Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happen- * insrs Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Miss Laura Fielder is reported sick with the grip. B. F. Ferguson and 0. J. Dean are in Chicago today. Mrs Jane Callow will be eighty saven years old tomorrow. John Hatfield is reported sick with rheumatic fever at the college. Mrs. George Hollingsworth and Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis are in Chicago, today. J. W. McAfee, a prominent farmer of Tipton Co., is in town today. • Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harmon, last night March 24, a daughter. Mrs. Hatfield of Indianapolis is at the college visiting her son who is sick. Squire Burnham is improving his residence with a fine new porch on the west side. The Hopkins boys will give another grand dance at Hopkins’ Hall, Englewood, Saturday night. Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, who has been spending the winter with D. H. Yeoman’s, returned to her home at Delphi today. Monticello Journal: Beyer Bros, will receive a shipment of 46,000 dozen eggs from Rensselaer to the main house here tomorrow. Evangelist Reed was overcome last evening and had to give the meeting over to Rev. Middleton. He is reported better this morning. Messrs. Babcock, Porter and Peck returned from their Kankakee hunting trip Thursday. They had poor luck and report that the ducks have about all lefl for more congenial quarters. The Monon township stone roads bonds have been sold and the work of building the roads will go ahead, at once. Lowe and others, who oppose them, have given notice to appeal to the Supreme Court. Valparaiso is making great preparations to entertain the Republican conference or “love feast” to be held there April 21. It is for the Tenth and Thirteenth Congressional districts. Trains on the Monon have been delayed since the heavy rains by washouts on connecting lines. The C. 11. & D. has had several bridges to wash out in the last two or three days and has caused nearly all the Monon trains to be from an hour to three hours and a half late The latest statistics show Odd Fellows, to be nearly 400,000 stronger, numerically, than any other secret society in the world, and last year over $3,000,000 was distributed by the order in its noble work of “visiting the sick, relieving the distressed, burying the dead and educating the orphans,” more than all other societies combined. The state medical board has in its possession the names of something like one hundred physicians who have not complied with the new’ law and are therefore liable to prosecution. The case decided by Judge McMaster in the Marion county court will goto the supreme oourt at once and a decision is hoped for at an early day. After the supreme court has handed down its decision all cases of violation of the law will be vigorously prosecuted. Attica has just completed a new system of waterworks which the Ledger claims is the best for any small city, in the state. Rensse; laer has a system which is as good in every particular, and which has

more miles of mains than Attica’s and also has, which Attica has not, a water towerdn addition to powerful direct pressure. As for excellence and abundance of water supply, we are satisfied that Attica, nor any other town, can not beat us. Besides all this, we have a fine electric light system in connection with our waterworks. Within a few days the prisoners at the State Reformatory at Jeffersonville over thirty years old are to be transferred to the state prison at Michigan City, and the men in the Michigan City prison under thirty years are to be transferred to Jeffersonville. Pending the test of the indeterminatesentence law a good many judges, it is pointed out, was careless about sentencing men according to the provisions of the law. From this time on the prison boards, backed by the Governor, will insist that in sentencing men judges shall obey the law to the letter. SATURDAY. | Geo. Goff is at Hammond today. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy are in Chicago today. •; Mrs. L. H. Hamilton is visiting relatives in White Co, I Mrs. W. H. Coover is visiting her mother at Remington. Airs. Stacy English of Hanging Grove, is reported quite sick. Francesville is drilling for oil. Their well is now down about 600 feet. "Miss Gladys Sigler of Fitzgerald, Georgia, is the guest of Mrs. G. W. Goff. H. V. Childers, of Delphi, spent the day with J. W. Childers yestesday. Miss Merl Griessel of Lowell, is the guest of Miss Grace Pulver a few days. Stop in at Ellis & Murrays’ Saturday and see new things in men’s suitings. Mrs. W. S. Parks and children are visiting relatives at Remington a few days. Miss Emma Tullis five miles south west of town left for Marion Ind., to school today. R. W. Bentley, of Frankfort, is j visiting his brother-in-law. Philip Paulus, in Newton Tp. Mrs. Monroe Banes and children are visiting relatives at McCoysburg und Monon a few days. Miss Lizzie Roberts is visiting her parents near Warren, Huntington Co., during the vacation. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Thompson and daughter Edna, are spending the day with Grace, at Evanston. Elder D. J. Huston, pastor of the Milroy Baptist church, is improving from his recent long and severe sickness. The school nt Parr has closed this week. The teachers were Miss Ura McGowan and Miss Harriet Yeoman, both of Rensselaer. The Kankakee river is said to be higher than for several years past. Around Shelly there is an almost unbroken expanse of water for miles, in all directions. How fine the “gents’” shoes looks on Sunday, since Harry Wiltshire has been in the shoe blacking business, on McCoy’s corner.

