Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. ' Daily Grist ot Local Happeninirs Classified Unler Their Respective Headings. n FRIDAY. Wm. B. Austin is iu Hammond , on business today. Mrs. J. D. Boaz of Pleasant Ridge, is quite sick. Uncle John Bradock in Barkley Tp., is seriously sick. lek Yates is in -Chicago on business for a few days. Mrs. Simon Fendig, of Wheatfieln, is visiting relatives in town. Mrs. Dr. Powell is home, after a two weeks visit in West Chicago. Miss Leila Middle ton has been sick for some weeks with malarial fever, but is now improving. Miss Gertrude Small, who has been spending a weeks vacation at 1 her home in Amboy, is now back. Miss Mary Nagel is spending two weeks at Lafayette visiting friends. ♦ John R. Sigler and family, of Wheeler, are visiting George Sigler at Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Dal Yeoman is spending a week in Hammond visiting rela- • fives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Randle and daughter Carrie, are visiting relatives at Camden. Harry Zimmerman, telegraph operator at Fair Oaks, is taking a . few days vacation herd. . Yemen Npwels, of Ellis and Murrays’ dry goods store, is taking a two week’s vacation at Toledo, O. Pauline Mossier who has been spending a week with relatives in Chicago returned home this afternoon. Miss Molly Love, of Lowell, after a few days visit with her e friend, Maud Jacks, has returned home. Miss Leathe Wright, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Brookston, returned home yesterday. Mrs. A. M. Mundun returned to her home in Fair Oaks yesterday, after a few days’ visit with Mrs. J. C. Gwin. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson have been visiting Mrs. Johnson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Russell, near Remington. Dr. Washburn was called to Remington this afternoon, to con- ' suit with Dr, Landon in the case of L. F. Bartoo. Mrs. Simon Fulton after a week's visit with Mrs. Andrew Sayler and other relatives has returned to her home in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Oglesby of Medaryville, who have been visiting Cryus Haas and family, return- . ed home, yesterday. Miss Gail Wasson entertained about thirty guests last night in honor of her friend. Miss Sadye Stallard, of Lafayette. The two little Mahana girls who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Will Childers, returned to their home in Delphi today. Thos. A. Smith, of Frankfort, has shipped his threshing outfit to this place and will operate it in this vicinity this season. Mfs. C. Sexauer and children, of Wilmette, 111., who have been visiting Mrs Walter White, returned home this morning. Commissioner Way mire's little girl,'whose serious sickness called him home Tuesday, is now better, but two younger ones are now sick. Mrs. M. A. Rouse, who has been visiting Mr and Mrs. Mark Hemphill, went to Frankfort tokay, frbm there she will go to her home in Columbus, Ohio. Some new wheat is coming in to the Rensselaer mill. Some of it is -very good in quality, while some

is very poor, the grain being shriveled, and largely mixed with cheat. „ | S. A. Royster, night operator at the depot, has gone to Rose Lawn, where he will take the place of the regular day man for a short time. Frank Maloy will fill the night position here. Some of our doctors are encountering cases of the real old-fashion-ed ague, this season. They report a great deal of malarial sickness, and attribute it to the mixture of very hot and very cool and very rainy and very dry weather we have had this year. The Rensselaer ball team and about 30 or 40 rooters have gone to Sheldon today, for the return game with the Sheldon club. Our boys have loaded for the Sheldons by hiring a pitcher and catcher from Indianapolis. The catchers name is Bevil and the pitchers' Bowen. General Superintendent Lowell of the Monon has notified all station agents and train crews of the company to report the names of all persons not employes, both adults and children, seen climbing on or off trains that are in motion, that prosecution for the same maybe made by the proper officers of the law.

