Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Page 1

RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT.

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CHtCAGO. ixdiaxai*ou*4 Louisville. Time table No. 1, in effect Nov. 28, 1897. South Bound. Nd. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mail No 5-41 CliicagoJU: Cincinnati, daily, 10:55 am No. 33 , 1:45 p. nt. No. 39—Milk accommodation 6:15 p. ni. No. 3'—Louisville Express 11:12 p. nt. No. 45—Local freight . 2:40 p. m Worth Bounds • Nt., 4—Mail 4:30 a. ni. No. 40 —Milk accommodation 7:31 a. ru. No. 32 refc-ttlar stop.. ; .9:55 a. m. No. 6—Mail and express 3:27 p. ni. •»N<>.3o 6:32 pm. iNo-3p ....... 2:57pm No. 46—Local freight _ 9:30 a. in. No. 74—Freight .. 7:52 p.m. No. 3, stops :nt algual. ♦ Daily except Sur.dao. t Sunday onlv". No 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for Number 30 ' W. H. Beam, Agent.

Edna Dillon is visiting in Monon. Jacob Thomas of Brook, visited relatives in. Rensselaer Tuesday. E. L. Hollingsworth was in Logansport Tuesday fin business, Joel F. Spriggs, was in the city on business Tuesday. Mabel and Paul Wood spent Sunday in'Menon. , George N. Dunn went to the country Tuesday to try a law suit Ada Wood of Monon is visiting her sister Mrs, Frank Randall. Roy Flanders of Foresinan, was in town on business Wednesday. . 5 ' " Rev. Puckett of Wolcctt, made a business trip. to Rensselaer Wednesday. Walter Imes returned from the Mineral Springs Tuesday and is much improved. Chas. Cox went to South Chicago Tuesday to take a jiosition in a dry goods store. V. V. Nowels of Chicago Heights is visiting in this city for a few days. u t . It is now in order to begin making arrangements for Decoration Day. Clara Murray has been absent from school a few days on account of sickness. Chas. Mullen of Brook, is spending a few days with Newt Pumphrey. Miss Blanche Meyers of Lake Village is visiting her mother at Mr Goff's. Mrs DeArmond of Kankakee township visited in Rensselaer Monday. Jud Hunt and Sheriff Reed .made a business trip to Remington Tuesday.

Frank Hardy who is now traveling salesman for a wholesale house was attending - to his interests here Wednesday. L. W. Henkle, who has been working at Chicago Heights returned to Rensselaer Sunday evening, where he has employment for the summer. Frank Coover, who has been attending the State University at Lincoln, Neb., is going to spend. the summer with Harvey Wood and family, near Rensselaer. Oscar Austin of the Indianapolis Daily Reporter, the Supreme Court paper of the State, was in town Wednesday on business pertaining to that Journal. George Davisson of Barkley township started for North Western Montana Monday. He is employed by a Gold Mining Company to take charge of a steam dredge. The dredge is to be used to excavate ground which is rich in the preeious metal. The gravel is then washed and the gold extracted. ~ , ■

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Obituary.

John H. Shields, father of the Editor of the Democrat, died of appoplexy at his home in Rensselaer last Saturday at 6:40 p.m., aged 71 years, 8 months and 11 days. >He was born in Watertown county Ohio August 19th 1826. He catne to Jasper county in 1846 and remained here one year and then returned to Ohio. In 1846 he. came again and has ever since lived in this county. He first settled in Barkley tp. and live4»there until 1870 when he moved to Union tp. to engage in stock faising. He lived in that township until 1883 when he moved to Marion tp. south of Rensselaer. During the last few years be has resided in this city. He was Carried in 1858 to Elizabeth H. Eakin of Barkley tp., to this union were born six children sos whom are now living: David W., John M., Harley 0., Lucy J. MalcbbW' and Katie Shields. He was out of 11 children ail of whom are dead except 2 brothers Joseph D. Shields of Labette, Kansas and B. F. Shields of Franklin, Neb. and 2 sisters, Mrs. Wffi, Bull of Rensselaer, and Mrs. John Morris of Delphi. Funeral Services were conducted at the residence by Rev. V. O. Fritts. <No funeral sermon was delivers! and, the services consisted of a prayer and songs which were in’ strict accordance with the wishes of the deceased. He had at different times during the past few years given minute instructions to the undertaker yclativeto higftarial,. even to selecting jhe kind of casket to be prepared for him. He was interred ift the Crocket cemetery Monday afternoon and now rests by the side of his deceased son And?cw< l Sdk<w4mr-' *

