Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Mr. James Madison returned to bis home in Ohio, last Monday. All goods down to cost at La dies’ Bazar. Ben Sayler of Newton tp. is building a dwelling upon his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sayers, of Union tp. have a new daughter, Born August 12. "The attendance at the 'Summer Normal has increased to sixty-two this week. The report that Miss Babcock has sold out her store is not correct, but it is a fact that she is selling her goods at cost. Mr. James "W. Douthit starts cl for southern Indiana last evening, called there by telegram to visit a sick friend. He will be g:>ne about a week.

| Mrs. Dr. Bitters, qf Rensselaer | returned home on Friday after a j weeks’ visit with her aunt, Mrs. j Gazella Stockton, at Purdue. — ; Lafayette Courier. 'Robert Porter, who is a student! at the Ladoga Normal schbol, is : home for a vacation, and putting ! in his time attending the Jasper , county Summer Normal. Uncle Rial Benjamin fell off a load of oats last week, probably j during an uttack of vertigo, or i something o| a similar nature, ! and was considerably bruised and battered.

The new M. E. Cliurcli at Pleasant Grove, in Barkley tp., Is now ready for plastering. It is a fine building, cost about $1,400 and wilt probably be dedicated about Sept. 20. hiMt. Ed. McCrackeu, , formerly in business in this place, but now a commercial traveler for a boot and shoe house in Omaha, Neb. is visiting old acquaintances in this place. Mr. J. H. McClung, the veteran editor of the Wabash Plaindealer, | ahda landowner in Jasper county | by the way sold his foter- 1 est in the paper, and will devote the remainder of his days to some more restful avocation. Dr. N. B. Delamatef, Professor of nervous and mental diseases in Homeopathic college, of Chicago, came down Sunday, at the request of members of the family, to hold a consultation with Dr. Hartsell over the condition of Madison Makeever. Married. —By the Rev.— Me-1 Reynolds, st his residence, in Rensselaer, Ind., Sunday, August 16th 1885, Mr. Edward J. Kays to Miss * Allie B. liitchey. Both the parties live in Marion tp., the bride being the daughter of Mr. Osiander Kit ;hey, 500 cojjes of the Report of Public Schools of Rensselaer have just been printed at The Republican office. The work of; printing and binding them lias 1 been well and honestly done, and i as cheaply as work of the same j degree of excellence can b e done \ any w here, a | We are glad to state that the; ■ authorities of the Indianapolis ! Insane Asylum have been able to j restore Mr. John Henkle to the full possession of his .mental faculties-. Sheriff Yeoman went to Indianapolis after Mr. Henkle yesterday. He has been in the asylum about eight months. The annual teachers' reunion will take place at the Court House next Monday evening. The excessively amusing.evening performance, “A Natural Spell” will be given, and there will also be an Educational Symposium by a number of teachers. Other feature! of the evening will be varied and interesting.

Parents about town had better shut down on tlieir young sons hanging around the depot so much. Boys don’t learn any good from listening to conversation of the character that ugually prevails in such places, and besides that there is more or less danger, always, that®some of them will meet with an accident. It has been buta few days since a- young boy jumped upon the platform of a moving train, and missing his footing, wus dragged along the platform for Bome distance. Had it not, fortunately, been the rear platform of the last car, the boy would almost certainly have been WUed, -

Mr. M. L. Spitler had a hard wrestle with cholera morbus, last week, but got on liis feet again by Saturday. • The mother and sister of Mr. John Martinclaie, of Newton tp. returned to their homes in Warren county last Monday, after makipg the letter a brief visit. Every-body, including his or her mothei-iu-law, shuuld attend the Institute next week and the lectures each eveuing during the week. j Work on Mr. Stockton’s resilience, on Division &t. lias been begun to the extent of getting stone on the ground for foundations. «*• "” r . If you want a suit of clothes made to order, with quality of ! goods, and workmanship and fit ■of garments guaranteed, call at [ the Trade Palace. Misses Lydia and Amanda Paris returned home Tuesday, after a stay of several years in Dakota. They each own several .hundred acres of "Dakota’s best dirt” From unprofessional accounts of Mr. Madison Makeever’s condition there does not seem to be any reasonable grounds for expecting life to be prolonged for many weeks. Rev. C. A. Rice went to Monon Monday to preach the funeral sermon of Mrs. Sarah E. Wei drier; Mr. Rice reports the occurence of an unusual number of deaths i fi ’Monon" lately. “

