Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1893 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Born, a son to Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Parks, of Surrey, July 6th. Foif Rent—Four rooms on first floor. Enquire of W. R. Cotton ts. Mr. and Mrs Frank Percupile of Brooklyn, N. Y. are visiting Rensselaer relatives. Ben Harris is having a foundation put in for a new dwelling on the old school house Jot. Omar Ritchey, of Anderson, visited his Rensselaer relatives Sunday and Monday. He is now at the World’s Fair. What has the golden candle sticks, the seven wonders of the world, got to do with Vick’s lunch counter ? Jacob Wilcox is building a new residence in town, north of the rail - road. He says he will not move to town. McCormick mowers and binde rs and extras for the same for sale by Isaac Glazebrook. Mrs. Julia Healey, who removed to Sedalia,: Mo., a few months ago, will return to Rensselaer, previous to the beginning of the town schools. You talk of wisdom, strength and beauty, but for a good lemonade go to Vick’s. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gamble, of St. Louis, visited Dr. Alter’s family over Sunday, while on their way to the World’s Fair. B. F. Ferguson will make you an abstract of your real estate for as little money as any one. ~ Th os. Joyner, formerly of Kniman, was in town Monday. He is now located at West Pullman, a new Chicago suburb, and doing well. For Rent:—Five room cottage. For particulars inquire of S. E. Yeoman. Reinhold Roth, a retired Kentland butcher, committed suicide last Friday, at his farm in Newton county, near Foresman. He stabbed himsel f with a butcher-knife. To Threshermen.—Wanted two No. 1 separator feeders; address A. S. Baker, . 2tp. Zard, Ind. G. V. Moss was here this week . He is undecided whether he will go t o Waukegan into the real estate business or to West Superior and accep t a position as boolj keeper.—Hebro n Leader.

Wils Porter is agent for the Continental Insurarfbe Company, for. this section, for all kinds of farm property, buildings, live stock <fcc. Insures against damage by fire, lightning, tornados, windstorms <fcc. Give him a trial. The death of William Reed is mentioned in onr Remington eorrespon - dence, this week. Mr. Reed was well known in this portion of the county, having lived a few miles south of RensStelaer for a great many years. He was a most estim - able man, in every respect. I have made arrangements for plenty of money to loan, on farms in sums of five hundred dollars, or any amount above that, at 6 per cent, annual ingnd a small commission. Money may be obtained for five years or longer if desired. M. F. Chilcote. The ladies of the M. E. church gave a musical and literary entertai n- ' meat, and box supper, at the court house Tuesday evening. It was a very pleasant and well patronized affair, and yielded a fair financial return, although no admission fee was charged to the entertainment.

Ikey Leopold has gone to Chicago, expecting to get a position as salesman in Marshall Field’s big retail store. Try a sack of our White Lilly flour. W. R.*Nowkls A Son. If you want good bread get R u ger’s, at Vick’s. The new steel door leading from the recorder’s office into the record vault is being placed in position, this week, and the other proposed changes made in the vault. Wanted:—Girl to do general housework in small family. Good wages and permanent place. For name of party enquire at this office. Miss Blanche Loughridge went t o Englewood, 111., Monday, to begin a term at Col. Parker’s summer normal school, in the Cook County Normal School building, at that place. For Sale or trade one good Lightning hay press. Enquire of W. R. Nowels & Son.

The new 400 light dynamo was received at the electric light station, last Saturday. It will not be in position for operation for some weeks, as considerable work has yet to be done, to arrange for it. Farmers, remember that we sell Deering extras. Buy early and be ready for harvest. Hammond Bros. The Lafayette Courier says there is no truth in the statement that the work on the on the Monon shops at Lafayette has been discontinued.' It says there is no hitch or hindrance, of any kind.

Mr. Henry Eiglesbach and Miss Grace Geitl were married Tuesday morning, at the ‘ Catholic ch urch. Rev. Andrew Geitl, superintendent of the Indian School, and an uncle of the bride, performed the ceremony. Do you want a good McCormick mowing machine or binder, in the north end of the county? A five foot cut for $42.50. See S. E. Yeoman. Marriage licenses issued since last reported: j Charles H. Fay, ( Mary E. DeLaney. J John F. Holz, ( Anna E. Swartz. ( Henry Eiglesbach, ( Grace Getel. We invite you to come and see us before buying a binder or mower. We can do you good. Hammond Bros.

The Arlington Hotel, much patronized by Rensselaer people, stands scarcely further than across the street from the scene of the terrible fire in the World’s Fair grounds, of last Monday. The hotel took fire, but was saved without very serious damage. All the windows were broken, however.

The undersigned has purchased of Thos. Burns the new livery stable, on Vanßensselaer street, west of the public square, and proposes to conduct the same in a manner to give the amplest satisfaction to all patrons. Nothing but good rigs sent out. Prices very reasonable. Give me a trial. Robt. Randle.

