Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. Dr. Horton is visiting her jarents, at Sleeth, Ind. Straw hats from 5 cents to $1.25, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Miss Nettie McGarry, of Chicago , is the guest of Dr. Washburn’s family . Dexter & Cox have plenty of wood to deliver, at $3 per cord. 2t Miss Neva Mowrer, of Burkett, this state, is a guest of Sheriff Blue’s family. ;.y :; Clothing at one half price, to make room for fall stock. 47-2 t. Chicago bargain store. ' Born July 26, 1890, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob French, of north Marion tp., a son. —— As my intentions are to quit business, I have decided to close out my entire stock at cost. R. Fendig. E. P. Honan got back to his store Monday, after another bad attack of his old trouble, the quinsy Notwithstanding the big advance in coffee you can buy fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s at the old price. ‘ Do not fail to attend the novel social and supper in the Court House yard Tuesday eve August sth. People needing anything in my line, should, take advantage of this rare opportunity. R. Fendig. Mrs. Nellie Spi tier Learning and children returned home to Goshen, Monday, after a protracted visit with her friends. Boys’ waists, 25 cts. Boys’ hats, 5 cts. corsets, 25tcs. Children shoes 15cts. 47-2 t. Chicago Bargain Store. Leonard A. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville, returned home Tuesday, after a two weeks visit with Louie Hopkins and other friends. ~ The only place in Rensselaer to buy the “World’s Best,” Cones’ Boss pants and overalls. 47-2 t Chigago Bargain Store.

Births.—At John McColly’s, Newton tp., July 21st a girl; at Abe Wartena’s, Rensselaer, same date a boy ; at Jim Longstreth’s, Bai’kley tp., July 24, a boy. ~ 7 .7:"r At Mrs. Lecklider’s millinery store one door east of the Post Office will be found breast pins from lOcts. to 13 50; hats from scts. to $1: all good goods warranted. D. A. Stoner, who moved his family some time ago to Rensselaer moved his stock of fancy poultry to that place last week, and is now a bona fide resident of that town. We dislike to lose Dan and family, but wish them unlimited success.—Morocco Courier. Do not buy cross-road store cheap f pants and overalls, when you can buy Cones’ Boss, at same prices, and one . pair will out-wear two pairs of the others. 47-2 t. Chicago Bargain Store.— Miss Sinclair, late manager of the Rensselaer Opera House, had surrendered her lease to the proprietor, Mr. Eger, who will take charge of the management himself, hereafter. The Rensselaer theater going public, which does not take kindly to troupes from the “Park” theater in Chicago, is to be congratulated on the change. Millinery at half price from this date, at Hemphill <fc Honan’s. Desiring to close out my entire stock, I will sell all goods at cost > from this date. R. Fendig. . The following named voters have ' registered in the Connty Clerk’s office, Under the registration features of the new election law: Win. T. Walters , Marion tp.; Samuel E. Yeoman, Lowell, Ind., W. W. Watson., Marion ' r Chas. B. Baker, Newton tp.. ; Isaac L Gorby, Marion; *S. E. Sparling, Marion; Arthur H. Hopkins, Marion; Wm. N. Jones, Marion. Next Monday, August 4th is the last day for registration, for the November election.

Good supper at the Court House, for2scts. Tuesday August sth. All winter goods-at cost for cash at R. Fendig’s. Ben. L. Sayler, of Newton tp., has been given an increase of pension. James German, of Rensselaer, came down last Friday to see his baby, a fine girl.—Brookston Reporter. See our 5, 10 and 25 cent counter’s there is mOney in them. J. H. Willey & Son. Hon. J. F..'Johnston, of Morocco, our former able and popular representative in the State Legislature, was in town Monday. Look at Leopold’s 5 and 10 cent counters. Numberless articles can be found there, at those prices, worth five times the amount in value. Rev. and Mrs. Drake have removed from their rooms in the Makeever House, into J. C. Porter’s house, on Cullen street ___ ... r;; .V :

Buy pure teas and fresh roasted coffee at C. C. Starr’s. We roast our own coffee as needed, consequently have no old, stale stock. A son of Geo. Robinson of Hanging Grove, is reported in a very dangerous condition,, from bronchitis, resulting from a hard attack of the Grippe, last winter. Remember. —Mrs. Lecklider’s millinery store and dress-making establishment is one door east of the post-office, and directly opposite the public square. Clarence H. Fulton went back to Chicago Saturday morning, after a j few days Visit with Rensselaer friends. He has a good place as book-keeper and assistant salesman in a sporting goods store, in Chicago. The great clearance sale, at cut j prices, includes the World’s renowned Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, fine shoes, C. H. Fargoes fine shoes, R. P. Smith <fc Son’s fine shoes <fcc. 47-2 t. Chicago Bargain Store. The Methodist congregation here have given their pastor, Rev. T. F. Drake, a vacation through the month of August, and his intention is to avail himself of the privilege by visiting friends elsewhere, for a portio n of the month, at least. Dear reader, stop and study; do you owe us for goods ? If so, its your DUTY to call at once and settle, as we are needing the money badly. Hemphill & Honan. Brookston Reporter.—The Battle Ground Camp Meeting association has recently expended about $2,000 upon brick buildings for hotel purposes and the secretary has induced the Monon train from Chicago due there at 11:40 p.m. to stop there for dinner.

