Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — Page 1

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RETURN II INDICTMENTS

Grand Jury Adjourns Saturday After Week’s Session A. E. KIRK, OF PARR, DRAWS 6 For Alleged Illegal Sales of Liquor and C. B. Steward of Rensselaer, One for Same Of-fense-Bother Bills Are for Various Offenses Against the Peace and Dignity of the State. The grand jury adjourned Saturday afternoon after returning a total of eleven indictments, seven at least of which are for alleged illegal sales of liquor ; one against John Colton, who has been in jail here for several weeks, charging assault and battery ; one against Charles C. Graham of Indianapolis, charging fraud in a land deal with C. P. Wright and E. V. Ransford, and two on which no returns had been made up to yesterday and therefore are not made public. The indictment against C. B. Steward charges him with having sold a half pint of whiskey on Feb. 1, 1911, to Marsh Rhoades of Rensselaer for 25 cents. He was arraigned in court and allowed to go on his own recognizance pending trial, which will probably come up Thursday. The six indictments against “Doc” Kirk, the Parr druggist, charge illegal sales of liquor as follows: Dec. 15, one gill of whiskey to A. S. Lowman; Dec. 23, one gill of whiskey to Wm. Stewart; Dec. 27, one gill of whiskey to Ed Longstreth; Jan. 1, % pint of whiskey to Shelby Comer; Jan. 1, one gill of whiskey to Steve Brusnahan; Jan. 20, % pint of whiskey to D. V. Comer. Kirk’s bond was fixed at SIOO in each case, which he gave with James McClanalian as surety, and the cases will come up for trial today, we understand. Charles Graham of Indianapolis is charged with having palmed off a tax-title deed on C. P. Wright for 16Q acres of land in Kansas, in a trade for an equity in 80 acres in lowa and a stock of millinery goods, both owned by E. V. Ransford. Graham’s bond was fixed at SI,OOO, which he gave with the Illinois Surety Co., as surety. His trial will not come up this term, we are told. What the charges in the tw r o indictments are on which no arrests have yet been made we are unable to state. The modification of the charge of sodomy against Colton to that of assault and battery means that he will get off with a nominal fine instead of a penitentiary sentence, which is the penalty on conviction of the crime charged when he was arrested and bound over to the grand jury. The grand jury visited, the poor farm and county jail and reported conditions first-class at each. It was recommended that the floor of the cage in the jail be painted and at the poot/farm some slight changes in the interior of the men’s quarters were recommended, also that the front porch to the superintendent’s residence be replaced by a new one, and a cement floor replace the wood boor of the rear porch. A new and larger horse barn was recommended to replace the one now in use. "

A WHITE COUNTY OPINION

The Proctor liquor regulation bill passed the state senate last week by a vote of 27 to 21. The license fees- provided for cities are S7OO and in towns SSOO, including L the state fee of S2OO. This bill also limits the number of saloons to one for each 1,000 population and one for the first 50G. _ ' v The bill was not a party meas- \ ure;, as members of both parties voted both ; for and Jagainst it. Senator Stephen Fleming, the senator from Ft. Wayne and a millioniare opposed the bill, of course, oh account of the

limitation of the number of saloons and the high license j but what surprised the temperance people here was that our own Senator Halleck voted with Fleming against the regulation bill.

AND WHO IS SENATOR TRAYLOR?

Jasper county is also to have a grand jury. They should investigate Senator Traylor. There is a report up here that he is loony. —Lake Count}* Times.

THE PAPER OR THE CAR, JOHN?

Fowler Leader; A two cylinder Hudson was abandoned two weeks ago six miles north of Montmorenci. It was hauled to Lafayette Friday. It stood beside the road all that time. The owner is unknown. A part of a Rensselaer paper was found in the car. It was probably stolen.

WHY SO TOUCHY?

Xow The Democrat said nothing about any Rensselaer editors being addicted to the poker -playing habit. But rumor has it that a certain editor in Jasper countv was in quite a serious condition and for several days his brow was covered with icicles when he learned that the grand jury wa s looking into alleged poker playing a little. His circulation got better immediately on adjournment of that body, however, and he will once more wave his arms and bombastically condemn gambling as a sin in which only democrats indulge. 1

CROW SCALPS GALORE

Can Be Secured at Big Crow Roost in Jordan Tp. For many years there has been a big crow roost over in Princeton tp., near Black Oak, but recently they seem to have changed their location to the J. H. Keister and John F. Mitchell grove, in Jordan tp., east of the Egypt school house, and tens of thousands of them now make this grove their headquarters. If Representative Brown’s crow scalp bill gets through the legislature enough scalps can be secured at this place alone by a party of hunters to almost bankrupt the county.

