Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XXVI.

MONON ROUTE. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. TRAINS THAT STOP. SOUTH BOUND. No. s—Louisville Mail, Da11y..... 11:10 A 11. No. 39—Milk accomm., Daily 6:21 P. M. No. 3—Louisville Express, Daily 11:2? P. M. No. 46—Local freight 2: 47 P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail 4:55 A. M. Mo. 40—Milk accomm., Daily 7:37 A, M. No. 6—Mail and Express, Daily.. 3.25 P.M, No. 46—Local Freight 9:20 A. M.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Bom, Friday, April 27th, 1894, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers, in Newton’s Addition, a daughter. Great bargains in boys’ suits at Ellis & Murray’s. « Another daughter was born last Friday, April 27th, to Mrs. William Beam, wife of the station agent. Fine Tomato Plants for sale, by Mrs. J. Zimmerman. A few farmers of this vicinity began planting corn last week. Lots of them will be at it this week, if the land gets dry enough. Trimmed hats from 50c to $1 at Mrs. Leckliders. Monon Conductor Bayard Clark , who visited his parents here last week, now has a run on the main line, from Lafayette to Chicago. For nice children’s and infants’ shoes, go to Ellis & Murray’s. Mrs. Nelson Randle is reported as constantly improving, and it is now expected that she will be able to come home by next week. See those good shaped hats at Mrs. Leckliders, from 10 to 5 0c Dr. R. Ludlum, a professor in Hahneman Medical College, Chicago, 1 was in town Friday, and with the as I sistance of Dr. Hartsell, performed a serious surgical operation upon Mrs. I. E. French for an internal trouble. Everything in ladies’ and Misses’ Jaskets and capes. Wholesale prices from 41 up, at Ellis & Murray’s. The first primary room m the town school was closed all of last week, on account of the teacher, Mrs. Walls, having an attack of the measles. It was her second sickness with the disease.

Ladies’ notions at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Our townsman, Win. Smith, has built a new model of hay rack, and has a specimen rack on exhibition near the public square. The rack is a marvel of combined lightness and strength, and in fact, is evidently just about a perfect hay rack. Don’t forget those cheap hats at Mrs. Lecklider’s at 25c. There was a gang of about 20 tramps hanging about the depot for a while, last Thursday night, but they boarded the first east bound freight train that came along. Very likely they were a straggling band of some Coxeyite army. Ellis & Murray are making prices on their stuff to suit the times. You cannot afford to buy anything in their line without getting their prices. The Olden Times Concert by the Methodist and Christian church choirs, at the Opera House, last Friday evening, was an exceedingly pleasant occasion and had a good attendance. The principal performers were dressed in costumes of more or less ancient date, and many of their songs and selections were also of an antiquated character. Notice, lace curtains, rugs, and portiers going cheaper than the cheapest at Mrs. Lecklider’s, during opening. C. A. Lecklider. At every election a number of people lose their votes on account of mistakes in stamping their ballots. The manner of stamping the ballot is very simple and it is to be hoped that every voter will soon become familiar withit. It is simply this: If the voter desires to vote his full party ticket he should stamp in the large square at the top of the ticket. If he desires to vote for candidates on different tickets, then he must not stamp the large square at the top of the ticket, but stamp only in the small square in front of the name of; each and every candidate he wants to vote for.

Mrs. Willis Me Colly has moved from the corner of Washington and Cullen streets, into T. J.' Sayler’s tenant property, on Front street. You can buy a good spring jacket of Ellis & Murray for sl. A seven-year old son of Isaac Kepner was very dangerously sick, the latter part of last week, with a kidney trouble, following the measles. He is now out of danger. Sea those new laces at Mrs. Lecklider’s.

Mr. Winship, an elderly unmarried man, died last Saturday at the home of his brother-in-law, Wm. Sutton, in Milroy township. The funeral was held Sunday, and the remains buried in Crockett cemetery. You can save money by getting our prices before buying anything in the clothing, shoes or dry goods line. 36-2 L Ellis & Murray .

