Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ~F. BABCOCK, Publisher. teWmiAER, - • • IHDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The steamer Curacoa haw arrived at San Francisco from Mexican |>orts with *OBO,OOO in treasure. She reports that the schooner Ixtttie M. has been seized by the Mexican officials at Ensenada for attempting to evade the customs regulations. The Chicago inbound train of the St. Paul road collided with (he rear end of a South Shore train carrying a Northwestern sleeper hi the Houghton, Mich., yards. The reur engine anil the coaches both trains were badly battered, but no lives were lost. A Japanese concern has just turned out a 12.000-ton steel twin-screw steamer, the Awa Marti, which, according to United States Consul Harris at Nagasaki, is equal in every respect, including cabin accommodations. to the best class of Atlantic steamships. William Goeliel was declared Governor of Kentucky by a quorum of the Legislature at Frankfort. Within thirty minutes after the adoption of the board of control’s majority report' the oath of office was administered to the almost dying man as he lay upon his lied. A. Gebhart & Co.'s lumber yard nt Day tea. Ohio, was practically destroyed by fire, the surrounding property being saved with great difficulty. The flames were of incendiary origin and burned fiercely for more than five hours. The loss is estimated at S3O.(MH). Mr. Tracewell, the comptroller of the treasury, has decided that the balance of $57,47(1 of the appropriations for improving the bar and harbor at Brazos Santiago, Texas, is still available for any improvement of said harbor that the \\ nr Department deems it expedient to make. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Prof. A. Lnflnmboy, magnetic lienler. was found dead iii a bathtub filled with steaming hot water and his brother. George Laflaniboy, was lying on the floor of the bathroom unconscious. T’he professor was nude and had been in the hot water so .long his hotly was parboiled. W. A. Harvey, general passenger agent of the Arizona and Southwestern Railroad, was found in Hutchinson, Kan., in a pitiable condition. He was on his way to Chicago. At first it was thought he was getting over the effects of an overdose of cocaine, hut his condition became worst* and he was locked up. It’ is evident. that he is mentally unbalanced.

The postoffice nt Pittsville, Mo., was robbed by two masked men. The robbers entered the store of Post master D. M. Miller atid ordered the proprietor nnd three loungers to hold up their hands at the iwint of revolvers. They were searched ami a small amount of change taken from them. The robbers then went into the safe and took SSO belonging to the Government. The loungers were ordered keep still until the robbers escaped, and they obeyed. Postmaster Miller made a report of the loss to the authorities, and a sharp lookout. is being kept for the robbers. While a live mogul locomotive with a dead engine abend of it was being coaled at Peru, Ind., the throttle of the mogul opened ami it started forward, pushing the dead engine and running on to the main line. Two milescoiit from the city the two locomotives were running at a speed of fifty miles nil hour, and, rounding a curve in the road, crashed into fast freight No. (»4, coming from the opposite direction. Engineer Becket and Fircipnn Brumfield jumped and were seriously injured, but not fatally. Three engines and seven cars were wrecked. Two of the cars were loaded with whisky. The rolling stock loss is estimated at SIO,OOO and the whisky $12,000.

BREVITIES.

