Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. <> f • ' Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. • B. F. Ferguson is at Francesville today. C. A. Roberts was at Frankfort yesterday on business. John L. Sullivan of Jordan Tp., is reported on the sick list. A child of Wm. Zea five miles south of town, is reported quite sick. J. C. Borntrager, of Wapakoneta. Ohio, is back for a two weeks visit with his parents, south of town. Mrs- James Thompson and daughter are at Parr to attend the Lakin-Carlin wedding reception. Harry Wernple who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Montgomary for a few days left for Chicago today. Mrs. E. P Hammond, of Lafayette, was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. B. Austin, Saturday and Sunday.

Miss Harriet Yeo'man is unable to teach her school at Parr this week on account of sickness. Miss Iva Alter is filling her place. Born, this Tuesday morning, Feb. 22nd 1898, to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Leatherock, in town, a nine pound Martha Washington girl. Chas. Hullinger, a store clerk at Valparaiso, suicided by the revolver route, Monday. He was 40 years old and leaves a wife and one child. Father Mark, of St. Joseph’s College, who has been sick quite a while, left for the hospital at Cincinnati for treatment, today. Father Clement accompanikl him. Frank Krasny, from out in the Blue Grass neighborhood, was in town yesterday afternoon having Dr. Berkley mend up a broken rib. The accident was caused by a horse crowding against him. Several coops more of D. A. Stoner’s fine bred chickens and ducks were shipped to distant points, Monday. O. C. Halstead also sent several coops of his thoroughbred light bramas. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brady are at Lafayette, today. Mrs. Brady from there will go to Fountain county, and Mr. Brady will go to Brookston to perform the marriage ceremony of Mr. Hill and Miss Van Winkle. It looks a little now as if Goodland would have no other representative than Geo. Sapp in the Klondike. One by one the boys are growing faint as the season for departure arrives.—Goodland Herald. Joe Norman is getting in the foundations for a good house on . his 5 acre tract, on the gravel road north of town. It will be a $1,200 or $1,300 building. Lee Jessup will do the carpenter work. August Rosenbaum and family went to Hammond, yesterday after noon and intend to again make that place their home. Mr. Rosenbaum will come back a day or two every week to look after his saloon and 'other property here

WEDNESDAY. H. O. Harris is in Chicago today. Will Mossier is still confined to his bed by sickness. Mrs. Elmer Shook is visiting at das City a few days. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Yates entertained at cards last night. Miss Blanche Kenton is visiting her sister and family at Delphi. A child of B. D. McColly of Fair Oaks, is reported very sick. Gus Grant is' furnishing hot coffee and buns for Mike O’Halloran’s sale today, in Keener Township.

Wm. Bidwell, of Wolcott is in town today doing business and visiting his friend, Elder N. H. Shepherd. - Hon. William Darroch, of Kentland, is in town today, taking depositions in a case pending in the Newton circuit court. Grandmothef Lowman, a few miles east of town, is very’ seriously sick from an attack of grip, settling on her lungs. J. J. Shea and G. W. Goff are at Terre Haute attending the Grand Lodge of Foresters which will be held February 24th and 25tli. The Populists of the Tenth district, at the state convention Tuesday, elected J. M. Zion, of Tippecanoe county, as distriot chairman. Mrs. W. T. Perkins, who has been to Lima, this state attending the funeral of her brother, Frank Minzy, which was held Saturday, returned home today. Miss Ada Kenton, of Surrey, is suffering from some fractured ribs, resulting from* a fall received Monday. Dr. Johnson is treating the case and reports as doing well. Elder F. L. Austin has concluded his successful series of meetings at Eagle Creek and has returned home and will preach as usual at the Church of God, next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Rhoads desire to express their most sincere thanks to their friends for kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of their infant daughter, Ada. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardman entertained their friends last evening with a progressive euchre party. Mrs. Hardman won the ladies’ prize and C. G. Spitler the gentleman’s prize. There are a number of our people who have seen Geo. N. Monroe and they'do not hesitate to say that “Col” Ellis has been extremely fortunate in booking him, and Saturday night will be the event of the theatrical season.

