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

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a graphDaily Grist of Local Happen* inffs Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. A child ci Geo. Barcus is quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth’s baby is sick. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy and son Taylor are in Chicago for a few days. Miss Martha EDis, of Monticello, is visiting the family of her brother J. H. S. Ellis. Misses Emma O’Connel and Maggie Friend, of Logansport, are visiting Mrs. Ed Cain. Mr. and Mrs. John M. White, of Wilmington, 111., are visiting his brother Robert White. Swisher and Gibson have both paid up and been released. There are still six prisoners in the county jail.

B. F. Heller, of near Bloomington HL, returned home today after a few days visit with his cousin Mrs. S. P. Thompson. Mrs. C. F. Hammond, of Pratt Co., Kansas, arrived here today for a visit with her brother Walter Porter, and other relatives. Showers in the morning, much colder towards night, is the weather prediction for today, and the prediction is being realized. Mrs. Elizabeth Finney who has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lecklider, for several months went to Wheatfield this morning to visit her son. Mrs. C. W. Coen returned today from a visit to Mrs. G. H. Brown at Knox. She reports that still there is uo light on the distressing mystery of Mr. Brown’s disappearance. Up at Fair Oaks the one case of scarlet fever, which caused the schools, churches and Sunday schools to be closed, is reoovenhg from that disease and taking whooping cough. A quiet wedding occurred Monday evening at the Methodist Parsonage, Mr. Jesse Summers and Miss Aggie Frame of DeMotte, were the contracting parties. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H.JM. Middleton.

Work on the waterworks power house has not been resumed yet,' but probably will in a day or two, as more bricks have come. Work on the water tower foundations is making good progress. So also is the drilling of the new well. The steam drill has airived. It will do some work on Cullen street, and then go over on River street. One new case of scarlet fever was reported to the city health officer yesterday. It is a very mild case. All the other cases are well or Jout of danger. If proper care is taken by members of the families during the “scaling” periods of those now recovering, there is but little danger of any new cases. At Logansport Thursday, John Mclntosh shot and instantly killed Frank Pottmeyer, a saloon keeper, also shot Lucy Pottmyer, his sister? Wm. Pottmyer a brother and Frank Pottmyer, a relative. Mclntosh was kicked out of the saloon and did the shooting for revenge. He was arrested and an attack on the jail with a lynching in prospect, is feared. Of the three wounded people, it is thought that the young woman will die. The neighboring towns of Winamac and Kentland have both just adopted curfew ordinances and Rensselaer is now pretty nearly the only town of importance in this section which has not an ordinance of that description. A curfew ordinance reasonably but persistently enforced is no doubt a fine thing for the children of a town, but unless there is a strong public opinion

and also some organized force behind it, it will do little if any good.f The Republican suggests that at the joint meeting of young church people’s societies, to be held Sunday evening, that the question of a curfew ordinance be considered, with a possible view to asking for the passage of such an ordinance, and an agreement to assist in its enforcement.

SATURDAY. G. K. Hollingsworth is at Monon today. Mrs. Fred J. Dalton, south of town, is quite sick. Miss Lillian Scott is visiting over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cox. R. W. Marshall is laid up with a strained leg which he received Wednesday night. Rev. D. A. Tucker will preach at the F. W. Baptist church Sunday evening, as usual. Miss Anna Meyers, of Havana, 111., who has .been visiting Miss Mabel Matheson, returned home today. W. M. Hirschy, of Spring Valley, HL, is visiting his sister Mrs. Oscar Hanter, 2| miles south of town. , Mrs. M. C. Brundy and brother W. D. Powell returned to Lafayette after a week’s visit with relatives.

Mrs. E. B. Wilson, of Chicago Heights returned home this morning after a weeks visit with her sister Mrs. Geo. Kessinger. The meetings at the Broad-guage church, conducted by Rev. M. F. Maple and others, will continue all of next week. Everybody invited. The talk of lynching Mclntosh, the murderer of Frank Pottmeyer, at Logansport has subsided. The three wounded Pottmeyers will recover. The families of H. T. Bott, Rev. D. A. Tucker, Chas. Ramp and Monroe Banes were released from scarlet fever quarantine yesterday by the city health officer, Dr. S. C. Johnson. The Mercy and Help departments of the Eptvorth League will give a social at the home of Mrs. Leota Jones, Friday evening. Admission 10 cents. Every-body invited. The pipe laying on the waterworks is now almost exactly jona third completed. Brick-laying has been resumed on the power house with a rush. The pipe laying force is now north of the railroad.

