Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — Page 1

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SHADOW CAST ON COOK'S ACCUSERS

Clurje of Affidavit Makers Is Doubted Io Copenhagen. BRADLEY KEPT IN THE DARK Paper Which Printed the Stories of Loose and Dunkle Is the Paper That Furnished Funds For Peary and It Demanded Sworn Statements and Documentary, Evidence That the Men Had Been In Communication With the Explorer Before Publishing Anything About Faked Observations. Copenhagen, Dec. 10.—A summary of the affidavits of persons claiming to have aided Dr. Frederick A. Cook in the preparation of his polar data was read here with amazement Scientific circles are inclined to be incredulous regarding the charges, and Bode persons, among them Dr. Carl Burrau, the astronomer, consider them

DR. COOK AND J. R. BRADLEY.

■o improbable that their effect will be to strengtheibconfidence in Dr. Cook. “Passages in the story telegraphed here,” said Dr. Burrau, “give me the impression that the matter is thoroughly untrustworthy. ' “Take for instance the statement about Capella. Capella neither rises nor sets in the polar regions, but re- ' mains fixed over the horizon. In order to make observations at the north pole a more extended and a more detailed knowledge is necessary than is enjoyed usually by the average ship’s captain. “It will, however, be easy for the university to determine the truth or .otherwise of the charges.” The committee of six under the presidency of Professor Ells Stormgren, the astronomer, which is to examine the north polar records of Dr. Cook on behalf of the University of Copenhagen, will begin its work at the end of the present week. Affidavits of two men asserting that Dr. Cook hired them for $4,000, with promise of an additional bonus of SSOO to one of them, to fabricate astronoml cal observations and calculations of latitude and longitude for submission to the University ?f Copenhagen, were published in the New York Times. These men—George H. Dunkle, au Insurance broker, and Captain August Wedel Loose, a seaman, admit that their reason for making the affidavits known to the public was that the explorer only paid them $260 for their work. .- -■

WINS PRIZES AT ST. “LOUEY.”

Jasper County Man Takes About All That’s Worth Taking at the y/ Poultry Show There. Hershman of Walker tp., Is at the St. Louis poultry show this week, and a few lines from him yesterday to The Democrat, stated that he had won all kinds of laurels with his Mammoth Bronze tqrkeys and Black Langshan chickens. He won on turkeys, Ist, 2d,f*Bd, 4th and sth on cockerel; Ist, 2d and 4th on pullet and Ist on year old tom, |54 tn cash and specials and a silver cup, on nine birds. He also won Ist and 3d on cockerel on Black Langshans. There 5,281 birds in the show, the largest poultry show ever held in the United States. is certainly a great showing for Mr. Hershman’s birds 'and one that he may well feel chesty over. He.ls the largest grower of fine poultry in Jasper county and will have a fine lot on exhibition at the coming poultry show here. •

ZERO WEATHER GALORE.

Old Boreas’ Icy Blasts Struck the Country Below the Belt Tues- » day Night. People who were worrying for fear

we would grtno winter, had their fears dispelled Wednesday morning on getting out of bed and finding the mercury at 6 below zero. The severe cold caught many people unprepared as it came so unexpectedly, and many water pipes and hydrants were frozen up and in some cases bursted. The cold has continued unabated, and yesterday morning the mercury was still down near the north pole, being at 3 below zero at 7 o’clock, but rising temperature was promised by the weather bureau, and it was considerally warmer about noon. The six inches of snow that fell Monday night is still with us, of course, and a few sleighs are being used. .Ice has frozen on Kellner’s ice pond to a depth of about five inches, and if it reaches six inches Mr. Kellner will begin cutting. The following is the temperature taken by a citizen at about 7 o’clock each morning for the past six days: Sunday, 50 above zero. Monday, 17 above zero,. w Tuesday, 27 above zero. Wednesday, 6 below zero. Tffursday, 10 below zero. Friday, 3 below zero.

REV. ABRAHAM MILLER DEAD.

