Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Page 8

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A» Furnished by Out Regular Correspondents

PINE GROVE. | —I Roy Torbet was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Elmer Shroyer spent Sunday with Ira Daniels. Ida Hurley spent Sunday with her folks at Parr. Mrs. Rachel Price is some better at this writing. Clint Beck and family and Bluford Torbet and wife called on Bert Hale and family Sunday evening. Those that spent Sunday with Bert Hale and family were Harry Ballard and family of Newland and Harry Beck and family. Mrs. Crate Cragun and daughter and Chloae Torbet spent Monday with the latter's sister, Mrs. Harry Beck ar.d family. Mrs. Crate Cragun and daughter of Indianapolis came Saturday for a several weeks visit with-friends, and relatives here. Several from this vicinity attended the funeral of Chester Shields of Indiana Harbor at the Sandridge cemetery Tuesday. Harry Gifford and family went to Herscher. 111.. Tuesday to attend I the golden wedding of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens. John Baker and family went up near the Comer school house huckelberrying Tuesday and Wednesday, and reported quite a few berries there.

D. C. Bybee, teaming contractor -living at 669 Keeling Court, Canton, 111., is now well rid of a severe and annoying case of kidney trouble. His back pained and he was bothered with headaches and djz.zy spells. “I took Foley Kidney Pills just as directed and in a few days I felt much better. My life and strength seemed to come back, and I sleep well, I am now all over my trouble and glad to recommend Foley Kidney Pills.” Try them.— A. F. Dong.

~i -|— LEE. | _| Q. A. Jacks and wife visited Sunday at Mr. Percival’s. Mrs. Stiers spent Wednesday with her sister Mrs. Ola Randis. Little, Eva Creel is slowly improving, and speaks a few words. Miss Leavel of Rensselaer spent Sunday here with Miss Ethel Jacks. Glen and Gail Culp are working for Elmer Gilmore putting up hay. Miss Kate Wood of Monon visited relatives and friends here during the week. Miss Prichard of Indianapolis visited Mrs. C. A. Holeman a few days this week. Orval Holeman and family of Rensselaer spent a few days here this week visiting relatives. Mrs. Fred Stiers and granddaughter,. Miss Agnes, who have been on a visit, returned Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon, July 31, occurred the wedding of Harold LaMar and Miss Verda Lewis at the home of the bride’s mother at this place. G. A. Jacks has his new house plastered and it will soon be complete and ready for occupancy. The Randle property they now occupy, is rented to Roy Stfers and wile. Those that took dinner Sunday with J. H. Culp and family were Mrs. C. A. Holeman and three sons, Ray, Asa and Orval and their families and Elmer Gilmore and family.

A. S. Jones of the Lee Pharmacy, Chico, Cal., who has handled Foley & Co’s, medicines for many years, says: “I consider that Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound has no equal, and is the one cough medicine I can recommend as containing no narcotics or other harmful properties.” The genuine in a yellow package.—A. F. Long.

FOUR CORNERS. I —| ————- _ J John Pinter of Wheatfield continues in the same condition; no change of any note. The north end of Jasper is too wet either for hay making or thrashing. If this weather continues the oats, which are now badly damaged, w’ill be entirely ruined. The Goshen Bridge Co., who had the contract for putting in three bridge oyer the Miller and Fisher laterals of the R. E. Davis ditch, Will have their work completed within a few days. Lee Fisher and wife visited home folks over Sunday. They returned to Otterbein Tuesday afternoon. Lee has been attending school at Chicago. and his wife visiting her parents in Grand Rapids, Mich. Erain Davis and wife were made the recipients of a new girl Saturday. They surely are following Teddy’s advise, and Dr. Solt should not a kick for the hurry-up calls ho long as one is following a Teddy crank idea. W. H. Marble is having all kinds of trouble with his dry land dredge. After replacing the old boiler with a new one he has been continually break other parts of the dredge, which keeps the boys idle more than halt the time. The Democrat has made an unpardonable mistake- in reporting as delegate to the Bull Moose convention as J. B. DeArmond of Tefft. We wish to inform the people that J. B’e. brain is yet on balance and so far as we can judge there are no

