Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told* in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happening ... Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Miss Morgan of Lafayette is visiting the family of J. L. Brady. Born, this Tuesday morning, April 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wagner, in the east part of town, a 10|-lb. girl. G. M. Cushing, of Chicago, returned home this morning after spending several days here, the guest of Miss Eva Green. Mrs. Ella Hamilton and Mrs. Benjamin Banta, of Cass county, arrived this morning, to help celebrate Uncle Isaac Sayler’s 90th birthday. They are bis nieces. Erv Bushey, now of Elwood, Ind., tin plate factory is back here for a week’s visit. At least that is what he says, but he was observed interviewing the liscense clerk at the county clerk’s office, this afternoon, very earnestly. Mrs. Mattie Bowman received word today that her oldest daughter, Mrs. L. V. Sayler, died this morning at her home in Pulaski county, of consumption this morning. The remains will be brought back here for burial, some time tomorrow afternoon probably at four o’clock. Ira Washburn, of Rush Medical College, Chicago, is at home for a week’s visit. He is still suffering from the effects of the Santiago campaign having contracted a bad case of malaria in that unhealthful climate. He has been sick most of the time this winter but in spite of that has made good progress in his studies. When he returns te college it will be for the the examinations for graduation. [ Frank Hanley shipped a car toad of 17 horses to Chicago last Light. The highest price paid for Lny of the horses was $l2O, and the average price was thought to Le about SIOO, several of the horses being rather small. A year or two Igo such a load of horses would Lave averaged about SSO. Dad 13-leason is here also buying up a load for the Cincinnati market. I The Judge wishes to appoint, as (members of each county and township council, in this circuit, only those who are without bias for or ■gainst the elective officers, and Ivho will be able and willing to Live the law a fair trial, and due Iffect. He has no favorites, and ftould be glad to receive timely Suggestions from each county, district and township. I S. P. Thompson, | Judge of the 30th Circuit. Rensselaer, Indiana, April 18, ’99. | Congressman Crumpacker has Innounced that he will recomInend E. N. Norris, of Valparaiso, tor the office of census supervisor bf the tenth district. He will have the appointment of supervisors ■nder him in this district which ■rill be one for every 4,000 people. Hr. Norris will not take office bemre the year 1900 and the census Brill be completed in July. The Bffice pays a salary of SI,OOO. I A fatal and distressing event Bccurred near Brookston, one day Bst week. Wm. Hawkins was Burning some hedge brush and the Bre spread to a clover meadow. Hrs. Hawkins tried to help put Bit the fire, and her clothing Kugbt fire, and she was burned B» death. Another warning for ■omen and children with cotton Bothing to keep away from out of Bx>r fires. ■ Monticello is having an epiB?mic of sensational occurrences. Birst was the midnight entrance

the body of a baby in a manure pile, and following this came an attempted suicide, Sunday night, This last was attempted by Mrs. Monroe Watkins. She took strychnine and was saved with great difficulty. Indiana is about to get another slice of Illinois through the agency of the Wabash river. A channel has been cutting for years across the bend immediately north of Hutsonville, which has been greatly increased by the recent freshet. It is believed that when the waters subside a sand bar will be formed across the old channel at the upper end of the cut-off, and if so the transfer will be complete, and that part of Illinois across the river at the mouth of the bayou will pass under the jurisdiction of Hoosierdom. The land to be ceded to Indiana will amount to four hundred acres. Griffin Marshall, of Marley, HL, who came down to attend the funeral of his infant nephew, Carroll Marshall, returned home today. He was one of Uncle Sam’s kid soldiers towards the closing end of the great civil war, and being still sprightly and full of fight he tried hard to break into the squabble with Spain. He raised a cavalry company, which was duly accepted as a part of “Young Jack” Logan’s regiment, of which so much was heard at the beginning of the war. But Governor Tanner’s jealouslly of young Logan caused the regiment to be turned down and thus defeated Logan’s chance for a colonelcy and Mr. Marshall’s chance for a captaincy along with it.

