Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — Page 1

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BOILER FLUE COLLAPSED.

Threshing Outfit Wrecked and Wm. Wetli Badly Hurt. Wadena, Ind., August 11.; —William Wetli, the largest land owner in this county, while setting a machine to do his own threshing, was the victim of a serious accident. A flue in the boiler gave way, blowing the firedoor of the furnace open. Flying debris struck Mr. Wetli, who was some distance away, rendering him unconscious and felling him directly in front of the escaping steam and boiling water. He was severely scalded. Fire was thrown on a wagon loaded with sheaf oats, setting it ablaze, and an old straw stack was also destroyed. Two years ago Mr. WetlFs home burned and two of his children a farm laborer were cremated.

AND IT CAME WEDNESDAY.

Long Prayed For Rain Come, and *» '’Twas a Good One. A general rain never fell out of the clouds that was more welcome than that of Wednesday and Wednesday night. It came in plenty, in sheets, and it came often. One good shower after another until six or seven had fallen in this immediate vicinity. The rising river would indicate that some of it got away, but an examination of the ground in a bare spot in a graden showed the ground wet down more than a foot, and very wet, too, so that a goodly Quantity has gone where it will do the most good. Many corn fields will now make very good yields, but of course those that had been “fired” for several days will not make corn under any circumstances. Wheat sowing, or plowing for wheat sowing will now be an easy task, and there is going to be more sown this year than there probably ever was sown in this county before in any one year.

PAIR OF ELK SOLD TO LOGANSPORT MAN.

Wilson Searight of Logansport concluded the purchase of a pair of elk from Emmet Pullin of Bark* tp., this county, last Monday. The male was only a calf, weighing 175 or 200 pounds, and the cow a yearling heifer weighing about 300 to 350 pounds. The price paid was S7O for the pair. Mr. Searight is a farmer and keeps a collection of wild animals and birds, and so does Mr. Pullin, having a pair of elk left, the male having been purchased from Lincoln Park, Chicago, and the cow is one he got with the herd purchased from Nelson Morris some years ago. He also has some deer of the variety that at one time were numerous in a wild state In this county. In addition to these he has three wild turkeys—the pure quill—but from the original pair has not succeeded in raising but one on account of their wild nature, and the fact that they steal their nests away and the crows get the eggs. Some wild geese complete his menagerie. One of his deer is at large now and no doubt can not be caught until winter comes on. In fact at this time its whereabouts is not known. There are probably very few persons raising turkeys for market who know the history of these birds. They are raised in all parts of the civilized world, but were originally found in North America only. When the white nunfcame to this country they discovered the wild turkey among the first things that was to supply them food. There were three varieties. From the Virginias north there was one kind—different in plumage—while in what is now Central America there was yet another variety. Those from Mexico were taken to Spain by the returning Spaniards and from there were returned to this country in a semidomesticated state, and the cross between these and the Virginia variety is the bronze turkey so common to-day in this country. The blacks, whites, yellow and other colored varieties are only Inbred, producing these various colors as a result of this Inbreeding.

All members of all the commitftees connected with the Home-Com-ing are requested to be present at a meeting that will be held this (Saturday) morning at the Radies’ waiting room at the court house at 9 o’clock. Be sure to be there. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ■ ' . _ ' LOST: —Thursday evening, a gold bracelet, maple leaf design. Finder please leave at Clarke's jewelry store. See the new fall mens’ hats, ladies’ skirts, prints, shoes, etc., just arrived at the Chicago Bargain Store.

THE OTHER SIDE.

