Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Mrs. Lyman Zea is fast recovering "from her late dangerous sickness. Rev. 81. L. Tressler delivered a lecture at Valparaiso; Tuesday, evening. C Mrs. E. R Hammond went to South Bend Tuesday, to accompany hei? son, Eddie, to Notre Dame Seminary, where he is entered as a student. The number of pupils at the. Indian School is now 51. Some few new accessions have been received lately, and one student lias recently left the institution. A. J. Kitt has sold his newly established paper, the Goodland Mail, to Elmer Bringham, who will, doubtless, consolidate it with the Herald, of which he is also the proprietor. Married. —At the residence of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Thomas Antrim, on Thursday, Nov. 8, in Re#pselaer, Mr. Washington Scott, of Milroy township,• to .Mrs. Rachel E. Cox. Lost.—On the night of the Republican mass meeting, between the post office and the depot, a silver breastpin, crescent shaped, set with Rhine Finder will please leave at this office.

The first regular quarterly meeting services of the M. E. church will be held in the church on Saturday and Sunday, November 24 and 25. j. Lj Smith, D. D., conducting the services. Miss Virginia Estella Makeever and Walter Lyons, of Mt. Ayr, were married at the residence of the bride’s father, Milton Makeever, in Newton township. Rev. M. Lj Tressler performing the ceremony, Thursday, Nov. 8. The Protestant Methodist people are just completing a commodious and tasty church building in Union township, near Rose Bud school house. To the exertions of Mr. Isaac Alter, Sr., is mainly due the credit for the success of this worthy enterprise.

The four cases of measles in town; that of Miss Hester, thfi teacher, Miss Latto, and a child each of Wm. Myers, the night watch and M. O. Halloran, are recovering and without much danger of a further spread of the disease. • J •» The regeneration of Mijroy township is being shown in more ways than the late Republican victory there. It is now to have regular church services, for a year. Rev. Peter Hinds will preach at Center .school house, every second and fourth Sunday, for the next twelve months. An Elocutionary entertainment will be given in the Opera House to-night, and repeated tomorrow night, by Miss FlQrence Higgins, h talented young elocutionist. The merits of this entertainment are vouched for by some of our best .citizens. ■ ... Mrs. Ellen Ryan -died last Thursday night, at the-residence of herself and daughter, Miss Ella, the teacher, in Newton’s addition, of typhoid fever. Her age was 63 years. Her funeral was held Sat->q-rday,Trom the Catholic church. The deceased had but lately become a resident of Rensselaer. The rumor is now current that when Sheriff-Elect Blue vacates the Makeever House that J. H. Hyland, landlord of the Nnwels House, will take .charge of. the Makeever House, while his brother, E. N. Hyland, will occupy the Now.els house and run i t as a boarding house, leaving to the Makeever House all the transient custom. Marriage licenses since reported:

( Walter A. Dvons, ~ 1 Virginia E. Makeever. ( Washington Scott, ( Rachel E. Cox. ( Samuel A. James, | Belle F. Thomas. ( Max M. Weil, I Sarah Tuteur. The case from White County of Wm. McLean and Milton Shirk, executor, v. James Lowe; which was tried in the March term of the Jasper Circuit Court, by change of venue, is now in the Supreme Court, by appeal. The Republican job office has just printed a brief in the case, prepared by Hammond & Austin, the resident attorneys for the plaintiffs. Itis a..very able and exhaustive argument

Mrs. H; W. Porter is recovering from her second long sickness with the Paris Harri&on is biiildig a good barn jn addition td His hew hohse, in Thompson’s addition. We are requested to announce that a Prohibition meeting will.fie held in the court house, on Friday evening;. Nov. 23. There will be music, short speeches &c. .All ladies interested in the annual Thanksgiving dance are requested to meet •at Mrs. J. M. Hopkins’ millinery store Saturday evening. at f o’clock, ~~ Clarence H. Fulton, who is now teaching school near Chicago, was run over by a team, in Chicago, and narrowly escaped being killed or badly injured, one day last week. Dr. Chas. N. Huston, a former resident of this vicinity, was married Oct. 31st at Hamilton, Ohio, to Mies Ella Davis. The doctor is now located in practice, at Hamilton.

All the carpenters in town are working . like beavers and have been ever since the building, season opened, early in the spring. It has been another’good year for the solid growth of Rensselaer. Married.—By Rev. E. G., Pelley, at the Methodist parsonage, on Thursday, November 8, Mr. Samuel A. James, of Wolcott, Ind., 1 to Miss Belle F. Thomas, of Seafield, White county, Ind. T. J. Sayler is building a, good one story house, on lots lately purchased of S. P. Thompson, on Front street. It is likely that Sheriff Yeoman will occupy the house until spring, at least. A Republican jollification will be held at Blackford, in Barkley township, next Saturday evening. A special invitation to paaticipate in the meeting is extended to the Republicans of Rensselaer and vicinity. ;

Clark Price, oE Ashland, Kans., J son of W. B. Price of Carpenter tp., was elected a state senator, for the 30th senatorial district, in Kansas, at the late election. He was a member of the lower house in the Kansas-legislature, at the last session.- v - - Miss Sallie Hogan, of tile Kentland schools, is visiting her old friend, Mrs. E. P. Honan. Miss Hogan has an enforced vacation, this week, owing to the closing of the Kentland schools, bn account of the prevalence of the scarlet fever. Mrs. C. G. Crockett started for Nebraska, yesterday, to visit relatives. She will be absent several months,, and go as far as Yates Center, Kansas, before returning. It is a big journey for so elderly a -lady.iQ.make experienced traveler/