Messrs. E. P. Hammond and S. P. Thompson went to Logansport Monday, to begin the retrial of the celebrated Turpie vs. Lowe oase. Judging from the time occupied by the former trial of the case the gentlemen have a long job before them. Go to R. Fendig’s for goods at cost. —Just received, a complete line standard brands corsets, corset waists, Abdominal corsets and Misses corsets, sold at prices below all competition. 47-2 t. Chicago Bargain Store. Goodland Herald.-The prohibitionists of this sentorial, representive and judicial district met at Goodland Thursday afternoon and nominated T. H. Robinson, of Jasper county, for senator, and A. G. W. Farmer, of the same count}', for representative.! No judicial nominations were made, and the matter left in the hands of the county chairmen for future action. A couple of young. fellows who were riding around town Monday evening on bicycles, were front Crown Point. They left that place a week before, had ridden on their wheels to Indianapolis and from there to Greincastle, Crawfordsvillo and Lafayette. From Lafayette to Rensselaer they came by rail, and by the same means, went on to Lowell, and from there expected to ride their machines across country, back Crown Point. Their bicycles are of the now very popular “Safety” variety with both wheels the same size and neither of them nearly so large as the front wheel of the more familar style of bicycle. The young men said the}' had made as high as 65 miles a day during their trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne’s baby is seriously sick with the dysenterj\ Mr. and Mrs. Mossier, of Kentland, visited the latter’s parents here yesterday. The Stock Farm’s promising young trotter, Leo, made a mile in 2:29f Monday, over the training track at the Farm and a dusty track at that. Farmers are beginning to thrash their wheat in this county, and they report a very satisfactory yield, with an excellent quality of grain.

Jordan township-came to the front lately with a 10£ pound boy, in the family of George Besse, and a few days later, Wm. Pruett went him two better, with a 12£ pounder. The Summer Normal is still moving along successfully • and with a slowly increasing attendance. The number attending this week is thirtyfivll

The oats crop is pretty nearly all cut now. In some portions of the county the crop is found to be somewhat better than was expected; while in other portions, it is just about a total failure. , Warren Robinson is suffering from the hay fever, as usual at this time of year, and intends going to Lake Petoskey, Mich., for a while. John Eger is also having his annual inflicttion of the malady. I. - -L.. . The County Commissioners did not award any contracts for election sup - plies, at their special meeting last Wednesday, but took the various bids under advisement until their regular August meeting, which will be held next Tuesday. Having moved the entire stock of Queensware and Glassware of D. S. Willey & Co. of Monon, in our room we are prepared to give great bargains in that line as these goods must be sold. Call and learn prices when needing anythinginth is line. J. H. WiLLEY &Son.

The retiring township trustees are probably now getting their reports made preparatory to going out of office, next Monday, at which time the new County Board of Education will be organized and the new trustees will assume their offices. A traveling pension agent was in town last week, but did not, we understand, get a single case. The old soldiers of Jasper county have learned, pretty thoroughly, that their best course in pension matters is to employ their home agents. Mrs. Ludd Hopkins will give a suitable reward for the return of a lady’s silk umbrella with oxidized silver handle, lost last Saturday after- • _ - m ■ • • noon, in going from W. B. Austin’s residence to her own, by way of Weston and Cornelia Streets.

The Monon company has decided to send all the locomotives disabled in the recent collisions on the road to i the large eastern shops to be overhauled and repaired. Part of the wrecked engines will be sent to the Rogers’ Locomotive works and others to the Rhode Island works. For four months past the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago company has had eight gangs of bridgemen at work on bridges, and the work of making general repairs to them is now completed, and the ! rest of the season will be given to putting in new work. Seven iron bridges over the larger streams are to be built, and twenty wooden structures over the less important streams.—lndianapolis Journal. ! There was a good deal of opposition in the U. S. Senate last week, to the appropration of money for the Catholic Indian School at Rensselaer and two or three other places. The i items finally passed however, and j the school here gets about £8,500, in j the appropriation. < ' ; A game of base ball between the Rensselaer and Remington clubs, I which was in progress here as we , went to press last week; resulted in a victory for the Rensselaer boys, by ! a score of 18 to 16, and the winners I .did not play their last inning. It was a well-contested game. The return game will be played at Rein ing- | ton next Thursday,- we understand. i

