Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. | F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. &L W| _ - - ■ ’ t£NSSELAER, - • • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

In New York Milton Rathbun fasted for thirty-five days, ate heartily. During | the time of his fast Mr. Rathbun drank about three pints of water daily, but abstained entirely from food. lie weighs 164 pounds now, as against 207 when he began his fast. ft The Supreme Court of California handed down a decision by. which the validity e* of the trust will of the late Senator James G. Fair is upheld. The decision | will prevent Mrs. Nettie Craven, who : claims to be Fair’s widow, from getting more than SSO from the estate. The Kentucky State contest board has : awarded certificates of election to all of the Democratic contestants for minor State offices. The contestants were sworn in and repaired to the statehouse in a body, where they made a formal demand on the Republican incumbents for possession- , - One of the most disastrous tires that have visited Deshler, Ohio, occurced the other morning. One-fourth, of th? business portion of the town was burned in a remarkably short time. It' is estimated that the loss will reach $20,000. Seven blocks were burned and two others damaged somewhat. L. G. Burnham, second viee president of the United Fruit Company of Boston, and Hippolyte Dumois, the agent of the company at Havana, have purchased 198,000 acres of land on the Bay of Nipe from an old French syndicate. This is the largest land deal consummated in Cuba in many years. The sum of $750,000 is involved. At Ravenna, Ohio, the jury in the case of the State against John McGowen returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, and recommended mercy. The crime for wliich McGowen was convicted was committed at Edinburg Jan. 13, when N. K. Goss, a general merchant at that place, was shot and mortally wounded by burglars in his store. Mr. Grogan, an African traveler, who has been exploring the volcanic region in the neighborhood of Lake Tanganyika, found several active volcanoes which are discharging enormous streams of lava. The country is also victimized by a ferocious nomadic tribe of cannibals, called Baleka, from the Congo valley. They have almost depopulated what was formerly a densely occupied area. Three men, a woman and a child, who sj>ent two days and nights shipwrecked in Great Routh Bay, off Babylon, L. 1., and five members of the Fire Island lifesaving crew who went to their succor and were cut off from the main beach by ice floes and gales that swept the frozen area at the rate of eighty miles an hour, fought their way through the icepacks in a lifeboat and were safely landed at Fire Island. William H. Chisholm, a river man. committed suicide on the eighth floor ot the Odd Fellows' building at St. Louis. Chisholm was a member of Red Cross lodge, Knights of Pythias. He attended a meeting of the lodge, and shortly after 8 o’clock withdrew, crossed the hall to the lavoratory, placed a pistol to his breast and pulled the trigger, dropping dead with a bullet through his heart. Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause for the act. Joseph Glean, farmer, living six miles north of Bluefield, W. Va., killed his daughter and her lover and then cut his own throat. Glean had forbidden Albert Marsh to call on his daughter. On returning home he found Marsh in the par lor with his daughter. He ordered Marsh to leave, and upon his refusal took up a shotgun and fired at him. Ellen Glean sprang in front of her lover and received the charge in hpr throat, dying instantly. The second shot killed Marsh. Glean then cut his own throat.

BREVITIES.

Giles F. Filley, a prominent St. Louis manufacturer, is dead. Emperor William heard his play, “The Iron Tooth.” roundly hissed at its initial production in Berlin. Susan B. Anthony has undertaken to raise an endowment fund of SSOO,<MMt foi the National Suffrage Association. American cowboys and Mexicans fought at Pilares de Tierra, and three of the former and five of the latter were killed. Three children. Etta. George and Samuel Friedman, were burned to death in a fire supposed to be of incendiary origin. at No. 1691 3d avenue, New York, a tepement house. The senators of the University of Edinburgh have decided to confer the degree of doctor of laws on Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, who has won world wide fame as an economic entomologist. H. M. Bryan and F. L. Bernard, clerks of the Emporium, n big San Francisco department store, stole $7,000 from the salary envelopes of the employes, and escaped before the thefts were discovered. It is announced at Cleveland that the Cuddy-Mullen (Jbal Company has been bought by the Pittsburg coal trust. The business has been run in opposition to the trust, buying coal from independent mines. The Missouri Pacific’s local i»assenger train from St. Louis ran into the rear end of the same road’s St. Ixtuis day express about ten miles east of Kansas City. Two women were killed and six persons injured. Fire destroyed the business section of Clarion, Pa., and resulted in the death of ex-Judge W. W. Barr, who dropped dead from excitement. Fourteen business houses were destroyed. The loss will amount to $150,000. The London war office makes official announcement that Gen. Dundonakl, with two regiments, has entered Ladysmith. A straight flush in the hands of his opponent, when shown against his own four aces, killed George Brown, a colored man employed as janitor in several buildings in San Francisco. • Sandy Calhoun, an ex-member of the Twentieth Kansas, was run. down on a Memphis passenger train out of Fort Scott, Kan., by officers on a switch engine and arrested, charged with the murder of his business partner at Yule, Knn.

