Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings } Classified Under Their Respective Headings. * ■ • FRIDAY. > Penn’s street sprinkler began its rounds again today. The circuit court adjourned last evening until next Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Douthit’s infant child is sick with a bowel trouble. Frank Hanley is here from Chicago, buying up another car load of horses. Born, Thursday, April 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson, near the depot, a daughter. Rev. Watkins, of Warren, 111., will hold services at the Free Baptist church, next Sunday evening. David Hazen and Samuel Petra, of Francisville, were in town today, on matters connected with the estate of the former’s father, the late Dr. N. S. Hazen. Yesterday, April 13th, the temperature stood at 80 degrees in the shade, which is good average summer heat. Two weeks before there was six inches of snow on the ground. Bates Tucker left today for Danville, Ind., where he will attend the well known Danville normal school until June, and will then go to Terre Haute to take the summer term at the state normal. Judge Sylvester Healy has been drawn as a member of the petit jury of the U. S. district court, at Indianapolis. He expects to go down about the Ist of May, and will be in attendance for several weeks. Clerk Coover has received notice from the insane asylum at Logansport that Mrs. Gant of Union tp., recently adjudged insane, can not be received at the asylum at present, owing to its crowded condition. A. B. Cowgill, the undertaker, received by telegram, this morping, the sad news of the death of his father, at his home near Pana, 111. Mr. Cowgill has gone to attend the funeral and will be absent a number of days. Homer Kessler, Asst. Gen. Agent, and Jos. P. Hammond local agent, of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, 0., have paid today, the $2,000 policy held by Dr. Moses B. Alter, deseased, in their Company. The

widow is the sole beneficiary of the policy. Grandfather J. M. Gwin, ot McCoysburg, was in town today, on his way home after a six weeks’ visit with relatives in the eastern and central part of the state. His last step was over at Delphi, where he visited two nieces, wives of prominent attorneys, and who had been living there for many years, without Mr. Gwin’s knowledge of their names or whereabouts. The old gentleman’s health is very fine this spring, and his eighty years sit lightly on his head. Lee Jessup has just received word, through other relatives, of his brother Leonard, now in the Phillipine Islands, as a member of the Ist Tennessee regiment. He is at Illio, where the fighting has been so slight as not to afford common amusement. When Leonard wrote the doctors thought he was taking the small-pox,'but being recently successfully vaoinnated, they though he would have it very light. One Andrew Turner, of near Blackford, a former Gifford tenant in Walker township, was before Squire Burnham, yesterday afternoon, charged with failure to pay his dog tax. He was fined 25 cents and costs, or $11.55 in all. Not having wherewith to pay he was put where his own delinquent dog can not fondle him nor other people’s dogs bite him —in. the county jail. He went to his incarceration with a great deal of apparent equanimity. He doesn’t need very much sympathy', for his township trustee gave him an opportunity to husk corn a day to square his delinquent dog tax but he never showed up in the corn field, > SATURDAY. J. F. Bruner is at Chicago, today. Harry Zimmerman is down from Fair Oaks today. W. W. Taylor, of Chicago, is visiting his sister, Mrs. T. d. McCoy. Miss Mary Goetz returned today from a two weeks’ visit in Chicago. J. J. Hunt went to Knox today to visit his brother, O. H. Hunt, who is quite seriously sick. Lowell and Cedar Creek township will vote again on the stone roads question cn May Bth. Mrs. Wv A. Miller was called to Chicago this morning by the death of her sister, Mrs. S. H. Burns. Miss Myrtle Pulver returned to Lowell this morning after a three weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. P. W. Clarke. Mrs. Joseph Groom, near Groom’s bridge is on the sick list. Also Mrs. Eyerett Greenlee, of the safiae vicinity. Miss Lily Peregrine, of Dunnville is visiting with the family of L. H. Hamilton and other friends and relatives in the city. Misses Blanch McCarthy and Merle Beam are attending the last day of Miss Fanny McCarthy’s school at Fair Oaks today. Elmer Wilcox went to Lafayette today, to be on hand to take charge of the new mail service on the milk train, next Monday. H. P. Overton has just tnoved into town and occupies Will McConehay’s property, near the railroad. He has been living some miles southwest of town, where he was teaching school. The Leonard Company has added much new scenery since their former appearance here and now give the most finished production of any reportoire company ever seen. Zern Wright left at 10:55 today for Birmingham, Alabama, where he will remain for an indefinite period and he employed in helping look after the Wright and FerguThe grand jury of Starke county, which has fieen in session at Knox for several weeks, has returned fiftv oicfht indictments sszdinst

