Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Saturday Detective James K. Hill received $25 for capturing at Remington, a man wanted at Rensselaer on the charge of assault and battery with attempt to kill. He put the money in his vest pocket, which proved to be bottomlessj ’and thought no more about it until he went to pay his hotel bill wheuhe discovered its absence. He searched everywhere but failed to find the missing money. —Lafayette Courier. There are one or two slight inaccuracies in the above item. The man was captured in Remington at.'the time mentioned, but Mr. Hill did not get the $25 reward for the simple reasons that not only was there no reward offered, but Mr. Hill had nothing whatever to do with the capture. The statement about the empty pocket, and unpaid hotel*bill, bear the impress of truth and we make no effort to dispute their correctness. ‘ The Rev. R. C. Mcßeynolds re turned from conference Tuesday evening. Mr. Handley will not return until next week. From Mr. Mcßeynolds we get a few points regarding the work of the conference. Mr. Handley has been sent back to Rensselaer for another year, but Mr. Mcßeynolds is sent to Foresman circuit, in Newton county. Mr. Mcßeynolds was unable to g've us the name of, the minister who is to succeed him iu charge of Rensselaer circuit. A new district was established in the conference, with Valparaiso as its headquarters, and to be known as the Valparaiso district. Jasper county still remains in the’Lafayette district, but Newton county is attached to the new one. The venerable John L. Smith, D. D., is presiding elder of the new district The earthquake of Tuesday night, of last week, which wrought such desolation in Charleston and other South Carolina cities was felt in a much lighter degree over the whole country as far west as the Mississippi river. In this state the shock was generally too slight io be perceptible except to people in the upper stories of high brick or stone buildings. That it occured in Jasper county there is no question. Tn the northern -part of the county a reputable gentlemen was sitting by his table reading at a few minutes past nine o’clock (just the time of its occurence in this state) and he noticed such a violent shaking and rattling of the upper story of his house that he thought thai fiis boys were racing about at a great rate, up stairs. Investigation showed that they were sound asleep, however, and the gentleman is now firmly ~convmced that the rattling was the result of the earthquake. In Rensselaer the only evidence of the* occurence of the quakeiso far as we have learned is sbmeihing that happened at the court house. A lecture was in progress there and the room was -e+ewtUdr-- At- two—or-three_mim. utes past nine, just Hie time of the eaTTbqup.ke, a heavy window, v.diich beioiA had been immovable, fell in its casing of-“-its _ own weight, with a crash that startled the entiro audience.’- There question but what this was the result oi tin' 'quivering-.of-Vh^bwilding c;ais! .l b\- the earthquake.