EASTERN.

Benjamin, Wood, editor of the New York Daily News, is dead at the age of 80 years. “Uncle Dan” Rice, the veteran clown, died at Long Branch after a lingering illness. He was 77 years old. Glen Hazel, Pa., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss $20,000 to $30,000, with about $6,000 insurance. Antonio Ferraro was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the murder of Luciano Muchio in Brooklyn April 4, 1808. Harry C. Miner, former Congressman and proprietor of three theaters in New York, dropped dead of apoplexy in his home in that city. Charles H. Hcnstis, editor in-chief of the Inquirer and health officer of the port of Philadelphia, was robbed of his gold watch by three highwaymen. The handsome residence of Robert Johnson, a retired dry goods merchant of New York, on the Hudson at Mount St. Vincent, N. Y., was burned. The damage is $11)0,000. Olga Nethersole, Marcus Mayer, her manager, and Hamilton Revelle, her leading man, were arrested in New York for creating a public nuisance by producing “Sapho." A man, supposed to be John Lazarus of Mount Carmel, Pa., jumped from Goat Island bridge into the upper rapids at Niagara Fails, N. Y., and went over the American fulls. 11. C. Frick, Henry Phipps, Jr., John Walker and F. T. F. Lovejoy will in the near future erect a steel plant on Monongahela river frontage, just below Mondngahela City, Pa. The marriage ot Henry M. Alden of New York, editor-in-chief of Harper’s publications, to Mrs. Ada F. Murray of Norfolk, Va., took place at the First Presbyterian Church, Washington. Distinguished jurists and educators from all parts of the United States and from Englund took part in the formal dedication of the new law building of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Gen. John McNulta of Chicago died at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington. Gen. McNulta went to Washington to attend to business in connection with the .Illinois National Bank, foa. which he was the receiver. In his sleep James Mulhearn of New York, 10 years old, climbed over the guard rail that had been built into the window of the rtfoin In which he had been abed, fell four stories to the sidewalk, and was only slightly hurt. Au extra .west-bound- Panhandle freight was derailed cast of Dinsmore, Pa., and passenger No. 34 came along before a flagman could be sent out, and a wreck followed that injured several persons and damaged engines and cars. George E. Cox, buyer for George i*. Gore &■ Co., shoe dealers of Chicago, having an office in Boston, was taken ill in Keith's theater, in that city. He was removed to the lobby and medical attendance summoned, but he died soon after. Samuel. M. Bnia, whose invention known as the Brua milling process resulted in litigation with millers in almost every section of the United States for alleged infringement, was found dead in his room at Lancaster, Pa., having been asphyxiated by coal gas.

WESTERN.

William Baker, a prosperous farmer, who lived near Tontogany, Ohio, hanged himself. Chief Wash-a-Kie, leader of the Shoshone Indians, is dead in Wyoming, aged 93 years. Solomon Roserelt, builder of the first steamers to cross the Atlantic, died in Delaware, Ohio, aged 03. Charles Everett Smith, who was a gunner ou the Petrel in the battle of Manila Bay, is dead at Kansas City. Chris Ilintseff; one of the owners and manager of the Lucky Friend mine in Picayune Gulch, Colo., lost his life by a snowslide. A wealthy farmer named Matthew Lattimer, aged 72 years, was frozen to death while walking half a mile to his home near Elyria, Ohio. Bimetallists of the country will hold a convention at Kansas City July 4. Eight hundred delegates are expected to attend from all the States and territories. While engaged in cutting a tunnel in lime rock at Englewood, 8. D., Henry Walschmidt and Walter Morezic were suffocated by smoke from black powder. Col.’William S. King, ex-Congressman and a national character for the last forty years, died at his home in Minneapolis. Col. King was born in Franklin County, N. Y„ in 1828. At Pullman, Ark., there was an explosion of a sawmill boiler, in which seven men were killed. The whole building covering the engine was blown down upon the workmen. Enraged over family troubles, Alan Geisler, a wealthy farmer residing two and a half miles north of St. Joseph, Mich., shot his wife and then drowned himself in Lake Michigan. Fifty passengers on a Chicago street electric ear were shocked by electricity. The wire connected with life heating apparatus had broken and came in contact with the water-soaked floor.

