Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — Page 5

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings i Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. G. W. Howard is at Chalmers on business. Miss Ethel Mills is recovering from an attack of sickness. J. J. Hunt spent Sunday at Knox and returned home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Paxton are spending the day with relatives at Hammond. Simon Leopold is confined to his house by sickness from a stomach trouble. Mr. Newland, of Frankfort, of the firm of Morrison & Newland was in town yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. F. J Sears are at Indianapolis a few T days. Mr., Sears is there on business. Mrs. J. A. Thatcher after visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Spitler returned to Chicago yesterday. Yesterday every slot machine in Lafayette was hustled out of sight on orders of the chief of police. Mrs. A. McCoy has gone to Buffalo, N. Y., for a protracted visit with her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Rinehart. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker are now living in their handsome new house, on the river bank, just west of town.

Mrs. Hester Hoyes and Mrs. C. A. Hopkins returned a few days ago from a several days visit with relatives in Goodland and Earl Park. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy, of McCoysburg, left here today for Marion, Grant county, for a few days’ visit with Mrs. McCoy’s mother. Mrs. W. Mahollen and Miss Stella Luster after a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Gorham returned to their home at Lafayette today. K Ira Osborn has bought Prof. Baughman’s interest in the fruit and candy store, and now he and his step-brother Willard Warfield are managing the same. Miss Gertrude Small is visiting her home folks at Amboy, for a short time. Miss Emma Linn, of Attica, is acting in her place as W. B. Austin’s stenographer. Elder N. H. Shepherd, pastor of the Christian church, has completed his three months’ special study at Chicago University, and will be at home all the time, hereafter. About twenty-five ladies with Mrs. Allison, of Logansport, are going to institute a Robert H. Milroy Circle this afternoon at the Forresters' Hall at 3:30. At 6 o’clock a supper will be served with the gentlemen of the ladies invited. Ernest Steward left for Brookston to attend the funeral of his uncle Clarence Kuns of the 161st regiment and who died at Jacksonville, Fla., of typhoid fever and will be buried at Brookston today. So far as heard of his is the first death in the Monticello company. The curfew law is now in full force and effect, and will be rung for the first time next Saturday. Its time to ring during the rest of this month is 8:30 p. m. After October first the hour will be 7:30 p. m. The Daughters of Liberty had an informal party last evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. 'The principal amusement was whist; and refreshments were served. Several invited guests were present. The Francesville street fair begins today and continues over Friday. Much interest has been taken in working the affair up, and

a general good time is anticipated. The exhibits will include a great display of farm products, in which the fertile eastern regions of Jasper county will be largely represented. Walter K. Landis, of Marion, brother of Congressman Landis, is in Washington. He will sail Wednesday from New York for Porto Rico, where he goes as a member of the Porto Rican postal commission. Mr. Landis' appointment is on a recommendation from Congressman Steele of this state. Two men driving from Onarga, HL, to Denham, Pulaski county, this state, to look at some land, stopped at White’s livery stable at five o’clock last evening, with one of their horses bad sick. Dr. Kannal was sent for but the horse was too sick to save and died in about an hour. The men left their rig and other horse at the livery stable and went on by train. Rev. E. Baech, former pastor of the Rensselaer Presbyterian church but for some years past in charge of a congregation at Indianapolis, has just removed to Mattoon, 111., a flourishing city in Coles county, that state. He has accepted a call from the First Presbyterian church at that place, and it no doubt is a very desirable location. Mrs. Calvin Faris and children arrived heme Sunday from a three weeks’ trip to Wilsonville, Neb., where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Johnson, formerly of this place, and also two brothers, one of whom is a physician at Wilsonville. Mrs. Faris reports people as quite prosperous in that region. Wheat was a large crop this year, but corn was not more than half a crop. Bates Tucker, who has just returned from his summer's service in the 159th Indiana regiment, was examined for a teachers’ license last Saturday, and today he went to Keener township to take charge of the Shortridge school. He has not yet been mustered out, but he had his colonel’s advice to begin teaching and does so with the understanding that he will have to dismiss his school for a short time when he goes back to Indianapolis to be mustered out. Prof. E. W. Bohannon, former superintendent of the Rensselaer schools, has completed his three years post-graduate course of advanced studies at Clarke University, Mass., and is now located at Mankato, Minn. He is Professor of the department of Pedagogy at a Minnesota state normal school, at Mankato. His large collection of books which have been here ever since he left here, in charge of B. F. Ferguson, were shipped to him at Mankato, today. The Republican predicts that before many years Prof. Bohannon will occupy a high position among the educators of this country.

