Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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Freight Wreck Dealys Trains.

A W abash freight engine, tender and seven freight cars were derailed at the Monon crossing in Delphi at 8:49 a. m., Wednesday, blocking the Morion crossing to such an extent that trains of the latter had to detour to get around the which was not cleared uritil about four o’clock Wednesday afternoon.'

Saw Lots of Poor Corn.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nagel and sons John and Joseph and daughter Lucille, autoed to Lafayette Tuesday, returning Wednesday. They went via Montmorenci and returned by Brookston and Chalmers. Mr. Nagle Bays the hay and oats crop is excellent over the routes traveled, but there is ’a whole lot of awfully poor corn, in fact half of the corn does not look as though it could ever mature even though ty-ost holds off until very late. In some places he saw farmers in their fields plowing corn yet, the last day of July, too.

Purtelle “Railroad” In Bad State of Repair.

We would kindly suggest that the Republican editors go up and straighten up the trestle work on the- Purtelle “railroad” near the Kankakee. It is badly out of repair and many of the supports are toppled over so that it is dangerous to run “cars” over it. If the r. e’s. can not attend to the matter right away, perhaps they will inform the “member or tne Goild family” who is now in charge of the “road” so that he may look after it before some serious accident occurs. 1

Candidates Galore.

At the Bull Mooes convention in Crown Point a few days ago it was decided to put a full county ticket of that party in the field. Former state representative, A. F. Knotts, who is chief Bull Mooser in Lake county, wants the nomination for congress on the Progressive ticket, it is asid. With Jesse E. Wilson and A. F. Knotts of Lake and attorney Charles Thompson of Lafayette anxious and willing to head the ticket in the Tenth district against Crumpacker, it looks very much as if “frump’s” days for misrepresenting the ifeople of his district is nearly at an end. *

This Experiment Worth Trying.

Some of us, says an exchange, who can not afford to go to, northern Michigan this summer to spend the vacation, but who have a front porch to the house, make this experiment. Take a day off from your work, buy a few cigars, press in your store clothes; pretend that your wife is the landlord of. a summer hotel, hand her $6 for two days board and then sit on ’ the porch and imagine you are 200 miles away from home, and enjoy it. This summer resort vacation is .all in your mind. Try our home remedy.

Another Auto Wreck North of Town

Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Hazlett and family of Kankakee, 111., left Thursday for their home after figuring in an auto wreck, in which both wheels on the left side of their two cylinder Reo were completely broken to bits when rounding the corner near the Harvey Messman residence a few miles north of the city, the machine struck a slight wash-out in the road before it could be checked by* the driver. The occupants of the car escaped with only slight injury, and left the car at the Rensselaer Garage where it will be repaired and Mr. Hazlett, who is a tombstone man at Kankakee, will call for it in a week or so.

Drowned In Cedar Lake.

The first drowning of the season at Cedar Lake occurred Thursday afternoon when Emil Bisdorph of Chicago, who was attending a picnic given by the K. of C. order, was seized with cramps when in bathing and drowned before help could get to him. He was an expert swimmer and w’hen he called for help his companions thought he was fooling and made no attempt at first to aid, but it was soon apparent that he needed help, but they got to him too late. Diligent search was made for the body, but it was not found until 10 o’clock that night. Undertaker John Castle was called and prepared the body for burial and the remains were shipped to Chicago Friday morning. —Lowell Tribune.

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.

Judge Hanan will come over from Lagrange next Thursday to render his finding in the Borntrager ditch matter. —o — Sheriff Hoover took the two little Sigman girls to the Julia E. ork training school at. Plymouth Wednesday. —o— There were only three marriage licenses issued last month, against five for the month previous and eight for the' corresponding month of 1911. ■ , —o — Prosecutor Longwell and Attorney Frank Davis were over from Brook Thusday, and the continuation of the paternity charge against Earl Wiseman, interrupted • saupie of weeks ago by a visit of the stork, was resumed before Squire Irwin The defendant was bound over to the circuit court in bonds of SSOO.

