Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1898 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist ot Local Happenings Classified Under Their, Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Gr. K. Hollingsworth and Ray Thompson were doing business in Kentland, today. . The farmers have been making good use of the present spell of good weather, and most of them now have their corn all husked. Warren Robinson, of Hays City, Kans., with his children, is here visiting his brother, Thomas Robinson, in the west part of town. Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Burnham are at Indiana Mineral Springs, near Attica, today, and Mrs. Burnham will remain several weeks for medical treatment. Ex-Senater Calvin S. Brice, the great financier and railroad magnate, died at New York, yesterday. The Monon railroad is one of the companies he was largely interested in. Cordwood is coming into town in large quantities now, the roads being most favorable for hauling large loads. It finds a very ready sale. The best quality of dry wood sells very readily at $3 per cord.

Geo. N. Dunn arrived from Wichita, Kansas, today, and will remain for a few days, and will also visit his parents at Dunnville before returning to Wichita. He reports that his firm, J. C. Dunn & Brother is prospering finely in the wholesale queensware and erockery business, at Wichita. Jim Pierce shipped a load of hogs this morning and among them was one which weighed 630 pounds. That is pretty heavy for one hog, but larger ones have been raised here. Last year Moody & Roth butchered a sow they bought of Mr. Josserand which weighed 610 pounds. An unwelcome addition was made to the population of the county asylum, yesterday. It is a boy, and the mother is a weak minded inmate. She names as the responsible party a former inmate one Newton Carson, who has left and his whereabouts are unknown. Edward Hall, whose wife died a few days ago and left three young children, has found homes for two" of them, in Starke county, his former home. His own father has taken one and his brother the other. The youngest, a three year old girl, Mr. Hall will try to care for himself, he having employed a housekeeper. If you “hear a mighty rumbling and can’t tell where” you may conclude it is the new steam fire alarm, up at the waterworks and light

plant. It was received yesterday and is being placed in position, today. It is 8 inches in diameter and the bell portion is 14 inches long. It is expected to make a great noise when it goes off. Wm. H. Martin, an old soldier of the civil war, who has been staying in Rensselaer for some months, has gone to the soldiers’ home at Lafayette. He goes as a representative from Newton, which has been his principal residence for a long time past, and which county lias erected a good cottage at the home. He was a member of the 83rd Indiana regiment. Lovers of fine music enjoyed a rare treat at the M. E. church last evening, at the musical entertainment given under the auspices of the second section of the Industrial Society of the church. Pretty nearly all of the best musical talent of our city was represented on the program It was well attended, and the proceeds amounted to $19.50, even at the low price of 10 cents, for admission. L. S. Alter, of Carpenter Tp, came down from Gillam today on his wheel, and expected to make the rest of his way to his home in West Carpenter by the same method. The entire distance is 35 miles. It it not often that the country roads are good enough and bare enough in the middle of December to make good bicycle riding in every direction, as they do now.

Miss Maggie Montz, who keeps books and attends to the correspondence of Jacob McDonald, the poultry dealer, was called to Monticello a few nights ago, by a supposed very bad accident to her sister, Emma Montz. She was attending school at Monticello, and slipped on the steps, getting a very bad fall. At last accounts she was recovering slowly. The 161st Indiana regiment reached Havana harbor, yesterday, and it was thought a landing would be made today. The regiment went down from Savannah in the transport Mobile, which is described as the largest and finest government transport. It has just been refitted in Philadelphia and is well furnished, even to the extent of providing every man with a good spring mattress, and other accommodations in proportion. W. S. Parks, the drayman, made a trip to Chicago yesterday, and left his big freighting mules in charge of Charley Ball. As was to have ’been expected, the mules missed the master hand of Mr. Parks, and undertook to do their own driving, with the result that they turned too short at the depot, and dumped the dray, with a big load of goods, groceries &c. Bales and boxes were scattered in every direction, like a general store hit by a cyclone, but when the pieces were gathered up, it was found that but very little damage was done. Homer Day, of Englewood, principal defendant in th® case of Garrett vs Day, was in town yesterday consulting with local attorneys, preparatory to defending the suit against him. It is understood that Mr. Day claims that Farwell’s claims against the goods he traded to Garrett was paid off or practically so, and that he will be able to establish the fact in the court. In the meantime the Farwell people seem to be preparing to take a hand and make it a three cornered fight, as they have sent for copies of all instruments so far filed in the case. Mr. Day is reported to be a man of considerable financial solidity and able to make his contracts good.

SATURDAY. W. J. Miller arrived home today from several days trip to Michigan. Miss Clifford Moody is home for the holiday vacation. She is attending college at Mt. Vernorf, lowa. Sylvester Derby, of Lemont, 111., and S. O. Derby, of Morgan Park, visited Dr. afid Mrs. S. C. Johnson, yesterday. Miss Helen Kelley entertained

a party of friends at whist, last evening. Whist is fast becoming the most popular game in society now. Jos. H. Marshall arrived home from Colorado today. He has about recovered from his recent hard case of typhoid fever, contracted while a member of Col. Grigsby's rough riders, at Camp Thomas. Elmer Gwin, of southeast of town, has returned home. He has been working on a lumber railroad in northern Wiiconsin, and some time ago had the misfortune to run a train off the end of a switch, and had an arm and collar bone broken. He is not yet fully recovered from his injuries. It is feared by interested parties that the state fair is doomed. Secretary Kennedy is endeavoring to have Indianapolis business men take up the matter as he claims three-fourths of the gross receipts of the show are expended at Indianapolis to say nothing of the crowds attracted to the capital. A meeting of the state board of agriculture has been called for January 3rd. to consider whether conditions justify a continuance of the fair. It has been a loser for two years. The proposed new long distance telephone connection project is moving along very satisfactorily, so far, and Messrs. T. J. McCoy, Delos Thompson, C. E. Mills and W. B. Austin have gone to La-