Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. i Homer Hopkins, last Friday. Men’s arctics only $1 at Hemphill & Honan’s. If ybu want a nice parlor suit leave youi* order with Nowels & Son. Women’s arctics 85 cts and $1 at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. 4 Circuit court in Fowler this week. Judge Hammond and Prosecutor Marshall went over Monday morning. tt: Gloves, winter caps, underwear dnd yarns at cost at Hemphill <fe Honan’s. For bargains follow the crowd to the Bankrupt Store. Everything to be closed out. “Sign of Red Flag.”S . , Some very fancy Poland Chinas, of both sexes, for sale at Os Ritchey’s, four miles south of Rensselaer. 22-7 t Mr. John C. Carmichael and Mrs. Ella Gott were married by Rev. Pelley, at the M. E. Parsonage, last Monday evening. Wm. Wisliard, formerly with Willey &, Sigler, at this place, and later Of Mt. Ayr, is about to engage in the grocery business, at Goodland. Neil Brushnhan, of Butte, Montana, called to renew his subscription to The Republican last Saturday. He is making a short visit to his parents, near Surrey. A public sale of D. S. Makeever’s personal property will take place on his farm, in Newton tp., on Thursday Feb. 21st. See notice- elsewhere in this paper. DeLos Thompson’s telephone has been extended clear out ,to Andy Yeoman’s place, beyond Pleasant Ridge. The line is five, miles long and works well. It is the longest telephone line in the county. Charley porter, the able young telegrapher, is home for a few weeks. He has been working for the Northern Pacific, at Minneapolis, Minn., for the last nine months, and expects to resume his place there, when business brightens, in the spring. The agents of the Wrought Iron Range Company of St. Louis Mo., are introducing the celebrated Home Comfort Range in this and adjoining townships. You will do well to examine it before purchasing elsewhere. 2tp. Last Saturday was “ground hog day.” It was a clear, bright day and therefore the hog could not have failed to see his shadow, if he was thick enough to cast one, and may therefore be supposed to have retired to the seclusion of private life, for another six? weeks. The Illinois law which forbids the consolidation of parallel railroad has been so far circumvented by the joint owners of the Eastern Illinois and the Chicago, dr Indiana Coal road, that a practical consolidation of the two lines has, at last been consummated; at least so says the Indianapolis Journal. A lleakty Meal. —Rob Randall, the able salesman in Paxton’s meatmarket, disposed of 2 cans of Cove oysters, boxes of sardines, half a pint of solid-meat oysters, at least a pound of crackers and also six bananas, at a single sitting, in Goff’s restaurant, last Saturday evening, and his appetite was a little bit off, at the time, too. vll. E. Bucklin, of Chicago, principal owner of the two gas wells near Francesville, now declines to pipe gas to Francesville, but offers to sell one of his wells to the town or a company of its citizens. His price, according to the New Era, is what it cost to drill the well to be sold, and two others, which were failures, —something like $5,000, probably. The New York Graphic has been recently purchased and completely reorganized as a vigorously Republican newspaper. It is said that Senator Quay, S. I).' Elkins and other prominent Republicans arc concerned in the reorganization of The Graphic. If so The Graphic is surely going to become a power in the Republican jiarty, and already shows wonderful improvement., u • j The Republican occasionally receives extended biographies of deceased persons to be inserted as obituaries, two and three weeks after the burial of their subjects. As a rule it is hardly just to our readers to give so much space as some of these long obituaries require, even when they are fresh and n.ay be called a part of the local news of the day, but when they become events of the past they are cleqrly outside of the limit of the appropriate newspaper matter. We trust our readers will make a note of this fact, and send iri all obituary notices promptly, making them as brief as possible consistent with a reasonable completeness.

