Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — Page 8

News Notes of Nearby Towns

At Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

| McOOYSBUUG. lliowman Bros, are setting up a lot of new machinery for the spring sales. Mr. Herr is now baling and loading his last year’s crop of hay. Some of his hay is quite good feCd hay, he. says. Mr. Fisher of Tefft, who owns the David Culp place, was down this week seeing about the work of finishing his new house. Thomas Eldridge of Monon visited in this locality Monday. Mr. -Eldridge while well up in years is still a hale old man and onb of the pioneers of early Jasper. There will be a meeting to try and organize an Epworth League here next Sunday night. Let everyone that can come out and . help us to 'have meetings * every ' Sunday night. Thompson, one of the workmen on the Gifford steam shovel, had his foot badly crushed by a falling piece of iron work last week, and has been unable to walk without crutches since. The lecture given at the school house Saturday ■ night by Rev. Kuonen was well attended. The scenes were of his native country, Switzerland, and some very fine scenery Was shown, together with an interesting talk on manners, mode of living and different objects in his old home. The meeting held in Milroy church one night last week to call an election voting a tax on the people of Milroy tp., to help Mr. Gifford build ‘his road was not a success, owing to the fact that the people seemed to think that stone iroads, dredge ditches and tile were better things to pay out money for. Do not allow your kidney, and bladder trouble to develop beyond the reach of medicine. Take Foley Kidney Pills. They give quick results and stop irregularities with surprising promptness.—A. F. Long.

j BAUM’S BRIDGE. George Bancroft visited over Sunday in Walkerton. C. D. Shook of the Demotte was in these parts. Friday. C. E. Bush was at the county seat on business yesterday. Mr. Breckner and family have anoved to the Anderson place. Charles Gilbretih, who has been on the sick list for some time, has recovered. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilmington visited Thursday with the Vandercar family. Hewett Downs, who haa been, ill for some time, is still in a critical condition. John Cunningham contemplates moving his fam illy to a small farm near Koute soon. Mrs. James Qilbreth and Mrs. A. J. Bush caked on Mrs. Bert Vhndercar Tuesday afternoon. Two new members, Mr. and Mrs. George Beemer r were added to the -Chuidh of Christ last week. Henry Drake of Demotte delivered corn to Wheatfield from the ranch for C. D, Shook last week. Charles Hopkins and Son Orvil of North Dakota were calling on old acquaintances here the first of the week. Arunah Bacon has sold his property here and moved to Leßoy. We very much regret to lose good neighbors. _____ James Clark and C. E. Bush went to Kouts on business Wednesday.- Ask Elmer wihy they went. We wouldn’t dare to tell.

An Epidemic of Coughing is sweeping over the town. Old and young alike are affected, and the strain is particularly hard on little children and on elderly people. Foley’s Roney and Tar Compound is a quick, safe and reliable cure for all coughs and colds. Contains no opiates.—A. F. Long.

PAIR OAKS. | Walter McConnell and family visited over Sunday wiitih relatives in Rensselaer. Ed Fawley move<jl hiis household effects Sunday from his* wife’s liome into the ' Munden house. Mud, did you say? Yes. The roads were awful Monday and •Tuesday with mud, but now they are blocked with snow. ,The magic lantern show at the M. E. church Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings drew a pretty large crowd regardless of the bad weather. Supervisor Goff put a team to work Thursday morning with a snow plow, making roads to the

