Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Page 8

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condition they may be in, must take his medicine and serve his time. In fact, no sympathy is demonstrated for his family. The evidence in the Bader case and in the investigation made by Pro*. Smith, head of the mechanical engineering department of Purdue, who was employed by our JfeToseeuting attorney to make an investigation of the bridges erected by Bader in Jasper county, was that the taxpayers here had been directly swindled out of about $2,200 because of the scaling down of bridges, which by reason of this were unsafe to carry the traffic for which they were intended; all of whiph goes to show conclusively that there was a sysetmatic aird premeditated steal in every one of the eon-; tracts and that the thought of whati might happen should some of these structures go down was too trivial a matter to be considered at all. Xo Sympathy for the families of the possible victims of this thievery and criminal negligency entered into the matter at all. The only thing considered was the getting of the contracts and then making as much profit out of them as possible by scaling down the specifications. I am giving space to jrour reply to the statement made in The Democrat of August 7, and our reply thereto as set out above. If you have anything further regarding the truth of falsity of the statements on which we based our belief that the investigation was prejudged and that Bader was released before the investigation was made, we shall be pleased to give it space. Fraternally, F. E. BABCOCK. P. S.—lt must indeed be gratifying to the humane instincts of both yourself, Mr. Daily and Governor Marshall to read in the papers that the wife, who had but a few hours to live from a second stroke of paralysis, when you were here, begun to recover immediately on the release of her husband, and is now greatly improved.

| JORDAN TOWNSHIP. Riley Tullis shipped a carload of sheep last Monday. A Miss Childers is working at present for Porter’s. Mrs. James A. Keister was on the sick list last week. Jordan township was well represented in Rensselaer Monday. Misses Hannah and Kate Welsh spent Sunday with the Bullis family. Frank Welsh is laying the foundation for a large new barn this^week. Harry Pass is rapidly recovering from an injury he received in a fall. Mr and Mrs. L. M. Ritchie visited with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Michaels Bunday Mrs. Osa Ritchey and daughters went to Chicago on the excursion Sunday. About thirty yonng -people at-

tended a party at Pruett's last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heuson visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Michaels, Sunday. Wilbur Putt, Jesse Beecher and Elmer Lyons went to Chicago Sunday on the excursion. John Bill returned Saturday evJ ening from Monon where he. had been consulting Dr. Stuart. ‘Frank Corbin’s little daughter has been quite sick the past two or three weeks, but is recovering now.

. LEE. | —1 : 1Chloe Overton visited relatives in Rensselaer during the week. Several from here went to Chicago Sunday on the excursion. Rev. Simonson and wife and son Dale of Wadena, Ind., came Tuesday to S. M. Jacks’ for a short visit. J. H. Culp and wife spent Saturday and Sunday visiting J. W. Mellender and family east of Francesville. Mrs. Ella Noland’s brother and wife visited her and family during the week. James Brown and wife visited he rparents. Mr. Stump’s, family of north of Monon Sunday. Alvin Clark and wife and O. A. Jacks and.. wife went from here Wednesday to Michigan City on a Sunday school excursion. # L. M. Jacks and family spent Sunday with their son Charles and family, who are working on the Gifford railroad, near McCoysburg. G. A. and S. M. Jacks and families and Joseph Clark and family went to W. E. Jacks’ near Rensselaer one day this week where they met their uncle, Edward Culp and wife, of Remington. A blacksmith and his family of Rensselaer moved here Wednesday into the L. M. Jacks property. We hope he proves to be a good smith and stays, as that is what we are badly in need of in our town. Mr. Barnhill, banker and merchant, of Crawfordsville and family came through in their auto Sunday to visit his wife’s uncle ana aunt, David Culp and wife. Leroy Noland, S. W. Noland' and families, Wesley Noland and W. E. Culp and wife, all relatives, brought well-filled baskets apd had a very pleasant day with the old people.

EXPENDITURES AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1913.

