Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — Page 5

~ ' —■ ■' I ■* •' . 1 ■ ; . • ■ r . ■ r » You Know Thfe Home Grocery Always has the Best and Freshest of Fruits ang Vegetables for the Saturday's business. See us this time for Cantiloupes, Home Grown Watermellons Sweet Corn, Cooking or Eating Apples, Fancy Peaches, Home Grown Tomatoes, New Lima Beans, Sweet Potatoes, Tender Bunch Celery, New Beets and Carrots,HomeGrown Cabbage, New Early Squash. PHONE 41

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Today’s markets: Corn, 72 c; Oats, 26c to 28c; Wheat, 70c to 90c; Rye, 61c. In White county the Bull Moosers have issued a call for their county convention for August 31. J. A. Wlckersham of Goodland was here Thursday night and yesterday on real estate business. Edward Honan, Jr., is expected home today. He is riding through from St. Louis on a new motorcycle. Wm. Halstead of Newton tp., presented The Democrat with a handsome boqu-et of gladiolfas Thursday. Grant Davisson of Baarkley tp., has traded his old Ford automobile for one of the new model fore-door Fords. Miss Edna King of The Democrat front office force, left Wednesday for a week’s vacation visit at Winona Lake.

S. D. Clark and Simon Fendig of Wheatfield came down Wednesday evening and went over to Foun- < tain Park Thursday. The corner Stone laying of Monon’s new SIO,OOO M. E. church will take place today. Rev. C. L. Harper is on the program ; at the services. Mr. and Mrs. Newt Waterman of Chicago are spending the week here with N. Littlefield and fami’y. Mrs. Waterman and Mrs. Littlefield are siteiters. S. C. Irwin *bas bought the southeast corner lot in Fred Philips’ addition, just west of the Range Line road, on the new street to be opened up there. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart of Hanging Grove tp., left Thursday to attend the reunion of the Tresler family at Montpelier, Ohio. They will be gone for about a week. Lee E. Glazebrook of north of town has been confined to his home the past two weeks with a severe case of lame back, and wilt not be able to be about for several days yet.

Mr. Hansen is an expert in the matter of gaining beautiful and effective tone qualities.—The Indianapolis News. At the Presbyterian church Friday evening, August 30. Tickets on sale at Long’s drug store. Monticello Journal, Progressive: “We give no quarter,” isiay the republicans, and stall they ask the progressives to go a little easy on putting out the third county ticket, claiming that it would be unfair to personal friends who might be on the republican ticket. The same reason could be urged by democrats. The republicans cannot get over the idea that the progressives-7-that are the real for sure ones—are no longer republicans, but are separate and distinct.

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B. Forsythe.was a Chicago business goer Thursday. C. E. Prior was a Lafayette business visitor Thursday. Misses Florence and Meta Wohlegemuth of Cleveland, 0., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramp and family’. Mrs. J. C. Trout and three children of Hartford City are spending a few day’s here as guests or Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock.

Mrs. W. C. Milliton and Mrs. Hale Warner are spending a few days a. Big Ra/pids, Midh., with the former’s son, Robert Mttliliron. Mbs>. Harry Wiltshire and daughters, Ruth and Mrs. Gilbert Albin, are Visiting her sister, Mrs. Peter Giver, and family at Wabash. Miss Emma Heier returned to her home in Ohicago Wednesday after a visit he-e With Misses Anna aud Mabel Stocksiek and ota w friends. - Alt Peters and wife of south of town went to Lafayette Tuesday to spend a few days with their son, George Peters, and to take in the fair. Alex Menica accompanied his son Dean to a sanitarium at St. Elmo. HL, Wednesday where the latter expects to take treatment for rheumatism. Misses Madaline Ramp and Lucy Healy will leave about September 1 for St. Louis, Mo., where they will attend St. Elizabeth/s Institute the coming year. Rev. R. B. Wright of Mattoon, IM., has been engaged as pastor of the Monon and Rensselaer Baptist churches. He will reside at Monon, and will preach here every Sunday morning, beginning to-morrow.

