Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XX.

THE REPUBLICAN. ISSUED KVEET TIIpHSBA® BY 3-3 TO. tES. LUIiUSHBI! and tkopkik-Tor. OFFICE Tit- Ri.oH«o*i ViliMiny.. on corner of WuO'.lKgton ami Weston-streets. Terms of Subscription. One year ' - ?0 SixnyfnHssA.-i........ ......... '*•••*•••••• 75 Three months •■•••• SO. The Official Faper of Jasper Csurty.

PiIOFKSRIONAD CARDS. PHYSICIANS. IiAUTSKU., M. Q., 7 g'- _._nf'MLOTL\TrTin = saild. Svcrereoil, llEsasrLAKB. : .■■ .Indiana. ( hronie VMsPttscsil S]‘tc*.in!ty<n,j^* Ofttcc Kast'V.'n'iliinpton Street. »■ gt.iai -a4. , IJoM*!©?iCi\ >r» Stiver House. pr.. 1. 15. WABHBUFX, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, ItfcnpSelaev.T ndisna. Civet al'entio!! to Diseascfiof Women and CliiMrt-n Lui Chronic Diseases. atniftn;Uer.c2.U-: art! pytomptLy attended when not prpfessidhaliv eosa«etl. pt I*. BiTThitS. M. i>., l’-DYS-iCIAR AND SURGEON, Over Ellis A Hurray', lienss. hn r, - - - Indiana jjt'iV'k’iilione to Residence. i.. •! ACi;Sf»S, M. l>. PLVSICIAN AND SUIIGEON. StieeihV attentit-h given to dWeosc*. of women A,!,.’ cliililitn. ( hi :e on Erout street, corner of Ai.yOiif.u. . A-TTOEUEYS. VITf.UXEV irTT.AV.’V* 1 y;;r /v.t c. :;o wills. . /. itlnnev atLaw, tie;.! LAaio aivi leslirttncei \. ,1.1, « ill j e-jii'ciiil atlenCon to ahslraet- | j.|.“ land ai d linyir.ir taxes. Probate | aiiYepiU ctri.n imstness attended, .to pieiuiitly. OtUrtt in 1 ooytdri’s Block, up stairs. ■ ' KnwTN’ I*. Hammond. Wm. B. Austin EAKMOKD & AUSTIN. atixihxeys at law . RiISSSKLAUR, - - - Indiana. —j-. V-f Hirer e wtti-d tr-e-'i’ -of- i-,f i <>t.'t>l-4''o-Blnclv, Cii-nt i- Vj.d ; .on and Van l.erissidaer streets *H. Austin piireinwcs. sells and leases real e.-tute and drills iff CegOtiaßlO Uistniiaeiir>. ls-..i-Uu j> ALi'll U . ft?A I i'll A 1,8, 3 ironNXYAT LA W, Pm-fiees in Jr.rper, L'ewtt’n i r.d adjoin it: y 'coiiV.no*. ' J-j *eii-i uttt«tii.li yivoi to settle no ; ,t,: iif.fi dt i t’s • (,tales. Collections, . t • t;V i _ . ; .Ins ’ Coes, Ktc. Etc,. Etc. AnMir.'s, - - - Rose Lawn, Ind Slihi.n p. d'nuv.r...ts, Ua fin •!. lire.mi-son . irVit 'r n - ' n ,r - 1 A 6tll?:U l UOliO. f jp ipO j.i EBON & PRO.. At FORNEYS AT LAW, Kdiif-rtflaur, rnd. Practice •t.itd! ! a • court,’.. We jmv particul atteiuifiti to ua* iur taxes. scluu.s unit jf Icasjcy lands. M. TvSP'rtLKP. Collector and Aiintractdr -ytr 11. 11. (iPAHAJL LAW, W ill rouduct a Loan and Ileal Estate. Bureau. Uiiit'O ftyjosthi (i-e.r —lions.id, ou i‘' -r.tu.n.o.n -licet, f. it.h'ily occupied- l.y V i:.i;lc i.. Pah i-ocl;| K Special attention to collections and ■■l^otrirtT'PW'.Atrcssr - ~ *AC( ■■ -- - ■ Jaap v.. miimor fes TSSE: at law, U2NS.**.*t -------- l;;;-:! ASA. fe,'.. Of.ie-' .up stairs tn Sickcever’s new hrielDuildiny. three noord east ol tt-oPice....r ’LI v f - , t .; t \VJ -M. \Y. WATSON, ' M'AAAAZ-Tf %Sy Ci'!co :i•» < * t; ur9 in 1 urrpold’s 3‘*u/>iir r J -U*;i.aK*u, A j OUIiULAI u. CII/ICOTE, ' x ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, • Hcns&eli.ef, litd. * Attends to all iiur ioess in tldj profession, wtttr pr. mi ti.essaivd dis.'Md h. Oit-c. u> second staid of the TllaiitO-Vhr LuUtiiuif.

