Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — Page 7

INDIANA STATE NEWS

The senate appropriated $125,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building at Hammond. The Bluftton House was completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,500. G. W. Kimball’s residence was damaged S6OO. Prof. A. A. Trevor of Greencastle has been nominated to the John Sleeper fellowship, Boston university. The fellowship provides for personal research in a foreign country for a year. Rev. Dr. A. E. Mahin is ill at his Tiome in Montpelier. Edward Stephens, a saloonkeeper of Marion, was shot by William Dugan, another saloonkeeper, and will probably die. Forbes Holton, a window glass manufacturer of Anderson, is laid up with a broken leg at Huntington, W. Va. He fell from a street car. The trustees of Indiana university have closed a contract with Dr. C. F Hodge, of Clark university, to give » three weeks’ course in nature study in the Indiana university summer school The date of his lectures is June 29 to July 17. It is found that the late Michael Hyman, the pioneer merchant and manufacturer of Wabash, left no will, and his estate of $75,000 will be settled under the law. The large farm house of Seneca Shepherd, two miles north of Delphi, was totally destroyed by fire, together with most of its contents. Fire damaged the building and stock of the Nixon paper mills at Richmond to the extent of $5,000. No insurance. Mrs. Gabe Davis, a well-known wo man living near Annapolis, was stricken with paralysis, and recovery is doubtful. John Maris, 85 years old, a pioneer, is dying. An all-day iox drive was given by the farmers of Putnam and Hendricks counties. The drive centered in a large field on the farm of Marion Wright, and seven foxes were captured. Fully ten foxes broke through and escaped. It is reported that two wolves were also seen. James A. Bowles, the Purdue University student, who mysteriously disappeared from Bloomington on the 23d of December, and who was supposed to have met with foul play, has been found in Chicago, where he is employed in a drug store. Trouble is again brewing on the electric lines in Terre Haute, the motormen and conductors having asked the reinstatement of' Grant Tubbs, said to have been dismissed for insolence, which is disputed by the employes. Tubbs was recently elected an officer of the union. The Marine Navigation Company of Michigan City, which will operate a freight line on the Great Lakes, has been incorporated at Indianapolis with a capital of $40,000. The stock is held by G. G. Oliver, J. M. Campbell and John Lutz of Michigan City, and Theodore Lutz of Chicago. Burglars entered the office of McConaha & Parrott, millers, and also the Pennsylvania railway depot at Centerville, using dynamite on the railway safe and securing a quantity of notes, but no money. The visit to the mill was equally as barren. Fire destroyed SB,OOO worth of property in the business district of Princeton Thursday morning, and eighteen horses were cremated. The Tower Hill Coal Company, sinking an experimental shaft at Midland, in Greene county, has struck a sixfoot vein at a depth of 125 feet. The Peru woolen mills have been ordered reopened by the receiver, under permission of the Circuit court, to work up accumulated material A new banking institution, to be known as the Kokomo National bank, capital stock, SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Kokomo, with George E. Bruner, president, and John W. Barnes, cashier. It will open for business early in May. Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis will be the principal speaker on the occasion of the Pythian demonstration at Petersburg, 30th inst.. George U. Darker, .thirty-four years old, upon leaving a business college at ■Fort Wayne, where he was freshening up his knowledge of bookkeeping, was seized of a chill on reaching the street, and was carried to his home, where death resulted in two hours. Joshua Enos, whose death occurred at Shelbyville, served as mayor and councilman of that city. Th#'- Rev. E. C. Wells of the Presbyterihn church at Frankton, has tendered his resignation to engage in evangelical work. Cecil Winkler, a nephew of Joseph Roberts of Bruceville, while trying to place a large back-log in position in the fireplace, was accidentally caught and burned to death. The body of Bish Hamersley, twen-ty-two years old, was found one mile south of Bedford, cut to pieces. He had lived near the place where the body was found, and he was caught in a big cut by a freight train while going home. He was a single man and worked on the south section. The general electric board has approved the action of the Fort Wayne board in increasing the capital stock of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation from $500,000 to SBOO,OOO, the money to be spent in enlarging the present facilities.

