Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — Page 4

FORMAL OPENING.I -■ Having completed the remodeling and beautifying of our store of three floors, the largest store in Rensselaer, we extend a cordial invitation to all to witness the splendid display, of Home Furnishings the afternoons and in the evenings of s FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 26th and 27th. Music by Burch’s Orchestra^ each day and evening of this Opening. Only electric elevator in the rnnnfj/ We will have each day of our Opening a demonstrator for the New Home Sewing Machine People with us. W. J. Wright’s Furniture Store.

WHS OF A WEEK

Latest News Told in Briefest and Best Form.

The Titanic j Captain Wilhelm and passengers of the steamer Bremen, which arrived at Xew r York, reported that last Saturday afternoon, while in latitude 42 north,! longitude 49.23 west, in the vicinity j of ■ where the Titanic foundered, his \ vessel plowed through fields of bodies: of the victims of the disaster. - j • • • Failure to provide binoculars or spy glasses for the lookouts on the Titanic was one contributing cause of that ship’s loss and. with it. the loss of 1,600 lives. Two witnesses before the senate investigating committee at Washington agreed on this They were Frederick Fleet, a lookout on the liner, and Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, Canadian manufacturer and yachtsman, who was among the rescued passengers. * • • With succor only five miles away, the Titanic slid into its watery grave, carrying with it 1,600 of its passengers and crew, while an unidentified 6teamer that might have saved ail failed or refused to see the trantic signals flashed to it for aid This phase of the tragic disaster was brought out before the U. S. senate investigating committee when ’J B. Boxhall, fourth officer of the Titanic, told of bis unsuccessful attempts to attract the stranger's attention.

The first list of names of bodies recovered from the Titanic disaster by the cable steamer Mackay-Bennett was received at Halifax. N. S., through wireless messages to the White Star line offices. The list of twenty-live names contains none of several of the most prominent men who perished. • » • Washington The confidential correspondence which ■ passed between President Roosevelt, Attorney General Bonaparte and Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of corporations in 1907, about a government antitrust suit against the International Harvester company was sent to the U. S. senate from the files of th,e department* of justice. ,

* * * Partial home rule for Alaska, with authority to grant to women the right to vote, was approved by tie house at Washington when it passed the bill for a local Alaskan government. • ■ • * • Banks holding special deposits of the United States must pay the federal government two per cent, instead of one per cent, in future. A. Piatt Andrew, assistant secretary of the treasury, has decided to double thb rate of interest in accordance with the authority reposed in the trea&ury department by congress. ■ * ■ * • »An appropriation of V 50.000 in -the postoffice bill for experimental work in carrying of mails by aeroplanes was defeated in the house at Washington. • • • The house of representatives at Washington was addressed in the German tongue on organized labor i.nd its effect on world peace by Karl Legien. a leader of the Socialist party in the Gernaan reichstae

Another way "to reduce' the cost of living was "discovered” at Washj ington by Representative Buikley, . Democrat, of Ohio, who introduced a bill providing for the coinage of a haifj cent copper piece. :‘• • • Domestic The Rhode Island state Republican j convention adopted resolutions instructing the delegates to Chicago to support President Taft’s candidacy for the nomination “until released.” ♦ * * The new tuberculosis preventorium at Farmingdale, N. J., was formally dedicated by Governor Woodrow Wilson. It cares for .tenement children the members of wihose families are afflicted with tuberculosis. * | A crowd at New York not unlike that which annually flocks to Madison Square garden for the six-day bicycle i races is watching "Professor” Camillo ! ! Raueia, late of Venice, Italy, try to | play the piano for fifty hours. • * * i■ • - By a vote of 761 to 720 the regular , Republicans controlled the lowa state convention at Cedar Rapids, elected delegates-at-large to the national con- ! vention and instructed them for Pres- ' Went Taft • • • Application has been made by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com- ! pany at San Francisco to the California state railroad commission for permission to charge long-distance telI ephone rates by the mile. j

