Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — Page 4
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MRS. HELEN KELLY GOULD
Ex-Wife of Frank Gould Who Has Married Ralph Hill Thomas.
FRANTIC WOMAN’S DEED
Chicago Wife Shoots Her Husband ano Little Daughter. At Chicago Mrs Emma Mulsaw shot her husband twice through the abdomen as be reached the door of his home, 1904 North Kedzie avenue, went to the bedroom where her three-year-old daughter Annabella had been asleep and shot her through the back. She then completed the triple tragedy by swallowing carbolic acid, which she bad prepared for the purpose, and died a short tinhe later The two victims of her bullets are in a dying condition at St Elizabeth’s hospital. The woman, armed with a revolver, had waited almost -all night to carry out her plan to exterminate the entire family. Mrs. Mulsaw was twenty-four years old. It is believed by the police that her mind became unbalanced by jealousy over the attentions other women paid her husband She left two notes, in one of which she requested to be buried in the same grave with her little daughter.
22 HORSES DIE IN FIRE
Big Plow Plant at South Bend, lnd M Suffers Severe Loss. At South Bend, Ind., the bams and lumber yard of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works were destroyed by fire and twenty-two horses were cremated. The loss is estimated at from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. Insurance of about $50,000 was carried. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been started by a tramp, who with a pipe in his mouth, was seen earlier in the night, to climb the high fence surrounding the yards He probably sought sleep in the barns, which stood in the center of the yards, and set the building on fire with a spark from his pipe. One man. Fred Wagner, was injured by a falling beam
78 JAPS FALL IN BATTLE
“Little War” with Formosa Is Disastrous to Mikado’s Troops. Heavy fighting has occurred in Formosa in connection with Japan s “little war" with Formosan natives near Guiran A number of native bands combined and surrounded the Japanese troops, who extricated themselves with a loss of sixty-two killed and wounded. Three battalipns of infantry and a battery of artillery were buried to the scene from Taipeh. and the natives were dispersed with much loss, the casualties on the Japanese side totaling seventy-eight killed and wounded.
PAY ILLINOIS CENTRAL CLAIM
Blue Island Rolling Mills and ‘ Car Company Settles With Road. The Blue Island Rolling Mills and Car company, one of the five corporations charged with defrauding the Illinois Central railroad cut of over $1,500,000 in connection with repairing freight cars, has settled out of court by the payment of a sum variously stated to be between $400,000 and $500,000. The total claim of the Illinois Central road against the car company was $600,000. The settlement was followed by dismissal of all court proceedings
JUDGE FULLER LAID TO REST
Last Rites at Chicago Over Remains of the Chief Justice. Seventeen minute guns, fired at Chicago by United States artillery, on orders of General Frederick Dent Grant, paid tribute to the late Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the United - States supreme court, when the funeral services began at St James Episcopal church. , Governor Hughes and other distinguished persons from the east werw ■ presenj -
Eight former presidents of the Illinois Bar association represented that organization. Former presidents, the present officers and many members of the Chicago Bar association attended the funeral. The services were very impressive. Interment was at Graceland. ' ■
Jay Gould to Wed Miss Godfrey.
Davenport, la,, July 15.—Beatrice Bruner Godfrey, “the golden haired girl of lowa,” is to become the bride of Jay-Gould, son oU George J. Gould, according to ah announcement made here by her mother, Mrs. A. Bruner. Jay Gould is one of the best known young men in America. He has been prominent for years as a tennis player and an aeronaut. He won the tennis championship in England.
STREET PAVING IS ASSURED
Rush County Commissioners Change Bonds and Work Will Start. Rushville, Ind.. July 15.—The Rush county commissioners have changed the bond issue to pay for the improvement of Main and Second streets under the three-mile graved road law from 4% to 5 per cent, the period to be from one to ten years. An Indianapolis firm has agreed to take the issue and the work will be started at once. The contract, amounting to about SIOO,OOO, has been let for two months, but the work has been held up because the bonds could not be sold.
MAIL MAN CHARGES ASSAULT
Alleged Assailant Declares Carrier Made Insulting Remarks. Ft. Wayne, Ind.. July 15. —Waiving a hearing before United States Commissioner T. J. Logan. W. E. Aller of this city was held under bond of SIOO to the federal grand jury on a charge of having assaulted William H. Gross, a city letter carrier, while the latter was in uniform and on duty. Aller charges that the mail man made insulting remarks about Mrs. Aller. Gross denies that he made any such remarks.
