Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1888 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XX.

THE REPUBLICAN ISSUED KVBBY THURSDAY BY 3-EO. ZEPUBLISHKR AND PROPRIKTOR. OFFICE —--In Republican building, on corner ot ,Wn«fei«gU>n and Weston streets. Terms of Subscription. One year... Six months. ■ '•’' Three months 50 The Official Paper of Jasper County.

pkqfjsssionai. cards. ' " ”?H Y 8.1 CIA NS. W. 11A*TSELLM. D., ’* ’ HOMEOPATHIC Z’lxyslcla.XL and. Svirgreon, R«SBS£LAYK -.IND> ANA. KAjy-Clironic Diseases a Specialty ORlec EHSt Washington Street 8-.)an-81. Residence, Makeover House. iTr. 1 B. WASHE'JPN, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Disenscsof Women and Children and Chronic Diseases. Eomcmhcrcalls are promptly attended w nsn not professionally engaged. y r. BITTERS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Over Ellis & Murray, Rensselaer, - - - Indiana Telephone to Uvsidence. XT ARY E. JA-CKSON, M. D. * I’IIYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Sneeit’l at’-ention given to diseases of women ■Mvl clnldrciK UOLe on Front street, corner of Angelina. attorneys. a TTORKEY AT LAW. j:zsa c. XQWET.fi Attorney nt Law, Real Estate and Insurance Aircnt. will pay especial attention to abstracting. selling land and paying faxes. I rebate and collection business attended to promptly. t’Mllee in Leopold’s Block, up stairs. HI-21). if. ’

Edwin I’. II ammoxd. wmi T>. Austin HAMMOND & AUSTIN, attorneys at law. Rbnsselaer, ----- Indiana, yvcy"onsecond floor of Leopold's Block, | earner Wisliington and Van Relisstdaer streets,) Wai. B. Austin purchases, sells and leases | real cstiitfc and deals in negotiable itistrn-, nueins. 18-I<-u. ■ ||Atra W. MARSHALL, ATTORNEYAT LA W, I'raetiees in Jasper, Newton and tidj-oining counties, Especial attention given to settle inet-t cd Decedent.’s I.States, Collections, Conveyances; Jiurtices’ Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. appkess, - - - Rose Lawn, Ind bimon P. Thompson, david j. Thomtson .1 tlorney atLaw. Notary I'tMic. •|'HOMPBON & BRO.. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, _' Rens»elaer, Ind. PraeUfte.iiLalLtiie courts. We pay partkul attention to paving taxes, selling and leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor ~yy 11. Hi GRAHAM, . 7 TTORNE Y A»T LA IF, Will conduct a Loan and Real Estate Bureau. Cilice opposite Cour house, on Wasiiiugton street. W. liab cock, Esq., Special attention to'coiiections and Probate business. 18-48. JAMES W. DOUTHIT p ATTORNEY AT LA IN, Ren.ssei.aek. - Indiana. •faV-Ofllee up stairs in M.ikecver’s new brick buiidtng, three doors east oi XV-4U. UfM. W. W ATSON, MBkd € f 10! I; iMWt £Gy“'Oflicc up stnirs in Leopold’s Bazar REnsselaek, Ind. yORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to a’.) business in the profession with promptness and dispatch". Odice in second storv of the Makeever, building. •MI SC EL 1-A NEOUS, Zn;ni Dwiuii " , F. J. SJiAits, \ al. Seii:. President. Vice President. Cashier Citizens’ State Bank .Rensselaer Does a general banking business: certillente* bearing interest issued; exchange . bought and,soi l; money loaned or farms at lowest rates anil oa most favorable terms, ir-u-tf. John MakekVer. Jay W. Witi.n«s. I'nSSidcnt. Cashier IpARMERS’ BANK)-' ■ Jgr Opposite Public' RENSSELAER INDIANA Receives Deposits. Jlnv nnd sell Exchange. Collections promptly remitted. Money Loaned, and. does a general Banking Business. XV. 48 y A, McCoy. T. J. McCoy, E. L. HollUngsworth. A. McCoy & Co-pßankrs, (■Successors to,A, McCoy <c T. 'thohipson.) Rensselaer, Indiana. Do a general banking business. Exchange bought auu sold. Money loaned. CertiftCates bearing interest issued. Collections made on all available pointi, _ :Mice *ame place as old firm of McCoy A

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1888.

Locals and Personals.

Lost night was a stinger. Thermometer 17 to 20 below. Washington’s birthday at the court house, v , Mrs. Frank Oswalt off Kentland is. visiting the family, of Mr. J W. Williams. Gee!’Whiz! Bill they are selling Mens’Arctics at Hemphill «fc Honan’s for a dollar, let’s buy a pair. J. C. Williams, the new photographer, has been sick with a fever, but is getting better. Felt Boots, the best in the j world, at Hemphill & Honan’s, selling now at $2.25. The Wirfamac Republican says, Hooray I because the proprietor of that paper has become a father for the tenth time. Gosh! They struck Gas at Francesville but it don’t effect the price of Boots & Shoes at Hemphill & Honan’s. . . .