saloon keepers for selling minors liquors and maintaining slot machines. The six months old son of Chas. Swain and wife of Union tp. died this morning at 4a. m. of Pneumonia. The funeral will be held at the family residence Sunday April 16, at 10 a. m. Religious services will be conducted by Rev. Sherrill. Interment in Sandridge cemetry. Quarterly communion services at the Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow at 10:45 a. m. Love feast at 3:00 p. m., and Rev. W. H. Hickman, D. D. of DePauw University will preach tomorrow night. Everybody cordially invited. Miss Maude Jacks got back her lost gold watch, by virtue of a small notice in The Republican. Many lost articles and animals have been recovered by means of notices in this paper. They do not always have that result, however, for lost articles do not always fall into honest hands. The people of Brook find that their new stone street, built last summer is full of chuck holes. The trouble is that the town trustees made the mistake of having too much fine material put on top. The fine top layer which should not be more than a half inch or so was made about three inches, hence the chuck holes. Monticello Herald —W. H. Shesler, ex-superintendent of the poor farm, has commenced suit in the Jasper circuit court for SIO,OOO damages against the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Co., because of injuries received in an accident on the road, mention of which was made in , these columns some time ago* His attorneys are B. F. Carr of this place and Magee & Funk of Logansport. The Board of Directors request us to say that, The'Jasper Public Library has purchased books to the full extent of the stock. All who have not called for their share are respectfully asked to do so at once*. The stock has been signed and sealed and is ready for deliv ery by the Treasurer, E. L. Hollingsworth, at the Commercial Bank. It is earnestly desired that no delinquency appear in their first manual. The notice of assessments for the Monon ditch occupies four pages in the Pulaski County

' Democrat, and these are assessments for Pulaski county alone. Lands are also affected in White, Jasper and Starke counties, the estimate of benefits including in the aggregate not less the 100,000 acres. The ditch was commenced eight years ago as a commissioners’s court ditch but obstacles were encountered which required a transfer of the proceedings to the circuit court. The ditch is twenty-five miles long and almost a canal in size. Monticello Herald. MONDAY. Corn 28 cents. Wheat 60 cents. Oats 24-26 cents. Earl Sayler, now of Gilman, 111., visited his parents here, Sunday. Miss Myrtle Chipman visited her brother in Chicago, yesterday. Ed Dye and daughter, of Monticello, visited Mr. Bales, of the Sayler-Bales Lumber Company, Sunday. Alexander Leonard, Florence Keller and a big company Opera House tonight. Will Douglass, of Troop L, 7th, U. S. cavalry, now, stationed at Havana, was here yesterday the guest of Miss Ara Glazebrook. Eight of Marshall county’s exsheriffs acted as pall bearers at the funeral of the late David Howean, ex-sheriff of that county at Plymouth Sunday. Rev. C. D. Jeffries had not sufficiently recovered his health to be able to hold services at his church, but hopes to be well enough to do so by next Sunday. Mrs. Isaac French left Saturday afternoon for Lincoln, Neb., where she was called by the dangerous sickness of her mother, Mrs. Lock. Mr. French accompanied her as far as Chicago. Mrs. Fenwick Reed and infant son and Miss Bessie Murray left today for the former’s home in Terre Haute. Mrs. Reed has been visiting Mrs. Murray since her husband, the evangelist, finished the revival here. The Longansport Journal states that the colony of Dunkards who left some time ago from that locality for the northwest, mostly North Dakota, are now thoroughly dissatisfied with their surroundings and wish to be back in old Indina. They charge church leaders with misrepresentation in inducing them to leave their former homes. Medaryville Advertiser:—Rev. D. H. Guild arrived here Monday morning for a short visit with his relatives and a host of friends. The gentleman has been re-ap-pointed to the pastorate at Knighstown, Ind., for the third term, by the fifty-sixth North Indiana M. E. Conference, held at Wabash, Ind., the past week. Rev. T. M. Guild, his brother, has also been Returned for the 3rd term to the pastorate at Auburn, Ind.