Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — Page 1

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JACKSON CLUB BANQUET.

Lafayette, Ind., December 14. —Arrangements are being made for the annual banquet .of the Jackson Club in this city on January 8, this date being announced today; It is likely that William J. Bryan and Joseph W. Folk may be among the speakers. Gov- . ernor Marshall and John W. Kern are to be the guests of honor. The Democratic members of the legislature will be brought here on a special train to attend the feast. George R. Durgan has been made chairman of the banquet committee.

TRAIN HITS WAGON.

And John Hurley Barely Misses Death at Brady Crossing John Hurley, of north of town, had a very narrow escape from death Saturday morning near the Brady elevator, while crossing the Monon tracks. Northbound passenger train, No. 32, was just nearing the bend near the crossing at the elevator when the engineer saw Mr. Hurley. He set the emergency brake but not quite quick enough, and the wagon was pushed from the track to safety. Mr. Hurley was not hurt but had a close shave with death.

A LIGHT VOTE BEING CAST

The railroad subsidy election in Rensselaer and Marion township was being held yesterday as The Democrat went to press. A very light vote was in prospect. In Precinct No. 4 but 59 votes were in at 1 p. m. This precinct polled 211 votes at the last general election, and the prospects were that only about half the regular vote would be cast. The vote in the other precincts showed about the same percentage as No. 4. But a small number of farmers had come in during the forenoon, and it was thought the vote from the country would show the most falling off. In the city a fair sized vote was being cast and it. was drought these were about equally divided between those “for” and “against.” the proposition.

MOROCCO SCHOOL SUPT.

Contests Right-of-Way With a Passenger Train With Usual Results.. Prof. t F. L. Wildrick, asst, principal of the high school, hired a rig from the Kay barn to drive north-east of town Wednesday evening on some business and while crossing the C. I. & S. tracks the south bound passenger train struck the horse squarely tearing its body, killing the animal and carrying it several rods down the track and destroying the buggy. Prof. Wildrick was thrown over the fence but fortunately escaped with only a few Had there been an instant more of time he would surely have been killed. The horse was valued at $l5O by Mr. Kay. It is reported that while the train whistled for the town it did not whistle for the crossing. The buggy was a closed front style and the train could not well

LITTLE JACK LARSH HOME

J. A. Larsh returned Monday afternoon from Chicago, bringing with him his little son Jack, who was run over and nearly killed by an auto in Rensselaer three weeks ago. The boy is getting along all right, the doctors say and will gradually outgrow the deafness and poor eyesight which now affects him quite badly, but he had the narrowest escape possible from death. It was found that his skull was fractured almost from ear to ear and the jaw bone in three places. Little was done by the doctors in the hospital except to keep ice about the fractured skull and let time do the rest, the fractured jaw gradually resuming its almost normal position. It was not deemed advisable to try to set the jaw at once for fear it would cause trouble with the skpll fracture. . \ Mrs. Larsh, Joe says, is getting along nicely from her severe operation for cancer and wilt probably be brought home on Friday of this week. Razor, strop and hone for $1 at Warner Bros.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Trustee May of Carpenter tp., was over on business Monday. The county commissioners will meet Friday to let the annual stationery contract and close up the business of the year. —oi—• ■ ■ = w The Rensselaer Republican’s idea of subsidies is about as crude as its ideas on most other matters of concern to the people, bridge graft, for example. — o — suits filed: No. 7681. Benj. J. Gifford vs. Carl Reimn; suit on account. Demand $198.52. , . No. 7682. Medaryville State Bank vs. George L. Johnson, et al.; suit on note. .Demand S2OO.

SHOT WHILE HUNTING.

pJVhile Joe and Fred Thomas of Newton tp., aged 16 and 14, respectively, sons of Joe Thomas, were out hunting rabbits Sunday, the gun in the hands of the former was accidently discharged and the bullet, a 22-cali-ber, found a lodging place in Joe’s shoulder and neck. • The boy was brought to town and an X-ray examination disclosed the bullet lying against the first rib, which had stopped its progress. No.effort will be made to remove it unless it should give trouble later, which is unlikely, and the wound will soon be healed.

OFFICE GUTTED BY FIRE.

