Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Born— A nice girl to Peter and Henrietta Wasson, of Marion tp., Feb. 22, 1886. Ephraim Sayers, of Union tp., has a new son. His next child iB twelve years old. Mr. Thomas Jordan returned from. Erancesvill.e, and is again a resident of Rvnsselaer.

The Nowels House is-now without a landlord, Mr. Babb and family having last week removed to the place east of town, formerly occupied by N. W. Reeve. Ben Tutuer has lately bought S. T. Warren’s house, east' of Judge Hammond’s place; and has rented the same to Rev. Mcßeynolds, who. will occupy it as a residence.

The Monon Dispatch intimates pretty plainly, that two gay young men of this place, Messrs D. W. Willey and Bayajd Clark, find attractions sufficiently strong to draw them over to Monon evsry Sunday." — . Mir. Isaac Colborn, partner in charge of the lumber yard of Colbom & Co., has bargained for building lots on Main street just north of B. F. Ferguson’s house, and intends building a dwelling house thereon, in the coming spring.

Noble J. York, of Monon and Rensselaer, last w'eek, at ndianapolis, was honored by being chosen Gram] Master Workman of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, A. O. U. W. This is the highest office in the Grand Lodge, and Mr. York’s selection is a very high compliment.

L’apt. Xhomas Canby, the oldest man iu Jasper county aucl one of the oldest in the state, dieil at ihe residence of his son, Samuel Can- ! b}, iu Remingt- i.n, last Friday. The old man whs with Gen Harrison at Tippecanoe, and as our Rernii gton correspondent says, had sou ht on many battle fields. His age ( was about 98 years. r

There will be a meeting of the friends ofSunday School work, at the M. E. church, in Rensselaer, on Tuesday, March 2nd, 1886, at 1 o’clock p. m. t The object is to organize a county Auxiliary to the State Sunday School Union. Let the friends of the cause, fri-m ad paits of the county, be present. D. Handley, J. F. Warren and others. Edward. Wodisky, the gifted young actor who made in this town, a ye ar or two ag >, his first appearance as the head f a theaj ter company, has been perfbrmi g in towns in the northern {>art of the state lately, and receiving very ■ flattering notices from the newsI papers. We repe it a former I prophecy, in expressing the opinion that Mr. Wodisky will ye| achieve a national reputation as an actor.

A tough case who was howling drunk on Wednesday of last week, and proclaimed himself none other than John L. Sullivan, the celebrated knocker-out, was taken in charge by the sheriff’s deputies and the next day fini l an l costed ■ o amount of about ten dollars by Judge Put-cup:le. For want of fnnds to pay the fine he was sent to jail to work it out. His real name is R lard. >n, and his family is respectable; his father being a section boss od the C. k G. S. and his brother a baggage master ou the Monon. The sheriff set the young fellow to sawing wood the other day, and upon being returned to liis cell, he was , qverheard mattering to himself a most uncomplimentary opinion of a town that could hot afford'to keep a man in jail for even t week, without making him work for hi* keeping-

Mrs. Paul Hanson has lately left place and joined her husband, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Ramp have a fiew 10 pound boy, at their place. Born Wednesday; W. Wilson, who has be.en living south-enst of town for has just removed to J£ansas. Andrew Hall is chairman and J. G. Davis sepretary of - the new Newton county Republican central committee.

The next Marion township Teachers’ Institute will be held in the school house im Rensselaer, on Saturday, March 6th. S. B. Coen, who last fall went from this place to Kansas, is, located at Larned, in the above state, and engaged in keeping a livery and feed stable. A Mr. Sibley, of Nebraska, lectured on temperence, in the Opera House, Tuesday evening. He is trying to organize a Good Templars lodge, we understand While getting ready to pack up for Kansas, last week, Mrs. E. S. Woods through a number of pack-, ages of old dye stuff into the fire, and among them, accidentally, was a good sized package of gun-pow-der. The explosion burned and blackened Mrs. Wood’s face very badly.

Effie. M. Fairchild, the widow', has been appointed administratrix and David H. Yeoman, administyator, of the estate of Elam D. Fairchild, late of Keener tp., deceased. They will sell the personal property of the estate, at public auction, at the residence near DeMotte, on Saturday, March 13th.

