Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Another heavy rain fell Thursday night and yesterday. Ellen Donnelly, Gail Daugherty and Simon E. Kenton are the common school graduates for Marion tp.. this year. The wife of J. C. Powley died nt her home near Rose Lawn Thursday morning after an illness of several weeks, aged, 55 years. The family formerly resided in Barkley tp., this county. W. W. Bussell et al vs Rial B. Harris et al, is the title of a new case filed in the circuit court. The suit grows out of the old cases against Harris, mention of which has been made by us heretofore. The latest news from the South African war is to the effect that Pretoria had not been taken, and that the Boers were massed six miles south of Pretoria for a new and desperate stand with a front of twelve miles. Elmer Wilcox and bride arrived in the city Wednesday. The bride was Miss Myrtle Killen of Lafayette, at which place the ceremony was performed Tuesday. They will reside here, where the groom has fitted up a comfortable home in the northwest part of the city. If the people of Rensselaer and Marion township should go ahead and vote a 1| per cent, tax to aid the Gifford road, it would shut out an east and west line—a line that would be of great and lasting benefit to all of us—for many years, for it be useless to ask them to vote another tax soon for this purpose. This is a matter that should be carefully considered. Rev. Marcus Hamburger, one the instructors at St. Joseph’s College, left Thursdav for Ohio. After visiting his mother and acquaintances there, he will go abroad. He intends visiting different parts of Europe, but most of his time will be spent in Germany. He will also attend the Paris Exposition before returning to Collegeville, in September. Decoration day was the first day this week that we didn’t have a heavy downpour of rain. The day was observed in the usual manner. The G. A. R.. Relief Corps and I. O. O. F., were the only orders, however, that took part in the parade to the cemetery. The business houses closed up during the exercises. There are 50 soldiers of the civil war buried in Weston cemetery; sos the Mexican war, and 1 of 1812. There are seven cases now pending in the supreme court carried up from the this county, as follows: Yeoman et al vs Shaeffer; Board of Commissioners of Jasper Co., vs Marion (the old tax-ferret case which has been in the supreme court for more than two years on which no apparent effortris being made to get a decision); C. I. <fc L. Ry. Co., et al vs Brown; Springer vs Foster ; Makeever vs Martindale; C. I. & L. Ry. Co., vs Brown; Jones et al vs Peters. We understand that J. P. Sherman was held up by a mounted highwayman in Kentucky a few weeks ago, when down there to see his lands, and was relieved of his watch and chain and $5 in cash. He was walking out a part of the wav to see his lands when a man roae up behind him aud, as Mr. Sherman stepped aside to let him pass, the man pulled a revolver and demanded his waGh and money. They were handed over. We were not informed whether the gentleman of the road was a Taylor republican or. a Goebel democrat. The jury in the case of the State against Dluzack were discharged Thursday morning on account of sickness of Juror Arm. strong who was unable to attend court. The trial had proceeded four days, the evidence was practically closed and the case was ready for argument and submission to the jury when Mr. Armstrong took sick, necessitating a postponement and a loss of the labor and expense of trial which bears heavily on the defendant who is a man of small 1 means. We are informed the eleven jurors took an informal vote on the guilt or innocence of the defendant and the eleven voted him innocent.- Monticello Herald.