Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XVIII.

THE REPUBLICAN. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY RY GEO. E 2. Publisher and Proprietor. OFFICE In Republican building, on earner of Washington and Weston straets. Terms of Subscription. One year . .81 50 Six months.... • • 75 Three months .-- ■■■■•.. 50 The Official Paper of Jasper County. ■

Rensselaer Time Table Passenger Trains Norik: South: 4:51 A. M- 10:48 A. M. 4:03 A NJ. E* 11:11P.M. 4.-53 P. M. s 10:47 P- M.

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Misa Ruby Bruce is recovering from her sickness. Hog cholera antidote, F. BMeyer has it. Remember, the post-office is the place to buy your school books. The country people will find bargains in school books and supplies at the post office. Another fine, boy came to bless the household of E. TV. Babcock, Esq., last Thursday. All parties doing well. Everybody should buy their school books and supplies at the P. 0., because you can get just what you want for the least money. ’""Money scarceand goods plenty, •money we need, and will sell good's at cost for 30 day s. Come and buy now. Hemphill & Honan. W. B, Austin, Estf;, has been summoned to act as a petit juror in the United States circuit court which begins at Indianapolis, Nov., Mrs. M. O. Cissel, with her two children, started for Freeport, Kansas, Monday evening, where she! will join her husband, the editor of the Freeport Icr/dcr, and make her future home. That sliqw case, for pale at Mrs. E. Wilson’s, belongs to Miss Babcock, but the new styles of Millinery are Mrs. Wilson’s, and she asks the ladies to call and examine. R. F. Priest has brought his recently acquired stock of groceries from Chicago, and located with them in the east room of the Wil-liams-Stockton building, next door to Far den’s boot ahd shoe st ore. Now is the time to lay in your winter stock, fpr a little money. Millinery, Dry goods, Underwear, and Fancy goods, at cost for cash, for 30 days only, at Hemphill & Honan’s. A. Leopold has caused to be cut down the trees that stood in froijt of his newly erected “Arcade” building- It is a good riddance. Shade trees are all right in their place, but they are no good on a business street. Frank Hengesbach, whose arrest and confinement in an insane asylum in New York, upon his arrival, as a “stow-a Way from Germany last spring,-readers of The Republican will remember, is now at some point in Ohio, and said to be in full possession of his faculties. Prof. T. P. Banta, principal of the Monon school, was arrested last week for whipping a scholar in school. Owing to a technicality the case was dismissed. Prof. Banta is supported by \the people of the town generally, and his arrest is doubtless a piece of malicious spite work! * Theodore Styers, of Hanging Grove tp., accompanied by several friends and Dr. Loughridge of this place, went to Chicago Tuesday for the purpose of having an operation performed to remove a cancer from the jaw. Mr. Styers is much afflicted, having already had a similar affection removed from liia lower lip,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY J OCTOBER 29, 1885.

Born. —Tuesday, Oct, 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson,* of Rensselaer, a son. Everybody should call at the Trade Palace and see the nice stock of coats. ; Mr. J. D. Ellison of Mound Valley, Kan., and Mrs. G. O. Lackey ■ of Akron, Ohio are the guests of their sister, Mrs. J. M. Hopkins. We are needing money badly and will sell goods for the next 30 days at co§t. Come and buy now. Hemphill <t Honan. R. S. Dwiggms will preach at the Christian church next Sunday at 10:30a. m. The subject of his discourse will be “The minstration of Angels.” Go and hear him. , For Sale or Trade: A peddling w-agon, suitable for tinware "or dry goods, cheap for cash, or will trade. Call on or address F. A. Woodin, Goodland Ind. - Donavin’s Tennesseeans drew a fine audience at the Opera House, last Saturday. The entertainment was all that could have been desired, and greatly enjoyed by the whole audience. H. R. W. Smith expects to start for New York next Monday, going by way of Cincinnati, to resume his old position on the New York World. -Mrs. Smith, whose health isvery bad will remain with her friends in Newton tp., for a time. Superintendent D. M. Nelson has taken up permanent quarters in Rensselaer. The location is much more convenient for his official work, than Remington. He will board with the Sheriff’s family.

