Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — Page 1

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Of The Democrat As It Contains the Full Text of the New Registration Law. Elsewhere in this issue of The Democrat will be found the full teit of the new Indiana registration law. Every voter and every preson who will become a voter at the November election should read il over carefully and should preserve this copy of The Democrat for future reference. Next week we shall publish the new “corrupt practice” act, which is also of deep ,* political interest and should be read by every voter and the paper containing it also kept for future reference.

Hurrah for Schneider!

Lake County Star: The' advisory board of West Creek tp., made an appropriation of vj-0,000 ior a new school house at Sohneidet,. and $2,500 for another new building in the township, and it is also reported ; that an immense elevator employing 80 men will be erected ■there early in the spring, and that the little town of Schneider will be made a division, point for the C. T. & S. railroad which reaches out in four directions from that point.

Former Remington Woman Dies In Hospital.

1 [Mrs. 1 Frank Rich of Goodland, a former resident of near Remington and well known to most readers of The Democrat in southern Jasper, died in an Indianapolis hospital Tuesday, where she was operated on last week for gallstones. The operation is said to have been successful,. 3he did not recover from the, anaesthetic. The family resided at Brook for some years before moving to Goodland where Mr. Rich is now engaged in the grain business.

Poultry Association Elect Officers.

At a meeting of the Rensselaer Poultry Association Tuesday afternoon Everett Brown of Pleasant Grove was elected president; W. R. Newels of Rensselaer, vice-presi-dent; H. B. Murray, secretary; A. E. Wallace, supt. An executive committee, consisting of Riley Snyder, John Webber and J. M. Sauser, was appointed. It was decided to hold the next show in December, probably the second week of that month. Notwithstanding the severe cold weather during the last show which cut the attendahce down greatly, the association only “went in the hole” about eight dollars.

Finding Suckers In Logansport.

Eilgene Purtelle, the check swindler and notorious dead-beat railroad promotor, has now interested the Logansport Commercial Club in his electric railroad visions in that vicinity ' and may perhaps find enough suckers to enable him to square his bad checks and other accounts here —if he has a mind to square them. But judging from his past record he pay attention to them, no matter how much he may succeed in raising in the City of Bridges. If the Logansporters want to know anything about Purtelle * they should investigate his record in Jasper and Lake counties, also in Chicago, before putting their shoulders to his wheel.

High School Notes.

The seniors are busy selecting subject's for theses. The members of the Virgil class are preparing some papers on the different phases of Roman Private’ Life. i There will be rib*"' basket ball game here next Friday night, but the team will go to MonticellO to play the High School team at that place. 1 ' A freshman German student niade an attempt; at, suicide during a recent examination in that subject. (Inquire of James Warner how it is done.) , Mrs. Gregg Of Greencastle, who has been spending a few days with her daughter, Miss Naomi Gregg, the German teacher, visited the school last week. Mr. Horace J. Kurtz of Chicago, who is conducting the singing at the evangelistic meetings, delightfully entertained t]ie High School Wednesday morning.

Nine head of horses at the J. E. Bislosky sale Jan. 31, one mile north of Pleasant Ridge.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments •> OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL ■ ‘'■ • . . . * , ’ The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Attorney G. A. Williams has been confined to the house several days this week with hisckness.

County Supt. Lamson attended the meeting of county superintendents at Plymouth Thursday. Q— ■— County Supt. Lamson has recently had a telephone placed in his office in the court house. His number is 485. C. G. Spitler has bought of Robert J. Yeoman the property in the north part of town now occupied by the Welsh brothers and known as the John Rush property. Consideration $1,800.. Samuel Bowman of Remington and George Meyers of Oklahoma were over from Remington on business connected with the probating of the will of the late August Meyers Wednesday. A transcript of judgment for $71.06 secured in the Newton circuit court on Jan. 25, 1906, in favor of Norman, N. H. and D. G. Warner and against Ralph W. Marshall, was filed in the clerk’s office Tuesday.

