Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1910 — Page 2

HE lira COTHTY WRIT. F. FBIBCOCI. 101108 HO raBUMH. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act* of March S, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Adverstlslng rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1910.

MINERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASE

Also a Uniform Rate for All Classes of Inside Labor. DELEGATES OHLY GO TO TOLEDO Demand Also that All Internal Differences, Both as to Price and Conditions, Be Referred to Dis. trlct Affected. Indianapolis, Feb. 1. —The convention of the United Mine Workers of America has decided on a demand for an advance of 10 cents a ton for pick mining and an equivalent advance for machine mining and a corresponding Increase for all day work, dead work, yardage, etc. It was further decided on a demand for a uniform rate of wages for*all classes of inside and outday day labor and time and a half for overtime, Sundays and holidays. It was decided to demand that all coal be weighed before screened, and paid for on that basis, and that the mine run rate in the different districts shall be at least equivalent to the screen coal prices. It was decided to demand a change in the sixty-eight hours from starting until quitting time, or what is commonly known as from bank to bank, with a half holiday on Saturday. It was decided that the contract period shall be from two years from April 1, 1910. The miners also demand that all local inequalities and internal differences, both as to prices and conditions, be referred to the districts affected. The convention after taking action along these lines in accordance with recommendation of the scale committee took up a section of tJe report regarding the entire convention going to Toledo and decided that the convention should remain in this city in session until its work was finished, and that only the delegates from the central competitive field should go to Toledo to attend, the interstate joint conference of miners and operators scheduled to begin today.

AULD PLEADS “NOT GUILTY”

Dr. Edward S. Cowles First Witness Called in Court-Martial Trial. Boston, Feb. 1. —Dr. Edward S. Cowles, a brother of Rear Admiral Cowles, gave the bulk of the testimony at the opening session of the court-martial appointed to try Paymaser George U. Auld, U. S. N.. upon charges made by Cowles of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, telling a falsehood and assaultting him. To each of the charges Paymaster Auld replied "Not guilty” and then Dr. Cowles was sworn. The court-martiai grows out of an alleged insult offered to Dr. Cowles at a reception, at which he was told to leave and remain away. As he was leaving. Cowles states, he was struck by Auld in the back of the head and knocked down.

RESENTS INSULT TO FLAG

Poole Knock* Surgeon Down for Cutting Flag Tattooed on Body. Greenville, S. C., Feb. I.—The piercing of a tattooed American flag by the knife of a surgeon caused a patriotic American to spring from the op■erating table, strike the offending surgeon and declare that he would seek damages in the courts. Tom Poole, the injured man, had been slashed three times across the abdomen while involved in a fight. A stray bullet had also found its way into his breast. He was watching the surgeon's skill with interest When the knife ran through “Old Glory," which had been brilliantly etched into the man’s skin, he sprang from the table and knocked down the surgeon.

BEGIN PLOWING FOR CORN

Farmer* Also Open Sugar Camp* On* Month Earlier Than Usual. Rushville, Ind., Feb. 1. —According to old settlers in the county the earliest plowing ever done here was begun when J. M. Amos, a farmer living south of thia, city, put three teams in th* field and began breaking for earn. Corn plowing Is not generally started until th* latter part of February. Th* sugar eamp on the farm of G. P. Mausy waa opened, about one

month earlier than has ever been his custom. The sugar water flowed freely, and it is thought the camp can be kept open until spring.

EJECTED; KILLED BY TRAIN

Illinois Farmer Meets Death on Vandalia In West Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 1. The mangled body of William Higgens, 45 years old, a wealthy Dennison, 111., farmer, was found near West Terre Haute. He had been killed by a Vandalia passenger train. Higgens started home from Terre Haute while he Is said to have been under the influence of liquor and was ejected from the train

PARIS IS REPORTED SAFE

River Is Falling and the Weather Continues Favorable. Paris, Feb. 1. —The city has absolutely recovered from the successive shocks of its recent days of anxiety. The terror of last Friday seems like a night mare now when continual reports are published of the subsidence of the Seine and the sun shines brilliantly after days of rain. Telegraphic communication is still unreliable. A few lines are still working, but their services are in such great demand that the postofflce sent numberless messages by mail to their destination.

