Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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BIG WIND STORM THURSDAY NIGHT

Several Barns and Outbuildings Wrecked About Rensselaer. TREE FALLS ACROSS WIRES And City Was In Darkness All Night —Court House Roof Damaged By Falling Ornaments—6oo Feet of Prison Wall at Michigan City Blown Down—Six People Killed By Storm In Chicago. For the second time in the past two months Jasper county has been visited by an electrical storm accompanied by a cyclonic wind that has done considerable damage in different sections of the country. Three barns were destroyed in the northwest part of Rensselaer,' belonging to Isaac Kenpner, Mrs. James Flynn and George Ott. The latter was an extra good barn some 30x40 feet in size, and it was blown to atoms, and parts of it were carried several hundred yards. Mr. Ott had about closed a deal for Mrs. Flynn’s property, the deal to be closed up yesterday, we understand. This barn was a very good one, but Kepner’s was not of much value. A big tree standing in front of John Eger’s residence on North Van Rensselaer street was blown down across the light wires, carrying one light pole down with it and putting the entire light system out of business for the rest of the night. A large apple tree in J. A. Larsh’s yard near by was also blown down. At the court house the wind created considerable havoc on the south side thereof, blowing down several tile, and other ornaments from the roof, which broke several of the slate shingles in, their fall. Two or three blocks of stone from the ornamental pilasters were blown down and broken that would probably weigh from 80 to 125 pounds each, and would Indicate that they were never anchored as safely as they should have been. The telephone wires are down to some extent in the country and it was difficult to get much news from out of town, but it not thought much individual damage was done. At Michigan City a 600 foot section of the prison walls were blown down and a company of the state militia was ordered out by the governor to guard the opening until it can be repaired. At Chicago six lives were lost and the city cut off from communication with the outside world for two hours, until the broken wires could be repaired. The storm came from the southwest and struck Rensselaer at about 7:15 o’clock in the evening. A dispatch from Hammond says: Two hundred passengers on a Mo-non-Indianapolis limited, leaving Polk street, Chicago, at 11:30 last night, narrowly escaped being hurled into the Grand Calumet River. The accident was caused by a structural steel, girder which was being put into a new Bascule bridge being blown across the track on the bridge. The locomotive was derailed while the train was on the bridge, the pilot was wrecked and engine beam torn-off. When the engine struck the girder the shock of the collision shook the passengers out of their berths. A fearful catastrophe would have resulted had the engineer been going fatser.

JUDGE WASSON AGREED UPON

To Hear Rorntrager Petition for Extension of Iroquois Ditch. Judge Hanley has challenged himself to sit further in the Borntrager ditch petition for an extension of the Iroquois ditch on west to a point south of Brook, and on agreement of parties Judge Wasson of the White circuit court is to sit in the case, providing he will and can accept. At this writing we understand it is not known whether Judge Wasson will act or not. It is the intention, we understand, to try and have an adjourned term of court, so that the matter may be heard soon.

MORE COUNTIES VOTE "DRY.”

Deleware, Kosciusko and Starke Get On the Water Wagon. Several county option elections have been held In Indiana this week, Deleware voting Tuesday, Kosciusko and Starke Thursday, and Jefferson Washington, Martin and Tippecanoe yesterday. Our own county votes to-day. The result in Deleware was a

general surprise all around. The wets expected to carry it by a few hundred, and the drys by about 1,000. Muncie is a city of about 32,000, and has 82 saloons. It was expected a wet majority would be secured there sufficient, the wets thought, to overcome any dry majority that might be secured in the |out townships. Instead, Muncie gave a dry majority of 209, and the county 2,956. This is the first real test in a county having a city of considerable size, and is a sore dissappolntment to the wets. In Thursday’s elections both Kosciusko and Starke went dry, but the telephone wires being down badly no figures are given. Kosciusko has no saloons, and it is thought the majority for the drys there will reach 1,500. Starke has 16 saloons, but the drys believe they will have a majority of 400 to 500. In yesterday’s elections Tippecanoe was the real battle ground, and the result there is in doubt, with the chances rather in favor of the drys. The Democrat going to press Friday afternoon is unable to give the results there until Wednesday’s issue. are 102 saloons in | Lafayette.

CHRIS PUTS UP A HOT FIGHT.

