Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — Page 4

TBE JISPER COUNTY OEMOCIRI f. EB<BCOCK.tDITQRIIIDPOBIISH[R. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1908. at the post office at. Rensselaer, Indiana, under the~Aet~of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1911.

LEAVE VETERANS’ HOME

New Law Regarding Pensions Sends Them to National Reservation. Marion, Ind., March 24. —As a result of the law enacted by the recent legislature requiring members of the State Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette to turn over all of their pensions above sls for expenses at the home, several of the members affected by the new statute have applied for admission at the National Military Home in this city. Many more applications are expected from Lafayette before the end of the week. Congress appropriated $lO2 a member for the support of the various state homes, and when the law affecting pensioners was proposed in the legislature it was said congress would retaliate by cutting off the appropriations.

COURT SUSPENDS SENTENCE

New Albany Politician Pleads Guilty to Family Desertion. New Albany, Ind.. March 24. —Henry J. H. Koch, arrested in Lafayette on a charge of deserting his family in this city; arrived here in custody of Samuel Frazier, sheriff of Tippecanoe county. He pleaded guilty in the circuit court and was given a sentence of from one to seven years in the reformatory, which was suspended on condition that he provide for his wife and children in the future. Koch has been prominent in politics and labor circles.

STRIKE VOTE BY EMPLOYES

Monon Shopmen, Refused Increase, May Decide to Go Out. Lafayette, Ind., March 24.- —The 300 machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths employed at the Monon shops held a meeting at Labor Temple to consider the question of taking "a vote Ten days ago the men made a request on Superintendent of Motive Power H. C. May for an increase in wages. Mr. May has granted the men better working conditions, but has refused the increase in wages.

EAGLES BOW TO VETERANS

Richmond Lodge Calls Off Carnival Scheduled During Encampment. Richmond, Ind-. March 24. At a meeting with the committee in charge of the G. A. R. encampment the Eagles' Lodge committee promised to change the date of the carnivA, which had been set for the week of the state G. A. R. encampment. Richmond promised the veterans there would be no counter attraction here during the encampment and on learning of this the Eagles agreed to cancel the carnival date.

OPENS PARENTAL COURT

. Gary’s Juvenile Judge Also Has Charge of Reform School. Gary, Ind., March 24. —Willis H. Brown, formerly judge of the Salt Lake City juvenile court and founder of “Boyville” establishments throughout the country, has assumed the duties of judge of the newly created parental court of Gary. Besides presiding over the court Judge Brown will also have charge of Gary’s new parental reform school, which will be built this spring. ; . *

Farmers Plow Up Wheat.

Columbus, Ind., March 24.—The wheat acreage in Bartholomew county will be much smaller at harvest time than it was last year, for the reason. that the early sown wheat did not survive the winter, and many farmers are sowing their early wheat fields to clover or oats. The acreage of oats this year will be larger than ever before in the history of the county.

Dynamite Tears Car Tracks.

Wabash, Ind., March 24. To test out a new device for the discharge of dynamite a firm of contractors exploded 200 pounds in the city limits here. One of the city car tracks was torn up for some distance and service was suspended for some time.

Damages for Explosion Injury.

Terre Haute, Ind., March 24. Alvina Sanders has been awarded SIOO damages for injuries sustained to a member of her family in the Fontanet powder explosion. This is believed to be the last of the suits.

Sheriff to Sell Machinery.

Wabash, Ind., March 24. —Machinery lifted at >2,000, belonging to ths Standard Automobile company of America, will be sold here at sheriff’s sale on April 3. The sale will be made at instance of local creditors. An armful of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office.