WEDNESDAY. John Martindale is in Chicago. W B. Austin is at Monticello today. Mrs. Frank Ross is in Chicago a few days. Miss Maggie Healy is visiting friends at Delphi a few days. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Warner are visiting relatives at Delphi and Flora. Mrs. George Sterneberg, of St. Louis, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gamble. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jenkins, northeast of town, yesterday, Sept. 27, a son. Mr. and Mrs. William Reed north of town, are visiting relatives at Crawfordsville. Owing to the band tournament at Grant Park, there will be no band concert Thursday evening. Mrs. Ray Mossier after spending a few days with friends at Lafayette, returned home last evening. The Fortnightly Fiction Club will meet this evening with Miss Lizzie French. Business meeting.; Uncle Isaac D. Dunn, of Dunnville, is in the city today. He has

just returned from a visit to his oldest son, at Wichita, Kans. H. Ross, of Alva, HL, W. B. Burditt, of Lafayette, and John Kirkpatrick, of Oxford, were here yesterday looking after real estate. Miss Leona Biggs left last evening for West Lebanon where she will visit relatives and attend the funeral of her cousin, Ira Crawford. Miss Virgie Austin has sufficiently recovered from her late very dangerous sickness, at Lafayette. to return home yesterday afternoon. Mrs. T. J. McCoy and daughter LuElla, and Mrs. Alfred McCoy are in Chicago a few days. Mrs. Alfred McCoy will go to Buffalo to visit her daughter, Mrs. Rinehart. About fifty surprised Mr. and Mrs. Jared Martindale last evening at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Martindale expect in the, hear future to make their home at Terre Haute. The 4:49 a. m. south bound train next Friday, the day of the band contest at Delphi street fair, will stop al Rensselaer and will take on passengers for all stations at which the train will stop. The funeral of Washington Casey is being held today, at the residence of his son, George W. Casey, in Union Tp., where he died. His death occurred Tuesday and his age was about 80 years. Elder J. L. Brady, of Rensselaer is conducting the religious services. Interment will be in Prater cemetery. Harry Holderness, a -former teacher in this vicinity, who was in Cuba two weeks as a member of the Ist Illinois regiment, and later in Porto Rico as as a member of the engineers’ corps, arrived here today. He will remain until he has to rejoin his regiment, at Chicago, Oct. 18th to be mustered out. An exchange correctly says: “Let the young man about town out of a job try a week on a farm. Plowing behind a mule team will give him a new constitution, take the kinks out of his head, the frog out of his throat, the gas off his stomach, the weakness out of his legs, the corns off his toes and give him a good appetite, and honest living and a sight of heaven. The Monon and other roads which require extra payment for cash fares, giving rebate receipts therefore, are apt to get into trouble with’ Uncle Sam unless the conductors put a two cent revenue stamp on each rebate check. The government has given instructions to secure evidence against violators with a view to prosecution.

