Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

The county jail now has no inmates. Childrens’ scarlet and mens’ underwear at Ellis & Murray’s. C. A. Roberts’ big brick implement and vehicle store is fast approaching completion. Horse, Buggy and Cutter, for sale cheap. Enquire at the M. E. parsonage, Rensselaer, Ind. George A. Strickfaden gives notice of intention to apply for saloon license in Leopold’s room now’ occupied by Theobold Carew. Benj. R. Fendig is clerking in Long & Eger’s drug store, it being his intention to learn the druggist’s business. Mr. Kannal has not yet removed into his new room in NowelsBlock, being retarded by the nonreceipt of show cases and other fixtures. Dressmaking and all kinds of sewing done to order. Please give us a ca|l. Shop opposite J. AV. McEwen’s residence. 9-4 t. Mrs. Padgitt & Haley. Cleve, the two year old son of AVm. Eger, fell from a chair Sunday and broke one of his arms, between the wrist and elbow. Dr. Loughridge set the broken bones and he is improving rapidly. McCoy & Co. are not the only big stock men of Jasper county who have adopted the cattle dehorning practice, as Treat Durand, of Remington, has had the hookers removed from a considerable number of his fine cattle. Boring on Treat Durand’s gas well at Remington has' been sus-’ pended, for want of water to run the engine, at the depth of 1,000 feet. The boring was in Trenton rock when suspended. It will be resumed as soon as water for the engine can be obtained. The Delphi Journal says that it sold 6,000 copies of the extra which it issued the morning after the accident to Amer Green and 2,000 extra copies of its regular issue, of the same week. The Journal is an enterprising paner and remarks truly that the people like enterprise, Billy Lester, the painter, took a ten foot tumble, off a ladder at Dr. Jackson’s house on Front street, one day last week, and fell with his side on the ladder, and was considerably bruised and battered. Billy says that it is his usual practice to fall about 20 feet and that gives him room to turn in and get his feet under him. Charley Burns, of Barkley tp., whose fining for “cussing” Geo. Anderson, of the same bailiwick, was recorded in dur last issue, came back at his friend Anderson by a counter prosecution before Squire Morgan; one day last week, on the same charge, provoke, and and Anderson was fined $1 and costs. The costs figured up pretty high. A letter from an official who has lived in Fort Worth for thirty years, states that no such a man as Samuel Payne ever lived there. He searched the town for several days in quest of Payne and Luella Mabbitt, and found no one that had ever heard of any such characters. The proof is now absolutely conclusive that Amer Green was launched into eternity witli a lie on his lips.—Delphi Journal. Mrs. Mary J. Keiser, wife of ■the Hon. Jacob Keiser, now of the Michigan City News, died at Onarga, 111., Friday, October 28., aged 41 years. She was formerly aresI ident of Rensselaer and was married to Mr. Keiser in this place, Feb. 23, 1860. In 1866 she united ; with the M. E. church, of Rensselaer, and all "her subsequent life has exemplified the professions [then made.

i The little Esquimaux lady drew; ! a fairly good house and every one 1 present seemed not only satisfied j but pleased. Considering the kind ;of life she w;:s compelled to lead, iu her arctic home until fifteen; i years of age, and the great difficul- ! ties with which she has had to 'contend in this Miss! ■ Krarer ceatainly has made rapnL ; progress. A better acquaintance' ' with good English, and the further cultivation of her talentswill make her an able and attractive speaker. Her voice and manners are all that could be desired. She employs wit and pathos with good effect, and her theme is one of ever increasing interest *•*

A girl at Arthur Trusselj’s, north of town, Oct. 27. # ;i Mrs. IV. C. Pierce is seriously sick at tjie home of fier son-in-law, S. H. Howe. The window sign painter took in pretty near the whole town before he got done with it. Archibald Shand and family intend to leave for Pratt county, Kansas, this week. Martin Snow, of Barkley township., is recovering from his seemingly desperate attack of typhoid fever* 1 The Lafayette accommodation train was delayed 4 hours, Tues-i day night, at Dyer, by two freight cars being off the track. One of the new wells at Francesville had reached a depth of 770 1 feet, last Thursday, and had found , a little oil, but none of any couse- > quence.

