Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Coni 22. Oats 14 to 15. Hay $8 to $9. Rye 30. Newton Warren is now able to sit up a portion of the time. Mrs. Edwin Soothers is visiting friends in Rensselaer. Mr. Charlie Sebring, of Medaryville, is visiting with his uncle, A. Hamilton, this week. Misses Katie Doran and Effie Ball of Monon, are the guests of Miss Carrie Woodworth. A. R. Kish ling’s oil and gasoline wagon started on its rounds, last Tuesday. t Mrs. A. K. Sayler, of Newton Tp., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Fulton in Chicago. i P. S. Hemphill has sold his milk business to Marion Adams, who was already in the business. Miss Louella McCoy is taking treatment of Indiana Mineral Springs, for rheumatism. Mr. Fred Weiner, of Peru, Ind., has been visiting M. L. Spitler, Jr. for the last several days. Mrs. H. O. Bostwick, of Batavia, N. Y., is visiting her son, L. A. Bostwick, the civil -engineer. J. J. Eiglesbach left Monday for Mineral Springs, to take the mud baths for his rheumatism. Miss Belle Hartberg is in Chicago, taking treatment at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, for a nervous trouble. Mrs. Dr. L. H. Smith, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, visited her daughter Mrs. B. Forsythe this week. Guss Phillips has returned from an extended trip with a theater company, in the Black hills region of Dakota. Sheriff Hanley moved Saturday into his new residence, and is now fully domiciled there. His telephone number is 190.

Mr. and Mrs. Omar C. Richie, of Anderson, Ind., are visiting their various relatives in Rensselaer. They will be here about two weeks. - John T. Sayler, township assessor of Marion Township, is building himself a good residence on his farm east of town. Jessup & Son have the contract. Miss Kate Rodgers, a teacher in the Rensselaer schools last year, has made application to the proper parties to engage in Salvation Army work, *in the cities. Fountain Park Assembly at Remington will be held this year July 17th to 27. h. The Park is in a nice condition and a fine program is being prepared. Two young boys, Otto Minninger and Benedict Buckley, aged about J 2 or 14 years, were drowned at Lowell, one day last week, while bathing in the mill-pond there.

Wm. T. McCoy, of Hanovex Ind., a graduate of Hanover CoMege, has been selected as one of the two assistant principals of the High School. He will be instructor in Latin and History The Rensselaer Creamery, under the capable management of Mr. Smith, is now turning out about 150 lbs. of butter and the same weight of cheese, each day. Some 4000 lbs. of milk are received daily. This amount is sure to be considerably increased, ’in the fall.

■ New wheat began to come in last Wednesday. Whoever knew new wheat to be marketed by July Ist here before? The miffs are taking all that comes, and paying 50 cents per busheL Miss Cecil Brown entertained about a dozen of her young friends from Rensselaer, last Sunday, at her home near Pleasant Grove, in Barkley Tp. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Quite a good many farmers began cutting their oats the first of this week. This is probably fully too weeks earlier than the average for oat harvesting to begin in this locality. The crop is Very large. Jared Martindale, son. of County Commissioner Martindale, of Newton Tp., has just completed another year’s study at the State Normal, at Terre Haute. One term more is all he needs for graduation.— It is.said that D. A. Fawcett, the late editor of the Lagrange Democrat, who left unceremoniously some weeks ago, has turned up at St Charles, Mo., and is again publishing a paper. His many creditors at Lagrange became too insistent. E. 'L. JHollingworth, John Eger, D. W. Shields, John Jessen and F. B. Meyer are attending the great “free and unlimited” monkey and parrot fight in Chicago, otherwise known as the Democratic national convention. —W. P. Walker, a much esteemed citizen, is about to leave Rensselaer and take up his abode at Delphi. He has sold his residence, in the east part of town, to A. R. Rishling, of Lee, who will soon move into it. —Mr.—Walker will —leavein about two weeks. Mrs. H. W, Porter arrived home last Monday from her four weeks so. journ at the Presbyterian hospitalShe has made excellent progress since her surgical operation, so much so that she has been able to come home some 8 or 10 days earlier than her physicians anticipated. Mr. Edwin Southers left on Friday last for an extended visit through the west. He will return in a few weeks, when he will produce in Rens, selaer his latest classic success, “Under the Cross.” His remarkable success in this play during the past two years has created a strong desire by his many friends here to witness it. The Battle Ground camp-meeting will begin July 17th and end July 31st. The gospel work will be in charge of Rev. George Stewart of Chattanooga, who comes highly recommended as an evangelist. President Gobin, Dr. Wilcox of LaFay ette and Dr. Potts of Canada are on the program for sermons, and Harry Maxwell and wife will have charge of the singing.

