Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — Page 6

Indiana News Items

WOMAN BANK CASHIER QUITS

Mrs. Dick Resigns Position After Thir-ty-one Years’ Service. Mrs. Sarah F. Dick, assistant cashier and cashier of the First National Bank of Huntington, Ind., for more than thirty years, has retired from that institution. She retires on account of ill health and a desire to take care of her aged father. The bank has been reorganized and flattering terms were offered Mrs. Dick to remain, but she thought she had served her time and was anxious to quit. Mrs. Dick is one of the only two women cashiers of national banks in America and has established a reputation in banking circles as an expert. The First National Bank of Huntington was organized many years ago. It not only had the only woman cashier, but it was the only bank in the country that had women directors. In 1866 Mrs. Anna A. Daily succeeded to her husband’s interests in the bank, and In 1871 she was elected a director. The Comptroller of the Currency objected to her appointment, but it was shown that she could legally act, and after some delay she was accepted. In 1873 the widow of Samuel H. Purviance was elected a director, and in 1881 Mrs. Ann P. Slack, at the death of her husband, succeeded him as stockholder and director, and in 1883 Mrs. Fredricka Drover was elect-

MRS. SARAH F. DICK.

ed a director. For twenty years the majority of the board of directors of the bank were women. In January, 1871, Miss Sarah F. McGrew, daughter of the president of the bank, was appointed assistant cashier. She became Mrs. Sarah F. Dick in 1878, and three .years later was appointed cashier of the bank, a position she held until she resigned of her own accord. Her career as a business woman attracted attention all over the United States. She has been a salaried officer for thirty-one years and holds the record for the greatest number of transactions in one day—6o7 in 360 minutes of “open hours,’’ or one in each thirty-five seconds.

Horse Thief Confesses. Perry Tyler, on triai at Kokomo for horse stealing, testified that he and Charles Helmick had been stealing horses throughout Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois for years. Many arrests will follow his confession. Faotory Fire. Through the carelessness of a workman the washing machine factory of Glasscock Brothers at Muncie narrowly escaped total destruction by fire. Loss, $1,000; covered by insurance. May Get New York Pastor. The. Rev. Henry H. Hadley, assistant rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal church, New York city, will probably become the rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Richmond. To Dedicate Church. A Catholic church, now building near Hovey’s lake, Posey county, will be dedicated October 26. The sermon will be by the Rev. Father P. H. Rowan of Montgomery. To Reclaim Swamp Lands. A petition has been prepared tb drain Pipe creek, from a point near Gaston to Alexandria. The improvement will reclaim many acres of swamp tends. Blown From Building. At Logansport Frey Gray, a tinner, was holding a large piece of tin while on the top of a three-story building and was blown oft, dying from his injuries. Shoots an Eagle. Charles Chamberlain, a farmer living near Centerville, shot a specimen of bald eagle that measured six feet from tip to tip. Gets a Fortune. Mrs. William Deitzen, Jr., of Anderson, has been advised that she is to Inherit one-eighth of the $125,000 estate of John Sohn, who died at Marlon. She 1b 18 years old. Mayor Is Btrenuous. Mayor Brouse of Kokomo says that unless the Indiana Natural Gas Company accepts the ordinance passed by the city council, legal action will begin at once. The council gave the company the privilege of raising its rates one-third. Lawyer Dies. Edward F. White, age 45, senior member of the law firm of White ft White of Franklin, is dead, after an Illness of several months. He leaves a wife and two children.