FIRE ON UNITED STATES TROOPS

Rumor that Mexican Federate Did So Is Confirmed. CAVALRY RACES FOR TERLINGUA Detachment Now Lost to World In Fastnesses of Rattlesnake Mountains—Texas Rangers Are . Following. San Antonio, Tex., March 24. The officers commanding the extended border patrol in southwestern Texas have sent to Brigadier General J. W. Duncan, commander of the department of Texas, no authoritiative confirmation of the report that American soldiers were fired on by Mexican federal troops in the vicinity of Presidio, report of the incident has been forwarded to Attorney General Wicker sham in Washington by United States Marshal Eugene Nolt a of this district and an then tic v eri float ion of the r. ews came from various sources. According to a telegram received from Presidio via Alpine, not only was the patrol under command of Sergeant Long made the target for several shots from across the Rio Grande, but a band of insurrectos crossed into American territory at the isolated town of La Jilas and after spending, some hours on Texas soil returned to their post outside the beleaguered town of Ojinaga. The troops of cavalry sent on rush orders down into the mountains by orders of General Duncan to ride to the relief of the threatened Terlingua district is still out of the world in the passes of the Rattlesnake mountains Terlingua and the sparsely settled country in the Chisos mountains is still very disturbed and over the single telephone wire leading over the ranges out of Terlingua into Marathon word has come that if the cavalry troop did not arrive before long the isolated folk there feared they would be plundered and shot up by the Mexican bands. In addition to the force of cavalry now’ threatening the passes fn the Bad .Lands that bar the towns of Terlingua and La Jilas from the world, so a correspondent at Alpine on the railroad line wired to San Antonio, a company of the Texas Rangers had been hastily summoned to Alpine and they will take the dark trail over the mountains in the. wake of the troops of the Third cavalry. The destination of the rangers is the Contrabando canyon, the scene of some bloody fights between rangers and Mexican cattle rustlers several years ago.

MADERO’S ARMY LOCATED

Is Forty Miles North of Chihuahua and Awaiting Reinforcements. El Paso. Tex., March 24. —Francisco I. Madero’s army has been definitely located about forty miles north of Chihuahua with Col. Robago and 600 federals entrenched between Chihuahua and the insurrecto chief. Other insurgent bands surround the town. Blanco’s rebel command has now reached the state of Chihuahua on its march back from Sonora in response to Madero’s summons and an attack is expected on Chihuahua any day. The rebel plan is to take Chihuahua and Juarez and start trains running so they can get food and ammunition. At present the main command is 200 miles from the with its ammunition supply cut off.

PROSPERITY HITS TEXAS

Prices Are Good and Banks Do Not Know What to Do With Money. New York, March 24. —Ex-Judge E. B. Perkins of Dallas, who is counsel for the Pierce-Fordyce Oil com pany in Texas, and local counsel for the St. Louis and Southwestern Oil company, arrived at the Wolcott with glowing reports of what is going on in Texas. “Financially, Texas is in better shape than it ever was,” said Judge Perkins. “One reason for this is the fact that there was a fair cotton crop last year, and the prices for cotton and seed were good. Even the little country banks are loaded down with money .and don’t know what to do with it. The price of land has gone up 33 1-3 per cent in the last year. The farmers are building better houses and barns, buying improved machinery, adopting improved methods of agriculture, and last, but by no means least, they are buying automobiles.”

Vincent Altman Dies.

Chicago, March 24. Vincent Altman, long a character who has worried the police, labor leaders and others, and known in connection With slugging and bomb throwing outrages, died in the county hospital. To the end he refused to reveal the identity, if he knew it, of the- assassin who shot him in the barroom of the Briggs House. \ z~~—

Triangular Rowing Race May 20.

Princeton, N. J., March 24. —The triangular race between the crews of Princeton, Cornell and Yale will be held on Lake Carnegie on Saturday, May 20. Thomas Reath, chairman of the University of Michigan Rowing association, will be asked to referee.

GENERAL NEWS.

Mr. Taft is pleased at the tone of discussion in the English parliament in regard to the proposed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. The president is hope ful that the treaty will be adopted by both countries in very short order. In public speeches, notably at the annual peace dinner in Washington in January, Mr. Taft declared that there was no subject of dispute between nations which should not be submitted to an arbitration court and said that especially should questions involving national honor or territory be so settled. The president believes that the proposed treaty will provide for the settlement of such disputes by an international court and is of the Opinion that no greater step toward universal peace could be taken than the making of such p an agreement between the two English speaking people. Nearly 1,500 men joined in celebration of William J. Bryan's 51st birthday, sitting down to a dollar dinner at Lincoln, Neb., and later listening to a dozen speeches from distinguished Democrats. The event was principally intended to convey to those who have again been burying Bryan that they must postpone that ceremony Speeches were made by Speaker Champ Clark on “Cannonism Overthrown," -by Senator Ower of Oklahoma on ‘‘Arizona Legislature,” bySenator Hitchcock of Nebraska on ‘‘Election -of Senators by Direct Vote,” by Senator Kern of Indiana on ‘‘The Tariff.” Congressman .Maguire and several members of the state legislature were also on the toast lists.