Chester A. McCormick of North Judson, democratic candidate for state Senator, was in the city Thursday afternoon. He had come down with the intention l of going over to Fountain Park, but the rain decided him not to go. Mrs. Gerra Clifton and two daughters, and mother, Mrs. Cockran, who have been visiting'relatives here and with Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Warne near Parr, for the past six weeks, have left on their , return trip to their home in Los Angeles, Cal. They expect to make short stop offs jin Chicago, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Cal. , James Lynch aged 76, a Goodland | painter, was found dead in his house i there Wednesday afternoon. He ap- ■ parently had been dead for three or ■ four days. He lived alone, and j the' last seen of him was Friday or ‘Saturday. He had Lived in. Goodland I for perhaps forty years, and, was ] during all this time, addicted to the ' excessive use of liquor. He was ■a veteran of the civil war.

' Mr. Hansen has played on hun- , dreds of organs and given dedicatory recitals all over the central west* He is one of the leading orjganists of the state. In hits musical I experience he has committed to memI ory thousands of compositions and innumerable accompaniments for the I church and concert singers and he i has the greatest repretory of any musician in the state.—The Indiana1 polls Star. •At the Presbyterian chuych, Friday evening, August 30. Tickets on sale at Long's drug store.

A heavy rain fell Thursday afternoon and again stopped threshing for a couple of days. ; Lee and Ray Adams left Tuesday on a southern prospecting trip, going as far as the Black Belt of Alabama where Winifred Pullins is located. ? Mrs. A. H Keeney and daughter, Mrs. M. A. Shindler, left Tuesday for Great Falls, Montana, where they Will spend the next two months with relatives. Miss .Minnie Scheuricn. who has been w’orking at Kewanna, 111., for past few months, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scheurich. Misses Linda and Olive Langley of Davenport, lowa, college chums at Northwestern of Miss Blanche Babcock, of near Parr, came Wednesday to spend a few days with her. Charles Porter, who has been employed in the bridge construction gang of the Northwestern railroad at Norfolk, Neb., for the past month or two, has given up his job and ararrived home Wednesday.

Dr. E, N. Loy returned home Tuesday from a visit with his father at Piqua, O. Mrs Loly and son Robert, who were also there, went to Columbus, where they will visit until the first of September. Henry’ Eiglesbach, who has been suffering considerable of late from deafness caused by a gathering in his head, went to Chicago again Wednesday to take treatment. The trouble started from a severe cold contracted some time ago. Ed Robinson and Ray Laßue, two members of the Rensselaer Boys’ Band, have received the two new silver plated trombones Which they recently ordered from a Detroit firm. The horns are fine handsome instruments and cost them ?58 each. George Mustard has been awarded the contract for the carpenter w’ork of erecting the cold storage plant at Newland. The building will be 160x40x14, and work will begin on same Monday. Mr. Mustard will not work on: this job himself, of course, but will hire competent men to put it up.

D. M. Worland, R. D. Thompson, C. Earl Duvall, C. E. Prior, George Plunket, John Lewis, W. W. Washburn, Jobe Overton, Floyd Robinson, Walter Crampton, Harry Wiltshire, Hale Warner, and Frank Haskell were among the number from here to take in the Monon’s special train to the Lafayette fair Thursday; A ■ The ice cream lawn social given by the members of section 4 u of the M. E. church Epworth League, Wednesday’ evening on the church lawn, which wsa beautifully decorated with Japanese, lanterns for the occasion, proved to be a great success, financially, the members clearing about $23 from the candy, and pop corn sold. The music for the occasion was furnished by • the Rensselaer band.

One of the exquisite pleasures of the week was the organ recital given by Chales Hansen, the blind organist of the 2nd Presbyterian- church of Indianapolis; truly the most beautiful and touching organ music heard tihfis year. So dainty, so tender and retponsive; sometimes rising to. the sublime as the full organ was thrown on, but most frequently the delicate sweet sympathetic music one expects from the sightless. Truly they have the “hearing ears” and do not offend those of others.—Chicago Music News. At the Prefubyterian church, Friday evening, August 30. Tickets on sale at Long’s drug Store.

