Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 25. r y Oats 17 to 18. Rye 30. Hay $8 to $9. The Rensselaer band will picnic at Cedar Lake, next Sunday, » Miss. Nora Landis of Delphi spent Sunday with Lucy and Katie Shields-. 3rand mother Marshall has gone to Will Co., 111., her old home, to spend the summer. Jaa. Frazier of Kirklin is visiting relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity this week. To Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hopkins, north of the railroad, Thursday, May 14th, a son. Born, Friday, May 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. Veach Peterson, northwest part of town, a son. A daughter Wednesday, May 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Clinger, north of the railroad. Mrs. J. A. Burnham is laid;:.up with a sprained ankle, resulting from a fall received last Monday. A son was born last Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nichols, on the Henry Fisher farm, north of town.

Edward Hollin the new shoe maker, will build a house this season, near J. C. Carmichael’s place, near the railroad. Drs. Berkley and Hartsell successfully removed a tumor from the neck of Miss Blanche Makeever, last Wednesday- —J— Uncle Ad. Parkison is making preparations to build himself a fine residence, this summer, just north of the one he now occupies. John T. Brown, the well known attorney of Fowler, has been sick for a long time, and is only beginning to get better now. Mesdames H. W. Porter, Alfred Collins and W. J. Imes represented the Rensselaer Rebekas at the grand lodge at Indianapolis, Tuedday. John Ross, of Lafayette, has just bought 7,200 acres of land in the Kankakee valley, near La Cross, in La Porte Co. He paid 1200,000 for it. A man in Jefferson Township, Carroll Co., is assessed on five dollors and seventy-five cents worth of property, and five dollors of that is in dogs, Mrs, Carrie Jonbson who was at Lafayette taking a course of medical treatment, returned last Saturday, but is still far from being i'. good health. Wilbur Tharp is playing ball with the South Bend cluti, this season. He had intended to play with Warsaw, but South Bend offered him better terms. t The Presbyterians of Fowler are about to build a fine new church. J. L. Fatout, of Indianapolis, the well known contractor, was the succesful bidder, at $7944. •' La Porte city’s school enumeration has fallen off 1800 since last yean. La Porte always was the champion enumerator fraud of northern Indiana. The new enumeration law is a great success. Chas. Majchow, southeaster town, has bought three lots in Harvey’s addition and will, it is stated, build a good house on them this season, and move to town.. Fine frames only a dollar and a half apiece, at the Pavilion photograph gallery. , Clothing at Cost at The Model. Postively going to Quit inside of 60 more days.

Rev. Dr. Fisher, president of Hanover Qplh-ge, will deliver the baccalaurea’e sermon f. r the high school gratluaUs, at the M. E. chunh next Sunday. ui 3 o’clock'. Mr. and Mrs. Freelove, of Elmwood, 111 , came to attend the funeral of i he 1-itter’s father Henry Aldrich, hut hi riv> d too late. They remained till Monday, visiting relatives. Memorial services next Sunday morning 10:45 at Trinity M. E. Cimruli mvier the auspices of the G. A II Post. Sermon by the Rev. Mi'. Paradis, of the Presbyterian church. , •

Dr. Amulphy, of Chicago, was in Rensselaer Sunday consulting with Dr. Hart Sell on the case of DeLos Thompson’s little boy, sick with the lung fever —U '..J / u!— D. W- Shields and J. F. Warren attended Odd Fellows grand lodge, at Indianapolis, yesterday. The former was the official respresentative of the Irdquois Lodge to the grand lodge. Miss Lutz is teaching a fine Subscription School at the Osborne school house. Miss Lutz graduates from the common schools this spring and is familiar with work to be done in such schools. » Still another candidate for Prosecuting attorney has come forward, as will be seen by reference to our announcement column. It is Mr. Geo. F. Palmer a rising attorney of Kentland. Win. Smith is the first to open the cement walk campaign in Leopold’s Addition. He has just completed 155 feet in length of street sidewalk, four feet wide, and has an extra fine piece of walk.

