Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1908 — Page 4

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VOTERS CLOSE MANY SALOONS

Local Option Forces Make Gains in Illinois Ruj ral Districts. I MOST OF LARCER CITIES “WET" Republicans Win a Sweeping Victory in the Aldermanic Election in Chicago. ELECTION RESULTS ELSEWHERE I Darid S. Rom Chosen Mayor of MU» wankn for Fifth Tl«ne— Kansas City Goes Democratio —ln Nebraska. j Between 1,200 and 1,500 saloons prill be closed In the state of Illinois for two, years as a result of tbs ,vote on local option In 1,150 of the a,205 townships of the state, according to returns. The local option forces made gains In all of the rural (districts throughout the state, with Evo or three exceptions. Madison. I Clair, and Kankakee counties ere not affected by the crusade, i In all, thirty five counties will be -without saloons. Most of the larger cities out In the state voted wet by large majorities. IThe anti-saloon forces won In Decatur, closing <53 saloons; Rockford, GO saloons; Bqlvldere, 18 saloons; TaylorNine, H, and Mount Carroll, 7. Dwight, the home of the Keeley Cure, was the only former dry town In Livingston county that went wet The prohibition forces lost by 58 votes.

Mayor of Mattoon Keatgna. Mattoon was voted dry. Lewis L. Lehman, mayor of tlie city, resigned Ills office when he was Informed that the drys had won. He Is president of the First National bank and trustee of the University of Illinois. Sterling Kent wet by one majority. The halts were locked up In the vault of the Eit National bunk to prevent tailing with them. A contest will lie le In the courts and a recount Bought by the local option leaders. Danville, Bloomington, Joliet, Spring field, Pekin, Freeport, Kewauee, Aurora, Elgin, and Woodstock remain iwet Aurora was carried by the wets by a majority of 1.000, and Joliet went wet by nearly 3,000. The saloon forces won Elgin by nearly 1,400 rotes. The local option forces were •nowed under in Springfield, the majority for the saloon reaching 1,800. In the eighty-four counties in which • vote was taken on the local option question about two-tliirds of the conn ties are either wholly or nearly dry. Lyons, In t’ook county, was carried by the drys by a majority of 300. The majority for the wets In Danville Is 2,500. Larger Cities That Went Dry. Among the larger cities that ltave been carried by the Prohibition forces, and the numlier of saloons as- , feeted, are the following: Batavia 10, Belvldere 18, Charleston 13, Decatur 63, DeKalk 20, Dixon 10, Qalesmound 4, Mattoon 22, Moreland 2, Newport 2, Paris 21. St. Charles 8, Kockford 60, Sycamore 12, York villa 8, Walnut 3.

Among the cities which are safely ■wet are the following: Aurora. Bloomington. Klgin, Galesburg, Joliet Amboy. Kankakee. Oregon. Rock Island. Wprlngfleld, Sterling, Waukegan, Proviso, Galena, Ivewanee, Gray’s Lake. Moline, Antioch, Freeport. Wear Deerfield. Maine, Rock Falls, Tlskllwa, Sublette, Geneseo, Danville, Morris. Mlnooka, Seneca, Marseilles, Worth, Thornton, Naperville, Murphysboro. Pekin, Ohio, Troy Grove, Compton. Mendota, Newton. Chicago Aldermanic Election. A sweeping Republican victory gave Mayor Busse’s administration complete and undisputed possession ...of the city hall. The day’s victories t converted a Democratic majority of two In the council Into a Republican majority of eighteen. Twenty-four Republican and eleven Democratic aldermen were elected. Of the twenty-one Democratic council seats in dispute that party retained only ten, and added one from the Republican side of the chamber. The Republicans. besides h( ldlng thirteen out of the fourteen of their council seats that were in the balance, captured eleven from the enemy. The $3,000,000 bond Issue for the erection of a new county infirmary gras carried by more than two to one.

