Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — Page 4

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MOB DRAWS ITS GUN

Strike Riot at Cleveland In Which Bullets Find four Those Engaged.

BIOTIBS BEGIH THE SHOOTIVG

Three Street Oar Mea Are Bit sad One of the Bioton.

All Ar* SertouMy Hurt—Ltttl* Girl Run Over and Decapitated— Negotiation* for Peace Still Deadlocked.

Rioting has become more general and wrious In the street railway strike at Cleveland. O. The first death, nit! « upt a part of the strike, but Incidei't to it. occurred when Yetta Wollit’ts.i. fnu years of age, was run ovei b.v .1 ear operated by one of the new motormen. The child was decapitated. A crowd quickly gathered and would have lynched the motorman had he not turned on full speed and escaped. Then It tried to lynch th* conductor, who had taken refuge In a drug store. Police saved his life. In Lakewood a car was stopped and the crew fired upon. Four persons were shot and seriously Injured and a car was burned to the trucks.

Trouble Expected and No Police. The flrat disturbance in the downtown section also took place after dark when a Woodland car was held up on Ontario street, and the motonnan and conductor attacked. The police dispersed the rioters. The /turning of a Clifton boulevard car in Lakewood was the most serious riot of the strike. The car was toward the western terminal when it was stopped by a log being thrown across the track. It was the first effort to operate a car in Lakewood, and the car carried no passengers, as trouble was expected when an attempt should be made to open the line.

Mob Opens Fire with Pistols. As soon as the car stopped it was surrounded by a crowd of rioters who were hidden behind a railway bridge. Immediately the crowd began shooting at the members of the crew and guards. The latter, W. J. Eames and John Swanto, returned the Are. All told over thirty shots were exchanged. While the shooting was in progress the crowd grew to nearly a thousand. Another car arrived, and its crew and guards Joined In the free-for-all tight.

Then the Firebug Begins Work.

Gasoline was poured upon the second car and it was burned to the trucks. The Cleveland police were notified and sixty oflicers were sent to the rescue. The first car. riddled with bullets and windows broken, proceeded to the carbarn. Motorman I*. C. Klsholz was shot In the leg; John Gray and George Alexander, guards on the second car, were shot in the chest. Mace Burlingame, who was In the crowd which made the attack, was shot In the hand. All were taken to a hospital, from where they were reported to be In a serious condition.

Civil End of the Dispute.

The state arbitrators took up their task of endeavoring to effect a reconciliation between the strikers and the Municipal Traction company and were in session several hours. While the car service was slightly Improved the general situation appears so serious that possibilities of a speedy settlement now are regarded as somewhat remote. The members of the carmen’s union have begun a series of meetings for the purpose of arousing sympathy, and to appeal to the public to refrain from using the cars until the union wins the fight. At these meetings the proposition also of petitioning the city council to order a public vote as to whether the franchise recently granted, and under which the Municipal Traction company is operating, shall become effective. This proposal is based upon the new initiative and referendum law, enacted by the state legislature a few weeks ago. The petition will make it obligatory on the council to submit the matter to a vote.

Started by the Striker*.

The movement was started by the strikers. Over 10,000 petitions have been printed. It Is regarded by the union men that public sentiment regarding the railway company now la of such a character that they will have no difficulty in obtaining the signatures to the petitions. The vote, should It be against the franchise. It is alleged. would have the effect of Invalidating it. Apparently only one point stands between the union and President DuPont, of the traction company, in the matter of a peaceful settlement of all points in controversy. DuPont said that he would take the strikers back to work only aa “new” men, and that those who remained with the company would be given preference. Vice President Behner, of the union, positively declined to waive this point

Railroad* Indicted.

Indictments for the acceptance of rebates on cotton shipments have been returned at New Orleans against the Illinois Central and the Yasoo and Mississippi Valley railroads by a federal grand jury.

