Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — Page 6

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Eli H. Butler, sixty years old, killed himself at Winchester. His body was found by his daughter hanging to a rafter in the barn. He could have saved himself, but swung by the rope tmtil he was strangled. He was a Mason, and twelve years ago was superintendent of the city schools. He was once in charge of the Rushville schools, and was a teacher of long experience. He had had two paralytic strokes, and is supposed to have been out of his mind when he killed himself. He left a son and daughter. The mayor of Elwood has declined to issue a license to a dog and pony show on the ground that so many cases of smallpox in Anderson and other towns ot Madison county made the gathering of a large crowd unsafe. The advance agent had put up a good deal of paper for it, but the date was canceled. F. H. Farnham. chief promoter of the electric line from Indianapolis to Martinsville, by way of Waverly, says they hope to have the grade completed by June 1. Two steam graders have been put to work and the work is being pushed rapidly. From present indications, the Waverly Traction Company will get into Martinsville before the Charles Fimey Smith road does. Now that Muncie is about assured a federal building, there is active discussion over a site. The congressional bill provides that not more than 15 per cent of the amount appropriated for a federal building shall be used for the purchase of a site. The Muncie appropriation is for only $75,000, when twice that sum was expected. This would make the cost of the site ant exceed $11,250, and it is contended no good uptown business site can be secured for that amount.

The South Bend tinners and hod carriers went out on strike, the hod carriers for more wages and tinners because their employers refused* to sign an agreement, although the wage increase is granted. A- E - Smith, manager of a flourmill at. Montpelier, was run down at a street-.crossing by a run-away horse and is in a serious condition. His nead was cut, nose broken and it is thought he was injured internally. Representative Watson has received notice from the Naval Academy at Annapolis that George G. Cole, a Richmond boy, selected by him, has passed the examination necessary to admittance to the academy. Councilman Richard Berger, who died at Muncie, prepared his own obituary notice several uays before for publication. It briefly reviewed his career. He served three terms in the council. The South Bend school census allows a total of 11,451, an increase •of 656 over last year. This indicates that the total population is 40,600. The census shows that there are for-ty-two sets of twins in South Bend, two families having two sets each. Hon. Robert W. Miers of Bloomington was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Second district. The convention closed with a fight over a resolution, in which the minority forces under Davis wanted to indorse Bryan. They failed. John M. Lockwood died at his home ut Mount Vernon, aged ninety-three. He started the firsk bank in Evansville. A. L. Dale of Marion and Miss Ethel Spencer of Ohio were married in a circus tent immediately after the performance at Wabash, Ind. i John Burger, a tailor of Petersburg, 'died at the age of sixty years. He was worth about $50,000 and rated as the wealthiest man in Pike county. Forty years ago Burger fell in love writh a beautiful girl and proposed to her. She refused.his hand and Burger made a vow that he would never speak to a human being as long as .ue. lived. He kept his word and from that day was never heard to utter a word. Carl H. Gifford, a Windfall attorney, and administrator of the estate of Richard Moon of Curtisville has brought suit for $5,000 against Harry Stringfellow & Co., druggists, of Elwood. It is claimed that Moon purchased a pint of alcohol at the drug store, without a prescription, diluted and drank it, and died. Wasnington Gross, former superintendent of the Marion police force, was caught in the act of attempting to force an entrance to a grocery. Gross lias been suspected by the police as being Implicated in several robberies of late. At New Albany Capt. Moses Irwin age seventy-nine years, died of apoplexy. He followed the river since he was a cabin boy, at the age of eight years, and had been in command of a number of steamboats. He owned onethird interest in the New Albany & Portland ferry line until ten years ago. He was an Odd Fellow. W. A. Brenton of Kokomo kicked in the bead by a horse, is dead from the injury. Khner Sprecien of Michigan City, fourteen years old, fell out of a rowhnat into Lake Michigan and was drowned. At Evansville, Nettle Grant, twenty years old, committed suicide with morphine because of disappointment ta love. Charles C. Cochin, a plasterer of Lafayette, who fell from a scaffold in Op Purdue agricultural building, died flf his injuries

