Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a graphDaily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. x TUESDAY. John Eger is in Chicago today. David Hilton is quite seriously sick. Mrs. A. F. Long and son George, are in Chicago today, Samuel Bass, of Lafayette, visited friends here yesterday. Mrs. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield is visiting relatives here this week. Mrs. Lucy McCormbs, of Lafayette, is visiting the family of Benj. Harris. Mrs. Oscar McClure is visiting the family of N. J. York at Monon this week. Born, Monday Sept. 20th. to Mr. and Mrs. Will Timmons, in Jordan Tp., a son. Richard Keen who has been here for several weeks went home to Chicago yesterday. Miss Sarah Reece went to Hartford city on an extended visit with her relatives at that place. Miss Pearl Wasson went to Terre Haute today where she will attend school again this year. Miss Jennie Beedy, of Vai ma went to Chicago today, where she will hereafter make her home. Mrs. S. L. Esminger returned to Crawfordsville today after a week’s visit with her relatives at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Warner and son are visiting at Delphi. Mr. Warner will return Saturday and Mrs. Warner will probably make a months visit.

John Kresslor arrived home yesterday from a month’s visit with relatives and old soldier comrades in Pennyslvania and •Trenton, New Jersey. It was a stinging frost that occured last night, and it is seldom that so severe a freeze occurs in September. There was not much that could be harmed by it, however. Mrs. S O. Lang, of Surrey, and daughter, Mrs. Geo. Hopkins, of this place, went to Indianapolis today to attend the wedding tomorrow evening of Mrs. Lang’s son, Thomas. Mrs. Luther Creviston left for Union City this morning and Mr. Cseviston will follow as soon as he closes up some business matters. They will make their future home in that vicinity hereafter. The city council held a special meeting'last night to close up matters with the waferworks contractors, but the latter were unable to be here until tonight, when another meeting will be held. Mr. Schweer, an old gentleman living with his son John Schweer, in Barkley Tp., fell Sunday, down a cellar way and broke both bones of the right leg, just above the The old gentleman is 84 years old. Dr. Alter was called and set the broken bones, Sunday evening. “Stop Henderson’s oil wagon” when it goes by the next time without fail. He will tell you about that ten pound boy born at his

house early this morning, and very likely in the joy of his heart, will give extra measure to the extent of a quart or two." Brown, the Miami county prominent citizen who degenerated into a horsethief, and shot himself at his brother’s place in Illinois when tracked down by Sheriff Reed and others, plead guilty at Peru, yesterday morning. The court had not yet pronounced sentence, at last reports.

The appellate court decided that drug stores cannot evade the law prohibiting them from retailing intoxicants through the means of prescriptions. A prescription reading: “For B. Morgan, spts. Frumenti- q. s. Take as directed,” the court holds means, in quanity sufficient, and would entitle the purchaser to—get one drink. The court holds that drug stores will not pbe permitted to evade the law in this way. Before people conclude that a “city”' government is going to make taxes so very much higher than they were under town government, even with a special additional tax of 20 cents, to provide for a payment on electric lights and waterworks bonds, they should remember that the corporation taxes in 1895, the last year of town govern fnent, were a total of $1.95 on the hundred dollars, which was only 5 cents below the levy just fixed by the city council and with all the extraordinary expenses of electric lights and waterworks purchases to provide for, not to speak of the large sums spent on permanent public improvements. Such as cement and brick street crossings, sewers, street improvements etc.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Eliza Reed is on the sick list. Henry Watson is improving from his sickness. Mrs. Williard Shields is visiting at Lowell today. Bernard Rider, of Greenfield, is visiting friends here this week. B. S. Fendig and Joe Kight are at Lake Villiage on business today. Miss Julia Pemble, of Pittsburg is visiting her friend Mrs. Mel Abbott. Miss Gertie Timmons, of Jordan township is quite sick with malarial fever, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown of Knox, Ind. are visiting relatives at this place. Mrs. W. R. Stewart, of New York City is visiting her mother Mrs. Jane A. Sharp. Mrs. H. W. Porter entertained about five or six couples at her home yesterday evening.

