Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1898 — Page 3

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily . Grist ot Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. ' FRIDAY. Wm. B. Austin is in Knox on i legal business today. > J. E. Wilson is in Monticello I today on legal business. Mrs. Walter White is visiting I relatives in Chicago for a short time. Gen. Van Rensselaer Chapter, D. A. R. will meet Nov. 29th with I Mrs. C. W. Coen. I oiuiun JGingie 01 Monticello, is visiting friends here and attending I the teachers’ association. The Robt. H. Milroy Circle will hereafter meet in Forrester’s Hall every Thursday at 2:30 P. M. There is pretty good skating on g the river now, and the young peo- | pie are making the most of it. i Mrs. James Irwin and little I daughter are visiting her daughter, 5 Mrs. I. N. Warren, at LaPorte. | Chas. Sigler of Hebron, who has been visiting his uncle, G. W. Goff, continued his trip to Indianapolis today. The shooting match at McCoysI burg yesterday was about a failure. | The expected shooters did not atI tend in any considerable number. | The foot ball game yesterday I between the High School and a | picked team, resulted in a victory I for the High School. Score 10 to | 0I Miss Sarah Dye, of Indianapolis, | arrived this morning. Miss Dye I; will be the instructor in English B for the Teachers’ association now I in session. | Albert Fendig and wife, left for |j Chicago this morning, where they bI will remain until Sunday, when H they will leave for their home in || Brunswick, Ga. i. Mrs. Fred Phillips is in MontiII cello today visiting Miss Mollie H Ward, who has returned from || Florida, and is herself now sick || with typhoid fever, E Kellner and Bushey gave anU other one of their big dances last U night. A good sized crowd was || present and enjoyed themselves B until a late hour. ■ M. H. Seville, who has been ■ visiting friends here, and coaching H the foot ball team for the past two ■ weeks has returned to his office II work at Indianapolis* C. W. Rhoades is evidently prefl paring to run a five chair barber fl shop. His fourth assistant arrived H this morning, and is a lively young U “shaver,” who weighs nine pounds. H A. T. Perkins and HildeH brand went to South Bend today. ‘I They have a steam apparatus for fl steaming beer coils and have gone U there to introduce it into use. || ’ There is a rather severe case of » scarlet fever in the family of Harry |l Bluck, who lives near J. C Porter’s fl residence on Cullen street. The ■ victim is an eight year old boy. ■ A. W. Cole, now one of the pubfl lishers of the Railway Mail, of ■ Chicago, is spending a few days fl with his Rensselaer relatives. His ■ family preceded him here several ■ days ago. I Jirn Blake, the young boy refl cently sentenced to the state refl form school, at Plainfield, was takflen there yesterday afternoon, by T. ■J. Joyner. The boy will probably ■ remain there until he is 21. K News comes from Oxford of the ■ birth there, last Wednesday, Nov. fl23rd, to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ladd, Hos a fine daughter. The mother Bl was formerly Miss Rose Paris, of M Rensselaer, and daughter of Mr. Hand Mrs. Berry Paris, who are now Hat Oxford, rejoicing over the adflvent of their new grand-child. Bl Do any of our readers know of ■the whereabouts of May Nancy

Hebert or Antoine Numa Hebert? They were born in New Orleans and some years ago located in Northern Indiana. An estate has been left them if they can be located. If any know their present address please communicate it tn our oity marshal, Thos. McGowan, who has been requested to help in locating them. x Ira Washburn and his college and army chum, Mr. Ramsdell, are visiting the former’s parents a few days. Ira who entered the army in the Ist Illinois regiment, and was transferred to the hospital corps, has recently learned that in the transferring process, by some slight-of-hand he got into the regular army, and now, when the Ist is mustered out he is still in Uncle Sam’s service, and likely to be called on at any time. In some respects he does not admire the arrangement, but the $2 a day salary Uncle Sam is paying him is not an The Stanley temperance meetings closed last night with nearly 900 signers. Mr. Stanley returned home. The pastors had assumed a debt of about $25 for the meetings. This was provided for and about $7 more raised last night. A Blue Ribbon Club was partlyarranged for. Rev. V. O. Fritts was elected president and John Rush secretary. A vote of thanks was extended to Uncle Mac and his “sheepskin band.” Also to the “press” of Rensselaer for publishing the meetings. Those who desired to see the saloons driven from Rensselaer were asked to stand and about 400 people stood or nearly the whole audience. The next meeting will be held at the Christian church Friday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p. m. SATURDAY. Jra Osborne is back from a short visit at Francesville. Art Now els of Hammond, is here for a few days visit. R. P. Benjamin is speedily recovering from an attack of malarial fever. Born, Friday, Nov. 25th, to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Blue, north of the railroad, a son. Mrs. J. L. Clement of Chicago, is the guest of here sister, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Cecil Alter, who is attending a business college in Chicago, is home for a few days. Taylor McCoy and Jay Sayler returned yesterday from a visit with Lafayette relatives. Will Moss and family of Evansville, went to Chicago this morning, where they will visit a short time before returning home. Hi Day is making extensive improvements on the property recently purchased by Ben Smith in Austin & Paxton’s addition. Mrs. R. P. Benjamin, who has been on an extended visit with relatives in Warren and Tippecanoe counties, arrived home this afternoon.