OLD FRAUD IN BRAND NEW DRESS

Swindlers Sell S6O Machines for 04 and Take Notes. Thß authorities are investigating the attempt of sharpers to swindle Jerry Jordon, a farmer, near Pleasant Hill, and the affair may be taken up by the postal authorities. Two strangers called on Jordan, who said they were agents for an electric lighting machine, designed for farm homes. The price, they said, was S6O, but to advertise the machine, they would sell Jordon one for $4. Jordon signed a contract, which he was to keep until the machine arrived. One of the strangers placed the contract in an envelope and sealed it, giving the envelope to Jordon. After the men left, Jordon became suspicious and opened the envelope, when he saw he had signed a contract for twelve lights at $64 each. A third stranger appeared next day and said he was ready to deliver the machine. Jordon said he had opened the envelope and found the fraudulent contract, when the stranger said Jordon had violated the law by opening the envelope, which had been addressed to Richmond. The stranger offered to keep quiet about It for SBOO, but Jordon declined, and the stranger offered to compromise for $250. The stranger left, threatening to prosecute Jordon for violation of the postal laws.

Dies of Hunger. John H. Bowes, 78 years old, was found dead in a tenement house at Michigan City. He wore gloves and an overcoat, indicating that he had been suffering from cold. No fuel or wood was found In the house and it is thought his death was due to hunger an exposure. Bowes was at one time a prominent citizen. His family, as well as himself, was wealthy. He met with reverses which left him in poverty. Missing Man Is Found. Alonzo O’Rear, who has been missing from Kokomo for three months, has been found in a New Orleans hospital, where he is convalescing from a long illness. The ,oung man ran away from home, and the police of nearly every city in the United States have been searching for him. Split on Vaccination. Trouble is brewing between R. A. Ogg, superintendent of Kokomq, schools, and the City Council. Ogg has given teachers in the city schools instructions to admit all children who have not been vaccinated. This order is in violation of an ordinance passed by the council. Object to Machines. Twenty operators on barbed wire machines at the factory of the Kokomo wire rod and nail mill refused to go to work. Otis Crousore, one of the force, was killed at his machine, and the men say that they are dangerous and demand that the machines be changed. To Employ Fifty Men. James Peabody, a manufacturer, and his brother, S. J. Peabody, of Columbia City, will establish a plant and give employment to fifty men at North Manchester, the citizens of that place having donated a large brick building. Bloody Street Fight. During a street fight at the Terre Haute carnival William Stotts, living near Vermilion, shot an unknown man and a little girl, Ruby Garden. The unknown man hurried out of town. A bullet struck the girl in the leg. Helper Scalds Engineer. While Jacob W. Jones, an engineer in the Muncie plant of the American Rolling Mill Company, was inside a boiler cleaning it, a helper turned on the steam, not knowing he was inside, and Jones was scalded. Hamburg Is Not Guilty. Solomon Hamburg, Jr., of Cincinnati, who was arrested in connection with an attempt to burn the Brandon Hotel at Alexandria, has been released. He wps not the man the authorities were seeking. Patients’ Blacklist. A blacklist is being prepared by the physicians of New Albany as a result of a meeting helu for the purpose of taking some action against persons who contract doctors’ bills and refuse to pay them.

Loses Life for Hat. The little son of Thomas Richards was killed near Butlerville. The boy’s hat blew off near the railroad track as a train was passing. He ran to' get it and was struck by a coach. Transfers Oil Leases. The Lena Oil Company has bought the oil properties of M. J. Sullivan, of Lima, 0., for $50,000, sn average of SSOO per barrel for the production. The property Includes 200 acres of leases south of Jonesboro. Buspect Returns. Manson U. Johnson, for whom the sheriff of Tipton county was looking, has returned to Anderaon, but has not been arrested. Johnson says he has been away trying to collect some accounts.

State Happening* Succinctly Told by Our Special Correspondents.

GREAT CORN CROP IN INDIANA

Reports Made to the Central Corn Dealers’ Association. The Central Corn Dealers’ Assoclar tion of Indiana held its annual meeting in Marion. About 140 members from over the state were in attendance. It was reported that throughout the territory of the association there is an exceptionally fine crop of corn, both in quantity and quality. No new corn will be hauled until the middle of November. The next annual meeting will be held at Logansport. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, A. J. Thompson, of Kokomo; secretary, A. F. Files, of Muncie; treasurer, George Wood, Windfall.

