People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 1

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Ellis Opera House... A CARD In presenting the latest and most perfect apparatus for producing life-like views and animated'pictures the Magniscope AND THE FAMOUS MAGNISCOPE SPECIALTY COMPANY OF VAUDEVILLE ARTISTS to our patrons, beginning Friday, Dec. 18th, the management is sure that it will be a source of unusual pleasure to the many who honor this theatre with thelrpatronage. Not to see the Magniscope and The Magniscope Specialty Company, is to miss two of the greatest attractions of the day. The Magniscope has been one of the chief attractions every day for more than four months at Hopkins Theatre In Chicago, where more than 40,000 paid admission to see It the first week. ALL THE LATEST AND BEST OF EDISON’S ANIMATED PICTURES Will Be Shown Nightly. THE MAGNISCOPE SPECIALTY CO. is composed of someaf the best known artists ot the vaudeville stage, and includes such names as Prof. Gerde, the famous Magician, direct from the London Music Halls; Macbelle, the celebrated dancer and serio-comic singer; MUsa Joste Welcome, the noted ballad singer, who appeared 160 nights at the Imperial Theatre, Chicago. Harry Rowe, singing comedian; the beautiful comedienne and vocalist, Miss Estelle Cleveland, and many others. OF"The engagement Is for two nights, Friday and Saturday Nights, Dec. 18th and 19th. Reserved seats may now be had for either performance. Price of Admission 35, 35 and 15 cents. Respectfully. jr. U. 8 • ELLIS, Manager.

• ' " B "• The Direct Line to Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati LaFayctte, Louisville, West Baden, French Lick Springs and All Points South. Frank J. Heed. G. P. A.. Chicago.

CHURCHES FIRST BAJPTisT Preaching every two weeks, at 10:46 a. m. and 7 p. m.; Sunday school at 0:30: B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m. Sunday: prayer meeting 7p. m.; O. E Yoliva pastor. ;V ? *** CHR IS TIA N. Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday BChool, 0:30; J. Y. P. S. O. E„ 2:30: B.Y. P. S. O. E., 6:30: Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30 Rev. Findley .pastor. Ladles’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. *** FRESB YTERIA N. Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday School, 9:30: Junior Endeavorers, 2:30p. m.; Y. P. S. O. E., 6:30. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 Ladies Industrial Societv meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. *** METHODIST E. Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League, Bunday 6: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:30 alternate Sundays. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Dr. R. D. Utter, pastor. LADIES AID SOCIETY every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. *** CHURCHOF GOD. Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching, lo:45 and 7.30; Sunday school, 9:3o: Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Ladies Society meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. *** CHRISTIAN-BARKLEY CHURCH OF C HRIST. Preaching every alternate Lord's Day. Morning,Sundayßcnoollo:oo;Preaching ll:oo. Evening, Y. P. S. O. E., 7:3o; Preaching,B:oo. Rev.R.B. Morgan, Pastor. LODGES MASONIC. —PRAIRIE LODGE, No. 126. A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. 0. G. Spitler W. M.; W J. Imes,Secy. EVENING STAR CHAPTER, No. 141, O. E. 8.. meets first and Third Wednesday's of each month. Nellie Hopkins, W. M. Maud E. Spitler. Bec’v. *** CATHOLIC ORDER FORESTERSWillard Court, No. 418, neets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. in. E. P. Honan, Secy., Frank Maloy, Chief Ranger. *** ODD FELLOWS. IROQUOIS LODGE, No. 149,1. O. O. F„ meets every Thursday. W. E. Overton, N. G., S. O. Irwin,Sec'y. BENSSELAER ENCAMPMENT, No. 201, I. O. O. F.. meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. T. J. Sayler, O. P.; John Vannatti. Scribe. BENSSELAER REBECCA DEGREE LODGE no. 346, meets first and third Fridays of «&cb month. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, N. G.; Miss Alice Irwin, Bec’y. *** I O. OF FORRESTERS. COURT JAB- - No. 1703, Independent Order of Forresters. meets second and fourth Mondays 8T& ** & D. H. 0. B.; J. W. Horton, j

