Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. House for rent. W. M. Cotton. Mrs. Win. King is on the sick list. J. W. McEwen is in Monticello today. Mrs. Geo. Hilton is visiting at DeMotte today. Mrs. ,VV. A. McKenzie is visiting relatives at Thorntown. Mrs. W. H. Burns is visiting relatives at Wanatah this weekJohn King is at Hebron today, attending a shooting tournament. Elvin Overtqn and Robert Randle are in Kentland on business today. Mr. and Mrs. Treece Smith, of Chicago, are visiting the family of Sam Yeoman.

Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Woodworth < arrived home last night from their visit in the south. The thermometer reached 86 degrees at noon, today, and right in the face of a north wind, at that. Miss Cora Chandler after a two weeks visit with Mrs. Lee Catt returned to her home at Greenfield. Miss Maud Sines, of Delphi, who has been visiting friends here for the past week returned home Monday. Ray Wood has re-entered the barbering business here, in partnership with Harry Wade at the old Morgan shop. Miss Virgie Watts who has been the guos t of Miss Grace Gee since Sunday returned to her home at Monticello this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Snodgrass returned to their home at Newport today, after a two weeks visit with his mother Mrs. J. L. Fishell, Creviston and Wasson are now running a meat-market in connection with their grocery store, in Maloy’s building, near the depot. There are four cases of typhoid fever, in three different families, reported at DeMotte. A mile south from there is a case of diphtheria. It is thought that all will recover. A. Leopold reports that the fires near Kniman Saturday and Sunday burned 160 tons of hay in which he owned a half interest. It also greatly damaged the timber on his land, and the fences as well. Messrs M. F. Chilcote, Jesse E. Wilson and C. W. Hanley, attorneys, and J. L. Nichols, litigant, went to Kentland, today, to attend court. The Jasper Co. case of Nichols vs. Hopkins is set .for trial there this afternoon.

Boys. Dr. Alter took a day off yesterday and went oht after boy babies. He scored two before midnight. One born to Mr. and Mrs. James L. Babcock, at Parr, and the other to Mr. and Mrs. John Platt, in Rensselaer. The only Quaker convict ever confined in the northern prison was received from Henry county. His name is Samuel Miller and he is a farmer who will serve an indeterminate sentence of from one to three years for larceny. He is a great curiosity among the inmates. A flock of teal ducks dropped down into one of the very few remaining streaks of wetness in the Iroquois river, at the coal oil well, this morning, and W. C. Sbead, the newsdealer, whom the hard fate of extra early trains compels to bestir himself betimes, went out and bagged two of them with liis trusty rusty scatter gun. News comes of a great mortality among Nelson Morris’ cattle, on this and the hither side of the river. The cattle were mostly old bulls and their deaths-were caused by dehorning and other treatment unsuitable for hot weather. Ac-

cording to some reports the number lost was about 400, but presumably that is a great exaggeration.

Nellie Cooper, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper, died Sunday, Oct., 3rd at her father’s home, in Barkley Tp. The disease that caused her death was consumption. Her age was 19 years. The funeral was held this Tuesday, forenoon, and burial had in Prater cemetery. There was no preaching service at the funeral. Rensselaer has quite a prominent representative now sojourning in the academic shades of Keeley’s classic institute, at Dwight. We trust it may effect a thorough cure of his dipsomanic distemper, and have full confidence that if once well cured he will have sufficient stamina and self respect not to contract the disease again, as some of Rensselaer’s Keeleyites appear to be doing. What promised to be a very interesting law suit was filed Saturday. Mrs. Bennett, of the Gifford district, mother of the Buike boys, began suit for SIOOO against the owner and bar-keeper of the saloon where the younger Burke, a minor, got his liquor, and the owner of the building was also included. But Monday her attorne3 r s called at the clerk’s office and dismissed the suit.

Mr. James C. Ennis and Mrs. Lily May Sheets were married at the residance of the bride near the depot, Monday afternoon, at three o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Squire W. H. Churchill. It is the second marriage for each of the parties, though both are still comparatively young, the groom’s age being 36 and the bride’s 29. The groom is a foreman of the railroad extra gang and his home is at Gosport, this state. It is announced in today’s papers that the State board of health is about to form a state quarantine against the south for yellow fever, it being reported that there are cases in Louisville and St. Louis, although the disease is not epidemic in either place. It is not designed to shut out all people from the south of course, but let no one in without satisfactory enquiries. If the hot weather continues there is danger of the disease reaching this state unless great care-is taken, ■ -

Today is the fast of Yom Kipper, one of the greatest annual holy days in the Jewish religion. It is the day when the stricter class or orthodox Jews do no business or labor whatever, but fast for 24 hours, and devote the entire time to prayer and hymns. Rensselaer’s Jewish contingent nearly all belong to the reformed or liboral wing of the faith and do not pay much attention to Yom Kipper. Mr. Leopold personally does no work or business on this day, but he is the only one in town who pays any special observance to it.

