Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Next President Will Be Nominated at Baltimore June 25.

The next president of these United States will be named at Baltimore, Md., June 25. That is, the democratic national convention will be held there and that means the same thing. Baltimore used to be a popular convention city, but of recent years Chicago has had most of the national conventions of both parties, as being more centrally located. The republican conthis year will be held in - Chicago, and a strong effort was made to land the democratic convention also.

Solving the Tramp Nuisance.

The town of Colby, Kansas, is attempting to solve the tramp problem in the following novel manner: The authorities have had 1,000 meal tickets printed and these have been distributed among the housewives of the town. These tickets are good flor one' meal when countersigned by the city marshal. When a hobo appears at the back doo 1 ’ and asks for a handout, he is given one of these tickets which the marshal will redeem for two hours work on 'the streets. Unless the tramp follows this proceedure he goes hungry in Colby. This scheme appeals to us as being a good one, and we would urge the authorities of Lowell to give it a trial.—Lowell Tribune.

District Chairman Murphy’s Father Dead.

Jerry Murphy, an aged and wealthy farmer and banker of White county, and father of Charles J. Murphy, democratic district chairman of the Tenth congressional district, died a few days ago of heart trouble at his home in Brookston. Mr. Murphy was seventy-eight years old, and was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He came to this country in 1841, and in 1845 came to Indianapolis.o< He grew in wealth as the country developed, and at the time of his death was one of the largest land owners in this part of the state. Mr. Murphy married Miss Henrietta Mclntire. They had five children. The widow, a son and daughter survive. Mr. Murphy had been vice-president of the Farmers Bank at Brookston since /its founding. The funeral was held at the home Thursday morning.

Nagel-Gangloff Nuptials.

The marriage of Mr. Johri A. Nagel of Plymouth and Miss Eda S. Gangloff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gangloff of Rensselaer, took lilaee at St. Augustine’s Catholic church at 9 a. m., Tuesday. Despite the zero weather there was a goodly number of relatives and friends out to witness the ceremony, which was performed • by the pastor, Rev. Father Daniel. After the ceremony a reception and wedding breakfast was served at the Gangloff home, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion. The out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Moore, Misses Josephine and Hildegarde Nagel and E. M. Green of Plymouth and Miss "Hattie Neidert of Blue Island, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Nagel left yesterday for their future home near Plymouth, wheife they will reside upon a farm. The best wishes of hosts of friends go with them.

High School Notes.

The chemistry breakage fee has been adjusted. Most of the seniors are “brokeS” Vera Ann West of Lowell and Frank Hitchcock are new pupils in! the freshman class. ( The senior German class will 1 be- ' gin reading Schiller’s “W'iflhelm Tell” as soon as the books arrive. The semester examinations were given Thursday and yesterday. All pupils who had regular work finished by noon yesterday. Miss Jane Moody, a former member of the high school, but a student now at Western, Oxfdrd, 0., visited the senior classes last Wednesday.'"/ ' I . The first basket ball game of the season was played here last night, with the Brookston high school. The following schedule of games has been arranged: Jan. 12—Brookston at Rensselaer. Jan. 19—No. Judson at Rensselaer. Jan. 26—Rensselaer at Monticello. Feb. 2—Rensselaer at Delphi. Feb. 9—Monticello at Rensselaer. Feb. 16—Rensselaer at Lafayette. Feb. 23 —Crown Point at Rensselaer March I—Lafayette at Rensselaer.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the ‘ Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL . . . V* ■ a' . . , . • ‘ • The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. /

Sheriff Hoover was up in the north end’ of the county on legal business Thursday afternoon and yesterday. —o— There has not been much doing about the court house this week, only two marriage licenses issued and nothing doing in the way of new suits filed. , ’ —o—- , The court house clock has • been sleeping quietly all through this cold spell. It is a warm weather time-piece, and anything like O puts it out of commission altogether. | “Bill” Grayson, who is laying out a fine and costs for intoxication, Iras had a soft snap of it this zero weather, and probably feels a little bad that his time is up today and he must once more face a cold and unfeeling world. —o— The Democrat’ publishes in this issue the annual reports of the trustees of Gillam, Hanging Grove and Newton townships. Others will appear next week. These reports must be published within 30 days after filing the report with the county auditor. o—-■ The. clothing which John W. ' Poole wore during his trial was boxed up by the prison authorities and sent to his family at Swanington. Evidently the. family don’t want the duds, for they remain unclaimed on the depot platform. Emory Poole, who was instrumental in sending his father to prison for life, has assumed management of the • farm and Miss Grace, who was loyal to her father, has resumed charge of her school at Wheatfield. Tippecanoe County Democrat.

A FEW REAL ESTATE DEALS.

Some City Property Changes Hands In Last Few Days.

