Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Miuor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local HappenIDffS Classified Under Their Respective Headings. FRIDAY. . Mrs. J. C. Gwin is visiting her daughter, in Monon. M. F. Chilcote is in Chicago, taking depositions in a law case. Mrs. Wayne Gwin, west of town, has a very severe case of tonsilitis. Mr. and Mrs. James Creviston have gone to Union City, Ind. to visit relatives. Jacob Hershberger, a horse buyer from Logansport, was looking at some horses here todav, but did riot buy any. Born, this, Friday morning, April 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Benjamin, in the northwest part of town, a daughter. County Treasurer Gwin and Auditor elect Babcock are partners in a duck hunting enterprise in the Kankakee region, today. Rev. N. H. Sheppard arrived home today from a trip to Elkhart where he had been to conduct a funeral for a former parishioner. A detatohment of U. S. Signal Corps men bound for the Phillipines, went over the Monon, at 9:55 this morning. There was about a half a car load of them.

Over fifty Joliet, 111., merchants have signed an agreement to discontinue program and other advertising schemes. Clean, straight, legitimate newspaper advertising will be adhered to. We are reliably informed that a sportsman from Monticello recently bagged 150 ducks during a single sojourn in the marshes south of McOoysburg. Rensselaer htinters have made no bags to at all compare with that. Sidney Willoughby, from the Dr. Saulsbury farm, four miles east of Fair Oaks, was in town today making arrangements for a public sale for next Wednesday, April 12. He intends to move back into Benton county. Mrs. Mamie Teter, formerly Spitler, with her two children, is visiting her Rensselaer relatives for a few days. She has been living at Boulder, Colorado, but when she rejoins her husband in the Southwest, it will be in New Mexico. r , Mrs. Christiana Feld, the Chicago woman whom Leutgart, the sausage vat murderer worked for her wealth, and was supposed to