Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1908 — Page 4

MONON ENGINEER MEETS WITH SUDDEN DEATH

Crown Sheet Blows Out of His Engine And He Jumps to His Death Monday Night.

Joseph Pultz, of Lafayette, a Moson engineer, was killed Monday night, while running on train Ne,,3. due here at 11:04 o'clock. The train was near Roselawn when the crown sheet of the engine blew out and it seems probable that t]ie force of the explosion blew the engineer out of the cab. Passengers on the train were aroused by a slight concussion and it was noticed that the windows of the coaches were at once clouded with steam. E. V. Ransford and wife were on the train and they thought that the train had crossed over a burning bridge. The train ran probably a mile and a quarter before it came to a stop, and then the trainmen and passengers found out what the trouble was. The fireman to get away from the escaping steam had climbed around to the side of the cab and was one of the first to begin an investigation and a search for the engineer. It was found that the crown head had blown off and that it had gone

Two Veterans Reunited.

Capt. J. M. Wasson returned Tuesday evening from Greenville, Ohio, where he had been attending a reunion of his old regiment, the 40th Ohio. He met about forty-five of his old comrades while away, and upon his return to Rensselaer found another member of his company and regiment awaiting him. It was Thomas M. Boyd, now of Vancover, Wash., who was on his way to Greenville, but who was not aware that his regiment was holding a reunion there. It was 45 years ago last Sunday since Comrade Boyd and Wasson had met On that day the battle of Chickamaugua was being fought and Mr. Boyd was wounded in the head and was never again able to perform active duty, and was transferred from his regiment to the hospital and later discharged. Two days as er he was wounded Mr. Wasson, who was the second lieutenant of his company, was sent out in charge of a detachment to perform some outpoet duty, and while they were out the union army retreated to Chickamaugua, and word which had been dispatched to him to follow, never reached him. As a result he and his detachment were captured and served the remainder of the war in the southen military prisons, being at Libby and Andersonville. Captain Wasson once made his escape, but after being out two or three days he was re-captured. The harrowing details of Captain Wasson’s prison experience have been related by him at several reunions of old soldiers in Rensselaer, and it seems wonderful that any man could live through the ordeal of fourteen months’ imprisonment in the south. Captain Wasson was finally discharged from the prison at the close of the war. During all these years he and Mr. Boyd had not seen each other, and as they were close friends during the time they soldiered the reunion was a most cordial one. Mr. Boyd is engaged in the prune farming business in Washington and is quite prosperous in business. He will go from Rensselaer to Greenville, Ohio, to visit his old home, and may stop off in Rensselaer again on bis way back to Washington.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Lorenzo W. Alford to Thomns W. Ward, * se 11-31-6; s sw so 11-31-6; • se 11-31-6; e w sw 11-31-6, ne 14-81-6; 6 new 14-3-6. 450 acres, Walker, 120,000. George F. Meyers to May 0. Keesinger, Sept 11, e bw 36-31-7, Q acres, Union, $4,000. Harriet E. Parker to William Hawkins, Sept 3, pt It 1, bl 1, Remington, Patton’s add., $660. George A. Strickfaden to Edward V.* Hansford, Sept 6, It 9, bl 13, Rensselaer, original plat, $3,000. Jerome G. Andrus to John 8. Andrus, Sept 1, pt nw 13-29-7, 20 acres, Marion, SI,BOO. Theresa McCurtain to Francis 8. MoCurtaln, Aug. 7, pt out lot 23, Parr, .26 acre, sl. Charles W. Adams to George B. Deardwrff, Bept 17, w nw ne 19-19-6, 20 acres, Kankakee, S6OO. Lena Mitchell, administratrix, to! Moses A. Mitchell, Sept. 11, n se 1311*6. 80 acres, Walker, A.D., $1,600. Albert W. Cleveland to Barah Ellen King, Sept 11, Its *-6 68 9, bl «J Rensselaer, Weston’s 2nd add, $4.000. !

with such force as to embed Itself in the front end of the fender. It ! had blown out with a downward motion carrying away a part of the ! fire box and the burning coal. The trainmen, including the fireman, who was quite badly scalded about the legfe, walked back to Shelby, where they procured a switch engine, and they found the dead body of the engineer lying in the ditch along the track and about 30 feet from the track. They took the body and placed it in one of the coaches and after setting off the disabled engine at Roselawn, the train proceeded on its way to Lafayette, bat it did not reach Rensselaer until about 4 o’clock in the morning. Mr. Ransford says the train was running at the rate of about 60 miles an hour when the accident happened. , The engineer was a man about 45 years of age and leaves a wife and three children at Lafayette. The escape of the fireman was somewhat miraculous.