The police of La Porte are searching for Andrew Lerick, .who has disappeared after kidnaping the 10-year-old son of Joceph Chlebokska. Gov. Yates of Illinois has commuted the sentence of John Murphy in the Joliet penitentiary to a term to expire on the 21st of this month. Murphy is the demented son of a very prominent business man of Indiana. Albert Gilmore, until recently a postmaster in southern Indiana, and a member of a leading family, will be received at the Michigan City prison in a few days to serve a sentence for horse stealing. Gilmore made no defense. The Western Pickle Packers’ association, including representatives from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, lowa and Missouri, is considering an advance in prices. William Hayes, a prominent citizen of Coxton, five miles west of Bedford, is lying dangerously injured from the effects of a runaway accident. The vehicle in which he was riding struck the approach fence of Salt creek bridge, the horse running with all its might, stripping the fence entirely to the entrance, and throwing Mr. Hayes over the bluff, a distance of twenty-five feet. Several ribs are broken, and he is injured internally. The will of Mrs. Jemima Winship has been probated at Lafayette. She leaves the bulk of her property to her niece, Mrs. Alice Earl Stuart, of Lafayette, who is named as executrix. Bond, SIO,OOO. Minor bequests are: SIOO to Miss Rene Eghert of Richmond; S4OO each to Howard and Everett Vanderbilt of Chicago, and SI,OOO. to Mrs. John Patterson of Indianapolis. William E. Eydelotte, proprietor of the Sullivan woolen mills, was quite severely injured at the stockyards in Sullivan. He was standing near the Evansville & Terre Haute railway tracks when a freight engine struck a car and a stock loader. Mr. Aydelotte was injured about the head and a rib was broken by flying timbers. The annual Monroe township fox chase will be held on the 30th inst. near Henryville. The Twelfth district congressional convention will be held at Kendallville, April 30. Hagerstown merchants complain that rural free mail delivery is causing a dullness of trade, as farmers do not go to town as formerly, and when they take a day off they visit larger places. All the labor interests in Vincennes have been unionized and a Central Labor union has been organized, with E. S. Ward president, Edward Wood vice-president, Robert Caughran financial secretary, T. G. Biggs recording secretary, Albert Coombs treasurer and August Prior doorkeeper. Landy B. Rice of Manila is alarmingly ill of blood poisoning. Several days ago, while butchering hogs, he scratched his finger while brushing hog hair off a board, but the injury was so slight that he gave it no attention. Later the finger began swelling, then it affected the hand. Two operations have failed of relief. At the next meeting of the Republican central committee in Rushvllle it is said that a resolution will be adopted, asking the county commissioners to order an expert examination of county affairs, datipg back many years. The investigation of city affairs will also be demanded. Mrs. Mary Kratz, wife of John Kratz of Warren, complained of feeling badly. She was assisted to a lounge, where she instantly expired. The city council of Shelbyville has appropriated $4,000 to purchase a library site, in order to take advantage of the Carnegie gift of $15,000. It is proposed to add a department of manual training to the State Normal School at Terre Haute, which is said to be approved by President Parsons. Herman Jones, colored, eight years old, arrested ten times in one year for stealing, has been sentenced at Evansville to the State Reform School. The novelty of a winter drought is being felt throughout Clark county, and is causing the farming element much trouble. Streams have gone dry and ponds are empty. Stock water has to be hauled long distances at some points, and those who can find a market for their surplus animals are selling them off. Four feet below the surface the soil is as dry as in August and grave diggers say that tney throw out nothing but dust half the depth of an excavation in which to place a burial casket. So mild has been the winter that farmers all over the county have been plowing, and in many instances the fields look like early spring, when the seeding time is about to begin. In a popular voting contest in which Misses Maggie Donnelly and Minnie Ellis were voted the handsomest girls in Kokomo over 25,000 ballots were cast, and it is alleged that in the final count 3,000 ballots were stolen by workers for rival contestants, the stolen votes being found in the pockets of one of the inspectors, who charges that someone else placed the coupons there. Mrs. Christian Bradley, seventy-six years old, whose death occurred at Peru, left real estate holdings in that city and Chicago aggregating $200,000.