” i'l SO i' !/i - o NI\A)l -S. . r ■. F.s • > Val. Sinn. \ u fit . .til-lit ' a V. :CITIZENS’ BANK,' U. ::\s.kjlai:u Lvm p{;,. a st j. n.iial br.shfi'.is': ecrtifii'j"rt -1,. a> u:ir i l. lci*o^t : t xclianff-'-tin A Btili; tr.iHS-y 'lnar.eJ. o» i'nrnis at )'t rai. ' tiii . iv-ij-tr. , John Martvy; n. Jay v> . Wji u *mk; Fa v. U at. S? -rpiRVEUS' PAKK, f ' Pw&tie S^-inn-'tsa r ;.v - - - ixpi.ix.i Hoi-?iVfs r?v|n’>s!t!*'. Utn ,-«*.!<! m U Exchange • ( . .i’l ft 1 MCI- itvnl Ytff t'J’fly ITnitii.i. f J r* ,/ : : i-l. ;< t'<! ,!* ~;■ :<f-in tal i. • Jii.t-i jst., j xv .v j ■ ' v - A A!(i V X T-J.-.rf(VY, - i11....\\ o:t!i. i A. McCoy- & Co, EakkAS; t i > A . ?n<At>y 4« T. yiiCKmjOlu) j, KkKSS—I-AKIt, INDIANA. , jv> cri'rirr:! I,..liking kui-inefA. Ewhnngc .bun-gat--a.nlMuncy-loaned. C'eetilit>ht<w hearting interest.iSKnert. Collect* , ions jnivtte on all available points. bffiac same place as old firm ol McCoy & Thompson--18-80-y. ” “ ~ ' 7

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1887.

Locals and Personals.

The Francesville fair takes place next week, from Tuesday till Friday. Rev. U. M. McCf uiwfe will preacb in tlie Baptist cliurck next Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. in. and 7 p. m. Isaac Reubelt, teacher of the grammar room, has been a father sihee last Friday evening. It is a girlMrs. E. R. Burr, of Jordan tp., whose sickness has been duly mentioned heretofore, died last SntururJay night.

Cheese and Dried Beef, at Ailman’s Restaurant. Finest assortment of candies in the city, at Allman's Restaurant. M. G. Stackhouse' returned last week from his trip to Kansas. He saw no place, in all his journey I where crops look so well as in Jasper county. • Miss Rath fori, teacher- in one of the intermediate rooms was taken sick Tuesday, and was unable to teach. Her place was temporarily filled by Mrs. Warren. She resumed her again, yesterday. Win. Lester, the painter, has been working for several weeks in Francesville,“wKerTfhe impending boom is breaking out in premoniitory symptoms, in the form of a general painting and brightening up, of the town, Mrs. M'aloy, who lives in Tlios. Thompson’s tenant house, across the river, is suffering greatly from an aggravated sore on her leg, and which has troubled her for more than a year. Her huhoaml, Johnny Mrdoy, is no good and—spends about everything he gets hold of for whiskey. « Sheriff Yeoman, who was up on tlve' bbi’ders of the Kankakee river several days last week, reports that some miserable, contemptible c urn have been killing fisT in the river with dynamite. It is a groat pity that the scoundrels can not bo caught and punished. The sheriff is putting up a lot of hay in the regions mentioned. John Minlcus got wroth at Nick Zimmer, last Saturday evening and cussed him in an unnecessarily profuse and comprehensive manner, but whether in high Gew man. or low English', deponent sallh nut. Nick t'lor.ght the grievance .warranted the invoking of the terrors of tire law, end filed a'.lidavit before Scjuire Morgan, charging Mmiens with the offense technically known as “provoking an assault.” John admitted haying done the cussing and was fined one cent and costs, the latter amounted to about eight dollars.

