Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

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:t BUSINESS LOCALS. scarlet and mens’ underwear at Ellis & Murray's. Clear and bright as a jewel-the spirits after drinking C. C. Starr’s J ewel Tea. Ladies’ Cloaks, all new, at Ludd Hopkins’. Our motto:—Be seasonable, be fashionable, be reasonable. "Willey & Sigler. A Leopold now keeps the Selz Boots and Shoes. Call and examine before buying elsewhere. Eger Bros, have the agency for the celebrated Owens Stove, the best wood heating stove made. Call and see it; . For hardware go to Eger Bros. They have a full and complete stock, at prices that defy competition. - The making to otter of picture frames, book-cases and window curtain hangings, a specialty, at Wright’s furniture store. The Rochester Shoes for Ladies Misses and children will soon arrive, and Miss Rachel Leopold w ill ba" pi eased to s hoW th em to you. . . The sparkling effect of a delicate stimulant upon the jaded system is never more apparent than it is when drinking a cup of Mr. C- C. Starrs pure Jewel Tea. CALL anyhow, at Leopold’s and see what his prices are, ou tirst-class goods. Remember, he conducts his business without any expense. If you are going to buy a new stove this fall don’t fail to call on Eger Bros, and look through their stock of wood and coal stoves and get their prices. A bran-new stock of fine clothing at Leopold’s, and at prices that beat the lowest and even those who give their goods away, for the benefit of their customers. -V • call and see the finof all kinds of new style!? of Dress .(.roods, just received, and at prices that beat all competition. At A. Leopold’s .new corner block and sold by Miss Ray Leopold. We ask the people to call at our mill with their wheat, corn and rye. We will guarantee entire satisfaction and will ask you to come but once if every- thing is not as we say. B F. Ferguson. The term “jewel” implies feonieIhing bright, sparkling, rare and costly. ’1 lie infusion made from C. C. Stair’s Jewel Tea isfcertainly bright and sparkling, and though its qualities are rare, it is by no means costly, considering its excellence, and the fact that is imported in the far-famed Perfection Tea A’an.

i Take Xotite AH persons knowing themselves indebted, tu N. Fendig wiil please e vil and. make settlement, either by cash or note, within the next 30 days, and avoid trouble, as after dial. iiiHc my books and accounts will bo-placed in ids bands of an attovncy for colleetiou. 7 N. Fendig. Kaiff rslcc lo CSnse. ]v>vs calf congress shofes, size n. iM ami to, msL Ihisft s front lace, size 12 and "10, $i,.20. Size l and 2, $1 35. Tits, above shoes are equal in quaTßy t.) any in town. . Ludd Hopfcnts. 4 SnfHnl Aunouncruicat.' The undersigned'take thismeth■od of saying to the people of Rensselaer and *nm>ur.ding countiy, that they Save i nrebnsed the large and well selected drug store stock «f Einpiet Ivanna 1, and-are now in charge, oil the some, at the old location. They propose to do agen•eral drug business and to handle full and choice lines of all goods usually carried in connection with the drug trade. Each as wall paper, In a large and beautiful supply, toilet and ncy articles, books* stationery, paints and oils, toys, school supplies, &c and all at prices that will meet all competition. - • • ' . The careful, prompt and accurate compounding of prescriptions is a specialty. leayn what .we can do. ■’•A Long & Eqeb.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1887.

Locals and Personals.

