People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Page 3
THE MODEL Will A. Mossier, Manager. IND.
Application for License.
Notice Is hereby given to the citizens of Walker township in Jasper county. Indiana, that the undersigned William W. Ballinger, a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana and over the age of twenty one years and has been and is of good moral character, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors and has been a continuous resident of said township for over ninety days last past and that this applicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will be such if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana at their December term 1895, said term commencing on Monday, December 2nd, 1895, for a license to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following premises to-wlt: The precise location of the said premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank thereon, is in a one story frame, shingle roof, building, containing two rooms, by outside measurement, is thirty-six feet long and elghteen-feet wide and situated on lot six (6) in block one (1) in in the Town of Hogan in Jasper county. Indiana and more particularly described as follows:-Commencing ata point eighteen (18) inches west of the south east corner of said lot number six (6) is said block one (1) and from thence west the distance of eighteen (18) feet and from thence north the distance of thirty-six (36) feet, thence east the distance of eighteen (18) feet, thence south the distance of thirty-six (36) feet to the place of beginning and the room in said building in which he desires to sell is specifically, by outside measurement described as follows: Beginning at a point eighteen inches west of the south east corner of said lot six (6) and thence west eighteen (18) feet, thence north eighteen (18) feet, thence east eighteen (18) feet, thence south eighteen (18) feet to the place of beginning. That the said described room is seperate from any other business of any kind and that no devices for amusement or music of any kind or character is in said room and that there is no partition or par. titione in said room; that the said room is nine feet in hight, contains double glass doors inthe south end of the front, one door In the east side and one door in the north end thereof and contains two windows in the south end thereof that the said rooin can be securely closed and locked and admission thereof prevented: and that said room is situated upon the ground floor of said building and fronts on Main street of said Town of Hogan, running east and west and is so arranged with glass windows and doors so that the whole of said room may be viewed from the said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place apply for said license make a further request for the grant of a privilege to establish, maintain and run a lunch counter and supply those desiring with a full meal of all kinds of edibles Inthe above described room and in connection wttli the said sale of llduors and will ask for the privilege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked far a period of one year. William W. Ballinger.
JAMES W. DOUTHIT, LAWYER, Rensselaer - Indiana. LIVERY, SALE AND BOARDING STABLE. FHEGLE'2" BIROS. Leopold Barn, South of Court House. RENSSELAER. IND. Having purchased the above business the new proprietors request a share of the public’s favors. Good outfits, careful drivers. Best care of boarders. Prices reasonable. IXLThemAIL GEO. W. CASEY, FAIR OAKS, IND., Sells the IXL Steel Wind Jtflll, either Galvanized or Painted, Steel or Wood Towers. Tanks of all kinds, Pipes and all kinds of Well Fixtures at iftore reasonable prices than can be bought -elsewhere in Jasper county. Geo. W. Casey.
TRADE WITH US IS GOOD. ~W"N fact the past week has been one of the busiest we have ever known. Honest, substantial goods at the right prices, generous treatof our customers, and selling exactly what we advertise is the foundation on which we build our trade. Our Cloak Deparment Mg bas been crowded this week with eager buyers, anxious to take advantage of the immense Bargains we are offering in Capes and Our stock of these goods is the largest and PRICES ARE THE LOWEST! Every day we are receiving new goods. Visit our store oiten and keep posted on styles. This has been the biggest Underwear seaison in our business history. Everyone who has examined our stock of Ladies’, Gents’ and Children's Underwear and compared prices say that it is impossible to find such values elsewhere. In our Dress Goods Department we are showing some of the finest goons ever shown in Rensselaer. See our new line of Novelty Suitings In Dress Goods we are showing all the new weaves, such as Bouclas, Plain and Figured Mohairs, Storm Serges, Figured Serges, Crepons, ste. e CLOTHING - SALE! Special Oierooal and Suit sale, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16
J. C. THRAWLS, Surveyor and Engineer. Office with the County Superintendent, in Williams & Stockton’s block, Rensselaer. 3-23-94 I B. WASHBURN, Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Special attention given to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and diseases of women. Tests eyes for glasses and treats rupture by the injection method. AddisonParkison. Geo. K.Hollingsworth, President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Directors: Addison Parkison, James T. Randle. Jo’.n M. Wasson, Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Are open for business at the old stand of the Citizens’ State Bank.
CASUALTIES.
