Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XX.

TIIE REPUBLICAN.

BUSINESS LOCALS.

School becks at the P. 0. Buy your stoves of Egor Bros, and save money. t 'Stamping done at reasonable prices, at Hemphill it Honan’s. Fancy box paper at the postcfiice for loots, tinted and flowered. John Eger has a car load of choice Michigan Early Rose potatoes for sale.

Yarn, Saxony, Zephyr, Germantown and crewel, as cheap as the cheapest, at Hemphill & Honan’s. The beiprt selection of fall and winter nnllnery ever bTunglit to the town, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Fathers, Mothers! A word with you; When In need of A Hoot or Shoo; Fof honest goods, nice and new Try Ilr.Mrlili.L A; Honan. The jewel is an emblem of purity. This is one reason why, Mr. C. C. Starr’s brjfhd 6f utile rtttColored leaf is styled Jewel Tea. For'fresh' roasted coffee go to John Eger’s. He roasts his own coffee and guarantees it to be the best in town. Country dealers can buy Stationery at the post-office at wholesale. Try me, H. J. Dexter. The making to order of picture frames, book-eases and window; curtain hangings, a specialty, at j Wright’s furniture store. The Rochester Shops for Ladies i and children will soon ar-j rive, and Miss Rachel Leopold | will bo pleased to show them to yon. ' ; CALL anyhow, at Leopold’s and see what his prices are, ou[ first-class goods. Remember, lie' conducts Ms business without .any,, - Tlie bodr'ks ot' i S. lo win ' & S6ne a'fenow in the hands of Hammond! $ Austin for collection; Those, i ‘Wing will please call at once and! adjjust their accounts:A liran-ifew stock of fine cloth-! ing at Leopold’s, and at prices j that beat the lowest and e\#n those Who give their goods away, lor the' benefit of their customers. Don’t fail to call and see the finest assortment of all kinds of hew styles of Dioss Goods, just deceived, ahd at prices that beat 1 fill competition. At A. Leopkfid’sl hhw corner' block and sold by Miss Itky Leopold. This is ah era of progress and one of the illost progressive features of the age manifests itself in the care winch'ife taken in the preparation of fohd-stuffs for Human consumption. A sighrd instance of the extent to*which 1 this most practice has been carried is seen in the Perfection Process of curing tea; Jewel Tea, of which Mr. C. C. 1 Starr is the sole Importer for this] has uniformly- andj scientifically cured by Prefection! Process so as to develop its aro- j matic and nerve-stimulating yir*j tues, and then packed in Perfection Tea Cans to preserve them in the completest manner.

Half Price *0 Close. Boys calf congress shoes, size 11,12 and 13, *1.25, Misses front lace, size 12 and 13, $1.25. Size 1 and % $1.35. The above shoes are equal in quality to any in town. Ludd Hoimans.

A Special Announcement. Tlie undersigned lake this method of saying to the people of l’er.skd iaer find stir rounding country, that they Trove purchased the large ■ and welf selected drug store stock of Emmet Kanual, and me now in charge of the same, at the old location. ThCy propose to do a general dimg business and to handle full and choice lines of all goods usually carried in connection withj the ding trade. Bach as wall paper, ina large, and beautiful supply, toilet and fancy articles, bobks, stationery, paints and oils, toys, schbol supplies, Ac and ad 1 at prices that rril! meet all cuiiipetiUoh. The careful, prompt ana accurate compounding of prescriptions is a specialty. Call and see what we have and , Losa & Eqeb,

RENSSELAER: JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,1881.

Locals and Personals.

See Ejljs <&’ Murray’s display advertisement in this week’s issue. The wife of B. F. Stull, tlie fallen ex-preacher, has begun suit in Benton county, for a divorce. .Ellis <fc Murrny are making special low. prices in boys and childrens suits. The Fowler gas well had reached a depth of nearly 800 feet,, at the end of last week, and was making rapid progress. The place to see the most complete line of men’s, women’s and childrens’ underwear is at Ellis & Murray’s.

