Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

* Mi uoi* Items Told in a Paragraph. - v T * Daily Grist of Local Happenings. Classified Under Their Respective .* % Headings. FRIDAY. v i Mrs. Sarah Keefer is at Monticello, over Sunday. Mrs. A. D. Swain, of Morocco, is visiting Mrs. M. L. Spitler. Harrie Kurrie is making a trip to Knox and Winamao, on legal business. Mr. and. Mrs. Wm. Halleck, of DeMotte, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Joyner/ Miss Stella Reynolds, of Westville, returned,home today, after a visit with Miss Pearl Haus. Chas. R. Yeoman has bought the J. J. Brenner property in the northwest, part of town, and occupy it as a residence about April Ist. A. Leopold and B. S. Fendig attended the funeral of Mrs. Leopold Dryfus, which was held at Lafayette, at 1:30 this afternoon.

It was the wife of Leopold Dryfus who died iu Lafayette a few days-ago, and not the well known meat packer himself, as erroniously stated in these columns. About 24 couples enjoyed a very pleasant time at the club dance at opera house annex, last night. John, Jerry and Maggie Healy and Ed. Jakes made the music. At last we will be able to see just how the exterior of the court house will look as the unsightly and patched up boarding at the entrances is now being removed. W. H. Rooney, the waterworks superintendent, is at Chicago today, endeavoring to have rectified the mistake in the hydrant connections of our new fire hose. A little child of Henry Goff's, in the east part of town, ‘ got its finger so badly mashed in the cogs of a clothes wringer, Thursday, :}hat Dr. Johnson took the finger off at the first jojnt. A police lieutenant in Chicago named Rand, who was recently convicted of receiving bribes and sentenced to the penitentiary, was a Jasper county boy, and grew up in Carpenter township. A number of land owners in Laporte county have filed objections to the petition of the Kankakee River Improvement company to issue bonds for straightening the Kankakee river. The Laporte commissioners are now hearing the matter. Wabash College announces that a chair of the Art of Teaching has been added to the institution and that a Woman’s College is contemplated soon, the faculty of which will be separated from that of Wabash and will include several women professors. A. T. Perkins and E. M. Parcells, of the fire company, went to Remington today to try our misfit hose connections on the fire hydrants there. They want to find out whether it is the hose or the hydrants that does not conform to the established standard. The Masonic Mutual Benefit society of Indiannpolis, has failed with $160,000 death claims unpaid. This at one time was the most popular insurance society in Indiana but old mortality done it up, as he does all societies that write insurance at less than cost. —Williamsport Review. The prayer meeting for the colleges at the M. E. church last night, had quite a large attendance. Interesting talks, based on t;ho colleges experiences were made by I. N. Warren, of the State University, at Bloomington, by H. E; Osborn, of Northwestern, at Evanston, 111., and by Dr. S. C. Johnson. The nverage cost of sending a patient to Long Cliff asylum from Pulaski county says the Winaraac

Journal, is one hundred dollars. The expenses include fees to court officers, justices of the peace, examining physicians and witnesses and cost of clothing. The latter item varies from $25 to $35 for each person, while the doctors are allowed nine dollars each. The Masonic Mutual Insurance Company which has just gone to pieces, wa9 Masonic only in name. It was originally organized under Masonic auspices, but the order long since disowned any further connection with it. We have not learned of any Rensselaer parties who have lost by its failure, although W. J. lines carried a policy in it 13 years, but he 4»emed the concern shaky and dropped it a number of years ago. The late Abraham Crowell, of Carroll county left his property all to his ten children, share and share alike, except SSOO willed to his brother. In caso any of the ten children are dead, their children divided the share equally. Thus J. H. S. Ellis, of our city, who is a grandson, inherits a fourth of the share that \£ould come to his mother, Mrs. Mary Ellis, deceased. The estate is thought to be worth about $200,000, which does not include about $50,000 worth of realestate, divided up some years ago. Mr. Ellis, as one of the four heirs of his mother, would thus receive about $5,000.