W. R. Lee has traded the former Mel Thornton property, the Alt’ Jacks property at the west side of town, and some property at Morocco for the J. H. Holden property in the northwest part of the city, known as the former D. A. Stoner property. There is several acres of ground with this property. Mr. Lee does not intend to occupy the property himself, but expects to dispose of it. Mr. Holden contemplates remodeling the Jacks property, we are told, and occupy it himself. ’ ■

Ben and Lewis Welsh have purchased the J. D. Allman property on North Weston street, and will take possession of same March 1. The price paid is reported to have been $3,200, which, it would seem, is very reasonable indeed.

ORIN DAY NOT FOUND.

Watseka Paper Connects His Name With an Illinois Murder.

Harry Arrick, who was at first thought to be mortally wounded by Orin Day; has continued to improve and it is now practically certain that he will recover. He was removed from Dr. Goodwjn’s office Tuesday to his home in East Monticello. Blederwolfs ambulance was used and the transfer was quickly and safely made. Orin Day, his assailant, is still at large. Sheriff Price and Marshal Dobbins made a fruitless trip in search of him last week. They went to Hammond, Black Oak, Ho-

bart, ‘ Liverpool, Gary and South Chicago, at all of Which places He had been reported, but at none of which he was found. He had staid all night at Black Oak, not far from Hammond, the night be-t fore the officers got there. He was

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traced thence to South Gary, where all trace of him was lost. It now appears that Day Is suspected as a member of a gang of three bandit brothers wanted in Illinois for the murder of a man ifamed Mel Bradrick at Crescent City. The Watseka Times-Democrat of Tuesday says three men named Day are now suspected who were residents of Iroquois county, living between Onarga and Thawville; but who disappeared at the time of the Bradrick murder. One of them named James Day is now held at Marinette, Wis., pending extradition to Illinois and'' another is thought to be in that state. " From the accounts Of the Monticello shooting affray the officers out there are convinced that Orin Day is the third member of the. gang. A brother ol the murdered, man has had a Pinkerton detective at work on the case and i't was through him that the Wisconsin arrest was made. The Watiseka ■ paper says that the officers there report that Orin Day' had one 32-caliber and two 44caliber revolvers and that the shoot- 1 ing was done with the smaller gun.' —Monticello Herald. . ■■

Public Sales. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Jan. 16, J. P. Hartsook, 4 miles north of Aix, on the old John Swartz farm.’ General sale of hearses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Tuesday, Jan. 23, G. H. Hillis, John J. Totten and A. B. Tolin, at the residence of G. H. Hillis, 6 miles northwest of Mt. Ayr. Big stock and implement sale; 38 head of horses, 62 head of hogs, 125 head of cattle. Wednesday, Jan. 24, Geo. L. Maines, 1 mile north and 1 milb west of Rensselaer. Big general sale —9 head of extra good mules and horses, 34 head of cattle, 18 head of Efuroc brood sows, farm tools, etc. Thursday, Jan. 25, E./P. Lane, 4 miles north and 6 miles west of Rensselaer, 3*4 miles west of Sur rey. General sale—ls head of horses and mules, 12 head of cattle, 30 head of hogs, farm tools, etc., , '

Stock Company Under Mr. Gordon’s Direction to Return.

Manager Ellis takes great pleasure in announcing to the patrons of his theater, that Mr. Frederick Gordon, so favorably known in this territory as a producer of- high ■class stock plays, is once more to direct a dramatic organization, which will be seen once a week, as last season, in a list of first class plays, mounted and produced in the superlative style for which ■Mr. Gordon is noted among dramatic producers in this section.

Mr. Gordon will personally superintend and direct all performances given, as he did last year, during his tour of the northern Indiana circuit and will be seen in each play presented. A company of picked artists has been engaged and »the scenic and light effects, it is promised will approach in excellence the results attained as a general rule, only by the mechanical force of a big city theater.

The date oif the opening performance will be Jan. 27, and as a token of the appreciation *of the public of the splendid attractions offered last- year under Mr. Gordan’s direction a capacity audience has been guaranteed by the management of the circuit houses.

60 acres—Near station and school, at heart of dredge ditch, all level, productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house, good small barn and good well. Price $45. Terms, S7OO down. ”

80 acres—All black land in cultivation, near school and churches, touches large ditch) a fine outlet for drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements are h good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only $45-. Terms, SI,OOO down. 21 acres—-Four blocks from the court house.

165 acres—Highly improved, half mile of the corporation of this city. Will sell in small-tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices. 599 acre ranch—Good improvements. Will trade or sell bn easy payments. -

160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade for land or property. Will put in cash or as-

sume.

FARM BARGAINS.

GEO. F. MEYERS.

THINKS TEXAS IS ALL RIGHT.

