Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told- in a.Paragraph. Daily Grist ot Local Happen- > insrs Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. \ Geo. Dunn is attending court at Monticello, today. Miss Flora Ward, of Monticello, is visiting friends here this week. Miss Gertude Small is spend- • ifig a week at her home in Amboy. Walter Porter and A. - McCoy are in Mouon today looking at cattle. Mr. and Mrs. F. Sears are visiting relatives in Indianapolis, this week. Miss Ethel Mills is visiting her grand parents at Terre Haute, for a few weeks. Guy Peacock is looking after a situation in the Conkey printing plant at Hammond. Alt. Padgett has the Stock Farm horses at the Indianapolis state fair this week. Mrs. Nellie M. Harris returned yesterday from a eliort visit with ralatives sit Buda, 111. Miss Blanche Ponsler has gone to lola, Kan., where she will attend school this winter. M?s6 Kate Wood, of Monon, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Handle, last night. Mrs. M. E, Lecklider is in the city this week, buying goods and studying millinery styles. Auburn Nowels returned to St. John’s Military school, at Manlius, New York, this morning. Mrs. J. W. Ulery and Mrs. A. Catt are visiting relatives at Indianapolis, for a short time. Mrs. W. A. Stivers and daughter have returned from a two weeks’ visit with her parents at Thorntown. Mrs. W. McCord and Miss Katie Shields are visiting Mrs. Lucy Malchow at Monticello, for a short time. Frank P. Meyers left this morning for Laf&yette, Evansville and other southern Indiana points, on a business trip. G. W. Goff has bought the bakery on liberal corner, of Mel Abbott, and will continue to run it at the same location. W. E. Overton has finished up the McCormick company’s business at Manitoba, Canada, and is now located at Dundee, 111. Elder D. E. Hollister and Rev. C. D. Jeffries are attending a meeting of the Logansport Presbytery at Union Mills, this week. Rev. D. A. Tucker will preach at the F. W. Baptist church, next Sunday morning. This may be his last sermon in Rensselaer. General T. F- Brown, who has been the gUest of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan, since Friday, returned to his home in Chicago, yesierday. Albert Alter of Clinton county, •who has been the guest of Miss Delma Nowels for a few days, returned to his home this morning. Mrs. Imes of Chicago, is visiting her son, William Imes of this place. She is 80 years old but is still quite active and travels all alone. F. Ruthford’s barn caught fire yesterday noon in some unaccountmanner. It is soon discovered however and put out before much damage. Capt. J. W. Elam, of Valparaiso, deputy U. S. # revenue collector for > thVlth division, was in town today. His division comprises thirteen counties in the northwest corner of Indiana. Mrs Emma Wolf and little child, of Chalmers, who was here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will King, for a few days, returned home last evening. The pumping station here has been abandoned, , now that the

railroad company is using city water, and yesterday the pump was taken out and shipped away. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daugherty have gone to Hammond to see Mr. Daugherty’s brother, who is quite sick. From Hammond they expect to go to Chicago, to visit relatives there for a short time. Manager Fendig has secured the Hammond team for a game here next Thursday. This will be the last game of the season on home grounds, and as the Hammond team is a strong one, it will undoubtedly be a good game. •Mr. Wm. Whitten, of South Bend and John E. Alter of this county have been selected to take soundings on the Kankakee river current tests and other measurements to be used as expert testimony in the dyke case set for the October term of court at Crown Point and they are now engaged in that work.

Geo. Dunn visited his parents in Kankakee Tp., over Sunday, and on his return Monday, brought back a specimen sugar beet grown on his father, Hon. 1. D. Dunn’s place. The beet is a monster in size for that variety of beets and weighs 94 pounds. It is now on exhibition in Fendig's drug store. Only a stnull patch of the beets were sown, enongh merely to test the sugar beet raising capacity of that soil. In one important respect the test was not a fair one, as the soil was not pulverized to a sufficient depth before the beets were sown, and thus they grow too much above the ground to be of the best quality as sugar producers.

