Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

91.60 Per Tear.

WM. GUSS DRAWS A JAIL SENTENCE

Former Rensselaer Man Gets In Trouble With P. 0. Officials USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD Is the' Charge, ana at Trial In In* dianapolis Monday He was Found Guilty and Given a Fine of 910 and Six Months In Jail—Mayor Ellis and Mose Leopold Summoned As Character Witnesses.

A Washington dispatch in Saturday’s papers said: “A fraud order has been issued by the Postofflce Department against the Guss Sales Company, B. Guss Sales Company and B. Guss, of Syracuse, Kosciusko county. The department alleges that under these names William E. Guss and wife have been using the mails for fradulent purposes. They were promising to employ agents to distribute' "pain ease.” Every person who accepted the offer, It is alleged, was required to remit sl.” The Wm. E. Guss mentioned above was a former resident of Rensselaer and a few months ago went from here to Lowell, where he was employed for a time, later going to Syracuse, where he has since been located. For several years he has conducted as a sort of a side issue a mail order business, and so far as we know this is the first time he has ever had any trouble with the postal authorities, and his dealings have been straight and honorable so far as we have heard. He was arrested by the federal authorities and had his trial in Indianapolis Monday. Mayor Ellis and Mose Leopold of this city were subpoenaed by a deputy U. 8. marshal to attend the trial as character witnesses, and returned Tuesday morning. An Indianapolis paper of yesterday had the following report of the trial: “A fine of $lO and a six months’ sentence in the' Marion County Jail were imposed on W. E. of Syracuse, Ind.,/by Judge Anderson Thursday afternoon after a jury of the Federal Court had deliberated only ten minutes. Guss was charged with using the mails to defraud. He had advertised for distributors, and promised that there would be no canvassing. After the prospective employe had paid $1 for an outfit he was given powders with instructions to dissolve them in a gallon of water, bottle and label them and distribute from house to house. The distributor then was expectedpto collect for the goods delivered a few days later. The entire day was occupied in hearing the case.”/ He is 26 years of age and has been twice married, his last wife being Miss Gladie Grace Richmond of Rensselaer, to whom he was married last September.

WRENS MAKE IT FOUR STRAIGHT

Morocco the Contributors In Sunday’s Ball Game. The Wrens romped home with the fourth straight victory in the Sabbath ruction at the Riverside ball ground. Messrs. Roderick and Milligan proved a false alarm and when the defense behind 'got Joseph to the fact that the ninth had passed we had counted 10 runs to their, four. Hanks and Bachant were the battery, and It was their hitting that made It nice for us.

W. L. WOOD STILL AUTOLESS.

While W. L. Wood of Parr bought a second-hand Cadillac auto In Chicago recently, he has not got same home yet, nor Mhe likely to. The company from whom he bought sent an expert along with him to run the car down to Parr, but when they got near Wolfe Lake, the other side of Hamfnond, the machine got balky and refused to budge. The rain fell in torrents, but Mr. Wood and the expert worked in vain. After they had broken about all the Commandments and got soaked to the skin, W. L. hired a driver of a coal wagon to haul the “critter” to a farmhouse and run It under a shed. He then hiked to a telegraph office and wired the bank not to pay the check he had given in payment for the auto. He has heard nothing since from the company and don’t know nor don’t care what has become of the machine.

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KICKED BY HORSE.

The six-year-old daughter of J. P. Hill, living in Union tp., was kicked in the face by a horse she was watering Monday and suffered a badly crushed face, the nose being broken, the left eye injured and mouth badly cut. Five stitches were taken in the lower lip, but no serious results are anticipated.

BASKET PICNIC AT LAWNDALE.

A basket picnic will be given by Lawndale Sunday School July 4th. Children’s day exercises in morning; general good time in afternoon. Everybody welcome, so fill your baskets full and - come and enjoy the 4th with us in the grove 1 miles south of Slaughter school house, 5 miles south and two miles east of Rensselaer. xx

YES, PARR WILL CELEBRATE.

The Democrat is requested to state that- the reports in circulation that Parr had given up celebrating the 4th is unfounded. Not only will a complete program be carried but as, usual, but it expects to have a belter program than ever before, and -will carry it out as advertised. Make your arrangements to go to Parr the 4th and you are assured a pleasant time.

A. SIMPSON TO RE-ENTER BUSINESS ARENA.

*T*A. Simpson has stocked the store rdom he recently purchased of Mrs. Anna Maloy with a nice clean line of groceries and will be opened for business the first of next w’eek. Mr. Simpson has had considerable business experience and with the running of a grocery on the north side will no doubt make good. Mr. Simpson had rented the molding to Chas. Gundy, but for some reason the deal was called off.