NATIONAL LEGISLATURE

Synopsis *f th* Proceedings in the Senas* and in the House of Representative*

Th* senate on Monday held a short legislative session, nearly half of which was consumed by Heyburn In a filibustering speech against a conference report on a bill to increase homesteads on nonirrigable lands from 100 to 320 acre*; this report was withdrawn. The conference report on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was approved. An executive session was held. The passage by the house of the general deficiency appropriation bill, carrying an appropriation of (17,308,572. ended the list of great supply bills. A joint resolution waa agreed to providing for the payment of an annuity for life of 1125 a month each to the widows of Surgeons James Carroll and Jesse Lasear, U. 8. A., in recognition of their discoveries in connection with the transmission of yellow fever by mosquitoes.

A Democratic speech prepared for circulation in the coming political campaign was delivered in the senate on Tuesday by Taylor (Tenn.), devoted chiefly to tariff and currency matters. The senate agreed to the conference report on the agricultural bill. The house agreed to the conference report on the legislative appropriation bill. The bill making an appropriation of (1.500,000 for representation by the United States at the Tokio exposition In 1912 was passed, as were also two omnibus bills embodying forty separate measures having to do with public lands and matters in the territories.

Rayner again made an appeal to the senate on Wednesday for a vote on a resolution “authorizing and requesting" the president to appoint a court of Inquiry to investigate charges against Colonel William F. Stewart, but the matter went over on objection. The omnibus public buildings bill and a bill to prevent the desecration of the flag of the United States were passed. The conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill was adapted. The house adopted the report of the committee which Investigated Lilley's submarine boat charges —157 to 82. The report vigorously condemns Lilley and declares the charges without basis. A partial conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was adopted.

POLITICIAN KILLS HIMSELF

John McGaughey, Former County Commissioner in Indianapolis, End* Lite with Revolver.

John McGaughey, of Indianapolis, former county commissioner, killed killed himself with a revolver Tuesday. Ho had been prominent in Republican politics. The grand jury recently returned an indictment against one member of the present board, but McGaughey had not been indicted.

Ned McGaughey, the dead man’s son. said his father had been threatening for a month to kill himself because of despondency growing out of the board of commissioners' scandal. McGaughey’s term as commissioner expired Jan. 1, 1907 The only instance In which bis name had been connected with the growing scandal in the commissioners’ office is in a deal where the Atlas Engine works Is charged with paying a bribe of (3,800 to the commissioners.

Call for Good Roads Congress.

A call has been issued from Chicago for the first national good roads congress to meet in Chicago June 15, and in Denver, July 6, the day before the opening of the Republican and Democratic,national convention*. It has been signed by the governors of thirty-two states, the mayors of fifty cities, the executive officers of the national grange, good roads associations, farmers’ leagues, and labor organizations, as well as many prominent citizens of Chicago and other cities.

Corn Goes to 79 Cents.

May corn shot up 3 cents at Chicago Tuesday reaching 79 cents, a price exceeded by the yellow cereal only twice in the history of the grain trade, and shorts -were routed. The price was the result of a bull movement headed, so it is Mid, by James A. Patten, who is credited with having shouldered the largest load of cash grain on delivery ever taken by one man.

Miners Reach an Agreement.

After seventy days of negotiations at Kansis City, Mo., the coal mining troubles of the southwest. where 35,000 men are upon a strike, have been practically ended, the joint subcommittee of the operators and miners has reached an agreement on the wage scale and working conditions. This must be approved by a convention of miners.

Senator Platt Enters Denial.

At New York City, in her suit sot divorce from Senator Platt Mae C. Wood asserts that William Loeb, secretary to the president, and former Assistant Postmaster General Wynne, “conspired” to get certain valuable papers away from her. Senator Platt took the witness stand In hl* own behalf and vigorously denied ever waving promised, to marry Miss Wood.

Case of Harry K. Thaw.

Harry Thaw’* sanity case is now In the band* of Judge Morschauser, of die New York supreme court, who will deliver hi* decision next Monday.

WOMAN WAS A FIEND

Another Startling Development in the Crime Story of the Gunns** Farm.

THREE MURDERS DT ORE MIGHT

Two of Them a Prof«**ar and Wife, Third, Jennie Olsen.