Rensselaer people who Went to Kentland last week to attend the Rensselaer law suits there, are enthusiastic in their admiration for KentlamPs new Presbyterian chur» h building, w|iich was dedicated last Sunday. Eld' r R. S. Morgan, pastor of the Christian Church at Fair Oaks, was in town Friday collecting subscriptions on the new building the church is erecting at that place, and the work on which is now in progress. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jewett v of Chicago, visited P»W. Clarke’s family, several days, going home Monday. Mr. Jewett is eligible to an eminent position in the Chicago fat men’s club, as he pulls down the scales to the 267 pound notch. D. A. Fawcett, editor of the LaGrange Democrat, has made another sensational break. This time he has “mysteriously disappeared” and his creditors have taken possession of his print shop. “Daffy” as*he was called, lived in Rensselaer when a boy, and was born here, if we are correctly informed.

A movement is on foot looking to the organization here of a company to start a straw-board factory at lola, Allen Co , in the gas belt. Warren Robinson was out looking the ground over, in company with Mr. Austin, a straw-board manufacturer of New Albany. He arrived home Monday and thinks it a fine location for such an enterprise. There will be so many real live com gressmen in Newton County on the Fourth of July, that unless they are kept scattered out, there will be danger of- the county tipping up sideways. There will be three of them, all told. Hatch, who lives there, Hanley, of the old Ninth District, who will orate at Brook, and Jas. E. Watson, of the Fourth District, who will do a like service at Kentland. An occasional extra big sale of land is still being put oh record in tbis county v This week is reported the sale by Geo. E. Hosmer of Francesville, of his 720 acre tract in Hanging Grove Tp., which he has sold to Alexander Merica* of Edgar Co., |ll., for or at the rate of S3O per acre. This is said to be fine land now, although it was not many years ago when it was mostly under water a good porlion of the y ear Clothing at Coat at The Model. Postively going to Quit inside of 60 more days. Fine Cabinet Photographs, only $2 per dozen—a whole $ saved, at the Peoples Picture Gallery, over Porter A Wlahard’s Grocery. First stairs east of the Model Store. Satisfaction guaranteed.

J. W. Burget has gone to Illinois, to look after some business matters he is interested inMrs. Ola Sigler Hubbard Returned to Whiting Monday, after an extended stay with her patents, ligpe. Drs. Washburn and English went up to Wheatfield Tp. yesterday,, to remove of Clarence Lintner’s eyes, which was badly affected by an ulcer. ».’* The new Presbyterian church wil be dedicated Sunday May 31st. Rev Dr. Craig, of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicagc, and one of the greatest Presbyterians preachers in the country, will "preach th v dedicatory sermon. * Hon. J. F. Hanley, of Williamsport, now Representative in Congress from the old Ninth district and candidate for the Republican nomination in the new Tenth district, was in town last Thursday, looking after his political prospects in this vicinity.« The Dunkards of the United States will hold their annual meeting at Ottawa, Kan., this year. The meeting will convene on the 26 th day of May and continue in session five days. This meeting will be attended by a number of that faith from this section of Indiana. Another popular business man of Rensselaer, who had become addicted to the liquor habit, went to Dwight last Thursday, to take a course at the Keeley Institute. ' May the results in his case be as favorable as in all the others from Rensselaer who have taken the treatment. * -J— : The Republican county central committee met last Saturday afternoon and elected B. F. Ferguson county chairman, to succeed C. E. Mills, who has resigned to make the race for the Republican nomination for Prosecuting Attorney for this judicial circuit. John Duvall and family came down from Chicago, Tuesday, and will, for thespresent reside in Mrs. Mary Hopkins’ house, on River street. His father, S. O. Duvall has sold his livery outfit in Chicago, and will also soon become a resident of Jasper county.

City Marshal McGowan has just had a telephone put in his house; and if any one is troubled by an obstreperous tramp, a common or uncommon drunk, or has knowledge of a cow or horse at large in the street, they can press the button for phone No. 167, and Marshal McGowan will do the rest. -« Married.—Sunday evening, Mav 17, 1896, at their own home in Rensselaer, Ind., by Rev. R. D. Utter, of Trinity M. E. Church, Mr. Edward F. Todd and Miss Lillie Mr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bushey. The good wishes of hosts of friends attend these excellent young people. They will reside in T. J. Sayler’s house on Front Street.

