Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — CITY AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTRY.

Corn 21 - 22. Oats 12 t<> 14. Whrat 45 to 50. Rye 20, , Mr. Georg ,• Ferguson visited relatives in Lafayette Sunday. Albert Zoll, of Hammond, is visiting in Ronsselatr this week. Born to Mr,' and Mrs. August Rosen ban m, Friday, July 24th, a son, Bbrn Monday, in Rmssrincr, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed S. Parr, a daughter. The Township Trustees will meet next Monday to make their annual settlement. Rev. C. W. Postill, of Fontanet, Ind., visited Rensselaer relatives over Sunday. A. McKinley son hern to Mr and Mrs Charles Mustaid of Jordan Township, July 28th, Rev. Gar wick m’ Valparaiso will preach in the Christian Church nekt Sunday morning and evening. A five months bid infant of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. George, of Surrey, died Sunday of whooping cough. A daughter was born July 21st to Rev. and Mrs. E. Baech, now of In- 1 dianapolis, but formerly of Rensselaer. Mrs. E. T, Harding and daughter, Mrs. Caddie Tournay, of New Or. leans, are visiting Rensselaer relatives.

Superinti ndent Warren’s busy day came last Saturday, when he examined 37 applic ints for teachers’ licenses. Postmaster Honan has been laid up for most of the time for a week qr more, by sickness, hut is now improving. The proposition to build gravel roads under the township gravel ro d law, at Reynolds, White Co , carried by a vote of 187 to 86. Uncle .Jesse Osborne and his two daughters moved in from Gillam last week and now occupy their new residence, north of the railroad. The black huckleberries are still plentiful m the Rensselaer market, and ate of extra line quality. They are now r. tailing at 6 cents a quait. Rev. Dr. Wilson will be present to conduct the Quarterly meeting services at the M. E. church “next, Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

The excessive rains have very greatly damaged all the oats in this vicinity and many fields are practically ruined and some of them wholly so. The Citizens Band, of Rensselaer, is practicing regularly now with a view to enter the prize contest at the band tournament at Monticello, in October. John McCully, a young fellow belonging in Rensselaer, had the first joint of his front finger and the end of the next taken < IT by the cars, at Thayer, Monday. 'fa} lor an 1 Nelson Boicourt went to Rensstlat r last Friday for a visit with friends. Taylor expects to remain and attend the fall school Wolcott Enterprise. W. F. Walker made a trip to Chicago Monday, with a possible View of finding a location and removing there, instead of to Delphi as he had previously intended. ’’ Wm. Mossier, manager of the Model, arrived home Tuesday from 4or 5 weeks stay at Richmond and Old Point Comfort, Va. His health is very much improved. D. B. Nowels arrived home last Saturday, from a two weeks attendance nt tha school of pedagogy, at Buffalo, N. Y. He also spent two days in seeing the Niagara Falls.

The present spell of weather, while not the hotest of the season is certainly the hardest to endure. The considerable heat combined with excessive humidity, accounts for it. Squire Morgan fined Alfred Miller 12 and costs, last Saturday, on plea of assault and battery on Thos. Ropp. Fine and costs amounted to $24 50. The trouble occured at McCoysburg. ' Sanford Bowman left for Colorado, yesterday, for the benefit of his health and expects to remain there permanently. He will, for the present locate at a small town, near Colorado Springs. Joe Norman pleaded guilty to the charge of provoke, before Squire Morgan, last Saturday, and was fined ■sl and costs, $12.70 in all. A. Lewis, the cigar manufacturer, was the complaining witness. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingworth, left last Friday morning, for O linOden, a summer resort in northern Michigan. They will be there several weeks, and may conclude to take an eastern trip before returning home. A largq heavy work mare, the property of Geo. Strickfaden, fell dead in the street Tuesday afternoon, at the corner of College Road and Washington Street; and was supposed to have killed by the heat. The excavations for the basement of the new court house have been much interrupted by the rains, but the work is no*w practically completed; except the digging of the trenches for the Walls down to bed-rock.

There was quite a rain here Monday night, but a perfect deluge south and southeast. As a result there were several wash-outs, on the Monon, on both the Indianapolis division and the old line, and trains were much delayed. Dr. A. L. Berkley will remove his office this week into two of the front rooms up stairs in Forsythe’s new building; and of which he is the first tenant. W. B. Austin will also move his office into this building at an early date. Trustee Babcock of this, Marion Township, has shown very commendible zeal this season in having air the old ditches in the township, some 17 in number, thoroughly cleaned out; with excellent results in getting the surplus water off the land. John T. Biown, one of the best known attorneys of this judicial circuit, and formerly prosecuting attorney for two terms, died Sunday, at his home in Fowler, of a chronic stomach trouble, after a long sickness. The 1 funeral was held Tuesday. Our enterprising neighboring town of Wolcott, is arranging to have a “street fair” August 20th and 21st. It will be carried on much like a county fair, but admission will be free. A band contest for $75 and a ball game for SSO are promised features.

