Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1908 — Page 4

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PRINT SHOP TROUBLES

They Result in the Temporary Suspension of the Public Printer, Stillings. COST OF THE WORK IS HIGHER Also a House Committee Is on the Trail of Graft Tariff Revision (Jp In Both Houses— Manufacturers Denied a Special Message from the President. Washington, Feb. 6.—“ To facilitate the investigation now being made of the government printing office” is the substance of the reason given officially for the “temporary” suspension of Charles A. Stillings, public printer, an act of the president, who has appointed William 8. Hoes Iter to temporarily fill that position. The report recently

CHARLES A. STILLINGS.

made by Dr. G. C. Havenner. of the department of commerce ami labor, that the coat; of printing In the government office had been Increased under Stillhigs’ management, and the developments of a bouse Investigation conducted by Representative Landis,' that there is “irregularity” in the administration of the office, are the grounds of the suspension. Developments of the Inquiry. Landis In a statement says that his ■committee has been reliably informed thnt the “Audit System," a cor|K>ration employed in the government printing office to install a cost, audit and Inventory system, and Its auxiliary company, the Audit System Supply company, not only exerted what seemed to the committee an undue and improper Influence in the government printing office, but were also Interested in the purchase of supplies for the government printing office. It was therefore thought that in fairness to Stillings nnd to nil concerned the public printer sbotild lie temporarily suspended pend ing the result of the Inquiry. Labor Men Have Grievances. Just ns the president's action in sus pending Stillings was being announce ! a committee of labor leaders of tills city called at the White House and presented to the president resolu tions adopted by the Central Labor Lnion here on Jan. 20 last, charging Stillings with violations of the eight-hour law in the government printing office. The president informed the committee of the action lie hail already taken In the case. Resolutions by numerous labor organizations in various cities charging Violation in the government printing office of the eight hour law. discrimination agnnst veteran soldiers and the widows of soldiers, and violation of the civil service law, have been submitted to congress nnd the president.

REVISION OF THE TARIFF

Republicans to Declare Therefor, Says Payne— Urged Beveridge. Washington, Feb. B.—Both houses of congress had a Held day of tariff revision talk, to say nothing of other politics in the house. In the senate Beveridge spoke for an hour and a half, and when he v concluded his remarks Culberson (Texas) remarked that the senator from Indiana was to be congratulated because in some degree, at least, he had joiued the army of tariff revisionists. Beveridge's plea was a vigorous one for •* permanent tariff commission, and for the taking of the tariff question out of politics. In the house Payne was the principal speaker. He roasted the Democracy In true house style and paid his respects to Bryan, who, he said, was wandering up and down the country accusing Theodore Roosevelt of grand or petit larceny “In purloining his ideas." He declared Bryan had written the last three Democratic platforma," except the one that Judge Parker amended with hla famous telegram." When t&e time came for tariff t&yla-

ion. said Payne, speaking at the time of the grievance of newspapers against the paper trust, he would be willing to give all these paper interests 4 fair hearing, and “If necessary for the protection of American labor to keep this duty there, I shall vote to do it. If, however, It Is not necessary I will Inst as cheerfully vote to put white piiper and wood pulp on the free list.” Payne charged that the Democratic party is a party of negation. As for tlie Republicans, he said, they would be at the polls next November with a platform that meant something. They would declare on the tariff question in no uncertain sound. “I don’t mind saying today,” he said, “that it seems to me they will declare for a revision of the tariff.” Republican applause which continued for some time greeted this utterance. The strongest reasons imj>elling the Republicans to that declaration he »uid, “will be the fact that wc need a maximum and a minimum tariff for the purpose of negotiating proper trade agreements with the nations of the earth.” About thirty representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers conferred with President Roosevelt In pursuance of their desire to have him send to congress a special message recommending legislation providing for a tariff commission. After the conference .Tames W. Van Cleave, of St. Louis, chairman of the organization, announced that pledge of entire secrecy regarding the conference had been taken. It was stated at the White House that no special message on the subject of a tartff commission would be sent to congress by the president.

