Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Corn 39 cents. Wheat. 80 cents. Oats, 28@30 cents. c Rye, 40 cents. Threshing coal at Coen & Paxton's. Jos. Crane, of Dayton, Ohio, visited his relatives, the Misses Smith, over Sunday. Wanted No. 1 hay stacker. Call on A. M. Baker, 1 mile north-east of town. A sou was born last Friday, July 13, to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Houser, of Barkley township. I have several houses to rent — all sizes and locations. Wm. B. Austin. Wanted No. I hay stacker. Call on A. S. Baker, 2 miles south-east of town. I • ' l!

J Geo. Macy and wife and John Mai ey, all of Indianapolis, are visiting their mother, Sirs. John Makeever. 1 Isaac Col born, the lumber merchant, is rejoicing over the birth of a fine daughter, which occured last Monday. -R. S. D.viggius departed Tuesday for Petoskev, Michigan, where he will remain a month or two for the benefit of his health. D. J. Thompson departed last -Friday, for his regular summer outing in Northern Michigan; going.by the way of Columbus,Ohio,' as usual. Dear Header: We are very fond of wind but we can’t live on that alone. Please call and pay up if you owe us as we need the money. Hemphill & Honan. Dept, Sheriff Orlan.dh A. Yeoman and wife are rejoicing over the birth of a first born, a fine girl, which event occured last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, the artiste, had the misfortune to loso their beautiful and talented, mocking- j bird, last week. A marauding and felonious feline got its claws on to the sweet-singer. Dr. Washburn, First Vice President of the Rush Medical College Alumni Association, went to Chicago, b;st Thursday, to assist, in pr. paring a program for the next meeting of the Association. Charles Kelley, a seven year old son of thrown from a horse last We-dnes-driy evening, and both bones of His right leg broken above the ankle. It is a pretty bad break, but is doing well.

The Logansport Insane Asylum authorities have rejected the applications for the reception of FFahlc \ Hopkins and Wesley Price, Upon the grounds that this county already has its quota of iucurabies of that class, in the|Asylum. A strike among the workmen in the L., N. A. & C. repair shops, at New Albany, has revived the talk of removing the shops to some more favorable location. Crawfordsville, Lafayette and Morion, are the places most discussed as candidates for the new shops. A Prohibition dub was organized the other evening, at a meeting at the residence of Mrs. It. S. Dwigginsj-with the following officers: President, Berry Paris, Vice President,. Carrie A. Clark, Secy Lydia D wiggins, treasurer, W. Reeye. Executive and publishing committees were also chosen. W. W. Pfrimmer, the Kentlaud poet, better known as “Pinkamink” was in town Tuesday, and made The .Republican a short call. Mr. Pfrimmer ism poet of much promise and is now engaged upon a much more extensive work than any he has yet accomplished, an d for the success of which lie has the best wishes of The Republican. Geo. lx. Hollingsworth brought an elegant gold-headed ebony eane . from Chicago, last Friday, and presented it to his guardian, Al-fred'Thompson-,-as a testimonial of gratitude-and appreciation for the careful and unselfish manner In which Mr. discharged the duties of his guardianship. George yet lacks more than a year of his majority, but be-ing-yrell qualified to manage his own* business affairs, Mrs Thomp--soprno- longer exercisea-anything moi-e than nominal guardianship, over his estate.

Sheriff Yeoman is now soiner what of a grand-pap. All the babies are girls. Somebody says that it is a sign that there will be no more wars. Miss Edith Miller will start today for Witoka, Minn., to visit her sister, Mrs. May Thomas, who is not in good health. . « The Summer Normal opened Monday under very encouraging auspices. The attendance tlbis week is 37 which number will probably be much incrersed, next week. The invoice ot the Willey A Sigler stock of goods amounted to a little more than 815,000. Miss Emma Martin’s stock of millinery was not included in the sale.

The Moore Bros., of Ciawfords*ville, are conducting a successful musical convention, in Rensselaer, this week. They hold their meetings in the Presbyterian church. The Monon Route will run another cheap excursion to Cedar Lake, next Sunday. The fare for the round trip is the very low rate of 70-cents, or only about 1 cent per mile for the distance travelled. Mr. Givens, borer of our unsuccessful gas well, removed his ea•gine and. boring outfit, last week. Perkins & Son bought and removed a portion of the timber in the derrick and sheds. Marriage licenses since last reported. j Thomas J. Moore, ( Laura B. Dart, j James W. Price,- ( Mary A. Daniels. Mr. James Wk Price and Miss Nellie Ann Daniels, both of Barkley tp., were married last Saturday afternoon, at, the residence of Geo. W. Losh, in Rensselaer, Rev. A. C. McKinley performing the cerem6nv. George Anderson, of Barkley tp., died suddenly, of organic disease of the heart, last Sunday morning, while at the house of a neighbor. His age was about 50 years. He leaves a widow and several childrefi;

Geo. B. Antrim, clerk of Grsy county, Kansas, is visiting his Rensselaer friends again. Like many others who have seen Kansas lately, he says that state has*a magnificent prospect for crops this year. Mr. Johnson, of Williamsport, father-in-law of Frank Wolfe, the lumberman of Rensselaer, lost about 88,000 worth of lumber, during one of the late heavy rains, it having been floated into the Wabash, by high water. A considerable number of Rensselaer people went out to the basket meeting, at Barkley church, last Sunday afternoon, and report a very large attendance, and that the youthful Elder G. W. Ingram, surpassed himself in the sermon he then preached.