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THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

Li Hung Chang is accused by the emperor of China with having attempted to prove to the world that he was greater than his sovereign. Miss Lucy Uhl, daughter of the United States ambassador to Germany, was married in Berlin yesterday to Professor Guy Thompson of Yale University. The Venezuela cabinet has accepted the agreement between Salisbury and Olney, subject to ratification by congress. The Spanish rabble at Havana is threatening the lives of the few Americans living there. The budget committee of the chamber of deputies in Paris has been asked for 200,000,000 francs to strengthen the French navy. The reichstag in Germany Monday commenced the first reading of the mail steamer subnegation bill, which is being strongly opposed. The Figaro, a Paris newspaper, strongly commends President Cleveland’s message. A mob in South Africa tare the British flag to shreds. Ambassador Thomas Bayard will be banqueted on March 2 by the lord mayor of London. Advices from Blantyre, the chief town of **British Central Africa, announce the dispatch of three British columns against the Angoni Zulus under Chief Chikuski, who have invaded southwest Nyassaland and burned a British missionary station, besides massacreing the inhabitants of a number pf villages. Chikuski commands -30,000 warriors, and the British troops only about 500. Great anxiety was felt at .when these advices left that town, and an attack upon it was feared. England has lost faith in Lord Salisbury’s boldness and alertness. The cause is the menace to European powers by Russia and Great Britain’s inactivity. The Engliish Union of Railway Servants has won a decided victory in its strike against the London <fe Northwestern.

The port of London is on the wane, and, is losing its prestige as the distributing center of Europe, according to the report of Sir Thomas Sutherland. The Czar’s recent treaty with Ghina is regarded as a diplomatic victory for Russia. Venezuela wants the protocol modified, as it is unsatisfactory to the populace. There is a movement on foot in Ireland to secure a revision of the financial relations between that country and Great Britain. There is a lively court war on in Germany, and the Kaiser is holding interviews with every one of importance. Over 700 laborers from Sierra Leone have commenced work on the Panama canal. The French government will abolish its penal colony at New Caledonia and Establish a substitute on the island of Madagascar. The Russian wheat crops in the southern colonies have been badly damaged by drouth. ' The Duidical remains at Dartmoor, England, have been destroyed by contractors to secure stone to mend the roads.

The ambassadors of the powers demand that the Porte recall within forty-eight hours the Porte’s special envoy to Cete, Saad Ed Bin Pasha, who is accused of thwarting reforms projected there. United States Consul Mertens. at Valencia, Spain, will warn the captain of the filibustering steamer Laurada not to land on Spanish shores, as it will precipitate a clash. General Weyler says he has returned to Havana to clear the Havana provinces of insurgents. Major Cirujeda, who assassinated Maceo, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Counterfit gold coin is being extensively circulated in St. Louis, Mo. A hog weighing 1,000 pounds was slaughtered near Cambridge, Md.

RENSSELAER IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896.

A mob attempted to lynch Elmer Weatherholtz, a wife slayer, at Woodstock, Va. The economical scheme to abolish forty counties in Kansas will be defeated. Despite the use of anti-toxin, William H. Osgood, a New York club man, died of erysipelas. Indiana records of great historical value have been discovered in a cave near Lamville, Minn. The American liner St. Louis beat the Lucania into the port of New York after a stormy passage. A second attempt was made to blow up the Louisville express near Ditchley, Va., Saturday night. George E. Ross, the fugitive clerk of the United States Express Company, is under arrest at Baton Rouge, La.

