Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. baily Grist of Local Happen* ines Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. W. B. Austin is at Monticello, today. Otto Engle, of Francesville, was in town yesterday. L. Jenkins is back from Chicago Heights, being laid up with an injured hand. Rev. N, Carr, of Franklin, Ind., was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. V. O. Fritts yesterday. Mrs. Minnie Reprogle after a visit with Miss Kittie Shields returned to her home at Monticello today. Mrs. Dr. Powell is spending the rest of the summar at the Ganymede Springs, at Oregon, near Polo, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hollister spent the day yesterday along the Kankakee. Mrs. Frank Ross, Mrs. T. J. McCoy and children and Mrs. Flo Sears are spending the day at Cedar Lake. Bom, Sunday, July 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, of near Pleasant Ridge, an eleven pound daughter. Mrs. John Wood and children returned home today to Rochester, after an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Qsborne. Mrs. and Mrs. P. H. Halligan after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. P. Halligan returned to Crown Point, yesterday. Mr. Halligan is a telegraph operator there. Harve, the 18 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fay, of Union township, died at 1:30 a. m., today, of cholera infantum. Burial will be at Prater cemetery, in Barkley Tp. The forty-seventh annual session of the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held in Plymouth September 7 to 12. Bishoo Warren, of Denver, Col., will preside. Blaine Shafer, who has been looking after the interests of the Prudential Insurance Co. in Delphi for several months, has been transferred to Rensselaer where he will act in the capacity of assistant superintendent for the company. —Monticello Journal. Rev. H. M. Middleton went to Monticello this afternoon to visit the “Itinerant School” of N. W. Indiana M. E. conference, in session there this week. These itinerant schools are a new feature in M. E. church organization. They are held to instruct and examine candidates for ordination

as ministers. Rev. W. H. Sayler, of Rensselaer, preached the funeral sermon yesterday for Mrs. Nancy J. Brown, of Newton township, whose death tvas mentioned in that day'a paper. The number of her surviving children is seven, instead of six, as previously stated. All were present at the funeral. The electric light wires on Washington street are being changed in location, so as to remove some of the poles in front of the public square which stand where the new cement walk will come. The new poles are taller than the old ones, and will raise the light wires considerably higher. Wright Williams, a well known Delphi man, who used to visit Rensselaer regularly to sell cigars, has just replaced the wife he lost several years ago, by a rich widow from St. Louis, whom he found by advertising.' Mr. Williams was one of the prime movers in the building of the Indianapolis branch of the Monon railroadDr. Alter was called out into Barkley Tp., this afternoon, to bee

Mrs. Eli Arnold, who was hurt at noon, in a runaway, The extent and character of her injuries will not be known until the doctor’s i return. All that is known is that she is hurt about the head. She started to drive to her daughter’s and her, horse took fright at an umbrella, and ran, throwing her out. It is reported that John Balli of Monon, and formerly at Rensselaer a great deal, was among the killed during the battles at Santiago. Ball will be remembered more by a trick he had of imitating the distant whistle of the milk train than by his name. We do not vouch for the truth of the report that Ball was killed at Santiago, and indeed do not credit it very strongly. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clarke were at Dunnville Sunday, to participate in a joint birthday dinner for Mr. Clarke and John Mannan, at the residence of the latter. Mr. Clarke and Mr. Mannan were army chums in the same company of the 33rd Indiana regiment in the civil war, and they also have the same birthday, July 26th. Mr. Mannan was 56 last Sunday and Mr. Clarke 54.

W. D. Owen, secretary of state, and ex-congressman, predicts that Indiana will go republican by 20,000, this fall. Before the war broke out Mr. Owen thought the state would go democratic as is generally the case after such a sweeping republican victory as that of 1896. But the war has been so magnificently and impartially managed by McKinley that prejudice against the administration has been disarmed and the people will say let good enough alone, thinks Mr. Owen. He admits that conditions might change in the conduct of war, but he does not expect it.

Anson Stewart*started last night, with his team and wagon in a car, for Brown county for a protracted stay and Sam Norman will follow in a few days. M> Stewart, who is an experience Goodman, has bought 160 acresof heavy timber land in that county and he and Mr. Norman are going down to work the Umber into lumber. They will set up a saw mill and saw it up, on the spot. Their respective families will remain here for the present, but will follow in a few months.

