Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — Page 1

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DAUGHTER DECIDED PETERSON

To Accept Democratic Nomination for Congress. WOULDN’T BE A “QUITTER.” Himself and Wife Were .“Ferninst” the Proposition, But Daughter’s Will Prevailed— Says He Never Has Received a Retainer From the Steel Corporation.

John B. Peterson. Of Crown Point, democratic nominee for Congress from the Tenth district, was a Chesterton visitor Friday says the Qhtesterton Tribune. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. They came to attend the picnic given at the Knotts farm for the Lake County Bar association, and improved the opportunity by calling on old Chesterton friends. It may not be generally known, but it was Miss Peterson who decided the question of Mr. Peterson going into politics. Both he and Mrs. Peterson were decidedly averse to. his making the race, and both had decided that he should not consent to run. It was then Miss Peterson took a hand. “Why, father, you are not a quitter, are you? It is now or never with you. Tlhe signs of the times are favorable and you’ve a fighting chance, at least. You take that nomination, and get busy. I just know, you will be elected.” That settled it with John B. He couldn’t bear to be called a “quitter” by his own daughter, and (he felt that a woman’s intuition had a man’s judgment beat any day, so he said he would do his best, and the word was soon out that Peterson would run. While (here Mr. Peterson was asked if it was true that he -was in the employ of the United States Steel Corporation on the legal tariff. His reply was: “I am not and I never was. I have tried cases for the steel corporation, and received a fee for my services, but I am not a paid retainer nor never have been, Dy tfliat corporation, I take their work on the same basis that I do any of my clients. I have no connection with the steel corporation in any way.” Mr. Peterson -expects to put up a clean dignified campaign, and if. elected, says that he will endeavor to work for the best interests of his district while in congress, and treat all alike. Should he win in this overwhelmingly Republican district, nothing but death could prevent him from being the Democratic nominee for Governor to succeed Tom Marshall. The two men are warm friends and are very much alike. Lake county will be "the great battle ground and' as goes Lake county, so goes the battle.

STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS.

Mrs. Frank Foltz Victim of Severe Stroke Saturday MomV - ing ‘ f\Mrs. Foltz, wife of Frank Foltz, the. well known Rensselaer attorney, was stricken with paralysis while at the breakfast table Saturday morning and has since lain in an unconscious condition. She liad been complaining for several days of trouble with her heart, but had been about the house doing her work as got breakfast Saturday and had practically completed eating a hearty meal herself. She was lifting a cup of coffee to her lips when the stroke came, and the cup fell from her hand and the arm huhg limp at her side. Mr. Foltz assisted her to a couch and a physician was hurriedly summoned. Her entire right side is affected and she has lain unconscious since. Her respiration was somewhat better Monday, and it was thought her condition was slightly improved, but she was still unconscious yesterday. Lt is not unusual, it is said, for one to remain unconscious for several days and then

recover from, the stroke, and the many friends of the stricken lady hope with the husband for the best. .■ * Mrs. Foltz is but 50 years of age. one year younger than her husband, and it is not often that people of that age are victims of paralysis.

A LITTLE RAIN IN BARKLEY TP.

A narrow strip of country in Barkley tp., perhaps a mile wide, was visited by quite a nice little rain about 5:30 o’clock Saturday evening, in the neighborhood of. S. H. Hopkins’ farm. The rain came up from the southwest and extended in a northeasterly direction. It only lasted, we are told, about ten minutes, but came down pretty lively for that time.

MORE OILED STREETS.

A few residents on Front street are preparing to oil street in front of their property and now have the oil on the ground ready for use. They are C. W. and E.. D. Rhoades and Grant W arner. W here this experiment has been .tried here, on South Cullen and South River streets, the people are much pleased with results, and it is likely that the movement will spread until next year all our principal streets will be given an application of modern dust-layer.

CROPS ARE GOOD

At Hamilton, N. Dak., Writes Harvey Davisson In Letter To The Democrat. Under date of July 7, Harvey Davisson, former trustee of Union tp., who moved to Hamilton, No. Dak., last spring, says: “Crops here are looking good, wheat is over two feet high and hleading out; lots of com here waist high and growing rapidly, clover crop is extra good. We just finished our clover haying and will commence to-day in a 200 acre timothy meadow the finest you ever saw. Farmers that have farmed in this county for over 30 years tell me fihat they have never met with a single failure in this county, which cannot be said of the western counties of this state. It’s new to me to see so much wheat growing. It looks like the market would be over-stocked.”

THE DROUTH BROKEN.

