Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings ■Classified Under I heir Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Mrs. W. H. Beam is reported a little better today. W. B. Austin is doing business at Francesville today. Hon. B. Wilson Smith, of Lafayette, is in town today. B. F. Ferguson and son George, are at Logansport today. Mrs. Lucy Malchow is slowly recovering after her recent sickness. Mr. and Mrs. O’Donnell are both nearly recovered from their sickness.

Mrs. Mina Wishard, who has been very sick for about a week is reported no better. John Rusk, of near Pleasant Grove, is reported dangerously sick with typhoid fever. Mrs. May Reed returned home Saturday after about a month’s visit at Defiance Ohio. N. G. Porter of Rossville, spent Sunday with his brothers, R.’ B. and I. J. Porter of this place. Born, this Tuesday, to Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Chantal, in the west part of town, a daughter. Corn is slowly improving in price, and another half cent raise in the Rensselaer market is noted today. Mrs. Fred Chilcote, and twins, of Albany, Ind., are here on a few days visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Hattie Smith returned home to Lebanon today, after a five weeks’ visit with her brother, Chas. Scott.

Rev. Fritts will hold meeting again at the Baptist church, tonight. and will probably continue all the week. Mrs. J. L. Foster is on the sick list. Her daughter, Miss Bessie Foster, is just recovering from an attack of lung fevor. Miss Almira Paxton who has .been visiting John Paxton for a week returned to her home at Arcadia, Ind., yesterday. Miss Lillie Troxell, who has been making an extended visit with Mrs. C. J. Dean, returned to her home at Streator 111., today. Airs. Samatha St. Clare of Benton Co., returned home today, after about a week’s visit with Mrs. Thomas Daugherty and other relatives. W. ~8. Searcy and wife, from north of town, were called to Delphi today, by the serious sickness of their son T. B. Searcy’s 6 year old child.

Revival meetings at the M. E. church will be suspended until after holidays then it will be taken up by Rev. M. W. Appleby of Hammond. Since the departure of the railroad extra men, and of the waterworks pipe layers, our town has settled down to its usual quietness and sobriety. The F. W. Baptist Sunday school is preparing for a fine time at the church, Friday night. A Christmas cantata and a Christmas tree, are the features. The new well at the waterworks is to be put down deeper, until a larger supply of water is reached. Perkins & Gay began drilling on it again last night. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth and children went to Kalamazoo, today, to spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. Hollingsworth accompanied them as far as Chicago. Prairie Lodge F. & A. M., elected their officers last night.* H. L. Brown, W. M.; A. R. Hopkins, S. W. James Nelson, J. W., R. Fen-

dig, treasurer, W. J. Imes, secretary. Rev. C. O. Sherill’s protracted meeting at Brushwood United Brethren church has closed. The results of the meeting are summed up as 45 renewed and converted and 38 additions to the membership of the church. Prof. Jeffries entertained a very intelligent audience at the Presbyterian church last evening in a most pleasing manner. The professor is a very versatile gentleman and his anecdotes and recitations vastly delighted his audience.— Rochester Republican. The protracted meeting at the Christian church, conducted by Elder N. H. Shepherd, closed Sunday evening. The meetings were attended by large congregations and resulted in some six or seven additions to the membership of the church. Mrs. Kathleen Mrazik spoke again at the Church of God last night, to a large audience. This morning she gave the pupils of the high school an interesting talk on the subject of her native land Hungary. She took her departure for Chicago on the 9:55 A. M. train.

A. F. Grisworld, lately of Hammond and more lately of Crown Point, is visiting his relatives and friends here for a short time, after which he will go to White Co., where he has rented a large farm, near Monticello. He expects eventually to return to this vicinity, where he still owns a farm. Our previous mention of the case of Bailey vs. Austin, Hollingsworth and Hopkins, tried at Kentland last Saturday, was not quite accurate, as to the finding of the jury. They brought in a verdict sos the plaintiff for S3OO, but this the court set aside, on answers to interrogatories, and found for the defendants. Today, Dec. 21st, is the date of the winter solstice when the sun reaches its furthest point south, and it is the shortest day of the year. At least, it is supposed to be the shortest, although as a matter of fact, Monday was one minute shorter. On this latitude the sun rose today at 7:21 a. m. and will .set at 4:37 p. m. The day’s length is therefore 9 hours and 15 minutes. It will be only one minute longer in a week from now.