Chas. Hammond is now canvassing Lake and Porter counties in the interest of the McCormick binders and mowers, with headquarters at Hammond. Call on the Meyer Sisters’ for your summer hats. The very latest styles. Several thousand people assembled at the depot at Lafayette to see the Tippecanoe Rifles off to war. All the business houses were closed during the parade. The war seems to be popular. Patronize home industries by smoking home made cigars. F. D. Knotts on Friday of last week captured six young wolves about 3}4 miles southwest of town. He tells us that during the last eight years he has found and bagged twenty-seven young wolves in that same locality without ever catching sight of the old one.— Medaryvlile Advertiser. The third quarterly meeting of the church, will be held at Rose Bud Saturday and Sunday, 14th and 15th inst. Quarterly conference Saturday at 2:30 p. m. usual quarterly services on the Sabbath. The public most cordially invited. Oliver. Lowther, *■ Pastor, M. P. church.

The Hart outfit that has for the past two months or so infested the region west *of town, in the old Peacock woods, gathered up their possessions and pulled out, Monday. They went south toward Remington, but their exact destination we do not know, We can yojich for the fact however-that not a resident west of the river mourn their absense, which it is sincerely to be hoped will last some time. •

Rensselaer, Indiana, Friday, May 6, 1898.

Florence Wood spent Sunday in Monon. John W. Duvall has gone back to his former home in 111. He may be gone some weeks. Jolih Kupkee trustee of Kankakee township was in the city Monday on county business. Charley Mellender who has been sick for a couple of weeks is again able to lie. about. Bro. Kitt of the Goodland Herald, is now publishing a daily edition of that paper. H. C. Chevilier who is now painting a curtain for the Monticello opera house, was in town Sundays e Sylvester Healy our enterprising shoe dealer went to Chicago on business Wednesday. He will be gone some days. Patronize home industries by smoking cigars manufactured in Rensselaer. Uncle Sam is naturally peaceably inclined, but is amply able to defend himself when it becomes necessary. The Knox Agricultural ’Society will hold a trotting and running meeting on July 2nd, and 4th. for purses amounting to S4OO. John W. King who has been confined to his bed and house since the 15th nf February, is again able to be on the streets. Hattie Nichols who has been at Medaryville the past three weeks trimming in a millinery store, returned home Monday afternoon. Cement sidewalks have been built in front of the residences-of J. H. Cox, George Barcus, and W. T. Perkins. Married by the Rev. Peter Hinds, at his residence in Milroy township, April 27,1898, Alonzo Wood and Mary E. Scott. A bam at Remington wasi burned- Saturday twretgu stable is said to be the property of A. Leopold.

Missess Bertha- Alter, Lynne and Edith Kelley and Louie Wilcox spent Sunday in Chicago, the guests of Harry Wemple and Ross Grant. Bicycles * repaired at lowest prices. A full line of bicycle sundries on hands for sale. All kinds of wheels ordered. Give me a call. Chas. Grow. One door west of Makeever House. George Dunnn returned Monday from Indianapolis where he had gone in response to the call for the state militia. All members of that organization were given a chance to withdraw and not go south with the troops if they wanted to, and there are quite a good many doing so. Judging from present appearances it looks as if there would be no need of assembling the state troops to drive the Spaniards from Cuba.