WILL CONTEST FATHER’S WILL

Four Sons of Le Grand Ingersoll Attack Last Will and Testament.. Los Angeles, Feb. 1. —Two contests have been filed in the probate court here attacking the vallidty of the will of Le Grand Ingersoll, who died at Ocean Park Dec. 20, 1909, leaving a >41,000 estate to his widow, Eleanor Ingersoll. The contestants are four son of the deceased by a former wife, two of whom, Audley and Louis Ingersoll, of San Jose, Cal., united In one contest, while LeForest and Frederick Ingersoll of Pittsburg, filed another.

TWO WOUNDED DURING DUEL

Kentucky Sheriff Shot While Making Arrest and Returns Fusillade. Mlddleboro, Ky., Feb. 1. —In a pistol duel at Edgewood mines, near here, Deputy Sheriff Gordon Givens and Benjamin Gatliff, a miner, were mortally wounded. , ' Given was attempting to arrest Gatliff on a charge of disorderly conduct Givens figured conspicuously as officer of the local military company in suppressing the night riders in western Kentucky two years ago. The Weather. Illinois —Fair and warmer today, unsettled tomorrow.

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Jan. 31. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.2601.28; No. 3 red, $1.20@>1.26; No. 2 hard, $1.13%@1,15%; No. 2 hard, $1.10%@1.14%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.14% @1.15%; No. 2 northern, $1.13%@ 1.15; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 2, 64%@65c; No. 2 white, 65%@66%c; No. 2 yellow, 65@ 66c; No. 3,62 c; No. 3 white, 63%@ 64c; No. 3 yellow, 63@63%c; No. 4, 60 @60%. Oats by sample: No. 2, 47% @4Bc; No. 2 white, 48c; No. 3, 44%c; No. 3 white, 46%@47%c; No. 4 white, 46%@47%c; ctandard, 47%@47%c. Chicago Live-Stock. Hogs—Receipts 34,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receips 18,000. Quotations ranged at $7 [email protected] for choice to prime steers, [email protected] good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] good to choice calves, [email protected] selected feeders, [email protected] good to choice Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 18,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice lambs, [email protected] good to choice wethers, [email protected] good to choice ewes. Butter. Creamery, extra, 30 prints, 32%c; extra firsts, 29; firsts, 26@27c; dairies, extra, 29c; firsts, 26c; packing stock, 23c.

Potatoes. Choice to fancy, 44@46c; fair to god, 42@43c. Omaha Live Stock. Cattle —Receipts 2,500 head; market steady to stronger; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $3.00@ 5.00; western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; canners, s2.oo@> 3.00; Stockers and feeders, $2.80@ 5.00; calves, [email protected]; bulls, stags, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts 3,400 head; market 5c higher; heavy, [email protected]; mixed, $8.0508.10; light, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts 3,000 head; market strong, 10@15c higher; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $5.000 6.00; ewes, $4.7505.50; lambs, $7.4008.40. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, Bast Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 100 cars, market strong. Hogs —Receipts 70 cars, market steady; heavy, $8.70; Yorkers, $8.5008.60 pigs, $8.50. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 60 cars, market strong; best lambs, $8.75; yearlings, $7.5007.60 wethers. $5 7006.00: ewes, 5.2505.7®, Calves—Best, $5.00010.50.

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PUBLIC SALE. As we have rented our land and will quit farming we will offer at public sale on the S. T. Comer & Son farm, 8 miles due north of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1910 7 Head of Horses and Mules—l grey mare, 10 yrs old, wt 1400; 1 gelding, 9 yrs old, wt 1400; 1 ba? mare, 12 yrs old, wt 1100; 1 bay driving gelding, 3 yrs old; 1 grade Norman stallion, wt 1600, 9 yra oHd; 1 span of mules, coming 1 yr old. 55 Head of Cattle*—Consisting of dairy cows mostly, some fresh now, others will be during the early spring; several young bulls 40 Head of Hogs—Consisting of brood sows, bred gilts, young boars and shoats. x | 44 Head of Shropshire Ewes— All bred to lamb during month of March; 1 recorded buck. Farm Tools—l wide tire wagon, good as new; 1 wide tire wagon with hog racks; 1 AYery riding Cultivator; 3 walking cultivators; 2 stubble plows; 1 hay rake; 1 set bob-sleds, and other tools. A credit of 11 jnonths will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash'. S. T. COMER & SON. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Lunch served by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Brushwood U. B. church.