MARION TOWNSHIP! The Trustee of Marion Township, Jasper County, Indiana, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board, at its annual meeting to be held at the Trustee’s office, Tuesday, September 3d, 1912, at 9 o’clock a. m„ the following etsimates and amounts: 1. Township expenditures, $2,379.00; and Township tax, 15 cents on the hunrded dollars. 2. Local Tuition expenditures, $2,717.76; and tax, 16 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special School expenditures,

$3,486.00; and tax, 22 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road expenditures, $2,647.90; and tax, 15 cents on the hundred dollars, to be worked out on the highways. •> 5. Additional Road expenditures, $1,500; and tax, 6. Library expenditures, $849.30; and tax, 5 cents on the hundred dollars. Poor expenditures for preceding year, $921.07; and tax, 5 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures, $13,579,96, and total tax, 77 cents on the hunderd dollars. Total taxables of the Township. $1,698,695, total Polls IS9. H. E. PARKISON, Trustee. Dated August 2, 1912.

Lumber.

We want to sell you that bill of lumber you are figuring on getting. Xo matter how much or how little it may be that you want; of course you want the best and most that jour money can buy. Our stock is complete and our prices as low as you can get. Estimates cheerfully figured.-—Rensselaer Lumber Co.

Chicken Supper at Parr.

A fried chicken supper will be given at the park at Parr. Ind., Thursday evening, Aug. 15, for the benefit of the U. B. church. Everyone invited. —Committee. ’Phone 315 if in need of anything in the job printing line and a representative of The Democrat will call upon you promptly. Try a box of our W’ild Rose or Homespun linen finish note paper for your correspondence. Only 35c and 40c per box, 102 sheets. Envelopes to match at 10c per package.

DON’T YOU NEED US? Have you not some old i clothes that are in need of a Pressing, a re-shaping, maybe a good Cleaning? If so let me show you how easily and quickly I can transform them into new-looking garments. And the cost to you will be very slight indeed in proportion to the service. I Clean and Press all kinds of garments for men, women and children JOHN WERNER. Tailor Rensselaer. Ind.

