Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — A stranger who was found drank [ARTICLE]

A stranger who was found drank

in a ditch, near the corner of Washington and Division streets, was fined Saturday by Squire Morgan, to the extent, including costs, of $10.20, which will keep him in jail 11 days* He sail he was from Cleveland, 0-, and was convicted under the usual name of John Doe. J. W. Paxton has sold his residence in Newton’s Addition to Thomas Smith of Newton Township, who will move into it next March. Mr. Paxton owns good lots on Weston street sooth of J. N. Leatherman’s place, and wiH build a good house there next spring. Rensselaer Wilkes got into a tough crowd at Lexington, last Thursday. In a crowd of thirteen starters he got the seventh place, which was exactly in the middle. Several heats of the race were made in 2:10£. Wilkes did very creditable trotting, however, if he didn’t win any money, and was never more than a second or two behind the winners. He will trot again at Lexington, this week. Mary E. Grimes has begun salt for a divorce from Daniel Grimes. They were married May 17,1887, and separated Nov. 18tb, 1894. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment and specifies that Daniel called her a-——> b—h, struck and kicked her, told her to “gather her old staff and go to —> with it,” and finally “threw her out doors,” without anything laid upfor winter. They have no children, but

•he wants back her maiden of Nearhoff, and ought to have it. They live in Walker Tp. We trust that no one will contract malaria, rheumatism or any kindred affliction in watching for that total eclipse of the 11190 a a number of our neighboring editorial brethren have promised for to-night; but if any one has to suffer from that cause, it would be only justice if it was the said editors themselves. How they came to promise an eclipse when there was no eclipse to be had, is a matter we would gladly have them explain. ▲ lunar eclipse in the dark of the moon would be something absolutely new and novel in the line of celestial phenomena, for a fact.

The people who were brought into the corporation of Rensselaer, in the annexation proceedings, at the September term of court, did not perfect their appeal to the Supreme Court, within the time required by law, and it may therefore be taken for granted that they are in the town to stay. As the population of the town was 2000, about May Ist, by actual count, this annexation, and Benjamin A Magee’s addition, with the natural growth of the 'town, will make our population now fully 2150, and probably a little above that figure. The little but busy town of Brook now has two newspapers, which real* ly seems too much of a good thing, for a town of its size; yet judging from the advertising patronage of the new venture, the business men of town are ready to give it a liberal support. The Brook Reporter is the name of the second paper, the first number of which was issued last week, and was a very creditable local paper. Its editor is Jacob D. Rich, a well known lawyer, of Brook. Since the above was m type we have learned that the new paper takes the place of the old one; which has demised. In other words the Up-To-Date, Is out of date.,