Richard A. Ballinger, the former secreatry of the interior department, who has left for the west, will begin a libel suit against Gifford Pinchot and others as soon as he has had a rest from the duties of his office that kept him busy during the closing months of his incumbancy. Before his departure Mr. Ballinger issued a formal statement in which he says: “As to Mr. Pinchot and his companions, in their plot to injure and efame me, I propose to take ample time in planning a legal campaign for >tributive justice. I have given the subject no mature reflection as regards the jurisdiction in which to proceed or the scope of the proceedings.” Shattered by a storm of shell, the old battleship Texas rests on the mud of Tangier sound. The veteran of the United States navy sank under the spectacular markmanship of her newer sister, the New Hampshire. Gaping holes in her port side and two jagged wounds in her forward armor, where shells passed completely through her, showed how she succumbed. Part of both the fighting masts were shot away and her deck was a cluster of debris.

Passengers arriving at Giiayamas, Mexico, on the outhern Pacific report that La Colorada, an important mining camp on the Sonora railway between Torres and Prieto, seventy miles southeast of Hermosillo, has been captured by 400 rebels, headed by Jesus Rovera, a young farmer of Hermosillo, son of a prominent family of that place. One student was rescued in an unconscious condition, many others were awakened barely in time to escape the flames and all were driven, scantily clad, to the street by a fire that partly destroyed Randolph hall, one of the most exclusive Harvard dormitories, on Mount Auburn street, Cambridge, Mass. At Cincinnati, 0., Monday, George B. Cox’s affidavit of “prejudice and bias” against Judge Frank Gorman, by which the Indicted political leader sought to bring his case before another jurist, was thrown out of court by Presiding Judge Charles Hunt of the commrfh pleas bench. John Buckley of the transport Crook claims that the United States cutter Pathfinder recently picked up the end of a Japanese cable near Guam and also that the mikado’s people not long ago had a wireless station upon the island. The Wisconsin assembly committee on military affairs will recommend the bill to send survivors of the battle of Gettysburg to the reunion on the Pennsylvania battlefield next year at state expense.

Sir Hiram Maxim, who has just resigned from the directorate of Vicker’s Sons & Maxim, of London, proposes henceforth to devote his energies to the development of military aeroplanes. Armed bknds of mounted Mexicans have invaded Arizona in the remote Sonoyta and Ajo country and are committing depredations, according to a letter received from there. George Shagori, a crazy Syrian, created a very lively scene in the National City bank in New York when he demanded $1,000,000, which he did not get. The destruction of the old battleship San. Marcos, formerly the Texas, was completed after two days’ firing. She was used as a target for gunnery practice. Three men have been arrested in East St. Louis, 111., on suspicion o, having attempted to wreck interurbt cars of th< McKinley traction system. The Russian cabinet of Premier Stolypin has resigned. Emperor Nicholas accepted the resignation of the premier. Colgate university at Hamilton, N. Y., will be closed for two weeks on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever. Juan Antonio Garcia has been declared provisional governor of Sonora, Mex., by the insufectos.

