Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXVI.

MONON ROUTE. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. TRAINS TliTkT STOP. SOUTH BOUND. No.ft- Txjuisvllle Mail, Daily 11:10 A. M. No. 00—Milk acconani., Daily M. No. B—‘Louisville Express, Daily 11:28 P. M. Mo. 4ft»-Local freight 2r47 P.M. NORTH BOUND. Ko.4o—Milk account., Daily 7187 A, M. No. R— Mail and Express, Dally., ft 26 P. M. Mo.'fft—Local Freight .9:30 A. M.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

About 1-500 dozen eggs came to ‘this market "Saturday. ‘ A. Leopold is starting-a store in 'Wolcott. R. P. (Benjamin ■'spent' Easter in ’ Chicago. Harry Wiltshire is on Uhe sick list with an abscess under his arm. f Dee , Watson, the 'hustling boss trader is now a resident of Rensselaer. A ten inch sewer is being laid on the north side of Susan street, a much -needed inaproveeient. Come to the hluefjay social, visit the witches’ cave, anA get your tortune told for five' cents. About 11 59 was oubscribed at -the Methodist church -Easter tor missions.

Grand Opening -April sth, 6th.and 7th at the Misses M* <fc A. Meyer. Mrs. Jas. Ihmmoas, of Hammond, is visiting friends here and at Peasant Ridge. •The Ladies Literary Society meets with Mrs. S-.KP. Thompson, next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. 'Walter Porter* arrived home one evening last week, from a visit to relatives Ul*southwest Kansas. Chas. Battleday, formerly of Newton Co., <is imp»ovinar his just weft .of town. He will build a fine residence thereon. Clarence Lecklider has a new supply of fine.lace curtains, rugs &c. to sell on the .installment plan, from 25 cents to per week.

The machinery for the new branch creamery on J. F. Irwin’s place, in Jordan tp., has been procured, and the creamery will coon be in running order. < Watch and wait for the new cash grocery store of Porter <fc Soft, in the Arcade Building. Will buy for cash and sell for cash. eßeady for business the first week in April. Judge E. C. Field, general solicitor of the Monon, with his wife, daughter and niece, were in town last Friday, and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. ILwlustui.

Rensselaer Div. No. 73 r Uniform Rank K. of P. have been i avited to attend dedicatory services at Lafay- . ette, to be held Marok SOth. Geo. W. Thompson of Newton , Co., a cousin of Mrs. BJP. Iteojamin, has been very dangerously «iek with ’ typhoid pneumonia but is now con-' valescing slowly. Pleasant Gwin, a former resident of this county but for the last ten years a resident of .Kansas, has returned to Jasper Co., to make st his .permanent home. He Jias ha d hard duck and lots of it in the Grass' Hoptper State.

The Iroquois ditch report, in the Shape of a big leather-bound volume, was filed Monday, at the auditor’s office. It may mow be -seen at the county surveyor I ’s office,.over the post-office, where Miss Fsenkie McEwen is preparing an indexcfor it. Frank Osborne de negotiating with some -Crown Point>parties with a view to removing his planing mill |to that place. We shall be.sorry if Mr. Osborne finds it necessary to move his mill from Rensselaer, and do-not believe that he would if our .people would give,him proper encouragement when needing any work in his lines. Marriage licenses since last ireported: j Carl Wilhelm Gustav Hielseher, ] Anna Armida Augusta Zicher. ( John G. Dodd, ( Murtie E. Wineland. J Charles A. Brown, t | Elma Day.

*■ • ■ ~ - *■- . \ • ■ • , • tv- -.i-f-u: wit-'i Butterfly BRAND FLOUR Only $4 a bbl. at Laßue Bros.’ Cheapest ever known. They are selling the groceries.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. THURSDAY. MARCH 29,1894,

The Francesville Enterprise is a new paper with an old name, the first number of which was issued last Thursday, and which we gladly place on our exchange list; and wish prosperity. Dr. S. I. Brown is the editor. B. F. Ferguson is loaning more money on real estate than any other firm. Don’t fail to call before making arrangements with any one else. Monroe Banes, the carpenter and builder, has bought C. C. Brown’s, house, in Weston’s addition, and will move into the same, shortly. Mr. Brown will move back to his farm, south of town, and Will build a good house this season. Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted.