THAWATMATTEAWAN

Slayer of Stanford White Takes Up the “Simple Life" of an Asylum. New York. Feb. 3.—Adjudged not guilty of the murder of Stanford White by reason of Insanity at the time the fatul shots were fired Harry Kendall Thaw was held by the court to be a dangerous lunatic, and was whirled away to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawau. The verdict came after twenty-five hours of waiting, and when every one connected with the case had abandoned all hope of an agreement ever being reached in this or any other trial. Four hours after the foreman’s lips had framed the words “Not guilty,” with the accompanying Insanitly clause. Thaw, protesting he was sane, was on his way to Matteawan. A little after nightfall he had been received in the institution under commitment pai<ers which directed ids detention "until discharged by due course of law.” His Incarceration In Matteawan was by order of Judge Dowling, to which his counsel took an exception, but did not try to stop immediate removal, preferring to have time to consider the best manner of procedure.

NATIONAL LEGISLATURE

Synopsis of the Proceedings in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. Washington, Feb. 4.—Piles (Wasli.i delivered an appeal in the senate in favor of an appropriation by congress of $700,000 for a government exhibit at the A laska-Yukon-Pacitie exposition at Seattle in 1909. The day was chiefly devoted to a consideration of bills on the calendar, several of which were passed. Technically, the Indian appropriation bill was under discussion In the house, but legislation was relegated to the background while national politics occupied the stage, the principal subject being largely the president's recent message. A bill was passed to give so'diers' widows a flat pension of sl2 per month. The bill will increase the pension grant $12,000,000. The vote was unanimous, except for one vote. Washington, Feb. 5. The senate passed the urgent deficiency bill, carry: ing an appropriation of over $24,000,000. The senate devoted two hours to consideration of the criminal code bill. President Roosevelt’s recent message to congress again was the theme of discussion in the bouse, Williams (Miss.) approving some parts of the message and disapproving others. The bill before the bouse was the Indian appropriation, but it was hardly mentioned. The pension bill carrying $150,869,000, was favorably reported. Washington, Feb. 6.—Beveridge delivered an appeal to the senate to adopt his btll providing for a nonpartisan tariff commission, a plan wblcb be declared conformed to mod ern and business ideas on this subject. Following Beveridge’s address several Democratic senators spoke briefly on the general subject of the tariff. Tariff revision and the president’s recent special message again were the main topics of discussion in the house of representatives, with the Indian appropriation bill Ignored. Payne was the chief Republican speaker. No business was done.

Terrible Slaughter of Moors.

London, Feb. 5.—A London news agency publishes a dispatch from Tangier saying there haa been a battle between the French and the Moors near Settat, Morocco, In which 10,000 Moors were killed or wounded, and In which the French losses amounted to 180 men, Including four officers.

