Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

C. W. Harley, of Delphi, was in town yesterday. Sjierifi Yeoman up into the northern townships, Tuesday, on official business. R. W. Anderson, of Royal Center, visited his brother, the cigar manufacturer, this week. The fxont of Leopold’s Arcade building, occupied by Laßue Bros, has just been painted in gorgeous style. -0 Qapt. Babcock is still detained in La Grange, by legal business. He will probably be home by next Monday. ■ Brother E- H. Graham issued his valedictory in the Remington New a last week. Mr. Graham’s retirement from that paper this time is final. Victor Loughridge came home from Chicago last Tuesday morning. He has just completed his first term of a course at the old Rush Medical College, of that city. The Makeever House is in process of a general brightening up. The ceilings have been calsomined, the walls handsomely papered and the wood-work newly painted and oiled.

J. 0. Henning ujill be hanged at, Crawfordsville, torday, upon the. same gallows upon which Coffee was executed’ a few months ago. Sheriff Yeoman has gone down to be present at the execution. Wm. Parcels, of Monticello, dietit of kidney disease, on Wednesday, of last week. He was one of Monticello’s oldest residents, and well known in this place, to which he was a frequent visitor. E. M. Parcels, of Rensselaer, is this son. ’ -J. ' Mrs. Rebecca Baker, of - Onarga 111., an aunt of J. C. and H. W. Porter, and her daughter, Mrs. Eliza David, are visiting their relatives here. They were for-meHybld-fesidentsbfßenßselaer, and are well known to many of our people. We. are sorry to learn that Chas. Leffler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Leffler, of Hanging Grove, is very low with the consumption, and scarcely likely to live a week. Mr. and Mrs. Leffler have already lost, during the past year, a son and a daughter from the same disease.

A sewer is being constructed along the east side of Cullen street, from Make-em-self ditch to Washington street. It is expected that this sewer, which is being made with care, and of good tile, will furnish an outlet for the water which now often accumulates in front and east of the Makeever house.

The seventh annual commencement of the Law Department of the Northern Indiana Normal School, is celebrated to-night in College Hall, at Valparaiso. Oirr thanks are due to the Hon. M. L. DeMotte for an invitation to be present. Ex-Governor Porter, Mr. DeMotte and Judge E. C. Field will deliver addresses.

A new burglar proof Hall safe was put into A. McCoy and Co’s, bank vault last Monday. It is not only a new safe, but of the most improved make. It is burglar proof and fastens with one of the Consolidated Time Lock Company’s infallible time locks. It is identitical in construction with the safe the Farmers’ Bank, except that it has some few late improvements, that the latter has not The new safe was partially paid for by trading the old one, but had it been bought outright its cost would have been about one thousand dollars. The time lock alone is valued at about three hundred dollars. The weight of the safe is is 2500 pounds, 1

The Citizen’s Bank will be dosed on Decoration Day, from noon to 4 o’clock, p. m. At the post-office is the largest and cheapest line of stationery ever kept in the town. Mr. J. C. Porter, the hay and coal dealer, began the job of pressing his big barn full of hay, last Monday. ' Grandmother Chilcote went to Fostoria, Ohio, Ijast Monday, to visit relative?. She will be gone several months. A great many people say that the pout-office is the best place in town to "buy stationery. You get more and better goods, for less money.

An excursion train bound for Chicago passed Rensselaer about 9 o’clock Tuesday morning. It came from down the Air Line, from Frankfort or thereabouts. Married. —At the residence of Mr. James Donnelly, near Rensselaer, on Thursday, May 20th, 1886, by the Rev. Peter Hinds, Mr. William Harris and Miss Mary Jane Marlatt. J. A. Anderson k as moved his cigar factory from the inconvenient and out-of-the-way rooni he lately occupied, to the room in Nowels’ building next dopy to Priest’s grocery store. i Next Thursday, June 3rd, the Greenbackers of this congressional district will hold their congressional convention, at- this place. On the same day the Greenbackers of the county will nominate their county ticket... Mr. Vai Seib. the abstractor, is making an abstract of all the titles of all the lands in the county crossed by the liuetof the proposed extension of the Chicago & Indiana Coal Ry. Co., from Fair Oaks to LaCross. It is a big job and will bring a big sum of money to Mr. Seib.

T. J. Farden went to Lafayette on the Sunday night train to accept an offer from R. W. Stewart, the well known music dealer, to take charge of his music store for a couple of months. Mr. Farden acted as salesman for Stewart years ago and he is very liberal in the inducements offered Mr. Farden. There is now every probability that a portion, at least, of the burnt district, at the corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, will be built up this year, and there is considerable prospect that a fine brick block will cover the entire corner. Mr. J. T. Hemphill has almost concluded arrangements for a building oh the Hemphill lot, present Hemphill building, and Mr. Leopold is strongly disposed to join with him, in the erection of a block of uniform height and architecture to extend from the Hemphill building clear to Van Rensselaer street.

a A couple of incidents that took place at the river, last Saturday, would seem to suggest to parents, very forcibly, the necessity of looking after their boys pretty closely during the swimming season. A large company of boys went down the river to swim, in the afternoon of the .day mentioned, and two of them got beyond their depth, and were in imminent danger of drowning, until they were rescued by Charley Robinson, the county Auditor’s oldest son. This occurrence illustrates anew the wisdom of the old lady in the old song, who grants her daughter permission to go swimming but coupled with the condition that she is not to go near the water. It would perhaps be a good idea if the same principle were applied to the small boys.