DEATH CLAIMS AGED PREACHER

Rev. Robert A. Kemp Dies in the City of New Albany. ‘ ! SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY Was a Member of the Indiana Methodist Conference for Forty-Two Years—Pastor of Churches in Southern Part of State. New Albany.—Rev. Robert A. Kemp, one of the oldest members of the Indiana Methodist conference, of which he was secretary for more than thirty years, died in this city of a stroke of apoplexy. His wife died July 1. Six children, E. A. Kemp of Indianapolis, W. E. Kemp, Harry W. Kemp, Mrs. Emma S. Taylor, Miss Mamie Kemp and Miss Lillie Kemp of this city, survive. Mr. Kemp had been a member of the conference for 42 years, and nearly all of this time he was pastor of churches in southern Indiana. He assumed superannuated relations about six years ago and retired from active ministerial labor and since then had been living in this city. Madison Landmark Razed. Anderson. The oldest building in Madison county, a log cabin cituated near Moss island, two miles northwest of here, was demolished to make room for the new buildings of the Anderson fertilizer company. The exact age of the structure is not known, but it was known to have been standing before any settlement existed where" this city now stands. The cabin wa6 built by a settler named Arbogast and is said to have been the scene of several murders at an early day. For years it stood vacant, but has recently been used as a storage house by the fertilizer company. J. L. Webb, the “mayor” of Moss island, who has lived there all his life, said today that the .cabin dated back more than 100 years. He said that an early rumor was that the builder of the cabin was murdered by Indians. Hangs Himself in Jail. Columbus.—Ernest Miller of this city, w'ho attempted to kill his wife at the Columbus Chautauqua, while in a fit of insanity, hanged himself in the county jail, shortly after his arrest. He made a rope of bed clothes. When the officials discovered Miller’s body it was still warm. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were camping at the Chautauqua, and were in their tent alone. People in neighboring tents were aroused by Mrs. Miller’s screams, and when they reached the Miller tent they found Mrs. Miller lying on the floor with Miller bending over her. He was armed with a small knife and had stabbed Mrs. Miller in the left side near the heart, slashed an artery in her wrist and inflicted other wounds. Prisoner Is Captured. Lafayette.—Despite the search made by Sheriff John Fisher and the Lafayette police department only one of the four prisoners who overpowered James Nash, turnkey of the Tippecanoe county jail, has been caught. Albert Dickson, arrested for stealing a horse, was retaken at the home of his mother in-this city. Capt, Clark and two other officers broke down the door of the house and found him hiding under a bed. D. Fleming Guy, who shot William Marlott at Westpoint; T. L. Lucas, charged with robbery, and Lewis Smith, charged with forgery, are still at large. Millionaire to Lead Church Navy. Laporte.—E. K. Warren, the Three Oaks (Mich.) millionaire manufacturer and one of the directors of the Rumly company of this city, has been named as admiral of the World’s Sunday School Convention fleet of four ocean liners which will casry the delegates from the United States and Canada to the meeting at Zurich in July, 1913. Mr. Warren stated that 2 r 900 delegates would take passage on the trip, for which steamers have been chartered. Spontaneous Combustion Causes Fire. Clarkshill. One hundred and fifty tons of hay, some> corn, oats and other cereals were burned in a fire that destroyed a barn and a number of sheds on the farm of Ora Loveless. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion. Two new silos and some fanning implements were destroyed and a valuable horse was badly burned. The loss, approximately $4,500, is partly covered by insurance. > Four Automobiles Burned. Winona Lake. —Four automobiles valued at $4,500, insured for about three-fourths of their value, were burned here when the Winona garage was destroyed by fire. Only hasty work prevented a spread of the flames. Upholds McMurran Will. Petersburg.—After a ten days’ trial, In which more than 100 witnesses were examined, the jury In the famous Marshall McMurran will case, after being out less than an hour, brought In a verdict in favor of the defendant, Maggie Drain. The suit grew out of a will made 24 years ago by Marshall McMurran, in which he willed all he had to Miss Maggie Drain, then a poor servant girl working near Vincennes, Ind. The estate Is valued at $35,000. The plaintiffs will take an appeal.

SOCIETY WOMEN HIT

DETECTIVE INVOLVES NEW YORK’S “400" IN VICE GRAFT. Many Are Found to Be Large Owners of Buildings Used for Gambling and Disorderly Purposes. * _______ New Vork, Aug. 9.—Members of the ’Four Hundred,” leaders of the highest and also the lowest society circles of New York, were the Objects of investigation started by Detective William J. Borns into the gambling and ilSorderly places and the vice district aearly a year ago. A committee of prominent citizens financed Burns' work and it was done thoroughly, with the result that Burns now has a long list of prominent men and also women, whose reputations have been above reproach, but whom he charges with being the owners of property used for vicious purposes in the underworld. This was the biggest development in the Rosenthal murder and graft inquiry, and it sent a wave of terror through some of the “best people” of the city. “When the proper time comes for the mass of evidence I have collected to be put before the people of New York they will be startled by its disclosures,” said Bums. The names of all these property owners who have leased their buildings for gambling and disorderly houses will be made public, according to Alderman Curran, who is heading he aldermanic investigation.