ELECTION IN WISCONSIN Ram Elected Mayor of Milwaukee—- - Oeafat Over Saloons, Roane, Democratic candidate, was elected mayor of Milwaukee for the Sfth time. He had a plurality ol 8(000 aver Shall Seidel, Social Democrat, who led Thomas J. Pringlet BeW- cm

publican, by 1,000. Returns shdw that- United States Senator LaFollette defeated Secretary Taft in every district of the state In the conteet for delegates to the national convention. Delegates-at-large, all LaFollette men, known to be elected are: United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, Marinette; Repr* tentative Henry A. Cooper, Racine; William C. Brumder, Milwaukee; Atley I’eterson, Soldiers’ Grove. License won In a majority of the towns and cities in the state In which there was a oontest over the saloon question. In Kenosha, Matheas J. Sclioley, Democrat, agent for a brewing company, defeated Edward S. Al teman by 505 votes. The following places voted no license: Sparta. Vlroqua, Leferge, Richland Center Iteedstown, Dodgevllle. At Madisoa Mayor J. C. Schubert, Democrat, won by 1,205, over W. J. McKey, who favored Sunday closin. Republicans elected mayors at Appleton and Superior, while the Democrats elected the heads of city tickets In Madison, Kenosha, Jefferson, Darlington, Fond du Lac, Menomonle, Durand, Fort Atkinson, Superior and Elkhorn. Wausau went Democratic. In Manitowoc, where socialism was the Issue, the Socialists were whipped In every ward. John Barnes, of Rhinelander, has been elected over Robert M. Bashford. of Madison, as justice of the supreme, court.

Kansas City Democratic. Following the bitterest campaign in the history of Kansas City the Democrats elected their entire city ticket by majorities ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 In addition to probably ten aldermen and a majority of the upper house. St. Joseph, normally Republican by 000, elected a Democratic mayor by 272, the council being about evenly divided. At Springfield, where the Democrats ran a brewery agent for mayor, Ernst, Republican, was elected by 400. Carthage and Sedalla both elected almost solidly Republican tickets from mayor down. At Jefferson City, the state capital, honors were even and the council is a tie Dry* Defeated in NebraskaProhibition was defeated in the Nebraska election, a majority of 200 being given for the retention of the saloons tinder a SI,OOO license fee and an all-daylight schedule. The result Is a great disappointment to the temperance elemeut, which confidently counted on a sweeping victory. Outside of Lincoln Interest centered in the result at Bentrice and Hastings. Beatrice voted for saloons by a majority of seventy-three. At Hastings the contest Is close. lowa Elections. At Dubuque, la., the city elections resulted In the election of Mayor 11. A. Schunk by about 100 plurality. The entire Democratic ticket, with the exception of city attorney, was elected by a small margin. At Keokuk the Democrats carried the city election, John R. Dimond being elected assessor by a majority of 100. Tlu* Democrats will have a majority of one in the council.

RACETRACK BILL KILLED

New York Senate Defeats the Measure Intended to Abollab Bering on Horses. At Albany Wednesday the senato by a tie vote defeated the first of the Agnew-Hart bills designed to nliollsh gambling at racetracks. Senator Grady endeavored to give the bill a final death blow' by moving to reconsider, so that the motion could be defeated and ffie bill Irrevocably killed, but Senator Baines moved to lay the Grady motion on the table, and Lieutenant Governor Chanler voted with him. The practical effect Is that Senator Agnew can have another vote on his bill. The second bill was then taken up, defeated and tabled pending a motion to reconsider.

Judge J. E. Cantrill Is Dead.

Judge Cantrill, of Georgetown. Ky., Is dead after a lengthy illness. Judge Cantrill was the presiding judge in th • first two trials of Caleb Powers, who was charged with complicity In the as sasslnatlon of William Goebel. Three years ago Judge Cantrill was elected judge of the court of appeals for the state of Kentucky, but resigned several months ago.

Death of Congressman Brick.

Congressman Brick of the Thirteenth Indiana district, died In an Indianapolis sanatorium. Abraham Lincoln Brick was born at South Bend. Ind.. May 27, 1860. He was educated at Cornell, Yale and Michigan universities. He was elected to the Fifty-Sixth, Fifty-Seventh, Fifty Eighth, Fifty-Ninth and Sixtieth congresses.

