Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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ELIZUR TRADES AUTOS.

" Elizur Sage of Newton tp., concluded that a $1,050 ail to was hardly fine enough for a sclod of the Sage family, made famous by the accumlations of his uncle Russell, the noted New York financier, and has traded the No. 10 Buick which he bought only last week of C. S. Chamberlain, to Mr. Chamberlain fbr a $1,750 Buick, which he lb now driv-. ing. It is a mighty nice machine, thought by many to be the best one .owned in Jasper county.

BUYS THE C. W. COEN PROPERTY

I Y*jym- Washburn has bought the d. W. Coen property on McCoy avenue, paying therefor $6,500. Be'sides the big brick residence there is 2 2-10 acres of ground with the property. This is one of the. best residence proprieties in Rensselaer, and is desirably located. Mr. Cpen will move to South Bend where he recently acquired an interest in a bank, and Mr. Washburn gets possession Nov. 1. The property will be occupied by Mr. Washburn’s son-in-law, W- O. Rowles, of the Rowles & Parker department store, who had expected to move into J. T. Randle’s new house on River street until Mr. Washburn purchased the Coen property. *

MISS MARY HORDEMAN MARRIED

\jMiss Mary Hordeman and Mr. Victor Sullivan, both of Frankfort, were married at St. Mary’s church Tuesday morning at 7:30. Rev. W. B. Hordeman, brother of the bride, performed the ceremony. The bride is a daughter of Peter Hordeman of Rensselaer and the grOom is a highly respected young man of Frankfort. Miss Theresa Brooks of Terre Haute was bridesmaid. Stephfen Sullivan, brother of the groom, was best man. A wedding dinner was served at 12 o’clock. The out of town guests were Peter and Herman Hordeman, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hildebrand of Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. P. Scallon and son of Lafayette and Rev. A. Humberger and his sister Marguerite of Tipton.—Frankfort Daily Crescent.

TOO COLD FOR HORSE SHOW.

The weather for the Horse Show was bad Thursday and yesterday, especially yesterday, when it was cloudy, cold and raw, and the piercing air chilled one to the marrow. Thursday was not so unpleasant except that it was chilly to stand about the streets. The weather indieations were not good for to-day, but being Saturday it is likely the biggest crowd of the three days will be here. The crowd Thursday was quite slim, but yesterday, notwithstanding the cold, there was a considerably better crowd in attendance at the hour of going to press. The exhibit of horses is all right, and it is to be regretted that the weather has been so bad. The Wolcott band is furnishing some good music for the shfbw, although handicapped by the players having to be encumbered with overcoats. The Oxford baseball team cancelled their game with the Wrens for Thursday, and Medaryville played instead. Score 4 to 0 in favor of the Wrens. The balloon ascension Thursday afternoon was good, one of the best ever seen here. An'ascension and parachute drop takes place each afternoon. A complete list of the premiums awarded will appear in Wednesday’s Democrat.

MRS SAMUEL PASS DIES FROM HYDROPHOBIA.

JOn September 15, Mrs. Samuel Pass of near Medaryville was bitten on the hand by a Collie pup which Mr. Pass had had given to him by a neighbor, on account of its viciousness, and the next day Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lizenby, neighbors of Mr. Pass, were both bitten by the pup. It tried to bite others, and bit chickens and other animals. On the 17th the dog was killed. Not much was thought of the bites at the time. Last Saturday Mrs. Pass developed signs of hydophobia, and Tuesday morning she died in £reat agony. V Mr. and Mrs. Lizenby became alarmed after the development of the gables in Mrs- Pass and are now in the Pasteur Institute at Chicago taking treatment. Fears are also entertained that Borne of the stock, eattle, hogs and horses, that were bitten by the pup, may be taken by the disease. tyrs. Pass was well known in Gillam and Hanging Grove townships this county, where they formerly resided, also in Rensselaer, where she had relatives, and a son, Jasper Pass, now lives here in Jordan township. The funeral was held Wednesday and burial made in the Brown cemetery in Gillam township.

