Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth is recovering from a severe sickness. J. W. Burgel went to Newman 111., Thursday for a few days’ stay, Joe Lakey has returned from Frankfort, where he baa been staying the past winter. Uncle Ad. Parkison is now recovering from his late severe sickness, from lung fever. The call for the Democratic county convention has been issued. It will beheld the 16th of May. Mrs. C; W. Hanley la no w makin g satisfactory progress towards recovery from her late severe sickness. Mrs. 0. M. Allen, of Kalamazoo, Mich, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Holl mgs worth* D. B. Nowels completed his term as principal of the Wheatfield schools last Friday, and is now at home here. Quarterly meeting at the M. E.~ Church Sunday May 3. Quarterly conference May 4, at 9 o’clock a. m. The prospects for the wheat crop in Jasper county are very fine now, according to the generality of accounts. Squire Geo. Hollister has traded his farm near Kniman for a stock of merchandise, and he is now in business at Stoutsburg. Mrs. K. Rosenbaum left for her home at Helena, Montana, Friday after quite an extended visit here, with her son, A. Rosenbaum. Uncle Isaac Alter, of Union Tp., arrived here last week after a winter’s stay in Florida, which he found very beneficial to his health, as well as yery pleasant. Geo. W. Faris, of Haute, the first native of Jasper Co. that ever went to Congress, as we believe, was renominated last week, by the Republicans of bis distriot. The Baccalaureate Sermon to this year's high school graduates will,bp delivered by D. W. Fisher, D* D. and L. L. D., President of Hanover College. The date is May 24tb. Bert Hopkins’ abounding faith in his new $125 Stearns hicycle received something of a shock, the other day, when one one of the pedal bars broke square off, like it was made of cast iron. Dr. J. H. Honan, of Hammond, visited his brother, E. P. Honan last Thursday and Friday, it being his farewell visit' previous to his mar l riage and trip to and protracted stay in Europe.

Dr, Marcum, of Cave City Ky., who it was stated some time back would move to Rensielaer, has just located in Monon. He is a relative of-Mrs. A. Woodworth, of this city. Dr. John delivered his anti-Inger-soll lecture at Steinway Hall, Chicago, on Tuesday night of last week, to an immense audience. The Chicago papers commented very favorbly upon the lecture. - v ... Arthur L&Belle, architect of the Monticello court house, and one of unsuccessful applicants for the same employment in this county, died at his home in Marion, . April 10th of heart disease. - Bert Jones, of Belwood, Neb., vis. ited his father, W. N. Jones, the latter part of last week. He is staying at Medary ville settling up the affairs of his father-in-law, the late Mdses Pfewett. Two car loads of horses have been shipped out of Rensselaer, within a week past, by different parties. The prices now paid for good heavy horses is considerably better than it has been for some time past. • Mrs. M. B. Alter went to St Lou s, Monday to visit her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Gamble and husband, and to to be present at the celebration of their fifth wedding gnniverary, which occured yesterday. Samuel Thompson, the “Carroll County Giant” committed suicide one day last week, by hanging himself in his barn. He had been in poor health a long time. He was nearly six feet and eight inches tall. The recent spell of summer weather, during which the thermometer reached as high as 85 degrees in the s hade on several successive days, is said to have been the warmest April weather for 20 years or longer.