DIES FROM MULE’S KICK.

Joe Williams, Prominent Union tp., Farmer, Succumbs to Injuries. *VJoseph Williams of Union tp., died Monday at two o’clock from injuries received by being kicked in the stomach by a mule Friday afternoon. So serious were his injuries that an operation by a Chicago physician failed to bring relief, The left kidney wap torn loose and the bowels bursted. A wife and six children survive him. The funeral was held to-day and interment made in Prater cemtery. The deceased was 56 years of age and a well to do and .prominent farmer of that township.

ONLY THIRTY TAKE IN CHICAGO EXCURSION.

Only *3O tickets were sold here Sunday for the Chicago excursion. Rensselaer people do not patronize these excursions like they used to, but this one was more slimly patronized thap usShi, perhaps because many of the usual patrons are saving their money to take in the auto races next and Saturday. There were five empty coaches yet when the train passed through Rensselaer. Ten years ago it was no uncommon thing for 200 to 250 tickets to be sold at Rensselaer alone, and some times the number reached 300.

HAS BEEN A GOOD “FILLER."

Crown Point Star: Tom McCoy, of Rensselaer, has furnished more ammunition for the papers in this district than any man or men, and soon his fetters at the Michigan City prison will be cevered and Jie will be turned loose. Then they can have a parting shot and the McCoy sensation will end. But a comparative short time ago he was an influental banker, s pposed rich, a great politican and all-around man, and soon he -,will be freed and turned out of prison a wreck with but a few friends among his old acqnantainces. He has experienced both kinds of life in a short period—sunshine and clouds.

DROWNED IN BRADY’S BAYOU.

Frahk Girard, 21 years old was drowned Sunday evening at 5:30 o’clock In Brady’s Bayou, 4 miles west of Thayer, while in bathing. GJrard, who lived near Roselawn, had gone to the river In company with Henry Lee, , and both were swimming when Girard' suddenly sank in twelve feet of water. Lee made several Ineffective attempts to rescue him and falling ran for hip. The bayou was dragged all night and early Monday morning B. J. Moore, of Rensselaer, the nearest dynamite expert, was called to raise the ( body with explosives. John Knapp, Judson Maines, W. S. Parks and W. V. Porter accompanied him up there. In Knapp’s auto-carrlage, but when they reached the river the body had been recovered. An opportunity to secure your Fourth of July hst at a greatly reduced price, x MRS. IMES.

THE WICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1609.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. I New suits filed: No. 7460. J. N. Leathermen vs. Rachel Call, et al; suit to quiet title. —o — Sheriff Shlrer and Trustee Karch took August Woolbrandt, the Walker tp., insane man, tff” Longcliff Monday. —o— VfMarriage licenses issued: June George Clark of Rensselaer, aged 32, occupation show business, to Dora Mae Thornton, also of Rensselaer, aged 41, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. —o— The MaYlon, Newton and Union tp., commencement exercises will be held at the Library Auditorium in Rensselaer next, Saturday afternoon. Marion has three graduates—Lee Adams, Laura Hurley and Opal E. Waymire; Newton five—Anna Marion, John iZmmer, Ross Reed, Lucy L. Lane and Nell Parker; Union sou Switzer, Flossie Smith, Nettie Davisson and Stanllas Brusnahan. - /

The commissioners have advertised for bids for making an examination of the county records, for which purpose the county council several months ago appropriated $2,000. The examination is only to go back six years, according to the advertisement for bids, and it Is not likely more than the auditor’s and treasurer's office will be investigated, to determine the alleged shortage of ex-treasurer Nichols at the time he went out of office. —o— Mrs. Jennie Guss was examined by a sanity commission before Squire S. C. Irwin yesterday and adjudged insane. Mrs. Guss is a sister of Frank Murray of Gillam tp., but has spent the greater part of her life traveling as a sleeping beauty In a side show, and snake charmer with a carnival. She has also served in numerous other capacities with traveling shows, and cam 6 here only about a week ago. She has been mentally deranged since childhood, but of late has shown voilent tendencies.