A Big General Rain Came Monday Night. The long drouth ‘that was at last beginning to cause the corn to curl badly and has greatly affected oats and grass, drying up pastures and searing the lawns in town, was broken Monday night by a good steady rain that fell most of the night and seems to have been general in this section of the country. There was no lightning, but some wiild at the beginning of the rain, -which started about seven p.* m„ and finally developed into a steady drizzle that kept up most of the night and was absorbed by the parched ground, times the rain pattered down pretty lively, and the total precipitation was perhaps a little better than one inch. This rain was worth thousands of dollars to the farmers, and while most too late to help out the oats crop, it was a great benefit to corn and pastures.

EXCURSION TO CHICAGO

Next Sunday Over, the Louisville Division of the Monon. The Monon's excursion to Chicago Sunday will not stop at other stations on this division except Rensselaer. This excursion is run over the Louisville division, and it is unusual for those excursions to stop at any station ijorth of Monon. The excursion run over the same division a few weeks ago, it will be remembered, was to have stopped here, 'but a wreck at Shelby Sundav morning caused it to go around by the Michigan City branch to Wilder, causing disappointment to perhaps 150 people who had gathered at the station here to take the train, The time of the train here next Sunday is 9:15 a. m., and the round trip fare is-75 cents. Returning train leaves Chicago at 1130 p. m. The train will stop at Cedar Lake in both directions.

THE TWIGE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13. IUIO-

THE COURT HOUSE

~”"~W "" ; » Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Only two marriage licenses have been issued so far ‘his month. - New suits filed: No. 7260. W. H. Martin vs. Mary Joerg, et al; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $2,000. Marriage licenses issued: July 9, Cloyd C. Cliffton of Fair Oaks’, aged 23, occupation farming, to Cordelia M. Umphrees, also of Fair Oaks, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for male, first wife having died in January, 1906; first marriage for female. ■ Cass county seems to be entitled to the bun on having had the crookedest set of township trustees in Indiana. As a result of the examination made there by the field examiners under the new accounting law, nine trustees are accused of ~, shortages aggregating $14,539. The examiners file with their port to the state accounting board letters from business firms denying that they ever sold the trustees the goods alleged to have been purchased or signed the vouchers for the money the trustees allege to have paid for the goods. One trustee paid out large sums for maps and charts, but they are not in evidence. Another paid several hundred dollars for tile for “road purposes,” but the tile were not used on the roads, it is alleged, and the road supervisors know nothing about "them. A farm owned by the trustee, however, has been pretty thoroughly tiled, ■it is alleged. The examiners seem to have uncovered the rottenest sort of conditions there, and it is quite likely someone will go to the penitentiary as a result.

BUT WHO IS HE?

Peculiar Crazy Man Brought Here From Newton County —Refuses to Eat Anything. Sheriff S'hirer has a crazy man in charge from Newton county who was brought over by the sheriff of that county Saturday who is proving thus far a cheap boardef. The man was taken in charge at Rufus Jay’s southeast of Goodland, a week ago yesterday, and up to date has not eaten a morsel of food nor talked to any extent. He is supposed to help himself to a drink of water occasionally in the jail, but : he will not touch any food at all. He lays on the cot in his cell most of the time and says not a word.

Sunday he talked to the sheriff a little but nothing was learned as to his identity. He told the sheriff that he had been a bad man but was naw a good man, and he seems to be wrought up over religion. He said that he had worked Tor a farmer near Goodland a few days and on the 4th started with him to Kankakee in a buggy; that he asked the farmer if he had anything coming to him more than the board he had received, and the latter gave him 50 cents, and he got out of the buggy and left him. Owing to the crowded Condi tion of the Longcliff asylum his admission thereto is being held up. Just hc-w long the man can live without nourishment is a question/

Regarding the man’s actions and apprehension by the officers the Goodland Herald says: Tuesday afternoon quite a good deal of excitement was caused when the word was phoned in from Rufus Jay’s home southeast of town that a crazy man had put in his appearance and for the marshal to come out after him. The marshal sectored the services of Dr. B. W. Pratt’s auto and with several ,good deputies started out for the'man. They ram; up to him just north of C. M. Peckham’s 1 '- farm, walking north. They stopped the machine about fifty feet in front of him and Mr. Morin walked up to him taking hold of hi® two arms and asked him where he was going and received no reply, he then asked him if no wanted to take a ride and again received no reply, the marshal believing that silence gave consent, put

him in the auto and brought him to town and placed him in the lockup. A physician was summoned who examined him. He hid a bad scar over his right eye. the nose is stink in the middle and under his left jaw there was another scar, this one seemed to be giving him much path, but were all old scars. Efforts to get him to speak were in vain, a question as to his nationality was disbused, several languages were spoken to him without avail, all he would do was to make signs, he would point to the scar over his right eye. then to his right ear, rub his hand over the back ot his head, point to his left jaw, then to his heart and then at his feet. Then he would place his hands together bringing the tips of his fingers to his lips, then bend his head down low and hold out his hanfl pleading for something. This he kept up continually and could not be understood at all.