David Shields and J. F. Iliff both bought land In Tennessee, during their recent trip there. Mr. Shields will probably go to his land soon, to develope its lumbering possibilities, there being much fine timber growing on it, . Marion L. Coover, brother of our County.clerk, has just finished eight years service as auditor of Newton County. He will remove to Remington, where he already is a member of a prominent grain-dealing firm. Noah Arnold, of Barkley, whose throat cutting experiment was rerelated last week, is now fast recovering, aud from hialalk an4^tctioßS r is apparently glad that he didn’t bear down any harder on the razor. Married—Monday April 20,1896. at the home of the officiating Rev. R. D. Utter, Rensselaer, Ind., Mr. Joseph Pray, of Kankakee, Ills., apd Miss Sadie Hill, of Marseilles, Ills. Mr. Pray is telegraph operator at Kankakee. _ The representive of Beyers Bros., of Monticello, at his regular weekly visit to Rensselaer last Friday, bought 5000 dozen eggs, being one week’s accumulations of our grocers. Five thousand dozen, being 60,000 individual eggs, is a pretty large quantity of “hen fruit” to gather in one week in one town. According to the Monon News a certain person “Wednesdayed” at a certain place. The law provides no punishment for using the expression, although it deserves six months in the calaboose, at least. But how much worse is it than to say some one “Sundayed” some place or other ? A form of expression now quite common in many newspapers. " C. W. Coen has bought of W. B. Austin the handsome residence property on McCoy Avenue, usually known as the Robert Dwiggins place. Mr. Coen will occupy his new purchase as a residence, moving in the course of a few weeks. His present residence on Main street was traded to Mr. Austin in part payment for the Dwiggins place. By the trade Mrr Austin becbmes owner, aba of 80 acres of the old Yeoman farm, adjoining town on the northwest- - ‘

Monticello has started a monthly horse-market day; and which basso far proved q uite a succeed. Consid- j ering how many horses are sold in j Jasper Countv every year, it would, seem that such a market day in Rensselaer ought to be a great success. Dr. Lome Jackson who was announced to settle in Rensselaer about April 15th has not arrived, although we leam from our original authority for his coming, that he is still expected to come here. He has been located in Cannda, for some time past. He is not related to the Drs. Jackson formerly of Rensselaer. Mrs. Lucinda Porter, the venerable mother of I. J. and R. B. Porter, is lying very low at the home of the latter, a few miles southeast of town, as the result of a paralytic stroke, suffered last Wednesday afternoon. Her condition is such as to preclude any hope of recovery nor even of survival beyond a very few days, at the mostThe Rensselaer Democrats nominated the following ticket, at a meeting held at W. R. Nowels’ office, last Friday evening. For Mayor, John Eger; Treasurer, J. W. Paxton, for Clerk, Frank Maloy; for Marshal, *«L —P. Warner:- Councilmen: First Ward, C. D. Nowels, Felix French; Second Ward, N. S. Bates, F. M. Parker. / Third Ward, W.H. Eger, W. R. Nowels.

Thompson & Bro.. Hollingsworth <fc Hopkins, and E. L. Hollingsworth have bought of W. H. Owen, of Urbana, 111., the east 80 of his quarter section, adjoining the corporation on the north. The tract is already laid out as a town addition, in 5 acre blocks, and it is not unlikely that the new owners will still further subdivide it. The land was bought at the comparatively very low price of $72 per acre. The Supreme Court last week reinstated the suit against the Bowens, of Delphi, the tax-dodgers. The case was begun by Carroll County officials, claiming a large sum for back taxes. Finally the case was compromised by the Bowen heirs paying Car-roll County ! 10,t)0fr~ftnd the coats of the suit. No provision was made for the State’s back taxes, and it was at the instance of Attorney General Ketchum that the compromise was set aside and the case re-instated.