S/ Co. Supt. Lamson and wife had harrowing experience while returning from the Wheatfield commencement Saturday night in Mr. Lamson’s auto. The machine got stuck in the mud up in the Gifford region, near Zadoc, about midnight far from human habitation, and after working about two hours at prying and jacking it up, during which Mrs. Lamson added her 125 pounds to the prying process, they succeeded in extricating the machine and reached home at 3 a. m., Sunday morning. o - The contract so rthe construction of the Kirkpatrick ditch, which has caused many farmers just across the line in Jasper and Benton counties a gocd deal of, worry on account of the assessments on their farms, was sold Monday afternoon at the home of Henry Millner, to the Chicago Construction Company. The ditch was sold in four sections as follows; The main ditch to be tiled for 14,065, with Geo. Hart, lateral, for 11,900; W. B. Waterman, lateral $480; and the open ditch 12,800. The ditch commences a( the line fence between the Wickersham and Hart farms in Jasper county and runs in a southeasterly direction and ends in Benton county just a few rods north of James E. Watt’s farm. The bid made by the Chicago Construction Company was the lowest by $2,900. It will take sixty-three car loads of tile and the dltcfi will be made with a steam ditcher. The work will begin soon.—Goodland Herald.

COLLEGEVILLE HAPPENINGS.

This Is comfnencement week at the college. The graduating exercises will be Ijeld Wednesday morning at 8:00 a. m., in the Gymnasium. The address to the graduates will be delivered by the Very Rev. Francis C. Kelly, DD. LL. D., of Chicago. He Is a well-known orator and will surely give the class of ’O9 an oratorical treat. This will be followed by the awarding of medals and the conferring of degrees. The degree A. B. will be conferred upon the following: Louis M. Nageleisen, Piqua, Ohio; Leo Faurot, Monroe, Ind., Chas. W. Pfeffer, Grand Forks, No. Dak. These will receive the Commercial Diplomas:- y W. M. Dowling, Decatur, Ind.; Otto J. Blrkmeier, Delphos, Ohio; Maurice J. Pauley, Ft Wayne, Ind.; F. W. Forsthoefel, Carthagena, Ohio; F. J. Rengers, St. Henry, Ohio; J. A. Fralich, Tipton, Ind.; O. H.

Stallkamp, Delphos, Ohio; T. L. Meseemaker, Chickasaw, Ohio; L. H. Reif, Delphos, Ohio; J. L. Trentman, Auburn, Ind.; F. P. Schwartz, Fowler, Ind; T. J. Smith, Otterbein, Ind.; Paul P. Brunner, Fremont, Ohio.. Normal Certificates were won by the following: S. J. Reichert, Osgood, Ohio; P, J. Froningj Celina, Ohio. Graduates in Engineering are: A. V. Besinger, Mishawaka, Ind.; J. F. Kraft, Indiana Harbor, Ind. The flag raising will take place Wednesday morning immediately before the graduating exercises. The address of presentation will be delivered by Rev. J. Selmetz, of Lafayette, Ind., and the speech of acceptance by Rev. A. Weyman, the president of the Alumni Association. This has been a very successful year at the college. The number of students in attendance was as large as could be accomodated. The class work has been up to the high standard of former years. In athletics the teams from St. Joseph’s have been among the foremost, losing only one game in basket ball and but two in baseball. Taking it all in all the college can well be satisfied with the results obtained during the last year.

NEW AUTO-CARRIAGE IN TOWN.

Jud Maines and J. M. Knapp and son went to Kankakee Saturday and drove back a two-seated International / auto-carriage of 22-horse power which Mr. Knapp has purchased for his livery barn. The machine looks much like an ordinary two-seated carriage, has regular carriage size wheels with solid rubber tire, and is chain drive. Its speed limit is 25 miles an hour and the cost complete with top, magneto, three lamps, etc., is SBOO. While it looks rather odd beside the kind of autos we are used to seeing, it is an easy riding machine and has the necessary power to drive it over any kind of a road.

CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

C. W. Coen Re-Elected Member of School Board at Monday Night’s Meeting. The city council met in regular session Monday night with all members present except Mayor Ellis. Councilman Spitler served in his stead, pro tem. Supt. of water plant was instructed to make water tap for Horton building at city’s expense. Dr. Horton to pay for digging of trench and filling. The petition of B. Forsythe for improvement Washington street was referred to city attorney and stret referred to city attorney and street said improvement. Claim of Frank Kresler for damages to horse in falling into treneh was referred to city attorney. On motion the assistant engineers and firemen at the light plant shall receive $15.00 per week, payable semi-monthly, from and after June 1, 1909.

