Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

AH dishes left at the Reunion supper, can be found at G. A. R. hall. See our line of 54 in. dress flannels. ~1 ’ ■ ~. I. J. Port ku. f ~~ D.JvThoropson is-back from his summer in northern Michigan. Threshing coal at Coen Si Tax tons, JSce'an elegant line of Neck-Wear at Ellis A Murray’s. About 150 people took advantage of the cheap rates to. Chicago yester- _ Clearance sale of millinery, at Hemphill <fc Honan’s, now is the time to buy cheap, J. W. King, hits re-entered the restaurant business. This time in a room in the Nowels block. ... Qxfordi, Newports and S outh er ties at reduced pricesat Hemphill n Honan’s. A

Miss Wingate Dowing, of Kansas, is visiting her sister, Mrs. James W elsh. Straw hats at cost I. J. Poster. Mrs. Armstrong wishes to notify her patrons that she has quit business and all laundry has been left at Mr. Vick’s, where it can te obtained. John C. Chilcote’s connection with R. Fendig’s dry-goocU storo terminated Sept. Ist, and he is now engaged with Ellis <fc Murray. He was with Mr, Fendig 11 years and 4 months. Boots and shoes at the lowest factory prices. I. J. Porter.

The fire department was called out Monday night to a fire at the Electric Light plant. A small fire got started in the coal bin, and the company had to shovel out a portion of the coal. Finest pictures, finest finish, and cheapest prices at the Pavilion gallery . Chas. returned yesterday meming fiotn Yazco City, Miss. He did not like the country, the heat and especially the chills that attacked him Saturday. The thermometer registered 110 in-the shade* last Sunday.

Notice.— Parties wishing to buy the best Hay Press on the market should call on or write Ccen & Paxton, agents for the Lightning Hay Press. By a letter from Judge Ward we learn that Henry S. Travis has lost his youngest child, his daughter, from an attack of dipthena. The three little boys, David, Bay and Leigh have been quite sick but are better. Mr. T. is still in the government employ and is stationed at Boice city, Idaho.— Fowler Era.

We have knifed the prices in summer milliner} 7 , call now for cheap hats and bonnets at Hemphill & Honan’s It is said tkat- water last spring the fish run out of the Kankakee River in great numbers into the dredge ditches, and now the water hss gone down and left them in tbe deep holes, and they arc being caught by the wagon load. -No- trouble to get 300 pounds of pickerel in a few minutes, and instead of using a hook to catch them they fish with a shovel. No bait.- —Crown Point Star.

A reception was given last Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris, at their residence, to their son, Robert and his bride, Miss Yerdie Jackson, to whom he was married on Thursday evening, at Kewanna. Mr. and Mrs. John Paris, of Attics, MrJ and Mrs. Lewis, of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. Kimball, of Xenia, Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Paris, of Bridgewater, S. ’Dakota and Miss Rose Paris, of Attica, were among the guests at the reception. T. 11-Geer will sell a number of Driving geldings and mares at the Remington stock yards, next Saturday. All are youDg and sound and will he sold cheap, for cash or ap-

proved notes. This is the chance for anyone wanting anything in this line. The Citizens’ State Bank has just been provided with a new burglarproof, time-lock safe, of a pattern which has never yet been opened by a burglar. Its most notable feature

is its huge circulcr door, which after swinging into position on its hinges, is screwed into position by turning a large steel crank, much as the breech piece is screwed into one of Uncle Sam ’8 big modern cannons. The safe cost 41,000 and is one of 13 of the same pattern owned by the Dwiggina syndicate. Another new improvement in the bank is a set of safety deposit boxes, which are rented to customers at a merely nominal rent, for the safe keeping of valuable papers, Ac.

A terrible murder was committed near San Pierre, in Starke Cp., last Friday evening. An old German named Nicholas Gerharte had quarrelled with his wife and she had gone to the house of a married daughter, and a step-daughter of the old jnan, Mrs, Charles Kersting. The old man followed her there and a big row resulted, and which terminated by the okl woman knocking the old man down with an ax, and the Two. women then ,dragged him out doors and the old woman held him down while her daughter stabbed him to death with a butcher knife.

He f was cut and stabbed in over 50 places, and mangled beyond belief. An after incident following the murder showed the very thrifty spirit of the husband of the Kersting woman. At tfae inqaest bfr not let the coroner have a piece of board upon which to lay the corpse, until the coroner paid him 20 cents, therefor. The women are in tail at Knox. Since the above was in type, a further and fuller account has been received from our Dunnville correspondent, which will be found in its proper place.