the construction of the road, has been filed at the office Of the county recorder here. A representative of a Chicago construction company made the statement that work would begin on the road at once. Kitten Has a Cotton-Tail. Shelbyville, Ind., May 29. Eart Higginfi, who lives in this city, has a freak kitten, which has the appearance of an ordinary cat, with the exception that it has the tall of a rabbit It travels over the ground with the long swinging leaps which distinguish the rabbit and the tracks left resemble those of a bunny.

Struck by .Lightning in Church. Wabash, Ind., May 29.—While singing in the choir of the United Brethren church, of which her husband is pastor, Mrs. D. W. Zartman was struck by lightning, rendered unconscious, and perhaps fatally injured. No one else was struck by the bolt, which put out the lights in the building and caused a panic. 1 Just aa oid as the State. Evansville. Ind., May 29. Anderson, aged 91, who was born at New Harmony on the day Indiana was admitted as a state into the Union, April 19. 1816, is dead at bls home la New Harmony.

HE ROBBED HIS SISTER

Man ofThr** Score Years and Ten Commit* a Crim* and Ha* Disappeared. ■ I ■ ■ . z ■ ■ II ■ T I—II ■ ■ ■■■ I! —■ STEALS $50,000 II SECURITIES Disposes of *IB.OOO Worth of Them and Drops Out of Sight-Oth-er Indiana Matters. Indianapolis, May 30. The police are searching for Frederic* William Hoen, who la charged with the larceny of $60,000 worth of bonds and stocks from a safety deposit box in Fletcher’s National bank belonging to hl* sister, Mrs. Christina Nold. A warrant was issued for EEoen’s arrest oa the charge of grand larceny. Hoen is thought to have left the city. Has Completely Disappeared. Later details develop the following: The robbery of $50,000 in stock* and bonds from a safety deposit vault, flight to Cincinnati and disposal of SIB,OOO worth of his plunder, then complete disappearance. This is the result of one day’s police investigation and search for Hoen, who is aged 70 years, resident of this city. Found Her Vault Empty.

The discovery of the robbery, which already has resulted in the beginning of an exhaustive search of half a do«en cities of the south and east, waa made a week ago when Mrs. Nold returned from a visit to Ohio. Going to her deposit vault she discovered it empty with the exception of one eavelope containing the securities of a brewing company valued at SIO,OOO. The other bonds, comprising her entire fortune, had disappeared. Broker Gets *IB,OOO Worth. Suspicion was not directed to her brother until Tuesday, when a letter was received from a Cincinnati broker maklnginquiriesof stocks and bonds which he purchased from the aged brother, acting as business agent for his sister. Tills broker has arrived In Indianapolis with his attorney to investigate the matter, and declares he purchased SIB,OOO worth of stocks and bonds from Hoen. SHE WANTED TO BE SURE Woman Telephones an Alarming Story in Order to Get a Hurry on the Police. Terre Haute, Ind., May 30. Mr*. W. J. Clute, six miles south of Terre Haute, telephoned to the sheriff of Vigo county that a man by the name of Harris and two women, members of his family, had been murdered. The sheriff and deputies hurried to the scene, but while they were on their way the woman telephoned to bls office and acknowledged that there was no murder.

She said she was afraid her brother, Jacob Fread, would kill her husband; that he was in front of the house with a shotgun waiting for Clute, and she knew that she was certain of getting officers there by telling that there had been a murder. The man was quieted before doing violent Injury to any person. Three of a Kind, All Queens. Marlon, Ind., May 30.—8 y the birth of triplets to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods, of 935 North Branson street, the number of children In the Woods family, Is Increased to twelve. The three new arrivals are all girls, and average four and three-fourths pounds in weight. They are all healthy and well-formed babies. Although the Woods family of children was regarded as large before the birth of the triplets there had never been anything but a single birth. Mrs. Woods la 35 years old and her husband is 41.

Two Boys Blown to Pieces. Terre Haute, Ind., May 30. —By the explosion of several hundred pounds of powder at the storage house of the Farnsworth mine, near Sullivan, two boys were blown to pieces and three others more or less seriously hurt. The dead are: Claude Davis, aged 6, and Paul Keen, aged 9. Fatally injured— Arthur McClure, aged 10; Cecil Smith and Davis. The cause of the explosion is not known. It is supposed that the boys Accidentally set the building on fire, u ■■ w, — Tortoise Tha« Goes Slow-, Hillsboro, Ind., May 30. While searching for mushrooms, lee Wilkin son, a merchant of Wkilncc, found a tortoise, with the initials of his father, A. W., and the date of 1872 plainly carved on Its back. Another feature was the fact that the tortoise was found within a half mile of the spot where his father had carved the letters thirty-five years ago.

Fresh Air Killed Him. Elwood, Ind., May 30. —■ Joseph Cregg, 57 years old, a glassworker employed at the National Bottle works, fell dead at the works. He became overheated and stepped outside the shop to get a breath of fresh air. Four Alleged Haaers Arrested Richmond, Ind., May 30. —Four students at Earlham college has been arrested for basing Isaac Stanley and Ernest Andrew, fellow students. They are charged with assault and battery. Army Worm at Work. Poseyville, Ind., May 30. There is anxiety among the farmers about here on account of the ravages of the army worm. .