Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1908 — Page 3

10 Pf r Cent Discount Will continued on all work and orders taken during the month ' of July. Call and get prices. C. A. PETERS Optician

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Item* of Interest to City and Country Renders. On top—-Home Grocery. To-day’s markets: Com, 65c; toats, 45c; wheat, 70c. A. son was born Saturday to Mr. d Mrs. James Myers of Barkley township. ■A. W. Hopkins of Chicago came down Saturday to spend Sunday with relatives here. Miss Olive Pollard of south of town was operated on for appendicitis at Chicago last week. Everett Kinney left Sunday for a two weeks vacation which he will spend at his home in' Spencer. ’ James Flynn went to Greensburg, Ind., Saturday to visit bis mother, who is almost 90 years of age.

Miss Virginia Rainier of Lafayette is visiting here with her sister, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, for a few days. English went io Glencoe, In., Saturday for a few weeks visit with the family of his uncle, L. F. Hopkins. ... ' : - f W. H. Myers, of Parr took Ve train here Saturday for a visit with relatives at Dunkirk, Ind., and Lima,' Orio. Mrs. Mary A. Lane, an aunt, and Master John Henry Leppert of Chicago, are visiting A 1 Peters and family for a week or two. Miss Nora Casey, who is studying for a trained nurse in a Chicago" hospital, spent last week with Katherine Michael of Jordan tp. Mr. and Mrs. John Renicker, Fred Renicker and Mrs. Levi, Rentcker went to the north-eastern part of the state Friday to visit a few days. Advertised letters: Wm. Johnson (2), Wm. Tespe, Mrs. May Hines, Jack Marshall (2), Miss Harriett Meeker, Fred Steele, Carl McCain. Mrs. Maurice Watters of Orland, Ind., is visiting her brother John N. Baker of Barkley tp., and broth-er-in-law, John Richmond, of Pleasant Grove. If the weather continues fair oats threshing—the “4 th of July oats”— will begin about Thursday. The opening price will probably be about 40 cents per bushel. 1 ' • Goodland Herald: The Goodland bank paid another 10 per cent dividend this week. This is the tftlrd dividend and makes 30 per cent in all Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp and baby came down from Chicago Heights Sunday. John returned . home the same day but Mrs, Sharp and baby will remain for a few days. A. W. Cleveland, accompanied by his nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cleveland of Fondulac, Wis., returned Friday from' Cleveland, Ohio, Where they had been to bury his wife, i V TNMr. and Mrs. Josiah Davisson down from Kankakee tp., Friday, returning home Saturday. Fishing in the Kankakee has been quite good the past couple of weeks, Mr. Davisson says. Sixty gallotas of “tdnica,” the great kidney and bladder remedy, was returned to the brewery Monday morning, as there was no more "use for it here. Tonlca hasn’t been popular anywhere for a week. yThe oats crop is proving very disappointing, and will turn out but very little grain, but what there is is said to be of good quality, Oats seem to be very poor all over the state and there is also a great deal of mighty poor corn. Rev. Father Meyer went to Frankfort Saturday to preach for Father William Hordeman, who performed a like service for Father Meyer here. The latter went on to Cincinnati Sunday afternoon to spend the week with friends, and Father Hordeman will visit relatives here.

Another nice rain /ell here Monday night The Rensselaer ball team defeated the Lafayette Athletics here Sunday afternoon. Score 5 to 4. jLFrank P. Meyer and Miss Frances of Danville, 111., came up Monday for a few days visit with his relatives. Chapman and wife have recently moved back here from Cincinnati and wlh make Rensselaer their home. Fred is still employed as railway mall clerk. Mrs. R. B. Faris of Gillam tp., died Saturday and was buried at Independence cemetery Monday. She was about 65 years of age and leaves a husband and several grown children. * Milt Witham, George Baldwin, Leslie Miller, editor of the Pilot, and Walter Ponsler were in town Saturday afternoon. Mr. MUler has abandoned the Monon project and will devotp all of his time to building up his paper at Mount Ayr, and in this he is wise. TsTalk about large potatoes, Joe southwest of town, sent in a mess to The Democrat man yesterday that put evep Prof. Warren’s In the shade. There were eight of the tubers and they tipped the scales at 4 % pounds. It takes the Dutch to raise potatoes.

