Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Page 1

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rt)WI3VIIIXHEWtLBA>(YtCHICA6OffY.CO.;to ■ '■ < "■ ' 1 ■ I w 1 ■ 11 ' RENSSELAER TIME TABLE■t . ■ ALL TRAINS STOP AT RENSSELAER. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Fast Mail (don’t stop) 4:48 A.M. No &—Louisville.Mall, Dally 10:55 P m. No. 38- 1:09 P.M. • no. 30—Milk accomm., Daily. 6:15 P. M. No. 3—Louisville Express, Daily 11:13 P. M. No. 45-Local freight 2 40 P.M. NORTH BOUND. NO. 4—Mall .........4:48 A. M. 310. 40—Milk accomm.. Dally 7:81 A, M. ♦No. ?2, Fast Mail 10:07 A. M. NO. 30—Oin., to Chicago Vestibule. 7:05 P. M. No. e—Mail and Express, Dally.. 3.30 P.M. No. 46—Local Freight 9:80 A.M. No. 74, Freight ~j... 8:08 P.M. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Monon. ♦No. 32 stops only to let off passengers.

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 21-22. Oats 12 to 13. Wheat 50. Rye 20. Mrs. W. Childers and children are visiting in Chicago Heights. Miss Nellie Hopkina is visiting Miss Love Crampton, at Delphi. Miss Edna Glover, of Indianapolis, visited I. J. Porter’s family, over Sunday. . - ■ -- Mrs. Anna Tuteur and family have gone to HL, to visit relatives until Sept. Ist. Chas. Porter has begun work on a fine new residence on Weston street, next to J. W. Paxton’s place. Rev. Aug. Seifert, Rector of St. Joseph's College, is expected home from Europe this week or next. John Wagner will build a house this season, on a lot just purchased in Austin & Paxton’s Addition. The condition of Uncle Henry Thornton has not changed greatly since last week, but it is still serious. The Robertson triplets, in Milroy Tp., are all sick with the summer complaint, or trouble of that nature. Miss Nellie Maguire, of Remington, has been the guest of Miss Cecil Brown, of Barkley Tp., for the past week. Col. and Mrs. E. P. Hammond, of Lafayette, were in town Sunday, and the latter remained several days longer. Mrs. Ella Cole and Miss Canie Warren arrived home Monday, from an extended visit with relatives in Michigan. Mrs. Mary Ewry, of Lafayette, and Miss Florence Hale, of Tacoma, Wash., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy. Mrs. Flo Sears had sufficiently recovered from her late bicycle accident in Chicago-to be’hble to return home last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Crapp, formerly of Lafayette but now of Tallapousie, Geo., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cleveland. Mrs. Bert Skidmore, of Longview, 111., and Mrs. Neota Egler, of Mur' dock, 111., are visiting their sister, Mrs. J. T. Penn. s Rev. C. E. Voliva, pastor of the Baptist church, and wife, arrived home Monday, after a two weeks’ visit in southern Illinois. A. E. Coen, of the Bankers’ National Bank, Chicago, with his family is spending two weeks’ vacation with Rensselaer relatives.

Mr. W. A. Evans and family, of Foresman, were the guests of Mrs. Evans’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton, over Sunday. Hon. H. K. Wheeler of Kankakee Ills. General Solicitor of the I. I. and I. Railway, was in town Monday on legal business. Miss Kate Rodgers went to Chicago Monday, to enter upon her editorial duties upon the Conqueror and other Salvation Army publications. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Presbyterian Church meet every Sunday evening at 6.30. Subject “Claiming the promises—What and How.” Everybody invited. Merrill Tyler, of DeMotte, has fought two lots in Austin & Paxton’s Addition, and will build a good house, this season. He expects to rent the . house for the present. Prof. Sanders returned from his vacation; visit in Hendricks Co., last Friday, to complete arrangements for the Jasper County summer school, which began Monday.

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THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

JASPER COUNITY COURT HOUSE. RENSSELAER IND. GRIMDLE and WEATHERHOGG Jrchitscts BASS BLOCK, Jorr Wagnc IncL.