Rep'ort of chief of fire department read and members of department to receive $1 each for Scott fire, May 26, and $2 each for King fire, June 7. C. W. Coen, republican, re-elected member of school board, receiving 4 votes to 1 vote for B. N. Fendlg, democrat. ■ ■ X The following claims were allowed: • CORPORATION FUND. W. S. Parks, marshal. ...... .$30.00 J. H. S. Ellis, mayor 62.50 H. L. Brown, councilman.... 20.00 Eli Gerber, 5ame.......... 20*00 J. F. Irwin, same 20.00 Ches. Zeea, labor with team.. 30.00 C. G. Spitler, same 20.00 E. M. Thomas, nightwatch... L. C. Klosterman, c*ty engr.. 6.00 A. Besslnger, assisting same.. 4.00 garner Bros., mdse Fire Co.. 11.04 ROAD FUND. Ches Zea, labor with team... 30.00 Earl Chestnut, work on street 31.50 Jean Smith, same on sewer... 13.75 Warner Bros., mdse 9.55 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C 8 Chamberlain, sal and ex 50.90 Mell Abbott, salary 30.00 Dave Hast/>, same 30.00 Tom Hoyes, work on line. .. . 15.38 General Electric Co, supplies 21.00 Western Electric Co., same.. 21.60 W. S. Edward Co., same. .. . 1.85 Globe Oil Co., waste 10.40 Shirley JHII Coal Co., coal. . .139.15 Warner Bros., mdse light pit 1.50 Moses Leopold, freight 143.75 WATER FUND. Ed Hopkins, 5a1ary......... 30.00 Globe Oil Co., packing 12.77 Cecil Clouse, work on main... 7.50 John Hordeman, same. 7,50 When any store advertises the Racine brand shirts for sale and haven’t got them, they must have lied. As every Racine shirt has “Racine” sewed on the neck-band, and is made by Chas. Alshuler Mfg. Co., and are union made. Also are made better than any other shirts. I have the Racine shirts and can show the goods.

C. EARL DUVALL.

INDIANA MECCA OF MOTOR FOLK

Trial Spin at Crown Point In 21 Minutes Flat MAKING READY FOR RACES Busy Scenes Along the Course With Every Train Bringing Persons Interested In the "Western Vanderbilt” Events—Agitation Over the Proposition of "Policing” the Parkway With Illinois Troops Frothsomely Commented Upon In Editorial Printed In Chicago Paper.

Crown Point, Ind., June 15.—Every train is bringing fresh delegations to attend the “Western Vanderbilt” automobile races, June 18-19, over the Crown Point-Lowell parkway. Grimy machinists work ceaselessly grooming the cars as if the machines were thoroughbred horses. The course of twenty-three miles has eleven short corners to turn. Eight of these occur in the five miles between Crown Point and Cedar Lake. The west leg is straightaway for 5.7 miles, the south for 3 miles and the east for 8.5 miles. It is on this east leg that the rough road occurs. On this subject, General Executive Trego, who is in charge of the races, said: “Drivers have been criticising this stretch despite the fact that work on it has not been finished. The approaches to the bridges also are being repaired, very little work being required.” The best time in the day’s practice was made by Poole and Knipper in a “Blue Bird,” both making the round in 27 minutes flat. In connection with the plan to guard the course with Illinois militia, a Chicago paper prints the following: “We understand that strict orders have been issued to the men of the First to abstain from all pillage and looting. The regiment probably will not have to live off the country, so that northern Indiana’s herds of cattle and flocks of sheep should escape being run off across the Illinois border. Nor, according to the present plans of Colonel Sanborn and Governor Deneen, will any effort be made tc lay waste the state by applying the torch to its farms and villages. “We are not so sure about the course to be adopted by the Illinois navy. It is possible that the Nashville and the Dorothea may shell a few unimportant ports on the Indiana coast, but we can almost certainly predict that there will be no organized bombardment of the larger shore cities. “The First is starting out for Crown Point, and it is going to get there if it takes all summer. Indiana for her own sake would best bow peacefully to the inevitable.”

GETS BLACK HAND LETTER

Farmers Guard Home That Has Been Threatened With Torch. Newcastle, Ind., June 15. —Nathan Payne, a wealthy farmer, has turned over to the federal authorities a Black Hand letter. The letter orders him to place SSOO on the northwest pier of the bridge over Flat Rock creek, near his home, between 10 and 11 o’clock at night. The letter threatens murder and the burning of Payne’s home. Farmers are guarding the house with shotguns.

KIDNAPING IS THREATENED

Evansville Fruit Dealer Receives Black Hand Letter Demanding $130,000. Evansville, Ind„ June 15.—Michael Fasciano, a prosperous fruit dealer, has received a letter demanding $130,000. The letter threatens the kidnaping of Fasclano’s daughters unless the demand is complied with.