WEDNESDAY. Grandfather is visiting at Lafayette for a few days. A. F. Griswold, of Crown Point, is here for a few days on business. Rev. H. M. Middleton is attending a funeral at LaPorte today. Miss Mae Paxton, of Remingon, is visiting Miss Myrt Haus, this week. Mesdames James Fisher and James Kays are visiting relatives at Delphi. Mrs. C. F. Burt, of Lafayette, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cleveland. Miss Ora Kenton returned home today from a two months visit with relatives at Onarga, 111. Mrs. Gertie Robinson and son Harve came home last night from a week’s visit in Chicago. A five year old son of Robert Blake, in South Marion, is sick with inflamation of the bowels. Miss Georgia Kight who has been visiting relatives in Chicago for several weeks came home last night.

Mrs. Mary Hancock after a two weeks visit with relatives near Rensselaer returned to her home at Monon today. Mrs. Wm. Monnet and children, of Chicago, returned- home This morning after a three weeks visit with relatives.

A big bull snake was taking in the sights of the city, near Ellis & Murray’s store, yesterday. He was politely exterminated with a club. Auditor H. B. Murray returned last night from several days’ visit to his cousin, John Barkley, at Valparaiso, who is in very poor health. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Maher, of Zanesville, Ohio, after a three weeks visit with relatives *in and near Rensselaer departed for their home this morning. Henry Whittaker, of Hammond, formerly of Wheatfield, was doing business in Rensselaer today. He is in the livery business at Hammond. He is trading his Wheatfield livery barn to Wm. Me Neil. The Messenger family, who have been in Fair Oaks since William killed Nelson at San Pierre, have left there within the last few days. Their present location, or destination if still traveling, is not known. Two fine monuments for erection in Weston cemetery have just been ordered of Mackey & Barcus. One is to be erected to the memory of the late Mrs. James T. Randle, of Rensselaer; and the other for John Randle of Hanging Grove.

After carefully looking over the field, W. H. Huff, of Monticello, has decided that there is not an opening for a fourth daily paper in this city and the project has been abandoned, at least for the present.—Lafayette Call. There are two more survivors of the Ninth Indiana regiment living in Rensselaer than were mentioned in. our account of the regimental reunion at Hebron. They are Thomas H. Robinson and Alkanah Gfalbreath. Marsh fires are prevailing greatly along the north side of the Kankakee river and yesterday’s Valparaiso Messenger states that it had a report from a resident of the vicinity tjiat eight houses with their contents had boefa burned. Also that “just across the line” in Jasper Co. two houses were burned near the town of Kniman. The Chicago and Indianapolis papers of today contain about the same reports. We do not credit the statement of two houses burned in this county nor that any such number as eight have been burned in Porter county. A delegation of Louisville’s most prominent officials and business men visited our state board of health at Indianapolis, yesterday, to protest against the declared intention to quarantine Louisville, on the yellow fever scare. The board of health backed way down and said they never intended any quarantine, but only to inspect the trains from the south and to quarantine yellow fever suspects if they found any. Our state board of health makes some queer breaks, as has been noticed before. The presence of yellow fever in Louisville is strenuoulsy and authoritatively denied. Extensive field fires took place in Newton Tp., yesterday afternoon some miles west of town, and the smoke was plainly visible as well as smellable from here. The fire burned over 320 acres of pasture and timber land belonging to John Makeever; and also a large tract belonging to Milton Makeever. Mr. Makeever has gone out to the scene today, and the full extent of the damage will not be learned until his return. Among the items of his loss are 500 fence posts, and he also loses a good deal of fencing. It is not unlikely too, that this standing timber will also be more or less injured. Milton Makeever is reported to have had 75 cords of wood burned up. The fire is I thought to have started from a traction engine.

THURSDAY. M. F. Chilcote is at Winamac on legal business, today. Miss Dora English, of Valma, ; is visiting relatives at Chicago. Miss Love Crampton, of Delphi, is visiting at this place over Sunday. * Geo. Morgan, of Michigan City, is visiting his family here for a few days. Dave Ingler, the Monon train' dispatcher, is visiting W. H. | Beam today. Born, Wednesday, Oct., 6th to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Potts near Aix, a daughter. Editor Geo. H. Healey, of the Brookston Reporter, has absorbed the Chalmers Ledger,' and will manage both papers hereafter. Mrs. Elizabeth Dowell arrived home yesterday from a three months visit in lowa and Oklclioma. About 36 ladies enjoyed a pleasant afternoon party at Mrs. Grant Warner’s, Tuesday. Progressive dominoes was the principal amusement, and Mrs. Dr. Alter won the prize. Mrs. Geo Hilton left for her home as Montpelier, Ohio, this morning, after a week’s visit with the family of David Hilton. The latter is. recovering from his dangerous sickness. Rev. L. H. Finley, a former much esteemed pastor of the Christian church, at this place, has been confined to his bed with consumption, at Bellville, Ohio, for some time. No hopes are entertained for his recovery. Mrs. Sarah Gepliart, who is suffering from the double affliction of blindness and dropsy and now residing with John Shields' family here in town, was tapped for the dropsy yesterday by Dr.. Alter, and the astonishing quantity of 32 quarts of liquid was taken out, by actual careful measurement. It is seldom that even half that quantity is taken from dropsical persons at one time.