Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Page 8

wt c it a. r JK !teni Inte,csl News Notes 01 - jMI Towns Tersely lold Nearby Towns penings in the Territory \f Adjacent to the Jasper A* Furnished hy Our Regular Corespondents f County Metropolis

| PINE GROVE. | Roy Torbet was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Odle attended church at Brushwood Sunday night. Those that spent Sunday with J. M. Torbet and family were Harry Beck and family. Roy Torbet and wife, and Clint Beck and family. Earl Beck returned to his home in Indianapolis Thursday after a few days visit with relatives. He was accompanied home by his aunt, Ghloae Torbet. who will spend a few weeks with relatives At that place.

Mr. H. M. Winkler, 238 Huston Ave., Evansville. Ind., says he was cured of a severe case of kidney trouble through Foley Kidney Pilis. He writes "My kidneys were in bad shape, and I suffered terribly With pains in my back, and the kidney action was very irregular. I took Foley Kidney Pills and now I am perfectly well and feel like a new man."—A. F. Long.

j MILROY. | —■— : Fester Morgan was in Lee Monday. ' Lon Chapman was in Monon Monday. Th os. Johnson was a McCoysbtyg caller Monday. i Miss Lural Anderson was 1 in Rensselaer Saturday. Bruce Brown of Monon called on W. I. Bivans Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Blankenship and Mrs. Boone called on Mrs. Bivans Saturday afternoon. . Robert Keeve of Piqua. Ohio, came Friday for_ an indefinite visit with relatives here. Ross. Myres, Martha Clark and Effie Underwood were guests of Geo. Foulks' Wednesday night. Sunday school has been postponed till the first Sunday in this month on account of poor attendance. Let all remember next Sunday at 10 a. in., to be present, please make a special effort to be present.

This Is a Good One.

What’s my name? he said, Well, that's a good one. Why, boy, you’ve knowed my name ever since you was a suckling babe. It aint so darned peculiar that anyone’s likely' to fergit if he wants to buy a buggy to take his best girl out. I tell you, boys, Roberts aas the buggies that has the stile, quality and finish, and the price is right, with the reputation bqhind them. Now, boy, if your game is to poke fun at that name, you don’t w ant to fergit that you’re funnying with about two men out of every three in this vicinity. Yours truly, C. A. ROBERTS.

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

100,000 Acres Farm Lands for Sale In Menominee County. The garden spot of Michigan. Farmers, dairymen, -stockmen, investors, market-gardners and poultrymen homes for thousands. Now is the time to buy land. Prices SB, $lO, sl2 to sls per acre, why pay rent all your life? Special discount allowed on ca-h sales. Free railroad fare to purchasers of land. Seven hours ride' from Chicago. Call today for free booklet showing views of roads, schools, churches, orchards and farms and telling all about farm lands in Menominee County, Michigan.—GEOßGE W. CASEY, |Rensselaer, Indiana, R-2, Local Agent.

Bicycle' and Motorcycle Repairing. I have opened up a bicycle and motorcycle repair shop in the old Goddard building three doors south of the Rensselaer Garage, on Front street, and solicit your patronage. Will keep tires and other supplies on hand.—JAMES C. CLARK. ts

Assisi DOES IT NEED CLEANING? If you have any dress, skirt, waist, coat, vest, trousers, or other garment that is stained or wrinkled, let me send for it and change its appearance. I am an expert in cleansing and renovating garments Of all kinds. I press them back into their original shape again, and I satisfy every patron with my work and with my charges. JOHN WERNER, Tailor Rensselaer, Ind.

Seed Potatoes.

. Car of No. I Rural and Rose seed potatoes, will sell in any quantity de-ired. -Globe Onion Farm, A, DONNELLY. Prop.

Announcement.

We wish to announce that the Rensselaer Producing Co;, (incorporated t are open for business at the odd B. S. Fendig building and will pay the ~ highest possible market price for butter, eggs and poultry. Try us and be convinced.— RENSSELAER PRODUCING CO.

Kanne Bus Notice.

Hereafter our bus headquarters will be at Tone Kanne’s residence, phone 214. Calls may also be made for us at Leek’s hitch barn, phone 34 2 or at the Rensselaer Garage, phone 365. We make all trains, answer all calls for city trade and solicit a share of your patronage. Respectfully, KANNE BROS.

FARM BARGAINS.

