Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

■■pp-- ■ jr Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. v Daily Grist of Local Happcn- ' . * ing*s Classitifd Under Their Respective Headings.

TUESDAY. W. B. Austin and Harry Kufrie Knox, today. Monroe Banes is visiting in White Co. n few days. Mrs. Geo. Henkle is visiting her parents at Shelby a few days. Grand Easter Millinery Opening 7-8 and 9th at the Meyer Sisters. Miss Johnson of Chicago, is trimming for Mrs. Leeklider this season. Mrs. S. E. Moffitt of Valparaiso, spent the day with her mother here, yesterday. Born, to Mi. and Mrs. Henry Ropp, five miles east of town, today, March 28, a son. If you intend to get an Easter hat go to Meyer Sisters they have the prettiest hats for the least money. James" R. Henry, of Owen county, was in town Monday. He is a prominent candidate for the Republics nomination for state auditor. The root of the old Dick Stone house, north of the railroad, caught fire today, but it was put out bo,'fore any damage was done, or ialarrn given.

A. J. Knight is papering the offices of C. E. Mills, Warren & Irwin and the one just vacated by County Surveyor Alter, in the Odd Fellows building. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harris, Mr. and Mrs. William Rice, and two Zoborosky boys will leave tonight for Rolla, N. Dak., to take a claim in that part of the country. The big wind of Sunday night was destructive to some extent. IBesides turning over various outbuildings in different parts of town, •it totally wrecked a good windmill for Dr. 11. J. Kannal. The ladies of the Christian 'church will hold an Easter Market on Saturday, April 9th, in P. W. Clarke’s jewelry store window. All kinds of pies, cakes, bread and colored Easter eggs will be sold. John Daugherty Jr. was tried last evening before Squire Burnham, on the charge of riding a bicycle after dark without n light. He showed that he had started out with a light and it went out, -and he was acquitted. Married at the home of the bride’s parents in Rensselaer March 28th 1898 at 6 o’clock p. m., Mr. Edmond J. Murray and Miss Lucinda -J. Daugherty. Rev. D. A. Tucker pastor of Free Baptist church officiating. Only the family of the bride was present at the wedding. The groom is from Chicago and there the newly married couple will make their home. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Dwiggins have arrived in Rensselaer from their winter’s stay in North Carolina and Florida, and it is now their intention to become permanent residents of Rensselaer Mr Dwiggins reports that in Florida, quite the contrary *to what it if here, the weather is so dry that crops of all kinds are suffering for want of rain.

WEDNESDAY. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock are in Chicago today. E. Fairchild and J. M. Troxell, of DeMotte, are in town today. Miss Adda May is attending the Kokomo teachers’ association to day at that place. Mrs. William King after a few days visit with relatives here, returned to Wheatfield today. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bowen, three miles south of town, Wednesday, March 29, a daughter. W. M. Norris attended the funeral of his mother. He returned to his home today at Palmer, 111. It is now denied that the case of alleged poisoning in the east part of town, was with suicidal intent, or indeed a case of poisoning.at all. Mrs. C. E. Nowels went to Bourbon, today, to join her husband, who is located there permanently. Elvin Overton has accepted a position as traveling man for the McCormick Harvesting Co., of

' Chicago. He left for Chicago i yesterday. The Davis, and Cook Sisters Company gave Uncle Tom’s Cabin, at the opera house last night. They had a pretty large house but proved to be a very rocky show. A burning and very hot chimney, in the south wall of the Makeever House, caused a great deal of excitement and alarm about that popular hostelry, last evening. No harm greater than the scare came of it, however.

M. F. Chilcote is spending the day in Chicago, with his neices, Misses Edith and Mary Miller, who will start tonight for Albuquerque, New Mexico, to visit their sister, Mrs. Jennie Cox. Drs. Alter and Kannal have moved their office from over the post office into the rooms in Odd Fellows’ building, just vacated by the county surveyor. They are very pleasantly and conveniently located in their new office. There has been another partial change in the ownership of the bakery and ice-cream business in the Nowels’ block. Frank Kennel has sold his interest in the' business to his partner, Mr. A. J. Ab.bott, and the latter is already in full management of the same, Mr. Kennell will return to Lafayette, his former place of residence.