-Geo. E. Murray, of Ellis <fc Murray, went to Kokomo again last Saturday, to visit his brother, I who is sick with the consumption. Ask to see our Chamois Lined Shoes. They are ilia Shoes for cold, wet weather 1 Hemthill & Honan. Tfie.horse Royal Cossack, which! j lias bceA 'ioitie months, uncler tlie carl of coinpfe- ; tent trainers, is developing a good deal of speed. Many persons who have been j having their clothes made to order are suited and fit, out of our elegant stock of clothing. Ellis & Murray. Charley Porter, son of J. C. Por- | ter, now telegraphing near Little j Rock, Ark., has just Irad an attack of malarial fever, It is an uh- i I i healthy place, nud he expects soon i to get a situation in a more favorable locality. : . By a misprint the name of tlie j young man who last week obtain- f ed a license to marry Miss Mattie ; E. Henkle, was given as Henry L. Lowe, whereas, tire correct name is Henry ILTbiwnij. ifiss Hfcnkla is! the daughSteriof L. W. Henkle, of ..New to u tovWielnp. There it* on« thing-that laer wants and wants it right away:' 1 and that is a good building and'j loan associataon. Havn’t wo got some public spiritedi «itizens who 1 will take hold of this matter and' work it up?. The right men would | have no trouble in organizing such an institution iu our tow n. After more than five years litigation, the L, N. Ai.ASt Ck. Ry. has succeeded in obtaining the subsidy voted the Air Lina,, by, Roseville and Frankfort,.amounting to $40,000. - The payment ofi this, vast sum of money has been resisted by those townships since tlie‘oompletion* of the road in 1882.- “Mono n Leader. The* liteating furnaces in the school liofise have never worked satisfactorily, ahd the school trusi tees are' thinking of putting in [big hard-coal base-burners and | indeed have already ordered one stove of that character, with a view' ! of testing in otieof the rooms, that method of heating, intending ts the test is satisfactory, to adopt it iu all the rooms.

The trial of Patrick McGuire for the killing of Micfiael Kain is now in progress fit Rochester, 'Fulton county. Rain was killed two years ago, bht McGuire has never been fried, tin account of the spiriting away and concealing of Miss Etta Grauel, a supposed very important witness for the prosecution. Sh e hasn’t been found yet, but the trial is going on without her.

Supt. and Mrs. J. F. Warren, who reached home from their Rochester Visit last Saturday, had more tli&h a full share of ill luck during their absence. One of their horses first fell through a bridge and was considerably bruised and., scratched; then both l:6rses broke loose bne night, when tied to a j fence; and ran three miles With the 1 carriage, and broke the Vehicle 1 badly to pieces; ahd lastly One of their liofses was fed or watered when hot and badly foundered. yh»y mill travel by rail the next time they go visiting.

New chestnuts at the jxisf -office Mrs. C. Laßue is at Bloomington, 111., visiting friends. A. Leopold is thinking of establishing still another store, to be located at Goodland. The state of E. L. Hollingsworth's health required another visit to Graiid Rapids,' Mich., over Sunday. Don’t fail to see the new overcoats at Ellis & Murray's. You will find something to suit you in quality and price.