There is considerable complaint from .potato raisers that the yield is not as good as the surface indications would lead one to believe it should be. The tops look fine and if the tubers were as good in proportion there would be an immense crop. The newspaper comments on the work of the Denver convention show that all of the trust organs have natttrally lined up for Taft. Nothing is left for the people to do except to line up f6r Bryan. He ought to get the biggest majority in history. Elmer Gwin got home last Wednesday after a three months prospecting trip in Oklahoma. He spent most of his time in Oklahoma City, where there is a numerous colony of Rensselaer people. These Mr. Gwin report to be very well satisfied, but he does not like the country very well himself, and has abandoned all intentions of going there to live. V. Louie Muster received a very bad Wyte Sunday morning as he was preparing to refit a shoe on one of his horses. When he got hold of the foot the horse handed him one on the left eye that required four stitches to close. The wound bled profusely, and he did. not have it treated until after he got home, having been kicked while back of King’s blacksmith shop.

Charles S. King, wife and two daughters, a friend and the chauffeur were instantly killed at Columbia City Saturday while driving in an auto, by the Pennsylvania Limited on the P. Ft. W. & C. Railway. All were from Fort Wayne, and King was the loan broker through which many of the loans made by the ‘Jasper Savings and Trust Co. were secured. A Canadian product, commonly known as the bull-nettle, and a noxious weed, has made its appearance in town. There is one in the street in front of the new school house and by taking a look at it, identification will be an easy matter hereafter. Like the Canada thistle they come from both the seed and the root, and to insure their destruction they should be* carefully dug up and “burned alive.” The blasting on the river rock in Rensselaer is nearly done. There is only a little rock to be talten out down west of the creamery bridge where the blasting is now being done. The rock work only extends some 200 feet west of this bridge, then there is a little in south of the cemetery, and no more until Stott Grant’s -is reached, about a mile west of town and near where the improvement stops. Some 1,200 feet is to be blasted out there, but it is not of very great depth.

There seems to be a prevailing ‘Opinion, especially among the older folks, that the younger set when grown up will have no stories of adventure, sport or exciteifient to relate of their youthful days. Be that as It may, It will not apply to Master Albert Pullin of Barkley tp. Albert, who is 7, and Willie, who is 9, worked faithfully the fore part of last week for their grandfather, Charley Pullin, riding slide horses in the hay field, and well deserved the privilege of going fishing Saturday. Albert was prepared for big game with his hazle-brush pole, lapping twine line and minnow hook, baited with a flshworm. Well, he hooked a four pound black bass and Willie helped him land it And It didn’t spoil before they got It home, either.

Charles Harrington of Demotte was down on business yesterday. . Mrs. Wm. Wilcox and little son .of near Alx left Monday to visit her sister, Mrs. Rillie Ridenour at Seattle, Wash. She expects to be gone about two months., Louis Wildberg who has been in the hospital at Chicago for three and a half- months, come home sdtne time next week, if he progresses as well as he has in the last week or two. Will the people control their own government or will they turn It over absolutely to a few mercenaries? That Is a very important issue’. Bryan and Kern represent the people on this question. ' v KJohn Rush of Mt. Ayr, formerly cjf Rensselaer, has traded his general store at that plaoe for a 160 acre farm in Owen county. The exchange takes place at once, but John is undecided, we understand, as to whether he will move on the farm at present. >LAn acid preparation was used out |>t St Joseph’s college the other day to kill weeds. Later the dairy herd was turned out in the field and evidently liked the taste of the acidtreated weeds, and they ate them, up slick and clean. As a result all were made very sick and one or two died.

E. L. Hollingsworth came □ear climbing the stairs leading to Dr. Loy’s office in her new auto yesterday morning. She was attempting to make a turn in the street opposite .this stairway when the machine got away from her and< made straight for the sidewalk. It was on the curb with the front wheels before it was stopped. yCarl Worden, whose dangerous was noted last week, is not out of danger yet, although the internal wound is healing nicely. On account of having to place absorbents in the abdominal cavity to take np the poisonous matter that had been discharged from the ulcerated appendix, the outer wound can not be allowed to heal until they have all been removed, neither can but little nourishment be given, and that only of a liquid nature. It is thought that he will recover at thiswriting. The Ladies’ Home club met at Mrs. Will Pruett’s in Jordan tp., Thursday afternoon. A very elegant lunch was served at 4 o’clock. The prizes in the guessing contest were liberally awarded. The Chicago lady won first and the president of the club second. The rest of the afternoon was spent in music, recitations, etc. The twenty-five club ladjes were present and a very good program was had. At the usual hour they all departed, wishing Mrs. Pruett many more such happy events. The club meets this week at Mrs. Charles Summers’. Let the good work of the cldb continue.