Mr. Gamble, formerly a timekeeper when the L. N A. & C. was extended, and a resident of Rensselaer, yisited E. P. Honan, this week. He is now conductor on the big bridge, at St. .Louis. Mrs. Alice Irwip Thompsn of Terre Haute, is staying with her Rensselaer friends, for a few weeks. Her husband, Prof. Thompson of the State Normal School, is doing institute work in Illinois, but will spend a week or two in Rensselaer before his school opens in the fall.

Judge George Burson, of Winamac, was arrested last Thursday, by aU. S. marshal, for refusing to answer to census enumerators, in the question as to whether there was a mortgage on the farm which he admitted to owning. He is under SSOO bonds to appear before the Federal court, at Indianapolis. A dozen or more similar arrests have been made in different parts of the state. E. N. Hyland has traded the Brick Livery Stable to Lorenz Hildebrand for the latter’s farm of 320 acres, in Jordan tp. The stable was valued at $4,500 and the farm at $5,000. Mr. Hildebrand has also bought J. Q. Alter’s interest in the livery stable outfit and is now sole proprietior thereof. Mr. Hyland intends removing to Pana, 111., to engage in the hotel business in partnership with his brother, J. H. Hyland.

The National Encampment G. A. R., will be held in Boston this year beginning Aug., 13th and continuing four days. We judge from reading the programme for the four days that the old boys will have a good old time, in Boston; with excursions to noted points, clam-bakes, fish dinners &c. The railroad rates will Le low, not higher than one fare for the round trip and probably a good deal lower than that.

The census of Jefferson township, in Newton county, was retaken last week, the work not having been properly done, the first time. The Ken Inland Gazette says the population of thetownhsip, as first returned, was 500 short of what it should have been, but probably the Gazette over estimates in that figure, as 500 people would be a good many to miss in one township. It is said by pome good judges of human nature that if the laborious citizens who daily pursue the alleged amusement of croquet playing in the court house yard, were to be hired to do the same thing, in the same place, and for the same number of hours every day at the rate $3.50 per day, they would, one and all, strike for $4.00 before the first week was out, It would be too hard work for the pay-

M. L. Miller, manager of the oil and gas prospecting business, lias returned from the far Southwest after a much longer stay than he expected, and is now fast completing arrangements for boring the test well at Pleasant Ridge. The boring outfit has arrived and the derrick will be erected and all other arrangements be made for beginning drilling early next week. The well will be four miles due east of Rensselaer. Wm N. Jones has decided to again become a permanent resident of Rensselaer, and has secured a room in the- Nowels House, and is now prepared to engage in a general realestate buying, selling and trading business, and also to follow his old vocation of an auctioneer, when his

services in that line are called for. “Bill N.” has the endowment of nearly all our best citizens and Can be relied upon to do what is right with any business placed in his hands. ■C. O. Fenton, editor of the Logansport Times, a prohibition paper, has caused the arrest of W. B. Jenkins, proprietor and lately editor of the Winamac Republican, charging him with criminal libel. The Affidavit Charges that a certain issue of the Winamac Republican gave publication to, charges stating that it was reported that Mr. Fentno had attempted to commit a criminal assault upon a young lady of Logansport. }

Mr. Sample of Barkley tp., father of the young chap who ran into the Makeever House hack the night of the Fourth and hurt Henry Jones, the driver of the hack, came to town a few days ago, and paid the injured boy’s doctor’s bill and also paid him for the time he lost on account of the accident. The first issue of the Remington paper under its new name and new management, made its appearance last Saturday. Making some allowance for the fact that “a new broom sweeps effort is usually made in the first issue of a newspaper, we still feel perfectly safe in prophesying that Mr. Major will give the people of Remington a far better paper than they have had “since lo! these many years.” we sincerely congratulate “Uncle George” on his success in his first issue.

