Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — Page 2

The Republican. OrrtOIAL PAPER OP JASPER COUNTY « ISSUED EVERY TUESDAY & FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—In Republican Building on corner Of Washington and Weston Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year , .$1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months 50 Tuesday, July 12, 1898.

The County Ticket.

For Prosecuting-Attorney, ALBERT E. CHIZUM, County. For County Clerk, ESTIL E. PIERSON, ofUnion Township. For County Auditor, WILLIAM C. BABCOCK, of Marion Township. For County Treasurer, ROBERT A. PARKISON, of Bark lay Township. For County Sheriff, NATE J. REED, of Carpenter Township. For Countv Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner Ist District. ABRAHAM HALLECK, of Keener Township. Commissioner 2nd District, SIMEON A, DOWELL, of Marion Township.

Call For Republican State Convention.

To the Republicans of Indiana and All Others who desire to Co-op-erate with them: You are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in Indianapolis, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 3rd and 4th, 1898. The convention will assemble at 3:30 p. m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, for the purpose of adopting a platform and for the transaction of all other business except the selection of candidates. The convention will reassemble on Thursday, Aug. 4th, at 9 a. m. for the selection of candidates for the following state offices: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney-General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Statistician, State Geologist, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Second District, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Third District, Judge of the Supreme Court far the Fifth District. The convention will be composed es 1G1<» delegates. apportioned among the several counties on the basis of one delegate and one alternate for each two hundred votes and each fraction of one hundred or over cast for Hon. Henry G. Thayer, first Elector at Large, in 189 G. and are as follows: . TENTH DISTRICT. No. Vote Delegates. 1806. Benton ' ". 10 1,998 Jasper 10 2.032 Lake 24 4.883 Laporte 23 4.691 Newton 8 1.545 Porter 14 2,853 Tippecanoe 31 6,239 Warren 10 2.045 White-...... ... 12 2.383 Total .142 z The delegates from the counties composing the several districts will

meet in Indianapolis at 11:30 a. na., Wednesday, August 3rd, at the following places, to select officers and committeemen: Tenth Dist., State House, Room 54, Second Floor. Tickets to the Convention will be distributed lay the District Committeemen at the district meetings. Delegates should be in their seats ready for business at 3:30 p, m. sharp, Wednesday, Aug. 3rd. Doors to the conventiou hall will be open at two o’clock. . . __——— Charles S.Hernly, S. H. Spooner, Chairman. Secretary. Up in Canada, as in other parts of the Queen’s domain, the people have a right to prepare their own postal cards, under certain regulations. The popular idea in these private postal cards up there now is a good sized picture of the English and American flags, united. Our townsman, James Matheson, received one of ’these cards from his brother, who lives in Ontario. On the card the brother informed Mr. Matheson that the people there watched the war news with the same eagerness as they do here, and what is more rejoice about as freely over the American victories as we do ourselves. The same story is true of every part of the mighty British empire. Everywhere the most friendly and fraternal feeling is felt for the United States. This profession of friendship is not, a mere diplomatic and selfish pretense on the part of leaders, as some people who ought to known better have recently asserted, but it is a deep, living sentiment, prevading the hearts of all the people. Whatever future events may bring forth, right now the practical union of the Anglo-Saxon nations is an actual fact. It is now universally admitted that the United States’ war ships, armor and guns are not only as good as any in the world, but even the English people are beginning to admit that our ships are even better than theirs. That reminds us how recently all the populist and half of the democrat papers and orators in the country, were crying out against our ships and guns. The armor was a rotten fraud which would fly to pieces when the first cannon ball struck it; the battle ships were clumsy and unmanageable, and liable to capsize when the first heavy storm was encountered. The big guns were being constructed after out-of-date ideas, would only stand firing a few dozen times; and so their slanderous and treasonable diatribes went on, world without end. “What,” says one respected and patriotic citizen, “ought to be done with those of our fellow countrymen who are always and forever raising voices of slander against everything in their own country which they do not happen to control themselves?” He thinks that a wholesale deportation to some uninhabited island in the ocean of the whole brood of unpatriotic and un-American croakers would be about the mildest fate consistent with justice that could be inflicted upon them.

Rensselaer Markets.

Wheat 70 to 75 Rye 35c Oats 21 Corn 27c Butter lie Eggs B|c Chickens—spring 10c Hens 5c Turkeys 4 to 5c Ducks :.... 4 tc 5c Geese 3c Potatoes • sl. Hay . $5.

