Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items ot Interest to City and Country Readers. Fine bananas.—Home Grocery. F. W. Tobias was a Chicago visitor Thursday. Today’s markets: Wheat, 89c; Corn, 38c; Oats, 29c. Mrs. Charles Roberts and Miss Jennie Harris spent Tuesday in Chicago. The Foresman postoffice was robbed of S2OO in cash and stamps Sunday night. Wm. Porter of Francesville was over Thursday and yesterday visiting his wife. Remember it’s the Home Grocery that sells so much flour —“Best” or ■“Northmore,” $1.50 a sack. Miss Anna Honan of Delphi returnd home Wednesday after a two days visit here with E. P. Honan n ' u Mrs. M. D. Walsh of Chicago came Thursday to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Murffit and family near Mt. Ayr. V. Nowels, Mrs. Bert Hopbins and Miss Julia Leopold took in one of the leading grand operas at Chicago Wednesday night

George and Judson Maines left Thursday for Hume, Mo., to prospect for land. They have a farm in sight and may possibly buy.

Lonzo Healy went to Lafayette Wednesday to visit Purdue friends a few days. He will also visit at FrankHn with J'loyd Meyers before returning home.

Mrs. Charles Ramp accompanied , little grandson, John Krull, to his home at Kentland Wednesday. John had been visiting grandpa and grandma since Xmas.

George McAllister is expected Saturday from Glencoe, Minn., to spend a short time here with his nephew, W. R. Gates and family. The former is quite an extensive land owner in his locality.

Fifty-two weeks of contract with all the news of home, town, county, state, country and all the world, for $2.00 which pays for The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer and this paper one year.

W. H. Parkison returned from Valparaiso Wednesday where he had been on a few days business trip in connection with the Lewin attachment cases, which will come up for trial there next week. 'vmt the annual meeting of the directors of the First National Bank of Ambia a few days ago James F. Yeoman, son of D. H. Yeoman of Rensselaer, was promoted from vicepresident to president

Helen Meader Of north of town is seriously sick with grip at the home of Cal Cain, where she and her sister Lois are boarding while attending the high school here. Yesterday she was reported to be some better.

A 5-passenger, actual 30 H. P. touring car, 110 in. wheel base, 34x4 in. tires, $1,400 —torpedo or open body at your option—where can you duplicate it? Maxwell economy and reliability thrown in. —MAXWELL.

All ladies appreciate suggestions for recipes, patterns and formulas by other ladies, because the ideas are practical. The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer prints seven columns of such in formation . each week. This paper is SI.OO a year, but by subscribing through The Democrat the two papers will cost only $2.00.

‘ The Republican, in letting—or attempting to let, rather—itself down gently on the Purtelle hot air scheme, says there is a pitiful side to the story; that it is evident that Purtelle’s mind is weak. Many people, however, will disagree on this diagnosis. It will naturally seem that the people who fell to his wiles were the weak-minded ones.

Sylvester Gray received a telegram Thursday stating that his brother Allen of Manson, lowa, was in a critical condition in a hospital at Ft. Dodge, lowa, and about to die. Owing to his own condition — he having a severe case of the grip —and the fact that the rest of Bis family are ' very poorly, Mr. Gray was unable to go to his brother’s bedside, and he sent his brother-in-law, City Marshal Mustard, in his stead. Mr. Mustard left Thursday afternoon, W. S. Parks “subbing” for him while he is away. Up to yesterday noon nothing further had been heard relative to Mr. Gray’s condition.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. ■■ $ John Finn was down from Kankakee tp., on business Thursday. Isaac Miller of hear Rensselaer transacted business in Flora Tuesday. Mat Moosmiller returned home Thursday from a few days visit in Chicago. 7 » Mrs. Mary E. Travis went to Marion Thursday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wade Loop. Naval oranges are good now. The Home Grocery is selling some fine ones at 20c a dozen. It is a wonder Purtelle didn’t include the Jasper county court house in his list of assets. Louis Miller and Henry Hordeman left Thursday for Burlington, Wis., to visit relatives a few weeks.

5 per cent of the cash receipts of the Home Grocery goes to the Monnett Orphan’s Home this week.

