Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Yeoman, of Barkley tp., 'NVednesdajt,j May 3rd. [ Umbrella sale day next Wednesday, j Cure ago Bargain Store. \ ■-. . i Henry Bruce arrived home last Thursday from his winter’s visit in j Kansas. Examine our umbrellas and Jearn 1 prices before buying. Porter & Wisiiard. B. Forsythe and wife were up to the city this week, buying a new stock of goods and attending the world’s fair. Mrs. Eva Eoltz has gone back to Oxford to the bed-side of her sis ter, Miss Lucy Kolb, who is sick with consumption. The cause of Porter & Wishard’s enormous shoe trade is because they sell the Henderson and give satisfaction. v Another competent moulder has been added to the force of the Rens selaer foundry, Fred Bogren, from Indianapolis, Umbel!as nearly given away next sale day. < Chicago Bargain Store. A well at the unusual depth of &3 feet in the rock, was completed yesterday, by Bruce White, for M. L. Spitler, on the property on Weston street occupied by Harry Wiltshire. For Sate:— A new 21 stitched Gandee belt, also a corn crusher. A. S. Baker, 6t. Zard. Headquarters for the largest stock Of tine clothing at the lowest one one price. Chicago Bargain Store. Elder Hogan, of Tennessee, will preach at the Primitive Baptist church Sunday next atJ 0:30 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. All are cordially invited to these services. Ben Tuteur has moved into Hiram Day’s new house, on Weston street. The dry weather since early last week, has given farmers a much needed opportunity to prepare for com planting, and many of them have begun to plant. — — The largest stock of umbrellas for sale day, next Wednesday, you ever saw in town. Chicago Bargain Stoke. A nine months 4)ld infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kenton, southwest of town, on the Ritchey place, died yesterday morning. The disease, was cholera infantum. Have you seen that long line of baby hats that extends from one end of Mrs. Imea store to the other? Every color and shape, how dimples will show in the baby faces that wear them. The railroad wreck, at Lafayette last Sunday morning, was one of the worst that lias occured in this portion of Indiana for many years. The particulars will be found on an inside page. Double-breasted suits in summer weights are very popular this year. We are showing a beautiful line of which you should avail yourselves. R. Fendig. Walter Meloon, wife and children are visiting M. L. Spitler’s family, this week. Mr. Meloon is a prosperous resident of Pierre, South Dakota. DVR. Jones, one of Carpenter tp’s most successful farmers has also been appointed a member of the Advisory Committee of the World’s Congress Auxiliary on lam culture and cereal industry, and a member of the world’s agricultural congress of the Columbian Exposition.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. McDonald, at Pleasant Ridge, last Sunday night. Squire W. E. Moore has moved back to Rensselaer, from Hanging Grove tp., and occupies his residence in Newton’s addition. Thousands of yards hf new, choice carpets at 15 to 20 per cent, less than you can buy from competitors samples. Chicago Bargain Store. JVF. Iliff is trow a full resident of Rensselaer, having moved dast -week into his property on Yanßensselaer street, just vacated by Ben Tuteur. Ex-County Clerk, J. F. Irwin is now an honest tiller of the soil, on his farm several miles south of town. His house, in Newton’s addition, is occupied by Geo. Burk. Are you going to the World’s Fair? If so, you should procure one xft our nobby spring suits. The latest styles and colors. R. Fendig..— ' Henry Grow will build a house, this season, on Kis newly acquired lots, north of tho depot. He does not intend to occupy it himself, however, but will rent the house. Williams is selling carpets cheaper than any house in town. Mr. and Mrs. E. McGriff returned to Chicago, Monday morning, to rernain for the World’s fair season. They have secured rooms on the ; north side. ! The mammoth shoe sale continues to retail at wholesale prices while j they last.