Camp Mount Excursion. The Monon will run a special excursion Sunday. July 17, leaving Rensselaer at 8 o’clock a. m.. and returning 6 o’clock p. in. Fare for the round trip 51.25. Go and give the boys the glad hand. W. H. Bram, Agt. Farm Hand Wanted. A good farm hand wanted, for ♦wo months at S2O per month, at the farm of M. B. Halstead. 7 miles west of Rensselaer. w2tp

WITHIN OUR LINES.

Lieut Hobson and His Brave Men Again with Friends. THEIR EXCHANGE AT LAST EFFECTED. The Event Takes Place in Plain View of Both Armlet Before Santisgo— Royal Welcome Extended to the Heroes. Washington, July 8. —The president has been, officially notified by Gen. Shafter of the exchange of Hobson, who is now within the American lines. The president has given expression to his deep gratification at the successful accomplishment of the exchange negotiations. Gen. Shafter reports that Hobson and the others are well except two, who are convalescing from an attack of intermittent fever. The exchange was made on equal terms as to rank. Shafter's Telegram. Washington, July B.—Gen. Shafter’s telegram announcing the exchange of Lieut. Hobson and his men is as follows: “Playa del Este, July 7.—Secretary of War, Washington: Headquarters Fifth Army Corps, Cuba, July 6.—Lieut. Hobson and all of his men have just been received safely in exchange for Spanish officers and prisoners taken by United States. All in good health except two seamen convalescing from remittent fever. "(Signed) SHAFTER, “Major General Commanding." List of the Exchanged Heroes. The men whose return to their comrades has been secured by the negotiations are: Richmond P. Hobson, lieutenant U. S. N.; Osborne Deignan, coxswain; George F. Phillips, machinist; John Kelly, water tender; George Charette, a gunner’s mate; Daniel Montague, seaman; J. C. Murphy, coxswain; Randolph Clausen, coxswain. How Exchange Was Made. Off Juragua, July 6, by the Press Dispatch Boat Wanda, via Kingston, Jamaica, July 8. —The Spanish authorities consented this morning to exchange Hobson and his men and a truce was established for the purpose. The place selected for the exchange was under a tree between the American and Spanish lines, two-thirds of a mile beyond the entrenchments occupied by Col. Wood’s rough riders, near Gen. Wheeler’s headquarters and in the centei - of the American line. The American prisoners left the Reina Mercedes hospital on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba, where they had been confined, at 2:45 this afternoon, in charge of Maj. Irles, a Spanish staff officer, who speaks English perfectly. The prisoners were conducted to the meeting place on foot, but were not blindfolded. Col. John Jacob Astor and Lieut. Miloy, accompanied by Interpreter Maestro, were in charge of the Spanish prisoners. These consisted of Lieut. Amelio Volez and Aurelius, a German belonging to the Twentyninth regular infantry, who were cap- ■ tured at El Caney on Friday last, and Lieut. Adolfo Aries, of the First provisional regiment of Barcelona, one of the most aristocratic military organizations of the Spanish army, and 14 non-commissioned officers and privates. Lieut. Aries and a number of the men were wounded in the fight at El Caney. The Spanish prisoners were taken through the American lines mounted and blindfolded. The meeting between Col. Astor and Maj. Irles was extremely courteous, but very formal, and no attempt was made by either of them to discuss anything but the mutter in hand. Maj. Irles was given his choice of three Spanish lieutenants in exchange for Hobson, and was also informed that he could have all of the 14 men in exchange for the American sailors. The Spanish officer selected Lieut. Aries, and the other two Spanish officers were conducted back to Juragua. The meeting of lhe two parties and the exchange of prisoners had taken place in full view of both the American and Spanish soldiers, who were -intrenched near the meeting place, and the keenest interest was taken in the episode. Hobaon Wildly Cheered. Hobson and his men were escorted through the American lines by Capt. Chadwick, of the New York, who was awaiting them. Every step of their journey was marked by the wildest on the part of the American soldiers, who threw aside •11 semblance of order, scrambled out of the entrenchments, knocked over tent guys and other camp paraphernalia in their eagerness to see the returning heroes,and sent up cheer after cheer for the men who had passed safely through the jaws of death to serve their country. The same scenes of enthusiasm were repeated upon the arrival of the men at the hospital station and at our base at Juragua. Hobson, who reached there in advance of his companions, was taken on board the New York immediately. The flagship's decks were lined with officers and men, and ns Hobson clambered up her side and stepped on board his vessel, the harbor rung with the shouts and cheers of his comrades, which were reechoed by the crews of a dozen transports lying near by. Lieut. Hobson and all of his men were completely overcome by the reception accorded them, and tears rolled down their cheeks ns the soldiers crowded around them. As Hobson and his party approached Capt. Grimes' battery, the men cried out on every side to have a salute fired in their honor. Hobson protested against I this immediately, and shouted to the 1 artillery men, who hnd also caught I the infection, not to do it. Hrlcomed by Crn. Wheeler, Lieut. Hobson finally reached Gen. Wheeler’s headquarters, where the