Pancoasts Say Raeda Was a Voilent Anarchist THREATENED TO KILL THE FAMILY And Burn Their Home, They Say, And Came At Them With a Knife and a Club. V The article in Wednesday’s Democrat regarding the trouble out at *A. C. Pancoast's in Newton tp., a ftuv days before, has caused a reply from Mr. Pancoast and Mr. Halstead. The information on which The Democrat’s article was based was secured from the officer and his assistants who went out and brought the man in, an<L they say our article was correct in every way. The story, as published, of course, was largely the Russian’s side of the matter, and in justice to the “other side” we cheerfully grant space for a reply. We would add to their reply that Mr. Pancoast denies ever having promised the man more than the |lB per month or that he had any money or gave him any money to pay for the goods which he had bought for him, amounting to about 15. The reply of Messrs. Pancoast and Halstead follows as written by them: The Russian came from Chicago July 3rd, and w’hile he was entirely ignorant of farm work yet he remained several weeks. The man was not right in bls' mind at times from his actions. He would go about sometimes all day without saying a word to anyone and act very sullen. When asked what was the matter he would say “Peter no good. Guess me kill myself.” Mr. Pancoast and Everett Halstead exchanged work in haying. Halstead had two Russians at work for him and they had not been in the field one half hour until Peter began stirring up trouble with the other Russians. This caused considerable comment from the other workmen, as they expected the Russians would enjoy each other’s company.

Work in haying being over, Peter went to Halstead and offered to work for him but Halstead’s bead men, Leslie Thompson and Wm. McKinney, protested and told Halstead that they did net like Peter’s actions and believed that the man was not right in his head. Halstead refused to hire him. Peter was then working for $lB per month, and told Mr. Pancoast, “Me want more money or me go back to Chicago.” Mr. Pancoast said “All right, Peter, your money is ready. You can go any time.” Peter said “Me fun. No work in Chicago. Board $5 per week. Me stay longer.” But his actions were so queer at times that Mr. Pancoast decided that he would keep him no longer. But Peter insisted on staying longer, but finally packed his grip and agreed to go. Then changing his mind after his peculiar manner he unpacked and said “Me stay." Pancoast told him “No, Peter, you must go this time. Halstead is .here and wllLtake you to the train.” So Peter repacked his grip and again agreed to go. Then Peter became violent, threw down his money and said, “Me kill you, burn your house if you not give me more money." Peter seized a club and started for Mrs. Pancoast, who stepped to one side; but had her apron entirely torn off before getting away. Mr. Pancoast rushed in and had his hat demolished. Halstead went into the game at this point and Peter pushed outside the yard gate. Then Peter turned and struck Halstead in the chest. Halstead seized Peter by 'the throat and threw him down at once on the ground. Pancoast and Halstead then proceeded to tie him, and as they say they did not have any silken cords or satin ropes to tie him with, they took lines from the buggy horse and lashed him to the fence and telephoned to the authorities. . Peter was handled as carefully as possible* so both Pancoast and Halstead say, under the circumstances. He was never struck once but he was so violent that he broke loose twice and they decided to make sure of him and they tied him to the fence in a good shade, in a comfortable position, and remained by him keeping off the files. Peter continued to curse and rave and threaten until the authorities arrived when he changed his tactics at once and became very placid and as meek as a lamb, and succeeded so well on his way to Rensselaer _ * ' .'..v ’ • •

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1908.

that the authorities believed that "Poor Peter had been abused.” The authorities saw the man tied, and it looked hard to them. They did not see Peter’s violent actions before they arrived, nor did not hear his criminal threats. The Peter they heard was the placid, mild, much abused, poor Peter that went according to his story without his dinner, etc. Peter was a man, we judge from the way he tells his story, that never learned how to tell the truth. Peter was considerable of an anarchist and had much to say about Chief of Police Shippy of Chicago and wanted to see him killed. He was an educated fellow and contributed regular articles to a paper in Boston. Only a few years ago Newton county witnessed a tragedy similar to what this might have been. This was when Mr. Medworth was murdered in broad daylight by his hired man and his house burned with himself and hired man in it. Mr. and Mrs. Pancoast were alone their children being in Minnesota at the home of Rev. Paradis, but their neighbor stopping in on his way to Rensselaer seemed to the family a Godsend. Had the officers from this town found a smoking ruins and two dead' bodies in the heap or yard they would probably have had a different train of thoughts. But they saw the would-be murderer tied to a fence and they felt sorry for him.

THE WORK IS NOT THERE.

