Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

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TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The Remington fair, next week. Threshing coal at Coen \ Paxton’s. The “Old Deestrict Skule,” at the Opera House, this evening. All summer goods at your own price at Economy Store Co. Moses Wilson, of Union tp., has sned for a divorce. He alleges abandonment as the cause. Your choice of 300 books, cloth bound, at the Post Office book store at 35 cents each. David Nowels and Henry Harris will open their new bank about September Ist. Meyer means business. His stock of wall-papers must be reduced. All new goods. No “fire and water stock. J. H. Lewis resumed control of his newspaper at Fowler, last week, and changed the name back to the old familiar Fowler Era. Patrons and teachers of the schools of the county are invited to call at the Post Office book store, before buying school supplies elsewhere. The D wiggins syndicate will open a bank in Hebron, in a short time, which will be a great accommodation to the people in that vicinity.—Valparaiso Messenger. Public opinion in Rensselaer very strongly endorses the action of the Town Board in raising the saloon license to $l5O, the highest limit allowed by the law. We have a number of notes which are past due. The makers are reqested to call and take up the same, as we have no use for them. ■ N. Waknek & Sons. Benj. R. Fendig is having the room opposite R. Fendig’s store, formerly occupied by Hopkins’ furniture store, fitted up for a drug store, and will open for business in a few weeks. A grea slaughtering sale of fine Henrietta, Cashmeres, and silk dress goods and a complete line of fine slippers and shoes to make room for a new stock, Sept. 15th. 2t. Chicago Bargain Store. The desks and counters of the Citizen’s State Bank, in its new quarters, are very handsome. The material is uncolored cherry. The bank opened for business in its new quarters, last Thursday. Long & Eger have still got some wall-paper left, and they have not marked it so high that they can deduct 25 per cent., but they will make it pay any one wishing paper to give them a call. The trotters Leo and Joe were in the races at New Ross, this state, last week. They met with excellent success. Joe took first money in the 2.35 and the 2.40 races, and Leo took first in the 3 minute and second in the 2.45 trots. Delphi will make still another and the fourth attempt to find gas. This last well, like the one before it, has been located by the little forked twig and a vial of crude petroleum. Common sense, with a little knowledge of geology, would be a much more reliable guide. King *fe Franklin’s circus exhibited in Rensselaer last Friday 7 , afternoon and evening. For a 25 cent show it is a pretty good circus. If they did not push to an extreme the practice of all circuses of advertising so much more than they produce, what they did have would be much better appreciated.

John Sutton, Sr., a prominent citizen of Pulaski county, was arrested last week, on charge of conspiracy to murder. One Charles Lytle says that Sutton tried to hire him to poison several men and to barn the Odd Fellows hall at Star City. As proof of his statements Lytle shows a small bottle of strychnine, which he claims was furnished-him by Sutton. Mim Dora Clark returned last Thursday, from a visit with friends at Goodland, and her return was the iwmp of a very pleasant surprise party on Friday evening, at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Clark in the north part of town. About 25 young people were present and the evening was passed very enjoy&bly by all present with amusements and refreshments.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 22, 1889.

Rev. Tressler will hold regular services in the Presbyterian church next Sunday, morning and evening. oC grazing land in Indiana- J. W. Hedenberg, 102 Washington St. Chicago, HI. 2tp. Henry L. Travis, of Fowler, has been appointed Special Land Age nt of Fraudlent Land Entries, with a salary of $1,500 and expenses. Women’s hand-turned shoes, men’s kangaroo, dongola and calf shoes, all standard brands, a specialty at the Chicago Bargain Store. 2t : All persons owing the firm of N. Warner & Sons are requested to call and settle, by cash or otherwise, at once. The fruit train on the Monon which made its return run south as an accommodation train, passing Rensselaer at 8:40 p. m., made its last run for this year, last Saturday. Sparks from a threshing machine engine set fire to a big rick of oats, on C. D. Nowels’ farm, north of town, last Monday afternoon, and burned, it was estimated, about 350 bushels. Chas. Howell, of Jefferson, Ind., has sued the Monon for $50,000 damages. He was caught in a belt in the L. N. A. & C. shops at New Albany and erippled for life from the injuries received. The Chicago Bargain Store people have decided to remain here perman - ently so look out for a flue stock o f clothing and a complete line of dry goods, boots and shoes about Sept. 15th. 2t. * A. C. Robinson, the Medaryville champion, ran with a professional sprinter named Dillon, at Delphi, last Friday, and got badly left. It is said that pretty large sums of money changed hands on the occasion. Rev. D. W. Jessee, pastor of the Rensselaer Circuit, will hold the last services of the conference year, next Sabbath, as follows: At Watson’s School House, 10:30 a. m., at Pleasant Grove, 3:30 p. m., at Pleasant Ridge at 7:00 p. m. Ben Smoot, of Julian, has brought | suit in the Jasper circuit court, I against the C. & I. C., and the L. N. A. & C. Rys., jointly, for SIO,OOO damages. He fell through the depot platform at Fair Oaks, last fall, and sustained injuries to his spine which are the basis of the suit. Rev. Fletcher Thomas, Presiding Elder of the Manchester District St. Joseph Conference, U. B. church, assisted by Rev Frank Parker and others will hold a ten days’ meeting, commencing Sept. 4, in the tabernacle at the usual place in the grove north of town. All are cordially invited .to attend. ===*=- j Rev. J. B. Radford, of the Christtian church, preached two very able sermons, in the Missionary Baptist church, last Sunday, to very large congregations. On Monday he lectured twice before the Teachers’ Institute, in the afternoon m the school building and in the court house in the evening. They were yery instructive discourses.