Elmer Gwin Invests In 20 Acre Tract at Edge of Town of Pharr. Elmer Gwin returned Thursday alter noon from his prospecting trip to Pharr, Texas, and was so favorably impressed with the -outlook there that he bought a 20 acre tract of land at the edge of the town, which is only a year old, but is building up with substantial business houses and he thinks is destined to become a town of considerable importance. The mercury was up around 70 degrees there, men were going about in their shirt-sleeyes and the “kids” were running around barefoot. Pharr is located in county in southern Texas, near the Mexican line, on the Rio Grande river. The country is .level as a floor, the soil a chocolate colored sandy loam. They raise cotton, sugar cane, alfalfa, corn, potatoes, onions and cabbage. Potatoes and new cabbage are now being shipped in small quantities, it being a trifle early yet. * Oranges, lemons, bananas, dates, etc., are also grown there. Water for irrigating purposes is pumped from the 1 Rio Grande and carried in canals back into the country.

BASKET FACTORY BURNED.

. I Loss of $25,000 Suffered by a Peru Firm—lnsurance SIO,OOO. Peru, Ind., Jan. 10.--A loss of i $25,000 was caused by the burning of the Peru basket factory last 'night. It was insured for SIO,OOO. The fire was caused by an employe using a torch to find a chisel that ; had dropped through a crack in the | floor of the engine room. The floor i was soaked with oil, and the fire burned so rapidly that Alonzo Baldwin, the engineer, and Vesper Hall, head sawyer, were severely burned jin making their escape. The factory was owned by Georgq R. Chamlberiain, A. R. Chamberlain and Thomas Keyes, who employed seventy-five persons.

SOLDIERS’ HOME CROWDED.

More in State Institution Than Ever Before—Fewer Deaths. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 10.—When the board oif trustees of the State Soldiers’ home assembled here yesterday for the first meeting of the year, Colonel D. B.'Kehler, commandant of the institution, reported the largest attendance in the history of the home. The roll call showed just 871 memibers and sixty-five officers and employes, giving the home a total population of 1,036. This is not the total membership, as a number of memibers are out on furlough, but. it is the largest number of members ever in the home at any one time.

The home is crowded to its capacity, and the waiting list is growing longer. There have not been as many deaths as usual in the last few months. The board of trustees received three applications for admission, whereas some months there ares more than one hundred applications.! Oif the three applications one was., rejected and the other two were continued for Investigation.

Presbyterian Church.

Quarterly communion service will be held Sabbath morning. Every memiber of the church is urged to be present. In the evening we -will join in union evangelistic service at the Methodist church.— -J. C, Parrett, Pastor, r

Box Social.

Box social and. spelling school at No. 6 school in Newton tp., Saturday night, Jan. 13. Girls bring boxes, and boys well-filled purses. A good time is assured, — -Helen Lamson, Teacher.

Judicial Advice.

“I hope you won’t be hard on me, judge,” he said. "You see, I was under the influence of liquor when I done it.” - "You seem to have been under the influence of something equally bad when you studied grammar. During the spare moments that you are going to have, permit yourself to Indulge In judicious, study of the construction of simple sentences. Here Is the one to begin with—sixty days;”

Indefinite.

"That man is always running down people.” , "With gossip or in an automobile T’

Delightfully Vague.

"How is the school question nowT" •'Oh, it’s going by the Board."

BURNS RELIEVED OF KIDNAPPING

Indianapolis Court Discharges Him from Custody. HOSSICK CASE ALSO COVERED -- - - I Charge that Boss Detective and Los Angeles Sleuth Took John J. McNamara from Indiana Illegally Comes to Naught. Indianapolis, Jan. 12.*—After argument on the writ by which he wan taken from the local authorities, William J. Burns was discharged from custody by Judge Anderson of tho United States district court. This action relieves Burns from the indictment for kidnapping J. J. McNamara, returned by the county grand jury. Detective Hosslck, of Los Angeles, who was also indicted for kidnapping, was not before the court, but attorneys say that the decision applies to him as well and that the indictment in the local court will be dismissed. Burns was not in court during the argument. He telegraphed that his train was five hours late, but the court said the argument would be heard and he would pas son the case formally when Burns arrived. It was nearly 4 o’clock when the detective reached the federal building and the court was reconvened and formal decision rendered. • ..

BRAZIL’S INTERNAL TROUBLE

Conflict of Authority Is Precursor of < Riot and Destrirctlon at Bahia. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 12. —Trouble has arisen at Bahia over the refusal of the state government to carry but a judgment the federal court granting a writ of habeas corpus in the case of some opposition deputies. There was rioting. The shopa were closed and Fort Sao Marcello shelled the government building, which was set on fire and destroyed. Two houses in the Rua de Chill were also demolished.

The disorders have apparently not ended, but no further details are obtainable. A federal warship' has been d.’t patched to the scene of trouble.