Come to the Horse Show—make your headquarters at the Home Grocery.-

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. George A. Williams went to Kentland Wednesday on court business. Attorney Frank Davis was over from Brook yesterday on business. Miss Alice Bates was up town and at the court house Thursday afternoon, for the first time since her return from the hospital. She is looking and feeling very well indeed considering the severe operation which she underwent. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 12, Walter S. Ware of Gifford, 111., occupation farmer, aged 37, to Minnie R. Rusk of Rensselaer, aged 33, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. •Apctober 14, Gaylord Parker, son oPGeorge Parker of Hanging Grove tp., aged 20, occupation farmer, to Gertrude Lillie Downs, also of Hanging Grove, daughter of P. B. Downs, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

FIRST WARD GIVEN EVERYTHING

Almost On the Republican City Ticket, Mayor. Treasurer and the Two Counrilmen-At-Large. The republicans, in their nomination for city officers Wednesday night, practically ignored the second and third wards. In addition the regular councilman the first ward is given the nomination for mayor, treasurer, and the two councilmen-at-large, making all but one—the clerk —of the city ticket proper from that ward. The clerk, Charles Morlan, who was re-nominated, is from the second ward, but that is all the representation given that ward on the city ticket, and the third ward is left out altogether. The “powers” also seem to have adopted the Osier theory, and the councilmanic nominees are all boys, as is also one of . the council-men-at-large. Their ward conventions were held Tuesday night, and George Hopkins, clerk in Larsh’s drug store, was nominated for councilman in the First; Elzie Grow, clerk in the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, in the Second; and Frank Kresler, the bussman, in the Third. At their city convention Wednesday night Geo. F. Meyers was nominated for mayor; Charles Morlan, forg clerk; Ray D. Thompson for treasurer; and C. J. Dean and A. G. Catt for councilmen-at-large. Three candidates for mayor were placed in nomination, Geo. F. Meyers, Walter Porter and J. H. Ellis, the present incumbent- Meyers received 79 votes; Porter, 35; Ellis, 14.

A committee was appointed to draft “recommendations” for the new administration which it is proposed to foist, and which does not take office until Jan. 1, 1910. This committee recommended that the city have an economical administration; that the mayor’s salary be cut from $260 per year to $150; the councilman salary cut from SBO to SSO; and that the city marshal and teamster be combined in one office and one salary. The admission from these "recommendations” that we have not had an economical adminstratlon is obvious, and this sop is intended only for a vote-getter, most people think. At any the “recremmendatlons” are not binding in any way and in two months hence, when the new officers take tjielr seats, it may be possible that they will have been forgotten altogether. What the city needs is a good clear-headed set of officers, men of business ability, who Will look after the interests of the masses rather than the few who have a pull; men who will not milk the finances to a finish and then declare for “economy” just at election time, after city orders have been hawked abo4t the streets to find buyers during four years of mis-administration.

IT IS STILL McCOY AVENUE.

In our reference to the Tom McCoy residence elsewhere, it will be noticed that we use the term "McCoy” avenue, as the street on which thia prdpetty 1b located, and that we have sometimes heretofore used that term. Probably 99 per cent of our readers will, think we are in error in designating it McCey avenue, believing that the name was changed a few years ago to Mllroy avenue. This is not correct. It is true that in 19C)6 a petition from the G. A. R. post here was filed with the city council asking that the name be so changed, and after - going over a few meetings the prayer of the petition was granted on August 28, 1906, and the city attorney directed

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1909.

to prepare the necessary ordinance changing the name of said street from McCoy avenue to Milroy avenue. The fact that the petition had been granted was published in thq local papers, but the entry mentioned in Ihe above paragraph is the last thing found of record in the city clerk’s office, and the ordinance has never been passed, so it is still McCoy avenue. We were not sure about this matter ourselves, and in order to make sure, we went to the clerk Wednesday afternoon and asked him. He replied that it had been changed to Milroy avenue, but on looking the matter up found that there was no record of the ordinance mentioned having ever been presented or passed, consequently the old name of McCoy avenue stands. We presume every member of the council thinks it is now Milroy avenue—at least two members to whom we put the question said it had been changed—but they are in error just the same.

Buy your coal of Maines & Hamilton- They do not misrepresent.

FIRMER REMINGTON MAN

Runs Amuck at El wood and the Police Are Now Looking for Him. A recent issue of the Elwood Daily Record contained the following mention of a former Remington resident whose deceased wife of whom mention is also made, was formerly Miss Bessie Foster of Rensselaer: “Complaint was made to the police department last night that Luke Ford, a tinplate worker, of Newport, Ky., who blew into town yesterday had went on a rampage on the south side, posing as a striker, and had terrorized, a number of persons, and they asked that he? be arrested. “Ford was in the limelight here a few years ago when his beautiful young wife was shot one evening after a family disturbance, and Luke riished out to the neighbors stating that Mrs. Ford had shot herself. The public has a very vivid recollection of that affair. “Luke bobbed up yesterday and shortly afterward was on the war path welldlng a knife, and going down to‘ the tin plate entrance on the west side, accosted a boy going out of the enclosure. He pulled a knife and chased the young fellow back into the plant, threatening to cut his head off. “Later Ford went to the home of Bernard Gootee and knocking at the door was met by the wife of Mr. Gootee, the latter being in bed. The drunken fellow brushed by MrsGootee, pushing her brutally aside, despite the fact she is in a delicate condition, and entering the house went to bed room of the husband and assaulted him. He was got out of the house and the door locked while the wife was attended to, who was almost in hysterics from fright. “The police are investivating today and if Ford is caught he will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

