Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist oi Local Happen IIUTB Class tied Under Their Re speettva Headings. FRIDAY. Mrs. Geo. Goff is visiting friends in Crown Point. A. L. Padget made a b usiness trip to Monon today. W. B. Austin went to Goodland this afternoon on business. Grandmother Elizabeth Chil■cote is confined to her bed with a severe case of grip. The big snow storm today got in witnout attracting tne notice of the weather bureau, and nothing of kind was predicted for today. The high school Seniors entertained the Juniors last evening at the home of M-erl Gwin. Elegant refreshments were served and everyone had a good time. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Meyer, Mrs. Delos Thompson and Mrs. F. A. Ross went to Lafayette this morning to attend the funeral of the late Major William Taylor. The G- A. R post of Lowell has a big campfire every year, This year it comes cn Wednesday, Jan. 25th, and preparations to make it a big success are well under way. Old soldiers from Jasper county will receive the right hand of welome if they attend. '• People here were late in getting the Chioago papers and other paper mail this morning. The mail clerk on the fast morning train threw the paper sack out near Coen & Brady’s elevator about two blocks from the depot, and it was not found until nearly 8 o’clook. The report that Dr. E. A. Kirk would locate on Gifford’s railroad was entirely an error. He has a room all ready for him at Parr and a stock of drugs purchased to put in it, and will go there as soon as Dr. Alter’s condition will permit his leaving Rensselaer. He will also practice medicine at Parr and, surrounding country. The big case from Lake county, of John Brown vs the Monon railroad, which began Monday, is still in progress. The direot evidence for the plaintiff was not finished until 11 o’clook, this morning. The case will last far into next week. It is a good thing for our hotels, as it keeps a big orowd of strangers in town. At ten o’clock this morning a big team belonging to St. Joseph’s College, got pretty badly scared at the passing trains, and just then the wild wierd screeching of the fire whistle made them entirely uncontrollable, and they set out down Main and Division streets. At Weston Park, near J. W. Williams place they veered off to the

ide of the road and ran astride of a big telephone pole, which brought them to a stand-still* The prracipal damage was a badly dilapidated set of harness and a broken neokyoke. - * y The Alexander Leonard Company made a hit last night in “Mr. Jaok Frost of New York,’’ and Jack Frost got no frost, in fact one could not help but sympathizing with Jack and his endeavors to get the old man to see things as he did. The audience was highly enthusiastic -over the performance and expressed their appreciation by applauding continously. The speciality artists were not slow making themselves heard and winning the good will of the audienoe. The Company will reproduce “The Flying Squadron,” this evening by special request of several persons and no doubt it will draw a Very large audienoe. It is an amazing thing the way jMiUJkUUi, Uio perjjoiuiti ligiri fraud, of Logansport, continues to flourish and grow wealthy on the money of his dupes. _ Time and time again has he set for a public exhibition of his lights, but every time the exhibition is put off on some pretext or another, or no pretext at all. The latest date he made for an exhibition was Jan. 14th, but he did not make it, and gives no excuse at all this time. He says now he is going to move to St. Louis. The newspapers there do not criticise him, while some of them do at Logansport. In the meantime there is every indication that his crop of suckers is growing larger instead of decreasing. Geo. A. McDaniels, of Company I, 161st Ind. regiment, who left some days ago to report at Indianapolis expecting to be sent to join his regiment in Cuba, arrived here again this, Friday morning. On arriving at Indianapolis he was ordered to proceed to Fort Thomas, at Lexington, Ky., in oharge of one Leroy H. John, a deserter trom the Bth U. S. cavalry, who had surrendered himself. On arriving at Fort Thomas and turning over his oharge, McDaniels received orders to return to his home to await his discharge. It is stated that this is the course being adopted with all furloughed men of the 161st, and it is generally understood that the reason is that the regiment is soon to return from Cuba and bo mustered out. This will be good news to the members of the regiment, for although a month or two in Cuba during the winter is a pleasant and very valuable experience for them, to stay there until the hot weather oomes with its consequent disastrous effects on the health of northern people would be quite a different thing.

