Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.

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.