After supper another attempt was made to get him to talk, in tue meantime a striking resemblance between him and a picture sent up from Decatur, Adams county, offering a reward of $25 for an escaped convict by the name of Gray, who had been sent Up from Muncie for grand larceny ten years ago, an? who, while on parole stole a team of horses and was serving sentence in the Adams county jail, but escaped a few weeks ago. This pic lure was brought back to the cell and die broke down and began to cry, shortly afterwards he made a sign for writing material, he was handed a pencil and paper and he wrote “That was my picture,” more attempts to get him to write were made but there was nothing doing. The f act that he could write English was proof that he could speak it, but did not wish to do so. Out at Jays he asked the lady of the house for a drink and told Mr., Jay that he was from Chicago going east to pray, and when Dr. Bassett removed his shoes to see why he pointed at his feet he was understood to say “Don’t hurt me” but other efforts to get him to speak were useless. The writer has seen crazy people and he showed every evidence of the fact that he is off mentally, or he is doing a good job putting it on. Hhte perfect otherwise, seems-to be about 35 years old, height 5% feet and weighs about 160, dark hair and mustache. The only time he showed violence was when the doctor handed him a glass half filled with water, he took the glass and looked at the contents and dashed the glass to the cell floor and raised as if to strike the doctor, who hustled out and closed the door, and ordered him to lie down, the fellow caught the top of the cell, pulled himself up and let out one or two angry snorts and strick him hands together and picked up a pail of water beside him and made as though he was going to drow the contents on the doctor just outside the cell. After a few more attempts were made about 8 o’clock to get him to talk .but resulted the same as the others, he was let alone for the night.

However,- Wednesday morning while Marshall Morin was sprinkling the floor of the city hall next to the cells he was surprised to hear the fellow say “You are using a good deal of water,” but that ended the conversation, the fellow had had his say and was satisfied. Shortly after the noon . hour Tuesday he was seen by John Cochrane, Jr., walking north carrying a coat. As there was nothing on his clothes to identify him Wednesday morning a search was made for his coat with the expectation of getting something from it that would lead to his identification. He spent a good njght in his cell and slept most of Wednesday morning. It is the general opinion that he has gone batty over some religion as he is continually going through some religious signs and repeats identically the same one each time.

His worldy possessions amounted to the clothes he had on tits back and 27c, he had been recently shaved, but his shoes were bad. one probably because of a very sore foot. The poor fellow in his condition is to be pitied. Everything possible has been done to help him but. without avail. ■ ,- * Three doctors who examined him pronounced it a very remarkable case, they pronounced him to have good health and alright with the exception of his marked signs of insanity. Tatooed on his arm are the initials “W. H. K.” and Wednesday afternoon while the doctors were examining him on his shirt was found" the name “Kirkhow” Which corresponds with the last initial on his arm. His <hat has the marks which represent a dealer in Ft. Wayne, Ind., and his clothes were of good material. 1 . After proper papers were filled put by Judge J. W. Baer, he was taken to Kentland by Sheriff Moses Sawyer, who came over in; an automobile. ’

STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

THE WAY THEY DO IN STARKE. Starke County Democrat: The commissioners personally inspected the two new bridges built by the Winamac Bridge company on the Moorman road and while they believed them to meet the requirments in every respect, they decided to withhold payment for the same until the strength of the bridges could be properly tested. .

PRES. JORDAN DENOUNCES FOOTBALL.

President Jordan of Leland Stanford University, says of football: “Some day the college presidents and school heads Of this country will perhans be called cowardly and brutal because they did not put a stop to the dangers of football, a sport that destroys the best there is in American youth. ' “No intelligence is required in the game of football. Blacksmiths and boilermakers can play the game as well as men of the finer intellects; in fact, they are considered the best raw material for the game.”