wheels missing or side-draft noticeable. You sure have the wrong man named. (We beg J. B’s. pardon. We should have said, W. S. DeArmond.—Ed,} Lon Neese met with a serious accident Saturday when near the Van Patton school house. His team ran away,, throwing him out and breaking his leg. He crawled west to the Davis corner where an automobile picked him up and took him to his home in Wheatfield where the fracture was reduced, and at this time he is resting easy. His little babe was taken seriously ill the following Monday and is at this time a very sick child. We are of the opinion that our commissioners should appoint some one to oversee the erection .of bridges which are being placed -over the different ditches in Jasper county, furnish them a copy of the contract; let them be on the job as much of the time as may be necessary to insure justice to the taxpayers who are vitally interested, and to be paid for his labor out of the county funds. It is asking too much to ask that the township pay for overseeing county work. We are satisfied that this bridge building needs looking after.

Robert W, Herter, Lawrenceville, Mo., who had been bothered with kidney trouble for two years, says: ‘I tried three different kinds of kidney pills but with no relief. My neighbor told me to use Foley Kidney Pills, I took three bottles of them, and got a permanent cure. I recommend them to everybody.”A. F. Long.

Roesbud Church.

The fourth quarterly conference of the Rensselaer circuit of the Methodist Protestant church will be held Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p. m.. at the Rosebud church. Every member of the church as well as all officers is invited to attend this business meeting, as some important affairs Of the circuit must be considered. Rev. Thos. Whittaker of Culver, Ind., will be pres-, ent and preside at the meeting. He will also preach at Rosebud at 11 a.m.. in connection with the communion service; at Virgie at 3 p. m., and again at Rosebud at 7:30 p. m. The. public is invited to each of these services. Sunday school at 10 a. m.-s— L>. F. Myers, Pastor.

Barn Destroyed By Lightning.

The barn on the farm of Henry Schmitt, about a mile west of Kniman, was completely destroyed by fire when struck by lightning during the heavy electrical storm in that section Monday evening. Several tons of hay, 3 head of horses, some harness, and a couple of buggies, with little or no insurance „on them, which were in the barn at the time, were also destroyed.

Do You Want Lightning Protection?

I can furnish you protection from lightning and give an insurance to that effect. I use nothing but the best lightning conductors, and my prices are reasonable. If you are interested call and see me or write me at Rensselaer, Ind., Bqx No. 711. —FRANK A. BICKNELL. ts

PEACE CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Dr. I. L. Wood Will Speak at Fountain Park, Aug. 18. After the Fountain Park programs had received the finishing touch by the printer the management, through the International Peace Forum, have secured Dr. Isaac L. Wood, Ph. D. D. D., pastor of the State Street M. E. church, of Trenton, N. J., to deliver one of his most masterful addresses at the Assembly Sunday, August 18th, at 2 o’clock, on the world wide Peace movement. Here is the message sent Sectary Peck by John Wesley Hill, president of the Peace 1 Forum: New York, July 16, 1912. C. H. Peck, Fountain Park Chautauqua, Remington, Ind. W’ill send you Dr. Isaac L. Wood, pastor of the State street Methodist Episcopal church, Trenton, N. J,, one of the greatest platform orators of tlye country, to deliver Peace address Aug. 18th. Subject “Principles and leaders of the world-wide Peace movement.” John Wesley Hill.

Glasses flitted by DR. A G. CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indian*. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. >32.

MIT Item of Intern j| frcm Surrounding Town« Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

MRS. GRACE CRIES “I AM INNOCENT"

Declares She Did Not Shoot Her Husband. WAS WOUNDED IN STRUGGLE Swears Man Tried to Kill Her on Several Occasions —Both Took Oath to Keep Reason for Trouble Quiet.

Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 2.—Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace told the jury how her young husband, Eugene Grace, Scion of an aristocratic Georgia family, received the bullet wound that paralyzed him in their Atlanta home on the fifth of last March. Her first words on the stand were: “Gentlemen, I am innocent. I did not shoot my husband, and he knows it,” indicating with a nod of the head towards her husband who lay on a stretcher near the witness stand. Says Grace Shot Self. Mrs. Grace then declared her husband shot himself during a struggle with her following a quarrel over another woman on whom Mrs. Grace alleged her husband had been spending her money. With flushed face and hands trembling, Mrs. Grace spoke in a clear but low voice, declaring that her husband had tried to kill her several times. Once, she said, he tried to drown her; again, he stabbed her, and finally, the day he was shot he seized a pistol and in the struggle that followed he wounded himself. Makes Long Statement. Mrs. Grace’s statement was very long. The salient features follow: “I did not shoot Mr. Grace and he knows it; as God is my judge, that is the solemn truth. Mr. Grace and I took a- oath over the Bible that we would never tell how this trouble happened, and not until after I was indicted did I even tell my attorneys. “Week after week I lay suffering in jail trying to decide upon the right thing to do. I knew that I was innocent' and I knew that I was being unjustly punished, but I also knew that I had taken an oath never to tell how Mr. Grace was shot. Decided to Break Oath.

"Finally I decided that I owed it to the name of my old mother and my little blind boy, regardless of my oaflj, to tell the whole truth about this difficulty, no matter whom it might disgrace. . “To me Mr. Grace was the most fascinating man I had ever met, and without shame and without strength to resist it, I have made for him every sacrifice in this world that a woman could make for a man. From the time I met him until the fifth of last March, I gave him $15,000 in cash. I was as true to him as any wife could be to her husband, and I always humored and petted him like a spoiled child. Says Husband Beat Her. “I dressed him in the height of fashion; I cooked his meals for him when my servants couldn’t please him, and I ceased to correspond with my widowed mother and sister in order to please him. I took his abuse and beatings time after time because of my extreme devotion to him.” Mrs. Grace gave a complete history of her relations with Grace and admitted that she married him two weeks after the death of her first husband, Webster Opie of Philadelphia. From the first Grace treated her badly and made constant demands for money. Several times, she alleges, Grace tried to kill her.

FOUR FIRST CHOICES WIN

Baden, in Ohio Stake, Causes Only Upset in Grand Circuit Races at North Randall. Cleveland, 0., Aug. 2.—ln four of the five races at the North Randall grand circuit meeting heavily played first choices were victorious. Baden caused the only upset by winning the Ohio stake for 2:10 class pacers and defeating the heavily played first choice, Chatty Direct Summaries: 2:20 trot purse sl,ooo—Annie Kohl, won; John W. Davis, second; Arona McKinney, third. Best time, 2:09%. Eight starters. 2:07 pace, purse >l,ooo—Wydrad, won; Henry H., second; Don, third. Best Hmc, 2:05%. Seven starters The Ohio 2:10 trot, stake, >5,000 Baden, won; Chatty Direct, second; The Wanderer, third. Best time, 2:07%. Eleven starters. Trotting sweepstakes, value >1,450 —Billy Burke, won; Brace Girdle, second. Best time, 2:04%. Only two starters. 2:14 pace,, purse >l,ooo—Baron A., won; Major Odell, second; Lily Woodlord, third. Best time, 2:07%. Nine starters.

WOMAN WRITER IS FREED

Ahnetta Holliday Antona, Husband and Nephew Released From Charge of Causing Servant's Death. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 2.—Alexander Antona, his wife, Annetta Holliday Antona, and their nephew, Angelo Villa, who were arrested, pending investigation of the death of Elizabeth Fleming a servant, were released from custody. It was admitted that there was no evidence to connect them with any wrong doing.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. CLERK UPHELD BY COURT Refused to Issue License to Couple Under Age Who Persisted in At- ’ tempt to Obtain Permit in Marion.

