Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Wheat 55 to 60. Corn 23. Oats 15 to 16. Bye 80 to 32. Hay 27.50 to 29.00. Mrs. Wm. Washburn is sick with jaeuralgia. Henry Grow moved into town Monday occupying his new residence, north of the railroad. Mrs. L. M. lines is in Chicago, buying goods and studying late millinery styles. One of the two stores at Parr has changed ownership recently. Abe Warne the proprietor having sold to M. O. Gant. C. E. Jenkins, living a little' northeast of town for several years past, has moved this week to Lake Co., where he has bought a good farm near Crown Point. Mr. John L. Adams and Miss Lillie A. Smith both from the Gifford district, were married Monday in the county treasurer’s office, by Squire James A. Burnham. Bev. J; W. Clear, a German Baptist or Dimkard clergyman, living north of town for several years past, has moved this week to Scottville, Mason Co., Michigan. Scarcely a day passes that from one to half a dozen teams do not go through Rensselaer headed for the Gifford lands. A good many of them come from Benton county. John and Will King and Will McCord all went up into the swamp regions “behind Fair Oaks,” last Saturday, expecting to put in several weeks in shooting ducksand geese. Miss Helen Kelley, one of the third year teachers in the town schools, is taking a rest of a few weeks, on account of poor health. Miss Alice Irwin teaches in her room, in the meantime. A. J. McFarland, of Jordan Tp. moved into town Tuesday, and occupies T. W. Grant’s house, corner Elm and Dayton streets. Mr. McFarland will be connected with the business management of the Pilot. Edward Bowman, son of Mrs. 'Mattie Bowman, left Tuesday for Asheville, North Carolina, in the hope that the climate of that region would prove beneficial to his failing health.

J. W. Burgett moved yesterday, from J. C. Chilcote’s house, into the Sam Henry property, on Kannal street. Isaac J. Clark, the blind farmer of Milroy Tp., is going to quit. farming and will make a public sale on next Tuesday, March 10th, selling six milk cows, 6 horses, 20 hogs, and oilin' hve stock, grain, vehicles, farming implements etc. Mis. Michael Bresnahan of Union Tp.. died last Monday evening, at quite an advanced age. Her funeral wtd be held at the Catholic church in Rensselaer this Thursday morning. In* urrhent in the Catholic cemetery, south of town.

The officers to be elected on the State ticket next November are: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Superintendent of Public Instructions, Attorney General. Reporter of Supreme Court, five Appellate Judges and State Statisitcan. There are no Supreme Judges to elect. Frank Borsch, the Nott Rupture Cure man, has given up the at* tempt to make a profitable business in introducing the cure, and has moved back to Lafayette, his former home. He and his father. invested about 81,500 in buy ing the right for four or five counties, which amount is probably-practically a total loss. Emma Zacher, a girl eight years old, whose parents live in Newton Tp., died Monday morning, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Flett, on Division street. The cause of her death was impaction of the bowels. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, at the M. E. church, the religious services being conducted by Revs. RD. Utter and Carl Lang.

The mystery of the disappearance of Mrs. A. B. Cody, of Chicago, and a picture and description of whom has been posted, in the Rensselaer post-office for feme time, has been solved. She wandered from the hou.e of her parents at Tacoma, Wash.. Jan. 31st, and committed suicide. Her body was found Monday, by her father. A saloon row at Fowler, last week, resulted in the killing of a man, under rather peculiar circumstances. It was between Freeman Pritchett, son ot the proprietor of the saloon, and Frank Ducharme. In the fight Freeman struck Ducharme in the neck with his fist and broke his neck, killing him instantly. Pritchett left but was caught at Earl Park, and is no w out on 82,000 bail. The dead man left a large famiiy-