SATURDAY. Mrs. Prosper Clem mens, north of the railroad, is reported quite sick. John King’s two smallest children are reported sick with lung fever. Miss Flora Harris is home from Chicago visiting her parents over Sunday. Miss Iva Washburn is home from Chicago, for a months’ visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Saj'erfe of DeMotte, are the guests of Clias. Hanleys’ a few days. The seniors entertained the juniors at the home of Mrs. Charles Rhoades, last night. ». Mayor McCoy has been confined to his house for som« time with a painful attack of sickYt^s. Mrs. Julia Enslen of Morocco, after a few days visit with her daughter, Mrs. D., A. Stoner, returned home today. Rev. J. L. Meads, the F. W. Baptist evangelist, will preach Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, to men only. They are all invited. J. F. Osborne has received word from Rochester that his daughter, Mrs. Mable Wood has made him a second time a grandfather. It is a girl. Geo. Henkle moved into town yesterday, from the vicinity of 'Blackford. He occupies property he has lately bought, in the east part of town. Mrs. Eveline Scearcy who has been making an extended visit with relatives at Delphi, returned to her home three miles northeast of town, today. Drs. Washburn & English performed an operation on a son of David B. Miller, of Mt. Ayr, last night, for hare lip. It is thought the operation will be entirely successful. Joe Jackson, at the Nowels House, is out after the medal of champion hash slinger. He claims to have served 35 meals in 35 minutes last night, and if anyone can bent that he would like to known it. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam are visiting relatives and friends in Chicago a few dftys. S. A. Royster will take his place in the daytime as station ngent. Hnrry Zimmerman will fill Mr. Royster’s plac(*as night oporntoTV A little son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ross fell on the ice while plnying at the school house, Thursday, and was quite badly out and bruised. The blow on his head was so severe as to cause unconsciousness for several hours. He is now reported all right again.

J. F. Bruner, of DeMotte, the coming new landlord of the Makeever House, is here making arrangements for taking charge next Thursday. Mrs. J. M. Troxell, one of the most experienced and successful hotel housekeepers in northern Indiana, expects to assist in the management of the hotel. The Populists of Indiana have expressed their intention of taking up the middle of the road this year, turning neither to the right or to the left to join with another political organization. They will be the first td> put a state tioket in the field and will meet in Indianapolis for that purpose on Washington’s birthday, February 22. Isn’t it queer, says an exchange, that men, who forty years ago, thought nothing was funnier than to upset a whole sled load of girls down on embankment while on the way to a singing school, are so awfully afraid to trust their boys with a team now; and tfhat those same girls who sprawled In snow drifts two feet deep, and yet lived over it and grew to woman-hood, now worry themselves half to death because their daughters like to indulge in such frolics. The cutting out of a notch in the fire bell where the crack was, was completed yesterday afternoon and a trial given the bell this morning Its sounding qualities are very much improved, although it is not yet as good as before it was first broken; but that was not to be expected. In its present condition, it is at least a fairly servicable fire alarm, while before the notch was cut it was little better than pounding a hollow log with a club.

MONDAY. Almira Stiers visited relatives at Mouon over Sunday. Bert Goff is attending business college at Indvujfapolis. , Mrs. M. E. Thompson is visiting relatives a few days in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Braddick, of Kuiman are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Yeoman. ■ “ Mrs. John Ramey who has been sick for quite a while is reported a little better now. W. R. Nowels is on a two weeks business trip to Huntington, Wabash, Grant and Rush counties. Louis F. Hopkins of Chicago preseated his mother, Mrs. Mary C. Hopkins, a fine new piano today. Mrs. Henry Murray and son of Monon were the guests of Auditor Murray and family over Sunday. Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson are preparing for a Florida trip, intending to start some day this week. C. C. Sigler and son Ross are at Chicago. Ross went to take a position in the Swift & Co. packing house. Abe Campbell left today for several weeks stay in the vicinity of Kenton, Columbus and Chilicothe, Ohio. He will visit relatives and old friends and also old army comrades, ns his regiment, the 33rd Ohio was organized in Hardin county, that state. J. T. Randle has contracted for the erection of a residence building, as soon ns the seasons opens, on Cullen street, north of his own plnce. It will be about a $1,200 building. Banes & Fisher will do the carpenter work. From Bloomington, 111., comes the news of another addition to the family of our former townsman, Frank Hanley, this last being a girl, to break the monotony. The previous four are all boys and the oldest only about 6 years old. A freight train wreak on the Nickel Plate, lnte Saturday night, near Hammond blocked the Mouon tracks so badly that Sunday’s early fast mail south went around by Wilders. The Sunday papers and other mail for Rensselaer were’left at, Monon and brought ovor by the milk train. Tim rush for the Klondike.is already beginning in some placos. It is probable that several from Rensselaer will start in tu few months. One of our yolmg men,

J. H. Marshall, is now at Fort! Jones, California and is expecting ; to try the Klondike when the season is far enough advanced. ' " i I Uncle David Nowels is still j pushing the improvement of the j depot district with greater energy j than ever. He has contracted for | another brick business’ building north of the railroad, near the one occupied by McColly & Coen, and south of the railroad, on the site now occupied liy Jas. Maloy’s house, soon to be removed, he will build a good residence. A large implement building is als6 among his intended improvements, as soon as the weather will permit. We understand that Uncle David Nowels says that two car loads of McKinley prosperity were recently sent to Rensselaer and hnd to be sent away again because the people were too poor to buy it. But Uncle David show’s by the way that he is branching out in building operations that he must think a little of the prosperity got switched off here after all. Well the country is full of prosperity and Jasper county will get some.of it even if luck was against us in matter of’ poor crops, the last two years. Smoke 69. Best 5 cent cigar. Sale everywhere.