There are now seven regular pass - enger trains each way on the Monon. All of them except two, run every day except Sundays. Of these seven, there are three that do not stop h ere -in going north, and two that do not, in going south. Besides these is a local freight each way, every day, except Sundays, which carries passengers. At Christie 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. t One freight train ran into a portion of another, at Cedar Lake last Friday morning, with the result of a pretty bad wreck. The road was blockaded until night, and not a piece of mail matter was received in Rensselaer daring the entire day. One of the wrecked trains was loading with ice at Armour’s ice house, at Cedar Lake. The other was a local freight.

Robert Randle has bought the outfit of the Burns livery stable and took possession last Monday. House to Rent. Enquire of A. H. Hopkins. Lewis W. Hunt, formerly of this place, is now located at Dunnville, as station agent for the-Three i-R- R Mrs. G. W. Flynt and Mrsl W- B. Teagarden and Children, of Mineola, Texas, are visiting their father, Ellis Walton. Thirteen-stop, full walnut case organ, $35. C. B. Steward. J. F. Antrim and Alfred Collins went to Wheatfield, Tuesday, to install the officers of the Odd Fellows lodge, at that place. Friend, hear the voice of wisdom saying go to Vick’s for your banannas, oranges, lemons, ice cream, tobacco, cigars, &c. The Rensselaer Foundry has got back their former competent moulder. Fred Bogren, and is now turning out a good deal of work. Mrs. Frank L. Cotton and children, of Omaha, Neb., are visiting W. R. Cotton and famil y. They will remai n until September. B. F. Ferguson will sell you Builds ing and Loan stock. Frank Belford, of Denver, Colo., and son of Ex-Congressman Belford, of Colorado, visited his uncle, J. W. McEwen and family, Saturday and Sunday.” ~ “Say, Jim, this engine will have to be fixed before threshing time, and you had better go and see Chipman about it. He has got the tools and knows how to use them. Now don’t forget it.” “I have put off my coat; How shall I put it on?” Will be the text at the Free Baptist church next Sunday morning. Evening theme, “Folly of Sin.” The pastor will preach at the Vaughn church at 3 p. m.

Day accident insurance tickets in the Travelers’, for sale by B. F. Ferguson. Everybody should get an accident insurance ticket before starting on a journey.

There was a big prize fight at Roby, Monday night Solly Smith, of San Francisco, and Johny Griffin, of Baintree, Mass., fought for $6,000 and the feather-weight championship of the world. Griffin seemed to have altogether the best of the fight, until in the fourth round, Smith got in a terriffle blow on Griffin’s jaw, and the latter was knocked clear out. The most sensational incident of the fight was the arranging of a fight between Champion Corbett, and Peter Jackson; the colored heavy-weight. The fight was to take place in November, a month before the Corbett and Mitchell fight comes off, but calmer counsels have since prevailed and it has been deferred until next year.

A. McCoy <fc Co’s. Bank is prepared to make farm loans in amounts of S3OO to SIO,OOO for five years, with privilege of partial payments.. Interest six [6] per cent, and a reasonable commission for making the loans. Money ready as soon as abstract shows good title. 4tp. a S. P. Thompson went to Hammond Jast Saturday, where, by invitation of John Brown, of the Momence Roek Commission, he met Lawyers Darroch, of Kentland, J. B. Peterson, of Crown Point and Judge Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, to nonsuit as to the method.of procedure for carrying out the big scheme of draining the Kankakee river region, through the counties of Newton, Lake, Jasper and Porter. The plan now talked of is to straighten the river from Baum’s bridge to Momence. To do this will take about 40 miles of new ditch, including the widening and deepening of the Hodge ditch, already constructed, in this county. The assembled attorneys decided that the taw under which the Wakarusha and Iroquois ditches are being eons! rue ted in this county, was the one best ado p ted for the Kankakee drainage enter-

Last Friday was probably the hottest day of the season, so far experienced. Some observers reported as high as 100 degrees, in the shade. 95 and 96 was a common mark. Strayed:—From my place in Rensselaer on Wednesday night, July sth, one bay Oregon pony, and one three-year-old gray mare. Itp. J. L. Nichols. Rev. E. Beach, of the Presbyterian Church, arrived home from St. Louis, one day last week, where he had been Rallied by the very dangerous sickness of a sister. She was somewhat improved when Mr. Beach left her. Rev. B. F. Ferguson went down into Jordan tp., last Sunday afternoon mid at the residence of Mark Lewis, performed the marriage ceremony for Mr. John Holz and Miss Anna E. Schwarz. The groom lives in Iroquois Co., 111. Every thing fresh and new and first class, and at lowest living prices, at Warner & Shead’s the new goocery store. The Town Board, Monday evening fixed the tax levies for the current year, at the following amounts on the SIOO tax valuation: Corporation Fund 50 cents Road Fund 25 “ Sinking Fund 15 “ Special Add!...... u . 20 “ Poll tax 25 cents, on each poll. Nothing else of public interest was done. Warner and Shead, the new grocery firm. Give them a trial. Some of the Rensselaer boys that went to Monon on the Fourth fared rather badly. One of them was quite badly cut, in a row with a young man who works as a brakman on the Monon. Another received a hard rap on the head from a billiard cue. But the Monon News say “there were accidents, no fights, no drunks.” A company of Boston capitalists is organizing to build a railroad in Indiana. It is to be known as the Kendallville, Rochester & Western Railroad Company. The line will extend from Kendallville to the Illinois state line and will run directly west from Rochester. The counties that will be crossed are Noble, Kosciusko, Fulton, Pulaski, Jasper and Newton. The company will have a capital of $3,600,000. —Winamac Journal.