The sneak-thieves always get in their work on show days, when country people are all away from home. The first case yet heard from was at Charles Greenlee’s, on J. C. Porter's place, northwest of town. The thieves got into his house through the cellar. So* far as Mr. Greenlee has discovered, they took little except a revolver and a razor. Under a new regulation adopted by the post office department newspapers and circulars can no longer be forwarded “collect on delivery.” The postage for forwarding must invariably be paid in advance Letters can yet be forwarded without extra charge as often as desired, even if a sheet of of paper has to be pasted on the envelope to hold the new address. At the district meeting of the state republican conventional Indianapolis, Wm. Niles, of LaPorte county, was selected vice president for the Tenth district. C. E. Mills, of Jasper county, was made the assistant secretary. Charles F. Griffin, of Lake, was made member of committee on resolutions. G. H. Gray, of Benton county, was chosen on committes of rules and and permanent organization. A. K. Sills, of White county was appointed member of the committee on credentials. The Monticello Democrat disputes with much wrath, our assertion that the Monticello men had shown great hoggishness in freezing George Healey out of their company. Yet the sad fact still remains that it was Monticello men who deceived the governor as to their being two rival companies at Monticello; as does that other sad fact that Monticello with only 23 men whole company took every commissioned office.

SATURDAY. Frank Henkle is fishing on the Kankakee this week. Mrs. Frank Ross is visiting in Chicago over Sunday. Ross Grant is down from Chicago to spend Sunday. Mrs. H. C. Pierson is attending camp meeting at Battle Ground. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garling are visiting relatives in Delphi. Miss Meda Busey, from Bunker Hill, is visiting Miss Delma Nowels. To Chicago and back for 75 cents. Sunday, August, 14. Bicycles carried free. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood returned home yesterday from a few days visit in Chicago. H. M. Beville and “Dad” Bowen, the ball players, returned to Indianapolis this afternoon. J. V. Brengle, who teaches school in Union Tp., is back from attending school at Valparaiso. I Mrs. Anna Tuteur and family

have gone to Peoria, 111., today, to remain about a month. Alt. Padgett, who has been attending the races at Logansport, returned home last night. Miss Emily Eger and her cousin, Miss Bessie Eger, have gone to Lafayette for a two weeks visit. The Misses Bernice and Eva Brown, of Crown Point, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. G. W. Goff. Born, Friday evening, August sth, 1898, to Mr. and Mrs. Coirfad Kellner, in the east part of town, a son. Carrie Warren, who has been spending a couple of weeks with relatives in Chicago, has returned home. George Strickfaden went to Chicago last night to meet his wife, who has been visiting in Champaign, and Tolono, 111. W. J. Miller who has been on a visit to his home in Battle Creek, Mich., returned today, bringing his daughter, Miss Maud Miller, with him. Mrs. Nancy A. Rollins, of Indianapolis, is visiting Mrs. Frank Foltz. She is an aunt of Hon. W. D. Owen, secretary of state. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and children left for the summer resort at Oden, Mich., today. They will remain several weeks. The annual county teachers’ institute will be held from August 29th to Sept. 2nd. Superintendent Hamilton has the programme already prepared. Mrs. Nettie Hoover, who is visiting relatives near Monticello, is in a very dangerous condition. A blood vessel broke in her hip, and the doctors are unable to -do any thing for her relief. D. Flynn, of Logansport, was in town yesterday investigating the oil well at Burgess Dillon’s place. He reported it as being a small pocket which would soon give out, if used to any extent. Miss Ida Dixey,. of this place, and Mr. F. W. Tobias, of Evanston, were married Sunday, July 26, on the whaleback in Lake Michigan. Mr. Tobias is a telegraph operator at Evanston. Miss Bertha Long who has been visiting Mrs. Ike Glazebrook and other relatives went to Chicago this morning where she will visit a short time before returning to her home in Portville, New York. The hope of getting the oil out of the well at Burgess Dillon’s, so as to make a water well out of it has been abandoned, and a new hole is being drilled about eight feet from the other one.

