Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1902 — YOUNG MEN ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

YOUNG MEN ARRESTED.

For Assault and Battery Upon Vern Kaub. Last Friday night Vern Kaub, while returning through the rain from a social, was the victim of an unprovoked assault. When passing the school house his umbrella was jerked aside and he was set upon by Fred Parcels, Guy Peacock, Chas. Clift and Fred Hemphill. He did not know the boys were near and was taken by surprise. One of the boys, whom Kaub claims was Parcels, hit him under the jaw and he was knocked down. His assailants then started away and Kaub stooped to look for his hat, when they returned, and knocked him down two times again. Kaub claims never to have hed a word with his assailants and attributes their attack to drunkenness. All four of his assailants left the same night for Hammond, presumably to avoid arrest, but returned again Sunday or Monday, but Peacock again left town for parts unknown. Parcels was arrested oa the charge of assault and battery Monday, and on a plea of guilty was fined $2 and costs by Squire Burnham. Clift and Hemphill were arrested yesterday, but claim to be innocent and asked for a change of venue. The cases were sent to Squire Fay, of Parr, who will try them Friday forenoon. Dr. Bernard Maloy, of Chicago, is visiting his parents here. James Maloy is able to be about again after his severe sickness. J. R. Parkison has moved into Mrs. O. D. Martin’s property on River street. Miss Grace Jacks left yesterday to nurse her grandmother, who lives near Lee. J. W. Medicus, who has been plastering at Highlands, 111., is home for a visit. Mrs. Thomas Jacks, of Lee, mother of Alfred Jacks, of Rensselaer, is very low with pneumonia. It is thought the second series of the Rensselaer Building & Loan Association will pay out in October of this year. Julius Huff has sold his property in the east part of town to 0. F. Shroyer, of Barkley township, who has already moved into the property. Judge Thompson informs us that he has not yet made up his mind to build his business block this year, and that the project is very uncertain at best. Mrs Alexander Rannie and her daughter, of Providence, Rhode Island, are the guests of relatives ’here. They are on their way to Spokane Falls, Wash., for a visit. Mrs. Lee Dinwiddle, one of the most prominent women in Fowler, committed suicide Saturday by cutting her throat. She was forty five years of age and leaves a husband and two children. W. O. Nelson, the photographer, has returned from Texas, where he spent the winter. Mrs. Nelson and her mother, Mrs. J. W. Porter, will visit in Kansas before returning to Rensselaer. Miss Ada Mayhew, of Red Bluffs, Cal., after an extended visit with relatives and friends here, departed on Tuesday for a visit in Chicago and Wisconsin, after" which she will return to her home. The rural delivery bill fixing the salary of carriers at S6OO per year for a twenty-five mile route, passed the house Monday, after the clause placing the carrier service on the contract system was stricken out. Art Fendig, son of Nathan Fendig, who for the past two or three years has been located in Chicago, has now taken up his residence in New York, where he is said to be doing well. At present he is engaged 'in selling imitation diamonds. Dr. W. W. Hartsell has purchased the Timothy Gleason farm of 160 acres in Hanging Grove township. The purchase price was $47.50 per acre, or $7,600 for the farm. As part payment Mr. Gleason took the former J. W. Douthit residence on Cullen street at $2,000. Mr. Gleason will move to Rensselaer. The union revival meetings of the different churches began last evening and gives promise of resulting in much re’igious interest. The business houses have agreed to close during the services at 7:30 each evening in order that the proprietors and employes may attend the meetings. The Ladies of the G. A. R. have also decided to hold no more meetings of the order during the revival.