Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — Page 4

IK JUKI 600 ITT DEROCIRT ttWCmUfflllßHUiail. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June *, 19M, at the poet office at Rensselaer, under the Act of March 3, 1379. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Isaac M.Pagm,' • ; -. , ■ Long Distance Telephones Office 315. Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911-

HARD PRESSED FOR ARGUMENT.

The Republican, in its efforts to make The Democrat man out Ae worst rascal that ever went unhung, resorts to . the lowest, petty, mean, despicable, silly and childish methods we have ever seen. It propounds some “questions" for us to answer that real Iy are too childish and silly to notice and we shall reply to them but friefly, as there is nothing to them. First it asks if we did not some 20 years ago, while employed as a printer on the Remington Press, vstrite old Jim McEwan regarding a legal notice published by the Town of Remington in the Press and ask him as a favor to quote a price of Sl3 on same, when the legal was padded out and really was worth but $9? This is pretty far-fetched indeed, but we will say without fear of successful contradiction that we never asked him or anyone else to "favor” us by any crooked statement. Now that we recall it, a non-fesident notice was published in the Press along in the early nineties. Legal notices were few' and far between with the Press as they were with all inland papers, and it was about the first notice of the kind we ever set up in type. We followed the style of practically all county seat papers and we believe a bill for sl3 was filed for it. This legal was about the first the town board over there ever had published, and the claim was continued while they wrote over to Rensselaer to see if the measurement was correct;. Our -remembrance is that the writer wrote to both old Mac and Marshall to verify our figures, and we have somewhere among our old papers their reply, which was to the effect that w r e had not made the charge high enough, old M&c saying that it measured out sl6 and Marshall sls. Therefore, eliminating the “padding” which the Republican asserts was there, and which we insist was set in the prevailing style, the notice was still worth at the legal rates for such advertising, all that was charged for it. The board satisfied itself that the claim was, just and paid it in full. As the writer did not profit one penny by this legal in any way, being merely an employe on the paper securing it and was only doing his duty to his employer in seeing that he got what he was legally entitled to for his work, we don’t imagine St. Peter will hold any charge against us on his docket for this “offense.”

It also rehashes its old, mosscovered rfiarge of The Democrat entering into a compact with Marshall and Clark regarding the city printing, and asks if we did not force .Marshall and Clark to pay us a per cent on city printing and job work. In view of the fact that this charge was referred to the city attorney more than a year ago with instructions to investigate and report to the council, and we have time and again stated that so far as we were concerned we invited the investigation and urged that a report be made, while not a "cheep” along that line has been heard from the Republican, we infer that it is afraid of an investigation of its own charges, even by the republican county chairman, w*ho is the city attorney to whom the matter was referred, and who also knows * that the statement of the Republican regarding our withholding settlement with Clarkie are absolutely false. Now we think the public will agree with us that it is up to the Republican to urge that a report be made by the city attorney of these charges or s'hut up about them. It then wants to know- if we did not send a mileage book to a printer who was coming to work for us, for use from Indianan plis here, and tell him to sign the mileage in the name it was issped, thus trying to induce him to commit forgery? We may have seat a mileage book with such instructions, not

having time to w'rite to Chicago arid secure a trip pass. But the dhileage ,was issued on account advertising and belonged to The Democrat. Transportation could be had up to the amount of the contract to any employe of this paper, and if this employe was authorized to sign the name appearing in this book there could be no forgery, a fact which anyone with a thimbleful of brains ought to know. The Republican is indeed hard pressed for argument. But. speaking of railroad transportation secured on advertising, we once kne w'of a republican editor not a thousand miles from Rensselaer who used to get passes for people in no way connected with his publication, though representing that they were actually connected therewith. B. S. Fendig, the poultry and junk dealer, too a trip to New Orleans, also a long editorial trip with a certain republican editor who represented that Ben was connected with his paper and thus entitled to the transportation furnished. And we might cite a great deal more along this . line. If not asking too much, will the Republican kindly state for how long a time and how much transportation was used on account of the Rensselaer Journal after that sheet and the Republican were consolidated?

PRISON FOR RURAL CARRIER

Gets One Year tor Trying to Use Stamps Second Time. Indianapolis, May 19. —With the remark that it would have to be understood that a government employe who was intrusted with funds or put in a position of trusrt must obey the law, Judge Anderson sentenced John H. Belcher, a South Bend rural mail carrier, to the federal prison for one year for removing; stamps from mail for the purpose of again using the stamps. The five counts in the indictment to which Belcher pleaded guilty charged the removal of stamps of a total value of 11 cents.