COLORED GIRL AN EVANGELIBT

Miss Horton Began the Lord’s Work When Only Twelve Years Old. Isabella H. Horton, sixteen years old, is a colored evangelist, who has preached with success in the East. She was born in Savannah, Ga. She showed religious inclinations at a very early age. When twelve years old she became converted while attending school at Jersey City, to which place her parents had removed. She showed

ISABELLA HORTON.

great familiarity with the Bible and at once began to take an active part in local mission work. Her service* were constantly in demand, and she began to travel and preach. Miss Horton has conducted services at various African Methodist churches in Indianapolis. QUAKERS HAVE A GYMNASIUM Friends’ Church at Richmond Caters to Young People. The South Eighth Street Friends’ church in Richmond, just remodeled, is probably the only Quaker church in America that has connection a well-appointed gymnasium for the benefit of the young people of the congregation. The church is one of the most prosperous in Richmond and is presided over by the Rev. Ellwood O. Ellis, for many years clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. The building is of brick. The church proper occupies the front portion of the building and the rear is similar to Y. M. C. A. Quarters. There are reading rooms, bath and toilet rooms, dining room, kitchen and pantries, besides the gymnasium. Chimney-Makers Strike. The chimney glass factory at Elwood of the Macbeth-Evans Glass company has shut down owing to a general strike ordered in all the company’s plants. Dies While Ironing. At Forest Hill Mrs. Nancy Gibson was found dead near a table where she had been ironing. She had been dead for twenty-four hours. She was born in 1825. Says Note Is Forged. Jacob Bean, a wealthy farmer, visited Logansport to look after a’ note for $2,000 sent from Indianapolis for collection, which he pronounces a forgery. Sues for SIO,OOO, Gets $250. The SIO,OOO damage suit of Jacob Clouds against the Connersville Furniture Company resulted in a verdict of $250 for the plaintlfT. Burns to Death. At Vincennes Mrs. John Ice, while temorarily insane over religion, saturated her clothing with coal oil and burned to death. Buys Starr Home. Benjamin Starr has purchased the Starr homestead at Richmond for $/,100, it being disposed of'at administrator’s sale. Pay Up, Boys! Clerks who contract debts and do not pay them may lose their places if a movement among the merchants of Anderson is agreed to. It is said that some clerks owe bo many bills about town that they effect the business of their employers. Gobbler Hatches Guinea Eggs. Mrs. Scott George, east of Milton, has a turkey gobbler that took possession of a guinea’s nest and hatched a brood or two.

ROLLING STOCK IN SHORT SUPPLY

Railroads Are Embarrassed by Lack of Cars In Which to Haul Freight NOT ENOUGH ENGINES IN WEST Builders Are Behind in Orders for Locomotives and Traffic is Delayed on That Account-Lines Can Handle Hard-coal Rush. Increased anxiety over the car shortage is evident among western railroad officials. This condition has prevailed for some time and has been most embarrassing to lines farther east. At times, however, the western roads have been so situated that a more plentiful supply of cars would have been very acceptable. With the coming of the fall traffic in grain and the natural increase in shipments of live stock to be expected at this season the need of cars has been more keenly felt. The northwestern lines are getting the full effect of the rush of small grain to market and several weeks ago the principal lines in that quarter were complaining of inability to move the freight as promptly as they demanded.