A special meeting will be held at Fountain Park near Remington Sunday July 12 th. Preaching in the afternoon by Elder L. L. Carpenter of Wabash Indiana. A man who has dedicated more churches than any man in the United States. Admission fee ten cents for adults children under 12 free, ten cents for each horse taken in the Park. Proceeds to go to the new Christian church at Wolott Ind. •Rev. L. H. Findley preached his farewell sermons at the Christian church last Sunday. Himself and family took their departure yesterday, and after a short visit at Indianapolis, will go to Bellville, Ohio, where Mrs. Findley’s parents reside. Mr. Findley has accepted a call from a church at Shelby, Ohio, in case his health gets better after a rest of a few weeks.

A dangerous runaway took place in town on the Fourth. A horse hitched to a buggy started from near the Odd Fellows’ building and ran down W ashington street at a high rate.of speed. In the buggy was a young boy about 12 years, who, of course, was in great danger of being thrown out and injured. As it happened however the horse turned the corner, at Front street and ran the buggy into the steps Of Vanatta’s harness shop, and the horse broke loose, leaving the buggy and not injuring the boy at all. No damage of any importance was done to the horse or buggy. The boy’s name was Seiple; but the rig was said to belong to a Mr. McGee.

Dr. H. J. Kannal went to Lafayette Tuesday, to attend the meeting of state association of veterinary graduates. A wreck on the Monon delayed trains Saturday so that Rensselaer people could not attend the Lafayette celebration, ' • Capt. G. W. Payne, of Frankfort, is looking after the harvesting and haying‘on his Barkley Tp. farm! Also after that on his son Forg’s place, the latter being sick and unable to see to it himself. Rev G. W. Payne will preach at Rose Bud church on Sunday, July 12th at 10 a. m. and 3p. m. Afternoon subject will be “What it is to be a Christian. ” Come one, come all and hear the gospel preached in its purity. Wm. Pulver, of Lowell and his daughters, Misses Myrtle and Grace, visited their relatives, P. W. Clarke and family, from Friday till Tuesday. They made the trip down and back by team.

Tne rest of the county officers moved out of the old court house, Monday and Tuesday. The auditor and treasurer moving Monday and the re cord er Tuesday. Therefore anyone having business with any of the county officers will find the clerk in rooms over Starr’s grocery store, and the auditor, treasurer, recorder and sheriff in the jail building. The big bully at Monon whose jaw was broken in the fight with Isaac Parsons Jr., as related last week, is still confined to his bed by his injuries. The story of the fight has been related to us by a’reputable eyewitness, and bis story is much more favorable to Bro. Parsons’ than that gentleman’s own account. The fellow put the quarrel because of the courageous part the latter had previously taken* in arresting some of the bully’s riotous companions. C. F. Wren’and family, of Merced, Calif., who have been visiting old friends in Rensselaer for a week have returned to Monon. But will go this week to Chicago, from there to lowa, then back to the northern part of this state, and later to Ohio, having friends and relatives in all these different places. About August Ist they will return to California, where Mr. Wren has a .very desirable position as ticket agent and telegraph operator, on the Southern Pacific railroad.

The man who stole a horse at Monon, and whose pursuit by bloodhounds from Williamsport was described last week, turned up a few days later, at a Rochester livery stable, where he tried to sell the stolen horse. He was arrested and is now awaiting trial in the jail at Monticello. He gave his name as Amos Baumgartner. He has confessed and as a result, a man named Ele, and another named Marion Jacks have been arrested. They have stolen numerous horses. The Union Tp. people are still talking gravel roads, pretty strong. They will hold a public meeting at Wild Lily school house, Saturday, and it is thought the matter will then be determined, whether to make a general move for the roads or to abandon the project. The proposition is to put in a 25 mile system, which will reach just about every portion of the township. Union is pretty well fixed for building gravel roads un\ der the township system, especially as the 18 or 20 miles of railroads in the township would pay the biggest end of the tax.

