Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Page 1

VOL. XXVII.

, c *~ .... ■ ■ » <>?; NEW Aum 8 CHEMO (tt.co.io RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. ALL TRAINS STOP AT RENSSELAER. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Fast Mail (don’t stop) 4:48 A.M. No i—Louisville Mall. Dally 10:56 P M. NO. 83— 1:09 P.M. NO. 80—Milk accomrn.. Daily. 8:13 P. M. No. B—Louisville Express, Dally 11:13 P. M. No.4s—Local freight.. 2 40 P.M. NOBTH BOUND. No. 4—Ma11..., 4:48 A. M. mo. 40—Milk accomm.. Daily 7:81 A, M. ♦No. 72, Fast Mail 10:07 A.M. (>O. 30—Oin., to Chicago Vestibule. 7:05 P. M. No. h—Mail and Express, Dally.. 8.30 P.M. NO. 48—Local Freight 9:30 A. M. NO. 74, Freight 8:08 P. M, No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Monon. *No. 82 stops only to let off passengers.

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 22 . ’ date 14 to 15. - Hay $8 to $9. Rye 30. Newton Warren is improving very satisfactorily, from his case of typhoid fever. . Sheriff Hanley will move next Monday, into his new residence, on Division Street. County Superintendent Warren examined 35 candidates for teachers’ licenses, last Saturday. Mr. Lewis, the cigar manufacturer, has begun work on his new brick house, in Leopold’s Addition. S. E. Sparling, of Wisconsin University, Madison, Wis., is visiting his parents just south-west of town, for a few days* Work has begun on County Clerk Coo ver’s house, on Weston Street, I near .J. C. Paxton’s place. E. L. Cox 4c Bro. have the contract. David W. Shields, of Rensselaer, is an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention, which meets in Chicago, next Tuesday. . Perry Marlatt, of Barkley Tp., has bought three lots in Leopold’s Addition, with the expressed intention of building a house this fall, and moving into it. Winamac is evidently right in the midst of the huckleberry belt. One hundred baskets a day being the average shipment from there, according to the Democrat. Prof Sanders and family have gone to their old home in Hendricks Co., for a few weeks visit. The Professor will return in time for the beginning of the summer school. Rev. Aug. Seifert, Rector of St. Joseph's College, was travelling through England and Ireland, when last heard from. He will return to the college some time in July. Mrs. Wm. Parks came home Sunday, after four weeks’ stay at the Women’s Hospital, Chicago, where she underwent a surgical operation. She is recovering very satisfactorily. Will Mossier, manager of the Model, has not been in good health for some time past, and has gone away for a month or more to rest and recuperate. He went to Richmond, Va., where he will visit a sister residing there. O. J. Webb, a Jasper County boy, who has been for several years a salesman in the Boston Store, at Lafayette, has gone to Alexandria, this state, as assistant manager of a branch dry goods business belonging to Hedge, Shepherd & Co., of Lafayette. The County Commissioners let the contract, Tuesday, for a system of waler works at the county poor farm. It includes a windmill, various tanks, a heater, hot and cold water pipes throughout the building, etc* The price is $220, and A. T. Perkins has the contract. Mrs. Tillie Fendig Borchardt, and children, of Tampa, Florids, arrived last Saturday, to spend summer .with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R Fendig. Her brother-in-law, R Borchardt, of Brunswick, Georgia, came with her, and will remain for a few weeks’ visit. A French physician hts made the announcement that a bicyclist should never ride more than eight miles an hour, and that any speed beyond that is made at the expanse of the rider’s health. A speed of twelve miles an hour means a pulse of 150 a minute, which is abnormal and a serious menace to health.