The entertainment at the M. E. Church last night was very entertaining and instructive. The attendance was fair, but not what it should have been for such a privilege. The young men, Messrs Gillaspie and Pottinger, who had charge were very gentlemanly and nice. They are yet new in their work, but did well. Their Stereoptican is first class and their views of Spain, Rome, Cuba the United States and the Battle ships, etc., were splendid. Their fine phonograph with the musical selections it rendered, was also, a fine attraction. In addition, the mubical selections rendered by our local Male Quartet, Mandolin Club and Miss Yeoman were enthusiastically received. All in all it was a very fine introduction for the young men who presented it, and should they return in the future to our city, we trust they will secure a larger patronage. Trinity Church Sunday School secures $5.80 as a result as a nucleus for a Singing book fund.

George Healey has now taken direct charge of the Chalmers' Ledger, a paper which he has owned for some time, and managed through Charley Rhoads. Mr. Healey devotes a four column article to explaining the method by which he was frozen out of the socalled Monticello company, and in so doing he not only rips John R. Ward and Captain Guthrie in no uncertain way: but he also explains how Judge Palmer, Henry Van Voorst and Claud Loughry were mainly instrumental in convincing the governor that there were two rival companies in Monticello, where really there waß not half of one company. If Healey's idea of the course of these gentlemen is

the correct one, it was not at all to their credit. Incidentally, Mr. Healey mentions the fact already touched on by The Republican, namely that Monticello has only 23 men in the company, and yet has taken all the commissioned offices. A condition in itself which shows the unfairness not to say hoggishness which has characterized the Monticello people in their management of this matter.

WEDNESDAY. Miss Zetta Smith is visiting her mother a few days in Chicago. Mrs. Fred Sanders of Lebanon, is the guest of Mrs. Alfred Hoover. Mrs. Ed. Fisher, of Remington, spent yesterday with Mrs. J. L. Foster. - Uncle Sidinal King and granddaughter, Bessie King, are visiting relatives at Monon a few days. Burt Blue and Joe Rowan have ■ bought Renicker Bros, threshing outfit and will run it this season. A. W. Hopkins of Chicago, and A. F. Hopkins are spending a few days at the Fort Meyers’ Club House, at Water Valley. Mrs. George Wright returned to her home at Caro, Mich., taking with her Madge and Hurley Beam, her grandchildren, for a month’s visit. Miss Gertrude Robinson returned home Monday after a weeks visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Graves and Miss Nellie Coen, at Indianapolis. Mrs. L. M. Imes, Mrs. B. Parris and grandchildren, also Mrs. L. P. Kimball, of Converse, Ind., left today for an extended visit with relatives at New York City. James T. Saunderson and the other Fowler attorneys who were fined for contempt, by Judge Thompson, have just filed their appeal with the Supreme court. Editor E. Graham, now of the Earl Park Gazette, formerly of Morocco, Kentland, Remington and half a dozen other places, is now varying the monotony by suing for a divorce. A Chicago man with a two story merry-go-round is expected to arrive here to-morrow, for a stay of two weeks. He will occupy Makeever’s vacant lots, south of the Republican office. Dr. Alter, whose call to attend Mrs. Eli Arnold, hurt in a runaway, was mentioned in Tuesday’s items, reports that she was pretty severely bruised, but not seriously hurt.

Dr. and Mrs. Johnson, Harry Kurrie, Miss Grace Thompson, Chas. Grow, Zoa Alter, Renetta Taber and Dr. Pothuisje, the two latter of Remington, are spending today at Cedar Lake. S. G. Henderson, our former oil man, was down today from Keener Tp., where he is putting up hay on the Nelson Morris ranch, on contract. He has teams and men enough at work that they put up about 40 tons a day. One Harry Noland was brought over from Remington last evening, and placed in jail, to await, the action of the circuit court. He is a bad man when drunk, and while in that condition pursued Ira Cheek with a big knife. M. L. Spitler has been confined to the vicinity of his house for some time, with a rather severe recurrence of a chronic kidney trouble, but is improving somewhat. Popular reports that there is anything immediately alarming in his condition are erronious. Fowler item in Oxford Tribune: The gossips are chewing over a rich morsel in the shape of a scandal in the upper social circles of Fowler, and it seems to make a pretty good chewin', too, and gains in volume as the masticating process goes on.

