Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happeni i inars Classified Under Their Respective Headings. —.- , FRIDAY. iMiss Dora Kennedy is visiting relatives at Medaryville. E. J. Warren is at DeMotte a couple of days on business. The merry-go-round has arrived and is being hauled down from the depot, today. Miss Mary Fetrow and Miss Floy Nowels are visiting relatives at Chicago a few days. William Meyer is putting a new cement sidewalk in front of bis residence, on Front street. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moore, in the north part of town, Thursday July 28, a daughter. Frank Borntrager left today to visit his brother and other relatives at Wapakoneta, Ohio a few days. S. M. Quick, of Francesville, was in town today. Mr. Quick . formerly lived in Barkley Tp., and still owns land there. Showers have been rather frequent lately, and Rensselaer bad a good one, this afternoon. Corn was needing it badly, in places. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hilton, of Barkley Tp., died Wednesday, and was buried yesterday. at Prater graveyard. Its age was about one month. Miss Winnie Haskell after an ' extended visit with relatives at Augusta, Kans., and Chicago returned to her home at Mt. Ayr today by way of Rensselaer. Mrs. Sarah Keefer, and Miss Grace Gee have gone to Delphi for a visit. Their guest, Mrs. S. J. Mowrer, of Denver, Colo., went with them as far as Monticello. Chajley Gray is now regaining . his strength' and aupetite very satisfactorily, but as yet there is no improvement in the paralized condition of thrower half of his body. W. B. Durham and Wm. Rankin, of Onarga, 111., are visiting H. O. Harris and family. Mr. Rankin is just back from Texas, were he bought 6,500 head of cattle, which he will hav< fed in Missouri. Congressman Crumpacker wishes to have it announced to the farmers that he has a number of copies of the late Agricultural Year Book for distribution. He will send copies to those who desire them until the supply is exhaused. , The auditor of state has received the semi-annual settlement sheets . from all the counties. They show that the three educational institutions —the State Normal, the Indiana University and Purdue University —receive $116,892.97 for the one-half year from direct taxation. • Quite an improvement has been effected on the diamond at the ball park, by the process of “scalping” or “skinning” which consists in taking off the turf and smoothing and hard rolling the ground afterward. The work was completed in time for yesterday's game. E. A. Dawson, the Goodland livery man, who was here looking for a lost team, finally recovered the rig. The party who took it, drove down to near Williamsport and there left the team, on a farm, and made his escape. Dawson got track of the team and secured them, one day last week, The oats crop is being thrashed now in this vicinity. The growth of straw was very heavy, heaviest ever seen here, according to opinions: but the yield though large, has been larger. It is also noticed that the oats weigh light to the measured bushel. This is variously attributed to rust, dry hot weather, chintz bugs <fcc. The quality of the oats, except for be- ’ ing light, is very excellent.

It was a fine rain that visited this section this morning, and it appears to have bfeen pretty general in extent. It will put the corn crop in a good shape, and was not heavy enough nor protracted enough to damage the unthreshed oats very extensively. The Rensselaer steam laundry has partly changed hands. W. F. Smith has retired from the firm and C. W. Kelley has entered it. The firm is now P. H. Smith and C. W. Kelley. Mr. Kelley has long been connected with the laundry, as manager of its up-town office, at his, Kelley’s, news depot. All the Chicago morning newspapers have raised their price in the city from one to two cents per copy. The increase in the cost of white paper since the war commenced is assigned as one of the causes. This raise, while it is considerable, is probably not the real, but only the apparent cause of the increase. The real cause is the fact that when the Chicago papers got to cutting on the prices they cut once too often and reduced the price of papers down to a moneylosing figure. Nickum, the perpetual light fraud, of Loganspart, was arrested Friday, by a deputy U. S. marshal, on the charge of using the mails to perpetrate frauds. Nickum, as the Republican has previously stated, has been doing a big business in selling territory to agents, and some of them have grown tired of being put off after sending their money to him. Nickum claims that he will make all his claims good, but to do that he will have to exhibit his light, so that it is evident that he has pretty nearly reached the end of his career. The Elkhart Review says: “You

can trust a woman to hold up her end of the argument. Saturday the question) of the proper spelling of the word ‘Manila’ was raised in an Elkhart business bouse, the force being about equally divided as to the use of two ‘ls’ in it, a lady stenographer insisting on the use of the double - consonant being proper. The argument was closed by the placing of a Chicago paper in evidence in which it in every case in speaking of the capital of the Phillippines used but one ‘l.’ The evidence against her, true to her sex, she simply let herself down easy by the remark that it was always spelled ‘Manilla,’ and that if it had been changed it was from the fact that Dewey had knocked ‘l’ out of it.”

