Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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BADER REFUSED A NEW TRIAL

And Will Bi Taken To Penitentiary In a Few Dajs. COURT RULING k SURPRISE, As It Was G«nerally Believed From Intimations Dropped ■ That a New Trial Would fee Granted <— Defendant ✓ Much Cast Down Over Court’s Ruling. That “the way of the transgressor is hard,” was demonstrated very forcibly in the case of the State of Indiana vs. C. L. Bader, superintendent and general manager of the Winamac Bridge Co., of graft in the construction of a 70 foot iron bridge across the Howe ditch in Milroy township, the particulars of which are familiar to our readers. The court is said to have intimated that he would grant a new trial on defendant’s motion, but after painstaking care in looking up court decisions, he reached the conclusion Monday noon that there were no good legal grounds for granting a new. trial, and when the matter was taken up about 5 p.m.,Monday the motions were over-ruled and the defendant sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Michigan City for from two to fourteen years, and the prisoner remanded to the custody of the sheriff to carry out the orders of the court. Accordingly Mr. Bader is now in the custody of the sheriff, but will not be taken away for a few days. He is not confined in jail, but is allowed about the sheriff’s office and the court house, pending his removal to Michigan City. While there is much sympathy felt here for Mr. Bader, on account of his having stood so highly in his home county heretofore, his crippled condition—one arm being off at the wrist—his quiet, unassuming manner, family, etc., there can be no one who heard the evidence in the case who doubts for a moment that he is at least technically guilty, and had it not been for the severe penalty prescribed for offenses of this kind, the jury that tried him would not have been thirty minutes in reaching their decision. It’s hard to see such a man as C. L. Bader go to the penitentiary, but a man who has had the training and advantages that he has, and then goes wrong, is really not as much to be pitied as the poor devil who has grown up uneducated and among surroundings which were calculated to make him ignorant of right and wrong. Mr. Bader has our sincere sympathy, as has every person who transgresses the law ■ of the land and must be punished by confinement in prison.

MONON HAS $8,000 FIRE.

Fire at Monon Thursday night destroyed the Blakely block, occupied by Hornbeck’s grocery and the K. of P. lodge. Critten’s barber shop, adjoining, Foster’s cigar store and Pape’s butcher shop were also swept by the flames. Practically all fixtures and merchandise were saved except the butcher shop, which was wrecked'. The loss is SB,OOO, covered by insurance. I

BANK OK FOWLER PAYS FIFTH DIVIDEND.

The depositors of the Baldwin & Dague bank at Fowler received an additional .dividend of ten per cent Wednesday. This is the fifth dividend that has been paid and the depositors have mst received half of the money dLe them. dividend was made possible by the sale of a railway on the Arkansas plantation, which belonged exclusively to the Fowler, bank. It seems to us that Receiver Elliott is exceedingly slow in the settling up

the affairs of this bank. Men who know, tell us that the Fowler bank has property to burn, that they will be able to pay the depositors in full and have property left. Yet it has been over two years and the depositors have received only half of the money. •Receiver Elliott recently blocked the sale of the notes which the three banks are joint owners and the sale of which would have greatly hastened the settling up the affairs of the three banks. Perhaps Receiver Elliott does not realize that the present worth of the money due the depositors is greater than a larger sum, that is, if they must wait a long time for settlement. —Fowler Leader.

IT OPENED THEIR EYES.

Commenting on the recent bridge graft case here the Brook Reporter (republican) says: “Before the case was generally refered to as a simple fight between rival bridge concerns and little attention paid to the case or encouragement given the prosecutor, but since the evidence was forthcome and proven grafting, the Jasperites are beginning to sit up and take notice and wonder if this is the only case where they have been up against grafters.

MRS. THOS. KNOX DEAD.

Mrs. Thomas Knox of south of town, who has been in poor health for several months, died at 10 a. m., Monday, and the funeral will be held to-day at 2 p. m., from the Christian church, Rev. G. H. Clarke conducting the Burial will be made in Weston cemetery. Deceased leaves a husband and six children, three daughters and three sons, Misses Leah, Jessie and Lucile, and Rufus, William *and John. All but Lucile are grown to womanhood and manhood. The' latter is perhaps eight or ten years old. Mrs. Knox had many friends who will deeply sympathize with the family in their great loss.

TOO MUCH AVOIRDUPOIS.

