Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — Page 4

m im wn om. f. f BIBCOCK. EDITOR AID (WISHER. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1910.

TARIFF POLL FOR HOOSIERS

Indorsement of Law to Be Proposed at Conference of Republican*. Indianapolis, April 1. —At a conference of candidates for nomination to state offices by the Indiana Republican convention, it was announced, a resolution will be framed indorsing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, despite the fact that United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge voted against the bill. The resolution will be offered as a plank in the convention’s platform. The conference is scheduled to take place in this city today. Senator Beveridge arrived here from Washington and called on former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks. It was maintained that there was no political significance In their meeting.

OPPOSED TO BRIDGE SUBSIDY

Evanvsille Judge Find* No Law Authorizing Special Election.

Evansville, Ind., April I.—ln the Vanderburg circuit court Judge Debruler ruled against the appeal of the Evansville Bridge company for an order directing the county commissioners to hold a public election in the county on the question of $436,000 subsidy for a Bridge across the Ohio. lie finds that there Is no law expressly authorizing an election to vote a subsidy for a bridge across an Interstate stream. The bridge company will appeal the case to the supreme court.

ACTED AS GOOD SAMARITANS

Farmers Plow Ground for Neighbor Who Loses By Fire.

Franklin, Ind., April 1. —Thirty-one farmers in the Hopewell neighborhood went to the home of D. L. Anaerson and plowed fifty acres of corn ground. A few days ago Mr. Anderson lost all of his farm implements, together with his horses, by fire, and his neighbors were thoughtful enough to help him out with his spring plowing. Each farmer brought with him two bushels of corn for Mr. Anderson. One hundred dollars was given him by his kind friends.

BARS WIDOW FROM PENSION

Record Shows Nothing to Prove That Woman Married Veteran. Anderson, Ind., April I.—Mrs. John Griggsby was sadly disappointed when she had failed to discover in the county clerk’s oillce any record of her marriage to John Griggsby, an old soldier who died in February at the Marion Soldiers’ Home. She asserts that they were married in this county, but without a marriage license. She will be unable to obtain a widow’s pension.

STRIKE FOLLOWS INCREASE

Freight Handlers Walk Out, Although Granted 6 Per Cent Raise.

Columbus. Ind., April 1. —Almost simultaneously with the announcement that they were to receive a 6 per cent Increase in their wages all of the truckers at the Pennsylvania freight depot here walked out. and refused to return to work. Their grievances are that they were being worked long hours and short handed. The strikers’ places were filled shortly after the walkout.

MOORMAN GETS NOMINATION

Payne-Aldrich Tariff Law Was Not Endorsed By Delegates. South Bend, Ind., April 1. —Joiin L. Moorman of Knox was nominated for congress by the Republicans of the thirteenth district in convention in the auditorium of the Elks ciub Thursday afternoon. Sentiment for tariff revision is so strong in this district that endorsement of the Payne-Aldrich tariff was out of the question.

NAVY LURES BOY TO DEATH

Train Crushes Lad on Way to Enlist In Naval Service. Evansville, Ind., aprll I.—With no money to make the trip, but determined to come to Evansville and apply at the naval recruiting station for enlistment, Arthur Smith of near Henderson, Ky„ tried to board a fast freight train at that city and was killed. > He is survived by a widowed mother.

' FINDS PEARL WORTH S4OO Vincennes Man Bells Perfect Specimen Weighing Twenty-one Graine. Vincennes, Ind., April Goodwin, pearl fisher, today made the first large find of the season in Vincennes mussel camps. His pearl is a perfect sky-blue ball, weighing twenty-one grains, which ho sold to John Figg, a buyer of Muscatine, la., for 1400. You can get Endgate Seeders at Maines Hamilton’s.

COALMIN SCLOSE IN MANY STATES

Chicago Facing Fuel Shortage*75,000 Miners Idle. 900 ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN New* of Situation at Widely Separated Points In General Closing Down Movement Pending Signing of New Scales.

Chicago, April 1. Unprepared for the stride of 75,000 Illinois miners, Chicago is facing a soft coal famine which, if it continues for any length of time, will cost the city millions of dollars. Simultaneously with preparations for the big industrial war moves for peace are being made and Chicago will be the scene of the early negotiations. President A. J. Moorshead of the Illinois Operators’ «association has called a meeting of the joint scale committee of the Illinois operators and miners at Chicago Monday. The operators will' confer with the representatives of the miners’ union, but tney do not expect to reach an Immediate agreement.