Trustee Parkison has let the contract for repairing temporarily the Burk’s bridge, to Ben McColly, and work will begin Monday. Long timbers will be put across the ditch, resting on the piling already there, and the whole made strong and seThursday, and the continuation of we understand, is SSO. It will take but a few days to make the Repairs.

Lecture at Opera House Tonight.

In connection wi£h the social operations of the Salvation Army, Mr. Wilfred Hughe®, supported by Senaator A. Halleck, will deliver a lecture at the opera • house, Saturday night, August 3, commencing. at 8 o'clock. This will be a very interesting occasion for those interested in the problem of the “Submerged Tenth” of our large cities. Mr. Hughes takes Tor his subject “The Down and Out.” xx

Attend House Party at Monticello.

Misses Martha Long, Nell and Jane Moody, Louise Mendenhall and Mary Alkife went to Monticello Tuesday in A. F. Long’s auto to attend a house party given by Mias Helen Carson. Miss Mendenhall returned from there to her home in Greensburg, Ind., and George Long went over Wednesday to Monticello and drove the Long car home with the other girls, Miss Alkire, whose home is at Mt. Sterling, Ohio, will visit her college room-mate, Miss Long, here for another week.

Brings Suit for Death of Son.

Mrs. Anna Saltzman, by Sills & Sills, her attorneys, has commenced an action against Oscar Cole of Monon, asking |5,000 damages for the death of her son Ralph, which reresulted from a runaway accident as related in last week’s issue of the Herald. Mr. Cole was driving an automobile and the horse which ran away with young Saltzman was said to have taken fright when Mr. Cole sounded his signal. The complaint alleges that it wals due to careless driving. The accident happened on July 11, and the boy died on the 18th. —Monticello Herald.

Married In Kankakee.

Miss Ruth Makeever, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Makeever, of Newton tp., and a member of the 1912 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school, united in marriage to Bradford Poole, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Poole, of north Division street, at the home of a Methodist minister at Kankakee, 111., Tuesday, and the young couple left immediately for Lawton, Okla., where they will spend their honeymoon. No objection to their marriage, except possibly that of their youth, was entertained by the parents. The marriage was in the nature of an elopement. The Dmocrat joins the many friends of the young couple in extending congratulations.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, AUG. 3, 1912.

Bridge Grafter Likely to Be Released Soon.

H. B. Darling of Laporte and Thomas A. Daily of Indianapolis were in o Rensselaer a short time Thursday afternoon investigating the Bader bridge graft matter. Mr. Darling had written different ones here that they would be here some time Tuesday, and it was on this authority that The Democrat stated they were here when it went to press Tuesday afternoon. Judging from their remarks here the “investigation” of the Bader matter is merely a subterfuge of Governor Marshall to share the responsibility' of turning Bader loose before the expiration of -his minimum sentence. The “case” was evidently prejudged, and while they did not question the man’s guilt in the least, ther intimated that they thought he ought to be, turned loose on account of his family, and he will possibly be a free man ere these lines are read. It is always customary in applications for parole before the expiration of the minimum sentence, for the petition to be signed by the judge, prosecuting attorney, and usually all of the jurors hearing the ease, but in this instance neither the judge nor the prosecutor would place their names on the petition nor, so far as The Democrat has been able to learn, did a single juror do so." The way of the transgressor is hard, and it is always rhe family of a convicted person who suffers most. The Democrat deeply* sympathizes with Mr. Bader’s family in their troubles, but if our laws and the verdict of juries and courts are to be so easily set aside because of our sympathies, where will be at soon? Tom McCoy was compelled to serve out, not only his minimum sentence but the maximum sentence as well. His poor old father and mother both died while he was occupying a felon’s cell. Yet he had to serve out his full sentence. And his offense was no so henious as that of Bader in swindling the people of the entire county and endangering the lives of people who use the bridges he put up here, for, if it was neccessray to make theste bridges as heavy as the specifications called for, they are certainly unsafe when cut down 30 to 40 per cent, which by undisputed evidence was the case in every bridge he erected here. \ Had it not been for Bader’s unprecedented “pull” with our small calibered governor we would hear but little of any sympathy for his family. The sympathy expressed in moSt cases of this kind is simply a cloak used to cover the “pull.” j There are six other indictments pending in- the Jasper circuit court against Mr. Bader for like offenses. ! What i£ anything will o be done in these cases remains to be seen,* but it is very probable they will be dismissed. There is no use in spending more good money to get convictions and then have the whole thing made a farce of by those higher up who may be clothed with a little brief authority.

