Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mallie Clark came down fromWheatfleld today. He reports that hie grandfather, Horace Marble, is in a lair condition of health and able to be up and about the house some every day, but not able to get out much. Congressman Crumpackdr has started a congressional -investigation of the census bureau at Washington owing to charges pf pernicious political activity being made against E. Dana Durant, director of the census, and his immediate assistants. M. M. Towle, one of the founders of Hammond, its first mayor, its postmaster, the man who did more than any other citizen to make Hammond the principal city of the Calumet region, the man who at one time wj&s rated as a millionaire, Is hopelessly insane and has been taken to Logansport to the asylum. County Clerk Atkins received a draft this, morning from the Pennsylvania Lines for $3,588, in payment of the judgment by Wm. Reed, administrator of the estate of John Reed, on account of the killing of the latter by a Panhandle train at Remington some years ago.—Monticello Evening Journal. , Russel Sluyter, the barber, is about recovered from his.- attack of the measles. Since he took sick his employer, Chas. W. Rhoades, has had an attack -of the grip,, and was scarcely able to be out but with the assistance of his son, Fred, he kept the shop open and ready for business all of the time. He is also about well again. Mrs. C. S. Chamberlin, wife of the city light and water superintendent, whose return to Chicago to be examined by specialists was mentioned a few days ago, underwent another operation this Friday morning. It is expected to be able to completely restore her health by this operation and that the wound that has failed to heal since the appendicitis operation last June will soon heal. Deputy Sheriff Oliver Robinson started out this morning to post the notices of delinquent tag-sale. It is a bad day but not the worst Mr. Robinson has encountered during the many years that he has performed or assisted in the job. With few exceptions he has posted these notices' for the past thirty years and he knows right where tugo and how to get there in the shortest possible manner. z A man supposed to he John A. Johnson, of Minneapolis, Minn., committed suicide at Magee, near Westville, Wednesday, by shooting himself with a gun he had borrowed. He was a stranger at Magee, and on his person was found $39 and a through ticket from Minneapolis to Gottenborg, Sweden. He is thought to have become deranged and while in that condition to have left the train.

Mrs. Louise Danford, who fell and sustained the fracture of hey hip while at the home of her granddaughter at Wheatfleld on December 26th, died Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs* J. W. Brandt, at Monon, where she was taken some ten days after the accident. She was 77 years of age and the mother of Chas. Danford, who ran a blacksmith shop in Rensselaer some years ago. Emil Karl Von Muller, claiming to be very wealthy, has been arrested in Los Angeles, Cal., charged with bigamy. He is said to have married 5u American women within ten years and to have robbed each of all the ready money they had. He is believed to have a wife in Michigan City, at least Mrs. Minnie Daniels, of that place married .a man last summer, who procured all of her money and then disappeared and Mueller answers the description. S. C. Irwin, of the firm of Irwin ft Irwin, has purchased the Blankenbaker property on Elza street in Newton’s addition. The property belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vllltera, she having been Miss Hettie Blankenbaker before her marriage. They live in Okmulgee, Okla., of which city he is the clerk. C. B. Steward made the sale. The property consists of a good seven room house and two lots and it was sold for $l,lOO. The property will not be occupied by the new owner but was bought as an investment.