THURSDAY. Delos Thompson is in Chicago today. ( Harry Kurrie is at Logansport and Royal Center. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kenton, Sept. 29, a son. Mrs. Mae Sellers of Chicago, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. English. S. A. Wight, of Chicago, spent the day yesterday, with W. J. Miller. Born, this, Thursday, Sept. 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schultz, northeast of town, a son. The thermometer stood at bo degrees at noon, today, which is pretty hot for September 29th. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris have driven over to Oxford, for a visit of some length with their daughter there. R. B. Porter and Nim, Reete and Ed Hopkins, have gone to the Kankakee river to camp out for a few days. The Ladies Literary Club will meet Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, with Mrs. C. G. Spitler. A full attendance is requested. Mrs. Eliza Flowers after an extended visit of five months with John Ramey’s family, left today for her home at Sheldon, 111. Frank Foltz is confined to his bed by a sprained knee, received yesterday while trying to stop

Joseph Schofield’s bus team, which started to run away, at the depot. The McCoysburg schools are closed this week, owing to a case of diphtheria in the district. It is a daughter of James McDonald who is sick with the dangerous disease. * The Citizens’ Band has gone to Park, 111., today, to take part in a band tournament. They went to Lowell on the Monon, and then drove the rest of the way, a distance of 12 or 13 tniles. They will probably strike a pretty hot crowd, with many excellent bands to compete with, yet they may succeed in pulling off a prize. The 161st regiment still stands a good chance of seeing a winter's service in Cuba, and it seems to be pretty generally understood that this is their destination. Newell Coen in a private note enclosed with his news letter this week says: “We have a Spanish class, and if we don’t get to shoot Spaniards we will scare them to death anyhow.” —Monticello Herald. Writes a Lake Station correspondent; George Ainger was run over by cars on the Monon and injured so he died Thursday. He was a well known resident of this place, and it will be remembered that his wife was killed here by falling from the night express, some twelve years ago, Ainger was standing on the platform waiting to help her off the train. —Valparaiso Vidette. To-day (Thursday) is Republican Day at the Francesville Street Fair. The Hon. Schuyler Colfax of South Bend and Hon. W. D. Owen, Secretary of State, will address the people, Jasper county was cordially invited to send a good representation, and though the notice was received too late for general circulation it is likely there will be a good turnout from the eastern part of the county. Delphi Herald: Monday The Herald printed an item from Rensselaer regarding the drowning of a fifteen-months-old child in a tub of water at Rensselaer. Thfochild only a few days before 4ad’ ijeen insured by its father in the Piudential by Oliver Parker, of this city. This morning Mry’Parker mailed the father a for the amount. But two we (noy pay-i raents had been made on the policy.

Rev. D. A. Tucker returned home Tuesday from a Jwo week’s absence in the eastern part of the state; where he attended the meeting of the Indiana F. W. Baptist Association, at Wolf Lake. He has accepted the pastorate of the F. W. Baptist church at Ridgeville, Randolph county, and will go there Friday or Saturday, but will not move his family for several weeks Mrs. C. W. Hanley very pleasantly entertained two parties yesterday. In the afternoon the ladies of Evening Star Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, were present, to the number of about thirty. Dominoes was the principal amusement, and the first prize was won by Mrs. P. H. Lally, of Michigan City. In the evening the Old Folk’s Euchre Club, was entertained. The amusement was progressive Euchre, and N. J. Reed carried off the first gentlemen’s prize and Mrs. Sternberg, of St. Louis, the ladies’ prize. Elegant refreshments were served on both occasions. Beginning with Sunday morning Rev. H. M. Middleton will preach a series of sermons at the Methodist Church on successive Sunday mornings, on: ’’The Sermon on the Mount.” No other single portion of the Bible so fully and definitely portrays the principles as the Gosple and the Kingdom of God as this. It is of paramount interest ts all to understand it. We therefore most cordially invite all our citizens whose religious obligations do not call them elsewhere, and especially those men of our city who are not in the habit of church attendance to hear these sermons. The subject of the sermon for Sunday night is “Christ Before Human Thought.”

MEXICAN WAR NOTES.

