Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1898 — Page 2

The Republican. OFFICIAL PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY SSUED EVERY TUESDAY A 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 26, 1898.

The County Ticket.

For Prosecuting-Attorney, ALBERT E. CHIZUM, of Newton 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 Barlhy Township. For County Sheriff, NATE J. REED, of Carpenter Township. For County Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner Ist District. ABRA HAM 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: I 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 fol. lowing state offices: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney -Ge n e ral, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Instruc-

tion, 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 for the Fifth District. The convention will be composed es 1616 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 1896, and are as follows: TENTH DISTRICT. No. Vote Delegates. 1896, Benton 10 1,998 Jasper 10 2.032 Lake-24 4.883 Laporte 23 4,691 Newton 8 1.545 Porterl4 2,853 Tippecanoe' 31 6.239 Warren 10 2.045 White 12 2,383 T0ta1.,142 The delegates from the counties composing the several districts will meet/in Indianapolis at 11:30 a. in., Wednesday, August 3rd, at the fol. lowing places, to select officers and committeemen: Tenth Dist., State House, Homn 54, Second^Floor. Tickets to the Convention will be distributed by 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 convention hall will be open at two o’clock. Charles S.Hernly, S. H. Spooner, Chairman. Secretary.

Somewhat Sarcastic.

Goodland Herald. It may relieve the pressure on this district to learn that Crumpacker will make no effort to recind the action of Congress on Hawaiian annexation, but will accept the inevitable and let ’er go. He says “I am for Hawaii now. because it is American soil.” t ;O.ur esteemed friend of the Enterprise thinks this effectually settles those people who have criticised the distinguished pink-a-mink statesman for his course in opposing a proposition of vital importance to not only his party but his country. Distinguished senators who long ago opposed annexation with equal honesty and much stronger logic than Crumpacker has evidenced, afterward voted it, thus exhibiting a broad-minded patriotism that acknowledges that conditions will sometimes alter the basis upon which reason is predicated. MrCrumpacker’s hasty announcement that he accepts what everybody knows he is compelled to accept or hunt up a more congenial country, adds nothing to either his patriotism nor his record for general intelligence.

Leonard Case Goes Up.

. The attorneys for the plaintiffs in the celebrated Leonard will case ordered a transcript made of all the evidence taken at the former trial at Crown Point. An appeal to the supreme court will be made. It will take thirty days to complete the work and will cost S3OO. —Valpo Messenger.

Dance at Robert’s Hall.

The next regular club dance at Roberts’ Hall will be held on Wednesday night, July 27th. Music will consist of six pieces, under direction of Prof. W. F. Baughman. Kellner & Bushey, Managers.

Rates to State Convention.

All railroads will make half fare ratesto Indianapolis and return, for the Republican state convention. Tickets sold August 2nd and 3rd and good returning until and including August sth.

Monon Low Rates.

One fare for the round trip to Lafayette Aug. 3, good returning Aug. 4th. Ringling Bros. Circus. One fare for the round trip to Indianapolis Aug. Bth and 9th returning to Aug. 15th. National Meet League of American Wheelmen. One fare for the round trip to Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 16th and 17th. returning to Aug. 19th. Red Mens’ State Pow-wow. One fare for the round trip to Brooklyn, Morgan Co., Ind., July 20th to Aug. 15 returning to Aug. 17 account Bethany Assembly. One fare for the round trip plus $2.00 to Washington D. C., July 3,4, 5, and 6th. Good returning to August 31st if desired. Call on ticket agent for particulars. W. H. Beam, Agent.

Notice. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25-cent bottles of Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick headache, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. Also will refund money on a 50 cent bottle of Downs’ Elixir, if if it does not cure any cough, cold, croup, whooping cough, or throat or lung difficulty. We also guarantee one 25-cent bottle of either of the above to prove satisfactory or money refunded. A. F. Long. 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

FOUNDER OF TOMBSTONE.