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school hoiijse and opening up the drifts on the highways. Jack Star finger, who has been assisting Cal Burroughs in the blacksmith shop since last fall, rung off Monday, shook the dust of Fair Oaks from his feet and took his departure for Oregon, it is said. Mrs. Mattie Dickinson, who has been up near Demotte for some time, sick, was brought over in an automobile the latter part of the week to- John Caisiey’s, to stay until she recovers. Fred Williams, the painter, was here from Kniman Saturday. He ki just getting over about a six weeks seige of pneumonia. He expects to be here in about ten days to complete some unfinished jobs left over from last fall. We were beginning to see signs of sprjng again the first of the week; the prairie chickens had begun to bob-hoo-hoo, besides some other birds, and Uncle Dave Winslow, who has wintered near Lisbon, No. Dak., hais returned. Quite a number from here attended the Macon sale Tuesday. Floyd Cox bought-a dandy span of mules, and Lawrence Hal leek purchased the top buggy. He aims to attend literary at Virgie every two. weeks. We see where he is right. i.’ _ , r ._2 There seems to be quite & bit of trouble nowadays in justice court between Ed Fawly and wife. Constable Parks of Rensselaer came up a couple of times the past week Co serve papers on Ed and to subpoena witnesses. Where the trouble will land is yet to be seen. Postmaster Thompson, while going down to the office Sunday morning to look after his Sunday papers, slapped on the ice and got a bad fall!',' bruising hiis hip and spraining one of his wrists so badly he had to keep to his bed several days the first of the week. ■> Owing to his age he can’t stand such falls very well. A blizzard? Yes, indeed. We had a fierce storm which’ begun some time Tuesday night and continued through. Wednesday and on into the night. There was a high wind accompanied it, and one driving could not see fifty >feet ahead much of the time, and the way it piled up the snow was a fright. It put the trains almost out of business. It was the worst we have had since ’B4, when one could drive over rail fences with teams and islleds. Ben Zellejrs, while shredding corn for Ed Cox about six miles northwest of here Monday, met with a very painful and serious accident. He accidentally got his left hand in the blower fan and the hand was badly mashed. He was taken to Roselawn at once and Dr. Kres!er of Rensselaer was summoned. He and Dr. Rice da eased the hand and found it necessary to remove several bones from the two middle fingers. He will get along alright if nothing .else sets in, but his hand will be* pretty badly damaged.

The Trials of a Traveler. ‘T am a traveling salesman,’ writes E. E. Youngs, E. Berkshire, Vt., “and was often troubled with eonsypation and indigestion till I began to use Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which I have found an excellent. remedy.” For all stomach, liver or kidney troubles they are unequaled. Only 25 cents at A. F. Long’s.

Obituary of Mrs. W. I. Galbreath. Rosa Belle, oldest daughter of James E. and Margaret Bruner, was born in Parke county, Ind., May 13, 1864, and departed this life Feb. 15, 1912, at the age of forty-seven years, eight months and iwenty-eight days. She was united in marriage to Wm. I; Galbreath in 1 882. To this union were born twelve children, those surviving to mourn their loss are: Charles, Thomas, George, Franklin, Russel, Lee, Belnid; Charlotte, Mrs. Ida Coleman, and four grandchildren, also her husband, an aged father, three brothers and four sisters. At the age of twelve she joined the United Brethren Church and continued in the same belief until death. She was a kind neighbor, a good wife and a Loving mother until death, and leaves a host of sorrowing relatives and friends. The funeral was held at the Brushwood church ait 2 p. m., Sunday, Rev. Brock officiating. Interment made in Prater cemetery.

Card of Thanks. We wish to thank one and all of our neighbors for their kindenss shown us during the sudden dhath of our loving wife and mother,— WM. GALBREATH AND CHILDREN.

Flying Men Pall victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles just like other people, with.like results in loss ofappetite, backache, nervousness headache, and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there’s no need to feel like that as T. D. Peebles, Henry, Tenn., proved. “Six bottles of Electric ißtters, he writes, “did more to give me new strength and good appetite than all other stomach remedies I used.” So they help everybody. Its folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first dose. Try it. Only 50 cents at A. F Long’s.

Lecture Course Dates. March 22— Beulah Buck Co. (Ladies Quartet).

fTT emi of Interest Til from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Hap-f penings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

