Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happening’s Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe are in Chicago a few days. Miss Flossie Graves, of Morocco, is visting Rensselaer friends. Mrs. Floyd Robinson is visiting her parents a few days at Delphi. A. H. Hopkins returned to Englewood today, after a few days stay in Rensselaer. Mrs. F. C. Peters of Paynes City Mich., spent yesterday with her •son at the college. Miss Lida Metzger after an extended visit with relatives returns’ ed to Delphi yesterday. Mrs. Jennie Sterner of Danville, 111., after a few days visit with Mrs. Anna Winterfelt returned home today. ' Dr. R. B. Witherill, Lon Brocken braugh and Hon. G. P. Heywood of Lafayette are in town today on business. Mrs. I. J. Gross, of Blue Island, 111., who is here visiting her brother, G. L. Morgan, has been sick several days, but is-now able to be out. Mrs. Peter Giver, who has been sick for a long time with a complication of diseases, at her home in the west part of town, is now .reported very low. Albert Overton, vice president •of the sub-district Epworth League, is at Reynolds today aiding in the preparation for the next •convention to be held at Remington in a short time. W. B. Austin returned home last night. During his absence he stopped a few days at Indiana Mineral Springs near Attica, and tried a little mud bath treatment for his rheumatism. The court house clock will not be ready to start tomorrow, as was hoped for. The “master clock” which is coming from Milwaukee, did not arrive yesterday as expected, hence the delay. It may come today. A special train went south over the Monon at noon today, and the report was that it carried a regiment of U. S. soldiers. The report was erronious as it was a party of mechanical engineers going to make a visit to Purdue University, at Lafayette. The purpose of their visit there we could not learn. Mrs. Henry Zacher and son, of Newton Tp., who wont to Germany a month or two ago, to take care of Mrs. Zacher’s aged parents, are now on their way back here. They expected to remain as long as the old people lived but ’the prospect of war has caused them to hurry back home. Uncle Isaac Say let was 89 years old Monday, and the occasion was observed by a dinner at his residence, in the north part of town, at which his children, grandchilddren an other near relatives were

present to the number of about 25. Uncle Isaac still preserves his bodily and mental faculties in a remarkable degree for so old a man. He comes of a long-lived family, however, and evidently may count confidently on quite a number of years yet of life and health. He has five brothers living, one of them 92 years old, three more of them over 80, and one nearly at that age. Also a sister who we believe is over 80. WEDNESDAY. J. C. Taylor is in Chicago, today. Mrs. John Ceakley is in Hammond. H. B. Murray is in Valparaiso on business. r Merl Gwin is visiting friends a few days at Monon. A small child of Will Lew Ellen is reported very sick. Mrs. Louis Mull, south of town, is reported on the sick list. Mrs. Mary Drake is visiting relatives at Chicago a few days. Andrew Miscb, of Wheatfield, transacted business in our city today. Miss Ollie Marlatt after a few days visit here returned to Englewood today. Joe Schlieutz left -today for a few days visit with his parents at Defiance, Ohio. L. W. Henkle, after a few days visit with friends here, returned to Chicago Heights, today. The viewers of the Pulaski county end of the Diamond joint ditch were here today making their report. Harrie Kurrie visited his mother a few days at Pavoloi, Mineral Springs, Orange Co., returning home yesterday. Reports from different parts of the county as to the wheat prospects are very encouraging for a fine crop. It is a matter greatly to be regretted that the acreage is not greater in this county. Ira Washburn will have to cure wounds instead of making them in the coming war with Spain, as he has been assigned to the hospital staff, in his regiment, in Chicago. His preference was to have carried a gun, but his medical knowledge was too valuable to be lost. Sheriff Reed arrived home last night from taking W. H. Robinson to the Long Cliff asylum, near Logansport. The sheriff and two others had all they could do to manage the unfortunate man In getting him on and off the cars he had to bo carried bodily. Joseph Jackson and his new bride, formerly Miss Nora Marlatt, took the milk train this morning to go to their future home at Mackinaw, 111. Their friends treated them to a liberal supply of rice as they boarded the train, together with a few old shoes for seasoning. Martin Schur, of Lowell, died Sunday night of blood poisoning. He underwent amputation of a leg on the previous day, but failed to rally. Mr. Schur was seventy years old and a resident of Lake county for thirty years. He was a large land-holder. His aged wife alone survives. Geo. N. Dunn, our rising young lawyer, is a member of the state militia, in an Indianapolis regi-