STEWART WINS AGAIN.

Parr Grappler Completely Outclasses His Opponent Saturday Night. Billy Stewart, the Parr grappler, and holder of the middleweight championship of Jasper count} r , easily defeated Rov Maple, the Jordan township school teacher, who essayed to break into the ranks of wrestledom Saturday night. The match was held in the Ellis opera house and the house was packed. In the preliminaries Peters vs. Peters, cousins, were substituted at the eleventh hour and fufjnished more amusement than the main event. In the big event Stewart was announced as weighing 151 and Maple 174. Stewart looked as hard as nails, but Maple was* in poor condition. His muscles looked soft and flabby and tis wind was poor, although in good condition and with some instruction from competent hands Maple should be a hard man to handle. He is by far the better built for the game. Neither man displayed anything in the way of skill. Both falls were won in jig time,, and the official announcer said the first fall was by a waist hold, whatever that is. To the house it looked more like a half-nelson. The second fall was practically the same as the first. Maple on the defensive and Stewart worked another ‘‘waist hold” (? j Cfiris Kupkey challenged the winner, but Stewart didn't want any of his game as the difference in weight was too big a handicap, Kupkey weighing 183, a difference of some 30 pounds. Kupkey can claim the heavyweight title by default, but Stewart appears to have the middleweight class beaten* to a frazzle. Under proper tutelage Stewart should make a classy middleweight boxer. He is lightning fast, appears to be able to use both hands and evidently can use his head. r __ Gwin & Watson have on hand four "Stay-Down” Tank Heaters.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

JASPER OOUHTY. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1911.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol C. L. "Bader, Hhie Winamac bridge man, was in the city on business Monday. I The annual farmers institute \ was in session at the court house Monday and yesterday. The marriage license business ; this month has been strictly no. ; good, only two licenses having f been issued thus far. The \Y inamac papers are thrusting honors upon Attorney Geo. A. Williams. Just listen to this: “Judge Williams of Rensselaer was here this week, locicing after business in the circuit i court.” o__ The replevin case against Sheriff Hoover, growing out of tjie attachment of a lot of horses and xarm tools on orders from Porter county, has been occupying the attention of the court and jury this week, and was still on as as we go to press. Former township trustee John Bill of Jordan tp., was in the city on business Monday Mr. Bill lost about SI,OOO in 1904 in the McCoy political bank** and while here Monday he learned that the legislature was taking favorable action to reimburse public officials for such losses, so be decided to get in the game. He feels that he is as much entitled to relief as [other officers, and will try to secure the necessary legislation for reimbursement.

PUBLIC SALES.

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday, Feb. 23, J. M. glider, at Gifford. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, household goods, etc. Tuesday, Feb. 28, L. J. Lane and Sam Sigman, 6*/ 2 miles southeast of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, farm tools, household goods, etc.

NOTHING DONE AT HAMMOND YET.

I Owing to the fact that there fare a number of other matters j which have taken the attention of the officials of the Monon railroad nothing further has been done with the project to build a , Monon depot in this city. \\ hen the building season opjens up it is expected that the enigineer of the railroad and Marshall & Fox, the architects, will come to Hammond and make the necessary arrangements for the building of the depot.—Hammond Times.

MANY “RELIEF” MEASURES

Are Being Passed By the Present Indiana Legislative. Senate Bill 423. introduced a few days ago in the state legislature, provides for the relief of C. L: Constable, former trustee of Grant tp., Newton county, who lost $1,276.50 in the Home Bank of Goodland. It seems to us that the legislature is letting the bars down a little too much in this matter of “relief for funds lost by public officers in bank failures. That is, that there has come such a flood of these bills by reason of favorable action on a number of them, and if one public officer is relieved then all ought to be. It is perhaps the right thing to do to relieve such officers, except in a felifr exceptional cases, a couple of wtiich we had here in the McCoy bank failure. But where is it going to end and how far back will they go? John Bill, Geo, Wilcox. S. L. Luce, Joseph Stewart. C. M. Blue, trustees, and S. L. Nichols, county treasurer, lost money in the McCoy bank—or Blue's bondsmen rather, in his case and Keener tp., in Luce’s case—and except tike two latter, who are least deserving of relief of any of those named, because of the well known conditidns of their obligations to that bank, none of these asked as yet for relief of the present legislature from their losses. \ Blue, Nidhols, and ex-trustee

Fell of Carpenter tp.,—who lost in the Parker bank at Remington —have asked fot* relief, and judging from the legislature’s action on similar losses in other sections of the state, their plea will be granted. If "relief” from such losses is to be the policy of the legislature, then all these officials should gfet a hurry-up move on themselves and climb into the relief wagon. All are certainly as much entitled to it as Blue, Nichols and Fell.