Names Public Printer.

John S. Leech now public printer In the Philippines, has been appointed to succeed Public Printer Stillings, whose resignation was accepted some days ago. The appointment as made by President Roosevelt was in the nature of a surprise, as Mr. Leech’s name had not been mentioned In connection with that place.

Thirty-Six Men Drowned.

Thirty-six men, including Lieutenant Middleton, the commander of the torpedo boat destroyer Tiger, lost their lives In a collision off the Isle of Wight daring the night between that vessel and the British cruiser Berwick.

LABOR BILL ISPASSED

Forty Minute** Debate All the House Talk on tha Em* - ploy art* Liability Bill w BUT OEE VOTE IHTHE NEGATIVE Littlefield Standi Alone in Oppoeinf the Measure. Its Principal Provision* Noted— Seat at Onoe to the Senate, Which Mas a BUI of Its Own. With only one vote recorded against It, that of Littlefield (Me.) the house of representatives, on Monday, under suspension of the rules, passed the Sterling employers’ liability bill after forty minutes’ debate. In brief the bill establishes the doctrine that the railroad companies engaged In interstate commerce are liable for personal Injuries received by employes

CONGRESSMAN O. E. LITTLEFIELD.

In the service of such carriers. It abolishes the strict common law rule of liability which bars a recovery for the personal injury or death of an employe occasioned by tbe negligence of a fellow servant; It also relaxes the common law rule which makes contributory negligence a defense to claims for such Injuries. Sliding Scale Principle Included. A provision, however, diminishes the amount of the recovery in the same degree that the negligence of the Injured one contributed to the Injury. The bill further makes each party responsible for his own negligence, and requires each to bear the burden thereof. The bill as passed by the house was transmitted to the senate latef in the day, and on motion of Dolliver was laid on the table subject to being called up at any time. Dolliver explained that the bill is quite slmilai to the measure reported to the senate from the committee on educaation and labor, and he will flrolvably move to sntvstltnte the senate bill.

House Bill Most Sweeping. The house bill is much more sweeping than the senate bill, as It applies to all “common carriers” while the senate bill applies only to “common carriers by railroad.” In the debate Minority Leader Williams said he welcomed the opportunity “to Illustrate to the country how quickly and how rapidly we can join in passing remedial legislation.” The Democrats applauded the statement. Payne denounced the Democrats for delaying by a hifff hour the passage of the bill by forcing a roll call on the approval of the journal. The Republicans would go on Just the same, he said, and write In the statute books Just what they desired to write

What Has Brazil to Bay?

Interest has been aroused in naval circles in England by the report that the British admirality Is considering the purchase of two large ships, building in this country for Brazil. II la pointed out that Brazil has no need for two such powerful ships, which in addlton to their original cost, will be expensive to maintain. It is certalnthat Great Britain will buy the vessels should this l>e the only way of preventing their falling Into the hands of an other European power.

Uncle Sam Arrests a Canadian.

H. Wright, Canadian customs officer at Emerson. Man., was arrested ai Noyes. Minn., at the point of a revolver by a United States Immigrant officer on a charge of having smuggled info the United States May French, who bad been denied admission to the United States two weeks ago. Herbert Wright is a son of Mayor Wright, of Emerson.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s Suit Filed.

Evelyn Nesblt Thaw has filed in the supreme court the suit for annulment of her marriage with Harry Kendall Thaw. The annulment is asked on the ground that Thaw was Insane at the time of the marriage. Papers In the proceedings were served on Thaw In March.

No Trouble for a Year, Anyhow.

The representatives of coal operators and miners of Texas affixed tin'll signatures to an agreement which w’dl Insure peaceful operations of the mines until April l, 1909. The contract will be in the main a renewal of the one that expired April 1, 1908.

Riley Grannan Is Dead.

Riley Grannan, the well-known sporting man, is dead at Rawhide, Nev., after a long Illness.

HOW 18 YOUR STOMACH.

