Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist ot Local Happenings Class!fled Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Mrs. Henricks east of’town is quite sick. A. McCoy is in Chicago, buying sheep, today. Mrs. L. H. Potts is visiting her daughter. Mrs. H. Landis, at Delphi. A negro couple, with all the equipements for a small tent show landed in town this morning. Miss Virgie Austin has gone to Lafayette, to visit with her grandparents Mr and Mrs. E. P. Hammond. Mrs. Chas Robinson and little daughter have returned home after a week’s visit with relatives at Lafayette. The Dunkards from abroad who have been attending the meeting held near Blackford have returned to their homes. A. F. Knotts had a fine meeting at Center, in Gillam Tp., last evening. Tonight he speaks at Egypt, in Jordan Tp. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Warner arrived home today from Chicago, where they have been visiting^relatives for a few days. Mrs. J. Flora, who has been visiting relatives here for a short .time returned to her home in Peoria, 111., yesterday. Noble J. York and son of Man on, were in town yesterday on their way home after a trip through Remington and Goodland. Sayler and Thompson are in

Chicago looking for a steam roller to put on the stone roads, that they have been making at Brook. Grandfather J. Callow returned home yesterday from Lafayette, wfciere he had beea visiting some of his old friends for,a few days. Diphthera has broken out again at McCoys burg. In Wm. Arnott’s family three of them are down with the disease, and one daughter Jessie, is very low. Dr. Ensminger of Crawfordsville, stopped off yesterday for a short time to visit with his relatives here. He was on his way heme after attending a physicians meeting at Cedar Lake. John L. Duvall, who has been studying law in the office of James W. Douthit since January last, on Thursday evening started for the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso where he expects to graduate in the law department next June. The season has now pretty nearly beat the record in frost being late and snow coming early. Last night there was a little snow here and in some parts of the county a heavy fall of it. It is said to have been 25 years since a snow storm has occurred so early in October. Wm. Matheson and daughter, Mrs. MoTurk, who have been visiting with Mr. Matheson’s brother, James Matheson, for 2 weeks, started on their return trip, to Ontario, Canada, this morning. They were well pleased with Rensselaer and surrounding country and may yet return to make their home here. Ernest Middleton, of the 159th regiment arrived home this morning. He is just out of a hospital at Philadelphia, where he has had a long and severe case of typhoid fever. He has been quite unfortunate during his army carreer in the matter of sickness, having also had two attacks of malaria. He is home on a sick leave. I have a complete line of ladies and childrens millinery in trimed and untrimed hats, caps, walking hats and sailors. Miss Thompson is trimmer. Come early for good selectionts. Mrs. C. E. Herbhman.

There is no game of Foot Ball Here today, after all. Attica, which had agreed to come in place of the Lafayette aggregation, also failed at the hour almost, being unable to get their players together, on such short notice. Attica means well however, and will make amends for the disappointment by coming next Tuesday. W. W. Burns, of Barkley Tp, returned from Chicago, today, and reports that he left Mrs. Burns at the Presbyterian hospital, for a probable stay of three or four weeks. She underwent an extended and severe surgical operation, Wednesday, for an abdominal disorder, but rallied from the effects very satisfactorily, and is now thought to be on the sure road to complete recovery. Water from a street hydrant was turned into B. Forsythe’s new sewer this morning and it worked all right. The sewer runs from his store basement to the river, and is about 600 feet in length. Its average depth is 10 feet. It has a fall of 5 feet,- from the basement to the river, and the fall is uniformly distributed. Considerable rock cutting was required. It is probably about the best made sewer in the city. Edward Morton, of Wing, 111., who with his family, is'visiting friends at Brook, drove over yesterday, to visit his old friend, Dr. Johnson, and especially to take a look at and through our new court house. The good fame of the beauty, stability and general excellence of the building had reached him, clear in Illinois, and he desired greatly to see for himself if the building deserved all the praise it is receiving. He looked through the building and found it well deserving of all that was said for it. He thought he had seen some fine court houses before, but this puts them all in the shade. “It is clear out of sight,” quoth Mr. Morton.

SATURDAY. J. E. Alter is surveying lots at Fair Oaks today. Frank Sayler is home from Monticelio, for a few days. Mrs. Geo. Gauthier, of Remington, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Huff. Prof. Chas. Nothies, of St. Joseph’s College, is visiting in Chicago, for a few days. Hon. A. F. Knotts had a very good meeting at Egypt school house, in Jordan Tp., last night. Taylor McCoy went to this morning where be will join his mother and visit for a few days. John Narin, of Monon, who played ball here the past summer, was here yesterday visiting among old friends. Hon. C. F. Griffin, of Hammond arrived on the 10;55 p. m. train, and is making a Republican speech at the opera house this afternoon. W. B. Sinclair, County Superintendent of Starke County, and democratic candidate for State Superintendent, returned home this morning after a short visit with his cousin, Ike Glazebrook. Bates Tucker, who is teaching school in Keener Tp., came from there last night, and his furlough having expired, he will re-join his regiment at Indianapolis today. Merl Gwin will teach his school, until Bates is mustered out. Mesdames Warren, Stockton, Williams and Middleton returned home today, after attending a Missionary Convention at South Bend this week. They report a pleasant time and a very successful convention. Mary, the eight year old daughter of Fred Schultz, living a mile or two northeast of town, was very severely scalded yesterday. She spilled a large quantity of hot water on her right leg, below knee. The injury is very painful and will lay her up fur several weeks.