Tippecanoe Co. Democrat Sufc fers $3,500 Loss and Carried No Insurance. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 20.—Fire yesterday gutted the establishment of the Tippecanoe County Democrat on North Third street. Roland Jones, janitor, declares that somebody set fire to the building while he was working in the rear. He says he heard the front door open and close. He had been out of the building but a short time when the flames were discovered. R. M. Isherwood, proprietor of the newspaper. has been active of late in exposing alleged shortcomings of Tippecanoe county office holders. Mr. Isherwood and his friends believe that the torch was applied by an incendiary. The loss will amount to f about 53,500. Mr. Isherwood carried no insurance.

FOUR HUNTERS CAUGHT

And Fined By Squire Bussell for Hunting On Sunday. Four men were caught by the Squire of Flanging Grove tp., hunting with »gtins and dogs on Sunday, the 18th, without’ leave and two of them without license, i The squire invited them to his I house and read them the law on hunting on the Sabbath, and they plead guilty. The squire questioned them and found it was their first offense, so gave them a small fine each, fine and costs 54.50 per head, $lB in all. He informed them that if he caught them the second time that, the fine would be much larger which is from $1 to SSO. Thinking possibly that there, are a few more fellows that hunt on the Sabbath who will take warning, for the Squire is likely to get them sooner or later and give them to understand that they must respect the Sabbath in Hanging Grove tp., if they .don’t themselves or anybody else. Two of the hunters were from South Bend, and the other two from Barkley tp. «The fines were •promptly paid. xx _

KILLS WIFE’S PARAMOUR.

Jacob Walters Shoots Albert Johnson at Kouts Last Fri- * day. Valparaiso- Ind., Dec. 16. —Albert Johnson, of Warren, Ohio, was shot and killed early this morning in the barn back of the Glissman Hotel at Kouts, Ind., a summer resort on the Kankakee river, kept by Jacob Walters. Johnson came to Kbuts a year ago as Superintendent of the W. L. Anderson & Company’s flour mills. He was taken up by society and met Mrs. Walters at a ,dancing party. It was a case of mutual admiration and John- - <9 .

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1910.

I son’s became so marked as to excite comment. The matter readhed the ear of Mr. Walters. One day in August, Waltprs alleges, he discovered Johnson in his wife’s room and he ordered him away at the point of a revolver. The couple continued to meet clandestinely, according to Mr. Walters, and his wife was missed from her room this morning and when Walters spied her coming : from the barn, he seized a shotgun and entered the building. He found Johnson hiding in a corner and he fired two shots. The first charge tore away the left side of Johnson’s head and the second nearly severed the right arm at t’.e shoulder. Johnson died within a few moments and Walters walked to the Deputy Sheriff’s office and gave himself up. The Coroner at the inquest returned a verdict of justifiable killing. Walters is wealthy and his wife is considered one Of the most beautiful women in northern Indiana. She was a great favorite at the Glissman Hotel, patronized by people from all-over the country’ during the hunting and fishing seasons. Mrs. Walters it was reported to the Coroner, locked herself in a room with her maid after the shooting and refused to obey a summons to the inquest.

SPEED LAW INVALID.

Judge Vinton Says the Automobile Statute is Too Uncertain. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 19.—Henry H. Vinton, judge of the circuit court, to-day held the automobile law' of 1909 invalid, as far as it applies to the speed of aumobiles in cities and towns in the state. In his opinion, he says the law is invalid because of its uncertainty, in that it fails to define what is the “business and built up portion” of a city, and also which it describes as “other portions,” meaning that portion which is not the business or built lip portion. Iks opinion does not touch on theiyalidity of the law, as far as it applies to territory outside cities and towns. Three persons, Frank Ray, Charles Chambaugh and William Wendling, had been fined for violating the law. They appealed to the circuit court, and Judge Vinton Was called as special judge. S

AT REDUCED SALARY

Fogarty Was Elected Warden of Michigan City Pen. Indianapolis. Ind., December 17.-—Edward J. Fogarty, former mayor of South Bend, was elected Warden of the State Prison at Michigan City this afternoon, to succeed the late James B. Reid. Fogarty is well known in Democratic state politics. He has been an active candidate for Warden since Governor Marshall’s election but he would not have been appointed had Reid lived. Peter J. Kruyer, of Plymouth. Thirteenth District Democratic Committeeman, was an active candidate’ and was backed by the entire state organization and many prominent party leaders. Fogarty also had the backing of influential Democrats as well as that of many business men. He is regarded as a good executive. Fogarty has had an interesting political career. He was elected Mayor of South Bend three times overturning a Republican majority of 2,000. He was boomed for Governor and other offices. He is a union bricklayer by trade, a . The Board of Trustees of the pr'-son decided to cut the pay tk $2,700 a year and to cut out the Warden’s allowance for food for his home. The state is to furnish a Warden’s residence. The board instructed Fogarty to earn' out Reid’s policies and to retain Dr. Milligan as chief deputy. A contract' was forwarded to Fogarty tonight. Fogarty was active in the state convention 1 m pushing through Governor Marshall’s plan to have the convention indorse, a candidate for the Senate.