New suits filed: No. 7819. Nathan High vs. Wiley Eatta; appeal from Squire; Gaffield’s court in Milroy tp. No. 7820. James K. Davis vs. Lee H. Wylie; action in attachment. Demand sls4’.

The county council is called to meet in special session Monday afternoon, Feb. T, to re-appropriate for claims for 1911, which-appro-priations lapsed Jan., 1, and transact such other business as may properly come before the session.

Peter Bloom of north of town was arrested Wednesday for intoxwas arrested Wednesday for intoxication and haled before Squire Bruner, where -he stood trial and was found guilty and assessed a dollar and costs, six bones in all, which he paid.

The republicans will hold their precinct conventions today to select delegates to their district convention, to be held in Lafayette next Wednesday, and to elect new precinct committeemen. The latter will meet in Rensselaer Monday to elect a new county chairman, secretary and treasurer.

‘Dr. A. G. Catt has Bold to Geo. McElfresh the former H. .M. Shipman farm of 66 acres in Newton tp., which he bought about ten months ago for SSO per acre. The price sold- for is S6O per acre, or $3,960. It is reported that George’s brother-in-law, Lester Schreiner, ' will move on the farm, which is now occupied by*! Robert Overton.

Marriage licenses issued: Jan. 24, Ernest Fred son of Henry Mischer, of Carpenter tp., aged 24, occupation farmer, to Eleanor Minerva Florence, daughterof Thomas Florence of Virgie, aged 22,occupation housekeeper. First' mdrriage for each. Jan. Samuel Ernest Brandenburg of Pleasant Grove, aged '22, occupation farmer, to Edith SaltWell, daughter of Fred Saltwell of Francesville, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

The annual delinquent tax sale will take place on Monday, Feb. 12. There are not so many delinquents as usual, and many of_ these, no doubt, will pay up before the sale. There are but '•’tW'b persons delin-

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1912.

in Carpenter; 8 in Barkley; 7 ih Gillam; . 5 in Hanging Grove; 3 in Jordan; 3 in Marion; 16 in Rensselaer; 1 in Remington; 2 in Newton; 5 in Kankakee; 6 in Wlheatfield, town; (none in township of Wlheatfield); 18 in Union; 8 in Milroy; 11 in Keener and 20 in Walker. 7 . ... 7 ....o'. •. •.- The will of Paul Frederick August Meyer, late of Remington, was filed for probate Wednesday. A life estate in ail property both real and personal is bequeathed to the widow, Augusta C. Meyer; S2OO t 6 the Christian church of Remington; SIOO to the Black Oak cemetery, in White county; one-fifth ehch to decedent’s son eGorge Meyer, and decedent’s daughters, Emma and Martha Meyer; all the remainder of real estate to the children of the daughters, • Emma and Martha Meyer. The widow, Augusta C. Meyer, is appointed executrix of the will, which was made Dec. 9, 1911.

New Lodge Organized.

_ A lodge of Redmen was organized here last night with about 45 members. It is the second lodge of this order in the county, we believe. providing the Gifford lodge, organized some years ago is still in existence. . In some parts of the state the Redmen are very strong, but it* has not been pushed very much in this vicinity. \ It was expected that 35 Ijtedmen would come over from Monticello and the team was to do the work. The organization took place in the Woodmen Hall, w'hieh will he shared by the new* order for their regular meeting place. A meeting was (held Thursday night and the following officers elected: Frank Morrow, Prophet; Fred Arnott, Sachem; Chas. Rishling, Sen. Sag.; C. H. Cain, Jun. Sag.; Chas. E. Simpson,* Chief of Records; Wm. Coen, Keeper of Wampum. • < It is a good order and we wish the new lodge success.

A pretty little wedding was solemnized at the 'home ol Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Florence at Virgie on Wednesday evening, Jan. 24, at 6:30 p. m., in the marriage of their daughter, Miss Eleanor, to Mr. Ernest Misoher of Remington, Rev. Meyer of Rosebud officiating. The bride was neatly attired in all white wo-ol serge and the groom wore the regulation black. Immediately after the. ceremony a wedding supper was served. We join with the community in wishing the young couple a happy voyage on the sea of matrimony.