When Marshal Parks, reinforced □y big Ed Duvall and Deputy Sheriff Oliver Robinson, went out Wednesday morning to arrest Chris, Weurthner of Newton tp., who was recently adjudged insane, he stacked up against a warm surprise party and until he got a strangle hold on Chris’ lilacs the whole bunch was demolished by a flow of scripture punctuated by kicks and scratches and a shower of well directed blows from a strong right arm. Chi/s was found plowing in the field and when the warrant was read to him replied that he could not possibly come to town but would accompany them as far as the house. Arriving there Parks took hold of his arm in an effort to put the hand-cuffs on, and, then Chris turned loose. With the officers holding to either arm he broke away ■repeatedly and shoved them around the room like toys, and it was not until they tripped him up that they could hold him. On their return journey he talked incessantly and threatened to behead all unbelievers, saying that in a message from God he had been appointed to kill 99 out of every 100 people. On their arrival at the jail he became quiet and has since given I the sheriff no trouble. He is confined in the padded cell and will be taken to the asylum at Hongcliff las soon as his admission there can be secured.

COLLEGE NOTES.

On Saturday, May 1, the freshmen base ball team of Notre Dame University will play the College team on the College diamond. Haaser will be on the slab for the Varsity. Game called at 2:30. Admission 25 cents. The College team will play the Rensselaer Wrens on the College grounds Sunday, May 2. Game will be called at 3:30 sharp, immediately after the laying of the corner-stone of the new church. McGurren or Faurot will pitch for the Varsity. Admission 15 cents.* The College team will give the Wrens a return game on the" Rensselaer diamonds in the near future. On Wednesday, May 5, the Varsity will meet their old rivals, the strong De Paul University team of Chicago, at the College ball park. This promises to be one of the best games of the season. Haaser will twirl for the home team. Game will be called at 2:30. Admission 25 cents. The corner-stone at the new college church wll be laid Sunday, May 2, at 2:00 p. m. The ceremony will be performed by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. John H. Oechterlng, V. G., Rector of St. Mary’s church, Ft. Wayne, Ind. He will also deliver ah address appropriate to the oc£ssion. The blessing and laying of the corner-stone is the first benediction that the Catholic church gives to an edifice is erected for the service of God. The corner-stone is blessed by the reciting of appropriate prayers, and the sprinkling of Holy Water, and it is then placed into position. Besides this several Psalms and the Litany of All Saints are chanted, and the entire foundation is blessed with Holy Water. It is a beautiful ceremony well worth seeing. Our friends are kindly invited to attend. The stone Itself is a beautiful block of Bedford rock, and its neat appearance is, indeed, a credit to the stone-cutter’s art and well in keeping with the elaborate architecture of the church.

Pure all wool cassimer suits at my store Saturday, May 1, at $8.50 110.00, |12.00 a suit. C. EARL DUVALL.