MONDAY. Zern Wright spent Sunday in Brook. Grandmother Gwin, is reported worse today. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sawyer, Sunday, July 31, a son. Mrs. Alfred Collins is improving a little from an attack of malaria. Mrs. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Bussell. Miss Blanch Moore, of Indianapolis, is visiting Miss Mildred Harns for a few weeks. Biuce Porter and Charley Robinson have gone to the Kankakee river for a few days fishing. Miss Nelle Smith left Sunday for a few weeks’ vacation at her home at Worthington, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Yeoman are visiting relatives at Indianapolis and Trafalger, Ind., for about two weeks. Draemer’s two . story merry-go-round began business Saturday evening, and proved to be quite a popular attractionHarrie Kurrie, of Foltz, Spitler <fc Kurrie, has gone to his old home, Paoli, to visit relatives and enjoy a month’s vacation. Mrs. B. Forsythe will give a card party this evening in honor of her sister, Miss Sue Smith, of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Misses Minnie and Jessie Bartoo were called to Remington, today, by the serious sickness of their father, L. F. Bartoo.

Pete Brenner and Leo Miller returned last evening from several days’ stay at the Kankakee. They report fishing very poor. Mrs. Grant Warner and Mrs. F. B. Meyer and children, returned home today from several weeks outing on the Kankakee river. B. F. Ferguson returned home Saturday evening from a two weeks’ visit southward, visiting Nashville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is the date for the annual settlement of the township trustees with the county commissioners. The work always takes at least two days. The excursion to Indianapolis and Camp Mount was well patronized from here, yesterday; the number of tickets soid at this station being 102. S. H. Petrie, who lately disappeared from Wheatfield, was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, of that place, and his disappearance is to be. advertised in the Pythian Journal. Superintendent Hamilton had fifty candidates for teachers’ license at his regular monthly examination, last Saturday; and also received six sets of papers by mail, from other counties. Mrs. T. M. Daugherty and her sister, Mrs. Camp have gone to Martinsville, to visit their sister. Mrs. Daugherty will take treatment in the medical springs while there. The Junior “Kid” team from Remington came over today, to cross bats with Capt. Taylor McCoy’s team. It undoubtedly will be one of the best games of the season. Miss Mary Porter has returned from several weeks’ visit in Indi-

anapolis, and was accompanied home by her cousin. Miss Charlotte Nowlin, who will visit here fer some time. Miss Lou Swassick, of Prairieville, Ohio, left here this morning, after an extended visit with Mrs. Bentley Beoughter, of near Pleasant Ridge. She will visit at Bellview, Ohio, before returning home. Some wag has figured out the difference between Uncle Sam and a rooster and an old maid. He says Uncle Sair says yankee-doodle-do, the rooster says cock-a-doodle-do, and the old maid says any dude’ll-do. "We have seen no confirmation of the report that John C. Ball, of Monon, and well known in Rensselaer, had been killed at Santiago. He is or was with the 11th U. S. infantry, at as are 13 Monticello boys. John Martindale is again improving very satisfactorily. His physician has discovered some additional pus sacs, not previously located, and by their removal it is now thought his improvement will be without further set-backs.