veteran cavalryman and other officers gave him a warm welcome. By thia time Capt. Chadwick, of the New York, and the naval escort from the flagship had Hobson and his men, and they were the first persons with whom the rescued prisoners had any previous acquaintance whom they had met since they entered Santiago harbdf on their perilous mission. Capt. Chadwick and all the others took each man by the hand and extended the heartiest greetings. Before leaving for the seacoast Hobson was taken to Gen. Shafter’s headquarters and warmly greeted by the commanding general. An Interview. Lieut. Hobson declined to say anything to the newspaper men regarding the sinking of the Merrimac, on the ground that he intended to submit a complete report to Admiral Sampson on the subject and that it would be outside the line pf his duty to say anything about it until after he had made such a report, or at least had had an opportunity to consult the admiral. With regard to his experience as a prisoner of war in Santiago he said: During the first four days we were prisoners of war we were confined in Morro castle, and I can assure you those were extremely uncomfortable and disagreeable days The Spaniards did not exactly 111 treat us, but It took them some time to recover from the shock caused by what most of them considered our Yankee Impudence In trying to block their harbor. As a rule the officers and men who came Into contact with us were gruff in speech and suHen In manner. There were many threatening glances shot in our direction. I’ralne for Cervera. "For Admiral Cervera I have nothing but the highest admiration. His act in informing Admiral Sampson of our safety I regard as that of a kind-hearted, generous man and chivalrous officer. I expressed to him my sincere thanks and the thanks of my men for taking this means of relieving the anxiety of our shipmates and our friends at home. He repeatedly spoke to me of his admiration of what he called one of the most daring acts in naval history, though I am sure we were not entitled to the commendation we received, for there were hundreds of other men on our ships who would have been glad to undertake to do the same thing. kept in the Hospital. "While we were in Morro castle we were naval prisoners, but, at the end of four days we were transferred to the jurisdiction of the army, and were removed to the Reina Mercedes hospital on the outskirts of Santiago, where we remained until to-day. We knew but little of what was going on in the city, though, of course, we could always tell when bur fleet was bombarding the shore batteries, and we could easily distinguish the terrific explosions caused by the Vesuvius throwing dynamite shells. Several times at, night we were also fully aware that the land batteries were fighting outside the city. Last Friday and Saturday it would be difficult to explain how anxious we were for news of the success of our side during the engagement. The little information the Spaniards wopld give us could not be relied upon. One thing that I found out in the hospital was that a large number of Spanish officers were wounded in last Friday’s tight, for many were brought to the hospital to be treated. of badly aimed bullets came into the hospital windows on Friday, but I do not believe anyone was injured by them. Our quarters there were very clean and comfortable, and the food 'was fairly good. In fact, I have .no reason to complain of our treatment as prisoners of war. The prejudice which the Spaniards showed against us during the first few days soon wore away. We conducted ourselves properly and simply forced them to treat us well.”

ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.

Cuncarrent Kesolation l‘a»»eil by the House Fixing; the Time at Two O’clock, July 8. Washington, July 8. —Speaker Reed had not returned to Washington Thursday, and in his absence Mr. Payne (rep., N. Y.) was designated to preside over the house. The galleries were tilled with members of the National Educational association, now holding its meeting in this city. Mr. Dalzell (rep.. Pa.) offered from the committee on ways ana means a concurrent resolution providing for final adjournment of the session of congress at two o’clock Friday. It was immediately passed and generally applauded by the members. Washington, July B.—ln the senate Thursday the bill permitting the secretary of war in his discretion to have erected on the West Point reservation an edifice for religious worship was passed without amendment. Its primary purpose is to enable the erection of a Roman Catholic church. A bill to restore Maj. J. W. Wham, formerly paymaster in the United States army, to his full rank and pay in the army was unanimously passed. A resolution authorizing the committee on finance to make an investigation of internal revenue and customs matters and to hold sessions during the recess of congress was agreed to. Senator Allison called up the house resolution providing for the adjournment of congress to-day, and had It referred to the committee on appropriations. At 4:40 the senate went Into executive session, and at 6:12 p. m. adjourned.

SHORT SPECIALS.