Labor Commissioner Says Men Who Seek Work in Harvest Fields Will Be Disappointed. St. Paul, Minn., August 11.—Following a visit made to North Dakota, and after a conference with Governor Burke and other officials of the State. Labor Commissioner Williams of Minnesota, says that instead of there being employment in the harvest fields for 15,000 or 20,000 men. 1,000 will be lucky if they can find jobs. “This thing of railroads asking for 15,000 and 20,000 men each year for harvest work in North Dakota and Minnesota is a snare and a delusion. It is downright criminal, for it is flooding the Northwest with a lot of hobos that will have to be taken care of by the municipalities and the States.’’ Mr. Williams received a letter from the mayor of Philadelphia saying that he had 5,000 idle men that he could ship to the Northwest. "I wrote him and told him they were not wanted,” he said.

A LITTLE DISTURBANCE IN UNION TOWNSHIP.

Charles D. Lakin and Sherman Renicker had a fracas Wednesday evening, as the result of what seems to have been a misunderstanding. On Monday Mr. Lakin, who is a close neighbor of Renicker's, had mowed the road but had skipped some willows that were too big to cut with the mower. These he grabbed and laid on Renicker’s side of the road until he had finished the job of mowing which included some hazel brush, when he says he Intended to take care of everything he had placed on the opposite side of the road from where he removed them. Wednesday evening Renicker and Lakin met, and Renlcker asked Lakin why he had placed everything on his land. Lakin replied that he intended to take care of everything he had placed there, and added that if Renicker spoke to Mrs. Lakin again as he had done Tuesday evening there would be trouble —and the trouble then began. Renlcker is much the Ihrger man and had no trouble in getting Lakin down, after having struck him a tijne or two. Then Lakin called time, and is wearing a very black eye on account of the mix up. Thursday morning he swore out a warrant for Renicker’s arrest, from “Judge’’ Irwin’s court which was served in the afternoon. In the evening Renlcker appeared in court, and plead guilty to a charge of assault and was fined SI.OO and costs, to the amount of $15.65 as the expense of his entertainment. Yesterday morning Renlcker filed an affidavit against Lakin for provoke, and the warrant was. served during the forenoon, but as we go to press the matter had not been tried.

The regular 75 cent overalls or shirt, now 50 cents. Chicago Bargain Store. JRemember T. H. Robertson is going to sell a bunch of high gra~de draft horses at Wolcott, Saturday, August 29. An oversight by those, who fail to come great clearance sale. Chicago Bargain Store.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 7349. Alice W. Payne vs. Joseph F. Grouns et al; action to foreclose mortgage on lands in Milroy tp. Demand |SOO. No. 7350. State of Indiana ex rel., Adeline Long vs. Richard Grevenstuck; action in bastardy. —o — Marriage licenses issued: August 12, Emil Sommers of Brook, Aged 25, occupation farmer, son of Joseph Sommers, to Lydia May Augspurger, also of Brook, aged 19, occupation music teacher, daughtefi of David Augspurger. First marriage for each. o County Clerk Warner and Dr. Washburn made a trip to Logansport Tuesday via auto, but on the return journey blew out a tire near Delphi and had to remain /here all night, coming home via Wednesday morning. An auto from here was sent after the disabled machine and hauled it home. —®>— Another paragraph was filed in the case of Lucinda Rowe of Remington against Wm. Townsend, a druggist of this place, yesterday. In the second paragraph Mr. Townsend’s son Claude is charged with having made the sale of carbolic acid which plaintiff’s son, Harry Rowe, used to commit suicide about a year ago. The amount of damages asked is also raised from $5,000 to |IO,OOO.

