Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1902 — To the Memory of Mordecai F. Chilcote. [ARTICLE]

To the Memory of Mordecai F. Chilcote.

When the people have a chance to see the President with their own eyes and not through the distorting spec taeles of the opposition press they are impressed with the true worth of the man.

Mr. Babcock is again chairman of the Republican congressional committee, and, having piloted the party to victory in four successive campaigns, believes that he can do it again.

For the first time in many years there is no man from Ohio in the President’s cabinet, and none holding high diplomatic office or on the bench of the Supreme Court. lowa seems to have most plums at present.

Great corporations have engaged the country’s < entially developed its resources, completely employed its.labor, and are making this nation the granary, the factory and the banking house of the world.

During 1901 this country exported $952,000,000 worth of farm products, or $100,000,000 more than in any pre vious year. The imports of such products amounted to $392,000,000, leaving a balance of trade greatly in our favor.

The real cause of the present rise in the price of beef is said to be the drouth that prevailed through the west last summer, which has made feed high. Cattle on the hoof have brought $7 50 a hundred pounds in Chicago lately, the highest price since April, 1882.

Senator Hanna, in an address at Philadelphia, said recently: “The necessities growing out of the vasl productive power of this country have forced the aggregation of capital, the creation of wealth in concrete form To absorb it and render it valuable as an industrial investment we must have industrial pence.”

The largest pair of steer horns ever seen, measuring ten feet from tip to tip, were sent recently to a Chicago dealer from South America The large horned cattle of America are fast disappearing, owing to the use of pure bred sires, having small or no horns and whose progeny can be shipped more easily and safely.

John Wanamaker was recently presented to the Emperor of Ger many, and disregarding ceremony, shook the Emperor’s hand, saying; “lam glad to meet such a surprising man; that is just the sort of thing we admire in America.” The conversation continued in thistone, the Emperorseeming to enjoy it. Later he remarked to a member of his suite; “In all my life no one ever talked to me like that.”

Disease is worse than war. We have saved in a single year in Cuba more lives from oeath by pestilence than were lost on both sides in the war with Spain.

A Kansas law held that an express agent could not deliver a O. O. D. package containing liquor, as that amounted to a sale and was illegal in the state. The supreme court has reversed the decision on the ground that the privilege of such delivery cannot be taken away from the express company.

Something special? Sure thing. The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper $1.40 for one year. Ask us what it means.

Be it remembered; That on Apri’ 21 1902, ata meeting of the bar and officers of the court, S. P. Thompson was selected as chairman and John F. Major as secretary, and on motion the chair appointed a committee to report concerning the death of Mordecai F. Chilcote, a member of said bar which committee made the following report: ’ Your committee appointed, beg to report the following: At a called meeting of the Judge, officers and attorneys of the Jasper Circuit Court, convened at the Court House on Monday, April 21, 1902, at 2:30 o’clock 1 . M., it was announced that Mordecai F. Chilcote, one of the oldest members of the Jasper County Bar, had departed this life on the evening of the 20th day of April at 9 o clock P. M., at his home in Rensselaer, Indiana. It was further noted that he had been a practicing attorney of said Jasper Circuit Court for the past 36 years, and previous to that time for four years followed the Flag of his Country in the Civil War of the United States from 1861 to 1865. That not only as a citizen and a soldier, but as an attorney, he had been and was to the time of his death, untiring in his efforts to maintain and uphold the constituted authority of his state and country. Upon such announcement. it was resolved: “That we cease for a time all our labors for the living to record the death roll of him who was a member of our Bar; recognizing that friendly and congenial spirit always manifest in his character, and that charity and benevolence always extended by him toward others. “To living friends and kindred we tender all the heartfelt sympathy of common loss and deepest woe, remembering him as we do, his uniform kindness to his orphan relatives and others, and his fatherly care over them. Resolved: 1 hat this resolution be entered df record in the records of the Jasper Circuit Court as a memorial of our love and respect of one who was so long among us as a member of our profession. Jess£ E. Wilson, Charles W. Hanley, Geo. K. Hollingsworth, .... . Committee.” inch, on motion, was unanimously adopted, and one copy directed to be furnished to the family of the deceased, and one copy to each newspaper in the county for publication, and that said resolution and proceedings be spread of record upon the Order Book of the Jasper Circuit Court. S. P. Thompson, . T , Chairman. Attest: John F. Major, Secretary.