i For furniture go to Nowels <fc Son. The Free Will society will meet with Mrs. Zull, Feb. Bth. ’ Men’s arctics only $1 at Hemphill ! <fc Honan’s. Springs, raattrasses, wire cots and ! canvass cots at Nowels <fe Son. ! Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown now occupy the Joe Anderson residence, j on Main street. The sale of the Bankrupt stock of i dry goods, (Nothing, boots and shoes, at cost is still in full blast. Elzer Griswold, the ex-Trustee of Marion tp v has lately completed a good residence on his farm north of town. ! Uncle Swaney Makeever’s condition has been growing constantly j worse, and is now apparently hopej less for a favorable change. I W. R. Nowels has moved into I town, into the residence bought of jW. S. Coen. The latter moves into his house near David Nowels’ residence, in Weston’s Addition. Fresh arrivals of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes at the Bankrupt Store, with orders to cluse out at once regardless of cost. “Sign of Red Flag.” Next Monday will occur the sale of delinquent tax lands. The list as advertised has been very largely diminished by payments, since the first appearance of the notice of sale. i The “cold snap” of the present j week culminated with’even zero tem- | perature, yesterday morning. Not j an extreme degree of cold, but the 1 high wind made it severe and pen--1 etrating. - ' The infant daughter of Mr., and \ Mrs; Isaac Reubelt is very dangerously sick with lung fever. Mr. Reubelt’s room in the town schools has been dismissed on account of the child’s sickness. Mrs. Ida Lewis will deliver a lecture at the Free Will Baptist church, on Thursday evening, Feb. 14th 1889 at 7 o’clook. Her subject will be “Refined and Cultured Deportment.” Admission 25 cents, children, 1 Scqnts. One half of the proceeds will be for the benefit of the Sunday school. Notice to Hunters. —Any person known to be hunting on any of the lands owned or controlled by the undersigned parties will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. B. F. Robinson, > Wallace Robinson, Warren Robinson, 2tp Luther Ponsler. u The Rev. 11. 11. Wells, D. D., Evangelist of the Logans port Pres- | bytery, began his scries of meetings,' in the Presbyterian church, last Sun- j day, as per previous announcement. ! He is a very able preacher and his meetings attract large audiences and are creating much interest in the community. Dr. Wells will remain here for at least another week. Union Go’s, well No, 5, will not be located until some future day. On the Blair farm the result of their efforts is two gas and two “dry” wells. The i gasfvciis are used at present for sup- j plying one house only, that occupied j by Mr. A. W. Ross, and by the way, Mr, Ross is the only person in Pulaski county whose family enjoys the privilege of burning natural gas.— Francesville New Era. Several owners of ice-houses began putting up ice last Friday and Saturday. The ice was of pretty fair quality and from 5 to 8 inches in - thickness. Cbas. Paxton got his house entirely filled and C. C. Starr ahd .lake Eiglesbach got theirs partly filled. Marsh Warner pinned his faith in the ground hog and did not begin filling his icc-housc. The result will probably be that he will get better ice and an increased trust in the ground-hog. One of the finest vestibule trains that ever left Chicago, went through? RiSisselaer, over the Monon Route,? last Sunday afternoon. It is just out of the Pullman shops, and is lighted by electricity, has a dining car, a barber shop, sleeping coaches, bath rooms and other modern conveniences and luxuries. It is designed to run between New Orleans and the City of Mexico, making three round trips every month. The train is the property of the Monon, we understand. Messrs. Tom Sayler it Co. have been getting stone out of the river on J. 11. Willey’s land, near the old ice-house, southeast of town, to be used in their stone crusher, when it begins operations. We understand that it is the intention of the owners of the proposed machine to take stone from the bed of the river from below Inland’s mill up to the coaloil well. If , this is done, and the channel materially deepened and enlarged the drainage facilities of the town will be much improved.