The Jones women, Pet and her have not been seen about town for several weeks and it is currently stated that they are in Illinois. Mary is under bonds to appear before the present term of the circuit court, but it is probable that her bail will be forfeited. Our former townsman, Clark Price, now of Clark county, Kansas, has just received the liepublican nomination for candidate for the state legislature. Clark is an able and upright young man, and despite his youth, well qualified to do honor to the position of a lawmaker for his adopted state. Died.—October, 9th, 1885, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edward Perkins al Spring G arden, Florida, Mrs. Carrie A. Henkle,of heart disease. Mrs. Henkle was a sister of Mr. Joseph Willey, of Rensselaer, and of Mrs. G-eo. Sigler, of Mount Airy. She was the widow of Cyrus W. Henkle, and for many years a resident of Jasper county, and one of its early settlers. Marriage Licenses: Since October 21sbthe Clerk has iasued licenses authorizing the marriage of the. folio wing couples. j Bari? abas H. Patton, Rebecca Ann Timmons. Hamilton Record, } Emma May Hershman. 1 Simon Parcels, | Melissa Barkley. i John Phillips, ( Emma Robinson. , • The members o f Eastern Star Chapter, O. E. 8., gave a supper and entertainment at their Hall, on Wednesday* evening, of last week. The occasion was the visit to the chapter of Grand Patron, J. W. Morrison, of Frapkfort. Lafayette and Delphi Chapters were invited to attend, and about sixteen members of the former were present. The supper and entertainment were of unusual excellence, and the visiting friends departed well pleased with the affair, and the hospitality of their BonMOlaM brethren.

Thomas Monnett, north of town is remodeling his house into’a two story building. Save your hogs and chickens. Haas’ hog and poultry remedy will do it. F. B. Mever, Sole agent. The Ladies’ Literary Society will meet Saturday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Medicus, on Cullen street. Boots and SnoES-Selz, Schwab & Co., and the justly celebrated Walker brands —nothing better made-for sale ot the Trade Palace. Miss Mollie Babcock returned from Winamac Tuesday evening. She will make her residence with the Misses Smith, on the North side, for the winter. Walter C. Powell, Ex-prosecutor of Tippecanee county, and cousin of J. W. Powell of Rensselaer, is now at Ashland, Dak., in very poor health, with hemorrhages two or three times every week. Miss Lettie Baylor, “the brilliant blonde,” who has been the guest of her relatives, Landlord Blue and family, for nearly two months, left for Adrian, Mich., Monday.. After a few days spent there she will go to Alabama, for the winter. - . Hog cholera is reported from various portions of the county. F. !B. Meyer has been sole and exclusive agent for Haas’ Hog and Poultry remedy, that was advertised in The Republican last season, and reports that it proved successful in every case where used. Save your hogs and chickens, by using it. F. B. Meyer, sole and exclusive agent. Many of our exchanges copy the item from the Monticello rlerald in regard to the alleged Jasper, county postmaster, and his many crookednesses. As we remarked last -week that description fits very closely to what is asserted of a postmaster in an adjoining county, but there is hone in Jasper county, who meets that description. This county however is not entirely devoid of “Reformers” of that particular kind however, and has an ex-postmaster who, from numberless accounts of his transgressions, seems in a fair way to be proven the champion thief of the Northwest. . In collecting so many local news items, it is impossible to always avoid mistakes, and last week, for iiistance,wew-ereagooddeal misin formed in regard to an item about Mr. E. Kannal’s present and prospective building operations. The fine barn he is putting up this fall, is not upon his reside nce lot, on the West Side, but is upon his farm west of town, near the brick yard; and the fine residence he is talking of erecting m the near future will probably not be upon the Site Of his present residence, but upon that spacious and very'desirable location, the old Martin place, on the south end of River street, The relatives V in this place of Will E. Sears; now in the Colorado penitentiary, for manslaughter, have just received a letter from E. E. Dudley, overseer of the department in the prison to which Mr. Sears belongs. The letter speaks very highly of Mr. Bears’ good qualities and ,says that he has one of the best places in the prison. He is connected with the medical department, and so great is the trust reposed in him that he carries the keys and has sold charge of the department except' for a short time each morning, when the prison physician is present, and in fact, is practically the penitentiary physician. He is a privileged character about the prison, and to use Mr. Dudley’s expression, doling splendidly.