FIREMEN HOLD FIRM

WALKOUT ON LINER OLYMPIC LEADS TO A DEADLOCK. Pemand That Men Who Would Not Strike be Dismissed Is Refused by Company. Southampton, England, April 26. The situation in connection with the White Star liner Oiympir was complicated by a sudden demand of the British Seafarers’ union that the White Star company dismiss 18 firemen belonging to the union who remained on the Olympic. OtheYwise the seafarers’ union declares the firemen and* cilers who left the ship would not return. The demand was made by a deputation of strikers and other I members of the seafarers’ unipn, who went cn beard the liner to test the ■ new collapsible lifeboats installed since the disaster to the Titanic. The company has refused to consider the men's demands, and \ declares it prefers to take the liner back to Southampton and lay her up. Matters seem, therelore, to have reached a deadlock. The 300 striking engine room hands are on the quay Eide with their kit bags awaiting the return of the deputation in readiness to embark if the dispute is settled. The Olympic is still lying off Hyde, Isle of Wight, the officers having Succeeded jmpbtaining only a fifth of the necessary firemen to work the ship.

I A number of officials of the hoard l of trade went aboard the liner and the vessel's enforced stay was utilized for the carrying out of lifeboat drills. All the wooden lifeboats were lowered and the crew also practiced with the collapsible craft. One thousand four hundred passengers are aboard the Olympic.

Ex-Sheriff M’Creary Dead.

j Windfall, April 25.—John F. Mcf.reary,’ fifty-eight years old, former sheriff of Tipton county and a promi-M’-ent live stock dealer, died at his hoirie in .this city very suddenly of heart trouble. He was a prominent i member of the Masonic order.

Methodist Hospital Head Chosen.

Indianapolis, April 25.—Dr. J. < Moulder of Kokomo was chosen superintendent of the Methodist hospital. He will begin his duties June 1. He • succeeds \\ T. Graham, resigned.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. <© LOSES RELATIVES ON TITANIC o William Strom of Indiana Harbor Receives News That His Wife and Daughter Were Victims of Disaster. Hammond, April 25. —Indiana Harbor furnished two Titanic victims in the persons of Mrs. William Strom and daughter Thela, according to information received by Strom, who ,is e’mployed by the Standard Forging works. The mother and daughter had been, spending the winter with relatives In Sweden, and were returning with her brother for a visit. The brother-in-law became separated from ! the mother and daughter. He believes 1 they were in one of the boats which was overturned. Eastern Star Chapter in Session. Indianapolis, April 25.—Eight hun- | dren are attending the Indiana grand ehap‘er of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Anna Robinson of Winchester, the present associate grand j matron, will be advanced to the office | of grand matron and Roy E. Tiiford of | Martinsville, the present associate grand patron, will be advanced to the office of grand patron. Mrs. Nettie Ransford of Indianapolis, who is serving her eighteenth year as grand secretary, wi’l be re-elected to that position, and Mrs. Carrie Fanning will be re-elected Grand Treasurer.

Cigar Manufacturer Dies on Train.

Fort Waynes April 25—Fred G. Schneider, a cigar manufacturer, died suddenly of acute laryngitis aboard a train in Colorado, shortly after starting on his return from Colorado Springs to Fort Wayne. Schneider left this city last week for West Baden, and was advised to go at once to Colorado for his health. Physicians there told him his case could not be as well handled there as at home, and he had started back when death came. ■ ■

On Trial for Arson.

Jeffersonville, April 25. —Nathan Solinger, who was for many years in the clothing business in this city, is on trial in the Clark circuit court on a charge of arson. It is alleged that last fall he started a fire in the storeroom he had ostensibly sold some time before to IjOuise, Berman, but in which he retained an interest, the state says, Soiiner was in charge of the store on the day of the fire, while Berman was in the country. (

Wanted for Murder; Freed.