Uncle Ad Parkison tell us that our paragraph of last week, in regard to Wm. Lee, the longest time convict in Michigan City, was erroneous in respect to Mr. Parkison having had charge of money belonging to Lee, ever since his conviction. A few years ago Lee sent Mr. Parkison some money for a special purpose, which was kept in a bank here for a year or two, and then withdrawn by Lee, which was all there was of the money story. E, J. Hyland, of Plainfield, 111., committed suicide in Atlanta, Ga., one day last week. He was an older brother Of E. N. and J. H. Hyland, former well known residents of Rensselaer, and was himself an occasional visitor here, and we believe was formerly, if not until death, the owner of property in this county. He went south to invest in lands, but evidently became insane, and in that condition committed suicide. He was quite wealthy. Among the many people moving into the Gifford district, some mixture of the tough element is unavoidable; and with this element considerable serious trouble is being experienced. Lately two of his houses and two barns have been burned, evidently by incendiaries; and more acts of the kind are feared. Last Monday a constable went out from Rensselaer and served warrants of ejectment upon one or two objectable families.

‘ C.E. Mills has been< at Kentiknd this week,.on legal business. Wm. Reed, on the Thompson ranch, near Pan¥caught bitax on a branch of a tree, while chopping Monday, and gave himself a bad gash through the ear and across the cheek. A small artery was severed and considerable loss of blood resultedDr. Altar was called and re porta him doing well now.

An, article in last week’s Pilot advocating injunction proceedings against the new court house, bean all th&eac-marks of having been written by some shrewd lawyer, wbo-expecta» in ease the injunction method is undertaken, to-be employed on one side or the other. The Logansport Chronicle speaking of f*ke doctors 'Taya’s “Logansport sends out to the neighboring cities six or seven such “doctors,” some disguised as Indian doctors and others who are known here as plain, everyday frauds. Not a man in the whole outfit could get a Job ©4 doctoring a sick cow in Logansport, and yet they manage to eke out a living by prey* ing on the people of surrounding towns. Keep your eye peeled for the Indian doctor, the sagwa doctor, the clairvoyant doctor/ and the other chaps who are not able to distinguish between a puke and a pill. One Peter Trudeau was arrested Saturday, charged with assault and battery. He is said to live at Mt Ayr, or thereabouts. On the day before bis arrest, so it is said, he called at the house of Wm. Burch, I on the Baker farm between Rensselaer I and Remington, for a sack of meal, and while there attempted to kiss Mrs. Burch, who was alone in the house. She thumped .him on the nose, bloodying that organ; and when her husband returned, told him of Trudeau’s conduct, and Burch had him arrested. He is held to the. circuit court.

A number of the W. R. C. ladies met at Mrs. Wm. Warren’s last Saturday evening, to help her celebrate her birthday. And it was well to observe the occasion then because Mrs. Warren, having been born on the 29 th of February, has a birthday only once in four years, in the most favorable conditions, and now, owing to the precise particularity of the astronomers to keep the calendar in jibe with the gynations of the solar system, she will have to wait eight years this time for another birthday. . “Its a long time between birthdays” for February 29th people these days, for a fact.

Uncle Billy Bussell moving in from Hanging Grove Tp., last week and now occupies the commodious residence on the south side of town which formerly was the Chas. Worden place. Mr. Bussell has made a big move for him.' He came to Hanging Grove Tp. 53 years ago, and has lived there constantly ever since, until he moved to Rensselaer last week. It is a long time to live in one place. When he came to Hanging Grove, as he says, deers and wolves were as numerous as rabbits are now. Herds of a 100 deers together were sometimes seen. Uncle Billy was right after them as soon as he was big enough to shoulder a gun, and he got his share while they were going. A great affliction has fallen upon Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Goff in the death, last Saturday morning, of their youngest son, Neal Sigler Goff. The sad event occured at the residence of Mrs. F. M. Sigler, sister of Mr. Goff, at 8525 Grand Boulevard, Chicago; to which place the boy went with his mother just a week before, for a visit. He was taken with typhoid fever, and later complications of pneumonia and heart disease set in. His age was 12 years, lacking 21 days. His death leaves to his afflicted parents only one child, an older son, two other sons having died before, and Neal was buried by their sides, at the cemetery at Crown Point The funeral was held at the latter place, Monday forenoon at the residence of Mrs. Brown, a relative of the family.