Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

91.K0 Per Year.

NOW WELL THEY PAY UP?

■9he appellate court Tuesday denied a re-bearing in the case ot Wm. J. Reed, administrator, vs. The Panhandle railroad for the kiling of John Reed at Remington some years ago, at the Ohio street crossing of said railroad. Judgment was secured in the White circuit court, which waß affirmed on appeal by the railroad company, which then asked for a re-hearing. Looks now very much as though the road would have to liquidate.

ANOTHER COUNTY HEARD FROM

Scott County Voted “Dry” By 885. —DeKalb Votes To-day and Warren Tuesday. In the county option election in Scott county Tuesday the drys won by a mapority of 385. The county was already dry by remonstrance. This makes a total of 77 of the 92 counties in the state that have voted under the county option law, many of which had previously been made dry by the Moore remonstrance law. Of the number voting 64 voted dry to 13 wetDeKalb county will vote on the proposition to-day and Warren county votes Tuesday. Both counties are now dry by remonstrance.

A HIGH ESTIMATE ON THE JASPER COUNTY LANDS.

In the schedule of - property left by Elias Ray of Tippecanoe county, the wealthy farmer who killed his farm hand lash June in a quarrel which arose between them, and who committed suicide last week on the day his trial was to begin, a Lafayette paper gives 2,000 acres of land in this county valued at SIOO,OOO. The land in this county lies in sections 2,3, and 19, Wheatfleld tp., and there is about 1325 acres of it. If more we are unable to locate it. It is assessed for taxation at $14,845, improvements SIOO. Instead of being worth SSO per acre it is not worth to exceed half that sum as a whlple, we understand. Ray owned 2,200 acres of land in Tippecanoe which is said to be worth $250,000. His estate is valued at about $500,000. He left no will. Dan Sims has been appointed administrator of the estate.

MANSFIELD TURNED LOOSE.

Thomas Dimon of Gillam township returned to Rensselaer Tuesday afteroon with his eloping 16-year-old daughter and her would-be husband, Mart Mansfield, who were overhauled in South Bend Monday, as stated in the last issue of The Democrat. It would seem for the peace of mind of all concerned that Dimon should have let them get married, but he refused to do so, and took the girl home with him. She stated that she went with Mansfield willingly, and there was nothing whatever on which to base Dimon’s charge of kidnapping, so fye was allowed to go his way, and the deputy prosecutor went before Squire Irwin the next day, he being out of town when the parties got back here, and asked that the charge be dismissed, which was done. is said the girl attempted to run away with another young man about a year ago, and it would seem that Dimon made a mistake in disregarding the advice of friends in refusing to allow her to marry Mansfield, in view of their escapade, even though he is twice the girl’s age.

NEWTON OFFICERS ARE SHORT.

According to Experts Who Investigated the Offices There. ( The expert investigation of the county offices in Newton county is completed and the report shows several officers short in ttflsir accotftrts. Former Auditor S. C. Jones owes the county $66, but he never received his per diem as member of the board of review, consequently the county owes him $204. Former Auditor A- E. Purkey owes $88.70. Recorder Boyle owes $341.70, ClOrk Hess owes $666.23. Former Sheriffs Wildasin and Stoner are given a clean bill. Former Treasurer Charles W. Spinney owes $4,702.21, according to the experts. All the officers involved are republican with the exceptlon-of A. E. Purvey and Chas. Spinney, who are democrats. The latter is now engaged Jn checkig . over the records . and the figures of the experts, and claims to have found errors made by the latter. He of course will make good any real shortage that may exist through errors li, the accounts. » 1 The investigation coet Newton county $l,6J>O, that Is, the experts ask (or that sum but only SI,OOO was •pproprlated. The county council will be asked to appropriate S6OO additional.