A son was born to the familj of the editor, Sunday morning. A strong lively fellow, with an especial developement of lung power. I ■ Spear Head Plug Tobacco, at Kannal’s. / Moth-proof Carpet paper in stock at the Trade Palace. Millinery, Dress Goods, Flannels, Yarns and every-thing in stock, sold at cost, for cash at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins, of Bourbon, Ind., are visiting at their daughters’, Mrs. F. W. Reubelt. Aiwa Mr. and Mrs. Snyder, of 111., uncle and aunt to Mrs, Reubelt, w’ere visiting them the past week. All persons indebted to us by note or otherwise, will please call and settle. We need our money, ! and must have it. N. Warner & Sons. Thomas Tuberty, the section boss on the C. & G. S. Railroad, whose death we'-mentioned last week, was formerly a resident of Remington, and employed on the Pan Handle road. His death occured about four miles north of Goodland, and* to that place the body was taken and there the inquest was lieldrThis is said to be the only fatal accident that has ever happened on the Great Southern. Prof. Reubelt, the school superintendent, met with a severe and painful accident last Thursday, while instructing his chemistry class. He was handling some phosphorus, and although he used every precaution prescribed by the books, for handling that exceedingly combustible substance, a considerable quantity of it suddenly took fire, and enough flew upon! to bunr him quite seriously. James Givens and the two men who, with him, were arrested at Decatur, Illinois, surrendered the three race-horses, including “Caddock,” the property of Mr. Cleaver of Rensselaer, and w-ere released The report current last week that they had been taken back to Lafayette was a mistake. The only strictly criminal act charged against the three men, was the taking iron the state of a mortgaged horse, and as much trouble and expense would have been necessary to obtain a requisition from the Governor, to secure their return to the state, the owners of the horses, having secured their property, did not think it worth whils to in-’ sist upon a criminal prosecution. Mr. Cleaver went to Decatur and brought back his horse himself.

Circuit Court Notes.

The grand jury did not complete its labors until Saturday afternoon. They found seven indictments. 1 for illegal sale of liquor; 2 for assault and battery; 2 for petit larceny; and 2 for embezzlement. 4 The two cases of Ferdinand Kopelka, the preacher, against his sop Johannis Kopelka, the lawyer, from Crown Point, have occupied a large part of the time of the court, both last week and this. It is unfortunate, to say the least, that six or seven days of the valuable time of the court should be consumed in. settling the household difficulties of a family from another county. In the first suit, tried last week, the elder Kopelka sued his son for several hundred dollars worth of household goods <fcc., which the and his two sisters took possession of upon'the death of their mother; and which they claimed, were acquired mainly through the labors of the girls and their mother. verdict of the jury was in favor of the defendant-

Notice of Church Dedication. The new M. E. Chnrch in Barkley tp., on the Rensselaer circuit, seven miles east of Rensselaer, on the Francisville road will be dedicated Nov., 1, 1885. Rev. J. H. Claypodl will preach at 10 a. in., And Rev. J. T. Abbett in the afternoon.

W. C. T V U; ProgrammeThe W. C. T. U. will meet at the M, E. Parsonage Nov., 6, at 2:30 p. m., to execute the following programme: Devotional exercises led by Rev. Handley. _ Music-—Mrs. Medicos. Reading of the minutes—Secretary. - Select reading—Mrs. R. S. D wiggins. Poem—Mrs. Clark. Select Reading—Mrs. Mcßeynolds, Music—Mrs. Medicus. Report of committee. Doxology and adjournmentAll are cordially invitedr~“ Rose Paris, Mrs S. A. Henry, Sec’y. Pres.

A New Temperance Society.

Tuesday evening, October 20, a party of young ladies met at the parlors of Mrs, R. S. P wiggins, for the purpose ol organizing a Y. W. C. T. U.7M$. D wiggins occupied the chair, by consent; and, after discussing the question, it was decided to organize a Youtig Peoples’ Temperance Union, admitting Young gentlemen to equal privilege with the ladies. A fee of 10 cents Was carried by vote. Constitution, with pledge against the use as alcoholic drinks, adopted and signed by those present. Proper officers were elected, viz: Lucy Healy, President; Mattie Moore, Vice President; Hattie Flyn, Secretary; Ida Milligan, Treasurer; a committee on program appointed, also one for the solicitation of membership, and Miss Alice Havens Superintendent of all. Let us hope that this organization is not cast upon the troubled waves of Rensselaer society, to flourish for a season, and then die out for want of proper care. Let every mother who steps out upon our street the saloons we have; why, whenever she protests against the same, is answered by the words “High license, high license 1 ’ hurled at her, with such force and venom, that reverberation ceases only with forgetfulness. JuSt as if the powu- of whiskey to ruin and destroy, was governed by the price paid for the privilege of selling it. Absurd! Let every mother, who is faced by these facts, make this young society her especial charge, opening her doors to it, and giying it her best influence. Let every Christian breathe a prayer in its behalf: thinking only of the boys, the blessed boys, in whose hands tne fate of the Nation, a few years hence, will he. How dare we, as men and women, as responsible creatures before God, tolerate a saloon? I never pass one without catching my breath, and wondering if God will hold me responsible for it. The answer comes, always in conviction, if you have any share it it, if you countenance it, support it, do not denounce it, you are responsible. “You are your brother’s keeper,” and have no right to .tempt him. I bow my head to this decree, from which there is no escape. Whea the last great “Grand Jury” sits, there will be no running away. I lift up my voice, ■ turn the labor of my hands, my influence, all 1 have and am, against it; calleng upon every mother to stand by my side. And may the great ‘-All leather” guard and save us from the

enemy.

