Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

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.