Remarkable Career of • St. Louis Boy Who Becauae * Miner. Edward Schefflein, who was found dead the other day in his miner’s shack in Oregon, had an eventful life, says the £t. Louis Republic. , “I remember well,” said William H. Boothe, an old-time mine promoter, to a reporter, “when he opened up the Contention mine at Tombstone and gave the place its queer name. I ought to remember it, for it was I who grubstaked Shefflein on that prospecting tour. He bunkoed me out of all but a few hundreds. “The stories that have been told about Schefflein’s daring in penetrating into the Apache country and particularly into the Cochise mountains, where he found the Contention lode, are not much exaggerated. It was a pretty ticklish thing to do down there. Old Cochise had been ‘pacified,’ it is true, but he had a lively son, Natchez, and a valiant nephew, Geronimo, and they were the active young leaders of about as ‘pizen’ a set of Indians as ever swung a Winchester. “So when Ed Schefflein struck the Contention lode and called the place ‘Tombstone,’ we thought it a happy play of Ed’s mind. “The Contention proved to be a great mine. It was enormously rich in silver, but it was discovered just about the time every condition arose to put down the price of that metal. However, it yielded an amount away into the millions. The Scheffleins sold half of the mine to Walter Dean, of San Francisco; Dick Gird, of Los Angeles; F. A. Tritte, then governor of the territory, and others in San Francisco for $500,000. “Of course the Sheffleins lost most of their fortune. They couldn’t help it. Ed was a restless fellow. He wasn’t dissipated, nor did he gamble or have other expensive vices, but he was generous and a plunger on his luck. He wouldn’t settle down and do business on business principles.”

THIS DOG IS A SNAKE KILLER.

Animal at Rahway, N. J., Averages One Every Day. Rahway, N. J., has a snake killer by the name of Topsy, and she neither wears skirts nor stars for an “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” combination. She is of the canine race, a cross between an Irish bulldog and a setter. She is three years old and belongs to John W. Brown, of Leesville avenue. The south branch of the Rahway river is infested with water pilots, ranging in length from one to five feet. They are afraid of man and swim hway at his approach. When cornered they will fight and bite severely, and they make a sore and painful wound. Topsy seems to have had a penchant for snakes since puphood. Before breakfast every morning she starts out and seldom returns without a snake. She keeps her master busy disposing of the dead reptiles. She usually kills them by catching them by the neck from the rear. As a rule she gets them along shore when they are basking in the sun, but at times, when they take to the water, she jumps in and kills them while swimming. She went home one day last week with a wound in her neck and no snake. Dr. Seth Lockwood, a veterinary surgeon, dressed the wound, which soon swelled greatly. A day later she got satisfaction by bringing in the largest snake she has ever caught. It was fully five feet long. It had an old wound on its neck and it was surmised that it was the same snake that had bitten the dog. Only once since she has been in the snake business has Topsy brought the wrong goods home. It was last summer. when she captured a large eel.

SECRET OF INDIANS.

Recalled by a Eady Over a Centur/ Old—Search for Lead. Just without the precincts of the little village of Morgantown, 0., that nestles so snugly among the rugged hills of Western Pike county, tradition for 75 years past has located a valuable and prolific lead mine. A pioneer of the village in the person of an old lady 102 years of age recalled, in the presence of a Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent the other day. that 70 years ago she, with her parents, often watched the moving lights of the Indians from their cabin door as the red men moved busily about the brow of the hill intent upon the acquisition of some valuable find. She remembers also that an Indian once talked to her father and gave him to understand, though he was not at liberty to divulge the secret, that somewhere on the side of the mountain was a treasure inestimable and wonderful. Just now- interest has been revived in the tradition and the recollections of the old woman, and a company will be organized to prospect for the hidden mine at wealth. The country roundabout is fearfully rugged and precipitous, thousands of acres being covered with the primitive forest, where is yet to be found an occasional wildcat and deer.

Superior Mortals.

It is not a very great man who carries his honors as meekly as the mayor of Inverness who rebuked an admiring crowd in the words: ‘‘Fr’ens, I’m just t mortal man like yersels.” Sir Wilfrid Lawson tells the following story: “A woman was once pursuing her fugitive cow down a lane, when she called out to some one in front: ‘Man. turn my cow.' The man took no notice and allowed the cow to pass. When she came up she said: ‘Man. why did you not turn my cow?’ He replied: ‘Woman, lam not a man: lama magistrate.' ”

An Oyster's Instinct.

Oysters, after they have been brought away from the sea. know by instinct the exact hour when the tide is rising and approaching their beds, and so, of their own accord, open their shells to receive their food from the sea. a* if they were still at home.

Commissioners’ Allowances.