Beginnihg Friday and continuing till Tuesday the semi-annual examinations will be given in all the classes. ' : “Gym Junk,” the basket ball edition of the college news distributor, made its initial appearance last week. Its staff has somewhat changed in the collegiate mutations, but its character has only been effected so far as its items are breezier and more up-to-date.

The varsity is continuing its march to victories. Another team that was really feared, St. Cyril’s, Chicago, invaded our territory Saturday afternoon. When the game was over all that was left of them returned home leaving to St. eph’s a victory of 37 to 18 to tell of strong endeavors.' It required nearly five minutes of play for Beckman to score the first two points. But after that, between Beckman’s and Deery’s shooting, there was not a question of the final outcome, for when the first half had ended the story iread 24 to 3 in fayor, of the - cardinal and purple. In the second period the subs were sent to the firing line, and the best that they could gather was a 15 point tie for (hat half. The taie Should have been different bu,t with the game so safely stored the energy relaxed and the visitors were not slow to gratp every Opportunity to boost thei r totals. The Chicago team displayed Some artistic pass work, but v ere unable to capture field goals after working the ball ■to their end of the floor. They showed a game fight to the very end. ’ ' The date of the return game at Chicago has not yet been definitely fixed. This week, owing to the examinations, there was no game; next week there will be two to retrench the lost date.

Florence-Mischer.

Collegeville Items.

Public Sales. The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Tuesday, Jan. 30, Wallace Jenkinson, 6% miles west of Rensselaer, on the Willard Sanderson farm. General ( sale of horses, cattle,' hogs, farm tools, household goods, etc. Wednesday, Jan. 31, John E. Bislosky, 1 mile north of Pleasant Ridge. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farm implements, household goods, etc. Thursday, Feb. 1, Charles Miller, 3% miles northwest of Gifford, on the Delos Thompson farm. General sale, horses, hogs, chickens, farm tools, household goods, etc! Thursday, Feb. 1, Frank Eck, 8 miles south and 4% miles west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farm tools, etc.

Tuesday, Feb. 6, Wm. Augspurger Son, 3 miles west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, farm tools, some* household goods, etc. Wednesday, Feb. 7, Joseph Stewart, 10-^miles east and *4 mile south of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, farm tools, etc. Thursday, Feb. 8, James E. Walter, 2 miles north and % west of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens, implements, etc!

VREVEALS FRENZIED FINANCE.

Witnesses Tell of Daniel P. Bald Win’s Banking Methods. Logansport, Ind., Jan. 24. —Evidence that the business transactions of Daniel P. Baldwin, formerly part owner of the Baldwin-Dague banks at Goodland, Fowler and Ambia, consisted chiefly of efforts to borrow money to carry large was submitted yesterday in the trial of a suit brought by Cass county to recover $26,000 back taxes from the Baldwin estate. Baldwin, according to the testimony, borrowed $5,000 from Wabash college, of which he was a trustee, for the purpose of buying tfee Ambia bank, which was later closed by the state. This and other large debts were said by the witnesses for the estate to have been carried for many months by Baldwin, who negotiated loans from one of his chain of banks -to pay debts at another and in this manner succeeded in floating a large indebtedness for years.

Call for Precinct Meetings.

In accordance with instructions from the Democratic State Committee, the democratic voters of Jasper county, and all others who desire to affiliate with them, are requested to meet at their usual voting places, so far as practical, (except Marion tp., which will meet in the east room of the court house), on Wednesday, February 7, 1912, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of electing a Precinct Committeman and Secretary. The precinct committeemen so elected will meet in Rensselaer on Saturday .February 10, 1912, at 2 p. m., at the court house and elect a county chairman, secretary and treasurer. N. LITTLEFIELD, Chm. JUDSON J. HUNT, Sec.

Back to His Starting Point.