John A. Henkle will make a public sale of personal property,, on his farm in Barkley tp., six miles northeast of Rensselaer, on Tuesday, October 25./ j If you are going to buy a newstove this fall don’t fail to call ,011 Eger Bros, and look through their stock of wood and coal stoves and ! get their prices. Clias. Rutherford, aged 19, a b rakeinon 011 the Monon, was killed by the cars, at Chalmers, last 3SMay ■night, ‘ ‘ wdsf- a t Bui neßsyitle, 1 White 'county; ’ • * • v J. J. Eiglesbacli has just procured an improved, large size sausage chopping machine, and intends at once building an addition to his shop and putting in a small engine to run the chopper. Wm. Imes, son of Willis lines, of Monon, lately came back from the west and now has a situation ! cat telegraphing, for the Monon, at! Green castle, this state. His wife and son are still in Nebraska, but will join him soon. The Monon officials have just' purchased four acres of ground at Monon in addition to eleven acres recently purchased, for the erec-~ ii on :oS frail way shops in the place of'those recently',destroyed bv fire at-Michigan City. Mrs. Mary C. Borders, wife of BlTJordels, a prominent attorney of Winamae, .committed suicide on Wednesday of last-week, by shooting in-the head with a revolver. She liad lately been in the- insane asylum, and, it is supposed, was deranged at the -time of her selfdestruction. She 'was only 2$ years old. North J udson* in Stark, county has been boring; lately for gas or oil, and one day last week reached! a depth of something: over 90sR feet, when the workmen* suddenl y plugged the well and leftyfpr Lime, Ohio. They claimed to hfive got* their drill fast, but the people off North J udson think they struck oil, and wanted to keep the fact secret* for some purpose. The town of LaFontaine, the onlynatural gas town in Wabash county, was laict out by Uncle Daniel pia years ago. Uncle Daniel, who was a Kentuckian and a zealous whig (which last he is yet) named the place Ashland after Henry Clay’s home, but others changed the name to LaFontaine. The only gas well in the place is located on land which was once the property of Uncle Daniel.

On the 26 day of Sept., an old 1 lady named Landra, who resides with her son near Wadena, was put on board a Big Four train by another son, at St. Mary’s, and placed in care of the conductor, to be taken off at Fowler, She did not get off the train here and for several days no tidings of her Whereabouts could be obtained. Her soil traced her to Indianapolis and finally to Kansas, about 800 miles from her proper destination. Friday morning he reached Fowler with his mother. She is a French

Woman, about 70 years old, and being partly paralyzed it is dfficult to understand her. She was taken to Bt. Mary's* Ohio, and from there to a town of of the same name in Kansas, the tadroad men not being able to make out where she wished to go. She says she was treated well, on her journey, and saw a lot of country. At one place she left the railroad anji walked out into the country six ' mile*. —Fowler N uUhiltT -

Howard M. Baker, of Chicago, visited his brother A. M, Baker, and other relatives iu this vicinity, over Sunday. For hardware go to Eger Bros. They have a full and complete' sljock, at ptices that defy competition. E. C. Nowels is boom agent for Minneapolis, Colorado; a town to which he intends to remove next spring,we hear. '■it * ’4 H?I / Hemphill & Honan have ns nice affne'of Ladies an cl Gents. underware as tiiet'e is in this little city. Try them.'

Marion and Wdsfey Bever, brothers of Mrs. Ariizi Laßue, started hack for their home,’ erf Almota, Washington, Terr., Monday. My California canned fruits will be on sale now in a few days. PI ease call and get prices. Crop of 1887. J. C. Allman. Rev. Edgar Hill, of the Theological Seminary, of Chicago, will pPsicTfifi ihfe.PfrjlßyfdHWl'chtttteh, o mpimpjf find J elfinbigf’♦ B'tfr-’ day, Oct. IL. ‘ _ A colored man named Dick Johnson'received probably fatal injuries, in Fowler, last week, by being caught between two freight cars, while unloading grain. Mr. Jackson has retired from active participation.in the United States Bank, of Chicago, and Zimri Dwiggins is now president. Elmer Dwiggins is assistant cashier J. H. Hyland, landlord, formal ly opened tho Nowels House, for the reception of guests, last Monday. It;has been extensively repainted* and .burnished up, * generally. Bering on> tlie Winamae wefill lias been abandoned at the depth of 1050 feet. Tho well is full of wfyite water which will be cased off and then, aa the Journal says, “either gas or oil may follow.” They may but probably won’t. The “Nutshell” the name of the new Fowler paper. J.. H. Hardebeck, a real-estate agent, is the publisher, and its mission seems to be an advertising sheet,, although the initial number makes* a good ah owing of local news. Itc is non-politicial. Mj. Henry L. Town, late of Greensburg Kan., and Miss Mattie E.. Henkle were married at the residence of the bride’s father, L. W. Henkle, in Newton tp., on Wedpeaday, Oct., sth, by Rev. 8.. F. Ferguson. The bridal couple departed! at once for the west, and will make thei# residence at Trinidad,, Colorado, for ft time, at least. C. W. Coen, Robt. Randle and f£. C. Nowels reached home last still farther west,, in the ease of Mr. Nowels. The last mentioned was the only one of the party who invested any cash in western property. He bought a tree claim near Minneapolis, in one of th e eastern counties of Colorado. The two year old daughter of Mrs Stephen B. Coen, nee Miss Alda Fulton, died at the residence of H. E. Coen, in Newtott ip., Tuesday of pneumonia, after a very short illness.. This is the third child Mrs. Coen has lost by death. Her home is. i,n Lamed, Kansas, where her husband still is, but she has been visiting iu this vicinity lor some time.

