Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — Page 8

Just Opened. I have just opened up with a complete line of Dry Goods, Overalls, Working Shirts, Notions and ta Boots and Shoes. 1 keep a full Stock of NEW -- GROCEIES - FRESH Goods Delivered to any part of the City. N, F, MUIR, Nowelsßlk. - Rensselaer. Telephone 223. Sowing . the Seeds "TSbCz . I I I JI 111 of comfort and health is what * J | 111 you are doing if you wear the -‘J l/l/l I I sort of rightly made, right- V+l7 • fitting shoes we offer you * this spring. The... * -»’• xmL-* Selz Shoes ■•"*• we've told you about beforeflre better than ever this season. The low cuts Z/WW \ and * ans are beauties and we are posi- | ) t’ ve “ to e ’ r wear ’ qualities. The experience of 25 years is in every pair. That’s what makes them wear the best _ although they cost the least Firmly believing that we are selling the best and cheapest lines of Ladies’ and Children’s Fine Shoes produced in the world, we ask you to give them a trial, knowing that you will come again. ELLIS & MURRAY.

New for !«»«• I Sell the celebrated McCormack Binder and Mower, —the world’s best. Come and examine our machines. A large line of extras always on hand. I sell the Studebaker wagon. They have shoulder slope spokes, while all other makes have square shoulders. I sell the Anchor, Bimel, Kalahuuboo, and Studebaker buggies,— None better. I sell the Huber threshing machines and Birdsell clover hullers. Call and purchase a Monarch bicycle. Come and eee me one and all. Yours Truly. C. A. Roberts Opposite Makeever House. LEANT CONCRETE FENCE POST. I desire to call the attention of the farmer to our new Concrete Fence Post. It is stronger than either wood or n e al, and can not rot or burn. The material used in the manufacture is cheap and it (•an be manufactured in' the locality or bn the farm. Can be used for either wire or boards. Farm or township right to manufacture is sold on reasonable terms. Call on me at Rensselaer. Julius Rosenheiner. UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE, ISMLUBOIAST. LAFATEfTE, IM. Actual Stidnem. Book-lreeping, English. Tel«wrsph>. Shorthand and Typewriting Pi-nmnashni. The host in every way. bead for Catalogue. Apr. 28.1 yr. . 8. A. DRAKE. Pre..

| BANK STATEMENT. • REPORT . of the condition of the Commercial State Bank. (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER. IND., at the close <>f Hs business. on the 12th .lay of j April. 1888. RESOURCES. ■ Loans and Discounts $ 88,870.85 , Overdrafts 888.10 Current Expenses 157.08 Banking House 5,585JK> Due from Bunks and Bunkers ; 8H.254.ti2 Cush on hand 4.787.71 SI:M..WdO LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $25.<«10.00 Surplus Fund 1.0un.00 Discount. Exchange and interest :<B7.U) , Individual deposits on demand 82.938.73 I Individual deposits ou time 17.212.47 STATE OF INDIANA, Jasper County. J • I. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cushier of the Commercial State Bunk of Rensselaer, Indiana. do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. Emmkt L. Hollinghwouth. , . ■»•**> Subscribed and gworu to before I iSkal;- ine. this IPtli day of April. 1888. ' ’ ChaBLKH G. SPITLKB. Notary Public. This Hank is prepared to receive new accounts, and pays interest pn deposits. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Audihon PauanoH, Jambs T. Ramdlb, John M. Wabhos, I <>ko. E. Mvhbay, E. L. Howukmwobtii. Directors. BACK^-aiMssssasr 4 * ■ , - > ■

Washington Letter.