Supplement of Greening** Story Moe’s Watch to Also Identified —Somebody Threatening Prosecutor Smith.

The autopsy at La Porte, lad., held on the remains of the seven unidentified dead exhumed from Mr*. Gunness’ private burial ground has been completed and revealed the astounding fact, according to the reports of Dr*. F. T. Wilcox and George R.

MRS. BELLE GUNNESS.

Osborne, who conducted the autopsies under the direction of Coroner Mack, that one of the seven was a female. This has aroused new interest in the story of Emil Greening, of Oklahoma City, Okla., who was employed by Mrs. Gunness In the fall of 1904.

Story That Greening Told.

Greening worked for Mrs. Gunness at the time that Jennie Olsen disappeared, and his story was to the effect that on a certain day in September a man and woman came to the house, and that night Mrs. Gunness asked Greening to sleep in the barn, for the two, whom she said were the professor and his wife from the Los Angeles college which Jennie was to attend, would, spend the night at the house, and would require Greening’s bedroom. In the morning Greening saw nothing of Jennie nor the man and woman, and was informed by Mrs. Gunness that they had left on an early train, taking Jennie along.

Budsberg in the Same Grave.

This body which is now declared to be that of a woman was taken from the same hole as was that of Jennie Olsen, and In that hole also were the bodies of Ole Budsberg, of lola. Wis., and the remains of a male person. All the bodies were dismembered, but the trunks of the four were in such condition that it was possible to identify the bodies of Jenuie Olsen and Budsberg. and also possible by the autopsies to determine that one of the other two was that of a female. Three Murder* tn One Night. The theory now advanced is that Mrs. Gunness may have on the same night—the night that Greening slept ia the barn murdered not only Jennie Olsen but also the man and woman. To Coroner Mack, Sheriff Smntzer and Prosecutor Smith this seems almost inconceivable; but they consider, in the light of recent developments, that nothing appeared impossible for this archmurderess. The stomachs of the four victims In this hole have beenremoved, and the contents will be analyzed for pc 1 son. The disappearance of Jennie Olsen, as well as the couple, occurred in September, 1906, while Budsberg was disposed of In May, 1907.

Moe’s Watch Identified.

The mystery surrounding the watch found on the person of Ray Lamphere when he was arrested has been cleared up. J. G. Ramden, of Manfred, N. D.. who came here to investigate the disappearance of bls halfbrother, John Moe, of Elbow Lake, Minn., identified the timepiece as the one owned by bls brother when he left home. The numbers of the watch corresponded with the numbers in Ramden’s possession. Lamphere said that Mrs. Gunness gave him a watch. Ramden is positive that his brother was murdered by Mrs. Gunness, but he was not able to identify any of the remaining skeletons, and so will not be able to provide proper burial for his brother. ~ Threats against the life of Prosecutor Smith continue to be made. He has received another letter similar to the one received last week. Both were postmarked Brooklyn, N. Y. He Is advised to resign his office under penalty of death. Find Mrs. Gunness’ Teeth. Plates containing gold crowns and teeth of the upper and the lower jaw which I. P. Norton, dentist, declares to be those which be made for Mrs. Bella Gunness, have been found inthe ashes of her burned house of mystery by the sluicing process. The discovery puts an end to al) theories that the woman is alive and establishes positively that she was burned to death. The Bnd wilt also prove of value to the state in the prosecution ot Ray Lamphere on the charge of murdering the woman and her children.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