/Have you worked the Puzzle ? A fine boy at Henry I. Adams, in. Jordan tp., last Monday. Call at Ellis & Murray’s aud get a prize puzzle. Sheriff Martindale and Attorney Darroch, of Newton county, were in town Tuesday night. At N. Eendig’s you can get good clothing for the smallest boy or the biggest man, at cost, for cash. Geo. J. Dexter has been granted a pension; as has also James W. Porter, the well maker has been greatly increased. Court is in session in Fowler, this week. Messrs Hammond, Thompson and Prosecutor Marshall, of the Jasper county bar, are in attendance. Marriage licenses since last reported. \ James M. Nier, j Elizabeth Keene, j Chas; W. Gilmore, ZZjTMary. M. Hurley. In order to make room for a largely increased boot and shoe stock, I will sell all clothing in my store at positively first cost. Call and examine goods and learn prices. N. Fendig. Our brother publishers.who have been running the big.M. I. S.T. advertisements, have now the melancliolly satisfaction of knowing what the cabalistic initials represent. It is “Many, I Swindled l Thoroughly.” If you want a cheap suit of clothing or an overcoat, call at N. Fendig’s. All Iris clothing is positively to be sold at first cost, as he intends to devote his entire business to boots aud shoes, hereafter. A oow belonging to Henry Aidrich was so badly injured by the 10:30 mail train last Thursday night, that she had to bo killed, i She was near the Ferguson eleva- j tor and seems to have been lying j partly on the track when the train I came along, distinguished non-j residents owners of Jasper county; land is W. W. Corcoran, the emi-, uent and. very wealthy hanker and ; philanthropist of Washington, I).! C. He has just sold 200 aores in Wheatfield tp. to S. A. Austin, but , still holds considerable real-estate! in the county. The annual Thanksgiving dance by the ladies of Rensselaer, will I come off this Evening in C. H. i Roberts’ new brick building. It iis a magnificent place for the |dance. J. 11, Hyland, of the Newels House, has abandoned his proposed dunce for this evening, fin order not- to conflict with the i ladies. George Hoiiingsworili is also promptly complyingwith the order of. the Town Board and raisjing his side walk to grade, in front l of Hardman’s jewelry store and | Allman’s restaurant. He is removing the old brick walk ami replacing it by a plank walk. This latter, it may be remarked, is certainly much the most popular vgilk of the two.

Cues ley Chambers gave bail in. the sura of SIO,OOO and was relens-1 ed. Some of his old neighbors land fellow churchmen stand by! ' him, through everything. - !ing short of his own confession , would convince them that he was j guilty and that hardly would.! ; T his tendency of people/to believe .in the innocence ‘ o? persons for.merly held-in high esteem, in the ! face of all evidence to the contrary, is a common' characteristic; of many minds; and lias latelybeen strongly exemplified in this community.-^ — == Saturday last was the first j stormy daj T of the season, but iii> spite *of the spitting snow audj blustery wind, Kanual’s Jewelry j Palace was crowded with people, some buying Christmas’ presents,' while others were admiring the] beautiful watches and jewelry, per-J fectly surprised to find such elegant goods for sale in such a small town as Rensselaer; but Mr. Ivannal is a thorough business man, and expects to gain the confidence and patronage of the people by keeping in stock The many and most needed goods' usually found in a first class jewelry store. Re-. 4 member the place, the ‘'Star AV nrrw Sign.” three doors east of j Citizen’s Bank, on SQttfJi aide I Washington street <

Towu cows must be kept up, day and night, after December Ist. Mrs. J. C. Porter is mending, but very slowly, from her long sickness with typhoid fever. For Bargains in Watches and Jewelry go to Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. , The corn crop of Jasper county is now nearly gathered in. It is most excellent in quality and a fair yield in quantity. Special Attraction.— President Cleveland and wife fishing at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace, Nowels' Block. Miss Lola Snoddy, of Huron, Dakota, is visiting old friends in thi3 county. She is the daughter of ex-County Superintendent Snoddy. Found.— A pocket book containing small sum of money. Owner can have it by calling at Hemphill & Honan’s store, proving prop- ■ erty, and paying for this notice. The four year old son of John Kimble, of southeast Marion, was kicked in the face by a horse, last Friday. Dr. W asliburn went out and dressed the injury and found it a pretty bad gash.

