Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — Page 4

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

Latest News Told in Briefest and Best Form.

Washington Soon after the house judiciary com mittee at Washington had begun itt investigation Into the grave charge; filed against Judge Robert W. Arch bald of the newly created Unitec States commerce court, that he was Using his position to obtain favor; .from corporations, it "uncovered foui big financial deals in which he had be come interested since mounting to fair present place on the bench. *' * » ■ Startling evidence of the progres slve nullification of the meat inspec lion laws through successive regula tions Issued by the department of agri culture ahd the prevalence of almost criminal laxity in the enforcement ot the law as modified, was given the house committee at Washington investigating the department by Mrs Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo Mich., who inspected meat packing plants and slaughter houses in many cities.

Senators Simmons and Cummins, during the debate on the metal schedule bill, warhed the United States senate that there would be neither adjournment nor recess until final action Is taken by the senate on all the tariff bills that have been sent over by the house. • • • The department of agriculture has officially admitted that in the past six years no fewer than six million carcasses of meat tainted by disease have been passed as wholesome by its inspectors and sold throughout the United States. • • • Perfected pension legislation by which the veterans of the Civil war will receive increased allowances was completed when the United States senate accepted the conference report on the Sherwood dollar a day bill. According to figures furnished by the commissioner of pensions the bill will add $25,797,702 to the appropriations for pensions.

• Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, who has just returned to! Washington from a trip during w hich I he conducted a secret examination of! _*ltnesses_ jn Chicago, New York, I Philadelphia and other cities, de-' clares he has unearthed a conspiracy between the meat packing companies and certain officials of the department of agriculture. * • • Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, who has just returned to Washington from a trip during which he conducted a secret examination of witnesses in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other cities, declares he has unearthed a conspiracy between the meat packing companies ano certain officials of the department of agriculture. • • • Although bitterly opposed by nearly all the Democratic senators as being in violent opposition to the interest of railroad employes, the workmen’s compensation bill was passed by the United States senate by a vote of 64 to 15.

• • • Domestic The flood situation in Louisiana ie more distressing than at any time since the water of the Mississippi began to rise. Appeals for boats are coming into New Orleans and other points from every direction, much faster than they can be responded to. How many lives have been lost cannot even be estimated, but the dead will number at least several hundred. • • • The New Hampshire supreme court rendered a decision, at Concord, in which it declares, upon a statement of facts before the court, the $3,000,000 t. ast fund created for the “mother church” in Boston by the will of MaryBaker Eddy is valid. This opinion is rendered by Chief Justice Frank N. Parsons. The other four justices concurred. ‘i j • • • The United Confederate Veterans in convention at MaCon, Ga., adopted a resolution accepting the proposition of the Grand Army of the Republic to hold a joint reunion of the two asso clations at Gettysburg. Ga., July 1 1913.

* • • Advances in rates on barlpy In carloads on all transcontinental railroads from California, Nevada and Utah points, effective May- 12, were sus pended by the interstate commerce commission until September 9. * • • After examining about forty witnesses. the commonwealth closed its evidence in the case of Floyd Allen of Carroll county, at Wythevliie, Va. It is likely that Allen's lawyers will have about 35 witnesses.

COURT TURNS DOWN U. S. GOVERNMENT

Denies Writ of Injunction in Steel Trust Suit. BAACKES TAKES ALL BLAME American Steel and Wire Chief Assumes Responsibility for Burning of Papers Wanted as Evidence. New York, May 9.—On the ground that no intention on the part of the Steel corporation to destroy’ evidence bearing upon the government’s dissolution suit had been shown, Judges 3ray, Buffington and McPherson in the United States district court at Trenton refused to grant the ' injunction prayed for by the government to restrain the trust from making away with any of these papers. At the same time they granted the Injunction asked in the same application against the American Wjre & Steel Co. destroying any more of the papers in its possession bearing upon the suit. This latter injunction war granted because it had beep provet that the steel and wire company had burned a trunkful of correspondence pertaining to the famous Jackson POOIS.'/; ' , •

Decision Not Vital. Judge J. M. Dickinson, who is conducting the examination of witnesses in the dissolution suit before Sjiecial Examiner Brown, said, after he had learned of the adverse decision of the gourt at Trenton, that this would have no appreciable effect upon the government’s dissolution suit, Frank Baackes, vice president of the - American Steel & Wire Co., assumed full responsibility f®r. the destruction of the documentary evidence in the possession of that company which was testified to by H. A. Whitney. In the witness stand Baackes claimed that within a month or two after the wire pool collapsed as a result of the withdrawal from it of the American Steel & Wire Ca. he, had given an order for the immediate destruction of all correspondence and other papers bearing upon the operar tions of the pool because he thought vre was no longer any use to encum<r his office files with the great mass of correspondence about the transactions of the pool. Surprise to Baackes.