TYmryearsago C9fi«in. breeders , or blooded trolling horses made up ! a big purse to be trotted for iu , four years b/ colts. foaled after-! tide time the purse was mads up. j The race took pln.ee last week* in | Cleveland, anti the first money was j taken by Bailie Cossack, of the} Catpn stock' farm, near Joliet j Illinois and a fall sister of lioyul; Cossack, owned by the Rensselaer j Horse Company. The time was I 2 :dd which is good for a three- j year-old. There is probaply not} a better blooded horse in the state j of Indiana than Royal Cossack. .

the young McDonalds | of Pleasant ltidge, and Jimmy German, v.vre ]>!ayfully hosing in Halloran’ssaloon, Saturday night, when McDonald’s older brother, Tom, got it into his half drunken head that the boys wero fighting, and hit German 'ft hard blow cu the head, with 'a,billiard cue. G w mail was knockgd-down and a big gash cut in bis head, which sovered' an artery and caused great loss of blocd. McDonald plead guilty to the charge of assault, Monday, and Squire Morgan fined him one dollar and costs, amounting, in all, to $14.25. It was paid. ■■* 7 1 s ' ,7 ' 7.:h_ ..... .. •

Mrs. Stalard and daughter, of Chauncey, are visiting Mrs. W. S. Stockton. Rev. S. E. Grimes, the new M. E. minister, will preach in the Methodist Sunday. Mrsi M. Sayers and her’ mother are visiting friends in Carroll county for a short time, after which they will scon depart for Kansas. The, books of S. Erwin & Son are now in tire handsof Hammond & Austin for collection". Thosb owing will please call at once and adjust their accounts.

The Ken Ida nd gas well was 850 feet deep last Thursday, and nearly full of water. A broken drill has greatly impeded the progress since thst day. N. Warner vrerit to Lafayette last -week and hunted up a nnw .tinner to take the place made vacant by the death of John Steel. The new man’s name is Esper. Squire Jim Morgan performed the marriage ceremony, Sept. 10th for Mr. John S. Toyne and Miss Adaline M. Hubbard, in the parlors of Altnian’'s restaurant. The ! parties live in Carpenter tovnj ship. ! An elegant*'smoke. The little Daisy, at Allman’s Restaurant. Fresh bread, buns, pies and cake 3, always, at Allman’s Restaurant. v w J. F. Bruner now of Surrey, will next week move into Mrs, Catt’s house, on Van Rensselaer street, which is being extensively repaired fur’ bis occupancy, .Mr. Bruner will continue to follow his 'present vocation of Iraxtering. i■• - t M- F. Chilcote moved into his- | new office rooms,‘across the hall j from his* old-place, Monday. .He | has three rooms,-which have been fitted up in an elegant nfhnner, and he no’tr in'.s as fine office acommGdations as any lawyer in town. iHe has leased' the rooms for a term of ten years. I T — ..f.U - j The 11 o’clock train from Chica!go of last Thursday night, broke : an axel in the rear trucks of tire e ngine tender, a little this side of Hammond, and had a very narrow ’escape from a terrible accident. |Th^ train had not got under full 1 headway when the break occured, or the results would, doubtless, ;been frightful. The train was deli* y\l eight hours by the accident. | Pure Ciiler, Vinegar at Allman’s ! l!ostanv:u.t. I (’all in and see the fall styles in i millinery, at Hemphill & Honan’s. In the case of George 11. Fay lor of Union tp., against tiro L. N. A. j& C. Ky.j.for dtunagC3'ior injuries ito Iris person,' received at . the Ist vk train wreck, near Xhdi.r Lake last fall, was concluded last i week in Montioello*, rvliero it had .! . TUeeh taken from tins county, by {change of ye:me. The result was i a verdict of £5,000 for Baylor. It [ia stated that he agreed some time ; ago to settle iris claim for $75, but j afterwards concluded that the sum I was (finite too small. •

Tommy Btissenden, the famous boy trawler, reached, home Sunday, aftpr nearly a year’s absence; most, of which time was spent in' Kentucky and Virginia. He visited Richmond end some of Jhe battlefields in the vicinity of that town. Xone of the southerners showed much .disposition to, eat him up as a Yankee, except one old woman near Fredoaickeburg, who, on learning that lie was from

: Indiana, blowed him Upon account i of a beg some Indiana soldiers 1 j Stole-from her ‘Muring the wah.” j } Tom’s brother, Albert, who was with him during his absence, is in Illinois. The Rochester Shoes for Radies Misses and children will soon arrive, and ’Miss ' liachtA Leopold will be pleased to show them, to you. .

Durham coffee, at Allman’s Restaurant. § : .r. The very bast quality of stocking yarn at Ellis & Murry’s, every pound warranted- * D. J. Thompson reached home last Wednesday night, brown and brawny, from his Gating in northern Michigan. The Fowler gas well was 170 feet deep, Draft Friday, mostly through sand and gravel, in which progress was*slow.