FALL WAS HIS DEATH

Captain Marks, Prominent Citizen of Lafayette, Makes a Fatal Slip. HAD A HOVEL WAR EXPERIENCE Lett for Dead on the Field—Recovers, but Is Blind, Deaf and Dumb for a Year. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 6. Cnptair F. Marks, one of Lafayette’s leading citizens, fell at Fourth and Main streets, and died five minutes later of concussion of the brain. He was hurrying to catch a train to go to Ind ! - anapolls ou business. He bad a jgachel in one band. As he was crossing the street from the Lafayette Loan and Tiust building to the artesian well, his foot struck the street car track and he slipped and fell, his head striking the rail. Four men carried film into an adjoining shoe store, where his death followed. Prominent in All Matters. ne had been subject to 'attacks of heart trouble, but the doctor said it was the blow on the head that caused his death. Captain Marks was seventy years old. He had a remarkable war record, and he was prominent In politics and finance and in lodge and church affairs. He was born in this county. He attended DePauw unlver slty before the civil war. Incident of a Battle. One of the Important incidents of his life occurred at 1 the battle of Missionary Ridge, in 1863, where he was in command of a company of the Fortieth Indiana infantry, and was the leader of a charge. Afterward lie was picked up for dead and carried into the 3 woods. Later signs of life were noticed, and he was taken to the hospital at Chattanooga. For a year he was blind, deaf and dumb, but he gradually recovered all his senses. Always a Republican. He returned to Lafayette and was elected county treasurer. He was always a stanch Republican, and a leader in local politics. He owned extensive farm Interests, was a member of the G; A. R. and the LOyal Legion, - and belonged to the Knight Templars and Odd Fellows. He was a trustee of St. Paul’s church, a director of the American National bank, and he was Interested in other enterprises. Son in the Spanish War. A son. Captain Thomas Marks, a leading attorney of Kansas City, was in command of company C, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana infantry, in the Spanish-American war. Besides th's son and a widow, Captain Marks leaves the following children: C. K. Marks, Muskogee, Okla.: Miss Lydia C. Marks, teacher, Lafayette high school; Schuyler C. Marks, an insurance agent of this city, and Mrs. Alice Dolman, also of this city. TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF Proposes to Write Thereon the Record of a Square Man and Good Citizen. Bedford, Ind., Feb. 6. James McDonald. paroled from the Indiana reformatory, has returned to his home In this city. McDonald, not yet thirtyfive years old, first came into notoriety when he was arrested, tried and acquitted of the murder of Miss Sarnli C. Schafer, the Latin teacher, whose dead body was found in a cab shed in an alley on the morning of Jan. 21, 1004. Shortly after his acquittal of this charge he was arrested on complaint of his wife, accused of burning the home which sheltered herself and son. McDonald entered a plea of guilty, although he denied that he had in reality set fire to the home, and he was sentenced to the Indiana reformatory from two to fourteen years. His wife, previously to his sentence, obtained a divorce. He was a model prisoner and got his parole In three years. Ills first act on returning here was to hunt up his divorced wife, and they were re-marrled and are again living together. He has secured steady employment, and he says that from now on his life will be devoted to the happiness of himself and fasjily. Drove Over the Thugs. Peru, Ind., Feb. o.—Four highwaymen failed in an effort to rob Thomas Carvey, cattle buyer, west ofthisdty. while he was driving home from Pern, where be got SSOO with which to paj for stock. Two “holdup men” are supposed to be seriously Injured. They grabbed the reins of hts horses when Carvey struck the team with a whip. The robbers were knocked down, trampled upon and run ovei. He Had a Cold Walk. Owensvllle, Ind., Feb. 6. While the mercury was hovering around zero, Joe Meers, living near Jimtown, Wabash township, made a wager with a friend that be could walk barefooted to the home of a neighbor a quarter of a mile away. The feat was accomplished without difficulty. Wants 95,000 Damages. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 6. Because bis horse became frightened at an excavation on which 'lt Is alleged there were no warning lights, and ran away, dragging him and permanently Injuring him, David Free!, of Huntington, wants $5,000 damages from Hipskltt# k Sons, local contractors.

Chicago Bargain Store SPECIAL TWO WEEKS’ SALE Monday February 3 Saturday Night February 15 I ACT PAI I The Great One-Half Price CLOTHING InMw I wflfcilM and CLOAK H Sale will be continued to Saturday night February 15 Grocery Special Sale at Reduced Prices

25 lbs. H. & E. Granulated Sugar for SI.OO, when you buy $9.00 worth of any other kind of groceries. Fancy Michigan Apples, Belleflower, Spies, Russets, Greenings, etc., now SI.OO and $1.25 per bushel or 25c and 35c pk. Monsoon Flour, equal to any other flour at .50, and guar anteed or money back, } bbl only $1.30. Gold Medal, the world’s best. * bbl $1.50. All Fancy Candies, were 35c and 40c lb., now, choice, per lb 25c. Swifts Clover Brand Bacon, per lb 13c. Swifts Premium Hams, the best, per lb 15c.

The only Cash Grocery in town and the place to save ytfur $ $, and get the best of everything.

10c Embroidery Sale continues, including all the fine embroideries, 1c to $1 per yd. 10 Per Cent Off all Blankets and Comforts. 20 per cent off Lace Curtains. New Spring Carpets and Rugs. See the beautiful new patterns from rag carpets to velvets. Underwear Reductions. all 25c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO, $1.25 and $1.50 single piece or union suits now 19c. 38c, 62c, 75c, $1 and $1.25.

Monday, February 3rd to Saturday Night, Feb. 15

Five Die in Fire.

Kansas Pity, Mo., Feb. 3.—Five persons were burned to death, and five others were injured in a fire in a three-storv rooming house at 1116 Wyandotte street, near the business section, early in the morning. The dead: Mrs. Jennie Bert, aged twentynine, Harrisonville. Mo., Mabel I’oiter, aged eighteen, Nina Graves, aged eighteen, waitresses; Peter Rooney, aged thirty-four, Charles Johnson, aged twenty-eight, cooks. All of the dead, except Mrs. Bert, lived In Kansas City.

Pension Agencies Abolished.