SPECIAL MAUCH SE881OT&. E Boggot. electric fixtures ch house.... <2211 00 A T Perkins, work on eourt house 140 00 Conant Furniture Co, labor, &c. ch hs. 400 00 H B Murray, paid for moving Into ch hs 13 00 Anna Robinson, work ” " •• 1 25 Geo Robinson jr, cleaning court house 8 25 Geo E Morgan, •• " ’ “ 935 Kenneth Morgan, ” *• ” 925 Theo George. - u u. •• , oo Cbas w Piatt. •' '• •• 9 25 Dave Warren, “ •• 4 25 Ernest Middleton, •• ” “ 400 John 8 Ramey, watchman “ •’ 13 25 Fred Middleton, cleaning “ “ 850 M A Yates, ■ 3 25 Oliver Tharp, moving into “ “ 1 2t> J H Jessen, cleaning ■* ” 3"25 J Hordeman, . ’• *• “ 1 00 Wm Burns old wolf scalp 7 25 Frank Byrd, cleaning court house 4 00 E J Kays, work on ” “ 23 85 L Magee, moving into ’■ “ ... I>s Frank Hurley, cn-aning •• “ 4 00 Joe Hordeman. wk on ” “ 7 25 Lewis Stone, work on •’ ” 20 95 Andrew Larson, wk on ” •• 2140 Fred Byrd, cleaning •• ” 10 00 Eidon Hopkins, wk on “ •’ 21 68 A Halleck, com., 3 day’s salary 10 50 do •• 3 •• ” 10 50 John Martindale, comr, 3 days’salary. 10 50 do •• 3 “ “ 10 50 Fred Waymire, comnir, 3 “ io 50 do " 3 •• •• 10 50 APBIL SESSION. GC‘> Robinson Jr,work on Co.building.. 2 12 8 8 Robinson, nelping Auditor move.. 2 25 R W Sprigg. janitor school house .. 10 25 I N Hemphill, hauling for county 4 50 Kenneth Morgan, cleaning court bouse 1 75 do ” *• “ 1 co do •' ” “ 2 50 H B Murray, pd for moving office, etc.. 3o 00 A McCoy & Co. freight on gravel. . 15 €0 •• •• •• . 8 10 T J Joyner, boarding prisoners 87 00 U W Pistt Jr., wk lor county 3 25 John Tanner, engineer atct h use .... 38 75 J P Hammond, salary as truant office.. 33 25 8 G Henderson, oil for poor 1 55 •*’• “ ” ■’ boilerhouse.... 275 E M Parcells chief, cleaning ct hs sewer 15 25 Ernest Middleton, work on Co. bld’g.. 2 50 J H Beacham. 7 young wolves 21 25 George Heil, 8 young and 1 old w01f.... 24 25 John Moorhouse. 14 young wolves 49 25 A. t. Wiseman, 7 young wolves 21 25 John Cavinder, 5 young wolves 15 25 > ate J. Reed, ex. boy to reform school. 1 75 Geo. E. Marshall, pub. coroner’s verdict 475 county printing 2 75 •J ” ” delinquent tax list 74 25 “ “ ” public printing 100 85 C. A, Lecklider, mdse court house 3 25 W J Miller painting court house 5 75 work on court iiousb 38 10 E Owens & Warner repairing Jail 6o oo a T Perkins plumbing court house 25 95 J C Gwin, expense ct Hs. bonds 11 40 W H Coover ex moving into ct house 30 40 E Baggot, mdse for court house 26 oo E J Kays work on •• •• 32 25 G L KeichmarK, old wolf scalp 2 75 Geo H. Casey, witness, bd review 3 55 T P Wright holding inquest 5 25 Gertrude Hopkins c ent at inquest 5 25 a L Berkley’ medical witness inquest... 4 85 W H Chui chill, •• . . 85 Chas Mann " “ ... 85 C W Duvall ■■ ’’ 85 John Keyner “ “ . . 85 John McColly •• ” ... 85 ButuS Giver ” “ ... 85 Abbie HarSman ” “ ... 85 Katherine bi orris ” “ ... 85 John R. Warren constable inquest 5 7o W 8 Parks, mov. Co, Superintendent... 1 50 Ancei Woodworth, mov. safes for Co.. 65 25 City Rensselaer, Ct hs lights for March. 12 43 J W Blackford, wiring lor lights 24 00 A Leopvld, rent Co bupt’s office 29 25 R W Marshall couniy atty 2 25 MAY SESSION S M McGinnis, work, Otis Gravel Rd. .. 138 45 ” •• ■ .... 50 25 Chas E Handley 6 young wolves .. .. 18 25 M A Yates, relief poor, Marion 22 is a Halleck, comr 1 day 3 50 " " 2 days 700 ” ” 3 days 10 50 J Martindale ” 1 dav ; . 