The new gas well at Fraucesville is, undoubtedly, a very good well—better than any previously drilled there. It is not, however, so immense as the first reports regarding it represented. The company will drill still ahother well, says the New Era.

James Sapp of Goodland, one of the three men under bonds' charged with passing counterieitsiiver certificates, died last Friday, and liis funeral was held Sunday. Gangrene following a surgical operation for an abscess, was the cause of death. A few minutes before his death he declared liis innocence of the crime lie was charged with. He was married only eleven months ago, and only a few days ago liis young wife gave birth to a child. It is said that the funeral was the largest ever held in Goodland. ri ;

- A Mr. Hiller, who claimed to represent a syndicate of New York capitalists, was in tbwn a short time, on Wednesday of last week ■and investigated the subject of the gas well, recently bored at his place. He examined the different specimens of rock from the well, preserved by Mr. Jay W. Williams and furnished the following estimateil-eross-seetion of the well: Niagara limestone and Bhale4so feet. „ . - Cincinnati'Shale, and limestone (Hudson River) 380 feet. Trenton limestone 370 feet. St. Peter sandstone (Calciferous of Illinois survey) 160 feet.

B. F, Ferguson lias a number of second-hancf binders which ho will sell cheap. They will do good work. J. W. Powell finished his railroad grading contract, near Morocco, Tuesday. The grading of the whole line is now completed. . John Esper, N. Warner & Sons’ reliable old tinnqr, is intending to return to Lafayette, in a short time, having property there that noads looking after. The condition of Uncle Tommy Robinson, who lately became deranged, is now pretty nearly beyond hope. His blind is evidently a hopeless!wreck aud ns he persistently refuses to take any nourishment, whatever, it is not likely that his life can be prolonged many days; He is already very weak and retrograding very fast.

The name of the new firm, which succeeds Willey & Sigler, is “The Economy Store Company.” Additional goods have been purchased in Chicago, and the store -will be open for business, to-day. Messrs Osborne and Sylvester will both remain in charge of the store and will have the assistance of D. S. Willey as salesman. Mr. Osborne expects to bring his family and become a permanent resident. A. Those two greatly afflicted residents of Rensselaer, Thomas Robinson and Jame 3 Yeoman, have been adjudged insane and permission given by the proper authorities for their removal to the insane asylum, at Logansport. For some cause, how-ever, the friends of Mr. Yeoman decide not to take him to Logansport and are endeavoring to have him received at the Indianapolis asylum. In the case of Mr. Robinson, his physical condition is such as to forbid his removal, at this time. An eclipse of the moon will occur next Sunday night and,'if the night is clear, will be well worth watching for. The moon will be aigh above the horizon when the eclipse begins and almost on the meridian at the beginning of total- j ity. It wilLthu3.be seen that the] conditions will he very favorable for its observation. The beginning of the eclipse, or entrance of the “penumbra” or partial shadow, will occur at a very few minutes of 9 o’clock, Sunday evening. The entrance of the moon into the total shadow will begin at 10 o’clock. The total eclipse will begin a rew minutes before 11 o’clock and continue about one hour and 40 minutes.

Jackson township, Allen county, voted Monday on a proposition to aid the new east and west railroad, the Ohio, Indiana & Misouri River, with an appropriation of 84,000. The appropriation was defeated by eleven majority, The wisdom or unwisdom of voting aid to a railroad, all depends on the circumstances of the case; aud not being informed as to the circumstances in this particular instance, The Republican has no opinion on the question whether the people of Jackson tp., did wisely or unwisely in voting against the appropriation. It is probable, however, judging from the position of the township, that the road will pass through it, tax or no tax, but it may lose the chance for a station in the township, m which case the refusing of the aid was a bod policy.————*——

The trotting race in the Remington fair grounds, last Friday, was attended by about 150 persons, about one third of whom were from Rensselaer. The first Heat settled the race, Mr. Traugh’s horse, Agitator, having been distanced. He was more than 200 feet behind Billy Wonder when the latter passed the judges’ stand,. The winning horse ftook the gate money, which was only about $35. It is said that considerable betting was done on the race, and that Mr. Traugh himself, dropped a couple of hundred, or so. It will not be amiss to add- thht it was through Mr. TrauglEs own demands, that a man was •stationed at the distance, pole, with instructions to shut out either horse that should fail to reach the pole, by the time the other passed undet the wire. The supposition being that Mr. ICraugh imagined that his big black would be able to distance the little bay, on the first Wat. The result wa3 exactly the opposite ahd great was the grief thereat, among the friends of Agitator, and the corresponding joy among tlir friends of little Billy.