Marion, Aug. 2.—There were some Interesting scenes in the Grant county courthouse s#vhen County Clerk Fred Drake refused to issue a marriage license to Harry Carrol, not quite eighteen years old, and Miss Mamie Craig, who lacks a few months of being sixteen years old. The clerk told the couple they were under age and that the issuance of a license to them would be illegal. Their pleas were persistent, but Mr. Drake refused them. Carrol immediately employed a lawyer and a suit was filed before Judge Robert VanAtta of the superior court asking him to issue an order of mandate directing the clerk to issue the license. A hearing was t held, but Judge VanAtta decided the case in favor of the clerk and no license was issued. The young man’s father came forward and made objection to his son’s marriage

Asks S10,000 in Joint Suit.

Kokomo. Aug 2.—-The Greater Parker shows, a carnival company now showing here, and the Cloverleaf railroad have been made defendants in a damage suit brought by William Evans for SIO,OOO. Evans recites that while a passenger on a train chartered by the show company and after having paid fare in the sum of $7.50 for passage from Champaign, 111., to Marion, he was ejected at a time the train was running 25 miles an hour, and badly hurt. He suffered a broken leg, he says, and had to crawl onehalf mile to receive aid.

Boys to Judge Live Stock.

Lafayette, Aug. 2.—The third annual live stock and grain judging contest for Indiana boys, between the ages of sixteen and twenty years, w r ho have not regularly attended any school of agriculture, will be held in the coliseum, state fair grounds, Indianapolis, during the fair. The boys will be given classes of the very best stock to judge. The state board will give to the winners in this contest scholarships in Purdue university school of agriculture amounting to a total of $250. First. $100; second, $75; tMrd, SSO; fourth, $25.

Fixes Expense of Funeral.

Columbus, Aug. 2.—The will of the late Francis Pugh, a wealthy farmer near here, wrfb died at the age of 100 years, was probated here. He bequeathed to Nellie Pugh Schneck and Jacob Pugh Puffenbarger, whom he reared but never adopted, one-half of his estate. He stipulated in his will that his funeral expenses were not to exceed S2OO and that the funeral expenses of his wife are not to exceed that amount when she dies.

Sisters Pay Surprise Visit.

Nashville. Aug. 2.—After being separated for 35 years, Joseph A. Lucas, former county treasurer and a wealthy hardware merchant of this city, and his sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Adams and Mrs. Mary Hurst, both of Fort Worth. Tex., were reunited at the home of Mr. Lucas. They had heard nothing of each other for the past ten years until the arrival of the sisters here. Their coming was a surprise to Mr. Lucas.

Railing Saves Auto Riders.

Shelbyville, Aug. 2.—Two young men, who came here from Whiteland with William Duggan of that place, were badly hurt when their touring car was wrecked at a wooden bridge at the north edge of the city. A heavy railing kept the young men and their car from plunging 20 feet to a small stream below.

Receive Purchase Money.

Columbus, Aug. 2. —M. T. Reeves, Charles S. Way and Will G. Irwin, who went to New York, where they went to close a deal by which the common and preferred stock of Reextes Co. passes to the ham company of Rockford, 18, have .returned, having been paid >2,500,000, the purchase price.

Gets Fortune; Takes Life.

Gary, Aug. 2. —Worrying constantly because she was named as the chief beneficiary in the will of August Dessel, a wealthy Crownpoint man who died recently, Mrs. Mary Kutz, fifty years old, who for some > years had been his housekeeper, ended her life by shooting herself through the heart.

Form $1,000,000 Company.

Richmond, Aug. 2.—A million dollar combination was formed when the stockholders of the Miami Valley Securities company decided to consolidate with the Columbus Securities company of Indianapolis.

Women and Baby Injured.