SATURDAY. Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock is visiting relatives in Lafayette this week. Mrs. Elias Ham merton, of Hanging Grove Tp., is very dangerously sick with pneumonia, but at present shows signs of improvement. * • W. H. Knipple, of Lexington, 111., has been in town some days looking after matters oonneoted with his farm, in Jordan Tp. He returned home today. The auction store is being, removed today from a room on Van Rensselaer street, south of the city hall jnto John Eger’s room op Washington street, formerly occupied by Laßue Bros.’ furniture store. Harry F. Ward’s lecture on Kipling, at the M. E. church last night, drew a fair sized audience. Those who beard the lecture are enthusiastic in their praises, and say that Mr. Ward will compare favorably with the high priced lecturers in the lecture courses. The Alexander Leonard people repeated The Flying Squadron last night to a large house, and gave ah even better performance than on the same play Monday night. This excellent company is growing in popularity as the end of their

-v engagement approaches. Tonight they will give a continuous Vaudeville performance. What the farmero of this county think of the merits of the prosecution of John E. Alter is shown by the fact that they unanimously elected him president of the county farmers’ institnte, for the ensuing year. They have known and esteemed Mr. Alter all his life and they know that his prosecution is nothing else but malicious persecution. MONDAY. Corn 30 cents. Oats 22 to 26 cents. Wheat 60 oents. Mrs. Delos Thompson is visiting friends in Lowell. Simon Leopold went to Chicago this morning on business. Clinton Brown went to Lafayette today to visit a few days with relatives at tuat pmcu. Sanford Adams, son of Mrs. Henry Adams, is in a very critical condition with the grip. Misses Matie Knight and Alice Turner, of Remington, are visiting Miss Clara Robinson of this city. Dr. Alter continues very seriously sick, but with no apparent ohange for either better or worse. Jack Knight is moving from the east part of town into the house on Washington St., formerly occupied by J. F. Hieronymus. '■ Mrs. Vine Hopkins, who has been visiting D. C. Hopkins for several weeks returned to her home at Chicago this morning. Prof. Baughman, who has been the able director of the Rensselaer band for over a year moved his family Saturday to Mt. Ayr, where he will take charge of the band at that place until spring. Alexander Leonard’s company completed a successful week at the opera house Saturday night. They announoe their intention to return in May, and if they do, they will be gladly welcomed by our theater going people. From here they have gone to LaPorte. The ladies of seotion “Three,” M. E. church will hold a Thimble Luncheon and supper, tomorrow, (Tuesday) P. M. and evening, at the residence of Mrs. Geo. E. Murray. The ladies are requested to come in the P. M., bringing their work, and the gentleman are to join them at the supper hour. Refreshments 150. All are invited to attend. • True Woodworth reports that be passed the examination for a position as fireman on the Pennsylvania road, at Logansport all right, except that there were some objections by the surgeon to his foot-ball knee. He was promised a plaoe in a few weeks, however. Vermont Hawkins, who got in jas

fireman some weeks ago, is now working in the company’s yards in Chioago. - ? . Yesterday the following officers of the Valpo sub district of the Epworth League were eleoted. Albert Overton, Pres.,.. Rensselaer Chas. Day, Vice Pre5.,.... .Monon Ella Sprague, Secy.,.. Medaryville Geo. Hammerton, Treaa,. Osborne Met at Rensselaer to dooide upon the plaoe for ths next convention. Osborne sohool house in Hanging Grove township was finally agreed upon and the convention held at that place next June. The president, Mr. Overton, in his usual genial manner showed his hospitality by taking the visiting officers to the Nowels House and having a bountiful dinner served. Jim Jordan, who moved from here last week out on to Henry Harris’ farm near Mt. Ayr, met with quite a severe and painful accident, while moving. Thursday night, naviug arrived at the vLtaua place with a load of goods, hr unhitching the horses he accidentally left one horse’s inner tug still attached to the wagon. When the horse started it began to plunge, and Mr. Jordan was knocked down by the wagon tongue, fnd the horse pulled ahead, and a wagon wheel ran over his thigh and leg, bruising him severely.