Well known Dunker Preacher Dies r at Home of Daughter In Flora. Abraham Miller, for many years a resident of Barkley tp., and well known throughout northern Jasper, died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Josiah Flora, at Flora, Carroll county, aged 81 years. The remains were brought here yesterday and the funeral will be held to-day at 10 o’clock at the Mt. Pleasant Dunker church, and interment made in the cemetbry there. Mr. gliher has been in poor health for the past few years, and a few months ago his son William took him over to his home near Lintner, 111., in the hope the change would benefit him a little. Only recently he returned to Indiana and was living with his daughter when the death angel called him home. The remains were accomaplned here by several relatives and prominent members of the religious faith of the deceasedAttorney Frank Foltz was a visitor at the Fat Stock Show in Chicago yesterday. The show ends today.

BLACKBURN GIVES UP POST

Retires as Member of the Isthmian Canal Commlssison. Washington. Dec. 10.—It is officially announced at the war department that former Senator J. C. S. Blackburn has resigned as a member of the Isthmian canal commission. His resignation was accepted by President Taft Herbert G. Squiers now in this country on leave of absence, will not return to his post as American minister to Panama. A report is current that the state department intends to abolish the mission at Panama, and turn over diplomatic affairs to the civil governor of the canal zone who will be appointed to succeed former Governor Blackburn.

PANKHURST SHAFT FOR TAFT

Suffragette Says President Neglects American Girl In English Prison. London, Dec. 10. —The suffragettes held a big meeting to welcome home Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst She declared that she was glad to be in the thick of the English fight again. In speaking of America Mrs. Pankhurst said that when .two Americans lost their lives recently in Nicaragua the government talked of punitive measures to be taken against President Zelaya, but although President Taft had received numerous petitions on behalf of Alice Paul, the American suffragette who was sentenced to im prisonment at hard labor for a month, he had refused to take any steps to aid her.

MANIAC, WANTED FOR MURDER, SURROUNDED

Escapes From Asylum and Kills Sheriff With Shotgun Wooster, 0., Dec. 10.—Ore E. Boley, an escaped lunatic, who killed Sheriff Jacob Bell of Holmes county and who swears to kill Coroner R. C. Wise, Deputy Sheriff Theodore Bell, Marshal John Anderson and others, is being pursued by a posse. Boley was discharged several years ago from an asylum. Recently he brought to a widow three gallons of peanuts as a love token. He was ar rested and again committed to an asylum from which he escaped Sunday. He obtained a snotgun and shells from the home of Ray Lee in Big Prairie, terrorised a Lutheran revival meeting and then killed Sheriff Bell.

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THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Only one marriage license has been issued so far this month. The Monticello Herald publishes the following marriage license issued in White county: John M. Johnson, farmer, Jasper county, son of George Johnson, to Rose B. Helfrich, |lonon, daughter of Elwood J. Helfrich. Married at Monon Dec. sth by Rev. E. B. DeVault. . - o The county commissioners adjourned Tuesday evening, after completing the business of the term. Very little was done more than reported ih .Wednesday’s Democrat: Notice ordered for letting contract for stationery supplies on Dec. 22. Franchise granted Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., for period of seventy-five years. Dr. E. N. Loy appointed secretary of Jasper county board of health, to succeed Dr. Gwin, whose term had expired. —o—- x New suits filed: No. 7544. Perpetual Building, Loan and Savings Association of Remington, 'vs. Seldon McCullen and Ida McCullen; suit to foreclose mortgage. Demand |4OO. No. 7545. Sarah E. Swisher vs. John P. Swisher; action for divorceThis is the re-filing of an old case which was filed several months ago, but there was some question about the plaintiff having resided in this county for the required time, therefore the case was dismissed and the present suit filed making practically the same charges of cruel and inhuman treatment, failure to provide, etc. They were married August 19, 1905, and separated August 17, 1909. They have two children, which plaintiff asks the custody of. Plaintiff resides with her father, A. A. Gorbet of Hanging Grove tp.

WOMANS MEETING.