John Bissenden, the painter, fell off a trestle, at the new school house in Hanging Grove last Friday and broke the cap of his wrist. It is a pre tty bad hurt and will deprive him of the use of his hand for some time. Perry Britton, charged with bastardy, on relation of Mary Himes, of Gillam tp., was bounu over to the circuit corn t, by Squire Morgan, last Wednesday, in the sum of S3OO. Not being able to furnish the requisite bonds lie went to jail, where he still languishes. Tire Mouon Route management have put up many miles of snow fences, this fall, up in the regions north aud south of Cedar Lake, wJiere so much trouble lias been experienced in the past winters from drifting snows. It is therefore. reasonable to suppose that the road will not be blockaded so much this winter as heretofore. , Drilling operations were brought to a temporary standstill, Mon da/ night, by- the unfastening of Ihe drill, in the well. The necessary tool for getting out the /rill, in such cases, called a socket, was not at hand, and men were sent to Logansport Tuesday; to get one. The depth of the hole at the time of the accident was nearly 300 feet.

The Republican has had an he-; cess of information since we said, 1 last week, that Trustee (Twin'snew school house, in Hanging Grove, was~the best country school house in the county. Trustee Vickery, of Carpeuter, has built a new school house in the Jones district, ! this season, which, by all accounts, ; considerably surpasses G ivin’s new building, especially in respect to size: it is an excellent and well : arranged and adapted building, in ; all respects. Its co d we understand to have been about SBOO.

NOTICE! KannalV Jewelry Palace Sign a beautiful gilded star, 34 inches in-diameter; ori both sides of its center, represent the face of an “OLD ENGLISH WATCH,” and suspended to the two lower points of this star, is a large gilded spectacle frame, with painted lenses, which can be seen a block I away. On the face of the waten j dial reads. 4 'jgfSMY&L Jewel k r ' . TlnslFGmrot the finest watch- [ maker and Jewelers’ signs in northern Indiana. If the postmasters throughout the country should enforce Hie law ! in regard to the delivery of letters (to-parties through the postoffiee, j girls under eighteen years and ! boys under twenty-one years of ! age could not get a letter froin the i postofiice uidess by an order from I parents and guardians. Here is j the law as it reads: “ All lettersadt dressed to gil ls under eighteen j years of age, or to boys under twenty-one years of age, will be placed in care of their parents or guardians.” This law—is for the. protection of virtuous young daughters of honored parents against unprincipled young men wli© seek to estrange them into forbidden paths, and use the mails as a means of arranging meetings -andr-IRtle tete-a-tetea -Qi"various sorts.

Boys, bhy French Harps cheap ot Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. Eat turkey and then buy your millinery at Hemphill <& Honan’s. Sheriff Yeoman took Lucinda Miller to the insane asylum, Monday. We are better prepared than ever to give you bargains. Hemphill k Honan. . Special Invitation.— -After you have eaten all the turkey you want, call at Hemphill & Honan’s and buy your boots and caps. M. A. Make ever now gets bis REPUBLICAN at Boone Grove, Porter county. We suspect that Milton is wrestling with a school at that place.. These cold chilly blizzards in November Just about blow one sky high. Underwear and felt boots are the things to remember. Hemphill & Honan’s is the place to buy. We have the best selection of goods, now, ever carried by us. Como and examine our stock of boots, shoes, underwear,hats, caps, millinery and notions. Hemphill & Honan.

Henry Purcupile is now keeping a boarding house in Omaha. Several former Jaspt rites are among j his boarders, including Chas. H. I Price, who is in that city superintending the publication of the laws of Dakota. The Querry ditch, in Gillam tp., was the first ordered constructed under the provisions oE the new ditch law. Capt. A- G. Robb is i the resident ditch commissionSer appointed to superintend its | construction. Sheriff Yeoman reports great I activity among the horse stealing gentry, just at this time. More horses have been stolen in this state, during the last two weeks, than during any equal period since he ha 3 been sheriff. Mrs. Mary Ball, an aged widow living in-The-north part of town, received quite a windfall last week, in the shape of $1066, in cash, whiqh came from a brother’s estate, in Ohio. The wealth was > promptly deposited in a bank, for sate keeping. - : ! The Circuit court, at the Qctober term, assigned to the children, of the late Isaac Parker, of Hanging Grove lands as follows-: To Wm. R 160 acres; Thomas 130 acres; Charles 3.25 acres; Susie 118 acres; Isaac 109 acres; Marion 118 ! acres.

