Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a ParaJ graph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. J. W. Douthit is at Kentland on legal business. Mrs. Leslie Clark and Miss Myrtle Oram are at Chicago today. Dennis Gleason shipped another car load of horses from here last night, Mrs. Louis Wildberg went to Peoria Illinois today on an extended visit. J. H. Thornton left this morning on an all winter’s visit in Witchita Kansas, and in Oklahoma. Mrs. M. A. Marshall returned Thursday afternoon from a summer’s stay in Will Co., 111. J. Q. Alter is suffering from a badly broken thumb, as a result of a horse-kick received a few days ago. C. A. Rayhouser, an elderly retired business man, of Chalmers,

was in Rensselaer on business yesterday. Leroy Florence is up from Carroll Co., today, looking after business matters, and meeting old acquaintances. Geo. Hilton who has been visiting his father David Hilton, since Monday, left today for his home at Montpelier, Ohio. Mrs. Wm. Paxton returned to Arcadia this afternoon, after a several week’s visit with her son John, at this place. Rev. and Mrs. Edward Baech after an extended visit with relatives returned to their home at Indianapolis today. . . There was a good attendance at the band concert last night, and the performance was up to its usual standard of excellence. The thermomenter reached 86 degrees in the shade at noon, today, which is quite hot enough for the first day of October. A five year old son of Wm. Warne, in Union Tp., died yesterday, after a very short sickness. The funeral was held this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Diener after a two weeks visit with friends and relatives in Rensselaer returned to their home at Chicago yesterday. Mrs. Wm. Terwillegar and daughter Mrs. E. C. George returned to their home at Savoy, 111., today after a two week’s visit with her son G. W. Terwillegar. Extensive marsh fires are prevailing in parts of the Gifford district. In some places the soil is on fire, and will continue burning until heavy rains put the fires out. W. R. Nowels left last night on a ten days trip through Elkhart Noble, Wabash, Grant and Montgomery counties in the interest of the Old School Baptist church. James Feeely, fined Tuesday by Squire Burnham for his connection with Monday night’s row and released on bail, ivas surrendered by his bondsman,/last night, and is now in jail. It is likely that he will have to work out his fine on the rock-pile.

The Hemphill livery barn is being covered all over, sides as well as roof, with Bill N, Jones’ world famous roof paint.J C. A. Roberts’ big building on Van Rensselaer st has also had its roof treated to the same medicine. Capt. J. M. Wasson met only 40 survivors of his old regiment, the 40th Ohio, at their late reunion at Columbus, Ohio. There have been many deaths among the members of the regiment during the past year or two. Harry N. Burnham, the Lowell young man whose sad sucide was mentioned in a previous issue, was

a, prominent school teacher and for several years had been teaching in Chicago. He was a son of Capt. K. M. Burnham, and was one of the party which passed through Rensselaer a few months ago, on a -wagon pleasure tour to Tennessee. He was 32 years old. Johnny, the thirteen year old son of John Somers, of Milroy Tp., died last night, of typhoid fever. The funeral will be held Saturday, at 10:30. Burial in Crockett cemetery. An older sister of the boy is also very bad with the same disease. Mayor McCoy and Messrs Alter, Kight, Meyer, and Spitler, of the city council, returned from their waterworks trip to Chicago, yesterday afternoon. After full investigation, they seclected the Worthington make of steam pumps for, our waterworks. —There has been another important change in the business firms near the depot. T. J. Sayler has sold a half interest in the Sayler Lumber Co. to D. B. Nowels. His active connection will begin next Monday. The firm will continue as now doing a general lumber and coal business. James Feeley, the man who cut Frank Kelly in the drunken mixup, Monday night, .has lost his job as section boss, on account of his spree. Two or three of his section men, who were in the same drunk, have also been bounced. John

Hordeman was the only man left on the section, yesterday. A new section boss arrived this morning People who are anxious to make a trial of the California climate, are respectfully informed that what Jasper county is now enjoy, ing is a very good substitue for that article. For about 8 months of the year the great inland valleys of California have this same long continued drouth, the same clouds of dust, the same hot days and cool nights. Keep-off-the-grass, Coxey went through town towards Chicago on the 6:19 Monon train, last night. He spoke at the Francesville street fair, Thursday. By the way if the Francesville people are looking for notorieties of the anarchistic and revolutionary sort like Coxey, they might find an abler speaker in Lucy Parsons. Why not try her next time, or say Herr Most, of New York. It is semiofficiaUy stated that the Monon Railway company will soon absorb the Chicago and Southeastern railway, Harry Craw:ord’s line better known as the Indiana Midland. The Midland is 100 miles in length, running xom Anderson to Brazil, and by its absorption the Monon secures: entrance into the block coal belt of Indiana. This ought to mean cheaper block coal tor Rensselaer and other towns on the Monon’s