Stockholders in the Rensselaer Building 4 Loan Association are retminded that next Saturday is not only the monthly pay day, but is also the day for the payment of the annual assessment of 25 cents per share, j for the expense fund. , MissM. Meyer, of Meyer sisters has returned from the City with a complete stock of Millinery and is now preparing for an opening the 5 th, 6th-and 7th of April. Call and 1 see their goods. Clerk Coover -earned all he get when he made oct a marriage license last Saturday for <Carl Wilhelm Gustav ®ielscher, to marry Anna Armida Augusta Saoher. Four jointed names, both of dihem. The parties live fin Newton ’ftp., and married Tuesday. There will be a < blue-jay social! at the home of C. W,' Coen, next FrM ay evening, Mar. 80. The orchestra W ill furnish al I the goo® people with'the best music. The will be there. Admission 10 cents. ’Supper- 5 cents. Ever# body invited. All members-oLth e Iroquois Oub i-fco att end the annual meeting loom, Wirday evening. Mar. 30, for the purpose of electing affieersa-rid transacting -other important business. SB. F. Fendig , Secy.

•J.W. McNeill, late of Tuscola Douglas Co. IHI ~ now occupies the Geo. H. Browc, Jr. farm in Barkley tp.,of whic’ncfane property he is a part-owner, fffle is a young man of •evident grc*at intelligence and -enterprise, and aifirm Republican in polities. .Dry goods sold at unheard of . iQjLJgfcMnt ' Fendigs Fair. A Iway s • the cheapest. Mr. JohnG. Dodd and Miss Murtie Wineland were marriedlast Saturday afternoon, March 24th, «.t the residence of Rev. R. D. Utter, the officiating clergyman. The bride is the daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. George

Wineland, of Wheatfield. The groom is the engineer of one-of the Gifford dredging boats. We are in receipt of samplec of -spring-and summer clothing from the Globe Tailoring Co. Guarantee -perfect satisfaction at FeftdigrEair. Mrs. .'Nelson Randle, at theuPost Graduate hospital, Chicago, had far recovered > after her dangerous surgical-operation as to be abletto walk, a week ago. Another -tout much less serious operation Is .necessary todaer complete restoration to health, and this she will undergo be fore leaving the hospital. Clothing jjust-received, prices positively lowest Fen digs F4ib. ‘

Mr. Mary L., -Scodgrass, wife of Alfred J. Snodgrass, a former resident of Jasper county, died at her home near .Little River, Kans,, March 5 th, aged very (nearly 40 years. She was born -in Jasper county, and was the daughter of Eleazer and Auanda Lmnson. She was married April 18, 1872. She was the mother of nine children, but only three survive her.

It has been rumored that only the statute of limitations prevented a sensational indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses, by the grand (ary, last week. The party is not now a resident of the county, and the matter under scrutiny related to the unloading here of large quantities of that worthless mining stock, some five or six years ago. The matter was certainly under investigation.

People’s Party Convention.

The Populists’ county convention was held at the Opera House, yesterday afternoon. Frank Welsh, of Jordan, chairman; C. B. Harrold, of the Pilot, secretary. The ticket nominated was as follows : For Clerk, A. J. McFarland, of Jordan, by acclamation. For Auditor, Th os. H. Robinson, of Gillam, by 59 votes; to 19 for T. J. Mallett, of Union. For Treasurer, John L. Nichols, of Bsrikley, by acclamation. For Sheriff, Ellis Jones, of Carpenter, by acclamation. For Surveyor, Walter Harrington, of Union, by 65 votes; to 7 for L. E. 'Glazebrook, of Marion. For coroner, -M. Y. Slaughter, of Marion, by a unanimous whoop. For Commissioner First district, doal Spriggs, df Walker, by 56 votes;

to 12 for Fred Croeger, also of Walk ’ker;andlß for George Stemble, of Wheatfield. For Commissioner, Second District, A J. ‘Robinson, of Marion, by 65 votes; to-20 for Lucius Strong, of Marion.

For. Commissioner third District, Geo. G. Thompson, of Carpenter, by 44 votes; to 36 for John Stillman, of Jordan. All the candidates except* Harrington and Spriggs are ex-Republicans. The delegates consisted of the “same old crowd.” There was no evidence of any increase <in populist numbers since 1892. The candidates are godd enough men, hut their politics are “way off.”

W.U. Templeton, of Indianapolis, was in town Monday, on business connected with the estate of Cephas Atkinson, of Benton <-county, of which he is the assignee. Mr. Templeton is himself the owner of 800 dr 900 acres of Jasper county land. He is alec the owner of iheSNon-Gonfor-mistake state organ of ► the Peoples*

Party. John Moosmiller, the unfortunate man whose wife was sent to the Logansport insane asylum, a few months ago, has been by his 'circumstances ito ‘take his four youngest children away to orphan asylums. Two beys to the Catholic asylum for boys, at 'Lafayette, and two .girls to the similar institution for igirls, at Feet Wayne. Mrs. Moeemiller’s condition-is little if any better.