He swore that until the government started its investigation, which resulted in the present suit against the Steel trust, he tho.ught his order of two years before had been complied with. The introduction of these supposedly destroyed papers in the 1 proceedings here which led to the indictment of all the members of the Jackson pool surprised him much, he declared. Baackes stated positively that he had not given the order to Whitney to have the papers burned, but that he had always understood that that order had been given to Whitney by George A. Cragin, the company’s assistant general sales agent.

Pool Formed to Make Money. “Why was the wire pool formed?” was asked of Baackes. “To make more money,” replied Baackes. "Did you make more money by raising prices and controlling allotments?” “Of course we did,” promptly replied the witness. Baackes then told how the allotments were made. "If a member of the pool had sold yver 100 per cent of his allotment,” said the witness, "he was notified to curtail his sales so as to get in line with the others. If he persisted in □verselling then he forfeited the cash guarantee he Had to deposit when he became a member.”

MEXICO SHAKEN BY QUAKE

Thirty-Four Persons Killed and Many Buildings Wrecked—Volcano of Colirria Becomes Active. Mexico City, May 10.—Thirty-four, □ersons were killed and many buildngs in the city of Zapatalan, located bn the slope of the volcano of Colima, were killed in the city of Ciudad Guzman, and ten others were seriously njured. In the city of Guadalajara 12 dis:inct shocks were felt and conslderible damage, including the total destruction of a Catholic church, is reported from the town of Quartel. Folowing the quakes the volcano became rctive. The observatory here predicts that Viexiqo City will be visited by a disastrous earthquake.

FIVE DEAD IN EXPLOSION

Twelve Others Are Hurt When Ga* In Blast Furnace Gives Way in Cleveland. - Cleveland, O„ May 10—Five men were killed, eight fatally hurt and four less seriously injured In an explosion at the Central blast furnace of the American Steel & Wire company. -- The men were inside one of the furnaces removing a blowpipe preparatory to shutting down the furnace when the explosion occurred. The blast is believed to have resulted from an accumulation of gas which was ignited by a workman’s torch. ’ ' ,

HOME RULE ADVANCED

BILL PASSES SECOND READING IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. Stormy Speeches and Much Excitement Precedes Vote —Man Ejected From Gallery Amid Uproar.

London, May 10*.—The second reading of the home rule bill passed in the bouse of commons late last night by i vote of 372 to 271. The vote was reached after a long storm of oratory /nterspersed with interruptions and ane or two exciting incidents by occupants of the crowded galleries. John Redmond-, in opening the debate, said he thought the justice of the claim of Irishmen to manage their awn affairs was now generally conceded. “Underlying the speeches of the during the debate,” said the irish leader, “there has been a supposition that having obtained their great charter of liberty the Irish people would prove themselves a nation of fools and at once set to work to wreck and ruin their ' own constitution.” This idea Mr. Redmdnd controverted at great length. Mr. Chaplin contended that the bill had not been considered by the electorate. He regarded the bill as dangerous, both to the interests of Ireland and to Great Britain. While R. Thompson was reading an extract from the paper Irish Freedom, a stranger in the gallery called out: “Our paper is published everywhere.” The disturber refused to be silenced and continued to shout imprecations at the speaker amid a general uproar until he had been forcibly ejected.

Never Worries; Dies at 104.

- Newark, N. J., May 10.—Mrs. Winnifred Farrell, believed to have been the oldest woman in New Jersey, is dead at the age of one hundred and four. “Grandma" Farrell was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, and made it a rule through life never to worry.

THE MARKETS.