I Delicate i | Children | t They do not complain of * y anything in particular. They £ ft eat enough, but keep thin and X y pale. Theyappear fairly well, J 5 but have no strength. You J » cannot say they are really X s sick, and so you call them « y delicate. j| What can be done for them? X y Our answer is the same that X y the best physicians have been £ K giving for a quarter of a cen- J tury. Give them X I Scon’s Emulsion | ft of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo- -J X phosphites. It has most re- x y markable nourishing power. ft It gives color to the blood. It * y brings strength to the mus- x y cles. It adds power to the * ft nerves. It means robust ’ y health and vigor. Even deli- X y cate infants rapidly gain in £ » flesh if given a small amount -J y three or four times each day. x voc. and |t.oo ; all druggists. y SCOTT A BOWNE, Chamiaia, New York. «

TRY if Women suffering from female ■fltroubles and weakness, and from irregular or P a^n^ menought not ose h°P e if V doctors cannot PC. zl flhelp them. Phy- \ / kJ B s iei ans are so busy with other diseases that theyd°notuny// I derstand fully f / I W the peculiar ail- * ments and the delicate organism of woman. What the sufferer ought to do is to give a fair trial to BRADFIELD'S Female Regulator which is the true cure provided by Nature for all female troubles. It is the formula of a physician of the highest standing, who devoted his whole life to the study of the distinct ailments peculiar to our mothers, wives and daughters. It is made of soothing, healing, strengthening h**rbs and vegetables, which have been piovided by a kindly Nature to cure irregularity in the menses, Leucorrhcea, Falling of the Womb, Nervousness, Headache and Backache. In fairness to herself and to Bradfield’s Female Regulator, every suffering woman ought to give it a trial. A large $i bottle will do a wonderful amount of good. Sold by druggists. Send for a nicely illustrated free book on the subject. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.

W. S. Holderness, who has been to Chicago to be mustered out returned yesterday, and will resume teaching his school in Barkley Tp., next Monday. Jas. W. Cowden has purchased an upright Conover piano, and Mrs. Amzie Laßue has purchased a Style M Starr, which is a very fine instrument. Mrs. Margaret Marshall reached her 80th birthday, today. She is in possession of all her faculties and in good health and strength for one of that age. Mrs. M. J. Goldsberry and daughter Opal, and Miss Emma Bull, of Wolcott, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coover. have returned home. The thermometer is said to have stood at 3 degrees below zero at 5 o’clock this morning, according to the reports of some parties who were up in time to see it at that hour. Prof. Swain of the State Univer sity, who lectured before the Teachers’ Association last night and this morning, returned to Bloomington, today. The foot ball game which was to take place today, between the College Juniors and the Rensselaer Juniors has been declared off until more favorable weather. Mrs. Bertha Long, who has been visiting Mrs. I. Glazebrook, went to Chicago, yesterday where she will visit a short time before going to her home in New York City. Ernest Middleton left for LaPorte today, where he will visit with friends and relatives. He went by way of Hammond and will stop there a short time with his brother, Fred. Supt. Hardy of the county farm took Will Trodd a 14 year old boy, who has been at the farm for the past year, to Winamac this morning where he has found the boy a good home with a farmer. Josiah Bowers, of Fulton county, shot and very dangerously wounded his son-in-law, Wm. Carr, last Monday, and then went out behind his barn and blew bis own brains out. It is thought that he was insane. Ed Anderson's Theater Company has been playing at Mt, Ayr this week. Ed came over here Thursday to see the ValpoRensselaer foot ball game, but as Valpo Bunked, of course he didn't see the game. 01 Robinson made the quickest trip to Longcliff asylum and back, yesterday, on record, in taking Harry Noland there, He left on the 10:55 a. m. train and got back at 3:27 p. m. It happened that a train on the Wabash was late, or he could not have made the connections. C. A. Stevenson, who went to