Wabash. April 25.—After having been held here one week lor Instructions from southern officials, Charles Cornley, aged twenty-three, wanted for the murder of “Sbn” Cowarde of Atoka, Tenn., was released. Five hours later a. belated message was received instructing the police to hold the prisoner. Cornley is charged with killing Cowarde in a quarrel over- a girl. He came north and married the girl, who followed him to Indiana.

Glass Workers on Strike.

Marlon, April, 25.—Two hundred employes of the Upland flint bottle works are out Of employment through a strike begun by the blowers, who say the management put to work several blowers who took the places of strikers in the Bell bottle plant at Fairfnount recently. They assert it will* be necessary for the Fairmount men to be turned off before they will return to w’ork.

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Sails to Aid China Reforms. New York. April 26 Dr Hin Wong, a Chinese student at Columbia university and a graduate of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, will leave the United States this week to join Dr. Sun Yat Sen. as a special agent in the Chinese reformer’s plans for the industrial development of Sojpth China.

Champ Clark Taken III.

Washington, April * 26.—Speaker Clark while in his office, suffered an attack of lumbago and later went to his home. His illness is not serious.

THE MARKETS.

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, April 25.' Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. lng. May 1.14 H-H 1.14% 1.13% 1.14 July 1.10% 1.09%-% 1.10% Sept 1-C6. 1.66% 1.05% 1.06% CornMay .......79%-SO% SI ,T 9 .89% July 77%-% .:$%-% .77% .77% Sept ....75%-% .76% .76% .75% Oats—- • May ....i...57%-% .58% .57% .57% July ....54%-% .54%-% .54%-% .54% Sep*.. ........44%-% .44% .44% .44% FLOUR— Market firm: winter wheat, jute. 54.4f-54.G>: straight. Jute. 34.2054.30; clear, jute. $3.«[email protected]: straight; wheat.’special brands, wood. $6.30; Minnesota, pat-, ent, jute, $4.9055.10: Minnesota. hard, spring, straight: export bags. J 4.7554.50; first clears. J 3 80*54.10; seconds clears, 53.30 jute. $4 50*54:85: dark. 34.3094.50. BUTTMi—Creamery. 3le; price to retail Ceale-s 32%c; prims. 3T, 2 c: extra firsts. 30c: firsts, 29c: seconds. 2Sc: dairies, -Sc: firsts. 20c: s-conds. 24c: No. 1 ladles, iSc: packing stock. 21'. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included. 17517%c: c-ases returned. 1«%517c: ordinary firsts. 17%c; firsts, lS%c; extra, candled for city trade. 21c; No. 1 dirties; 17c; checks, lfic. POTATOES—Wisconsin, 31.2251.27: Michiganfl 31.2551.30: Minnesota. [email protected]. Ll\E POULTRY—Turkeys, per lb., 12c; chickens fowls. !3%c; roosters. 10c: geese, 9c: ducks. 15c.