PUBLIC SALE. As I am going to move to North Dakota, I will offer at public sale on the Charles Malchow farm, just outside the Rensselaer corporation, on the County Farm Road, commencing at 10 a. m., on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910, 12 Head of Horses—l bay mare, 10 yrs old, wt 1300, ip foal; 1 team bay mares, 11 yrs old, wt 1100, bred to Kenton Jack; 1 sorrel horse, coming 4 yrs old, wt 1050; 1 bay mare, coming 3 yrs old, wt 1050; 1 black horse edt, coming 3 yrs old, wt 1000; 1 grey hose, coming 3 yrs old, wt 1000; 1 bay colt, coming 2 yrs old, wt 1000; 1 bay filly, coming 2 yrs old; 1 sorrel colt, coming 2 yrs old; 1 biown filly, s months old, a good one; 1 bay filly, coming 1 yr old; 1 horse colt, 6 months old « Head of Cattle—l Roan Durham, 8 yrs, be fresh in April, an extra good mMker; 1 HerefordJersey cow, 8 yrs, will be fresh oy date of sale; 1 coming 3 yr old cow, with calf by side; 1 cow, coming 4 yrs old, giving milk; 2 two-year-61d heifers, one a good Jersey;, 2 spring bull oalves , 18 Chickens, 8 Turkeys. Farm Implements, Etc—7-foot

Deering binder with tongud trucks, used three years, had good care; 16-inch John Deere sulky plow; 16-inch Good Enough sulky plow; 14-inch sulky plow; 1 new 14-lnch Deere breaking plow; Deere corn planter, fertilizer attachments, 120 rods of wire; 7-foot Deere cutaway disc; Avery riding cultivator with gopher attachments; Case riding cultivator, good as new; 2 Eagle Claw walking cultivators; double fan Hoosier seeder with grass seed attachments and cart; single fan seeder; 3-sectlon steel frame harrow; 3-section flexible wood frame harrow; 2-section steel harrow; new Studebaker wagon, triple box, 3-lnch tire; Milburn wagon, 3-lnch tire, triple box; narrow tire wagon, triple box, spring seats, all in good sihape; new set of grdvel boards, hay rack, blacksmith’s Jorge and anvtt, 2 sets work harness; 15 bushels pure seed Early Ohio potatoes, 15 bushels other good eating potatoes; new washing machine, good wood heater, good Round Oak soft coal heater, ‘and other articles such as table, cupboard, jars, large and small. A credit of 11 months will be given on sums over $10» with usual conditions; 6 .per cent off for cash. L. 44. MARKLEY. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. Charles Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on GrouffOs.

PUBLIC SALE. Having decided to move to South Dakota, 1 will offer at public sale at my residence on the Hr- O. Harris farm, % mile south and 1 % east of Mt. Ayr, and 7 miles west of. Rensselaer, on the Poor Farm Road, commencing a<. 10 a. m., on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1910, IS Head of Homes—l bay mare, 12 years old, wt 1350; 1 bay horse, 10 years old, wt 1200; 1 bay mare, 5 yrs old, wt in foal to Stticker horse; r bay. horse, 9 yrs old, wt 1150; 1 tyown mare, 5 yrs old, wt 1200, in foal to Stucker horse; 1 iron grey norse, 4 years old, wt 1350; 1 grey horse, 5 yrs old, wt 1350; 1 sorrel mare, 18 years old, wt 1150, work in all harness; 1 black mare, 13 years old, wt 1150; 1 grey mare, 11 yrs old, wt 1350, in foal to Stucker horse; 1 black horse, 11 yrs old wt 1400; 1 grey .mare, 14 yrs old, wt 105 Q, lady broke; 1 grey mare, 12 yrs old, wt 1150; 1 grey horse, middle aged, wt 1650; 1 bay mare filly, coming 2 years old, sired by Joe Patch, wt 900. . 18 Head of Cattle—6 good milch cows, fresh last of February or first of Mairch; 1 Hereford bull, coming 2 yrs old, a good one; 1 Durham bull, one year old; 3 two-year-old heifers with calf; 1 yearling heifer; 1 spring steer calf. Hog* and Poultry—62 head of