The five-year old son of Marion Adams, south of town, had a narrow escape last Saturday. He climbed upon the back of one of two horses that were standing hitched together, by a shock of oats, when the horses became frightened and ran away, and ran into a wire fence. The boy, luckily, fell off before the fence was reached, and escaped with a few scratches and bruises. One of the horses was badly cut on the wires. Father Henry Drees, of Carthagena, Ohio, Superior of the Order of the Precious Blood, is now at the Catholic farm, looking after matters connected with the erection of the proposed college building. He expects to remain in the vicinity the most of the time for the next few months. It is expected that the work on the building will be sufficiently advanced this fall to permit its completion next year in time for opening the college in September. The institution, when completed, will accommodate from 100 to 150 students. Smoke the Masoot cigar. For sale eveiywhefe. %

J. C. Williams, the photographer, rejoices over the advent of a 10 pound bdy, bom Tuesday. We are not pushing out old style paper at “slaughtered prices,” but new goods at a living profit. Long & Eger. C. C. Sigler and Wm. Warren have formed a partnership and engaged in the livery business, in Halloran’s stable, lately vacated by the Padgitt Bros. Bargains : —ln order to make room for a larger stock of goods, J. E. Spitler, at the post-office, will close out his stock of stationery, books, etc. at a bargain. Moses Fowler the well known capitalist, of LaFayette, died Tuesday morning. He owned 25,000 acres of land in Benton county and was the founder of the town of Fowler. Services at the Baptist Church : Sunday, Aug. 25; Sunday School, 4h3fi a. m.; Preaching 10:45 a. m,; Young Peoples’ Chorus 4:00 p. m.; Preaching 7:00 p. m. All are invited. The well at Thompson’s Switch was abandoned at the depth of 97 0 feet, 53 feet of which being in Trenton Rock. It is understood that the company will bore again, probably about 2 miles northeast from the first well. Slippers 10 ets. per pair up. Childrens’ shoes 25 cts. per pair up. Women’s kid shoes, silk worked button holes, 75 cts. per pair up. Men’s Congress shoes $1 per pair up, boots $1.50 per pair up. 2t. Chicago Bargain Stork. Several Lafayette physicians have been experimenting with Dr. BrownSequard’s socalled “Elixer of life.” Some of the experiments appear to have resulted in remarkable benefits to the patients. In other cases no beneficial results were noticeable. Notice the big advertisement of the Capital syndicate, in another place in this paper. agent for . this enterprise is Mr. H. L. Brown, of the Economy Store. His j high standing in the community is an excellent guarantee of the reliability of the enterprise he represents. Rev. L. Shortridge, of Keener tp., was in town Monday afternoon, an d took the train for Porter county, Where, Tuesday, he preached the funeral sermon of a very aged man named Fairchilds, who has been a minister in the Christian church for more than sixty years. Just purchased 700 pairs of slippers and Childrens’ fine shoes at 50 per cent, discount, and 1300 pairs of boots and shoes at 33£ per cent, discounts The above discounts were token off the regular wholesale prices and mean some rare bargains in the best brands ever offered in Jasper Co. 2t. Chicago Bargain Store. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wheeler, the latter the daughter of Landlord Hyland, of the Makeever House, were victims of the big fire at Spokane Falls, Washington. The house they occupied was one of the first burned and ail their household goods were consumed therein. * ■ The state geologist says the gas field in this state is almost an oval, and its total area is about 2,500 square miles. It includes the entire counties of Delaware, Madison, Blackford, Grant and Tipton. Nearly all of Hamilton, Hancock, Clinton, Jay, Rush and Miami, and the northeast coner of Marion. There is a small supply in Shelby county, but it is too inconsiderable to be token into account The geograpical center is at Alexandria, in Madison county. Last Saturday a German citizen from sCiuth of town left his team, hitched to a lumber wagon, standing in the street while he Wfent inside to talk with, an acquaintance, in Leopold’s Addition. The team got tired of waiting and cantered off down town. After several ineffectual attempts had been made to stop them, Frank Padgitt, the liveryman, made a quick spring and jumped into the wagon, as they passed the post-offiee, and getting hold of the lines he soon brought the team to a standstill, before any damage had been done. t Try A 1 l&ryenf hand made Mascot cigar, only sc.

