Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Page 1

The Rensselaer Republican.

VOL. XXVII

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BEN&SELAEE TIME TABLE. ALL TRAINS STOP AT RENSSE LAEB x SOUTH BOUND. No- tt—Louisville Mail, Daily..... 10:57 P M. NO. S 3 3:00 P. M. No. 89— Milk aocoimn., Daily 8:iOP. M. No B—Louisville Express, Daily 11:0I P. M. No 45—Local freight 3-24P.M. NORTH BOUND. No. 4-Mail 4:22 A. M. No. 36 ... 4:32 A.M. No. 40—Milk accorom.. Daily 7:81 A, M. NO. 30—. R 8:00 P,M. No. e—Mail ana Express, Daily.. 8.24 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight 9:30 A. M. NO. 74, Freight 9:?7 P. M. No. 74 carries passengers between Lafayette ; aid Rensselaer.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs- Horace G* Daniels, Brakley Tp., Wednesday, April Btb. Twin boys were born last Monday, April 13th to Mr. and Mrs. John C, Hodshire, in the east part of town. James V. Weaver, an estimable and rising young lawyer of Delphi, fell dead in the street, from paralysis of the heart and brain one night recently. Walter White has finished the demolition of the old Halloran livery barn, and begun work on his new one, to take its place. Preparations are being made for the meeting of the Ministerial Association of the Valparaiso District, to be held here June 16th and 17th next. Wm. Moore, of Delphi, a freight brakeman on the Monon, was killed Tuesday of last week, by falling between the oars, and the wheels passing over him. Mrs. Alfred arrived home from an exteuded Southern trip, last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson, who went South with her, will prolong their stay for several weeks,

The Telephone Company has ordered an additional switch board, and requests all who desire to become subscribers, to leave word at once, at the central office, or with the president and general manager, Delos Thompson. ** A ■ There are only two saloons now running in Rensselaer, and neither of them probably accumulating wealth in any very surprising degree. In fact Bensselaer is a mighty temperate town, with as little drinking probably, as in any place of its size in the state. “Bill N" Jones arrived home last Friday from his winter’s stay in Atlanta, jGa. He is looking exceptionally sleek and fat, which is partly accounted for by the fact that all kinds of Afresh “garden Bass” have been among his constant articles of diet for some time. Bill N. will be strictly in the roof painting business here, this season. The state board of charities has condemned the law passed by the last legislature, requiring that prisoners discharged from the penitentiary shall be returned by the sheriff to the county from which they were sentenced and released at jail. The law was well meant, and it was thought would be -a benefit to the discharged convicts, but in practical application it has evidently proven the oonlrary.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, THURSDAY. APRIL 1AT896

E D. Rhoades is taking the enumeration of the school children. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Warren, Saturday, April 11 th. Mrs. Dr. Ensminger, of Craw fordsville is visiting her Rensselaer relatives, this week. Born, Sunday, April 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. Harley Shields, a daughter, Sile Swain of Morocco, was in town Saturday. He had just been east with a shipment of horses. Drs. Washburn and English moved Tuesday into their new offices, in Leopold’s block, formerly occupied by the Drs. Loughridge: Editor Landis was given a rousing reception by his fellow townsmen of Delphi, on his return from the convention which nominated him for Congress. Delphi people are very proud of Mr. Laud is, and he is a man of whom any community might well be proud. Marriage licenses since last reported. ( George D. Mustard, | Maud M. Plummer. j Frank V. Nichols, ) Bertha Krempel* j Bernard H. Meinbrook. ( Amzie E. Beck.

Monticello had a $14,000 fire, Saturday, April 4fcfr, the principal loser being Qustavel, a harness manufacturer. The Herald says that but for the efficient aid of Monticello’s new water works, the fire would have spread to many adjacent buildings, and the loss would have been twice as great. Here is half the cost of a good water works system saved at a single fire. The lecture by Dr. John, last Friday night, was the last of a series of six entertainments under the management of the Rensselaer Lecture Club. All have been entertainments of strictly high class character, and all have been very liberally patronized by the public. It is evident that the day has gone by, in Rensselaer, when nothing could fully succeed here in the entertainment line except Uncle Tom’s Cabin companies, or cheap and vulgar theaters. In fact, it is now demonstrated that Rensselaer is a good town for high class lectures and entertainments.