At last accounts the condition of of Wm. Morris, the young man who was so badly stabbed at Wheatfield by Ozro , Wallace, on the evening of the 6th inst, was almost hoppless. He Was thought to be in a dying condition on Monday and Dr. Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, who stayed with him Monday nsght, reports that his prospects for recovery seemed much against him. Wallace is still held without bail. The winter Jime card went into effect on the Monon, line, last Sunday. The most important changes are that the afternoon maili train (north) passes at 3:50, or 7'minutes earlier, and that the Indianapolis accommodation is 17 minx utes later, that train and theforenooh mail train (south) now meeting at Pleasant Ridge, instead of Rensselaer, as heretofore. Some eslight changes are also made in the time of the night train?. The final settlemen of the case of Warren Wright against the L. N- A. & C. Ry., is not .yet in sight, even if the Supreme Court has made its final decision in support of the verdict. The last development in the case is the filing of liens against the judgement for attorney fees, of $2,000 by W. P Adkinson, of Indianapolis, and SSOO by M. F. Chilcote, of Rensselaer. Of- course; the Railroad can not pay the judgment, until the , liens are disposed of. The case; by .‘the way, has attained great throughout the country on account of the previously unsettled law points which it covers, As a single illustration of this wide celebrity, we may niention that the Scientific American, 1a paper which seldom refers to law cases, published in the current issue, a full abstract of the case. *

S. P. Thompson went fb Lafayette, Tuesday, to look after some law cases in the courts there. Elder J: Q. Garner, of Chicago, will preach in the Christian church next Sunday, morning and evening. The public is cordially invited, The methbers are especially requested to be present. Again there is a suspension of freight traffic bn the Monorf line. This time a hundred brakemen are on a strike, at Lafayette. They demand an indrease of wages, of about 10 per cent., and that three men be assigned to each train, instead of two. Sheriff Yeoman feels himself to be in hard luck. He loses the last and the biggest sale of his whole term, by being, in a remote way, a party in the case. The sale goes to his successor, Mr. Blue,- in the latter’s present capacity of County Coroner. Editor Republican: We desire through the columns of your paper to express our heartfelt thanks to the people of Rensselaer and vicinity, for their kindness and assistance in the recent sickness and death of our dear mother.

JOHN RYAN, ELLA RYAN.

. A number of our local sports are said to be largely “in the so upon election bets. Geo. Strickfaden is said to be an especially heavy oser, and so also, reports say, is M. O. Halloran. O. K. Ritchey is also said to have lost heavily on Cleveland. Numerous hats and even whole suits of clothes have been lost and won and cigars without number. , In this last item Uncle John Makeever is said to be the heaviest loser, having been obliged to pay for half a dozen or more boxes.

Miss Sarah Tuteur was married last Sunday evening, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Lena Tuteur, to Mr. Max Weil, of Peoria 111. Rev. Dr> Calisch, of Peoria, performing the ceremony. About 40 guests were present, all relatives of one or the other of the parties, and most of them from places elsewhere, from Peoria, Lafayette, Chicago &c. The newly married couple took the 11 p. m. train Sunday night, for their future home, at Peoria, where the groom is part proprietor of a successful cloak house. .A large number of very elegant presents was a chief feature of the wedding. Among these may be mentioned an elegant plush parlor,set, several parlo.r chairs, two bropze clocks, and mapy expensive articles of fine slver and table-ware.

Work on the M. E. church is making satisfactory progress. The excavations for the cellars,’foundations and heating furnace have been completed and the drainage tilesareilaidi“""EastTli afternoon the ’first} foundation stone was laid by Mr. James T. Randle, the energetic and efficient representative of the Church Trustees and Building Committee, while the pastor, Rev. Pelley, read appropriate selections from the Church Discipline and invoked the Divine blessing. The actual work of stone laying was begun Tuesday, by the contractor, James Maloy, and will be pushed as vig-. prously as the weather will permit. It is hoped that all the stone-work will be completed this fall and'the corner stone laid, with appropriate ceremonies.

Last Thursday afternoon an impromptu serenading party was gotten up by a number of enthusiasticTßepublicans, aided by several jolly Democrats, and provided with horns and bells,jthey proceeded to visit the places of business of the democratic business men in the town, and treated them to a consolatory-.serenade. Most of these favored individuals took the matter in good spirit, and if they had not horns of their own, borrowed of the serenaders and join* ed heartily in the tooting. A» few of them, as neighbor McEwen and Post-master Bates, for instance, looked rather glum and said nothing. .An amusing incident of the occasion was that the gigantic and jovial John Casey met the short but bulky, Shorty Simpson, town marshal of Rensselaer, and unceremoniously hoisted him upon his shoulders, and carried him half a block or so. Shorty is no light weight, either, if he is short of stature.

.Wright Williapde of Delphi, was in town yesterday and being iff the divining,rod business; instituta little search for gas. He used an apple twig, with a small vial of criide petroleum tied to file branched end. He claimed that the rod showed the existerice of a vein of gas running throdgli the town in a notheast by Southwest direction, lender the court house. Was of tfie opinion that the vein was not very strong. The same vein, or another, was traced in Leopold’s addition, and r there the indications for a strong vein were very marked. The forked twig also revealed the presence of a’vein just across the ditch from where the attempt to find gas was made last year.