The school enumeration of Wabash, shows a total of 2,615, a gain of fifteen over last year. All the capital for the knitting mills to be operated at Huntington has been subscribed, the $50,000 nearly all being taken by wealthy residents. Former Mayor John J. Richards of New Albany was stricken with paralysis and his condition »is serious. He has been prominent in Masonic affairs in Indiana, and for twelve years has been police judge. > Duffy L. Raymond, director of the Valparaiso Athletic Association, is under arrest on the charge of assaulting T. C. Polk. They had a fight over the production of a play by home talent, and Polk was badly used up. Beyer Brothers, whose produce business at Rochester, Warsaw and Kendallville amounts to $3,000,000 a year, will incorporate the Rochester branch with $200,000 capital. The company will buy refrigerator cars and will erect a cold storage plant. During a thunderstorm the home of Louis Klocktnbrink, east of Versailles, was struck by lightning. The shingles were torn from the roof and the plastering of one room, in which some of the family were sleeping, was nearly all torn off. No one was hurt. The Muncie Grand Army post has begun a movement to raise a subscription of $10,900 in Delaware county for the purpose of constructing a monument or fountain, in some public place, to the memory of the Delaware county soldiers and sailors who died during the civil war. Zachariah Piles, a civil war veteran, and his wife have been stranded in Muncie. A horse they had been driving died and the wagon collapsed. The man and woman are both over eighty years old. They said that they never traveled very much and had started out to see a little of the world before they die. The township trustee and the Grand Arpiy post have helped them on their way. Frank White, a deputy at the county infirmary, at Muncie, has been arrested for whipping Lottie Johnson, a weak-minded girl, because she would not work.

Wade Cooper, colored, of Kokomo, under sentence to prison, has been shamming insanity by butting his head against the wall. When the ruse did not work he confessed that it was a sham to escape going to prison. Crawfordsville ministers have been opposed to the Elks’ lodge giving a street fair this fall. The Elks have promised to give no objectionable features, and the opposition to the fair has been withdrawn. Mrs. Mack of Marion, one of eleven heirs to an estate at Peru, has been notified that the heirs now in possessioh of the property had offered the contestants $30,000 to quit claim. The estate was left by the grandfather of Mrs. Walsh. He was twice married, and had two sets of children. One never received their interest in the estate, the other having taken posses sion. The property is located in the heart of Peru and is said to be valuable. Members of the Indiana Reformatory board contemplate locating an ice and cold storage plant at the institution The board inspected the plant at the Eastern Hospital for Insane, and it may be duplicated at the Reformatory. Thrashing machine operators of Henry county, to the number of thirtyfive have formed an organization. It is in the nature of a trust and is for the purpose of controlling prices and territory. The state statistician has issued a crop bulletin for the period ended April 10. It says, in part: The reports show peaches killed everywhere, and in some localities the trees injured to a great extent. Other fruits promise only a fair yield; many varieties of berries suffered from the drought of last summer and the freezing of the past winter, and, so far as reported, the indications are that we shall have a short crop. Conductor James Defrates of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad, was thrown off a passenger train, near Washington, while the train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour. A passenger refused to pay his fare, and the conductor made ready to put him off the train, when the passenger picked him up and threw him through a coach door, and, with another pitch, landed him on the ground. The passenger escaped. The Terre Haute Y. M. C. A. has raised $25,000 with which to improve its home. James H. Malear, wife and two children, living west of Libertyville, were poisoned at supper from eating greens, in which a hunch or two of deadly nightshade had found a place, through the carelessness of one that had gathered the greens. Mrs. Malear and one of her children are not expected to survive. The Fidelity Deposit company of Baltimore has asked the superior court to release it from a bond of H. J. Spalding, trustee of Center township. The bond is for SIO,OOO and the company does not want to be responsible for the conduct of the office. ' Quincy Hodson fired a stump in his corn field hear Chesterfield and a spark from it set fire to a meadow. Before the blaze could be put out over six hundred acres of ground were swept, -including twenty acres of woods, belonging to Jacob Hoppes, and several hundred rods of fencing.

John R. Mott, world secretary of tin* Christian Student Association, and also the head of the students’ volunteer movement made a flattering report of the V. W. Helm of Indiana is doing in Japan, as national secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Mott was with Helm three weeks, and they brought about the conversion of 1,100 Japanese students. He says Helm is organizing Y. M. C. A. and other bodies in all of the large cities, is arranging

V. W. HELM.

(National Secretary Y. M. C. A. In Japan.) for the erection of suitable quarters and clubs, and in the two years that he has been in Japan, he has accomplished wonderful results in laying the foundation for future operations. Helm is a North Manchester boy, and a graduate of Depauw. He was assistant secretary of the Indiana association two years. He is twenty-eight years old. His wife, whom he married in Indiana, is with him. They live in Tokio. Wiliam H. Hornby of Evansvlle, a former member of the state legisla - ture, is dead at the age of sixty-six years. He was in the legislature that elected Benjamin Harrison to the United States senate. Mrs. Catherine Copella of Evansville is dead at the age of ninety-five. She was a native of Italy. Mrs. McKee, wife of B. F. McKee, editor of the Lebanon Pioneer, is dead at the age of forty-six. She was prominent in the religious, musical and literary life of Lebanon, and was a member of most of the clubs. John Toner, a miller and prominent business man, was killed by a Vandalia train at Brazil while walking on the tracks.