Medicine Hat, Canada, with W. T. Perkins last fall, returned home last night, it being entirely too cold for him up there. Whether ihe has helped himself much in ; that respect, m coming back, is a question, If the seven kinds of ‘ bad weather every 24 hours we . have been having lately is to be the rule all winter, then he hasn’t*. Rensselaer Post No. 84, of the G. A. R. will elect officers on next Friday night, Dec. 2. By order of D. H. Yeoman, Com’d'r. A Westville man has his wind pump'located where it will rock l the cradle, run a sewing machine, 1 mix the bread, churn, and kick thp i dog. He started to fix it so it I would talk about the neighbors, : but his wife arose to a question of I personal privilege, and the old gentleman had to sustain it. It ! won’t do to crowd labor-saving | machinery too fast on some people. Hon. Leopold Levy of Huntington, state treasurer-elect, must give a bond of $750,000. The law requires that every man who signs the bond shall be worth double the amount for which he pledges himself, so that in reality the bond is worth $1,500,000. Not fewer than twenty men must sign the bond. After the bond has been filed, it goes to the governor for approval. Dr. John Bowman will retire from the Wanatah Times on the Ist of December. In his valedictory he says some of his customers soured on him for some alleged slight and he thought it for the good of all parties to sell out. Dr. Bowman talks of starting a society paper at Hammond. Doc ought to succeed in the society organ field. He is up in good society matters and used himself to be one of the chief ornaments of society in the most exclusive circles of our own Nubbin Ridge. The unexpected severe freeze caught a good many people unprepared, as usual, and among these quite a number who are using the city water and whose water pipes froze up. Even in the court house a pipe in an exposed place, in the third story and the escaping water soaked through the ceiling of the vault in the clerk’s office. Private parties whose pumps or pipes froze were quite numerous, and the town plumbers have had several very profitable days, in consequence. What is known as the Jackim school house, a mile and a half southwest from North Judson, was literally torn to pieces last Thursday evening by lightning. The walls are so shivered and bulged out that the building is past repairing. A curious coincidence in connection with the accident was

L k $7 PROMPT, PERFECT AND COMPLETE. I was troubled with catarrh and asthma for over five years, which caused a great deal of suffering, inconvenience and embarrassment, the continual discharge of mucus from the nose and throat was especially disagreeable, and I suffered almost continually with headache, frequently became very hoarse and the expectoration and continual desire to clear the throat was very annoying. Had tried almost every catarrh medicine I heard of, and also took treatment from prominent physicians, and did not find the desired relief until I used Dr. Moore’s Aerial Medication, and the relief obtained from it was prompt, perfect ami complete. lam willing for my name to be used to anything in regard to this treatment, for I believe it to be till that is claimed for it, and I do not hesitate to recommend it to all who are suflering as I wa*. My occupation is Captain and Pilot on the Ohio River, and am well-known from Pittsburg to New Orleans. JoUN 11. Dll’PoLli, Baden, Pa. FREE. Medicines for three months’ treatment—enough to prove that Aerial Mr ’’ tlon cures dearness, Catarrh, throat and lung will t>e sent free to sutterer*. 'lllis otter Is for a short time only. For symptom form and particulars address at once, J. 11. MOORE, M.D., HIM*, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Surgical Operation Prevented. 1 J M>jߣoAßL2>. Orris, Va., March 37th, 1896. Dr. M. M. Fenner, Fredonia, N. Y. Dtar Sir: About two years ago Iwasaf* fileted with Kidney Disease and Gravel, and grew constantly worse. Finally one of the gravels lodged in my bladder and I was about to have a surgical operation performed to remove it Seeing Dr. Fenner’s Kidney and Back* iche Cur* recommended so highly by men of eminence for all diseases of the kidneys and bladder, 1 was induced to try it. After using two bottles 1 passed a stone half as large as a marble. The medicine firevented further formations, my health mproved under its influence and I am cured. I cannot too strongly urge sufferers to use it. I have the stone which your medicine removed which may be examined by any* .sue. Youfj truly. IV. T. Oakrs. Sold by B. F. Fendig.