BIG SUPPLY BILL IS PASSED

General Efficiency Appropriation Measure, Carrying Put Through by the House. Washington, Aug. 9.—Making ready for tbe wind-up of the session, the last big appropriation bili from the executive calendar was put through the house. It was the general efficiency bill, carrying appropriations totaling $6,182,818, including $150,000 for the celebration next year of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Aug. t. Open- High- Low- ClooWheat— ing. est est lug SfPt- 92*-93 .93* .92* .93*-* Dee *2*-% .93* .92* .93V* Ma v 96-96* .97 .96% .96% Corn— SfPt .66*-67 .98* .66* .65* P, ec - «%-* -Ss*-% .54* .55* May 54*-* .55* .64* .55* Oats— Sept. ........31-31% .31% .31 .31% Dec »*-% 3?% .32* .32% May ....34*-* ® .34* FLOUR—Easy; winter wheat, patent. Jute. $4.9005.00; winter wheat, straight. $4.60®4_50; winter wheat, clear. Jute. $4.19 04.10; spring wheat, choice brands, wood. $5.90; Minnesota, patent. Jute, $5.0005.29; Minnesota, hard spring patent, straight, export bags, [email protected]; first clears, $3,900 4.00; seconds clears. $3.2003.69: low grades. $3.0003.10; rye, white, per bail. Jute. $3.90 @4.00: dark. $3.7003.90. BUTTER—Creamery, 25c; price to retail dealers. 27c; prints. 28c; extra firsts, 24*c; seconds, 23c; dairies, extras. 24c: firsts! 22c; seconds. 21c; ladles. No. 1,22 c; packing stock, 20c. EGGS —Miscellaneous lets, cases included, 15*016*c; cases returned. 14*015*c; ordinary firsts, 16c; flints, 18c; extras! candled for city trade. 22*c; No. 1 dirties, 13c; checks. He. NEVt POTATOES—Kansas and Missouri. early Ohios. 73075 c; Illinois. Ss@6Se; Minnesota, 65070 c; Jersey cobblers, per bu. 90095 c. New York, Aug. 8. WHEAT—Strong, good demand: new No. 1 northern, spring. $1.03%; new No. 2 red, $1.08%; new No. 2 hard. SLO3; No. 1 Manitoba, $1.16*; No. t l macaroni, $1.06; September, SLOI%; December, sl.ol*. CORN—Strong but quiet; No. 2, S2*@ S3*c: No. 2 yellow, S2*c. OATS—lnactive, quotations nominal, owing to absence of supplies of new and old oats. BARLEY—Quiet; malting, 70090 c. Toledo, Ang. i. CLOVER SEED— Per bu, cash prime, $10.00; October, $10.90; December, $9.92*March, $9.97* ALSIKE—Cash prime, $11.00; August, $11.00; September, $10.90. Live Stock. Chicago, Aug. iL CATTLE—Good to choice steers. • $9,000 10.J5; fair to good steers, $6.4008.50; common to fair beeves. $5.1606.25; inferior killers, $3.7505.00; distiller}' steers. $9.0009.85; range steers, $7.4008.25; fair to fancy yearlings, $8.2509.15; good to choice cows, $5.99 ©8.00; canner bulls. $2.2502.35; common to good calves, $4.5005.25; good to choice vealers, $9.25010.00; heavy calves. $6,250 ioo: feeding steers. $5.2506.50; stockers. $4.0005.50; medium to good beef cows. $3.59 @6.50; common to good cutters, $3.0003.75; Inferior to good canners, $2.7503.00; fair to chplce heifers, $5.5008.50. HOGS—Good to prime heavy. $7.7508.10; good to choice butchers. $7.9008.15; fair to good packing, $7.5007.90; light mixed. 175 lbs and up. $7.9008.25; choice light, HO to 300 lbs, $8.1008.36; pigs. HO lbs and under. 96.7507.75; pigs. U 0 to 140 lbs. $7.8508.40. Omaha, Aug. 8. CATTLE—Native steers, $5.7509.75; cows and heifers, $3.5007.25; western steers, |EJ| ©8.25; Texas steers, $4.5006.50; range cows and heifers, $3.0006.70; canners, $2.7504.25; stockers and feeders, $3.7507.00; calves, $4.0008.25; bulls, stags, etc., $3.7505.50. HOGS-Heavy. $7.7509.05; mixed, $7,850 8.00; lights. $7.8008.15; pigs, $6.5007.50; bulk of sales, $7.8508.00. SHEEP —Yearlings, $4.5005.25; wethers, $8.6004.50; ewes, $3.0004.00; lambs. $6,250 7.95. East Buffalo, N. ,Y„ Aug. 8. CATTLE—Market slow and steady; prime steers, $8.7509.40; butcher grades. $4.0008.25; calves, cull to choice. $6,000 10.*. SHEEP AND LAMBS-Market dull and steady; choice lambs. $7.507.50: cull to fair, $4.5007.00; yearlings, $3.0006.00; sheep. $2.0005.35. HOGS-Market slow, 15020 c lower; Yorkers, $8.75; pigs, $8.7008.75; mixed. $8.7008.75; heavy, $8.4608.90; roughs, $7.0007.40; stags, $6.0006.25.