The well known Sells Bros. Circus will be in this portion of Indiana about the middle of May; exhibiting in Lafayette May 15th and in Logansport the 16th. The times are tough on circuses, and the Sells have reduced their admission price to 25 cents. The price of seeing the shell game is still the size of a man’s wad.

Mrs. Lecklider will have a summer opening May 10, 11, 12, when she will sell her paterns at cost during opening. The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are most cordially invited to inspect goods and prices. Cheapest ever sold in town. 36 21.

Post-master Honan has received notice that on July Ist the sale of postal notes will be discontinued, and a change made in the sty le of money orders. They will conform in*style ■to express money orders, and also in prices. Under the new system small sums can be sent by ordern as cheaply as now by postal notes, and of course, very much safer. D. J. Thompson arrived home last Friday morning from his winter’s stay in Florida, which he greatly enjoyed. He did not do any tarpon fishing this trip, but he landed a 1 50 pound jew-fish, which was a specimen of the largest species of fish which humans eat, and also a 11| foot shark, which belongs to the largest species of fish which eats humans. He brought the jaw of the shark home with him.

W. E. Timmons, of Elk Falls, Kansas, a former Jasperite, writing to renew his subscription to The Republican and incidentally to avail himself of our liiterDcean offer says : “Crops look well here; wheat is fine; corn mostly up; fruit prospects good, but Democrats scarce. If everything 'goes at it appears until the next election old Kansas will give a Republican majority that wlil surprise the world.”

A. McCOY & COMPANY are now prepared to make farm loans at 6|, and commissions as low as are quoted elsewhere. The usual privilege of partial payments allowed. They would be glad to hear from parties desiring loans and all inquiries by mail will be cheerfully answered. 36-4tp. Uncle Berry Paris, who was nominated by Messrs Douthit and J. C. Chilcote, at their two-men-and-a-boy mass “citizens’ convention,” for

town treasurer, has notified the Town Clerk not to put his name on the socalled “Citizens’ Ticket.” Uncle Berry dont want anything to do with that kind of monkey-business. Like nearly if not quite all the others whose names appear on the “Citizens’ Ticket,” he knew nothing about the matter until he read it in The RePDBLICAN.

A barn in Barkley tp., belonging to G. H. Brown, of Rensselaer, was struck by lightning last Saturday evening, and burned down. The lightning killed a mule and a hog in the barn, and badly stunned another mule, which stood between the other two animals. Some hay, grain and harness were burned. The property in the barn belonged to Wm. Tanner, tenant of the farm. The barn and contents were pretty well insured in H. W. Porter’s agency. The barn for $225, and the contents for their full value.

Laßue Bros. THE GROCERS, are in it more and more. They are Leaders in Low Prices.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. THURSDAY. MAY 3, 1894,

A Sad and Fatal Accident.

WILLIS McCOLLY THE RENSSELAER NIGHT WATCHMAN IS KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT. - A sad and fatal accident occured in Rensselaer the latter part of last week. The victim was Willis Mc,Colly, the night watchman of Rensselaer, a deputy sheriff of the county and a well esteemed citizen. A party of four Rensselaer Odd Fellows had gone to Remington, Thursday night, to visit the lodge there, driving one of J. F. Iliff’s livery teams. They reached here on their return, about 3 o’clock Friday morning. Mr. McColly, according to his occasional custom when teams arrived late at night, went to the livery stable to put the team up, in case none of the stable hands were awake. He found Frank King, one of the stable boys, taking care of the horses, but began to help him in the work. In doing this he started to take some corn out of a large low box, at the front end of the livery stable, and bending over to reach th e corn, his revolver fell out of its holster and falling upon the floor was discharged. The bullet struck Mr. McColly near the lower point of the abdomen, a little to the right of the center, and passed through his body, ranging a little upward, and j, through the right hip bone, lodging near the surface. The weapon was evidently discharged while McColly was in a bendiflg position, or the bullet would have taken a more upward range through his body. As soon as the accident occured, he called out to young King, who was farther back in the stable, that he was shot, and then walked into the office room of the stable. He, laid down upon the bed in the office, and Will Iliff, son of the proprietor of the stable, v. ho was sleeping there, and young King, went, one for Drs. Loughridge and the other for Mrs. McColly. Other assistance was soon called, and the unfortunate man was carried to his home. The bullet was removed from his hip, soon after he was taken home. H s wound was at once seen to be very dangerous, and probably fatal, and so Mr. McColly himself declared it to be, from the very first; lie felt that he was wounded to death and no arguments to the contrary had the least effect to change his conviction. But he met his fate with perfect courage and calmness. He lingered until about G o’clock Saturday morning, or 27 hours after the accident, and then peacefully and painlessly expired. A post-mortem examination of his wound, showed that death was its inevitable result, as the intestines had been perforated in six or more different places, by the large 38 calibre bullet