60 acres—-Near station and school, at heart of dredge aitcn, 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 tor drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements are a 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 ih small tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices. 599, acre ranch—-Good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy payments. . .. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade ror land or property. Will put in cash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

ST. LCD IS, MO.—The reports that’ Colonel Rocsevelt had intimated that he would ' olt from his party in case he fails of nomination brought forth a vigorous denial from the colonel. “Any statement like that Is untrue,” he said. “Any time F have anything to say on that subject, I will say it myself, and anything purporting to come from me, unless I say it myself, is a fake.” . KEOKUK, lOWA—The small town of Gregory, Mo., about twelve miles south of Keokuk, is reported to Jiave been inundated by the Mississippi river, which rose out of its banks between Alexander and Gregory. According to reports which reached here, four houses are floating down the river and during the night people were Heeling the town. WASHINGTON—FoIIowing a meeting of the entire cabinet, an ultimatum has been served on President Madero of Mexico commanding that he give adequate protection to the railway line between Vera Cruz and Mexico City so that arms and ammunition can 1 be delivered to American citizens in the capital. LONDON, ENG.—The first woman to cross the channel from England to France as a passenger in an aeroplane made the trip with Gustave Hamel, the aviator, who left Hendon at 9:38, passed over Dover at an altitude of 2,000 feet at 10:50 and landed at Saint Inglevert, to the southeast of Cape Grisnez, at npon without incident.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—With the Mississippi river here marking twentynine feet and rising rapidly, it was expected that the danger mark, thirty feet, would be reached during the day. Reports, of broken levees are being received from the flooded territory in the vicinity of the conjunction of the Ohio and Mississippi. . • ANDERSON, IND. William W. Brunner, forty-three years old, of Alexandria, has been taken to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City to serve a term of two to fourteen years for attempted murder. Brunner pleaded guilty to having shot at Charles H. Anders, fiance of Mrs. Bertha Parks, a sister to Brunner.. WASHINGTON—The U. S. senate became a body of ninety-six members. New Mexico and Arizona contributing the four additional senators, Thoipas B. Catron and Albert B. Fall of New. Mexico, Republicans, and M. A. Smith I and H. F. Ashuft of Arizona, Demo-! crats, were the new members to take the oath.

, CHICAGO About fourteen thousand carpenters were ordered to go on strike on Monday morning. They bundled tip their tools and took them home in obedience to the instructions of the union officials. Building operations in Chicago are expected to ne tied up.

FIREMEN DEMAND INCREASE

Strike Threatened on Monon Roaq Within Few Days."* Lafayette, Ind., April 5. The 200 firemen employed on the Monon railroad have threatened to strike unless they are granted an increase in wages, and it was rumored here that the men would wait but a few days for the company to grant their request A month ! ago a committee from the Brotherhood 1 of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers met with General Manager A. H. Westfall and superintendent of Motive Power H. C. May and asked that they be given an increase of 12 per cent in wages. They also requested improved working conditions. The company has not granted the increase and a strike vote has been ‘taken. It is said the firemen have voted to go out. The firemen’s committee is composed of W G. Owens and George Miller of Lafayette, C. H. Hernmer of New Albany. Claud McCracken of Bedford and W. F. Taylor of Indianapolis.

CONFESSES ATTEMPT TO ROB

Man Tells Railroad Detectives of Plans that Failed. TP Brazil, Ind , April s.—Levi Louderback, chief detective of the Vandalia railroad, made public a confession of Fred Bushay, of holding up a mail train at Liggett Station, near Terre Haute Feb. 16 Bushay was arrested in TCrre Haute for robbing a man of $290 on Third street there a few weeks Ego. From him Captain of Detectives Matthew Dorlev and Frank Fedderson obtained a confession of the train hcld-up. His confession does away with the theory that a gang was waiting to rob the train after it was brought to a stop by the lone robber. .

ENGINE BESTS OBSTRUCTIONS

Attempts to Wreck Southern Passenger Train Failures. Princeton, Ind.. April 5. —' An attempt to wreck Southern passenger train No. 1, due here at 3:20 a. m., was made near Fairfield, 111. At a point just beyond a sharp curve cross ties were piled across the track, and- a half mile’ farther east a push car was chained to the track. The engine struck both obstructions, hurling them out of the way and escaped derailment. A few feet east of where the ties were piled was a high trestle across a ravine, and had the train left the track a disastrous xvreck would have resulted.

NICHOLS’ STORY IS FALSE

Admits that He Is Not Murderer of Dr, Helen Knabe. Portsmouth. N. H„ April 5. Seth Nichols merely imagined that he murdered Dr. Helen Knabe at Indianapolis last October, according to his own admission to the jailer at the Rockingham county jail here. Nichols said he had been laboring under a great mental strain, due to the death of his wife lie had read all the details of Dr. Knabe’s death, he said, and was so familiar with the story of the crime that he became convinced he had slain the woman, as he told the local police last Monday.

HOPES TO PREVENT FLOODS

City of Gary Will Hasten Building of Drainage Ditch. Gary, Ind.. April 5. The city of Gary will fake immediate steps to prevent a repetition of the costly floods in the Little Calumet valley. This will be accomplished by hurrying the building-of the Burns ditch, which will drain thousands of acres in the Calumet valley. Litigation delaying the building of lhe ditch will "be set aside at once, it is believed, by filing a plea of intervention in the state supreme court.