The funeral of Mis Ana McEwen, whose death was mentioned last week, was held in the Presbyterian church, on Saturday afternoon, iff ihe presence of a large congregation. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson conducted the religious services. The death of Aha leaves to her afflicted parents but a single survivor of five children who have been born to them. Turpie Bros., of Monon, have sued Hugh Lowe, of the Sftme place, for what even the Turpies must regard as a pretty large sum —8200,000. It seeing that the Turpies lately deeded t 6 Mr. Lowe reul-estate in Indiana and Ohio of the alleged value of 8200,000, and that one of the conditions of the transfer was that Lowe should satisfy certain mortgages and judgments, which he has failed to do, and hence the suit .. C. C. French, editor of the Broukston Reporter, has been sued for libel by one Dahling, a saloon keeker of Brookston for $2,500 damages. We understand that Bro. French was misinformed as to the circumstances of a whiskey row in the saloon, and reported it in a manner which reflected undeserved blame upon the saloonist. He afterwaids made the proper corrections, bot the spit has been brought notwithstanding. • -A * . i The survering c4rps of the C. & Gt S. railroad ran a line through Rensselaer last Mem day. They came from the west, and left the Great Southern at a point ft short distance above the river. The line as surveyed passes through the i part of town, and crosses the L. N. A. k C. track near !the hand car house, near M. L. Spitler s residence. Leaving town in a north-east direction, the line crosses the Iroquois somewhere near the iron bridge, near Groom's place. The survey is being made with a great deal of care, and ex* actnoss-

Benjamin Martin, a fnriUer well know’ll citizen of Union tp., has lately died in Kansas. Died— At liis home in Marion township, Andrew Shields, son of John Shields, of scurvy compliwith lung fever, Feb. 23, 1886, ,aged 16 years. „ a Mrs. Ward Anderson, of Morocco, a sister of Mrs. D. C. Hopkins, of Reusselaer, and of Henry and George Thornton, of Surrey, died last Sunday at her residence. Her age was about 67 years.

The big s'orm of last January, which was so exceedingly severe in the west arid the south, seems J • - to have been much worse in the west than is generally reported. We have lately seen a letter from Little River, Kansas, from a former reputable pitizen of this county, to a friend living here. The letter describes the horrors aid havoc of the storm, at.considerable length, mentions the vast losses sustained by the freezing and starving o{ stock, and states that the bodies ojf 200 persons who perished in the storm have already been found and reported, and probably many more to yet be found.

The Goodland Herald reports that John Johnson, of Capenter towmship, the notorious drunkard who was so badly cut up by James Jarrell, in a drunken row at Remington last summer, is now in a worse condition than he was put in by Jarrell. According to the Herald , he was on qne of his big drunks, fit Goodland. on Monday of last week, and starting for home late at night, ho laid down in the load, in a drunken stupor; and about 2 o’clock found his way into a Mr. Rowdy’s house, with hands and feet very badly frozen. It is reported that his feet will have to be amputated.

The citizens of hrancesville have organlMl a company and are soliciting subscriptions to the amount of 52,500 for the purpose of boring for oil. The recent success obtained by oil prospectors at Columbus did other points in Ohio encourages our west side friends to hope that they, too, can “strike oil,” and just as soon as the above sum is subscri bed the association will be ready for business. A firm with all the machinery and appliances necessary tor drilling, at Columbus, 0., have engaged to begin work whenever the company is ready to contract with them on the following terms: They will drill an eight-inch hole 1,300 feet for $2,500; that sum to be paid j when that depth has beep readied, land $1.50 for every foot below • 1,300.-- Winamac Journal. I The military drama, “Maud the j Guerilla” given at the Opera House, last Friday and Saturday evenings, under the auspices of the G. A. R. Post, of this place, | was attended by fairly good houses, on both nights the bad roads and unfavorable weather prevented all . attehdance from neighboring villages ing country, and thus seriously ; diminished the net receipts of the performances. The drama itself, while not possessing any very remarkable merits as a literary production. is yet based upon a very interesting theme, and abounds in thrilling and incidents and contains nothing to offend the most fastidious tastes. The performers, with one eaception, were all residents of this place, and considering the brief time given tnem for study and rehersal, their performance was surprisingly good. The five tableaus given during the performance wsfre exceptionally fine, and to Use a Veil worn phrase; “were alone Vorth the jprfee of fedmission*" t