The first new divorce ease for several months was filed in the circuit courtythelatter part of last week. Sarah E. Burnsid is the plantiff, and she wants a divorce from William H., of that ilk. They were married in Feb. 1887 and separated in October, 1895. Plaintiff charges cruel and inhuman treatment, such as cursing, kicking, bruising and wounding her; and also threatened her life. She has three little girls, aged 4,6, and B*' years, respectively, and of these she asks the custody. She makes no mention of the defendant’s property, and presumably he has none. She lives in Walker Tp., but her husband is in Wells County.

What is undoubtedly one of the most valuable and interesting books ever sold in Rensselaer by subscription, is now being introduced by Thos. Cody. It is the story of Bishop Wm. Taylor’s life, written by himself, with the history of his wonderful life as a missionary in Africa for so many years. Bishop Taylor has had one of the most remarkable careers of any man that ever went to preach the gospel to the savages, and this story of his life, as thus graphically told in his own language, and illustrated by numerous well executed pictures, must be wonderfully interesting and instructive. From a mechanical point of view, the book is also all that could be asked for, which is not always the case in subscription books. The printing, the binding, the piotures and the paper are all first class. And no undue amount of blank paper is left on the margins of the pages or between the lines, as is too often done, to make*small book look large.

J. T. Penn has moved -his residence from across the river into Mts. Leota Jones’ tenant house cn Front street. . - Shedd Bros., on ♦he Pleasant Ridge read, are patting down 5 or 6 carloads of tile this spring.’Jason Hines, an expert ditcher from Illinois, is doing the work. Mrs. P. W. Clark and children returned Tuesday from their protraded stay in Lowell. All have fully recovered from their sicknesses.

S. F. Armstrong of Kentland, who had the bad luck to lose his pocket book, while coming to Rensselaer last week, had the good luck to have it found by an honest man, Chas. Kessinger, a few miles sonthwest of town. He promptly brough it to this office, on seeing Mr. Armstrong’s advertisement. . .I-*#' . ' ' The Rensselaer Telephone Company has ordered another switch board, of 50 phone capacity, which is expected to arrive in a few days The magnitude of the telephone exchange at Rensselaer is remarkalbe. There are already 150 subscribers, and the demand for new ones indicates that as soon as the new switch board is io, the number will soon reach the 200 mark.

If the devil-incarnate Hoi mes, tell the truth in his confession, or rather his statement of his crimes, one, of bis most noted victims, was brought into this portion of Indiana to be murdered and disposed of. He says he took Minnie Williams to Momence, 111., intending to murder her there, but having met a man there who knew him, be got scared and took the woman eight miles east, on a “little used freight line” meaning the “Three I” Railroad, to a small place, and there killed her and buried her body under the building. The place answering the description must be Lineville, a little place on tne “3 I’s in Lake Co., about a mile from the Illinois line’ and 12 or 14 miles east of Shelby. If the inhuman monster’s story is true her remains are probably there yet and might easily be found.

The editor of a backwoods paper in Kentucky has lost faith in Second Adventism. He says: “We got fooled on this very thing once before; some crank made us believe the end of the world was coming in February, 1881. We sold onr overcoats, and bought a lot of thin linen stuff and had itinade np into what the prophet ealled “Aseension robes,” We got ready to go up the day set. We got on one of these robes, and looked every minute for ‘the end’ to come, jabbing us into eternity. We even climbed up on the housetop to be nearer the skies when it did come. We looked in vain for the end. Our neighbors laughed at us. We =&re on earth yet. Wepwere fined SSO for wearing such clothes in day time in public. We caught a cold and bad a case of pneumonia which cost SSO for a doctor’s bill, No, Mr. Prophet, we’ve done with the “end of the world.”

Some little excitement was occasioned on Washington Street, Saturday afternoon, by a couple of western cowboys, one of whom was giving exibitions of his skill in throwing his lasso. He had roped one or two bystanders, and finally threw his noose over Lem Huston’s shoulder* Lem had noticed that the cowboy bad been eying him considerable, and had made it convenient to have his pocket knife open in his hand; and no sooner had the rope settled over Lem’s expansive shoulders than he raised the knife and cut the rope intwo. This raised the wild westerner’s wrath and he gave Lem several phoice selections of the cowboys’ language of invective. Lem invited the cowboy to come up on the sidewalk, and repeat the language. This invitaion the cowboy accepted, but before matters reached a more serious turn, some of Huston’s friends interefered to prevent a row and the affair passed off without further trouble.

