Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — Crumpacker on the Assassination. [ARTICLE]

Crumpacker on the Assassination.

Representative E. D. Crumpacker of this district, gave utterance to tiie following relative to the assassination of President McKinley : “Every well ordered citizen of the country feels a sense of personal bereavement over the death of the president. No president in the last Afty years had a stronger hold on the aA'cctions of the people than Presi•dent McKinley, and the sense of sorrow is deep and universal. The anger of the people is thoroughly aroused by the execrable crime, and the feeling that no punishment that can be administered will be in just propor-

tlon ,to the gravity of the offense brings a sense of helplessness. The president’s life was worth more than the lives of all the anarchists on the face of the earth. “There is nothing to do but bow In humble submission and hope that just and wise precautions will be provided to prevent a repetition of the calamity in the future. The current of national life will move on saddened and chastened by this awful experience. “It is fortunate that th 9 successor of President McKinley is a man wno is in general accord with the present policies of the government, and will, in his own way, work them out. The new president is a man of the noblest impulses, the highest motives and the loftiest courage. He is a true American in spirit and purpose, and there need be no fear that he will lack the high qualities of heart, intellect and temperament necessary to a successful management of the affairs of the country.” Subscribe for the JOURNAL,

Mrs. Elmer Wilcox is visiting In Lafayette. Miss Edna Dillon is spending the week in Lafayette. Horace Marble, of Wheatfleld, was in the city Monday. A ten pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Zea Tuesday. Miss Bertha Qlnn, of Frankfort, is assisting Mrs. lines as trimmer. John W. Medicus was home Brora * Michigan City to spend Sunday. All kinds of wagon and buggy repairing done at 0. Hansen’s wagon •hop. Frank Sayler has entered the Wisconsin University, at Madison, as a freshman. Mrs. G. Babson, of Seward, Neb., is the guest of her undies, N. W. and W. W. Reeve. > 8. Galhreath attended the funeral of his brother-in-law, John Van Nice, at Monon, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Raub, of Englewood, are the guests of James F. Irwin and family. Grandfather Babb and Unde Billy Pierce are taking in the street fair at Lafayette, this week. One hundred and fifty-seven persons from Rensselaer took In the cheap excursion to Ohioago Sunday. Robert Michaels has moved to his farm in Marion township. He will move back here in January. Robert Michaels has sold his eighty acre farm in Jorcfan township, to Henry Gushwa for $46 per acre. Mrs. John O’Neill and baby returned to their home in Chicago Sunday, after a visit with her parents here, Dnvid Miller, of Frankfort, la now manager of Laßue Bros.’ dry goods department. He will move here with his family. The condition of Thomas Robinson yesterday was much improved, and it is thought that he will recover. He is suffering from an aboess. The boiler in the electrto light plant at Sheldon, 111., blew up Wednesday afternoon, killing the manager of the plant and seriously injuring two others. Albert Marshall has resigned as teacher of the Slaughter sohool, to enter the Wisconsin University. His place has been taken by Miss Floss Wright. Kenneth Morgan and Fred Paroells are at Franoesville this week, working during the street fair rash. The former is working in a restaurant, and the latter in a barber shop, Mr. and Mrs. Irving L. Jones, of Pontiao, 111., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amsler, last week, returning home Tuesday. Mr. Jones is thinking some of moving to Rensselaer.

Bruce White and Britt Marion departed on Tuesday for California and Oregon. They are thinking some of spending the winter on the coast, and if satisfied with the country, of moving there In the spring. Misses Luella MoCoy and Letha Wright, of Rensselaer, and Ray Sioman, of Orand Rapids, Mich., are the guests of Mrs. William Taylor. Miss Margaret Micks, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., arrived today to join the party.— Lafayette Courier. In two weeks the Chicago Bargain Store has sold over 700 bushels of peaches. They were shipped here in oar lots, and found a ready sale. This will be the last large shipment, as peaches are becoming scarce, and the market about supplied. A new fakir is abroad in the country districts. He drives through the country and sells soap at $6 a box, which sum includes the price of forty yards of carpet, selected from samples whioh he has in his wagon. He takes the $5, leaves the box of Boap, promises to deliver the carpet of the selected sample within a week, and drives away. This soap is worth probably 50 cents. It stays with the purchaser. The carpet is worth probably 915, but it stays with the fakir, and has not yet been delivered to a single victim. —Logansport Chronicle.