THE TWIC|-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIAN*, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1900.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Six marriage licenses have been issued this month depite the poor start made. ' —o— Monday is the last day for paying the spring installment of taxes to avoid their going delinqeunt. ——o— There has been quite a rush of tax-payers in this week to settle their spring Installment of taxes before the, expiration of the time limit. 9 —<o— The township trustees and others appointed as inspectors for to-day’qj special election, were in Thursday getting the election supplies for their respective precincts. —o—— Marriage licenses granted: April 28, Henry Bosma of Keener tp., aged 25, occupation farmer, to Lula Kungina, also of Keener, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —o— A. J. Schuh, county treasurer of Newton county, has received a check from the C. I. & S. railroad for -$7,858 to pay their first installment of taxes. A railroad is a benefit to a county in more ways than one. —n— Marshal Parks has received a card from the marshal at North Manchester giving the description of a horse and buggy stolen from John Renicker last week. With the set of harness on the horse two other sets were stolen, as well as a fine lap robe. A reward of $75 is offered for the capture of the thief. Mr. Renicker moved from Barkley tp., to North Manchester last fall. -o-~ ’ Court has been grinding along slowly this week. The jury camel back Wednesday morning to hear the cases of Harvey J. Dexter and John Werner, the tailor, vs. C. H. Sternberg, et al, for $l5O dam-v ages for a triangu4 lar piece of land south of Weston* cemetery and the Kight vs. Zea ease. Both weie settled and there was nothing for the jury to do until Thursday, when the Cheadle, trustee vs. Joe Nessius and J. A. May case was heard. In the former case plaintiff’s attorney, W. H. Parkison, was out of town and plaintiffs did not know hardly what to do, but finally decided to accept Sternberg’s offer of $lO and the latter to pay the court costs, which they did and the case was dismissed. In the Kight vs. Zea case, where some $750 was demanded, a settlement was reached by the payment of S2OO, we understand. The Cheadle-Nessius case afforded considerable amusement for both the court attoches and jury, and the judge had a hjrtd time to keep his face straight at ah times. Mr. Nessius is a Dutchermans, and he speaks somewhat brokenly. It was hard for him to understand some of the United States questions put to him by the attorneys. John Wagner, one of Joe’s witnesses, is also from the Fatherland, and when a question was asked of either of them while they were on the witness stand, .they would talk for five minutes, while the court reporter would throw up his hands in despair. Joe would use more expressive than elegant language at times, too, such as "Mine Got, yes,” “Yaw, dot ish ah— of a ditch,” etc. There was no difficulty about either making themselves heard in almost all parts of the court house* the trouble was to understand what they were saying or to get them stopped when they got started. Mr. Wag©er is a rather frail looking Dutchman, but he has a voice on him like, a tog horn. The case grew out of a note for some $750 given by May and Nessius to the Parker bank of Remington for tile used on a lateral to a ditch, which they had the contract to dig. Mr. Nessius was a partner in the ditch, but wanted to get out of the partnership. May had paid half the note, and the jury brought in a verdict against both. The court ordered that Nessius be exhausted first. The judgment and costs are about SSOO, and it is quite probable that May and Nessius will now have a lawsuit over the matter.

B. J. Gifford vs. Frank Cochran; dismissed, costs paid. Rensselaer Lumber Co., vs. Sarah E. Lane; continued on affidavit of defendant. John T. Kifcht vs. Wm. Eea; dismissed, costs paid. James R. Craig vs. Seth B. Moffitt; Judgment for 11,016.65. Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co., vs. Augustus W. Lux, et al; set for Fourth Monday. -

< The Kirkpatrick ditch case was compromised yesterday and ordered established. No commissioner has been appointed’as yet. The failure of the state to produce two of their important witnesses caused the two cases against Hank Granger, set for trial yesterday, to be dismissed. i The jury was excused yesterday torenoon until 11 a. m., Tuesday.

MAMMOTH FURNITURE EMPORIUM.

W. J. Wright’s New Store Covers 8,I 500 Square Feet of Floor Space. The work of the removal of the J. W. Wright furniture stock into the newly remodeled Starr building has been completed, and the furniture tastily arranged on the 8,500 •quare feet of floor space that the three stories afford him. & The side walls have been freshed and burlaped in green and the large windows in the front and tear make it an ideal show room, while at night ten 80 candle power JTungsten electric lights shed a tadiance equal to the brightest day and insure perfect light for the after dark buyers. ' Each of the show windows in front have been decorated, one showing an elegant colonial bedroom suite and the other a dining room suite. Both these are in the beautiful American quartered oak. The bed with massive roll on head and foot ends, the dresser and chiffonier in the same beautiful wood are the highest type of the cabinet maker’s art. The dining room suite shows a handsome china closet of the beautiful bent end design, a highly polished pedestal extension table and elegant buffet with leaded art glass door. They show also on this floor birdseye maple dressers with the true flaky grain and a beautiful yellowwhite color, with swell double curved, lull swell serpentine fronts, in a variety of styles, especially adapted to young ladies’ rooms Or guest chambers. . Rich Toona mahogany dressers and chiffoniers, exceptionally attractive on account of the handsome grain of this rare wood, are displayed at unusually low prices. Dressers and chiffoniers in thoroughly seasoned oaks and maples in the popular princess dresser styles, Ishow a careful selection of grain with beauty and value. Dining, Library and Parlor chairs in attractive oaks, missions, early English, French and Colonial styles, for the dining room. Mission rockers upholstered in the best of Spanish leathers, cosy for the library or parlor. Rocking chairs in golden oak with handsome turned corner posts, deep shape seats and broad backs that combine beauty with the greatest possible comfort are shown at the prevailing low price. •’ A display of what is probably the finest line of library tables, ever shown in this city has been arranged, showing all popular shades of oak, carcassian walnut and mission combination library and desk table of ■well known Cadillac make, where, with the opening of a drawer you have an elegant desk at hand. These tables are becoming a necessary adjunct to any well appointed library, and will prove, popular where both a library table and desk are needed. Kitchen cabinets, which have become a necessity in every well appointed kitchen, are shown new in design, and contruction in missions, white woods and oaks, with nickeloid tops, tea cannisters, flour bins and sifters, etc., in popular sizes and prices. The display of rugs in Brussels, Wiltons and Velvets without miter seams, newest in designs and colorings, soft and luxurious, is attracting wide attention, also the art line of ingrain carpets and linoleums.