WEDNESDAY. $ Quite a number of the students ’of St. Joseph’s College went home today for the Christmas vacation. Airs. Emma Wolf, of Lafayette, is here to spend the holidays with her parents, Air and Mrs. Wm. King. Mrs. A. J. Knight left yesterday for an extended visit with relatives and friends at Ash Grove and other points in Alissouri. Miss Cora Green after an extended visit with Blanche Thomas and other friends left for her home at Covington, Ohio, today. L. A. Bostwick, the civil engineer, left this afternoon for Batavia, New York, where he will visit his parents for a short time. Aaron Wood, of Chicago Dental College, and Geo. Brenner, of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, are home for the holiday vacation.

C. C. Starr has his new brick warehouse completed, in the rear of his store, and is utilizing it for the purposes for which it was built The Schumann Grand Concert Company had a good audience at the opera house, last evening, and gave a very satisfactory entertainment. A. B. Moffitt, J. W. Troxell, Thos. Florence, J. D. .Lina, Al Bayler, J. Q. Alter and many others passed through here yesterday on the way to Kentland. Martin L. Pass, of Barkley, left this afternoon for Johnson and Bartholomew counties, where he has several relatives. After a visit to them he will go west again. Mrs. Mary E. Farden, mother of T. J. Farden, a former well known business man of Rensselaer, died a

few days ago, at her home in Pine Village, Warren Co. She was 70 years old. The damage suit of Mary Weiss versus F. R. Otis the Multi-mil-lionare of Chicago, is being tried at Kentland. Northern Jasper and Newton have been depopulated of hay and land experts who have gone to testify. Zero weather prevailed again last night. It is fine winter weather, however, with both wheeling and sleighing in fair condition. Hence business is excellent with our merchants. If the favorable conditions continue, the business here Thursday and Friday will beat the recard.

The marriage engagement is announced, at Cleveland. Ohio, of Mr. Fred W. Coen, our ex-towns-man, and Miss Marion D. Rae, of Cleveland. Mr. Coen is now and liqs been for some time, passenger agent of the Lorain & Cleveland Railway Company, an electric road, some 25 or 30 miles in length. That brilliant but very erratic individual, Orth Stein, a Lafayette product, has again come into public prominence, through a quarrel with a prominent person at Atlanta Georgia, and a looked for duel between them, Stein has been editing a paper in Atlanta for some years, and making quite a success of it. The Christian Church Sunday School will have their Christmas entertainment at the church this year, instead of at the opera house, as has been their custom heretofore. There will be an entertainment, with distribution of presents. No admission fee will be charged, and all are invited to attend. It will be held Friday evening.

Uncle Joe Aledill, of the Chicago Tribune, has just completed another course of mud baths at Indiana Alineral Springs. He has now returned home and will probably not need to return to the Springs, as the Inter Ocean under its new management, is giving Uncle Joe all the mud he can stand, without his going away from home to get it. The Monon’s new heavy passenger engines have now been in service three months and have exceeded the highest expectations of George Lowell, general superintendent. in their performance. The hauling of six or eight cars at sixty miles an hour is accomplished readily, and a speed of seventy miles an hour between stationsis frequently attained. They are very economical as coal consumers. —lndianapolis Journal.

The celebrated Stoddard case at Valparaiso, was dismissed yesterday, in open court, by the prosecuting attorney. Ex-Sheriff Heber Stoddard and a Mrs. Wolgamuth have been tried twice for alleged conspiracy resulting in the death of Miss Grace Crowell. Both trials resulted in disagreements of the jury, and the prosecuting attorney thinks there is no further use of trying for a verdict. Porter Co. is out §3,000 or §4,000 by the two trials.

Attorney-General Ketcham in regard to slot machines says: “If such machines give to one person articles of a greater value than those bought by another, they are unquestionably gambling devices within the statues and this is true, whether some small article of value as for instance, a stick of chewing gum, is given to each contribution or not. If articles of varying values may be obtained, the machine is undoubtedly a gambling device within the law. B. F. Ferguson and son George W. Fergdson, were at Logansport, where the latter took the examination for the position of locomotive fireman on the Pan Handle branch pf the Pennsylvania system. George was eminently successful, his standing being third in a list of 17 applicants. He at once was given a place and will go to Logansport today, to begin his ru;i. His job will pay from S6O to $75 per month, and if he makes the progress which he undoubtedly will, he will become an engineer in a year or two.

