Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

MiiH>i> Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Sheriff Reed is in Monticello. B. F. Ferguson is at Chicago today. Mrs. J. L. Foster is reported on the sick list. Guss Phillips is visiting his sisters at Fowler. Miss Nora Morlan is visiting Lafayette friends. J. E. Wilson has returned from his trip to West Baden. Miss Glen Porter is visiting friends at Veedersburg, this state. Ross Benjamin, who has been sick for a few days, is reported better. W. H. Huff was called to Crawfordsville today by the sickness of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz arrived home last night from several weeks’ stay at Oxford. Mrs. I. C. Reubelt, after an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Starr, returned to her home at Dana today,, Capt. J. W. Wasson and daughters, Misses Pearl and Gail, are visiting relatives at Union City, Ind., for a few days. Mrs. E. Hagins, after quite,an extended visit with Mrs. Will Powers, left for her Minneapolis, Minn., home today. Sant Culbertson, who last year published the Wheatfield Eagle, is now a corporal in the 161st regiment, at Camp Mount. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Deener, after a two weeks’ visit with Hildebrand brothers, returned to their home at Chicago yesterday.

Sheriff Reed has received word from James McDonald that the latter has recovered his stolen team and is on the way home with them. He found them near Fort Wayne.

Revs. Middleton and Tucker jointly sent a 150 pound box of good things to their respective sons, at Camp Alger, Thursday. There are some fears that the boys will “founder” themselves when the box arrives. Grandfather Wm. Cotton was taken severely sick early Thursday morning, having a hemorrhage of the lungs. It is still too early to foretell the result of the attack, but at present he seems considerably better. Mrs. F. B. Meyer and children went upto the Kankakee river to day, and occupied the Rensselaer club house there, now the property of Mr. Meyer. If they find the surroundings pleasant they will remain there through the summer. Some of the right kind of cement has at last been received and work on the court house walks has been resumed The excessive heat makes progress slow however, and this forenoon two of the hands had to give up work on account of it. Sallie Rowen, daughter of Prior Rowen, of near Surrey, died yesterday afternoon, after a long sickness. Her age was about 20 years. She will be buried at Weston cemetery, on Saturday. The hour and place of the funeral we did not learn. W. I. Park’s big draying (and braying) mules seemed yesterday to be infected with the prevailing base ball mania. At least they ■'struck out” and also tried to make a home run. They were at the depot, and got scared at an engine whistling. They ran fast down to the corner of Washington and Division streets, where there were two buggies. These got out of the way as fast as possible, but the mules slacked up a little, and Em-

i ory Mills, who happened to be near, jumped into the dray, and getting hold of the lines succeeded in stopping the team, after two blocks more running. No damage at all resulted from the runaway. Even several barrels of crackers on the dray retained their places and suffered no damage. SATURDAY. Mrs. W. B. Austin is at Lafayette. i F. A. Tibbits, of Philadelphia, is in town today. i Miss Flora Wharton spent yesterday with friends here. ■ Mrs. John Schmeibie, of Lafayette, is the guest of Michael Eger and family. i Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mall, north 'of town, are visiting relatives at Monon a few days. Mrs. Lida Potts, after an extended visit with Mrs. Howard Landis at Delphi, returned home today. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson are at Battle Creek, Mich., spending Sunday with Mrs. Thompson’s parents. G. H. Healey, of Brookston, is in town today. His family has been here all the week visiting Mrs. Julia Healey. Mrs. Michael Schneider, after visiting relatives here a couple of weeks, returned to home at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. Mrs. Kate Harner, of Kingman, Kans., after a short visit with relatives at Chicago, is now the guest of J. F. Irwin and family. Mrs. Anna Hoover and Mrs. M. Demmenderser, of Chicago, are the guests of Mrs. D. A. Stoner. Mrs. Demmenderser returns home this afternoon. Mrs. Norman Warner gave a party yesterday afternoon for her grandchildren, Hazel and Rex Warner. Forty-nine children w ere present and had a most pleasant time. C. B. Jones did tiot go to the mining regions of Georgia, at the time intended, and has returned here. He left Mr. Wandell in Chicago. They expect to go south in a few days.