The “war tramp” fraud is on his round these days. He blisters his arm with acid and goes up to the back door with a pitiful tale of hardships he has suffered. At the same time he exhibits his arm and it seldom fails to bring something. He is a fraud and his class is working all over the country. The case of Miss Carrie Randle, the first and, in a measure, the test oase of the new curfew law, was disposed of this afternoon. A plea of guilty was entered, and, as was very proper under the circumstances of this being the first case, Squire Burnham assissed the smallest penalty the law permits, namely $1 fine. The first killing frost of the season occurred last night, and it was a very hard one. It is seldom in this latitude that frost stays off until the night of October 14th. Still more seldom that belated frost and such a warm wet season come together. Hence the greeness and freshness of the foliage and the great growth of grass and fall grain, until so late in the month, is a very unusual occurrence. Rev. Peter Hinds has bought 300 acresof cheap land in Jennings county, this 6tate, and upon that will make his home, instead of near Louisville. He stills keeps his 1200 acres in Tennessee, which will be managed by his son Mahlon. Curtis & Taber, of Remington, are building a gravel road along the south end of Mr. Jennings county farm. Reports regarding J. H. Marshall, from the hospital at Colorado Springs, were reoeived yesterday. Tha report was very favorable. His temperature was nominal, pulse nearly so, and appetite altogether too abnormal, considering the restrictions necessary in typhoid cases. The delirium of the fever still recurred at times, but was expected to pass away wholly in a few days. Nelson J. Bozarth, of Valparaiso, the champion lightning change political artist of ludiana, has changed to a Democrat so recently that his Populist brethren have not found it out, and their state central committee put him on their ticket for Supreme Judge, the other day. Nelson says he is a Democrat for the whole campaign, this time, and won’t aocept. We are sorry to see Nelson act so hastily in this matter, for with a little lively work on his part there is still time for him to complete the rounds of the parties and get back with the Pops before election.

MONDAY. J. L. Foster is in Chicago today. Ross Grant was down from Chicago, over Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Duvall is visiting relatives in Chicago, this week. J. P. Overton is suffering with a severe felon on one of his fingers. Football tomorrow, Attica vs. Rensselaer, at Riverside Athletic Park. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warner and son Rex, are spending the week in Chicago. Mrs. Ray Mossier and Julia Leopold are visiting in Chicago a few days. Mrs. M E. Lecklider und son Clarence, are in Chicago buying goods thiß week. Jesse Coen, who is clerking a in bank in Chicago, spent Sunday with relatives here. Frank Kelley has returned from Chicago, and has accepted a position in McFarland’s grocery store. Miss Carrie Woodworth has gone to Chicago to attend the Jubilee, and to be present at the wedding of a friend. Mrs. F. B. Meyer and Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock left this morning for Chicago,, where they will remain until after the Jubilee. W. S. Holderness, who has been spending part of his 30 days’ furlough visiting among friends in this vicinity returned to Chicago yesterday.

Mrs. Lecklider has an experienced trimmer who can please the people. Ladies please call and see the hats. w oct 22 Jake Thomas of Brook was visiting his mother here yesterday. Jake has sold out his intterest in the furniture store and is now teaching school. Mrs. I. Glazebrook and daughter Ara, hqve gone to Chioago where they will visit among friends and relatives for a week and attend the Peace Jubilee. Lieut. John R. Ward, as the Monticello company in the 161st Ind., who has just recovered from a severe attack of typhoid fever, is circulating among his friends here, today. Will Shanlaub was over from Morocco to spend Sunday. He has received the honor of being elected institute president for Beaver and McClellan townships, for this school year. Voters should bear in mind that in the next November election a pencil instead of a stamp is used and instead of a stamp mark they Will write an X. Fifteen thousand then lost their votes in Indiana last'year by voting incorrectly. Reuben Mataki, who claims to be Matabelaland negro, will give an exhibition of his strenght to business men in the Nowels block, this evening. He breaks horseshoes with his hands and will lift a weight equal to that of a horse. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter Virgie, went to Chicago this afternoon, to attend the peace jubilee. They are also so fortunate as to hold an invitation to the great jubilee ball, to tjake place at the Auditorium Tuesday night. It will be one of the most magnificent functions of the kind ever held in Chicago. Attica will.be here sure Tuesday, and the local management is expecting it to be one of the hardest games of the season. Attica has a team of experienced and heavy players, but the fast snappy playiug of the home boys is expected to counter balance the weight of their opponents.