Editor McCullough of the Remington Press came over Monday to see what was doing at. the republican convention. While not in the heavy-weight class himself, he came over with Blanchard Elmore and W. E. Peck in the former’s little Ford runabout, and they are both rare specimens for a “dry” town, probably tipping the scales at near 250 pounds each. When near the Hiowe ditch, where it crosses the Range Line road, the weight was too much, and the auto sank down through the stone roadbed to the axles. A passing team was called into play and the auto, relieved temporarily of its burden of freight, was pulled out onto solid ground again and the party came on into Rensselaer without any further mishap.

TIED UP BY SNOWSLIDE.

Charley Morlan’s Train Stalled a Week at, Kalispell, Mont. Charles Morlan, who left here several weeks ago for a trip through the northwest, under date of March 4, writes his family here that he had been stalled at the county seat of Flathead county, Kallispell, Mont., for the past week. It is a town of about 3,00 population. Mr. Morabout 3,000 population. Mr. Morlan’s letter was sent by way ot Spokane, Wash., and was also delayed by a snowslide. He had started on a trip west when caught by the snow, it being the last train to get through for several days. Charley says m his letter that he now expects to go to Williston, No. Dak., to prospect for land and other opportunities. He wifl probably be gone several weeks yet.

See nobby Easter, caps at my store for 50 cents and sl.—C. Earl Duvall. As Easter approaches you think of new shoes and oxfords. Don’t fail to see, ours before buying. Fendig’s , Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block

THE TWIQE’A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IgPIAXA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1910.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

Judge Vinton was up from Lafayette yesterday and set the cases of Babcock vs. Washburn, et al. down for trial on Wednesday, April 20. , —o — The petit jury was excused Friday until yesterday, when the Lawler railroad drainage case was taken up. This is the last week of court here this term. Clerk Warner and nephew, Rex Warner, attended a Sigma Chi fraternity banquet at the Denison hotel in Indianapolis Saturday night, returning home Sunday. —oi— On complaint of Truant Officer, C. B. Stewart, Milroy Sigman of Jordan township, was arrested for failure to send his children to school. He plead guilty in the circuit court Saturday and was fined $5 and costs, amounting to $18.35 in all, and promised to send his children to school hereafter. —o — In the Jungles ditch case, which was taken up Friday, it was found that Joseph W. Price, deceased, had 40 acres of land that was affected, and that B. J. Gifford had a deed for a right-of-way of 100 feet through the Price land, signed by only three of the heirs, but not all. The court then remanded the report back to the ditch commissioners for correction, after the case had proceeded to about noon Saturday. —o— Arrangements have been made to hold the examination for graduation from the common schools on the third Saturday of Miarch, at the following places: Barkley, at Center School; Carpentei, at Remington H. S.; Gillam, at Center School; Hanging Grove, at McCoysburg; Jordan, at Egypt School; Kankakee, at Dunville; Keener, at DeMotte; Marion, at Rensselaer; Newton, at Blue Grass School; Union, at Parr School; Walker, at Walker Center; Wheatfield, at Wheatfield. The examinations will begin at about 8:00 o’clock. Marriage licenses issued: Meh. 5, Garry M. Lewis, Jr., of Shelbyville, Ind., aged 21 years, occupation laborer, to Dora Rachael Blake, daughter of Albert Blake of Fair Oaks, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire S. C. Irwin. Miarch“ 7, Hamer Brown of Wheatfield, aged 20, occupation dredger, to Dovie May Clark, daughter of Harmon Clark of Wheatfield, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Irwin.

March 8, Cornelius Evers, Jr., of Demotte, aged 25, occupation bee-keeper, to Elizabeth Snip, daughter of Tunis Snip of Demotte, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Serious objections were made by the mother of Miss Dovie Clark Monday to the clerk issuing a license for the marriage of Miss Dovie and Hamer Brown, and the telephone wire was kept hot between Wheatfield and Rensselaer for several hours, but the girl was of legal age and the clerk could do nothing but issue the license. Later in the day Mr. Clark called up Sheriff Shirer and found that they had already got married. He then expressed himself that it was all right, and he had no objections to the marriage. ■They were accompanied here by Harley Brown and Mrs. Wm. Spry, who were witnesses to the marriage. —o — The county commissioners were still in session yesterday. At Monday’s session not much was done except, allow claims and award a bridge, contract and contracts for poor farm supplies. The Attica , Bridge . Co., was given contract for a 66 foot bridge, 16 foot roadway, across • 1 1 •

the Iroquois river to replace the old wooden bridge known as the Pullins bridge, at $1,222. The bid of the Winamac Bridge Co., was $1,253. Poor farm grocery supplies for the ensuing quarter was awarded to John Eger at $149.73; dry goods to G. B; Porter, at $52.15, and meats to Roth Bros., at 15c for steak and 10 cents for boiling pieces. A full report of later proceedings will be published in Saturday’s Democrat.