All women interested in the welfare of the public schools of Rensselaer are requested to meet in the M. E. church, on Monday, Dec. 13, at 3:30 p. m. xx

LECTURE COURSE NUMBERS.

Dec. 10—" Ram's Horn” Brown, editor of “Ram’s Horn,” lecturer. Jan. 14—Byron King, Shakesperian lecturer. Feb. 15—The Columbia Concert Co. March 25—George P. Bible, lecturer.

SAGE WINS IN APPELATE COURT

Judgment Secured Against Him In Circuit Court Is Reversed. The case of the International Harvester Co., vs. Elizur Sage of Newton township, was reversed in the appellate court Monday. Several years ago, when Elizur was scratching a poor man's back, before he received his legacy from the estate of the noted New York millionaire, his uncle Russel Sage, he bought a binder and could not pay for it. He was then living up in the Gifford district, where a man is fortunate if he makes enough to pay his tobacco bills, to say nothing of buying and paying for a hundred and fifty dollar binder. He let the binder people have the machine back, but they hung on to the notes he had given for the deferred payments. After Elizur became a man of wealth and prominence • and # his paper was worth about 110, the binder folks thought they would collect these old notes, and suit was brought in the circuit court to recover the amount with accumulated interest.

A jury, after hearing all the evidence and carefully considering the circumstances, thought Ellzur ought to cough up $25, but answered a few Interrogatories that were put to them in a way not exactly coinciding with the general verdict. At least the plaintiff’s attorney thought they did not, and he succeeded in convincing the court that his clients should have more money on these Interrogatories. Consequently the court set aside the jury’s verdict and gave judgment for $125. Elizur did not want to give up so big a slice all at once of the cash he had been waiting a lifetime almost to have left to him, without a struggle, and appealed. The higher court thought he did right and reversed the decision, and now, we presume the $25 verdict will stand. In reversing the case the court held: “Where suit was brought on certain promissory notes for $l2B, being the face value less certain credits thereon and upon a showing that plaintiff had taken possession of a binder on which Jit held a chattel mortgage securing the notes, and

had sold it for >17.50 and credited >12.50 on the note, the jury returned a general verdict in plaintiff’s favor for >25, answers to interrogatories which stated only that defendant abandoned the mortgaged binder, that it was worth >4O, and defendant took possession and sold it as above stated, and that plaintiff received nothing else out of the mortgaged property entirely failed to state facts justifying a judgment in Plaintiff’s favor for >l2B, notwithstanding the verdict.”

PHONE LEADER IS SCORED

Independents' Convention Resolution Condemns Charles 8. Norton. Chicago, Dec. 10.—The International Independent Telephone association closed its convention with a resolution Condemning President Charles' 8. Norton of the Indiana State association for writing letters considered to be in the interest of the Bell monopoly. It was asserted that the Indiana association would demand his resignation. Norton is at the head of one of the companies in which control has been secured by James 8. Brailey, Jr., of Toledo. The resolution followed the discovery that Norton had written numerous letters Dec. 1, 1909 to independent telephone meh in states adjoining Indiana, using the official paper of the association and advocating dual connections with the Bell companies.

ROMANCE OF INDIANA GIRL ENDS IN COURT

Minnetonka Young Woman Given a Decree of Divorce. New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 10. —The college romance of Mrs. June Keith Bigney and her young husband, a runaway marriage that lasted two years and a half, was ended in the superior court here when the young bride of the son of Sidney O. Bigney, the Attleboro manufacturer and politician, obtained a decree. The suit was uncontested. Mrs. Bigney appeared in court with her paresis, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith of Minnetonka, Ind. She said she was married June 17, 1907, that she had no children and that the offense complained of occurred Sept. 19, 1908. No name was mentioned. She said she last saw her husband Dec. 14, 1908 and had since lived apart from him. June Smith was a freshman at Smith college and Bigney was in the first class when at the close of the col lege year in 1907 they eloped in an automobile to Thompson, Conn., got a clergyman, took him to the altar in their motor car and were married. The parents of both quickly forgave them and after a European tour they established a home in Attleboro. The husband went to work in his father’s jewelry factory at a small salary, but the couple lived in luxury.