WEDNESDAY. Band concert as usual tonight. Mrs. Ora Ross is visiting in Chicago a few days. Miss Mary Hancock is visiting her parents at Monon, today. Born, Tuesday Sept. 13th to Mr. and Mrs, Chester Zea, in town, a daughter. * j Miss Dibblee, from the Woman’s hospital in Chicago, is visiting her friend, Mrs. W. Parks. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Abbott “are visiting Mrs. Abbott’s parents at Delphi for a few days. Mrs. Frank Foltz returned home yesterday from a several days’ visit with friends at Kentland. Mr. and Mrs. N. Warner are visiting relatives at Wabash, in Clinton Co., for a few weeks. Frankfort was selected as the place for the meeting of the N. W. Indiana M. E. conference, next year. Miss Iva Washburn left this morning on an extended visit to Chicago and different points in Michigan. Miss Mary Meyers, who has been studying styles in Chicago, for the past week returned home yesterday. Peter Parks, of Remington, was in tbwn this morning on his way to Valparaiso, where he is moving his family. Ike Kepuer who has been working at the plastering trade in in Sheldon, 111., is home for the, dull season. Union B. Hunt, Republican candidate for secretary of state, is sick with typhoid fever at his home in Winchester. Ross Grant of Reid, Murdock & Co’.’s wholesale house in Chicago, returned to his work this morning after a few day's vacation. Wayne Gwin arrived this morniuif from a prospecting tour in! Tennessee. He is well pleased with the country around Manchester. S. B. Henderson was in town to- j day, he has traded his property in the west part of town for a place j at Thayer, where he is now located i permanently. Hattie Clark, who has been living with her uncle, Henry Mackey, for several years left yesterday for Marion, Ohio, to make her home with her grandmother. A. S. Wilson, general agent for

• * . the Northern Assurance company was in town Tuesday, and while here established a branch office* with Ray D. Thompson as agent. Congressman Landis, of Delphi, will open the campaign in Hammond, next Saturday. It would be a great thing for the republicans of Jasper county, if Mr. Landis could be secured to open the campaign here. Bayard Clark, who is now railroading on the Lake Erie and Western, is visiting his parents here, he haviug had the misfortune to have his hand hurt while coupling cars , which makes it impossible for him to work for a while at least The Marion tp. Sunday school cvmvention and rally day will be observed at the M. E. Church, Sunday Sept. 25 at 2:30 p. m. All Sunday schools in township will participate. Everbody cordially invited. Lieut. John R. Ward, of the Monticello company of the 161st regiment, is dangerously sick with malarial fever, at Jacksonville, Fla. His sister, Miss Mollie Ward, a trained nurse, and well known in Rensselaer, has gone to Jacksonville to take care of him.

There was a pretty bjul freight train wreck at Delphi Monday thorning, and four cars were badly broken up and their contents ruined. It was caused by the rear part of the train getting uncoupled while going down a steep grade, and the uncoupled portion then running into the front portion when the latter stopped at the Wabash crossing. Tbree tramps in the train were badly hurt. Charley McDonald, of MeCoysburg, died Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock. He had a complication of diseases but his death was directly due to dropsy. He was 22 years old, and was an industrious and well liked young man. The funeral was held here this afternoon at the Christian church. Rev. J. L. Brady conducting the religious services. Interment at Weston cemetery. Our North Barkley correspondent states that the frost last Sunday night killed the late planted corn in the Gifford district. Fiom other sources also, we learn that the damage in that region was extensive. Mr. Gifford himself, we are reliably informed, estimates that throughout his district the frost killed 25 per cent, of the corn. But even with this much gone, there will still be a very large corn crop in the district and throughout the county, generally. James R. Fess, a brother of Mrs. James W. Douthit, who resided with her a year ago, but is now a member of the 20th U. S, infantry and stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia, has been very sick with typhoid fever and also with the measles, but he is now convalesiug. He hopes to be able to join his regiment, which is now stationed as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in about ten days. He is anxious to go to Cuba or Porto Rico.

