People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE'S PILOT.

Vol. HI

MONON TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Mail and Express, daily 10:40 A M. No. s—Mail and Express, dai1y....11:33 A. M. No. 39—Milk Aeconi.. daily 6:21 P. M. No. 3 Night Express, daily 10:37 P.M. No. 45—Local Freight 2:50 P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 36—Mail 5:40 A.M. No. 40—Milk Accom.. daily 7:37 A.M. No. B—Mail... ...7:55P.M. No. 30 Mail 3:27 P.M. No. 46 —Local Freight 9:25 A.M.

Milk shakes at Vick's. s Corn for sale at Dexter & Cox's. George Soucie vrsited his wife at St. Anne, 111., this week. Bay your threshing coal at Dexter & Cox’s. • Baby carriages at Williams’. All styles. Best grade of threshing coal at Dexter and Cox’s. The infant child of. Logan Woods died at Aix Tuesday. Dexter & Cox can sell you corn by the wagon load. Corn for sale at C. S. Baker’s, 3 miles south of Mt. Ayr. 2-5 t A fresh supply of tropical fruits just received at Vick’s. Price those laces at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Cheap. George McElfresh has purchased a lot in New Oklahoma. A trial trip of eight weeks for ten cents. The McCormick binders and mowers at Isaac Glazebrook’s. Advertised letters: Mr. Herman Cohn, Mr. Chas. G. Consad. Subsciptions taken for any paper or magazine at thi& office. For a good ' smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. J. W. Horton has moved into his new residence. Subscriptions for the Nonconformist taken at this office.

Geo. Dexter is now in the grocery business at west Lafayette. Buy your threshing coal of C. W. Coen, (successor of Coen & Paxton). Mrs. Zook, of Barkley township, died suddenly Monday morning. McCormick binder and mower extras for sale by Isaac Glazebrook. Mrs. Wm. De M. Hooper, of Indianapolis, is visiting at M. L, Spitler’s. Miss Eva Washburn was visiting relatives in Medaryville last week. Closing out sale of summer stock of millinery at Mm Lecklider’s from now on. Miss Abbie Griswold, of Hammond, is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R. Nowels & Son. Mrs. Isaac Miller, of Barkley township, died last Friday night of consumption. Go to M. & A. Meyer for your stylish millinery and dress-mak-ing. A new bakery is being started in the room recently vacated by Minikus & Troy. The only place in town to get the Henderson shoe is at Porter & Wishard’s. « Mrs. Ray Mossier, of Thorntown, Ind., is visiting her parents, A. Leopold and wife. Goods going at cost all through July and August at Mrs. Lecklider’s. 50 percent, off. Bun Learning, of Goshen, as jolly as ever, spent a few days in Rensselaer the past week. E. P. Honan gave a party in honor of Miss Thompson, of California, Friday evening. The editor of the Hobart Gazette is running an ice cream parlor in connection with his paper. There will be no preaching at the chiftch of God next Sunday owing to the death of Mrs. Connor. D. H. Yeoman has struck a good flowing well on his farm in Union township at the depth of 56 feet. Miss Katie Sneckenberger, of Wolcott, and Miss Lena Dawkins, of Chicago, are visiting Miss Rose Platt, of Rensselaer.

ONLY SI.OO PER TEAR.

McCurry and Lardner, bicyclists of Goodland, rode over to Rensselaer on their wheels Monday. Gale Chilcote? with wife and two children, of Los Angelas, Cal., is visiting his father, M. F. Chilcote. Mr. and Mrs. Sebring, of Medaryville, are Mr. Sebring’s sister, Mrs. Wm. Washburn. Mrs. Forsythe’s two sisters, the Misses Smith, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe. In a fire at Lafayette Tuesday afternoon the Monon lost twentyone fVs-t and box cars, nineteen of which w’ere loaded.

The Young People’s Society of the Freewill Baptist congregation will meet next Sunday at 6:30 p. m., to resume their work. Many of the farmers in the vicinity of Rensselaer worked in their oats fields last Sunday, to take care of the rapidly ripening oats. While on a Grand Trunk train near Sedley, Porter county, a man had the change racket worked on him at expense of §SOO. Vick had the first grapes of the season on sale this week. Those wishing fine fruit can always be assured of getting the best at Vick’s. • » Geo. V. Moss is visiting his mother a few days, after which he will go to North Waukegan, HL, and enter into the banking and real estate business. The fame of Vick’s lemonade is traveling all over the country and he is kept busy from morn till night shaking up this refreshing beverage.