Last Friday was an unusually cold, raw day, for August litli, and some early risers of' next ' morning, report having seen cqnisiderable frost, in places. It was not heavy enough to do any dam- | age, so far as we have heard. Mrs. Fletcher and Miss McKee, of Kentucky, mother and aunt lespectively of R. F. Priest, and Mrs. Boone, of Alabama, her 'sister, after-visiting her for about | two weeks, have gone to Fiaucesjville, to visit other relatives there. i W. S. Stockton, of Cliauncey, I who with his wife went to Rensselaer last Monday, to make arrangements for their removal to that place, took a run down to his old home last Friday to look after things generally.—Lafayette Courier. Services will be held at the F. W. Baptist church next Sunday morning by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. After the services the ordinance |of the Lord’s Supper will be administered. On Saturday next at 2:30 p. m. the regular covenant meeting will be held. | We add two more names to the ’ list of medicine men who has I been licensed in this county, i They are W. W. Hartsell, of Rensselaer, instructed at Hahneman Medical college, Chicago; and Willard Stock well, of Walker I tp., who has practiced more then ten years in the county. Suits to order.- Willey & Sigler, at Trade Palace, have the agency for the celebrated bouse of Browning, King A, Co., of New Y’ork. If you want a suit of clothes made to order call and inspect their samples and get a suit that will be warranted to give satisfaction. The Pittsburg Bessmer Steel Co. is pushing a claim against the C. Si G. S. for $16,291.65 due them for steel rails, which they elfjim were wrongfully taken possession of and used by the company. Great Suffering is the most appropriate name the line has fever borne.-—Oxford Tribune!

An official or the. L-, N. A. & C. ! road says that as. ,soon as the '■ finances of the company will allow,; they A’iif remove all their shops to Mohan, ’erecting suitable buildings to accommodate them. He says there is no question ns to this, being the point to,locate them and that it is,,as well, the proper place for-the master of transportation to be located.—lndianapolis Jpurnal. Freeport, Harper county, Ivan., |M, O. Cissel’s location, is one of ; those phenomenal western towns ! wfiich spring up in a single season. The town plat was not recorded until February of the present year, and' building did not commence until April. It has now a long list of business houses, and public and private buildings in profusion,

Married. —Monday evening, August 17th, iu Rensselaer, by the “Old Squire,” Mr. William Curran and Miss Hannah Turbey. A gentleman’s complete outfit —suit of clothing hats, boots apd —gloves can be bought cheap at Ralph Fendig's, A lot of the kids gave Mr. Leroy Sayers and his new wife a rattling charivari last week, at their residence in the western part of town. _____ VV ANTE D.—AII parties knowing themselves to be indebted to me are requested to call and-settle at once. R. TI. Yeoman. Major H. H. Woods, of Michigan City, is in town on business connected with the transfer of Ferguson’s lumber business to Col born As Co. On the last Saturday of August, I will irokl an examination for admission to Purdue University. D. M. Nelson, Co. Supt. 1747-st. Four more accessions were made to the prosperous M. E. church last Sunday. They were Mrs. Henry Piatt and Miss Allie Windle in the morning and in the evening Mrs and'Mrs. James R. Adams. • The hay fever, or a disease of that nature, is prevailing to . some extent in this place. Mrs. 11. E. James and Mrs. A. W. Cleveland are both confined to their beds with it.