The county clerk’s olllce is now fully reconstructed, on the county lot east of. the public square. The clerk will not move back into it until some time next week, it being necessary to allow the vault to dry thoroughly before moving the books into it. The third tandem bicycle to be purchased in Rensselaer arrived last week, and is the property of Albert Overton and Chase Kelley, of Ellis & Murray’s store. It is for lady and gentleman, and the owners are understood to be ready to rent the same, on application. Tuesday evening Drs. Peter and Berkley removed a peanut from the nose of Mrs Tillie Borchardt’s little 3 year old girl. The peanut bad been there for over a year, and had caused great trouble. The doctors at Mrs Borchardt’s home, Tampa, Florida, had been unable to remove it. Amos Bumgartner, {( one of the horse thieves at Monticello, was caught in the act of pulverizing some broken glass one day last week, for which purpose he was using a chair port as a pestle and the floor as a mortar. Ele, the other prisoner in jail said Bumgartner was contemplating suicide by swallowing the glass, but Bumgartner said he was only going to use it for physic. Whatever he was up to. the glass was taken away from him and he was promised a cell and handcuffs if he resorted to any more suspicious antics.

Geo. Kizer got full last Wednesday afternoon and started to look for tro.ifble. He raised a disturbance on the street, abusing a number of people in a very profane and obscenemanner. He was arrested Thursday, and Squire Morgan gave him enough in fines and costs to keep film in jail about 14 days. The Jasper County Republican Central Committee is called to meet, tomorrow, Friday, July 31st, at 2 o’clock p. m. at the Rensselaer opira house Important business demands attentioa, and c , airman Ferguson requests a full attendance. At three o’clock, the same day and place, Hon. W. S. Kenworthy will address the public. Undoubtedly the oldest person now living in Jasper County is Mrs. Wilkinson, of Remington, whose age is 97 years. She attended Old Settlers’ Day, at Fountain Park, Remington, last Friday, and was given quite an ovation. She is apparently still quite strong and active and with excellent prospects for reaching and passing the hundred year mark. The Monon milk train stopped Tuesday morning some place this side of Monon, for a girl laying on the track, with her head on the rail. The train men went forward to where she was lying and when they lifted her up tiny found that she was dead —drunk Tenderly they gathered up the remains and laid her on the other side of the fence, to sleep it off, and then the train pulled ahead. The Democratic congressional con vention at Rensselaer last Wednt eday, adjourned at 2.30 p m At 4 r. m., or only one and a half hours later, The Republican was on the press with a two column report of the convention. ’ It was a case of hustling never equalled by any paper in Jasper County, nor probably by very many in this corner of Indiana, except in towns much larger than Rensselaer. B. F. Ferguson has received an invitation to go on an extended trip next week. The C. B. & R. will give an excursion to its land agents, leaving Chicago August 2nd and traveling over Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa; and it is this that Mr. is invited to join. They will go in Pullman cars, travel only in the day time and no expense for anything. About G days will be consumed by the trip.

A wag made the declaration the other day that “there were no women in heaven,” and declared he could prove it. The proof was demanded, when he quoted the following scripture: “And when he opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about the space of an hour.” The proof is all right whether it is germane to the case in point is the question.

Judge U. Z. Wiley has signified to the Republican chairmen of this judicial circuit his intention to r< sign the judgeship, about the 15th of August, the chairmen have called a convention to nominate a Republican candidate for circuit judge. The convention will be held at Goodland Monday, August 31st. The primary convention to elect the delegates will be held the Saturday previous. Hon. W. S. Kenworthy, of lowa, a speaker of national reputation, who has already, in previous campaigns, made several Republican speeches in this county, will speak at the opera house, tomorrow, Friday, aftirnoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Kenworthy is a very able speaker. and discusses the political issues in a clear and comprehensive manner, but without anything approaching to abuse of others. While you are talking “cheap money” don’t forget that the cheapest money in the strongest gold country —England. The dearest money in the world is in the silver countries. Money is in London is only two per cent, per annum and is a drug in the market, loaning between banks at less than one per cent., while In Mexico, China, Chili and other silver countries the rate is twelve per cent and upward.—Attica Ledger. Hon. E. D. Crumpacker, the Republican candidate for Congress in this district, spoke list Friday afternoon at Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, that being Old Settlers’ Day. His subject was the early pioneers. Some people were apprehensive that Judge Crumpacker would take advantage of the opportunity to work some “politics” into his add-

