Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

•1.50 Poor Year.

TO BOOST RITES

On Conntry Lines, Is Said To Be Program. TEN-MILE-OUT PHONES *2 MONTH, While Those Nearer “Central” Will Get a Little Better Rate, Graduated By Their -Proximity to the Town Office—Most Patrons Say They Will Have Phones Taken Out Rather Than Pay Higher Rates.

The proposed rafte In telepohne rates is still a live topic of conversation in Rensselaer and in the country hereabouts, and while it is now probable that the 1 city council will grant no increased rate franchise, it will have nothing to do with the country rates, and it is the intention of the telephone company to boost the rates on country lines from 25 to 100 per cent, we are told. This raise is to be made in any event, we understand, and the proposed boost is, it is reported, as follows: Within a radius of two miles of Rensselaer, SI.OO per month; within 4 miles, $1.25; 6 miles $1.50; 8 miles, $1.75; 10 miles, $2. . It is also reported that town patrons will not be granted the privilege of the country lines without paying toll. That is, that no free service will be given town subscribers on any of the country lines, as at present. It is believed by the country patrons that fully 75 per cent of the country phones will be taken out rather than pay the proposed rates, which they state they cannot afford to pay for the little use they have for them, and if tow r n patrons are to be compelled to pay 10 or 15 cents every time they want to talk* with someone out in the country a few miles, there will be a good many phones taken out in town. It is to be hoped > that the company will go ahead and furnish service as before and at the same old rates, or if they do not want to do so, that they will sell their plant to some parties who will. The general opinion is that the plant will pay a good per cent on the actual amount of money paid in on the stock, if w-ell managed, and that the company should not attempt to hold up its patrons for more money because they have suffered some loss for which the patrons are in no wise to blame. The proposition that has been made in some quarters that the increased franchise be granted and that all profits above 8 per cent on the company’s stock be turned over to the city, has little, to recommend it. It could no doubt be arranged so that there would be no surplus over 8 per cent, and the propostion sma6ks too much of paternalism to be seriously considered by our g. o. p, friends, it would seem.

BRAKEMAN WILSON HURT.

Harry Wilson, rear brakeman for conductor Otto Shields on the Chicago local, was 'badly injured in the Monon yards Friday night /by being hurled with terrific force against the wall of his caboose. Wilson had finished his work and was changing clothes in the caboose when a switch engine backed against the local train with unusual violence. He was thrown head foremost across the car and against the opposite wall. When discovered he was unconscious and bleeding profusely from a gash in his head. He was taken to a hospital in Lafayette.

McKNIGHT VANISHES.

Professor McKnight, assisted by Adelaide Austin, hypnotist and revealer of mysteries, after his closing bill Saturday night, entitled The Railroad Bridge Mystery, or Who Shot the Dogs, vanished, leaving a few bad debts, and strong Bmell of whiskey and garlic in his wake. Percy, his “voice” in the “thought transference” tests, had a brain storm trying to get into a trance that he might locate his week’s salary that “Mac” so unkindly eloped with, but it was no go, and Percy, philosopher that he is, accepted a position where the strain is not so great, carrying a hod on St. Joseph’s new buildings, f Pat Courtney, a product of Brook and one of Mac’s subjects, suffered a badly sprained wrist trying to pry Mac loose from a nickel to get a ctip of coffee for breakfast. His scenery, a hard boiled shirt, paste diamond and Shorty Adams, he left in the opera house.

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G. & E. I. UNDER ONE HEAD. On March Ist the Brazil division of the C. & E. I. was consolidated with the main line under the control of Supt. J. C. Muir, with headquarters at Danville. The Indiana division comprises that part of the C. & E. I. extending from Momence to Brazil 192 miles; the Lacrosse branch from Percy Junction to Lacrosse 46 miles, and Otter Creek branch from Otter Creek Junction, on the main line just above Terre Haute, to Brazil, a distance of 13.4 miles.

SAYLER-MORRIS.