The Rochester Republican gives it as a surprising piece of information, that wolves are running at large in the southern part of Starke county. But really, we didn't suppose there was any place where the wolves were kept fenced in. The whistle of a locomotive can be heard 3,000 yards, the report of a musket and the bark of a dog 1,8000 yards, the croak of a frog 900 yards, a cricket chirp 800 yards, a dinner bell 2 miles and a call to get up in the morning 3 feet 7 inches. Kniman will not be behind the other small towns of the county in school facilities, hereafter. Another room is to be added to their school house, and Superintendent Hamilton is up there today, arranging for it. Several Rensselaer parties, who attended the ball game at Sheldon yesterday, took in Wallace’s circus at Goodland, last night. They now have a new circus tent, and therefore gave a full sized show and a very much better one than they gave here. The hippodrome and trapeze features which could not be given here were about the best features of the whole show. The riding also- was much better, owing to the larger rings. Rev. H. M. Middleton recieved a letter from his son Ernest, at Camp Alger, written the day before the army left there for the new camp at Manassas Junction. Evidently the move was made none too soon, as from 25 to 50

new cases of typhoid fever were developing in the camp every day, young Middleton himself was in gne health, but was Concerned about his companion, Bates Tucker. MONDAY. A- H. Hopkins of Chicago, spent Sunday at this place. Mrs. Charles Simpson spent Sunday in Monon, with relatives. Surveyor Thrawls went to Wheatfield today, to lay out a big ditch. Fred Ames who put up the water tower, is here for a few days. Miss Cora Everitt is visiting friends in Medaryville for a few weeks. Miss Carrie Irwin of Sheldon, 111., is visiting the family of Jas. F. Irwin. Mrs. Geo. Thomas and children of Monon, are visiting J. C. Gwin and family. Frank Sayler who has been working in Monticello, is homo for a few days. Samuel C. Rosenburg and wife of St. Joe, Mich., are visiting here for a few weeks. Mrs. J. E. Alter and her sister Mrs. Davidson are visiting relatives at Muncie. Jack Montgomery is repairing breaks in the telephone line near Brookston, today.. * Col. Hammond of Lafayette, spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. B. Austin. About 15 or 20 of the Rathbone Sisters went to Monon tins afternoon to organize a temple there. Mrs. Lottie Reese who has been visiting Mrs.A. L. Rowlus for a few weeks returned to her home in Williamsport today. Miss Blanche Hoyes and Miss Lessie Bates wheeled over, and spent Sunday in Goodland, returning by rail this morning. Mr. and Mrs. John Stoltz, Huntington, who have been visiting their son Rudolph, at the Catholic college, have returned home. Miss Jean Hammond who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. B. Austin for a few weeks, returned to her home in Lafayette, yesterday. The Barkley Epworth League will give a lawn social.at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shock, on Friday evening, August 12th. All are invited. Mrs. Henry Pierson, Mrs. J. F. Warren, and Miss Maggie Kenton who have been attending camp meeting at Battlegroud returned home this morning. Prof. A. H. Purdue left for Indianapolis this afternoon; having abandoned the intention of doing any more geological work among the sand ridges, at this time. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe and Mrs. Forsythe’s sister, Miss Smith from New Philadelphia, Ohio, have gone on a week’s pleasure trip, among the lakes in Michigan.

Monticello experienced a very heavy storm yesterday afternoon. The rain fell in torrents most all the streets were flooded and in some plaes, people were driven out of out of their lower apartments. Paul Hodshire, who attends the school at Kuightstown, returned there today, for the purpose of practicing with the band so as to be in shape for the G. A. R. natienal encampment at Cincinnati. W. T. Enslen who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle, and other relatives left for his home in Marion today. Mr. Enslen is foreman in a large printing establishment at that place. Harry Cobb, of Chicago, a trick bicycle rider, is here on his way to attend the great bicyclers’ meeting, at Indianapolis. He will remain over night, and if the weather permits will give a free exhibition on the street this evening. Gladys, the 6 year old daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin south of Pleasant Ridge, died at 11:30 last night of diptheria. The funeral was held this afternoon, Rev. H. M. Middleton conducting the ser-