We have some nice Baldwins. Greenings and Spy appies, 76c to SIOO a bushel. JOHN EGER.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the # County Capitol. v : > Only klx marriage licenses have been issued so far this month, and three of these were for Remington parties. Benton Review: Judge Saunderson is receiving many letters of congratulation from friends over the state in regard to the Supreme court sustaining his decision in the gravel road matter. John O’Brien, aged about 52 years, totally blind and paralized about the hips, was brought over from Carpenter township Tuesday and placed in the county poor asylum. He has been living with his mother and sister, but they were no longer able to care for him. The family lost some $1,500 in the Parker bank, which was a severe blow to them. There are now 17 inmates of the poor asylum, 14 males and 3 females.

licenses issued: Nov. C. Hartley Coover of Kentland, son of Marion C. Coover, aged 22, occupation printer, to Tammie E. Rousch of Remington, daughter of Chris Rousch, aged 22, occupation fibusekeeper. Sj Nov. 24, Charles J. Fell of Remington, son of A. A. Fell, aged 20, occupation farmer, to Mable E. Terpening, also of Remington, aged 21, daughter of Geo. W- Terpening, a stockdealer of Kansas City, Mo., occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. The Nessius ditch case decision has bteen taken under advisement by the court. Cecil CJyde Randle, et al. ditch; no objections filed. Ditch commissioner, D. W. Waymire declines to act, and court appoints Wm. Daniels in his stead. Drake appointed third commissioner, to meet Dec. 6.

McNeil-Higgins Co. vs. Gamaliel G. Garrison, et a'l; jury trial, diet for defendant Tirza Garrison? Judgment vs. G- G. Garrison for $81.60. William H. Cheadle, trustee vs. Trustees of First Christian church of Remington, evidence and argument heard and cause taken under advisement by the court. State of Indiana, ex rel, Benjamin F. and Louis Alter, vs. Barney D. Comer and Ollie C. Garriott and Barney D. Comer, cross-plaintiff, vs. Leslie and John E. Alter, crossdefendants; the court challenges himself to sit in this cause, and by agreement Wm. Darroch is appointed to ’try cause. Cause continued for term.

Wm. H. Cheadle, trustee, vs. Harry Gallagher, et al; judgment for $125. Court finds for defendant in second paragraph of complaint. J. O. B. McDougle vs. Harry Gallagher, et al; dismissed by plaintiff. Costs paid. Warren T. McCray, et al. vs. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louse Ry. Co.; judgment vs. defendants for $617. Z- A. Cox vs. John W. Horton, et al; cause set for trial Dec. 1. S. P. Thompson, petitioner, vs. Francis M. Lakin, remonstrator; remonstrator files motion to dismiss appeal. The jury heard but the one case of McNeil-Higgins Co. vs. Garrison, et al. and were then excused until yesterday morning. r

PROMINENT BENTON COUNTY FARMER STRICKEN.

Win Rowe was stricken Friday with paralysis. He felt the attack coming when he was at the corn crib and managed to reach his home and bed. The stroke spread rapidly and for a time was very critical. He was much better Monday, but is still unable to read. Mr. Rowe is one of the most prominent 9lUzens of the county and one_of Its best. His son Hartley is the engineer in charge of the electric motors at Panama canal.—Fowler Leader _ S. . _

THE GEORGIA GALVIN CONCERT AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

On next Tuesday evening r -Nov. 30, the music loving people of this community will have the opportunity of Rearing a singer of exceptional ability. Miss Georgia Galvin of Indianapolis, possesses one of nature’s richest glfte, a soprano voice of rare purity and rich fullness. Miss Galvin has for several years sung chiefly in and about New York, having engagements at Keith’s theatre and with the Peoples Symphony Concerts. Several persons in Rensselaer are personally acquainted with Miss Galvin and because of their knowledge of her excellent ability in concert

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY; NOVEMBER 27, 1009.

work she has been secured lor the above date. • $ The concert will be given under the auspices of the Sunday school and the price of admission has been placed at the very low price of 25 cents- At this price the honse should be packed.

A MONTICELLO PAPER SAYS: The Northwestern Indiana Traction Company is said to be making good progress securing right of way along their proposed route. They have even secured terminal facilities in Chicago by contracting for the purchase of the Chicago Heights ft Eastern Electric road, wfcich will let them into the city. The directors of the company held a meeting here last week and made arrangements for the surveying corps to commence work on the line this week with headquarters here, for which purpose rooms have been rented in the Trust building. The construction work has been placed In the hands, of thfc Lasalle Supply and Construction Company, who also have an office in the same building.—Monticello Herald.

HOW PRICES HAVE SOARED.