The Delinquent tax sale begins next Monday. About a third of the delinquencies advertised have already been paid off Los Thompson is still compelled to get about on crutches as the result of the injury he received from the fall pf his horse, about- six iv'eeks ago. Ira Morlan says lie- is going to •‘surprise the boys” about next Sunday. The young lady’s name is withheld, for the sake of the •‘surprise.”

C. 0. Warner and R. P. Phillips intend to go to Minneapolis, Colorado, in a short time. Ambitious young men go west in the springtime as naturally as ducks take to water.

Wm. 0. Roadifer announces in the-Remington News,’ that he- is a candidate for the office of Township Trustee, in Carpenter township, subject to the Republican township .convention. Monticello Herald: Dr. Quivey, of Rensselaer, has fornied a partnership with Dr. Crowell in the practice of dentistry. He expeefes io move here, but for the present will only bu here the latter “half of each week.

Dan Coleman is now Jasper county’s sole representative in the Michigan City penitentiary. Sheriff Yeoman, who saw him not long ago, says that he has grown as gray as a badger. Convict life evidently does not agree with Daniel.

Monti cello, Del phi, Roch est er, Brookston, Lafayette and Fowler are some of our neighboring towns that have building and loan associations. They all find them excellent institutions. It is the duty of Rensselaer people to organize an association at once. AVho will take the lead? / The Town Board, at their meeting Monday evening, did little more than pass upon a few claims and authorize the conditional purchase of a Lindgren fire-extinguish-ing apparatus, elsewhere noticed. Action on the proposed alley through the center v.f Block 4 parallel with Washington street, was postponed until next month. „ Winamac Republican: - What may be termed a very unusual occurrence happened last Saturday. Twelve men, who each owned a cow had each bought a load of hay. The twelve men came out of a saloon and were talking on the corner when the twelve loads of hay came down the street, followed by the twelve cows, each cow following her own load. [?] [?] [?]

The progressive domino club met at \V. B. Austin’s last Thursday night. Mrs. E. P. Honan again got away with the honors as 1 the best lady player. Mr. Honan equalized matters sor ~the family, however, by taking the booby prize as the poorest player. \V; A. Rinehart took the honors as the best gentleman player. The club will meet this evening with Mr. and Mrs. Honan. Mont Stokes, formerly of the Monon Dispatch, was one of the defendants in the Rappaport libel suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel, which jesulted in favor of the defense. Mont is a 1 reporter for the Sentinel Rappaport with making incendiary speeches in regal’d to the trial of the Chicago anarchists. The report proved erroneous, but the court held that it lacked the element of malice and was therefore not libelous, *

We hear that Mel Stackhouse has left Chicago and gone to Minneapolis, Colorado. The lowest possible price for cash, is our motto. Hemphill & Honan. Bob Bissenden is counted among the sick, this week. Has a fever and sore throat. Striking natural gas won’t effect prices in Boots andSboes at Hemphill & Honan’s. Mrs. 3, C. Passons has been in poor health for several months and has lately become much worse. She Is now confined to her bed. The Lafayette papers state that E. H. Graham, former editor of the Remington News, has bought a half interest in the Oxford Tribune. Mrs. Esther Stanley, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting old acquaintances in Rensselaer. She was a! resident many years ago, was an j old settler, in fact. The democratic county central committee is called to meet next

Saturday, Feb. 18, to re-organize and transact other, alleged, important business. The Ground Hog failed to get the slightest glimpse of his shadow during the wholeday, last Thursday, ami has locked tip his hole and forgot the combination.. Sheriff' Yeoman and C: C. Starr found David Burnett at Joliet, last Thursday, and “induced” him to settle the claim of Mr. Starr, in full, and also to make partial settlement of Nathan Fendig’s claim. Oral arguments will fore the State Supreme Court,next Saturday, in the case of Mulcahy vs. Givens, appealed from the Jasper circuit court. S. P. Thompson and E. P. Hammond are’the attorneys. The attendance in some of the rooms in the town school has been pretty light, for some time past, owing" to sickness ampng young children. The changeable weather has-been the cause of most of the sickness. Mr. Adam Nagle, of Newton tp., agd Miss eselaer, were married by Father Zumbuelte, in the Catholic church, last Tuesday. The bride is the daughter of Uncle Billy Beck, the well knoAvn sexton of Weston cemetery.