Glenn Sayler of Newton tp., and Miss Pearl Morris of Rensselaer were united in marriage Sunday at 2 p. m., at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. G. H. Clarke, and are now out in the country, where they will reside on a farm the coming year, "y Mr. and Mrs. Sayler are highly respected young people, the bride having for some years been a clerk in the dry goods department of the G. E. Murray Co. store, and is known to many of Our readers. The groom is a well and favorably known young man and the best wishes of a host of friends are theirs.

FLOYD HEMPHILL WAS SHOT THROUGH ARM.

Floyd, the young son of Mr, and Mrs. I. N. Hemphill, is the victim of the first hunting accident of the season. Saturday, in company witty Carl Eiglesbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Eiglesbach, he had shouldered his trusty rifle and filed out to the sand bank west of town to ambush any game that might stray their way. Carl, after they had eaten a luncheon, concluded that he must make a thorough examination of his gun, and it was accidently discharged and the bullet passing through the muscle of his companion’s arm, just below the left shoulder. The wound is not serious but should serve as a warning to 12-year-old aspiring nimrods.

MRS. JESSE NICHOLS INJURED.

UMrs. Jesse Nichols was slightly injured in a runaway accident Saturday night, that for a while promised to assume dangerous proportions. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, were returning to their home from town, leading a young horse they had just purchased, behind their buggy. When near the corner of Clark and Forest streets the horse they were leading took fright at a passing automobile and reared up at the back of the buggy. Mrs. Nichols was struck by Its hoof just below the shoulder blade and the impact knocked her from the buggy beneath the horses feet. She was struck several times while lying prostrate on the ground. The horse finally broke loose and ran as far as Omar Morlan’s and was caught by Mr. Morlan. Mrs. Nichols was taken to her home at once and an examination revealed no broken bones, therefore no serious results are anticipated.

HAS TWO POSITIONS OFFERED HIM.

Ex-Banker Fred Gilman Expects to Get Busy Soon. The Goodland Herald, in speaking of Fred Gilman, who was recently paroled from the Michigan City penitentiary after serving two years of a three year sentence for embezzlement of funds of depositors in his bank at Goodland, which went broke in 1904, says: Mr. Gilman seems broken in health and looks years past his true age and his dark hair is tinted with gray. Fred called on us Tuesday morning and on being asked as to what his intentions were for the future, he informed us that he was quite undecided and that he had had two good propositions, each taking him from the state. At present Mr. Gilman is being tortured by one of our home dentists and after this frying ordeal he will decide on one of the two propositions offered him.

THE BOTHER OF “DRESSING UP”.

A bunch of young fellows in one of the barber shops the other evening got to talking about disliking to “dress up” to go to a party, whereupon a traveling man present told of a friend of his who, while traveling in the south, was compelled to stay all night in a backwoods cabin. Soon after the frugal meal a tall, gaunt youth of about IS and an equally sallow and gaunt girl of 17, both barefooted, took their hats from wooden pegs in the wall and prepared to go out, whereupon the mother, taking her pipe from between her yellow teeth, said, reprovingly; “Go ’long an’ wash your feet, Levi, you an’ Looly both! Hain’t you ’shamed to go off to an evenin’ party without washing your feet?” They obeyed, but as Levi took the wasbpan frpm a bench by the door, he said, with a grumble: "I’d ’bout as qoon stay home from a party aa to have to fix up for it!”— Exchange..

THE.TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1909.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Only two marriage licenses have been issued thus far this month. New suits filed: No. 7424.' Selz, Schwab & Co., vs. Wiliam I. Bivans; suit on note and mortgage. Demand S3OO. Marriage licenses issued: March 13, Glenn Neal Sayler o* Newton tp„ aged 28, occupation farmer, to Kittfe Pearl Morris of Rensselaer, aged 24, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. pEJev. Payton, pastor of the Demotte and Wheatfield Methodist churches, was down Monday to confer with parties here about making a move towards petitioning for a county option election in Jasper county. It is likely that a petition will be started soon. Lambert Collins, assessor of Kankakee tp., was down Monday to get his supplies to begin inquiry into the wealth of the tax-payers of his township. For some reason he did not meet with the assessors the last Saturday in February and get his supplies at that time, and had done no assessing as yet. M. B. Price has filed his report as superintendent, of the Howe ditch, as per orders of court, showing collections, disbursements, etc., as follows: Total collections to March 2, $16,070.79. 4 Ephriam Gilmore, contractor of said ditch, has completed the main ditch to station 302. Number of yards excavated to station 202, 219,512.3 Amount paid contractor on main ditch, $10,343.31, same being 80 per cent. The lateral ditch has been completed and last estimate made April 10, i9OB. Total number of yards excavated, 25,127.6; amount paid contractor, $1,184.01, same being 80 per cent. Total amouift paid contractor, $11,527.32. Cost of report, attorneys’ fee and other costs in, establishment and construction of said work, $2,524.05. Total disbursements, $14,051.37.