The plant of the Illustrated American Magazine at First avenue and Twenty-third street, New York, was damaged $25,000 by fire. Melvin Heiterbran, while crossing the mountains at Telluride, Colo., was carried down to death by snowslide. The body has been shipped to Rock Island, 111., for burial. John Parks, a brakeman on the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railroad, who lived at Murphysboro, 111., was run over by his engine at Springfield and crushed to death. The last body of the victims of the explosion in the Detroit Journal building was taken from the ruins Friday night. Thirty-seven in all have been recovered. The engineer of the building has been arrested charged with criminal negligence. During a fog at Norfolk, Va., the steamer Newport News sunk the tug Katie, drowning her cook and fireman. John Altmarsh, an engineer, and Andrew Harnick, a fireman, were killed and cremated by a collision between dummy engines in the blast furnaces at Pittsburg, Pa.
The report that the French government is about to reopen the question of the Panama scandal and prominent members Of parliament were to be prosecuted on this account, is authoritatively denied. Lord Salisbury has made a proposition to the European powers looking to the dismemberment of the Turkish empire. Gen. Campos has urged the Spanish government to grant economic and governmental reforms to Cuba. The insurgents are so confident of ultimate success that they may accept nothing but absolute independence. Mexican authorities have notified United States officials that Richard C. Rowe will be extradited. He is wanted in lowa for embezzlement of $33,000. Mgr. Satolli denies that the pope has granted a dispensation to Count Bela Zichy and Miss Mabel Wright, divorced wife of Fernando Yznaga, as the church does not recognize divorces. A new minister to the United States will soon be sent to Washington from Corea to succeed the minister who died while on leave in Corea. • Dispatches from Constantinople say that Russia is preparing to occupy Armenian territory. The report has occasioned much disquietude among the European powers. Ambassador Bayard delivered an address at Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday, in which he denounced socialism and aristocracy as the two greatest evils of the day.
FOREIGN.
THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 18S50
The Int&rnational Navigation company has libeled the Netherlands-Amer-ican line steamship Obedam, which was towed into Halifax Saturday with her shaft broken, by the Pennland, for SIOO,OOO. Revoll has been appointed French minister to Brazil.
At Cincinnati J. F. Woodward, forger; B. F. Ford, Stewart Pacoy, John Foster and James Clark, burglar □; and Albert Gerkens, pickpockets, escaped from the county jail. At Mexico, Mo., G. S. Elliott and Rolla McNama, the absconding cattle dealers, have been captured. They went away with $40,000 of other people’s money. After eight attempts in the past week, incendiaries succeeded in destroying the Speed home for friendless children at Cleveland, Ohio. At Washington aboard the steamer Norfolk, just before it left the wharf, W. H. Collier shot and killed himself. He is thought to come from California. Dr. E. A. Cary aged 38, of Chesterton, Ind., committed suicide by taking morphine. 11l health caused the deed. Joseph R. Campbell, a machinist in the employ of the Moline Plow company at Moline, 111., committed suicide at the Cottage hotel in Moline. At Decatur, 111., Elisha P. Allen pleaded guilty to two indictments, each charging him with an attempt at murder last September at Warrensburg. He shot his step-daughter and attempted to shoot his wife. He was sentenced to the penitentiary. Sentence in the case of Theodore Durrant, convicted of murdering Blanche Lamont, has been deferred until Nov. 22. Thomas H. McDonald of Lawrence, Mass., has been sentenced to nine months in the workhouse for aldermanic bribery. William Hawkins of Canastota, N. Y., shot his wife and then himself. He is dead, but the woman will recover. Domestic troubles was the cause. Grand Juror H. O. Summerhayes, accused of disclosing testimony in the Freeman-Westinghouse patent case at San Francisco, was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. At Baltimore the police claim to have convincing evidence that Jerome Conceil, a 19-year-old boy, is the murderer of his adopted parents, Capt. Frederick Lang and his wife. The postofflce department has issued a fraud order against the Heliograph company, Mrs. Lieura Porter, manager, of St. Louis, Mo., charged with running a concern to obtain money under false pretenses. The Rev. William Hinshaw was taken to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville Thursday. He will be put at work in the shoe shop and will be made principal of the prison school. Detective Dubois, the Peoria, 111., officer who went to Hamilton, Ont., to take Sidney Slocum back, was attacked by thieves and robbed of his gold watch, several valuable diamonds and money, the total loss being about S3OO. ■Friends of Dr.*Fraker, in jail at Excelsior Springs, Mo., charged with an attempt to defraud Insurance companies of $28,000, have abandoned hope of securing bail.
Bernard Rumor, a Mascoutah, HL, farmer, fell from a tree while gathering nuts and was killed. Francis Velveen, a wealthy farmer living near Tarkio, lowa, was thrown from his buggy, breaking his neck. Maud Übelhardt, 4 years of age, was burned to death at Jeffersonville, Ind. The child was playing with matches in the yard. The boilers tn the building occupied by the Detroit Journal exploded At >
CRIME.
