Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Hod. Thos. H. N< Ison had a splen* did meeting at the court house, Tuesday afternoon. The room was packed to the utmost limit, and many went away, unable to obtain entrance. He gave the people a fine speech and one that wilt do great good to the Republican cause. The work ou the new addition to the Pavilion is progressing finely, and the catching of shadows is also going on. If you can’t catch yours call around and see how easily it is caught and preserved for future use, but not by the new French Process.

Prof. Fisk’s balloon and parachute exhibition, Tuesday, drew an enormous crowd. The balloon went up about 5 p. m., from M. O. Halloran’s lot. The birds, tame pigeons and a melancholly owl, were automatically released at a proper height, and fiew in every direction. The parachute carrying the team of goats, decended safely at the corner of Washington and Division streets, only three blocks from the starting point. The balloon came down about a quarter of a mile further east. Nearly all of the birds with business men’s cards on were captured or shot, and the rewards claimed. ; -

Reductions on all grades of sugar at Porter’s. See their price list. Don’t neglect to call and see the pattern hats at Mrs. Lecklider’s, on opening days. A very serious epidemic of typhoid fever in parts of Jordan tp., and Newton county, adjoining. Squire Wm. Cain, a well known citizen of Jordan, died with it Monday night. That same morning Mrs. Martin Snow also died. The wives John Ulm, Sr., and of John Ulm, Jr. and also of John Reed are very low; and so also is Chas. Heusler and Frank Phillips, on the Geo, Bessee farm. Some deaths previous to those above mentioned have occurred in the township, and quite a number in Newton county.

The only unpleasant incident cf balloon day, was a disturbance created by a young man named Sam Thurston, who was drunk and creating a disturbance. Burgess Dillon, who was acting as marshal in the sickness of Mr. McGowan, tried to quiet the fellow, and failing m that, to arrest him. Thurston drew a big knife however, and brandishing it about in a most reckless manner, narrowly missed stabbing a number of persons, and did cut Peter Minions across the back of his hand. Finally Mr. Dillon was compelled to club him, and did it most effectually, and Thurston was landed in j dl, with a very sore head. His father Wm. Thurston, very foolishly gathered a rock and tried to attack Mr. Dillon, and later he was also arrested, and on plea of guilty was fined $lO and costs, by Squire Burnham. If the case against young Thurston is pushed, it may go pretty hard with him. He is peacable and industrious when sober, but a bad man when drunk.

Three good stoves for sale, or to trade for wood. One is a good Owen stove. Also a good cupboard. Mrs. J. Q. Alter. Latest designs in pattern hats at M rs. Lecklider’s on opening days. The meeting at Marlboro, last Fri day night, at which A. McCoy was the principal speaker, was one of the largest and most enthusiastic yet held in the county. It was attended by an immense crowd, including fully 2uo from Rensselaer, who went down on the milk train, and returned in a special car attached to a freight, and provided at Mr. McCoy’s expense. The glee club and a martial band accompanied the Rensselaer delegation and their music was one of the principal features of the meeting. Mr. McCoy spoke for over an hour, and while, as a matter of course, his remarks Were largely humorous, yet he uttered many important political tiuths, in a way to make them plain to everyone. His remarks upon the disastrous effects of free trade upon the workingmen, were especially to the point. Mr. McCoy is one of the kindest hearted and most sympathetic men that ever 'lived, andthe great sufferings of the working people of this country, during the last 18 months, caused by the fear of Democratic free trade, have touched his heart greatly, aad in his desire for ; the success of the only party that j ever gave prosperity to ail the people of this country, is most earnest