Elizur Sage and son Russell made a business trip to Payne, Ohio, Wednesday near which place the former owns a farm. They will probbaly be gone a few days.

Mrs. Amanda Gasaway, aged 98 years, an aunt to H. W. Wiley the government chemist and ex-appel-late judge U. Z. Willey, died at her home in Goodland Wednesday.

By a strict party vote- the Hon. John W. Kern was elected to the U. S. senate by the Indiana legislature Tuesday afternoon, the republican complimentary vote going to his predecessor, Mr. Beveridge.

A. Gray of Remington and Edward ePterson, of Saunemin, 111., were in the city yesterday. Mr. Peterson is the owner of the A. E. Malsbray 228 acre farm in Barkley tp., which he purchased last September through Mr. Gray’s agency.

C. W. Platt of this place and Wm. Zacher of Iron Junctiop, Minn., went to Chicago Thursday and from which place the latter left for home. Charley transacted business there a few days. Mr. Zacher had been visiting numerous relatives in and near Rensselaer the past two weeks.

H. E. Wade arrived home a few days ago from Mississippi whete he had been on a land prospecting trip. He left again Tuesday for Colorado to see if anything looked good to him there. Bert Sparling,who had been sojourning in the southern states has also returned, but did not buy anything.

rSMrs. C. P. Wright accompanied by Tier son Zern and wife as far as Chicago left Wednesday for San Diego, Calif., where she will spend the next two months with the family of her foster son, George Belcher, who is loaded there and quite wealthy. He "sent Mrs. Wright SIOO to pay her expenses of coming to see him.

The Republican thinks the Purtelle railroad scheme, together with the subsidies voted, should be turned over to the Rensselaer Commercial Club. We are rather surprised at this suggestion of the Republican, for next to Bucketshop Purtelle we had been led to believe that the Winamac Bridge Co., was its first love.

The Chicago horse buyers who were at Knapp’s livery barn Saturday bought thirteen head of draft and driving horses and shipped them out the same night. These buyers seemed to be gentlemen and it is said they paid a price as the market woqld permit. The same parties will be here again Saturday, Jan. 28.

rXjlev. Clarke, Charlie Simpson and P. W. Clarke went out to John McColly’s in Newton tp., Wednesday and tried their hand at rabbit, hunting. The preacher bagged one rabbit and the jeweler two, but it was a poor day for the groceryman, and he didn’t get any. A big hot dinner set before them by Mrs. McColly was enjoyed most of dll.

NOTICE TO LOT CONTRACT HOLDERS IN FACTORY ADDITION. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Directors of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, held at the rooms of said Club on January 11, 1911, the following resolution was passed:

“That all contracts for lots on which the contractors have not paid a sum equal to SIOO be declared forfeited, if such payments have hot been made on or before the first day of April, 1911. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Secretary-Treasurer. LECTURE DATES. March 13—The Beilharz Entertainers. April 7—Byron King.

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STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS.

No Politics in Instruction to Examiners or in Examinations. The following communication relative to the public accounting law appeared in the Indianapolis News a few days ago, which, owing to the attacks on this law in certain quarters, will be of interest: An editorial in the Indianapolis Star of January 12, in which an attack was made upon the present public accounting law, said:

“The field men have been sent out from the statehouse office with instructions that they must make a showing even though the character and reputation of honest men were to be sacrificed.”

While I can speak only regarding the instructions given to me, I will say that nothing is further from the truth than the above statement. To my knowledge, no instruction of this character has even been intimated to any field examiner. On the contrary, Mr. Dehority has always insisted that justice be administered in every instance. He has always cautioned us to be absolutely fair in our examinations and take no position which could not be substantiated. No instruction which I have ever received or heard has ever savored of politics in the least, and I know that this matter has been carefully guarded in every examination in which I have participated. It is perhaps true that more Republican ex-officers have been affected by this examination than Democrats, but it is also true that at least two-thirds of the officers of the state for the last twelve years have been Republican. The “constructive charges” withr which the editorial deals is only a mild way of handling illegal allowances which were found to be made by the various officers examined. What was to be done with such allowances? Should the examiner pass over such cases and not report them? It is the duty of the examiner under any circumstances to report conditions as he finds them. These illegal allowances which amount to several hundred thousand dollars in the state, show one of two things: That there is either something wrong with the law or that the officers are bad. It may be both, but in either case it is a condition of which the legislature should take cognizance. If the laws are at fault and can not be obeyed then they should be amended to suit conditions. No law should remain on our statute books which must be broken to obtain justice. The Star seeks to estimate the value of this law by the amount of money recovered from those examinations. This is certainly an erroneous notion of the original purpose of the law, as it was intended to establish a uniform System and to prevent the occurence of shortages, instead of allowing them to occur and involve the state in a legal tangle in suing for a recovery. There is also a human element in this method of prevention which is usually overlooked. It will save a great many good and honest men who assume office fully intending to do the right thing, but are misled by a set of unscrupulous dealers.