Ml Mt M Bt. [Under this heaa notices win be published for 1-cent-a-word for the 3r»l Insertion, f %-cent per word for - eact additional Insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Nt notice accepted for less than 25 cents but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the adver tiser.] For Sale or Rent—Five room house, Austin & Paxton’s addition, Rensselaer. Telephone or write —T» M. CALLAHAN, Newland, Ind. Notice to Hunters —Hunting is forbidden on the land owned by I. N. Makeever and A. M. Yeoman, in Newton tp.—l. N. MAKEEVER, A. M. YEOMAN. Cows For Sale—Four good milch cows, now giving milk, some fresh in May, other fresh later. Reason for selling. I am short of pasture.—C. W. CLEMENS. Surrey, Ind., Phone 502-H. aprl Wanted to Buy—A good driving mare, between 4 and 6 years of age; must be sound and gentle.—JOSEPH BAIER, Remington, Ind., R-4. Phone 95-K. m2® White Wyandotte Eggs For Sale —Won every first at Rensselaer. Eggs $1 per 15; $5 per hundred.—AßTHUß MAYHEW, Rensselaer, Ind., Mt. Ayr phone 29-H. ts For Rent-Good 8-room house with barn, centrally located, within 2 blocks of court house. Enquire of C. H. POR*TER, or phone 130. After 5 Days Return to JOHN DOE. Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale —-Upon. receipt of 25 cents, we will 'mail you a rubber stamp with your name and address like above, with one jnk pad.—Address Lock Box 564, Rensselaer, Ind. Indian Runner Duck Eggs For Sale— Won 16 ribbons at two shows. Have 60 laying ducks. Booking orders now for spring delivery. Eggs $1 per 15; •16 per hundred.—MAYHEW BROS., Rensselaer, Ind., Mt. Ayr phone 29-H. ts For Rent— House of four rooms in northeast part of town —ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. To Breeders— l have two stallions, Acrobat A and X-Ray, both trotting horses,* that will make the season of 1911 at the Stock Farm, east of town. —JUNE HENKLE. ts For Sale— loo head of bred Shropshire ewes. A E. KYLE, Remington, Ind., Phone 105-W. al2 For Sale— My property at Aix, Ind , consisting of store room and dwelling ho'tlse, cheap, or will rent same. Address JAMES WISEMAN, Rensselaer, R-2. . ts For Sale— Three horse power gasoline engine.—BERT ABBOTT, at Babcock & Hopkins’ Elevator. Eggs for Sale— Having procured the first prize winning Barred Rock cockerel at Rensselaer P. show of Pullins Bros., also a number of others from same strain, I will offer some eggs from first pen at $2,50 per setting; sec. pen, $1.50. Also M. B. turkey eggs from Pullins Bros, prize-winning strain at $1.50 apiece. Phone A. D HERSHMAN, R. F. D. 1, Medaryville, Ind. m 26

For Sale— All kinds of hardwood lumber, wood, slabs and posts— RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3, phone 20-1 Mt. Ayr. aprl For Sale— s Cows, fresh in Mar. 6 miles south-west of Rensselaer, Mt. Ayr phone 2 9-M—ARTHUR POWELL, Route 3, Rensselaer, Ind. ( S. C. Brown Leghorn Eggs—For setting, 50c per 15; $3 per 100. — MRS. W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Farms For Sale— l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made-up my mind to devote my time to ’ the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal. —JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriq Jasper county, Kniman, Ind. For Sale or Trade— Practically new 12-ga, shotgun, 32 inch barrel, single shot; a hOat little gun and never shot but a few times. Have no use for it and will trade for cordwood or anything I can use. Enquire at Democrat office. For Sale-Several good house doors and a number of 4-light windows and frames, all in gpo.d condition, taken out of house in remodeling. The first reasonable offer gets them. —F. E. BABCOCK. Farm Loans— We are furnishing the money.—DUNLAP & PARKISON, I. O. O. F. Bldg, Rensselaer, Ind. For Rent—Good 6-room house, city witter, three good lots, fruit; all in good shape.—C. W. DUVALL. Eggs —From prize-winning Barred Rocks, yard headed by my 6 Ist and 2d prize cockerels at the big Logansport Fanciers’ show in large competition, 30 years a reliable breeder, satisfaction guaranteed. Write for circular.—D. A. BICKEL, Remington, Ind., Phone 11-K. f- - . - Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no connfllsslon bat office charges. Write him. ts Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Linotype Borders— Cheapest and best borders a printer can use for job and ad w;ork, in 6 and 12 point, 30 ems long, sold in any amount wanted by THE DEMOCRAT. See samples in use in the ade in this paper. ’

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Seed Corn For Sale —Early Abundance field corn. This corn is estimated to yield 120 bushels per acre. Ripens from the 15th to the 20th of September, and will withstand the most severe droughts without injury. I have a small amount of good seed corn that will grow. Price $2.50 per bushel. Seedmen’s price SB.OO per bushel.—JOHN W. CLOUSE. Parr, Ind., R-l, Phone 531 -F. aprl

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