Btephen Whitley, a farmer, was adjudged insane at Washington and ordered transferred to the insane hospital, but while the sheriff’s attention was elsewhere attracted, he slipped out of the court house escaped. Mrs. Bettie Smith has filed a suit against the city of Bluffton for $l2O for nursing her son, Tim White, while he had the smallpox. In her bill she rates her services at $5 a day, and makes a claim against the city on the grounds that, as her son was quarantined, the city would have had to employ a trained nurse unless she did the work. Several years ago the father of John Rogers of Reynolds while digging a well, uncovered a deposit of clay abounding in aluminum, but not having the means to develop it he kept the location a secret, intrusting it to his son, John Rogers, Jr., who has forwarded samples to Washington, and the analysis shows rich deposits, and he is now making arrangements to profit thereby. Professor Edwards, librarian, announces that Notre Dame University has received a valuable collection of books on heraldry and archaeology, old documents, together with valuable paintings, from Mgr. Seton of New York, who ’is preparing to sail for Rome. The books on heraldry and archaeology number nearly 2,500 and are said to constitute the finest collection in the United States. Word was received at Muncie from Las Cruces, N. M., announcing the death, of Floy Clevenger, a Muncie high school student and member of last year’s football team. Clevenger went to New Mexico three weeks ago for the benefit of his health. He was a brother of Zora Clevenger, a wellknown Indiana University football player. Captain Arthur Johnson of the Evansville recruiting station has received word from the War Department to recruit all the men he can for service in the Philippines. He* will establish substations in southern Illinois and place a man in charge of them. Captain Johnson says the War Department will demand 50,000 recruits during the year and he fears, owing to the prosperous condition of the country, that they will be hard to get. About 36,000 men will be retired from the army this year. The store belonging to Messrs. Shoulders & Skinner, at Arthur, was entered by burglars and the safe was forced with dynamite, and money in excess of $75 was carried off. The force of the explosion tore out the window and broke several panes of glass in adjoining buildings. Mr. Shoulders was awakened and reached the street in time to see the burglars driving in the direction of Oakland City in a buggy. Nothing in the store was molested. The coal miners’ strike at Raglesville has been settled and the men have returned to work. The men struck last week for the Indiana scale of wages. The operators of the three mines agreed to pay the scale and allow for removal of deadfall. The price of coal will be raised to meet the increase of wages. The farmers of Jay county are endeavoring to arrange for a joint institute in which the agriculturists of adjoining counties will participate. They want to have Prof. Latta, of the Purdue experiment station, present. Local officials of the Anderson Telephone company have confirmed the report that it had just completed a formal transfer of Its property to the Delaware and Madison County Telegraph and Telephone company, which will be part of a telephone combination organized recently at Ft. Wayne. Emaline Wardroff, the five-year-old daughter of Thomas Wardroff, a farmer living southeast of Tipton, went to the barn to feed a bufldog, which was chained therein. The little girl not returning in a reasonable time, her mother went to the barn in search of her, and found her daughter lying on the floor in a mangled and unconscious condition, her face being terribly bitten, while beside the little one the vicious brute lay asleep. The little girl’s injuries may prove fatal. When the father returned home he Immediately seized a gun and killed the dog. Mr. Wardroff recently refused $125 for the canine. A secret wedding was announced in Washington by the couple inviting a number of friends to a house warming, which they supposed meant a wedding as well, until they arrived at the house and were informed that the couple had been married several months. The principals are William Reister, Jr., and Miss Ina Taylor, and they slipped off to Louisville, Ky., and were united in marriage, and then returned to Washington, each going home. The relation was never suspected by any of their friends or relatives. The Indiana Wool Growers’ Association will hold its annual convention in Crawfordsville February xj. c. S Plumb of Purdue University is president. The Richmond and Greenville Traction Company has secured right-of-way from Greenville, 0., to Richmond., and the franchise will be sought in Richmond and county. Enoch G. Cox, whose death occurred fit Fort Wayne, was storekeeper of that division of the Pennsylvania Central railway. Formerly he was editor Of the Delphi Journal.