Mr. Jay Dwiggins, formerly of this place and Miss Cora Arbogast, of Attica, were married Nov. 2, at the home of the bride. Their residence will be Oak Park, 111., a suburb of Chicago. In the case of Perry Griffith ;vs. Job Banes the jury brought in a judgment of ten cents in favor of the plaintiff. Small as this verdict was, it was too much for “Job’s patience” for it saddled him with costs to the amount of 830. The heavy pall of smoke which has prevailed so much in this Vicinity during the past few days is thought to have originated in extensive brush and forest fires now existing in portions of southern Indiana and Illinois. Mr. Knicely Bennett, of Barkley township, and Mrs. Emily Nicholson, of Gillam, were married at the residence of Recorder Antrim, last Thursday, by Rev. S. B. Grimes. The groom had reached the sober age of 63 years and the bride about 50 years. Old Nick Cleaver died at the poor house, Tuesday. His sickness was dropsy, resulting from kidney disease. The old man has lived in the county a great many years and is well known to nearly all our old settlers. His age w’as 77 years. Leopold’s new’ brick building on Van Rensselaer street is being rushed right along. The report that it was to be used for the postoffice seems to have lacked foundation as Edward O. Green publishes notice of intention to apply for a license to keep a saloon in the building. Licenses since last reported, j Knicely Bennett, | Emily Nicholson, i Win. M. Prewett, ( Abbie F. Mason, j Geo. W. Gott, ( Caroline Lanem. j Samuel E. Robbins, ( Rosa A. Kerlinska. The case of S. H. Duvall vs. Jasper Kenton was tried in the circuit court last week. Duvall sued Kenton for damages sustained on account of the death of a horse which , the latter had castrated. The jury decided in favor of Kenton. This throws costs amounting to alxiut 8150 upon Duvall. The ‘Republican is not oniy late this week but has very little local news matter; a combination of circumstances w’hich, as all our readers will readily grant, is of very unusual occurrence, and which they will as readily excuse, after a word of explanation: The editor has been absent from town the greater part of the time since our last issue, his absence being unexpectedly prolonged by the sickness of a member of his family, and besides this one of our compositors has been temporarily disabled since last Sunday’, by. an injured wrist.

Henry Miller, a German, of Not th Judson, was taken from his house last Wednesday,evening, by fifteen or twenty masked men and ■ severely flogged for wife beating. So long as the laws provide nrradequate and rational punishment for wife beating, (fine or imprisonment being usually a worse punishment for the unfortunate wife and children than for the offending husband) we can not greatly blame people for administering a little rude but effective justice- to the brutes, on their own hook, in the manner adopted by the people of North Judson. Fur caps at Ellis & Murray's.

Rev. M. L. Treeset will preach next Sunday at the Presbyterian church, morning and evening. Harrison Cooper, of Blackford, has been granted an increase of ; pension. » The concert at the M. E. church | last Sunday night, given by - the members of the* Sunday School, was largely attended. • * Jury Commissioners Thompson and Brown made out the list of jurors for the ensuing year, last Tuesday. Next Sunday is Y. M, C. A. day throughout the country. Rev. 8. B. Grimes, of the M. E. church, will preach especially to young people, Sunday evening. Sigler, Goff & Powell are figured for a contract at railroad building on the new road now building from Joliet, 111., eastward through Lake and Porter counties, in this state. The work they expect to do is in Lake county.

Boring has been abandoned on the Winamac gas well; but the citizens think the W’ell is no test of tfie existence of gas or oil as the great depth of water would prevent them coming to the surface, even if they existed. We notice by the Central Christian, of Indianapolis, that W. H. H. Graham, Esq., of this place, has lately subscribed 8100 to the Foreign Mission fund of the Christian church. Mr. Graham is a true and earnest believer and fully justifies his faith by his works. Our greatly valued but seldom seen old friend, S. J. Bentley, was in town last week, and says that all his sons have gone to California and that lie is about to consolidate his DeMotte store and the one at Dunnvitle, at the latter place. • The Spirit of the Times, New York, notices a trotting record lately made by Royal Cossack, in Chicago. Although the day was raw and cold and the track four minutes slow, the colt trotted the mile in 2;38|, last half in 1:16|, last quart; wi 37.|. The Last quarter being at a 2:29 gait. The L., N. A. & C. By. Co. was one of the very first to be complained of before the Inter-State Commission, having been complained of by D. F. Allen & Co., of Frankfork. for alleged violation 'of the long and short haul clause. i'fhe decision of the commission was in favor of the railroad. Boring on the gas well has at last begun. The time of starting was about three o’clock, yestesday afternoon, after whicn time until 9 o’clock the mighty strokes of the ponderous drill were audible over tlie whole town. The boring is 'done, not, as many have supposed, : with the turning motion of an auIgur, but by the downward strokes of the drill, after the principle of the familiar spring pole. The drill itself is 7| in diameter and about four feet long. Above this 'is the drill stem, solid iron, about 14 inches in diameter and 35 f eet ; long. The water used by the drilling engine is obtained from Per- ' kills’ creamery, a pipe being laid i from the creamery to the well.