Let no man beat you because he is a member of your lodge or church. Hundreds of men join lodges or fpr the sole-purpose of us-, ing them to beat an unsuspecting brother. The lodge and the church are all right, but there are dead beats in both who ought to be fired so high that they wouldn’t hit the ground until Mary Yellin Lease is elected president.—Wabash Times. A fellow who stole a suit of clothes out of the house of John FOresman, ofForesman, and was arrested at Goodland, plead guilty at Kentland, one day last week, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. He gave his name as John Kalb, and was evidently a tramp. Mr. Foresman thought the thief came towards Rensselaer, and was over here looking for him.

Sam Lee, the somewhat notorious heathen Chinee, came back from his Chicago trip, but jjrent away again last Thursday, and the understanding is he is gone for good this time, and that Rensselaer will know him and his washee house no more, forever. He did not redeem his laundry outfit, held by the sheriff, and the same were sold Monday, for -costs in the ease against him for eut ling Herman Churchill. Good residence to rent. Apply to Hollingsworth A Hopkins. Attend the Ladies’ Shirt Waist Sale at The Model, Saturday, May 23,1896. The best of material, the most careful workmanship, and prices the lowest, at the Peoples Picture Gallery.

It is understood that the change from town to city government puts an end to the terms of all of tb6 present schoSl trustees, and that a complete new board must be elected, not later than the first meeting of the city council, in Juno. The members of the present school board are E. L. Clark, M. F. Chilcote and T. J. McCoy. " r ' : The Baccalaureate Sermon will be preached in the M. E. Church. May, 24, 3:00 P. M. PROGRAM. Choir. Invocation Dr. Utter. Vocal Solo- Mrs. Dr. English. Sermon Dr. D. W. Fisher, of Hanover College, Hanover Ind. Choir. Benediction Rev. Paradis. * A. L. Willis, the gun smith-, riding on his bicyelc, and Uncle Alfred McCoy, crossing the street on foot, were in both a head and rear end collision, last Friday, at the Nowels House. Uncle Mac was knocked dowD, but got right up again, laughed a good deal and swearing a little, and declared he wasn’t hurt. Mr. Mr. Willis was also dumped on the street but be too was not injured.

The new trains on the Monon are the sensation of the hour in this viycinity. Not only on account of their getting Chicago papers here before breakfast and Cincinnati papers before dinner, but also on account of the fast time they make. From Hammond to Monon, for instance, they run at about 45 miles an hour including stops, and often for miles together, go at the rate of a mile a minute. Mrs. Farrie Loughndge received last Thursday, a draft from the Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Co. for $5014, being the amount of the policy held in that company by her husband, the late Dr. V. E.Loughridge. The policy was for $5,000 the extra sl4 being the interest since the Doctor’s death. The policy had been taken out only a few months, and the doctor hacUmade but a single payment on it.

The report that went out from Fowler last week to the daily papers, to the effiect that a woman neai Fowler had given birth to Bix healthy children in a “litter” was, of course, a lie, gotten up hyone of those pegtilent wretches, the “telegraph liars,” one of the worst of whom is at present located in Fowler. The city papers are responsible for these creatures, in publishing and paying for their villanious lies.

Some 62 persons went to Lowell from here last Thursday to attend the Baud Tournament; but this included not only the members of the Rensselaer band and their friends, but also the Brook band, which came over to Rensselaer the night before. There were twelve bands present at the tournament, which was considered quite a successful affair. The next tournament will be held at Monticello, at which time prizes w jUJbe given for the 4&jSt i; b&«ds. The State Soldier’s Home at LaFayette is to be dedicated on July 4th. The institution now has 161 mem-' bers. Gov. Matthews, Ex-President Harrison, Senators Turple, and Voihees, Gen. Lew Wallace and many other distinguished men are to be present on that .occasion, and take part ip the ceremonies. Ex? cursion trains will be run from all parts of the state, and over 50,000 people are eipected to be present on the grounds.