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, May 9. Optn- High- Low- ClosWheat— Ing. eat. est Ing. May 4.17 1.17% 1.16% 1.17% July 41.13% 1.14 1.13 1.13% Sept. ......1.08-9% 1.09% 1.07% 1.07% CornMay ...80 .80% .80 .80% Ju ’y 77 -77%-8 .77 .77% Se Pt74% .75%-% .74% .75% OatsMay ...57% .57%-% .56% .57% July 53 .54 .52% 54 SePt-...4.3%-% .44% .43% .44% Cash Grain Market. WINTER WHEAT—No. 2 red. $1 17® 1.19; No. 3 red, [email protected],7: No. 2 hard. $1.17 @1.19%; No. 3 hard. $1.13%@1.1S SPRING WHEAT—No. 1 northern. $1.19 @1.24; No. 2 northern. |[email protected]; No 3 spring. [email protected]. CORN—No. 2. 80%@80%c; No 2 white, 81@Rl%c; No. 2 yellow. Sl@Sl%c; No. 3. 78@7»%c; No. 3 White, 79%@SOc; No. 3 yellow. 79@7T,c; No. 4. 75%@76c. OATS No. 2 white, .58%@58%c; No. 3 white. 57’[email protected]%0; No. 4 white. 57%@57%c; standard. sS@sß%e. i i BUTTER—Creamery. 29c; price to retail dealers 32c; prints. 33e; extra.first?, 28%c; firsts, 2Sc; seconds. 26c; dairies, extra, 2Jjc; filjsts. 25c; seconds. 23c; No. 1 ladles. 22c; packing stock, 21c. 1 EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included. 17%c; cases returned, 17c; ordinary firsts, 16%c; firsts. 18c; extra, candled for city trade, 21c; No. 1 dirties. 14%@15c; checks. 13c. POTATOES—'Wisconsin, $1,207? 1 25; Michigan. [email protected]; Minnesota. [email protected]. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, per ft., 12c; chickens, fowls, 14c; roosters. 10c; geese, 9c; ducks, 14c. New York, May 9. WHEAT—lrregular.. dull trade; No'. 1 northern, spring. $1.29; No. 2 red. $1.23%; No. 2 hard. $1.27; No. 1 Manitoba, $1.14%; May. $122; July, $1.19; September. $1.14%. CORN—Firmer, quotations nominal; No. 2. 89@94c. OATS—Steady, dealings inactive: No. 2 white, 63c; standard. 63c; ungraded. 62% @66c. BARLEY—Firm; malting. $1.24@ 1.33.

Live Stock. Chicago, May 9. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $7.25@ 9.00; fair to good steers, 56257(7,25; common to fair beeves. $5,00<.6.2i; inferior killers, [email protected]; distillery steers. $7.00@ 8,90; fair to fancy yearlings. [email protected]; good to choice cows, $5.40@7 25: cahner bulls. [email protected]; common to good calves, [email protected]; good to choice vealers, $7.00@ 8.50; heavy calves, $5,[email protected]; feeding calves, [email protected]; Stockers, [email protected]; common to choice feeders, $5.00Qt.00; medium to good beef cows, [email protected]; common to good cutters, [email protected]; inferior to good canners, [email protected]; fair to choice heifers, [email protected]. HOGS —-Bulk of sales, $7.65'97.85; heavy butchers, 240@3001 lbs.. $7.75'0'7.95; light butchers, 190@230 lbs., $7.70@7,90; light bacon. 160@190 lbs., [email protected]; light light, 180<@'155 lbs., $7.30(97.55; heavy shipping. 250 @350 lbs., [email protected]; heavy packing, 260@ 400 lbs., [email protected]; mixed packing. 200@ 250 lbs., [email protected]; rough, heavy packing, [email protected]; light mixed, 175@J00 lbs., $7.45© 7.70; poor to best pigs, 60@135 lbs., $5 00® 7.06.

East Buffalo, JN. Y, May 9. CATTLE—Market slow and steady; prime steers, butcher grades, ,[email protected]; calves, cull to choice, $6 00® 8.50. . SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market, lambs 25c higher; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep, [email protected]. HOGS—Market active, s@loc higher; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs. [email protected]: mixed! [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, $7.00 @7.25; stags, [email protected]. Omaha, May 9. CATTLE—Native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; range cows and heifers, [email protected] cannerh, $3.00 @4.75; stockers and feeders, [email protected]; calves, $4.00@7,75; bulls, stags, etc Ts 4 50@ 6.66. . HOGS—Heavy, [email protected]; mixed, $7.45© 7.60; light, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, $7.45@7.«5. SHEEP—Yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]; lambs, $8 50© 9.50.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. VOTERS TURN OUT EN MASSE Estimated 50 Per Cent, of Total Vote Is Registered Throughout State on First Day Under the New Law. Indianapolis, May 10.—Reports from over the state indicate that the total registration of voters was heavy. It is believed that not less than fifty per cent, of the total vote of the state was registered the first day of the registration session. It was the first time registration of voters was ever undertaken in Indiana, and there was much ap'prehension as to the successful working of the new law. Reports, however, show that voters understood the law fairly well, and that the registration was carried on with little difficulty. The registration was heaviest In the rural communities. Farmers are so busy with their farm work that they did not turn out In large numbers. They are expected to register at the September or October sessions of the registration boards. In Allen county the country registration was light but the city registration was heavy. Wayne, Madison, Lake, Delaware, Vigo, Knox and Floyd counties reported fairly heavy registrations. At Evansville. South Bend and Lafayette it was reported that the registration was about equal to the average number of votes cast at an election. In most of the cities and in some of the country precincts the registration boards will continue in session the full three days allowed by the law.