If nothing unfavorable happens to the big dredge, it will get down to the Washington street bridge in a couple of days, before the time set to let the contract to remove it. Mr. Sternburg is much worried about the matter, and is said to be contemplating trying to get damages for being detained, as his time is very valuable Just now, every mitiute of it being needed to finish the job this fall. On the other hand, the time set for the completion of the rock and dredge work in his contract has long ago expired, so there is probably littl& foundation for the report that he will attempt any damage suit —it might be worked by the county in his case also. All the fall and winter samples are now here for tailor* made suits. The lines are perfect. Step in and we will show you. DUVALL ft LUNDY. The Ohio Farmers Insurance! Company has been doing business 60 years, writing fire, lightning and cyclone insurance, on both city town and farm property, also on live stock, and hay in barn or in stack. It will be to your interest to see me before placing your insurance. J. C. PORTER, Agent Be sure and see thosS swell suits at our store for nearly half what they previously sold for. DUVALL St LUNDY.

Cows For Sale: Five fresh cows and several more that will be fresh soon, at my residence 4 miles south of Wheatfleld. H. C. MEYERS. You ought to see the all wool Serge suits at our store for $7.60, well tailored and up-to-date in every way. We will he glad to show you. DUVALL ft LUNDY. — MONON SPECIAL RATES. $6.76 round trip to Cincinnati, 0., July 26th and 27th. ; >"* Baby Go-Carts from fi.fi to $lO at Williams’.

HIS “BAD HALF HOUR"

Bryan “Sits Up and Takfs Notice** of a Story from the Far East. nmmcTioN plank defective * Net Worth the Paper It la Written on, Say* the Story. fcorei To Be m False Alarm—Hitch- | oock Holds A Conference with Western Coworkers—Taft Talks to Lawyers. Falrview, Lincoln, Neb., July 21. Influential eastern Democrats notified Bryan that In their opinion the antiinjunction plank of the platform adopted at Denver waa hardly worth the paper it was written on, the reason alleged by them being that the David B. Hill bill,, passed by the senate, which is specifically indorsed by the Democratic platform, simply carried out the common law provision granting a Jury trial In contempt cases “in the Jurisdiction of the presiding Judge.” ‘The plank was drafted on the asumpticn that the Hill bill wag passed only after it had been amended by Senator Allen, of Nebraska, to make the trial by jury provision mandatory at the de- , mand of the defendant

Has a Bad Few Honrs. Bryan spent several anxious hours after he received this information. While reasonably sure of his ground the allegation that he and the majority of the committee of resolutions had been tricked caused him to worry, and he admitted that he wanted to have an, inquiry set on foot The Associated Press correspondent later relieved his suspense by explaining to him that advices from Washington showed that the Hill bill, as finally adopted by the United States senate in 1896, provided for the summary punishment by the court In direct contempt cases, but making It mandatory for tfie court to grant a trial by jury In all eases where such contempt was committed outside Of the jurisdiction of the court, and where such jury trial was demanded by the accused. This was the Allen amendment, as Bryan remembered It, and it cleared up what threatened to become an awkward situation.

Talks With a “Demon” Slayer. The part that the Prohibition question will play in the campaign was talked over between Bryan and Wiley B. Phillips, editor of the California Voice, of Los Angeles, who Is returning from Columbus, 0., where he was a delegate to the national Prohibition convention. “We agreed,” said Phillips, “not to discuss for publication what was said at our conference.” Phillips, however, volunteered the statement that a number of Prohibitionists would vote for Bryan as against their own candidate. He thought the Prohibition movement would affect the vote in the close states and was unwilling to concede to’Taft many of these votes. Farmers Are “Coughing Up.” The appeal of Bryan to the farmers of country for campaign contributions Is bearing fruit. A number of responses have been received, the sums enclosed varying in amount Two old retired farmers from Omaha, one aged eighty-two and the other seventy-nine, preferred to deliver their contributions In person. They hobbled up the pathway to Falrview and each placed in the hands of Bryan a $5 bill. An ap-" peal by Bryan tothe Democratic newspapers of the country to begin the collection of funds for the campaign was one of the important hapiK-nings. George Fred Williams, of Boston, paid Bryan a visit, and the two were in long conference.