Andrew De Fries, the victim of the last Shelby, or Water Valley shooting affair, was buried on Wednesday of last week, at Rose Lawn; where his father and various other relatives live. He was a young man, only about 28 years of age, and was married but had no children. Hasper the man who shot him, was even younger, not over 26; he also is mar. ried and has but one child. Hasper, as previously stated, is in jail at Crown P< int. He is doubtless in for a very long time in the jfenitentiary, and not unlikely a liffseqtence. The fact that De Fries attßha|fted to strike Hasper, before the latter fired, will probably militate sufficiently in Hasper’s favor to save him from the death penalty.

Mrs. Vina Brady, formerly Miss Castor, of Des Moines, lowa, is visiting relatives in "this vicinity and her parents in Milroy Tp. There were two freight train wrecks on the Monon, last week, somewhere up north, both of which delayed trains very considerably. Robberies and attempted robberies still continue. Last Wednesday night, for instance, H. W. Porter, who was alone in his house, heard some men working at his front door. He got up, took his revolver with him, and found two men outside the door. He twice demanded Of them what they wanted, and then they started to run. Mr. Porter opened the door tend took two flying shots at them, and he thinks he must have hit one, because as he fired, one yelled out “My God, Bill.” Rev. M. R. Paradis, pastor of the Presbyterian church, is making a trip to St Anne and Champaign, 111., this week, but will return in time to preach next Sunday. On the Monday following he will depart for Manitoba, Canada, on a health vacation of 6or 8 weeks duration. During the first four weeks of his absence there will be no preaching at his church. After that until his return, the pulpit will be occupied by Rev. W. F. Bischoff, the well known evangelist, of Springfield, 111. Mrs. Paradis and her mother, who are now at Champaign, will accompany Mr. Paradis on his northwest trip.

New bicycles are still being sold in Rensselaer every few days, and there are more owned here now than ever before. Nevertheless there is a noticeable falling off in th? enthusiasm for riding them, as compared with Jast year. No such swarms of bicyclers appear on our streets and surrounding country roads, of evenings, as did then; nor are so many long or short trips made to other places. Many people who own good bicycles and rode them whenever they had a leasure mojnent, a year ago, hardly everride them now, except as a matter of utility and convenience. The bicycle, as a convenient means of locomotion, and of reasonable recreation, has no doubt come to stay; but the craze for riding them all the time was a fad which is rapidly going to seed. Mrs. Flo Sears met with s severe accident in Chicago one day last week. She had started for one of the parks on her bicycle, when in turning a corner she met a team, and turning suddenly to avoid the team she was run over by a man on horseback. That the collision was a very violent one is evident, from the fact that the horse and rider as well as Mrs. Sears, were knocked down. Mrs. Sears was carried into a neighboring building, and remained unconscious several hours. When she came to she was, by her own request, taken to a sanitarium near by, a branch of the Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium, and at last accounts was still there. Her injuries while very severe and painful, weremot thought to be dangerous, and seemed to consist only of external bruises.

There was still another alarm of fire, last week. It occured about 11 o’clock, Thursday night, and created an excitement out of all proportion to its importance, on accoiint, presumably, of the fact that it made a very large blaze, and was taken by most people, when they first saw it, to be one or the other of several large residences in its locality. It was C- C. Sigler’s barn, near his residence at the junction of Division and Main street Mr. Sigler and family were all away from home, except the youngest son Ross, and be was out to some neighboring house, paying his respects to his best girl, as is his wont, and the fire was not discovered until the whole interior was in a blaze. The fire department got there with commendible promptness, but their services were confined to preventing any spreading of the fire to neighboring buildings. The origin of the fire is not known. The barn was worth About (200. There were no animals and but little other property inside the burned barn; a base burning stove and the principal parts of a buggy being about the extent of the contents. Mr. Sigler supposed that his barn was insured, in the same policy as his residence, but on investigation he found that by some oversight, the barn was omitted, and was therefore not insured at all.

Jira Skinner, of Kentland, was in town Tuesday and Wednesday.

Our national capital, will this week be thronged by thousands of young people. The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor will hold its annual coinvention at Washington, from Wednesday till the following Tuesday. The growth of the movement in the past fifteen years has been almost miraculous. And fully 60,0000 Christian Endeavors will be in Washington, this week pushing forward their grand work for Christ and the church, good-citizenship and morality. Misses French and Maggie Lang will be in attendance from this place.