PEEPS INTO PERSIA.

or the Strange Sights Seen by a Traveler, Sir Clemente It. Markham presided over a largely atteuded meeting of members of the Royal Geographical Society at Burlington Gardens, when an Interesting paper, describing his fourth journey In Persia, and illustrated by lantern views, was read by Major P. Molesworth Sykes. As the journey lasted three years and three months, and the paper was practically a diary of the whole period, with notes on the people and their country, nothing like a complete summary can be given. Major Sykes was in the Government service, and was employed chiefly about the frontier of Persia, and our own sphere of Influence in Baluchistan. Now he was Engaged in pursuing the bandit murderers and helping to spread the “pax Brltannlca;’’ now in surveying new trade routes and giving them a send-off by organizing caravans of Oriental carpets and silks; now in improving the postal and telegraph services. Much of the ground he covered was on the route taken by Alexander the Great, and Major Sykes had been able to identify many of the spots visited by that monarch. He also found frequent relics of Rustum, the legendary hero of Persian romance, who was so strong that when his enemies started an avalanche down the mountain against him, he turned it aside with his foot. Many strange and weird sights were encountered by Major Sykes In his travels in this little-known Eastern land. Once he saw on the barren coast of the Persian Gulf a place where some subterranean sulphurous eruption had so poisoned the water that the fish had flung themselves out on the shore, and a pathway had to be made over them or it would have been Impossible to land. He scaled a great mountain 12,000 feet high, where all was ice till near the summit, when the ground grew so hot as to burn the boots, and was full of holes blowing off steam and sulphur with a noise like a huge locomotive. He surveyed valleys full of the ruins of ancient civilizations, which had vahished because some giant river had waywardly changed its course. In another mountain, named Chlnishk, he entered n winding cave miles in length, guarded by a deformed dwarf, and with skeletons in perfect preservation ranged along gallery after gallery. He passed through waterless deserts of unbearable heat, where the wind will obliterate the tracks in a few minutes. The lecture and lantern views showed in striking fashion what Important work is now being done to render trade and travel safe and to foster the production and exchange of wealth where formerly all was given up to robber bands and the pitiless desert.—London News.

The Wedding Reduced to Figures.

A statistician in New Jersey, with the lack «f delicate feeling common to his kind, has gone into the question of the marriage process from a purely economic standpoint. He finds that the 15,873 Jersey weddings celebrated during the year have cost about $2,985,000 in outfits, social functions, honeymoon trips, fees, presents, etc. This is an average of SIBB and a few odd cents per wedding. The expenses of the courtship period are classed as incidentals, and they range from S2O per courting up into the thousands, making an average of something like $22. It Is doubtful whether the marital cause is benefited by such tabulations as this Jerseyman has made. One likes to feel a differentation of cents from sentiment. The bringing of- cold figures Into the nuptial field seems to carry a suggested argument that marriage may be more than a failure—even a bankruptcy. “For,” the financially timid bachelor may reason, “if it cost almost $3,000,000 to get these events past the altar, what will it not cost afterward when there will be roast beef to buy, the rent to pay and perhaps several Janitors to fee at Christmas time?”—New York World.

A Dead Disappointment.

Even into a Coroner’s duties there are times when gleams of humor pene, trate the gloom, although they be as sepulchral and as grewsome as the wit indulged in by the two gravediggers in “Hamlet.” Coroner I,eland tells the following story which occurred at the morgue a few weeks ago. The body of a woman had been found in a lodging house, where she had committed suicide by inhaling gas. The only thing that pointed to the identity of the woman was that her name was Jones. This was made public by the newspapers. The next day two stylishly dressed women came to the morgue and asked that they be allowed to see the body, one of the ladies further stating that her sister-in-law was named Jones, and that for certain reasons she did not care make known feared the suicide was her relative. They looked at the body, but they could not Identify It. As the ladles were going away the one who proffered the last bit of information said: “Oh, I am so disappointed. I was so sure it was Mary.” San Francisco Wave.

Their Love Eternally Buried.