the different effects upon a county map and an American flag which hung side by side upon one of the walls. The map was torn into shreds the size of shoe strings, while the flag was not injured in any way. MONDAY. Mrs. A. T. Perkins was taken suddenly very seriously sick, last night, with what is understood to be a brain or nervous trouble. The customary attempt is being made to knock out btrickfaden’s saloon, by a Nicholson bill petition, in the first ward. Eighty-four legal signers who will stay signed, are required. Some one broke into Bushey’s pool room last Saturday or Sunday night by breaking down the back door. Nothing however was taken. It being the only desire of the person, verv probably, to get by a warm fire. John Cole, with Chizum and Graves as his attorneys, has brought suit against the town of Morocco for §5,000 damages for injuries sustained on an alleged defective sidewalk. —Morocco Courier. J. N. Leatherman returned yesterday from Vincennes, where he 1 had been attending the State Convention of the Christian Endeavor. He reports that a great many delegates were there and that a very successful convention was held. Dr. Clayton, of Monon, was in town today. He had been over to visit Grandmother Mellinder, north of town, who is suffering with rheiimatism, and also lias not fully recovered from the injuries received by being knocked down, some weeks ago. but a pet sheep. Haff & Masker are preparing to put a large addition to their feed and hitch barn, on Cullen street. The addition will be 42 feet long. The firm's other feed barn at Valparaiso, under charge of James Masker, just opened for business Saturday. Prof. Boone, the hypnotist, arrived Saturday. He still has Douglass, his former assistant, with him, and the latter has been lying in a hypnotic sleep in Meyer’s drugstore window since Saturday evening. He will not be awakened until the performance at the opera house, this evening. The Morocco Courier gives the news of the death of Madison Collins, who was among the earliest white settlers of what is now Newton county, but was then a part of Jasper. He died at Hegewisch, 111., where he had lived for some years, and was 84 years old. All I of our earliest residents were no doubt weir acquainted with him. His remains were brought hack to' Morocco for burial. He used to practice law to a considerable extent. Hon. Thos. O'Conner, of White county, was among those who attended the Teachers’ Association here, last week. He was elected a state senator for White and Carroll counties in 1890, and by the

new apportionment law of 1897 heis now the senator for the district composed of Jasper, Newton and White counties. He is a teacher in the country schools of White county, and, by all accounts, am estimable young man. He is ar Democrat in politics and likely to be the lust state . senator of that pursuasion from this as,, as now constituted, it is strongly Republican.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at hisresidence—known as the Gould farm, 2 miles west of Rose Lawn, in Lincoln Tp„ Newton County, Indiana, on Thursday, Dec. 8, '9B. Beginning at 10 o’clock A. M., the following property to-wit: 28 head of cattle, consisting of 5 cows with calf at side, 4 coming soon: 1 two-year-old bull, 1 three-year-old i steer, I j ear-olds* Erling steers, 2 yearling heifers, 8 head of work horses, 2 farm wagons, 2 buggies, 3 sets of work harness, 2 walking plows, 1 wheel plow, 1 two-horse drag, 1 new corn planter, 1 Milwaukee mower, 1 hayrake, 2 walking cultivators, and ; household goods and other tilings* too numerous to mention. TERMS OF SALE. '♦ Twelve months credit will be given on sums over §5.00 on ap- • proved security, without interest if paid when due, otherwise due 8 per cent, from da|e. 8 per cent, discount for cash on sums over §SOO. Sums of $5.00 and under cash in hand. I J. H. LEE. Simon Phillips & Son, w2t Auctioneers* Bus Line & Liverv Stable, Short & Parker’s bus lina makes all trains day and night. Calls for or delivers passengers to any part of the city. Headquarters at the Makeever House, or Leopold’s livery stable building, south of town hall. Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable. Good rigs furnished, at any time, on shoat notice. Stable telephone 135. Bus telephone 107 or 135. Short & Parker. 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 i Why do you wait on insurance I companies for 6 months for your I money ? I also loan money for short times at current bank ratea. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin, Warren & Irwin are making 1 farm loans at 5{ per cent interest. Term most liberal. Ne delay. No i fees for examination of land or abstract. See them before borrowing ! or refunding present indebtedness. . They will treat you right and save vou money. MILLINERY. MILLINERS. MILLINERY. The largest; brightest, nvw*t and most complete stock of goods ever displayed in Rensselaer, are selling fast, at living prices at Mre. L. M. lines’, Call at once, if you want fashionable goods and artistic trimming. Dr. I. B. Washburn tests eyes for glasses by the latest methodsThe best lenses put in any desired frame. It does not pay to min your eyes with improper and cheap lenses. Satisfaction guaranteed I when possible. Good eight room bouse, with stable, wood-shed, coal house, cistern &0., to rent. Suitable for large family. Choice localionEnquire atthis office. The Evening Republican is sale at Kelley’s News Depot. Back numbers also on file there, ts For Sale or Trade. Small house and two lots, in Newton’s addition, Rensselaer, for sale or to trade for land near town. A. F. Griswold ts, Monticello, Ind. Farms for Sa4e. We have for sale several tru?ln of land varying in size from 40 acres to 280 acres, which, will be sold at prices to suit the time*. ‘ <)nly a small cash payment is re quired. balance on easy payment* nt 6 per cent, interest. Prospective buyers will find it to their advantage to call and see ns, Hollingsworth A Hopkis®.