The Star seeks to have’ one belive that salaried officers do not go wrong.* The annals of graft will not support this position. It is true that the township trustees as a rule are not sufficiently paid for their services, but for the most part they are representative citizens of their 'townships. The constructing and installing of a uniform system of accounts tor all of the offices of the state, together with a complete examination of the officials, is a task the magnitude of which' the public generally had little or no idea, and it would certainly be absurd to presume that no mistakes would be made in such an undertaking. But if the people vvili stand back of it until the system is well established, the state will reap the benefit of a better and more economical condition, as well as having its official system on a much higher plane. CHARLES E. WEYBRIGHT, ' Field Examiner. Fowler, Ind., Jan. 13, 1911.

A Reliable Cough Medicine Is a valuable family friend. Foley’s ’Honey add Tar fulfills this condition exactly. Mrs. Charles Kline, N. Bth St., Easton, Pa., states: “Several members of my family have been cured of bad coughs and colds by the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar and I am never without a bottle in the house. It soothes and relieves the irritation in the throat and loosens up the cold. I have always found it a reliable cough cure.”—A. F. Long. Sale bills printed .while you wait at The Democrat office. \ ’’ I ’''t. •’» • • ■

ADMIRAL BARRY IS PUT IN BAD LIGHT

b Relieved ot Comnd ol the Pacific Fleet Rear Admiral Thomas, commander of the second squadron of the Pacific fleet, arrived here on his flagship California, after a hurried trip from Santa Barban. Admiral Thomas at once relieved Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry as commander of the Pacific fleet in pursuance of orders received from the navy department Admiral Barry has requested immediate retirement from the service under the rule of more than forty years of service. The cause of Admiral Barry's sudden desire to leave the service after having held the poet of fleet commander for only a few months Is the subject of a great deal of speculation and gossip in naval and club circles here Stories reflecting seriously upon the character of the tetiring admiral are be ng circulated widely and naval officers in port have taken cognizance of them. There is an intimation In these stories that the admiral has been forced to retire. » .

In speaking of these rumors Admiral Barry said: “It is not true that I have been forced to retire. Other men have asked for immediate retirement before. The reasons that have caused me to do this are partly public and partly private. The man who is triumphant ly vindicated under such circumstances is as much a loser as if the charges were proved to be true. Ibe Here that by requesting immediate retirement I can save the scandal In the navy.” The stories concerning Admiral Barry are of a nature reflecting upon his moral character. According to the reports published here the admiral sent his request for immediate relief to Washington following a conference with the staff and line officers on board the West Virginia At this conference, it is reported, the suggestion was made that a loaded revolver be sent to the admiral's cabin, but this suggestion was lost on a vote. The officers present then took an oath of secrecy on condition that Admiral Barry forward his resignation to Washington at once - Instead of resigning the admiral requested retirement. After that fact became known the subject matter of the conference leaked out until all the sailors of the fleet were talking.

EIGHT DIE ON WARSHIP

Mysterious Explosion Occurs on the Delaware. Kight persons were killed on the United States battleship Delaware in a mysterious explosion. The disaster occurred while the bat tieship was en route from Guan tana mo, Cuba, to Hampton roads. A wireless dispatch received by the navy department said the victims were burned by steam. It was added that details of the accident would be telegraphed as soon as the vessel arrived at Norfolk, Va.