Seven business firms were wiped out by fire at Wonewoe, Wis. For a time it seemed probable that the entire village was doomed. The loss amounts to $6(),000. The origin of the tire is unknown. Edward Probst, a wealthy mining man, committed suicide at San Francisco, leaving no word as to the cause of his act. It is thought th.’ deed is due to an atfec'tiou of tile brain, the result of recent paralysis. llurold L. Williams, ;i5 years old, a vocalist, of Chicago, died at the European hotel in Marion, Ohio. He was on his way home from :t visit with friends at Circleville. Ohio, and stopped over to spend Sunday. A head-end collision between fast freight trains occurred at '.table Itock, Wyo., on the Union Pacific. Engineer Johu Brown ami Fred Snow were seriously injured. Brakeman W’iuniug and «u unknown li.emau were hurt, but uot seriously. The west span of'the Big Four bridge over the Wabash river at Terre Haute, Ind., gave way as a freight train was crossing, and the engine and thirty-nine car out of a total of fifty fell Into the river. Three of the train crew were carried out. William Penrose, who has be<?n posing as a crazy convict and thereby gaining advantages, has disappeared from the Denitenliary at Columbus, Ohio. The

officials found a rope made out of knotted sheets by Penrose, and used by him in 1 getting over the wall. G. C. Copeland got a verdict for $15,000 against the Wabash Railroad Company In the Circuit Court at Mexico, Mo. This case is the result of the Wa)basb wreck at Missouri City in 1897. Mr. Copeland was conductor of the wrecked passenger train. The body of Adolph A. Gleich, a farmer who had been missing for three days, was found at the bottom of a deep ravine near Yankton, 8. D. He had been out with a team and wagon to get wood, and driving too near the edge of the ravine, all went down. The horses were also killed. Boiler No. 1 at the Ypsilanti, Mich., Paper Company’s Superior mill exploded shortly after the night crew had gone to work, dislodging its four companion boilers and totally wrecking the boilerhouse, and killing one employe, William Horton. Another, Martin Tull, was severely scalded. Wilson Wakelin, a prominent farmer residing three miles north ot Brock, Neb., murdered his wife by entting her throat with a razor. He then went to the graveyard, where his first wife was buried, and standing on her grave, cut two ugly gashes in his throat. Death in both cases was instantaneous. The Independent Tug Company hasbeen incorporated under the laws of Ohio with a capital stock of $100,(XX) to compete with the tug combination known as the Great Lakes Towing Company. The organizer of the new company is Captain J. A. Sweeney of Cleveland, who has three independent tugs. The smallpox situation in the Cherokee nation is growing worse in some places. The board of health is having trouble in coping with the disease at Claremore, where there are about twenty-five cases, owing to the antagonism of the local officials. Cases are reported at Fairland, Redland, Stillwell, Chouteau, Tahlequah and Foyil, with others in the country. Dr. Franklin Caldwdll of Chicago shot and killed Mrs. Ephraim P. Hayes, also of that city, in the Endicott Hotel, New York. He then took hrs own life. At the coroner’s inquest facts were brought opt tending to show that Dr. Caldwell, who was employed by Dr. Hayes, was infatuated with the latter’s wife, and killed her because his affections were not returned. In Detroit the department store of Marr & Taylor was gutted by fire: Losses: Marr & Taylor, $65,000; George C. Darwin, cloaks and furnishings, $10,000; Razenswig <fc Co., boots and shoes, $lO,000; Moll & Stock, tailors; John D. Mabley, clothier; 11. M. Kittle & Co., trunks; Mrs. 11. S. Weaver, and K. F. Craigie suffered light losses. The total loss is SIOI,OOO. At Xenia, Ohio, William Cousins made a desperate effort to kill his former sweet heart, who is now the wife of William Rickman. He went to her home in the absence of her husband and told her to prepare to die. As he fired his revolver at her head she jerked his arm so that the ball went through his hand and narrowly missed her. Help arrived, and Cousins was taken in custody. The dead and mutilated body of Mrs. Everill E. Synon was found by her husband, Michael Synou, lying in a clothes closet off one of the wretched rooms the family occupied at No. 240 South Green street, Chicago. The woman’s skull had been fractured in several places and there were a dozen gashes in her neck. Her head had been beaten out of all human semblance. The woman’s husband is suspected.

SOUTHERN.