Trustee Mark Reed and wife, of Jordan Tp., are visiting relatives at Chicago Heights this week. A little daughter of Seott Vice in the north part of town is quite dangerously sick with peritonitis. Mrs. Addie Jordan after] a few days visit with Mrs. Nate Garling returned to her home near Delphi today. J. F. Irwin is down at Hunter’s springs, near Attica, drinking the mineral water and taking the mud baths. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne and daughter Orrie came home last night from a few days visit at Francesville,

There will be a golden-rod social at the residence of S. P. Thompson, Friday evening. Admission 10 cents. All invited. Joe Sharp began work today on a new and commodious photograph gallery on his lot near the river and adjoining his present gallery. Mrs. Minnie Cleaver has bought lots of James Maloy, east of his store building, and will at once put up a substantial building, as a boarding house and restaurant. According to a “special” from Crown Point a young boy hunting for berries lately ran across Wm. Messenger, the murderer of Chas. Nelson, on an island in the Kankakee river, known as Rail island. The story is not worth a moment’s attention, as Crown Point,' 1 where the story comes from, is cursed with one of the most pernicious “telegraph liars” of any in the country.

The papers in a paternity case were filed in the clerk’s office yesterday. The plaintiff is Maria Nightingall, 21 years old, and the defendant Wm. Poisell. They live near Remington. The de-

fendant has been arrested and has given bail for his appearance at the circuit court. The meeting of the Indiana Free Will Baptist Association, which convenes here tonight and lasts over Sunday, will have its attendance from abroad somewhat reduced by sickness. Typhoid fever is prevalent in several communities from which a large attendance was expected. Among those thus prevented from attending is Rev. Estella Randall Fulmer, the eloquent woman preacher, whose attendance was looked forward to with much interest. Her husband is dangerously sick, with the disease above mentioned.

Capt. J. M. Wasson is attending the reunion of his old regiment, the 40th Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio, today. It is the 34th anniversary of the capture of two companies of the regiment, left without succor, on picket duty near Chattanooga. One of the captured companies was Capt. Wasson’s and his capture resulted in several months’ stay in Libby prison, and he is one of the few survivors of those who crawled through the famous tunnel. It was 34 years last Monday since the terrible battle at Chicamauga, in which the Union armies suffered so dreadfully and so narrowly escaped a ruinous defeat. The 87th Indiana regiment, which numbered so many from this county, did some grand fighting at that battle. Today, Sept. 22nd is the date of the autumal equniox when the sun crosses the equator, when it rises at 6 o’clock and sets at 6 and the days and nights are of equal length, all over the world. The exact time of the sun “crossing the line” was 1:28 p. M. Cincinnati time, which would be about 1:20 p. M. Rensselaer time. According to popular belief there should be a big storm due at this time, the “equinoctial storm” being a matter of firm faith with the generality of people. The many times which we have observed the equinoxes to pass without a storm, especially that of the fall, convinces us however that there is no philosophic or scientific basis for this belief in an equinoctial storm, no more than there is in the common run of “signs” and superstitions about the weather. The passage of the sun southward brings colder weather, of course, and also produces great changes in the great currents of air that largely control the weather and thus the coming of the fall season is apt to bring stormy weather, but there is no particular reason why those storms should come on the 22nd of September more than any other day of this season. Nor is there any certainty that the storms will come at all, as it frequently happens that the weather at this season of the year is characterized by a prolonged drouth.

THURSDAY. Miss Inez Babcock, of Lafayette is visiting friends here this week. Mrs. Nettie Hoover is visiting relatives at Monticello this week. H. V. Childers, of Delphi, is visiting relatives and friends at this place. Mrs. Marsh Phillips, of Sterling, HL, is visiting her sister Mrs. F. W. Bedford. Simon Leopold has moved into Mrs. Julia Enslen’s house, near the railroad. Mr. Hathaway, formerly a section foreman on the Monon, has moved to Illinois.