Special sale every Thursday, everything in fine Millinery at special rates. Ladies should attend these saler and secure some of the many bargains offered. MissCoad. On Tue sday evening of labt week Postmaster Robinson had a horse die at his place. As the law requires the disposal of all dead animals either by burial or otherwise, our postmaster concluded to bury it and had a hole dug to roll the horse into. A team was hitched to the dead animal and as soon as it started to drag it toward the hole the court house clock began to chime and continued striking until the team had dragged the dead animal to the hole ready to be thrown into it. The clock struck in all 89 times in succession.

Ed Parcels the barber returned from Monticello Tuesday, frotH visiting his mother who is seriously ill. Miss Virgie Watts, of Monticello, who has been visiting with Miss Grace Gee, returned to her home Wednesday. Mrs. Lewis Reprogle went to Rensselaer Monday to attend the funeral of her uacle John H. Shields. —Monticello Herald. - ....I * ■ Good Second hand spring wagon tor sale. Inquire of C. H. Yeotnan west part of town on gravel road, near Makemself ditch. Elder and Mrs. D. Halstead, who has been in this county for some months past returned to their home at Andover, South' Dakota, Wednesday. i B. I*. Learning a former resident of Rensselaer, who was a Candidate for re-election as city clerk on the Republican ticket at Qoshen was defeated in city election last Tuesday.

Thieves Raid Leopold’s Store.

4 Last Saturday night about midnight as Bert Goff was passing to an out building in the rear of G. W. Goffs resturant he heard poises in A. Leopold’s store buildmg and on looking in through a window he saw two strange men in the store room and concluded they must be burglars. Returning to the restaurant ae told his father and both securing revolvers went out to capture them. On going to the rear of the store a confederate who stood in the shade of the fence gave them the alarm by whistling and then ran leaving his confederates to take care of themselves as best they *could. As the two burglars catne to the open window where the_\ had entered they were ordered by Mr. Goff to stay inside 4-oe wi«*tjj r outrhthem, then they halted. They started for the front of the store

when Mr. Goff sent Bert to the front,to see that they did not maketheir escape in that direction suspecting however that the burglars had smarted for the front to get them both away from the rear so that they could make a dash out the back way and escape. Before Bert reached the front door one of the thieves had shattered the plate glass in the front door and jumped out and ran for his life toward the river bridge. Bert fired three shots at the man, but without effect. The man inside the store did not attempt to get out and was kept inside until the arrival or night watch Childers who escorted him to the jail. An examination of the clothing store showed that the men were each engaged in selecting a suit of clothes for himself. One suit had been selected and the other was trying to ma,ke his choice from several suits he was examining. After landing the prisoner in jail, the night watch arrested six men who he thought might be implicated but they were all released in the morning. The rock pile was hinted at and they left the city. The prisoner was examined Sunday morning by Squire Burnham and held to the circuit court under SSOO bail which of course he could not give and was sent back to jail. The man gave his name as George Clark and age 34 years. His story is that he met the two men at Monon and that they got him drunk and persuaded him to join them in the raid, which story is not believed as he showed no evidence of having been drunk when arrested.

From the Front.

Dewey’s Great Success the topic of the World. Soldiers May Laud in Cuba Inside the Next Week. The past week with regard to the Spanish-American war, has certainly been a histo/y maker for the people of this continent. During the past week a goodly number of rich prizes have been taken, by Admiral Sampson but it remained for Admiral Dewey to make a record for the country in the way naval battles Saturday night with his fleet of six gunboats he entered the harbor at Manilla in spite of the fact that it was laid with sub-marine mines, and on Sunday morning engaged the entire Spanish fleet of eighteen vessels and the forts surrounding the qity in one of the fiercest battles in the history of the navy. Official information concerning this first great battle of the navy, are very meager, but the reports as sent to other nations are of the most satisfactory and thrilling character. The battle as nearas can be learned lasted only about an hour and fifteen minutes, but must have been one of the fiercest in the history of naval warfare. In that remarkable short time the Americans had silenced all the harbor batteries, and had sunk, burned and destroyed the enemies whole fleet. Commodore Montejo, cammander of the Spanish fleet lost his flag ship, the steel cruiser Reina Cristina, which was burned; the cruiser Don Juan de Austria was blown up, and several other ships were riddled and sunk. Other ships which were too badly disabled to be saved, were sunk by the.Spanisli themselves. The battle occdfeperl nig o'clock _l*tthe ®om-i ing, and took place in the Earbof of the city, under the very guns of the surrounding forts.

