People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — Page 3

November clearing salp ThO lUlnrtol me as come w^en i ts an urgent, pressing necessity Tkft Mnrifil MH 111 iVIIIIIMIa that stocks all over the house should be reduced and condensed to make way for our I lIH |y]||||H| ■HU IVIUUUI| immense holiday displays. Our store rooms are filled to their utmost capacity. It’s IHU IvlUUUll Will 1 » Vanopoi. our determination to offer price inducements all this month—so unusually strong— wn < « . M ' ill . osskr, Manage. that will be sure to bring the money saving people out in full force—to take away at Will A. Messier, Manager. Cd • 1 -g Cl 1 . deeply cut prices the merchandise that s taking up the room we so much need. Every- ? /"dl 11 • ©T)6Clcl)l LC Jo3JL6 thing ta furnish the home—all kinds of wearing apparel for man, woman and child— IV| 6TI S a t .... „ , at special prices that make it a particular object and benefit for you to buy now. That competition all copy from us. K P J ! y now. at Clearance Sale Prices. Cloaks, Cloaks! Men’s Underwear One box Carpet Tacks 1c Grand Clearance Sale on Cloaks. Prices 50 Dozen Men’s grey Rondom Under- single or double-breasted. A good $lO One Paper of Pins lc cutin two. We are going to clean up our wear, worth 60cts. Special 48cts value - Special price $7.50 One Lead Pencil ,1c entire stock of Cloaks during November. 50 Dozen Men’s all wool brown camel’s Fi . f| y Double-breasted all wool Fancy Childrens’Handkerchiefs lc Ladies’Cloaks, $3.00 up to $15.00 hair Underwear, in all sizes, worth sl.- Mixed Cashmere Suits, sold everyLaces (per yard) lc Childrens’Jackets, $2.75 up t 0...... 7.50 25. Special 85cts where for SIO.OO. Special price 6.00 SK&W:'•::::'«.bb; 15 00 “ : n s Z‘ D m‘X G « Tea Spools (each’) le ,2.50 up to 3.00 feljeCiaJL! Dress Goods Talks. Childrens’ Overcoats at clearance sale Twenty-five Blue-black Double-breated Calico 3c L L Muslin 5c The hundreds of delighted ladies who P r >ce A full line of men’s and boy s Mackin- Beaver Overcoats that are good $10.50 Cotton Batting (per roll) 777 7.7.777. 5c have patronized our Dress Goods Depart- toshes - values Special price 7.75 Outin" Flannel 5c ment can Vouch for the statement that we J 1A 9 J Our all wool Grey Kersey Overcoats Men’s'and Boy’s Mitten5’.7.7.7.7.7.7.7. 10c are Leaders in Stylish Fashionable Dress 'VJTTnet 060 1116111. with velvet collar, is worth SB. Special 5.50 Childrens’Union Suits 50c Goods at sensible prices. 1 p , J r 05 Ut Ladies’Ribbed Vest 25c Our 30 in. all wool Ladies’Cloth worth Second floor. v5/]O6S, Fascinators, 25, 50 and 75c 50c., special 29c Ihe Newest Patterns. You must see our Prices are hiphor but THF MODFT Ice Wool (per box) 10c Those 42 in. Arnold’s German Henletta vS y & k ' II can Ibe etlualed ln th,s not marked thene’shoes to the “ew prices. Call for Julis Kasyer & Co.’s Patent are worth oOc., some get vo. Special.. 3oc We will sell during our Clearance Sale Shoes Tipped Finger Gloves. Each pair guaran- Our 30 in. changeable Dress Goods in Special line of Neckwear, Shirts, Collars at prices to clean up stock. We must have teed. Price 25, 40 and 50 cents. different shades are worth 30c Special. 20c and Cuffs for Thanksgiving Dance. Nov 28th. room.

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) in 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. tit,ions in said room; that the said room is nine feet in bight, 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 room 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 thatthe 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 in the above described room and in connection with the said sale of liduors and will ask for the privilege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for a period of one year. William W. Ballinger.

JAMES W. DOUTHIT, LAWYER, Rensselaer - Indiana. LIVERY, SALE AND BOARDING STABLE. FHEGLET ZBIROS. Leopold Barn, Soutb of Court House. RENSSELAER. IND. Having purchased the above business th* new proprietors request a share of th* public’s favors. Good outfits, careful drivers. Best care of boarders. Prices reasonable. mrHi GEO. W. CASEY, FAIR OAKS, IND., Sells the IXL Steel Wind .Mill, either Galvanized or Painted, Steel or Wood Towers. Tanks of all kinds, Pipes and all kinds of Well Fixtures at more reasonable prices than can be bought elsewhere in Jasper county. Geo. W. Casey.

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 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. Addison Parkison, 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.