After looking death in th* tec* ter nearly seventy-two hours Dr. Marsh, a New York man, succumbed to hydrophobia. t Congress has granted (35,000 to pay the expenses of a delegation of American scientist* to the fourth LatinAmerican conference. John Austin Hamlin, of Chicago, proprietor of the Grand Opera House and one of the most prominent theatrical men in the country, is dead. The thirty-six delegates from Missouri to the national Democratic convention at Denver will vote as a unit for the nomination of W. J. Bryan for the presidency. Joe Gans has signed to meet Battling Nelson in a forty-flve-round bout July 4. Prohibitionists of Indiana in session at Indianapolis nominated a state ticket headed by Sumner W. Haynes for governor. Six persons were Injured In an explosion of gas in the John A. Oolby A Sons furniture store at Chicago. A rule has been adopted by the Chicago board of education forbidding use of intoxicants by school engineer* while on duty. The pope has rejected the plan proposed by the French government for the control of the fund In aid of aged priests. Reports of the sixteen national banks In Chicago show a gain In deposits of (9,000,000 since Feb. 14. Conferees of the house aud senate have abandoned their effort to reach an agreement on the Aldrieh-Vreeland bill. John W. Armstrong, once a leading architect of Chicago, went to jail because he was unable to furnish $5,000 bonds.

Resigns to Run for Congress.

Rutland, Vt, May 21.—Following receipt of an official notice from Comptroller of the Currency Lawrence O. Murray, calling’ attention to the rule forbidding political activity by government employes, Frank W. Fish, of Vergennes, for the last eight years national bank examiner for Vermont and part of Massachusetts, has resigned. Mr. Fish had been canvassing the First Vermont congrsssoinal district for the nomination for congress.

Women Punish Wife Beater.

Encampment, Wyo., May 21.—Roscoe J. Beemer, an alleged wife beater living near here, was taken from his home during the night by a posse of women, wives of men working in the mines, given twenty lashes on his bare back, ducked several times in a big barrel of water, tarred and feathered from his waist to his head and then put on a fence rail and ridden out of the community.

THE WEATHER Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois—Fair and cooler preceded by showers In east portion. Indiana and Lower Michigan—Shower*: cooler. Wisconsin—-Partly cloudy with cooler in east portion. lowa—Fair.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain Chicago, May 21. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. 12 m. May ...*1.01% *1.02 *1.01% *1.02 July ... .90% .91 .90 .90% Septßo% .87% .86% .87% Dec. (o) .87% .87% .87% -87% Corn— May ... .77% .78 .77% .77% July ... .66% .66% .66% .66% Sept 64% .64% .64% .64% Decs6% .56% .56% .’6% Oats— May (o) .55 .55% .54% .54% May (n) .54 .54 .54 .54 July ... .46% .47 .46% .46% Sept 37% .37% .37% .87% Pork — May ...18.52% 13.52% 13.52% 13.52% July ...13.70 13.70 13.67% 13,70 Sept. ..13.95 18.97% 13.95 18.95 Short Ribs— July ... 7.40 7.40 7.37% 7.37% Sept. ... 7.62% 7.63% 7.60 7.60 Cash Sales Winter wheat—By sample: No. 2 red, *[email protected]%; No. 8 hard. Spring wheat—-By sample: No. 3 spring, 96c. Corn—By sample: unchanged; No. 3, 76%@77%e; No. 3 white, 77c; No. 4, 63@65c. Outs —By sample: %c higher: No. 3 white, 81%@53%c; standard, 55c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, May 21. Hogs—Sales ranged at *[email protected]% for choice heavy shipping, *[email protected] choice light *[email protected] mixed packing, *[email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Quotations ranged at *6.80(3 7.26 for prime fat steers, *[email protected] good to choice cows, *[email protected] prime heifers, *[email protected] .good to choice calves, *[email protected] selected feeders. Sheep—Quotations ranged at *4.75(3 5.25 for good to choice wethers, *5.00 g 5.25 good to choice yearlings, *4.50 5.00 choice heavy ewes, *6.25(36.50 good to choice Colorado wool lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 5 cars; market slow. Hogs— Receipts 15 cars; market strong; heavy and Yorkers, *[email protected]; pigs, *5.0. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts IS tars; market steady; best lambs, *6.60 06.75; yearlings, *[email protected]; wetbsrs, ewes, *4 7565.00. Oalvtg -Best, *4.00(26.50.