The summer normal will begin in the high school building, in Rensselaer, next Monday. The instructors will be E. W. Bohannon and J. F. Warren. Vick still handles the celebrated Ruger’s bread, and from the amount sold it is surely giAing satisfaction. The people know a good thing when they see it. A bed of gravel has been discovered on the farm of John Shields, south of Rensselaer, which is amply sufficient to gravel every road in the county. It is of a good quality. Do you intend to buy your hard coal early? If so see C. W. Coen before you place your order. He will give you the best grade at the price you pay for low’er grade coal. Henry Durst, representing the Chamberlain Medicine Co., of Des Moines, lowa, was in town Wednesday and closed a contract with us to advertise their popular remedies, which can be found for sale by F. B. Meyer. Mrs. Sarah Nichols, of Momence, 111., committed suicide last week by taking carbolic acid. She had been in poor health for a long time and her suicide is attributed to this. Deceased was a cousin of J. R. Kight, of this place. The Monon earned in the second week of June, §70,881, an increase of §7,346 over the corresponding week of 1892, and the increase was wholly in passenger revenue, the earnings from freight dropping below those of last year. Sparks from a locomotive set out fire on S. P. Thompson’s farm at Firman this week. Before it could be got under control the fire burned twelve cords of wood and part of his garden fence. Part of a field of oats was burned belonging to Theodore Warne. Rensselaer sends on an average about fifty people to the World’s Fail* every w T eek, and the amount of money they spend there is certainly not less than §SOO per week. In a month this will amount to §2,000. Multiply this by six, the number of months’ duration of the fair, and We have §12,000 taken from the town, for which there will be no money return. This we think is much below the real amount which will be spent in this way. This has undoubtedly much to do with the present tightness of the money market in Rensselaer. The home merchants will be the main sufferers by the Fair.

Hemphill & Honan are selling out to quit business. Now is the time to get bargains for cash.

RENSSELAER. IND., FRIDAY, JU LY 28,1893.

FIRE BUG AT WORK.

A Dastardly Attempt to Burn Xoweb’ Xew Flouring Mill Fails——A Curious Incident in Connection. A dastardly attempt was made to fire the flouring mill of W. R. Nowels & Son, near the depot, Monday night by an incendiary. Fire was discovered in the old elevator portion of the mill just after the noon hour and the alarm given, but the fij-e was easily put out with a couple of buckets of water. The fire company had a hot run, only to find their services were not needed upon • their arrival. After the fire was extinguished an examination revealed the fact that the fire had started in a bin of oats, and caught on the north side of the mill and was eating its way along the sheeting to the top of the mill. A round hole had been burned in the oats, as if a candle had been placed in the bin and allowed to burn, setting fire to the oats, but smouldering until the next day, when it communicated to the sheeting on the mill. A further search brought to light the remains of a piece of cotton batting taken from a bed comfort, evidenced by the fact that a part of the calico and string used in tying the comfort were still hanging to the cotton. The fire in it had smouldered and finally went out. This attempt was supposed to have been made a night or two previous to the last attempt. The would-be incendiary had entered at a small opening in the mill next to the railroad tracks and making his way to the bin had attempted his dastardly work. Footprints were found in the dust on the floor leading to the bin. The proprietors of the mill think they know the guilty party, but have no evidence to convict him of the crime. If the guilty one is discovered he should be made an example of and be found the next morning hanging to some convenient tree. If his attempt had been successful the depot and a number of residences in the vicinity would have been burned to the ground, as a brisk wind was blowing and w’ater is very scarce, owing to the dry weather. B. F. Ferguson, whose mill was burned near the depot some years ago, has always held that the fire was the work of an incendiary and this seems to confirm it. One curious incident in regard to this last attempt and which will bring an incredulous smile to the face of many is as follows: C. E. Nowels, the junior member of the firm, Monday night, saw a citizen of the town enter the mill by the hole in the side next to the railroad track and climb the stairs to the top of the mill. He saw the man’s face plainly and followed* him and hid behind some of the machinery. He saw the fellow light a candle and place it among the oats in the bin, carefully arranging the candle so that the oats would catch fire when the blaze from the melting candle reached the oats. The incendiary started to leave the building, and snuffing out the candle Mr. Nowels started to follow, when a curious thing happened. With a start he looked around and found that he wjs sitting upright in bed at home—he had been dreaming. This was but one of three similar dreams, the other two taking place Saturday and Sunday nights. The vision of his dream those nights entered the mill but had no candle. He seemed to be placing matches in the machinery with the object of the machinery doing the rest when it started the next morning. Mr. Nowels Jtold of these two dreams to the help at the mill the following mornings, but of course they laughed at him, and an examination showed everything to be all right. He did not tell of his third dream, as he did not believe in it any more than the two former ones, and made no examination of the mill this time. Mr. Nowels has never believed in dreams, but can not help but believe in these, since what has happened. The face he saw in his vision was so clear and well known to him that he is, satisfied in his own mihd that this is the guilty party. There is no doubt but that Mr. Nowels is telling the truth. He

CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. SEMI-ANNUAL Ihe greatest reduction in prices evev offered in western Indiana. We must have room and cash for fall goods and prices now will ma e it. Read facts then come and bring your families and secure the matchless bargains while they last. E\ery piece of men s and boys’summer Clothing at exactly manufacturer’s wholesale prices. All walking Shoes and all Shoes in broken sizes 20 per cent, off prices marked in plain figures. * 1 Every Umbrella 20 per cent off marked price in plain figures. Every piece of Ladies Muslin Underwear at exactly cost. Eveiy piece of Ladies Waists in Silks, Sateon, Percale, etc., at exactly cost. Every lace Curtain, some very handsome at exactly cost. All wool, late style Ingrain Carpets worth 75c yard now 55c. Wash Dress Goods was s(</15c yd. now Men’s fine wool stripe Shirts -was §1.75 and §2 now §1.25. Flannel outing Shirts 25(</50c. Laundered colored or white 75c to §1 G m EA ? RGAIT * S in Overalls, Pants. Straw Hats, Underwear, Neckwear, Valices I runks, Tinware, Gloves. Embroideries, Notions, Remnants, etc., etc. At the reliable and only one price cash house. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

requested the Pilot not to mention t he incident, but realizing his extreme modesty, we think it will do no harm to let our readers have the story. Some means should be taken to ferret out the parties who have been up to so much rascality in Rensselaer in the past. Until they are captured and placed behind the bars no person, s property is safe. Safes have been broken into in jhe past, stores and residenfobbed, attempts have been mime to bum buildings and in one or two cases hav# been successful. This is all supposed ‘to.have been the work of home talent, but so far all efforts to fasten the guilt on anyone has failed. At one time a detective was paid §IOO by our business men to come here and endeavor to locate the guilty parties, but he was unsuccessful. Something should be done, and that at once, to stop this deviltry. The Rensselaer butter in the July exhibit at the World’s Fair graded very low, only one creamery receiving a lower grade. This was owing to the short notice given, no time being given in which to prepare for the exhibit. The grades were as follows-: Robert Mcßeth, Fairland, 97; Winnetka, 96; Oak Grove, 95; Lowell, 94;Zionsville, 93; Indianapolis, 89; Rensselaer, 79; Lewisville, 72. Mrs. Caroline Edgerton, of Spiceland, Henry county, received the highest grade on dairy butter—--92. A cheese exhibit will be given in October, at which all creameries in the state making this product are invited to exhibit. Charlie Zacker, of Nebraska, has been visiting his sister, Mrs. C. W. Platt, in Rensselaer. Last Wednesday he started for home, going by way of Chicago. When he got off the train at the latter city, he was approached by a stranger, who asked Zocker to show him the way to the Worlds Fair. Zocker informed the stranger he did not know the Way to the fair, and struck up a conversation with the stranger, which ended in an invitation to take a beer at the stranger’s expense. They were followed into the saloon by a second stranger, "who partook with them. Stranger No. 1 presented a ten dollar bill to the bartender, who said he could not change it. Zocker offered to change it and took out his packet book to do so. when it was snatched from his hand, and the strangers disappeared through the saloon door. The book contained §llO and Zocker had to pawn his return ticket to get enough money to return to Rensselaer, where he was supplied with money enough to see him through to his home. The matter was reported to the police, but no arrests were made. This is another warning to stear clear of strangers when in the city. . Smoke the Mendoza cigar.