Mrs. A. Thompson went to Olney, HL, today, to visit her nephew, Mr. Macey, for a few weeks. Geo. W. Casey has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late James Keener, of Union Tp. Elmer Maxwell who has been working at a barber shop in Monon for several weeks came home today. Mrs. Kate R. Watson has been appointed administratrix of the estate of her late husband, James F. Watson. '

A pure play, teaching healthy lessons, , sincere in motive, and

clean in language, such a one is “Old Farmer Hopkins.” Wit, humor, pathos, music, delightfully blended make “Old Farmer Hopkins” the success it is. See it next Monday evening. The Women’s Relief Corp is enjoying an all-day’s picnic and lawn party, at H. W. Wood’s place, a few miles southeast of town, today. Frank Hanley, our former townsman, has just moved from Chicago to Bloomington, 111., where he will still follow the vocation of a horse buyer for a large Chicago firm. Dr. Caldwell, of Mt. Ayr, we are sorry to announce, has had a recurrence of his sickness and is confined to his bed again. His condition now is said to be even worse than it was before. Mrs. Lottie George has moved into the house on Weston street lately vacated by Will Mossier. T. J. Joyner has moved into the house, south of the Makeever House, that Mrs. George moved out of.

Yesterday afternoon Perkins & Gay finished for G. K. Hollingsworth, at his residence, what is probably the deepest private well in the city. It is 178 feet deep, and 170 of which are in the solid rock. A fine vein of sulphur water was struck. Randle Overton arrived home from his bicycle trip in the southern part of the state. He found it dryer there than it is here even, and the pikes so deep in dust as to make wheeling very difficult and wearysome. Rev. E. J. Tucker, of Millhousen, Ind., and a brother of Rev. D. A. Tucker, who was here attending the F. W. Baptist Association, was called home today by a telegram announcing the death of a brother-in-law.

The county commissioners have gone to Stark county today, to look at some beds of alleged good gravel, which if found to be as represented will be convenient to use on the Keenergravel roads, being near the line of the Three I. railroad, J. H. Thornton and family arrived here from Tennessee, last night, and will again become residents of Rensselaer. They Went to Tennessee some months ago expecting to remain, but although they liked the country and the climate was just right, they could not accustom themselves to the wayback methods of the natives. Camphor is mostly produced in Japan, Formosa, and some parts of China and the Philippines. Secretary Wilson, the head of the Department of Agriculture, proposes to give the citizens of the Gulf States an opportunity to experiment in this line. He is preparing to distribute camphor-tree slips to that section, and it is thus likely to add another important industry to those of the agricultural element. Down at Brazil the Methodist people raised a mighty kick against accepting their new pastor, Rev. H. L. Kindig, of Valparaiso, as their nevr pastor, as they wanted the conference to send back their former minister. Rev. Kindig went down and preached for them last Sunday, however and preached so well that all opposition is withdrawn and he is joyfully accepted by the congregation. Will Keefer, of Monticello, but a step-son of Mrs. Keefer of Rensselaer, has been in Alaska for some years, but not at the Klondike region. The Monticello Herald says of him “Will Keefer, who has been in Alaska for a year or more, writes that he will spend the winter at Seattle and advance on Klondike in the spring. He has been at Sunrise City near the south coast, where there is some gold but not in such bonanza lots as further north.”

Uncle John Jenkins, of Goodland, is a fine old gentleman, and a pretty old settler, too, but it was rather nervy on the part of the Goodland Herald to claim that he will be the oldest man on

the job if he comes to the old settlers’ meeting here Saturday. Really, Uncle John will be almost a boy in age compared with some of the old timers we will show up with, and a mere tenderfoot in comparison with, them as an early settler. 1 \ Mrs. Robert Randle entertained about forty-eight ladies at her beautiful home on Weston Street yesterday, at 2:30 P. M. The reception was given in honor of her visiting relative, Mrs. McFarland of Carrol Co. The ladies played progressive dominoes, and much interest was manifested in the game by all the players, and a general good time enjoyed. There were twelve tables, and fourteen games played, out of them Mrs. McFarland, having twelve counts carried off the first prize, a silver thimble. Refreshments were served and a general departure was made by all, about six o’clock, after a very happy afternoon.