County Auditor Murray and wife, were called suddenly tdWason City, HL,«the latter part of last week, by information. of the supposed mortal; sickness of the latter’s--cister, Miss Lanoe Fielder. The young lady had' beeneick for several weeks withan internal inflammation, resulting from' a fall!, and for 20 days .nothing but chopped ice passed her . lips. She was some better when tMr. and Mrs. Murray arrived, and they reached hom&again Monday.

TWGifford ditching operations in Barkley, Gillam and Walker tps. are now said to be nearly completed. Something over 50 miles of main channels have been out, and all of the ditches of great dqpth and width. One of bis two dredges will be moved to Illinois soon. The other will re>main to finish up the ditches and okeep the old ones cleaned out. The machinery of the daedge dately wrecked on Nigger-Head reef will be taken out end placed on a new scow. ■The May Vokes Comedy Company played at the Opera House, Monday, .Tuesday 'and Wednesday evenings. They came on short notice,.and thus were poorly advertised, but their merits secured them fair houses, for the place and the times. Their (coming here was one <of those ■occasional cases where companies of sterling’merit, and designed only for the larger towns, but whieh fill in a little time, and get a little practice at seme smaller towns. From hero they go to Momence, 111., for three nights, and after that their contracts are all for ,towns like Springfield, Decatur, Peoria, Bloomington 111., <kc. There are ten people in the company and not a “stick” among them, and nearly all thorough artists.

The Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association will hold its twelfth annual meeting at Frankfort, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of next week. We ’ understand that the Rensselaer and Remington teachers will attend the association in a body. Rev. F. A. Kent, of Putnam, Conn., an evangelist of the F. W. Baptist denomination, is now assisting Rev. B. F. Ferguson in the conducting of the series of meetingsnow in progress in the F. W. Baptist church; The interest in the meetings is good, and apparently on the increase. Our young townsman, Harvey J. Kannal, graduated at the Chicago Veterinary College, last Thursday, in a very creditable manner, after two years hard study. And in view of the great magnitude of the horse and other live stock interests in Jas--1 . , per county, we are glad to be able to state that Dr. Kannal will locate

among us permanently. His office is in W. A. Huff’s jewelry store, and his professional card may be found in The Republican. State Senator Johannes Kopelka, of Crown Point, is bound to keep before the public in one way or another. His Hast installment of notoriety was aoheived a week or two ago by his suing a neighbor for 150 damages for having perforated with shot Kopelka’s thorough-bred herdbook Shanghai rooster, which was pawing dirt in the said neighbor’s onion bed. The most in-teresting-and "Kopelka-like feature of the affak-was that the senator compromise! the matter by taking $1.50 for his <SO rooster, and also paid the costs of (his suit.

G. H .Andrews, who has been exercising the functions of a shoemaker in a part of Carmichael’s harness shop, on Van Rensselaer street, for several -months, has skipped the town, and there is probably no liklihood of his coming back.- There was a three cornered family fight at his house, Wednesday- evening of last week, between Andrews and his daughter upon one side, and Andrews’ wife on the other, in which, naturally, the wife was badly worsted, and immediately Andrews and the girl left and have not been seen since. The giri is ’Andrews’ daughter by one-of his numerous previous wives, of which -he is reported to have had five, and all still living. The deparkire of Andrews and his daughter is certainly no loss to the town from a social or moral stand-point, however -it may strike some ofhh creditors^!nancia 11 y. The wife that is left here has two young Children, and<untess Andrews finds a new location and sends for her, ehe will soon be in a bad plight, financially. <Oiw friend Wm. Smith, as our ceaden will remember, .predicted a big storm about March; »tb, because of the -occurrence

•of the spring equinox and of a full mocn upon that day. A sort of celestial head end collision, in fact. The-weather here was very fine onrthe 30th but about the went storm of the -winter was raging all over the west, and its small end readied us bjNSaturday in a spell of very cold weather. Mr. Ssnitk’s pre* diction was thus substantially verified, in this instance; but we do not advise him, for -that reason, to engage ia the weather predicting business on a large scale. We have no doubt but that he would hit it as often as Irl Micks, the present prevailing prophet, or as Wiggins, wh o preceded him, or as'Vennor, who was still earlier. But for a man to obtain any great vogue os a prophet of any kind he most have something wierd and unusual in the shape of a name. Like the worthies we have just mentioned, for instance, or Raphael and Zadkiel, in Europe. People would never believe that plain William Smith could have any mystic power for peering into the facta of futurity more than themselves. He might however write bis name Bils Myth and thus overcome the difficulties his otherwise common-place cognomen subjects him to.