The new revenue cutter, Walter A. Gresham, showed remarkable speed in its trial trip at Cleveland, Ohio. Cardinal Gibbons is a believer in the Kneipp cure and waded in the dew near Baltimore, Md., with beneficial results. O. L. Partridge, of Alpena, Mich., has been convicted of embezzling $20,000 from the Alpena Loan and Building Association. Harry Lockwood, a young farmer residing near Newark, Ohio, is charged with attempting to kill his mother with dynamite. B. F. Rosenthal, the Chicago school trustee, is circulating a petition having in view the nomination of Wash Hesing far mayor: Ex-Governor Robert E. Patti son of Pennsylvania was in Chicago Sunday, Bohemian turners gave a free public entertainment to Bohemians Sunday afternoon at Eighteenth street and Ashland ave., Chicago. The object was to keep young men and boys away from saloons. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, wife of the commander of the American Volunteers, addressed large audiences at the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and in Evanston Sunday on work among the convicts. She will found a home in Chicago for released felons. The Salvation Army contemplates the foundation of a winter shelter for the unemployed in Chicago. Mayor Swift and his party returned from Florida Sunday afternoon. Charles Butters of Johannesburg, South Africa, member of the reform committee of sixtythree and a prisoner with John Bays Hammond at Pretoria jail, is in Chicago. John Leddy and Patrick Doyle tried to “bunko” a granger at the Grand Central Depot, Chicago, Sunday and were arrested by Officer Gibbons of the Central station. Lorin Burnam, 83 years old, died at Rogers Park, 111., Sunday. The police searched in vain for $3,000 he is said to have had. The railroads are cutting down their issue of free passes. M. A. Spurr, convicted of falsely certifying checks while president of the Commercial National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., has been sentenced to thirty months in state’s prison. A wild man is living in the woods near West Hammond. On Saturday last he drove a party of rabbit hunters from the district. Lndwig Schuett, a German emigrant, attempted to kill August Fleigel, consul general of the German empire in New York, Saturday. Frederick Hibberly, a wealthy Terre Haute, Ind., farmer, has been sued for SIO,OOO damages for breech of promise by his divorced wife. Recruiting agentft are getting many volunteers for the Cuban army in Arkansas.

Advices received at Key West, state that Weyler will deny the assassination of Maceo over his own signature. The 150-mile pipe line of the Pipe Line and Refining Co., has been completed to Kankakee, and the oil will be shipped to Chicago in cars. The Choctaw Indians have agreed with the Dawes commission for the allotment of lands and the abolishment of tribal governmen t in eight years. George Harris of Dubuque, lowa, was injured so seriously while being initiated into a camp of the Modern Woodman that an operation may be necessary to save his arm. On account of suspicious circumstances the body of Tessie Mefford will be exhumed. The girl, who was only 9 years old, died at the home of her grandmother, Rebecca Derrickson, in Chicago one week ago. A bill will be presented to the Pennsylvania legislature, abolishing the scaffold in the execution of condemned criminals and substituting gas. It is proposed to turn the gas into an air tight cell while the condemned man is asleep. ' The fusion governor-elect of Washington will have a law passed abolishing the lobby. President Cleveland has gore to South Carolina on a hunting trip.

The negotiations between the United States and Great Britain for a treaty of general arbitration covering all subjects of difference between the Englishspeaking nations, is nearly ready. Three expeditions left as many Sorts in Florida for Cuba to elp the insurgents Sunday night.

Condensed Testimony.

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Remington Items.

Alex Littlefield left here for his new Virginia home last week. Weather is fine, and the farmers are all done husking at this time of writing. Those who are obliged to sell • their corn (and many are, the majority of them) receive 16 cents per bushel, and this six weeks after it was known that the “Advance agent of Prosperity”, (McKinley) was elected, We were told all through the campaign that his election would restore confidence, and prosperity would at once dawn upon us. Some of those poor deluded mortals now see their mistake and are sorry for their action. Others there are who will never know more than to obey the dictation of their masters. The Christian church people are carrying on a protracted meeting, conducted by Rev. J. D, Carson. Mr. Fleckenstein has been brought back,from the Lafayette Soldiers’ Home. The Christian Endeavor Society heard §teve Yeoman’s report of the Muncie meeting last Sunday evening.

Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering It through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney 9t 00., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken Internally, and made in Toledo, Obio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testimonials free. tar - Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.

Key Stone Com Sheller tor sale by Robert Randle.

Surrey Items.

Ed. Leach of Barkley township moved on one of P. S. Thompson’s farms last week. Lennie Lang, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Lang, is sick with lung fever. Dr. Borkely is attending the case. Mrs. Walters of Chicago and Mrs. Bailey of Goshen, Ind., have been visiting Mrs. Levi Chupp since last Monday. The Iroquois ditch controversy is causing quite a lot of talk and some of it not in its mildest form. Of course this comes from some of the involved petitioners. Wm. Leek, the largest com producer around here, has his farm almost covered with cribs.

Lots in the Leopold addition adjacent to the court house are the choicest of any in the city.

Electric Bitters.

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Call for Conference.

It is now demonstrated that the educational work accomplished by the People’s Party has so far affected the people of the United States that the comparatively insignificant number of 25,000 votes, properly distributed in the last election, would have resulted in crystalizing our cherished ideas into law. This significant fact emphasises the importance of continuing the grand and patriotic work of education without cessation, and for the purpose of deciding upon an organized campaign of education to be pushed vigorously till the next election it is thought necessary that a call be issued for aconference of the populists to meet at Indianapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 29th, 1896, at 10 a. m., in room 35, English Hotel. All Silver Republicans and all other Money Reformers are earnestly requested to participate in the conference. Members of the People’s Party state central committee and members of the executive committee are hereby called to meet on the same day in -room 85, of said Hotel. Important business. Julius Rosenheiner, Chairman.

Notice.

All parties owing accounts at the brick barn are hereby notified that all accounts due me have been placed in the hands of D. W. Shields for adjustment. No one else is authorized to collect any accounts due me. John M. Shields, Proprietor. Rensselaer, Ind., Nov. 11.1896.

OPERA HOUSE, MONDAY NIGHT, DEG 21, “SMOKED PEARLS” I LADIES MINSTREL ENTERTAINMENT f OF THE HIGHEST ORDER OF MERIT CONDUCTED BY Local Talent UNDER THE DIRECTION OP ;/, • * flnnie ® War 3 • Foster V*¥kztT^ ————— - , The whole proceeds for Christmas Charities at Some. 25 and Sso. Reserved Seats at Huff’s.

Jordan Items.

The farmers of this vicinity are done husking com for this season, and they have gathered the largest crop that has been raised for many years. J. W. Hyatt made a business trip to Barkley township last week. Mrs. Fenwick is attending a meeting at Fowler this week. The farmers of this vicinity are tired of being cheated in the weight of their grain when they sell, so they have purchased scales and will do * their own weighing in the future, and they also propose shipping their own grain. J. W. Hyatt and family entertained a number of their friends from Rensselaer last Sunday. Mrs. Win. Keen is reported as being on the sick list. There will be a Box Social at the Putt school in Newton county next Friday night, Dec. 18th. Everybody come, as we anticipate a good time. Lewis Spaulding and family, and George Wortley and family, were the guests of J. W. Hyatt and family one evening last week. The dance at John Putt’s was largely attended and all report a good time. . John Bill is shipping his poultry to Chicago. Sabbath School at Union every Sunday morning. Literary at the Putt school house every two weeks on Friday night. Come everybody.

BUTTERFLY.

Fireman's Masquerade.

The Renrttelaer fire laddies will givo their annual masquerade ball on Thursday evening, the 31fch inst, New Year's e ve. About SSO invitations will be issued and a grand time ia antlqipat d. The ball is given to replenish-their treasury which has been depleted in caring for sick brothers. Visitors will be admitted to the gallery at 25 cents.

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Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that there will be an election of officers of Prairie Lodge, No. 125, F. & A. M., at Masonic Hall, Monday, Dec. 21, 1896. W. J. Imes, Sec’y.

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