Chic ago Bargain Stor e . Nowels <fc Son’s mill will be in running order about the Ist of June, or about the same time that tho S&yler mill is expected to be ready for business. The circuit court of Starke county recently sent a woman to the reformatory two years for killing her husband and a man to prison for twenty years for burning a hay stack. The court mdst have a,queer notion as to the relative value of wild hay and human life. ——s_ John Kays, a young man of nearly 21 years age, died Wednesday, May 3rd, at the home of his parents, James A. and Mary Kays, in Barkley tp. The cause of his death was consumption. The funeral was held in Rensselaer, at the ill. E. church, last Friday forenoon, conducted by Rev. J. G. Campbell. The remains were BurlecTm W eiTon'cemeleiy™™' At the recent big strike of Santa Fe machine shop men, at La Junta, Colorado, ouc former townsmen, Will E. Sears, was selected by the men as their arbitrator to settle the difficulty with the officials of the •road. This responsible duty he performed with such ability and fairness as tp win from al!l parties their highest approval. The Columbian exhibition is to have a daily papery published on the grounds, and we have received a copy of the first number, published on the first day of the fair. It has eight pages, the first three of which are original matter, devoted to fair matters, and the other 5 pages are reprints of the first pages of the five leading morning papers of Chicago namely, The Inter Ocean, The Tribune, The Herald, The Times and the Record. The trial of Nellie Payne, at Fowler, was concluded last Saturday. The evidence for the state established the motive by proving beyond question, that she was a very unfaithful wife, who hated her husband and desired to be free from him, and that she had been very soilcitous to know that his life was well insured in her favor. Many other very suspicious circumstances were proven against her, the most important being that she was seen soon after the shooting to carry something wrapped in paper to the privy, in the vault of which a revolver bo wrapped was soon after found. The jury found her guilty of the attempted murder and made her sentence four years imprisonment in the women’s reformatory.

S, ' • •" ' ' '• ' . ' ■■■ A new wind wheel to replace the one recently destroyed by the storm, was put upon the wind pump at the court house, last Thursday. CARPETS. Brussels, ingrains, hemps, everything in the carpet line. A beautiful line of symrna rugs. If you need anything in this line we can please you. Rs Fendig. A. C. Bushey, the butcher, has moved into John Makeever’s newly completed tenant house, on Cullen street, opposite the public square. ery store, would like a share of your trade.s They will treat you right. Conrad Hildebrand has a good residence well on the way towards completion, on Front street, about opposite A. Leopold’s place. T. W. Grant was in town from Friday till Tuesday, looking after business matters. He rs now resident manager of one of the Col boras’ lumber yards, at Wolcott. The best of workmanship and fabrics, combined with style and make up has been a a aim in selecting our spring and summer line of clothing. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. The two children in the family of George Gorham, noted last week as sick with diplueria, are now improving greatly. The mother of the children and also her brother, Joe Nor man have since contracted the diseas,; Their cases have not y-et assumed a dangerous form, and their early recovery is very probable.

The funeral of Mrs. Barbara Guss, widow of the late John Guss, of Union, tp., was held at the Catholic church, last Thursday, Rev. S. Neiberg conducting the religious services. Her death occured on the Tuesday orcvious. at.her home in Union tp ;at the age of 69 years. Interment was made in the Catholic cemetery, south of town. A letter, of which the following is a literal text, was picked up on the streets a few nights ago. “Deer Gim cum too the house teonite the old mans goin to the loge ana mams got the roomity So bad she kant heer hur self sneez be share ann fech sum of that kandy with sent ontoo it couse wer goin to have frid ununs for super now be shure ann cum yure own deerest deliteCul.”—Exchange. The Commissioners of Jasper and Porter counties, at their joint session last week, Wednesday, accepted the new bridge over the Kankakee river. It is a pile bridge, but excellently "Built and substantial There remains a considerable stretch of grade to be constructea on the Jasper county side of the river before the bridge can be of much of any benefit Have you seen that beautiful line of children’s suits, handsome jerseys, pretty three piece suits, nobby double breasted. Call in and inspect them. R. Fendig. As a result of a late order of the county commissioners, Recorder Hunt lately received from the office of the auditor of state, transcripts of all United States titles to Wabash & Erie Canal and swamp lands in Jasper county, and placed them upon record. They covered. 65 pages of record, and are said to concern nearly half the land in the county. Under the old system of fees and salaries, this would have been a small bonanza for the recorder, but under the present law he was already earning much more than his salary, and this job was just that much more work done for nothing. A man named Anderson, from one of Gifford’s farms in Barkley tp., raised a disturbance in Tuteurs’ store Saturday afternoon, while full of liquor, and finally struck Ben, the fighting partner of the firm, and was himself completely knocked out by a •John L. Sullivan blow oh the jawWhen he came to, he was uglier than ever but Ben succeeding in thrusting him out of doors. ( Mr. Anderson is said to be a very well behaved man when sober but quite the contrary when drunk. By all ae counts of those who saw the trquble Mr. Tuteur exercised no’harsher meas. ures than he was obliged to, under the circumstances.