They All Like Mitchell.

Frank Kressler returned Tuesday from his visit to Mitchell, S. Dak., where he and his brother, Dr. A. R. Kresler, have a 480 acre farm. He was accompanied there by Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Porter, who will remain for ten days or more, visiting their daughter, Mrs. Will Clark. Frank had a pleasant week’s visit and found them all contented and enjoying a fair share of in their new home. Especially do these people who bought land there a year or more ago seem to have struck It rich, and most of them have had an opportunity to sell out at a very substantial increase in price, but they are all thinking that the price of ■and there is certain to go considerably higher and they are holding to their original purchases. Land buyers and prospectors are there every day, and Mr. Kresler states that one day last week there were 36 prospective buyers there in charge of two Mitchell agents. Ollie Garrlott, formerly of Aix, farms the Kresler farm, but only had 160 acres of It under cultivation, this year. .

Sam Parker raised 1,500 bushels of wheat, which he last week had an opportunity tw contract for 94 cents, but he decided to hold them for the dollar price. He also had 3,000 bushels of oats and has out 110 acres of corn. Mason Kenton, who has been farming land belonging to his brother, Jasper, last week bought 360 acres, paying $47.50 an acre for it. Fritz Zard was recently offered $65 an acre for the 320 acres he bought at $57.50 last spring. Will Clark raised a good crop on the 160 acre farm he had the past year, and has rented a farm of 320 acres for the ensuing year. Mitchell, which is a city of about 10,000 people, is now a temperance city, the eleven saloons having gone Jasper county people are all well pleased with their new home and with their investments and Frank says that not a single one of them talks about returning to Jasper couni y, except to visit

Mr. Marshall has been a student of ancient history. Is It possible he Is | posted better on the Institutes of Jus tlnian than on the acts of the Republican party In his state? He asks: “Why this sudden zeal on the temperance question?” There Is nothing sudden about It For four and thirty years the Republican party has been filled with this zeal, as its platforms since 1874 and Its performance In offioe since 1896 testify. More interesting than that, however. Is the new fact made patent by Mr. Marshall In the shadow of the Terre Haute Brewing company's plant, that he Is with the beer-makers and whisky sellers, body and soul. If In office, he would veto any bill passed by the legislature which had not their approval. Goodbye to oounty local option or any other kind of oommuulty self-government, if Tom Marshall be governor of Indianal Stephen T. Comer to Rtnhoid Teaks, setf et ux, Sept. 21, pt was 13-30-7, 79 acres. Union, $4,845. A woman seldom gives much trouble about being led to the alter, but once peat this a fallow has a herd time keeping her toet out of his back!

MARSHALL IS MAD

Candidate Marshall is cornered and is mad. He has abandoned his discourses on the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” and Is now seriously considering the conditions that now confront him in Indiana. But being cornered and mad, he does not discuss public questions with that ju- . dicial serenity and sober seriousness that characterize his lectures on Greece and Rome. Being forced by “Jim” Watson to show his hand, Marshall is making a mess of it. When

pressed-for an answer to this question: "Will you sign or veto a county local option law if elected governor?” Marshall evades an answer by saying that he will not say what he will do until he sees the bill. Being mad, Marshall has turned the vials of his wrath on the preachers of the state because they favor county local option, lrrespectlv# of party. In a speech at Terre Haute, the home of the big brewer, Crawford Fairbanks, Marshall sarcastically said that ministers should preach the gos* pel and not "beat a bass drum in a political procession.” With much more force and reason could the preachers say that it is not the duty or province of the brewers and saloonIsts to dish out “booze and boodle” in a political campaign. It has come to a pretty pass in this country when ministers are criticised by men like Marshall for taking an interest in high moral questions like the temperance question that is now so arousing the people of Indiana. To whom shall the people look for guidance on questions of morals and honest, efficient government? Is It to the ministers and men of intelligence or to the brewers, gamblers and their Ignorant, purchased following? Shall the preachers remain silent while the brewers ply their corrupt and nefarious business? Shame on the man or the party that will condemn the ministers of the gospel and will ally themselves with saloons and brewers!

The Rev. W. B. Reppeto, of Terre Haute, who has been a Methodist preacher forty years, and who served four years In the civil war, commented as follows on Mr. Marshall’s speech: "What Mr. Marshall said about the preachers makes us older men remember what the Southern sympathizers said about the preachers who loved their country and preached against slavery and rebellion. They were told that the ‘holy anointing’ for the ministry made It their duty to ‘preach the gospel’ and ‘let politics alone.’ “It is not politics we are meddling with, but Christianity, the welfare of men, women and children. If Mr. Watson was lined up with the brewers and the cruel liquor traffic and Mr. Marshall stood for giving the people the best opportunity to protect themselves from the presence and blight of the saloon, then Mr. Marshall would find the preachers and churches with him. But the Christian and home-lov-ing people of our country are fast learning to vote just the way the brewers don't.’’