New York, April 25. WHEAT—Stronger, fair trade: No. 1 northern, spring. $1.26%; No. 2 red, $1.21; No. 2 hard. *1.24%: No. 1 Manitoba, 11.15%: May. $1.20%: July. $1.15% CORN—Higher, quotations nominal; No 2, 87%092%. OATS—Ste.ady. dealings slow: No. 2 white, 64c: standard. 64c: ungraded. 63® «7%e. BARLEY—Quiet: malting. SL2S@L3S. Live Stock. Chicago. April 25. CATTI.E —Good to prime steers. $7.50® 8.90; fair to good beeves. $6 2507.50: common to fair beeves. $5.0006.25: inferior kfl'ers $4.0005.00: distillery steers, $7.00® 8.00: fair to fancy yearlings. $6.50g5.25: good to choice cows. $4.4006.25: canner bill's. $2.5003.00: common to good calves. $4.50(36 00: gcod to choice vealers. $7.00® 8.10: heavy calves. $5.0006.50: feeding •alves. $4.4006.25. Stockers. $3.2505.25; common to choice feeders. $5.0006.50; medium to good beef cows, $3.5004.00; common to good cutters. $3.0003.75; inferior to good ranners. $2.7503.25: fair to choice heifers $4.5007.40 ’ HOGS—Prime heavy butchers. 2400300 lbs.. $7.8007.90; choice butchers. 2000250 lbs.. $7 7007.85; fair to good butchers. $7.66 07.80: fair to choice heavy packing. $7,700 7.5 n.; light mixed, 180 lbs. and up. $7-60® 7.70: cholcp light. 1700200 ibs.. *7.6507.75; pigs, no lbsfl and under. $4.5005.50. East Buffalo, N. Y_ April 25. CATTLE —Market active and steady; prime steers. $8.2508.65; butcher grades, $3.0007.75; calves, cull to choice. $6,250 ).25. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active. •25c higher: choice lambs." $8.4008.60; cull to fair. $6.0008.86: yearlings. $7.0007.25: sheep, $3.0006. <o: wool \ lambs. $7.50® 1.65. " i HOGS —Market active. 15025 c higher; Yorkers, $8.0008.30; ,pigs. $7.75; mixed. 58.8008.40; heavy. $5.2505.30: roughs. $7.00 07.40; stags. $6.0006.25. , South Omaha. April 25. CATTLE—Native steers. $6.2505.45: cows and heifers. $3.7507.35; western steers. $4.75 07.25: Texas steers. $4.5006.50: range cows and heifers, $3.2506.00; canners, $2.7504.25; .3ft)rkers and feeders. $4.2507.00: halves. $4.0007.50; bulls, stags. etc.. $4.2506 50. HOGS—Heavy. $7.4507.60: mixed. $7.30@ 7.50; light. $72007.50: light. $7.2007.50: pigs. $6.0007.28: bulk of sales. $7.3007.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS —Yearilngs. $6.50 07.50: wethers. $6.0007.00: ewes. $5.2506.25; lambs, $7.5008.40

Genuine Quaker Parchment butter wrappers, either blank or printed, in any quantity desired

miliiiHiiit. [Under this head notices wjl be pub lisned for 1-cent-a- word for the are. Insertion, %-cent per word for eilct additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two oi more times, as the case may be for t? cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the adver tiser.j FOR SALE 8 - For Sale—A good 16-foot store counter.—THE DEMOCRAT. Lor Sale—Good milch cow, recently fresh. VERX HOPKINS. Rensselaer. For Sale—Good re-eleaned Millet seed.—Enquire of C. H. PORTER or phone 130.

For Sale—lndian Runner Duck Eggs, white eggs, 75c for 15.—R. J. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3. mlO For Sale—4s bushels late eating potatoes at $1.50 per 1 bushel.— D. M. PEER, Kniman, Ind. m 22 For Sale—Good 8-room house with 5% lots 50x150, good new barn; $1,850, on Elm street H DAVISSON. For Sale-—Some general purpose mares.—ANTON TRULLEY, R-l, phone 506-G. ■, j ' Oak Lumber For Sale—Bridge lumber and bills iawed to order if furnished soon.—VICTOR YEOMAX, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 521-G. For Sale—Three good lots in Demotte, just across the street from church, good barn but no house Will be sold cheap.—BOX 58, Rensselaer. For Sale—Eggs from Chose nice White V. yandottes of Mayhew’s SI.OO for 15, $5 per 100."—ARTHUR MAY HEW, Rensselaer, R-3, Mt. Ayr, phone 29-H.

For Sale—SO acres of land in Keener tp., fair improvements, for quick sale only $26 per acre; half cash, balance on time. —HARVEY DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—Lot 75 ft. front, with a fine modern residence, located right up town, with electric lights city water, bath, toilet, and good barn. $2,200. Easy terms.—H. DAVISSON. tor Sale—Good modern house, barn and all necessary outbuildings, all in fine condition, with 10 lots !' located on north side.—-Enquire at Democrat Office or address Box 58, Rensselaer. For Sale —Five room cottage, practically new. lot .50x167, fruit, shade trees, etc. Price for quick sale SBSO, half cash, balance on time at 6 per cent.—Enquire at De moor at office or address BOX 58 Rensselaer.