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rowen, Newton Tp., June 24. H. V. Childers, of Delphi, is visiting his son, J. W. Childers. Mrs. Lydia Kimball, of Converse, Ind *, is visiting her parents here for a few days, Rev. B. L* Allen, of Lowell, will preach at the Christian church, this, Thursday evening, at 7:30 p. m. Miss Margaret Green, a former resident of Rensselaer, but now a teacher in the Public Schools of St Marys, Ohio, is visiting Miss Pearl Blue, and other friends of this city. Lewis Newcomb, from up about Kniman, who was in jail here a while back for being drunk and creating disturbance, is again a prisoner in charge of Sheriff Hanley. This time he was arrested on an old charge, that of striking a man named Byers with a rock or beer bottle, or some such weapon, in a row at Wheatfield a year or so ago. Rensselaer is to have a regular monthly horse auction sale day.- W. M. White and Fred Phillips are getting it ap, and it will beheld in the yard back of White’s liyery barn. The first sale will be held some time • in the latter part of this month. These sale days, in other places, prove very successful, and attract large numbers of good buyers; and there is no reason- why they shouid not prove a great success here, also. Col. Richard W, Thompson, Indiana’s “old man eloquent,” was nearly prostrated by the labor and excitement incidental to the St Louis convention, and said several times while there: “I would give SSO to beat home. This is my last convention . I have not th,e strength to stand all this noise and confusion.” Uncle Dick his headed the Hoosier state delegations since the days of Lincoln. Mary Barger has sued Nathan P. Barger for a divorce. She charges cruel treatment. They live north of town, and have been married only since 1894. She also had him put under SSO surety of the peace bonds. The latter proceeding was before Squire Churchill, last Saturday, to whom also the plaintiff applied for a divorce; but the Squire did not have any divorces in stock just then, and she brings her divorce suit in the circuit court. H. E. James, of Hammond, has a formidable competitor for the Democratic nomination for Congressman in this distri t in the person of Isaac Parsons, Sr., of Monon, and, like Mr. James, an ex newspaper man. Mr. Parsons lived many years in Lafayette and is likely to be solid in the south end of the district, and may give our former townsman a pretty hard race for the nomination which won’t be worth anything whoever gels it. Saturday night a son of Eb. Morris, of Jordan Tp., left his riding horse tied to the court house fence, while he went to the Salvation Army. On looking for his horse at the close of the meeting, it was gone. The next day the horse was found in the road near Wm. Baker’s place, several miles north of town. Probably some one took the horse and after riding it some distance turned it loose. And possiply it was the same party that robbed the Salvation Army, the same night. J. A. Robinson sends us another copy of the lola, Kans., Register; this time not to give news of another big gas gusher, but that we may note that lola has now a boom in prospect. The location of one of the largest zinc smelting works in the world has been secured, and work already begun. And this item will have a local interest for some of our citizens from the fact that these works are to occupy the same big factory building which was lately tendered to some of our citizens for a strawboard factory. Still another bold highway robbery whs attempted near tpwn recently. Uncle Wm. McDonald, of Pleasant Ridge, reports that as he was going home from Rensselaer on horseback: one night last week, when passing a lonely-place, some distance east of L. D. Manos’s place, two men suddenly stepped in front of him, and commanded him to stop. Instead of stopping however, he wheeled his horse, “larruped” it into a dead run, and, passing a third man on his way, evidently a confederate of the other two, he rode back to Mr. Marion’s place, and there stayed all night.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY Z, 1896