C. E. Jenkins and family, now of near Crown Point, visited old neighbors just east of town, from Friday until today. He reports that his father, the venerable N. S. Jenkins, is now in very poor , health. Mrs. Mary E. Kolb, now of Oxford, has bought N. W. Reeve’s ten ent house, near his own residence, and is coming to make her home here. She is the mother of Mrs. Frank Foltz, whose own resdence is near the house Mrs. Kolb has just purchased. “Bless de Lord!” shouted a colored preacher to his congregation. “Do you know, bredren', dat de old Bible times ha,ve come-back tons? Sampson am fighting our battles in Cuba, and de news comes across de ocean dat the ’Nited States flag am waving ober de Phillistines.” William Kolb, grandfather of Mrs. Frank Foltz, of our city, died at bis home in Oxford, last Friday. He had reached the great age of 93 years and was the oldest man in Benton county. His widow survives him. and is herself over 90. The couple lived together the almost unprecedented time of more than 70 years. Among deeds j ust filad for record at the recorder's office are some from Joseph B. Greenhut, the very wealthy Peoria distiller, to Nelson Morris, the,still more wealthy Chicago packer, for some 3800 acres of land in Keener and Wheatfield Townships. It is understood that the land in question has heretofore been held by Greenhut and Morris, jointly. Harry Noland, the recent prisoner from Remington, had a succession of his customary fits at the jail, Friday evening, and considerable excitement, especially as the sheriff was down town when the trouble began. Perry Hull, who exhausted all his nerve when he worked the $15,000 bluff on the Hanging Grove people, was so frightened that he had to be taken out of the main jail and placed in the insane prisoners’ room. The latest “wreck on the Monon” occurred Saturday evening, and, though small, was exciting and occurred at Rensselaer. Jim Jordan, one of the section hands, was putting up the switch signal lights, and used a hand-car. Accompany, ing him on the car were Frank Maloy, Louie Fendig, Mose Leopold and Young Tyner. As they were running west near the Weston street crossing, a freight train came aroand the bend, and was into hand-car almost as quick as the passengers were off from it, and they got a pretty bad scare. The car was knocked off the track and I one of its wheels broken and other-1 wise damaged. It was an uncomfortably close call for the young men. The Wallace show claims to keep out the fakers and gamblers and slim-slammers in general, and perhaps they do as w’ell or possibly even better than any other circus. But we never knew any kind of a

big circus that did not, either knowingly or unknowingly, have some swindlers or gamblers in its ' wake; and we therefore suggest that people who do not want to lose their money, should not try to beat any man at his own game. In affixing a revenue stamp to any check or document do not forget to cancel the stamp bywriting your initials and date of signature across the face of the same. This is the way prescribed to cancel the stauqjs. If you do not the check ! is worthless until you do and you are subject to a fine and imprisonment. When stamps are unobtainable through failure of the government to have them ready the stamps may be attached within a year, under conditions that the internal revenue collector will explain. In the U. S. court at Tacoma, Wash., the jury was instructed to award the widow of the late Judge ! William H. Calkins, formerly of Valparaiso, a verdict against the Provident Savings Life Assurance society for $5,708. The company claimed the deceased had allowed his insurance to lapse. Judge Hanford said that an insurance company before it can declare a forfeiture of a policy for the nonpayment of a premiund, must send the policy' holder a notice stating how much is due, when due, where payable.and the notice must be sent more than 60 days before the date of the premium.

Pocket Book Lost.

Lost, this Saturday afternoon a large red leather pocket book, containing papers valuable to no one but myself. My name on papers, and think on the inside of book. Think it was lost on the streets, but perhaps on road from Pleasant Ridge.. . . ... Reward of one dollar. May be left at this office. J. I Miller.

Fountain Park Assembly.

‘‘Fountain Park Assembly Remington, Ind., Aug. 11th to 22d, ’9B. The best program of lectures, musicals, sermons, moving life pictures and bible studies ever yet given. Equal to any of the older Assembly’s for same leifgth of time. Send for program to Robt. Parker, Supt., Remington. Ind.” 5w Organ and Sewing Machine for Sale. A good second hand organ for $25 and a good sewing machine for $5. Both in good condition. For name of party enquire at this office. —— »■. ■... -

Short Locals.

Forall kinds of sewing machines, repairing and supplies, call on E, F. Gibson, at Antrim & Dean’s hardware store. Telephone No. wtf.4l South Bend wagons and buggies of all styles at L. S. Renicker’s. 86. Cash buys more at Judy and The Leif Buggy Company than any where else. Buckeye Binders and mowers for sale by L. S. Renicker near the depot. 86 The light running Buckeye binder and mower at L. S. Renicker’s. 86 . Bring your buggy, wagon and harness wants to Judy and The Leif Buggy Company and they will supply you. They have the material and ability to do it. When others fail to suit you in price, style and durability of buggies, wagons, harness, etc., thee see Judy and The Leif Buggy Company. At Goodland. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is-no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east —absolutely no red tape Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. Judy and The Leif Buggy Company will sell anything in their line to you individually ot independently of any one else as security. Goodland, Ind. Ferguson & Wilson have plenty of money to make allthe loans required in Jasper county. We will give applicant choice from private funds or eastern funds. Don’t forget to call and get our terms.

GLAD TO SEE THEM.