vices. Interment at Crockett cemetery. Born, Sunday August 7th to Mrs. Emma Rotnack, at the residence of Mrs. W. J. Hopkins, on Weston street, a son. Postmaster Robinson, on his farm just east of town, holds this year’s record, so far as heard from, for yield of oats. He had a six acre field which went 67| bushels per acre. In all he had 20 acres, which averaged 56 bushels. Fire from the boiler caught underneath the tioor ab the pumping bouse near the depot, Saturday and could not be extinguished un til the hose cart was brought out, and the water turned on. No harm was done only to the floor, which was slightly damaged. W. J. Imes will go to Monon tonight, on the milk train, and after a visit with his mother, will go on to New York City, where Mrs. Imes already is. He has a business proposition to investigate there, which, if it proves acceptable, will locate him there permanently. The 161st regiment will not have to vegetate at Camp Mount many days longer, unless present orders are revoked. They are ordered to go to Jacksonville, Florida, where they will be united with General Lee’s division. This will probable give; them a chance to go to Cuba, in the fall to do garrison duty. Our townsman, J. Y. Wallick, bought of Wallace's circus their old circus tent, which was finally used up here. There were some 10,000 yards or more of canvass in the tent, and many thousand feet of ropes. Mr. Wallick is selling the canvass, with the ropes attached, to farmers and others for coverings for stacks* machinery &c... The building on the county’s lot, on Cullen street, east of the court house, formerly used by the county clerk will soon have regular tenants. The commissioners have leased it to Thomas Thompson and his son, Ray D. Thompson, and they are fitting it up for immediate occupancy. Mr. Thompson will conduct a real-estate and notarial business, and his son continue the general law practice. The building with its excellent vault attached will makep suitable office.

Quite an important event for Rensselaer in the near future is the meeting here of the annual conference of the Church of God, for Indiana. It will be held from Thursday, Sept. Ist to Monday, Sept. sth. It will bring ministers and delegates from pretty much all over the state and some from other states. These conferences usually bring from 75 to 100 people to a town. J. Y. Wallick has leased the Monnett threshing machine shop north of the railroad, for three months, and the privilege of longer, and will not only continue to run a general repair shop, but also intends to make an experimental steam dredge, after plans of his own devising. He thinks he can make a dredge on new principles, which will work better and faster than those now in use. The first one he intends to make will be of rather small size, but on his plans he claims he can make a dredge that will cut a ditch 100 feet wide, 20 feet deep, and carry the dirt 50 feet away on each bank.

The Monon's New Station in Chicago.

All Monon Route trains now stop at the 47th Street Station, Chicago. Tickets will be sold and bagage checked to that point, Passengers alighting at that Station can take the 47th Street Electric Line and reach any part of the great southern portion of Chicago within a few minutes’ ride. The Union Stock Yards is reached in seven minutes. Tickets may be purchased and baggage checked at 47th Street Station.

Monon Routes Homeseekers Excursions South.

Aug 12, 15,16: Sept 5,6, 1V» 20: Oct 3,4, 17, 18. One fare for round trip plus ?2. W. H. Beam, Agent

BIRDS IN BRIDAL ATTIRE.