The above mentioned company is somewhere about the seventy-fifth that has been organized to build a railroad in Indiana that would cross Jasper county, during the last ten years, and nary a one of which was ever built; and a large proportion of which took in Kendallville and Rochester. Of course there is a possibilty that this alleged new Boston company may prove a tangible reality, and may build a railroad somewhere on the line above indicated. If so, and it should run directly west from Rochester it would pass through Jasper county about on the line of Fair Oaks. But probably it would take no very strong pull to bring it to Rensselaer, as a deflection of only 8 or 10 miles southward from Rochester, would be required. 0. A. Yeoman, of the Makeever House went up to Roby Monday evening, ip company with a traveling man, and saw the Smith-Griffin feath-er-weight prize fight By a due exercise of Jasper county nerve he got a seat in the same box with the sheriff of Lake Co., and it cost him not a cent. The regular price of box seats was a little over six dollars, for re - served seats, $5 and general admission, $2« He saw With his own eyes, and heard with his own ears, that star of pugilistic chivalry, “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, who was attending the fight, the observed of all observers, and witnessed the exciting episode when the “Gentleman” waved' a SIO,OOO check in the air and flung out his wild defiance to the backer of Peter Jackson, and when the latter, nothing loth, bounced into the. ring and covered Corbett’s check with a mighty wad of cash.

Another new train was put on the I Monon Route, last Sunday, and al new time card thereby necessitated. * The new train starts from Cincinnati and goes north at 10:31 A. M., and south,at 7:30 P. M. The north train does not stop at Rensselaer but the south train stops. The changes on former trains were few and not important; the principal change being in the north bound afternoon mail train, which now passes this place at 3:27 P. M_, which is 30 minutes later than heretofore.

Call on C. B. Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. When the first news of the terrible disaster at the cold-storage building at the World’s Fair, reached Rensselaer Monday evening, an unfounded and wholly idiotic report got in circulation with it, that the Mining Building, at the Fair, had “collapsed” and killed 221 people. The report was absurd on its face, but still it obtained considerable credence, and caused much anxiety among many of our citizens who had relatives or ! friends at the Fair, that day. Ten different makes of Sewing machines, At Steward’s.

A most terrible disaster occured on on the World’s Fairgrounds, Monday | afternoon. A large building near the southwest corner of the grounds caught fire, and a large number of fireman, who were on a tall tower in the center of the building, fighting the fire, were cut-off, by the fire breaking out below them, and met an awful death, with 20,000 people looking on, powerless to assist them. Besides the firemen on the tower, several others and a number of Columbian guards lost their lives in trying to rescue the others. Up to Tuesday noon the number of known deaths was 17, with 7 others missing, probably dead in the ruins. The number of injured was 33. The building was not ode of the Fair buildings, proper, but was built by a private Company, the Hercules Ice Company, and was used as a cold storage plant, and was being fitted up for a skating rink.

The 46th and 87th'Regimenta will hold a joint reunion at Kewanee, Fulton county, August 30th and 31st The best way to reach Ke wane*, will be to drive acros» the country via Francesville, Pulaski and Star City. Comrades can make inquiries of Capt. Burnham and Dr. Washburn. Have you bought your Spring embroideries and edgings? We are selling a large line o' them at cost. Mrs. L. Imes.

Mary Gowland, an estimable young lady, about 25 years of age, was killed by the cars at Goodland, on the Fourth. She was waiting at the depot, in company with many others to take the train for KentlandWhen the train came in she was so near the track, perhaps being crowded there in the rush to be the first to board the cars, that she was struck by the wooden pilot beam, and then caught by the back step of the tender and dragged under the wheels of i the mail car. One arm and one leg were crushed, and her head and j body terribly bruised and lacerated. The two crushed limbs were immediately amputated, but the shock was too great and she died about four hours after the accident. She was i the daughter of Geo. Gowland, who ' lately removed to Goodland from a ’ farm northeast of that place. Two ; sisters were with her to go to Kenthnd,ami were witnesses of the accit dent. . T —-