People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Gite Snyder was overcome by the excessive heat last Friday at the noon hour. It appears that he had become overheated in working about the store of his uncles’ —the Hardy Bros. They had a bucket of ice-water in the store, and just before dinner he had drunk to freely of it, and when he went to dinner he was noticed while at the wash basin to suddenly appear rigid and deathly pale. Drs. Landon and Ramsey were immediately called, and by dint of hard work for an hour or so he was restored to consciousness. It seems to have been a clear case of sunstroke, and the writer having seen him at his worst thought it impossible for him to recover. He rallied, however, in the evening, and the prospects at this time are that he will entirely recover. He is a bright boy, about 15 years old, and greatly respected bv all the young people of Remington. There were a great many of the good people of Rensselaer who attended Fountain park assembly last Friday, among whom were noticed W. W. Reeve and son, County Clerk Coover, Jo and Charles Hammond, Hon. S. P. Thompson, Newt Warren and others, the occasion being the speech of Hon. John J. Ingalls of Kansas. His address was along the lines of public opinion and its hearings on the safety, advancement and perpetuity of our government. He made an excellent speech, and it was greatly appreciated by an exceptionally intelligent audience of perhaps 800 adult people. His ideas, as he expressed them, was the main danger that menaced the perpetuity of our government was the bad class of citizens who locate here and come from the shores of the Mediterranian. many of whom are cutthroats, outcasts and outlaws from the mother countly who were compelled to leave there on account of crimes committed against the laws of the land and sought an asylum in the United States, whose portals have always been open to all peoples from all countries, until now we have many more than we know how to deal wbh. Speaking of the tariff, Mr. Ingalls is not in sympathy with the policy of McKinley and other leaders of the republican party. He believes the theory of high protection is all wrong. He opposes high duties on imports and the free trade in imported labor from Italy. Hungaria and other European countries as against the American laborer. He is in favor of bestowing the suffrage on women provided the women themselves desire it and will ask for it. He admits that there ate a few bad republicans, and he also admits ihat there are a few good democrats. He failed o express an opinion of the populists.

The Christian Sunday school was well attended last Sundav. It was presided over by Dr. I. B. Washburn of Rensselaer. Prof. Hackleman led the music, which Was fine. The exercises were held at Fountain park. Dr. Washburn is a model superintendent, and under his direction any Sunday school is sure to be a success. Harry Hartley has so far recovered from his late accidental gunsl ot wound as to now be in his oft ce most of the time. He says he eats well but does not recover his strength as rapidly as he thinks he should. He com* plains yet of considerable pain and soreness in his back, the ball probably being lodged there. It will be some time yet before he is completely recovered.

The Christian meetings at Fountain park are being fairly well attended. There is considerable interest being manifested in the sermons of Rev. J. V. Updyke. and there has been some accessions to the church. The Remington Press office has been removed from the room in the D. W. Greene building to a large room on the west side of Ohio street up-stairs in the Durand block. This room is much larger and better located than the old quarters. J. H. Tribby of Kokomo, a former merchant of Remington, was here during the week visiting old friends and acquaintances.

Your correspondent took a ride through Benton county last Tuesday in the vicinity of Meadow Lake church, coming back by way of Wolcott, Whitecounty. It is very dry all through the territory traveled over, but the corn crop appears in most places to be very promising. Some fields of oats made forty bushels per acre. A. M. Traugh, who went to Oklahoma some time ago witn Dr. Patton to visit his son. W. A. Traugh, has returned to Remington. He reports an abundance of rain in the territory and also in southern Kansas. There is beginning to be considerable stir in real estate in this locality. Many persons from Illinois are here to look at the country, some of whom will certainly buy, Seymour & Yeoman report the sale of eighty acres three miles northwest of Remington this week. Other sales have been made near Wolcott. Dash.