.The Lawton fund has reached $90,400. Fire destroyed the business portion of Winfield, Kan. Loss $125,000. Rear Admiral Bradford .estimates the cost of a Pacific cable at $10,000,000. Russia will loan the Shah 22,000,000 rubles, giving the Czar control of Persia. Miss Lydia Cox starved herself to death at Kokomo, Ind., to expiate the sins of the world. Capt. W. C. Neville of the marine corps has been appointed governor of Tutuilu island. King Alexander has appointed his father. ex-King Milan, a general in the Serx iau army. The will of Thomas Eggleston, filed at New York, leaves $1,000,000 to the Legiotl of Honor. Bulgaria is expected to declare its independence of Turkey Feb. 19, with the approval of Russia and Austria. Rev. Dr. W. W. Eddy, for more than forty-eight years a missionary in Syria, died at Beyroot from heart disease. Seven hundred employes in the Montreal Cotton Company’s mill at Valley Field, Canada, have gone out on strike, an advance iu wages having been refused. Dr.- Charles Franklin Dnitbnr, LL. D., died at Cambridge, Mass., aged (><S years, •f old age and lung troubles. He was professor of political economy in Harvard University. The Marquis of Qiieensberry, who was boru July 20, 1844. and succeeded to the title in 1858, is dead in Englund. The name of the Marquis of Qiieeiisberry has long been associated with the boxing rules of which he was the author. The city of Mobile, Ala., through Mayor Bush, has taken possession of the new system of city water works, paying the contractors, M. T. Ix'wpian & Co., in full. The system cost, including a 10,-GOO.OOO-gallon reservoir, $528,000. AdXcniblyman “Tim”" Sulllvnn, > the prize-fight promoter, proposes to introduce in-the New York Assembly a bill to prohibit football games. Ida de Puy, a New York artist, names his father as co-respondent in a suit for divorce which he brought against his wife, Fannie. The son will ask-for $50,000 damages from his father. Capt. A. W. Gillniamsuiierintcndent of the Goodrich Transput nt ion Company, and one of th» ififMjyldel.v knpw* men on the lakes» med viM-.vjl>ajd<legly<r>f apoplexy on a Chicago and Northwestern train as it was approaching Manitowoc.

EASTERN.

Harvey Mnyner was killed and several persons were seriously Injured in a general fight in a timber camp near Breeden, W. Va. The Depew Opera House in Peekskill, owned by Senator Chauncey M. Depew, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $75,(100. Nichol Ireland, a millionaire of Providence, It. 1., who became demented six years ago mid had been living near Pierre, S. D.. died, aged 72 years. A receiver has been appointed at Saratoga, N. Y., for the Ballston Terminal Railroad, a twelve-mlle county trolleyline, owned by Philadelphia capital and bonded for $250,000. James Jtibb, an Englishman residing in New Britain, Conn., went crazy over the reverses of his countrymen in Africa, and after breaking into a neighbor’s house cut his throat with a carving knife. The Angora Manufacturing Company’s plant at Philadelphia burned. Lizzie Blackburn, nged 17 years, an employe, is missing and believed to lie in the ruins. The loss is about $150,000, partly covered by insurance. Fire did $200,000 damage at Fredonia, N. Y. Besides the loss to buildings the power house of the Dunkirk and Fredonia Street Car Company was destroyed, together with all the curs. Two lives were lost in the flames. In New York fisc broke out in the seven-story building occupied by the Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company, chair manufacturers. One hundred and fifty men escaped in safety from the building. The loss is about $300,000. Word has been received from Moose River, in the Adirondacks, of the death there of Reese Thomas, one of the most prominent lawyers of Utica, N. Y. Mr. Thomas was killed by the premature discharge of tfce shotgun he carried. Miss Minna Field, daughter of the late Henry Field of Chicago and niece of Marshall Field, eloped with Preston Gibson of Washington and was married in New York City without the consent or her mother, Mrs. Thomas Nelson I’age. Diamonds valued at $(>,000 were stolen from the safe in the’office of Joseph K. Davidson & Son, manufacturing jewelers, in Philadelphia. That the thief was in possession of the combination is evidenced by the fact that there were no marks on the safe. Ruth Conde, only daughter of Swits Conde, millionaire manufacturer of Oswego, N. Y„ eloped with (jeorge Thorne of Utica. Mr. Thorne became acquainted with Miss Conde in the summer of 181X1 at Thousand Islands. Mrs. Conde objected to the marriage. Ofllcial notice has been issued by the Diamond and Goodyear Rubber companies of an agreement made with Theodore A. Dodge of New York, owner of patents on pingle-tnbe bicycle tires, which will result in an increase of about 50 per cent in the price of tires.

WESTERN.