Tbe Feathered Tribe Don Festive Plnmage tor Their Matins. Few persons realize that birds don •pring costumes, yet many of the feathered tribe assume a particular plumage this time of year, putting on what may truly be called their bridal attire. Even the male sparrow wears a black collar when he celebrates spring by courting his lady love. The sparrow’s bridal dress is so like his ordinary plain suit of feathers that it passes unnoticed, but other birds make much greater changes. Take the snipe family, for example. Some of them grow larger feathers around the neck and head, of a color entirely different from the ordinary plumage. The horned or crested grebe is particularly odd. The black feathers worn at other time flat against the head grow into two horned-shaped tufts, and at the same time the whole head appears surrounded by an oriole of blue-black feathers. It is well known that the .bird* of paradise as well as the heron, wear the precious feathers for which we prize them only at this time of the year, when they do their courting. The cardinal bird also changes considerably. His colors get brighter, the spots on the side and back become more pronounced, and he grows long tail feathers, which, if they are not torn from him during the,tourneys with his rivals, he loses naturally a month or two afterward. The weaver birds, in their ordinary garb, a brownish-gray color like the sparrows, change in spring to a veryloud and variegated coat of feathers. Scarlet, red and light blue are mostly the common combinations. All these bridal dresses of birds are not caused by the growth of new feathers, but are simply a change of color. It is odd that black feathers may be changed into white and white into black, but it seems to be only the effect of increased vitality which is responsible for the change of pigment in the feathers.—St. Louis Republic.

VANITY FED BY CRIME.

SaTßgr* and Cultured Women Wear Ornaments Obtained by Murder. There are, it is said, certain savages —just barely human beings—called Dyaks. They have become famous to the world as “head-hunters.” These Dyaks creep through miles of forest paths and kill as many as they can of another lot of people, and then cut off the heads.of the slain and dry them, and hang them up, arranged on lines more or less artistically festooned about the place in which they live. This exhibition of dried and dead human heads seems to make these swart and murderous savages vain and glad. These people are, as we understand, or think we understand, but undeveloped, cruel, bloody-minded human creatures. They prefer the dry human heads to delicate ferns showing wonderful outlines, or to brilliant leavesand fragrant flowers. They have their own ideas concerning decoration. Upon a dozen or two of the islands in the southern Pacific, where the waves lap the sloping sands lazily, and life should be calm and ipeaceful, there are, or were until lately, certain people who occasion killed certain other people for reasons sufficiently good, no doulbt, to them, and who thus coming into possessionally killed certain other people for reasons sufficiently good, no doubt, to fingers of thtee dead, when dried, would make most artistic, not to say suggestive lecklaces. So they strung these dried fingers upon something strong and pliant, and wore them with much pride. When 1 see the bright feathers of birds, slain that hats may be garnished for the thoughtless females of a higher grade of beings, I am reminded somehow of the Dyaks and of the wearers of the necklaces made of fingers.—Woman’s Home Companion.

First American Beet Sugar.

“The first beet sugar was made in this country in 1830,” states Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, “but it was not until 1872 that any considerable quantity was produced. In that year the total product was about 500 tons. This was increased in 1879 to about 1,200 tons. Then followed a falling off until 1888, when the production exceeded 1,900 tons; from that year down to the present time there has been a steady increase. Last year the total product of beet sugar in this country was about 40,000 tons. Wherever factories have been established farmers hate eagerly seized the opportunity to raise and sell beets. The price paid is about four or five dollars per ton, and the yield is so great as to bring handsome returns for the labor of raising the roots. The cultivation of beets requires care and conscientious farming, but with proper attention this industry is not only profitable to the capitalist, but the farmer also shares the benefit, and I do not know of a crop which offers such satisfactory returns. There are hundreds of communities all through the states where beet culture can be carried on which are anxious to engage in beet raising, and I am satisfied that if congress offers protective duties that the manufacture of beet sugar in this country will increase enormously within a very short time.” —Chicago Inter Ocean.

Useless Royal Barges.

Queen Victoria's watermen are disgruntled nt having no part in the jubilee procession, the more so that the queen Las never made use of her state barges. She has two of them, kept at Teddington, which should be rowed with two watermen to an oar. The uniform consists of scarlet jacket, waistcoat, breeches and stockings, with a remarkable black jockey cap and low shoes. On the front and back of the jacket is an enormous royal budge. The barge has only been used once, when the prince of Wales and Khedive Ismail of Egypt were taken by water to T’ichniond.—jChicago Inter Ocean.