Richard Grevenstuck of Keener tp., was arrested Thursday on complaint of Adaline Long, a 22-year-old maid of the same township, on bastardy charges. A hearing was had before Squire Irwin and the defendant bound over to the circuit court under SSOO bond, signed by the young man’s father, G. grevenstuck. The accident is alleged to have happened last April, while the parties were out riding in a buggy, in the township aforesaid. —o— The question of whether the county or the city of Rensselaer shall pay the expense of removing the two bridges in Rensselaer for the passage of the dredge has not been decided by Judge Hanley, to whom the matter was referred, but the county will settle with the contractors and the matter will be adjusted between the city and county later if the decision is that the city must pay. The Washington street bridge at least must be all re-tim*’ bered, and the cost of putting in the new joists and flooring will be more than the cost of removing and replacing the bridge, probably aggregating something like S4OO to S6OO. The creamery bridge also will have to be re-floored and perhaps require new joists.

"ELI AND JANE.”

Comedy at it’s superlative apex gladdens and thrills those who go to see and witness the performance of Eli and Jane with Harry Green in the stellar role. You will be delighted with a clever performance. Ell and Jane* with its frolicsome inhabitants. From start to finish the entertainment is of the breathgrasping order and sensations are crowded upon each other in such tumultuous array as to stagger the imagination and beggar the efforts of description. This attraction is one of the sort to please one hundred per cent, of the audience. At Ellis opera house, Thursday, August 20.

WASHINGTON STREET BRIDGE MOVED.

’T'At 10:15 a. m., Wednesday the Order was given to “go ahead,” at which the man at the horse used to turn the capstan to which | the big Washington street bridge had been hitched said “Gidap.” The horse began to go in a circle around the capstan, and the big bridge began moving over toward Joe Larsh’s. it came, just like it had to; fevery time the horse turned the • bridge got nearer on to dry land, and b\ Wednesday evening it was more than half way of its length in the street. Thursday the high watef. and the fact that the men had put in a good half -day’s work Wednesday after midnight caused a delay until noon of that day when operations were renewed and the work of temoving the bridge was completed yesterday morning and the dredge began

throwing rock. Several |days wHI elapse before this bridge can be replaced as the dredge will have to go more than two hundred feet below it to allow all the boats that go with the dredge the necessary room.

ANNA LANE DEAD.

The remains of Miss Anna Lane, daughter of Joseph and Mary Kosta Lane of Newton township, whose death occurred at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., last Monday, arrived here on the 2:01 p. m., train Thursday and the funeral was held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Immediately thereafter. The funeral was to have been in the forenoon and mass was celebrated at 11 a. m., but the train did not bring the remains, so the funeral was postponed until 2 p. m., as aboye stated. Miss Lane had been suffering from that dread disease consumption for several years before death claimed her as its victim, and had been to South Dakota some two years ago to get the benefit of the dry climate there. Again last winter she returned to Sioux Falls but nothing could stay the ravages of this the most fatal of modern diseases. She was nearly 27 years of age at the time of her death, her 27 th birthday would have occurred in September, having been born and grew to womanhood in this county. She was buried in Mount Calvary cemetery among her people who have gone before her.

THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.

There is in Indiana an organization which was started by men who were opposed to the licensing of saloons on moral grounds. The organization has had heretofore the respect of right thinking people because it conducted its own affairs after its own methods and for its own purposes. In its extremity the republican party has fastened itself upon the Anti-Saloon League like a leech, and is seeking to convert the work of the organization from a movement in the interests of good morals, into an effort to continue the republican party in power. The league is composed of men of all parties, and it has had an honorable existence, with a good effect along the line of its chosen work. What it will amount to if it is made the tool of the office-holding and of-fice-seeking contingent of the party now in power remains to be seen, but can easily be guessed. No association having for its purpose the good of all the people can succeed when it allows itself to be made the means of securing political plunder for a set of chronic office-seekers. That fact does not, however, concern the republican state organization which is conducting a campaign under cover of the league. Neither is the republican state organization concerned over the fact that it is able to make use of the league only by exerting influences which are questionable in their relation to the cause of temperance. Politics, as it is practiced by the republican state machine, is a good deal like the method of benevolent assimilation used in conducting the affairs of the trusts which have been fostered and built up under the administration of- that party.—Laporte Argus-Bulletin.

EXCURSION TO SUNNY SOUTHERN ALBERTA.