Early Thursday morning George Blick’s store at Emporia, Va., was broken into. Blick was awakened and a desperate encounter ensued with the burglar, in which Blick was killed with a club. The burglar escaped. The explosion of a gasoline stove in the basement of the Metropolitan Hotel in Birmingham, Ala., was followed by a tire which burned that building and the Hewlett block adjoining, causing a loss of about $160,000. A special from Bucktown, Tenn., says Miles Woods was called from his mountain home and shot down in cold blood. He died in ten minutes. His father ran out to ascertain the trouble and was shot twice by the assassin. Near Birmingham, Ala., some farmers became involved in a free tight as the result of a lawsuit over land. Pistols and knives were used. Jack Boyd, a bystander, and Sylvester Hinson, one of the principals, were killed. Walter Stevens was severely wounded. It is reported in Montgomery, Ala., that that Gen. Wheeler, who is expected home soon from the Philippines, will announce himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabama and will not, therefore, be a candidate for renominatiou to Congress from his district. About 3,000 laborers employed along the line of the Tennessee Central Railway, now under course of construction, were paid off the other day by the firm having the contract. At one camp the negroes claimed that they were not paid for actual time, and went to Paymaster Beecham and demanded that he pay them more money. He refused and the men demolished wheel scrapers and costly railway material. The white and negro laborers engaged in a row, but no one was seriously hurt. One negro went to the home of a white man and emptied his revolver in the building through a window. The occupant came out and shot and killed his antagonist.

FOREIGN.

It is stated that the Kaiser has uo intention of visiting the Paris exposition. The London war office announces that Gen. Cronje hsis surrendered his whole force unconditionally. Reports from Honolulu say tlie bubonic plague is spreading to the other islands in the Hawaiian group. It is decided that the Shah of Persia will visit England as the guest of the Queen in July or August. Charles Piazzi Smyth, professor of astronomy in Edinburgh University and author of numerous scientific and astronomical works, is dead at the age of $1 years. A number of members of the British parliament have formed what they call an “Atlantic Union” to promote closer relations between the influential classes of Great Britain and the United States. A mob of Mussulmans wounded the son of the British' vice consul, Abala, at Sidon, Syria, and surrounded the consul*

ate. Troops were dispatched and the consul general went to the scene of the disturbance. In Brussels the increasing scarcity of coal is hampering industrial production. Stocks are exhausted and the myjes cannot fill orders. Many hotel, restaurant and bakers’ ovens have been shut for want of fuel. Mail advices tell how thirty-one of thir-ty-seven girls met death in a fire at Kojima Shinjo’s weaving factory at Ko meijimura, Japan. Six of them escaped through a hole in the robs. The others were cremated in their prison house. As the result of a fire that broke out at St. Ouen, a suburb of Paris, in a collection of alcohol and oil stores, a series of explosions occurred, spreading the flames until n block of six immense'warehouses was ablaze. One hundred and fifty people, including some firemen, were more or less injured.

IN GENERAL.

Mrs. Henry W. Lawton has written to Gen. Corbin expressing her gratitude to the American people for the fund raised to release her home from debt. President McKinley has appointed Bernard Moses, of California, as the fifth member of the new sion, and the appointment has been accepted. Yaqui Indians fought a big battle with Mexican regulars and at first defeated them and disabled a gunboat, but later the Indians were driven back into the mountains. The Theater Francais and nearly the entire block on St. Catharine street, between St. Dominique and Cadieux streets, Montreal, was burned. The total loss is about SIOO,OOO, American cattle buyers have contracted for 30,000 head of beef cattle in Chihuahua, Mex., for shipment to Cuba. They are to be shipped in lots of 1,000 head a week, the first shipments having been made. Four masked men entered the ferryboat Charon, plying between Bellaire, 0., and Benwood, Va., on the Ohio river and covered the. engineer and night watchman w ith revolvers while they blew open the safe and took the day’s receipts, amounting to S2OO. Orders have been issued by Secretary Long directing that arrangements be made for placing the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo in commission. It is expected the Buffalo will be used as a landsmen’s training ship. The Topeka will also be used for this purpose. Mrs. H. Hofercamp, probably the last surviving witness of the marriage of Abraham Lincoln, died at Quesnelle, B. C., of paralysis. When only 2 years old she witnessed Lincoln’s marriage to Miss Todd. She went to the Pacific coast in the early ’sos. The United States milling combine, generally known as the flour trust, has gone to pieces, but the fact did not become known until Judge Jenkins in proceedings auxiliary to the United States Court of New Jersey appointed three receivers for the company. It is probable that the export flour trade from the great wheat belt of Kansas and the West will in the future be sent to European points via the Gulf. Nearly all of the export shipments from Kansas and Oklahoma now are going to Galveston or New Orleans. Western railroads and lines which touch Gulf points are encouraging this movement and are granting special rates to exporters. It is claimed that the excessive freight charges ou lines east of Chicago are responsible for the heavy Gulf business. A barrel of Kansas flour can be delivered in Havana just as cheaply as in New York, and it only costs 5 cents more per barrel to lay it down in London. ,