Turkeys retailed in Rensselaer this Thanksgiving at 20 cents per pound, or about two cents per pound higher than last year. In Chicago the retail price was from 25 to 28. cents a pound, and in New York City, 30 to 32 cents a pound. The growers did not get all the benefit of this extreme high price, however. Dealers here paid 14 to 15 cents a pound, and that they should cost the consumer in Indianapolis or Chicago double this would indicate that abnormal profits are made some place along the line before the turk reaches the consumer. The Chicago Record-Herald of Tuesday said of the great advance in table expenses for this Thanksgiving: Long, long ago, In the "good old days” it is recorded that turkey could be bought for 12 cents a pound Ten years ago a Chicago department store advertised the following bill of fare for $1.95: Nine-pound turkey. Enough plum pudding for four. Mince meat enough for three pies. Buncfi 6t celery. Turkey seasoning. Pound of parsley. Quart of cranberries. Pound of mixed nuts. Three pounds of sweet potatoes. Think of all that for $1.9,6. Do you know what it will cost to buy the same bill of fare this year? Four dollars and twenty-five cents-

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the Christian church is, "Paths to Power.” “A Model Confession” is the subject of the third sermon in the series of the Sunday evening evangelistic meetings. Preaching at Good Hope at 3 p.m.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The subject of the morning sermon at the Presbyterian church tomorrow will be, “Omission.” In the evening the pastor will use the stereopticon to illustrate a sermon on “How we got the Bible.” A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present at these services.

DIRECTORS’ MEETING.

A meeting of the Directors of the Home Telephone Company is hereby called for Wednesday, Dec- 1, at 11 a. m„ sharp, nt Rensselaer* Ind. Matters of particular importance will be discussed at this meeting and a full atendance of the directors is earnestly desired. V R. J. YEOMAN, Pres. F. E. Babcock, Sec.

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LECTURE COURSE NUMBERS.

Dec. 10—“ Ram’s Horn” Brown, editor of “Ram’s Horn,” lecturer. Jan. 14—Byron King, Shakesperian lecturer. Feb. 16—The Columbia Concert Co. March 26—George P. Bible, lecturer.

When you calj for granulated sugar, always ask for cane sugar, and get the best; 18 lbs. for SI.OO at J|ohu Eger’s,

MOTIVE LICKING IN AUTO PUZZLE

Indiana Sheriff in Chicago to Prohe Demotte Mystery. 6IRL FIGURES IN THE CASE \ ' —— Owner of the Car Refutes to Say Anything Further Than That He Has Re. ceived $4,750 In Payment For the Machine That Wat Destroyed and Parts of Which Were Thrown In River—Member of Jewelry Company Denies Being In Party of Joy Riders.

Chicago, Nov. 26.—Sheriff Thomas Grant of Lake county, Ind., and Detectives Conick and Culhane of Chicago believe they have learned the identity of the man who hacked a $5,000 automobile to pieces and hid parts of the machine on the farm of Mrt. Christine Jostedt near Demotte, Ind. add hauled the tires and other pieces of the motor car ten miles and pitched them in the Kankakee river. The man, it is believed, w'as one cf the four passengers of the car on Us mysterious night trip from Chicago. The other persons in the car included two men and a young woman.

Mrs. Jostedt, after telljng Sheriff Grant of at least three visits of the alleged owner of the machine to her farm in company with other unknown persons, fled with her daughter, Toots, •ixteen years old, who lives with her on the barren farm, and it was learned the pair were in Chicago. Mrs. Jostedt told the sheriff that the young woman in the automobile was her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Hopkins, a stenographer whp lives in this city. S. R. Smalley, manager of N. S. McGillivray & Co., jewelers, who says he is the owneK.of the dismantled machine, refusdfl to tell the police more of the trip jfhich he asserts “friends of his’’ tooMEdown into Indiana, where the maehijp~wae wrecked. "It wa£siuie ride,’ and the machine got smashed,” he explained. “The automobile was taken by a friend of mine, and be had an accident. He paid me for it, and that is all there is to it.” Smalley said the man who had the machine was wealthy, and had paid him $4,750. N. S. McGillivray, managing owner of the jewelry company which employs Smaller, denied that he was a member of the automobile party. "There’s a motive deeper than mere accident for the destruction of that valuable machine.” Sheriff Grant said. Mrs. Jostedt says that the auto party included beside her daughter, her son Tony, her daughter’s fiance, Fred Gage, a chauffeur, and two other men, one named Woods, the owner of the automobile, and a jeweler who said has name was McCarthy.