The Board of Review is still in session but is getting pretty well rounded up. They have mOre than earned the ! r salaries by putting about $20,000, in„the aggregate, only the duplicate, which had been left off by mistakes of township assessors. Isaac Parson Jr. editor of the Monon News, still maintains his reputation as> the great fighting editor of Northwest Indiana; said reputation having been first nobly acquired by an artistic and thorough licking which Parsons gave Orville Rothrock, at Monticello, in the deserved return for an attack the elder Parsons had suffered at Rothrock’s hands. The last occasion when Parsons distinguished himself was one day last week when, after helping arrest three members of a riotous gang who were painting the town red, he was attacked by the leader of the gang. Parsons broke the fellow’s jaw by a swinging blow, and the leader then drew a knife, but Parsons, to use his own words, “Put the bully in dreamland, by a few well directed punches that he learned while taking lessons in the manly art of self defence.” 1 ' One of the most villainous acts of crime that has been perpetrated in Rensselaer for a long time was committed last Saturday night. During the progress of the Salvation Army meeting, some one sneaked into the office tent, a small tent near the large one, , aqd breaking open Ensign Kemp’s trunk, they took therefrom a small valise containing about SIOO. This money was the proceeds from the “Little Bennie Allegory” entertainment of Friday night, and was all designed to be forwarded to division headquarters, for use in the rescue work of the division. Considering the noble, charitable and religious purposes to which the money was to be devoted, the robbery is one of more tharr ordinary criminality and baseness. The loss was a bitter disappointment to the members of'the brigade, and especially so to Ensign Kemp, the zealous and hard-working commander of the brigade. We are glad to be able to mention still another notable incident in the upward progress os our young townsman, Samuel E. Sparling. It is that he has just been the recipient of the distinguished honor of being granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D ) by the University of Wisconsin. This is the highest academic degree, and is only granted after three years post-graduate study, and the passing of a most rigorous examination and the preparation of a comprehensive thesis. In Mr. Sparling’s case the subject of his thesis is “Municipal History of the City of Chicago.” How comprehensive a paper it is may be judged from the fact that, when printed, it will make a pamphlet of about 125 large pages. Mr. Sparling intends to add still a second part to the thesis, and will devote most of his vacation to that work. He will go to Chicago, to-day, and work in the libraries there a few weeks, and then go back to Madison and continue the work at the university. He is, we believe, the first native of Jasper Co., to receive the honor of so high a scholarly degree as Ph. D. Hereafter when anyone in this locality has a horse stolen or suffers a highway robbery they should send for E. L. Hottenstien, of Williamsport, and his two trained man-hunt-ing hounds. Last Wednesday night a valuable driving horse was stolen from G. G. Brown, a Monon real-es-tate dealer. He sent for the hounds and they took the thief’s trail Thursday, and overhauled the thief 8 miles north of Winamac, late Thursday night; and he was captured and lodged in jail. The dogs are fox hounds, not any way fierce, but specially taught to follow human beings. When they are started on a trail they are held in leash until well away from the starting point, and are then turned loose, and officers and their owner keep close to them on horses or bicycles. Immediately after catching the horse-theif, Hottenstien left with the dogs to try to run down a robber wild killed a man and robbed a safe, at Homer, 111., Thursday night Later. The above are the facts as given in the Journal, of Logansport, through which place Hottenstien passed, after the alleged catching of the thief. The Monon News, which ought to be best informed, says, however, that the dogs lost the scent and the pursuit was abandoned.

Simon Leopold is acting as manager of the ..Model, during Mr. Mossier’s absence. Dr. M. B. 'Alter is investing about $l5O in cement sidewalks, at his residence. Anson Woodworth has started an oil and gasoline wagon, which is making the rounds regularly, in charge of his sons. ‘Tis said that a saloonist at Kniman sells groceries right along in connection with his saloon. The Nicholson law will “git ‘jm if he dont watch out.” T. J. McCoy, member for the Tenth district, attended an important meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, at Indianapolis, yesterday. Revs. Clemens Schuette and Raphael Schmaus, of St Joseph’s College faculty, have gone to Germany, their former home, to spend the summer vacation. Mrs. Ezra L. Clarke and daughter “Eva” returned from Fort Recovery, Ohio yesterday, where they Jhave been visiting for a week or more. There will be a praise service Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church, with special music. The Endeavor Society will also hold a meeting at 6:30 P. m. Mrs. Sarah C. Barkley, of Barkley Tp. is building quite a fine residence in Weston’s Addition, near David Nowels’ place. She will move to town as soon as the building is completed. ’ County Treasurer Gwin was exhibiting a hill of corn, yesterday, the tallest stalk of which was 14 feet long, and the average about 12 feet. There is a field of six acres, all like it; on his Hanging Grove farm. Rev. L. H. Findley will preach his larewell sermons At the Christian church, next Sunday, he having been impelled to resign the pastorate on account of poor health. During his stay of only a few •months there have been 56 additions to the membership of the church. • The Salvation Army finished up their stay here, of nearly two weeks dun. tion, by an ice cream festival, Mcnday night, in their big tent, which was fairly well patronized. Although there appears to be quite a prejudice existing here against Salvation Army methods, yet the correct and gentlemanly conduct, the amiable behavior and the evident religious earnestness of these people have won them general respect during their stay here. They left Tuesday for Monticello, for 10 days stay. There seems to be quite a general belief about town that the story of the robbery of the Salvation Army, is a fake. A sort of advertising dodge, like that of actresses in their periodical robbery of diamond necklaces. Such a view of the case seems to us entirely unjust, and out of keeping with the reputation of the Salvation Army in general, which by its devoted and unselfish work in lifting up the unfortunate classes of the cities, has won the respect and good wishes of every civilized nation on earth.