Elsie Councellor of Newcastle, thirteen years old, jumped a rope 200 times without resting, and is at the point of death from congestion of tho brain. Thomas Fraym, an inmate of the county home at Plymouth, wandered on the Pennsylvania railroad, while temporarily deranged and was killed by a train. Labor organizations of Indiana are still sending petitions to Washington asking for the enactment of legislation providing for an educational test for immigrants to this country. Senator Farbanks presented the petton sgned by many organzed workmen. Rural delvery servee has been ordered established July 1 at West Lebanon, Warren county. The cigar firm of McEnery and Doran of South Bend has in the last four months been missing money from the safe in the store. A total of about SSOO has been taken. After using marked bills in an effort to locato the thief, the firm has had Milton Meyer arrested. Louis Loeb, a capatalist of Anderson, has gone to Martinsville to look over considerable property, on which he has an option. He contemplates the purchase of two of the largest business blocks in Martinsville and one of the sanatoriums. •

The project of young men of Elwood to organize a company of state militia has met with opposition from union men, and at a meeting a committee from the Steel Workers’ Union waited upon those at the head of the project and urged them to drop it. C. S Davis, a traveling salesman, picked* up a pocketbook containing S3OO in bills in the waiting room of the Union Station at Muncle and turned it over to a policeman. Misa Jessie White, a school teacher, who did not know that she had lost the purse, finally claimed it. At Evansville carbolic acid was administered for peppermint drops to a two-and-a-half-year-old child by Mrs. Ida Winterrich, its mother. After much suffering the baby died. The mistake was not discovered for some time. Two full-grown pelicans have been shot on White river, below Petersburg, by Harry Sappenfteld. They were on the farm of former Congressman Taylor, and are the first pelicans ever seen In the county. William L. Oliver, eighty-two years old, brother of the South Bend plowmaker, is dead. He lived at Mishawaka for fifty years and was wealthy. Thomas Frame of Hamlet was killed by a Pennsylvania train, near Bourbon. It is supposed he was walking on the track, and did not heed the noise made by the engine. Judge /Loftier of the circuit court has notified Muncie lawyers that hereafter when cases are to be called at a certain time, the lawyers are to be on hand, or the cases will be heard In their absence.

HOW CHEAP BAKING POWDER IS MADE.

The Health Department of New Fork has seized a quantity of so-called -heap baking powder, which it found in that city. Attention was attracted :o it by the lor* price at which it was being sold in the department stores. Samples were taken and the chemist >f the Health Department reported the stuff to be “an alum powder,'* which analysis showed to be compossd chiefly of alum and pulverized rock. The powder was declared to be dangerous to health, and several thousand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to experiment with these so-called “cheap” articles of food. They are 3ure to be made from alum, rock, or other injurious matter. In baking powders, the high class, /cream of tartar brands are the most economical, because they go farther in use and are healthful beyond question.

He Took the Persimmon.

When Senator Simmons was a candidate for senator down in North Carolina his principal opponent was a millionaire, who flooded the state with handsome buttons bearing his picture. The appearance of the buttons everywhere rather annoyed Mr. Simmons, who felt that he must do something to counteract this evidence of popularity. He had no money to throw away on buttons and for awhile he was in a quandary. Then an inspiration came to him. He decided that he would take a persimmon for his emblem. Persimmons are as numerous in North Carolina as sands upon the seashore. In the 'fall of the year, - when the election was held, they were round and hard, and fastened quite securely to their short stems. It did not take long for the followers of Mr. Simmons to learn that they could not please him better than by wearing a persimmon, and so the button was soon cast into the shade. “We are all ‘simmons men,’ ” said the wearers of the fruit, and the phrase, combining a pun on the persimmon with loyalty to the popular candidate, was so effective that it materially helped Mr. Simmons to win in his race for the senate.

A Soldier’s Narrow Escape.

Watts Flats, N. Y„ May sth.—George Manhart of this place, a hale and hearty old soldier of 80 years of age, tells a thrilling story of a narrow escape from death. ‘ Four years ago.” he says, “the doctors who were attending* me during a serious illness called my wife aside and told her that I could not live two weeks as I had Bright’s Disease,which meant certain death. "As a last resort we thought we would try Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and accordingly sent to Mr. Clark’s drug store and got a box. “This remedy worked wonders in my case. I noticed th| improvement at once and discharged the doctor. “I kept on improving until every symptom of illness ijad gone and I was strong and well. “I feel like a boy and to-day I am cnopping wood as well at eighty as at twenty. Dodd’s Kidney Pills did it.”