R. A. Tucker, the new F. W. Baptist pastor, arrived with his family, last Friday, and are now settled in the former C. W. Coen house, on Main street. The work of putting on the finishing lumber on Forsythe’s new brick block is proceeding rapidly. Mr. Forsythe expects to have it ready to move into in a few weeks. C. J. Roberts is now an extensive holder of Tennessee land. He reports that he has just closed up a deal, whereby he becomes possessed of 800 acres, near Manchester, that state. John Hordeman, son of Peter Hordeman, west of town, has bought an acre tract in Austin & Paxton’s Addition, and will, it is stated, build a big house this year. Miss Lucy Marlatt, who has recently completed a course of study in stenography and tpyewriting, at Dixon, ]JI., went to Chicago, Tuesday, to ’take a situation in those lines.

F. D. Craig, editor of the Pilot and district populist chairman, is attending the St. Louis convention. He is a middle-of-the road-man, and dead against fusion with the Democrats. The School Board finished up the list of teachers for the city schools, last Saturday, by engaging Robt. E. Leatherock as one of the assistant principals in the high school, and instructor in science. Mrs. Geo. Johnson "left for her home at Wilsonville, Neb., Monday, after several months’ visit with relatives here. Her niece, Miss Glenn Pqrjer, went with her, and will be gone for 5 or 6 weeks. Harry Bott, an approved and experienced master of the printer’s trade, is now a resident of Rensselaer, and an established fixture in Tub Republican’a mechanical department. He will succeed Bernard Maloy, a faithful and capable employe of seveial years’ standing and who is preparing to enter college at the beginning of the college year, in September.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. THURSDAY. JULY 23, 1896

The Jasper County summer school b3gan Monday, in the Rensselaer High School building, with Prof. Sanders, County Supt. Warren, and Newton Warren as instructors. The attendance this week is about thirty. The big rain of Sunday was not an unmixed blessing to the farmers. Whatever oats were uncut were beaten fiat to the ground and those in the shock were so badly wet as no doubt to damage them considerably. The clearing away of the old court house debris was completed last Friday, and work on excavating for the new building at once was begun. Eight teams and about 25 men are at work, and are making great progress. Miss Edith Marshall has resigned her position in the Rensselaer schools, with the intention (f entering the State University. As her successor in the schools, the school board has employed her sister, Miss Frances B. Marshall.

Rev. R. Sylvano Morgan, of Valparaiso will conduct services at the Barkley Christian Church next Lord’s Day (July, 26.) Morning theme, “Love and Everlasting Life,” 10 30 a. m. Evening theme, “The Great Preparation” 8.00 p. M,. Bill N. Jones and T. J. Say ler were over at Francesville, Monday, where the latter bid on a contract for macadamizing about a mile of streets, with crushed rock; but O. P. Taber, of Remington, got the contract, and will use gravel. Trinity M. E. Church.—Quarterly meeting Aug. Ist and 2nd. The Rev. Dr. Wilson will be present both dates. Subject for next Sunday morning: “Now is the judgement of this world; now shall the prince of this world be be cast out.” Hon. W. S. Kenworthy, of lowa, a gentlemen who is already well known and much appreciated in this county as a political speaker, will open the Republican campaign in this county by a speech at Rensselaer, on Friday afternoon, July 31st.

A. R. Rishling, of Lee, is building a considerable of an addition to the residence in the east part of town he lately purchased of W. P. Walker, and into which he will move some time in the near future. Mr. Walker expects to move to Delphi next Wednesday. The remarkable cold weather of several days last week resulted, as we are reliably informed, in a light frost in the marshy portions of the county. Tender vines, like tomatoes and potatoes were quite perceptibly nipped, and even the corn in low places showed the effects of the frost, quite plainly. M. H. Hemphill’s lease of the Leopold livery barn expires the 9th of October, and previous to that time, be and his brother Isaac will erect a new barn, on lots north of the Makeever House, rented of the Van Rensselaer heirs, for ten years. J. F. Iliff will succeed Mr. Hemphill in the occupancy of the Leopold barn.

M. Rumely, the great threshing machine manufacturer of La Porte, was in town last Thursday and Friday, looking up matters with a view to laying out * large addition to Rensselaer, out of his 40 acres adjoining the corporation on the south. He did not decide whether he would lay out the addition this year or not. He is also thinking some of buying an immense stone crushing machine, and engage in crushing the river rock here and shipping it away for street ahd road making purposes. Mr. Matt Giver of Cincinnati, Mrs. August Fredewalt of Bloomington, 111., and Peter Giver and family of Rensselaer have been at the bedside of Mrs. Katherine Giver at Reynolds for the past week. Mrs. Giver is 72 years old, and it seems impossible for her to recover from her present illness. Her husband, Matthew Giver, is still living aged 87 years, and they have lived at Reynolds ever since 1862. A sister of Mrs. Giver, aged 94 years, is also on her way from Birmingham, England, hoping to see her sister alive***Monticello Herald.