The Buffalo Courier of last Sunday, contained the particulars of the elopement of one H. C. Keeley, with an 18 year old girl, leaving Keeley’s wife in destitute circumstances. This is, in all probability, the H. C. Keeley, of detested memory, who, in the capacity of an evangelist, made such a spectacle of himself here, some years ago, and was slapped by a woman, in the church, and was afterwards very satisfactorily thrashed by Homer Hale, in Wabash Co. He was bounced by the Presbyterian Synod; and from the account given by the Buffalo paper, he turned up at Millville, N. Y. as an evangelist; first in the Methodist church and later in the Congregationalist. He was finally settled as pastor of the latter, and, as was to have been expected, got every body in a row, and was finally turned out. Steel Wind Mills, and derricks complete, all put up, for $35 and upwards.

THE OLD PERKINS.

BARGAINS! BARGAINS!

Three car-loads of Buggies, Surriea and driving wagons unsold. Must be sold in the next Sixty days. Regardless of cost. Your price will be mine.

ROBERT RANDLE.

Court House Contact

AWARDED TO HEINZMAN BROTHERS FOR $89,180AND THE COURT HOUSE BONDS ARE ALSO SOLD. They Bring Nearly Seventeen Thousand Dollars Premium. * Last Thursday and Friday were two of the most important days in the history of Jasper County. The first day was the one set for opening the bids and letting the contract for the construction of the new county court house. The second day was the time appointed for the sale of the $82,500 of county bonds, from the proceeds of which the court house was to be paid for. They were days of excitement, uncertainty and anxiety. And the excitement and uncertainty was heightened by the belief upon the part of many that, at the last moment, either the awarding of the court house contract, or the sale of the bonds, would be stopped by injunction proceedings. And there were some very strong indications that such a result was likely. For on Wednesday O. P. Taber, of Rem. ington the principal opposer of the new court house, made his appearance in town, backed by Geo. Bessee, of Jordan Tp., and pretty soon Daniel Fraser, of Fowler, one of the ablest lawyers of this judicial circuit, also made his appearance. Then IF further became reported that some owners of Bedford quarries, who didn’t get selected to furnish the stone, were backing the movement for an injunction. The plan was to file the complaint with the clerk of the court here, Wednesday afternoon, and for Mr. Fraser, then to proceed to Fowler and present the matter to Judge Wiley early Thursday morning, and if he found the matter of enough importance to issue a temporary injunction, restraining the commissioners from letting the contract, his decision was to be telegraphed over in time to serve on them before 9 o’clock, the hour set for the opening of the bids. And a complaint of some kind was filed with our clerk, for Mr. Fraser late Wednesday afternoon, and immediately after receiving the file marks of the clerk, was taken away again, and that was the brave beginning and the obscure ending of the court house injunction proceedings.