SOMEWHAT SARKASTICAL

It is announced that the convention speech of Senator Beveridge is to be circulated broadcast over Indiana. Of course, the ringing indignation of his “I would not stand for it then and I won’t stand for it now” denunciation of the accumulated inquiries of the Aldrich tariff squeeze will be played up in large black type for the delectation of that eminent progressive, the Hon. Edgar Dean Crumpacker, whose tariff jeforip sentiment is conspicuously represented by the Tenth Indiana district; for the delight of the Hon. James Eli Watson, the original daddy of insurgency in Indiana; for the edification of the Hon. Joseph Gurney Cannon, who was born to despise standpatters, and one William Howard Taft, wlfo has furnished several different patterns for saying the tariff act is the very best revenue measure the country has ever had.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel.

CARROLL-WHITE REUNION

Meeting in Brookside Park Saturday—Putnam Next Week. The former residents of White county now living in Indianapolis will hold their first reunion and t>icnic at Brookside park next Saturday afternoon and evening. All White county folks arc expected to be present with full baskets for the evening picnic lunch. The annual reunion of the Carroll county folk will be held at the same time and place and a season of right neighborly enjoyment is promised. Carroll county people now living in Indianapolis have been holding these annual reunions at Brookside for years, but next Saturday will be the first for the White county people, of whom there are a hundred or more in the city. It is the desire of the committee that everyone in the city owing past allegiance to White county shall be present, as it is desired to effect a perma nent organization with a view to holding reunions annually. The Putnam County Association will hold its annual picnic at Brookside park the afternoon of July 23. A large number from Greencastle and Putnam county are expected.—lndiana polls News. , ,

BUCKET SHOPS CUT OFF.

Move Affects Many Houses in New York and Pennsylvania. New York, July B.—The Western Union Telegraph Coinpany yesterday tjjtit off its service from a score of bucket shops in small cities upstate and in Pennsylvania., Dispatches from Auburn, Middletown, Rome, Watertown. and a half dozen other places were to tlHe effect that service to small brokerage houses, had beep suddenly interrupted without notice. Inquiry at the company’s offi-

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ces brought the response' that the shotting off of the service was in line with the present policy of the company. A well informed Wall street man. said: “This is the death of the bucket sl’ilops and the Western Union has at last been hammered into regard for the laws. It is evident that without the fast service from the Western Union no bucket shop can exist. Tine government’s indictment made- it patent that these places, were the result of the Western Union’s patronage. It accused the company of conspiracy with bucket shops to break the law. This indictment has* been a cudgel with which the government forced the company to observe the statute. You will see every bucket-shop go out of business.’’

HARD LINES IN NORTH DAKOTA.

Jasper County Emigrants Run Up Against a Dry Season. According to reports received from Jasper county people who moved to the vicinity of Larimore, No. Dak., last spring, the country thereabouts is worse hurt by the drouth than almost any other section of the state, and crops will be almost a total failure there this year. The Brook Reporter says of conditions there: comes that the section of country surrounding Larimore, N. D., where nearly all of our people that went west last spring are located, is burned up from heat and hot iwnds, and that not over a fourth of a crop will be raised. It seems that tihe country around Larimore has been the worst for heat and lack of moisture of any in the west. “In a letter to friends hefe, Mrs. Brooks Brodrick, now ot near Larimore, N. D., but formerly of this place, says that they are dried up in that section. Not a binder will be taken from the sheds this year, all that the stock will have to subsist on is some last year’s straw, for the ones that are fortunate enough to possess .it. Hay, wheat, flax and other crops are totally gone, not enough left for feed or seed. The hottest kind of weather for four weeks with no rain but a continued blowing of the hot winds. This is tfie same kind of a story heard from half a dozen of the former residents of this section.”

The Reporter also says that Charles Antcliff, who moved from that place to Larimore, last spring, has been meeting with bad luck since his advent into that state. Last week his barn with entire contents was destroyed by fire, including., his horses and farming implements. Together with an almost total loss of a crop through drouth this season, he is up against it good and hard.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.

The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending Juy 11, 1910. Jessie Schemles, Frank W. Haslam Paul Robinson, Mrs. Chas. Warner." These letters will be sent to the dead letter office July 25, if not delivered before that date. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of list. G. E. MURRAY, P. M.

Use the souvernir envelopes on sale at The Democrat office , when writing to your friends or business acquaintances. “Cameo Kirby,” The Democrat’s new serial story, watch for the opening chapters. Machine Extras—For McCormick machine extras, call on C. A. Roberts, “The Buggy Man.” “Cameo Kirby,” The Democrat’s new serial story, watch for the opening chapters. ’ What a mistake you make by not getting J. W. Ward, the old reliable well driller of Jasper county, to drill, your well. See him before contracting with any £ one else. , ts --