Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

• Josßua* Punster will make a public sale next Thursday, Nov. 27th, at his place m Jackson tp., Newton county, 3 miles southeast of Mount Ayr and H miles northeast of Julian, lie will sell several good horses, a number of cattle, including 0 good milch cows, hay, corn, farming implements, wagons, buggies &c. <fee. Terms are favorable. Charles Werner, a section hand on the Monon, jumped off the morning passenger train last Sunday, at this station, while going about 30 miles an hour. Strange to say, the man was not killed nor so badly hurt but that be was able to walk tq his boarding place. at 4). L. Richardson’s. He has beeii confincd to his bed since that time however. He has a bad cut on the head, and his back is injured— to what extent his physicians are unable, as yet, to say. •--- —™ There is a pretty strong probability iL-J. Railroad with its appendage, the Chicago dc Indiana j Coal Road, will soon pass into the ! hands of the “Big Four” or the ( Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. ; Louis. This last road has now no entrance into Chicago, except over Illinois Central from Kankakee, 111., and the acquisition of these other lines would let them into, the city in good shape, and otherwise immensely | increase thc-ir business facilities. The population of Indiana is now 2,183,030. This is an increase since 1880 0f_210,72!1. In relative rank of population Indiana has slipped a couple of notches since 1880. She was then number six in the list, but . must now be content with the eighth place. -The states which have crowded her down are Massachusetts, which was seventh in 1880, and Texas which : was the eleventh, that year. New IXork is still first and Pennsylvania , second, but Ohio, which, was third ten years ago, has had to take a tumble and give place to Illinois. That overgrown loafer of a state, Texas, is now seventh in the list and is liable to keep right on until it reaches the very head of the possession.

Marriage licenses issued since last reported: j Charles Comer. ( Laura E. Benn. ( Carl Malckow, ( Lucy J. Shields. ( Edward Sanders, ( Maud Poffengenbarker. ( Janies E. Ilopkins, ( Barbara E. Lang. \ Fritz Sehuldt, ( Minnie Kruger. ( Alfred C. Anderson, l Mary S. Rasmussen. ( James E. Miller, ( Josephine Nichols, j Amnsa S. Freeman, , ( Sarah E. Smith. \ Truman Jones. I Gertrude M. Elliott. ~ (Wiili im lJ fI-U^nT ( Alice Hurley.

the parties who have tlu> .contract for gettiug the rock out of the Kankakee fiver at Momence will have vast quantities of Crushed rock to sell next spring, at prices that will astonish the natives. Possibly here will be a chance for Rensselaer to get good street material cheap, but the chances are that, as the material to get to Rensselaer would have to be shipped over two the “Three I,” and the Monon, the freight would be so high as to preclude the economical use of the material here. In passing we would suggest to our brother of the Herald that he probably greatly over-esti-mates the value of erush&l stone as a street material when he says it will out-last gravel a dozen times over. We have before us the testimony of of a Joliet, 111., paper to the effect that.a recent trial of crushed stone there on a business street was a total failure, the stone grinding up into fine dust, resulting in deep mud in wet weather, in a few months. The crushed rook, according to the Joliet authority-, is excellent for residence streets but no good for streets that have to sustain a heavy traffic. The Joliet rock, it may be here added, is a limestone very similar to that at Momence, and not nearly so hard nor so valuable street material as would be the rock in the bed of the Iroquois river at Rensselaer. Knives and forks at cost, J. H. Willey & Sons’.