The eleven year old daughter of a Mr. Wagner, a mile or two north of town, was quite badly hurt, one day last week. She was driving a team, harrowing, and turning too short the harrow turned over, and falling upon the girl one of the teeth entered ahout as inclkand a half. Other, teeth of the harrow bruised her badly. The horses she was driving were, luckily, very steady, and they stopped when the accident occured, or the girl would surely h*YO been killed. Dr, Alter has charge of her case and reports her as getting along very well. Clerk Coover made a number of new American citizens Monday. The list included Gustav Herman Heinrich, and Leonard Kelstedt, the journeymen tailors in the employ of B. K. Zimmerman. Heinrich was from Prussia, and his oath of allegiance to Uncle Samuel required him to specially forswear all allegiance to Kaiser Wilhelm H. Mr. Kelstedt is a Swede, from the dominions of Oscar 11. A more unusual recipient of the dignities and responsibilities of American citizenship, naturalized the same day, was Thomas Zurek, the big and good natured Syrian who has the fruit store just west of Fendig’s drug store. The monarch whom he especially forswears, and no doubt glad of the chance, is Abdul Hamid U, Sultan of Turkey. Still another naturalization, the same day, was Yeus Anderson, representing still another foreign country; Christian IX, king of Denmark, being the monarch who he swears to owe no more allegiance” to. Yous is a bright young fellow who has been in this country only 4jjrears, but he speaks English like a native, ftnffis well informed in all publio matters. He works on the railroad at present.

" ■ i....... 5—.... s —.... v ' B. F. Fendig, the druggist, has reopened his museum of living wonders; the attraction this time being three white mice, with pink eyes. They are very pretty little fellows, about half grown, and were found by Arthur Trussell, north of town, in his oat bin. In the same nest was ths mother mouse and two other little on;s, all of the ordinary mouse color. The people of Momence have been searching zealously for the remains of Minnie Williams, who according to Holmes’ pretended confession he killed and buried at some point on the Three I road, east of Momence. The searches have been made at Castleton, : about 5 miles east of Momence and at j Lineville, about 8 pr 9 miles east. I The latter point being in Lake Co., this state, about midway between Shelby and Momence. The search has been without any result, so far, and probably will continue so. Holmes’ story has already been proved to be a pack of monstrous lies in many particulars, and no doubt his Momence story was a lie also. Miss Mary Bites, daughter of N. S. Bates, whose sickness of many weeks duration resulting from an electric shock, at the high school, had a very dangerous relapse last week, and for a day or two, the latter part of the week, hei life was almost dispaired of. In this connection it is proper to

state that many of the reports of the circumstances of Mary’s shock, are erronious. It occured at the noon hour, and several others were present and had received shocks of the same intensity, and even stronger ones, without inconvenience, but, owing probably to difference m her nervous system, the same charge that was harmless to all others, was terribly disastrous to Miss Bates. Last Friday in Chicago the temperature made the enormous tumble of 34 degrees m 30 minutes. This excessive and very uncomfortable and dangerous drop m the temperature was not perceptibly noticed in Rensselaer. And tha* fact reminds us that this immediate section of Indiana escapes a great many violent jerks in the temperature and many disagreeable storms and fogs that afflict Chicago and the regions of this state bordering on Lake Michigan. In the matter of snow-falls especially is this difference in climate very noticeable. There is never a winter, probably, in which there are not heavy and lasting falls of snow in all of that region between the Kankakee river and Lake Michigan, which this portion of the state escapes entirely.

An exciting and dangerous runaway took place on Washington street just before noon Saturday. A team with a two seated rig was just in frontof The Republican office, when the horses were scared by a passing bicycle, and began to jump <and plunge. In the front 1 seat was the driver, a boy of about 16, and in the back seat two women and a little girl. One of the lines gave way and the driver jumped out and tried to catch the horses by the bridles, but they went too fast for him, and were soon galloping down the street, with the helpless and badly frightened women and child in the back seat, in eminent danger of being thrown out and badly hurt. At McCoy’s bank corner, where half the street was blocked with Forsythe’s building material, and a large crowd quickly gathered in the other half, the horses slacked up somewhat and just before they reached Van Rensselaer street, Frank Kean made a flying catch and seized one of the horses by the bridle, and

about the same time Albert OvGfton caught the other horse, and by their combined exertions they euoceeded in-bringing the homes to a standstill. Beyond the great fright to the inmates of the buggy, no damage was done by the runaway. The ladies names were Barton and they came from the vicinity of Mt. Ayr. Their aitnatkm during the brief period of the runaway was one of very great danger.