Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

■ Cady Underwood, aged about 87 years, died at his home in Milroy tp., Wednesday morning at 4 o’clock from heart failure. He had been In rather poor health for the past two years, and Monday suffered an attack of heart trouble. He recovered somewhat and was better Tuesday. Wednesday morning he attempted to get out of bed and fell to the floor dead. Deceased formerly lived at Goodland, and was married some years ago to a daughter of the late Peter Foulks of Milroy tp., and went to that township to live. A widow survives him. .A. J. Charles who recently left here with his family for the northwest, directs us to send his Democrat to Lisbon, No. Dak. Under date of March 23, he says: “The oouatry is fine and weather excellent. The farmers are scurrying around getting ready to begin seeding about April 1. There is a large number of Indiana people out here, from Rensselaer, Remington, Fowler, Gas City and in fact all over the state. There were eight families on our train from Noblesville, when we came out. We are all well and the sun shines here.”Ed Goble of Fair Oaks, who went to Lisbon, North Dakota, two years ago, in writing The Democrat to renew his subscription. Bays: “We have had a fine winter, with very little snow. I have now been here two years the 25th of April. I worked out by the month at $55 per month and everything furnished. I concluded to farm for myself this year and have a half section plowed for wheat and expect to commence seeding about the first of April. Have five head of horses, 3 cows, pigs, chickens, etc., and farming tools. This is place for a poor man to get a start.”

MYSTERY IN DEATH OF YOUNG WIFE BY ACID Husband Insists Jealous Woman Figures In the Tragedy. Vincennes, Ind., March 26. —The poisoning case in which Mrs. Russell Culbertson, who died from a dose of carbolic acid which she had swallowed or had been forced to swallow, and another woman figure, remainsshrouded in mystery. If, the police say, Mrs. Culbertson committed suicide, she arranged the scene of the tragedy so that suspicion of murder would be thrown upon the other woman, who, she knew, had been her husband’s sweetheart. This S'pman the police have tried to find. The husband insists that Mrs. Culbertstn was murdered. At the time she was found in her yard by neighbors, whisky was poured down hor throat and she revived long enough to exclaim: “A man and a woman dragged me out of the closet into the shed and forced me to swallow something.” A strip of muslin was tightly wrapped under her Jaws and over the top of her head so as to hold the mouth tightly closed. The members of her family maintain that . she could not have placed this • bandage about her head and then swallowed the acid. The other woman Is well known in Vincennes. It is reported she was in love with Russell Culbertson. She is a divorcee. MAD DOG SCARE AGAIN •# - Mishawaka Police Are Bhootlng All Unmuzzled Dogs. *- Michawaka. Ind., March 26.—The mad dog scare which had apparently subsided has broken out anew and with increased terror. The police are shooting all dogs which are found in the streets without muzzles. The situation is such that mothers are afraid to allow their children in the streets. The scare was started afresh by an experience on the W. H. Pankaska farm near the city limits. A mad dog attacked a pig and a litter of young ones and bit all of them. The farmer shot the dog. decapitated It. bringing the head to the city, where it was prepared and sent to the state chemist at Indianapolis to determine whether it bad rabies.

CELLULOID COMB IGNITES j ii— ■■.■■■ l ■ ■ • < Terre Haute Woman's Hair and Scalp Are Severely Burned. Terre Haute, Ind., March 26. —Mrs. i Allen Drake was leaning over an open i fire when a celluloid comb in her hair t6ok fire. Before her husband had pulled the comb away much of her hair was burned and came loose with the comb. Her scalp was seriously burned. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. Wednesday, March 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kresler, a girl. Ap extra good rag carpet at 24 cents per yard at the Chicago Bargain Store. GOOD POTATOES— ORDER QUICK We have bought Mike Jungles* entire crop of fine sand grown potatoes. They are the only . really good potatoes that have been in town this season, and* are going fast. They are fine for seed or eating. Give us a trial. HOME GROCER*. 1 The Democrat for Job . work.