CASUALTIES.
o’clock Wednesday morning, completely wrecking the building. Forty people are believed to have lost their lives. Thirty-five bodies had been recovered from the ruins up to Friday morning. John Altmarsh, an engineer, and Andrew Harnick, a fireman, were killed and cremated by a collision between dummy engines in the blast furnaces at Pittsburg, Pa. At West Superior, Wis., Mrs. Dahlberg and two children were helpless in bed when fire broke out in the house. The children were burned to. death, but the neighbors rescued the mother. Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, at Montgomery, Ala., grocery drummer’s wife, while driving with her two infant children, was struck by a runaway vehicle and killed. One of the children was fatally hurt. Charles, the 5-year-old son of Contractor McGowan of Akron, 0., burned to death. His clothes caught fire while playing around a bonfire. Arthur Galveston, of Galveston, Tex., 9 years old, while playing ball with other children, was either pushed or fell beneath a trolley car and was so badly injured that he died in thirty minutes. Fidelle Billivin, a sailor of Dorchester, N. 8., was killed by the cars at Marquette, Mich. Farmer Leonard Schoemaker was blown to pieces while fishing with dynamite at Nash’s Ford, Va. At Decatur, 111., a small blaze in St. Nicholas Hotel caused a wild scare among the guests, but it was quickly extinguished with trivial loss.
FOREIGN.
Dispatches from Constantinople say that Russia is preparing to occupy Armenian territory. The report has occasioned much disquietude among the European powers. Ambassador Bayard delivered an address at Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday, in which he denounced socialism and aristocracy as the two greatest evils of the day. The International Navigation oempany has libeled the Netherlands-Amer-ican line steamship Obedam, which was towed into Halifax Saturday with her shaft broken, by the Pennland, for SIOO,OOO. At St. Johns it is reported there is great destitution along the south and west coast of Newfoundland. Revoil has been appointed French minister to Brazil. Emperor Francis Joseph has refused to sanction the election of Dr. Luerger by the anti-Semites as burgomaster of Vienna. The Turkish grand vizier has resigned and the country is said to be on the eve of a revolution. Surveying on the Mexican exposition grounds has begun. The management expects to lay the corner stone of one of the principal buildings in three weeks. Mail advices received at Auckland from Honolulu say that cholera has ceased entirely in Hawaii and the port is clear from infection. Advices from Samoa announce that ail is quiet there. At Toronto, Ont., the second trial of the Hyams brothers for the murder of Williams Wells in January, 1893, was commenced. The British ship Indian Empire reports, upon its arrival at Callao, encountering a severe storm in which 100 tons of coal were jettisoned and the ship dismantled. Liu Yung Fu, the Black Flag leader in Formosa, is said to have escaped on a German warship from Amping to Amoy.
CRIME.
At Baltimore the police claim to have convincing evidence that Jerome Conceil, a 19-year-old boy, is the mur-
derer of his aaoptea parents, uapi. Frederick Lang and his wife. The postofflce department has Issued a fraud order against the Heliograph company, Mrs. Lieura Porter, manager, of St. Louis, Mo., charged with running a concern to obtain money under false pretenses. Detective Dubois, the Peoria, 111., officer who went to Hamilton, Ont., to take Sidney Slocum back, was attacked by thieves'and robbed of his gold watch, several valuable diamonds and money, the total loss being about S3OO. Friends of Dr. Fraker, in jail at Excelsior Springs, Mo., charged with an attempt to defraud insurance companies of $28,000, have abandoned hope of securing bail. At Baltimore John H. Messner was arrested, charged with the murder of Ezekiel Jolly. The Rev. William Hinshaw was taken to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville Thursday. He will be put at work in the shoe shop and will be made principal of the prison school. J. C. Davis of Rochester, N. Y., arrested at San Francisco and charged with fraud, has disappeared and forfeited his $4,000 ball. At Des Arc, Ark., Lon Ballow, a young business man, was shot and killed by his wife. At Muncie, Ind., Mrs. George Anderson died mysteriously and the coroner and police are investigating the theory of murder. The $25,000 damage suit of Mrs. Helen M. Gougar against Elijah Morse, M. C., for alleged libel, was reopened for a second trial in the United States circuit court at Boston.