GARY Harriet Thompson, a colored girl, eighteen - years old, was murdered at the jhome of’her brother-in-law, the Rev. ‘William""Steel. Steel, charged with having strangled the girl, is locked up at the Central Police station to await preliminary hearing. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon some person called up the police station and told the police that a girl had dropped dead at the number given. The police went to the Steel home and fourid the body lying on the floor near the stove. Coroner Smith was called, and, after an examination of the body, he declared that the woman had been strangled to death, the marks of fingers being distinctly visible upon her neck At the police station the colored minister collapsed and, lying on the floor of his cell, moaned, “I did not mean to do it.” SHELBYVILLE The trial of the Case in which Dr. Charles A. Rector, 714 North Alabama street, Indianapolis, is suing the ' Indianapolis Traction and Terminal company for .$5,000 on account of injuries he received Sept. 16, 1910, while trying to leave a Shelby street car at Maryland street and Virginia avenue, was begun in the superior court here. Dr. Rector alleges that his shoulder was dislocated and that he was perma-nently-crippled. He is an osteopath and his claim for damages is based mainly on the allegation that he is no longer able to practice his profession profitably on account of his physical condition. NEWCASTLE Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Charron, their infant child and a roomer, named Robert Brown, narrowly escaped death from poison. Physicians worked for several hours and finally got them beyond the danger zone. The poison is believed to have been on some mixed candy purchased at a local store and of which all partook freely, and becoming ill. Whether th.e‘poison got on the candy accidentally or"'"was placed there by some designing person is a matter that is being investigated. A pet cat ate several pieces of the candy and was also sick for several hours. All of the victims are still weak.

LAYETTE —; A few minutes before the doors were opened for the afternoon performances at the LaPurdette theater, vast quantities of smoke poured out from the vestibule of the playhouse and the Sixth and Main street corner was enveloped in a dense cloud. The Hotel Lahr was threatened and in adjoining stores preparations were made to move out The theater was gutted and George G. Ball, owner, estimated his loss at SI,BOO. The fire started in a dressing room east of she stage and it is presumed that a poorly insulated wire was the cause. BLOOMINGTON —Granny Hafferd, a colored woman, who was 104 years of age, is dead at her home in this city. She was born in Richmond, ,Va., and was sold seven times while in slavery, being owned by George Hafferd, near Monticello, Ky., when the war broke out. She came here soon after receiving her freedom and for years supported herself as a servant. She was the mother of 17 children, but ten of them were' sold before she was freed and she could never get any trace of them.

LAFAYETTE James O’Connell, who says his home is in the city of Chicago, stood chained to a post in the public square after he had refused to work with a street cleaning gang. He was sentenced for vagrancy O’Connell’s predicament won sympathy from fany persons and when he was taken back to jail donations amounting to $2 20 were found In his pockets. The prisoner told the jailer that he was worth more tied to a post than he was to the street cleaning department., WABASH William McCarthy and Ray Ogden were struck by an Erie freight train at Laketon and both injured, while their horse was killed. The occupants of the rig saw the approaching train, but thought they could safely cross ahead of it. McCarthy and Ogden were hurled a distance, and the former did not regain consciousness for several hours. Their hprse was carried 200 feet on the pilot of the engine. Both men may live. > ANDERSON— Mrs. Emma Chapman was bitten by a horse as she was passing along the sidewalk on Meridian street. The animal had been tied at the edge of the sidewalk to a weight It, when she had just passed, seized her arm between its teeth and refused to release its hold until help arrived. The arm was badly lacerated and it is feared that blood poisoning may ensue.

ANDERSON Bryant Fyre, who was accused of having been 1 an accomplice of Albert Walker in a number of daring burglaries in Elwood during the last six months, was acquitted of the charge by a jury in the circuit court. The only evidence against Fyre was the testmony of Walker.

SOUTH BEND —Although he tumbled from the roof of a two-story building, p. L. Kemp of this city, escaped injury, with the exception of a sprained wrist. He was cleaning a chimney when the accident happened, and his escape from fatal injury is considers* remarkable.

