Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — Page 4

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MILE AND A HALF OF RAGING FLAME

Chelsea, Mass., Swept by a Great Conflagration. DOST OF IT ABOUT $11,000,000 Three Persons Meet Death and Scores Injured More or Less Seriously. MANY HAVE TO FLEE FOB LIFE i Petroleum. Tarred Paper. Old Rage . and a Gale Add Fury to Disaster—Ten Thousand Homeless.

The greatest fire that has scourged Ey part of the metropolitan district in i years devastated the manufacturj, tenement and retail sections of [Chelsea, Mass., Boston’s big suburb, Sunday, burning over one square Imile of territory and leveling many of the city’s best structures. The fire started at 10:40 a. m. and was not under control until 9 p. m„ notwithstanding that half of [the Boston fire department’s strength, (and steamers from a dozen other citpea and towns, went to the aid of the .Chelsea brigade. The loss is estimated [at about *10,000,000. About 10,000 persons are homeless. So far as can be [learned there were but three fatalities, 'all unknown. Half a hundred perigons were either injured or painfully burned. Mile and a Half of Ruins. | The fire originated in the rear of the [Boston Blacking company’s works on (West Third street, near the eastern division of tiie Boston and Maine railroad and In close proximity to the Everett City line. A terrific gale from [the northwest, which at times had a [velocity of sixty miles an hour, carried burning shingles, embers and myriads |of sparks to a score of wooden bulldings, most of them of cheap wooden Enstruetion. The fire started almost the extreme southwest section of p city, and cut a path to th? end of (Maverick street at the extreme south'eastern end, about one and a half miles from where it began. 1 Thirteen Churches Feed the Fire. ! Flames spread through the heart of (the retail business section, which was labout midway between the two extreme limits reached by the fire. 'Among the structures destroyed were thirteen churches, two hospitals, the iPublic library, city hall, five schoolhouses. twenty business blocks, nearly a score of factories, and upwards of 3f«t tenements and dwelllnghouses. Among the places burned were: Frost hospital, Children's hospital. Fitz public library. St. Stanislaus Polish Roman Catholic church, Chestnut Street First Baptist church, Central ’Unitarian church, St. Luke’s Episcopal church, First Methodist Episcopal Irburch, Elm Street Synagogue, Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea Presbyterian church. People’s Afro-Methodist Episcopal church, Fourth Street Uuiversalist church, Fifth Street Congregational church, Shurtieff Street Methodist Episcopal church, Second Adventist church.

INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER

Militia Called Out—Refugees Stream Into Bouton—Oil Explode*. As soon as the magnitude of the 'disaster was appreciated the mayor Called out the militia to guan! property and keep back the crowds. The wind blew steadily forty-five miles au hour, occasionally hitting up the pace to sixty, and whole shingles, big pieces of rags, and such objects atlame were scattered far and wide. The contents of many of the buildings In the factory district were of very inflammable character, such as tarred paper, oily rags. etc. Heaps of burning embers and a suffocating cloud of dust hurled down •cross Everett avenue by the gale, coupled with the intense beat, drove the tiremen from their posts and those famines nearest the start of the conflagration had only time to rush from their homes and save their lives, losing •11 their possessions. specttu;ulnr feattires were the burning of the spires of churches. AU the money men pos. aessed was offered teamsters to cart •way household goods, but there were few teams to be had. ’ Over Chelsea bridge Into East Boston streamed a long line of fire refugees, lugging what few household effects they were able to save. Pushcarts, drays and even baby carriages were piled high with furniture and bedding. Hundreds of persons carried huge bundles tied up In sheets. Those were mostly grayheaded women of the foreign class. One old woman staggered under a large bundle of clothes •nd bedding In the midst of which Could be seen the wondering face of a baby too frightened to cry*. So rapid was the progress of the flames that people one moment w?re

congratulating themselves on being out of danger, and the next moment were hurrying away from very imndnent peril. Suddenly there was a of the Tidewater Oil company on the waterfront burst Into flames. Thoutands of gallons of oil were soon burning and gigantic clouds of black smoke curled and rose Into the sky, making dark as night all the east end. The fine was finally stopped by Chelsea creek. The following appeal for assistance, signed by Mayor Beck of Chelsea and William E. McClintock, chairman of the relief committee, has been issued: “We have been visited by a moat terrible catastrophe. One-half the area of our city has been swept by fire. Fifteen thousand people are homeless, $12,000,000 wprth of property has been destroyed. Our business section Is almost wholly wiped out. We are in sore need. We have not lost our courage, but are applying ourselves with all our ability to the task before us. But that task Is stupendous and we ask assistance of all who are benevolently Inclined. He ■who gives quickly gives double. Subscriptions may be sent to the city treasurer, Thomas B. Frost.”

TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE DROWN

Terrible Disaster Overtakes Hankow, a City in China, During the . Night Time. Disastrous floods have occurred at Hankow, in the Province of HuPeh, and it is stated that 2,000 persons have been drowned. • Seven hundred junks were sunk owrecked. The floods are said to have'been the result of an unexpected freshet Tne waters caught the people in the middle of the night Caught unexpectedly the victims were drowned as they lay in bed or, warned by the rushing waters, sought a means of escape. The junks were useless in tfie emergency, and many who had been rescued sank with them. The darkness served to lessen greatly the chance of escaping death.

AGER THAT IS DEVILIBH

Case of Rage of a Father That Results tn Dreadful Murder and Then Suicide. Dr. C. O. Swimney, who recently arrived in’'Asheville, N. C., from New York, shot and fatally woupded his sixt^en-year-old daughter Nellie, and tlicn killed himself, in the tlonroom of a girl's boarding school In that city. It Is said ihe became enraged because his daughter took part in an April fool prank, when she. together with a number of other students, absented themselves from school. Dr. Swinney called on his daughter at the school. Shortly after she entered the receptionroom four shots were heard, and Miss Swinney ran from the room with blood streaming from her hend. Swinney was found on the floor with n revolver under him.

BREAK COSTS A MILLION

That Much Damage Done by the Giving Way of the Hauser Lake Dam. With several houses destroyed In the little town of Craig, Mont., forty-five miles north of Helena, hundreds of heads of cattle and live stock drowned, and the Great Northern railroad tracks washed any for miles the loss from the flood caused by the breaking of the seventy-foot dam at Hauser lake it Is conservatively estimated will be approximately $1,000,000, which includes damages to the dam, wnich totiU $250,000. The dam will be rebuilt at once. The water has receded at all the threatened points, one of which was Great Falls. Mont., wher.e the flood was seven feet deep and there is no danger of further damage.

Pacific Fleet at Han Diago.

The rafted States battleship fleet on its arrival at San Diego, Cal., Tuesday saw a mile of sandy beach crowded with enthusiastic jmt riots proud to welcome the navy to California, and the green lawns and flowering gardens of Coronado formed the setting for the most notable marine spectacle the west coast of the United States has ever known. The sixteen •hips swept Into the sheltered cove of the sea behind the lowering headlands of Point Ix>ma, and halted for four days of merrymaking for men and officers. Governor James 'U. Gillett was here officially to welcome the fleet, and bis call upon Rear Admiral Thomas was paid during the afternoon.

Governor Hughes la Endorsed.

Charles T. Hughes was endorsed as New York’s Republican candidate for president by that party’s state convention, and the four delegates-at-large, with their alternates, elected to tiie Chicago national Republican convention were Instructed to use all honorable means to bring about his nomination. The four delegates at-large are General Stewart L. Woodford, ex Mayor Seth Ix>w, Frederick R. Haazard (of Syracuse) and E. H, Butler (of Buffalo).

Cashier Attempts Suicide.'

Edwin C. Story, cashier of the Citizens’ State bank, of Belleville, Wls„ attempted to commit suicide because be was accused of stealing the bank’s fnads. Physicians saved his life.

HOGS WILL COME HIGH

Load That Promises To Bo Costly Before Two Men Tire of Litigation. QUARREL IS OVER THE DOCKAGE Only Fifty Pounds Difference Between the Litigants—Joint Rates on Coat Indianapolis, April 16. William A. Beatty, farmer, and S. M. Miller, stock buyer, both of Raymond, Hl., both wealthy and determined, close friends for years, but who have turned against each other, are in Indianapolis fighting over a load of bogs, and the controversy Is becoming so bitter that It is attracting considerable attention among local stockmen and patrons of this market As near as can be made out from the claims of both men Beatty, who fattened the hogs, called In his friend Miller, the buyer, when his hogs were ready for the market. This was at Raymond. Miller bld $5.50 a hundred pounds, which was accepted, and Miller paid SIOO to bind the bargain. Dominant Issue Comes Up. The question of docking the load was then brought up and a difference of opinion regarding the amount of the dock developed. Miller thought the condition of the hogs warranted a dock of 400 pounds; Beatty disagreed, contending that 350 pounds would be an ample sufficiency. Discussion waxed warm and soon It.became evident that the traders could not agree on this point.