We gre paying 80c for choice country butter. Bring in your produce, we pay highest market prices. ROWLES £ PARKER.

The T. J. McCoy residence as it looked the morning after the dynamiting, and as it appears to-day in almost the same condition.

FIVE YEARS AGO TO-NIGHT

The “Tom” McCoy Residence on McCoy Avenue Was Dynamited. Five years ago to-night, Oct. 16, the fine residence of Thomas McCoy, or Mrs.-McCoy, rather, on McCoy avenue in this city was blown up with dynamite, and the house* stands there to-day in practically the same condition as it appeared next morning after the dynamiting. Nothing has ever been done to it except to rer move the broken and damaged household furniture, and there is no custodian here to look after it. The property has been neglected and allowed to stand as a monument to the vengeance of some person—still unknown—who is supposed to have lost heavily in the “political bank” of the McCoys, which failed for nearly a half million dollars in April, 1904, and only paid some 42 per cent, after five years of administrating on the estate. There are numerous briars and bushes now growing luxuriously in the front yard where once Tom had the finest bluegrass lawn in the city.

Once since the bank failure the property was sold for delinquent taxes, and was bought by John Eger, who was a heavy depositor in the bank, but it was redeemed by Mrs. McCoy, who has since seen to it that the taxes were kept up. Tom’s fine barn, in which his blooded trotters were wont to be housed, was not injured by the dynamiting, and is in a very good state of preservation. There is about one acre of ground with the property, and of course the foundation of the house could be utilized in rebuilding, but while Mrs. McCoy now wants to sell the place, we understand, the price she is holding it at, $3,000, would make it quite an expensive property by the time a suitable house was erected. The story of the blowing up of the "Tom” McCoy residence while familiar to most of our readers. Is new to many newcomers since that time. This property was in Mrs. McCoy’s name and could not be touched by the bank creditors. It was probably worth SB,OOO before the dynamiting. Tom was at the time out on bond for wrecking the bank, and neither he or his wife had staid here after the failure, but had been stopping with Mrs. McCoy’s people, the Taylors, in Lafayette. For a week or more before the dynamiting Mrs. McCoy had been here and men at work packing up the expensive furniture, cutglass, china, bric-a-brac, etc., preparatory to shipping to Lafayette, where they were going to make their home. This work was practically completed on Saturday, and Monday morning the goods were to be hauled to the station and loaded in a car. Sunday night at/ about 9:30 or 9:45, a teriffic explosion startled the people of the west side and shook McCoy avenue almost like an earthquake. Ab soon as the residents thereabouts had collected tneir senses they rushed out of doors to learn what the trouble was. It was a beautifut moonlight night, and “Mrs

Tom,” who was stopping ilext door at the home of her father-in-law, Alfrd McCoy, was one of the first on the scene. Then it was found that the fine home of Tom McCoy was a mass of broken and twisted ruins. (An idea of its appearance can be had from the accompanying cut, taken from a photograph made next morning.) The work of the dynamite had been well done. Perhaps 20 or 30 pounds of dynamite had been placed in the cellar and shot off, raising all the floors above, breaking to bits the barrels of packed chinaware and cut-glass, bulging out the sides of the house, blowing the French plate windows out into the street, and damaging practically every timber in the structure. Little of value was saved in the furniture line, it is said, so complete was the destruction. The dynamiting was not generally known over the city until next morning, when almost everyone in town and many country people came to see the wreck. As might be expected under the circumstances—nearly every person of the hundreds who gathered to view the wreck having

lost funds in the McCoy bank or had been affected by its failure—there were few if any expressions of regret, while many opposite expressions were heard on all sides. For weeks the dynamiting was a topic for general comment. A stagger was made to discover the perpetrators, and some blood-hounds were brought in after a or two and led about the place and surrounding fields, but no one was ever arrested or found to be connected with the affair in any way, and no real grounds for suspicion was directed against any one. The affair remains as much of a mystery today as it did five years ago to-mor-row morning, when the Beene was visited by every able-bodied citizen of Rensselaer and hundreds from the surrounding country. The ruins are an eye-sore to- adjacent property owners, and the should long ago have been declared a nuisance and ordered torn down by the city council. How much longer it will stand in its present condition remains to be seen, but it is to be hoped that some one will get hold of the property who will tear down the wrecked house at least.