To <, s. I THE ‘ ' ■ CT WXDEP • /A ZJ f?£.£>T, -* ■ tV-" GUcshZ.\ H/' AFTER VACATION there is generally "something doing” in the way of sorting over the wardrobe, cleaning, pressing, and putting the good garflaents away for the next season. Send them to us and we will put them* in the finest shape for you at little cost. We will save you all the time and trouble and make a better job of it than you could yourself. JOHN WERNER, Tailor Rensselaer, Ind.

.. 7 ‘; Mr. and Mrs. Len Kiester returned ’home Monday from Chicago Heights, ll]., after a few days visit with relatives there.

W. T. Perkins, a former well known resident of. Rensselaer, died at his home in Mishawaka. Ind., Tuesday night, aged 83 years. He was an uncle of Clerk J. H. Per<kins, who went to Mishawaka Thursday afternoon to »i-.l the funeral, which was held there yesterday.

In the fire Monday might which tojlowed the stroke of lightning that destroyed the Lawrence Kellner barn in Carpenter tp., all the wagons, harness, and tools were saved, we understand, and the greatest loss to contents was on seten tons of hay and some 50 bushels of oats.

Mr. and Mrs.' James H. Kiester and son Everett of Jordan tp., will go to Lafayette Tuesday to attend a reunion of the Hilt family, which will be held in Columbia Park in that city. Mrs. Kiester’s grandmother on the maternal side was a Hilt. Over two hunderd invitations have been sent out, and a general invitation it extended to all relatives of the Hilt family, whereever they may be located, to attend. Mr. Clinton Hill, of Lafayette, is president of the reunion organization. and Mrs. Josephine Bennett, a sister of Mrs. Kiester, also of Lafayette, is vice-president. Mr. and Mrs. Kiester will be driven through by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dluzack, in Mr. Dluz.ack’is auto.

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to the basement where Constable Parks was stationed could instantly be used to mmmon him if a letter addressed to Mr. Forsythe was dropped in the box and he could rush out and nab the party who mailed it before he had any possible chance to get away. Strangely enough no letters were mailed to Mr. Forsythe during the nights this vigil was kept, but one night that they skipped the vigil a letter waH posted.

Nightwatdh Critser during all this time was also on the lookout for the guilty one, but while Karnatz was under suspicion, nothing could be got on him that would strengthen this suspicion to any great extent until the decoy letter fixed the evidence beyond all question of doubt. Kairoiaitz was suspicioned, and aitKiorney Mose Leopold who was working on tihe case with the officers, tried to get hold of some of has writing to compare it with that of the blackmailer's letters, all of which wore written on the same kind of paper and the fame quality of envelope used. The assessment sheet of Karnatz in 1909, where he had aligned the sheet, was the Only thing that could be found 1 . Last week, after two more of the ’letters—wlhiich we reproduce here with—were received by Mr.. Fortythe, Karnatz went to his .home in Hinsdale, 111., 18 miles west of Chicago, and Mr. Leopold had a decoy letter sent him/by a party who pretended he wanted to hire him, and the reply received supplied the missing link—ythe paper and envelope were precisely the same and ’the handwriting in almost every instance corresponded with that of the letters received by Mr. Forsythe. t Aiecordingly Maiilial Mustard went to Hinsdale Wednesday and as Karnatz, wlho had gone to Chicago, stepped off the train on his return home at 8:30 that evening, he was nabbed by the nightwatch there who turned ’him over to Marshal Mustard, who was prepared with requisition papers to bring him back should he not come will! ngly. Karnatz, however, agreed to come, and after stoutly denying all knowledge of the matter, finally, in the presence of his father and the chief of police, made a clean breast of the whole thing. He said that he had played poker with a bunch in Rensselaer and had lost all the money earned; he owed a board bill to Mrs. Medicus pf some $125 and had some other debts, and not wanting his father to know his financial condition, he had resorted to this manner of raising money. He did not have the nerve, however, to go to the stone pile after the packege the first night it wais put there—or succeeding times, it would appear. But he must have gone there in the day time after it had been removed. He was considerably broken up over the affair, but seemed scarcely to realize the enomrity of his crime, as he asked Mr. Forsythe after being brought back here Thursday

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morning if he couldn’t fix it up with him in some manner? to this the latter replied that he had no powpr to fix anything up; that he had had him pretty badly toaired and he projtosed tp let the law take its course. The two last letters received by Mr. Forsythe read as follows: Envelope. ' - Mr. Ben Forsythe, Rensselafer, Indiana. Po-itmiarked August 10, 7 a. m.