CHARTS ABOUT ALL GONE.

The supply of Wall Charts that The Democrat has been giving away free the past few weeks with new subscriptions or renewals that have come in since this offer was made, is practically exhausted, and not more than 25 remaining on hand. .Therefore we can mail no more out to subscribers after this date, and the tew left will be given to those first calling and paying a year’s subscription, either new subscribers or old. Subscribers living at a distance will therefore please not include the 10 cents extra charged where we mail out these Charts, for it is hardly likely the few we have left will last this week out. THE DEMOCRAT.

COPIES OF NEW THE LAWS.

They are Expected to be in Hands of County Clerks by April 15 With the exception of the Wood Senate bill concerning a police matron for the city of Lafayette, on which executive action has been delayed because of the bill’s being lost in the rush of affairs of the closing night of the General Assembly, all the acts of the recent session are now in the hands of the State printer. It is probable that the bound volumes will be In the hands of the county clerks and the clerks’ receipts in the hands of Governor Marshall by April 15. The acts as sent to the printer by the Secretary of State make 180 new law's. Two hundred and fiftysix pages have been officially O. K’d, and 192 of these pages have been run off the press. The volume of the acts of 1907 contained 697 pages of acts and 300 laws. Deputy Secretary of State Frank Grubbs, who has charge of the work in the absence of Secretary Fred A. Sims, said that virtually all of this week will be required in preparing the index for the volume. Mr. Grubbs is doing all the official proof reading. The first volume of the acts of 1907 was received at 3. o’clock on the afternoon of March 23, and it required seventeen days* to issue the remainder and place them In the hands of the county clerks.

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THE SHAMROCK.

There’s a little green plant that grows over the sea, And the emerald leaves that it numbers are three, But though far from old Erin her sons may depart Each carries that little green plant In his heart. It comes from the glens where the wild waters meet, It is sweet with the smoke of the pipe and the peat, It teaches the l9ne, longing exile to sing And breathes to his spirit the promise of spring. Oh, the lad who was small when he came to New York May forget his old home in the County of Cork, The harp of his fathers may be but a name, And belief in the banshee no more he may claim, But lo! when the drums of St. Patrick’s Day roll, And the music is thrilling the core of your soul, He is sure to appear at the very first note With a little, green shamrock displayed on his coat. For the roses of England may wave o’er the mold. And the lilies of France their whiteness unfold, But the heart of the Irishman ever is true To the little green shamrock all shining with dew— The shamrock of Ireland eternally dear, The shamrock that sprang from a patriot’s tear, And immortally green, is entwined with the story Of Erin-go-bragh and its sorrow and glbry. —New York Sun.

DEPUTY GAME WARDEN DROWNED.

Clem Sigler, a Terre Haute Barber, Drowns Saturday at Baum’s Bridge. Clem Sigler, a deputy state game warden, living in Terre Haute, was drowned Saturday afternoon near Baum’s bridge by falling from a boat while suffering from an attack of epilepsy, it is supposed. Sigler, in company with a man named Cadle, another game warden of Orleans, Ind., and the son of the Baum’s Bridge hotel proprietor as pusher, was hunting ducks not far from Baum’s bridge. His companions left him for a short time alone that they might return to the hotel and secure a few supplies for a duck blind they had built on a little knowl situated on the bank Of the river. During their absence he was doubtless seized with an attack of epilepsy, to which he was subject, and fell from his boat into the river. Coroner Wright was at once notified and left on the afternoon train for the scene ol the accident. His verdict was accidental death by drowning. The deceased was a barber by trade and a wife in Terre Haute survives him. He was about 40 years of age.