The files of the first four years of the first paper ever published in Jasper and Newton county, “The Jasper Banner’ ' were destroyed in the fire at McCarthy’s at Beaver City, March 31st, 1893. It is supposed that these were the only copies of them in existence. The files at Rensselaer having been destroyed some years ago when the court house was burned. The McCarthy family bible 103 years old was also destroyed at the fire in March.—Morocco Courier. - j . ' - - Mrs. Lizzie Irwin, wife of Robt. Irwin, one of Carpenter tp’s,-best citizens, has been adjudged insane, and application has been made for her reception at the Logansport Asylum. She has shown signs of insanity since the middle of March. _One of her delusions is that she has too much lectricity in her body. She ismelancholly and to some destructive, but not violent nor dangerous. Her age is 42 years. The first building and loan association in this country was organized in Philadelphia in 1831 —sixty-twoyears ago. One hundred and forty thousand houses have been built in that city through these associations, and much of Philadelphia’s prosperity and of the stability of her population has been due to them. There are now in the United States about five thousand similar institutions and their aggregate accumulations reach the enormous sum of seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars. They do a good work in aiding the workingman to own his own home. Our former county surveyor, Lewis S- Alter, writes from South Bend, enclosing the necessary col lateral, and asks that his subscription accounts be moved ahead 3C5 days. Mr. Alter says that the greatest excitement at South Bend lately, was the relay bicycle ride from Boston to Chicago, whose route passed through South Rend, and .in which nearly $j.,000 worth of bicycles were used up, oae man had both arms broken, and a j score of others were more or less injured and crippled. All to “show that something could be done.” 810.00 buys a nobby spring suit in goods that will surprise you. Call ia early as such rare bargains as we are offering go fast. R. Fendig. Mrs. Martha Nichols, wife of John L. Nichols, one of our best known citizens, died last Friday, at her home in the north part of Rensselaer, of consumption, after a long illness. Her age was 55 years and 20 day i. The funeral was held at Trinity M. E. church, Sunday forenoon, and the remains were then taken to Smith j cemetery, Barkley tp., for interment. | She leaves a husband, three sons and two daughters to mourn her loss. She was raised in Barkley township, and was a sister of William, George and Horace Daniels, of that township.

The construction of the Wheatfield ditch was sold last Saturday, at the court house. Rudolph.Wolfner, of Chicago, who was generally supposed to be acting simply as the agent of Nelson Morris, bid off the mainrditch 17,300 feet in length at 5 and fifteen-sixteenths cents per cubic yard of excavation. He also secured the Wolf Creek lateral 14,000 feet long, at 6 and filteen-sixteenths cents per yard. John Hack, of Lowell, secured the Marble lateral, 11,369 feet long, at 7 cents per yard. The Wolfner contracts will amount to about SIO,O 00 The Hack contract to about $3,000. Both of these will be done by steam dredges, about 8 miles of dredge work being required. In addition to these ik another smaller lateral which was sold tp John V. Meyers, for 6f cents per yard. This will be done by team work. Several dredge men weie present, from various points, but Mr. Hack waa the only one who had the “sand” to bid against Mr. Wolfner. The prices at which the contracts were let are held to be very low, and therefore favorable to the property owners. The ditches must all be finished by April or May of next year.

Two delegations of leading citizens have faeen to Chicago since pur last issue, to investigate the matter of the bicycle factory, mentioned last week. The second delegation, consisting of A. Parkison, T. J. McCoy, A. 11. Hopkins and Geo. R.Murray went up Monday and made a thorough examination of the factory plant, by the help of an expert bicycleinanufacturer. The expert gave it as his opinion that a new plant of the same capacity could be installed at several thousand dollars less money than this old plant is priced at. On the other hand, the gentleman who wants to leeate the factory here still insists that it is worth the price charged, and that a full invoice of the machinery will prove the fact. On the 31st inst the College stud, ents will give a dramatical and musical entertainment at the opera house for the benefit of the Catholic church. It will be conducted by the Columbian Literary Society and the Seifert Light Guards, I ■under the direction of the Rev. B. Boebner. The Messrs. Tom Conroy and Ed. Mungovan will undoubtedly gain the sympathy of the audience by their persecutions which they endure of the Messrs. Wm. Sullivan, Claude Williams, Jas.

Connelly etc. Several Choruses and qfiartetts are also to be given by the students. The Seifert Light Guards will appear iu their uniforms, armed with guns and swords, but only to amuse the audience. Master Laurence Eberie who has repeatedly and most successfully delivered his comical recitations, will furnish an abundance of merriment by his “Zachary and Calhariaa.” Moreover, some of the best musical talents of the city will be represented. Prof. Chas. Haas and wife will produce some of their choicest music, and Healy Bros, will furnish the orchestra for the accompaniment of vocal and instrumental solos. The choir of St. Augustine’s emboldened by the many compliments passed on them will also'take part m the programe. Besides there will be other solos and duetts and those in charge promise it to be a treat in every particular. A Holy Bible worth twelve dollars has been purchased and will be presented to the one selling the most tickets for the occasion.