William Wood, of Pearl Bryan fame, has left the navy and is working for a San Francisqp newspaper. At San Antonio, Tex., Fred Lee, an insurance agent, was found deiid in the river. He was probably murdered. The explosion of a nitroglycerin magazine near Warren. Ind., shook buildings in all the towns within twenty-five miles. Gov. Wells of Utah Ims issued a proclamation calling an election to be held April 2 for the purpose of electing a representative to Congress. The postoffice at Bradley, 111., was entered by burglars, the safe blown open and about $1,400 worth of stamps and S4O cash taken. The burglars escaped. Plans are being prepared for the new modern hotel to be erected by the Fred Crocker estate in San Francisco. It is calculated that the hotel will cost at least $1,500,000. The Ohio Valley stove manufacturers have decided to advance the prices of stoves 10 per cent on May 1 unless there should be a slump iu the iron market iu the meantime. Henry Miller, the millionaire California cattle king, was seriously injured in a runaway accident at Gilroy, Cal. lie was removed to his home in Sau Francisco and may reCover. The people of the village of Delta, 0., were surprised at the return of Oliver Pike, whose funeral was held there four years ago and whose body was supposed to be buried in the village cemetery. David M. Magee died at Oxford, Ohio, aged 89 years. He originated the famous Poland-China breed of hogs in 1840, and made Ohio famous as a swine-breeding State. Mr. tea gee accumulated a big fortune.

Bridget Smith, a wealthy recluse, was found dead seated in a ehair in her room ut St. Louis. A number of valuable rings, a handsome, gold watch- and other expensive jewelry were found on a dresser. Rudolph Nunnemacher. head of the real estate department of the Pabst Brewing Company, died at Milwaukee, after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Nunuemacher was u son-in-law of Copt. Frederick Pabst.Findlay, Ohio, hunters discovered a large number of dead rabbits with their throats much swollen. Physicians examined one and pronounced the cause of death diphtheria. They warn iieoplc against eating rabbits. The third of a series of dynamite explosions within the city limits of Leadville, Colo., occurred the other day, wrecking the handsome residence of A. V. Hunter, the millionaire mine owner, and the house of J. C. Ritchey, adjoining. At Oklahoma City, O. 'l'., "Tom'’ Qneenan. a bartender, driven crazy because he had gambled and lost his money, shot and killed his Wife and then jumped from a second-story window, injuring himself so that he is not expected to live. Fortner Gov. Jones Wolf of the Chickasaw Nation died of pneumonia at Denison. Texas. He was one of the most noted Indian statesmen that ever lived, and was the last of the full-blooded Indian governors. lie wus the historian of his tribe. A large four-story brick .building, occupied by, McK.msick, Copciin & Riduell, confectioners on Second avenue, ?M|tdieapolis, was dwtrbywl by total loss being a I mot SI2tMH)6. Hevernl smaller stores were damaged to the amount of $5,000. • William Brew,er made-application for ■ receiver for the Ifcotf e$ J’ottcwr Company at Warren, Ohio, claiming Tt is insolvent. Brewer has one-fifth of the

SIOO,OOO capital stock. He and athei* stockholders disagreed. The conrt has ordered a statement. F. A. Schumacher, sou of the "oatmeal king,” is at the bead of a new company being formed at Akron, Ohio, the American Cereal Company. Ferdinand Schumacher will be interested in the company, at least to the extent of permitting the use of his name therewith. Three men, equipped for safe-blbwing, fell victims to the revolver aim of the Quincy, 111., police. Two wore killed and the third wounded and made prisoner, but not until a running battle had been waged through the lobbies and Aip and ddsvn stairways of the Moecker Hotel. In St. Louis fire destroyed a four-story building occupied by the Missouri Tent and Awning Company. An official of the company estimated the total value of the building, stock and machinery at $120,000, fully covered by iusurauce. The Calumet building was damaged $200,000. D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, has endowed Fairmount College of Wichita, Kan., with $50,000. Some time ago he gave $25,000 to this institution. This college will shortly receive an endowment of $150,000 from sources which its uiauagers refuse to divulge at present. The biggest order for mules in use in the Transvaal yet placed in the Kansas City market by the British Government is uuder consider;! ion. Local firms are also said to be bidumg on furnishing the British with 1,000 horses for use on the continent, to replace those sent to South Africa. At Geneva, Ohio, there was sold at public auction the other day the entire circus and menagerie owned by Walter L. Main. Lions, tigers, elephants and other animals went to the highest bidders, and the rolling equipment, from Roman chariots to private railway cars, was disposed of. ‘