MISCELLANEOUS. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll delivered his lecture, "The Foundation of Faith,” to a vast audience at the Star theater in New York. Jon Linberg, a Swede, 50 years old, was found dead hanging to a fence near a hotel at St. Ignace, Mich. His daughter lives in Chicago. The double scull race between Bubear and Haines and Gaudaur and Rogers at Austin, Tex., for the championship of the world has been declared off, because the owner of the lake where the race was to be rowed objected to the exhibition on Sunday. At Tacoma, Wash., the Washington Society of Sons of the American Revo>utlon pledged support to the Cuban cause. At Peoria, 111., Sunday, Miss Price of Chicago, international secretary of the Young Woman’s Christian association, spoke to the convention on personal consecration. At Omaha the district court refused Bishop Bonacum’s petition for an injunction restraining the priests from further occupying Tecumseh , church property. At a Boston mass meeting resolutions were passed asking President Cleveland to grant the Cubans belligerent rights. At the First Congregational church, Evanston, 111., Sunday afternoon, November 17, will be held a meeting to express sympathy with the Armenians. Dr. P. S. Henson, Miss Frances Willard, and others will speak. Michigan distributed Monday $577,000 among her schools. The crew of the steamer Missoula, which foundered in Lake Superior Saturday, have arrived in safety at Sault Ste. Marie. The steamer is a total loss. Dun & Co.’s review of trade describes the business of the country as in a waiting condition. At Milwaukee the Royal Arcanum paid a $3,000 policy on the life of Arnold Brecher, the Chicago man whose body was recently exhumed at the instance of the life insurance companies on suspicion that he had been poisoned. The Illinois State Board of Health has licensed the following physicians:
THE MODEL Will A. Mossier, Manager. IND.
E. Ludlow, E. H. Mathewson, and U. E. Patterson, Chicago; M. L. Finley, Kirkwood, J. S. Pari, Jacksonville; C. L. Hamilton, Dwight; J. E. Miller, South America; and G. W. Johnsen, Dunning. At Wilmington, Del., the Addlcks divorce suit closed and the decision will be announced in three weeks. The opening of the new steamship line from Pensacola. Fla., to Liverpool, was celebrated at Pensacola. At Pittsburg, Pa., the Supreme court affirmed the decision of the lower court forcing Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia to administer the oath of office to W. J. Roney as receiver of taxes. Senator Tillman made a sturdy but ineffectual effort to have a clause providing for bipartisan election boards incorporated in the suffrage article by the South Carolina constitutional convention. Henry H. Kingston has been appointed general traffic manager of the Lehigh Valley railroad, to succeed the late John Taylor. He is a son of Stephen B. Kingston, formerly general freight agent of the Pennsylvania. There is much excitement and intense feeling between political factions in the Cherokee nation, and bloodshed will result unless compromised. The conditions are similar to those of eight years ago, when many men were killed. The national party is contesting the election of Sam Mayes as chief on the Downing ticket, and the Indians are collecting in the capital, armed to the teeth, determined to aid their friends. The executive council of the Ohio River Improvement Association, in session at Cincinnati, considered the advisability of asking congress for $20,000,000 to improve the Ohio river. The shoe factory of the Bentley Shoe company at Cazenovia, N. Y„ has been closed by creditors. Retail stores in Syracuse and Rochester owned by the same company shared a similar fate. Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania has appointed Evan R. Penrose of Doylestown bank examiner.
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.
CHICAGO. Cattle—Com. to prime... .$1.60 @5.10 Hogs 1.75 @3.80 Sheep—Good to choice.... 1.00 @3.40 Wheat—No. 2 57 @ .58 Corn—No. 2 29 @ .30 Oats 18 @ .19 Rye 37 @ .38 Eggs 18 @ .19 Potatoes—New —Per bu .. .18 @ .26 Butter 07 @ .22 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 spring 57 @ .58 Corn—No. 3 27 @ .28 Oats—No. 3 white 20 @ .21 Barley—No. 2 36 @ .37 Rye—No. 1 38 @ .39 PEORIA. Rye—No. 2 38 @ .39 Corn—No. 3 29 @ .30 Oats—No. 2 18 @ .19 KANSAS CITY. Cattle 1.25 @4.90 Hogs 3.10 @3.65 Sheep 2.00 @3.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 66 @ .67 Corn—No. 2 mixed 30 @ .31 Oats—No. 2 mixed 20 @2l NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2 red 68 @ .69 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 .23 @ .24 Butter 10 @ .23 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 1.75 @5.00 Hogs 3.25 @3.70 Sheep 2.00 @3.50 Wheat—Cash 61 @ .62 Corn —Cash .24 @ .25 Oats —Cash 17 @ is BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 hard M. @ .67 Corn—No. 2 yellow 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 white 21 @ .24
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