Promptly at 9 o’clock Thursday morning the court house bell rang, and very soon thereafter, in the court room of the old court house, the work of opening and receiving the bids was begun, in the presence of a very large number of interested and watchful citizens. The bids were opened bv Auditor Murray, who noted the names of the bidders, and then passed the bids to Architect Grindle, who read them aloud to the commissioners, and then handed them back to the Auditor. There were ten bids on file, and in order in which they were opened and were read as follows: F. Nicholson A Son, Chicago, Ills., $102,000. lohn Suelzer, Ft Wayne, Ind, $97,533. J. M. Crocker <k Bro., Cold Water, Mich., $107,400. J. L. Fatout, Indianapolis, Ind., $105,900. C. M. Thayer, Chicago, $92,300. Heinzman Bro. Noblesville, Ind. $89,180. Schuyler Sigler, Chicago, $99,990. J. E. Gibson <fc Co. Loganspc rt, $99,900. C. Boseker and Son, Ft Wayne, $94,589.40. Charles Moses, Chicago, $95,600. Several of these bids had certain added conditions, making the sum higher or lower, for using certain materials, not in accordance with the architect’s specifications, and nearly all of them, by request of the commissioners stated what would be the extra cost for using plate glass in parts of the building not now required in the specifications. All the above sums however, are the bids for the building as called for by the specifications. After a moment’s consultation Commissioner Fans stated that their decision would be annouced at one oclock.

When that hour arrived the Commissioners announced that they had awarded, in a conditional way, the contract to one of the three lowest bidders, namely Hetnzman <fc Bro. C. M. Thayer and C. Boseker <fc Son; the preference being in the order named, and the condition being the amending or proper certifying of the heavy bond required of the various bidders. The parties were given until one P. M. the next day, Friday, to perfect their bonds. All this was against the protest of Boseker <fc Son of Ft Wayne, whose bond filed with the bid was certified to by the clerk of Allen Co., and unquestionably sufficient in solidity of the signers. On that ground they claimed that theirs was the only legal bid, and therefore demanded the contract. They employed legal assistance, as did also their competitors, Heinzman Bros., and both were given a hearing by the Friday forenoon. There was a difference of $3,400 between the Heinz - man and the Boseker bid, and as may be supposed, the feelings of the people, so far as they had any knowledge of how matters stood, were very much in favor of the former. But from a strictly legal and technical point of view, the Bowkers made out a pretty strong case, and it seemed for some time as though the commissioners were about to decide in their favor, or at least were divided in opinion on the matter. When the time arrived for rendering their decision, one P. M. Friday, the commissioners appeared not yet to have arrived at a decision, and there was considerable delay before they opened there session. The two commissioners, Messrs Faris and Martindale, then called their legal advisor, S. P. Thompson, and retired to the jury room for consultation. After quite a long delay, the commissioners came back, took their seats, and Mr. Faris,' president of the board announced that the contract for building the Jasper Co. court house was awarded to Heinzman Brothers, of Noblesville, for $89,180. The announcement was followed by a hearty round of applause, from the spectators. The people of Jasper County, as we believe are to be congratulated on this contract. They are getting what is, practically, a SIOO,OOO court house for nearly SII,OOO less than that sum. That it is a SIOO,000 building is proven by the fact that the average of all the bids was very nearly that sum, namely $98,539, also by the architect’s estimate; which was $106,000. This accepted bid is $9,259 less than the average of all the bids; and $18,220 less than the highest bid. The contractors, Heinzman Bros., are men of good reputation as builders. Among their recent works is a $35,000 Masonic temple, at Greenfield; and a fine city hall, at Kokomo. They are also now at work on a large school building, at Danville, this state. Their contract requires them to complete the building by Oct. 15, 1897, with a forfeit of $25 per day after that time. They expect to begin work next Monday in removing trees, and if it can be vacated by that time, in tearing down the old building. The stone to be used is what is known as gray buff, from Dark Hollow quarry, near Bedford, belonging to the Consolidated Stone Company. It is a very handsome, steel gray stone of fine texture and very superior quality. The order of the commissioners, requiring this stone to be used, is qualified by a reservation, giving the commissioners the right to rescind the order, in case the stone company would not furnish this stone at as cheap a price as stone of a similar quality could be bought for at other quarries. TUB KONO SALE. The sale of the bonds took place immediately after the awarding of the contract. The bonds are $82,500 in amount. They will draw 6 per cent, interest and be dated July 1, 1896. They are divided into two lots. One lot, of $50,000 are due July 1, 1926, and are payable after July 1, 1916, at I the option of the county. The other lot, of $32,500 are due July 1, 1991, and optional after July 1, 1911. The bonds were sold at Auction,