Miller Takes the Hogs by Force. Beatty says Miller and his sons took the hogs from Beatty’s place by force, but not until he liad had the elder Miller arrested. Miller loaded the hogs and consigned them to Tolln,'Mattern A Co., commission merchants at the Indianapolis stockyards. The hogs arrived at the yards Monday morning and were immediately placed on the market. Before the salesman could dispose of them, however, the yard company received a telegram from Beatty commanding that the liogs lie held. The yard company had them locked up. Hogs Are Eating Their Heads Off. Both men then came to this city and engaged lawyers, and the matter will go to court April 24. In the meantime the hogs, locked in a pen In charge of a deputy sheriff are eating about $5 worth of corn a day. Already the telephone and telegraph tolls of the disputants have exceeded the amount of the value of tiie dock In controversy. Beatty, reputed to be worth SIOO,OOO, declares that he has come to Indianapolis prepared to stay all summer, if necessary. Miller Is Just as positive that the hogs will be his in the end. THE LIGHT WENT OUT As They Went Death Came and a Will Just Made Failed of Signature. Muncie. Ind., April 16.—“ The lights are going out. Mary and I don't seem to be able to see very well,” said George Fleming, a wealthy retired farmer, after he had completed the writing out of his will and nothing remained except bis signature to make the instrument valid. Then he lay back on the pillows, sighed and died. Tills strange story came to light when the unfinished will was taken Into the circuit court for probate. It is probable, also, that a new legal point has been raised. The witnesses to the will were In the room and saw him writing it; the documentds in his own handwriting, as can be attested —but the signature Is missing. Th? county clerk refused to record tiie instrument until some formal action Is taken on It by the rfreuit court and rejected it as invalid. Appeals to the Railway Board. Indianapolis, April 16. A petition filed by .the Manufacturers and Shippers’ association, of Indianapolis, with the railroad commission ask the commission to establish joint rates on coal bet ween, the Southern Indiana and the Big Four, hi order to relieve n serious situation which may result in the closing of about thirty coal mines in the southern part of the state, and the closing of factories In sixty northern Indiana cities which get practically all of ttielr coal over the tond and only from the Indiana mines. Joint rates have been suspended by the roads. Moument tbr Tippecanoe Field. battle grounds monument commission. In whose keeping the Tippecanoe monument fund was placed, has let the contract for building the monument, which is to coti $24,500. The monument is to be erected on the battlefield in memory of th*' men who fell at the battle of Tippecanoe In 1811. A bronze figifre of William Henry Harrison will be placed I the foot of the shaft. Wanted $&B,OOO; Got *B,OOO. Shelbyville, Ind., April Five members of the Scott family, in Hancock county, brought suit against the Big Four Railway company several months ago for damages for Injuries by a train ou a crossing. The suits hsve now been compromised for a total of $3,000. The total amount daimed In the suit was $58,000.

NOTICE I ' ' To all Residents of Rensselaer and Jasper and Newton Counties: nov are hereby notified that the Starr Tiana Company has no authorized representative in Jasper or JieWton Counties. If you are contemplating the purchase of a Starr, Richmond or Chase Plano or Player Plano it Will be to your interest to Write us direct, Ghis is of Vital importance and may be the means of saving you considerable money as Well as annoyance. WRITE TO-DAY a Write us if you are considering th? purchase of any any Kind of a Piano, no matter What make. Address:. Manager Starr Piano Co., 138-140 North Penn., St INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