Girls to Debate Suffrage.

Crawfordsville. Ind.. April 5.—A debating team composed of Crawfordsville High School girls will meet a team'from the Noblesville High School Friday night in this city. The question to be debated is: "Resolved. That Men and Women in Indiana Should' Have Equal Suffrage." The local team will have the affirmative side of the question.

Bars Dancing by Teachers.

Rushville, Ind , April s —The county board of education has issued an order placing the ban on dancing by the teachers employed by the township trustees. The reason for the order is that numerous complaints have befen made about the teachers attending dances, which is said to have had a bad influence with the pupils.

Court Orders Bank Sult.

Terre Haute, Ind., April 5. J. G Kolsem, receiver of the American State bank, was instructed by the court to bring suit against members of the board of directors for $75,000 alleged to have been lost because of embezzlement by President W. H Taber and through bad loans due to neglecT'bf duty by directors.

Youth Plays with Dynamite.

Bloomington, Ind., April 5 —As the result of his experiment with a dyna mite cap, Noble Simpson, twelve years old, of Harrodsburg, lost three fingers and thumb on his right hand.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

ROCHESTER While hunting ducks in. the Tippecanoe river, one mile north of this city, Charles Bailey and' William Hanna, sportsmen of this city, had a narrow escape from drowning when their boat was capsized. Each man weighs more than two hundred and twenty-five pounds and they were unable to swim in the swift current, which tossed them about until they managed to grasp an overhanging tree limb, just as they were ready to give up the battle. With the icy water swirling around their legs, the men y ere compelled to wait more than half an hour before a passing boy, Edward Garber, heaxl their cries for help. The rescuer was on the opposide side of the river and it took him fifteen minutes to reach the drowning men’s side. Just as the boy arrived at the scene Bailey lost his hold once and slipped into the water. A rope was thrown him and he was dragged to safety. Both men were more dead than alive, and it was several hours before they were able to leave a farmhouse, to which they were taken. The hunters are lavish .in praise of the boy who v. orked his way across the swollen stream by swimming and wading.

KOKOMO Justice James DeHaven, the father of the late Senator Charles DeHaven, and former sheriff of Howard county, later serving sixteen years continuously as justice of peace is dead. He was in office in the days of the notorious Molihan gang, a time when Kokomo had much lawlessness to contend with and when passions ran high. The post of sheriff was fraught with much j work and real danger. It was in September, on the night of the eighteenth, 1881, that Mayor Henry C. Cole wae killed, probably the most exciting event of state history. Not long afterward a mob stormed the jail, took Howard Green and hanged him on the’ Main street bridge.

SOUTH BEND The Stephenson Underwear mills, a large corporation,i has been awarded a judgment of $15,000 against the city of South Bend by Judge W. A. Funk in the circuit court for damages accruing to its! manufacturing property as the result of the extension of East Washington! avenue. Damages had been assessed | by the board of public works at $3,600 i and benefits at SIOO. In the complaint: the plaintiff asked for $25,000 dam-! ages, but later this was amended andl $75,000 was asked. No appeal from! the decision of the court is possible | and the judgment will rest against the city. The council’s only recourse lies in abandoning its plans to open the street.

GARY A most unusual scene was witnessed here in Judge Lawrence Becker’s chambers of the Lake superipr court at Hammond, when Sheriff Thomas Grant brought in two prisoners handcuffed together, both charged with murder. They were the Rev. William Steele of the Nineteenth Baptist church of Gary and Yip Ham, a Chinese. Steele, accused of slaying his sister-in-law, Harriet Thompson, nineteen years old, by strangling her to death during a quarrel last February, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Michigan City. Yip Ham, who shot and killed Ixiy Lee, Nov. 9, in*a tong war at Gary, obtained a continuance until April 9.

SULLIVAN Mrs. John Watson of this city and several other Indiana people will receive bequests of $7,000 each from the estate of Burless Adkins, who owned much of the land where Kansas City, Mo., is now located. Adkins died several years ago and his wife recently passed away. His will provides various bequests to churches and institutions and that a residue should be divided at his wife’s death. Other people sharing in $50,600 are J. B. Corbin of Elnora, A. B. Corbin of Pleasantville, Walter Corbin of Terre Haute, Diala Hovddietz of Dugger, Sarah Wilson of Pleasantville and Alex Corbin of Linton.

BROWNSTOWN—Ezra Robertson, twelve-year-old son of Durham Rorertson, fell from a canoe and 'was dfrowned in a stream •within a feW feet of the Robertson home. The lad’s mother was standing in the doorway and Witnessed every detail of the tragedy. Because of the extreme depth of the water and an unusually swift current, it was impossible to rescue the boy. and his body has not yet been recovered. The victim was exceptionally brilliant in his studies,, having passed the examination in the eighth grade recently with the highest grade of any pupil in the township.