Home from Rensseiaer.

Lafayette Call. The Eastern Star people returned from Rensselaer at midnight well pleased with their trip. They bad an elegant time and aid justice to a splendid banquet. Some of the boys, while there, interviewed Weibren Wartena, the selfconfessed murderer, but with very ill success, as he refused to talk. His second trial will be commenced on Tuesday of next week. It will be remembered that after hisconfession the Judge sentmeej him to death, without the intervention of the jury, on which account the Supreme Court ordered a new trial. The gallows were erected for his execution, and it still stands on the street in plain view, the fence having been taken away which surrounded it. One would naturally think that a civilized community would hardly stand such an exhibition constantly before their eyes.

CARRIE CLARK.

Schoo! Books and school sueI plies of all kinds, gt Kannal’s. * Goods at cost, no chestnut, atHemplnll A Honap’s Wall paper, new, hobby designs at Kannals’. Those “new clocks” at Kannal’s. are fine, and he sells them cheap. Goods at cost for cash,* for tr y next 30 days at Hemphill & Honan/. A fine show-case for sale at n bargain, at Mrs. Wilson’s milline y store. The most complete stock of Dry Goods- new and cheap at Ralph, Fendig’s. Willey & Sigler are agents for Jos. L. Libby & Co’s Fine Shirts. Call at the Tiade Palace and see them. Oh, Say! look here, they are selling goods at cost, for cash, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Call and see them, they mean what they say. All parties knowing themselves indebtedtomeonaccountofthreshing will please call at once and settle. B. F. Furguson. At the. new mill; north of the railroad, will be kept on hand a stock of mill feed, at reasonable prices; also st ock of good flour, tri exchange for wheat. Bring in your wheat and get good flour. Remember, our feed will be sold cheap, but for cash only.

Farm Loans.—s3oo to SIO,OOO Partial payments. Reasonable terms. The Rensselaer Loan and Insurance Bureau, opposite Court House, next door to post-office. 15-39-ts. - All persons knowing themselves indebted to me on account six months old or over are hereby repqwtsted to call and settle at once, as I can’t do business on promises,, so walk in and adjust and save costs. -J W. J. Wright. Two farms, side by side, in one of the best neighborhoods of Jasper. Thick settled on 3 sides, good stock range on the fourth. Together or separtsly, at a bargain. Frank W. Babcock. My stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, is of the best manufacture, and was bought on the lowest market ever known, and will be sold at prices that will make purchasers glad. Ralph Fendig. Improved Farm.—l6o acresCash basis-—Long time—easy payments —6 per cent —well locatednear school* Frank W. Babcock. You said you would pay for the Binder Twine by August 20th, without fail. Did you do it? N. Warner & Sons. For Sale.—A good farm ; miles northwest of Rensselaer, 1| miles north of Surrey station. i 320 acres well improved, one half in cultivation and tame meadow, balance in pasture. For terms, call at the premises, or address me at Surrey, Jasper Co., Ind. Richard Butler. 17 41 4m pd. | J. M. Hodshire, Stone Mason, and Bricklayer. All kinds of brick and stone work, in town and country, done promptly and satisfactorily. Special attention given to cistern building. Residence south end of Van Rensselaer St.* Rensselaer, Ind. 17-47-ts. ADVERTISED letters.. i » Letters addressed as below remain uncalled for in the Post Office at Rensselaer. Jasper County, Indiana, on the ■ 24th day of October 1885, Those not claimed within toun weeks Irom the (late before given will oe sent to th. ; dead letter office, W ashington D. C. A. J. Coffman. D. A. Elder. Miss Lucinda Cox, Fn'dry &M’chnCo, i Simon Chapp, Alva Horney JJ.Carean, Lemuel Hueston, James Dwiggins, Jno. I). Webb, • Persons calling for any of the fetter? in the above list will please say they are advertised HORACE E. JAMES, P. *L Rontwclaor, Ind. ’

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