Not Enough Engines. The trouble with the western lines is not so much the lack of cars as it is the lack of a proportionate number of locomotives to handle what they have. During the last year and a half there has been an enormous increase in the number of freight cars in use on the roads centering at Chicago. There has been as large an increase in the number of effective locomotives as the builders could turn out, but the motive power men have been outstripped by the car men in the race. It is believed by those conversant with the situation that the orders for locomotives now in the hands of the builders will remedy this condition. Some anxiety has been felt over the prospects of a great rush of hard coal for delivery through the middle west on the resumption of work in the east, but the roads are confident they can take care of this trade as fast as the coal lines can turn it over. Traffic Increases. Lines extending from Chicago directly west and to the southwest re port that the freight traffic has been very largely increased during the last month, though the season for heavy shipments of corn has not yet arrived. Live stock and small grain have been in excess of expectations ana the condition of the fattening pens and stock farms of that section are believed, by railroad men to portend the same heavy shipments of cattle for several months. One effect of the demand for motive power and general freight handling equipment has been that western roads are becoming the best equipped in the country in this regard, and when the cars and locomotives now in the shops and under contract art put into service this will be vastl3 improved.

LOBES $7,000 WORTH OF GEMS

Woman Leaves Valuables on Bank Counter at Duluth, Minn. Duluth, Minn., dispatch: Seven thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds and other precious stones were stolen from the counter in the First National bank building. The victim was Mrs. T. D. Merrill, a prominent society woman and wife of the senior member of the firm of Merrill & Bing, timber men. Mrs. Merrill had Just come from the safety deposit vaults, where she drew out the jewels and laid them down, then leaving the building. Upon discovering her loss she hastened back, but the jewels had disappeared. The police say there is no clew to the thief.

RAILROAD MEN IN MEXICAN JAIL

Train Manned by Americans Accidentally Kills a Native. Bisbee, Ariz., special: Two Mexicans were run over by a train at Agua Prieta, across the international line from Douglass, Ariz, One was killed and the other badly injured. The train men were immediately arrested and placed in the Mexican jail. Excitement Is intense at Douglass. Supt. Morgan persuaded a party of railroad men not to cross the line and liberate the Americans.

Big Hotel Fire.

Jamestown, N. Y., dispatch: The Grand hotel at Point Chautauqua, one pf the largest and finest hotels around Chautauqua lake, was burned to the ground, together with the amusement hall and summer cottage owned by the hotel company. The loss will be fully $200,000.

Shaw’s Son Returns.

Washington dispatch: Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, has left for, Seattle to meet her son Earle. Master Shaw has been roughing it with a geological survey In Alaska during the summer.

Escapes Lynching.

Rusk, Tex. special: After nearly a week of dodging mobs Jim Buchanan, colored, the alleged murderer of the Hicks family, was safely lodged In the Kast Texas penitentiary.’

Instant Relief from Rheumatism and Neuralgia.

Her* is * case: Mr. T. Shepherd of Whitburn, Sunderland, Ohio, says: w *f® suffered severely from rheumatism, and :ieura.gia. She could not get one moment’s rest and was nearly crazed with pain. Obtained instant relief and a permanent cure by using the contents of one bottle of St Jacobs Oil. Ther ■is no other remedy in the world that will do this. The Instantaneous effect which St. Jacobs Oil produces is a part of its half a century record.” St. Jacobs Oil is sold in 25 cts. and 50 cts. sizes by all druggists. The words “Acts like Magic,” “Conquers Pain,” which have been used in connection with St Jacobs Oil for more than 50 years are wonderfully and truly descriptive.

Writhing of a Snake Story.

The mother of a 2-year-old boy at Nashville, Ind., found the baby playing with a snake the other day. When the reptile was driven away it carried with it a ring which it had taken from the child’s finger. This is recorded to preserve the truth. A few years hence the story will get around that the snake stole the baby and carefully deposited the ring in the mother’s hand as a keepsake.

$15. Texas and Return.$15.

From St. Louis and Hannibal via M., K. & T. Ry. Through the .heart of the beautiful Indian Territory. October 21st and 28th. Final 'limit 30 days; stop overs in both directions; free side trips aggregating over 1,000 miles. Ask nearest agent or write “Katy" St. Louis.

A Charade.

The most delightful charade in the language: There is a word of plural number, Foe to ease and quiet slumber. If to it you add an s. How strange the metamorphosis. Plural is plural no more, And sweet what bitter was before. Cares-s.