Before the Empress Frederick’s coffin was finally closed, all the love letters she received from her late husband, the Emperor Frederick, together with his last written messages, Inscribed after he had lost his power of speech, were placed in the coffin over her heart. Washington hotels are said to be the only ones In the United States tb it serve four regular meals every twentyfour hours— breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper—the latest being served In some cases as late as midnight

The Women’s Corner

A charming creation, whose cleaning value cannot be over-estimated, is made of white point d’esprit and lace, colored a faint russet. The skirt is in narrow gores, between which the yellow white of the insertions shows in horizontal lines. Under a wider entredeux, used as a heading, two deep flounces finish the Jupe, which, cut to train slightly, is worn over point d’esprit petticoats. The round bodice is made of straight strips of Insertion and net, gathered at the waist and girdled by a folded belt of velvet in the same yellow as the lace. This velvet also appears in a band and knot on the elbow pleeves, and in a loose bow holding down at the left bust the ends of the graceful fichu draped about the shoulders.

Broadcloth and Uc« I'aalninn. One of the very latest models is shown in this biscuit-colored broadcloth and Russian lace costume. The skirt of this beautiful gown ip laid in tiny box-pleats from the belt to the circular flounce in the direct front, gradually growing shorter at the sides, and sloping up to the shirring at the back of the skirt. Where the tucks end, the fullness forms the flare of the skirt. Each tuck is edged with five rows of stitching, done with Corticelli Stitching silk. At the head of the circular flounce there is a broad applique of Russian lace, the material betng cut away underneath. On this lace are three rows of pale green velvet appliqued in a Greek design. The flounce is confined half its depth by the boxpleats, the fullness spreading below. The bodice id also tucked and fastened with little loops and buttons. Over this there is a bolero of Russian lace trimmed with the bauds of green velvet A broad turn-down collar of velvet is edged with sable. The sleeves

Broadcloth and Lace.

are covered to the elbow with the lace, which Is then allowed to hang in a flowing effect. Turn-back cuffs of velvet at the qlbow are edged with sable. The lower or undersleeve Is tucked all over and slashed up its outer edge. Where the ends of the tucks form

EVENING DRESSES OF PINK AND WHITE SATIN.

loops. Fine ruffles of lace fill up the opening and Tall over tho hand.

Stitching M Decoration. Stitching is still a most fashionable mode of decoration. A novelty Introduced this fall consists of rows of

Stitched in Persian Colors.

machine stitching in contrasting and sometimes variegated shades of silk. A new model is this street gown of blue camel’s hair. The Hklrt has a curious arrangement of graduated tucks, curving over tlie hips and forming tho fullness below. Straight down the middle of the skirt is a strip of red broadcloth covered with Mexican open work embroidery, done with blue Corticelli crochet and knitting silk. On the center of tliis strip is a fancy braid of black and gold, edged with black silk crochet acorns. A similar strip extends the full length of tho back of the skirt and continues up under the trimming of the bodice, thus forming a princess back. This same trimming appears on the bodice, sleeves and collar. The belt is of red taffeta stitched in rows of Persian colors with Corticelli stitching silk. The wide sleeves extend Just below the elbow. Beneath are undersleeves of batiste embroidery applique on red taffeta. The front of the bodice, displayed by the bolero, is also of the batiste.

Now Volin. Altogether unique is the new face veil with the edge embroidered in cherries In natural colors, or with a row of tiny violets or forget-me-nots with green leaves. Another novelty is a veiling with reversible dots, black on one side and white on the other. The storm veil has been Issued by an enterprising manufacturer to take the place of the two veils which have been worn for the past two winters. The storm veil consists of a chiffon veil and one of net Joined at one edge. The net veil Is worn over the face and the chiffon one around the hat crown, unless a storm break unexpectedly, when the veil may he spread as a protection over the entire hat.

PROGRESS IN TREE SURGERY.

