Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.