The new residence bnilding by Geo. E. Murray, on River street, will be of goodly size and handsome exterior. It will add decidedlyto the appearance of the neighborhood, i The Remington fair begins next Tuesday, August 27 th, and continues for four days. All prospects are very favorble for a more than usually successful fair. ! Judge Hammond overruled the ! motion for a new trial in the RobyEggers land case, whereupon an apr ' peal was token to the Supreme Court. —Valparaiso Vidette. Fx-Surveyor Lewis Alter has just returned from South Bend where he has been assisting the city surveyor !in establishing the grades of the streets in South Bend and Mishawaukee. Bro. Zimmerman, of the Valparaiso Messenger, announces that the bargain for the sale of his paper has fallen through, and that he will continue to run the old machine himself, for a while yet. The summer normal which closed last Friday was a very successful term, in all respects, and in the point of attendance exceeded all its predecessors. During the last week the attendance had increased to a total of 70. That most comical of all performances, “The Old Deestrict Skule” will be given at the Opera House, this evening, by a ,well trained company. It will be well worth the trouble, and cost of attendance, and a good deal more. The liverymen, Padgitt Bros, and J. Q. Alter, have formed a partnership, and last Ssturday evening the Padgitts moved their outfit into the brick stable, heretofore occupied by Alter, alone. The style of the new firm is “Padgitt Bros. & Alter.” There were 152 civil cases begun in the Jasper Circuit Court, for the year ending June 30, 1889. The number of criminal cases during the same period was 29. Eight divorces were granted during the year. Of these 7 were to the wife and only one to the husband. At about 9 o’clock Wednesday night Conductor Sherman Swartz, of the C. & I. C., was killed by the cars at Percy Junction. He was engaged in coupling flat-cars, when his head was caught between the end pieces and crushed. He was brought to Conductor Gardener’s house in this place where he died at four o’clock Thursday morning. He leaves a wife and two young children at Brazil.— Goodland Herald. We learn that a considerable number of old soldiers of this vicinity will go to Milwaukee, to attend the National* Encampment next week. The question of an equitable railroad rate, which has been a drawback heretofore, has been solved favorably to the soldiers along the line of the L. N. A. <fe C. Ry., by that road offering a one cent rate as far as the road goes. From Chicago a special line of lake steamers will furnish a rate nearly or quite as low. One of the performers connected with the King «fc Franklin circus, who does the Irish comedian and the song and dance business. got into a fight with his wife, last Friday, on the street near the Presbyterian church. The woman does the heavy weight handling in the circus, and appeared to have much the best of the row, when people living near interferred and put a stop to the disturbance. The fellow was afterwards arrested and taken before Judge Morgan, where be gave the name of John Smith. He plead guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was fined $lO and. costs, amounting in all to $18.40. He announced his intention of laying out the fine in jail, but later his circus employers came around and paid the amount, and he was released. When last seen he and his wife were drinking in the same saloon, but at different ends of the counter. He allowed that Indiana was a of a big state, and that down in New York a man could lick thunder out of his wife and nothing be said about it.

ARSON OR MURDER?

A MOST MYSTERIOUS OCCURENCE IN CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. .¶ The people of the southern part of of the county are wild with excitement over the burning of the barn on the Bukosky farm, occupied by the Balser family, last Saturday night or Sunday morning, some mention of which may be found in our Remington correspondence. .¶ According to the story told by the Balser family, the old man Balser must have burned the barn for the purpose of spiteing [spiting] the other members of the family, with whom he had a fierce quarrel, and probably a fight, on Saturday evening. So many contradictory statements have been made however, and so many suspicious circumstances have developed, that a great many of the neighbors have adopted the theory that a worse crime than arson was committed, and that the barn was burned to create the belief that the old man had committed a crime of such character as would account for his absence from the neighborhood. In other words, there is a suspicion in the minds of many that the old man was killed during the progress of a family row, and that the barn was burned to avert suspicion and to furnish a reasonable explanation for his disappearance.