Oue-half of the three-story building in Denver, Colo., occupied by W. A. Hover & Co., wholesale druggists, collapsed, the three floors above the street level, with their contents, dropping into the basement. The firm carried a stock worth about $125,000. Its loss will uot fall short of $50,000. The Illinois anti-trust law of 1803 was declared unconstitutional by Judge Kohlsaat in the United States Circuit Court in Chicago. Because of the section which exempts from its provisions the agriculturist and stock raiser, the court held that the statute is tainted with class and special legislation. Burglars blew open the vault ami safe of the bunk at Deerfield, Wis., and secured SB,OOO. The thieves gained access to the vault by digging out the brick at the rear. The noice of the explosion was heard, but no attention was paid ta it and the robbery was not discovered until the next morning. Suit was tiled in the United States Court at Columbus, Ohio, by the Michigan Sult Company against W. A. Wason of Columbus for over $32,000. the suit being a test of the Ohio trust laws. Wasou was agent of the concern and states that he purposely held back the money to test the trust law. The steel collier Miami, belonging to the Pacific Coast Company, was wrecked ou a reef near Oyster bay, on the east shore of Vancouver island. She is a total loss, as she broke in two and went to the bottom. All members of the crew were saved. The loss is estimated at' $250,000, with SIO,(XX) additional for the cargo. A convention held at Devil’s Lake, N. D., to take measures to secure the opening of the Fort Totten Indian reservation ami to throw open to setlement 200,000 acres of land not taken in severalty by the Indians, voted to memorialize Congress to appoint a commissioner to treat with the Indians and effect a sale.

A runaway electric ear on the Dayton and Xenia Traction road left the track at a sharp curve just east of Dayton, Ohio, and was demolished. One man whose name was not learned was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Hattie Kling, a young woman residing at Alpha, Ohio, was instantly killed, her head being crushed. Three masked robbers entered the factory of Dr. Peter Fahrugy &' Sons Company at Chicago, bound and gagged four employes of the concern, blew open the safe and escaped with SBOO in currency. The burglars used a high explosive, which shattered the safe and completely wrecked the office. The burglars left but slight clews. At Marmatou, Kan., a dozen tgemen worked for two days with picks and shovels excavating for the foundation of a church building. They recently organized a United Brethren Church and could raise but enough money to buy the material, so the female members of the congregation did half the excavating for the foundation walls. Reynolds and Wagner, escaped convicts, were captured the other day, but Wagner subsequently escaped. Reynolds was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob. Reynolds was charged with killing Night Captain Rooney of the Colorado penitentiary nt Canon City. Wagner is said to have held Rooney while Reynolds stabbed him. W. R. Bond and F. M. Hughes of Custer, S. D., have discovered on the southern slope of Hartley Peak, five miles east Of Custer, a forty-foot ledge of the finest quality of onyx and kaolin, or China clay. The vein of clay is fifteen feet wide and the quality is said to be the best. It is used toy the manufacture of fine porcelain. This is said to be the lurgeet body of kaolin in the United States.

WASHINGTON.

Commander Wainwright of the Gloucester was presented with a sword »t Washington. Congress has received a petition from a Quiney man for the exclusive right to bsb in the Mississippi river. Gen. Corbin issued a statement showing that contributions received- since the closing of the Lawton fund have swelled the tothl amount to $93,304. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 208 to 50, refused to allow the seating of Brigham H. Roberts, polygamist Congressman-elect from Utah. The official census of Porto Rico has been finished. Sad Juan has* 32,500 inhabitants. /Ponce has nearly twice as many residents, the number being stij,000. There are 907,000 iuhabltahta. oai the island. Jti V The national board of trade has adopted a resolution urging upon Congress the passage of legislation which would allow the laying of a competing cable line between Cuba and the United States, awd