YES, THEY’RE ALL GONE.

The several hundred calendars advertised to be given away to subscribers and patrons of The Democrat, all went-in three days’ time, in fact the last one was given out about the middle of the forenoon of the Saturday following the* appearance of the notice on Wednesday. We neglected to announce that they were all gone, and 7,000 people, more or less, have called at the office since the supply was exhausted to get a calendar, but were disappointed.

The brief time taken to exhaust the supply proves -;vconclusively that it certainly pays to advertise, and had we had four times the number that we had they would have all been taken by the hundreds of people who have called on purpose to get one in response to the notice.

BENTON COUNTY FIRST IN CONTEST.

The District Spelling Contest held here Saturday afternoon, did Dot draw the local crowd that was expected. Only seven counties with twenty-one contestants were represented. Neither Warren nor Jasper was in the contest. The winners were Blanche Forsythe of Benton county, and Mildred Dillingham and Lillian Rapp of Porter county. The words missed are given herewith in the order in which they came: Untie. Woman. Fragrant. Jaunty. Vanilla. Lows. Willingly. Shriek. Parsley. Recommend. Facilitate. 5 ' Tedious. Incense. " Blotches. i Peered. Purify. Accommodate. Pennants. ' Of these, Nora Burkett of Burnettsville, this county, ■ missed “lows,” Salina Graves missed “incense,” and Majorie Washburn, “purify.” These were the other two contestants from this county. As will- be Seen, there were but five left on the floor when Majorie went down. Facilitate was the only word missed in the written test, and of the boys only one entered the written test, and he was the first to go down after going back on the floor. The test did not last as long as was expected. Prof. Roberts, of Purdue, and Supt. Henderson, of Delphi, did the pronouncing.—Monticllo Journal.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

W. B. STnaw, special agent for the Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., was here Saturday and settled the loss on J. C. Gwin’s barn in Hangihg Grove tp., which was destroyed by fire Feb. 2, paying the loss in full. This company has been represented in Rensselaer for tfhe 35 years by C., B. Steward, add has gained a reputation for fair treatment arid paying its losses in full. Its losses in the big San Francisco fire was $2,500,000, but it paid dollar for dollar without a whimper. It has a large amount of farm and city property insured in Jasper county and has-paid back in losses here many thousands of dollars, and its adjustments have been prompt and satisfactory.

i - ' NOTICE OP REMOVAL. On and after Feb. Ist I will have removed my office across the street over Duvall's clothing store, to rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Washburn. DR. W. W. MERRILL. --•.• • I , ‘ ' The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer and this paper delivered for one year at our "special deal” price of $2.00 for the two.

State and General News

SUITS FOR SBO,OOO.

Are Filed Against Erie Railroad Because of Falta Auto Accident. Logansport, Ind., February 18. —Suits were filed today against the Chicago and Erie Railroad Company, aggregating SBO,OOO, because of afi automobile accident that occurred near Rochester, Ind., August 12, 1910, in which Mrs. John Rekert, Charles C. Lambert and Miss Anna M, Wagner, of Indianapolis, were killed, and Mrs. John Kelp, Miss Agnes Rekert and Carl Bucker injured.

CAN YOU ANSWER THIS?

Are a Cow’s Ears Behind or in Front of the Homs? Columbus, 0., Feb. 17.—The inability of a single member of the Ohio house of representatives to tell off-hand whether a cow’s ears are behind or in front of tihe horns, has resulted in the passage of a bill to teach agriculture in the country schools. The bill was having hard sledding when Representative Braschler arose and asked tbe opponents of the measure to give the location of a cow’s ears, and not one could do so. Braschler professed to know, but declined nevertheless to let out the secret, and the bill .passed unanimously.

DANVILLE JURY TO STICK.

“No Funds” Notice Has No Effect Upon Illinois Vote Probers. Danville, 111., February 17.County Treasurer Wysong today announced to the grand jury that the gand jury funds were exhausted and that if they continued longer in session they could not be paid. On a vote the jury members determined to “remain in session all summer, funds or no funds, if necessary.” Meanwhile members of the county board of supervisors got together and gave it out that at the March meeting of the board funds would be provided to take up all warrants that may be issued and provide sufficient funds for future work shouldtsuch be needed.

LOSE ELECTION CONTEST.