HITCHCOCK IN COUNCIL Holds a Conference With Republican Leader* of the West. Colorado Springs, 0010., July 21. The first session of the Republican leader* with Chairman Hitchcock, of the national committee, continued nuti lngarly Bp. m. During that time members pf the national committee and tbe chalrmep of the state central committee* from sixteen states and the territories addressed the assembly and explained state conditions. After the meeting Hitchcock talked individually with tbe leaders from the western states for the purpose of working out with still greater detail plans for opening and conducting the campaign. At the meeting Hitchcock addressed bis co-workers briefly and explained that he brought them together to broaden their labors and secure eo-opera-tion of efforts. After that all of them present talked about conditions In their state*. They recited the shortcomings In'the management of the national campaigns in past years as It affected their states and general discussion was held to devise means of remedying any defects that had been felt. The conferee* described the as a “stock taking” session. The conferrees bad a thrilling time while taking an automobile tour of the Garden of the Gods and Manltoo Springs. One of the machines Mailed on a hill and then began backing; flnal!y going into a gully. All jumped but the chauffeur, who went with hls machine, and he'was not seriously hart. It took some skißful steering In the *s. following the «at» one to avoid a bad wreck. Tit

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Taft tells some stories He Is Out for Health but Not Medicinal Waters. Hot Springs, Va., July 21.—1 n his •peech at the dedication of the courthouse Judge Taft spoke of the “Administration of Justice,” and’ was heartily applauded as he spoke to his subject and more heartily as he digressed. He was introduced as “our next president,” and mildly objected to a Joint discussion, adding his introducer would not receive unanimous support in that statement He said he had come to the valley for health, but had not partaken of the waters, ‘‘although I am bound to say that the enthusiastic hosts at the hot springs have suggested It I said to them that my feeling reminded mb of the epitaph in a graveyard, ‘I was well, I wished to be better. I took a physic and here I am.’ So like a good husband I have ventured to allow Mrs. Taft to take the baths. “If I were to embrace the opportunity and take th£ r waters and find out more sins of the body than I supposed I have, with a %tnl result, I should be like the gentleman of whom Dr. Hill, of the Methodist church, told me the other day. He had been working very hard one night, speaking to an audience. He came home to the house where he was a guest and asked whether he might not have some lunch. The lady said she had nothing but a mince pie. ‘Well,’ be said, •£ will tiy that. It was good, and he tried it But about the middle of the night he waked up with an acute indigestion. Doctors were called In. The case was very dangerous, so dangerous, Indeed, that the doctors advised the lady that she must tell her guest that he must be prepared to meet his end. She said to him, ‘Ton are not afraid to die?’ ‘Oh, no,’ he said, ‘I am not afraid to die, but I am ashamed to die under the circumstances.’ ”

Bryan to Make Few Speeches. Columbia, S. C., July 21.—“ Mr. Bryan's campaign will have at least one novel feature,” said William E. Gonzales, editor of The State, who ha* returned from a trip to the west during which he twice visited the Democratic standard bearer at Falrview. “That feature will be the resort to the pen rather than to tongue; to the press rather than to the platform.” Gonzales said Bryan would make six or eight, speeches in Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, and then campaign with the pen. Denver Convention Denounced. Philadelphia, July 21.—At a meeting of the Democratic city committee of Philadelphia, which is controlled by the Guffey faction of the party, a resolution was adopted which, while indorsing Bryan for president and John W. Kern for vice president, denounced the action of the Democratic national convention at Denver for unseating eight delegates from Philadelphia in favor of delegates opposed to the organization.

Suicided After Paying His Debts. St. Louis, July 21.—After working hard for two months to pay liabilities attending his recent failure in business, John D. Wood, fifty-two years old, once a trunk merchant, settled his estate and committed suicide. Wood’s body was found at his home with a rubber tube in his mouth connected with a gas burner, and with his will and checks for S6OO on a table at his side. Chicago Bryan Headquarters. Chicago, July 21.—Chicago will be the headquarters for the Democrats as well as for the Republican campaign managers. National headquarters will be opened next Monday, following the selection of the chairman of the Democratic national committee on Saturday, is the announcement made by Willis •T. Abbott, publicity mauager of tbe Democratic party. Hughes to Open In Ohio. Youngstown, 0.. July 21.—Governor Hughes, of New York, has sent a message saying that he will accept an invitation to open the Republican campaign here on Sept. 5.

That Nine-Hour Law Dispute.

Washington, July 21. Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate Oommerre commission, and Commissioner of La;|>or McNeill, constituting tbe meditation board under tbe Erdnr ann act, w® bold a conference with officials of a number of western railroads and the Order of Railway Telegraphers at Chicago on July 29, with a View of effecting an adjustment of the controversy growing out of the interpretation of the nine-hour law. ~ 7. .

McCrea to Rest in Arlington.

New York, July 21.—Captain Henry McCrea, of the United States navy, In command of the battleship Georgia daring the craise of the North Atlantic squadron to the Pacific coast, who died of Bright’s disease in tbe naval hospital at Brooklyn Sunday night, will be burled at Arlington cemetery, Washington. He was bom 4t Logansport, Ind., in 1851.