TRIALS ARE SET FOR MAY 29

Alleged Whitecappers Will Face Judge and Jury at Bloomington. Bloomington, Ind., May 19. — By agreement of the attorneys on each side the preliminary trials of the seven men charged with whitecapping Harvey McFarley, a farmer of Harmony, two weeks ago, were set for Monday, May 29. Deputy Prosecutor of this city will be assisted in the' vprosecution by Prosecutor John H. Underwood of Bedford, and the attorney general may be asked to assist the state.' The prosecution will make every effort to secure a conviction.

FALSE TEETH CAUSE TROUBLE

They Lodge in Man’s Lung and Bring on Pneumonia. Lafayette, Ind., May 19. Porter Teak, aged forty, of Clark’s Mill, is dying of pneumonia caused by a portion of a bridge and false teeth which lodged in his lung when he sneezed while 4 dentist was working with him. Teak was nearly strangled when the teeth lodged in the trachea, but they were finally displaced and passed into his lung. Inflammation immediately developed and phyhicians say there is no ht.pe for his recovery.

Moss States His Willingness.

Greencastle, Ind., May 19. —When in this city Congressman Ralph Moss said: “If the people of Indiana want me to be their candidate for governor, I would be happy to make the race. However, I cannot tnake a fight for the nomination, and will not do so. If the Democrats of the state want me, I will gladly make the race for them. The question of my candidacy is in their hands”

Thief’s Unfortunate Exchange.

Nashville, Ind., May 19. When Charles Lucas, a farmer of Jackson township, entered his hen house he discovered that thirteen of his hens had been stolen in the night Under the her roost he found a gold watch wbicfi he brought here, and a jeweler fixed its value at $250. No such watch was ever seen in this county and there is much speculation as to the find. »

Killed by Jump from Car.

Terre Haute, Ind., May 19. Miss Mary Frisch man, twenty-three years old, was instantly killed when she leaped from a moving street car. Her neck was broken. The girl had passed the street where she was. to joip a party for a hay ride, and when she heard the calls of her friends, jumped from her seat She fell on her head, which wks crushed.

Divorced from Supposed Insurrecto

Logansport, Ind.. May 19.—Her husband being a fugitive from justice and supposedly in the insurrecto army in Mexico a divorce, was granted Mrs, Thomas Quigley here. Quigley was the “Terre Haute representative of a packing firm of this city, and when charged with embezzling S9OO, he fled, to the southern .country, enlisting with the rebels;

GENERAL KEWS.

At New York, Saturday twenty-five men standing in a First avenue saloon experienced a spasm of terror when a powerful racing automobile leaped through the plate glass window, pushed its hood into the room and came ta standstill in the debris Just as the rear wheels cleared the window sllL The men liberated John Juhass and his wife. Juhasz is a noted racing driver and he deliberately pointed his car at the window to avoid running down two children who toddled In front of the car. He wrecked the car and was glad of it, he said, so long as he did not strike the children.

Notice that the executive board of the International Association of Structural Iron Workers had levied an assessment of $5 on each member of the union for the purpose of obtaining a defense fund to be used in aiding Secretary J- J- McNamara, who is to be tried at Los Angeles for alleged complicity in dynamiting outrages, is contained in the May issue of the Bridgemen’s Magazine, the official publication of the union. The call to the unions for, money is included In a statement by F. M. Ryan, president, who sets out the iron workers’ views of the McNamara affair. t

Education of the Filipino ia a task toward which insular bureau officials are directing special effort and to augment the small army of 9,000 American teachers already employed in Philippine schools the government is appealing for more instructors. Examinations will be held throughout the country Aug. 30 and 31 next to obtain a list of eligibles. The educational system in the Philippines, according to the insular bureau, has grown during the last ten years to such an extent that there is now an attendance of more than half a million school children. Three and a quarter million dollars of Philippine revenues is expended annually In this branch of the service. Leaving his engine, which was pulling an eastbouna Wabash paseenger train, Charles Miller, an engineer, led a party of fifty passengers to the burning home of Miss Daisy Whittaker, west of Chilliccthe, Mo., and extinguished the flames, probably saving the lives T Miss Whitaker and her aged mother. Following the placing of a small brown bean pot filled with a white powder under the famous “Bridge of Sighs’’ at the Tombs prison. New York, an Italian boy and an old woman were arrested. They are suspected of trying to blow up the prison. Attorneys for the Alpha Cement company have presented to the interstate commerce commission figures to show that the total capitalization of the United States Steel corporation and J. P. Morgan & Co. concerns amounts to $15,857 629.339. Captain John H. Gibbons assumed the superintendency of the United States naval academy at Annapollß. The wealth produced on farms of the United States was $8,926,000,000 during 1910, as estimated by ths department of agriculture. George Dryer, son of a New York banker, revealed his identity to officers of a boat at Seattle, Wash., on which he w as working his way to Alaska, after it was rumored that he committed suicide, following his disappearing from home. .