]Y. A. Rim hrrt made another trip to Buffalo; tins week, to negotiate the redo trf 7 ten or a dozen more car loads of cattle, shipped by McCoy & Rinehart. Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Bitters went to Chicago, Inst Thursday, and came home on the train which met with, the Resident of a broken journal, and were compelled to pass the whole night in the train. The Day brothers are plastering Granville Moccly’s new house, in Barkley tp. They are of the opinion that, when completed, it will be the finest farm residence in the county; and that i 3 saying a good deal. Try my strained honey if. is fine. J. C. Allman. Look to your best interests and buy your school books at the post office. Cheap! Cheap! The jewel is an emblem of purity. This is one reason why Mr. C. C. Starr’s brand of pure uncolored leaf is styled Jewel Tea. C. G. Sears took the nor th bound train Monday evening, with the design of feoking a climate, more suitable to his state of health. He will gradually work into the mountains of Colorado, and, probably, New Mexico, and if he does not find the climate of those regions agreeing with him he will try southern California. He goes alone but will be joined by Mrs. Sears as icon as he decides on a permanent location. Charley has hosts of friends, who will follow his course with thei r best wishes. Tuesday was the date cf cheap round trip tickets for the west, and E. L. Coen start rd back for Greensburg, Kansas, on that clay and in his company went, also, Chas. W. Coen, E. C. Nowels, Robert Randle and J. M.‘Tanner, all of this place or vicinity and who go to “view the landscape o’er.” Nathaniel Flror.rr arid Mis. W. H. Fleener, who have been visit.ng friends near Surrey, ~returned to Kansas, on the same train. Mr. Nowels intends., to extend his trip into Colorado. Swift & llusco’s Standard Uncle Tom’s Cabin company, at the Opera House, Monday evening, had a very large bouse, numbering 500 at least. The company is a good one and gave a generally

-satisfactory performance, and some good judges pronounce their rendition of. tin; play, the best ever given in town. The songs and music of the genuine colored concert troupe which forms part of this company, is a leading feature of the performance. Win. Phillips, a former citizen of Rensselaer, is one of tbd leading members of this company and one of its best actors.

S. P. Thompson has been engaged last week and'this in superintending; the construction of a "big ditch on the head waters of the Iroquois, in Union 'tp. It begins at Alta r’s mill, and rubs two miles before it strikes Thompsons land. It.varies in dimensions , from fid feet wide at the top end J | font d'ep, to 16 feet vide ami 3 'feet deep. Twenty men an l eight teams are working on the ditch. A ditch was .made along this same line, some years ago, under the state law, but it was no good, and now Thompson is making such a ditch as he wants and all at his own expense. , '

' Mrs. Sol McCurtain, of Barkley tp., has recovered her health. , Oysters, Lunch-and Warm meals at Allman’s Restaurant. Clarence Fnltoii'Hs still very sick, but with a very slight change for the better. Billy Wonder is racing down in central Illinois this week. Last week ho took somo money at Wenona, that state. * Michael. Shay,,., of bavhley, .tp.,. whesesickness we mentioned last Week, died Tuesday evening; lie was an old settler and a greatly esteemed citizen. , e-v- - • * ' l ~ a* *wrn . : Twenty-five or thirty G. A. R. men of this place, went over to i have a camp-fire with the Remington post, last night. It was tfie anniversary of the institution of the Remington post. . Wliere is the best place to trade? Allman’s Restaurant of course. Try the Sun. c rcckeis, at All mail’s Restaurant. Marriage licenses since last week. j Asahel S. Baker, ( Etta E. Spitler. j Wilson W heeler, ( Charlotte Coruiel. j Thomas Ulyat, ( Gennette Hinds. The body of John Steel, the' victim of last week’s sad tragedy,! was taken to Oxford last Friday, , for burial. It was taken on the train which, when on time, passes here at 11 o’clock in the night. The train was detained by an accident, that night, and did not reach Rensselaer until seven o’clock Friday morning, and ' the sorrowing f riends who were accompanying the corpse, were compelled t 6 pass the night in the depot. To. the distracted wife especially this lonely vigil must have been a mos t' tedious aud unhappy experience, and especially as she was wholly without the-eomforting' influence of other women’s company. Emmet Kannal has sold his drug business to John Eger, who places A. F. Long, late ■ in F. B. Meyer’s store, in charge and to j whom hedransfers an interest in the business. The invoiceing is completed and Mr. Long is now in charge. F. 8.. Learning, who has been Mr. Kannal’s salesman has accepted .a similar position with Mr. Meyer. The location of the new firm will be the same as before, in Mr. Kannal’s room which is one of the very finest and best fitted drug-stores in the state. Mr. Kannal retains lib jewelry and watch-making business, and intends to largely increase his stock >in those liqes, also dealing largely in musical instruments. Tie will retain the use of a portion of his old place, uniil a more suitable situation is found,