There have been no telephones placed in the new court house yet and therefore there is no telephone connection with any of the county offices. At present there does not seem to bo any certainty that any telephone service for house will be arranged for. ® Several of our city school teachers have gone to their respective homes for their spring vacations. H. E. Osborn to Sterling, 111., Miss Nettie Needham to Dublin, Ind., and Miss Shields to Monon. E. P. Honan’s term as postmaster will expire at the end of next Thursday, Mar. 31st, and G. M. Robinson’s will then begin. Mrs. Honan, who is thoroughly familiar with all the work of the office will continue ns deputy postmaster for Mr. Robinson. A well known citizen of the east

part of town is reliably reported to have taken a dose of strichnine, last night, with suicidal intent, but was pumped out by the doctors, and saved, though now very sick. It is stated that a domestic difficulty was the cause of the attempt. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beach Peterson died last "flight, at their homo in the east part of town. The nature of its disease is not known as it was sick only a few hours, and died before a physician could be summoned. It was born only last Sunday night, March 20th. The funeral was held at the residence this afternoon. O. C. Halstead, west of town, is getting quite a wide reputation for his polled, or hornless Durham cattle, They are of the stock of one which took first premuim at the world's fair. He sold a 2 voar old bull to James K. Davis, of the Durand farm, near Remington, the other day, for $l5O. He also sold some to Elmer C. Shaffer, of Bourbon, Ind., only a day or two. ngo, but the number and prices we did not learn. The company now preparing to build an electric road from northeast to southwest through this section of country may not do so, but with the spread of electric railroads throughout the eastern part of this state, it would seem that such roads are profitable. If so, it is a question of only a short time until a road, over this line will bo built. —Monticellc Journal. ♦ [ Nothing has been heard here I from Mr. Gilmore, the electric , railroad engineer, since he wrote for a sectional map of the route traversed by him, through this ■ county. He has written to Monti- ; cello parties, however, stating that a directors’ meeting would be held at Plymouth on April 11, and at which the route selected would be announced. He says he will have two routes on his map and one "of these will be taken and the other will be left. Monticello will have a couple or more representatives at this directors’ meeting, and we believe it would be advisable for the Remington and Rensselaer committees to send over a man or two from each town. MONDAY. Capt. Wasson is in Chicago today. Mrs. Elizabeth Penn of Newman, 111., of J. T. Penn. I Miss Rilla Williams of San Pierre, is in town today, j Miss Mary Hancock is visiting at Monon and Lafayette a few 1 A days. ; Ernest Wishard, of Indianapolis Medical College is home for the summer. I Mr. and Mrs. James Creviston are visiting relatives in Union City a few days. j Misses Abbie and Mary Harrison, of Chicago Art school, spent Sunday with their mother here, j Lawson Meyer after a week’s vacation with his parents returned lo i Lafayette to the business college, !today. I Mrs, W. B. Austin and daughter | Virginia, and Miss Jean Hammond are visiting a few days in ; Chicago.

W. W. Watson, the special pension oxaminer, spent Sunday witli his family here. He is at present located at Tiffin, Ohio. Mrs. Howard Landis after a few days visit and attending the funeral of her brother, Frankie Potts, returned to Delphi Saturday. R. A. Hopkins, whose winter school at McCoysburg closed last week, went to Valparaiso this morning to resume his studies at the Northern Indinnn Normal School. Charley Chamberlain, the city electrician and Louis Wilcox, 1 station agent at Surrey, spent Sunday at Louisvillo, Ky. They report the Ohio river as very high, and rising rapidly. County Surveyor Alter moved into his rooms in the now court house, the latter part of last week.

He Ims two rooms in the southeast corner of the first or basement floor, and is very comfortably and conveniently located. The county officers are now all fully located in the new court house. Clarence Leek lider returned home from Hahtiemann hospital, Chicago, yesterday He is recovering from his recent very severe surgical operation very satisfactorily, and it is believed it will result in his final restoration to good health. Ho is still confined to his bed, however, and likely to bo for two weeks yet. Miss Lucy A.< Marlatto, stenographer, who has been working in R. W.Marehall’s law office, during the winter, has returned to the Northern Illinois Normal School at Dixon, 111., to take a course in business training in other branches than stenography and typewriting, she being already quite proficient in those branches.

Isaac Kepner is building a good residence in Benjamin & Magee’s addition, in the far west part of town. W. B. Austin is also building another small tenant house in the same locality. The new street and country road which has just been opened up on the east side of Benjamin & Magee’s addition, beginning at the poor farm gravel road, now named Clark street, and running north half a mile, has been named Cottage Grove Avenue, presumably after the somewhat noted thoroughfare of that name in Chicago. Some years ago, a very estimable minister in Rensselaer made the mistake of his life and ruined his influence for good here, by standing by and endorsing a wandering, characterless, egotistical evangelistic blackguard, in his attack upon from the pulpit, on the societies, the newspapers and the innocent social amusements of our people. We greatly hope that Rev. 11. M. Middleton will not make the same mistake.

Mr. Reed, the evangelist, took occasion to “roast” the Rensselaer newspapers considerably Sunday. He seems to have quite a strong hankering for notoriety, and is grieved probably because the newspapers have not published his sermons at length. The newspapers probably know their own business quite as well as Mr. Reed knows his, (and he knows his well enough to look after the financial end thereof.) It is the province of the local newspapers to make such record of the passing events of the community, as the community has interest in, and they give as much about the facts of the various revival meetings as the general interest the people have in them justifies. And those who have conducted such meetings here in the past have usually been satisfied with the course of the newspapers towards them. Only this man Reed, and a conceited and ■ notoriety seeking blackguard ' named Keeley, have ever thought themselves called upon to go out of their way to attnek the local newspapers,for not giving enough ! attention to their meetings.