Orlando Yeoman is home from Bryant & Stratton’s business college, in Chicago, until after July 4. Mr. Ezra Tritt, of Urbanna, 0. wa? in town this week, looking after some land he owns in Kankakee township. Mr. J. A. Anderson, the cigar maker, is so well pleased with Rensselaer that he is preparing to build him a residence here. Capt F. W. Babcock will deliver the address at the Decoration Day exercise? at LaGrange, which; will be on next Sunday. The Jasper county Democrats hold their township caucuses next Saturday. Their county convention is for the Saturday following, June sth.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, is now in New York and will sail for Europe on Saturday. She will correspond for the Chicago Inter-Ocean. % Ex-Senator J. Keiser, formerly of Winamac, and still farther back a newspaper man in Rensselaer, sold his Lebanon paper some time ago, and is now at Onargo, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris returned from Attica, last Friday. They report the havoc wrought by the tornado, in that town, was much worse than their fancies painted it

The Prohibitionists’ state convention assembled yesterday, at Indianapolis. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, of Rensselaer, is in attendance, and was honored with the nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court, really the highest in the stale to be elected this fall. Silas L. Swain has a card in this issue of the Republican giving notice that he has the general agepey for four counties for the sale of White Bronze Monuments. Mi-. Jte&in,is-an old time resident of Rensselaer and favorably known to many of our citizens. "His office is with W. W. Watson.

Miss Etta Grauel, the missing witness in the Fulton county murder case, that of Patrick McGuire indicted for the murder of Michael Kain, has been discovered in New* port, Kentucky, and will be taken back to Rochester and compelled to testify in the case, which is now continued to September. We learn that Mr. E. Hi Tharp, now of Chicago, but formerly of Rensselaer, was to have been married to a lady of the former place, on the 19th of this month, butthat a severe attack of sickness has caused the postponement of. the ceremony. Mr. Tharp, at last accounts was still seriously sick.

Marriage Licenses.—Since last reported the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court has issued licenses authorizing the marriage of the following named couples: 5 John L. Rhode, I Emma Hassel bring. I Wm. Harris, | Mary Jane Marlatt. j Andrew Taylor, I Rosa AsherMr. J. W. Duvall spent several days last week, in the northern part of Jasper county, and in Pulaski and Knox counties looking for a team that was stolen on May 12th, from the livery man of Kentland, Thomas Search The team was let to a man and women who represented that they wanted to go to a place near Morocco. The man is described as about 35 or 40 yews old, light complexion, sandy mustache, about 5| feet high. The woman was 30 or 35 years old, dark complexion, medium size. The horses were both mares, about 9or 10 years old; one bay, about 15 bands high, the other black and about 15| hands high The conveyance was a Cincinnati make, top buggy. Mr. Search says he will pay a liberal reward for the return of the property and the capture of the parties.

Mr. Enoch Rinehart, of Delphi, visited his son, Wm- A- Rinehart, over Sunday. Miss Jessie Bartoo,' of Remington, has just recovered from a long spell of sicknpss, and is now visiting her relatives, the editor’s family. 8. P. Thompson came home from attending court at Kentland, yesterday, and was immediately called back there, by telegraph, and returned in the afternoon. Mrs. Schenck, of San Francisco, Cal., wife of Paymaster Schenck, of the U. S. Navy, with. her two children, is spending the summer with her relatives, the Misses Smith, of the North side. Chas. A. Roberts, the popular Agricultural Implement man, has something to say this week, in his advertisement, in regard to the new improvements in the celebrated McCormick harvesting machines. A report which recently went the rounds of the papers, to the effect that the lost Mrs. Kate Harley, of Delphi, had been discovered in an insane asylum in Southern Illinois, was entirely without truth. A very important decision in the Supreme Court Monday recovers to the State a large tract of land in the northern part of Newton county, which was formerly covered by the waters of Beaver Lake. It is that a large number of persons are affected by the decision, and that the amount of land recovered to the state is 60,000 or 70,000 acres.

Iroquois Lodge, Na 143, I. 0. O. F. of Rensselaer, will be thirtytwo years old on the 9th of June, and the brethren are preparing to celebrate the event in splendid style. They are a grand picnic celebration, on that day, to be given in the Fair Grounds. The public will be generally invited to attend, while special invitations will be sent to all the neighboring lodges. Among the features of the day will be an address by the Hon. Wm. R. Myers, of Indianapolis, one of the leading Odd Fellows of the state, upon the Subject of “Friendship, Love and Truth.” Judge E. P. Hammond will give a history of the order. Revs. J. T. Abbett, of Morocco and David Handley, of Rensselaer, will also deliver addresses.

A cloud of peculiar and most portentious appearance, which passed over Rensselaer, at a little before six o’clock, last Saturday morning, was believed by nearly all who saw it, to be an aerial and horizontal tornado. It was long and narrow in form, and traveled in a southeast direction. Its length was at right angles with the direction it was traveling, and its southern extremity tapered to a point It travelled with incredible swiftness and appeared to have a whirlin g motion, of great velocity. It seemed to dip upwards and downward, and many who watched it believed that its smaller end would approach the ground, and a destructive tornado be the result When two or three miles southeast of town it came in contact with a heavy rain storm and disappear ed. When it passed over the town, the atmosphere seemed to be strongly agitated, with blasts of wind scurrying about in all directions, and with a noticeable tendency to currents upwards towards the cloud, as shown by leaves papers Ac. If the cloud was accompanied by any sound it was too high up to be heard.

Fine summer shawls, white dress goods and lawns, the cheapest in town, at Leopold’s.