Some people are so wrapped up in their pursuit of wealth that they remind us of. a story told of an old farmer over near Peoria, Ill.; He had plenty of this world’s goods, but he always wanted more. He had a mania for the rich corn growing land - around Peoria. He drove into town one day with a load of hogs. T'/T “ ‘Well, Jake, what are you going to do with those hogs?’ asked a bystander.' l “ ‘Sell ’em.’ “ ‘What are you going to do with the money? You don’t need it.’* 1 “ ‘Well, I got my eye on an eighty adjoining my 330 in the bottoms/ “ ‘What are you going to do with the land when you get it? You own half the county 7 now.’ “ ‘Raise more corn.’ “ ‘What for?’ “ ‘To feed more hogs.’ What for?’ “ ‘To sell and buy more land.’ ”

Good Hope Church.

There will not be any preaching in this church next Sunday afternoon. All the members and friends are invited to be present at our union evangelistic meetings to be held in town Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

TRAINMEN MAY BE PROSECUTED

State’s Attorney Says Criminal Action is Likely. AFTERMATH OF I. G. WRECK Body of Vice President Melcher of Rock Island Cremated in Chicago—Late J. T. Harahan Buried ih Memphis.

Champaign, 111., Jan. 26. —State’s Attorney W. D. Farthing said here that In view of the finding of the board investigating the Kinmundy wreck on the Illinois Central, which resulted in the death of four railroad officials, criminal proceedings against three members of the tfain creWs were likely, 7 Farthing said that should the coroner’s inquest at Centralia result in a similar finding he would consult officials about bringing action. Although the official report does not suggest any criminal action, the findings of the investigators have been turned over to the state’s attorney. Reports of officlals-of the interstate commerce commiEsion and the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission are expected to be made soon. .These reports also will be turned over to the prosecutor. The body of F. O. Melcher, second vice president of the Rock Island system, who with Harahan was killed in the Illinois Central wreck, was cremated at Graceland cemetery In Chicago. The'-body of Mr. Harahan arrived in Memphis, Tenn., and was buried in the family lot in that city. The funeral services were held In Chicago.

CONVICTS WIFE AS POISONER

Husband Was Partly Paralysed Aftsr Eating a Pie. lonia, Mich., Jan. 26. —Mrs. Amelia Jones was convicted by a jury of poisoning her former husband, Henry Jones. The poison it was alleged was placed in pie which Jones ate and which partly paralyzed him for life. Mrs. Jones will be sentenced later. Jones is thirty-two years old, and his former wife is fifty-eight. Three Miners Are Killed. Mount Carmel, Pa., Jan. 26. —Three mine workers were killed in a cave in the Alaska shaft of the Philadelphia eading Coal and Iron company near/here while at work. Starves to Death on Diet. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 26. —Mrs. Soutse Zschau, who began dieting six months ago in an effort to recover her health, starved to death.

FORECAST OF THE WEATHER

Illinois and Indiana—Unsettled and warmer today; snow or rain tonight or tomorrow. Wisconsin —Unsettled and slightly warmer today; snow tonight and tomorrow; moderate east and southeast winds.

HIATT TESTIMONY ENDS

Court In Noblssville Caso Grants Two Days for Arguments. Noblesvllle, Ind., Jan. 26.—Just before court adjourned the prosecution Id case against Harry Hiatt, charged with the murder of his wife, announced it waa ready to rest. The defense had no additional evidence to offer and the testimony was finished following a trial of thirteen days, the longest criminal case ever tried in this county. „ ; ' '’

Judge Vestal announced that he would allow the attorneys two day? for arguments. Drs. A. R. Tucker, E. E. Wishard and C. E. Tomlinson, medical experts, said that In their judgment Hiatt was sane at the time he committed the crime. Dr. Tucker said that he believed the crime was premeditated, otherwise the defendant would not have taken particular notice of those whom he met on the road going to the Voss home t where the deed was committed.