Seeking a New Home?

Why not try the Great Southwest? Interesting information about conditions and business chances In Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas will be cheerfully furnished by James Barker, Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. AgL, M., K. & T. Ry., 518 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis.

A Fable.

Once there was a man who wanted to be a Bear, so the Devil turned him into one. Next day an old man came along and put the Bear out of business and skinned him. Moral —Keep your eye on Gates. The November Century contains the closing instalment of “Confessions of a Wife.” The book was announced for publication on the 15th of October, but the large demand has made it necessary to put off the date of issue for oqe week so that a sufficient number of copies may be printed to fill the first orders. It will be issued October 22.

Damages Fixed by Law.

The state of Colorado has a law which arbitrarily fixes the value of stock killed by the railways and which the roads have to pay when losses occur. No one would ever be bothered with constipation if every one knew how naturally and quickly Burdock Blood Bitters regulates the stomach and bowels. Wireless telegraphy is to be used on Italian trains as a means of preventing railway^accidents. There are about 10,000 murders a year in the United States. Don’t forget to have Mrs. Austin's Pancakes for breakfast. Your grocer can supply you. Politeness is generally paid back in its own coin.

TRUSSES from us fityour body. Prices your pocketbook. «T o np'rl^ b o l y ? U W "’ * et on, r one not b T an experienced fitter, but from an unßcrupuloutf’e&ler W for » *2.00 Trim*. OUT ,rIC6« Over7l)styles. Supporters and Elastic Stockings at lowest factory prices, call and be properly fitted. Catalogue mailed free. Open Sundays HOTTINQER TftUSS CO. r&ar 1 ?! 0 Factory: «5-4#7 Milwaukee oor. Chicago A v., Tower Clock Bldg.. #th fl. Tako elevator INVESTMENT The Preferred Stock or the W. L, Douglas s <Sr Capital Stock, $2,000,000. • 1,000,000 Preferred Stock. * l ,000,000 Common Stock. Stares, $ 100 each. Sold at Par. Only Preferred Stock offered for g'le. W. L. Djuglas retains all Common Stock. The Preferred Btockof the W. L. Dougla* Shoe Com. s . aTln B» Bank* or Government Bonds. Every dollar of stock ottered the public has y \ behind It more than s dollar's worth of actual assets. W. L. B?. r sßk Douglas continues to own WH one-half of the business, and ■KSygr- •‘toteiman the active head WEBf 1 fijgV SSgg This business Is not sn anE Wi W* 7VI) developed prospect. It is s ■feat v nil demonstrated dividend psvf - fhis Is the largest business In the world producing Men's JT t'Ocdyeai WeltOfand Sewed Process) shoes, and has al. ■JlSSSMfekffilSr L wa s'* been immensely profitvk sble. There has not been a ■ //JSfcv 7. ear J" ! lle l’ ast twelve when /JpSSSty the business has not earned 2 ac,ual cash much more 1 ,an t,le amount necessary jiLsj' /rvrrrJ))M L’to pay 7 per cent »«muitj on preferred stock of |IOOO.OOO. bttslness now is $6 600 000, It Is Increasing I*7 wrUl equal *7.000 000 for the year IOoC I**.? StSf® ry iiP,?J r ,u . rn l"K °',» 7«» P»lrs of shoes pet day. and an addition to the plant Is being built which w sL‘ n *£? M ® t h ® capacity to 10,000 pairs per day. ’VP tb® Preferred Stock for sal* is to perpetuate the business. , iyott wish to invest in the best shoe business in the world, which la permanent, and recelre 7 per cent on yoi'r money, you can purchase one share or more in this |7® at business. Send money by cashier's check or certified Check, made payable to W I. Douglas. If there is no hank in your lown, send money by express ot poM office money orders. . y l r °BP®':’'>» (rtvlng full Information about okli neat p w*sl! B&WLTkX'nJ&'tfZX-JtzE* Daily

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