CT r S ■ fra **3 75? I reaffirmed its action of last year in favor of a law permitting the railroads to make agreements as to rates nnder the supervision of the interstate commerce commission. The War Department has made public a report from Capt. W. R. Abercrombie, Second infantry, who commanded the Copper river exploring expedition in Alaska last season. The report gives an account of the laying out of the great transalaskan military route from Port Valdez, Alaska, to Port Egbert, ou the Yukou. Capt. Abercrombie found that hundreds of people were dying of starvation and scurvy in the Copper river country. At Valdez 70 per cent of the inmates of the huts were mentally deranged. This was common to those whom a fear of scurvy had driven over the glacier, where so many had perished by freezing to death.

FOREIGN.

Thirty-nine deaths from the plague have caused u panic at Honolulu. The Boers are reported to be dissatisfied at the length of the campaign. Italy’s commercial interests may prevent a renewal of the triple alliance. Afghanistan’s ameer Has ordered the destruction of the road between Herat and Kutschk. The Austrian Government has forbidden the City Council of Eger to erect a monument to Bismarck. The French correctional tribunal has ordered the dissolution of the community of Assumptionist Fathers. The Prince Regent of Bavaria has conferred the Order of St. Michael, firstclass, on Dr. Nansen, the explorer. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai it is reported there that Emperor Kwang Su has committed suicide. French elections resulted in favor of the Republicans. Only three Nationalists were elected in ninety-nine senatorial districts. The Dowager Duchess of SchleswigHolstein, mother of Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, who had been suffering from pleurisy, is dead. The North China Daily News publishes an edict by Emperor Kwangsu, appointing as emperor in his place Putsing, the 9-year-old son of Prince Tuano. While the United States gunboat Wheeling, now in Hong Kong harbor, was saluting in honor of the German emperor’s birthday, a gun burst, killing Gunners Campbell and Nelson and seriously wounding Lieut. Beatty and Gunners Conroy and Bite.

IN GENERAL

Mrs. John D. Rich, the Chicago woman who was surrendered to Mexico to be tried for the murder of her husband in Juarez last May, was adjudged guilty by the Mexican court and sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Regarding the report that President Diaz of Mexico had designated his successor as President of the republic, it is stated on authority of Mexican officials that President Diaz has expressed a wish that Gen. Bernardo Reyes succeed to the office when he retires therefrom. The mail from Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, brings the news that a report is current there that six Americans were shot near the foot of the Bacatete mountains by order of Gen. Torres, who is in command of the Mexican troops now operating against the Yaqui Indians in the Bacatete range. The passenger carrying transatlantic steamship lines are almost uniformly refusing to book large excursions for passage to Europe this summer. Parties have been formed to go to the Paris exposition, and some of them number as many as GOO persons. It was said at several steamship offices that the refusals were caused by the desire of the lines to refrain from overcrowding their steamers and to be able to provide accommodations for their regular yearly patrons who might not apply for staterooms so far in advance. Bradstreet’s says: "Exceptions to the quiet and even dullness shown bj’ many lines of trade and speculation are found iu the active demand for woolen goods for next fall’s delivery and tn the active call for dry goods on spring account. In the latter direction prices show special strength, and the bulk of the business placed in woolens has been at advances of 25 to 40 per cent. Weather conditions throughout the country part of the week have been against retail trade in seasonable goods. Another effect of the unusually mild weather is that shown in the northwestern lumber business. Lack of snow will probably insure a reduction on the cut of last year, and this, combined with smaller stocks, points to at least a maintenance of present lumber quota- . tions.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, Otic to 67c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white; 25e to 27c. . St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to ssioo; sheep, $3.00 to $5 75; wheat. No. 2,71 Cto 73c; corn. No. 2. yellow,'3oc to 32c; oath/ No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cinciunati-r-Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 84c to 35e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 62c. Detroit—Guttle, $2.50 to $6.75;' hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, N 6. 2'white, 27c to 29c: rye, 57c to 50c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c. to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,56 c to 58c; clover seed, $4.85 to $4.95. Milwaukee —Wheat, No., 2 northern, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2,31 cto 33e; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26e; rye, No. 1,55 c to 57c; barley. No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $ll.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.<M) to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25: sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red,,77c to 79c'.corn., Nq.,2, 40a UHhe;.odts NW 2 *iiVofßic# Übttfo; butter, creamery, 21c to 26c; eggs, western, W*« 18c.