SHIVELY TO SUCCEED MONEY

Tennessean Elected For Short Term Leadership of Senate Minority. Washington, Dec. 10.—In caucus the Democratic senators elected H. D. Money of Mississippi as minority leader of the senate. He will succeed Culberson of Texas, whose resignation was presented earlier in the day. At the same time Senator Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana was chosen vice chairman, which may mean a higher honor for him later on when Senator Money retires. Senator Shively’s name.

SENATOR MONEY.

was considered seriously for caucus chairman a few months ago. Senator Culberson’s resignation was in the hands of the caucus and the name of his successor had been agreed on practically before the assemblage was called to order. Senator Bailey said he believed that leaders are bora and not elected and declined to ente* the race. It is stated he eould not have been successful.

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MORSE IS TAKING HIS LAST CHANCE

Denial of Plea Being Made Today Means Prison For Banker. SAYS JURORS WERE FRIVOLOUS • Financier In Statement Made In the Tombs Refers to Charge That Empty i Bottles Were Called Exhibits by Men j Who Found Him Guilty—Regards I Himself as the Victim of the “Pas- | sions of Panic”—Attorney Littleton Argues In Final Appeal, New York, Dec. 10.—Martin W.' Littleton, counsel for Charles W. Morse appeared before the circuit court here today and argued a motion for a new trial for the convicted banker on the ground that the jury which tried the financier was influenced by the government detectives in whose care they were placed and also that two of the jurors drank to excess. This is Morse’s last chance to save himself from prison. In the Tombs he said: “I am coming close to the end of a bitter, nerve racking struggle for justice. What that end will be I am not able to foretell—whether servitude under a sentence rarely imposed even upon a murderer—or a new trial with a chance to submit my case to another jury after the passions of panic have cooled and the cry for a victim has ceased. “If it be servitude in a distant state and climate away from my family and friends, I shall meet it with a firm consciousness that I have not violated the law or done wrong to a single individual. If it be a new trial, I shall be willing to have a jury sworn in at once, placed in the custody of impartial officers, kept free of hostile influences und abide by the result. If I am denied a new trieil there is no remedy for me agains wrongs and misconduct.

“I refer to the fact that the jury drank under conditions which show its members did not realize and understand the grave duty which they were called upon to discharge. I refer also to the fact that* when they had emptied a bottle in their card room they would call the empty bottle an exhibit, indicating the frivolous way they looked upon the case.

FOURTEEN TO BE EXECUTED

Condemned Men Are Members of the Filipino Constabulary. Manila, Dec. 10. —Fourteen men of the Second company of native constabulary, stationed at Davao, Mindanao, which mutinied on the night of June 6, were sentenced to death after being convicted of murder. The murder charge was based on the killing of Roy Libby, a planter, when the mutineers attacked the town. The executions will take place on Davao plaza, the scene of the uprising. Twenty-three men mutinied, eight of whom were killed resisting arrest, While one turned state’s evidence.

PROFIT IN FRAUD $162,000

Amount Alleged to Have Been Obtained by Maybray Gang. Denver, Dec. 10. —The Maybray gang of swindlers obtained $162,000 on “fake” foot races, according to J. 3. Swanson, postoffice inspector, who testified in the case against Ernest L. Powers, charged with swindling J. C. Bowman of Denver out of $13,700 in a “fake” foot race. Bowman said Powers had induced him to back him in the foot race, and, by biting on a rubber bulb filled with red fluid, Powers had simulated collapse in the race.

MRS. BLATCH COULDN’T VOTE

Suffragist Leader Married an Englishman—She’s to Be Naturalized. New York, Dec. 10.—Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, president of the Equily League for Self Supporting Women, couldn’t vote if a woman suffrage amendment were added to the constitution of the United States tomorrow. She isn’t an American citizen because she married an Englishman. She has determined, however, that the matter shall be properly adjusted and to that end has commenced prepare lions for naturalization.