Deputy Treasurer J. A. Burnham acting as auctioneer, and Deputy Auditor E. L. Clark, as secretary. Would-be buyers of the bonds were present in large numbers, representing bankers and investors from Boston, New York, Cleveland, Toledo, Indianapolis, Chicago 1 and other places. Only 1 written bid was received, and the other bids being given orally and in open competition. Most of the bidders seemed to have been limted to a premium of about SIO,OOO and when the sum was reached all but two bidders dropped out. One of these two was B. M. Seitz, of Chicago, a broker who was present and doing his own bidding; and the other was a representative of W. J. Hays <fc Son, of Cleveland, Ohio. Both of these bidders were determined to have the bonds, but after the premiun offered reached the $15,000 mark, the increases were small in amount and progress corespondingly slow. It was evident, however, that Seitz had the most nerve with him, as while the Hays man bid up $5 at a time, Seitz always sprung his at least SSO a clip. Finally the Hays man bid $16,855. Seitz promptly raised him to $16,900. Hays said he was done, and the bonds were declared sold to Mr. Seitz. This is a very satisfactory premium and reduces the actual rate of interest the county will have to pay for the money it realizes on the bonds to less than per cent. The exact rate being, as near as it can be conveniently figured, 4f per cent. The County Officers Will Go To Jail. The various cbunty officers will vacate the old court house, next week, preparatory to its demolition to make room for the new building. The Auditor will occupy the two west rooms up stairs in the sheriff ’s residence part of the county jail. The two east rooms on the same floor will be used by the commissioners. The Treasurer, and Recorder will use the down stairs. The Sheriff will have his residence in his own house, just completed, on Division street, but he will still have an office room in the jail building. AU of these officers will be better fixed than where they are now. The Clerk’s present office, in a detached frame building in the rear of the present court house, will probably be moved across Cullen street, on the lot belonging to the county; but whether it wiU be occupied by the clerk, or surveyor, is yet a little uncertain, but probably by the latter. The Circuit court, wiU be accommodated in the large room in the third story of the Odd .Fellows’ building, now used as a reception room and dining hall, by the Odd Fellows. Three rooms on the second floor of the same building have also been secured, into which the county clerk, will probably move. Rev. Maximlian Walz, of St Joseph’s College, left yesterday, for College Point, N. Y., on a sudden call to take charge of a Catholic congregation there, during the summer. Father Walz was on the bills as the principal orator, for the Fourth of July celebration on the coUege grounds, and on that account was quite loath to be called away so suddenly. The fire company was called out, Tuesday noon, by a little blaze in the roof of a kitchen, on Front St. It was in a house belonging to S. Healy, and occupied by C. E. Watson. The fire company arrived in time to put the fire out before much damage was done. The fire started, it is supposed by a spark from the chimney, falling on the roof. The most notable feature of the fire was thj swarms of bicyclers that flocked in from every direction. Every street was alive with them. To rent. Five residence rooms, near buisness center; on ground floor. Apply at this office. Three Pigs, Two red and white one black and white spotted, weight about 35 or 40 lbs each. Strayed from L. R. Florence’s place, in Barklev Tp Finder will please address him at Rensselaer. Every farmer needs an Aermottt. Judson H. Perkins sells the Osborne Binders. None better. i fita his sample opposite Hemphill’s Blacksmith Shop. ■ Call on Judson H. Perkins for bmta l.tae.

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