Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — Personal. [ARTICLE]

Personal.

Died. —Mrs. Mary Hill, Union township, was buried yesterday. Mr. Ben Spencer, of Remington, fell dead with heart disease last Saturday morning. The weather has been so extremely hot for the past four or five days that Mike Holloran’s tenants have been compelled to evacuate “Red HelT—for the purpose of cooling off we suppose. We have been credibly informed that that always, was a hot place, and we know that the prosecuting attorney and the grand jury always made it hot few its occupants at least four times a year. William C. Comb, the engineer who ran the regular train on the I. D. <t C. railroad last fall and winter, was killed by slipping under an. engine in Chicago, Tuesday evening. Mr. Comer was universally respected by the railroad employes and all others who knew him here. In November last he insured himself in favor of his wife for SI,OOO in the accident department of the Travelers’ Insurance Company, with D. B. Miller, of this place. * As wb have before stated, a number of Rensselaer gentlemen have organized a sporting club, and are about to bnild a club boose on the Air Line railroad at the Kankakee. A delegation of the club visited the Kankakee, Tuesday, and selected t£e site for the building. It is to be erected side of the railroad track, on the north 6ide of the river, a few rods from the end of the bridge. The club is folly organized, but we believe the members have not selected a name for it.

President Gabfield will probably recover from his wound, and in all probability will live for years to come, nevertheless death is the common portion of the race, and his end must come sometime. Hence the wisdom of leaving the mourning drapery upon the court house and the flag at half-mast. They have no particular significance npw, but the time will come no doubt when they will be appropriate if they are left where they are long enough, as it now seems likely they will be. Bad Cut.— Mr. Welcome D. Robinson, of this city, who has been employed for sortie time as a-bridge builder on the C. <k I. , Air Line, met with a serious accident on last Saturday evemngwhile -at work on the- Kankakee bridge. He was using a foot adz on a piece iof timber, when he slipped and fell on the adz, which inflicted a fearful wound on his right knee-joint. The gash is several inches in length. Mr. R. was nt once brought home on the construction engine, v -Drs. Loughridge and •’Bitters were summoned and dressed the wound, and the patient is doing well. Mr. R. is a hard working, man,, and baa the symjjathy of all. It will probabl y be several months before he is able to do any work again.

Mrs. Chas. H. Price is visiting friends and relatives at Remington und.Kentland this week.. Misses Deilii and Grace Carpenter, of Whitehall, Mich., are visiting, relatives at this place. Misses Jessie and Ella Freneh of Kentland, are visiting their sister. Mrs. Rev. A. W. Wood. Hr .John Gi Reynolds, recently from Dakota, is visiting his brother, Mx. Ben. Reynolds, of thisplace. * Mrs. Dr. Brandon and daughter, of Decatur, 111., axe- visiting with Mr. C. C~ Starr, the former brother. / Mx. John: A. Abbett and family, of Indianapolis, are visiting with Recorder Abbett, the forme r’s brother, in this city. H. R. W. Smith,'. Esq., of , the Gmcinnati Enquirer, editorial Btaff, is visiting-friends and relatives in Rensselaer aneTnricinity. Mrs. John Eger, together with Mr. Eger’s two sisters, have gone to Kendallville, for a three weeks' visit with friends in-that place. Professor George William-Allen, of Van Wert, Ohio, formerly superintendent of the public schools of :hia place, has returned and will •take part in the Normal which convened, here Tuesday of this weekJames W.. Doutliit, Esq., who i as been teaching school for the Tukt nine months, in Hanging (drove-and. Gil lam townships, re- * .trued to. this city on last Tliurday * . ening. He is reading law in the t dice of Capi. Chilcotc. E- E. Davidson, lately from wishes to announce - hat he is ready to da all AinAa &[ tone-work, plain and ornaßMstal, in the best style- Stone-cutting ‘ wccuted in fine style when desired. very beet of references given v required. Can. be found at the —House. %

Bicyclebs.— Charley Sears has a new bicycle, and the people of Rensselaer find considerable amoeemant in watching the ■Hampfe of ▼eoioreeome amateurs to ride it Tuesday, especially, wae a field day for the exhibition, and the spectators were treated to the view of some' ground and lofty tumbling that would make the fortunes for e circus. Most of the performers were satisfied with giving two or three exhibitions. Charley, himself, however/ in spite of many mishaps, persevered until he was able to manage the machine quite successfully. Dr. Link has become quite an accomplished bicycler. He states, however, that his object in riding the machine is only for the purpose of showing the “half breeds’* what a Conkling man can do. He did, indeed, furnish a very pertinent illustration of Conkling 1 s fortunes, when he took a grand tumble the other day off from Delos Thompson’s bicycle. Capt. Babcock executed some of the most astonishing am store circus performances ever witnessed. At times he would describe e circle on the treacherous machine, and the next instant would be standing on his head working the creature with his toes. V At one time he remained suspended in the air for the space of thirty-eight seconds, And looked so much like a split comet, out of its orbit, that all the laborers were frightened off the Mokeever building, and they refused to return until they had taken ont accident policies. Frank finally made his descent upon mother earth in “B” flat. T. J. McCoy, B. Learning, Charlie Coen. Auditor Nowels, C. H. Price and James T. Abbett are all taking lessons on the bicycle. A. McCoy and Bro. Hogan, of Brook, are the instructors.