• Will leave Chicago Monday evening, Aug. 17th, 1908. Fare for the round trip from Chicago, including free private sleeping car accommodations, $25.00. This is less than one cent a mile for the round trip. You can’t afford to miss this. Good land sells from $lO to sl6 per acre on easy terms. Railroad fare will be refunded to purchasers. I will be glad to have anyone that would like to make the trip to call at my office for any information in regard to the trip, or call me by phone. We will leave Rensselaer on the 9:55 train Monday, Aug. 17th. Don.t forget the date. CHAS. J. DEAN, Office in I. O. O. F. Bldg., Rensselaer, Ind. -

A WORD TO THE PUBLIC.

I have an interest in the Kresler feed and hitch barn and will be pleased to have your patronage. I thank you for your past kindness and patronage in the twenty-four years of my milling business at Rensselaer. My associations w,ith you have been pleasant. JAMES E. FLYNN.

Competition prices on groceries can not be compared with car load and case lot prices at the Chicago Bargain Store.

BRYAN’S SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE.

The speech of acceptance of William J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, appears on third page of to-day’s Democrat.

A BUSY SCENE.

Everybody worked but father in the vicinity of the Washington street bridge yesterday morning, and father had to hump himself to keep out of the way of the men who were working. The big dredge was at work taking out stone, the city gang was at work taking out water pipes across the channel, the bridge men were swarming like bees and working like beavers to get their timbers out of the way of the dredge, and all in all it was a hot time they were having. The dredge will probably get out of the way for replacing the bridge today or Monday.

DELPHI MAN KILLS HIMSELF.

Chicago, August 11.—Edward C. Newman, a cigarmaker of Delphi, Ind., is dead as the result of a fall from the second floor of University Hospital last night, where he was being treated for a nervous disorder that caused temporary insanity. In a fit of delirium the man tried to jump down the elevator shaft, but was caught by a nurse. He freed himself and ran to the side of the building, where he plunged through a plate glass window, cutting himself terribly, and jumped to the pavement below. He was dead when picked up.

LAKE COUNTY FAIR NEXT WEEK

The big Lake county Fair at Crown Point, a favorite for Rensselaer and Jasper county people, starts next Tuesday, the 18th, and continues four days and three nights. Two thousand dollars has been expended for the celebration, it being the 50th anniversary of the society. The great feature at night is Pain’s great fireworks show. So many horses will be in the races that Secretary Wheeler reports new stables are being erected to accommodate them. Races Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Big night performance every evening.

A LAUDABLE UNDERTAKING

Which Other Towns Would Do Well To Imitate. Noblesville, Ind., August 10.— The contest started early in the spring to beautify Noblesville with flowers ended Saturday afternoon with the awarding of prizes by a committee consisting of Mrs. Samuel Matthews, W. E. Bpnfoy and J. A. Gleason, all residents of Tipton. Mayor Young, of that city, appointed this committee at the request of the Noblesville Business Men’s Association. The names of the committee members were not made public until they arrived in Noblesville at noon Saturday, and being strangers here their decisions were accepted as impartial. The first prize of $lO in gold for the most beautiful appearing home was awarded to Miss Frances Hoen. Prizes were given to Lewis Gwinn for having the prettiest lawn in the First ward, Henry Gaeth in the Second ward and Elmer E. Crane in the Third ward. Many individual awards were also made.

More than 200 property owners engaged in the contest and as a result Noblesville has been one of the prettiest cities in central Indiana this summer. William Hoen, president of the Noblesville Business Men’s Association, suggested this movement early knocking them off the posts. He ranged, the association deciding to pay all premiums in cash out of its treasury, and it also furnished the flower seeds free of charge. Old people, middle-aged people and children became interested in the contest, and there was scarcely a home in Noblesville that did not have from one to six extra flower beds. They were located around the houses and on the lawns and sidewalks. Many lawns were beautified with potted plants. This large display of flowers attractedthe attention pf all strangers who came - to the city, and it is i understood that many other cities in Indiana will have the same kind of. contest. Noblesville 'will follow the same plan on a much larger scale next season.

An arm load qf old papers for a 'nickel at the Democrat office.

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