GREAT ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED.

New York Legislative Committee Has Compiled Startling Figures. New York, March 13.—With a view of presenting the facts as to the unemployed and needy in the city and State of New York, some startling figures, compiled by appointees of the Legislature, are published here. Frank Julian Warne, secretary of the New York State Immigration Commission, who has spent two years in a personal investigation, in a report filed at Albany gives these results: “One hundred and ten thousand men and women are unemployed and unable to secure w'ork in New York city. “Two thousand seven hundred men were discharged from well’s Island workhouse before their sentences expired to make way for others sent In. “Two hundred thousand men and women have been out of work for two years in New York State. “Eighty thousand members of labor organizations are reported unemployed, at the Department of Labor at Albany. “Forty thousand union men have been forced from the organization for lack of funds to pay dues. “Thirty-four million five hundred and forty-two thousand dollars represents the preponderance of withdrawals from 138 savings banks of New York State in 1908, according to Superintendent Clark Williams. “Nine hundred heads of families in New York unable to secure work, though able-bodied and willing, were supported by the Association for the Improvement of the Poor in 1908. In 1907 the number was nineteen. “Eight hundred and fifty honest, able men, unable to secure employment, were sent to the workhouse in three months by New York city 1 magistrates on their own requests.”

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200 HOOSIERS AT NEW YORK FEAST

Shively and Others Sing Indiana’s Praises. SENATOR A SPECIAL GEEST David Graham Phillips Calls His State the Literary Center of America. William Hepburn Russell Declares That Politics Here Are of the “Healthy, Whole-Souled Variety." Banquet Is Served at the WaldorfAstoria. New York, March 16.—The Indiana Society of New York, 200 strong, enjoyed a banquet at the Waldorf-ABtoria with Senator Benjamin F. Shively and a dozen or more prominent Indianapolis citizens, who had come on especially for the event, as the guests of honor. The speakers devoted themselves exclusively to the discussion of Indiana’s supremacy in various fields of endeavor. David Graham Phillips said to the banqueters that the state was the literary center of America; William Hepburn Russell informed them that Jt was the banner state for politics of the healthy, whole-souled variety, and Senator Shively wondered what the history of the United States —or of the world either, for that matter —would have been without Indiana. Senator Shively’s speech was his maiden effort in New York city, he said.

YOUNG BRIDE IN JAIL

Girl In Short Dresses Held as Witness Against Husband’s Assailant. . Evansville. lnd.| March 16. —Mary ■Bolin Perry, a pretty fifteen-year-old bride In short dresses, was held under bond by City Judge Glakey, aa witness in the case of the State against Matthew Harlan, charged with shooting Sylvester Perry, her husband, with intent to kill She was sent to jail In default of bond, crying and clinging to her husband. The couple could not get e license here, and went to Henderson, Ky.. where they were married The bride was the cause of the shooting. Harlan and Perry being rivals for her hand. After Harlan was arrested and placed in jail she consented to marry Perry. She will be held until the trial of the case tomorrow.

STEP-FATHER IN TRAGEDY

Boy Quarrels and Then Ends Life. Note For Little Girl. Indianapolis, March 16. Guthrie Powers, nineteen years old, killed him self in his room by drinking carbolic acid. He could not find work. He and the little daughter ot the housekeeper were fast friends and Guthrie left for the child the following note: "My Dear Little Verna —1 am sorry I cannot look into your dear sweet face again. Honey, good-bye. There Is no place on earth for me. You are my dearest and only friend. What Is life without friends or home?” The hoy left his home six weeks ago after a quarrel with his step-father.

FREIGHT, BUREAU WINS

Carriers Required to Reduce Classification on Castings. Washington, March a decision handed down by the interstate commerce commission the differences In rates on various commodities from Indianapolis and Chicago to St. Louis were readjusted,discrimination against Indianapolis having been shown. In compliance with the showing of the Indianapolis freight bureau, interstate carriers are required to reduce the classification of Japanned castings in carload lots and less than carloads. In other respects the petition of the Indianoplis freight bureau was denied.