THURSDAY. Miss Alice Rhoads is reported a little better. M. B. Wishard, of Purdue, is home for the holidays. Mrs. G. W. Ferguson has gone to Foresman to visit a sister. Frank and Bernard Maloy of Notre Dame, came home today for the holidays. Mrs. Phillip Blue has gone to Elwood to visit her brother, over the holidays. Miss Jennie Beady, of Chicago, is spending the holidays with her brother, A. Beady.

Born, this Wednesday, Dec. 22nd to Mr. and Mrs. Vannie Lesh, of Barkley Tp., a son. Harry M. Wood left today for Coshocton, Ohio, where he expects to spend the winter. Sunday’s subjects at the Christian church. Morning, In partnership with God. Evening, Holy Ghost Baptism. Miss Edith Marshall, Messrs. Ray Thompson and Mose Leopold, of the State University, are home for the holiday vacation. C. W. Flagg, of Spencer, lowa, is visiting the family of Rev. Middleton a few days, from here he will go to Brazil, this state. Dr. Chas. E. Miller will again be at W. A. Huff’s jewelry store Sat. Jan. Bth, those needing their eyes carefully examined for glasses are invited to call. There will be no paper issued from this office on Christmas day, nor other printing work done. As even printers are entitled to a few holidays during the year. The few “missing links’’ in the water pipe system arrived yesterday and are being put in place today, and this will complete the pipe-laying of the waterworks.

The Monon News under its new management, is a right neat and newsy sheet, and a credit to the town. The people over there ought to give Mr. Harlow, the new editor, the glad hand of encouragement, good and strong. There will be Special Christmas services Sunday morning, at the M. E. church for the children, Rev. Middleton will preach to them. The children are requested to be present- His subject will be “Receiving Gods Gift.” Owing to the frescoing and floor painting and other work of a particular nature to be done at the court house, the, contractors have found it advisable to exclude visitors for a short time. They give notice therefore, that on and after this day no one will be admitted without an order from them.

A case which promises to be rather interesting, as it will also be hardly contested, will come up for trial Friday, before Squire Churchill. John B. and William T. Catherwood are the plaintiffs and A. McCoy and James McDonald are the defendants. The plaintiffs claim there is a balance of §l5B due them on account. The audience at the entertainment at the Presbyterian, church, last evening, was not large, but was very pleasantly entertained. Mr. Jeffries gave numerous recitations in his usual masterly manner. Prof. Hayner, of Chicago, furnished rare music on the violin, and equally fine vocal music was rendered by Misses Matheson, and Hollister, Mr, Alatheson and others. A gramophone was a much appieciated feature of the entertainment.

As J. T. Sayler was coming to town with a load of wood, a day or two ago, and his wife and daughter riding on the load with him, his sleigh upset out near F. W. Bedford’s place, and went over into a ditch. The little girl went into the ditch under a great quantity of wood, but in such a way that she was not hurt at all. Mrs. Sayler did not farg so well, and at first it was feared she was badly hurt, but from latest reports her injuries seem to have been nothing worse than some bruises and a sprained anklel Frank O’Meara, engineer at the

Rensselaer mill, is the proud posessor of a porker. The pig may or may not be fat, but if not already in that condition, it presumably soon will be, for it has long been a proverbial fact that millers always have fat hogs. This particular pig is of the masculine persuasion and a full blood registered Poland China, and Mr. O’Meara thinks there is no better bred pig anywhere in this neck of timber. He received it by express from Andover, Ohio, a few days ago. He has given it the name of Rensselaer Model. Arthur W. Cole has concluded to retire from the railway mail service with which he has been so long connected. He has bought a half interest in a publication in Chicago known as The Railway Mail, which is devoted to the interests of the railway mail clerks. The office also deals in supplies for railway mail clerks, does printing for them &c. Mr. Cole was a practical printer and a newspaper man before he became a mail clerk and he no doubt knows well what he is doing in making this important change in his vocation. His resignation as mail clerk will take effect Feb. Ist. He probably will make his residence in Chicago in the spring.