TAFT DISAVOWS HITCHCOCK PLAN

Does Not Favor Government Ownership of Telegraphs. DOUBLE RATE ON MAGAZINES - % ‘ President Sends Report of Postmaster General to Congress with Endorsement of Every Recommendation Therein Save One ' V ■ -■ ' * Washington, Feb. 23.—Congress has been informed by President Taft that he does not approve of Postmaster General Hitchcock’s suggestion that the government and operate all telegraph lines as an adjunct to the postal- system. .Mr. Taft said that if it could be shown that the public would benefit by receiving service at a less price than is now paid he might think differently of the plan, but tha* he was not convinced such would be the effect The president also sent to congress, and this with his approval, the report., of the commission on second'-class mail matter and recommending that the postal rate on magazines and newspapers be raised from 1 cent to 2 cents a pound. Mr. Hitchcock originally advised a 4-eent rate, but later changed this to 2. After referring to the practical wiping out of the postal deficit and other features of Mr. Hitchcock’s administration Mr. Taft in transmitting the postoffice department report to congress said: “There is only one recommendation in which I cannot agree—that is one which recommends that the telegraph lines in the United States should be made a part of the postal system and operated in conjunction with the mail system. “This presents a question of government ownership of public utilities which are now being conducled by private enterprises under franchises from the government

“I believe that the true principle is that private enterprise should t-e permitted to carry on such public utilities under due regulation as to rates by proper authority rather than that the government should itseir conduct them. This principle I favor because I do not think it in accordance with the best public policy thus gieatly to increase the body of public servants. “Of course, if it could be shown that telegraph service could be furnished to the public at a less price than it is now furnished to the public by telegraph companies, rud with equal efficiency, the argument might be a strong one in f;.vor adoption of the proposition. But I am not satisfied from any evidence that if these properties were taken over by the government they could be managed l any more economically or any more efficiently or that this would enable .he governmeiit to furnish service at any smaller rate than the public are now required to pay by private companies.”

EIGHT CHILDREN POISONED

New York Authorities Unable to Decide if Deaths were Intentional. New York, Fef>. 2^.—Eight children, the oldest ten months, have died in the Brooklyn nursery and infants’ hospital since Sunday and the .? ictors are convinced that they were poisoned. All of the babies were in one ward. The doctors believe that oxalic acid 1 mixed with lime water and milk killed the eight and laid up four others. In an effort to find out if the killings were the result of carelessness or a deliberate attempt to wipe out the infants in the institution, detectives questioned nurses, attendants and: others, finally deciding that they did not have enough evidence upon which to make an arrest.

KILBANE BEATS ATTELL

Featherweight Championship Passes to Cleveland Pugilist. Los Angeles, Feb. 23. —Johnny Kilbane, of Cleveland, defeated Abe Attell, featherweight champion, in a twenty-round battle at Vernon, a suburb of Los Angeles, for the featherweight title. Kilbane won his victory In easy fashion and it was seen early in the battle that he was the victor. Attell put up a pretty good showing in the first seven round®, but thereafter he was out of the running and Kilbane with his cleverness and shifty movement® defeated him without question.

Salt Lake Bara “Bridge."

Salt Lake City, Feb. 23.—The antigambling ordinances to go into effect here on March 1 apply to private card games for prizes, and Chief of Police Grant said that bridge whist at afternoon teas would receive attention from his department as promptly a® draw poker in a saloon.

Woman Slain with a Hatchet.

San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 23.—Mrs. E. Z. Rohe, thirty-two years old, sis-ter-in-law of Assemblyman Nathan C. Coghlan, was killed in the dining room of the Coghlan residence. According to uhe detectives she was hit over the bead with a hatchet and then shot

CHILDHOOD 1 tonight of my childhood Of fl he days ,bave since flew by ° ™ d ? W6 . rs and birds in the wildwood Of the beautiful blue of the sky Of the angelic face of my mother er love all my bein & would thrill hen Heaven seemed always to hover O er the cabin that stood on the hill. whL? r^ m ‘u tonish 1 of my childhood, „„ When iife had no burdens to bear, When God In his infinite wisdom Hid me from all soarow and care When angels would linger at twilight, . . nd . 1)01111 to the world upon high, And beckon and beg me to meet them In a wonderful home in the sky. When I in my dreams would oft listen, I o hear the faint sound of their wings And u ll / he rapture and goodness S That Heajven and harmony brings lo a r? hl d u-?, re tbe kn °wledge of sorrow Has chilled the warm, current of life t And vealed to his wonderful nature The ghastly old world and it’s strife. Sure Heaven with all of its goodness, It& ra P ture and songs of delight Will not fair excell in its granduer rh ® dr .’ eams tbat my fancy touched bright When the love of my beautiful mother All my being so often would thrill Like a foretaste of God and his mercy ’ In the cabin that stood on the hill. A. D. Babcock, Goodland, Ind„ Jan. 1912.