Mr. Forsythe this time without fall. We come to your tto/wir last Monday and found that you had left we came back this Friday and made up our mind that we wore going to stay until you came back w'e seen you this afternoon and we are sanding you final notice we heard you donated an organ to the church so we are going to ask you for S4OO instead of S7OO we can’t monkey with you any longer so put $4 00 in box and place Lt near board by stone pile by Saturday Aug 10, 1912.

Th’e last one was received August 12. This was after Karnat’z father had came here and had paid sll9 board bill to Mrs. Medicus. The father is a poor working man, owns his little home and that is all. Yet he came here Sunday, August 14, and settled his son’s board bill. The same night, evidently the last letter was written, as Mr. Forsythe got it Monday, August 12, and it bore postmark of 7:30 a. m., that date.

Envelope. Mr. Forsythe ■ Rensselaer , Indiana. Postmarked Aug. 12, 7:30 a. m. Mr. Forsythe: The other boys say you have failed to put the money at the stone pile, so we have come to finish the job. We will give you until tomorrow night to put the SSOO in a cigar box and put it on ’top of the stone pile as close tio the end of that piece of board as you can. If you don’t put the SSOO there between the hours of 9 and 10 o’clock tomorrow night (Tuesday) Aug. 13, 1912, you know what is coming to you and you will sure get it, we only warn people once then it is either the money or you Two more of the gang. it is Up to you now, either the money ($500) or you. For five niighte Mr. Forsythe had six men hired to wabch for the blackmailer, but without success. He paid these men for watching, and also expects to pay the reward of $l5O to Leopold and Marshal Mustard, so that he is out about S3OO in cash in his efforts to land the felllow.

Mr. Foreytihe is entitled to much credit in the part ’he played in refusing to be blackmailed and in

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running the blackmailer down. It is probable the federal authorities will take Karnatz to Indianapolis and he will be tried before Judge Andert-orP of the federal court, and little leniency is likely to be shown in matters of this kind. No doubt a long term in the federal prison awaits him.

Umablq toprocure bail, Karnatz Unable to procure bail, Karnatz at ter noon he wan arrailgned before Squire Irwin when he waived arraignment and in default of SSOO bonds was turned over to await the next term of court.

Methodist Church.

Subject Sunday morning at the Trinity M.‘ E. church, “A Higher Estimate.” ’ Evening Enworth Lea o 7:30 m.

Excursion to Chicago Sunday, August 25.

The Monon will run another excursion to Chicago on Sunday, August 25. This will be over the Louisville division, and Rensselaer will be the only stop north of Monon. The excursion train will pass Rensselaer at 9:15 a. m., and the round trip fare from this station will be 75 cents. Returning special train will leave Chicago at usual time, 11:30 p. m. Passengers from Goodland, Remington and Wolcott can, If they so desire, catch the excursion train at Reynolds Sunday morning. The fare from Reynolds is sl.lO for the round trip.

l»o 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., Box No. 711 —FRANK A. BICKNELL. ts

Bitters, Neat.

The grand old party of Ellhu Root and Jim Sherman is looking for a rollable tonic.—Emporia Gazette.

The Progressive Dixon.

Senator Joseph M. Dixon la the apodal messenger boy of Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Dixon Is the manager of the Bull Moose campaign Senator Dixon is a shining light of the Roosevelt type of progressives. He voted with Senator Aldrich on tariff matters 126 times. Mr. Roos> velt was a free-trader in 1884. It he has changed his mind since, bo ought to say so, and to give the IW sons for h|s conversion. Instead of leaving it to be guessed In this roxm& about fashion.