Uplift at the French Capital.

Paris, July 21.—At tbe trial here of two music ball managers and seven women, recently arrested as a result of Senator Berenger’s crusade against tbe exhibition of the nude on the Paris stage, the managers and artists defended themselves on the ground that the living pictures and dances produced -were artistic and neither indecent ms obscene. : P#' 3 #

UNCLE SAMISGAINING

Hl* Athlete* in the Olympto Cannes Add Three Wine to Their Score. AHEAD IN ALL OP THE SPBINTB Abo They Capture the Standing Broad Jump and a Swim. Most of the Honors Go to United State* and British Contestants, but the Letters’ Total “Stanids Pat.” London, July 21.—The second week of the Olympic contest at Shepherd's Bash began with the first day devoted principally to field sports. Tbs track athletes were the stars and the programme contained many fast and exciting events. The United States and British runners and jumpers gathered in the lion's share of the laurels, as usual, but those from the United States exceeded even the expectations of their supporters. The spectacular features were the seventeen trial heats of the 100-metres sprint, and the eight trial beats of the 800-metres. Two to One for Uncle Sam. In the sprints, the United State* captured eight heats and Great Britain four. J. A. Rector, of the University of Virginia, was the particular star, for he beat quite handily H. G. MacLeod, of Cambridge, and in doing so he beat the Olympic record for the distance of 10 4-5 seconds. The names of Sheppard, Halstead and Beard, of the United States, went up on the blackboard as the winners of their beats in the 800metres race. Lunghi, of Italy, beat H. I* Coe, of the University of Michigan, in the excellent time of 1:57 1-5, and he and Just, the Cambridge half-mile champion, who captured the sixth heat In 1:57 4-5, will give the United States a bard tussle in the finals. We Win Over the Hardies. C. J. Bacon, Irlsh-Amerlcan Athletic club, captured his heat of the 400metres hurdle race In 57 seconds, winning by 25 yards, while Coe distinguished himself by defeating Densham, the ex-British champion. The British won six and the United State* three of the nine beats in the hurdles, but most of these were unexciting, because they were walk-overs. The United States won In the finals in tha 100-metres swimming, the standing broad jump and the bantam catch-as-eateh-can wrestling.

Swimming and Standing Jumps. C. H. Daniels, of New York Athletic clnb, won the swimming event In the fast time of 1:05 3-5, which equals the Olympic record. The standing broad jumping contest was won by the United States, although no notable records were made. Ray Ewry, the winner, being considerably behind his own record made at St Louis. His greatest distance \yas 10 feet 11 inches.

GREEK JUMPER DOES WELL Second to the Winner—Challenge to Our Tug-of-War Men. Tsiolitlris, the Greek jumper, won second in this event, with 10 feet T%, Inches, one-quarter of an Inch better than Martin J. Sheridan, Irish-Ameri-can Athletic club. J. A. Biller, Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A.: Platt Adams, N. Y. A. C., and F. L. Holmes, of Chicago, and the English champion. Bleader, were only a fraction of an inch behind Sheridan. George N. Mehnert, Nrtional TurnVerein (United States), took tbe final In the bantam wrestling, while George W. Gaidzik. Chicago Athletic association,‘won nis heat in the high diving competition. France won the medal for fencing. In which the many bouts were almost monopolized by continentals. Tbe results added three wins to America's score and one to Frence. the other nations not improving their positions. Iu the field events the United States added six points, while Greece, the only other nation to increase its score In these contests, picked np three. The United State* Is now only eight points behind the United Kingdom. tbe score reading: United Kingdom 54; United State*, 40. Tb# city of London police team, which won tbe Olympic tug-of-war, has isseud a challenge for a match with the United States team, the members of both teams to be in their stocking feet, or In any way the challenged men prefer, and the match to be for love or any charity.

Cuts His Own Throat While Asleep.

St. Louis, Mo., July 21.—William Pohlman, a somnambulist, cut his throat in his sleep, and only prompt work by physicians saved his life. Pohlman got his pocket knife out of his trousers and did not awaken, he said, ■until the steel entered his flesh. Then he became unconscious from the loss of blood and could not summon help.

Two Killed By an Explosion.

Joplin, Mo., July 21.—Two men were kiyed and a third seriously hurt by an explosion in the Red Dog mine at Webb City. The dead are: Ora M. Gilmore' and Samuel M. Broom. Chat. Enright wag injured.

Had a Princess as Guest.

London, July 21.—Whitelaw Reid, the United States ambassador, and Mrs. Reid gave a large dinner at Dorchester House at which Princess Henry of Battenberg was ths principal guest