THE WEATHER Following Is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin— Increasing cloudiness and warmer. lowa—Pertly cloudy; rising temperature. > Lower Michigan—Fair; rising temperature.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, April 16. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May ...$ .92%, $ .92%, $ .90% $ .92% July ... .85% .85% .84% .85% Sept 83% .84 .82% .83% Corn-*-May ... .67% .67% .66% .66% Julv .. • 64% .64% .63% .63% Sept 62% .63 .62% .62% Oats— May (o) .53% .53% .53 .53% May (n) .52% .52%. .52 .52 July ... .49% .45% .45% .45% Sept. ... .37% .37% .37% Pork — May ...12.87% 13.02% 12.87% 13.00 July ...13.20 13.39 13.20 13.32 Sept. ... 13.55 13.67% 13.55 13.62% Lard— May ... 8.05 8.10 8.05 8.10 July ... 8.22% 8.30 8.22% 8.30 Sept. ... 8.42% 8.50 8.42% 8.47% Cash Sales Winter wheat—By sample: No. 2 red, 92%@94%c; No. 3 red. No. 2 hard, [email protected]; No. 3 hard. 88%<§90c. Spring wheat —‘By sample: No. 3, [email protected]. Corn —By .sample: No. 3, G6c; No. 3 white. 56%c; No. 3 yellow, 66%c; No. 4, 63%c. Oats—By sample: No. 3 wihite, 51%@52%c: No. 4 white, 50@52c. Live Stock, Poultry and Hay. Chicago, April 16. Hogs—Receipts 16,000. Sales ranged at $5.80(55.95 for choice heavy shippng. $5.85(55.95 butchers, [email protected] mixed packing, $4.65(g5.25 good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 3,500. Quotations ranged at $6.50(57.10 for prime fat ■teers, $4.75(56.00 good to choice cows. [email protected] prime heifers, $4.90(55.15 selected feeders, [email protected] good to choice calves. Sheep—Ree-’ipts t.OOO. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice clipped wethers, $6.00(5'6.50 good to choice cMpped yearlings, $7.55 @7.65 good toychotce Colorado lambs. Live Poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 12c; chickens, fowls and springs, 12c; roosters, 7c; geese. $6,000(7.00; ducks. Hay—Choice timothy, $15.00@ 16.00; No. 1, $13.00(514.00; No. 2 and No. 1 mixed, $11,500/12.50. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin feeding prairie, good to choice, $6.50(5 7.50. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens,. Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y m quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 2 cars; market stow. Hogs— Receipt® 20 cars; market slow; heavy, $&[email protected]; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs. $5.40. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts 30 cars; beat wool lambs, [email protected]; clipped, $7.25; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, SB.2C«ABO. Calves—Best, [email protected].

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Notice of Letting Contract. No. 6657. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 4th, 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, until 12 o’clock noon, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a wooden pile bridge 135x16, in Wheatfield township, said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. Auditor Jasper County. Notice of Letting Contract. No. 6870. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 4 th, 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will, until 12 o clock noon, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Milroy township, across the Howe Ditch, where the same crosses the highway on the east line of section nine (9), township twenty-eight (28) north, range five (5) west in Jasper County, Indiana. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, x Auditor Jasper County. Notice of Letting Contract. No. 6871. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, Maj- 4th. 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, until 12 o’clock noon, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Milroy township, across the Howe Ditch, where the same crosses the public highway running north and south through the center of section twelve (12), township twenty-eight (28) north, range six (6) west in Jasper County, Indiana. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit ar provided by law. . The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. Goliath No. 7639. Goliath is a dark bay horse, bred by Simon Hegner, at Kokomo, Ind., .is registered in the books of the National Association of Horses. umii-r < < No. 7fi:t9, sired by Lanioreaux No. bv En ■. lid out of Pelotte ■ *.,' ' No. 459, Dam Bodet No. 1 1922. He weighs tn good, flesh, 1800 pounds; has good style and action. Will make the season of 1908 at my barn, on what is known as the Wm. Haley farm. 5 miles southeast of Rensselaer. The best reference given as to colts. TERMS: SIO.OO to insure colt to stand and suck. Service money becomes due at once if mare be parted with; product held good for service. Due care taken to prevent accidents, but not responsible should any occur. Telephone 533-J. B. T. LANHAM. Dark bay stallion, 16 hands high and 1 weighs 1175 pounds. Sired by Jerry Patchen. by Joe Patchen. Jy Patchen Wilkes, by Geo. Wilkes, by Hambletonian. First dam by Pluto by Wedgewood, by Belmont. Second dam by Clay Patchen, by C. M. Clay. Jr Third by Sarsaparilla. Fourth by Bay Messenger. Will make the season Monday and Tuesday at the Morlan farm, rest of week at the Leek hitch barn at Rensselaer. 319.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. Parties selling mares forfeit insurance and fee becomes immediately due. Will not be responsible for accidents which may occur. Tel. 627-F. E. L. MORLAN, Owner. WM. ERVIN, Mgr. Subscribe for The Democrat.