M. E. CHURCH MUSICAL

And Entertainment Next Tuesday Evening, March 15. A musical entertainment by MJr. and Mrs. Ostrander of Lee, late of Indianapolis, will be given at the M. E. Chuch in RensMarch 15. .The admission will be 10 cents for one and all. Mr. and Mrs. Ostrander are very deserving people and have given numerous pleasing entertainat different places in this section of the country.

DIES IN ASYLUM.

Mrs. James A. Keister of Jordan township, who has been confined in the Longcliff asylum for several months, died at that institution Saturday at 10 a. m., and the remains were sent to Remington and thence taken to Mr. Keister’s residence in Jordan township, where the funeral was held yesterday at 11 a. m., and interment made in the Welsh cemetery. She was 48 years of age and leaves a husband and four grown children. Her mother, Mrs. M. A. Timmons, resides at Remington.

EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

She Only Had One Glance, But She Did Not Overlook Anything. “Will you please tell us how tne lady was dressed,” said the attorney for the defense to a woman who was testifying in a Police Court proceeding. “Well, of course, I din’t see her for longer than a minute as she got up and walked out of the street car we were both riding in, but she had on a wide gray fur hat turned up at one side and fastened with a rhinestone buckle, and she had a long white feather and a gray bird’s wing on the hat and a narrow hand of gold galloon around it and two large scarletred velvet roses, and she had the hat fastened on with three hatpins, one of them with a redglass stone set around with California brilliants and another was in the shape of a four-leafed clover and the third was a big gilt ball, and the hat drooped away over on the right side, and she had a black veil with white dots on it and it was fastened with a gold arrow run through a rhinestone buckle at the back of the hat. Then she had on a tailored suit of mauve cloth with the jacket and front width of the dress all braided in silk braid the same shade of the dress, and the other widths of the dress had three bias folds laid on, one right above the other, and the six buttons covered with goods like the dress, and the jacket had a bias fold all around it and fourteen buttons down the front and three on the pockets, and it had a wide rolling collar lined with satin a shade or two lighter than the dress and there was a narrow silk colored cord of white silk edging the collar and coming all down the front of the jacket which was a little more than half-fitting and it sagged just a trifle on the left side and” — “You say you saw the lady but a moment?” “Yes, just for a moment as she was leaving the car, but I noticed that she had on a gray squirrel skin muff and tippet and”— “That will do, madam. Next witness please come forward.”

See the nobby hose in all the latest colors of the Iron Clad make for 25 cents. —C. Earl Duvall. Fancy large northern grown sand potatoes, best for table and peed, in 2j4 bushel sacks, in. 5 and 10 bushel lots, 50c a bushel, at JOHN EGER’S.

THE LION'S SHARE TO MARION TP.,

In Monday's Republican CountyGoMMlioo. OILY CONTEST WAS ONCLERK And J t H. Perkins Lands On Tenth Ballot—All Other Nominations By Acclamation— Marion Township Has Six Places On the Ticket.

The republican county convention Monday was largely attended and passed off quietly with the slate going through without a break, unless it was in that of clerk. The ticket as nominated was as follows: Clerk, J. H. Perkins. Auditor, J. P. Hammond. Treasurer, A. A. Fell. Sheriff, L. P. Shirer. Assessor, J. Q. Lewis. Surveyor, W. F. Osborne. Coroner, W. J. Wright. Com. Ist Dit., J. F. Pettet. Com. 2d Dist., R. S. Drake. Co. Council, Ist Dist. S. T. Comer of Union tp.; 2d Dist., Nathan Eldredge of Barkley; 3d Dist., John Martindale of Rensselaer; 4th Dist., Frank J. Babcock of Carpenter. Co. Council At-Large, John Hudson of Carpenter; W. V. Porter of Rensselaer; Frank E. Lewis of Barkley.

The convention was called to order by County Chairman Leopold, and S. E. Sparling of Rensselaer made permanent chairman, and C. H. Peck of Remington, secretary. The delegate strength of the convention was based on the vote cast for W. T. Durbin for presidential election in 1908, which gave 194 delegates. To shut off any “repeating” committee on rules recommended that if more votes were cast than there were delegates the vote would be thrown out and that ballot be null and void. The wisdom of this was shown when in several ballots more votes were cast than there were delegates, but after a time it became evident that the tellers were getting tired of counting votes, and in the last three ballots only 194 votes were reported.