While Delaney Martin was handling his revolver the other night, it was discharged and the bullet went into his finger. It went in at the middle joint and came out at the knuckle, but luckily did not break any bones. According to statements in the papers, Dr. Chas. Mendenhall, a traveling quack who used to visit this place every month, as the “great Indian doctor,” has been arrested in Michigan for bigamy. These traveling doctors, as a class, are a mighty rascally set. Mrs. James T. Abbett, of Eugene, Oregon, is visiting friends here this week. From here she goes to Frankfort, Logansport, Waveland, Rensselaer and other points in the State, thence to Kansas where relatives of Mr. Abbett reside. She expects to reach her home in Oregon about the middle of next month.—Williamsport Republican. Miss Mabel Matheson gave a pleasant evening party, Thursday evening, in honor of her guest, Miss Anna Meyers, of Havana, 111. Some 35 young people were present and enjoyed the occasion greatly. Card playing, dancing, music and feasting were the amusements of the evening. P. M. Benjamin, of Monticello, is visiting relatives and also old army comrades, in Rensselaer today. He was a member of the 9th regiment. His father was a very early settler in Jasper Co. and Mr. Benjamin was born here, but has lived in White Co., ever since his early childhood.

’"7 " ■ - 7 ' " • ■ Again it is stated that Sebe Pride is husking corn, down near Boswell. One of the Sigler boys, at Monon, sent word up that be received a letter from Sebe last night. This is probably true for if he had drowned himself in the Chicago river, his body would have been discovered ere this. The letter found on Clark street bridge and evidently in Sebe’s handwriting, is still to be accounted for.

Dont fail to attend the Grand Ball, to be given by the Ladies of the Women’s Relief Corps, and learn how* to give a ball, without dancing. Lots of fun and a good supper. Admission 10 cts. and an additional 5 cents for single supper or 15 cents for two suppers. Remember the money goes to replenish the relief fuud. Let every body come and spend their money where it will be used tor a good purpose.

There is not much yet to be reported in the case of Geo. H. Brown. The parties who were expected to investigate the case of the man killed on the railroad have not done so and today C. W. Coen went from here to undertake the task, in company with Attorney Peters, of Knox. He telegraphed back, at noon, that he had gone to the place and was shown a photograph of the unidentified dead man, and that it had no resemblance to Mr. Brown. A rumor has got in circulation that Mr. Brown has been heard from at an uncle’s in California. If so neither his wife at Knox nor his relatives here have heard anything about it.

Those alleged blood hounds at Chalmers, which never have any difficulty in taking up a trail, whether two hours old or two weeks, and following it all that day and as much longer as anybody wants them to, but which never have caught anybody yet, beat their own record in Brookston a few days ago. A citizen heard a strange man in his house, and made preparations to capture the susposed burglar, but he escaped. The Chalmers blood hounds were procured, and put on the trail, which they followed to 13 miles southwest of Lafayette and it terminated in the Wabash river. The next day it developed that the supposed burglar was a young man of the neighborhood who, heavy with booze, blundered into the citizen’s house, by mistake, and when he had found himself in the wrong place he blundered out again, and managed to get home never leaving town at all. Great dogs these Chalmers’ blood hounds.

MONDAY. D. H. Yeoman is on the sick list. W. T. Perkins is in Chicago today. Miss Leona Biggs is on the sick list. Walter White and G. W. Goff are in Chicago today. Mrs. W. W. Wishard is quite, sick with malarial fever. Miss Lily Troxell has gone to Delphi for a few weeks’ visit. Joseph Noiman went to Chicago today, for a few days’ stay. Rev. I. N. McHose, of Chicago, visited friends here over Sunday. The Ladies Literary Society will meet November 12, with Mrs. M. L. Spitler. Leo Karowski, of St. Joseph College is spending a few days at Chicago. Hear Prof. Fritz, on the comet at Ellis’ opera house, next Tuesday night. Born, Sunday, Nov. 7th to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Snow in Barkley tp., a boy. Harry Biggs went to Valparaiso this morning where he will attend school this winter. Band concert next Tuesday night preceding the entertainment at the opera house. Bom, Monday morning, Nov. Bth, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hochbaum, of Fair Oaks, a son.

