Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Nearly all the old soldiers and others who went from this point to the JI. A. R. encampment, at Detroit, reached home Thursday, even including those lost and shipwrecked, mariners of a Detroit river ferry boat, Tom and John Sayler and Shelby Grant. Ben L. Sayler and W. D. Sayler remained until a day later, however, to attend a reception Thursday evening, given to the members of the 87th Indiana regiment who attended the encampment, by Mrs. J. W. Weldon, who lives at Detroit and who is the daughter of tlie first Colonel of the regiment, Norman Eddy. The encampment was a great affair as always and much enjoyed by all who attended. By a strange coincidence, James Magness and Chas. Hy att, of Coshocton Co., Ohio, father and brother-in-law, respectively, of the late Mrs. Nancy Snedeker, of Barkley Tp., arrived afternoon, on the vestibule, anticipating a pleasant visit with Mrs. Snedeker and other relatives; and their grief and surprise, and especially that of the old gentleman, can be imagined when they found that the lady they chiefly came to visit had died suddenly the night before. They started back to Ohio on the lIP. M. train the same afternoon, upon the same train which Carrie d the body of Mrs. Snedeker to her old home place, for burial. Mr. Hyatt came with the intention of buying a farm in this county and will probably return at an early date. Caleb Pierson, living four miles south of town, was attacked by a vicious grade Ho! stein bull, on Saturday the Ist inst., and badly injured, and would doubtless have been killed had it not been for two circumstances; one of which was that the bull was dehorned and the other that Mr . Pierson was directly beside the wall of the bam when attacked, and this prevented the bull from kneeling upon and pawing him, as he otherwise would have done. As it was Mr. Pierson was badly bruised about the head and chest, by the buttings of the brute, and one hand was very badly bruised and abraded by being stepped on by the bull. Mr. Pierson cried for help and was heard by his daughter who courageously came to lis rescue, and got the bull away by catching the chain attached to a ring in his nose. Mr. Pierson is quite advanced in years and nearly blind. Last Sunday a special train came up from near Attica, over the Coal ' load to Fair Qaks and down the Monon to Rensselaer, and carried back to his father’s home in Warren Co., Curtiss C. Jones, who has been in Rensselaer for treatment most of this year. His condition was very low and indeed he was carried home that le might die among his friends. He arrived at the. end of his journey Sundav at 2 P. M., and died at 7 the next morning. He was a brother-in-law of John Martindale, of Newton Tp., who accompanied him; as did also H. W. Porter and Miss Belle Hughey. His age was 34 years; and he leaves a widow and two young sons. His family is one of the wealthiest in Warren county. He had been sick a year of more and had exhausted the resources of his home physicians and had also tried the Chicago doctors before coming to Rensselaer. His disease was chronic cystitis (catarrh of the bladder).