Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXV-

MONON ROUTE. JtENSSELAER TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. Ho. s—Mail and Express, Daily.. 10:57 A. M. Ho. 31—Vestibules Dally ... M, Ho. 37—Milk accomm-i Daily ...... 6:17 P. M. Ho. 3— Nletit Erprew, Daily 10 :47 P. M. Ho. 45—Local freight.... 2:47 P. M. NORTH BOUND. Ho. 4—Mail and Express, Daily.. 5:38 A.M. Ho. 36—Milk accomm.. Daily 7:38 A, M. Ho. 32—Vestibule, Dally 2:47 P. M. Ho. 6-Mail and Express, Daily.. 3.47 P.M. Ho. 74-Freight ..... 8:16 P. M. Ho. 46—Local Freight...... 9:20 A.M.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

ft : Surveyor Alter has lost-aoothar-horse. This time by the epizootic. W. J. Imes spent a few days with his wife, going away Tuesday.

A fine boy was born to the household of Mr. Geo. Gauthier, the furniture dealer, last Saturday.

Do not forget the Public School entertainment at the M. E. church on Friday evening.

Rev. McNutt, of California, will preach at the Presbyterian church, next Sunday, and for several Sundays Succeeding. ,

T. J. McCoy and wife attended a Scottish Rite banquet, at Indianapolis, last Friday night. Another fine boy was added to the household of Hon. S. P. Thompson, last Sunday morning.

Dr. C. H. Erganbright, aveterinary surgeon, lately located at Crawfordsville, is in town, and strongly contemplates locating here permanently.

Wanted, a good, reliable man with small family to take charge of a largS ranch in Jasper County. Enquire at this office.

Wilbur Florence and wife, of near Virgie, have effected a legal separation, but will hot seek a divorce. The wife is given the home 80 acres, and the custody of the three children.

The entertainment to-morrow evening, at the M. E. church, by the public school, is for a most excellent purpose and should have a most excellent patronage.

J. F. Hardman is moving into rooms in J. E. Spitlei’s house, on Cullen street, until his own house is completed. He has sold his old place to G-eo. Strickfaden.

Mrs. Eliza Tanner, a widow lady residing with her son, in Barkley tp., died hist Saturday, of a caneer, Her age was about 55 years. The remains were token to Mancie, Illinois, for burial.

Allen Gray was over at a brother’s place, in Carpenter tp., last week, and while there took a spoonful of saltpeter, by mistake, for epsom salts. The dose made him very sick for several days, and came near being fatal.

Jesse Grubb, the express agent, was sick all of lest week, from the effects of a bad cold, but was able to begin looking after his business again, Monday. George Hollister had charge of the office during his sickness.

Several parties from Rensselaer attended J. W. Parks’ big horse and cattle sale, south of Remington, last Wednesday and Thursday. They report that the property, especially the driving horses, sold extra well. The whole sale aggregated over $6,000.

The nightly meetings at the First Baptist church are having a good attendance and have already resulted in quite a number pf accessions to the membership. The meetings are conducted by Rev. Rhodes, the pastor, assisted by Rev. Edward McClain, of Chicago, who began labors Monday night.

f' The Knights of Pythias turned out in large numbers last Sunday, to hear Rev. J.G. Campbell, at the M. E. church, preach an excellent sermon appropriate to the occasion, which was the 29th anniversary of the institution of Pythianism. Some 65 or 70 of the knights attended the services. including 15 members of the Uniform Rank, in full uniforms.

' RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23,1893. !ti.A : . . ‘

Alien Gray is moving from Rensselaer on to a farm sonth of Remington. Carpets at Williams' cheap for for cash. Call and see them. A, McCoy has just completed an immense sheep barn on his Jordan, Tp., farm; where he has 800 flue sheep. Sylvester O’Meara moved Into town last Thursday, and now occu - pies his brick residence, in Ben jami n’s Addition.