A disgraceful fight took place Sat-, urday night, on Front street, in front of Hildebrand’s saloon, inside of which the quarrel commenced. Peter Kohler and Ed. Hildebrand thumped each other for quite a while until Kohler got a knock-out; and then Peter’s brother, John, and Frank Sunderland, from south of town, continued the trouble. These last were soon separated however, before any damage was done. This last row might have resulted seriously had not Sunderland been extra drunk, for he gathered a brick and raised it to strike young Kohler but was so drunk that the brick fell out of his hand. Mrs. E. D. Rhoades entertained about fifty ladies at a reception at her home on Front St. Thursday, July 16, from two till six. The “puzzle” this time was the fitting together into whole quotations various separated pieces of the same; these were scattered and hidden about the rooms. Mrs. Ora Ross, having seven whole quotations, took first prize, a silver hair pin box, and Mrs; Belle Spitler the second, a sterling glove buttoner, for having six quotations. The ladies enjoyed the afternoon thoroughly, and went home so happy, that even the irate, hungry husbands they found there waiting for their suppers, couldn’t ruffle their good nature.

The Winnipeg, Manitoba, Daily Tribune contains the following personal mention: “Rev. M. R. Paradis and wife, of Rensselaer, Indiana, arrived in town on Wednesday on a visit to the parents of Mrs. Paradis, Mr. and Mrs. Stronach. During a sojourn in Manitoba some years ago for his health Mr. Paradis was in charge of the congregation of Minnedosa, and having preached in a number of churches in Manitoba he is well known here. The congregation to which he ministers at Rensselaer have just completed, free of debt, a new church costing about 110,000. Mr. Paradis will spend a well-earned vacation in the north, building up his strength for next winter’s work.

The Democratic Congressional Convention.

Martin T. Krueger of Michigan City, is Nominated. The Democratic congressional convention met in Rensselaer yesterday, at Ellis’ opera house. The James’ men from Hammond were the first on the field; a small delegation arriving Tuesday dh the forenoon train, and a whole car load coming on the evening milk train. As the Rensselaer Democrats seemed to be a unit for their old townsman, and arch enemy, and all wore the James badge, it looked for a while as though the James men had everything. But when the 7:11 train came in front Monon, the same evening, a great crowd of Parsons’ men swarmed down from the depot. McCabe men from Warren County and Newman men from Tippecanoe also came in on this train in considerable numbers.

Alf the candidates, except Kreuger, of LaPorte Co., had arrived by this time, and an impromptu reception was held Tuesday evening, in front of the Makeever House, at which the Rensselaer'Band furnished music, and at which each of the candidates were called upon for a speech. Clem Kern, of Porter Co,, who was a resident of Jasper 25 or 30 years ago, was the first and longest winded speaker. And of all the incoherent, desultory and illogical harangues ever heard in this town, Kern’s certainly takes the prize. But to all intents and purposes, so far as there was any connection or sense to it at all, it was <a greenback speech, like we used to hear 20 years ago. H. E. James was called on next, and he, no doubt, could have made a respectable speech, but he merely expressed his pleasure at meeting his old townsmen, of Rensselaer, said the present issues should be discussed dispassionately and on their merits, and retired. Mr. Newman, of- Lafayette, the “boy orator” of the Tippecanoe, came out next, he essayed to make a speech, but got nervous and “fizzled” entirely. Ed. McCabe, of Williamsport, a lawyer, and son of Judge McCabe of the Supreme Court, was then called out. He make quite a lengthy free silver speech, in which we give him credit for correctly quoting what the U. S. constitution says about money and gold and silver; and in this he corrected and directly contradicted an assertion made over and over again by Kern, of Porter, who called the constitution the “consteetooshun.”