B. F. Ferguson is building a good barn neanhis new house. 1 Men’s arctics only $1 at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. j Everybody goes to Nowels <fc Son ■ for furniture. | Sam Howe is building a residence ; on his farm south of town. Women’s arctics 85 cts and sl, at ; Hemphill & Honan’s. i For a nice cheap bureau go to : Nowels & Son. i Miss Frankie McEwen has been : visiting friends in Delphi and Mon- ! ticello for the last week or two. Men’s all wSol pants at SI.OO a was $3.50. Big bargains in every department. “Sign of Red Flag.” I T. J. McCoy is having a telephone line constructed between the bank and his residence. Gloves, winter caps, underwear and yarns at coat at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. Miss Lillie Aldrich has gone to New Albany to visit her sister, Mrs. Newton Gordon. T. J. Sayler has sold his livery outfit and business to J. Q. Alter. The transfer was made last Friday, Feb. Ist. Work on putting in the electric light plant was to have begun this week, but the cold wave kas prevented it. Mr. O’Conner, who has been engaged as a teacher in the Rensselaer Indian Stehool for some time, left last Monday for his home in Philadelphia. Wanted To But Cheap.—A good, second hand, substantial plant stand, wooden preferred. Enquire at this office. Senator S. P.’Thompson and wife came home to spend Sunday with their family, returning to Indianapolis on the early train Monday ingWesley Price, an insane inmate of the county poor house, died yesterday morning, of chronic diarrhea, after a long sickness. He formerly lived in Barkley township. The nightly meetings at the M. E. church grow in interest constantly and are largely attended, The pastor this week has the able assistance of Rev. E. B. Woodson, of Remington, and of Rev. J. N. Hall, of Pullman, and other able assistants' engaged to follow. All indications point to the assembling at Washington, on March 4th, of a most enormoits crowd. Railroad managers are already making extensive preparations for transporting the tens of thousands of people beat on witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, and it is said that railroad men agree on the opinion that never since the world began has there been such an immense movement of human beings in the same-space of time, as will take place during the five or six days next preceding the 4th day of March next. In the opinion of The Republican such a fearfunl jam as that will be a very good place to stay away from. Important additions have lately been made to the excellent high school library and philosophical apparatus. To the former has been added a a splended edition of that most comprehensive of cyclopedias, the Brittauica, while the addition of j an imroved induction coil of a very! superior quality has been made to the j philosophical apparatus. It is a $75 coil j but was brought at a price considerably below that sum. An excellent twocell was received at the same time as the coil, and with these ad- : ditions the electrical apparatus of the i school is very complete, enabling the successful performance of an}’ of the experiments described in the patural philosophy text book, in use by the school. Judge Hammond came out on top in the suit against the L. N. A. dfc C. Ry. at Delphi last week, brought by Jas. Rush of Monon, for the killing of his little girl. It was clearly proven that the employees of the company were culpably careless, when the child was killed, and the jury gave the father a judgment of $1,500. The accident was duly mentioned in The Republican* at the time of its occurance. but we rei>eat here a short account from the Delphi Times of last week:. “On the 21st of September, 1887, Elizabeth Rush, in company with ten other little girls, was returning home from school at the noon hour. At the Race 'street crossing there are two tracks, and as a freight train cleared the first, the girls started to cross, not perceiving a switch engine coming at a high rate of speed on the other. The little Rush girl was in the center of the track when the the engine struck her. inflicting injuries from which she died with id = au hour.” }'

The unfortunate town of Kcntland had another big fire, last Saturday night. The two-story double brick building, the property of E. G. Smith and the Kent estate, was bulged, with all its contents. It was ttye best business building in the town and was probably worth SB,OOO. The two store rooms in the building were occupied, one by Dr. McCain’s drug store, the other by Gilbert Goff's dry goods store. The entire loss from the fire is stated at $42,350, divided as follows: G. Goff, on stock and fixtures, SIO,OOO, insured for $8,500; E. G. Smith, on building and store fixtures, $4,500, insured for $3,250; Kent & Co., on building $3,000, fully insured; R. C. McCain* entire drag stock $5,000, insured for $3,50% Keefe Bros., damages to’ stock by water, $4,000, fully insured ;! H. Rosenthal, damage by removing stock, SSOO, fully insured. The origin of the fire is unknown. The entire business portion of the town was in danger but the fire department and citizens worked manfully and confined the fire to the one block.