At Monticello last week the jury in the case of Clarence M. Brown vs the L. N. A. AC. R’y Co. brought in a verdict of $5,000 for the plaintiff. Brown was stealing a ride on the south bound night passenger train March SO. The conductor pushed him from the platform of the forward coach, about 200 yards the other side of Monon, while the train was in motion. He struck a cattle guard and bounded back, bis right foot hemg severed by the wheels and receiving an ugly scalp wound. Brown has since been at the White county poor farm. - •• - Dress Goods Sale at The Model Saturday, May 23, 1896. For Sale, new milk eow. A splen j did family cow, Holstein breed; calf one week old. Call at once. Mns. R. W. Marshall. Attend the Ladies’ Shirt Waist Sale at The Model, Saturday, May 23,1896.

Republican voters are reminded of the conventions to be held next Saturday afternoon, to elect delegates to the Congressional, Represntative and Judicial conventions. As specified in the official call, conventions will be held in each towship, or in each precinct when there is more than one precinct in a towship, and at each meeting one delegate will be elected, to each of the three conventions. The places of meeting for these various township and precinct conventions, will be the usual voting places, unless otherwise specified by the township committees. David Worland’s house, in Milroy Tp., was burned lasr Saturday morning, about three or four o’clock. The fire evidently started frpm the Hue, and had been smouldering slow* ly, all night. Only a small portion of the contents were saved; and that which was burned including most of the family’s clothing as well as the household furniture. There was no insurance. The house itself was old and small, and as Mr. Worland expected to build a new one this season, its destruction was no great loss. But the burning of the clothing and furniture was quite a serious matter to him. Elmer Wilcox and Charlie Grow, two Rensselaer boys attending the Danville normal school, are making themselves famous in that section by theiir bicycle performances. They recently rode from Danville to the monument at Indianapolis, 21 miles, in one hour, the last 13 miles in 33 minutes, The boys ate entered for the big road race Decoration Day, at Indianapolis. There are several hund red riders entered for that race and our boys will have to spin if they win it; yea, and the other boys will have to spin, if our boys don’t win it.

The state superintendent of public instruction at Indianapolis, is in receipt of reports showing that the enumeration of the school children will fall off this year when compared with last year, very nearly 75,000. A dispatch says: “There is now no question bnt the excessive enumerations which have been made for many years are the result of fraud on the part of the enumerators, who were paid a per capita in all cities. The usual price has been 70 cents per 100 children enumerated, and the padding system employed by enumerators has been suspected for years, but no system could be advised that would prevent it.”

A new divorce case was filed Tuesday, by Naura £. Schwankie against Charles N. Schwankie. They live in Keener Tp., and were married Nov. 29, 4894, and have a 9 months old boy, of whom she asks the custody* She accuses the defendant of cruel and inhuman treatment, in considerable variety; such as neglecting her. when sick, accusing her of unchaste conduct, applying vile epithets, threatening her with personal violence Ac. The defendant, according to the complaint, is possessed of an ungovernable temper, also of three horses, two cows and a wagon—And of all these except the temper, she wants an alimony. Her maiden name was Cooper. «-

