People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ing will not be ready for use before March. The plastering, which was a big job, was done by Day Brothers, who received about $800 for the work. The building is a great improvement over the old one, and all the rooms will be used at once, surplus of scholars only occupying the old school house. At present a ton of hard coal per day is used in the new house. Fire is necessary on account of the workmen employed in the building. Charlie Sprigg put in the furnaces and did the tile and cement work.

For sale- a fine black pair of tailor made pants. Owner, having no use for same, will sell at bargain. Inquire of Miss M., at Zimmerman & Roberts' tailor shop.

It will pay any one wanting to buy a pair of first class pants to investigate the above offer. But thereof hangs a tale. For some time Stephen Keen, an Irish lad from Chicago, has been working at the merchant tailor shop of Zimmerman & Roberts. Stephen is a good tailor, but like the majority of those following that trade loves “booze,” and every Saturday night after receiving his wages, gets on a big drunk and continues his drinking until his exchequer is exhausted. Last Saturday night was no exception and at a late hour at night Stephen found himself at the depot, gloriously drunk and quarrelsome, and finally he slapped a young boy who was present. Sunday morning the fighting tailor woke up and found his money all gone and arrest staring him in the face. But a happy thought strikes him. He will skip the town. But money is needed, Another happy thought. In the same shop works a pants maker, Miss M., of Monticello. and a friend of Stephens. “I will ask her for a loan,” says Stephen. Now Miss M. makes good wages, but being an old maid, does not believe in throwing it away on drunken men, and she refused the loau, but having an eye to business lent Stephen the money and took his fine tailor-made black pants as security, and having no use for same now offers them for sale at a bargain. After leaving Miss M. the tailor pawned the trousers to two other parties in town and they are now whistling for their pants. The four drunken toughs who cleaned out the dive at Hammond conducted by former Rensselaer people were arrested and fined. The gang consisted of four hard characters of Hammond. They went to the house on the night of January 14th, one of the coldest nights this winter, and threw the inmates and every thing in the house out into the snow. The women were scantly dressed and they were thrown out last. Not content with this brutality the gang compelled the women to dance in the snow a regular “cancan,” it is reported. One of the women, a bride of but a few weeks, from, the results of the exposure, has been very sick every since, and for awhile was laying at the point of death. The toughs were arrested and fined, one of them $100, another $75 and the remaining two $50 each. The two men who were living with the women were also arrested and held for trial. One of them was able to give bail and is now at liberty, but the other one, the husband of the injured woman, was not so fortunate and is now in jail at Crown Point awaiting trial. The woman who was unhurt and the man out on bail were unmarried, but have been living together for two or three; years and have caused the Hammond people a good deal of trouble.