Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

The dance 'at the Opera House Thanksgiving night was. by general consent of all present, voted one of the most enjoyable and entirely successful affairs ever given in the town. It was excellently well managed by the dJommittees and floor manager heretofore named. The music, which was most excellent, was furnished by the Monticello Orchestra. About 100 couples were present, 85 of whom took part in the dancing. Among those present were a goodly number from other places; as Crawfordsville Monticello, Monon and other towns Harvey W. Wood’s little thrceyear old son met with a very bad accident, at Mr. Peter Wasson’s place, last Sunday afternoon. He was kicked by a horse on the forehead, just over the right eye. The skull was fractured and a large hole cut through it into the brain, and from which some of the brain matter escaped. Dr. J. Loughndge treated the casa and reports that the little fellow is doing as well as could be expected. Strange to say the boy was not made unconscious by the injury, even for a short time. The Weber Quartette Company occupied the Opera House stage Tuesday evening, and shad an excellent and most appreciative audience. This is a first-class company in every respect and one of the kind which would soon build up again the good reputation of our Opera House. The star features of the company are two young boys, Harry Dimond and Glenn Hall. The first is a wonderfully accomplished player on the violin, the other it most remarkable singer, with a powerful and well trained soprano voice, the like of which we never heard before from mortal of the male sex. The singers of the Quartette proper are all accomplished artists, and well keep up their share of the programme. The school officers of Tuscola, 111., are making another strenuous effort to capture our school superintendent, Prof. Reubelt. They offer him 81 ,- 350 per year, witji a promise of more if he accepts and proves successful. We do not understand that Prof. Reubelt has any thoughts of accepting this offer, although he had a still more alluring prospect in view, which, if realized would have deprived our school of his valuable services. It is the superintendency of the city schools of Pekin, 111., a place or about 10,000 people with 25 or 30 teachers. He .. made a trip to that place the first of the present week, but after investigation, concluded not to make application for the place. The lire company was called out about 7 o’clock on Wednesday evening, and promptly extinguished an incipient fire on the outside of C. 11. Roberts’ outside implement shed, in the rear of his implement store. The fire had not made very much headway when discovered and was extinguished before it had burned through the single board .wall of the building and reached the interior All appearances indicate that the fire was the work of an intentional incendiary and that he had placed a small dry goods or grocery box, full of inflamable material, against the buildiug and in this had started the fire. The most plausible theory to account for the object the incendiary had in view, is that he had a confederate who hoped, during the excitement resulting from a fire so near to the rear doors of so many stores, that a good opportunity would be presented to sneak in and rob a money till or perform some other acts of theivery The stuffed skin of an enormous Florida rattlesnake is now on exhibition in F. B. Meyer’s drug store window. The reptile was killed and skinned by C. J. Brown, during his late stay in Florida. It was found by some children and very near Mr. Brown’s boarding place. It is 54 feet long, without the head or the rattles, and at least three inches thick, at its largest part. These snakes are sluggish creatures and easily killed, but their bites are deadly when they do get in their work. They reach a still larger size than this specimen, being sometimes upwards Of 7 feet in length. The rattles from Mr. Brown’s specimen are near it in a small box. Mr. Brown killed this fellow with a small club and with no more respect to his size and deadly reputation than would be accorded to the smallest prairie rattler m Jasper county.