IfITM of Mooy An Now Saved by Timely Operation*. there has also been very great progress in tree surgery or the methods of treating trees and shrubbery when It becames necessary to apply the knife or pruning shears. Many a tree is living today that would have died a few years ago from causes that would then have brought on death, but today are successfully treated. An instance of thiß progress can be seen in the Simon Cameron tree, as the spreading elm near the footpath leading from New Jersey avenue to the south wing of the capital in Washington is called. This tree received its While surgery as applied to man has made great strides in recent yeaps, name by which it is universally known now when the elder Olmstead laid out the capltol grounds and provided for a footpath which would have made necessary the removal of the stately old elm that was so greatly admired by Senator Simon Cameron. Mr. Cameron Interested himself in saving the tree with the result that it was allowed to stand in the center of a space that would otherwise have been covered with a granolithic walk. The tree flourished until a year ago, when an amputation became necessary. One of its big limbs, showing signs of decay, was cut ofT. The operation was successful enough, but the wound being left open, in the course of; time decay set in. The decay was working into the very vitals of the elm and would have killed It in a few years, but recourse was taken to an operation that is now very frequently applied in tree surgery. The decayed portion was scraped oft and a covering of asphaltum was placed over it toi arrest further decay. The tree is now as well off, says the Washington Star, as would be a man with a limb am-, putated and properly dressed with antiseptics. In the course of time the wound will probably be healed and the tree will be perfectly healthy again.

COOKING BY THE SUN’S RAYS.

Novol I’lan I u veil led by Man from a** Fraud* co. Cooking by the beat of tho sun Is a novel Idea, hut suggests economy, and Is certainly practicable If there is no exaggeration in the claims made by a San Francisco Inventor in behalf of a nswly patented contrivance. The apparatus consists of a sort of oven made in the shnpe of a rectangular box, open on one of its four sides (through glass) to the direct rays of the sun, and similarly exposed on another side to solar rays reflected from a series of prlsmllko mirrors. Inasmuch as the box and mirrors are adjustable at various angles, the rays of the sun may be concentrated upon the inside of the oven at any hour of the day. The oven is set upon ons edge. Whereas the upper two sides are of glass, the lower two sides are of wood, and the wholo box, save for the two glass sides, is double-walled and lined with felt and sawdust. Thus, glass being also a nonconductor, the heat that enters the box does not easily get out again. In fact, if there were water inside, it is claimed that it would quickly boll on a sunshiny day. The Internal arrangement of the oven consists of three shelves which remain horizontal no matter at what angle the box is placed. On these shelves baking is done. Along the top edge of the box extends a fiat piece of metal, hollow inside, into which hot air is admitted from the oven beneath. This is a broiler, and the inventor says that ons may cook a steak on it nicely. One advantage of the solar method of cooking it that it is clean. No fuel has to be supplied, and there are no ashes to remove. It is a process that recommends Itself most strongly, therefore, to ths neat and thrifty housewife.

Barber's Canning Bid for Trade.

“1 perceive,” Bald the barber, “that you shave yourself and that you ar* a right-handed person. I know that you shave yourself and that you are right - handed because yoqr hair, where It ends in front of your ears, is blocked out by the razor at unequal lengths. It is much longer, a full quarter of an inch longer, be» fore your left ear than before your right one. These inaccuracies show me that you shave yourself, and the longer hair on the left side shows you to be right-handed. For you have, you see, a better, freer reach with the fight hand, and in the first stroke of Shaving that you make on the right side the trained muscles of your arm . cause you unconsciously to begin high- ■ er up. If you were left-handed thehair on the left side would be the • shorter.” —Philadelphia Record.

Choice of Locality for Home.

Thoughtful parents are often guld«itf in their choice of a home by the character of the school district into which ' it wil bring them. I have known families to move from the edge of on* district to the outskirts of an adjacent one simply for the purpose of changing school associations. “The teachers are all right,” they will say. "I have no fault to find with the school; but I want my boy and my girl to be thrown with a better class of children.” And the feeling that prompts it is to be honored always. One can hardly do better for her children than by giving them the best and most elevating daily associations obtainable. —Caroline Abbot Stanley In the Ledger Monthly.

Consumptives in Australia.

According to Dr. Sidney Jones, 18,000 consumptives are moving about Australia annually.