PRESBYTERIAN LADIES* RUMMAGE SALE. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold their annual two days’ rummage sale on Friday and Saturday, Oct 29 and 30, in the former Michael Eger shop, on Van Rensselaer street, north of D. MWorland’s furniture store. Many useful and desirable articles, all in good condition and repair, will be on sale at very low prices. Dry salt pork, 16c; pickled pork 16c at Rowles £ Parker's grocery department. The great closing out of the Chicago Bargain Store, now in Odd Fellows’ block, continues with greater reductions than ever. Phone 86.

Vol. xn. No. 58.

LAWSHE TO QUIT POSTOFFICE JOB

Third Assistant to Hitchcock Finds Health Is Bad. CANNOT UVE IN WASHINGTON Official, Who Is an Indiana Man, Decides That Best Thing For Him Is Permanent Residence In the Dry Climate of New Mexico Was Recommended by Taft When President Was Secretary of War. Indianapolis, Oct. 15. —Information has been received here that Abraham L. Lawshe of Converse, Ind., had resigned as third assistant postmaster general on account of ill-health. Lawshe has Just returned to Washington from a two months' vacation, spent at Eort Bayard, N. M. He went there hoping that he would be restored to health and that at the end of the two months he might resume his duties in the department. Sunburned and sturdy looking with his 200 pounds of flesh, as he Is today, Lawshe has confided to his friends that he Is far from being a well man. As he desires* to return to New Mexico in the immediate future, he will ask that he be relieved of his duties as soon as convenient No attention has been given to the selection of a successor, it is said, either by Post master General Hitchcock or by President Taft, and hence it is possible that a new third assistant postmaster general will not be named before congress convenes. The position of third assistant postmaster general has been held by Lawshe since 1907. * He was appointed upon the recommendation of President Taft, then secretary of war.

NOTICE TO FARMERS.

The Remington Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at their annual show this year in December, will also give a Corn Show; SSO in cash will be paid in premiums. First prize, yellow and white corn, SIO.OO. Write for catalogue, to Secretary of Association, Remington, Ind.

FORMER RESIDENT IN LIMELIGHT.

A dspatch from Washington states that a fraud order has been issued against John F. Braun, et al, who under various names conducted a cure-all mail order business originally at Bloomington, 111., and later received mail at Greenfield and Indianapolis, Ind., and which was bringing them in SIOO a day from their dupes. The dispatch goes on to mention the plan of operations, and states that S. U. Dobbins, a former hotel proprietor here, was an agent for them, in the following words: The Brauns were engaged in selling through the mails absent treatment for the sick, no matter what the disease. They obtained names and addesses by hiring boys and girls to report all cases of sickness and also advertised in newspapers. The treatment they called “mendopathy ’ was alleged to be given by •telepathic vibrations or suggestions. A second letter or circular was mailed to victims purporting to come from S. U. Dobbins, of Francisville, Ind., setting forth a remarkable cure- Postoffiee inspectors found Dobbins to be an employe of Braun and he received $5 for each patient he obtained. The Brauns contracted to give two telepathic treatments a day for thirty days for $5; if a cure was not effected in that time the money was to be refunded or free treatment continued indefinitely. Inspectors found that Braun was receiving on an average of SIOO a day from, willing victims from all over the country and that no effort was made to give any treatment whatever.”

COAL! COAL!

Don’t wait, but come and get a ton of Big Jack lump coal—the cleanest and best prepared. The cheapest coal on the market; the great seller. Only $3.25 per ton, at JAMES’ COAL YARDGoodland, Ind.

Shoes and rubbers, new and old, all at cost to close out. THE FORBYTHE STOREIf you want the beßt flour made, get a sack of Acme, only $1.50, and guaranteed to be the best or your money refunded.—Rowles A Parker. Specials, this week, ladies' tailored suits, boys’ suits, underwear, carpet sized rugs, at the Murray Store. Acme at $1.50; Gold Medal at SI.OO, are the beet flours made. If you are not already using either of them, try a Back —every-sack guaranteed ROWLES * PARKER.