rcss. But their apprehensions were groundless. He has too proper a sense of the fitness of things to follow the example of Mr. Wolcott, who, last year at the same place, having been named for an address on Old Settlers’ Day, made a regular free silver populist harang"ue, of interminable length and intolerable tediousness. ’ The Monticello Herald did not seem altogether favorably impressed by Lent’s circus. It says: “The Lent circus and menagerie drew quite a large crowd to town Monday. It 1 was a small affair and had a tough looking outfit, but it was a “show,” and the people went. The balloon collapsed, and there was o ascension, an I the menagerie was very limited, but anything with, a center pole and a monkey fills the bill in the show line, and in these requisites the aggregation was ccmplete. The small two year old child of Mrs Silas Beachler was drowned last Monday morning in the roadditch, Mr. and Mrs. Beachler were picking blackberries near the bouse and left the child playing in the yard, and it is supposed that the little one in the act of crossing a footbridge in front of the house across the ditch, fell off into the pathy of the entire neighborhood in their sad bereavement —Wheatfield Sheaf. • The North Judson News contains the following item concerning a venerable resident of the east end of Walker Township: “Levi C. Rockwell, eighty-seven years of age and living near San Pierre, has long suffered from a cancer on the back of Ins hand. The patient seemed to be m good health otherwise, and amputation was decided dpon. Friday afternoon Drs. Agnew of San Pierre and Glaz-brook of Knox severed the member near the elbow; and the old gentleman now seems to have a new lease on life. ”

Married.— July 26, 1896, by Rev. R. D. Utter, of Trinity M E Church, at the home of Mr and Mrs. John Goetz, parents of the bride, a few miles west of Rensselaer, Miss Emma E Goelz and Mr. Elwood C. Henry, of Shelby, Ohio. The happy couple left the same day on a tour to the National Park and other points of enterest in the Northwest. FiWSJJy, about Sept. 10th, reaching Regina, in Alberta Terr,, Canada, where they will make their future home, and where the groom will have occupation as superintendent of a railroad.

Ihe county commissioners have, by a wi.e forethought, had a good well drilled in what will be the basement of the new court house; and which is expected to furnish an inex haustible supply of the best and purest waler tor the use of the building. The well is 203-feet in the rock, which is about the depth of the water supply of the old well in the northeast corner of the public square, and which furnishes such an abundant and never failing supply of the flnest water in Indiana. The new well was made by W. T. Perkins A Son, at the price of only one dollar per foot of depth. Thecudomary drowning in Cedar Lake took place last Sunday. A real-estale dealer, of Chicago, named Briggs, was the victim. 'He and two others were out in a boat, fishing, and in turning the boat, in a strong wind It Vas up.et. One of the three men, a regular fisherman, a good swimmer, but evidently a cowardly skunk, swam away from the

boat and left the other two to struggle as bestthey could. The second man tried to keep Briggs ahold of the upturned boat, but he seemed too frightened and nervous to help himself any, and finally went down, in spite of all the other man could do. Briggs had been drinking and probably that largely accounted for his helplessness. The accident’ occured about 150 yards -from —the Sigler house, and was witnessed by several hundred people, among whom were Joe Sharp and F. B. Meyer, of Rensselaer. Rensselaer people who happened to be out doors about 9:30 last Monday night had an opportunity to see, one of those very rare phene mcnons, a lunar rainbow. The full moon shone brightly in the southeast, and a rain storm was in progress in the northwest, and on the face of the storm appeared the rainbow, ft was an exceptionally fine one of its kind, and the arch was complete. The lunar rainbows do not show the various colors as bright as the ordinary rainbow, being much paler and whiter. The great majority of persons have never seen a lunar rainbow. If it were possible to restore all the conditions of 1873 there might be a glimmer of reason in the demand for ,the restoration of free shyer coinage at sixteen to one. Then the world’s production of silver was 63,000,000 ounces a year; now it is 105,000,000 ounces. Then silver was worth $1.29 an ounce; now it is worth about half that. Then the United States bad 8,000,000 legal tender standard silver dollars; now it has 493,000,000. Then France and the states of the Latin Union had free silver coinage; now none of them have. In short, the conditions which might have justified a continuance of free silver coinage in 1873 have been replaced by others which would make a return to. it financial suicide.—Delphi Journal. r •

The prisoners in the county ji.l make an attempt to dig their way to liberty last Thusday. Jailer Joyner has been allowing them to have the freedom of the jail corrider during the day time, and in some way they got a quarter inch bolt, 8 inches long, out of a chair and this they used as a chisel, and a piece of pipe joint, with a handkerchief around it to deaden the sound, they used as a hammer. They worked at the wall out of sight behind the steel inner steel cage, and when Mr. Joyner made his regular examination Thursday evening, they had cui a hole about 18 inches square through the cement plastering, and into the brick wall to the depth of a brick. The prisoners in the jail at the time were Lewis Newcomb, charged with assault on one Byers, Smith, alias Melhgan. Charged with entering a house with intent to commit a felony, and Kiser, for drunk and disturbance. The latter was only put in jail the same day the attempt to escape was made, and he probably had nothing to do with it. The prisoners are kept confined within the inner cage since their attempt to escape.

A decidedly pathetic scene tianspired at the home of Jesse Osborne, north of the railroad, Tuesday forenoon. The little 6 year orphan Prevo boy, of Gillam Tp , whose adoption by his uncle George Prevo, was noted in our J une term ciicuit court proceedings, was there visiting, with his aunt, Mrs. Ed. Faris, who has raised him since infancy. And by previous understanding, Mr. Prevo

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