SENATORS ELECTED

Kem Chosen by Indiana Legislature— Hitchcock from Nebraska. John W. Kern, Democrat, was elected senator from Indiana by the Indiana legislature, winning over Senator Beveridge, Republican. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, was elected senator from Nebraska to succeed Elmer J. Burkett, Republican. Miles Poindexter, Insurgent Republican, defeated George Cottrell in Washington. Senator Burrows of Washington wil be succeeded by Congressman C E. Townsend. * Henry Cabot Lodge was re-elected tn Massachusetts.

WORLD-WIDE STRIKE

Seamen Said to Have Plan to Quit at Time of King’s Coronation. According to Matthew Tearte, United States agent of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Unicm of Great Britain, it has been decided to call t world-wide strike of seamen in June next at the time of the coronation of King George. There have been rumors of such a strike heretofore, but until now no date was set. Mr. Tearle’s information, be said, was received tn a letter from J. Hi Wilson, M. P, president of the British union.

STOCK YARDS FIRE VERDICT

No One Held Responsible for the Los* of Twenty-Four Lives. The coroner’s jury which made inquiry at Chicago into the fire at Morris Co’s plant in the srock yards, at which Chief James Horan, Assistant Marshall William J. Burroughs and twenty-two others lost their lives, failed to fix responsibility for the disaster in its verdict. ’ : No one was censured, but many recommendations for improvements were contained in the verdict, which was returr'-d after the jury had teen out twent six hours.

PRINCE MIGUEL

Who Awaits the Call to Ascend the Throne In Portugal.

Prince Miguel of Braganza, who married Miss Anita Stewart o! New York, and who has taken the title of Duke De Vizeu,, has not gone tc Pau. but is awaiting in Austria tht call, which he expects, to mount the Portuguese throne. He and tis agents continue to give out interviews proclaiming the read! nesa of the duke to take up the burden of government, and already they are outlining the policy he will pursue.

25 JAPS 10 DIE

Sentenced for Plotting Against Members of the Imperial Family. At Tokyo, in Japan, D. Kotoku, his wife, and twenty-three other persons declared by the government tc be anarchists were sentenced to death. They were accused of conspiring against the lives of the emperor and empress and other members of the imperial family. According to the paper the assassins planned to accomplish their end while the emperor was visiting the military school just outside the capital. AB the prisoners were first arraigned before a special court, the duties of which are similar to those of a grand jury in America. On Nov. 9 this court announced the prisoners had been found guilty, and recommended that they be punished under clause 73 of the criminal statutes, which provides capital punishment for plotters against the imperial family. The wife of Kotoku was the only woman in the band. The trial proper opened in the supreme court on Dec. 10. The public was excluded on the ground that publicity in connection with the proceedings might be preju dicial to peace and the maintenance of public morals.

OPPOSE DEEP WATERWAY

Commission, It Is said, Will Report I Unfavorably to Congress. The government deep waterway commission, at its session behind closed doors at Chicago, recommended that an appropriation by congress to develop the lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway project would be impracticable. The commission, after an exhaustive examination, struck at the waterway project with the allegations that it is out of the question unless all the states and many civic bodies co-oper-ate in making the plan and raising the money; that the existing canal is sufficient for present needs; that the expenditure of the $20,0004)00 Illinois Intends to invest would be a waste of money and a mere drop in the bucket, as it would only dredge the Illinois river, while the dredging of the Mississippi would cost five times that amount

TRIED TO KILL BRIAND

Two Revolver Shots Are Fired at the Premier of France. The French chamber of deputies in the city of Paris was thrown into a panic by an attempt upon the life of Premier Briand Two revolver shots were fired upon the ministerial bench from the public gallery, but the pre mier was not harmed. One of the shots entered the leg of Leon Mirman. director of the department of public assistance in the ministry of the Interior. The wound is not serious. The would-be assassin is a man named Gisolme. formerly clerk of the courts of Bayonne. He was pounced upon by'police officers before he could hse his weapon again, if he had such an intention, and was hurried from the place.