Aged Woman Critically III.

Mrs. Baughman of Monon—mother of Mrs. Carrie Short and Mrs. Jesse Snyder of this city, who Y ere called to Monon on the Eleven p. m. train Tuesday by the report that Mrs. 'Baughman was dying, returning home Wednesday—is reported to be a little better and was so far improved as to be able to sit up Wednesday for a short time and to make her will. Mrs. Baughman is the mother of ten children and was 76 years of age Thursday. ( Besides the two daughters mentioned alcove there are four other daughters, Mrs. J. W. Russell Of Monon; Mrs. Emma Turpie of Iowa; Mrs. C. J. Green of Ludlow,' 111., who accompanied Mrs. Short to Monon the first of the week, and who later returned to her home at Ludlow; Mrs. E. M. Lowe 1 of Monon; and Mrs. May Gardner of near Francesville. The four sons are U. M,, of Oklahoma City; Lee G., of near Medaryville; Charles of Winamac, and F. R„ of Royal Center, all of whom are expected th be at Monon soon. Mr. Baughman of Oklahoma City was expected to arrive at Monon early Thursday as it was thought that Mrs. Baughman’s slight change for the better might be " followed by a serious relapse. Mr. Baughman, Sr. is about 86 years of age and is quite spry for one of his years.

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Unknown Section Hand Commits Suicide.

j Train- No. 6, -the Louisville to Chicago train, which passes Rensselaer at 3:37 p. m..- struck an unknown section hand- about % mije east of McCoysburg Tuesday afternoon while running at a high rate ,of speed and broke almost every bone in his body, killing him instantly, but the body - was not mangled. The train was* stopped iand the body picked up from the weeds beside the track where it had been hurled, and placed in the , baggage car and brought to Rensselaer, where undertaker Wright took charge and Wednesday morning held an inquest over the remain- / * Apparently the man committed I suicide, as he stood on the track and paid no attetnion to the warning shouts of his comrade. In fact ‘ he is said to have turned and faced ( the engine and waited for it to strike him. His comrads had to | warn him to get out of the way of ( otiher trains before this one, and ,they think he deliberately chose this method of ending his life. I All that is known of tne man ds that he was sent down with three others July 24 by a Chicago j labor agency to work on the secjtion. He gave his name as “J. ! Murphy . The other three men .quit the job and left. “Murphy” said he did not know any of the i other men. This man staid and worked, but he apparently had never ( done mjich manual labor. He bunked by himself in a bunk car on the side track, but he brought no I belongings with him and no papers orl anything was found on his body by which he could be identified. , He was perhaps 3(L or 35 years iof age, about 5 ft. 8 inches in height and weighed 150 or 160 pounds; wore no beard but had a head of thick, very dark hair. He , had a tailor-made coat of dark material, and on the inside of one of the pockets was the name of the I makers, “George Fritschner & Co. , Louisville, Ky.,” and the name of the customer, “J. A. Werne, 11-2-,06.’’ I Coroner Wright wrote to the tailors Wednesday to know if they could give any information. But it is likely the coat had been given the man or he had perhaps gotten! it at a second-hand -store. The name Murphy was no dZubt an assumed one, and it is . probable the unfortunate man was a human derelict on the ocean of life, and possibly some fond old mother, somewhere, may still be keeping the candle burning in the window for her wayward boy, who will never return to her in this life. The remains were buried yesterday in Weston cemetery, at 10:30 a. m., in Potter’s field, no more having been learned of his identify than is given above. Later—Coroner Wright received a telegram from Louisville Thursday, saying that Werne was in Pittsburg, care Southern Railroad, and that his letter to the tailoring firm had been forwarded there.

