Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1908 — Page 2

A DEGENERATE SON THREATENS HIS MAMA

John A. Van Rensselaer, With a Long Pedigree, Tries a Black Hand Scheme.

AND JOHNJjy IS NOW IN JAIL Wrote to His Mother, Calling Her a Peacock, and Threatened to Blow Her Head Off. New York, July 20 —John A. Van Rensselaer, son of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and member of one of New York’s oldest families, was taken into custody tonight on a charge of attempted extortion. The arrest was made on advices from Chief of Police Crowley, of Newport, R. 1., who received a complaint from Mrs. Van Rensselaer that her son had writ'eu a letter threatening her bodily harm unless he was provided with funds. The young man is 41 years old. Van Rensselaer is connected with a local brokerage house and when he returned to his home tonight he was placed under arrest by. detectives who produced the letter alleged to have been written by him to his mother. The letter is without any beginning or ending, and the postscript is unsigned. The letter reads: "I have just seen Lawrence Lee, and I am given to understand htat you will pay forty per month for my board if I will go 300 miles from New York and that I must have your written consent to leave the place that you may select.. “Did it ever occur to you that I have an absolute remainder interest

$58,663 IN PREMIUMS

Largest Amount in Prizes That Were Ever Offered at State Fair.

THE HORSES AND CATTLE LEAD For Trotters and Pacers, $21,900; Horse Shows, $10,536; Cattle, sl4,851—Special Prizes In Silver Cups ; —and Gold Medals—Awards In All Departments. The premium list of the Indiana State shows that the prize awards have been increased in all departments and for the coming exposition, to be the week of September 7, and that the total amount is $58,663. The showing is for the trotting and pacing races, the sum being $21,900. The horse shows in the livestock pavilion will have a total of $10,538 in prizes, $2,107 going to draft horses, $720 to coach horses, $320 to mules, and $7,391 to light harness horses and saddlers. In the cattle departments the premiums amount to $14,251, the beef cattle premiums making a total of $10,876, and $3,375 going to dairy cattle. For the dairy and creamery exhibits the prizes amount to $216. In the sheep show $2,665 is offered and $9,060 will be distributed In the swine department. In the poultry show the awards offered amount to $2,499. For farm products the premiums reach $1,189, and on fruit, $696. The prizes on plants and flowers amount to $830; bees and honey, $248; table luxuries, $lO9, and on fine arts $1,370. In the cattle and horse shows the Increases tn premiums have been especially The giving of silver cups will be more extensively followed at the coming (air than at any Indiana exposition tn fifty years. About SSOO worth of these trophies will be awarded as special prizes. The American Percheron Society offers a SIOO cup for the best stallion and four mares shown at the fair. The American Breeders’ Association offer a SSO cup in the mule class. A trophy for which many are expected to compete Is the SIOO cup offered by the American Saddle Horse Breeders’ Association for the bets stallion or mare in the horse show. Three cups will be awarded In the cattle shows. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith of Cambridge City, who la well known u a raiser of Shorthorns, offers a silver cup for the best Shorthorn heifer bred in Indiana. The Meredith cup was won by General Solomon Meredith at the fourth Indiana fair, held in 1855. and the award was made to him on Shorthorn cattle. Tor several years General Meredith drove his blooded Shorthorns to Indianapolis from his farm, the route being over the old Nation*! road, and the dis-

in Uncle Francis’ estate, securities, and that by blowing your head off, that my wife would have an income sufficient to support her? “I will take that course if necessary and upon my Ijead will rest the consequences. “Thaw is still alive, maybe I will be. “In any case my wife, God bless her, will benefit by your demise even if I don’t. “I have seen many troubles in my life and 1 must say that most of it is due to you. A selfish peacock, whose name in these times amounts to nothing, and who is almost, if not entirely, forgotten, in circles once tread. “I am now in no humor to be trlflec with, and I wish to go on record that I will take action on sight, unless something is done at once, I must have $6,000 and a trip to Europe. What have I had for being honest? “J. Austin Van Rensselaer.’’ (Signed) Van Rensselaer was later taken to police headquarters and the police of Newport, where Mrs. Van Rensselaer is, were notified of the arrest. Van Rensselaer is a son of John King Van Rensselaer and grand son of Brigadier General Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, aide de camp to Major General Winfield Scott. The Van Rensselaers are descendants from Colonel Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, who was a member of the colonial assembly in this state, and its speaker in 1864. Van Rensselaer was twice married, having divorced his first wife.