Mighty Near Unanimous.

Rensselaer Votes for A City Government. The special election to determine wbeUicr Rensselaer shonid have a city government was held last Friday. Only one poll was open, which wasat the" town hall. Although there wasa good deal of active work done, both for and against the ‘‘city ” proposition, yet the election was a very qniet and peaceable one. The size of the vote polled was unexpectedly large, as also the majority in favor of the proposition to incorporate as a city. When the vote was counted out it showed. In favor of city government.. .283 Against city government....... 93 Majority in favor 190 The whole number of votes cast was 378, of which two only were thrown out for defective marking. This s a larger total yote than w£s ever cast at a regular town election. The next largest being 322 in 1893. At the waterworks election last September, the total vote cast was 312.

Au Attempt at Suicide.

Last Saturday evening Noah Arnold, who lives with his father, Andrew Arnold, in Barkley Township, gave himself a big gash in the throat with a razor, with suicidal intent. The cut was about 2£ inches long and quite deep, but not deep enough to sever the windpipe or any main veins or arteries. He committed the I act in an up-stairs room, and it was j not discovered until members of the i family went to call him to supper,! when he was found in an unconscious condition. Dr. Alter was called and found him not very dangerously injured, although considerably weakened by the loss of biood. And this latter condition was increased Monday morning by the act of the would be suicide, who, on being left alone a few minutes, inserted his finger in his wound and deliberately tore it open

again, causing a farther considerable loss of blood; Dr. Alter was again called, and this time he strapped the man’s hands to his sides thus preventing any further attempts of the character. * The would-be suicide is about 45 or 50 years old, and has a wife and two children. He has never shown any evidence of insanity, but probably is very despondent over the fact that he has been losing his eyesight for some time and is now almost totally blind.

B. Eorsythe has a good force of brick-layers at work on his new building now. Lee Catt will move to Greenfield this week. He has accepted a good situation there as salesman in a large department store. Mr. Bernard H. Mein brook and Miss. Amzie E. Beck were married Tuesday forenoon, at list. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Rev. St. Neiberg preforming the ceremony. The newly married couple will live on the Kohloff place, 2 miles south of town. The bride is the daughter of “Uncle Billy” Beck, who lives just west of Weston cemetery. Sam Lee, the Chinaman, is still in the county jail, although his ten days sentence expired last Sunday. His fine and costs, amounting to $34 are are still unpaid, and it is likely that Sam will remain in jail the 34 days more, instead of putting up the cash. It seems according to Sam’s story he has been lending all his money to a cousin in Chicago, in order to have it where he could get it when he gets ready to go back to China, and that he has written to his cousin for money to pay his fine, and the cousin has written back that he could not get it for him. It is more than probable however that Sam don’t want to pay his fine,; but prefers to stay it ont in jail. He is now getting the equivalent of a dollar a day, and better board than he ever dreamed of furnishing himself with, and it probably being more than the aetr proffer of Iris wish hoose, hr hr willing to lay there until his fine is layedout \

Three City Wards.

... Other Town Board Matters. ' ' ’ V " '* • The Town Board Monday night, received the report of the election iu Tnyor uL making Senßßel«er into a city, and as by law required they proceeded to divide the city into wards. They made three wards, which is the least number which the law permits. Each ward will elect two Council men. By careful stndy the Board so laid out the wards that they are bounded by well known streets, have a very equal number of people, and can all have down-town verting places.

FIRST WARD. The First 'Ward is the South Ward. It takes in all that part of town which would be cut off by following Washington street <ieest on McCoy Avenue to the west limity of town; and by .following the same Washington street to its eastern end, at Harry Harris’s place; and then north on Division about 100 feet to the first street running east, which is Cedar street, and then east on this street to the town limits. The population of this ward is 750. Its voting place is the town hall.

SECOND WARD. The Second Ward is the Northwest Ward. It may be located by starting at the Makeever House, and going north or northwest on Cullen street to Berry Parris’ j corner, and then on due north, on Forest street, across the railroad and clear to the north limits of the town, near F. M. Parker’s residence. Its southern boundary is Washington street, west from Makeever House, then McCoy avenue, to its west end, and then the river to the town limits. Its population is 725 and its voting place is M. Eger’s carpenter shop.