Among the nominations wnicn were sent to the senate Friday was that of Brig. Gen. Lawton to be major general, and Col. i Leonard Wood to be brigadier general. Lieut. Peary has arrived at Sydney, B. C., ' on his way to the Arctic regions. He says he is confident that he will reach the north pole this time, but he may consume four years in doing IL Albert Cullom, a nephew of United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois. suddenly expired In a Chattanooga (Ga.) drug •tore, whither he had gone to purchaaa medicine for himself. President McKinley, upon whom Yale university recently conferred the degree of doctor of laws, has received from President Dwight and the members of the corporation the usual diploma. The board of trustees of the. soldiers’ home at Quincy, lU., made an estimate of an appropriation to bo asked of the next legislature, fixing the sum at $463,700, which la based on an average membership of '.600. rhe New York Herald announces the marriage last Saturday of Mlsa Ella McPherson, daughter of the late John R. McPherson, United States senator from New Jersey, to Dr. Joseph Muir. Mrs. Muir la the heiress to an estate worth millions. All records were broken In St. Louis and vicinity by th* heavy rainfall of Thursday and Thursday night. Reports from all sections of the city indicate that the damage done by this great body of water mounts up Into the hundred thousands. La Bourgogne's passenger list has been carefully revised and It Is known that there were <l4 souls on board the steamer, of whom i>W were lost and 164 saved. Of the saved 12 were secood-claas, 47 steerage and the remaining 106 were members of the crew. '-he senate committee on claims. In Its report, exonerated the Methodist church from all blame relative to the payment »f th* claim of the Methodist Book concern, and the payment to Maj. E. B. Btahljnan of 1100,000, as an agent, in getting the t alm through.

MANY PERISH.

Disastrous Flood in Missouri—Thirteen Lives Lost at Steeleville and Six at Other Points. * , _____ St. Louis, July 9. —A special to the Republic from Cuba, Mo., say’s: A courier from Steeleville, the county seat of Crawford county, brought the terrible news Friday that the town had almost been wiped out by a waterspout early Friday morning. The known dead: Mrs. Lou Tucker and babe, St. Louis; daughter of Charles Abrams, St. Louis; Mrs. John Woods and two children. Steeleville; Mrs. James Tass and three children, Steeleville; Mrs. William Lesough, Steeleville; Luther Slough, Steeleville; colored man, unknown. Midland. As soon as the news was received a relief party started for the stricken town. The town was in ruins. Few buildings were left standing, and groans of anguish were heard on all sides as searchers sought for loved ones among the debris. The waterspout occurred cutside the town, but swelled Yadkin creek, ‘which came down in a mighty and destructive flood, sweeping all before it. Up to Friday evening 13 bodies had been recovered. but it is thought more have perished. Steeleville was a town of 1,000 inhabitants, situated on the Salem branch of the ’Frisco railroad. All the wires are down and no communication can be had except by courier. St. Louis, July 9.—A special to the Republic from Stanberry, Mo., says: A heavy rain at three o’clock Thursday afternoon became a flood of water along the valley south of the railroad tracks and some 15 families with their homes were carried along by the sweeping torrent. Some houses were destroyed, while men, women and children Friday morning were found in trees and drifts for at least a mile along the valley. The dead are: Mrs. Isaac Gray and babe, Charles Smith and Bert Vance. The Standard Oil tank, with 3,000 gallons of oil, was carried a mile. Miles of railroad track and bridges are gone. Three miles from Maryville, Mo., the water from the swollen Nodaw ay river surrounded the house of James Nolan, a farmer, and Mrs. Nolan and her mother, Mrs. Phoebe Joslyn, were drowned. Nolan made a heroic effort to rescue them, but they were caught in a barbed wire fence and he was swept away and lodged in a tree.

DEADLY DYNAMITE.

Explosion on a Minnesota Farm Causes Two Deaths—One Victim Torn to Pieces. St. Paul, Minn., July 8. —A Lakefield (Minn.) special to the Pioneer Press says: At noon Thursday, on John Neurth’s farm, six miles southeast of town, while George Ralph, of Welcome, and Peter Wanderbamb, of Kansasville, Wis., were preparing a pound charge of dynamite to use in a well they were digging, it exploded. Ralph was literally blown to pieces, parts of hia body being found over 40 paces from where the ascident happened. Wanderbamb had both feet and right hand blown off, but lived an hour and a half. Christian Thompson, the renter on the farm, who was standing behind the men, was terribly injured, but It is believed he will recover. The accident was the result of carelessness, the men having been engaged pounding the dynamite into the can with a spike when it exploded.