The Rensselaer schools have had the misfortune to lose one of their most successful teachers. Miss Hill, principal of the. high school, has resigned and accepted a like position in the schools of Goshen, Elkhart county. The position theie pays a considerably higher salary than can be afforded in Rensselaer. The School Board has filled the vacancy occasioned by Miss Hill’s resignation by promoting Miss Rym to the place vacated by Miss Hill, while -ill's. J. F. Warren has accepted the room ; aught by Miss Pvin.

In another place we publish the names and addresses of the 103 i teachers .now actively engaged in ; the public schools-of Jaspei couu- ; tv, and also the townships and towns in which tliay are employ- ■ ed. A noticeable fact connected with this list is the, proportionately, very large numher of newteach--!ers,'(i. e. those who have never taught before,) employed in the ; conuty th is year. The number of i these is 32, divided in the townships Gis follows: Cnrpenti r 3, Milroy. 4, ! Jordan 2, Walker 7, Gillam 3. Unjion 2, Marion 4, Barkley 3, Keener 2, W heatfield 1, Kankakee 1. [ ■ • ■ ** ■ | Again a south wind has brought Lack h heavy poll of” dun colored ; vapor which turns daylight into [twilight and night into inky blackness. The cause of this most nn!usual phenomenon is unquestion-

ably to be be found in the tlious- : ands upon thousands of square miles of country in southern llli--1 nois and in adjacent parts of Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, now enveloped in fires, the result of the unparalled drouth in those regions. The darkness that has been experienced from this 'cause, in this vicinity, does not compare with what occurred in the many places in the southern 1 part of this state and in Illinois and Ohio, last Sunday. Lamps had to be lighted at mid-dav, and the darkness is said equal-

Violins, Accordians and strings, at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace. Several dwelling houses to rent. Hammond & Austin. All clothing at actual first cost, for cash, at N. Fendig’s. Mel Laßne was in Chicago, Monday and Tuesday, buying Holiday goods. Mrs. Cox, of Plainfield, this date, is visiting her daughter Mrs. H. J. Dexter. Surveyor Thrawls and Diteh Commissioner "Watson were in Keener tp. the most of lftßt week, locating ■’ the Sehwankie ditch. Hie ditch is to be 31 miles long. Hon. W. D. Oweu was in town Tuesday night, going away on the 11 o’clock train, Wednesday morning. He is enjoying excellent health at this time.

Dressmaking and all kinds of sewing done to order. Please give us a call. Shop opposite J. W. McE wen’s residence. Mrs. Padgitt & Haley. A. Leopold is setting a good example for other property owners on the north, side of Washington street, in his prompt compliance with the order of the Town Board requiring side-walks to be raised to grade. Grand opening at Kannal’s Jewelry Palace, next Saturday evening, Nov. 26. His room is lighted by three large Incandescent lamps, 300 candle power each, making all parts of the room as light as day. Everybody come. Starke county residents have been fighting the fire fiend the past two weeks with a vengeance. Starke county seems bound to defeat the original plan of the Almighty and burn up before the allotted time. —Yalpo. Messenger. The New Era reports that, the Trenton Rock Company, at Francesville, was expecting to begin drilling operations ou a new well this week. The new venture is located a quarter of a mile north of town. „ - G. W. Ingram was in town most of last week. He did not go back to Butler University, but instead will euter the normal at Valparaiso, to which town his parents have j usd removedfr<)mi¥lieatfieldtp-., this county. Fowler has been making great progress this year. This sudden access of prosDerity is mainly attributable to the new gravel roads converging in that town; and a successful building and loan association is also deserving of some of the credit. Rensselaer prospers Without either gravel roads or building associations, but would prosper still more if she had them. Attorney General Michener has entered suit in Elkhart county ou behalf of the State against the Elkhart Mutual Aid and Life Insurance company demanding a forfeiture of its charter and franchises and a removal of its officers on the ground that it is doing, bttsi- j ness contrary to law. It is understood that suits against similar: companies will be instituted and a vigorous effort made to revoke the charters- of all death-bed and graveyard companies.—Monticello Herald. ' The snow storm of last Saturday night was terrific, for the first of the season. The snow fell in great quantity, and under the action of the heavy wind it drifted badly. North and south roads, especially, were much filled up atid obstructed. To illustrate this fact, Dr. Alter had occasion to make Some professional visits Sunday, in the country, and during his ride he was constantly obliged to take to the fields and during the time opened not less than _fifteen fences. The warm south winds that have prevailed since Sunday irave-already nearly .obliterated, this unwelcome harbinger of winter.