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, under the auspices of the Rensselaer Lodge, of Odd Fellows, of which the deceased had long been a faithful and prominent member; and the Daughters of Rebecca. Short services were held at the residence conducted by Rev. J. L. Brady, while at the cemetery the solemn and impressive funeral ritual of the Odd Fellows’ order was duly pronounced. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in the town, and the number of Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rebecca in the procession could no t have been less than 150. Among them were 30 or more from Remington and four from Wheatfield. The pall-bearers were H. W. Porter, Isaac Hemphill, W. H. Coover, J. F. Warren, Geo. W. Goff and J. F. Antrim.

The deceased was cut off in the strength and vigor of his manhood, his age being 43 years, 1 month and 20 days. He was born in Delaware county, and became a resident of Jasper county in 1867. He leaves a widow, who is the daughter of James Cox, of Union tp.,and four children; two boys and two girls, ranging in age from 7 to 20 years. His father is the venerable Clark McColly, of Union tp. The number of relatives

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present at the funeral was remarkable. They included besides his wife and children his own parents, his wife’s parents, and five brothers and three sisters. Ex-Judge Hammond left for Hot Springs, Ark., last Friday, on a receipt of a telegram from his neice, announcing the sudden death at that place, of her husband, Anthony Sweeney, of Denver, Colo., and requesting the judge to come to her assistance. The cause of Mr. Sweeney’s death was apoplexy. His home was Denver, where he was one of the wealthiest and best known citizens. His wife was the daughter of the late governor Hammond, of this state. Frank A. Clements, a prominent farmer living at the north edge of Crawfordsville, was killed Saturday morning by being kicked by a horse. He was leading two horses out to hitch to the plow, when they began to bite each other and then to kick. Mr. Clements was thrown around so that the new horse brought down its fore foot on his stomach, knocking the breath out of him. All efforts to revive him were useless. The deceased was born on August 18, 1854, at Lafayette, and was for many years a passenger conductor on the Monon. Lawyer Douthit has scored the first divorce case, for the June term of the Circuit Court, the same having been filed last Thursday* The plaintiff is Mrs. Minute Cleaver, who desires to be divorced from Jasper Cleaver. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant, although a strong, healthy man, is idle and neglectful, that he does nothing to earn a support for his wife, but rather “lays around” and lives off of what she earns at washing and house-cleaning. They parted March 12tb, and he is now in Lake county. They have no children, but the plaintiff has a little girl, by a previous marriage.

SOLES WILL STAT DOWN.

Andrews, the first class shoe-maker, that was located in Carmichael’s harness shop all winter, is back at work, and intends to stay. Will be glad to see all my old friends and will try to

please all.