Headquarters for X-mas candies. Fine candies from 10c to 40c per pound. Fancy box candies 35c to $2.25 per box. Special inducements to Sunday Schools and week-day schools—At Geo. Fate’s Fat Dinner Joint.

CARL HAGENBECK IS NOT DEAD. Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 19.—Carl Hagenbeck is not dead at his home near Hamburg, Germany, as reported in dispatches from Berlin on Dec. 17. A private cablegram received by Alfred Bode conveyed the information that William Hagenbeck, a brother of Carl, had passed away. The message was signed by Lorenz Hagenbeck, a son of the man who was reported as dead.

OKLAHOMA CAPITAL BILL PASSES.

Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 17. —The measure placing the permanent capital of Oklahoma at Oklahoma City and the resolution favoring the northeast site for a capital location, was passed in the senate and in the house yesterday. The emergency clfause was attached, and both measures will go into effect if the Governor signs them within fifteen days. The legislature adjourned last night.

CORN FROM EGYPT.

Taken From Ancient Tomb Reproduced in This Country. Jeffersonville, Ind., Dec. 16. The third annual corn show of the Clark County Corn Growers’ Association was held here and no exhibit attracted more attention among the farmers and other visitors than an ear of corn sent by Mrs. Sallie Marshall Hardy, which was grown, it is said, from seed taken from the tomb of an Egyptian mummy. The mummy was placed in a tomb 1,000 years ago and the corn was placed with it. The corn raised from the seed resembles ordinary sweet corn and the ear is about five inches long* a few grains -of yellow and white corn the more numerous grams ol sweet corn, due> it is said, to being grown among other varieties. Mrs. Hardy is a descendant of Chief Justice Marshall.

GIFT TO DE PAUW

Farm Land and Terre Haute Property Included in the $40,000. Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 17. — The Rev. W. R. Halstead and Mrs. Halstead have made deeds for property worth $40,000, giving it to De Pau w university. Mr. Halstead said: “We just wanted to help the cause of Christian education. Fifty acres of the farm land is Mrs. Halstead’s old home place, and she said’ her former husband wanted her to give it to some benevolent cause. : Twenty acres form part of a good many acres I inherited from my father. The city property is in Ohio street.” • Mr. Halstead was graduated from Asbury college in 1871, back in the days when the present DePauw university was largely a theological institution. For thirty years he was a Methodist .minister, practically all the time in the northw'est Indiana conference.

MURDER AT LEBANON.

Earl Swope Resents Dropping of the “W’\With a Fatal Attack on William Bechtell. Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 19.—William Bechtell was killed, Sunday afternoon, at the Shumaker livery barn in this city, by Earl Swope. Bechtell and Swope had been drinking. Bechtell asked Swope how he spelled his name, and inisted that he should drop the “w,” when Swope picked up <a chair and struck him with it, crushing in three ribs and fracturing the breast bone. Bechtell made an effort to rise and fell back dead. Swope fled, but was captured an hour later ,in a corn field southwest of the city. He is in jail. Bechtell was forty years old and unmarried.- He made his home with his widow ed mother, Mrs. Evaline Bechtell, a wealthy resident of Lebanon. Swope is a son of the late Jesse Swope, who lived near Elizaville, and has a wife and several children.

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SOLDIERS’ HOME FILLED.

More Than 300 Applicants for Admission on die List. Lafayette, Indi, December 15. —The hoard of trustees of the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home today considered forty-eight applications for admission to the home. Twenty-three were rejected, ten held for investigation and the others were approved. This makes a total of 325 applications on the waiting list. It will be many months before some of these applicants gain admission. The list is the largest in the jhistory of the home. The institution is now crowded to its full capacity, and Commandant Haggard says the only way applicants can now' gain admission is by death of present members or their discharge from the home. The board of trustees held a session today with the Tippecanoe county representatives in the state legislature. Senator W ill R. Wood presided. The needs of the home were discussed, and the local representatives worked hard to secure the appropriations for the home.

SUIT TO RECOVER $2,000.