BOEHNE REPLIES TO AN ATTACK

Made On His Labor Record By Machine Agents. I HE FAVORED ALL LABOR BILLS Gav* Opinion on Ponding Legislation When Asked By Benator Carleton—- - Boehne a Minority Stockholder In Foundry, Used Every Means to Settle Btrlke—Faete Known to Labor Mon of Evansvlll< Who Called on i Him. Mr. Boehna. when asked for an expression of opinion concerning the resolution passed by the Central Labor Union of Evansville, with reference to his attitude toward labor said: “There is not even the remote shadow of truth in the allegations set forth in the resolution or the statements of an Indianapolis labor man upon which the resolution was predicated. The contentions advanced come under two heads, which in a general way are that I controlled the actions of the members of the legislature of the First Congressional District during the last session and that I used those legislators against the interests of labor. This is so far from the truth that It should not require an answer, but I have always made it my practice to be absolutely frank and straightforward in all my dealings, and I therefore am glad to make this statement and give the actual facts as they really exist so that the great mass of laboring men whom I have found to be fair and reasonable may have an opportunity to Judge for themselves the injustice that two or three misinformed and misguided men seek to do me without cause or reason. Kept Busy by Offioial Duties. "During practically all of the time that the last legislature was in session I was in Washington attending the sessions of congress. I made no effort whatever tp keep in touch with the work of the legislature or to Influence any of Its members in any manner whatsoever, except that I did ask some members with whom I was personally acquainted to stand by our platform pledges In the enactment of labor legislation. Senator W. B. Carleton of Evansville was the only member of the legislature from the First Congressional District who sought my advice or with whom I discussed proposed legislation either directly or Indirectly. When Senator, Carleton wrote me, asking for my ad-, vice, I replied to him, In substance, that_l was elected as a. member of

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congress, and that It required all mv time and attention to properly look into the merits of legislation coming before congress and to see that I correctly represented the visws of mv constituency. I told him fprther that I felt that the splendid delegation in the legislature from the First Congressional District was too well equipped for legislative work for me to attempt to advise them as to what their course of action should be on any subject. I did advise Senator Carleton, however, in reply to his .request for such advice, that the miners’ organization In my district was asking me to use my best efforts to assist them in securing the enactment of the miners’ qualification act, and that the laboring men in the district were all strongly in favor of the passage of the employers’ liability act, the child labor law, the miners’ qualification act, and the shot flrers’ law. I told him that I was personally interested In those measures, and that I bespoke favorable action for them, and that in addition to. those above named, that I was Interested in the corrupt practices act introduced by. Senator Traylor and later passed. Having made my ideas on those subjects clear, as he had requested me to. do, I asked him to Inform the other members of the legislature from our district of what I had said to him. Senator Carleton could doubtless throw some light on the matter should he care to do so. That was my sole and only activity In connection with the legislature. If Senator Carleton made known my views to the other members from our district, then they all knew that I was in favor personally of all the measures above named, that most of them were platform measures and all of them I felt to be absolutely worthy. Having answered the senator’s request, I at no time thereafter took any active Interest in the work of the legislature, but did take an active interest in the work of the national legislative body, of which I am a member, and strange to say, no criticism has been offered of my record in that legislative body, the record made by me personally and for which I am personally accountable, while the only criticism that has been advanced has been predicated on the actions of the Indiana general assembly of which I am not a member and with which I had no connection. My only activity in connection with the general assembly at any time or in any way having been, as I said, to merely inform Senator Carleton, and to ask him to inform his colleagues that as a citizen I felt that all of the laws named above were righteous and should be enacted. I am therefore somewhat bewildered to find that I am being criticised by even a few labor leaders because of what the legislature did or did not do, when everything that I said concerning legislation was in behalf of labor’s cause. The Truth of the Situation. “Now the second division of the criticism is directed at me through nay connection with the Indiana Stove Works. The truth of the situation with regard to the Indiana Stove Works and my connection therewith Is that I have not been conneeted in