Easy Way to Strengthen It and G«t Well. A good digestive system, one that acts so that you do not know that you hare a stomach, Is God’s birthright to every man—to every woman. If digestion is weak, if food turns into gas, if you suffer after eating. If you are sleepless, nervous and out of sorts—then the stomach Is diseased and prompt action should be taken. , W. A. Ennfi; a well-known builder In Syracuse, tells an easy way to strengthen the Btomach and get well when he writes: ‘‘Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets have done more for me in one week than all the doctors the two years I was under their care. Thanks to Mi-o-na, I can work once more, the first time In over a year.” It is an easy thing to strengthen the stomach and cure, indigestion by using Mi-o-na. G?t a 60-cent box from B. F. Fendig with his guarantee to refund the money unless the remedy does all that is claimed for it.

FOR THE CHILDREN

A Magnetic Experiment, Most persons are familiar with magnets of all kinds, but few are aware that the property may be Imparted to a body by simply pointing It to the north pole. The articles required for this experiment are a poker, a hammer, a needle and a pan of water. Take the poker In the hand and point it to the north, dipping It to the horizon at an angle of about thirty degrees. Give the poker several sharp' raps upon Its higher end with the hammer. This will cause vibration in the molecules of Iron and the poker will become faintly magnetic. The best test for a weak magnet is a needle floating on Perhaps you do not know that a needle may be made to float, but It is very simple. The needle must be dry and the water still. Then, if the needle be laid upon the surface flat, It will float readily. Now take the poker and bold it close to the needle and you may draw It all over the saucer, but the poker must not touch the water. If It should It would raise by adhesion a little hill of water all about it. down which the 'needle would slide, thus producing a deceptive effect of repulsion. Real repulsion instead of attraction may be secured by rubbing one end of the needle ou one end of the poker. The steel will thus become a magnet also, and when floated the poker will attract one end of It and repel the other.—Chicago News. Bookbinder—A Game. This la a game much enjoyed by children and Is played by any number, who ”sit In a circle, each holding a book laid fiat on his clinched fists, which are held out In front of him. One, who has been chosen bookbinder and stands in the middle of the circle, goes to any player and, seizing that player’s book, attempts to rap bis knuckles, which the holder of the book tries to avoid by pulling back his hands quickly. If the bookbinder succeeds In rapping the player’s knuckles, the one rapped becomes bookbinder and the first bookbinder takes bis seat; otherwise he replaces book and tries with some one else. The bookbinder may pretend to seize a book without actually doing so, and If tbe holder pulls away bis hands so that the book falls he must take the leader’s place just as If the knuckles bad been rapped. The leader can make this game quite exciting if he runs quickly for one book and then seizes another, thus keeping the players constantly on the lookout

Singing Ksttlss. The Japanese, who know so well how to add little unexpected attractions to everyday life, manufacture, In s great variety of forms, Iron teakettles which break into song wben the water boils. The song may not be a very perfect melody, but It la perhaps as agreeable as the notes produced by some of the Insects which the Japanese also treasure for their music. The harmonious sounds of the teakettles are produced by steam bubbles escaping from beneath thin sheets, of Iron fastened close together nearly at the bottom of the kettles. To produce the best effects some skill Is required In regulating the fire. The character of the sounds varies with the form of the kettle. These singing kettles have been need for many centuries. The Day's Length. The boys and girls may be surprised to hear that the length of the day may be found by doubling the time of the son’s setting and the length of the night by doubling the time of the son's rising. If, for example, the son sets at 7:30, the length of the day la 19 hours, for twice 7:30 Is 15. If the son rises that day at 4:30, the length of the night Is 9 hours, for twice 4.30 is 0. The 15 hours of daylight and the 9 hours of night make up the whole day of 24 hours. About Peanuts. The peanut grows In the ground, never above It The flowers above ground are sterile, but after the flower withert a stalk from an inch to two inches long shoots down Into the earth and forms the nut. As to the native country of the peanut, of botanists are divided between Africa and America. It la extensively cultivated In all tropical and subtropical countries, but seems to thrive best in the southern states of the American Union. Tw# Pusxln* A child asked her father how old he

uy.i T . i.»" -| t“I ■ i —— - BANK STATEMENT. Report of tbe condition of The Jasper Savings & Trust Go., of Rensselaer, Indiana, at the close of business on March list 1908:

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts..., $77,871.25 Overdrafts 500 97 Bonds and Stocks 15,348.80 Furniture and Fixtures...... 317.76 Due from Bka. ft Trust Cos. 58,507.43 Cash on Hand 5,724.38 Total Resources $158,270,59

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss; L Howard MlUs, Asst. Secy.-Treas. of the Jasper Savings ft Trust Co., of Rensselaer, Ind., do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true. «* HOWARD MILLS Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 10th day of April, A. D„ 1908 „ , , . „ * MOSES LEOPOLD, Notary KibUc. My commission expires Feby. 4th, 1909.

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was, and the father replied, “I am Just six times as old as you are, but in twenty-four years you will be one-half aa old as L" What were their agesf Answer—Six and thirty-six. What is the difference between a woodpecker and a peck measure? One holds a peck; the other pecks a hole.—Philadelphia Ledger. Nuts to Crack. In autumn there are nuta to crack Of every size and kind. Haselnuta and hickory And cheatnuta you will find. And If around the nursery tire You alt and crack and eat And joke and spin a merry yarn 'Tia happiness complete. But there are other nuts to crack. Quite different, you’U find. From hazelnuts or hickory Or any other kind. Geography, arithmetic. These nuts are hard, indeed. And spelling la another nut. And there’s to write and read. And history and grammar, all These nuta are good to eat. Though hard to crack, you’ll find In each A kernel sound and sweet. Indeed, a bag of nuta la hid Behind each schoolroom door. Be sure you’ve cracked them, eras/ one. Before you ask for more. —Children’s Magazine.

English Darby Possibilities.

Although several American tnrfmen have eligibles for this year’s English Derby, W. K. Vanderbilt and August Belmont will probably be the only ones represented in the big classic. Mr. Vanderbilt expects to start his French colt. Sea Sick 11., who has done well in France, while Mr. Belmont’s entries,are Norman 111., a bay colt by Octagon—Nineveh, and Crossbar, a bay colt by Octagon—Lacy Crow. Both of the Belmont colts raced In England last year, Norman 111., winning twice In nine races, while Crossbar was victorious once hi eleven events. Mr. Keene’s nominations for the Derby are Masque. Peter Quince and Incognito, who did not amount to much as two-year-olds here last season. H. P. Whitney’s nomlnaAßps are Burgher, Angelas and Jersey Lightning, while John E. Madden’s eligibles are Call Boy and King James. Clarence H. Mackay has a nomlnatiomln the colt, Carrollton, who ran In The Newcastle stable’s colors last fall with only fair success. Wizard Bohaef«r Retires. Jacob Schaefer successfully defended his title of champion billiard player at the eighteen Inch balk line, one shot In, game, recently by defeating Willie Hoppe 500 to 423. The game marked tiie retirement of Schaefer, the wizard of the cue, who for thirty-five years has been a champion, off and on, at all styles of billiards. He has won and held more titles than any other man In his time. Despite poor health, which has greatly handicapped him in his matches in recent years, the wizard has hung on by sheer grit when younger players were striving to taka his honors away from Mm. The Democrat and Chicago Examiner one year for $3.00.

LIABILITIES. Btock ~P a,d In- • - - * -$ 25,000.00 Int., Disc, ft other earnings 1,609 91 Demand dep., except banks 118,606.68 Time deposits except banks 10,653.98 Total Liabilities .$158,270.69

Fire In s Big Richmond Building. Richmond, Ind., April 9.—Fire in the Colonial building, which Is one of the principal office structures In town earned a loss of $75,000. Convicted of “Boot Legging.“ Columbus. Ind.. April 9. - Elmer h *« t"*® connoted of “boottoning intoxicants, and $lO and Thirty Homes end One Man Perish. At New York Monday fire early In the day badly damaged a tenement house in Pearl street and burned to death thirty horses In an adjoining stable. Michael Cunningham, an aged man, who slept in the stable lost big Ufa.

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