How American Troops Were Treated by a Democratic Administration. According to General Scott’s letters to Secretary of War Marcy, his small army at Puebla in midsummer, 51 years ago, was “suffering for clothing and supplies.” The men "had not received a dollar since landing at Vera Cruz four months before.” At Puebla, in July, 1847, General Scott’s commissary, Grayson, was $200,000 in debt and purchasing supplies on credit at great disadvantages. He and the chief quartermaster, Irwin, were selling drafts and borrowing largely of the pay department to keep the army from starving to death. Before Scott was well on his way to the City o’ Mexico ho wrote to Marcy: “Our poverty, or the neglect of the disbursing department at home, have been made known to our shame in the papers of the Mexican capital.” Before Scott reached Vera Cruz, and when off Lobos in February, 1847, he asked General Brooke to direct the quartermaster at New Orleans to send him large supplies of clothing. General Brooke replied “The quartermaster has neither clothing or shoes. I am fearful that if they have not been sent out direct to you that you will be greatly disappointed/’ With 1,017 sick in the ho p 'al at Puebla, Scott had only 5,820 ed'octiva men. Pillow came and raised ttie effectives to 8,061, but there were 2,215 then in hospital. Scott z said he hoped to advance with 9,500 men to meet 30,000 Mexican soldiers at their capital. In December, 1547, Soott reported his force at the City of Mexico and Chepultapec at 6,000 with 2,041 sick. He had not a sixth or perhaps an eighth part of the clothing needed by the army. His troops had received no clothing since reaching Vera Cruz in March. A small supply of clothing was sent to the depot at Vera Cruz for Scott’s army. It lay there until September, when new troops “having left home insufficiently clad,” used it. Late in December Scott informed the war department of that fact and stated: “The regiments that came with me must, therefore, remain naked or be supplied with very inferior garments made by ourselves of every color and at high prices.” Quartermaster General Jessup wrote to the secretary of war that be had left enough clothing at Vera Cruz for Scott’s old corps, but made no provision for the volunteers. "They are well aware,” said he, “that I had not a cent for that purpose." Major General Butler seized for hi? own fresh troops the clothing at Vera Oruz intended for Scott’s regulars. He violated articles of war in so doing and was thereafter nominated by the Democrats for vice president. General Cass, Democratic candidate for president in 1848, had passed a bill reducing the pay of volunteers. The bill gave in lieu of money allowed them as a commutation for clothing, clothing in kind and at the same rate according to grades as provided for troops of the regular army. Bj’ previous laws the volunteers got 913.50 a month for clothing, by the Cass bill only f 1.90.

DEMOCRATS AND THE STATE DEBT.

When Democratic legislators were confronted by the rapidly increasing state debt, they were at loss what to do, whether to increase the tax levy or tax valuation, so they did nothing. Governor Gray of their party urged them to do the former, for in his message of 1889 he told them that the present law fixing the levy at 12 cents had been in force 12 years without a change. "Such levy,” he said, “was only deemed sufficient to meet the usual and ordinary expenses.” He stated that the state could not establish new institutionsand construct them without increasing the levy or borrowing the necessary means. At that time it required one-fourth of the revenue to pay interest on the debt. The Democratic legislators left conditions as they found them and the state officers were driven to borrow $1,770,000 with which to half meet the demands of the state. The fiscal year of 1889, owing to the do-nothing policy, closed with this showing: State revenue tax 51,013,720.27 Delinquents 51.419.35 Temporary 10an1,770,000.00 But a Republican governor came in and two years later another Democratic legislature was willing to dodge the issue. He would not pertnit it, though, for in his message Governor Hovey very plainly and concisely nut the threatening conditions before it. "A sufficient revenue,” he said, “has npt been raised since 1877, and every year has added to our indebtedness, until today the state debt has reached the enormous sum of $8,540,615.12, with a still increasing indebtedness, unless some relief cun be obtained by legislature. With the, same system that has heretofore prevailed we will still have to borrow money to sustain our institutions and expenses of the state with an annual deficit of $300,000.” From that came the tax law about which the Democrats are making much ado, and which they never would have passed had not Detn critic, officeholders, directly intereste I with state finances, succeeded Republicans. Tiie Litter hud been constantly embarrassed by Democratic legislatures of painful succession failing or refusing to consider the state debt. It is extremely disapp inting to Democratic hopes to have the Indiana soldiers returning in good trim, ruddy, manly and brave. The party that always opens a calamity-box at the beginning of a campaign would prefer to have them starving, abused and helpless.

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