The ladies of the M. E. pjmrcb had good success with their dinner and supper at G. A. R." hall,'yesterday. Theiy receipts above all expenses were S4O. Clarence Lecklider, who has been sick for several months, was taken to Chicago on the 9:55 train, this morning, and will receive treatment at the Presbyterian hospital. Attorney J. W. Douthit wants unother divorce. This time it is between himself and a big carbuncle on his back. He is unable to get to his office on account of it. A young fellow from out south who brought a pair of wild ducks to town today, reports that they were pletfty a few days ago, but have now all disappeared, probably having gone back southward. There was a big dance at Roberts’ hall, last night. Said to have been the largest of the season. About 50 couples were present. Healy &-Jakes’ orchestra made the music, and Kellner and Bushey were the managers. According to Walter Wellman, the Washington correspondent of the Times-Herald, President McKinley is even now at work on an ultimatum to'Spnin which he will send before long' giving that nation just sixty days and fifteen minutes in which to end the war in Cuba. That Wellman is a telegraph liar of continental magnitude, and he springs a new sensation every few dayß. He really knows no more of what the president’s intentions are in regard to Cuba than anyone else.

THURSDAY. Bristol. Hoar Bristol the 28th. The little child of J. F. Bruner is reported sick. W. B. Austin and Harry Kurrie are at Winarnac, today. Miss Pearl Blue is visiting her brother Roy, a few days at Stoutsburg. “A Happy Little Home’’ at Ellis’ Opera House Saturday, night Feb. 26th. Miss Grace Caldwell, of Mount

—; : • Ayr, is visiting relatives a fewjdays at Indianapolis. Hear Bristol in his lecture on Shakespeare next Secure seats early at Fendig’s. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shallan, of Lafayette, are the guests of Conrad Hilderbrand a few days. Mrs. Luella Cornell after a few days visit with Mrs. C. S. Nichols returned to Idaville yesterday. Now comes the greatest attraction of the season, A Happy Little Home, Saturday night, Feb. 26th. Ellis’ Opera House' Saturday night, Feb. 26th., A Happy Little Home. Mrs. John Pierson after a few days visit with Mrs. Osa Ritchie returned home to Englewood last evening. Mrs. N. W. Miller, of Battle Ground, who has been visiting B. F. Ferguson a few daj 7 s, returned home today. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Richardson of Wingate are visiting Mrs. Bruce White and other here a few days.

M. L. Pass, who has been visiting his brother in Barkley for some time, left today for his former location at Holland, lowa. Alvin Clark has just begun work on a good residence in Thompson’s Addition. He sold his place in Weston’ Addition to D. B. Nowels. Frank Randle, lately of the general store at Pleasant Grove, is moving into town, and occuping J. C. Passons’ tenant house, in the south end of Leopold’s Addition. Dr. Frank Bristol is considered one of the most powerful orators on the rostrum. Rennsselaer is indeed lucl y to obtain such a man in their Course. Don’t fail to hear him in his last tour of the west. Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis gave a party last evening in the opera house annex, to the members of the Old Folks and the Young Folks euchre clubs, at which about 25 couples were present. Progressive euchre was played, refreshments served, and a dance by young people ended the evening’s pleasure. Probably the last chace our people will have to hear the famous Bristol will be next Monday, as he leaves for Washington where he takes charge of McKinley’s church in March.

Capt. A. T. Mahan, the greatest naval authority living, evidently estimates the chances of the Maine having been destroyed by an accidental internal explosion at an even smaller figure that we did, in a recent issue. The Capt. says: Consider, however, the number of war ships that are analogous in character if not in particular detail to the Maine which are traversing the ocean and having on board coal and powder year in'and year out without accident, and you will realize at once how preposterous it iB to' assume that the danger of explosion is great. I assure you, speaking as a seaman and as a naval officer, that any man that crosses the ocean in a passenger steamer" undertakes in a week greater risk from collision than any seaman on board a ship of war does from explosion in the course of a year. In other words, according to Capt. Mahan, the chances for the a war vessel like the Maine by accidental internal explosion in a year, are not greater than one in fifty thousund. And of course the chances for its occuring in any given month, which was about the time the Maine was at Havana before the Spaniards got in their work, would be about one in 500,000 It is needless to say that Capt. Mahan takes no stock in the accidental explosion theory.