A dispatch in the Indianapolis Journal, of Tuesday, under the head of Indiana news, says that' James Mounce laid in wait for and shot and killed Adam Spear, near Monticello. The Journal was mistaken as to the locality of the crime. It was near Monticello in Illinois, not in this state. , Dr. E E. Quivey, the dentist, goes to Monticello three days every week, to do dental work in the office of Dr. Crowell, with whom he has formed a partnership, and who isliimself now in Florida. Monticello people who give Dr. Quivey their dental work will find him a mighty good dentist, a gentleman, and a square man.

In the case at Plymouth mentioned last week, judgment was entered against S., P. Thompson, as a stockholder of the Rochester Rensselaer & St. Louis R. R., for SSOO. Several other Rensselaer parties held stock in the company, but they escaped judgments through the failure of the plaintiffstoprove that they-had ever signed the com r pany’s articles of association.

Applicants for teachers’ licenses in this state, must, to be successful, read the newspapers and keep up with the times in politics. At | the last monthly examination for instance, in what professed to i be history, applicants were required to explain the difference be- ■ tween “Tariff for Protection” and ; “Tariff for Revenue Only,” to deI fine the “Surplus” and elucidate the Mormon question. Monticello Herald: W. J. Huff and family, accompanied by his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Wright, and Mrs. Jas.’H. Imes j and son, took the 3 o’clock train 'Tuesday morning for their new [home at Colton, Cal. Their last days here were marked by many touching evidences of esteem from the many friends who regretted their departure. Mr. Huff will embark in the hotel business with his brother-in-law, J. H. Imes, and hopes by this change of occupation, together with the change of climate, to improve the condition of hjs eyes,

i Corn 43 cents. Oats 28 and 30 cents. Rye 60 cents. Wheat 80 cents. Timothy Hay, $6.50 (g SB. Wild Hay $3 @ $4. Go to the court house Fob. 22, to see crur fore-fathers. Rev. S. B. Grimes is holding a protracted meeting at the M. E. church, this week. M. H. Ingrim, editor of the Democratic Journal, has been appointed post-master at Winamac. Miss Nellie Stackhouse has lately accepted an editorial posrtionon the Peoria, 111., Call. St. Anne, a town in Illinois a few miles south of Momence, had a big fire last Sunday. Loss $25,000. The operatives at the gas well have made no progress during the past week, having been waiting for [casing from Pittsburg. I A movement to organize a buiidj mg and loan association is well under way at Remington, with excellent prospects for success.

Rev. S. B. Grimes reached home [from Kenosha, on Wednesday evei ning, of last week. The condition of Mrs. Grimes was very agingMrs. Paris Daugherty, who lives 1 5, miles southwest of town, has experienced a relapse in her sickness, j and her condition is now very ser- | ious. j We are informed that C- W. Coen has bought Isaac Colborn’s handsome residence, and the Jat-/ ter will build another, nearer his lumber yard. Wm. S. Baldwin, formerly general passenger agent for the Monon Route, has just been appointed Pacific coast agent for the Vanderbilt railroads, with headquarters at San Francisco. Mary, Maggie and John Healy I were in Delphi, Tuesday attending , the wedding of an old friend and [former resident of Rensselaer, Miss. Rosa liyon. The Groom was a young lawyer from Chicago. i Mr., and Mrs. J. C. Watson, who Jive, a little west of town, lost a baby girl last Saturday night. Its age was only four days. It was seemingly well and healthy until a very short time before its death. Old Man Corn, of Remington, is serving out a fine of ten dollars, in the county jail. The offense was supplying xvhiskey to one Jim Fraser, a common drunkard. The costs in the case were remitted.

Hon. J. P. Carr, of White Co., was in town a short time Friday evening. Mr. Carr has invented and perfected a threshing machine, of novel features, and, when here, was just starting out on a journey to introduce it.

Father Zumbuelte who has long been the popular and greatly esteemed pastor of the Catholic church at this place, is preparing to leave permantly, having decided to go to Germany in a short time, with strong probabilities of remaining there. Already there are .indications that the present year will be, like last year, a good one for the growth of the town. A good building and loan association organized now, would help mightily in the building up of the town, and the general prosperity of its inhabitants, not only this year but for many years to come.

“Shelby item in Crown Point Register: There are rumors of Three I. Co. having sold out and that after the next three months the C. &. G. T. will be operating il, and that the intention is to extend the road northeast from Kdox, and close the gap between that place and South Bend, where they would strike the main line of the C. &G. T. road. It is merely a rumor, but if it should prove to be a fact and the connection is made it would serve to boom things along the old Three I.

The Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that with the taking effect of the springtime table, the Monon Route will put on another train between Indianapolis and Chicago, leaving Indianapolis at 7 A. M. and arriving at Chicago at 1 p. M-, and doing accommodation work. This schedule would bring the train to Rensselaer, going north, at about 10 A. M. It is a matter of conjecture, if this arrangement is carried out, if the present Lafayette accommodation train be not abandoned* A

THEGEEAT BANKRUPT SALE OF $15,000 STOCK ZvCTTST ZBZE CLOSED OT7T AT ’ ' ;■■• ——— Kiiinoiis -> Pricey CONSISTING OF DRY GOODS, WOOLEN GOODS; MUSLEN, PRINTS, HATS, CAPS, ’ FINE STOCK OF CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, OVERCOATS, BOOTS and SHOES, — F()n g ARE A T ■ —lllimy RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Now is the time for you to secure good winter wear for yourself and , family. Do not miss this great Bankrupt sale. Remember the place, next door west of Tutubr’s grocery store—south side square.—Rensslaer, Indiana. -0

Go to the court house Feb. 22, as a big time Adaaghter at Johp L, Osbprne’s, a few miles north of town, last. Sunday. Go to the court house on the evening of Feb. 22. Have a royal ‘good time and help a good cause. The Ladies Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church, will give an entertainment at the court house Feb. 22. Admission 25 cents, including supper. Tuesday night was a pretty sharp reminder that Did winter is still here or hereabouts, after all. The temperature early yesterday morning was 13 degrees below zero. Clerk Irwin finished atranscript of the record in the case of Barger against the Pan Handle Ry., which the latter have appealed to the Supreme Court. - Miss Elizabeth Btrypmyre,-fmm a few miles south of town, and Mr. Joseph Dluzjk, from near Remington, were married at the Catholic farm, yesterday, Rev. J. Zumbuelte officiating.

Janies Yeoman and family moved into town, from Newton tp. lajs-t week. Mr. Yeoman, we regret to say, is suffering from a serious mental or nervous affliction of the nature of melancholy. Marriage licenses since last week, f Adam Nagle, (. Caroline Beck. <1 Joseph Dluzak, | Elizabeth Strypmyer. j David 8. Richmond, I Flora B. Guinn.

A letter from the State Geologists office was received by Jay AV. Williams, a few weeks ago, acknowledging the receipt of the records of the borings of the Rensselaer gas well and samples of th§ rock from the same. The letter states that the strata do not vary materially from those at Francesville, and expresses the opinion that the probabilities for finding large quantities of gas in this immediate localityque not favorable. Rtv. T. E. AY ebb, pastor of the Medaryville circuit, sends us an account of a four weens special meeting at Independence church, in Gillam tp. The church was “grea>J y refreshed and encouraged and 35 persons added to the membership.” Rev. AVebb thinks the members of the church deserve great credit for the interest they showed in.these meetings, and in that connection, especially mentions Messrs C. W. Faris and Geo. 8. Guild.

A citizen of Jasper county, who has \isited the Francesville gas well several times during the last ' few days says that the flame is usi ually about ten feet in height and ■ several feet in diameter. Sometimes it flashes up many feet ! higher. It makes a noise, he says, as loud as a threshing machine. The well is li miles west and 2| miles south of Francesville, which brings it within a mile of the Jasper county line and not more than 121 miles from Rensselaer, in a direct line. Mr. Bucklin, the owner, says he will pipe the gas to Francesville, if the people will incorporate their town. It is stated also that h,e will bore more wells, at once.

BUSINESS LOCALS.

Clear and bright as a jewel—the. spirits after drinking C. C. Starr’s. Jewel Tea. Say! Pap! you’d better buy a pair of .Arctics at Hemphill and Honan’s, they’er sellin em fer. | a dollar. I I The sparkling effect of a delicate, stimulant upon the jaded system is more apparent than it is when drinking a cup of Mr. C. C. Starr's pure Jewel Tea.

Depot Grocery and Restaurant

Henry Fisher & Co., in the building near the depot, (Sparling’sold. stand) has now a full and well selected stock of groceries which he. ; is selling at close prices, [ Warm meals at his restaurant, i at all hours, from six a, m., to seven p. m.; also lunch of all things usually kept in a first class restaurant. Give him a call.

A Card.

Photos, can be had in all styles and sizes at my gallery at prices as low as good work can be made. Satisfaction guarnteed. Especial attention given to copying and enlarging. Gallery on south side of AV ashington street, near Makeever House. Call and see me. |

J. C. WILLIAMS.

Great GlosingOut ' Sale, In Leopold’s Bazaar Building, The entire stock of Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Hats, Caps, and Gents' Furnishing Goods, formerly owned by NATHAN FENDIG, ' must and will be closed out, regardless of cost. Sale Will begin at once, and continue until the stock is entirely disposed of. Call at once and a procure BIG- BARGAINS. Benjamin Fendig,

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Photographer