Semie Fendig has purchased the drug store of Dr, Turner, of Wheatfield, and took possession Wednesday. We take pleasure in recommending Semie to the •citizens of that vicinity and can assure them of fair treatment by the new proprietor. This is the only drug store in the town, and the only one in the northern part of the county, so it should be a paying business. Km ma, the wife of Elder L. E. Connor, died suddenly at their home in Macy, Ind., last Saturday noon, of apoplexy. She was ill but about three hours and her death was unexpected. Her husband was not at home at the time of the attack but was expected in a few hours, and Mrs. Connor had made arrangements to meet him with a buggy on his return. Her age was about 33 year*. She leaves a husband and live children to mourn her loss. Mrs. Connor is well known in Rensselaer, having resided herefrom 1889 to 1890, a period of one year. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Macy, members of all his former congregations attending. *Those from this charge attending were Mrs. Ben Harris, Mrs.N. H. Warner and son Charlie. The funeral took place Monday. Reed’s circus was in town Monday. The show opened with a grand street parade, which consisted of a band wagon, two ponies, Landy McGee and Billy Towers. The people who attended the performances seemed to be satisfied and to think they had got their quarter’s worth. Wils Porter was so well pleased that he attended both afternoon and evening. Among the prom inent citizens who attended the evening performance were Hon. S. P. Thompson, Hon. Mordecai F. Chilcote, Judge Healy, S. E. Yeoman, Harry Murray, Recorder Hunt. Simon Phillips, Jas. F. Antrim and Lyman Zea. We can say without fear of contradiction that this wak the best circus that has been in Rensselaer since Robinson’s show three or four years ago. From here they went to Fair Oaks. The engineer finished hirWork on the proposed gravel road Wednesday. His report has not as yet been filed with the auditor, but we are able to give the estimated cost of the work. The cbst is either based on gravel or stone, the same to be placed on a grade 30 feet wide. The gravel is to be 14 inches in the center and 10 inches at sides, and 12 feet wide. If stone is used it will be 10 inches in the center and 8 inches at the sides and same width. The road bed is to be thoroughly drained and graded. The estimated cost is as follows: College Road, from 82,300 to 82,600 per mile; Long Ridge road, same estimate; County Farm and Pleasant Ridge Road, from Next week the figures will be verified and we will be able to give the exact amount.

The long illness of Mrs. S. J. Henry terminated in her death at Battle Creek, Mich.. whCt l ' she had been undergoing treat meat, last Tuesday looming. The remains arrived in Kensse laer the same evening. The funeral was held at the Church of God yesterday morning at I ) o’clock, Rev. N. M. Guiselman conducting the religious services. Deceased was in the 53rd year of her life at the time of death. Two or three suspicious characters were in town Monday, and the officers had received orders to keep a sharp look-out for thieves. Ben McColly, dep uty sheriff, in company with Charley Crosscup, Owas through the alley back of the Pilot office keeping a sharp look-out when they heard a. noise and discovered some one working at the back door of Kight’s saloon. They slipped, up near the worker behind some boxes and watched the supposed thief work for about fifteen min utes. First keys were tried, without success, and then the person at the door tried to kick it in. Not being successful in this he tried what Mr. McColly thought to be a screw driver. At this stage of the game McColly made a rush for the fellow at the door and grabbed him. The supposed burglar made a break for liberty, but was caught by McColly, and after‘a struggle was overcome and taken to jail. The fellow arrested was Jerry Karsner, well known as an irresponsible party by every person in town. Upon being overpowered he begged hard for hi.s liberty and promised never again to come down town at night if the officer would liberate him. Upon, being searched nt the jail a bunch of keys, three pocket knives and a few trinkets were found on his person. If he had a screw driver it was thrown away when he first ran, as none was found on his person. His brother Tim was stretched out in a doorway near by while the officer was watching Jerry, but was supposed to have been asleep, as he did not move during the struggle. Jerry claimed he thought the proprietor was in the saloon and .was merely trying to attract his attention in order to get a drink. Jerry was allowed to ifieditate in the jail until Wednesday afternoon, when he was taken before Squire Burnham and sentenced to eight days in the work house, or pay a dollar and costs, which amounted to eight dollars. Not having the money to spare these hard times Jerry chose the former and was put to work yesterday morning. The charge brought against him was a plain drunk, to which Jerry plead guilty and congratulated himself on getting off so easily. Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. •

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