State Files Complaint Against Former Township Trustee. Logansport, Ind., Dec. 17. The first suit here to recover an alleged shortage in the accounts of former township "trustees, as reported several months ago by state examiners Swflft and Connors, was filed to-day by James Bingham, attorney-general, in the Cass circuit court, against Edgar E. Phillips, former trustee of Tipton township. Phillips’ bondsmen are also named as defendants. The demand is for $2,000. Phillips is chairman of the Republican county committee, and was defeated for county auditor at the recent “election. The complaint charges that while trustee Phillips purchased frdm himself and paid from the special school fund $948.95 far luel and school supplies. It also alleges he bought supplies from the firm of which he was a member, and paid himself rent for which the examiners could find no reason. Nine former, trustees of Cass county are alleged-to be short in their accounts, and it is thought the case against Phillips has been filed as a test to ascertain the chances of recovering money from the others.

PUBLIC SALES. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Wednesday, Dec. 21, Harry E. Wade- 1 mile north and 4J4 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, turkeys, farm tools, household goods, etc.

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Home Telephone Company of Jasper, Newton, Pulaski and White Counties, Indiana, will be held in Rensselaer, Ind., on Saturday, January 14, 1911, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year. _

R. J. YEOMAN, Pres.

F. E. BABCOCK, Sec.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Dec. 17, to Mr. ahd Mrs. Ben Benson, in the north part of town, a daughter. Dec. 16, to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Abbring of Keener tp., a daughter. Dec. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Thad Stephens of Weston street, a son. ' ,

LECTURE DATES.

Jan. 19 —Booth Lowery, humorist. March 13—The Beilharz Entertainers. ' April, 7— Byron King. Hey there, Mister! Did you know that piece of ■ Silverware your wife has been Wishing for is at Clarke’s and she expects you to get it for her for Christmas? The cost” is remarkably low compared with the quality of the goods.

A SANTA CLAUS SONG

BY PAUL LESSING

[Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association.] I’M as happy as a bird, Santa Claus, For I'm sure that you have heard, Santa Claus, How I’m hoping every day That you’re really on your way And that soon., we’ll hear your sleigh, Santa Claus I OH, the dolls, Santa Claud Oh, the toys, Santa Claus I Oh. the happy, happy, happy girls and boys! Oh, how merrily well sing When we hear your sleighbells ring. For we love like everything, . Santa Claus!

OH, I hear your belli ringing, Santa Qaiul 1 scarce COB keep from singing, Santa Claus! Oh, such gladness and such joy To each little girl and boy Comes when you are drawing nigh, Santa Claus I OH. the dolls, Santa Claus! Oh, the toys, Santa Claus! Oh, the happy, happy, happy girls and boys ! Oh. how merrily We’ll sing When we hear your sleighbells ring. For we love like everything, Santa Claus I

Epigrams of Cities.

A Naples by any other name would smell as sweet. Every Pittsburg has a silver lining. Chicago is paved with good Intentions. It’s a poor Paris that does not work both ways. A Philadelphia in time would sav» nine. Boston to him who Boston thinks. Leadville is only skin deep. It’s a long Reno that has no turning. London is no respecter of persons. New York city is covered by a multitude of skins.—Life.

Ths Swear Off Family.

Father’s going to swear off smoking. Mother’s going to swear off cards. Sis is going to swear off chewing Gum and stretching it for yards. Brother Bill will swear off spending Every cent he makes for clothes. I will have to swear off eating Pie and cookies, I suppose. Everybody’s resoluting Something good to do next year. Home is going to be so lovely I won't get much fun, I fear. Things they like the best they’re swearing. Off, and goddness only knows ■What bad habit I must break off. But it’s cookies, I suppose. —Detroit Free Press.

Why He Didn’t Shoot.

Bacon—That young clerk of mine has taken up violin playing. Egbert—lndeed! “You know which one I mean, don’t you?” “Oh. yes; be lives within gunshot of me.” “Then I take it that you haven't got a gun?”—Yonkers 1 Statesman.

Industrial Revolution.

The law of the land is thumbed over and greasy. The law of the Lord gathers dust on the shelves. The law of the land makes the landlord’s lot easy. But the Lord help the lord when the poor help themselves! Cleveland Leader.

Method In It.

“My dear,” says the husband, “why did you write such an enthusiastic recommendation of that cook you discharged? She is utterly worthless.” "I know.” explains the wife. “But she told me Mrs. Jiggins had offered her a place, and I despise that Mrs. Jiggins r— Chicago Post.

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