.ines. One Rodgers, who boarded at Frank Kenton’s in the east pqrt of town, was before Squire Burnham, yesterday afternoon. He had gone to Kenton's the night before so drunk that he fell on tiie floor and afterwards went to bed with his clothes on. Squire fined and costed him about sl2 and. also found that he was the same, man who, a few week’s ago ; was drunk in the ditch near Bruce White’s and fined under the name of John Doe. He got out that time on straw bail, and now the Squire has sent him to the work house on both that and the present charge, so that he has a job of 23| days. One of the popular preachers at Indianapolis resigned last week because his high-toned congregation thought he paid too much attention to the common people. ‘‘They want a preacher that can appear to advantage at a ‘pink tea’ and other fashionable social entertainments,” says the Plymouth Democrat, “and the aforesaid preacher, they said, did not have sufficient style about him to do that sort of thing. He just wentaround among the. poor and needy and the people who needed religious consolation, and in his pulpit preached- Christ and him crucified and that didn’t suit his pink tea congregation, and so he handed in

his resignation, and stepped down and out.” * SATURDAY. Mrs. O. K. Ritchey is visiting relatives at Monon. John High is visiting at Monticello over Sunday. Mis. James Sargeant is visiting her relatives at Kankakee and Tonica, 111. Miss Eva Tynes, of New Orleans arrived here last night to visit Mrs. Able Grant. Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter Virgie are visiting in Lafayette over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burgett arrived home last night from a several weeks visit in Illinois. Schuyler Robinson who teaches near Medaryville, is visiting his parents over Sunday. A. O. Reser, of the Union Business College, Lafayette, was here on business Thursday.

Mrs. Hattie Countermine returned to Frankfort today after a several weeks visit with relatives. Miss Jennie Kessinger who has been spending the summer with relatives in Chicago, came home today. Mary Rhoades who has been visiting here for the past week left for her home at Kingsbury this morning. Mrs. Frank Jacks, of Harper, Kansas, Mrs. Jean Tyner, and Mrs. Alf Jacks are visiting relatives at Lee this week. Miss Christine Lundberg who has been visiting the family of James Flynn for several weeks went to Lowell this morning. Mrs. W. R. Stewart after a two weeks visit with her mother Mrs. Jane A. Sharp departed for her home at New York City this morning. Miss Myrtle Wood worth went to Albion, Mich., this morning where she will make an extended visit with the family of her uncle W. J. Miller.

Rev. H. M. Middleton, the new pastor of Trinity M. E. church, will hold his first services at the church tomorrow, at the regular hours of worship. Subjects for Sunday's sermons at the Christian church: Morning, “Ye are the light of the world.” .Evening, “Those washed, sanctified and justified.” W. J. Huff, editor of the late Monticello Press, will go to Lafayette and start a one cent daily paper. This will be something new in Lafayette as all their present daily papers are much higher priced.

Dr. I. B. Washburn met 108 So members of his old regiment, the 4fth at their reunion at Monticello, this week, which was a very large number. Himself and Charles Fisher from Remington, were all that attended from this county. But there are very few members of that regiment in this county. The dairymen of this city are having a hard time to supply their customers with milk. The demand is no greater than.it has been all along, but the supply is much shorter. This is caused by the pastures drying up, the cows falling away in their milk nearly one half. The short pasture has also caused a famine in the butter market, and dealers report not nearly enough to supply the demand. The supreme court Saturday held the new fish law to be valid and constitutional. This is the first decision from the supreme court as to the const utionality of the law. The case came up from Lake county and was against David- Lewis who was fined for having a gill net and seine in his possession. He took an appeal and at tacked the constitutionality of the law.

MONDAY. B. F. Ferguson is at Monon today. Harrio Kurrie is in Monticello on legal business. Mrs. Fulton, of Chicago, who has been visiting her grandson C.