BANK STATEMENT Statement of the condition of The Jasper Savings & Trost Company of Rensselaer, Indiana, at the elose of busineas on May 14th loos. * RESOURCES LIABII4TIEB Loans and di5c0unt5....580,407.52 Capital Stock paid In tBK am nn Bonds, County and township 15,348.80 Surplus 777... Furniture and fixtures..... 3,002.46 Discount, exchangeand ‘ in-’ Overdrafts 166.18 terest less expenses. ° i av* at Due from Bks. & Trust Co’h 61,498.92 Deposits on demand ~ Cash in safe 6,445.62 Deposits on t1me.Tr...,'.7.::; T0ta1.......: J1*6.869.60 Total 1.. *i W ,369.50 I, Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of the .above named bank An emnly swear that the above statement is true. nlt ’ a ° Bol ' z JUDSON J. HUNT, Secretary-Treasurer Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 21st day ot May, 1908. My commission expires December E ‘ SP TLER ’ Notary Public.

SUITS AGAINST BREWERIES

Five of Them Filed by the Indiana Attorney General—Feature* of the Complaint.

Indianapolis, May 21. Five separate suits have been filed in the Marion county superior court by James Bingham, attorney general, against the Indianapolis, the Terre Haute, the Capital City, the Home and the American Brewing companies. The attorney general alleges that these companies are wantonly violating the laws of the state and persistently abusing theli corporate powers by leasing saloon buildings and thereby engaging in the real estate business. He asks for a judgment dissolving the defendant corporations, forfeiting their corporate rights, and for a temporary Injunction against each, and the appointment of a temjiorary receiver. The companies against which the complaints are directed are those now engaged in federal court litigation against the attorney general.

His Family Is Safer Now.

Lebanon, Ind.. May 21.—After two unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife’s eight-months-old child. William Hogan, an employe of the Big Four railroad at tills place, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. About midnight Mrs. Hogan awoke to find her husband bending over her sleeping child, holding his hands over the babe’s nose and mouth. He admitted that he was trying to kill the child, something hehad tried two weeks ago. He left the house and at once drank poison.

Dead Negro Is Identified.

Terre Haute, Ind., May 21. —The negro burglar who was shot and killed by ex-Mayor Bidaman has been identified as that of a negro named Huston, of Owensboro, Ky. He had been here for several months, and while he did not work, nor loaf about saloons and joints, he always had a little money. In his pocket was a letter imploring him to send for the writer, which was signed, “From Your Mama Car He.”

Not Guilty of Embezzlement.

Columbus, Ind.. May 21.—The eraUezzlement charge filed against Chas L. Ping, ex-financial secretary of the local lodge of Knights and Ladles of Honor, will be dismissed. He was accused of embezzling $63.67. Ping explained the deficiency satisfactorily.

Throws 2,800 Out of Work?' The eight hat manufactories at Orange, N. J., have closed their doors, throwing about 2,800 operatives out of work, because of a wages disagreement The most complete stock of furniture at Williams* ever in Rensselaer. HOBSON’S CHOICE. "I am bound to have a war if I can get it,” Says Hobson, Richmond P,, of Alabamy; "If we ain’t prepared for trouble we” 11 ;■ regret it,” Says Hobson of the House; "why, double damme! There’s the Japanese are dying for to lick us, And upon the dogs of war weought to sick us!” "Why, our fitness for a fight is thin as gravy,” Says Hobson, Richmond P., of Alabamy: “We should have a thousand vessels in our navy,” Says Hobson of the House; <: Tm getting clammy With the fear of what would happen to the nation If the Mickeydoo should want a coaling station!” “There’s a thousand miles o’ beach on our Pacific,” • Bays Hobson, Richmond :P., of Ala-, bamy; “And the sand would fly particularly terrific,’’ Says Hobson of the House, “If Uncle Rammy Didn’t have at least a million ships o’ battle For to give the Nipponese a real rattle!” “We are living on the limit of a crater,” Says Hobson, Richmond P., Of Alabamy; “And America’s a thirty-second rater,” Says Hobson of the House, “an ancient mammy Having nothing of the fighter in her makeup For to give the yeller bellyache a shakeup!" “I am bound to have a war if I can work it,” Says Hobson, Richmond P. of Alabamy; “And I won’t .permit the populace to shirk it,” Says Hobson of the House; “my oriflammy Is a-sissling and a-blasing for a battie From the sands o’ San Diego to Seattle!” —New York Sun.