BOY OF 12 TRIES SUICIDE
Mother Threatens Reform School and Lad Seeks to End Life. Logansport, Ind.. July 15.—Because tils mother threatened to send him to the reform school. Verl Mooney 12 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mooney, swallowed the contents of a bottle of chloroform with suicidal intent and physicians saved his life with the greatest difficulty. After being reprimanded the boy went to the home of his aunt, where he secured the chloroform and swallowed it
CHARGES POSTAL VIOLATION
Deputy United States Marshal Arrests Woman Near Waterloo. Ft. Wayne, ItS-, July 15. —Mrs. Phila Wolf, wife of a’farmer near Waterloo. was arrested by Deputy United. States Marshal T. E. Martin of Indianapolis charged with violating the postal laws. It is alleged that Mrs. Wolf deposited in a rural rpail box certain unmailable post cards intended for Glennie Eaton. She dropped them in the box before the Eaton home, it is de dared.
FIRE SWEEPS MONROE CITY
Destroys Bank and Two Stores, Causing Total Loss of $30,000. Petersburg, Ind.. July 15.—Monroe City, a town in Knox county, twelve miles west of this place has been visited by its third disastrous fire within a year. The loss is $30,000, with partial insurance. The Monroe City State bank, Jenkins & Bland’s hardware store and Snyder Brothers’ grocery store were destroyed.
EXONERATES BANK OFFICERS
Spencer Grand Jury Reports That It Found Company Solvent. Spencer, Ind.. July 15.—The grand jury called, last week to investigate the affairs of the defunct Beem-Feden Banking company reported that it had found no evidence of fraud and that the bank was solvent when the doors were closed, the assets being in excess of liabilities.
MINER IS KILLED BY SLATE
Meets Death in Evansville Shaft When ;; Section of Roof Falls. Evanfcville, Ind.. July 15.—Rushing to escape danger when he saw a section of the roof of the mine about to fall, Fred Deigman. a loader in the Diamond Coal company's shaft, was pinioned and instantly killed by descending slate.
STRICKEN ON WEDDING TRIP
Martinsville Physician Falls Violently to Pavement at Warsaw. W T arsaw, Ind.. July 15, —While on his wedding trip and about to board a traction car in Warsaw, Dr. R. Urea of Martinsville, was stricken ill and fell volentlyto the pavement, bleeding profusely from the mouth. He will recover.
MRS. GOULD IS BRIDE OF RALPH H. THOMAS
Wedding Is Celebrated Quietly In Nev York City. Mrs Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas were married quietly in the apartments of Mrs. Gould at 540 Park avenue, in New York. Only intimate friends were present at the ceremony, which was performed by the Key, Dr. Webster of the Brick Presbyterian church The bride was given a vay by her mother, Mrs. Euer.e i7!’y and Joseph Thomas,. !>'Oof the bridegroom, acted as icr' 7 ’•'. 7 . ■' .- who have, been stay7 ■ place of their aunt, r. 1 .iJd. at Irvington-on- ■ the first of May, came < n 7. • resent at their mother’s ■ ; ■ : ,1 to say good-bye to her ft .■•■•riei on her honeymoon t;.p <ti.cn the children left the bouse they were :r charge of Albert Wisner and a governess Several of the detectives followed in a touring car. One of the detectives paper to the guardians of the little girls, and after a short conversation the latter were transferred to the touring car and taken to the Fifth avenue residence of Miss Helen Gould There they were met by a cousin of Miss Gould, who took them to Irvington. Frank Gould, who is now in Europe, arranged that his sister should take charge of his daughters when the time came for their visit to him. It Is probable that Miss Helen Gould Will formally adopt her little nieces, and that they will be heiresses to her estate as well as to that of their mother. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas left the apartment at Park avenue and drove rapidly away in Mr. Thomas' touring car. They hurried through the corridor and carefully avoided speaking to any of the persons who were waiting to interview them. They sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse this morning for a tour of the Continent. Mr. Thomas gave his bride five acres of land adjoining her Sands Point estate for a wedding present, and upon their return from Europe they will build a house not far from the site of the bungalow.
LYNCHING IN OHIO
Mob Wreaks Vengeance on Detective Who Killed Saloon Keeper. At Newark, Ohio, following the death of William Howard, a saloon
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keeper, by one of ten detectives in the employment of the Ohio Anti-Saloon league, during attacks on saloons by the detectives, a mob of 500 men attacked the Licking county jail, seized a white man named Etherington, and hanged him to a telegraph pole in the court house square. . Howard, it is charged, did not resist the detectives when they entered his place on the outskirts of Newark. He, it is said, put his arms about Etherington as if to hold him, whereupon the officer fired a bullet into Howard's head.
FEATHER [?] KILLS BABY
Sister Causes Death of Infant Which She Did Not See Sleeping. Frankfort, Ind., July 15. —Smothered under a feather bed which his sister had thrown upon the bed where he was sleeping without discovering his presence, Oscar Sheets, the 7-moriths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sheets, living seven miles west of here, was” found dead. Because of the intense heat the child had been placed in a room apart from the one in which he had been sleeping. During the night a rainstorm came up and Sarah Sheets, 16 years old. carried in a feather bed which had been placed on a clothesline and threw it on the bed, which she thought was not occupied.