“There is no possible way that I can see to avert a strike of at least thirty or sixty days,’’ said President Moorshead. “We have had’a .nine days’ conference with the miners and disagreed on thirteen of the thirty-four demands they made. I do not anticipate an early settlement “There are 900 mines in Illinois that will be shut down by the strike. About 325 operating companies will be affected. There will be 400 delegates at the meeting of the joint scale committee in Chicago on Monday." President Thomas L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, hopeful of peace soon, left Indianapolis last night for the Illinois district. Manufacturers and other users of bituminous coal outside of the railroads may find it difficult to secure a supply if the strike lasts many days.

CHICAGO MILLS MAY CLOSE

Bunsen Coal Co. Seek to Keep Miners Busy In Danville District.

Danville, 111., April 1. —The Bunsen Coal company, which is controlled by the Illinois Steel company, is trying to arrange with the miners' union tocontinue operations pending the signing of a new wage contract. The company employs 1,500 miners. It has not a pound of coal in reserve, and one of the officers said that unless they secured permission to continue mining the big steel mills at South Chicago would be compelled to shut down. The company promises to pay the new wage scale from today. Many of the miners favor continuing work.

INDIANA MINERS SUSPENDED

Working Clothes and Tools Are Removed by the Workers.

Indianapolis, April I.—With the blowing of the whistles at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the coal mines, all the miners quit work and announced to the mine bosses that they would not return today. Many of them removed their tools from the mines and all of them, carried away their working clothes, which they usually leave over night. Pump men, stable boys and a few men who have charge of the mine property but are members of the union •will be permitted to remain at work temporarily at least. There was no disorder at any of the mines. The Indiana miners and® operators--will hold a conference at Terre Haute next week and a settlement may be reached.

45,000 MINERS QUIT ON OHIO

Next Move, President Green Says, Is to Sign Up New Scale. Toledo, 0., April I.—According to President William Green of the Ohio miners 45,000 miners in subdistricts in Ohio laid down their picks and quit work at midnight last night, as the present wage agreement expired at that time. The next move, Mr. Green saya, will be to invite the various associations of operators in Ohio to meet with representatives of the state organizations of miners to sign the 5.55 per cent increase in wages.

PITTSBURG MINES SHUT DOWN

Operators State, It Is Alleged, They Will Not Hurry to Reopen Them.

Pittsburg, April I.—As 6 o’clock last night, practically every miner of the 46,000 in the Pittsburg district walked out of the mines and at midnight not a wheel was turning. The scale expired at midnight and owing to its not being renewed, the strike is on. Now that the mines have been closed, operators say they will not to in a hurry to reopen them. Nine big operators of the Pittsburg district have signified their willingnets t<- grant the raise asked by the miners, but they have also decided not to put the advance into effect until al! other operators agree with them

DAVID J. BREWER.

Justice of United State* Supreme Court, Who Died in Washington.

COPYRIGNT BY CLINEDINST WASKAS

CHICAGO MURDER MYSTERY

A. J. Moody, Who Died Feb. 20, Believed Victim- of Foul Play. Alexander J. Moody, of Chicago, secretary of the Moody & Waters company, who died Feb. 20, is believed to have been murdered. Coroner Hoffman, who has been investigating the death, declared that sufficient arsenic to cause death had been found in the stomach of the dead man. The dead man carried a life insurance policy for $15,000, which was made out, It is understood, to his wife as beneficiary. 'He has a daughter who also will share in his estate.

WICKERSHAM ACCUSED

Democrats Demand Inquiry Into Alleged Scandal.

An alleged public land scandal, rivaling that of the Alaska coal inquiry, may be the outcome of charges made in the bouse at Washington that Attorney General Wickersham is responsible for handing over to the sugar trust a large tract of land in the Philippines. An investigation has been demanded by the Democrats and a resolution is pending in the committee on rules. The Philippine government sold to representatives of the sugar trust 55,000 of the 400,000 acres of land taken from the friars. Attorney General Wickersham approved the sale, holding limitation to 2,500 acres on sales of public lands does not apply to the friar lands.

12 PERISH IN CHICAGO FIRE

Explosion Starts Flames in a Big Furniture Store. The Ilves of twelve men and women were lost in a fire in the L. Fish & Co. furniture store, Nineteenth street and Wabash avenue, Chicago. One of the victims, a girl nineteen years of Age, jumped to escape the flames, but was sc badly Injured when she struck a glass awning on the Wabash avenue side of the building that she died soon after being taken to St. Luke’s hospital. Miner W. Bell, one of the department managers of the company, and H. M. Mitchell, auditor of the firm, and a brother-in-law of Isaac Fish, were burned to death. They gave their lives in efforts to save the girls who were trapped by the flames.

The fire started from an explosion. It burned for three hours, threatening to sprpad to other buildings adjoining, but was extinguished. Following is the list of the dead: Ethel Lichtenstein, twenty years old; Mrs. Hannah Burden, thirty; Ethel Anderson, eighteen; Rose Brunske, seventeen; Henry M. .Mitchell, forty; Miner W. Bell, thirty-eight; Bert St Clair, twenty-eight; William Green, twenty-four; Veronica McGrath, seventeen; Mary Wargo, twenty; Gertrude Quinn, twenty Lily Sullivan, sixteen.

