Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — Nothing to Be Gained by Waiting. [ARTICLE]

Nothing to Be Gained by Waiting.

A lawyer of L. bad among bis clients a former, a bard working, plain, blunt man. Hearing that be had lost his wife, the lawyer sought him out to express his sympathy. To his amazement the German replied, “But I am married again.’’ “Is it possible, and only th reb weeks since you buried your wife?” “Dat is so, mine friend, but she is as dead as she ever will be.” There are a million more men than women in the United States.

Snowed at Denver, Sunday. Marton has a.gas rate war. Wheat sowing is nearly completed fa southern Indiana. Grasshoppers are doing much damage in Knox county. ? Fowler wants a society to prevent minors from gambling. J. G. Willkom, of Newry, has 25,000 cabbages ready for market. The paid admissions to the World's Fair Sunday were 47,923. Emperor William’s big war ships have been condemned by experts. IThe authorities at Kokomo are Imprisoning boys for jumping on cars. The quarantine declared against tho Russian war ships at Cadiz has been removed. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry have arrived at Chicago to fill a long engagement. Eighteen new cases of cholera and one death from that disease are reported from Leghorn. 1 Dr. W. V. Cook. Evansville, died, Friday. of lockjaw, the result of a cut on tho finger. Farmland old settlers say that the hickory nut crop this year will be larger than ever-before. .- 7 . / I John Dillon, member of parliament for east Mayo, addressed a large meeting at Balymote, near Sligo. Indianapolis has had two murders and two suicides within forty-eight ’ hoars ending Monday morning. There is little doubt that the whole Austrian cabinet will resign if the royal sanction to the civil marriage bill is withheld.

One prominent farmer estimates that the acreage of wheat in Bartholomew county this year will be 40 per cent, less than last year The health of Prince Bismarck Is again failing. Alarm is felt throughout Germany at the prospects of his early demise. His great age is against his recovery. 1 Through the Intercession of foreign powers peace will probably be restored in Brazil and the perpetuity of the republic assured—until the next rebellion breaks out, at least. A contagions disease is prevalent among horses in the west portion of Orange county that is proving very severe, and in some cases fatal. It is thought to be a severe kind ofcdtstemper. County Treasurer Paul is loaded for the fellow that turned a calf into the treasurer’s office the other day and then shut the door, leaving him to do battle with the brute.—Monticello Herald. A difficulty occurred at tho village of Sisseton, S. D., between Thomas Morse, a white man, and three Indians of the Sissetons, which terminated in the killing of one of the Indians, Henry Campbell. The Chesterton saloonkeepers have adopted a praiseworthy course regarding minors. They have printed blanks containing the law regarding misrepresentation of age, and any person whose age is not known and thought to be under age must sign an affidavit stating that Ia is twenty-one years old before liquor w.i be sold to him, 1 Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, and his lieutenant General Sandoval, who have been hunted high and low by Mexican and American troops, are said to have spent the early part of August in Chicago viewing the World’s Fair at their leisure. They stopped at the Palmer House under fictitious names, but were finally recognized by F. G. Canton, one of the Mexican commissioners and a friend, They disappeared from the hotel suddenly.