It pays to trade at Worland’s. McKay ~sells cream in any amount from ohe-half pint to ten gallons. You can get that famous Barrington Hall steel cut coffee at the Home Grocery. We are showing the greatest line of fine laces and embroideries at right prices at the Chicago Bargain Store. Cows For Sale: Five fresh cows and several more that will £e fresh soon, at my residence 4 miles south of Wheatfield. H. C. MEYERS. J am turning out the “old process work,” the work that lasts, and it looks right. JOHN P. WARNER. W. S. Richards, Painter and Paper Hanger, ’Phone 331. Wanted' —2,000 rolls of paper to hang, and all the painting In Jasper county. Fifteen years experience in Rensselaer. xlluneS MONEY TO LOAN IMMEDIATELY. I have *500.00 to place at once on real estate. Any one wanting *500.00, call and get terms. B. F. FERGUSON. FOR SALE. A brick livery barn with good basement. Three good office rooms.; above, all . occupied. Two good business rooms on ground floor, one with gpod basement, all occupied. The price is right. LAWRENCE OR CONRAD HILDEBRAND, Rensselaer, Ind. A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Allen’s Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Tired, Aching, Callous. Sweating, Swollen feet. At aU Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. Canned Goods Safety . . IS IN PAYING THE PRICE. There is no use in the world trying to combine cheapness and quality in Canned Goods, nor in any other line for that matter. High grades cost a trifle more, but for that extra In Canned Goods you get— Assurance of purity Appetizingness Wholesomeness And these are tbe things that stand for healthful food. t - ■ We confine our purchases to well-known and tried brands. So we offer every customer Canned Goods safety in every article. McFarland, Grocer.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

James H. Chapman et al to William D. Nelson. May 12, nw nw 35-31-7, 40 acres. Union, *1,050. John D. Woods to George T. Gillman. May 14, Its 1,2, 3, bl 4, Remington, original plat, *1,500. Joseph P. Hammond to Alexander L. Jensen et ux, May 8, its 7,8, bl 4, Wheatfield, Graham’s add., *1,250. Martha J. George to Ada V. Snow, May 5, pt sw sw 20-30-8, 12 acres, Barkley, *6OO. Ada V. Snow to Newman 8. Snow, May 5, pt sw sw 20-80-6, 12 acres, Barkley, *6OO. Orlando Miller to Sidney Turner, Apr. 16. Its 5,6, 7, bl >, Wheatfield. Miner’s add., *l5O. Eva Keen to James W. Lewis, Mar. 2. It 6, bl 7, Rensselaer, Weston’s second add., *BOO. Frank W. Fisher to Franklin Fisher. Feb. 1, 1007, und% w% se 33-29-5, 80 acres, Hanging Grove, >2,000. Benjamin J. Gifford to May Gifford, May 16, b% nw ne 25-82-7, 20 acres, Kankakee,, *673. Northern Ind. Land Co., to Frank A. Nave, May 1, I*o6, se 4-32-6, e% ne 4-32-6, 242.98 acres, Wheatfield, *7,289.40. Clyde Dickey to A. M. Ebaugh, Apr. 27, ne se 18-28-6, 40 acres, Milroy, *1,200. Walter E. Rich et al to Charles A. Ronner. May 11, und 1-3 It 1,2, bl 12, und 1-8 Its 5,6, bl 11, und 1-3 pt It 4, bl 11, Remington, original plat, *IO,OOO. Sidney Turner to" Chester 18. Xyoh, May 1, tt 6, bi 3, Wheatfield. Miller’s add.. *SO. , ; Howell Richeson to Hlelo J. Rust, May 1. s% sw 16-28-6, 80 acres. Marion, *l. \ ■ - --r rrj-