' > For books. “Si Kleeg & His Pard;” “History of Andersonville Prison;” “History of the Religion of the World;” “White House Cook Book.” all may be seen at McFarland’s grocery, where they can be had at very low prices. - For Sale—Good 5-room house in west part of town, cement sidewalks, improved street, good drilled well, lot 62x254, fruit of all kinds in abundance,: small barn. Fine shade trees. Price $l,lOO, half cash balance on easy terms at cen L—Enquire at Democrat office or address BOX 58, Rensselaer. * 1 A Nice eight room, two-story house city water, electric lights, two lots, small barn, on improved street, cement sidewalks, sewer, etc., ail paid for. Is now at $lO per month. This property fe almost new and is a bargain at the price sl,500. HARVEY, DAVISSON.

I IJarred Rot ’k Eggs—For hatching , purposes, lor sale by M I \dam«; iPhone 533-L. ' ‘ i **-? — : j Kg&s for Hatching— I have a ior well bred, selected and wellmatched S. C. White Leghorns. Lggs lor sale, 15 for 60c.—A Cl W. FARMER, Phone No. 425, Rensselaer, Ind. a 25 Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parte of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business 1 heretore if you have any farms or j town property to sell or trade give I me a chance and I will give yon a j Square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman. 1 ind. • For Rent—l6o acres fine pasture land, well fenced and watered t. P WRIGHT & CO., Renssel,aer ’ Ind - m 2

WANTED Wanted— A good second-hand surrey. Enquire at this office. Wanted— Rarties desiring to sell their farm or town property to list same with me.—HARVEY DAVISSON. Wanted—Teams to plow by the acre lor < corn. Call or write as soon as possible.—JOHN O’COX. ><’OR, Kniman, Ind.

Wanted—Married man to work or farm, house and truck patch furnished. For name of party inquire at DEMOCRAT Office. JS Wanted—Few middle-aged men to cover sixteen good towns in this section, including Rensselaer. All summer’s job; $2.75 per day first two weeks, then $75.00 each month t ommence now. r— GLEN BROS Rochester, N. Y. m '£ Wanted—To establish an agency for the Marion and K-r-i-t lino of automobiles. A good live man can get a good aar with a liberal], dis™rite ° r phone THE auto bALLS CO., Remington, Ind., phone lo9 ’ a2B

Wanted—Pair mare mules well matched in color, size and gait must weigh 1300 Iba. or more each;' between 3 and 6 years old. Must be absolutely sound and gentle. Gl V 6 o cash I>rice and Quick, T ' H,LTON '

Kst.ay*-d—From my place, the Crawford farm, 1 % miles northwest of Kersey, Sunday evening, l -orrel bald-face horse aboqt 800, both hied feet white, and 1 bay .horse weighing about 9t>o. branded on left shoulder and le.t thigh. Notify A. GORDON, Wheatfield R-l, or phone Hobbs & Lewis, Kersey, Ind. ' 1 ' •• "'" • '•'i . anS J °f"^ Key ring With S small k eys stamLn 86 °” e ’ “ Ca PPi p i. Ill.” Kavl “ n nng ’ Finder please leave at this office.

! FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on slftftft P ft rOPe v rty n in any BUmB U P tO SIO.OOO.—E. P. HONAN. K ihnf without Delay U without Commiseion. I 1U < Without-Charges for ■II Making or Recording I Instruments. _ « l W. H. PARKINSON. There are people in this town who unthinkingly neglect a “mere ttict though they would not otherwi e expose their children or them, selves to-danger. Yet a cold neglected may develop into contagious diptheria, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Use Foley’s Honey and lar Compound promptly for it stops coughs quickly and cures oo.ds It contains no opiates and is safe for children.—A. F. Long. An armful of old papers for a nickel at the Democrat office.