People who go to Chicago should not fail to visit the new panorama, “tfeVusalera on the Day of the Crucifixion.’* It is truly a wonderful and instructive spectacle, and well worth the time and cost expended in visiting it. This panorama and th^adjacent “Battle of Gettysburg” are the most convenient to the L., N. A. & C. depot of any of the great sights of Chicago. They are only two blocks east and half a block north from the main entrancHo the depot. .v 7

Mrs., Joseph White has gone to Osage Midi., to*visit friends. Read notice and poetry alxmf the Crazy Tea and Festival, by the Woman's Relief Corps, given elsewhere; Mrs. J. C. Porter, sick with typhoid fever, begins to show signs .of improvnient. C. 11. Fulton is getting better, right along. Ministers and school children; it will pay you to come to Hemp hill & Honan to buy your Boots Shoes, and Milinery. Prof; F. W. lieubelt has bought the Cleveland house, in Newton’s addition, in fthich he now resides.

FTg£r Bros, have the agency for the cfilfehratHl OvvMis Stole* the best wood heating stove made. Call and see it. When last heard from D. M. Nelson and D. C. Warren were both located at Omaha, Neb., with a probability of permanently locating in the Nebraska metropolis. .1 M.-O. HfUlbrau has‘-appealed to tfid Circdit > edit*'hlff! * ddciiCfiri of'tfie! cfiuuty in refusing him a license to keep a saloon. Harry Zimmerman has finished his job as an in the Monon station at Salem, and came home Tuesday. He expects soon to be called on again. Old man Kettering lias finished his two years of “involuntary retirement,’.’ in Michigan City, and is at present in Rensselaei. He js a prepossessing and intelligent looking old man. Two men from Chicago are doing the plumbing work in C. C. Starr’s residence, this week. Like all other work on the building it is-beiftgAlone thoroughly and in first class style. The Royal Center oil w£ll, was “shot” with dynamite last, wefik, and the result is; 110 more oil but plenty of salt water. The company however, have contracted for another well, which will, be sunk at once.—Winamae Journal. The Missionary Society of the Christian Church will give a public entertainment in the church, next:Sunday, at 10:30, a. m. Subject,. “The Relation of Christian Missions to the Temperance Causai,” All wdao are interested in missionsand the temperance reform especially inflated. Everybody welcome.. George Graual, and family took their departure last Thursday. Thev did not go directly to their final destination, Argentine, Kan-: sas, but expected to visit friends m lowa, a few days. Mr. Gtfauel will take general charge of a large and prosperous store, and has the r pption to work for a good salary or fohave an ewn share -of the profits. The person who furnishes items to a newspaper is one of the very best friends an editor has. Many people hestitate in particular about sending personal notes to a newspaper regarding the movements of themselves or friends, lest the newspaper man should think them too anxious to see their names in print. He will think nothing of the kind, but, on the contrary, is always glad to get such notes —on one important condition, that they are actual news.