CHERRY WIDOWS WIN SUITS

Blx Awarded Judgments Against Bt. Paul Coal Company.

Six widows of miners killed in the Cherry mine disaster were awerded 11,620 each by Judge Gibbons in the circuit court at Chicago. Judgments were entered against the BL Paul Coal company for these amounts, following a settlement between the company and the complainants, who had brought suit for |5,000 each. *

NEW BISHOP OF LOUISVILLE

Right Rev, Denis O'Donaghue Is Formally Installed. Right Rev. Denis O’Donaghue was Installed as bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Louisville. The ceremony at the cathedral was elaborate, with its main feature the celebration of pontifical high mass.

Ito’s Slayer Pays Penalty.

Inchan Angan, the KBean who assassinated Price Ito, -fortrer Japanese resident general of Korea, on Oct 26 last, was executed atJPort Arthur.

JUSTICE BREWER IS DEAD IN WASHINGTON

Falls In Bathroom and Dies In a Few Minutes.

Justice D. J. Brewer of the United States supreme court died at bls residence, 1923 Sixteen street, Washington. Justice Brewer had not been feeling well for more than a week, but he had not been obliged to take to his bed. He had enjoyed Easter with members of his family. He complalhed Monday at, the dinner table of feeling slightly, weak, but viis condition was not considered serious.

At a little after 10 o’clock at night he told Mrs. Brewer that he was going to retire and entered the bathroom. A little later Mrs. Brewer heard a noise as If something had fallen in the bath room, but she took no notice of it until her attention was attracted a few minutes later by sounds of heavy breathing. Rushing to the bath room, she found her husband lying on the floor unconscious. Mrs. Brewer dispatched one of the servants to the home of Judge Ashley Gould of the District of Columbia supreme court, who lives next door to the Brewers.

When Judge Gould arrived, physicians living in the neighborhood had been summoned. Justice Brewer was carried from the bath room and laid on a bed, but when the doctors arrived a few minutes later, he was dead. Apoplexy was the cause of death. Justice Brewer was the third oldest justice on the bench, Justice Harlan and Chief Justice Fuller each being 77 years old. Justice Brewer was four years their junior. In regard to length of service on the bench, he also stood third, having served for almost twen-ty-one years. This is the second death on the supreme bench In the present term. Justice Peckham died early in the term and was succeeded by Justice Lurton. Justice Moody has been 111 for several months and probably will not be back on the bench this term.

GUN EXPLODES ON CRUISER

Eight Men Killed on the Charleston While at Practice.

The report that a fatal accident had occurred on the United States cruiser Charleston on duty in the Philippines was confirmed. Eight men were killed and several slightly injured.

During practice at sea off Olongapo the breechlock of a three-inch gun was blown off. In its flight across the deck it cut through a steel stanchion and mowed down the men In its path. The dead are: Philip McKee, master at arms; Walter Anstedet, seaman; Harry theater, seaman! Leo Reihmelle, seaman; Harry Graden, seaman; Ralph Barkman, seaman; Maxie Barnerd, seaman; Edward Molin, private marine.

Anstedt, Barnard and Molln are from Illinois. Barkman was an Indiana man.

250 PERISH AT DANCE

Terrible Disaster Occurs in a Town in Hungary. Two hundred and fifty persons were killed and many others injured in the village of Oekoerite, in Hungary, when fire broke out in a hotel where a ball was being held. A coach house connecteu with the hotel had been fitted up as a ballroom, and was crowded with several hundred guests when the fire started. It was first noticed when a woman’s dress was seen to be ablaze, and a moment later the gowns of several other women were In flames. A panic followed, and tn a mad rush to the exits many persons fell and were trodden to death by others. To add to the horror, the roof fell in before the hall could be cleared, and many injured ones and those who, because of the crush at the doors, had been prevented from escaping, were buried with the dead in the ruins.

COURT UPHOLDS A ORY LAW

That Barring Saloons Within Certain Distance of University Valid.

President David Starr Jordan of Stanford university in California, achieved success, after years of struggle to have Mento Park declared a dry town. Superior Judge Sturtevant handed down a decision that the iaw, championed by President Jordan and passed by the last legislature, to close all saloons within a radius of a mile and a half of the college campus is valid.

Rock Island Wreck Probe.

Official inquiry into last week’s wreck of the Rock Island Twin City Express near Green Mountain, in which fifty lives were lost, was begun by tbs lowa railroad commission at Marshalltown.