A Suicide at Thayer.

Wm. Campbell, aged 70, a former resident of Thayer, where he came a few days ago from his home in Kentland for a visit with old friends, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, a little after 9p. m., Monday. The act, for which there is no apparent reason, was committed near the residence of Adam Miller. The body was taken back to Kentland for burial. This was the case on which Coroner Wickereham of Goodland was called to Thayer Tuesday as mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat..

Hail Damages Crops Near Virgie.

Albert Helsel was down from near Virgie Thursday. A wind and hail storm passed through there Tuesday evening and cut his garden, two acres of pickles and about ten acres of corn all to pieces. About 40 acres of corn was also ruined on the A. H. Hopkins farm, occupied by a Mr. Harris, and Peter Wolfe also lost some corn. Fortunately the storm was only about one-fourth-of a mile in width, but it everlastingly riddled things Where it struck, and there was so much wind with it that Mr. Helsel feared for a time his house would be blown to pieces.

Estrays Taken Up— 2 pigs, 1 % miles north of Parr.. Owner may have same by coming after and paying charges.—DENNlS HEALEY

DISTRICT B. M. CONVENTION

Will Be Held In Rensselaer On Wednesday, August 14. JESSE WILSON WILL BE NAMED Without Opposition. All the Other Candidates Withdrawing In His Favor—State Ticket Named. ' A.'. I At the Tenth district meeting of the Progressive party at IndianapJ oils Wednesday evening, the senti-| merit for for Hon. Jesse E. Wilson; for the nomination for congress was so strong that the other aspirants 1 for the place withdrew and Mr. Wilson will be nominated by acclamation at the conyention, which it was decided to hold in Rensselaer on Wednesday, August 14. This is the same date as the republican representative convention at Monticello.

Delegates to the national convention in Chicago from this district are Jesse E. Wilson of Hammond and Thomas Baur of Lafayette. City Councilman Sam Thompson of Monticello was named as presidential elector from this ditsrict. The- tenth district chairman 'selected is Dr. G. R. Coffin of Monticello. Albert J, Beveridge was nominated for governor, and Fred Landis of Logansport for lieutenant-governor. B. B. Baker of Monticello was nominated for state treasurer. Jasper county delegates returning I from the convention report a large' and enthusiastic meeting. Both the Indianapolis Star and Sun will support the Progressives in the campaign and in several of the ! county seats where the party has no newspaper representation, new papers will be established, it is reported.

Visiting Here From Terre Haute.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Preston and daughters Evelyn and Vera of Terre Haute, arrived in Rensselaer Sunday and are the guests of William Chapman and family of 12 miles northeast of town. Mr. Preston is a promiJient glass-worker of Terre Haute, and an employe of the x Root Gla>s Cd., and is now enjoying his annual vacation. Before returning he will visit John Scott, Newton Sunderland, Anna Chapman, Elmer Johnson, Thomas Johnkon. Alonzo Wood, and Morgan Shields and. families.

Insurance On Parr Creamery Not Yet Settled.

The $3,850 insurance carried on the Parr creamery building and machinery, $2,000 on building and sl,850 on machinery, burned May 5, has not as yet been settled, and suit will be brought in the circuit court to bring the insurance companies to time. The representatives of the companies carrying the risk intimated

that they would rather replace the property than pay the loss in cash, an option contained in all insurance policies, and the creamery officers told them to go ahead and replace it; that if they did that it was all they could ask for. But, not-] withstanding it has been three months since the creamery was burned, the insurance companies have neither paid the loss nor re-| built the property. The loss on butter, tubs, etc., on] hand at the time of the fire, which by mutual agreement was fixed at $179, has been paid by the company carrying the risk.