Miss Nelle J. Finch, humorous and dramatic reader at the opera house, next Tuesday night. Anybody having a second hand hard coal stove for sale can secure buyer by calling at this office for nasie

Mrs. Julia Enslen returned to her home at Morocco this morning after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. D. A. Stoner. Mrs. Lizzie Shidler, of southern Kansas, and Mrs, Francis M. Ward, of Chalmers, are visiting their cousin Mrs. J. W. Duvall. Mrs. O. M. Allen returned to her home at Kalamazoo, Mich., today, after a few days visit with her daughter Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Coen arrived here Saturday evening from Nebraska, where they have been on a week’s visit. They leave for their home in Vermillion, Ohio, this evening. Miss Nelle Van Smith has resigned her position as stenographer and typewriter in Ferguson & Wilson’s office, and will soon return to her home at Worthington, this state. Chas. Watson has moved into W. B. Austin’s tenant house, near his own residence, across the river. The rooms he vacated, oyer Fendig’s drug store, are moved into by John Smith.

The steam drill started in its work on the waterworks trenches, tliis morning, just beyond Washington street bridge. Power is furnished by a thrashing machine engine. It drills a hole into the solid rock in a marvelously shart time. There is quite a long stretch of rock cutting on the west side of the river, principally on River street.

Crown Point Register: “The rivers and creeks are getting so low that the fish are coming out on dry land and taking their chances with the rest of us. Some fellows were attacked by a flock of large and viciqus pickeral on the banks of the Kankakee river below Hebron a few days ago and actually killed twenty of them with clubs in selfdefense, the balance of the flock taking fright and escaping.” An experienced man who has returned from Alaska tells how to cure the Klondike fever. “Pick out a morning next winter,” he says, “when the mercury is below zero, shoulder a pick and go into the woods before breakfast: dig a hole sixteen feet deep: come back to the house at night and eat a small piece of buffalo robe and sleep in the wood-shed, Repeat the dose as often as necessary..” The expected change in the Monon’s time card, which among other things contemplated the leaving off of two Sunday trains, besides quite a number of other probable changes, did not go into effect Sunday, as was expected. The C. H. & D. which is the Monon’s connection from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, was not ready to make the change, and it is therefore postponed until next Sunday. Society at Hartford City is stirred from the center to circumstance by the action of the present grand jury at that place. The grand jury is making a sweeping investigation of card playing for prizes in the ranks of society, holding that playing for a china vase in a parlor is as much gambling as playing for the equivalent of the vase in money in a gambling house. Consequently the society people over there are at present on an anxious seat.

The 9:55 a. m. north bound train of last Saturday, was derailed at Lowell, by • the spreading of the track, at a point where changes are being made in the road bed. It is said that no one was hurt, and not much property damage done. The track was blockaded about all the rest of the day, but the milk train got through three hours late. The afternoon north bound trains went around by Wilders, not coming to Rensselaer at all. Sheriff Nate Reed and Deputy O 1 Robinson have taken John

Easter to Michigan City today, to begin his year’s imprisonment for stealing some harness of Perry Griffith, of Remington. If we are not mistaken he and one Halligan, a housebreaker, from Rensselaer, ate Jasper County’s only representatives in the state prison, and beth of them were strangers who had been here but a short time before they were convicted. ,> We have no representative at all in the Jeffersonville reformatory, but will have in a few days, when Albert Ropp is taken there.

Rensselaer is in the way of acquiring great distinction as a foot ball town. Not only have we a ocal team of great and heretofore, invincible excellence, but some of our boys in college are great footballists. Ira Washburn, for instance, is one of the best players in Rush Medical College team, of Chicago, while Mose Leopold fills the always difficult place of center rush, in the Indiana State University team, of Bloomington. The St. Joseph’s Collegian, for November, has made its appearance. Although it lost most of its more prominent editors and contributors of last year, by graduation, it has a new editorial staff well able to maintain the former excellent standard of the magazine. But so long as Father Max retains the general superintendency of

the publication there will be no danger of a deterioration in its quality. The form of the magazine hps been changed by decreasing the size of the pages and increasing their number. This greatly improves the mechanical appearance of the magazine. It is said that the question of having or not having hitch racks around the public square is to be settled by the commissioners tomorrow. Looking at the matter from the stand-point of both the good of Rensselaer' business men and the convenience of the farmers and others living outside of Rensselaer, we greatly hope that the hitch racks may be retained. We believe that the side walks should be set in on all sides of the square, except the Washington street front, and that on the other three sides permanent hitch racks be established. Of course, the court house and its grounds would be a little, more attractive to look at without the hitch racks, but there is such a thing as going too far in sacrificing utilty and economy to the sense of beauty and this case we think is one of them.

In speaking of the Universal Laxative Pill, Dr. Fred J. Smith of Chicago says:—“lt is just the thing for a torpid liver, or for constipation. They are mild and effective.” For sale by A. F. Long.