Married. —Sunday afternoon,Aug. 15th, 1885, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Addison Parkison, in Rensselaer, Ind, Mr. Chas. P. Moody, of Jefferson, lowa, to Mrs. Eming. Funk. The Rev. T. C. Webster officiating. A Basket Meeting is announced for the last Sunday in August. To be held at Watson's grove, four miles east of town. The Revs. Mcßeynolds and Wpbster of the M. E. church, will hold services. The former at 10:30. A. M., and the latter at 2:30 P. M. Gayiiorp H. and Mary Chilcote, are Visiting friends in Jackson and Hillsdale counties, Michigan. Miss Minnie Chilcote of Montgomery Midi, who has been visiting here- fob several Weeks returned to her home with them on last Tuesday evening. Marriage licenses since our* last issue: \ Edward J. Kays, j Allie 13. Ritchey. i Charles P. Moody, ( Mary E. Funk. { William Curran, | Hannah Turbey. \ Frederick Hochbaum, 4 Hosannah Hays. The Rev. Mcßeynolds, the popular and successful pastor of the Rensselaer circuit, of the M. E. church, began a series of meetings at Pleasant Ridge last Sunday evening, which will continue durin g the week. The interest in the meetings' is good, and large results are anticipated. The fast horses which left Rensselaer a few weeks ago are developing.a good deal of alacrity in getting around to different fairs, whatever may be said of the records they are making after \ they-get there. This week three j of thelm are entered for the races j at the Boone county fair, at Lebanon. - _ .1 David W. Shields came home’ from Valparaiso to attend the Jasper county Summer Normal. He allows that had he known that the term would be so good he would not have gone to the Valparaiso,institution until after its conclusion. Mr. Shields and all others interested, may take notice that so long as I). M. Nelson remains at the tead, Jasper j county educational matters will | all be of the highest quality.

That most admirable gallows erected m Rensselaer some months ago for the accommodation of a more or less prominent citizen, is to have an exact duplicate in Oawfordsville.’ The sheriff of Montgomery county has a couple ,o£ unmitigated villains to haDg shortly, ,qnd after coming up and examining Sheriff Yeoman’s hang-, ing machine, determined to haVe one just like it. The wooden portipnß will be made at Crawfordsvifle, but the iron work lias just been completed by L. C. Grant, of Rensselaer, and gpes to Crawfordsville to-day, by express. 4

Frank Russeli, of Lowell, owner of the saw mill lately set up near Fair Oaks, in Union tp., met with a terrible accident a short time ago. While °attending to his mill he had the misfortune to bring his hand in contact with a moving saw and it was cut off below the wrist. Dr. Loughridge was called and ga.ve the necessary surgical attention to the wounded man. 1 M. O. Cissel’s new paper, the Fredporfc -Leader, published in’ Freeport, Harper county, Kansas, made its, first appearance, last week. It is a bright, newsy’’ sheet, seven column folio, in size, and gives the fairest promise for a successful future, We congratn-: late o-ur old townsman and former typo on the auspicious advent of his"paper,- and extend our heartiest wishes for his continued prosperity.

Persons in town or country, who may be thinking of buying an organ or piano, would do well to cal! upon Mrs. Alice Dunlap,, at Rensselaer, before buying. She is the agent for the well known and thoroughly reliable house of l D. H. Baldwin & Co. of Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati. She sells nothing but the best instruments, and is prepared to give very favorable terms to purchasers. Parties wishing to buy are allowed to taka instruments. on trial, and if they are not found as represented mky be returned. « ts. A fierce and bitter quarrel has long -subsisted .between, the fam ili.es of Patrick McGuire and Michael Kain, both Irish, iu Wayne township, Fulton county; and many deeds of deadly spite 1 and malice have finally culminated in. the murder of Kain, about two weoks ago? He went out early in the morning to milk his cows and was found soon after with his head beat’en into an unrecognizable massM McGuire has been missing since the affair and his neighbors have no doubts but that he is the inurdPrer. From the accounts of the enmity between the two families, given by the Rochester papers, it would seem thatthe killing was not without extenuating circumstances. The boys have got up a little story at the expense of Mr. Hoover, the new county Treasurer, to the effect that he was heard thundering at the door or the Treasurer’s office, in the court house, at three o’clock' in the morning oi the day upon which he took his office., and loudly, demanding possession of the same. This alleged excessive early hour of his appearance at his office reminds ns of an occurence illustrative of the usual habits of county officers, in respect to the time of day they open up. Mr. A. McCoy went to the* court house about eight o’c’ock one morning and after trying every door in the building, and finding them ail still locked he lifted up his voice and gave relief to Lis irritated feelings in this wise: their- they must all be serving their second terms.”