Cass County Republicans Must Pay Costs Recount Increases Margins. Logansport, Ind., Feb. 20. Judge Joseph P. Wason of Delphi. presiding in the election contest case in the Cass circuit court Saturday evening, declared Marvin M. Minnick, county treasurer, and Harry E. Burkit, record-er-elect, elected and assessed the costs against Fred Hammontree and O. M. Shirley, Republicans, who had contested their election. The canvassing board, following the election, last November, declared Burkit elected by a majority of six and M innick by a majority of seventeen. In the recount the majorities of Burkit and Minnick, instead of being reduced, were increased. Minnick’s majority, according to the recount, is thirty-two and Burkit’s thirty-nine. The costs and attorneys’ fees are about one thousand dollars.

COP SHOOTS A GREEK.

Latter Is Believed to Have Been Trying to Poison Family. Gary, Ind., Feb. 17.—Chief of Police John Martin believes he lhas uncovered a plot to poison Mrs. Paul Carbon and her four children at 560 Jefferson street. Last night William Stich, a Greek, was arrested after a revolver fight with patrolman Anton Valone, in which tlhe former was wounded. Mr. Carbon, who is a wealthy manufacturer, complained to the police that Stich has been acting suspiciously around Iris house at night. Elach , morning Carbon would find fruit ( and candy on Ms back porch on the window led£e. He and his wife became alarmed and they notified the police. Last night Chief Martin sent patrolman Vakme Jo watdh the place. Wlien Stich arrived at the house about i 9 o'clock he saw the patrolman in ‘waiting. He drew hfe revolver

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and both exchanged shots. One of tfhe bullets struck Stich in the side of the face. He is in the hospital. A letter and a sack of candy were found on the window. Chief Martin will have the letter translated. It is his opinion that tfhe candy and fruit contain poison.

PROBE HOLY HOOPESTON.

Illinois Town, Danville’s Neighbor, Said to Have Held Corrupt Elections. Danville, ,111., February 18.—■ I loopeston, known as the “Holy City/’ wfhose mayor draws a salar >' of 50 cents a year and whose aldermen serve without remuneration, will be investigated by the grand jury Monday. It has been stated that nearly as much money has been used at elections in that city as in Danville. The attention of tihe jury has been called to the sheriff’s office, and acting prosecutor Weisiger stated th'at it would be investigated. rhe charge is made that subpoenas issued - more than a week ago /have not been served, when it is a well-known fact that persons for whom they were issued have been in the city.

DISEASE AND DEATH.

Report of the State Board of Health for the Month of January- // — : 1 he bulletin of the State Board of Health for January, 1911, just issued, says: There was more sickness and more deaths in January, 1911, than in the same month of 1910. In January just passed, the deaths numbered 3259, rate 14.2; same month last year 2883, rate 12.3. Scarlet fever was epidemic in 22 places, in same month last year it was epidemic in , 7 places. Tonsilitis, influenza and bronchitis were the most prevalent diseases. Pneumonia stood seventh in area of prevalence and fourth in the same month last year. Consumption did its usual horrible work, killing 389 people. Typhoid fever killed p 9, diphtheria 38, scarlet fever 26, measles 17, whoopingcough 12, pneumonia 457, diarrhoeal diseases under two years of age 44, cerebro spinal meningitis 9, influenza 130, puerperal fever 30, cancer 158, violence 189. Poliomyelitis finfantile paralysis) caused 7 deaths: Carrol 1, Hendricks 1, Marion 1, Posey 1, Steuben 1, Washington 1, Whitlev 1. The number of cases were about 100. This comparatively new disease threatens the state when warm weather comes. The death rate of certain cities were: Indianapolis 15.4, Evansville 16.9, Ft. Wayne 14, Terre Haute 19.4, South Bend 14. Muncie 14.2, Anderson 12, Richmond 10.5, Hammond 13.5, New Albany 18.3, Lafayette 20.5.

December Births: Births are always reported one month late because the law permits twenty days for reporting them. Total births, 4332. Males 2121, females 2055, stillbirths 156. White males 2075, white females 2026. Colored males 46, colored females 29. White stillbirths 150, colored stillbirths 6. State rate 18.1. The highest rate, as usual, was in Warren County, 34.8; lowest in Owen county,' 6.1.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following letters remain uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending Feb. 20, 1911: Miss Grace Parker, Mrs. Mary Meyers, Miss Nola Gruot, Miss Grace. Carter, John Gaffay, Robert Wallace, Rev. A. J. Sheidler, Mr. Kirswall, Margeret Short, John E. Smith. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office March 6, 1911. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,” giving date of fist. — G. E. Murray, P. M-

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Feb. 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Senior Hopkins of Cravvfordsville, a son. Feb., 10, to Mr: and Mrs. Frank Nessius of Jordan tp., a son. ' ■ ' ' ■ c |

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