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ROBERT E. LEE STATUE

Will Be Placed in Statuary Hall at the National Capital,

You can buy your new spring merchandise at cost and pay with eggs at the highest price. The closing out of the Chicago Bargain Store.

SOUVENIR ENVELOPES.

Boom Rensselaer By Using the Handsome Envelopes For Sale By The Democrat. The Democrat has just got in a case of 40.000 souvenir envelopes of Rensselaer. The front contains a group half-tone of St. Joseph’s College, the court house, school buildings, and library, while the back contains a write-up of the business and social advantages of Rensselaer, and a view of Washington street from the west side of the river bridge, and also a view looking southeast from the court house.

These envelopes are endorsed by the Commercial Club, and should be used by every business firm and individual in the city. They will be sold in lots of ten or more without printed card in corner or in lots of 250 or more with printed card, as desired. They come but a tnlle higher in price than the ordinary blank envelopes, and after seeing them you will want some. Their use will greatly advertise your home city, and if you are patriotic you will want to use them anyway.

THE NATIONAL MONTHLY

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Farm Loans— Money to loan ok arm property in any sums up to 10,000. E. P. HONAN.

Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no commlssioli but ofllce charges. Write him. ts

For Rent—Six room cottage, city water -in house, electric lights. First house east of Christian church. —J. C. PORTER.

To Rent—About two acres of rich ground in Rensselaer, suitable for onions, potatoes, etc. Want to rent it on shares-:—Enquire at Democrat office.

* For Rent— B room house, electric lights, well, cistern and nice shade. Also 4 room cottage 3 blocks from school house, good well and garden. Inquire of J. W. STOCKTON, or Phone 188. »

For Rent—Good 8 (room house, 3 blocks from court house, electric lights, good well and cistern. Phone 130.—C. H. PORTER.

Lawn Mowers sharpened and gasoline stoves cleaned—J. W. BROWN.

Milk Customers Wanted—At 6c a quart, deliveries made every morning at present; later twice a day.—ALBERT DUGGINS, Phone 514-E.

For Sale—Some wild hay east of town and some tame hay on Jordan tp. farm.—WM. WASHBURN. Rensselaer, Ind.

Gasoline Range—ls you want a good 4-burner gasoline Range cheap, see me.—J. W. BROWN.

Seed Potatoes—The genuine Bugless seed potatoes for sale at my residence in Rensselaer.—GEO. O. PUMPHREY.

For Salo - 8 or 10 bushels good home-grown clover seed.—W. E. MOORE, Phone 246, Rensselaer.

For Sale—A good team mares, wt. about 1520 each. —JOSEPH ADAMS, Rensselaer, Ind., * Phone 529-C.

For Sale—23 bushels of good clover seed, |9 per bushel, and 100 bushels of best early variety seed corn.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oak®, Ind., R-l, phone 8-K, Mt. Ayr, exchange.

For Sale—An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a abort time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office.

For Sale or Trade—Two lota in desirable vocation in Rensselaer, each 67x150, shade and fruit trees. Will sell for part cash or trade for cheat rental property in city. Enquire at Democrat office.

For Sale—Large eight room house, large barn, lots of fruit, well, cistern, allin fine condition, on four large lots, convenient to school and churches. Gan sell at a bargain on favorable terms. Also several smaller properties at a -bargain.—G. F. MEYERS.

Wanted—A person with some money to join In an extremely profitable business, in which large profits can be made without risk. Reference given. Investigate.—Address Box 72 Parr, Ind., or this paper.

Eggs for Setting—From Standard Bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, four fine yards mated for this season. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. 29 years a reliable breeder. ‘ —D. A. Bickel, Remington, Ind.-

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds— The great demand for this breed proves they are the best general purpose fowl and the queen of winter layers. Eggs from my fine laying strain |1 per Is. Phone No. 232 and have the number of settings booked "wanted.”—A. G. CATT.

Eggs for setting from S. C. Buff Oprtngtons, the largest <rtean legged chicken in existence and recognized as the heaviest winter layers. Eggs from prize winners at $3 per 15. Utility stock, |1.50 per 1-5. G. B. PORTER, Rensselaer, Ind.

Eggs For Setting—Pure bred Single Comb White Leghorn eggs for sale at the small price of 75 cents a setting of 15 eggs, there were over 18,000 eggs on this farm last year. Phone No. 502-D.—Mrs. Edward 'Herath, Rensselaer, Ind., R-l. Threshing Outfit—l 6 horse power Russell engine and separator In good running order, new belts last year; galvanised water tank and pump, running gears of wagon almost good as new, |525 takes outfit if sold before May 1; |3OO cash, bankable note for balance. Wagon may be seen at Charley Rowan's at Parr, engine at old home place 1 mile west, % south of Surrey.— JACOB JUNGLAS, Coldwater, Ohio. Read The Democrat fol- news.