\ew Lumber Yard. I have again stocked up with a j full and complete stock of lumber, j shingles, lath, doors and windows, and respectfully invite those needing anything in this line, to call and see me before baying elsewhere. ' Lumber yard and office on Alain street, northwest of depot. l t p. C. D. Nowels. *■ * _ f __ MONEY! money— W- H. H. Graham loans money in sums of S3OO and upwards, on long time, at 6 per cent- interest.

A Horse stolen.

On Monday night of last week a horse was stolen froth Elias Arnold of Barkley tp. The animal was described as a gelding, 4 years old next spring, 16 hands high, white hind foot, thin mane, weight about 1,300. A reward of $25 was offered for the recovery of the . horse and a like amount for the arrest and conviction of the thief. -The thief was thought to have gone northward with the horse and Sheri 11 Yeoman going in that direction, got track of a horse that was shipped to "Chicago from Kouts, which soemed to fully answer the description of the stolen animal and he accordingly followed it into the city, but found on arriving there that it was not the horse wanted. In the same way he afterwards followed ahorse to Momence 111., only to find that it belonged to a livery stable there.

End of the Drive Well Steal.

It is with a great deal of satisfaction that '4’he Republioan announces that the U. S. Supreme court has at last, and finally, disposed of the odious “Drive Well” extortion. The patent has been declared invalid. The particular evidence upon which this decision was based, was the fact, conclusively proven, that the drive well process was used in Cortland county New York, two years before Green used it, in 1864. The owners .of the patent have been making the most of their brief opportunity, during the last few months, and many thousands of people have been compelled to pay the royalty of ten dollars on each well. Jasper county, we believe, has escaped the extortions of this swindle, and in this respect has been much more fqrtunate than many counties of this state, including some of our immediate neighbors.

The Expenses of the Rutherford Trial.

Criminal trials are an expensive necessity. They come high but we must have them. The following items show very closely the cost to the county of the trial of Hannah Rutherford for the killing Of John Steele: Expenses of grand jury $ 50 Pettit jury 278 Jury commissioners. .. ■.... (i Bailiffs.. 5?» Sheriff serving special venire 85 Sheriff, per diem *. Id Stenographer 42 Clerk’s fees 27 Printing and incidentals.... 10 Attorneys for defense and prosecution 439* Total , SI,OOO The most of the above items are correct, as shown by the record, two or three, however,.are estimated and prorated from the entire expense of the court for the term. These are the grand jury item, the bailiffs item and the item of incidentals. These are all figured under the mark rather than over it, and it would be safe to say that the total cost of the trial to the county, was at least §IOO more than the above figures show.

Wouldn’t be Assessed.

The Stockholders of the County Agricultural Society, at their own, meeting last Saturday voted down the proposition to assess the stock $lO a share, to pay debts. It is now throught that the mortgages on the grounds will be foreclosed A word to my patrons snd to the people in general who are interested in home industry that you need not buy or order, Albums and Books of any kind from N. Y., Chicago or any other city, my quality, facilities; and prices will, compete with any one. Try

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H. J. DEXTER.