District Organizer James Welch tells us that the Farmers’ Alliance in Jasper county has now a membership of about 800, with 24 subordinate Alliances. The total membership in the state is 8,000, and it will thus be seen that Jasper county has 10 per cent of the entire membership of the state. At the recent state meeting at Anderson, it was officially declared that Jasper county is the banner Alliance county of the state. The next county meeting of the Alliance will be held at Rensselaer on Saturday, August 9th. •

The work of the viewers on the big Monon Ditch, was resumed again this week. About three weeks have been occupied with it already and four or five more weeks will be required to complete the viewing. It is the biggest ditch ever undertaken under the new ditch law. Will be 32 miles long, extends into three counties, White, Pulaski and Jasper, and in the single county ,of Pulaski will furnish drainage for from 75,000 to 90,000 acres of land. Its length in Jasper county will be only about a mile, and it will effect about 4000 acres. In White county its extent is also short, but the cost of its construction in that county will be heavy, on account of the rock excavation necessary there, in the bed of the Monon. The viewers for Jasper county are R. B. Porter mid J. M. Wasson, of Marion tp., and L. P. Shirer, of Wheatfield tp. A state case, brought from Remington on a change of venue, was tried before Squire Burnham, Monday. The defendant was no less a personage than Hon. Anson Wolcott, of the town of Wolcott, who is prosecuted on account of failure to remove certain obstructions from a street in Remington, a portion of which has long been used by private parties and the Pan Handle Railroad,

thus closing up the street. The Remington Town Board ordered the obstructions removed, and Mr. Wolcott not complying, recourse was had to a criminal prosecution. The particular obstructions complained of in Mr. Wolcott’s case are the driveway of a gTaln eTevator and a small building used for grain storage. The case was one of much more than ordinary interest, both from the prominence of the parties'involved, being, practically, the town of Remington against one of the most wealthy and prominent men in this section, and also from the many complicated points of law involved, and is was but natural that the contending attorneys, Messrs. R. W, Marshall and S. P. Thompson, should have become very much wrought up, in the struggle, but at one time in the heat of the

contest their zeal got clear out of sight in the race with their descretion and an incipient personal “diffykilty” was the result: but the trouble was promptly squelched, and a moment’s time for reflection brought the belligerent attorneys to a realizing sense of their errors; and then, after judicial authority asserted itself by a fine of five dollars each, peace spread her downy pinions over the scene, and all was harmony and good feeling. The court took the case on trial under advertisement, for a few days, and has not yet rendered a decision.

Referring to the statement made !by our Remington correspondent, ! that A. J. Kitt, of the Good land Herald was interested ip the purchase of the Remington News, the Herald states that Mr. Kitt examined the News office at Mr. Major, request, to ascertain its value but that he has no pecuniary interest whatever in the paper. Rev. Orr of Chicago, will lecture in the Presbyterian church Thursday evening, August 7th in behalf of the Young Peoples Union Christain En“la LifeWorth Living?” No admission will be charged but a collection will be taken for the benefit of the local societ}-. Mr. Orr will be assisted by several ladies from Hebron. The Clerk has issued the following marriage license since last reported:

- f Lewis J. Harm,- { Laura L. Fulks. j Jacob W. Dewey, ( Mary E. Bums. j .Sherman Renicker, ( Della Thornton. j Philip Davis, {lda Fultz. A portion of the pipe for the new 12 inch sewer on the north side of Washington street, has arrived and been distributed. Surveyor Thrawls has the profile of the sewer completed and work thereon will probably begin in a few days. The sewer will start at Division street and run to the river. Its depth will range from 4i to nearly 8 feet.

A serious street fight in town last Sunday, about noon, marred the Sabbath quiet of our usually peaceful and orderly town. The ruction appears to have begun in the alley north of Washington street and suspiciously near the rear door of one of the saloons. Sam Duvall and oneoftbe brick-layers at work on the college building, got into a row over some old grudge, and the brick-layer smote Sam both on the right cheek and on the left whereupon Sam gathered an empty beer bottle, standing near and knocked the brick-layer out, by a blow over the head. Sam thence departed very quickly, followed by four or five of the companions of the brick-layer. Sam ran as far as the corner, by the Rensselaer Bank, and there picked up a couple of rocks and awaited the attack of his four or five pursuers. They all jumped upon him at once, like a pack of cowards, and were proceeding to give him a terrible mauling, when Ludd Hopkins, who happened to be standing near, interfered, as was right and proper, and began pulling the other men off from Duvall. Thereupon one of them, without provocation, suddenly struck Mr. Hopkins in the eye. This aroused the latter’s ire to a considerable degree, and he at once proceeded to thrash the man who struck him, and he did it in good shape and short meter. By this time a crowd had gathered and they succeeded in separating aU the combatantsexcept Duvall and oue man, a big fellow, and whom Sam struck on the head with a rock and knocked sensless, cutting some big gashes in his head. Three of the bricklayers were arrested shortly after the fight, and pleading guilty to the‘charge of assault they were fined $1 each, and costs, by Squire Burnham. One of the contractors on the building at once paid the fines and they were released. It was a most disgraceful affair and it is likely that not all engaged in it, who deserved punishment have yet received their deserts.