Governor Mount has requested the war department to send the 161st regiment to Jacksonville, Florida, and it is believed that the request will be complied with, and the regiment moved in a short time. . -

The report published by a number our exchanges that A. A. Winslow, of Hammond, did not get that consulship to Liege, Belgium, by failure of the president to make the appointment, is not correct. The appoinment was made and confirmed and his commission awaits him at Washington.—Valparaiso Star. Our former citizen, C. B. Harrold, in his paper, the Coal City Record, speaks right out to his delinquent subscribers and tells them that it is “put up or shut up.” Put up the cash on their part or shut up the shop on his part. In other words, he must have some wealth or seek other fields. Spitler Bros, are now putting up the big bill boards for Wallace’s circus. One of these is located on Washington street, in front of the Republican office. Another is on Division street at Weston Park, another at Maskers feed barn, corner Cullen and Cordelia streets, and the other at Schofield’s barn. There will be 308 feet in all, in length of the boards, and 11 feet high. “Uncle Norm” Warner has just had his residence in Newton’s addition repainted and added a forty foot porch. He has lived in the house 38 years, and this is only the third time it has been painted, and it didn't need it very, bad this time. Uncle Norm always insists on using a certain brand of pure white lead, and perfectly pure raw linseed oil; hence the lasting qualities of the paint. Sheriff Reed made a trip to Monticello yesterday and collected an old judgment on a former Rem-

ington man named Stout. He was there with a trotting horse, and paid the judgment rather than to have his horse levied on. A report that the sheriff was after the hair restorer woman was a mistake; although some females have been , there this week, who are thought i to have been them.

MONDAY.

Rev. V. O. Fritts is confined to his house, by sickness. Vern Robinson is fishing at the Kankakee river a few days. Miss Nora Gardner of Monticello, spent Sunday with Miss Grace Gee. Mrs. Martha Snyder, of Mt Ayr, is the guest of Mrs. Phillip McElfresh. Mrs. S. J. McKoon, of Wolcott, N. Y., is the guest of Mrs. M. E. Lecklider. Mrs. S. J. Mowrer and nephew of Denver, Colorado, is the guest of Mrs. Sarah Keifer. Rev. James Beck, the presiding older, preached at the M. E. church, Sunday morning. Ike Sayler has a five room addition to his residence, in west part of town, nearly completed. Rue Parcells has completed a week’3 visit at Delphi and is now staying a week at Monticello. Geo. V. Moss has gone to Evansville, this state, today for a stay of about ten days, on business matter. . Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Healey after a few days visit with Mrs. Julia Healey returned to Brookston, today. M. Mulford has returned from a protracted stay in Ohio. He has been afflicted several months with an attack of lumbago. E. L. Hollingsworth has joined his family at Charlevoix, Mich., for a short sojourn in that pleasant and invigorating region. John Hays who has been making his home at K. A. Parker’s north of town, left today to join the Monticello company, at Indianapolis. The rain Sunday forenoon kept the people out the churches and drove the flies into them. One minister states that they were so bad that the people could not sleep. There were 65 tickets sold here for the excursion to Camp Mount and Indianapolis Sunday. The train had 12 coaches. Another train started from Michigan City which took all from Monon southward. It was just along about this time last year when the unparalleled hot spell came to an end, in wide extended storms, of almost cyclonic severity. For about ten days the thermometers reached about or above the 100 degree mark, every day. There is reason to believe that real reason why young Jakes was ‘‘turned down,” at Camp Mount, was that another Monticello man had screwed up courage to go, and the officers of the company threw out Jakes to make room for him. After the way those fellows euchred George Healey we could believe most anything of them in the way of trickery. On the Monon there is considerable rivalry between the engineers of the new Brooks locomotives 111 and 112 and the engineers of 100 and 703, both Baldwin build. The latter claim that the Baldwin will haul five cars faster than the Brooks engine can, but when two more coaches are added the Brooks, being the heavier engine, has the advantage. This region was visited by a fine rain, Sunday forenoon, and by all accounts the rain was general over this county, at least. Some parties from here who were visiting in Newton Co. Sunday, report considerable rain there, but not so much as here. Sunday evening there was a little more rain here, and a heavy shower a few miles north. The rain will greatly help the corn crop and late potatoes. According to some reports. ,the rain a few miles north, Sunday evening, was accompanied by a

heavy wind which blew down considerable oats. Misses Orrie Clark and Nellie McCarthy have gone to Danville, 111., to enter a training school for nurses, which is maintained in connection with a large county hospital, at Danville, The young ladies enter on a month’s trial, and if ''the work pleases them at the end of that time, they will enter on the regular two or three years course. The hospital and training school are both quite notable institutions. Dr. Brown, of Danville, father of Dr. H. L. Brown, the Rensselaer dentist, is president of the institution. It would seem that Dr. A. L. Berkley has not been contributing as freely to the ice-cream fund this hot weather as some of liis young lady friends think necessary. At least they worked a scheme on him, the other day which provided a large number of them with a treat of that article. It seems that in some way the Dr. broke a young lady’s eye-glasses, and some other young ladies drew a sight draft on the Dr. for the value of the glasses, signed the owner’s name, and her father's initials. The Dr. paid the draft all right and the young ladies who worked the scheme blew in the proceeds for ice-cream.