STILL INVESTIGATING MYSTERY.

Story That Demotte Woman Was Mrs. Gunness a Hoax, Although Resembles Laporte WomanThe auto mystery at Water Valley and Demotte is still furnishing filling for the sensational newspapers, but there are really no new developements in the case of importance. The parts of the wrecked auto unearthed at the Justedt farm south of Demotte last Sunday had been taken to Demotte and stored in Cheever’s blacksmith shop. Sheriff Shirer had hired Jesse Sommers to haul the parts down to Rensselaer, and they were expected here Tuesday afternoon, but Dan Fairchild, who is Justice of the Peace up there, told Cheever not to let them be taken away, so they remain there at present.

As stated in Wednesday’s Demo-; crat, some of the minor parts, including the license tag, which were found Monday, were brought to Rensselaer and left at the garage. This license tag is “2763 Ill.” It ought not to be difficult to trace the machine from this and learn whether it is the Smalley machine or noti which is alleged to have been stolen in Chicago and run down tp the Justedt home and destroyed. Tuesday night Sheriff Shirer got a telephone call from Logansport to go up to Demotte Wednesday morning and arrest Mrs. Jostedt and hold her until officers from Laporte could come on and see If she was the notorious Mrs. Guhness of that county, who is thought by many to have made her escape from there about a year ago, instead of having been burned up in her house with her two children. A report had reached Laporte that this woman was of about the same age and general appearance as the arch-murderess Mrs. Gunness. Accordingly the sheriff went up tqfl Demotte Wednesday morning -and Mrs. Jostedt was there to take the’ train for Shelby, city marshal and a policeman from Laporte came

in on the 3-1 train which Mrs. Jostedt took to Shelby, on her way to Chicago, where she said she was going to have the parties who brought the auto to her house come down and clear up the stories regarding the mystery. The Laporte officers conversed witt her on the train between Demotte »nd Shelby and satisfied themselves that she was not Mrs. Gunness, although bearing some resemblance to her. Mrs. Jostedt went on to Chicago from Shelby and Sheriff Shirer came back home. Yesterday a Chicago paper had the following to say of the mystery: Sheriff Thomas Grant of Crown Point, Ind., and Detective Conick of Chicago have obtained information relative to the mysterious wrecking of an automobile near Demotte, Ind., the night of Oct. 23, which may result in arrests within a few days. The car is said to have belonged to S R. Smalley, manager of a Dearborn street diamond firm, who is quoted as having said, after reporting the disappearance of the machine to an insurance company, that he had received from a stranger a check for $3,000 in payment for it. The new information which Sheriff Grant and the Chicago detective have obtained was contained in statements declared to have been made by Theodore Jostedt, 10617 Stevenson street, West Pullman. He is a brother of Mrs. Lottie Hopkins, who was one of the occupants of the car when it went from Thirty-first street to Indiana on Its last trip and who previously had made statements to the police in which she asserted that all she knew of the affair had been told.

Jostedt, according to the police, asserted that the automobile contained when it left Chicago in October, besides himself, Fred Gage, chauffeur for A. W. Bensinger, an architect, 4508 Calumet avenue; Lottie Hopkins, an intimate acquaintance of Bensinger, and John Woods, head salesman for N. S. McGillivray & Co., 167 Dearborn street. The machine was driven, Jostedt said, to the farm of Mrs. Christina Jostedt, his mother, near Demotte. The party, he is said to have informed the poliefe, returned to Chicago by train. One week later, "Jostedt said, according to the police, McGillvray, Woods and Harry Griffin of the Auto Salvage Parts Company, 513 Michigan avenue, the latter of whom is said to have once rebuilt the machine for Smalley, went again to the Jostedt farni by auto, and at that time accomplished the destruction of the machine. A third trip was made, it was said, at which time the different parts of the machine 'were disposed of, the wheels being thrown into the Kankakee River.

COLLEGEVILLE NEWS.