A heavy electric motor car containing nineteen passengers went through the draw bridge of the central viaduct atCleveland, 0., at 7:45 o’clock Saturday evening and dropped 101 feet to the river below. Fifteen of the bodies have been recovered. Charles Bierce died at Flora, 111., as the result of injuries sustained in a railway accident at lola. His remains were taken to Assumption for interment. The infant son of A. Epstein of Berlin, Wis., was accidentally drowned in a cistern. Fire at Slabtown, Pa., badly damaged a number of houses. The loss is $15,000. William Schultz died at Sheboygan, Wis., from injuries received while unloading a vessel. Ward Leonard, aged 60 years, was drowned in the Wabash river at Vincennes, Ind. His father, mother, two brothers and a sister were drowned in the Ohio river at different times. Daniel Crimmins was instantly killed by a passenger train on the Big Four road at Springfield, 0. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road collided at Summtt, Mich., killing Alfred C. Mortag of Green Bay, an engineer, and badly injuring Frank Stocks. Two locomotives were wrecked and several freight cars ditched. James Roberts, 37 years old, was Instantly killed at Linden, 111., by falling thirty feet down a mining shaft John Kane, an old resident of Laporte, Ind., while working in a water works trench, was caught by a cave-in and killed. Kenton Waltz was killed and two other men buried for several hours by the falling of the roof of a coal mine at Miley, Ind. Slyvester Walker, son of David R. Walker, a merchant of Boscobel, Wis., was killed at Republic, Mich., while coupling cars.

FOREIGN.

Senor Thedim, the new Portuguese minister to the United States, was suddenly seized with a hemhorrhage, but rallied and is not in any immediate danger. The minister’s wife only a day or two ago received news of the death of her father in Rome. The Czarina of Russia gave birth to a daughter, the heiress to the throne, Friday night ", The Canadian Pacific railway station at Ottawa, Ont, with all its contents, was destroyed by fire. An English syndicate has bought the four principal breweries in Halifax. At Chalchuahua, San Salvador, a wealthy farmer and five other persons, including two women, were shot on

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, NOV> 21, 18950

suspicion or oeing engaged in a conspiracy against the government. Advices from Turkey say that in the districts of Tiebizond and Erzeroum all the Christian teachers have been massacred. No official confirmation of the news has been received at Washington.

John Swan, alias John Mitchell, of Columbus, Wis., aged 60 years, was arrested in Worcester, Mass., for Polygamy. Sheriff Schlukbier, of Beaver Dam, Wis., has gone after the prisoner. The deceived woman is Miss Sarah Alice Wilman, formerly of Beaver Dam. George A. Cushing committed suicide near the home of his faithless wife in Townshead, Vt. The woman refused to allow the body to be brought into the house. Mrs. Cushing became infatuated with A. A. Ross while living in Montague, Mass., four years ago. Her husband left her on this account. Fred J. Pickard, member of a good family at Alexandria, Ind., and a candidate for appointment to West Point, committed suicide by shooting. White railroad tie cutters at Moss Bluff, Fla., who resented the introduction of negro laborers, raided their cabins at night, killing three and wounding many more. Gov. Altgeld has issued his warrant on the requisition of the governor of New York for the surrender of Bert G. Hawley, wanted at New York city for the larceny of S3OO worth of property from Benjamin L. M. Bates. Hawley is under arrest at Chicago. David Wyatt, a farmer of Brazil, Ind., was held up on a lonely road by two masked men and robbed of his money and a new overcoat. Kirk Franks, of Decatur, Ind., quarreled with his father about some work, and inflicted fatal wounds upon his parent. He has been arrested. Daniel Courtney, aged 60, who shot his son-in-law, Frank Swaney, after the latter had threatened to kill him, was tried at Youngstown, Ohio, and acquitted. T. B. Roberts, of Allegheny, Pa., committed suicide at his room in the Tremont house, in Buffalo, N. Y., by shoot- • ing. He received a letter from his firm discharging him. Tom Martin, an aristocratic young planter, entered a restaurant at Montgomery, Ala., where his wife, her brother and two other women were dining and shot himself. The wound is fatal. Walter Brobt, general timekeeper for the Clover Leaf railway, was arrested at Frankfort, Ind., on a charge of forgery. In a dispute over money matters at Burlington, lowa, Henry Martin killed W. I. Schuch, a fellow workman, and escaped. Attorneys for the defense in the Keller murder case will ask for a change of venue from Parke county to Vermillion. Ind. Joseph Risco and Andrew Bocoskl, Mich., arrested and tried for attempting to burn their store on October 29, have been acquitted. Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to rob a safe in the office of Carney Brothers, wholesale lumber dealers at Grinnell, lowa.