Knights Templar Elect Officers.

Indianapolis, May 10.—At the annual conclave of the grand commandery. Knights Templar of Indiana, an invitation from the Crawfordsville commandery for the 1913 conclave to be' held in Crawfordsville was accepted. The conclave will be held in that city on May 13 of next year. The grand commandery elected the following officers: Grand commander, Charles M. Zion, Lebanon; deputy grand commander, Joseph G. Ibach, Hammond; grand generalissimo, Harry G. Strickland. Greenfield; grand captain general, Adrian Halersly, Washington; grand senior warden, James T. Randel, Newcastle; grand junior warden, George H. Steel, Evansville; grand prelate. Demetrius Tillotson, Lebanon; grand treasurer, Charles L. Hutchinson, Indianapolis; grand recorder, Calvin W. Prather, Indianapolis; grand standard bearer, George S. Parker, Anderson; grand sword bearer* Henri T. Conde, Indianapolis; grand warder, Hally Moore, Marion; grand captain of guard. Jacob Rubin, Indianapolis.

Saloonists Win Point.

Hammond. May 10—Jn the war between the city of Gary and its two hundred saloons whereby the city sought to collect five hundred dollars license fee and the city council legislated that the saloon men need only pay a two hundred dollar license, Judge Kopelke in the Hammond superior court mandated City Comptroller A. P. Mellon to accept two hundred dollars license, holding that the state gave the municipal legislature, the city council, the right to change the amount of the fee to suit the changing local requirement. Each saloon man will also begin individual mandamus proceedings based on the Kapeke ruling.

Should Watch for Rabies.

Terre Haute, May 10.—Ralph Stewart, a newsboy, is the eighth victim of mad dogs in as many days. The dog is under observation. All dogs that are not muzzled will be killed, according to an order Issued by the city board of health. Physicians believe that instead of killing so-called dogs they should penned up and their condition observed, and If rabies develop treat the person who was bitten for the disease and kill the dog. The physicians say that many dogs which are thought to have rabies are suffering from other disease.

Accuses Men of Murder.

Hartford City. May 10— An affidavit has been filed charging Fred and Neb son Edwards, brothers, with first degree murder for the killing of Harry Leonard. The affidavit is signed by Sheriff Charles Townsend, prosecutor E. W. Secrest has notified Judge Sturgis that a grand jury will be necessary for the June term of court, which convenes May 27. -

Women Escape Injury In Wreck.

Anderson, May 10. —An automobile driven by Miss Gladys Brattaln, and containing three other women, crashed into a bridge over Kllbuck creek and was wrecked. The young women escaped injury. The force of the collision was so great that it bent the steel railings of the bridge. Miss Brattaln lost control of the car.

Stabs Soldier to Death.

Anderson, May 10. —Carter B. *AI--i, aged twenty-four, a private in a W itary prison company at Fort Leaver vorth, Kan., was stabbed to death at Fort Leavenworth, acccordlng to a latter received from First Lieut. P. M Goodrich. The body of Allen arrived In this, city and was burled.

mitei.Fiw.Reiii.Eit. [Under this head notices wJI be published for 1-cent-a-word for the ftrtr. insertion. H-cent per word for eact additional Insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Ne notice accepted for less than 25 cent*, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two oi more times, a* the case may be for -5 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SAIiE For Sale—A good 16-foot store counter. —THE DEMOCRAT. J Eggs For Hatching— Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for sale by M. I. ADAMS Rensselaer. ts For Sale— Fifty bushels white eed corn.—JAMES A. " KEISTER, Remington R-3, phone 528-H. For Sale— About 2 ton of good tame hay at my farm ip Jordan tp. —WM. WASHBURN, Rensselaer. tor Sale— lndian Runner Duck Eggs, white eggs, 75c for 15. —R. J. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3. mlO tor Sale-— 4 5 bushels late eating potatoes at $1.50 per bushel. — D. M. PEER, Kaiman, Ind. m 22 For Sale— Good 8-room house with ’ 5 lots 50x150, good new barn; $1,850, on Elm street.—H. DAVISSON. Bee Supplies For Sale— Sections, starter, hives, and everything in the bee supply line.—Phone 51S-A or address JOHN KOLHOFF, Rensselaer, Ind. jyi