Partlculair attention might be called to their mattresses and the manner in which they are being shown. A new steel sanitary rack has been purchased which does away with the old method of stacking them up and insures freshness and cleanliness. Book Cases are also shown in profusion, sectional and solid in same variety of style and price that mark this store as unusual. The second floor is largely devoted to the display of sanitary steel couches and Davenports, convenient comfortable and vermin proof; drop end couches and Chase leather Davenports; a few parloi* stands of real value, and the remainder of rocking chair stock. The third floor shows season goods in rustic hickory, chairs and settees for the porch, cottage and a few rocking chairs in popular Crex. The salesmen are pleased to devote a portion of their time showing visitors through new place and gladly welcome them at any time.

Call the Home Grocery for good things for your Saturday morning order.

GANDERBOUNE'S FORECAST

FOR MAY. (Copyright 1909, by C. H. Rieth.) The shades or night were falling fast As through the Afric jungle passed A wounded lion, badly hit And followed by a crowd, to-wit: One ex-President, Four trackers, Two gun bearers, One water boy, Three photographers, Two stenographers, One taxidermist, Two skinners, One ammunition wagon, And 400 bushbeaters. At length the lion reached his lair, Backed into it in deep despair, And vowed so long as life was his To fight, though sorely wounded, viz: One leg shattered, Two knife slashes on back, Four ribs kicked in, One dum-dum bullet in head, Two steel-nosed bullets in body, One ear blown off, An bitten through the windpipe. The shouting and the tumult grew, The angry bullets spat and flew, And when the king of beasts was not The following fireworks were shot: Six skyrockets, Two flowerpots, One spinwhell, Four Roman candles, ThreeßookerWashingtton chasers Two medium-sized bombs, And one son-of-a-gun. May gets its name from Maia, wiio was the mother of Mercury, the Roman god of prosperity. If business is going to improve at all, it will do so under the favorable sign, for May was named for and dedicated to gain, and during its thir-ty-one days business has usually been good and money comparatively abundant. In addition to Mercury’s temple in Rome, an altar was raised to him over a well near the Porta Capena, and here the merchants repaired on the festival of the god (May 25) to sprinkle their goods with waters of the well, that they might be purified and yield a big profit. This was the origin of watering stocks, and even to this time the 25th of May is a holiday in Wall street and the New Jersey Legislature.

Wake me early, mother darling, at the break of the day, for I’m to be queen of the May, mother, I’m to be queen of the May. I have the bonnet, mother—it’s the strangest ever seen, and you bet your bottom dollar it’s the bonnet makes the queen. It has the seeming, mother, of a coal-hod upside down, with the spout projecting backwards from the flower-covered crown, while the circling ball upon it passes underneath my chin—wake me early! I am crazy for the voting to begin. The meadowlark will warble, and the apple tree will bloom, the frog will woo his true love with his melancholy boom, the barefoot boy will issue his spring challenge to the tack, the lamb will frisk and gambol like a jack-knife in the back, the playful winds will frolic in the fields of waving green, and the terrible mosquito press his face against the screen.