Washimrton, Feb. 5. The pension Mil now before congress abolishes the pension agencies, among others, located at Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus (O.i, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis ami Milwaukee. All agencies are eonsoli dated In one central distributing agency at Washington.

The Democrat and the Chicago Daily Examiner, both a fall year, for only $3.00. PUBLIC SALE. Having decided to quit fanning I will offer at Public Sale, 4 miles south and % mile west of Rensselaer, 8 miles north and % mile west of Remington, on the old Borntrager farm, on Tuesday, February 12, 1908. Beginning at ten a. m., the following described property: 6 HARSES—I sorrel mare, 9 yrs old, wt 1350; 1 strawberry roan gelding, 14 yrs old, wt 1350; 1 iron grey horse, 3 yrs old, wt 1100; 1 iron grey horse, 3 yrs old, wt 1050; 1 black .mare, 7 yrs old, wt 1200, lady broke. 8 CATTLE—6 cows, 1 fresh milen cow, 6 extra good cows, fresh In spring; 2 last spring calves, 1 heifer. 30 HOGS—3 brood sows, all bred to a thoroughbred Poland China boar; 17 head of pigs, wt from 40 to 60 lbs.; 10 shoats,. wt about 90 lbs. FARM IMPLEMENTS—I good McCormick binder; 1 Standard 6-foot mower; 1 Plano hay rake, used 1 season; 1 Dser corn planter, check row, about 80 rods of check wire, fertiliser attachments; 1 7-foot disc; J. end-gate seeder; 1 sulky plow; 2 walking cultivators; 2 three-section flexible dragß, one good as new, with riding attachments; 1 A drag; 8 wagons, one broad tire; 1 boggy; 1 road cart; 1 pin sled; 2 sets of farm harness; 1 set single harness; 1 hay rack with straw attachments; 1 good

Rio bulk Coffee, per lb lie. Rio bulk Coffee, per lb 15a. Peaberry coffee, per lb 18c. Golden Brand Coffee, per lb 20c. Parana Brand Coffee, per lb 25c. Vienna Brand Coffee, per lb 30c. Genuine Maple Syrup, per gallon sl.lO. Genuine Maple Syrup, qt 30c. S- W. C. Syrup, per gal 35c. All Tobacco per cut 6, 8 & Bc. Fancy White Honey, lb 18c. Home Made canned Apple Butter, } gallon 40c. Home Made canned Pickles, 4 gallon 30c.

\ A Beautiful Souvenir with every SIO.OO worth of coupons, for this sale only. Gloves and Hittens all 25c, 50c, 75c and SI.OO goods now 19c, 38c, 59c and 75c. Hen’s Work Coats 10 per cent off marked price. Bjand 10c Tennis Flannels now 7c and 9c per yard. The 15c Zephyr Ginghams left from the big sale will be included in this sale at lie per yard.

saddle; one 16-gallon kettle; 15 shocks of fodder; and some other small articles not mentioned. TERMS —Sums of $5 and under cash In hand; sums over $5 a credit of 11 months will be given without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 per cent Interest from date. 6 per cent discount for cash. No property to be removed until terms are complied with. G. W. TULLIS. A. J. Harmon, Auct. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Newt. Pumphrey, Hot Lunch.

Public Sale! As we are going to South Dakota soon, we will offer at Public Auction at the H. H. Hayes farm, 7% miles north and 1 mile east of Rensselaer, 1 mile east and % mile north of Aix, 4 miles west and 1% miles south of Gifford, on Friday, Februtry 14, 1908, Beginning at ten a. m., the following described property; 5 HORSES —One grey mare, 14 yrs old, wt 1100, in foal to Price horse; 1 roan mare, 13 yrs old, wt 1000; 1 mare colt, 2 yrs old, a good one; 2 last spring colts, one a mare and I a horse. 12 CATTLE—B milch cows, 1 fresh now and 6 in spring, 1 yearling heifer; 3 last spring calves, one a good Short Horn bull and 2 steers. 19 SHEEP—IS ewes, due to lamb in March and April; 1 good buck and 3 buck lambs. 17 HOGS —I good brood sow, due to farrow March 20th; 16 head of shoats, wt 80 to 90 lba FARM IMPLEMENTS—3 walking spring trip cultivators, 1 Plano mower in good running order, 1 spring tooth harrow, 2 walking breaking plows—one 16-inch and one 12-inch, 2 hay ladders, 'T dinner bell, 1 dresser, 1 cook stove, 1 heating stove, 2 washing machines, ond other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS —Sums of $5 and under cash in hand; sums over $5 a credit of II months will be given without interest if paid when doe; if not paid when due 8 per cen interest from date. 7 per cent discount for cash. No property to be removed until terms are complied with. H. H. HAYES, JOHN STEWART, Fred Phillips, Auct C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch by ladles aid society of U. B. Church, of Alx.