.¶ Among the circumstances which are considered suspicious by those who believe the murder theory, are the alleged contradictory stories in regard to the quarrel made at different times by the members of the family. The claim is also made by them that when the barn was found to be on fire all the doors were fastened on the inside, and that the old man, after setting fire inside, himself escaped through the manure hole, but Robert Bakosky, son of the owner of the farm,' declares that there never was a manure hole in the barn, and that the manure was always thrown out of one of the doors. The Balsers also state that when they forced the doors of the burning stable open, all the imprisoned horses except the blind one, rushed ont so percipitately that they fell in a heap outside the door. This to claimed to be contrary to all experience with horses in a burning building, and that it is a matter of the utmost difficulty to get horses to leave a bnilding that is on fire. .¶ Another supposed suspicions circumstance is that the young man Balser, immediately after the fire and before he could take time to investigate how many of his horses had died in the burning barn, rushed to Remington, before it was day, and procured a warrant for the arrest of the old man charging him with stealing his best horse, and that subsequently a horse track, like that made by said best horse, was found going a few miles west, in the beaten road, and then to turn in a piece of open prairie and return to the Balser farm, keeping to the side of the road and in the grass as much as possible, as though the rider was trying to hide the backward tracks. During the day following the fire, this best horse was found securely tied in a maple grove, not far from the Balser house. .¶ Still another circumstance held to be suspicious, is the fact that the fresh track of a buggy, like that made by a buggy owned by the young Balser, was found on Sunday, leaving the Balser house and finally taking a little traveled road which led into a region of swamps and water holes. .¶ The women of the Balser family, it should be added, testified in an examination held Tuesday that on Monday the old man came to the boose and asked for food and writing materials. .¶ Large numbers of men from the neighborhood and from the town of Remington were searching for the old man Tuesday, but without result. .¶ Yesterday the search was resumed by a smaller number but in a more

methodical manner. With what resuits, if any, we have not learned. .¶ Although the above enumerated circumstances have raised the suspicion of murder in many minds as above stated, it is still probable that the majority opinion is that the old man imprisoned the horses and fired the barn, and that he is still hiding in the vicinity in a more or less deranged condition of mind.

PERSONALS.

John McBride, of Rochester, Ind., is visiting Rensselaer relatives. Rev. Father Havens, of Ladoga, is visiting his Rensselaer relatives, this week. Rev. B. F. Ferguson has been sick with a bilious trouble, but is now able to be around again. Mrs. R. W. Marshall is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Francis, in LaPorte, this week. Walter Holder, last year tenant on the Bond farm, north of town, will emigrate to Kansas, this week. Miss Clara Burt, of Lafayette, is the guest of Miss Maude Spitler and other friends, in Rensselaer and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Graham, of Crothersville, Ind., are this week the guests of their daughter, Mrs. U. M. McGuire. Titus E. Price took the early tram here Sunday morning, for his home in Dakota, after a short visit with his parents in Carpenter tp. Chas. and Rose Hammond, who went to Oregon last spring, arrived home last Tuesday. They now think Jasper county is a good enough place for them. Mrs. Chas. Johnson, of Whitehall, Michigan, arid her sister Mrs. Genivieve Sprigg, of Topeka, Kansas, are visiting their various relatives in Rensselaer. Rev. Wm. H. Sayler, of Elburn, Ill., is visiting old friends hereabouts, this week. His wife, who is now in very poor health, has been here for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. H. Graham reached home from their far-western trip, tost Friday. They repaired at once to Crawfordsville, where Mrs. Graham still remains, for a short time. Alfred McCoy has practically recovered from the effects of that terrible horse-kick. A souvenir of the accident will always remain with him, in the form of a scar on his upper lip, but the disfigurement is not extensive.

An Alarm of Fire.

The first alarm of fire since theneif fire bell has been in position, sound' ed oat hist Sunday morning, about 7 o’clock. The cause of the alarm was a fire in the roof of Burgess Dillon’s residence, in the extreme northwest comer of the town. The fire started from a defective flue in the roof of the kitchen, and had made considerable progress when discovered. The neighbors turned oat in large numbers, and before the fire department conld have time to arrive, they had succeeded in removing nearly all the household goods from die building, and also in getting the fire under control, by means of buckets. The damage done to the building and contents was not very great. The fire company responded with very commendible promptness to the alarm, and considering the great distance to the fire from the engine house,-they reached the scene in a remarkably short time. It is an evjjK dence of the zeal of the members ths? some of them came to the fire in very scant toilets. One member even came without his teeth, but he went back after them, when the loss was discovered. John Donaldson, sheriff-elect of Cass county, one of the oldest engineers in the State, %ft his footboard on Saturday preparatory to taking the position of Sheriff. Mr. Donaldson has been a locomotive engineer for 3‘J years. He ran the engine which hauled the second train OTer the New Albany * Salem, now the L. N. A. AC. road.—Lafayette Journal

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