Road Oil Desirable for County Roads

Every mile of paved road 1 in Lake county may be oiled by order of; the co*unty commissioners and through an appropriation by the’ county council if the agitation that.' has been started over the county! succeeds. So successful has sprinkling of streets with oil been in preserving pavements in the city of Hammond,' the town of Munster, the city of Crown Point and other places in the county that it may become a general custom both in the cities and country districts. The county commissioners are coming to the conclusion that the

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traffic of automobiles on the county roads is so severe a strain on the ordinary pavement that something will have to be done to preserve it. With every mile of Lake county roads oiled the reputation’' of this county for firte roads would be more than upheld. This is said to be the only solution of the problem until the state gives the county the right to build more substantial roads in the first place.—Hammond Times.

Wrecked Auto Shipped Back to Chicago.

The American roadster car that recently figured in the death of R. W. Baradach, special manager of the financial department of the Federal Insurance Co. of Chicago, wheo the machine run into a ditch near the Xorman corner, crushing the life from Baradach, was shipped to Chicago to his people via freight Wednesday. The machine had been stored in the Rensselaer Garage since the accident, .

Drowned Boy Brought Here to Bury

The remains of Chester Shields, the 16-year-old son of Edward Shields, an Indiana Harbor policeman. who was drowned Saturday afternoon while in bathing with some companions in Lake Michigan, were brought to Rensselaer Tuesday and buried in the Hurley cemetery, in Barkley tp. The boy's mother's maiden name was Hurley, and she resided at Blackford, in Barkley tp, but was married at Chicago Heights to Mr. Shields some eighteen or twenty years ago, since which ijme they have resided in Chicago Heights and Indiana Harbor. As this was her old home, the mother desired that burial be made here. ■ The lad was attacked with cramps while in the water and was drowned before assistance could be given. He leaves a father, mother and one sister, Miss Daisy Shields. She was visiting relatives tn this county when the drowning occurred, and his mother was in Blue Island, 111., at the time, attending the funeral of a boy chum of her son’s. John Grace, who has aFcidently shot and killed himself while out hunting. »

Makes the People Think.

It is related that when President Vail of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced that he intended/ to 'spend $250,000 in an advertising campaign some of the directors objected and said: “Wh#, everybody know? about the telephone.” To this Mr. Vail replied: “Everybody knows about it. yes; but everybody doesn't think about It.” He spent the $250,000 and the company’s gross business, increased $750,000 that year. There is a world of significance in that little anecdote and it is all the more valuable because of the magnitude of the corporation concerning which it is told. No business is so large that, if it is an honorable and meritorious affair, it won’t be benefitted by having the attention of the great public directed to it, and new thoughts stirred up about it. Nothing so focuses public attention as that which is represented Jo it every week in constantly varying forms. And this can be done only by the newspaper.—Philadelphia Record.

Church of God Services.

Elder H. V. Reed of Chicago will preach at the Church of God next Sunday at 10:45 a. m. Subject, “The Angel Reapers and Their Mission.” Also, at the. court house vesper services. Subject. "The True Foundation or Why Christ Came to Our World.” A cordial invitation is extended to all.

Card of Thanks.

Through the kindness of The Democrat, we take this as a means to, In a manner, express dur sincere thanks to the many friends and neighbors who rendered to us so many kind deeds and words of love and Sympathy, and in appreciation of the kind token of respect from the church, including the song service. We would not fall to mention our appreciation of most excellent service rendered to us by the central telephone girls; in our sad bereavement of the loss of husband and father.—Mrs. J. C. Norman and Children.

Birth Announcements.

July 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray D, Thompson, on McCoy aveune, a daughter. t ■ • -*•- - -