Come out into the garden, Maude, the ines begin to run, and the seed our Congressman sent out are sprouting every one. The gumbo and the oyster plant are seven Inches high, and the mint (I wonder does he know the state has voted dry? A Congressman in Washington can keep himself so wet • that even if his state is dry, he’s likely to forget.) However that may be, the squash was never looking fatter, and the first fruit of his seven terms is threatening the platter. The news from Washington will be What it always has been Since Roosevelt stepped down and 'out And Taft was ushered in. The capital will rise at 8, it Retire again at 10, v Get up for lunch at noon and go To bed at 1' again, Arise at 5, stay up till 8, And finally retire, And there, will not be a dog-gone thing To put upon the wire.

The correspondents who were wont to listen at the cracks will sit around the White House steps engaged at playing Jacks. The President will ride upon his bucking rocky horse, the gun men will turn up their toes and perish of remorse, the tariff argument will drone Its

• THE WEATHER. A • Following is the official wea- • • ther forecast: • * Illinois and Indiana —Show- • • ers and colder; high shifting • ♦ winds with squalls. • * Lower Michigan—Showers • * and thunderstorms; easterly • • gale with squalls. * • Wisconsin—Showers with • * colder in west portion. • * lowa—Partly cloudy with • * rain or snow and colder in each • * portion. •

weary way along, the strong will battle with the weak, and the right will wrestle wrong, the vested interests will how’l, the planter will protest, the miner will exhort the law to succor the oppressed, the women will combat the tax upon a Paris hat, and about the time we settle it we won’t know where we’re at. Until the 20th May will be under the zodiacal sign of Taurus the Bull. Mr. Roosevelt will by this time have reached the Albertirie Basin, and the influence of Taurus will cause him to do a good deal of roaring. The lions and other fairly good roarers will compete with him a while, but after they have heard him roar two or three times they will bust up a good deal of brush getting on the other side of the Congo. * People born under Taurus have very intricate minds, and they understand the tariff debate. They are unerring in love, and generally marry their affinities at the outset. There is a natural attraction between persons born f under opposite signs of the zodiac, and a Taurus man usually marries a Scorpio woman, or that is, being born in May, he usually marries a woman born in October. This is said to be a natural match, or one in which the chance of divorce is reduced to the minimum. The password for May will be Lions, and the storm center for the month will be in Uganda. The first shipment of skins will arrive about the 28th, and anybody wishing one can have it by subcribing to Scribner’s Magazine and The Outlook. And then the month of June will come With all its newlyweds, And every westbound ship will bring A lot of skins and heads.

COURT REPORTER SIGLER TO

LEAVE.

Court Reporter Ira Sigler has resigned his position as reporter for this circuit, the resignation to take effect as soon as a competent stenographer can be secured. Ira will move to Wyoming where he has found a suitable location. Prosecutor Longwell will move here from Brook and occupy the house in which Mr. and Mrs. Sigler have been living.

CHRIS WRITES A LETTER.

Chris Weurnther, the Newton tp., insane man confined in the padded awaiting his acceptance at Longcliff, wrote a letter Thursday evening which he requested the sheriff to send to Governor Marshall. In it he stated that he was being persecuted for his religion and being deprived of his liberty illegally and unjustly, and that there were several people up here, including a few officials whom he wanted executed p. d. q.

SOME CHANGING ABOUT.

Leonard Rhoades has rented the cottage Dr. J. W. Horton recently secured from Frank Kresler; Will Morrison has moved from the flats in the S. P. Thompson building, into the house vacated by Ben Edwards; Cleve Eger will occupy the Ven Grant property on Van Rensselaer street, formerly owned by John Duvall, J. A. McFarland & Son will move their grocery stock into the William’s biulding Monday. Frank Kresler will move into the Horton house. Racine, Racine, Racine, Racine work and dress shirts Saturday, all at 38 cents. Now is your chance. C. EARL DUVALL.

SPECIAL SHOE BARGAINS THIS WEEK.

Girls Shoes (sizes 8 to 2) were $1.25 to $2.00, now 85 cents. Women's Shoes or Oxfords (sizes 2% to 8) were $2.00 to $2.50; at Children's Slippers (sizes 9to 2) were $1.75; now at. .$1.25 Men’s Shoes or Oxfords (sizes 5 to 11) were $3.00, now .*2.50. Bargain in many other lines Inspect our goods and compare our prices with those of others. —FENDIG’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE, Opera House Block. I will give you one more chance to buy Racine work and dress shirts at 38 cents Saturday, May 1. Be sure and buy all you need. » C. EARL DUVALL.

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