Isaac Parsons, of Monon, was the last speaker; as he was a lawyer for many years, he of course is able to talk ; and bis abilities in that line were a surprise to a good many peo pie. Io fact his speech took the best of any made that evening. H. E. James opened beadquarters in the Makeever House, and proceeded with his canvass in a busi-ness-like way; and he had with him the best organized and most experienced corps of workers of any man in she field. The Parsons headquarters was in the Nowels House. The wearers of his badge were much in evidence, but they seemed not to mow how to take hold and hustle for their man, the way the James “cohorts” did. The convention was called to order at 11 o’clock by W. M. Blackstock, of Lafayette, the district chairman. Martin F. Krenger, of Michigan City was chosen chairman and Wm. Darroch, of Newton Co., secretary.

Mr. Kretfger, on taking the chair, delivered a long carefully prepared speech, in which to say the least he evinced considerable ability. But he evinced other qualties besides, as great unfairness, for instance when he said half the Republicans of this district were accusing the other half of having bought the nomination for Congressman, and the other half were saying “you’r another.” Also when he denounced the present congressional apportionment law as an infamous and unheard of gerrymander, when no fairer apportionment of the state ever was made. . He evinced a worse quality than

unfairness in irreverence. Spoke derisively of Republicans as “psalm singing saints;” told of Barney Bailey’s sinner, who was going through h—l with a flannel shirt on, and other like remarks. The roll of the counties was called and all reported “here,” but several of them were very slimly represented. From La Porte Co., for instance, by Mr. Kreuger’s own statement, himself and one other man, and a chance traveling . man, represented the whole county. The rules of order, of the democratic state convention were adopted. This cut out of nominating speeches. A committee on resolutions con- • sistingof one from each county was appointed. H Then the counties were called for candidates. Lake presented/ “The peerless citizen, Hon. Horace E. James.” Porter, “Hon. C. J. Kern.” Tippecanoe, W. L. Newman, and Dr. 8. 8. Washburn. Warren, Edward F. McCabe; White, Isaac Parsons. The first ballot, by counties was as follows: Benton, Newman 1, McCabe 4, Washburn 4, Jasper, James 6. Lake, Kern 20. LaPorte, James 7, Parson 6, Kern 7, McCabe 5, Washhum 6. Newton, James 1, Parsons 1, Kern 1, McCabe 1, Newman 1, Washbum 1. Porter, Kern 13. Tippecanoe Parsons 14, Kern 1. Newman 6,. Washburn 8. Warren, McCabe 6. White, Parsons 13. Totals, James 34, Kern 22, Newman 8, McCabe 16, Washburn 19, Parsons 34. Mr. Kreuger’s name was not voted for. It will be noticed that La Porte, for a county with 31 votes and only two delegates, was badly divided. But there was method in their division, as appeared later on. The second ballot gave James 32 votes, Parsons 29, Kern 30 Newman 9, McCabe 20, Washbum 13. One of Jasper’s delegates broke from James and went to McCabe. Third ballot, James 32, Parsons 28, Kern 29|, Newman 9, McCabe 21|, Washbum 13. On the fourth ballot Parsons was ahead with 35, ! and James fell to 31, whereat the Parsons men set up a great yelling and the James men tried to set up a bigger one. It was votes and not yells that done the business, however. On the fifth ballot both James and Parsons got the drop, James with 25, Parsons with 23. McGinley, of Lafayette was sprang on this ballot but he never got more than three or four votes. On the sixth ballot La Porte’s 2 delegates and 31 votes mystefously got together, and the whole 31 were cast for Martin T. Kreuger. Tippecanoe gave him 3 and White 3, giving him 37 votes. Newman got out after the 6th ballot *

Kreuger’s vote was 39 on the 7th, 50 on both the Bth and 9th. On the tenth ballot Benton gave Kreuger 2 votes. Then Jasper, which had been falling away from James a vote at a time, gave all 6, for Kreuger. Laport’s 31 was still solid for him, and then Newton, which on the last two ballots had tried to stampede the convention for Patrick Keefe, went solid for Kreuger. Porter gave him 4|, Tippecanoe 22, or enough to nominate. Then all the counties which had voted other candidates changed their votes to Kreuger, and his nomination was made unanimous. After a brief speech of acceptance by Chairman and Nominee Kreuger; and the adoption of the resolutions, the convention adjourned, at‘ 2:30 p. m., after a continuous session of three and one half hours. No doubt the delegates were all hungry and some of them, perchance, more or less thirsty. We think they all went home feeling that Rensselaer was a hospitable little city and a convenient place for district conventions. R. L. Martin, of Cincinnati, is back here for a short visit. Miss Ross, of Terre Haute, is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ore i Boss.

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