"If all that Mr. Bryan has favored

during the past twelve years had been enacted into law we should have been overwhelmed with disaster and would regard it as our chief business In the future to find a way of escape from the meshes of ill-considered legislation In which we should have been entangled. It Is fortunate for him as well as for oa that he was defeated, and whatever may be his present political potentiality can be ascribed to the fact that hitherto he has not been permitted to carry out his program.”—From Governor Hughes’s Speech at Youngstown. Indians Is pleased to note that the Republican party In Ohio has nailed to Its mast this year the banner of temperance legislation. That grand old farmer-statesman, Governor Harris, who wears the "little brown button,” made a notable speech at Youngstown that should go far to reelect him.

“Shall the people rule?" asks Mr. Bryan. We say emphatically, yes. And that Is what county local option means. The law Itself will not close a single saloon. But it gives the people of a county the right to say whether 8 saloon shall exist In the county. That Is strictly the rule of the people. All patriotic temperance people should get together and push the oounty local option law through the special session of the legislature. The fight la not a partisan one, bat is a contest between the people and the brewers. Shall the brewers rule?

HIDDEN TRUTH REVEALED

Talking in Topeka to everybody in the. country on his bank deposits guaranty scheme as a remedy for panics, Bryan made a statement that impressed most folks who don’t live in Oklahoma. He was careful to delude the people by keeping back the whole truth, which he knew would have lessened the impressiveness of his statement. And Kern has told us his running mate is so moral and honest!

Bryan pointed with pride to the fact that between December, 1907, and May, 1908, the Oklahoma banks which adopted his guarantee deposit plan “gained in deposits 34,237,765.22, while the unsecured banks, all national, showed a decrease in deposits of $1.101307.86.” This establishes the popularity of his scheme, he declared. That was impressive, but we are happy to reveal the fact hidden by him. When the Republican congress passed the act enabling Oklahoma to become a state it put its hand into the national purse and drew out a little $5,000,000 prize for the use of the pub-

lle schools of the new state. When it became a state that sum went to the hand of Governor Haskell. He put it In the national banka till the state passed its Bryanised state banking law and then promptly transferred It to the state banks. A pretty piece of Juggling of the school funds contributed by congress, but It gave Bryan the chance to boast at Topeka that the banks which adopted his banking plan gained $4,237,765, while the banks not in his scheme lost $1,101,807 in deposits in five months. Of course, there was no such change in the regular deposits of the Oklahoma banks, but Bryan was applauded all the same. He wouldn’t steal a dollar. Even hts attempt to secure legally $50,000 from the estate of his admirer Bennett a few years ago was frustrated by Connecticut’s callous courts. But he will quote half-truths in speeches to captivate audiences that are ignorant or careless of facts. “It’s politics,” Is probably the excuse he would offer.

Union Man Endorses Watson.

H. Markle, yardmaster in the L. E. ft W. yards at Tipton, secretary of the Tipton lodge, B. of R. T., for the Lake Erie system, and chairman of the B. of R. T. legislative committee for Indiana, In a public interview says: "A close scrutiny of Watson’s record reveals nothing but what will strengthen hltn with railroad men. There have only been two important pieces of legislation directly affectingJ;he railroad men in the transportation service lately. One is the Sixteen Hour bill, and the railroad men have to thank Jim Watson for saving that bill—he dug It out of conference and passed that bill for us —who will deny it? “The next is that ash-pan bill which affects the firemen and which only firemen can appreciate the value of. Hemenway and Watson whipped that bill* through for us —there’s no denying that. "Railroad men as Individuals I think should investigate this thing for themselves. The trouble Is that our boys who are Democrats are urging their friends to vote against Watson and instead of admitting that it’s because they want to make votes for the Democratic nominee, they declare It’s because Watson was unfriendly to labor, which is absolutely untrue.”

Republican Labor Legislation.

“If the workingman wants a further illustration as to where labor laws have been enacted let him go over 14bor legislation of the various states. He will find that they are most efficient In the states of the North and the West where Republicans have been In control, the least effective In the South, where the Democratic party has had undisputed control for many years. Organized labor has Its strength In the North and West, and It has secured such legislation as has already been enacted from the Republican party, both In national and state legislation. If organized labor accepts the professed friendship of the Democratic party as genuine It will need to appeal to Democrats In congress who do not give muoh heed to the appeals of labor at home In the South, where organized labor has •ever been Influential enough to procure satisfactory labor laws from Democratic legislatures.” Speaker Gannon. “The American workingman has had bitter experience under the operation of the Dingjey bill.” —From Mr. Kern’s Notification Speech. How about under the WllaonOorman bill?