The firm of Ellis it MubV.ly respectfully submit this as a reminder that, though comparitively young in the trade, . in R'eusselaer, they occupy, a place $1 the front ranks as a Dry Goods and Clothing house. They would call your, attention to their stock of Ladies Wraps, over-coats and fine cassiibere suits, also the superior work and . fit that they are. able to give you in those goods. 7. If you are not acquainted with tlem or their salesman, Mr. Ed. Rhoades,, come in’any ray. All they ask.is a chance to show you what they are wi. ling ' to do in the way of low prices. Yours very tvqly, Ellis it Mourn. ,- - ' .-'f- -- - '’■ "' ‘ • 7 '■" “.'■ - , '• • ■.. ~ Your choice of elegant glassware, at Allman’s Restaurant with one half pound of Baking powder. -—-7. -7::: . -v ■

THE CONTRACT CLOSED.

And the Site Selected. The directors of the Gas and Oil company closed up a contract, for .boring an experimental well, last Saturday morning, with Geo. Givins, who bored the wells' in Monticello and Remington. Ho is to bore as deep as the directors desire, and to be paid $1.50 per foot, for the depth actually bored, wheihor it be nine-hundred w ! nine thousand feet. lie is to case j tho well without extra pay, and if gas or oil is found in paying quantities he is to leave the casing t « M ' jin the well but if not he has the privilege of removing the casing. The boring is to begin very shortly,, as soon as a drilling outfit can be got from Walton, in Cass county. The outfit at Remington is to remain there for the preterit, as Treat Durand, of that place is having a well bored on his farm, near that town, not being satisfied with the result of the first boring. Saturday evening the directors, met again and decided upon a site for the wn?ll. A number of favorable propositions were received, but the decision was in favor of the site offered by Gen. Van Rensselaer. He offers a lot 100 by 150 feet on the east side of Van Rensselaer street, bordering on Makemself ditch, and nearly opposite 11. W. Porter’s residence. Hektgre.es to deed the lot to the company if gas or oil is found, and if a good well of water, and no gas or. oil is found, he will deed it to the town.

Another Cheap Excursion.

Another find ‘‘Positively the Last” tow rate exclusion will go to Chicago over the Motion Route, next Tuesday Sept. 27, to. give all ■ wlro wish a clieapopportunity to visit the great exposition, the Chicago vs Pittsburg ball game and the great race between Jay Eye See and Patron, and tire other great sights of the great city. The one day round trip rate from Marlboro, Pleasant Midge and Rensselaer is 81. JO. The two .day rate 82.50. Train passes Rensselaer, going in at 9:20, a. m. Arrives at Chicago at .12:40 p. in., and returning leaves atll:U p. in.

Card of Thanks.

Oxford, IncU, Sept. 20 To the; citizens of llensselaer, who so kindly sympathized with and aided us in our late shocking find unexpected trouble, we wouM say that we fully realize our inability to find words to express our sincere gratefulness and thanks. Our greatest wish is that the Great Giver of all good may amply reward each and every one, and thafcjtfiey may never, knowsuch sorrow. ~— Mrs. John - Steel. E. C. Steel, and Family!

B!S SALE OfKcicl'ord Cattle, McCoy & Rinehart will sell nr auction on Thursday Sept.. 'JX\ on the grounds of the Eniuc svil> fair, forty head of high grad- ~ young 11 ere ford' heifers and bulls,, for breeding purposes. Terms: One year’s credit, without interest,. , 7 .177. ' Pay lor that Twine, X. Warner & Sons wish to give*notice that the binder twine, sold by them during the late harvest* mttsf h<‘ paid for and that promptly. Don’t forget this warning. \ A handsome china tea cup and saucer giyen away with every on-*-half pound of Blended tea, at Allman’s Restaurant. Try it CALL anyhow, r.t Leopold’s j and see what his -prices are, on first-class goods. Remember, lie , : conducts his business without any { ! expense. ! Very : bon the le.ves. wilb n - ■ cording to jneci dent, begin to co 1 their annual falling to the familiar tune, but Willey Bigler’s prices are as usual just ahead and have not only commenced to fall but have reached the bottom already.

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