A box social, at Bell Center school house, last Friday evening, by Miss Blanche Hoyes, is reported to have beena'verypleasanfc'oec&sionvbysev*, eral town parties who attended. Dan. Lathrop, of Mt. Ayr, has rented the Burt Hutson property and will move in March Ist, succeeding Mrs. Sharp, who will move into her own house, in Leopold’s Addition.

Wanted, a good girl to do general louse work, or will board a willing girl who wishes to attend school in town. Enquire at this office. John Hodshife moved back to Rensselaer from . Remington, last Thursday, and Occupies Mrs. Stockton’s tenant house, on Weston street. He will lay bricks for the new wing of St. Joseph’s College, this summer

At Christib Vick’s restaurant: Boarding by day, week or meal. Fine lunch counter, with facilities to furnish hot lunches at all hours, day or night. A fine line of staple and fancy groceries, selling at greatly reduced prices to close them out.

That was a “daisy little dance” at the Club rooms, last Thursday night, and was participated in by about 30 couples. The music was especially fine, being a harp and a violin, by Italian musicians, from Chicago.

Postmaster Rhoades has now on hand a plentiful supply of the big but handsome Columbian postage stamps of all denominations up to 10 cents , and patrons of the post-office can|now, •by investing in these stamps, get more licking for their money than Snllivan got when he tackled Corbett.

Prof. Cad well's hypnotic exhibitions were pretty well patronized, including his Saturday afternoon matinee. From here the Prof, went to Momence, 111. During his stay he taught the hypnotic art to Dr. Washburn, the physician, and Dr. Horton, the dentist; to use in their professions.

Remember the entertainment to be given by the public schools, on Friday evening at the M. E. church. In addition to the program to be given by the pupils, Mrs. Campbell will recite, and music be rendered by Mrs. Delos Thompson, Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth, Dr. Campbell and t. F. Hopkins. Exercises will begin promptly at 8 o’clock.

Clarence Long, the wonderful boy rifle shooter, son of Conductor Long, will give an exhibition at Chaffee’s Opera House, Lowell, tomorrow, Friday, evening. Young Long gave an exhibition in Rensselaer a few weeks ago, and his remarkable profi - eiency with his shooting iron was then described. He is indeed a phenomenon .

The Republican steam job-print-ing department printed 2000 large window bills for Prof. Cad well, the hypnotist, which he pronounced to be tho best bills he had got in the state of Indiana. They pleased him so well in fact that he left his order for 3000 more off the same form, to be printed and shipped later. The addition of steam power to our printing outfit, greatly increases our facilities for filling orders for large posters in large numbers. F. J. Sears, president of the Citizens Bank has received word that on Feb. Bth Uncle Solomon Wells, the well known capitalist, and the largest stock-holder in the bank just mentioned, fell on the ice and fractured his hip. The accident occured at Urbana, 111., where Mr. Wells was visiting a nephew, and where he still is. Mr. Wells is 83 or 84 years, old, and such an injury to a person of that age is likely to prove a very seiious matter.

THE BOOM THAT NOW IS.

The site selected for the foundry is south of and adjoining the railroad, and a block eastof the depot.

T. P. Monnett has secured more lots north of his machine shops, with a view to their further extension. Frank Osborne’s planing mill and wood-working shop, is a sure go. The site for it has been secured, and is just west of the Nowels elevator and abuts upon the railroad right-of-way.

One leading contractor says he knows of over 79 proposed new houses.- for tkifl-year-.--: r Frank M. Parker, of northeast of town, and George Pumphrey, of Julian, are both getting material on the ground for new houses, on their tracts of several acres, west of the old John Coen place, north of town. Mr. Parker will build a fine house and Mr. Pumphry a good one. B.'F. Ferguson will build a good two story house, on Cullen street, just south of his former residence, ately sold to his father-in-law, John Coen.