The Rensselaer Horse Company made another important addition to their stock of breeding horses, last week. They bought of one of the big horse breeders of Racine, Wis., a black Hambletonian stallion, 8 years old, and one of the

highest bred apimals in the whole 1 country. His sire is the celebrated Wedge wood, which has a rec-| ord of 2:19 and was sold for &2*V 000. His dam was also of equally high degree. Besides this horse the company bought six other horses, consisting of mares, colts

Biutriis.—Ot., 6, Mrs. E. Weol. north east of town, a girl. OcL, 7, Mrs. Sol MeCurt iin, BnrkVv tp., an 11 pound boy. Oct., BMi Forg Payne, Barkley Ip., a daug-.t-er. " , ; ; .V- : Low excursion rates to Chicago were given again, by the Monon. Route, - Monday and Tuesday mornings, and in spite of unfavorable weather 25 or 30 Rensselm r people went to the city, A Capt. J. ’M. Wasson and wife, of Marion tp.,‘also L. R. Florence and wife of Barkley tp., started for Greensburg, Kan., Tuesday. :<> visit friends. H. C. r-Rruee started for Lawrence, Ivan., the san.e day.

Another Railroad Disaster

Another terrible railroad accident happened last Monday night, near midnight, and almost on the borders of Jasper county, A passenger train dn tho Chicago A; Atlantic Ry., had been brought to a stand still, at a point about three miles west of Kouts, by a broken engine, and while. lifcovv/njweiglif, running at ‘high speed. The-, pass§figer cars were almost demolished, and, worst of all, immediatelr eaught fire and were consumed, together with an unknown number of human beings. The number of deaths is stated at 30, but this estimate is probably much too large. The names of nine persons known to be dead, are published. Among these are Dr. Perry, wile and daughter, of North Judson, this state. The scene of the accident is in the southern part of Porter county and not more than 5 or 6 miles from the north line of Jasper county. Dr. Perry above mentioned, was the Auditor of Starke county, at the time of his death.

F. W. Baptist Quarterly Meeting.

The White county quarterlVM meeting, held at Rensselaer, O.'flfc* B, f\nd. y, was a BMMi/ baportant hsafep .W»»» transacted;: a part was that of calling Rev. Vaughn as missionary for the coming quarter. There were thirty in attendance from Badger Grove anti other churelit s. Sunday evening Rev. T. H. Stewart preached to a crowded house, on the subject, “The Seven Seals.” We feel that the F. AY. people are awakening to a sense of duty and we know the Lord will bless them in their efforts to push the work. There will he preaching again at the church, morning an 1 . evening, Sunday, Oct. 23. \ cordial invitation is extended to all.

Gas Well Notel.

Work on the derrick and pther preparations for boring the gas well have made considerable progress, although various interruptions have retarded matters considerably. Saturday and Monday ~ the men were waiting for iron ordered from Chicago, and Tuesday there was too much wind to render work on- the derrick praetkaMa : *1: . /■ EC2 jug “TheWefriet" wiM be which is considerably higher than !the derrick of the wind pump, ftt I the court house. • I The men who are to operate the machinery are not here yet, except i Mr. Foresha, and are coming from | Pittsburg, Pa. Two me*r, oniyy | are required to operate the drill,' •and when drilling begins it will i continue, night and day. Two, | men will go on at noon and work dill midnight, then two others 'work till noon. It is now expected that drilling will begin about the middle ofnext week. \ A steam engine of about 15, ; horse power will supply the power to run the drill It is already if\ position.

Millinery at Cost.

Mrs. Frank Osborne having ; brought to Rensselaer her stock of millinery and notions, which she intends closing out at cost, requests the ladies of this place vicinity to call and examine goods and learn prices before puachasing {elsewhere. She also requests their patronage in the dress I making line. Room one door east of Williams & Osborne’s Furniture store. Ladies’ Cloaks, ail new, at ia.cty Hopkins’.

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