Under the will of Walter E. Duryea, filedi n New York, the bulk of his fortune. estimated at $2,500,000, goes to Miss Eleanor Peregrine, a trained nurse, who was his housekeeper for the last twelve years of his life. To decide the ownership between nations of $7,000,000 worth of property now on the American side of the Rio Grande river, in the southern section of El Paso, an international commission met at El Paso, Tex. The government is holding out attractive inducements to ambitious young men and women to become teachers in the Philippine Island schools. Examinations are to be held Aug. 30 and 31. The steamship Corwin sailed from Seattle for Nome, the famous gold camp on Bering sea, where 1,500 people have been cut off from direct connection with the woTld since last October.

Farm life is more perilous than that of the artisan or factory employe, say statistics of the National Association of Manufacturers, which is in sixteenth annual convention in New York. The first aero taxi will be put into service in a week or two at Lucerne, Switzerland, according to advices received by the New York Aero club. A French company is the builder. The irrepressible American interviewer has succeeded at last in talking with the dalai lama of Tibet, generally regarded as the most unapproachable being in the world. New York brokers appealed to United States supreme court to hurry up Standard Oil and tobacco case decisions, saying wait hurts business. Colonel Roosevelt denied that he would hunt polar bears in the Arctic with Captain Robert Bartlett, during 1912, presidential year. It is reported that the engagement of Claude Grahame-Wihte, the British aviator, and Pauline Chase, the actives, has been broken. Remains of the ancient clixt dwellers will come into possession of the'United States, through giving the TTte Indians more land. The Yale scientific expedition to Peru recently authorized by the university corporation will leave New York June 8. '

PEACE BROODS OVER MEXICO

Northern Section of Republic Is Really Quiet j PUTTING CONDITIONS ON PAPER ■■ * » Francisco De La Barra to Become President de Facto When Diaz Resigns—Madero to Go to Capital City. « i El Paso, May 19. —The fierce storms of shot and shell lure been ordered stopped in Mexico, and as far as the northern section of the republic and the insurrecto capital are concerned they hare been stilled. Peace, technically, now reigns throughout Mexico. Fire days is the time fixed for the armistice, but before that time has expired the men behind the scenes declare that the peace pact will be bound up so hard and fast that all the revolutions in Christendom could not break it

Francisco L Madero will go at once to Mexico City to join Francisco De La Barra, who is to become de facto president on the retirement of President Diaz and Vice President Corrall tl is month, in restoring normal conditions and launching the new governmei.;—a joint Madero-De La Barra government Madero, who last night wired Diaz congratulations on his resignation, today wired De La Barra that he (Madero) would resign as provisional president as soon as Diaz is out and De I-a Barra takes office. The insurrecto cabinet held a meeting in Juarez to discuss whether Madero should go at once tq Mexico City, whether he should remain until peace has been finally signed, whether when he goes, it shall be with an insnrrecto bodyguard or alone. It is quite probable that Madero will remain here until peace conditions are signed and his army is ordered disbanded and that he will then go direct to Mexico City and there remain at work with De La Barra in the restoration of order. Judge Carbajal and Madero will have frequent meetings during the next few days putting on paper the conditions attending the peace agreement already agreed upon. Insurrecto and federal leaders continue to express hearty belief in their ability to disband all contending armies and restore peace in a short time. News of rebel activities is still received from many regions and, in most cases where the insurrectos have taken the towns, they have been able to restore normal conditions in a remarkably short time and preserve peace and quiet. The most severe fighting is reported from Corsala, in the state of Sinaloa, where the 400 federals defending the town fought a beseiging force of 1,400 rebels for twelve days. The federals had no time to bury their dead and the corpses decomposed under the sun. Throughout Sonora the insurrectos are rapidly getting their government into CTJition. Inasmuch as the federals are all leaving the state, permission has been granted to repair the railroads and all business will soon be resumed. Information from Chihuahua, capital of the stote of the same name, says the foreigners and natives alike were overjoyed at receipt of the news of an armistice and further elated when they learned that repairs had been commenced from Juarez on the railroad. ~—

WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING

Figuroa Asserts that Madero’s Armistice Will Not Bind Him. Mexico City, May 19.—Ambrisio Figuroa, commander of the rebels dominating the state of Guerrero, declares that he will not suspend hostilities even under the armistice arranged by Madero. A letter was received in Mexico City, dated Tuesday, in which Figuroa is quoted as saying that Madero- has made many arrangements with the government which assure little substantial gain to the rebel cause. ( .