ment, and expects a call at any time to go and help make the Spanish “walk Spanish.” He is reported to be quite cheerful over the prospect, whereas a certain estimable young lady is reported to be decidedly Moody. Saturday was the last day for duck hunters to enjoy their favorite sport, for the birds are now sheltered by the wing vs the law. It is safe to suppose that a duck which, before the law was in force, could not be approached nearer than a quarter of a mile will now come almost within reach of a ten foot pole. Robert Randle, who is acting as a general agent for the Deering Harvester Company, this year, is now looking after the company’s interests in this vicinity for a few days. His territory at present is the northwestern portion of this state, but is likely to be transferred to other fields at almost any time, as is the policy of the company. He reports the outlook better for business in his line than for quite a number of years past. THURSDAY. Mrs. E. Hollin is reported better today. Mrs. Delos Thompson is spending a few days in Chicago. W. T. Perkins and A. F. Long are Chicago visitors today. Miss Rena Bierley is visiting her sister a few days at Shelby. Miss Maud Irwin returned last night from a two weeks visit in ChicagoEdward Tanner’s new house, in Barkley Tp., is almost completed and he will move out and occupy it next week. Mrs. Albert Dickinson of near Remington left here this morning for Chicago where she will visit relatives a few days. Mrs. O. W. Scott, of Delphi, committee suicide yesterday afternoon, by hanging. She had been in poor health a long time. F. B. Meyer and B. F. Fendig returned last evening from their sojourn at West Baden Springs. J. E. Wilson, who was with them, is continuing his visit elsewhere. Fred Cissel, C. E. Tyner, John Remley, Jess Ball, Joe Schofield, James Lister and A. Lewis attended the K. O. F. M. banquet at Francesville last evening. Hollingsworth & Hopkins have nearly completed a good five room tenant house in Riverside Park. They contemplate building some more in the same addition this season. Homer Kessler, of Logansjiort general agent of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, is here today, paying to Mrs. W. W. Berry, of Monon, a policy on the life of her late husband, being SI,OOO in amount. Smith King, of Indianapolis, traveling agent for the Indianapolis Journal, is in town today. Mr. King, since his last visit here has been affleted with an eye trouble, which has nearly destroyed his eye-sight. Frank Bruner, son of landlord Bruner, of the Makeever House, lost the end of the first finger on his right hand, Wednesday afternoon, while cleaning his bicycle. He caught it between the chain and sprocket wheel. J. M. Hodshire has been doing the brick laying on Leopold’s new business building, it being his first work since his bad accident at Wolcott, about a year ago. He still walks with crutches but is able to keep up his end of the line in laying bricks. Fountain county citizens have offered the new electric road 48 miles of right of way all graded and ready for the ties as an inducement for the line to pass through that county.—Monticello Herald. Which shows that people of other counties know a good thing when they see it whether the people of this county do or not. The for the court house clock system, arrived yesterday afternoon and is now being

set up. It will be located in the sheriff’s office. It is intended to run it a day or two to see that it is properly regulated in all respects, before the general system, including the large dial in the tower, are started up. The “Western Railway Club was the name of the organization which went to Lafayette Tuesday over the Monon, on a special train, and was incorrectly reported as a battalion of soldiers. They went to Lafayette to inspect the Monon’s big shops there and also the engineering department of Purdue University. Wallace Robinson and Joseph Halligan arrived home last night from a 16 days absence in Kansas, most of which was spent in and near lola, Allen County, where two of Mr, Robinson’s brothers reside and where he has considerable property interests himself. lola is in the very center of the Kansas gas belt, and is booming like the typical gas towns of this state. Mr. Halligan had strong thoughts of remaining in Kansas or Missouri, but after looking the land over concluded that Jasper county was good enough for him.