Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS

The enquiry into the sanity of Mrs Mary Casey,on Wednesday afternoon of last week, was conducted by Justices Morgan and Burnham, with Dr. V. E. Loughridge as medical examiner. She is 33 years old, was born in Ireland, has been a widow several years and has three children, the youngest 6 years old. They live with Mr. Casey’s father, John Reed, of Carpenter tp. She is destructive at times, filthy, profane, and on one occasion has shown a disposition to homicide. She sometimes refuses to eat, and sometimes will go to bed when in apparent good health, and remain there for days. Was in the insane asylum at Indianapolis for several months, 11 years ago. She was adjudged insane and application was made for her reception in the Logansport asylum. In the meantime she is being cared for by Mrs. Chas. Platt. Thirteen-stop, full walnut case organ, $35. C. B. Steward. A fine lot of silver plated ware and notions, to be sold at great bargains, at Vick’s restaurant.

The Supreme Court has at last acted upon the application of Rev. W. Fred Pettit for a new trial, and last Thursday granted it. But this action of the Supreme Court’s came too late to do Pettit any good, as he died Friday evening, of consumption, only a few hours after receiving notice of it. Pettit was sentenced in November 1890, for the supposed murder of his wife, the year before, at Shawnee Mound, Tippecanoe county, by poisoning with strychnine The evidence was purely circumstantial, but very strong. The supposed motive for the crime was a desire to possess the person and wealth of Mrs. Elma Whitehead, the richest widow in Tippecanoe county. Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. I declare Charley, that man Chip man takes the cake on engine work. This engine runs better than it ever did, gives more power and takes less coal.

The case of Garrison vs. James Welsh was a suit by Mrs. I). Garrison, of Jordan Tp., to replevin some horses which she, or her husband had been pasturing for the defendant and which he removed from the pasture withou t Garrison’s knowledge. Mr. Welsh tried to pay the pasturage bill by an old judgement against Garrison, which he had bought of some one for little or nothing, but Garrison took the grounds that the pasture land belonged to Mrs. Garrison and that a judgement against him would not pay debts due his wife. The case began before Squire Morgan and was venued to Squire Burnham. It was to have been concluded last Thursday, but the parties effected a compromise by which Welsh paid G arrison $32 m money and gave his note for $25, secured by mortgage on one of the horses.

Estey organs and pianos, and Estey <fc Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Stereoscopes and stereoscopic views, and a first class line of spectacles and eye-glasses, all to be sold, away below regular prices, at Vick’s Restaurant. The Duncan Clark company of lady minstrels arrived in their special car, Monday, having been heralded by a display of great and gorgeous poster bills, never equalled in magnitude in this town by anything short of a circus. The company has been exhibiting in some of the Chicago theatres, and this was their first appointment in a country town. Although they arrived Monday, their first performance was Tuesday night. It drew a very largey house, and it is no fiction to say that the bald-heads were out in full force. They gleam, ed sand shone throughout the reserved seat space like stars in the empyrean: and, like the stars, they were grouped in constellations, like the Great Bear, for instance, or perhaps Great Bire, would be the better way to spell the word, as expressing pot only the condition of the heads, but also what those heads were anticipating in regard to the performance. It is a good show of its kind, although hardly meeting the- just anticipations of the bald-heads, aforesaid. The performance was repeated last evening.