Bradstreet’s reports on the business situation as follows: “General distributive trade is of satisfactory volume, though affected by weather conditions and holidays. Spring business is enlarging at many markets East and West. A softening of prices of speculatively dealt In staples is to be npted, but the reactions are of narrow extent'. Money is steady as a whole and no higher than a week ago. Bank clearings comparisons are rather less favorable. Gains in railway earnings for the first two weeks of February are of absolutely phenomenal proportions. The earnings of sixty roads for the second week of February aggregate $7,941,000, an increase of 30.4 per cent, over the same period a year ago. The strength of staple values is a feature of Canadian trade. Toronto reports heavy buying of spring and summer goods. Industrial activity is very marked. Canadian factories running to their fullest capacity.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 36c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 13e to 15c; potatoes, choice, 38c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 tfl $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,58 c to 59c; clover seed, new, $5.65 to $5.75. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 1,56 c to 58c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 46c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $ll.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.50; heep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $6.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 20c to 25c; eggs, western, 14c to 10c.

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COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Wm. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor W. C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner : Truitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor ...Johnß. Phillips COMMIB6IONBBB. Ist District Abraham Halleck r2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Waymire Commissioner’s court—First Monday of each mouth. £ CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J.McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C.C. Starr Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Grumble Fire Chief Edgar M. Pareeh COC’NCILMKN. Ist ward G. E. Murray, Chas. Dean. 2nd ward John Eger, C. G. Spitler 3rd ward J. C. McColly, J. C. Gwin JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thomiisor. Prosecuting attorney ...Charles E. Mills Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBUBTEBB. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo Gil lain John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley * James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. B’erma Keener J. C. Kntipke Kankakee Albert S. Keene "... Wheatfield John A. Lumborn Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer. Union TOWN OH CITY J. D. Allman Remington J. F. Warren Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfi»•<! Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensre:aer CHURCHES. First Baptist—Preaching eveiy two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, n>; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. m. Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 0:80 P. M. Christian—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. U. E., 3:80; S. Y. P. S. C. E., 6:80: Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. L, Ward, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment Presbyerian—Corner Cullenand Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Y. P. S. C. E., 0:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; 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. H. M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies* Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church of God—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:80; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Kev. A. H. Zilmer, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine’s. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:30 p. m. Rev. Father *1 homas Meyer pastor. LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge, No. 125, A.F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. J. M. Wasson, W> M.; W. J. Imes, Sec’vEvening 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 2 p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; George Strickfaden, Chief Ranger. Magdalene Court-No. 886. meets the 2ndand4tu Sundays of each month. Miss Mary Meyer, C. R.; Mrs. Mary Drake, R. S.: Miss Cinda Mackleu berg. F. S. Odd Fellows—lroquois 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. VannsttSa scribe* Rensselaer’Rebekah Degree LodgeNo. 846. m -ets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Delma Nowles, N. G.; Miss Belle Adams, Sec’y. I. O. of Foresters—Court Jasper, No. 1703 Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Monday’s. J. N. Leather. tnan.C. D. H. C. R;C.L. Thornton, R. S. Maccabees—Rensselaer. Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. W Cissei, Commander; Isaac Porter, Record Keeper. Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 83 Knights of Pythias, metts every Tuesday’ U. Robinson, C.C,: N. W. Reeve, K. of k’ Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— No. 47, meets 2d and 4th Thursday, every-month, Mrs. Lulu Huff, M. E. C , Mrs. Josie Woodworth. M. of R. C. ■ Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. J. A. Burntant’ P ° St Commander( M - Wasson, AdjuRensselaer Women’s Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C. 'nujrnton. President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Robert H. Milroy Circle—Meets everv Thursday in I. (X Q. F. block, Mrs. Beu). Sayler, Pres.; Carrie I. Porter. Sec’y. Holly Council.--No. 7. Daughters of Liberty meets 3d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude ffig P^e?retan* UnSeUor: NelUe “ OM ’ Record - Rensselaer Camp.—No. 4413, Modern Woodw" j Oi , Amehc “' meets First and Third u n S 8 °» each month in Odd Browa ’ v ’ c - w -