Knowing that all was cut and dried except for clerk, it would seem to us that it would have been better to have begun at the bottom of the ticket and gone up, in nominating the candidates. The offices of County Council and County Commissioners are closer to the people than the higher offices, and after the balloting for clerk was over many of the delegates and visitors left the hall, and, while it might have made no difference, the faot was that little attention was given to the latter offices.

Except for clerk, all the nominations were by acclamation. The nomination for clerk was taken up first, and Marion tp., presented the names of J. H. Perkins and Jesse Nichols, and Union that of Harvey J. Dexter. Ten ballots were necessary to decide who was who, and below we give the vote by ballot: Perkins—--58 62 62 63 66 63 72 76 95 105 Dexter—--59 67 66 77 78 84 82 79 71 62 Nichols—--80 67 65 54 48 45 38 37 28 27 F. E. Lewis—--23 3 2 Marion township—or Rensselaer, rather, as they all live here—has six places on the ticket nominated, that of clerk, auditor, surveyor, coroner, one county councilman and one county councilman-at-large. A. A. Fell for treasurer comes from Carpenter, L. P. Shirer and J. Q. Lewis from Barkley, J. F. Pettet from Walker and R. S Drake from Hanging Grove.

PROHIS. WILL NOMINATE FRIDAY.

< The Prohibitionists will hold their county convention here next Friday. Prof. Lough,

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their state chairman, will be here and a troupe of male singers called “1 he Clarions” will accompany him and enliven the meeting with Prohibition songs. There will be speaking both afternoon and evening.

FORMER RESIDENT DEAD.

Frederick Rishling Dies ,At Springfield, Nebraska. From the Springfield, Neb., Monitor of February 24, we clip the following mention of the death of Frederick Rishling, a former resident of near Rensselaer and who still has relatives residing ,in this county : The dread messenger has again visited our community. This time his summons was for our townsman, Frederick Rishling. Mr. Rishling had been in poor health fop a year or more and suffered a severe seige of sickness last spring, but his last illness was of just a week’s duration. The subject of this obituary was born in Indiana, December 11, 1841, and died at his home in Springfield February 19, 1910. He was a member of the Christian church since eighteen years of age. Mr. Rishling came to Nebraska in the early sixties, but soon returned to Indiana, where he was married June 17, 1869, to Sarah A. Crockett, who with eight of the nine children still live to mourn their loss. One son, George, died in 1903. Chester is a policeman in Omaha, Oliver lives in Antelope county, where he is an extensive farmer. The six daughters are Mrs. James H. White, Mrs. Lester Anson and Mrs. George White of Sprinfield; Mrs. L. C. Kimball, LaPlatte; Mrs. Ida Nutt, Gretna; and Mrs. Anton Ekberg, Watertown, S. D. He is also survived by a brother and three sisters, Charles Rishling, of Kempton, N. D., Mrs. Joe Gamble of Carpentersville, Hi., and Mrs. Sarah Sage and Miss Barbara Rishling of Springfield. Mr, Rishling located in this vicinity in 1880, and has lived here ever since. In the thirty years of his residence among us he made many warm friends as was evidenced by the large number of neighbors from far and near who filled the church to its capacity to hear the funeral sermon and pay their last respects to the departed. The funeral was held from the Springfield Methodist Episcopal church Monday at 2 p. m., Rev. Connelley conducting the services, and interment was in the Springfield cemetery.

Methodist Brotherhood. The Methodist Brotherhood of Trinity M. E. Church meets at 7:30 Friday, March 11th. Sunday morning there will be baptism and reception of members. THE 99c RACKET STORE. \\ ill be open evenings after March 11, until 9 o’clock; Saturday evenings until 10 o’clock— E. V, Ransford, Prop, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. March /, to Mr. and Mrs. George Martin, of southeast of town, a daughter. Easter suits and top coats in pure wool worsteds, cassimeres and serge for sl2 and sls. —C. Earl Duvall. Many $3.50 Women’s shoes at $2.50.. .Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. See the Easter serge suits in pure wools for sl2 and sls. —C. Earl Duvall. A full and nobby line of Easter shirts in all grades and styles. —C. Earl Duvall. When looking for shoe bargains, don’t forget the shoe department at the Home Grocery. If you are thinking of a nobby top coat, be sure and see my line from $lO to $16.50.—C. Earl Duvall. „ • Hiaranteed Rubber Footwear, all pew goods, at The G. E. Murray Co. We have sold over 100 barrels of flour in the last ten days, and we do not give our salemanship the credit for it. But we give all the credit to the high quality aud price of the flour—Aristes, Gem of the Valley, and. Lord’s Best—every sack guaranteed. $1.50 a sack, at JOHN EGER’S.