A number of the students have gone to their home for Thanksgiving. The list of visitors at the ’college for the holiday is exceptionally large. Some are visiting with students and others with members of the faculty. A. Spangler, Zanesville, Ohio, has again returned to his studies. Early in September he had a severe attack of typhoid, but he has now entirely recovered-

On Wednesday afternoon general permission was granted to the students to visit the city. With but few exceptions the boys make good use of this monthly privilege. »The regular examinations were held Tuesday and ednesday. This is the second report that will be sent to the parents and guardians. The test proven the work of the students were satisfactory. Several of the boys have been spending a few days of this week amid the comforts of the infirmary, but the Thanksgiving roll-cgll found all in the ranks, except Sulzbach whose swollen foot will not permit the wear of a shoe. The regular beat of the stone-cut-ters’ sledge Is again heard. They arq trimming the entrance Bteps and the large granite door-sills. They will also now cut the range work for the passage that is to connect the college building with the church. A daily occurrence now is the march of the club-brigade. The boys with hunting inclinations scour the surrounding fields diligently in search of rabbits, and not* Infrequently an innocent bunny falls by hedge or bush, a victim of that ancient method the bludgeon’s blow. The basket ball team is fast rounding into shape. The line up has not been definitely decided upon. The number of games that have been played thus far have given the aspirants for representative honors sufficient opportunity to show their timber. The religious have had tha best of it in the games that have been played.

piQur Hard Coal is the leader. J. L. BRADY. Come to tne Democrat office for sale bills.

Vol. XII. No. 65. • "■ '■

MINE TO REMAIN SHUT 3 MONTHS

Qlalm Made Sealing of Shalt Has Doomed Living Men. SALOONS IN CHERRY REOPEN Officials of St. Paul Company and Mayor of the Town Are Putting the Temper of the Population to the Teat—Troop* on Guard at Mouth of Pit to See That Steel Beams and Concrete Are Not Removed by Force. Cherry, 111., Nov. 26. —Not since the recovery of the first bodies from the depths of the fire wrecked St. Paul mine have such scenes been witnessed as the heartrending pictures at the sealed mouth of the mine today. Hundreds of grief stricken women with worn faces and fatherless children clinging in fear to their dresses gathered in groups about the Bhaft of the mine, sobbing and moaning. Their sacred dead are lost forever. The realization of the horrible end of the great disaster has aroused a frantic grief. Women fell on their knees, dragging their children with them and sobbing out their cries of despair. Many still believe that the sealing of the shaft has doomed to death men who are fighting for their lives in the bowels of the earth. Mine experts scout the idea and state that such is an impossibility. The nineteen saloons in Cherry have baen flung wide open. The mine officials requested this and Mayor Chnnelly permitted it to test the temper of the mining population regarding th 6 dosing of the mine. The shaft, sealed by steel cross beams and a concrete layer and covered by sand, was closely guarded by troops. Anxious to alleviate the sufferings of the mine population and to create a Thanksgiving spirit in a town that is burdened with grief, twenty church women from Spring Valley came to Cherry bearing dainty dinners to the suffering women. It was declared today that it would take three months to smother the flames and that the mine would he closed for that period.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Having bought Mr. C. W. Coen’s interest in the grain and coal firm of Coen & Brady, we embark in the same business as their successor. Perhaps a word of introduction as a new firm and a forward look as to the new firm’s policy is not amiss in these columns. First of all, we wish to thank all our old friends for the liberal patronage they have given us in the past and hope to so conduct the business in the future so as to merit the matronage of all our old, together with many new customers. We shall continue to pay the highest market price for your grain, and shall treat all our patrons as liberally and courteously as possible. Our facilities for handling your grain of every kind are ample. You will find our stock of coal is most complete and the best we can buy. For the past four years we have handled, almost exclusively, a brand of hard coal which has given universal satisfaction, apd which is the best coal on the market, in the opinion of Mr. Coen, who, by the way, has been in the business longer has handled more coal, and tried more kinds than any other dealer Rensselaer ever had. This coal we shall handle exclusively in the future. We keep in stock four of the best varieties of cook stove coal we can find- Our stock, contains also all the favorite heating stove and furnace coals from the best Indiana to genuine West Virginia Smokelese. Hence our policy shall be to enlarge our grairf and coal business by keeping abreast of the times in our line and furnishing a maximum of service and accomodation to all our patrons. , We again thank you for the business you have already given us and also for that we know you will give JXOrtn the future.

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J. L. BRADY.