’• " . . . ■ ■£ ■' Inhabitants of Puerto Rico Rejoice at Arrival of Our Troops. THOUSANDS VOLUNTEER SERVICES. Interesting Dlapntch from Gen. Mile* —Operations Have Not Ceased Pending the Negotiation* for Peace. Washington, Aug. 1. —Gen. Miles, Ibb. command of the Puerto Kican expedition, sent the following dispatch to Secretary Alger, which was matte public at the war department at ten* o’clock Sunday night: "Ponce, Puerto Rico, July 31.—Secretaryof War, Washington, D. C.: Volunteers# are surrendering themselves with arms and. ammunition. Four-fifths of the people are» overjoyed at the arrival of the army. Two thousand from one place have volunteered! to serve with it. They are bringing Im transportation, beef cattle and other needed supplies. The custom house has already yielded 114,000. As soon as ail th® troops are disembarked they will be lot readiness to move. Please send any national colors that can be spared to b® given to the different municipalities. I request that the question of the tariff rat® to be charged in the parts of Puerto Rico occupied by our forces be submitted to th® president tor his action, the previously existing tariff remaining meanwhile in force. As to the government and military occupation. I have already given instruction* based upon the Instructions issued by th® president in the case of the Philippine islands and similar to those issued at Santiago de Cuba. MILES, "Major General Commanding.” Alt Depends on bpain. Washington, Aug. 1. —The progress made in the negotiations has given, rise in some quarters to an expectation that hostilities are to be suspended very soon. This will depend entirely upon the attitude of the Spanish government and the nature of its answer to our demands. It has been made clear to the French ambassador that hostilities will not be suspended except upon the assurance of a full acceptahce of our conditions, and that he has undoubtedly informed the Spanish cabinet that it depends upon Spain, when the war shall cease. Meanwhile, as an earnest that our government has not interrupted the execution of its campaigns, an order was issued from the war department Sunday for the dispatch of an entire army division to reenforce Gens. Miles and Brooke in Puerto Rico. This will be known as the provisional division and will be commanded by Maj. Gen. Wade, at present in command atCampv Thomas, Chickamauga. Hfe is ordered: to turn over that command to Maj.Gen. Breckinridge, inspector general of the army, and to report to Secretary Alger in Washington for instructions before departing for Puerto Rico, bringing with him his adjutant general and his aids.

Troopa Still nt Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico, July 29, via St. Thomas. D. W. 1., Aug. 1. —No forward movement of the army is expected for several days. The transport* with Gen. Brooke’s army corps and the remainder of the first corps are arriving slowly. Our troops will probably remain here quietly until the bulk of the army has disembarked. Gen. Miles will retain his headquarters at the custom house at the port of Ponce, while Gen. Wilson will be in immediate command of the troops in the city. Capt. Allison has been appointed provost marshal and with the aid of the local conl stabulary has preserved excellent or- | def, although almost the entire population of the city remained in the streets celebrating the arrival of their American liberators until long after , midnight Friday. Business in the city ■ has enjoyed a great boom since the arrival of the Americans. ’ The news that Spain had consented to sue for peace was received here and was at once taken to Gen. Miles. The general wrinkled his grave brow when he read it ami said he did not know what effect it would have on his expedition, but he purposed to push on ahead and take San .Juan pending orders from the president. A dispatch boat carried information out to the fleet and there was a celebration at the first indication of weakening on Spain’s part. Outside of the typhoid fever on the transports and in Guanica. th£ general health of the army continues excellent, and there has been no trace of yellow fever thus far. MurvltiiM Bombarded. Key West, Fla., Aug. 1. —Report* have reached here that Nuevitas, on the nortii coast of the province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, have been bombarded by the ships of the blockading squadron, evacuated by the Spanish and subsequently burned. No uetails are known.

Bees Destroying Cattle.

Bancroft, Mich., Aug. I.—J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of short-horned cattle, numbering 300 head, was totally lost Saturday in n singular manner. The stock was pasturing in the reservation on a high bluff overlooking th* Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees, which occupy trees on the bluffs. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and wen either dashed to pieces or drowned before assistance could reach them.

Big Pire in Eacanaba.

Escanaba. Aug. I.—A .fire which started here at eight o’clock Sunday night was not subdued until midnight. Fourteen buildings, mostly stores, were destroyed. The loss will reach |>250,000. Tlje electric light and telephone plants were disabled and th® town is in darkness. Two firemen wer* Injured.

Renominated.

Houston, Tex., Aug. I.—The Seventh congressional district democratic convention held at Martin nominated Hon. U. L. Henry for reelection.