The plant of the Illustrated American Magazine at First avenue and Twenty-third street, New York, was damaged $25,000 by fire. Melvin Helterbran, 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 Mnmhvghorn. 111., was run

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CASUALTIES.

over oy his engine at Springfield ana 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 Harnlck, a fireman, were killed and cremated by a collision between dummy engines in the blast furnaces at Pittsburg, Pa.

FOREIGN.

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. The International 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. Revoil has been appointed French minister to Brazil.

CRIME.

At Cincinnati J. F. Woodward, forger; B. F. Ford, Stewart Pacoy, John Foster and James Clark, burglars; 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 or 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 postoffice department has Issued a fraud order against the Heliograph company, Mrs. Lleura 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 ball.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Robert Lindsay, ex-secretary of the National League of Republican clubs, has received a letter from General James S. Clarkson instructing him to engage a number of rooms at leading Pittsburg hotels for the national convention week. The letter positively engages the rooms. The executive committee of the Benevolent Order of Elks has selected Cincinnati as the place for holding the next national convention of the order, beginning on the second Tuesday in July, 1896. Minneapolis, Omaha, Niagara Falls and Indianapolis contested with Cincinnati. The centennial of the beginning of Presbyterianism in Washington was commemorated at the First Presbyterian church, the discourses being delivered by the Rev. Byron Sunderland, who has been pastor of the church for the past forty-three years. Dr. James R. Black, aged 69, died at Newark, 0., from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage. The doctor was known to the medical profession throughout the country as a brilliant medical writer. Gen. Thomas Jordan, the ex-confed-erate, who is lying at the point of death at his home in New York, is sinking fast and it is not expected he will live many hours longer. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, buried his only son, who died at the Atlanta exposition, nean the old homestead at Clinton, Ind. Special trains brought many friends from Indianapolis. On the way home from Atlanta, Mrs. Hastings was presented by the party that accompanied her husband, the governor of Pennsylvania, to the exposition, with a diamond pendant. Cecil Kidwell, an engineer, and Washington Price were instantly killed and six others badly injured by a boiler explosion at Grassey. Ky. Eben Ireland,'the 15-year-old son of Charles Ireland, a lumber dealer of Benton Harbor, Mich., while hunting, was accidentally shot and killed by a boy friend. Mrs. William Barrett, wife of the

notorious ourgiar serving a lite sentence in the Massachusetts state’s prison and who disappeared last Monday after the arrest of James Chaffy in Boston, has been located in Jersey City. A monster temperance meeting was held at Heron, Ind., by the Good Citizens’ league. S. C. Nicholson, author of the temperance )aw, spoke. It is asserted that the administration is contemplating another issue of bonds to the amount of $25;000,000. John R. Tanner has resigned the chairmanship of the Illinois state republican committee and announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination. Dun & Co.s’ review of trade says the exports of the country are too light to be satisfactory. Application was made at Sioux City, lowa, by the holders of $125,000 of preferred stock in the United Bank Building company for the appointment of a receiver and possession of its property. W. A. Cernahan, of Eau Claire, Wis., has commenced action upon the county board, which refuses to recognize him as a member. Dr. A. P. Willits, of Keithsburg, 111., has been annotated on the board of pension examiners of his district to succeed the late Dr. Marshall. W. J. Foster, a traveling salesman, for Woodbridge & Co., dress trimmings, of New York, was found dead in bed at the Gault house at Louisville, Ky. Heart disease caused his death. Assistant Secretary Fleming, of the state board of agriculture, will represent Ohio at the meeting Tuesday of representatives of all the western and northern state fairs to prepare a schedule so as to avoid conflicts and accommodate exhibitors. Dr. Jacob Mendel, a prominent German physician of Milwaukee, Wis., is dead at the age of 50 years. Harrison Luddington, a son of the late Gov. Ludington of Wisconsin, died at his home in Milwaukee, Wis., aged 46 years. James Chesley, a pioneer merchant of Waupaca, Wis., dropped dead.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to prime.sl.6s @5.10 Hogs 2.00 @3.70 Sheep—Good to choice.... 1.00 @3.40 Wheat —No. 2 56 @ .70 Corn —No. 2 28 @ .29 Oats 18 @ .19 Rye 37 @3B Eggs 18 @ .19 Potatoes 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 35 @ .36 Rye—No. 1 37 @ .38 PEORIA. Rye—No. 2 36 @ .37 Corn —No. 3 30 @ .31 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 65 @ .66 Corn—No. 2 mixed 31 @ .32, Oats—No. 2 mixed 20 @ .21 NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2 red 66 @ .67 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 23 @ .24 Butter 10 @ .23 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 1.80 @S.JO Hogs 3.25 @3.70 Sheep 2.00 @3.50 Wheat—Cash 61 @ .62 Corn—Cash .24 @ .25 Oats—Cash 17 @ .18 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 hard 66 @ .67 Corn—No. 2 yellow. 37 @ JSt Oats—No. 2 white 23 @ .24,

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