350 do ’• 2 days 700 do ” 3 days 7o 50 F Waymire 2 days 2 00 do •• 3 days 10 00 Jay Jones ML, medical aid per con’t.. 650 T j Joyner, boarding prisoners 23 45 TJJoyner, boarding Newton Co. pris’rs 13 05 do 2 mos salary as janitor 70 25 John Tanner, engineer at bollir house 37 75 Riley Hickman, 7 young wolves 21 75 S G Henderson, oil for boiler house..l 55 do oil for poor, Marion.... 77 L H Hamilton, office expenses 11 75 Tom Parker, wood for boiler house.. 15 05 A Halleck, comr, 1 day 3 50 J Martindale, comr, 1 day 3 50 F Waymire, comr, 1 day 3 50 JUNE SESSION J H O’Neal, services dep’y Co. assessor 2o 25 J C Kaupke, relief poor, Kankakee . io 51 do ” ” .... 225 do ” ” ” .... 25 25 Thos Mullen, ” ’• Carpenter ... 26 60 J o B McDougal, relief poor •• .. 9 0u Wm O Roaditer, assessing 132 oo J F Garriott, deputy assessor Union.... 34 25 G W Casey, assessing Union 112 25 Elmer E Pullins, assessing Gillam ... 110 25 Wm Faris, relief poor, Gillam 26 25 Howard Burr, assessing Jordan 106 25 J W Cowden, assessing Rensselaer 102 25 Mabel Sayler. work on assessor’s books 40 25 J N Sample, assessing Barkley 100 25 Bessie sayler, work on assessors liooks 40 25 A T Perkins, plumbing court house...’. 61 25 Lillian Hadley, w’k on assessor’s books 4 25 J T Sayler. assessing Marion 124 25 Kobt J Yeoman, assessing Newton 106 25 J W Tilton, work on assessor’s books 6 25 Fu Kennedy,” •• “ •• .. 14 25 H Landon, M. D., medical aid 20 00 J Q Lewis, deputy assessor Barkley . 30 25 J O’Conner, assessing Walker .... 116 25 Jonn Haau ” Keener 1132 5 Alva McNtel •• Wheatfield 117 25 Lulu Sample, work on assessor's books 20 25 SC Irwin. ” 2 25 A Mccoy & Co, freight on gravel.. 31 oo do 38 15 j W Cowdin, 1 old wolf 7 25 W Obencham 1 old 1 young foxes 3 75 John Morehouse, 1 young wolt 10 40 R Moorehouse, 7 young foxes 7 00 J R Philips, expense assessor’s office 7 85 C V Jones M D medical aid 17 75 Penn. Chemical wks mdse ct hs 19 75 C J Borntrager, wk poor farm 11 to J CGwin, taxes 5 13 Wm Iliff 1 young wolf 3 25 Wm Sharp, wood for Jail 3 70 M Peregrine, 1 old wolf 7 25 Robt Templeton, 6 young wolves 15 25 Eminent Pullen. 1 old wolf 7 25 W S Parks, freight bill and drayage ... 2 79 I N Hemphill 3 16 Ord Yeoman, 1 young wolf .. 3 2# John Tanner, work on boiler house 24 25 J k Phillips, services Co. assessor 188 25 J CGwin expenses treasurer’s office.. 10 83 A F Long, mdse court house 43 25 R W Spriggs, Janitor service . 8 25 Leslie Clark, Co. printing 1 75 Horace 8 Bailey, assessing H Grove .. 1)8 25 L H Haiuntoii, office expense ... . . 14 75 8 C Johnson MD, medical aid 25 oo A G Hardy, tile and bribk. jioor farm.. 25 25 do paid for work, poor farm.. 117 64 Robt B Porter, expense recorder’s office 16 eo H. B. MURRAY, Auditor.

Rensselaer Markets.

Wheat : 70 to 75 Rye 35c Oats 18 to 21 Corn 270 Butter 10c Eggs 8c Chickens —spring 10c Hens 5c Turkeys 4 to 5c Ducks 4 to no Geese 3o Potatoes new 65c Hay $5

Pneumonia Cured.

Mrs. A. J. Lawrence, of Beaver, j?a., says: “Brazilian Bahn brought nie out of a severe attack of pneumonia in splendid shape. It is a wonderful remedy for coughs and lung troubles. Also, for outward use, for burns, cold-sores, and chapped hands and face, it cures like magic. It is invaluable in the family-”

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