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COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Wm.H.Coover Sheriff. Nate J.Reed Auditor W.C. Rubcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor. Myrt B. Price Coroner TruittP. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor Jobnß. Phillips coMMisaioxnui. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District FrederickWaymire Commissioner’s court—First Monday of each month, CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Star; Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcel, COt’NCILMKM. Jst ward... .G. E. Murray. Chas. Dean 2nd ward .John Eger. C. G. Spitler 3rd ward J. C. McCoUy, j. C. Gwin JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney..... ....Charles E. Mill. Terms of Court. -Second Monday in February. April, September and November.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. PrevoGillan John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nicholsßarkley James D. Bidieock Marion Marcus W. Reed... Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. Bierma Keener J. C. KuilpkeKankakee Albert S. KeeneWheatfield John A. Larnborn .Carpenter George W. CasterMilroj B. D. Comer Union TOWN OB CITY J. D. Allman.Remington J. F. Warrenßensselaer Edward T. BiggsWheatfis* f Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Sirptßensje aer CHURCHES. First Baptist—Preaching every two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m: Sunday school at 9:3o: B. Y. P. U, 0 p. tn. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. m Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. f l '. meets Sunday, 0:30 P. M. Christian—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sundav* school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. U. E.. 2:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E.. 0:80; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. L, Ward, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society meets every W ednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbveri an—Comer Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:80; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday Ladies’ Industrial Society meets every’ Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist—Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. 11. M. Middleton. Pastor. Ladies' Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church of God—Comer Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10;45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday. 7:30; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. A. H. Zilmer. pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine's. Comer Division and Susan. Services7:3oandlo:3o a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Father 1 homas Meyer pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge. No. 135, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Monday s of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. Imes, Sec'v. - . EveninG Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E.S.. meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Maude Spitler, W. M.; Hattie Dowler. Sec’y, Catholic Order Forresters—Willard Court, No. 418. meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 3 p. tn. J. M. Healy Sec’y; George Stricxfadeh, Chief Ranger. Magdalene Court-No. 380. meets the 2hdat>d4t i Sundays of each mouth, Miss Mary MeyerjC. R.; Mrs. Man- Drake. R.S.; MissCindaMacklenberg. F. S. \ Odd Bellows -Iroquois Lodge, No. 144, I O. O. F., meets every Thursday. E. M. Parcels, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment-No. 201. I. o. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. J. M. Cowden,C, P.; J. R. Vunnafta. scribe, i Rensselaer Rebekah Degree LodgeNo. 846. m-ets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Delmu Rowles, N, G.; Miss Belle Adams, Sec’y. ' 1 I. O. of Forester s-Coart Jasper, No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets sec- 0 ond and fourth Mondays. J. N. Leatherman. C. D. H. C. R;C.L. Thornton, Maccabees—Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr 1 O, T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. W Clsaei, Commander; Isaac Porter, Record Keeper. ' Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. sa. Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday *, f C. Robinson,C. C.: N. W. Reeve, K. of £'< Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sistets.- • < No. 47. meets 2d and 4th Thursday every month, Mrs. Lulu Huff, M. E, Cl Mrs. Josie Woodworth. M. of R. C. Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. J. A. Burnhan. Post Commander, J. M. Wasson. Adjutant. ' Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corpsmeets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C. Thornton, President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Robert H, Milroy Circle—Meets every Thursday in I. O. O. F. block. Mrs. Beni. Say let, Pres.; Carrie* I. Porter. Sec’y. 1 Ho.&LSSTOtrffeZ; Daughters of Liberty htCefav 3d and 4th Mondays Gertrude Ina t ?LiVa^.y nafe Or ’ CIIIC ™ ,,SS) Reco «l-Rensselaef.q2nw.-No, 4412. Modem Woodof Amerlcaj meets First and Third