GORGE THREATENS BRIDGE

Dynamite Falls to Dislodge Ice That Encroaches on Abutments. Princeton, Ind., Jan. 26—An ice gorge at the junction of the Patoka and Wabash rivers at East Mt. Carmel, nine miles west of here, threatens tho Southern railroad bridge. Dynamite, is being used to dislodge the goige, but efforts so far have been fruituess. Watchmen are on the scene lest the bridge approach should give way. Considerable damage baa been don* by tbelc*. and the Mt. Carmel Elevator cenaeanv suffering a 12,000 loss In the

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destruction of one of its buildings. The Wabash has risen twelve inches in twenty-four hours. White river is also rising rapidly, and an overflow is feared near Hazleton,

FATHER GAVE FAMILY POISON

Autopsy Discloses Cyanide in Stomachs of Triple Tragedy Victims, i Terre Haute, Ind , Jan. 26.—Discovery of cyanide contents of the stomach of William H. McVay, his wife and flve-months-old baby by Coroner F. H. Jett, probably will lead to a. verdict of murder and suicide. According to Coroner Jett, the evidence produced by tests following an autopsy on the bodies of both Mr. and Mrs. McVay lead to the belief that McVay administered the deadly poi-; son to his wife and little babe and then ended his own life by drinking the drug.

FAVOR NEW COURT HOUSE

Hendricks Commissioners Ask County Council for $250,000. . « Danville, Ind., Jan. 26. The Hendricks county commissioners, in session here, passed a resolution declaring an emergency to exist for the immediate erection of a new courthouse in Danville and asked an appropriation of $250,000 for that purpose. The county council has been called to meet in special session Friday, Feb. 2, to make the required appropriation. It Is understood that every member of this council favors the undertaking and that the appropriation will be made.

FAVORS COUNTY OPTION RULE

Nicholson Says Republicans Can Not Afford to Ignore Plank. Madison, Ind., Jan. 26.—5. B. Nicholson, author of the Indiana temperance law, 1b in the city to ascertain sentiment In this section of Indiana In regard to county option. He said while it may have been impolitic to have put county option in the Republican state platform in the first place, he dees not see how the Republicans can omit it now, since It has become an issue. Mr. Nicholson says he is in favor of the renomination of Taft,

$2,000 FORGERY IS CHARGED

Washington Undertaker, Under Arrest, Tells of Loan Shark Agency. > Washington, Ind., Jan. 26. Theodore Keller, a local undertaker, was placed under arrest, charged with having forged the names of Patrick O’Neall and Jacob Zinkan to a note for $2,000. _ ♦ He said after his arrest that he had been acting as agent for certain former county officers who were loan sharks and that an employe of his had absconded with funds which he had to make good.

TELLS OF WHITECAP ATTACK

Indiana Victim Is Witness Against First of Eight Defendants. jm !■.* Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 26.—Harvey McFarland, a farmer of Harmony, Ind., who was nearly beaten to death by "Whitecaps” last May, was the first witness in the trial of Tobe Snoddy, the first of eight defendants accused of the crime. McFarland, related the incidents following his removal from his home by about twenty men, eight of whom he recognized. t

Women Open Film Theater.

Delphi, lnd„ Jan. 26.- -Establishing a precedent in this county, and probably in Indiana, Mieses Bertha Eldridge and Josephine Sims, members of prominent Delphi families, have opened a motion picture house in this city.

MISSING TURRET FOUND

Portion of Maine Wreck Discovered In Havana Harbor Mud. Havana, Jan. —The missing forward turret of the battleship Maine, which the divers have been looking for since the work of removing .the wreck began, was found in the mud twenty feet to starboard of the ship and thirty feet aft. The patura | l position of the turret is inverted, the barbette portion being uppermost. The guns are presumably In the turret, but that has not yet been determined.

Slayer's New Trial Begins.

Independence, Kan., Jan. 26. The second trial of A. A. Triskett, charged With the murder of .1. D. S. Neeley, tba wealthy Lima, 0., oil promoter, has begun.

Given Life Term for Murder.

Plattsmouth, Ivfeb., Jan. 26.—Henry Barrow's, who killed William Saj les, a neighbor, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.

Dried peaches, big fine Muirs, special at 12%c a pound, at the ' Home Grocery.