NEAR RIOT IN EVANSVILLE

Work Car Injures Man and Crowd Murmurs Threats. Evansville, Ind., June 15.—Excitement ran high here when a car on the city lines ran down and seriously injured B. F., Knight, a brewery worker. A great crowd, many of its members in sympathy with the striking carmen, gathered, but before threats could be carried out James Pearce, the motorman, was arrested and hurried away. Labor leaders have issued a statement in reply to the ball of a local newspaper for a business men’s meeting with a view of arbitrating the strike. The statement declares that the strikers are prohibited from meeting by temporary Injunction.

ARKANSAS CAPITOL SEIZED

Indiana Man Still Claims Possession of the Uncompleted Building. Little Rock, Ark., June 15.—Govern or Donaghey and members of the state commission formally took possession

Vol. XII. No. 21.

THE WEATHER. Illinois and Indiana—Fair today and tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Fair today and tomorrow. Wisconsin and lowa—Fair today and tomorrow. Following is the official weather forecast:

of the uncompleted capltol building, after breaking through a door which 1 had been locked by the contractors, Caldwell & Drake, whom the legislature ordered discharged. George W. Caldwell of Columbus, Ind., declared that his firm still had possession of the building. Donaghey was elected governor on the capltol question. He, as a contractor, was a business rival of Caldwell.

ANOTHER WRIT FOR THAW

Justice Gaynor Orders White’s Slayer Produced In Court. New York, June 15. —Harry K. Thaw may have another chance to prove his sanity in his fight for release from the Matteawan asylum. s Justice William J. Gaynor granted a new writ of habeas corpus returnable before Justice Mills in the supreme court at White Plains, N. Y., on Thursday, June 17. Justice Mills issued a similar writ for Thaw last June. This writ kept Thaw out of Matteawan for awhile and he spent last summer in the Poughkeepsie jail. In October, Justice Mills denied the motion for a jury hearing as to Thaw's sanity. When the appellate division, ten days ago, affirmed the decision of Justice Mills, denying a jury hearing, Justice Gaynor wrote a dissenting opinion.

DRAWING AIDS DETECTIVES

Pencil Sketch by Idle Clerk Helps To Trace Girl to London. New York, June 15.—Miss Beattie, wanted here on a charge of having fraudulently obtained $1,500 worth of jewelry, was traced to London through a pencil sketch made by an idle clerk, who was struck, the police say, by the dashing appearance of the young woman. Several years ago, while a musical student in Italy, the girl became a protege of Mrs. C. F. Stearns, daughter of William Bucknell of the family which founded Bucknell university. Her Intimacy with Mrs. Stearns, whose name she is said to have used in obtaining the articles, ceased some time ago.

PUBLIC PAYS THE TOLLS

Telegraph Companies to Make New Law Add to Their Profits. Boston, June 15.—Governor Draper has signed a bill requiring that the time of the sending and receipt of telegrams shall appear in each message sent and received tn Massachusetts. The two telegraph companies have announced that the additional words and figures requiied would be counted as a part of each message.

MRS. CLEVELAND A WITNESS

President’s Widow Called In Brandenburg Grand Larceny Case. New York, June 15. —Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland, widow of former President Cleveland, was a witness in the case of Broughton Brandenburg, the magazine writer on trial for grand larceny. On the representation that it was written by Grover Cleveland, Brandenburg is alleged to have sold an antiBryan article published in the New York Times prior to the last election.

STRIKE OF HATTERS SETTLED

Sixteen Hundred Hands Return to Their Factories Today.-. Danbury, Conn., June 15.—The batters’ strike, which has been in progress for five months, was brought to a close when seven factories which did not open last week entered Into an agreement with the local unions and opened for work today, giving employment to about 1,600 hands. The terms of the agreement were not made public.

SEIZED A TRAY OF DIAMONDS

Negro Accused of Bold Robbery to Be Returned to Kansas. 1 Lincoln, Neb,« June 15. —Governor Shallenberger has issued an extradition warrant to convey Clarence Patterson. cdlored, from Omaha to Kansas City. Kan Patterson Is accused of grabbing a tray of diamonds In a jewelry store and escaping. Men’s Racine workshirts, the best made—33c at Rowles & Parker’s Big Removal Sale. You can get a can of good peaches at the Home Grocery for 15c.

DANCE AT WARNER’S HALL.

There will be a dance at Warner’s Hall Thursday evening. Music by Healy orchestra. Come.