buck. PERCHERON STALLION. Is 5 years old, 17 hands hiah and weighs 1600 pounds. He will mike the —W season of 1908 at the Francis M. Lakin farm, 3 miles P - ast Fair Oak S’ 2 miles north and 'yJ-T&Str.’- 1 mile east of Parr, at SB.OO to PLuit,,Jfe insure colt. Mare leaving the neighborhood or changing hands during the season makes fee due at once. Care will be taken, but will not ba responsible for accidents FRANCIS M. LAKIN & SON, Owners. KING No. 6433. SHIRE STALLION. KING is a dark dapple bay stallion, 16 hands high and weighs 1,600 pounds present time. He was foaled Mav bred by C. M. Moots, Nor- . mal ' IU- Sire, Al- \ lerton No. 3008 (8682); Dam, Lula Stand, Terms and Conditions: King will make the season of 1908 at my farm, 10 miles north of Rensselaer, 3% miles east of Fair Oaks and, 3 miles south of Virgie, at, SIO.OO to insure colt to stand and suck. Service money becomes due and payable at once on owner parting with mare; product of horse held good for service. Not responsible for accidents. PAUL SCHULTZ, Owner. Dornblaser 4464 PERCHERON BTALLION. DORNBLASER is a splendid horse, black in color, fine bone and muscle and weighs 1800 pounds. He was foaled August 21st, 190$; bred by J. D. Dornblaser. Hume, Illinois; owned by John A. Wilt, Hillsboro, Indiana; got by Rabelais 50545, he . by Theudis 25015 (40871), he by Besigue (16902) he by Brilliant 111, 11116 he by Fenelon 2682 (38), he by Brilliant W Brilliant 1899 (756) he by Coco II 714. ■jDMMHMyVff" he by Vieux Chas_Z. • ** !ln V 3, le by Coco BlanI C 739 y M,gnon ? 15 ’ be by Jean-le-Q , 4^ 3 ' by Ferdinand L 630, he by Papillion 3559 (379). out Of M*ry A 2 A 7 ? Papulbm 3559 (379), by Brilliant (710), he by Brilliant 1899 (755), he u be by Vieux Chaslin, <'}’>* £ e oc °. (7 1 2) - be by Mignon <715). he by Jean-le Blanc, (739). 2nd Dam. Laßosa-3847, got by Confident 3647 (397). he by Brilliant ihl (766), out of Rose by Coco 11, (714). Brilliant 1271 (755) he by Brilliant 1899 (756) he h £ by Vieux Chaslin crlxl’ r Coco , he by Mignon he by Jean-le-Blanc (739). 3rd Dam, Rose 3317, got by Cathelineau 8173 (9729), he by Monarque 5149 <L ut ?? Ule < 9T2B >- (2438), by Brilliant • 1899 (756), he by Coco 11, (714), he by Vieux Chaslin (713), he by Coco (712), he by Mignon (715), he by Jean-le-Blanc (739). 4th Dam, Geneve, got by Condroy 5311, he -by Charmant. TERMS: $15.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. Interest 20031 PERCHERON STALLION. INTEREST is one of the best stallions in this section Of the state. He is black J 5o l? r ’ flne movement, foaled May 10, 1897; bred and owned by M. W. Dunham. - Got by Introuvable 16875 (24146); he by Seducteur 8850 (7057) he by Fenelon M Uliant' he i2H 055)r nt he 12 by Brilliant 1890 (766), he by he by Vieux ■ , Chaslin he by Coco 712, he by Mignon fcjeaßßMS (715), he by Jean-le - Blanc Dam, Nudene 16901, by Alglon 13145 (8187), he by Gilbert 5154 (461), he by Brilliant 1271 (755), he by Brilliant 1899 (756). he by Coco H (714), he by Vieux Chaslin (718), he by Coco (712), he by Mignon (715), he by Jean-le-Blanc (739). 2nd Dam. Nuda 2761 (1491), by lago 995 (768), he by Utopia 780 (781), he by Superior 454 (730), he by Favort I (711), he by Vieux Chaslin (713), he by Coco (712), he by Mignon 715, he by Jean-1»-Blanc 789. 3rd Dam, by Decide D’AmlUy 126 (720), he by Superior 454 (780), etc. TERMS: $12.00 to Insure Bolt to stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents but I will not be responsible should any occur. Money becomes due when mare foals or when owner parts with mare or moves her from county, Colts held good for service. Stands for Season of 1903 as follows: Monday and Tuesday at Bartholomew hitch barn in Morocco. Wednesday and Thursday at home. 1 mile west and 1 mile north of Mt. Ayr. Friday and Saturday at old Hemphill stud barn, in ’o- BEN B. MILLER, Owner and Manser