HAYTI PRESIDENT SLAIN BY BLAST

Palace at Port Au Prince Destroyed; 400 Killed. POWDER MAGAZINE LETS GO Fire Follows Explosion, But Family of Island Ruler Escapes—Military Authorities Maintain Order at Capital. Port Au Prince, Hayti, Aug. 9.—ln an explosion and fire which destroyed the palace here, 400 persons were killed or injured. General Cincinnatua Leconte, president of the republic, who, with his family, was sleeping in the palace at the time, is among those who perished. His family escaped. Whether the explosion which followed a fire in the palace cellars was part of a Dominican plot to wipe out the Haitian government or due to accidental causes is not known. The explosion occurred when the palace was darkened and the president's family was sleeping. Without warning they were hurled from thteir beds and the palace walls fell in tumbling ruins around them. Rescuers Perish Under Walls. The women members or the president's family were rescued by attendants, who perished in falling walls before they could reach the state chamber where General Leconte was sleeping The holocaust has thrown all Hayti into a state of anxious expectancy. Relations with the Santo Domingo government have been strained for months and General Leconte was regarded as the head of the forces that

President le Conte.

are mobilizing on the border and the prospective leader of the Haitian army that is expected to invade Santo Domingon. Dominicans also regarded him as the moving spirit in the revolnUonarv movement now in progress in their country. Fire Precedes Explosion. Port au Prince is in an uproar. No cohesive story can be obtained as to the incidents leading up to the explosion except that there was a fire in the cellars and an hour later the whole palace was a smoking ruin. The first explosion was followed by others when the fire reached the cellars of the palace, where a great quantity of ammunition was stored. So great was the force of the explosions that a number of small cannon, fragments of iron and shells were thrown for great distances in all directions. The first explosion shattered the palace. ” Fire followed quickly upon the explosion and the palace, which was a wooden structure, was consumed within half an hour. Panic Prevails In City. -—•* All the houses around the palace were greatly damaged by the explosion, but as the palace itsplf was isolated. the firemen succeeded In their efforts to localize the fire. For a time a great panic prevailed and the military authorities immediately took charge of the situation. At a joint meeting of the chamber and senate General Tancrede Auguste, senator, was named as president. Assassination Is Hinted. Washington, Aug. 9.—The death of President Leconte of Hayti is reported in senate circles to be due to assassination and not to an accidental explosion of a powder magazine as reported in press dispatches from Port Au Prince. The information to a senator is that a new revolution was ushered In by the murder of the president of the republic. It is reported here that there is no “powder magazine” attached to the palace at Port Au Prince and that further investigation Is bound to show that the dynamite, or powder, was recently conveyed to the palace by conspirators.

TWO KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH

Engineer and Fireman Burled Under Wreckage, Twenty Paesangers Hurt in Wreck Near Boston. Boston, Aug. 9.—An engineer and a fireman were burled . under wreckage and killed, and twenty passengers were injured, when a passenger train on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad was derailed and plunged into a marsh In the Dorchester district. Ambulances from Boston hospitals were rushed to the scene. The accident occurred on the Ply,, mouth division of the railroad.