Mrs. Aaron Putnam died Tuesday afternoon, at her home near Mt. Ayr, in Newton county. Her age was about 80 years. She and her husband were among the oldest residents of that locality. Mr. Putnam is well known as a minister. of the Baptist church.

The great game of base ball between Sheldon and Raub, for S2OO and gate money, takes place at Kentland, today. Both of the contesting teams have lately played with Rensselaer, and about a dozen of our most enthusiastic base ball cranks have gone over to Kentland to see the game. An awful baseball game played at Crown Point between a nine of business men and one made up of court house officials resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 47 to 12. Ex-Sheriff Friedrich was umpire and enforced his decisions with a 32 calibre Smith & Wesson. Wallace’s advertising car No. 2 is getting in its work in Rensselaer and tributary country, today. They have made their presence manifest in Rensselaer by putting up something like 100 large cloth date bills, technically called banners. These each contain a yard or more of cloth and being printed with large letters in red ink they make a big showing. Uncle Bill N. Jones and his son Bert Jones, the latter from Bellwood, Neb., are at Chicago now. Bert is at Hahnemann hospital, where he underwent two surgical operations last Friday. The effects of the operations, with the hot weather, made him very weak, but he is now getting along very well and is considered over the danger line.

James Gardiner, of Monticello, has rented the Nowels mill, which has been shut down for several months, and will re-open it in a short time, first putting in several hundred dollars’ worth of the most modern machinery, and which was expected to arrive today or tomorrow. Mr. Gardiner has been in the milling business a good while, considerable of the time in the employ of Loughry Bros., at Monticello. He will move his family here in a few days. Mrs. Rose Bardin, a woman with three young children, who came here a month or two ago from Montana, was trying last w6ek to raise enough money by subscription to take her back there, the township trustee having agreed to give $lO of the amount from the township funds. She did not have much luck in raising the amount needed, and today she left, being furnished by the trustee with transportation as far as Hammond. The woman appears to have told a different story to about everyone she talked with, and the trustee was much inclined to believed that she was something of a professional in the begging line

THURSDAY. Harry Kurrie is at Knox, today. Newt Pumphrey was at Brook and Fowler yesterday. C. L. Parks, west of Surrey, is reported on the sick list. Walter Stoner, of Morocco, is visiting relatives here, today. Mrs. Ada Crosscup is spending a few days on the Kankakee. Miss Gertrude Small is visiting her parents a few days at Amboy. Miss Roda Green of Logansport, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Stoner. L. K. Yeoman, of Rossville, 111., is visiting his relatives in Rensselaer and vicinity. Mrs. Ella Bryan, of Chicago, spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carmichael. Mrs. Mary Hartburg was called to Parr, today, on account of the sickness of her mother. Bora, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lefler, of Hanging Grove township. Tuesday, July 26, a daughter. Willie Hudson after a few days visit with Mis. H. W. Grant returned to Hammond, yesterday. The Woman's Relief Corps will hold a special meeting at Memorial Hall on Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Elder O. P. Cooper after holding quarterly meeting at Brushwood, left today for Crawfordsville. Pastor Fritts will preach at the First Baptist church next Sunday

night. Subject, “Mistakes es Moses.” Mrs. Dr. Rouse and son Elvin, of Columbus, Ohio, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hemphill, a few days. Mrs. Albert Plummer after an short visit with her father, W. R. Cotton returned to her home at Wolcott today. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hollister of Decatur, 111., are visiting relatives at Stoutsburg a few days after which they will return to Rensselaer. Mrs. C. Jouvenat, of Chicago, and W. B. Tegard, of Huston, Tex., arrived this afternoon to visit their father, Ellis Walton and their sister, Mrs. Lottie George. J. F. Antrim and his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Antrim, have gone to Converse, today, called by the dangerous sickness of the latter’s sister, Mrs. B. Davis. They will remain about a week. Two children’s parties were given yesterday at the residence of Mrs. Anna Tuteur. In the afternoon for her son Herman and in the evening for her daughter Lena. About 25 children were entertained at each occasion by games, refreshments &c.