* 2 lbs Pine Apple Cubes, per can 18c. 2 lbs Pine Apple Richelieu, per can 25c. 2 lb can canned Corn, Key City, 3 for 25c. 2 lb can canned Corn, Club House, 2 for 25c. 3 lb can Tomatoes, standard, 10c. 2 lb can Hunt Peas Bc. 2 lb can Pearl Peas, 10c. 2 lb can Holland Peas, 12ic. 3 lb can Smith Hulled Corn, 3 for 25c. , 50c Uncolored Japan Tea, per lb 40c. 60c Gun Powder Tea, lb SOe. Egg-O-See, 3 for 25c. 1 pound guaranteed Baking Powder. Bc.

CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE

Men’s Shirt Stle Men’s Corduroy Shirts, the best shirts made, and all wool flannel Bhirts. Men’s all wool or corduroy was $1.50 now $1.19. Men’s all wool was $1.25 now 99c. Men’s waol mixed, was SI.OO, now 79c. Men’B wool mixed, was 75c, now 62c. 42 in. Wool Fascinator, 13c. Furs 1-3 off to Close including the fine new mink scarfs and muffs.

PUBLICSALE. Having derided to quit farming I will offer at public sale at the Yoeman farm 5 miles north and one mile west of Rensselaer 2 and one half east and one mile south of Parr on Wednesday, Febrnary 19, 1908. at io o’clock a. m. the following described property:) 11 Head of Hones. I brown mare, 6yn old, wt 1400, bred to Kentons Jack, 1 sorrel mare 8 yrs old, wt 1380 bred to Kenton percbcr " orv, f gray horse 9 yrs old, wt 1y; ay norse wt 1500; 1 brown mare 12 yrs „ia, wt 1500 bred to Kenton Jack; I brown driving horse 7 yrs old. wt 1200 a good one, 1 bay mare coining 3 yrs old wt 1150 trooting bred. I dark gray ho/se colt coming 2 yrs old, 1 horse mule colt 9 months oid, 1 son el mare colt 8 months old trotting bred, 1 bay driving horse coming 4wt 1250 17 hands high this horse is lady broke not afraid of automobiles and a good traveler. 14 Milk Cows. 1 3yr old 3-4 jersey, calf by side; full blood jersey 6 yrs old will calf in April, one half jersey 7 yrs old will calf in March; one three fourth jersey 6 yrs old giving milk; one one half jersey 9 yrs old giving milk; 2 Holstein cows, 7 yrs old be fresh in spring; one full blood jersey 9 yrs old will calf in April; one short hom cow 8 yrs old will calf m April one cow 6 yrs old wfll calf in March; one cow 5 yrs old will calf in April; one cow 4yn old will calf in March; one cow 5 yrs old will calf in April; two spring calves. These cows are all bred to a thorobred short horn bull. 55 Head of Hogs. 12 brood sows will farrow the first of March and April; 14 shoats, will average too to 125 pounds; 29 fall pigs; one fuH blood poland china boar. It hNd of sheep. Fun Implements, Etc. one Brown riding cultivator; one gopher; one walking cultivator; one 3-section wood harrow; one John Deere gang plow; one hay rake; one mowing machine; one John Deere corn planter with 80 rods of wire; ene new 7foot Deering binder, one new end-gate seeder, one l-horsa weeder, one manure spreader, one disc harrow, 4 wagons. 4 buggies, one track caet, one bob sled, one drivining harness, one new International 2horse gas engine, one U. S. cream separator, some oatsjand corn, and timothy hay in mow, t cook stove; oae|baae burner; one lounge; one table; one side board; and other things too numerous to mention. Terms es Sale. Sums of $lO and under cash in had; over tio a credit of 10 months will be given without interest if paid when dne; if not ' when dud 8 per cent interest from 6 per cent discount for cash.- No property to be removed nndl terms are complied with. 9. H. YEOMAII t SOX. Fred Phillips, Auct C. G. ipitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on ground.

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