Shelbyville, Aug. 2.—Mrs. Virgil Williams, wife of a merchant, her baby and Miss Rita Williams were all dangerously hurt when their horse became unmanageable and ran away.

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WILL TELL ALL TO ESCAPE CHAIR

“Dago Frank” Breaks Down and Turns State’s Evidence. SAYS WAS IN MURDER PARTY Declares "Lefty” Louis or “Whitey” Lewis Fired Shot That Killed Gambler Rosenthal—More Arrests Expected.

New York, Aug. 2. —Declaring that he will tell all if he is saved from the electric chair “Dago Frank” Ciroflc, described by three witnesses as one of the men who fired the shots which killed Herman Rosenthal in front of the Metropole hotel on the night of July 16, has broken down and turned state’s evidence. The prisoner had been depending on an alibt He had arranged to show that, while the Rosenthal murder was being carried out, he was In a saloon in Harlem trying to get bond for Rosie Harris, a woman of the underworld, who had been arrested. Commissioner Dougherty and Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss tore Cirofici’s alibi to shreds. Was In Murder Party. The gun man broke down, began to cry and then burst forth: "I was In the murder party; I was ' one of the men hired to kill Rosenthal, but I did not fire a shot. “The shooting,” he went on, "was done either by ’Lefty’ Louis or by 'Whitey* Lewis. Four men were In the party, but one of the two of them was the only man who pulled a trigger.” Cirofici will go to the grand jury room and there he will tell how Rosenthal was surrounded and shot to death; the number of shots fired; who fired them; how and by whom he was hired ,to join the murder party and how he»and his companions got away.-

Hart Called by Jury. Following fast on the confession of Cirofici, though not directly connected with it, John W. Hart, attorney for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, accused of the murder of Rosenthal, was brought before Judge Mulquefen and ordered to answer questions propounded to him by the district attorney be fore the grand jury. Hart previously refused to answer these questions, but when taken a second time before the inquisitorial body, talked more freely although he prefaced almost every statement with a protest Hart admitted that he had visited

“Jack” Rose, one of the men who was confessed, while the latter was in hiding following the gambler’s murder Hart went as the messenger of Lieutenant Becker. He visited Rose, h< said, in an effort to secure an affidavit concerning the $1,500 which Rosenthal claimed he had secured from Becker on a mortgage and another affidavit concerning Rosenthal’s charge that Becker had demanded and received 20 per cent, of the profits o! Rosenthal’s gambling house. At the time he secured these affidavits, Hart declares, he did not know that Rose was accused of complicity in the murder.

District Attorney Whitman declared that he would seek the disbarment of Hart on the charge of knowing the whereabouts of a man wanted on a murder charge and keeping hie knowledge secret.

TAFT GAINS IN KANSAS CASE

U. 8. Supreme Court Partly Reverses Lower Tribunal on Question of Roosevelt Electors. New York, Aug. 2.—The action of the Kansas state courts in refusing to order the names of eight Roosevelt candidates for presidential electors stricken from the primary ballot was partly reversed by Justices Van Devanter and Pitney of the United States Supreme court. While these justices granted the application of the Taft men for a writ of error, directed to the Kansas supreme court, their decision does not constitute a final victory for the regular Republican organization. Under Its terms the fight of the Roosevelt candidates to have had places on the primary ticket will be decided by the full bench of the Supreme court when that tribunal holds its next regular session In October. Meanwhile the names of the. Roosevelt men will appear on the ballots at the Kansas primaries next Tuesday. The effect of the decision is to leave the whole Kansas controversy suspended until October.

TRAIN KILLS MAN AND BOY

Father Tries to Save Son From Being Run Down at Crossing and Both Die. Red Wing, Minn., Aug. 2.—Georgd P. Hutchson, aged forty, and his son Lee, aged seven, were instantly killed here when they were run down by a St Paul passenger train on a crossing. The lad was running ahead of his fa then, who attempted to save him, but was unsuccessful and lost his own life.

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