(From Our Regular Correspondent) Washington, D. C., May 23, 1898. Had the administration been as successful in bottling up that Spanish fleet, which is flitting around in Cuban waters, as it has been in bottling up every particle of interesting war news, the end of the war would be in sight. Of course every body recognizes the necessity for keeping news of contemplated movements out of the newspapers, lest their publication should aid the enemy, but there is no good reason why this state of affairs should exist. Had every cable for Cuba been cut as soon as war was declared, and the same rigid censorship been put into effect upon European messages that is now exercised, Spain could have derived no benefit from the publication of war news by American papers. If the present censorship be followed by results, there will not be much complaint, but if it be merdly a cloak to hide the blunders of somebody, Congress will not long remain silent. Orders have beefi issued in profusion to our fleets in Cuban waters, and there is, of course, a general hope that they will succeed in finding and fighting the Spanish fleet —no one doubts that we can lick if we can get at them -but Secretary Long seems to take it for‘granted that the Spaniards can avoid a fight just as long as they may desire to.

Those who for one or another reason are desirous of dragging J the war on indefinitely have again j been trying to persuade Mr. Mc- ■ Kinley to postpone the invasion 'of Cuba until fall. They have got ' a new argument now —that it will ■ take four months to make as much j ammunition as they think the army ought to have before being sent to Cuba. They also ring the changes on the old argument that military operations on a large I scale cannot.be carried on in Cuba (luring the rainy season, which usually begins about the tenth of June and continues for six or eight ■ weeks—an argumenfl)4ong agdwsposed of by the active campaigns of the insurgents rainy seasons. If the statement about ammunition be true, which there is reason to doubt, tldh'e is something radically wroiQ? about the War Department. It is supposed from the hurrying of volunteers to the south, that the invasion of Cuba will be pushed at once, but plans have been changed so often that it is difficult to say what will be done. Czar Reed has the Hawaiian annexationists on the anxious bench. The other four members of the committee on Rule are evenly divided and it is for him to decide i whether the committee will report a special rule for the consideration : of the annexation resolution, without which the resolution cannot be i brought to a vote. I As a sori of answer to criticisms : from every direction, it has been 1 semi-officially announced that the Naval War Board, popularly known as the “board of lethargy”, wlych 1 is composed of naval officers, lias ' nothing to do with conducting the ! war, but is merely charged with : the 'duty of advising Secretary 1 Long. This will strike most i sons as an attempt to make a distinction where there is no differ- , ence. If Secretary Long did not ! consider the advice of the Board ■ worth being followed, the Board ! would speedily be abolished. It : would be safe to say that every ’ important order issued by Secre- ' tary Long has been upon the advice of this Board It would be j the most natural thing in the ! world that both Mr. McKinley and : Secretary Long, neither of whom ■ has had any experience in naval i fighting, should seek the assistance i of naval officers in conducting that branch of the war. The unnatural thing is that such a statement should have been allowed to have been made. The Naval War Board has certainly done all the conducting of the war that has been done from the Washington end; if there is any credit, it should not be deprived of it any more than it should be shielded from criticism. Senator Daniels made one of the strongest speeches yet .made against an issue of bonds, and in favor of paying the expenses of the war as we go along, rather than saddling them upon posterity. Replying to the contention that the issue of bonds proposed was intended for effect upon Spain, Senator Daniels said that' if the desired effect could be assured he was ready to vote to issue the bonds. “But”, he impressively continued, “if Spain was not convinced at Manilla that this country was in earnest in this war, then. Sampson and Schley and Miles and their Lieuts. have some arguments to submit to her that will j prove to be even more assured ve- ' nicies of conviction than any issue iof bonds could be.” He declared

the stamp tax to be the most odious and pestiferous tax invented by men.

Wheat and Hogs Galore.

The Citizen has big money to wager that Carroll county has a farmer who has more wheat and more hogs than any other farmer in the state. He has to our certain knowledge a six vears’ growth and accumulation on hand. He is a good fellow and a good farmer, and why he allows this valuable, and to some extent perishable, property to accumulate on his hands we do not know. But that it has accumulated there can be no mistake, for each year he has told us that he would pay his subscription when he sold his wheat, and again when he sold his hogs, and he is still in arrears. —Carroll County Citizen.