DEPOSED OHIO MAYOR QUITS
Fifteen Arrests Have Been Made for Lynching of Detective. Newark. 0.. July 15. Broken hearted and with tears in his eyes Herbert Atherton, deposed mayor of Newark, tendered his resignation to Acting Mayor John Ankle. Thus he will escape trial before Gov. Harmon on charges of neglect of duty for permitting the lynching of Carl Etherington last Friday night. So far fifteen arrests have been made. Attorney General Denman is here and it is thought many more arrests will follow, and that some of the city’s best known people will be among the number.
MARY MANNERING TO MARRY
Report Has It She Is to Wed a Detroit Millionaire —Actress Denies IL New York. July 15. —Friends of Mary Mannering, wife of James K Hackett, are waiting for her to come east to congratulate her personally upon the news to the effect that the actress is to become the bride of Frederick ft Wadsworth, millionaire of Detroit Miss Mannering at the Garrick theater in Chicago denied there was any engagement between herself and Mr Wadsworth. She said that her friends were a little premature.
M n ii tie. ■/7’ -■ ' ' fUnder thia heed notices win be published for 1-cent-a-word for ths first insertion, *4-cent per word for eact additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Me natlcs accepted for less than 26 cents but short notices coming within the shave rate will be published two er more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage wm be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] Farm Loans— Money to lean 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 commission but office charges. Write him. ts Lost— A ladies’ handbag, between Rensselaer and J. M. Torbet’s, containing child’s clothes. Finder please return to Democrat office. Clover See<l—A quantity of nice clean clover seed for sale. —T. M. WALTER, phone 503-H. Cow for Sale — Good fresh cow for saIe—ALBERT DUGGINS, Rensselaer, Phone 514-E. Timber For Sale —In acre lots $2.50, till May 1, 1911, to get it off; 10 miles north of Rensselaer, on gravel road. Address or call on J. DAVISSON, Kniman, Ind. Spices and Extracts—Watch for the Confer man, with spices, extracts and proprietary medicines. — B. K. VEERS, Francesville, Ind. For Sale— An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a short time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office. Fat Stock Wanted— Am in the market at all times for fat cattle, hogs, sheep, veal calves, etc., and pay the top market price. Write or phone me (No. 70-D, Mt. Ayr exchange) before selling.—J. N.; BICKNELL, Mt. Ayr, Ind. For Sale— Handsome brass chandelier, three lamp with colored globes, raises and lowers by pressing a spring, cost S2O; just the thing for a country home parlor or sitting room. Have electric lights and do not need it, will sell at a bargain. Inquire at this office. For Sale Cheap— Fours & Hunter buggy. Top has glass front and glass sliding doors, also two Dietz lights.—Dß. F. HEMPHILL. Typecases For Sale—Eight or ten Italic Job Cases, full size and almost good as new, 50 cents each; 1 twothirds case, good as n;W, 50c.—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind.
Money— Some loan companies are refusing to make farm loans At the present time. My company is still loaning at 5 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make application at onqe. as money is scarce.— JOHN A. DUNLAP. I. O. O. F. Building. z
FIRE LOSSES ARE LARGE
Wisconsin Is Heavy Loser by Blazing Forests. ♦ The Wisconsin forest fires have coat a nearly $3,000,000. The losses are estimated as follows: North of Chippewa Falls, $1,000,000; in Marinette and Wausau and vicinity, $1,000,000; near Medford and Prentice. $1,000.00d. 7 The danger of fire is now ended, but the ravages have been serious. Twenty of the seventy-ope counties in Wisconsin have suffered this year from fire. Five' mills have been burned with an average loss of SIOO,OOO each. The greatest danger, however, has been to the standing timber.
GUNBOAT CASTINO BEACHED
Vessel Was Rammed by Submarine Bonita and Damaged. With her compartments filling with water the gunboat Castine, tender to the third submarine division of the United States navy, was beached at North Truro after being rammed by the submarine Bonita in the harbor outside Provincetown. Mass. As the nose of the Castine slid into the soft sand at Truro, every one of her crew of eighty officers and men were ready to put off in life boats. Nobody on either the Bonita or Castine was injured and but one member of the crew of the gunboat had come ashore, and for that reason it was difficult to secure information regard ing the accident.
FORTY INJURED IN WRECK
Six Excursionists Will Probably Die as Result of Accident. Crowded with excursionists to the Orangemen’s celebration at Windsor, Ont., a Detroit interurban car crashed into a work train at Wilkes Crossing, near Flint. Mich Forty passengers were injured and it is repotted that six will die. Those thought fatally hurt are John McGregor. motorman; C. A. McGilroy, Johnson Hillard, arid Mr. and Mrs. David Scott, all oi Flint Buy your Binder Twine at Eger Bros.