THIRD WARD. The Third Ward, is the Northeast Ward. Its western boundary is these same Cullen and Forest streets, from the Makeever House north to the town limits. Its southern boundary is Washington street, from the Makeever House east to Henry Harris’ place, and then Cedar street due east to the town limits. Its population is 750 and voting place the north sample room in the Makeever House. The long worked for alley east and west through Block Three was ordered opened. It starts be-, tween Rosenbaum’s and btrickfaden’s saloons, on Van Rensselaer street, and ends between Geo. Smith’s blacksmith shop and Warners’ Implement store, on Front street.

,ware appointed to view an alley in Block Nine. To start on Van Rensselaer street, back of Forsythe’s new buiding, and end on Cullen street, near Cox Bros’ carpenter shop. A board side walk is ordered on ths south side of Sonth Btreet, from Dr Washburn’s residence west to Weston Cemetery. The following Inspectors were appointed for the forthcoming city election: For the E%st Ward, Ancil Woodworth. For the Second Ward, I. J. Porter. For the Third Ward, Elmerald Aldrich. Dr. John’s lecture at the opera house Friday nighty was attended by a very large and very intelligent audience. The Doctor is a very learned as well as a very logical and eldquent man, and he gave Pope Bob’s peculiar views some decidedly knock-out blows. All however in the most courteous manner, and free from the least quality of abuse or sarcasm, -w. 4 The County Commissioners were conferring Monday with a Lane Bridge Co., man in regard to Dtmn’s bridges -The- Company promise to resume work as soon as the river gets a little lower.

To Rensselaer Republicans.

Gall fur Ward and City ConventionsWard Conventions. Notice is hereby given to the Republican voters of the city of Rensselaer, Ind, and to all others who desire to affiliate with said i party that on * Friday Evening April 17th. 1806, at 8 oclock P. M. sharp, the Republicans of the respective wards, as formed by Town Council, will meet at the following places towit: First Ward, at the Court House. Second Ward, at Eger’s Shop. Third Ward, at the Makeever House, for the purpose of nominating two candidates for Councilmen, from each ward, to be voted for at the coming city election.

CITY CONVENTION. Notice is also given that a Eebublican City Mass Convention will be on MONDAY EVENING APRIL 20th. 1896, at 8 o’clock P. M. sharp, at the Court House, for the purpose of nominating candidates as follows: One Mayor, One Treasurer, : ' - One Clerk, One Marshal, of safu city, to be voted for at the coming city election. By. order of the Republican City Committee. Geo. E. Murray, Chairman. Attest C. G. Spitler, Secretary. Candidate’s Announcements.

FOR MAYOR.

J, M. Wassqn. We are authorized to announce the name of John M. Wasson, as a candidate for Mayor of the city of Rensselaer. Subject to the decision of the Republican City Convention. ABRAHAM LEOPOLD. We are authorized to announce that Abraham Leopold is a candidate for the office of Mayor for the city of Rensselaer. Subject to the decision of the city Republican convention. JAMES A. BURNHAM. We are authorized to. announce to the voters of Rensselaer that James A. Burnham is a candidate for the office of Mayor. Subject to the action of the Republican city convention. THOMAS J. McCOY. The Republican is authorized to announce the name of Thomas J. McCoy as a candidate for the office mayor of the city of Rensselaer. Subject to the decision of the Republican convention. Fob City Clekk. c. m. blub. We are authorized to announce the name of CfTirTes Ml Blue as a candidate for the office of City Cleik. Subject to the decision of the Republican city convention. SCHUYLEB C. IbWIN. The name of Schuyler C. Irwin is presented as a candidate for the office of Citv Clerk, for the city of Rensselaer. Subject to the decision of the Republican city convention. Fob City Marshal. THOMAS MCGOWAN. We are authorized to announce to the voters of Rensselaer, that Thomas McGowan, is a candidate for the office of City Marshal. Subject to the action of the Republican city convention. \ BURGESS DILLON. The name of Burgess Dillon is presented to the voters of Rensselaer as a candidate for the office of City Marshal. Subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention. FRANK G. HKNKLE. We are authorized to present the name of Frank G. Henkle to the voters of Rensselaer as a candidate for the office of City Marshal, Subject to the action of the Republican convention. Ferguson & Wilson’s officii is SrtL door south of McCoys Rank and on ground floor. No stairs to climb.

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