Prices UlWn Reach of TUI.

1894’’ •••• <1894 SPRING & SUMMER GOODS HAVE ARRIVED AND A MORE COMPLETE LINE OF SUITINGS, OVERCOATINGS, TROUSERINGS, VESTINGS, Etc. Were never laid before the people of Rensselaer and vicinity. The stock is entirely new and consists of both and Importings.* CALL AND EXAMINE. B. K. Zimmerman. Artistic Tailor. - 7 W

CITTILIII LHXTT SJTXLS HHOA AA3ZJSE

A. W. Conner, of Irvington Ind., on the subject “The Serio-Comic side of the Preacher’s Life.” At the Opera House, April 10th. At the B. 4 L. stockholders’ meeting, next Monday night, the annual report of the auditing committee will be presented, giving present condition of both series, estimates of Value of shares 4c.

Remember that we shall still con thrae our great clubbing offers with those great weeklies: The Republican and either the Chicago Inter‘Ocean or N. T. Tribune for $1.75 per year; or all 8 for $2. The Republican and Indianapolis Journal, |2. J. F. Hemphill is off on his annual railroad engineering engagement, with the Duluth <fc Iron Range R. R. As before, his home will be at Two Harbors, Minn. Russ. Parker, his old fireman, will leave for the same job to-day. The newspapers report great and widespread damage done to the fruit crop, by the late cold spell. Iu this vicinity it is the general opinion that most kinds of fruit prospects are greatly damaged, if not practically ruined. Later developments, however, may show that matters are not so l bad as now supposed.

They Wanted to See the Kegs.

The day was on Sunday, and two middle-aged and sedate citizens roosted on boxes in front of the Bargain'Store. Another citizen, of like description appeared on the corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, > by Ellis A Murray’a stove, and waved hie hand in a gently inviting aad seductive way, then walked up Van Rensselaer street, turned the rear corner of Ellis A Murray’s building, and disappeared from view. The

two men on the boxes arose when they eaw the hand waved and sauntered down the street, till they ■reached the high stairway just east of Leopold’s Arcade building. Up this they climbed, then down the connecting stains in the rear and they, too, were temporarily lost to the sight of men. Their mysterious maneuvers and inexplicable disappearances excited somebody’s curiosity and not long thereafter the grand jury was favored with an explanation of the mystery. The sedate citizens just went around back there in their several devious and toilsome ways, only to look at George Goffs hogs! At least that is the story they are credited with telling the grand jury. The saloonlst got his indictments all the same, though.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THOMAS H. GEER.

Last Friday, Thos. H. Geer, the well known farrier and horse trainer, left Rensselaer for a professional tour through Illinois. Tuesday forenoon a telegram dated that day, came from Martinton, 111., addressed to the postmaster, and reading as follows: “T. H. Geer died this morning. Notify his friends, and answer at once. Stephen Bunkeb. Mrs. Geer was just preparing to go to her father’s for a two weeks visit, pending her husband’s return. She went there, as intended, on the afternoon train, telegraphing to Martin" ton to have the body sent to Englewood. No particulars of the man- - ner of Mr Geer’s death have been received, although he was known to have been affected with heart disease.

J. F. Iliff, whose buggy Mr. Geer was using, left for Martinton Tuesday afternoon, intending to drive home from there yesterday, bringing Mr. Geer’s horse. Martinton is a small place on the Eastern 111. R. R., about thirty miles due west from this place. It is needless to say that this sudden and unexpected news of her husband’s death was a terrible blow to Mrs. Geer. H. V. Weaver has opened an upholstering room over J. Eigleabachs meat market. If you have any old furniture that needs repairing in any way he will be pleased to put it in as good shape as when new at very reasonable prices. All work guaranted to give satisfaction.

Seed Cern For Sale. Seed com for sale. White, early and very productive. Saved especially for seed. Fletches Momnett. Dissolution of Partnership. To all whom it may concern. The partnership between John B. Saylors of Jasper county, and Wm. Streight, of Pulaski county, in the real estate business is dissolved. 31 6t William Streight. Mil fflanib St

Worth $7.50 G-i’vezi For every 50 cents worth of goods you buy at my place you are entitled to one number, and the person that gets the right number will get something nice and valuable. C. E. HERSHMAN. Cor. 4th S Columbia r.vllrtl Bo.lnn. M.thwh. No Cop,ln. from T-.i ■>—».. ■Utamwterau. Mwwl raw. WrtU £r CMrimw <• * •». CADDSN. Prealdont.

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