PULLMAN HEAD RESIGNS

Robert T. Lincoln Is Succeeded by John S. Runnels. Chicago, May 19. Robert T. Lincoln resigned as president of the $120,000,000 Pullman company, and John S. Runnels was elected as his successor. Following the acceptance of Lincoln’s resignation, he, was chosen chairman of the board of directors, a newly created position. Mr. Lincoln informed the directors his sole reason for resigning was the impaired condition of his health.

Fatal Fall into Mine.

Evansville, Ind., May 19. Falling over 300 feet down the airshaft at the Sunnyside coal mine here. Hem*} Slough, aged twenty-three, a carpenter by the railroad, was instantly killed and his body crushed almost beyond recognition.'

Heat Kills Steelworker.

Gary, Ind., May 19.—The hot weather has claimed its first victim in Gary. An unidentified steelworker, who was overcome, died at the Mercy hospital.

IN DIAKA STATE NEWS.

INDfANAPOLfS— After witnessing In a 'flve-eent theater a recital of domestic woes that reached its climax when the husband left home, Robert Harvey, nineteen years old. left his sevteen-year-old bribe of six months sitting in the theater and went to their home, where he packed his suitcase and departed for parts unknown. This was the tale told by Rosa Harvey when she swore out a warrant for Harvey’s arrest on the charge of wife desertion. According to Mrs. Harvey she and her young husband were still living in their honeymoon and all was happiness until they attended the motion picture show. They had had no trouble previous to that time, the girl said, and when her husband left the theater on a pretext she had no suspicion until returning home alone, she found she had been deserted.

BLOOMINGTON That he had been made the victim of “third degree” methods by John McCabe, a constable of Bloomington township, was the allegation made in affidavit filed against the officer by Ira Appleman of LaOrange, an Indiana university student. Appleman, who says the constable deprived him of necessary sleep by walking him about the streets of Bloomington until 2 o’clock in the morning in an effort to get him to confess petit larceny, waß accused of taklnk books. The charge against the constable for his alleged use of the third degree is probably the first in the state, under the new law. The penalty for that Is a fine of from $lO to SSO. BLOOMINGTON —ln his mail Deputy Prosecutor Regester, who had been active in his efforts to push the charges against the seven arrested for the alleged “whitecapping’’ of Harvey McFarley, received this letter: "Dear Sir —We hate to regulate a good man tar you will please forget the McFarley ‘whitecapping' case. A word to the wise, etc. —Harmony regulars.” Harmony is the neighborhood, southwest of here, where McFarley resides. Mr. Regester. says the receipt of the letter will not cause him to discontinue his efforts against whitecapping and that he is not alarmed at the threaL COLUMBUS Ralph S. Spaugh, the prosecuting attorney for this Judicial circuit, has returned from Chicago, Cleveland and Cincinnati, where he has been working on evidence against the men who are thought to have dynamited the Caldwell & Drake Iron Work* office here. Spaugh declines to say what he learned on his trip. Chief of Police Cooper, who had a conference with the prosecutor after the latter’s return, said the information obtained might lead to some arrests here later on. Spaugh declined to say whether or not he conferred with Detective William J. Burns while away. WASHINGTON—Hugh McKernan, Jr. f the youngest son of .. Hugh F. McKernan, a wealthy lumber dealer, was arrested on a warrant charging him witli having criminally assaulted Edna Brumett, a sixteen-year-old school girl, who is under the care of a physician. McKernan was released under SI,OOO bond. He is twen-ty-eight years oid and has been married twice, his wives having been divorced. TIPTON Finally deciding that it would be better to serve Uncle Bam for three years than to be prisoners in the reformatory for an indefinite period, Omer Church and Hugbie Woods, indicted for stealing chickens, accepted the decree of the court and were taken to Kokomo, where they enlisted in the regular army. They were sent to the barracks at Columbus, O. EVANSVILLE—Intense grief over the sudden death of her little child several weeks ago caused Mrs. Sophia West, a patient at a local hospital, to become insane, and she will be admitted to the Southern Hospital for the Insane. Mrs. West’s home ;is in Warrick county, and she is the mother of five children. She has been a woman of strong literary tastes. WABASH —An unknown man died in the hospital here, following injuries received in the yard of the Wabash railroad. The man was about thirty-five years old and well dressed. He carried a woman’s watch. A memorandum found in his pocket contained several violets which had been pressed and carried for some time. HAM MO/1 D—Anthony Alfaon, aged about twenty-eight, an engine wiper, who took the place of a man on strike at the Indiana Harbor roundhouse in West Hammond, was terribly burned by sulphuric acid. Alfaon was working on an engine when some one came behind him and threw the acid as he turned. COLUMBIA ClTY—Waldo Ghilon, a young newspaper man, was attacked by two great coonhounds, and before the could be driven away they had inflicted a number of serious wounds. The dogs are the property of Mayor B. J. Bloom, who ordered that they be shot by the city marshal. INDIANAPOLIS Believing that a boxing match on Memorial day would be a desecration of the day, Mayor Shank says no boxing matches will be permitted on May 30. He says if it is necessary the police force will be called on to prevent any such exhibition being held. TERRE HAUTE—Charles S. Downing, of LaFayette, has been elected president of the Indiana division, Travelers’ Protective Association, at, the annual convention here by acclamation. W. D. Chambers of Terre Haute was re-elected secretary-treas-urer.