SAYS LORD IS LANDLORD

Though Separated From Family Ten, ant Refuses to Leave Farm. Noblesville, Ind., March 16.—Layton Randall, a tenant on the farm of Scott Lester, has been separated from his goods and his ten children, but he refuses to be evicted himself because, he says,: the farm belongs not tq Lester, but tq the Lord. Lester tried to get rid of his tenant for two years, but was invariably met by Randall’s prayerful refusal to move. Randall is now living in the barn. Neighbors arb caring for his children, pending developments.

WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH

Blind Husband Hears Cries but Is Unable to Help Her. Anderson, Ind., arch 16.—Word has been received here' that Mrs. Mary Helms, seventy-eight years old, living in the country southeast of this city, was burned to death in her smoke* house, where she was curing meat Her cries were heard by her blind husband and he groped his way to her

side, but could not help her. He was painfully burned.

War on Sunday Baseball.

Indianapolis, March 16.—At a meetlng of the Methodist Ministers’ association it was determined to organise a committee of laymen to attack In the courts the constitutionality of the new law permitting Sunday baßebaiL

ANNE MORGANS RESTAURANT

Financier’s Daughter to See Navy Employes Are Fed Well. New York, March 16.— Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont Mo’gan, will open a restaurant in tl Brooklyn navy yard about May 1. As chairman of a committee appointed by the National Civil Federation, she has received her authorization from the government to carry out this plan, which aims to provide for 1,000 men who work in the navy yard better food at less money than they can now obtain. Miss Morgan’s youngest sister, the wife of Herbert L. Satterlee, also is interested. Mrs. Albert H. Gary, wife of the chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, is a member erf tfce committee having the work in charge. Other women supporting the plan are Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Mrs. Frances Higglnson Cabot.

TRIED TO BURN OWN BODY

Man Found Dying Admits Wounds Were Self-Inflicted. Monticello, N. Y., March 16.—Bernard Solomon, who was found dying of a dozen knife wounds in his burning house, and who told the police that he had been attacked by a neighbor named Berkowitz, has confessed that his wounds were self-inflicted. He had become tired of life, he said, and after trying to kill himself with a knife had set fire to his home.

FOR STEALING A PIANO

Baltimore and Ohio Freight Clerk Put on Trial Today. Fairmont, W. Va„ March 15.—Edward Hinkle, former freight clerk of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was placed on trial today, charged with stealing a piano that was in transit. Much property has been taken from the railroad recently without detection.

UNIONS WILL OPPOSE GUT IN STEEL WAGES

Workers at Reading Conference Decide to Give Battle. Reading, Pa., March 16.—Following an all-day conference of the national officers of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ association for the purpose of discussing the wages of puddlers and finishers, It was decided not to accept a reduction as proposed by the Iron manufacturers. The matter was placed in the hands of the executive committee of the eastern district which will convene at the call of Vice President Mencher.

MINERS IN CONFERENCE

Meeting In Manitoba Today to Fix Wages In That Section. Winnipeg, Man., March 16.—An adjourned joint conference between the operators and miners’ delegates of western Canada and British Columbia to fix a schedule of wages on the termination of the present agreement is taking place at McLeod, Alberta, today. The result is eagerly awaited. Many fear a strike unless settlement is reached. To Put 1.600 to Work. New Castle, Pa., March 16.—Orders have been received by Superintendent Bert Ross of the Greer tin plate plant to begin operations In full next Monday morning. Sixteen hundred employes who have been idle since last June will be given work. Wages Cut In Maryland. Baltimore, March 16.—A general reduction in wages, amounting to 10 per cent and affecting all divisions of the works of the Maryland Steel company, will be put into effect on April 1, according to a high official of the corporation. Big Company Announces Reduction. Harrisburg. Pa., March 16. The Pennsylvania Steel company, one of the largest Of the independent steel companies in the country, has announced a reduction in wages approximating 10 per cent, effective April 1. Paper Mills to Closs. Richwood, W. Va., March 16.—The mills of the Richwood Pulp and Paper company will close down indefinitely tonight. They employ over 300 men.

Date For Deep Waterways Convention.

Now Orleans, March I«.—The Deep Waterways convention win be held here Nov. If, 19 and 20, according to announcement from the headquarters of the association.

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