OBSTRUCTED BY WRECKAGE.

Passengers on the La Huurgugue Unable to Get at Life Boats— Total Drowned, 5416. New York, July 8. —A telegram was received at the French line office Thursday stating that the survivors of La Bourgogne would arrive in Boston by boat at seven o’clock Friday morning. They will probably come on to New York by rail. One of the agenta of the line will go to Boston. Acting General Manager Paul Faguet gave out Thursday the following list of the lost: First cabin, 88; second cabin, 113; steerage, 246; officers and crew, 118. Total, 565. A telegram was received from Halifax by M. Faguet from S. Cunard A Co., which stated that the wreckage on board La Bourgogne proved to be such an obstruction that the passengers and crew were unable to reach the starboard lifeboats.

Four Men Killed by a Fall.

Marshalltown, la.. July B.—Five men were precipitated 50 feet to the ground Thursday afternoon from a scaffold on top of storage tanks being erected at the glucose works. John McLaughlin, Adolph Brender, John Carrigan and James Lamb were killed and Michael Driscoll is not expected to recover. They all lived at Peoria, HL. and were brought here to work) under Contractor Cody.

Quick Disposition of a Murderer.

Madison, Wis., July 9. —Fred Rodman, the Westfield wife murderer, was brought here to escape the vengeance of a mob, and was taken immediately before Judge Siebecker, in whose circuit the crime was committed. After waiving all formalities Rotiman pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, July 7, the date of the crime, in each year to be spent in solitary confinement. He was in prison within 34 hours of the commission of tbs crime.

Anson Is Released?

New York. July B.—Adrian C. Anson was released Thursday as manager of the New York baseball club, and it was announced that former manager Joyce would be reappointed. Th* Italian government has ordered th* third-class cruiser* Piement* and De Gall to proceed to the Philippine islands.

An Educational Outing at Beautiful Winona.

Two hundred feet above Lake Michigan, located just south of the Michigan state line, on Winona Lake (formerly Eagle Lake), Indiana. Reached directly by the Pennsylvania and Big Four railroads. Fourteen springs of great medicinal value, complete sewerage, waterworks, steamers, row boats, half-mile bicycle track and athletic' grounds. Three hundred thousand dollars have been expended upon grounds and buildings. Winona Assembly and Summer School. □ Seventeen (teachers, all colleg professors.’ Prof. Joh n M Cou Iter, Chicago University, Principal. School opens July sth, six weeks term. Program begins July 4th and closes August 28th. Fine hotels, boarding houses and private cottages. Board, including room, from $5 to sl2 per week, according to the location. Board and room in farm houses for limited number at $3 per week. Winona Lake is three miles in length; deepest lake in the state. Entire grounds shaded by magnificent growth of forest trees. Write for particulars and program to Key. S. C. Dickey, D. D. Secretary and Gen. Manager, Winona Lake, Ind.

Fountain Park Assembly. ‘‘Fountain Park Assembly Remington, Ind., Aug. 11th to 22d, '9B. The best program of lectures, musicals, sermons, moving life pictures and bible studies ever yet given. Equal to any of the older Assembly’s for same length of time. Send for program to Robt. Parker, Supt., Remington, Ind.” 5w Camp Mount Excursion. The Monon will run a special excursion Sunday, July 17, leaving Rensselaer at 8 o’clock a. m., and returning 6 p. m. Fare for the round trip $1.25. Go and give the boys the glad hand. W. H. Beam, Agt. Yousouf, “the terrible Turk,” the world’s greatest wrestler and the only man who ever threw Evan Lewis, which he recently did in Chicago, was among the drowned on the ill fated Laßourgogne. Camp Mount Excursion. The Monon will run a special excursion Sunday, July 17, leaving Rensselaer at 8 o’clock a. m. and returning 6 o’clock p. m. Fare for the round trip $1.25. Go and give the boys the glad hand. W. H. Beam, Agt. Notice of Appointment of Execntrix. The State of Indiana, I aa County of Jasper. Notice is hereby given that the nndersign®d has duly qualified as executrix of the last will and testament of James Culp, late of Jasper County. Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Elizabeth Oulp, June 25th, 1898. Executrix. R. h. 4894 S. 2414. Chilcote Dunn, Attorneys for Executrix. June 28-July 5-12-19.

Base... ...Ball Thursday, 1 /| JULY 1 1 Raub vs. Rensselaer Riverside Athlete Park a ftaF“Raub has h good team and they defeated Brook much easier than pur Colts did, so a good game can be looked for.