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Notice—The last ear load of the “Northern Indiana Special” iertilizer will be in today (Saturday), If you have not already contracted for fertilizer see us on call us up at once. —J. J. WEAST. Estray Calf Found—A small calf came to my place Monday evening. Owr.e~ may have same by calling at my place and proving ownership.—E. A MERRILL, Parr R-l. m 25 ' “ - . - Teams Wanted —To plow by the acre. Easy plowing. Will pay 11.50 per acre, and pay each week —JOHN* O’CONNOR, Kniman. Ind. ts Stray Steer—Came to my place two weeks ago, a yearling steer.—ERNEST MAYHEW, Rensselaer. Ind., R-3. For Sale —The furniture and fixtures of a small hotel and restaurant with a small stock of groceries. Just the place for a man and wife. No competition, in a good live town. Would take small residence In exchange in any good town. —Address E. M. GAFFTELD, Dunn, Ind. Hungarian and Millet Seed —No. 1 seed for sale in any quantity desired at my farm 1% miles north of depot.—ALF DONNELLY. For Sale—lndian Runner Ducks. A few at $1 each. Also eggs, 22 for $1; $4 per hundred.—MAYHEW BROS., Rensselaer, Ind. Mt. 4Lyr phone 29-H. ts Wanted—Teams to haul gravel at Fair Oaks. Good wages paid.— CROWN POINT CONSTRUCTION CO., Fair Oaks, Ind. m2O For Trade.—A good merry-go-round for sale or trade. What have you to trade? And a 5-passenger Cadillac automobile in good order. On account of my fertilizer business I have no use for them. Your price is mine.—J. J. WEAST, Rensselaer, ts Early Seed Corn For Sale.—lndian Squaw, the earliest and best yielding corn for miick land and late planting, planted it May 24, 1909, on Mr. John J. Lawler’s muck land only partiall drained; on August 24, 1909, frost bit the stalks, the corn was .dry and hard, yielded 50 bu. to the acre by measure, overran measure by weight 18 per cent. Sold Mr. Lawler 110 bu. for seed, he planted the two farms at Fair Oaks and Morocco, in all 800 acres, in all sold 200 bu, for seed around Fair Oaks and Parr last year. Customers all pleased. Price $1.50 per bu. —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., Phone Mt. Ayr BK.jz Wanted—Local and traveling salesmen representing our reliable goods. Any man of good appearance who is not afraid of work can make this a satisfactory and permanent business. Write at once for terms. Outfit free. Territory unlimited. Big money can be made. Apply quick.—ALLEN NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y.

For Sale—Bakery and restaurant at Williamsport, county seat of Warren county. Good stand, low rent. See J. J. WEAST, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts S. C. Brown Leghorn Eggs—For setting, 50c per 15; $3 per 100. also White Guinea eggs, 50c for 17. —MRS. W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. ts 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 property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman, nd. Farm Loans—We are furnishing the money.—DUNLAP & PARKISON, I. O. O. F. Bldg, Rensselaer, Ind. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission 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 work, in 6 and 12 point, 30 ems long, sold in any amount wanted by THE DEMOCRAT. See samples in use in the ads in this paper. * 100 Envelopes—Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not be without—for 50 cents at The Democrat office. Legal Blanks—Warranty and quti claim deeds, real estate and chattel mortgages, cash and grain rent farm leases, city property leases, releases of mortgage and several other blanks can be purchased in any quantity desired at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. Road tax receipt and order books are also kept in stock. ts

Use Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic; powder to shake into the shoes. Makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Relieves painful, swollen, tender, sweating, aching feet and takes the stfng out of corns and bunions. Sold (everywhere, 25 c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. i. •