OFFICIALS BURNED ALIVE

Horrible Atrocities Reported by Natives of Portuguese Africa. Lisbon (Via Frontier), Jan. 12.—-Hor-rible atrocities have been committed by the tribes in Portuguese Africa during a rising of the natives there, according to a received from Angola by the Seculo. A number of Portuguese officials who were captured by them were burned alive.

FORECAST OF THE WEATHER Indiana—Snow and colder today; fair and continued cold tomorrow. Illinois —Clearing In northern, snow in. southern portion and colder today; fair and continued cold tomorrow. Wisconsin —Fair and continued cold today; fair, not quite so cold tomorrow; moderate northerly winds.

Big Plant for Calumet.

Hammond, Ind., Jan. 12. Fifteen thousand skilled mechanics, together with their families, representing a community of 50,000 people, are destined to come to the Calumet region as soon as the western plant of the Baldwin I-ocomdtive Works of Philadelphia to be built at Calumet, a suburb of East Chicago, between Hammond and Gary, is In full running order.

Railroad Company Is Fined.

Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 12.—The Pennsylvania company paid fines of 1100 each here under two charges filed by Henry Zink, an inspector for the Indiana railway commission. One charges the company with operating a locomotive without an automatic bellring device, and the other with Operating one with a device that was out of order.

Emory Poole Returns Home.

Lafayette, l Ind.*, Jan. 12.—Emory Poole, the young man whose testimony contributed largely to the conviction and life sentence of his father for the murder of Joseph Kemper, has become reconciled with his mother and sisters and returned home to assume management of the farm.

Switchman Dies Between Engines.

New Albany,*’ Ind., Jan. 12.—James W. Bottom, a switchman, was killed when two switch engines came together In the Southern yards here. He was twenty-three years old and married, His parents live at Jeffersonville.

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Collegeville Items.

On the resuming of classes at the beginning of last week, several of the old students were not found at their places, but a few new arrivals have taken - their desks thus leaving the enrollment the. s. last session. Rev. Maurice Thleiinger, G. PP. S., has been appointed a member of the college faculty. He was a graduate of St. Joseph’s in the class of 1906 when he received his A. B. with honors. He will be well renremibered as one of the most effective actors of his day having taken a prominent part in many a college play. His teaching work will be in the Latin, French and Elocution departments.

At the ma’ss meeting last Sunday were elected officers of the Athletic Association for the present term: Nicholas lluemmer, president; Anthony Loneiian, secretary; William Butler, treasurer. The retiring president Walter R'eineck, in an interesting speech briefly reviewed the many successes of the last session, pointed out the splendid financial condition of the organization, and urged the members willingly to co-operate with his successor as they had been loyal to him in his endeavors to advance college athletics. Fathefc Kramer expressed his thanks to the students for the highly appreciated gift that the students gave him before Christina's, He also spoke words of praise for the faithlfu! work done by the members of the Athletic Association, especially the loyalty that has been shown -to the Varsity teams; expressed his entire satisfaction with the endeavors of the representative teams, and concluded by asking all to. continue in the same wholesome spirit of loyalty and progress to the end of the year. Great enthusiasm prevailed; and there is no doubt that the brighter prospects will make the ensuing term a greater success than the one just closed.

Sunday afternoon a numiber of boys from Rensselaer essayed to tackle the varsity, and the best that they accomplished was to give the collegians a little practice, taking out the vacations kinks, for the Monticello game. The score of 58—8 sent the visitors home much wiser for their escapade...

Tuesday evening the Varsity entertained the Monticello Company C, 3rd Inst. I. N. C., at basket ball on the gymnasium floor. It was anybody’s game until the very finish in fact it was tho vistor’s game, except during the first and the last few minutes of play. The game started with a wild rush, and it required five minutes of play till Beckman gathered in a foul and* McArdle captured a field goal. Then Monticello began to score and forged ahead, Slynker getting ten points and Robinson two with the varsity trailing in the rear Efx points at the end of the first half’.

In the second period the game continued an even tussel till near the end when three field goals in quick succession by Beckman, Deery and McArdle, the last passing the net ( as the time keeper’s whistle blew, gave the collegians a welldeserved victory. The same It would have been for Monticello, for tney amply deserved to win, but the spirit and energy that the locals displayed in the final touch rushed them for a moment off their guard, and there was no time left to come back after the lost game. We are glad to have had Company C with us, and the varsity plays a return game with them Feb. 16. Friday evening the team journeys to Monticello to capture laurels, at least try, from the Monticello high school. , ■

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Remingtop Poultry Show Postponed Owing to the extreme cold weather the Remington Poultry Association which was to hold its annual show this week, has postponed same until

January 23 to 27 inclusive Remember -the dates and make it a point to attend.