POINTER ON GIFT SENDING

Do Not Write “Do Not Open Till Christmas” on 3d Class Mall. Washington, Dec. 10. —It has been decided by the classification committee of the postoffice department that the words “Not to be opened until Christmas day,” or similar inscription, may be written gnly on such parcels as bear postage at first-class rates. Packages that are mailed at third class or fourth class rates may bear the same inscription, provided that it is printed or stamped on them.

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BRYAN'S LIQUOR PLANK

Believes the States Ought to Settle the Question For Themselves. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 10. —William Jennings Bryan declares that somebody has been faking the story that he wants national prohibition. An article in the Commoner reads: “Mr. Bryan does not expect to see prohibition a paramount issue in national politics. If it ever comes it is not likely to be in Mr. Bryan’s day. “Mr. Bryan may, however, be truthfully credited with a desire to assist in securing for the several states absolute and exclusive control over the liquor traffic, including control over all shipments of liquor as soon as they enter the state. It will be interesting to see how some Democratic editors Will explain their opposition to the good old Democratic doctrine that the state ought to be allowed to attend to its own business.”

FOUR MEN HOLD UP TOWN

Citizens Face Revolvers While Robber Loots Postoffice. Washington, Pa., Dec. 10.—Robbers blew open the safe in the postofflee at Carmichael and made a similar but unsuccessful effort with the vault of the Carmichael bank. The bandits got away with >5,000 in stamps and money. Charges of dynamite were discharged simultaneously in the postoffice and bank. Residents poured into the main street. They were confronted by three masked men each with two revolvers. The crowd of half dressed residents was coolly told to keep quiet and attempt no violence. A fourth man then gathered up all the valuables in the postoffice and the quartet disappeared.

FREEZES ON WAY TO PULPIT

Minister Is Found Dead In SwampMissing Since Sunday. Spooner, Minn., Dec. 10—The body of Rev. Ole O. Fugleskyie, a Scandinavian Lutheran missionary, was found by a searching party which had been hunting for him since Sunday. Rev. Fugleskyie left Silver Creek to go to Clementson, three miles distant, to hold services. His trail was followed for two miles through half frozen swamps. Places were found where he had sunk waist deep into the water.

WOES OF BROKAW’S WIFE TOLD IN COURT

She Says Wealthy Husband Had Her Put Out ot Hotel Mineola, N. Y„ Dec. 10.—More of the woes of the wife of a millionaire came out in the suit for separation of Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw against William Gould Brokaw. She asks $2,500 a month alimony. She said that on an auto trip in France her husband took six or more drinks from a bottle. “We had a driver who did not know the way to the hotel to which we were going and the machine was stopped,” said Mrs. Brokaw. “I told the chauffeur to drive on and Mr. Brokaw turned on me and called me names. He said that it was his car and that he was the one to give orders. When we got to the hotel he called me more dreadful names.” She refused to return by auto to Paris because Brokaw wanted to drive the car. She went by train and registered at the Astoria. Brokaw notified the hotel manager, she said, that he would not be responsible for her accounts and she was asked to leave the place.

WRIGHT DIRECTORS CHOSEN

Airship Litigation In Court For First Time Next Tuesday. New York. Dec 10.—After a meeting of the directors of the Wright Aeroplane company, Wilbur Wright stated that organization had been perfected. .Officers were elected as follows: President, Wilbur Wright; vice presidents, Orville Wright and Andrew Freedman; secretary and treasurer, A S. Barnes; executive committee, A Freedman, R. A. Alger, August Bel mont, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Wilbul Wright. H. A. Toulin, chief attorney for the Wright brothers in their suit against the Herring-Curtiss company, is here from Springfield, O. When the case comes to trial in Buffalo next Tuesday it will mark the first time that the courts have been called upon to rule in a matter involving flying machines-

CHRISTMAS TREES.

There will be on sale at A. F. Long’s store one of the finest assortments of Christmas trees ever brought to Rensselaer, just the size for your home' or school or church.

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