Last evening, at McCoy’s corner, about 8 o’clock, Ed. Erwin, who works in Hansen’s blacksmith shop, knocked down and kicked George Pumphroy The latter was quite badly cut and bruised about the head and face. It is said that a bad feeling has existed between the two men for some time. Erwin plead guilty to assault and battery, in the circuit court, this morning, and was fined $lO and costs. Congress came very near taking matters into its own hands yesterday, and declaring war with Spain. And it may take that action before the day is out, today. We believe it will come to that soon, anyhow, but should prefer to see the President given a few more days’ time to try to get the Spaniards out of Cuba By peaceful means, if possible. But out they’ve got to go. That is one thing the American people must and will have.

THURSDAY. Jim McOolly, of Fair Oaks, has moved’ to Hammond. i Mrs; Fred Shultz is visiting her] parents at Francesville. Mrs. G. W. Goff is visiting J relatives at Crown Point. Mrs. P. L. Davis of Hammond is visiting her brother B. Fry. Mrs. Frank Randle is visiting j her parents at Monon a few days. Mrs. 'Herbert Rollins of Mt. Clares, New Jersey, visited Mrs. Lucy Malchow yesterday. -.Mrs. Thomas Thompson, Mrs. Isabelle Parker and Miss Susie Parker are visiting in Chicago a few days. Mrs. A. C. Bushy is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Edd Todd of Goodland, a few days. A full attendance of the W. 11. C., is requested next Monday night Important special work is to be done. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. S. Ellis are visiting relatives in White county for a few days.

Mrs. Isuao Kight after a few days visit with Mrs. Joe Kight returned home to Fair Oaks, yesterday. Mrs. C C. Hatfield, of Indianapolis, took her son John Hatfield, who has boon sick at the college, home yesterday. Mrs. W. A. McKenzie and daughter Mrs. Paul, after an extended \ isit with relatives in Monticello, \\ is., returned home yesterday. The several families of Dunkards who lately loft this county for North Dakota, are part of a large colony which is settling in that state. Mrs. it. T. Newman returned last night from Chicago, where she had boou for some time, on account of the sickness and death of a sister. C. C. Polk, professional piano timer, with letter of indorsement from ‘*The John Church C 0.,” of Chicago will be in the city Friday of this week with headquarters at the Makeever House. Mrs. A. McCoy and Mrs. T. .1. McCoy entertained 4(i ladies at an t fteruoon party, at the residence of the former, yesterday afternoon. .Thedecorations were beautiful and an elegant lunch was served. Progressive dominoes was the principal amusement, and the prize was

won by Mrs. C. W. Blue, after, playing off a tie with Mrs. Della Cotton Thompson. Will Mossier is now so bad that no visitors are allowed to see him. Yesterday lie was so low that it was feared he would not survive the day. Today he appears to have rallied • a little. His father, Aaron. Mossier and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Valentine, all of Cincinnati, are here on account of his very critical condition, <■ * Jim Lynch, who has been working as a section man for some months and indulging in frequent and protracted drunks, was extra full yesterday afternoon and persisted in laying around Mrs. Cieavei’s restaurant, near the depot. He was finally 'run in by Police Childers and this morning Squire Burnham gave him ten days on the rock-pile. When Childers made the arrest he slipped the comealong on one of Jim’s wrists, and with the other hand Jim reached for a billet of wood, and Childers gave the come-along a pretty friendly jerk, that peeled the skin a little on Jim’s wrist. Jim now swears that the city of Rensselaer will pay dearly for his injuries,, or he’s no Irishman.

E. L. Watson, of Wyanet, 111., and a cousin of Henry Watson, of Pleasant Ridge, and the late J. F. Watson, of Rensselaer, has been making a short visit to his relatives here, going home Tuesday night. He is a U. S. engineer and is connected with the Hennepin and Rock Island canal, the great waterway the government is building to connect the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Mr. Watson has a little daughter, nine years old and a midget in size who is a prodigy. She can learn pieces of almost any length by reading them a couple of times, and can deliver them in the most excellent elocutionary manner. She is getting a widespread reputation and in September Mr. Watson will take her to Lafayette and Cincinnati, to fill engagements for speaking and recitations. He will stop here again at that time and very likely Rensselaer people' will have an opportunity to hear this marvelous child.