Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1899 — SATURDAY. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY.

W. A. Rinehart left for Buffalo this afternoon. Mrs. Lucy White, of Monon, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. v Diok Wood. Miss Clara Robinson went to Monticello this afternoon for a short visit. Mrs. T. J. McCoy and son Taylor are spending a few days at Lafayette. Mrs. Alice Banta and daughter Lola, of Chicago, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hamilton. Jerry Schofield has turned the lines of his bus over- to Will Woodworth and gone to Monticello to spend Sunday.

conduct the religious services for his sister-in-law’s, (Mrs. Cecelia Moore) funeral tomorrow. Charles H. Watson, of Light Battery K. First U. S. Artillery, stopped in our town- today. He is one of the heroes of San Juan Hill and the Santiago campaign. Mrs. M. H. Hemphill and brother John Baker, of Mt. Ayr were called to Bucyrus, 0., by a telegram announcing the dangerous -sickness of their brother, Samuel Baker, of that place. Mrs. Cecelia Moore, wife of Franklin Moore and daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown of this city, died late Friday afternoon, at her home in Indianapolis. The funeral will be held there Sunday. Mrs. James Cox died at her home in Chicago Heights, Thursday night. The funeral was held today at Fair Oaks. The religious services were conducted by Rev. Fritts. Deceased was a neice of D. H. Yeoman of this place, who with his wife and Misses Rosa McColly and Maggie Lang attended the funeral. The Republican learns from a reliable source, that our ex-towns-man, Dr. F. P # Bitters, is now in a lamentable condition. Owing perhaps to the great affliction he suffered here in the loss of his wife and children, and perhaps also, to some extent, owing to the overzeal with which he has pursued his new cult of spiritualism, he is apparently now in a mental condition where he can do no good for himself or anyone else. Previous to his great afflictions here, he was an able and successful physician, with a good practice and one that had the sure promise of becoming much better as the years; passed by.

Indications are that the Western Union Telegraph company will be the defendant in a suit for $20,000 owing, to the alleged delaying of a telegram for about two hours. The Fidelity & Deposit Bond Co., of Baltimore, Md., and the macadam road contractors of Columbus, Ohio, may be the plaintiffs The Center and St John roads contract was let to the Brownell Improvement Co. while the Columbus firm had a bid $4,000 less than that company, but the delay of the telegram pertaining to bond made them too late. — Lowell Record. , The 2nd Illinois regiment, ex-

pected to have passed here before noon Friday, did not pass until about 5:30 p. m. Their train was in three sections. The first section went through at full speed, but the second slowed down to receive a message, and the many people on the platform had a chance to see the soldiers. The latter were evidently feeling very happy at being so nearly home. The reception committee of Chicago planned to hold the boys at Cedar Lake in order to arrive in the city next morning, when a fitting reception could be given, but the soldiers rebelled at the delay and forced the railroad men to move the trains on to Chicago last night.

MONDAY. Mrs. Alf Jacks visited at Lee over Sunday. Mrs. Emma Hirschy is visiting relatives in Chicago. Charley Hammond visited his parents here over Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Thompson is making a few days visit at Chicago. Cal Nichols and Alva Wood, of Lowell, visited friends here Sunday. Miss Bertha Nowels has returned from several months stay in Lafayette. J. C. Thornton has had his soldier pension increased from $6 to sl2 per month. E. J. O’Connel, of Chicago, visited the family of Mrs. J. Drake yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dexter spent Sunday at Lafayette, visiting Geo. Dexter and family. D. J. Thompson left this morning for his annual summer sojourn at Indian River. Mich. Delaney Martin returned to the Vorhies business college at Indianapolis, this morning. Mrs. Leota Jones returned from her visit to. Indianapolis and Greenfield, this morning. Miss Harriett Yeoman has returned to Anderson, fpr a protracted stay, with her sister. Misses Lydia Rodgers and Jesse Adams, visited here yesterday the guests of Misses Mabel Brinley and Edna Dillon.

The township trustees and town school boards are reporting their enumerations, to the County Superintendent, today. Joseph H. Moore, of Boone county, was awarded $2,000 against the Monon railroad in the Boone circuit court last Saturday, for personal damages sustained by being run down by a Monon train at a grade crossing. Miss Fannie Scott left for her home today at Great Bend, Kans., after a five weeks’ visit with her aunt, Mrs. C. D. Martin, who accompanied her to Chicago and where she will remain for a few days visiting friends. The tender of the south bound train due here at 1:45 p.m. Saturday got off the track at St. Johns, north of Cedar Lake, and the train did not reach here until about 7:30 o’clock. The milk train was also much delayed. The engine was considerably damaged. John Ball, of Monon, once the celebrated imitator of the milk train whistle, when a porter at the Nowels House, is in town today. He has just been honorably discharged from the 14th U. S. regiment, and left Porto Rico only ten days ago. County Superintendent Hamilton had a class of 85 candidates for teachers’ examination at his regular monthly examination, last Saturday. Besides these he had five or six sets of papers sent in from other counties, from teachers who were examined elsewhere but want licenses in this county. Judge Thompson has made np his list of township advisory boards, as required by the new township reform law, but is looking,over the names to see if all are freeholders, as the law requires, before giving them out for publication.

Eli Fisher, a,Howard county boy, has been convicted of murder in Montana arid sentenc-'d to hang on May 12tb. His father. Calvin Fisher, has gone to that state to make an effort to save the boy, who has always borne a good reputation while at home. He went to Montana several months ago and fell in with some bad men. ; •

The south bound afternoon train Saturday w’hich had its engine smashed up and was delayed about 5 hours at St. Johns, met with still another accident at Monon. The train ran into a loaded coal car there and the engine and coal car were both badly wrecked. Another engine took the train on from Monon. It is reported that a woman had an arm broken in the accident, but we are unable to say if the report is correct or not. The 161st regiment was mustered out at Savannah, Sunday, and today 800 of them are taking in the sights at Washington. Quite a number of contrary minded ones would not go to Washington with the rest, but left Savannah for their homes by other routes. We hope none of the Jasper county boys were among these foolish ones who thus voluntarily miss the valuable and memorable experience the others are having at the national capital. Today Mrs. Mattie E. Henkle and her two sick children Grace and Fred Bowman, left for Fountain, Colorado, where they hope the climate will prove beneficial to the young people’s health, as it has to their older brother, Sanford. That they are enabled to make this move at this time is owing to

the noble exertions of two charitable ladies, Mrs. Abbie Roberts and Mrs. Lizzie Hitchcock, together with the philantrophic generosity of onr citizens. Ths | ladies canvassed the ’town three or , four days last week, and raised a ' purse of $l5O which they turned ’ over to Mrs. denkle, for the expenses of their trip. When Marks, the captain of the J Lafayette company of the 160th regiment reached Lafayette last Friday a file of police officers met him at the train to protect him from the possible vengence of the people. He did not come with | the main body of the company, but in advance of it, and no one came with him except seven or eight of his non-commissioned officers and two privates. As the Lafayette Call truly observes, there ’ must have been something dam- | nably wrong in his treatment of his men that he should have been so universally hated by them, and by the community in general No attention was paid to him or his few followers when they reached Lafayette when the rest of the company arrived they ! were given one of the biggest and I best receptions and banquets in the history of the war. I L. 8. Renickrir handles the La-~ fayette wagons and Harper buggies and surreys. No use for well paper at Mrs. ’ lines’. She bangs the four walls - lof two rooms with flowers. Hun- ' dreds of bats cover her counters. I We will sell wall paper, wall moulding cheaper than any other house in the county. People from neigboring towns invited to call. F. B. Meyer.