Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' The first robin of the season was ! beaid yesterday morning. jamas Shafer of Brook, was in town Wednesday on business. Gaaar Phegley has moved upon a farm near Sitka, White county. Bain, mod and consequent dullness in business, is now prevelant. Geo. O. Stembel of Wheatfield. was in the city on business dayStarke county has organized a farmers’ mutual insurance comply • Mb. W. A. Binehart of Buffalo, N. Y., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McCoy. Adam Seward of Mt. Ayr, has been granted an increase of pension, from $8 to sl2. The 65 pm- cent Newton county seat hill has been signed by the governor and is now a law. Frank B. Meyer was confirmed by dm Senate Thursday and is i»6w postmaster at Rensselaer. Bl H. Sheffer of Parr, has been granted a 12-dollar-a-month pension with about S6OO arrearages. Daniel McCSsshin of Milroy ip., fell from his wagon while driving home Tuesday evening and broke Elder N. H. Sheppard was called toMedaryville last Wednesday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Polly Blue. Manda Hoyes’ school in Kankakee tpL, is dosed temporarily on account of scarlet fever in that neighborhood. Another new fire whistle has been secured for the waterworks power house, and is to be tested today at 1 p m.

Mrs. E. H. Shields returned Tuesday from her 'several weeks visit in Tennessee. D. W. and wife and boy are well. Thi American Brewing Co., at Chicago, and the Columbia Brewing 001, at Logansport, have failed. It is something unusual for one of these concerns to go broke. E. L. and Fred Coen, were called home from Ohio by the ser- | tons illness of their father, W. S. Coen. Bat little hopes are entertained of the latter’s recovery. County Surveyor Price, who has been under the weather for some time at his home in Carpenter tp., came over this week and will now remain in permanent charge of the surveyor's office. If we mistake not. Myrt will make a more economical record in the administration of this office than the county has had in the past few years. Thieves broke into the Pan Handle depot at Monticello last Friday night and attempted to blow open the depot safe, but were unsuccessful. Several trunks in .the baggage room were broken open and property worth SSO to SIOO taken. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the robbers and they were tracked to the railroad yards at Monon, where it is thought they boarded a train.

John BUI, wife and one child, residing about six miles north of town, were poisoned Tuesday night and for a time were very sick. When the physician arrived he found them suffering from arsenical poisoning, hut the emetics they had taken had relieved them considerably. All had been suffering somewhat from the grip, and on the night in question drank some hot whiskey, and they think the poison was in this. All are recovering.—Goodland Journal. What some Rensselaer people cnnaiiler the little one-horse town of Remington requires an annual franchise tax of 50 cents for each telephone pole “erected, used or : maintained within the corporate limits of the town,” and yet in the ; city of Rensselaer, where we have ia tax levy of $3.05 on each onehnndred dollars valuation, these privileges are given away for the ■sling. This, understand, is in sddition to the regular tax levy for municipal,, county and state