Medals for Soldiers of 61.

Gov. Crane of Massachusetts has signed the bill awarding a medal to every man from his state who went out in response to President Lincoln’s first call for troops. The pen with which he signed the bill has been presented to President Pierce of the “minute men of ’61.”

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your shoes, Allen’s FootEase, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Students in Paris.

Students take no unimportant part in French life, especially in Paris. Statistics published by the Ministry of Public Instruction show that the total number of students in French universities is 30,370.

Papers in Sweden.

There are 751 newspapers and periodicals in Sweden, including 52 dailies. Stockholm has twelve dailies, seven published in the morning and five in the evening, which is a large number for a city of 320,000 inhabitants.

Try One Package.

If “Defiance Starch” does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron.

Blind Asylum In Ceylon.

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ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED?

Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Every brave man is a man of his word. —Corneille.

Some Facts and Opinions

USE OF TELEPHONES IN SURGERY London Hoopltals Have Had Great Success with the Appliance. In several London hospitals surgeons are now using the telephone whenever they have occasion to probe for bullets or other "metallic objects. The receiver of the telephone is placed on the head of the operator and the patent is placed, in the ufeual manner, in contact with a plate, the general medium employed being a wet sponge or some paper saturated with a saline solution, which is spread over the plate. The latter is connected with

the telephone by a wire and the probe, after it has been introduced into the body, naturally vibrates as soon as the foreign metallic substance comes in coutact with it. The probe is also connected with the telephone by a wire, and thus no such blunder is possible as sometimes when an ordinary battery is used. When a telephone is used in this way the plate acts as one pole and the probe as the other. Needles, bullets, grains and shot and pieces of steel and copper can be easily located by the use of this simple method.

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SENATE

Peculiarities In Hnmbsrjhlp of the Great Legislative Body. Not only does the Senate represent in its membership almost every phase of professional and industrial activity, but many of its members were experienced in legislative work before coming to the Senate. Of the eighty-eight senators twenty-six served *in the House of Representatives. Fifteen senators have served as governors of states. Senator Warren served two terms as governor of the territory '*f Wyoming, and his second term ended with the admission of the territory as a state. He was then elected first governor of the state. Fifteen senators have a record of service in the confederate, army anu one was in the confederate navy. Nine senators were in the Union army. Senators Pettus of Alabama and Bate of Tennessee were in the Mexican war. —Washington Star.

CLEVER ADULTERATION OF MILK

American Methods Would Seem Slow to the Athens Men. A French newspaper describes an ingenious method of milk adulteration practiced in Athens. The residents have a penchant for goats’ milk, and herds of these animals are led along the street by milk sellers wearing long blouses with capacious sleeves. Their cry of “Gala! gala!” brings the housewife to the door, and she prudently demands that the goats shall be milked in her presence. This is done, but the milkman has in one hand the end of a thin tube which runs up his sleeves and connects with an India rubber receptacle full of water, which is carried under his ample blouse. At each pressure of the fingers on the udder there is a corresponding compression of the water sack, and milk and flow side by side into the milk pail.

Nearly 200 years before Watt saw his mother’s kettle steaming Giovanni Branca, an Italian, invented the crude steam engine here pictured.

Blow at Rogues Gallery.

A Brooklyn magistrate is taking steps to circumscribe the rogues’ gallery. He threatens to arrest policemen who take prisoners to police headquarters and photograph them before their arraignment is made. He says that such action is a violation of the penal code. The magistrate also pays his respects to the so-called “third degree.” which he stigmatizes as a relic of the dark ages. His point is that when a man’s photo has been taken for criminal record and the prisoner happens to be acquitted of the crime charged with he suffers an irreparable injury by his portrait being in the possession of the police. The police say they always destroy the negatives if the subject is acquitted, but the magistrate rather doubts this. Ailyhow, he says, the whole proceeding is illegal.

Ex-Speaker Reed Contented.

Thomas Brackett Reed always had a well-fed look, of course, but nowadays he wears a well-groomed air of comfortable prosperity such as he never could boast while in congress. When he visits Washington he puts up at the best hotel, which involves greater expense than he could have met in the old days. The ex-speaker is said to wonder why he remained in public life so long.

INSIST ON GETTING IT.

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DO TOD It CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW?

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