G. A. ANDREW'S.

Poor old Dick Stone is one of Hoke Smith’s latest victims in this locality. His pension has been reduced from sl2 to $8 per month. Dick is an industrious old fellow when he can get any work, which this democratic administration makes scarce, however. He has a very large family, andjiothirig to support them upon, except his pension and what little he can earn at day’s work. The reduction of his pension is a great hardship, and one that never would haveoccured under a Republican administration. The Marion township gravel roads are to be built by Rensselaer parties after all. Messrs. Hawkins & Curtis, the contractors, have sub-let the contract for the entire job to C. C. Sigler and Delos Thompson, the deal having been closed up, Tuesday. At what amount the sub-contractors do the work has not been made public. The material they will use, for the most part, will be Lafayette gravel, they having secured Very favorable terms for furnishing the same, from the Monon R. R., before they took the contract. They began work grading the north road, yesterday.

Buy your farm wagons of B. F. Ferguson. Every one warranted.

Mrs. Margaret LamsoD, widow of Daniel Lamson, died last Thursday morning, at the home of her son Thomas Lamson, some miles southwest of town. Her death was sudden and unexpected and was caused by apoplexy. Her age was 68 yeais, 10 months and 25 days. She was born in Kentucky, but lived in this state since 5 years old. Her maiden name was Pogue, and she married Daniel Lamson, Feb. 25, 1847, and came with him to Jasper county the same year, and with a short exception, she has lived here ever since. Her husband died in 1873. She had four children, [all of whom survive her. She has been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church since early youth. The funeral was held at her son’s residence last Friday, and the remains were interred in Egypt cemetery. Rev. E. Baech, of Rensselaer, conducted the funeral services?

Dress Goods Sale-SaLMay 12 EVERY WOMAN who needs a dress should be interested in this SATURDAY DRESS GOODS BOOM. - BILL FOR ALB THE REQUISITES FOR MAKING A DRESS AND WHAE YOU SAVE. 8 yds all wool scotch suitings, @B7 jc... .$7.00 2 “ silisia “ 15c 30 5 “ cambric “ 5c 25 1 “ linen canvas « 15 1 spool silk 05 2 “ twist “ 2c 04 1 “ thread 04 1 piece velvet binding 10 1 set dress stays 10 1 pair dress shields 13 1 paper hooks and eyes 05 T0ta1.... $8.21 Saturday, May 12th We say tor the whole lot $6.00 You save $2.21. Monday goods go back to old prices. We Look for Customers, Saturday, NOT PROFITS.

It seems to be a pretty general conclusion that some slight changes are needed in the gravel road plans, in a few respects. In the viewers’ report it is recommended that the gravel pike be placed to one side of the 30 foot grade, so that a dirt pike can be maintained along one side. This is no doubt a good plan, in most places, although it is the general opinion that the outside of the gravel pike is being located too near the ditch. As now laid down, it is only four feet from the ditch to the gravel. In all cases except very shallow ditches this is too near. There will betoo much danger of the ditch washing out aDd letting the gravel cave into it, and wash away, also. If the gravel is placed 6 feet from the ditch it will still leave room for a 12 foot dirt pike on the opposite side of the grade. It is also doubtful if the plan of patting the gravel pike to one side should be rigidly adhered to, in all cases. In such cases as the grade across the Donnelly marsh, north of town, for instance, it would probably be better to pat the gravel pike in the center, above the old and solid road-bed, than upon the newly graded bed on the side. S. E. Yeoman, sells the McCormick mower and reaper, also the Kalamazoo hay rake.

Young Ladies! We are carrying an immense stock of hats, untrimmed and trimmed, some of them as low as twentyfive cents. COME AND SEE THEM. How sweet the little ones look in our baby bonnets. We have one hundred of them. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. For little maids we have fifty shined ; hats. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. For the mamma’s of the babies there are hundreds of the loveliest of bats and bonnets. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. MRS. L. M. IMES. DENTISTRY. BROOK, MOROCCO, MT. AYR, J. W. Bond, of Remington, will visit Brook every Tuesday, Morocco Wednesday, and Mt. Ayr Thursday after this week for purpose of practicing Dentistry J. .W. BOND.

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