Rev. H. M. Middleton has received a letter from his daughter Miss Lelia Middleton, now attending the training school for Methodist deaconesses, at Washington in which she states she now expects to complete the course there in a single year. She is enabled to do this on account of the great help to her of her previous thorough education at DePauw University, of which she is a graduate. She further states that she already has a bright prospect before her, as she expects as soon as her year’s training is over to go to Denver, Colo., to become an instructor in a deaconess training school, to be established there. Her letter gives an interesting description of two events she recently witnessed. One, was the burial of several thousand American soldiers, just brought back frpm Cuba and Porto Rico, in the national cemetery at Arlington; and the other the annual Easter Monday eggrolling at the White House. WEDNESDAY. Mrs. D. M. Hochstettler, west of town, is reported sick. Mrs. Emma Wolf, of Chalmers, is visiting her relatives in this city. B, 8. Fendig is on the streets again today, after three weeks’ sickness. Mrs. Joseph Groom, near Groom’s bridge continues very seriously sick with lung fever. The hearing of the remonstrances against the street im provements is set for tonight. This is another almost summerlike day. The temperature this afternoon is about 68 above zero. Ernest Middleton who has been working at Chicago Heights, re turned home, sick, the other day- . Mrs. A. Hoover was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital at Indianapolis, today. She is suffering from nervous trouble. Some 25 couples of the Eastern Star enjoyed a pleasant time, last evening, at their hall. Dominoes were played and refreshments partaken of. The moderate rains of yesterday followed by the bright warm sunshine of today, will be just what is wanted to start the grass to growing and bring up the sown HPKn cnwnnrv "1 a aa w * I

“Slaves of Money” was rendered last night by the Alexander Leonard Company, ip a style that was highly appreciated by the audience. The special scenery was splendid, especially in the steam yacht and fire scenes. The tenement fire was so realistic that some fire laddies in the audience started after the hose cart. The body of Mrs. Florence Sayler, wife of L. V. Sayler, and whose death was mentioned yesterday, arrived at 2:30 this afternoon, overland from Pulaski county, The funeral was held at three o’clock, at Mrs. Bowman’s residence, in the west part of town. A U. S. revenue inspector is in town today. He is making it his speciality to call on the note buying and selling gentry, and breaking to them, as gently as he can the sad intelligence that Uncle Sam expects each individual and firm who indulges in that pleasant and profitable pastime to drop SSO a year into the said Uncle’s coffer by way of revenue tax. He found quite a nice little string of note brokers in Rensselaer. THURSDAY. Corn 28 cents. Wheat 60 cents. Oats 24-26 cents. Mrs. C. Starr and daughter Fern returned from a weeks stay in Chicago. Preaching services will be held at the Free Will church, next Sunday morning, by Miss Maggie Kenton. Preparatory services will be held at the Presbyterian church, Friday evening, and communion services Sunday morning. The pastor will hold the services.

Uncle Jimmy Culp is in town today, for the first time in many months. He has been laid up for a long time, as the result of a fall, in Remington, in November. The Leonard Stock Company have two plays in their reportoir deserving of special mention “Young Mr. Young”and“Camille.” The former will be presented tonight and the latter Saturday night. Tom Parker is carrying his right arm in a sling and will for some time to He fell while about to mount his horse, Tuesday, breaking one of the bones of his right arm, below the elbow. William Holderness has finished teaching school on Nubbin Ridge and returned to his home in Chicago. He takes with him as a traveling companion, a memento of the Jasper wilderness in the shape of a small and gentleminded mud turtle. Clerk Coo ver received Jasper county’s allotment of the new laws this morning. The laws make a book of 713 printed pages, and is not only larger than any previous volume of the legislature’s acts, but is also much better and stronger bound. Rev. W. H. Applegate, a Christian minister who has been residing here for some months, has accepted a call to become the pastor of a congregation at McComb, Ohio. He will remove there at once. i Rev. Thomas Craven who was 23 years in India, connected with missionary work, and expects to go back there again shortly, was in town today, arranging to give a lecture at the M. E. Church, .next Saturday evening. He has 1 gone to Chicago, and will lecture to-night at Evanston, on the subject of National Expansion. The Doctor has seen with his own eyes the effect of Apglo-Saxon rule m barbarous lands and he is au expansionist from way back.