Just how great the loss of life was on either side can not be definitely know at this time but by the Spanish, it must have been something terriffic. It is thpught that the American loss of life is very light and that the American battle ships sustained very little injury.

The carrying of this fight to a successful finish, has crowned Commodore Dewey with a renoun that will last as long as history of the United States is known, and he has justly won all praise. The ships that Dewey took into this battle were as follows: U. S. cruiser Olympia, the flag ship, cruisers Baltimore, Raleigh, and Boston, and the gunboats Petrel and Concord. A fact which makes the victory all the greater is that only one of the American ships were protected by steel armor plate. . It was indeed a piece of collossal nerve that induced Commodore Dewey to take his fleet into the very face of what might easily be expected to be utter destruction, and to succeed far beyprid the expectations of almost everyone. It is- also asserted that Dewey has shelled the city of Manilla and compelled its complete surrender, and he is now in possession of the wjnnd. If this is the case it is likely that troops will be sent at once to take possession and hold the island. In the meantime the North Atlantic Squadron under Sampson is waiting anxiously for a chance to measure their strength with

the Spanish flotilla, now supposed to be on their way towards American waters/ In case this fleet does not show up here in a reasonable time, it believed that Sampson will cross the Atlantic and engage them in combat in their own waters. Indeed it has already been asserted that a part of the Samjjson fleet has goigf' east for the purpose of hunting up the Spanish and putting the finishing touches on this war. There is little or no dfeubt that another battle, if it is fought will be as successful as the first, as the Spanish nation is not prepared and cannot stand another defeat such as they have just stood. In the mother country the residents are almost in open revolt, and an insurrection is to be momentarily expected. Up to yesterday morning no official information had been received by the government about the Dewey battle, but grave fears are entertained at Washington, for fear the fleet has met with some disaster in the harbor where the fight took place. Information that partial report has been received at the capital is circulated but the truth of the matter can not be relied upon. This report states that the Americans have lost 50 killed and that 100 were wounded, also that two bl the cruisers were pretty badly injured and that a relief ship would probably be sent from San Francisco. That Sampson has really sailed to hunt up the Spanish squadron, now in the neighborhood of Cape Verde islands, is now considered a certainty. He took with him the seven strongest ships in the fleet namely, the New York, lowa, Indiana, Puritan, Cincinnati, Detroit and Mayflower. If this fleet ever comes in contact with the Spanish boats there will undoubtedly be fought the most severe naval battle in the History ornre wona. At Madrid the riot has become so great over the news of the Spanish defeat that the troops have been compelled to fire on rioters. There is talk of the Queen having to retire from her throne because of the liability of an uprising among her people which would dethrone her.

Notice to Populists.

All townships not already organized under last call will meet at their respective voting places on Friday, May 13, 1898, at 2 o : clock p. m. and organize by electing precinct committees. The chairmen will meet in Rensselaer on Saturday, May 14, 1898, at 1 o’clock and organize a county committee. It is hoped the members of the party will turn out and effect an organization at this meeting. J. A. McFarland, Chairman.

New for 1898‘

I Sell the celebrated McCormack Binder and Mower,—the world’s best. Come and examine our machines. A large line of extras always on hand. I sell the Studebaker wagon. They have' shoulder slope spokes, while all other makes have square shoulders. I sell the Anchor, Bimel, Kalamazoo, and Studebaker buggies,— None better. I sell the Huber threshing machines and Birdsell clover hullers. Call and purchase a Monarch bicycle. Come and eee me one and all. Yours Truly, C, A. Roberts Opposite Makeeyer House.

New. Bns Line.

Remley’s new bus line makes all trains day and night. Calls for or delivers passengers to any part of the city. Headquarters at the Makeever House. Telephone 107 or 11. John RemleV.

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