H. Porter for the past six weeks returned to her home Saturday. Miss Mary Hancock visited at Monon yesterday. A. W. Hopkins, of Chicago, is here for a few days. Rev. I. N. McChose, of Chicago, visited here yesterday. C. Jones of Chicago visited friends here over Sunday. Walter Tharp, of Remington, visited friends here yesterday. Newt Pumphrey and Will DeMar were at Delphi yesterday. Miss Anna Malchow visited her parents at Francesville yesterday. Mrs. David Yesoman is visiting her daughter Mrs. Mauck at Shirley.

Born this morninglo Mr. and Mrs. August Rosenbaum a daughter. Harvey Haskell, of Mt. Ayr, visited the family of M . W. Wishard yesterday. Mrs. Brubaker, of Defiance, 0., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. M. Kessinger, is quite sick. Miss Nellie Moss returned Sunday, from her summer’s sojourn at West Superior and Duluth. Herman Lyons and Ray Hershmah, of Brook, visited friends here yesterday. Mrs. W. W. Watson and daughter arrived here Saturday from Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Mary Thomas went to Brook this morning to make a month's visit with friends. Mrs. Marsh Warner came home last night from a two weeks visit with her relatives at Delphi. Luther Ponsler and son left this morning on a two weeks visit with Ad Robinson at lola, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Purcupile after a weeks visit with relatives returned to their home at New York City today. Bert Brenner went to Chicago this morning where he will attend , the Chicago College of Pharmacy again this year.

Miss Leah Knox who has been spending the summer with her parents at Chilicothe, Ohio, came home Saturday. Charley Chamberlain was at Englewood all of last week, wiring for electric lights the Englewood post-office building, which belongs to Hollingsworth & Hopkins. Mrs. Wm. Chilcote and children left this morning for Council Bluffs, lowa, where the older son has or : expects to have a situation. Uncle Bill is still here but has, it is stated, arranged to go to a soldiers’ I home.

Geo. V. Moss is now regularly entered as a student in the law department of Wisconsin University, at Madison. He writes that the university starts out with a boom this fall, with 200 more students than ever before. The schools in Parr opened this morning in their new two room building, with two teachers. Miss Ura McGowan, the former popular teacher there is teaching the more : advancedroom, while Miss Harriett Yeoman teaches the younger pupils. Edgar A. Taylor and Albert f Stephan of the Tailors Union went to Rensselaer this afternoon to take ' the measure of a couple of gentlemen for new suits of clothes, and had their expenses paid both ways. Fact. Lafayette Call. George' Port wood had the mis- , , fortune to lose one of his horses ( last week. As he makes his living i largely by teaming work, and has 1 no means to buy another horse, , the loss is a great misfortune to j him. It is understood that an es- I fort will be made to buy him another horse, by a subscription. It certainly looks like a very deserving proposition. > A quart shop of the most flagrant , kind is now said to be running up near the depot. A man who, in face of the new anti-quart-shop law will open one of them, has, to use a much quoted phrase, “the

courage of his convictions.” But when the circuit court gets after him in earnest, he is likely to have plenty of “convictions” without any of the courage. The Hebron News has again changed hands. The new; editor is John Calvin Mayne. He announces that in addition to editing a newspaper he can also perform marriage cermonies, which might indicate that he is a justice of the peace, but as he also claims special qualifications for eating chickens, it is at once evident that he is a preacher. He also has absorbed the Kouts Banner. He offers to throw in a year’s subscription to the first couple that calls upon him for a marriage ceremony. As Hebron and Kouts are easily reached from the north end of Jasper county, this offer may be of interest to some of our readers there. Especially as he says nothing about “experts” or “professionals” otherwise divorced people being barred from his contest.

It is said that many people are alarmed by the fact that Mrs. Eva Harding Tynes now here, visiting friends, lately came from New Orleans, which is now under yellow fever quarantine. Mrs. Tynes, according- to a public rumor, came from a house in which there was a yellow fever patient. The facts, as stated by Mrs. Tynes, are that a young man had a case of what is called dengue fever, and which may have been really yellow fever, but in any case he had been to the hospital and out again before Mrs. Tynes left. In the next case people here need have no fear of yellow fever so late in the year, for heavy frosts, such as we have had a number of, always effectually kill the germs of the disease. Therefore there is no cause at all for any (ear of yellow fever from the presence of Mrs. Tynes. - - ; Mrs. Lecklider has just returned from the city with a full line of fall and winter millinery. Call and get lowest rock-botton prices.