Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Eger’s hardware store and Eiglesbach’s meat market are having cement walks bnilt this week. C. C. Brown arrived home Tuesdar from Carroll Co., where he has purchased a farm, and will move to it next spring. Full uniformed band orchestra, with Keough Comedy Company, three nights beginning Saturday evening. J. W. Burget arrived home Tuesday from a week’s stay in Douglas Co. 111., where he arranged to have his 90 acre field of broom corn harvested. The Keough Comedy Company, consisting of 18 persons, will open the theatre season at Rensselaerniext Saturday night, at the Opera House, and continue three nightfc The copious rains of Monday and Monday night seem to have been general all over the county. They will do great good, although many fields of com are already cut short from too little rain.

A lawn fete, for the benefit of the Catholic church, will be given Wednesday and Thursday evenings, of next week, in the yard of the church.’ The music will be an especially notable feature; being furnished by the College Band, Rensselaer Band, Healy’s orchestra, Prof. Carl Hemmersbach, St. Augustine’s Choir, and the College Glee Club. The battle ship Indiana, now approaching completion will be~nof only one of Uncle Sam’s most powerful fighting ships, but one of the best in the world. A movement has been on foot for some time to raise a fund in this state to present a library and silver service to the vessel, as a testimony of appreciation of the honor done our state in naming the ship Indiana. In order that Rensselaer might have its proper ffem in this good work, Erastus Peacock circulated a subscription paper and raised sls, which he has forwarded to the proper parties in Indianapolis, and leceived their receipt therefrom.

Joe Leach, who works for Sam English, in Barkley Tp., and Jack Murphy, a carpenter employed by Donnelly Bros., got ieMfea fight in Strick’s saloon, Saturday evening. They were soon separated but not before Murphy was considerably hammered up. Murphy was locked , up, and on Sunday Squire Morgan fined and costed him to the extent of $22. He is in jail and though able to pay out refuses to do to, and he also refuses to work under the able supervision of Uncle John Ramey, , the work house superintendent.

Recorder Hunt has prepared and forwarded to the proper offlnial, bis statistical report for the year ending May 31st, 1895. During that period 829 warranty deeds ware recorded, with the expressed total consideration $1,730,297.72. Last year the total of warranty deeds was 572, with a consideration of only $740,088. Thus the number of deeds is nearly doubled and of the consideration more than doubled, over last year. For the year ending May 31, 1893, which up to that time was the biggest real-estate year in our history, the deeds numbered 893, and the consideration $920,455. Thus for that year the deeds were a little more numerous but their value much less, than for the year lately dosed.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Leatherman, north of town, Saturday night. Mrs. Bernice Sigler, of Kmghtstown, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Goff. Keough Comedy Co., at Opera House three nights, beginning Saturday. There were 38 tickets sold here Wednesday, for the Chicago and Milwaukee excursion. - JPrtif; Carl Hemmersbach, now of Boston, is visiting hi 3 former friends at St. Joseph’s College. Jim, a Chinaman, will start a washee shop in the old Duvall building, on the-river bank. “Water works are a grand thing in a town. ” That is the universal testimony of every town that has them. The water-works election comes off next Tuesday. Citizens who neglect to vote will have no right to complain hereafter, if the election does not go to soil them.

Tuesday was not the hottest day of the season, but the most uncomfortably hot, owiDg to the great humidity of thentmosphere. About 87 to 90 was the temperature in the shade. —; Conductor Byers, of the Monon, took his 9 year old daughter with him to Chicago, Saturday, and when coming home on the night tram she w alked off, perhaps in her sleep, a little beyond Lowell, and one foot was cut off. She was doing well at last reports.

Special train to Lafayette for the big fair, on Friday. Sept. 6. Rensselaer Wilkes will trot that day. One fare for round trip. The Monon will run a special train on Friday of next week, Sept. 6th, to Lafayette on account of the Tippecanoe Co. fair. It will leave Rensseaer at 8:15 A. m., and returning will eave Lafayette at 7 v. m. One fare : 'or the round trip. This we understand, is the day that Rensselaer Wilkes will trot at Lafayette. Another special train will start from Medaryville the day before, Sept. sth at 8 a. m. One fare for round trip. ,

Justice Burnham, of Rensselaer, and Chappell, of Remington, and Dr. Landon, of Remington, as medical examiner, held an inquest Saturday to determine the mental condition of Mrs. Sarah E. Vincent, wife of Chas. E. Vincent of Carpenter Tp. She is very badly deranged. She is violent at times, and makes homicidal threats. She is 37 years old, and has 4 children. A severe attack of bilious fever preceded the insanity. One brother and two sisters have been insane. In one particular she is very notable physicially, her weight being 285 pounds. She will be taken to Logansport asylum some time this week. The so-called report which the retiring trustee of Wheatfield Township publishes in tne Wheatfield Sheaf, is not his report at all, in the plain meaning of the law The law specifies in detail that the trustees shall keep a full record of their transactions, and report them to the county commissioners; and adds in so many words that “Each Trustee ahall cause a copy of said report in full to be published for one week in one wefekly newspaper having general circulation in his county." The alleged report published by Mr. Clark, of Wheatfield, is simply a summary of the receipts and expenditures of the different funds in his care, but gives none of the particulars of how those funds were expanded; and which are the very facts which it is the purpose of the law to have made public.