tance was fifty-three miles. General Meredith became interested in Shorthorn cattle in 1836 and founded his Oakland Farm herd adjoining Cambridge City, in 1851. He was a successful exhibitor at every Indiana State Fair up to the CivJ war, following the exposition to every city where it wtm held during its migratory days. Mrs. Meredith has twenty heavy silver goblets and four pitchers, as well as an entire solid silver service of coffee, sugar, cream and water bowl, all of which were won by General Meredith at Indiana fairs. The cup she offers Is one bf the choicest of the Meredith collection. ' T. 8. Graves of Indianapolis offers a SSO cup for the best pure-bred heifer of any breed shown at the State Fair. Two years ago Walter Hadley and AIHe Brown, both well-known Indiana breeders, offered a cup valued at SSO for the best pair of Hereford* shown" at the fair, the cup to be won twice by the same breeder to obtain permanent possession. In 1906 this cup was won by VanNatta & Son of Lafayette, and last year by A. CL Huxley ot Bunker Hill. The only cup offered in the swine department is that of the American Berkshire Breeders* Association, the trophy to go to the best herd of Berkshire*. The American Percheron Society i will give a gold medal in one of the I special Percheron classes. The Amer- | loan Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses ofI for* two gold medals, each valued at SIOO, one for the champion stallion and the other for the champion mare. There Is every indication that the libera) premiums will result in the ftaest live stock shows, especially in 1 horses and cattle, ever seen in Indiana. ■ Not only will the best stock in the I stat' compete for ribbons, but many of i the most famous herd* and stables of i the country will be strongly represented. It is expected by the Pair manage- : ment that the famous show teams owned by the big beef packing concerns of Chicago will be exhibited for the special prises. It will be the first time these big trucks and monster horses have ever been seen in Indiana, and they in themselves will make up a rich horse show. ———— The outlopk for crops In the state is such that a fine agricultural display is looked for. The fruit grower* will show thi lest products of their or ! ohards sad vineyards, and the art building, always of Interest to women, will again be overflowing. The entry lists in all departments of the Pair doos on August 37, and the Fsir opens for visitors oa Monday, Sentember t.

Six Killed; Auto Crash

Charles Sherman King, former mem ber of the Indiana Legislature, his wife, two daughters, a girl friend of the daughters and the chaffeur, all of Ft. Wayne, were Instantly killed at a Pennsylvania crossing near Columbia City, Saturday afternoon, when an uatomobile in which they were riding was struck by the east-bound Manhattan Limited, running sixty miles an hour. The dead: CHARLES SHERMAN K'NG. MRS. KING JOSEPHINE KING, aged 12. CATHERINE KING, aged 14. FAYMA BRADSHAW, aged 14. CARL TIMMONS, chauffeur. The party were in Mr. King’s touring car, bound for the King cot age at Lake Wawasee to spend Sunday. The accident occurred while the machine was standing on the track waiting for the passing of a freight train. The limited, approaching at terrific speed and crashing around a sharp curve near the crossing, was unseen and unheard by the automobile party. Timmons, the chauffeur, made a frantic effort to back the car off the track when he realized the danger, but he was too late, and an . instant later the engine crashed into the machine, smashing it to splinters and hurling the occupants in all directions. Not one of the victims lived more than two minutes after the crash. Mr. King was financial agent for the Prudential Insurance Company in northern Indiana, and had headquarters at Ft. Wayne. He represented Wabash county in the state legislature in the session of 1898, and was active in republican state politics. Miss Bradshaw was a friend of the King daughters and was their guest on the trip. She was the daugh ter of R. S. Bradshaw of Ft. Wayne.

ECZEMA IS NOW CURABLE.

A St. Louis chemist, after many years of careful experimenting and investigation, has discovered a simple remedy that has cured hundreds of cases of eczema that had been pronounced incurable. The chemist be- . ItfiXfid that eczema and all itching skin diseases were of local origen and were caused by germs which attacked and fed on the skin. He began to search for a remedy that would destroy these germs, and found that by combining the active principles of certain well known vegetable drugs and applying them locally, the first application stopped the itching and burning, and if used persistently would drive all germs and their poisons to the surface of the skin and destroy them, leaving a nice, clear, healthy skin. He gave this remarkable remedy the suggestive name, of Zemo, and since its introduction to the public Zemo has proved a very popular remedy and is today recognized the most successful and meritorious remedy ever produced for the relief and cure of eczema and all diseases of the skin and scalp. Mr. B. F. Fendig, the druggist, endorses and recommends ZEMO and says that he believes ZEMO to be an honest medicine and will do all that is claimed for it • What a woman would like to know why she should get off the street car right when it is just as easy to get off it wrong.

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