For Sale or Trade— lllinois and Minnesota land. Will take good Indiana farm or city property as part payment.—ROLLlN A. EIB, Rensselaer. Ind. ml 2 For Sale— Eggs from those nice 'Vyandottes of Mayhew’s SI.OK for 15, $5 per 100. —ARTHUR MAYHEW, Rensselaer, R-3, Mt. Ayr, phone 29-H. For Sale— Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, first prize pen at Rensselaer poultry show; Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th prize pullets in pen. Eggs 75c for 15. —GLS \ EOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 78-C, Mt. Ayr. For Sale— Bo acres of land in Keener tp., fair improvements, for quick sale only $26 pen 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. Nice eight room, two-story house city water, electric lights, two lots, small barn, on improved street, cement sidewalks, sewer, etc., all paid for. Is now rented at $lO per month. This property is almost new and is a bargain at the price sl,500 —HARVEY DAVISSON. For Sale— s acres 40 rods from city limits, on stone road, R. F. D. A good small house, good well and fenced with woven wire. Will sell at a bargain if sold soon. ■ Will also sell in five or ten acre lots any part of the Monnett 80 acres, being on the west side of gravel road, half mile of city limits. Price $165 and up.—G. F MEYERS. Farms For Sale— l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal. —JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman, Ind.

Pulleys and Shafting—The Democrat has for sale very cheap the following, all in excellent condition: 5 feet 1 11-6 in. shafting. 1 4-cone pulley 13 to 18 inch cones. 3 in. face to each cone. 1 2-cone pulley 16 to 18 inch cones, 3 in. face to each cone. 114 inch pulley, 8 in. face. 1 10 inch pulley, 6 in. face. (All the above are iron pulleys for 1 11-16 shafting.) 110 inch wood pulley, 5 in. face. 1 6 inch wood pulley, 4 in. face. 2 15 inch iron pulleys, 2 in. face. The above will be sold separately and at alinost your Own price, as we have no use for them since installing electric power.—THE DEMFOR RENT. bor Rent— —Good 7-room house, drilled well, electric lights, cement walks, good garden, centrally located.—C. B. STEWART. WANTED , Wanted—Parties desiring to sell their farm or town property to list same with me—HARVEY DAVISSON. ’ Wanted—Teams to plow by the acre for corn. Call or write as soon as possible.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Kniman, Ind. Wanted—Pair mare mules well matched in color, size and gait/ must weigh 1300 lbs. or more each; between 3 and 6 years old. Must be absolutely sound and gentle. Give lowest cash price and be quick. —FRANCIS T. HILTON, Medaryville, Ind. Plastering— Plasterer of 25 years

experience, phone 456.—E STEVENS. Storage—l have rooms for light storage on second floor of The Democrat building.—HAßVEY DAVIS SON. Wanted Representatives in Rensselaer and Jasper county to sell Industrial, Health and Accident Insurance. Monthly premiums Liberal indemnities. Pays claims every two weeks. SIOO,OOO capital Good contract to right party. AdSS c^ Gent r a '- Ca sualty Company, Bus State Life Bldg.,.lndianapolis. FINANCIAL Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums un to SIO.OOO.—E. P. HONAN. P l flPl IllP Commission I Mvli 11lv < Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instrument*. W. H. PARKINSON.

Rosebud Farm and Mill, two miles east of Parr Phone 507B (Jasper Co.) Rensselaer Exchange, P. O. Parr, Ind. t For Sale—Some good serviceable Duroc Jersey and O. I. C. bears; Younger stock of either set. Pedigrees furnished. —AMOS H. ALTER & SON.

Notice of Letting Contract for County Farm Supplies. Notice is hereby given that the Board of County Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will on Monday, June 3d, 1912, receive sealed bids up to 2 o’clock p. m., for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meat for the use of County Poor Asylum. AH bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

THE REASON

The Preacher—Why is it that the authorities find it so difficult to get on the trail of prize fighters? The Sport—l guess It’s because It takes ten mills to make one scent.

WISE OFFICE BOY

—I want to collect a bill. Proprietor In? Boy—He was, but not now. Yffi liquid have reversed your an-

A RIDDLE

She—She’s a riddle. She has just gotten her fourth divorce. He—Maybe that’s why her husband** gave her up. j