The graduating exercises of the Rensselaer high school will be held at the Opera house, next Thursday night. The names of the graduates and the subjects of their essays are: Geo. W. Scott, “History of the Monroe Doctrine.” Mabel Sayler, “Footprints.” Clyde Reeve, “Education and the Laboring Man. ” Della Harris, “Opportunity Moses Leopold, “Prison Reform.” Irma Kannal, “The Trials of a School Girl.” Arthur Kressler, !‘The Library and the School.” A very sensible and timely lot of subjects, it would seem. The exercises will be ljberally interspersed with choice selections of music, both instrumental and vocaL All 5 ct. Dress Calico 3 ct. at The Model Saturday. Clearance mortgage sale of summer millinery at Mrs. Leckliders Millinery store. 2tp. ——-—-£*FwasY. Dress Goods Sale at The Model Saturday, May 23, 1866. James H. Ciiapmax has a special fund of 120,000 to Toan on Beal Estate or personal note, long or short time. Office over Ejlis A Murray’s store. - "7' All 7 ct. Dress Calico 5 ctrat The .Model Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Mossier went to Chicago, yesterday. The Fuller hotel at Shelby was hit by lightning, Saturday night and pretty badly damaged. One man was severely shocked. ’ The late abundant rains have given vegetation a big boost. A large hay crop is How assured. Ditto, wheat and rye. Grandfather W. Cotton had a severe stroke of paralysis, last Wednesday. He is now much better, although the left arm is still para; lyzed. Delos Thompson’s two year old son, who has been very dangerously sick with lung fever, for some time past, was thought to show some indications of improvement, yesterday, although still very sick. As Ira Smith, a boy about 15 or 16 years old, was making egg pases at the creamery, last Tuesday, just before noon, he gave himself a bad cut Iff the wrist, with a sharp knife. The cut severed an artery, and of course bled very badly. The boy grabbed the cut place with his other hand and broke for over town bn a dead run, leaving a trail of blood the whole distance. Ariving at Dr. Berkley’s office, the latter stopped the flow of blood with a ligature and then tied up the severed artery. The boy was much weakened by the loss of blood, and will be laid up for some time. The celebrated Turpie vs Lowe case, concerning White county parties well known in Rensselaer, and in which Rensselaer attorneys are inter ested, was decided again in the Supreme Court, last Friday. The case involved a large amount of property, and has been tried 3 times in circuit court and has, been to the Supreme Court two times. At the last Mai, in Cass County, the Turpies got about $55,000 judgement against Lowe, or enough with what the suit had already cost him, together with other losses from his trades with the Turpies, to have reduced him from wealth to poverity, in his old age. This last decision in the Supreme Court is in Lowe’s favor however, and is said to so completely cover all the points on which the Turpies can hope to beat him, that his victory is now final and complete. But it is estimated that at the best his big law contest has cost him from $15,000 to $20,000. ' ”

The new time card on the Monon which went into effect last Sunday, made quite a number of rather radical changes, although the greater part of the most used trains run on about the same time as before. No. 5, the south bound forenoon mail, is only changed two minutes. The milk train north is not changed at all and going south the only change is 5 minutes earlier. The night train south is 9 minutes later. No. 33, the afternoon vestibule train south now passes at 1:09 P. M., which formerly passed at 3:00 P. M. The changes in the north bound trains are also slight in most cases. ,JJhe early morning train now passes at 4:25 A. M. which is three minutes later than before. The afternoon mail is not changed. No. 30, the fast vestibule which formerly passed

at 3 P. M., does not pass now until 7:11 P. M., thus giving us a good evening train for Chiacgo and intermediate points. This change is a good one. The much talked of new fast trains between Chicago and Cincinnati were put on, as advertised, and they are flyers, but except iu giving us Chicago papers before breakfast and Cincinnati and Indianapolis papers before dinner, they are not much' good to Rensielaer people. No. 31, which leaves Chicago at 2:45 A. M. passes here at 4:46 but does not stop, although it throws off papers and other mail. No. 32, which is the north bound corresponding train, passes at 10:18 A. M., and brings Cincinnati and Indianapolis papers. It stops only to let off passengers for Rensselaer. Both have schedule times of about 50 miles per hour. All 5 ct. Dress Calico 3 ct at The Model Saturday. The People’s Picture Gallery. Over Porter A Wiahard’s. Call and inspect work. You can save $1 on a dozen fine cabinets. Attend the Ladies’ Shirt Waist Sale at The Model Saturday, May 23,1896. Roberts sells buggies, at his implement store on Cullen street. Don’t forget it

Wile Duvall's hotel bus has been newly painted and polished until it outahineß the noon-day son. Wm. Brenner's little invalid daughter is very side. She is 9 yean old, and weighs only 28 ponds. Rev. M. Zumbuelte, of Hanover Center, visited friends in Rensselaer and at St. Joseph's College, yesterday. This is “Military Day" at the St Joseph’s College. It will be a big time, with many visitors present from elsewhere. w The Epworth League will given Calico and Wooden social, Friday evening, at Mrs. Leota Jones’ residence. The Lawn Social given Tuesday evening by the Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian 5 church, was largely attended, and a very pleasant time was reported. Robt. White’s family, of Winnington 111., are moving into C. A. Roberts’ house, west of the Makeever House. Mr. White is the senior (f member of our new livery firm of White <fc Son. A, township Sunday School convention was held in Milroy Tp., last Sunday, and it was a great success. The whole population of the township was there, towit, about 300 people. It was held at Banner school house, and there was a “Banner” contest, and Banner School got the banner.