It seems that all previous statements that the Indiana regiments were ordered to the front were premature, but at last one battery the 27th and one regiment the 160th, have received such orders. In case of the 160th the order came at the last moment, that regiment replacing the 6th Illinois, which had broken camp. The 160th was at Chickamauga. According to an item in an Indianapolis paper, Sergeant Wilbur Tharp is in line for an early and very desirable promotion. In other words he is about to get married. The intended bride lives in White county, near Monticello. That is all right, Sergeant! A good wife is greatly to be chosen over a hatful of shoulder straps. There was a big storm yesterday, some miles west of Rensselaer, including Mt. Ayr and Morocco. An incident of the storm was that the lightning struck a tree quite near Dr. Caldwell’s house, at Mt. Ayr, giving quite a severe shock to both the Doctor and to Henry 0. Harris, of Rens selaer, who happened to be at the doctor’s house, at the time

There was a mistake in regard to the supposed appointment of BaAes Tucker, in the 159th regiment. The mistake arose from the fact that the young man’s father, Rev. D. A. Tucker supposed the word orderly meant the same now as it did in '6l and there abouts. But it don’t, and Bates’ appointment as orderly, was only a temporary one. The Northern Indiana Normal School and Business College, Valparaiso, Indiana, will celebrate its 25th Anniversary August 10th, and 11th. This school has had a remarkable growth, and has the reputation of doing the most thorough work. Its fall term will open Aug. 30th. Many students from this county have' attended the school and many more will attend the cotning yeur. w2t Sheriff Reed received a request from a Michigan sheriff, to look out for a horsethief whose full name was the same as that of a prominent young Rensselaer attorney, and the Michigan sheriff's last name was the same as the said attorney’s partner. Sheriff Reed went after the attorney and informed him that he must hold him to answer the charge es horsestealing. The lawyer got out of it in a lawyer-like way however, by saying. “On that isn’t me, why—it, that feller had freckles.” The sheriff let him The celebrated game of ball at Kentland yesterday, was won by Sheldon, with 5. runs, to 3 for Raub. It was a fine game, according to the dozen or so experts from Rensselaer who witnessed it. The game was for a purse of 1200 and the gate money. The paid admissions numbered obout

700, so that the winning club made a pretty large sum. But playing for money in that way, is not the right thing for ametuer ball teams. The Sheldon team was the same as played here except the Ist baseman. The Raub team, however, had only two of their own players, the rest being hired hands from Lebanon. A ball game for the benefit of the Rensselaer Citizens’ band will take place at the base ball park, next Tuesday afternoon. On one side will be a combination nine, made up from the best players on both sides, of the recent collegeites and clerks game. On the other side will be members of the band. Both sides will have enough good players, to make the game interesting, and also enough poor ones to make it amusing, The managers of the park, donate its use for the game, and the players give their time in practicing and in playing, so that the entire proceeds will go into the treasury of the band, now greatly in need of replenishing. Under these circumstances we look to see a very large attendance at the game next Tuesday afternoon.

S. E. Sparling has chosen a subject which can not fail to be of great popular interest, for his next' lecture, at the F. W. Baptist church. Its title is “The land of the midnight sun,” and under this head he will relate his many curious sights and experiences during his trip to Norway and Sweden, a year or two ago. The strange and striking features of that far northern region, and the quaint and curious customs of the people, will be related as Mr. Sparling himself saw them. The lecture will be given next. Sunday evening, Mr. Sparling having again chosen that evening for his lectures.

The court house clock, whose vagaries when first started up were at times very striking and at other times very not striking, now runs right along, as regular and accurate as could be desired. Since about the Ist of May it has been running and striking entirely correct. Janitor Joyner reports that it takes but little time and trouble to take care of it. A few minutes are required every Sunday morning to wind the master clock in the sheriff's office, and a few minutes more, every two weeks, to oil the striking mechanism. It has taken a little care to get the clock regulated to keep exactly accurate time, but that seems now practically accomplished, as the last time it was compared with the exact time furnished to the railroad, it had varied but five seconds in two weeks.