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TAFT COMES FROM GOOD STOCK.

Family Ranked Among the Plain People for Many Tears. The Tafts—those who at present are the Tafts—hall ancestrally from Uxbridge, Mass. They say that Tafts are so thick in Uibridge that even a woman can’t throw a stone without hitting one. Some years ago—ln 1874, to be exact —there was a Taft reunion in Uxbridge, to which descendanta of the original Robert Taft came flocking from all parts of the country. One of the conspicuous features of the affair was a historical address by Alphonso, Taft, father of the present Republican candidate. He traced the history of various branches of the family, and when he came to the one to which he aud his children belonged he said: “Our family have not embarked much upon national politics, except that they have shared lu the battles of the country when national independence was to be won, and also when the Union was at stake. But brilliant political careers have not been characteristic of the Tafts in the past It is not safe to say what may be in store for them. There is a tide in affairs of men and also of families.” This is taken from the account of ths reunion published at the time. Alphonso Taft would perhaps have been somewhat dazzled if he could have foreseen how quickly and brilliantly the family would proceed to “embark upon national politics.” He himself started the turn of the tide which he predicted. It seems to be reaching Ms flood in the career of the son who that year was entering Yale. As Alphonso Taft described his immediate ancestors one sees where his son got certain characteristics. Peter Taft (1715) was “a large, good-look-ing man of magnanimous disposition.” He bad four sons. Aaron, the candidate’s ancestor, was also so magnanimous that he lost money by indorsing a friend’s notes; he was a man “of great intelligence and integrity.” And then, going somewhat further back, there was Captain William Taft, who took Blarnqy Castle in the sixteenth century “by blarney quite as much as by military prowess.” Good stock was Captain William from which to make a twentieth century Secretary of War William.

A Grand Record.

The Republican party is not only rich in men, but rich in practical and beneficial principles—it is rich too in its record, in promises performed and pledges fulfilled, and so we are for party sad party principles first and w4U acquiesce in the choice of the majority, rallying around the standard bearer who will carry ns again to victory.—Hon. James S. Sherman. Mr. Bryan might make a hit In the Rocky Mouutoln States by proposing a federal guaranty of mlulug stbck deposits.—Omaha Bee.

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FROM OVER INDIANA

Company H, of Warsaw, won fM honors In the test contest at the big Indianapolis state guard encampment. Dr. George H. Grant, secretary of the Wayne county board of health, killed himself with a revolver at Richmond. He had been in poor health. —O— The continued dry weather haa tended to ripen the big crop of Hoosier bananas, (paw paws) earlier than usual this year. Usulaly a frost must come before paw paws are ripened. This year they are ripe before frost. The prolonged and unexplained absence of Rufus C. Griffith, a wealthy resident of Kokomo, is causing his family and relatives grave anxiety. He left two weeks ago ostensibly for Montana. No word has been received from him. Prof Hary MUlis, son of Councilman Mills of Bloomington and brothof President W. A. Millie of Hanover college,has Just accepted a position in the employment of the United States government, to be at the bead of the Immigration Bureau of California. The Rev. John J. Morton, an evangelist, in an address at Evansville, predicted that the world would oome to an end on or before October 25. The present drought that prevails throughout the Ohio valley Is a forewarning of the dsetruction of ths earth by fire, the preacher declared.

Emotional Insanity will be the plea of the defense in the -trial of Heny F. McDonald, who shot and killed Chief of Detectives William E. Dwyer, wounded two policemen and fired on Prosecuting Attorney James A. Cooper Jr., at the culmination of a trial in the Vigo circuit court room, April 2. The special reports from the 188 private banks throughout the state, which were called for by the bank deparment in the office of the State Auditor Billheimer, have practically all been sent in to the auditor’s office. The reports are all satisfactory, so far as the condition of the banks Is concerned, but L. A. Wiles, head of the bank department, who has gone over the reports, has found it necessary to retdrn some of them because of the lack of signatures of stockholders, as required by law. A pond fire In which fish, frogs and turtles perished by the Boore is the latest dry weather freak story. It comes from Harrison county, where on the farm of Benjamin Luslie, near Iris, a pond became so devoid of water that the growth on the bottom was exposed and became dried. To this dry vegetation a spark was communicated from the forest fire and for more than an hour flames raged over the pond. After the fire sooree at dead fish, frogs and turtles were Connfloating on the water, which had been heated almost to a boiling point

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