fellow who was prosecuted under the name of John Smith, but whose real name is Mulligan, was arrested about three o’clock, last Saturday morning, by Night-watch Childers, who caught him looking into the windows of Mrs. Farrie Loughridge’s residence, and behaving in a suspicious manner, generally. He had his examination, Saturday afternoon, before Squire Morgan, at which time it developed, on testimony of Mrs. Loughridge, that he had been hanging about her place the previous night, and had even gained entrance to her house, and had been driven away by her. Mulligan has been hanging about town for some time past, and is said to imagine himself a poker player of eminent degree. He formerly worked some at ditching, for farmers in this —vicinity. The same night he was arrested, but earlier in the night some party tried to break into Mrs. George,s residence,, corner Washington and Cullen streets. Mrs. George heard the man tearing the wire screen out of a window and thinking it was her son, she spoke, and the man ran away. It has been supposed that the man was this same Mulligan, but there is no evidence on that point. Mulligan was bound over to the circuit court in the sum of 1500, and will probably remain in jail until the October term. The charge against him is attempting to enter a house with intent to commit a felony. , ./ .

Another notable runaway took place Monday. W. T. Perkins’ team connected with his well drilling and pumping outfit, and whose run* a ways have been frequent and varied, started from St Joseph’s College and ran clear to and through Rens* selaer. They were hitched to a large’ heavy wagon and traveled at a pretty smart gallop, and were a decidedly dangerous object to encounter. Long experience in runaways bad evidently taught them the advantages of keeping in the middle of the road, however, and when given a clear right of way, with no attempts to stop them, they galloped straight along in a very reasonable manner, for runaways, and were not specially dangerous. But when they struck Washington street, some well meaning person ran out from the south side of the street, in a useless effort to stop” them, but only succeeded in turning them sufficiently from their course, to head them directly towards a two seated one horse carriage, standing about in front of the post office, with the back end towards the direction from which the runaway was coming. In the rear seat of this carriage, which belonged to James Matheson, just north of town, sat a young lady, the other occupants of the carnage having gone into some of the stores. For a few seconds it seemed certain that the runaways would run full tilt into the carriage, in which case not only the destruction of the carriage but the serious injury and perhaps death of the young lady would certainly have resulted. Luckily, however, a bystander, with a whip snatched from the Matheson carriage, succeeded in turning the runaways sufficiently aside, so that the collision was averted; but it was a pretty close call as the runaway wagon passed within a foot of the carriage. The horses continued their wild run to Cullen street, up which they turned and then followed that and Forest street, clear to the railroad, and here they bumped into the last coach of the afternoon mail train, just passing the crossing, then turned short around and finally came to a stop at Coen’s hay barn. The horses were cut and bruised a little, but otherwise no great damage was done.

Miss. Maude Healy won the lady’s bicycle race at Remington the Fourth. A marriage license was issued July 4th, to Alvin O. Harriott arid Laura Williams. It was the first and last since June 20th. Miss Abbie Harrison has gone to Bay View, in north Michigan, to attend a “Chatauqua.” Miss Henricks, a Remington teacher, went with her. Rev. D.A. Tucker, late of Wolf Lake, Noble Co., preached at the Rensselaer F. W. Baptist church, last Sunday, and has accepted calls to become the settled pastor of that and the Vaughn Chapel congregations. He will begin Regular work a week from next Sunday. His residence will be in W. B. Austin’s house, on Main street, lately C. W. Coen’s residence.

The teachers for the Rensselaer public schools, so far selected, are, Superintendent, W. H. Sanders, M. A.; High School Principal, E. O. Holland; Assistant Principal, Wm. T. McCoy, instructor in Latin and History; Eighth ysar, Flora Wharton, Instructor in Music and Maggie Lang; Seventh year, Nellie Coen; Sixth year, Lizzie French; Fifth year, Fannie Mills; Second year, Helen Kelley and Edith Marshall, First year, JEtna Kennedy and Grace Vanatta. Misses Abbie Harrison and Lois T. Robinson have also been selected for two of the three vacant places in the Third and Fourth years, leaving one still to be chosen. The entire corps of teachers will number 16, which is one-more than last year. The additional teacher is in the High School and will also be an assistant ed. B. F. Fendig and C. G. Spitler were taking a “scorch” on the Spitler tandem bicycle, one evening last week, on the Stock Farm road. Just at. Wm. Bussell’s place they overtook and passed with ♦•wbiz, George Hosmer, an elderly gentleman from some miles east, driving a spirited team hitched to a light buggy. The