If you are looking for a nobby suit or overcoat at a bargain, now is your time, as I have a few nobby suits and overcoats left. That is the reason I never have any old stock, by closing it out in season. 1 ' / No Old Shipped in Stuff to Push Off on the People. But always clean, new, and made by the best of tailors. So get busy and purchase one of these nobby suits and overcoats at wholesale prices. Also a few numbers in heavy wool and cotton underwear to close. Wool overshirts in blues and tans to close at wholesale prices. 1 Now is your Chance _z To Save Some Money C.Earl Duvall THE QUALITY STORE RENSSELAER, INDIANA

shoats, weighing 90 to 120 pounds; 8 dozen chickens, mixed. Farm Implements—3 wagons, i broad tire triple box, two narrow tired, one with steel wheels; 1 rubber ’tired buggy, almost new; 3 McCormick binders, one 8-foot, run 4 years, one 7-foot, one 6-foot; 2 McCormick mowers, Kent manuie spreader, 1 John Deere corn planter and 100 rods of wire, 2 John Deere discs; 2 spaders, good as new; 1 Best Yet riding gopher; 4 Brown walking cultivators, 2 3-sec-tlon iron beam harrows; 1 Rock Island 16-lhch riding plow; 1 lt>inch riding plow; 1 16-inch walking plow;- 2 endgate seeders, nearly new; 3 sets hay ladders; 2 sleds; Emery sickle grinder; J. I. Case fertilizer attachments; 1 feed grinder; 1 John Deere potato digger; I set buggy bobs; 1 hand corn sheller; 1 grind stone; 1 push cart; 1 wheel barrow; 2 wheat cradles; 5 sets work, harness; 260-egg Weimer incubator; 2 140-chlck brooders, one new; 1 pair new horse clippers; 1 kraut, cutter; 1 iron kettle; 1 set .wire stretchers; 1 wagon jack. Household Goods—l cook and 2 heating stoves; 1 refrigerator, nearly new; 3 bedsteads; 3 tables; 3 dressers; 4 meat barrels; fruit jars; 1 new milk tank and numerous other articles. A credit of 10 months wMI be given on sums over $lO with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for casn. MICHAEL NAGEL. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch served by Gus. Grant.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned wfll sell at public auction at his home on the James [Welsh farm, 1% miles southeast Rensselaer, on rock road, commencing at 10 a. m., on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1910, 1 4 Head of Horses—l bay horse, 13 years old, wt about 1100; .1 brown mare, 7 yrs old, wt 1400, In foal to Makeever horse, ' train and auto broke? 2 coming 3-year-old Shire ftlleys. , I 3 Head of Cows—l Jersey cow, , fresh last fall; 1 Guerheey cow, u yrs old, fresh by date of sale; 1 Spotted Durham heifer, 3 yrs old last of March. I Farm Implements—l Harper carriage, $l2O rig, used but little; 1 top buggy; 1 Peter Shu tier wagon, .with triple box; 1 Janesville spader; 1 Deere hay rake; 1 Kenwood disc; 1 3-sectlon steel harrow; 1 Acme harrow; 1 John Deere riding plow; 1 South Bend walking plow; I.bobsled; 1 Deqrlng and 1 McCormick binder; 1 riding cultivator, .with gopher attachment; 1 Deere ;rldfhg cultivator; 1 John Deere corn planter, with Case fertilizer attach-

ment; 1 Bradley corn planter; 1 2fan endgate seeder; 1 single-fan endgate seeder; a new hay rack; set of work harness’; set double driving harness; set single harness. 1 |4O-egg Old Trusty incubator, 1 cast iron range, ,1 dresser, 2 bedsteads, and other household articles. A credit of 10 months will be given on sump .over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. 7 BERT WELSH. A. J. Harmon, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Gus Grant, hot lunch.

Big Public Sale The undersigned, having concluded to move onto his own farm of 40 acres near Demotte, will offer at Public Sale at his residence, on the Overton farm, 6 miles East and % mile North of Rensselaer, 2 miles North of McCoysburg, commencing at 10 a, m., on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1910, 5 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Road Mare, eight years old, weight 950; 1 extra good Road Colt, 1 year old, sired by J. Patchen (service fee cost $100); 1 Roan Mare, three years old, weight 1000; 1 Brown Gelding, twelve years old, weight 1300; 1 Brown Mule, twelve years old, weight 1000. 12 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 4 good Milch Cows, will be fresh by the middle of April; 1 two-year-old Helfer, .will be fresh in April; 1 coming two-year-old Helfer; 1 coming two-year-old Bull; 5 spring Calves, half blood Hereford. 14 Fall Shoats—Duroc Jersey. Implements, Wagons, Etc—Consisting of 1 Riding Cultivator, good as new; 1 Emerson Rlding.Breaklng Plow, bought last spring; 1 Disc Harrow, bought last spring; 2 Top Buggies and 1 Farm Wagon; 1 set Double Harness; 2 sets Single Harness, and othqr articles not mentioned. * A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. _ A. A. GORBET. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Grounds. For Attractive Sale Bills come to The Democrat Subscribe for The Demonyat