M. H. Hemphill, county treasurer, is also getting material on the ground 'or a residence, on Main street, south of D. B. Nowels’ new house. George Hollister has bought of 3r. Hartsell two lots on Weston street, north of Tire Republican

building and will erect a residence as soon as the weather and grace of carpenters, will pormit. Hy Day is still in the hey Day of his activity, and getting material on hand for his new tenant house, on Weston street, opposite W. B. Austin’s new house.

Wallace Robinson is getting material on the grounds for his new residence, on Weston stieet, just north of Makem3elf ditch, and opposite Robt- Randle’s place. It will be an elegant and spacious building, and will cost about $2,500. S. C. Hammond and his son, J. P. Hammond, have bought adjoining lots on Cullen street, south of J. F. Hardman’s uncompleted house, and will both erect residences thereon, this season. It is not unlikely that “Uncle Steward” will build also on his two acre tract, just west of town, for a residence, and rent the Cullen street building.

Prof. Cad well, the mesmerist and hypnotist, is a typical down-east Connecticut Yankee, and therefore of course, an inventor. He has taken out fifteen patents on inventions, and has another now pending. He had models of three of his latest inventions with him, while here. One was an attachment for “pulley” clothes lines; another is a device for holding paper bags and ball of twine, for grocers’ use, and the other is a hand printing press, for rubber type. They are all ingenious and practical inventions and ought, if properly handled, to bring in vastly more money to the genial old hypnotist than his entertainments do. His hand printing press, especially, is the “slickest” thiDg of its kind we ever saw.

See the new carpets at Williams Finest and cheapest line in town. At last reports the druggist Payne, of Fowler, whose mysterious shooting at that place was noticed last week, was still living, with pretty fair chances for recovery. The wound is in the breast, and the bullet, cannot be extracted. The revolver with which it was supposed the wound was inflicted was found secreted in the water-closet, into which Mrs. Payne had previously been seen carrying a package of some kind. According to reports sent to outside papers there was considerable evidence at the examination showing very flagrant conduct upon the part of the accused wife with other men; but to this part of the evidence the good SundaySchool editors of the Fowler papers pay no attention, it probably being quite too naughty for them to even I allude to, in their too, too spotless I columns.

CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE

A long felt want in Rensselaer supplied with a complete stock of Carpets and Rugs, NOT SftMPteS, but 30 to 50 bolts of 125 to 150 yards in each bolt of the choic-est,-latest styles and newest patterns at

Special Jot Prices, from 20 cents per yard to $1.48 per yardWe are determined to -make low prices the medium of advertising this new department. Look elsewhere, then come in and we will be pleased to ehow you through our elegantly fitted ■ up carpet parlors, over the store boom.

It pays to trade at tne leader of low prices, and only reliable one price cash store in the county; the CHICAGO BARGAIN. STORE. B. FORSYTHE, proprietor.

THIS DO SETTLE IT.

The anything-to-beat-Honan-and-McEwen candidates held a secret caucus lately, presumably on the back stairs of the Pilot office, at which it was agreed that a vote should be taken and that all the “ring” and “gang” candidates except the one

having the highest vote, should withdraw, and work his head off in securing the appointment of the biggest vote man. The participants in the caucus were the three “gang” candidates, Bates, C. D. Nowels and Mr. Crock O’ Dyle Smyler, with a sufficient number of self-appointed distributors of Democratic patron age, to prevent a hopeless deadlock caused by each candidate voting for himself indefinitely. The details of the ballot have not been made public, but Mr. Nowels came out on top, and the Smiler probably got his own vote and no other. All hands are now hust-

ling for Nowels, and a committee of the cancussing statesmen has, it is stated, been appointed to wait upon Congressman Elect Hammond to break to him gently the information that Mr. Nowels is the yponanimous choice of the Democracy of Jasper county for postmaster at Rensselaer. The caucus appointed a committee on resolutions, and thje first rough draft of their report read about as follows:' honerble tom Ilamond Sur We the dimecratic party of America surtefy that Dal nouls is the yoonaniymus choice of de gang for posm&ster and what de gang says 'goes see The report was adopted with some slight verbal alteration^. In the meantime Honan and McEwen are still sawing away on their respective wood piles.