THE LORIMER CASE

Senator Burrows Speaks for and Borah Against the Illinois Man. Senator Burrows defended the action of the senate election committee in recommending Lorimer’s retention in the senate, claiming that unreliability of witnesses prevented the substantiationcharges. .of bribery. Senator Borah replied, answering point by point and alleging that the jackpot and senatorial corruption were closely interwoven and that such men would not have bolted their psL ty except for money. He said the committee should have forced Broderick and others to testify. ,

SPIRIT MESSAGE FROM MRS. EDOI

Mrs. Minnie L Gove Is the Medium of Commun cation. WRITES OF STRANBE TRANCES Statement of Mrs. Stetson That Mrs. Eddy Would Return to Earth In Flesh Is hn Error Says Spirit —Mrs. Gove a Disbeliever. Boston, Jan. 20. —Messages from Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy have reached Mrs. Minnie L. Gove, wife of Clarence Gove of Randolph, according to a statement made by her. Mrs. Gove says she is not a spiritualist, and Is not a Christian Scientist. She is unable to account for the strange trances which she says overcome her and in which her hand is guided to write messages. The messages are addressed to Mrs. Gove’s father, James Littlefield, of 28 New Hall street, Lynn. Mr. Littlefield knew Mrs. Eddy well when she lived in Lynn years ago. “I am rot a spiritualist,” said Mrs. Gove. “I have never believed in such things, now have I any sympathy with the Christian Science movement It is strange that I should be selected as the medium of Mrs. Eddy's communication. , When these trances come over me I cannot help wrting what T do. Some strange force guides my band.”

In addition to receiving messages which purport to come from Mrs. Eddy she says she has received several from the late Grover Cleveland and Prof. William James

In one of the messages she believes came from Mrs. Eddy it is declared that the statement made by Mrs. Augusta Stetson of New York that the Christian Science leader would return to earth In the flesh “was an error.” She referred to her earthly body as merely a shell and said It would not again be habitated. The , message also declared that there was no need of keeping a watch over the tomb where the body lies and that it would be best to discontinue the vigil. Another of the messages which purport to be from Mrs. Eddy is to the effect that the Christian Science leader was mistaken about many things pertaining to the future life while she was in the flesh. According to Mrs. Gove Mrs. Eddy has urged ■ her to become more proficient in technhalittes so that the departed Christian Scientist may be enabled to expiess better through her, amended views on the spiritual life.

WEATHER EVERYWHERE Latest observations of U. 8. weather bureau, Washington: Temp. Weather. New York 36 Clear Albany ..32 Cloudy Atlantic City....v.34 Cloudy Boston 36 Cloudy Buffalo ...........28 Cloudy Chicago 30 Cloudy St Louis 38 Clear New Orleans.;.. . .62 Clear Washington 38 • Clear Philadelphia ......40 Clear Weather Forecast. Illinois and Indiana —Cloudy and warmer today and tomorroy Wisconsin—Snow today, fair warmer tomorrow.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago Live Chicago, Hogs—Receipts 27,000. k ranged at [email protected] [email protected] choice light! $7.90© heavy packing, and [email protected] goo to choice pigs *>-_ X Cattle—Receipts 8,000. ranged at [email protected] prim# fat steers, [email protected] good to choyee beef cows, $5.2505.85 good to Choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $4.60© 5.25 good to choice Znockers, $9.00© 9.50 good to choice’light calves. Sheep—Receipts ,19,000. Quotation* ranged at [email protected] ggod to choice light lambs, $5.50©5.75 good to choice light yearling wethers, [email protected]‘ good to choice wethers, [email protected] good to choice ewes. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 17c; chickenj. fowls, 13>£c; roostes, 9c; geese, 12c; ducks, 14c. * Omaha Live Stock. Cattle —Receipts 4,100 head; market strong, native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steer;’, $3.75© 6.00; Texas steers, $3.25 @5.10; range cows and heifers, $3.00 @4.75; canners, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, [email protected]; calves, $4.00 @8.25; bulls, stags, etc., Hogs—Receipts 6.800 head; market strong to 5c higher; heavy, $7.70@ 7.85; mixed, $7.75@*7.85; light, $7.85@ 7.90; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, [email protected]. ' ” ’ ; East Buffalo Live Stock. Erst Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 19. » Dunriir g & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Me chants. East Buffalo, N. Y.» quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 2 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 20 cars; market steady; heavy, $8.15 J @8.30; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $8.75@8,85. Sheep—Receipts 60 cars; market steady; best lambs, $6.25© 6.30; yearlings, $5 [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calve* . —55.00011.25.