horses took fright at the near passage of the long geared bike and its long and short geared riders, and began to plunge and jump all over the road, and then, getting beyond the driver’s control, they started running at a terrific rate, right on the trail of the dying tandem in front And the riders of the latter, who had taken note of the actions of the team, at once found themselves in a close place. They could not slack up, or the runaway horses would be upon them. They could not turn out, because the deep ditches on both sides would have wrecked the bike and likewise the bikers. Therefore they peddled fordear life, thinking to outrun the team. But though they were geared to a high speed, and running under a full head of steam, the rushing, tearing horses behind gained on them right along. Mr. Fendig was in the rear seat of the tandem and noted the lessening distance of the horses, and wanted to get off. Mr. Spitler was in front and still thought they could escape by fast riding. Nearer and nearer came the horses, and finally, in spite of Spitler's protestations, Fendig dropped off behind. This threw the bike out of balance, and Spitler went off in front. Both were scattered over the street promiscuously, and Spitler as he lay called out, “What the are you doing? You’ve killed me.” Fendig thought Spitler was not killed entirely as long as he could cuss, and they both managed to roll into the ditches, dragging their bike after them, in time to let the runaway team have a clear right of way. Both bikers were considerably bruised, and Mr. Fendig still has a pretty lame knee, while Spitler has an elbow correspondingly sore. The runaway horses ditched and broke loose from the buggy at Ault Padgett’s new house, throwing Mr. Hosmer forward on the dash board, but not injuring him seriously. The horses, without the buggy, were caught by some men near the Stock Farm gate. Neither buggy nor horses were much damaged.

The Democratic Convention. The Democratic National Convention is now in session in Chicago. It is the most tumultuous and divided convention since that of Charleston, in 1860; and there is every prospect that it will leave the party about as badly divided. The free silver wing is carrying everything with high hand and all the old leaders and the old traditions are being turned down. Senator Hill, selected by the national committee for temporary chairman, was beaten by Senator Daniels, of Virginia, a free silver man. The sound money delegates from Michigan and Nebraska are turned out,* for free silver contestants. The free silver men lack something of a twothirds majority but will secure it by turning out sound money men, or else the two thirds rule will be disregarded.

A Rejected Lover Threatens Murder. There was considerable excitement in the south part of town, the latter part of last week and the first of this, caused by the strange actions of a young man from Benton Harbor, Mich., named Chas. Ravens, It seems that when our deaf mute townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hopkins, were living in Benton Harbor, a few years ago, their adopted daughter, Miss Emma Sayler, got acquainted with Ravens, and on Miss Sayler’s going back there on a visit the acquaintance was renewed, and they became engaged to be married. But since then Miss Sayler, no doubt for good and sufficient reasons, has changed her mind and refused to marry Ravens. The latter, after writing a letter or two, insisting on the engagement being carried out, suddenly put in an appearance here last Friday, and soon called at Mr. Hopkins’ house, where his first act, almost, was to seize Miss Sayler, shake her roughly, threaten her life and put his band behind him, as though he meant to draw a weapon. He still continued to hang about, and Saturday and Sunday Miss Sayler remained in hiding for fear he might put big threats into execution. Monday a warrant was issued for Raven’s arrest, on surety of the peace proceedings. Miss Sayler accompanied her adopted father, Mr. Hopkins, to the Prosecuting attorney’s office, to ask to have the proceedings instituted, and seemed from her conversation to be in great fear of her too ardent lover. A warrant was issued and Constable Robinson sent after Ravens. But he didn’t find him, as he had left on Sunday, perhaps having received a hint that legal action would be taken against him. But the most remarkable part of the affair, (or perhaps the most natural part) is yet to be told. It is that within a few hours after Ravens’ departure was discovered, Miss Sayler left too, and there seems to be no doubt but that she has followed Ravens to Benton Harbor, or perhaps some other place previously agreed upon, and presumably they are married before this. Since the above was in type the mystery of Mias Sayler’s departure has been deepened by a letter from Ravens, which came to to her address, Tuesday, and which was mailed in Chicago that same day. The letter would imply that Ravens is not with Miss Sayler, and he thinks she is still here. Mr. Hopkins thinks the letter was gotten up just to deceive him, and that the two are together in Chicago. But another reasonable theory would be that the letter is written in good faith. That Miss Sayler has gone on to Benton Harbor, expecting to find Ravens there; and that he, not knowing she was following him, has stopped in Chicago, for a few days. Again it may be that Miss Sayler was so greatly frightened that she is hiding in some place, and has not gone after Ravens at aIL In any event it is a decidedly strange affair, all around. Every farmer needs an Aermoter. 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. Call on Judson H. Perkins for binder twine. ( ~ ;