FARMS TO RENT. Farms to rent, on equitable terms. Drainage good. Appy at my office. B. J. Gifford, 26-4 t. Kankakee, 111. ' 4 * ' }{ Don't forget those trimmed hats for ONE COLLAR, at Mrs. Leckider’s. ,

Edwin Bond, of this place, was down at Elwood, a few days last week, prospecting for a business location. He found Eiwood, which a few years ago was an obscure country village, was now a booming city of 8,000 inhabitants. Many immense manufacturing establishments are located there, among which one at the most important is the American Tin Plate Works. They employ several hundred hands, among whom are Very many women and girls. Mr. Bond visited these works, and in talking with the employes, he learned

that the girls and women earned from $8 to sl7 per week; which is more, by the ;way, than the skilled male workmen can earn in Wales. These tin works, by the way, are the Swine that the Democrats, during their late campaign for free trade, denounced as a sham and a fraud, established by Republican campaign money, to run only until after the election. j It is said that a couple of smooth citizens have been selling “patches of blue sky ” oi something about as valu - able, for several weeks past in various parts of the county. They

sell for a certain sum, said to be six dollars, bqit probably for anything they can get, the right to buy goods at alleged wholesale prices of some pretended farmers, or alliance establishment, in Chicago. A right just as valuable perhaps, but not more so, than the right to buy of Seigel <fe Cooper, Montgomery Ward &C 6. The Fair, or several other similar general stores in that city; and which right is free to anyone that will send 10 or 15 cents for a catalogue. The most ready victims of these, blue sky dealers are found among the rabid People’s Party people; Who have been deluded by demagogues into the belief that their home merchants are a set of thieves and scoundrels, and who, therefore, have no use for slid merchants, except when they want to buy on credit, or to bulldoze them into advertising in the pestilential organ of anarchy down the street

An elegant line of late style new _ novelties in Dress Goods, fine tailor made clothing, hats, lace curtains, embroideries, clearance carpet warp, etc. 3 OVERCOAT DEPARTMENT moved up stairs and will close out what is left at 20 per cent, off price marked in plain figures. Boots, shoes, and cloaks about one half price to close out and make more room for spring goods. The only place in' town for the Cones Boss, world’s best overalls; pants and shirts.

I A box social and valentine party last Saturday evening at the Guest school, in Jordan Tp, Miss Carrie Welsh, teacher, netted $9.50 for reading circle books; and was a pleasant time, besides. In all sadness it most be admitted that the citizen who, a few days ago, declared that Uncle Alfred McCoy was “a reckless old duck” was truthful, even if somewhat disrespectful. One of his latest performances waslast Thursday, when, wanting to see how some repairs then being made on the roof of his bank building were progressing, he got upon the rooi by means of the iron fire-escape, in the rear of Long’s drug store building, an ascent which very few even young and vigorous men would attempt without strong necessity. Having gotten upon the roof, the next thing was to begin throwing over waste lumber, in a manner which would discount a number 4 Kansas cyclone, and of coarse without stopping to think where the lumber might fall. One very heavy piece did give Alfred Thompson a pretty close shave, when it struck the side-walk, and in falling it struck and broke the elect-

ric light wire leading into the bank. Other parties on the building then stayed Uncle Mac’s rash hand, before he could put the lives of any more capitalists in danger. If Uncle Mac had been on top of the Kansas State House last week, with a load or two of waste lumber, he would have raised the Populists’ siege of the building, in 15 minutes, without firing a gun.

for Men lly. AT THE TABERNACLE, NEXT SUNDAY, At 8 P. M. “Christian Principles in business”— C. W. Coen. ; “Oar Bodie»”(concluded) —Dr. I. B. Washburn. Sermon, —B. E. Utz. Come and be benefitted.

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