HUNTINGTON—In a fit of despondency, which was due, it is believed, to a mortgage upon her property maturing next fall, Mary E. Hite of Union township, committed suicide by throwing herself into a cistern at her home. Her husband and son met death about fiftee nyears ago as the result of being overcome by damp gas in a cistern. Mrs. Hite’s body was found by thb one surviving son, Clarence Hite, upon his return from a hunting trip.

COLUMBUS James Haywood, employed at the Caldwell & Drake Iron Works, was probably fatally stabbed with a knife by Raymond Warefild, twenty-two years old, color ed. Haywood is at the city hospital dnd his assailant has fled. LOGANSPORT Declaring . that her husband, John absolutely will not bathe and is otherwise unkempt, Mrs. Vera Zeider has rpplled for a divorca.

BANK STATEMENT. Condensed statement of the condition of The Trust &. Savior - Bank CwiSl2: ° f IndiaEa ’ at th « J ,clone of its busies, dn RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts. . $161,132.03 Overdrafts 3,669.37 Ca P ltal stock—-paid in. .$25,000.00 Bond’s and Stocks 9.368.80 Surplus 10,000 00 Furniture and Fixtures 2,000.00 Undivided profits '-> q,, ~ Advances to estates and nividsn.u ~ ’’ ■ trusts .. . . .. . 339.15 Dmdends "“paid .. . .., 8 0,0 ft Due from banks and Int -> discount and other Trust Companies.... 62,114.08 earning's . 4,759.44 Cash on hand.. 8,129.53 Demand deposits .168 034 34 Cash Items 2,003.05 Time deposits 38 143’34 Current expense 1 961 28 Interest paid 685.40 Ve ? r taxes 773.96 — • 1 —s. Total resources 250,702.69 Total liabilities 250,702.61 State of Indiana, County of Jasper ss: • I, Judson J. Hunt, Secy-Treas. of The Trust & Savings Bank of Rensselaer, Ind., do solemnly swear that the above statement is true JUDSON J. HUNT. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 2d day of April, 1912 MOSES LEOPOLD, „ , . Notary Public. My commission expires March 11,1913. ■ Our Large General Store| o Is Open for Your Inspection o < * ————— < > o ~~ < ► o o A Fine Line of ;t 0 ' 0 »Groceries, Shoes i < ► and < ► o <» h General Merchandise H •: Everything at Reasonable Prices, H o We Only Ask a Share of Your o Business. < * —— < ». MORROW BROS. < • In the Odd Fellow Building. <*

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—-The bill to establish a federal children’s bureau for the purpose of investigating Questions affecting the care, employment and general welfare of children was passed by the house of representatives by a vote of 173 to 17. The measure, which was drawn by Senator Borah of Idaho, has already passed the senate and President Ta< is expected to sign it. The movement for the establishement of the bureau was initiated by Jane Addams of Chicago and other leaders in humanitarian endeavor, who believe that the work of a federal agency will affect a great amelioration of the conditions of child life. —L

DEL MONTE, CAL.—Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston’s society girl athlete, wants again to try to break the walking record for the 110 miles between Burlingame and the Hotel Del Monte. Miss Sears arrived at the Hotel Del Monte after covering the 110 miles in 41 hours. Only the girl’s pluck enabled her to finish the walk, as she arrived at the hotel in an exhausted condition, her feet badly swollen from the hard roads and her head sagging from side to side from the loss ol sleep. She lest the record by only a few hours.

CHICOPEE, MASS.—A lucky accident was all that saved Mrs. Julia B. Urak from being killed when an express train overtook her and her sister, Katherine Conzig, on a trestle here. The women were running to get away from the train when Mrs. Urak stumbled and fell a few yards ahead of the locomotive. She slipped between the timbers of the trestie to an abutment below while the locomotive overtook and killed her sister.

The Church and the Press.

M. ..B, Morton, managing editor of the Nashville Banner, recently addressed the members of the Men’s Club of St. Ann’s church, .on “The Press and Religion.” “The press is the vehicle in which the great religious movements of today ride. If the masses arc to be evangelized the press must do its pdrt,” he said, “and I believe I am justified in stating that it is doing so. All papers take an active part in religious movements. The press was fostered by priests and the first manuscripts saved from destruction by these priests. , Tt was |he priests who wrote the A B C’s in the dawn of history, and who wrote the story of the cross. Yes. the press and the church are close akin. I hope and believe that the day is coming when the newspaper man will be what he ought to be —the consecrated priest of God. “The church and the press are striving for the same end, and I hope to see the time when they will work still more hand in hand.*

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