THURSDAY. Mabel Wood,’south of Pleasant Ridge, is quite sick C. E. Briuley of Logansport, is visiting his cousin, Charley Brinley. Will Clouse left for the southern part of the state last night, to buy cattle. H. Day and wife have returned from a few days visit with relatives at Chicagd. Everett Brown returned home this morning, from a week's visit at his old home in Tuscola, 111. D. Gleason and son are up from Cincinnati for the rest of the week after another car load of horses. Mrs. Gaylord Nowels and child, of Chicago Heights, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Alter. Nowels <fc Sayler are raising their lumber office and placing a new foundation under it, this week. Elder D. E. Hollister returned this morning from the Logansport Presbytery meeting at Union Mills.

Mrs. S. J. Austin went to Lafayette this morning to visit Mrs. Wm. B. Austin and daughter, Virgie. T. J. McCoy returned from Indianapolis this morning, where he has been to see the Stock Farm horses go a trial heat. Mrs. Henry Purcupile returned from Chicago, Tuesday night, where she has been buying a new stock of millinery. About 20 of Mrs. James Flynn’s lady friends gave her a pleasant suprise party yesterday afternoon, in honor of her 49th birthday. Edward, the 2 year old child of David Holm, of Sharon, died very suddenly yesterday. The cause of his death we did not learn. Mrs. Julia Rae, of Remington, I was in town yesterday on her way to Marion, this state, where she expects to remain permanently. : Miss Belle Wood of Battlegound, who has been visiting Mrs. Henry Pierson for a few weeks, has returned to her home. T. Willey who has been visiting friends and relatives here for some time past, has started on his return trip to his home in Eltnyra, Arkansas. Jacob Wright left for the deaf and dumb school at Indianapolis | today. This will be his last year and by the time he is through he | will have the cobbler trade well !learned.

Mrs. S. R. Nichols, accompanied by her son-in-law, R. E. Leatherock, left for Chiqago this morning, where she will have an operation performed for the removing of a tumor. Two men named Levitt and Willis who were running a skin game with Wallace’s circus came to grief at Jerseyville, 111. They fleeced a farmer named Douglass Reddish, and the farmer in turn shot both of them. Lovitt is reported mortally wounded, and the farmer is in jail. This month people are making up for their backwardness in getting married during the previous three months. Two marriage licenses were issued Wednesday, which makes ten for the first half of September, while the number of such licenses issued during the entire months of June, July and Aug. was only 19, or less than twice as many for those three months as for the first half of this month.

Speaker Reed’s previous enormous majority in his district in Maine fell off 4000 at the recent congressional election in that state. Mr. Reed’s anti-Hawaii course has greatly injured his popularity in his state, and still more in the nation at large. So much so that he is no longer to be regarded as a presidential possibility. Sheldcn, our cheif rival in the baseball world, played two games at the Old Settler’s meeting at Bunkum, this week. One was with the Chicago Unions, and resulted in a tie game the score being 5 to 5. The other game was with Momence and when the game was called at the end of the sixth inning the score was 9 to 5, in favor of Momence. Bonham and Burton, two of our men played with Sheldon. So far as we have been to able learn there has been’ but little justification for the kicking about the quantity and the quality of the “grub” furnished the soldiers while in camps in this country, whatever may have been the failure in that respect while on ship board or in Cuba. For instance, the provisions furnished to the rough riders at Chickaraauga, according to Joe Marshall, generally consisted of white bread, beans, bacon, fresh beef once a day, coffee and sugar. The quality of the food was all right; though at first it lacked a little in quantity of supplying the vigorous cow-boy appetite. Of course in many regiments and companies there were incompetent or negligent officers, and through their failure, their men sometimes went hungry, but that is bound to happen in some cases, while our present volunteer Bystem is maintained.

An exchange says: An Oklahoma girl advertised fur a husband and got him. The udvertiseand wedding outfit cost sll, and within a year he died and left her $5,000 insurance. It certainly pays to advertise. The Hammond ball’ team arrived on the 1:45 train this afternoon. The game is now in progess as we go to press, and if the Hammond boys come out winners

they will have to put up a very fast nrticlo of ball.