A Sport and His Money soon Part

An exchange calls attention to a case at Remington as again demonstrating the fact that a sport and his money are soon parted. A few years ago the sport referred to lived in Remington and was worth $25,000 to $30,000. He left there and shortly after ward, a prominent married woman left and it was rumored that the pair were together on the Pacific slope. His wife left him and piece by piece his property interests in Remington were disposed of until the other day the last of his holdings, mortgaged for nearly all it was worth, passed into other hands. The little he got out of this deal is said to be the last of his fortune, and there will be few of his old sporting cronies to sympathize with him. — Herald.

Willard E. Miller.

Willard E. Miller of Terra Haute will be a candidate for the office of State Geologist before the Democratic state convention. MrMfller is an Elkhart county boy and well qualified to fulfill the duties of that office. One of his home papers has the following to *say of him: Professor Willard E. Miller, of !' the department of chemistry at the ; Terra Haute High school, has equipped himself welt for his ; present position, science having j been made a specialty by him for a number of years. Mr. Miller was born in Elkhart j county, Ind., August 3rd, 1867. When he had finished the graded i schoo 1 near his home he entered the Goshen High school, from i which he graduated in 1884. Three ' years later he had completed the ' course of study at the Mt. Morris, I (Ill.) College. In 1892 he gradui ated from the Indiana State Normal school in this city. The school year of 1887-88 Mr. Miller waaqirincipal of the Millersburg, Ind., town schools. While a student at the Normal schools he was assistant in the departments of physic and chemistry in that institution during 1891-2 he taught I half time in the High school of i this city, of which faculty he was j elected a regular member in 1891. In 1895-6 he was granted leave of absence from the High School and during this time he completed the junior year’s work in Harvard University, making organic ehemistry a specialty. He is now doing the senior year’s work as a non-resi-dent student, and expects to take his degree in the near future. He is a member of the Terra Haute Science Club and was at one time president of the Bryant Chautauqua Circle in this city. He has contributed several articles for the newspapers and. takes a great interest in practical scienti sic problems.

Round Trip 75 Cents.

First excursion to Chicago via the Monon Route, Chicago, Indianapolis Louisville Railway, Sunday, May 29. Special train will pass Rensselaer at 9:07 a. m. and returning will leave Chicago at 11:30 p. m., Sunday, May 29. Round trip rates from this place only 75 cents, tickets good going and returning only on special train. Plenty of coaches. Room for alt A baggage ear will be attached to the train to carry bicycles. Two hundred miles of boulevards for the benefit of wheelmen.

- Advertised Letters. Mrs. J. E. Smith, J. E. Smith, Edith Chyer, J. Hallerou, Albert McCarthy, Kenton Blankenlin, Dan A. Bair, Will Vanuatu Jr.

W. H. BEAM,

Agent.

2 A Great Day at S) t Goodland! (• x I ON TUESDAY, iMay 31, | 1898, iJudy&Leif (• I Buggy Company, (• (• Of Goodland, Ind., will give (• their FIRST i SPECIAL SALES DAY. (•

gNo one should fail to attend £ this occasion and view the s . Immense Stock of' g Wagons, Buggies, Har- (• ness, Etc. £ Bring your | Old Buggy •) and if you want to g trade for a • | NEW ONE g Come early and get first choice, g If you are in need of anything (• in their line this day will be a r. great money saver to you.

L On these Special Sale Davs, they make a J S Special Business of trading 4 : New Buggies for Old Ones | S Also giving their customers I : Low Prices, Easy Trms, and : | LONGTIME. J » ( b If you need any 4 >: Repairing and Repainting j ? to be done, bring it in on this day and get * I Special Prices. * I ») 4 S These Special Sale Days will J j be continued on Tuesday of each j 5 week, and will prove a boon to « > all who will take advantage of J g the same. * • « • ■ s • Don’t Forget the date * | Tues. May 31.: b/2\e„e.0.e..0.e.0.0/2\o.e/2\e. e. e raa/ae