Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Page 1

THE RENŚELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXI.

The Klines are Still in Court.

The Klines are in court again. So sure as the seasons change, just so sure is Al, Mike and John in court every term. This time Addie Kline brought suit against Charles W. Kline on account of fright, and damage to property. She accuses Mike of trying to burn the house down over her head and driving her from her home, in the absence of her husband to the home of a neighbor. The jury evidently felt about the-matter the same as she did and after wrestling with the evidence most of the afternoon brought in a verdict for $1,900.00 damages. The dismemberment of China is not a marker to the way the Kline estate is being thrown to the seven winds. — Kentland Enterprise,

All Bids Rejected.

The county commissioner, at their special Tuesday, received bids on four iron bridges. Namely a6O and a 45 foot bridge in Gillam tp. A6O foot bridge in Carpenter, and an 80 footer in Marion| Five companies had representatives and presented bids, which aggregated as follows: Lafayette Bridge Company, of Lafayette $4,459. Indianapolis Bridge Company of } h i tiiapolis, $4,200. A i • a Bridge Company of Attica $4,923. Newcastle Bridge Company of Newcastle, $4620. Indianapolis Bridge and Iron Works, of Indianapolis $4,900. The commissioners considered all bids too high and rejected them. They will advertise them again except perhaps the 80fuot bridge in Marion. Sealed bids and plans for heating the county poor asylum were also received. Chas. Smith, of Chicago, proposed to add hot water attachments to the present healing apparatus for SSOO. A. H Aicre, of Logansport, offered a complete steam heating plant for $829. Also a complete hot water heating outfit for $949. All these bids were rejected also.

Seth Haskins Coming.

There is a distinct flavor of the Old Homestead in the comedydrama “Uncle Seth Haskins” presented for the first time in Columbus last night. The company is a large one, the specialties are all good, and the brass bdnd and orchestra carried by the combination are first class. The people in the cast are all clever and the large audience last night was more than satisfied. Burt Hodgkins played Unde Seth in fine style and he was seconded by Arthur Kherns as “Fritz,” a german character| Miss Dora Cole made a hit as “Taggs” as did Grace Leith as “Matilda Batkins,” a spinster. There is plenty of singing and dancing throughout the action of the play and the special music program rendered by the “Unde Seth Haskins” orchestra was splendid in every way. Specialties were introduced by Hodgkins and Leith and Kherns and Cole, also by Harry LaMack who gave a wonderful exhibition of gunspinning and baton juggling. The entertainment is one that has much homely pathos in it, with enough bright comedy to relieve the dark places and send everybody home in good humor. It is far above the average of such productions and the mechancial effects are highly appreciated. The musical features of the bill are the best seen here this season at any theatre in the city.—From the Ohio State Journal of Sept, 19. This same dever company will be seen at the opera house in this

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All members present except the mayor. A certified copy of circuit courts appointments of city commissioners, namely, James T. Randle, Henry Grow, F. French, J. M. Wasson and L. Strong, was filed and ordered recorded. D. M. Yeoman was granted permission to make a vitrified brick walk in front of his Franklin street property, instead of cement, as previously ordered. The city attorney was ordered to draft an ordinance prohibiting traction engines from traversing the streets in soft times, and also requiring their owners to protect crossings and bridges with planks, when passing over them. An. ordinance was introduced requiring land owners to keep the river bed clear of willows and other obstructions. An ordinance was adopted requiring land owner to keep the Fisher ditch, in the northwest part of town, clear of obstructions. The committee on garbage boxes was granted more time to investigate. Reluctant owners on Franklin street were given until spring to to make their cement walks. The railroad was ordered to construct a vitrified brick crossing over the railroad, on the east side of Franklin street.

May Take Dr. Kirk’s Case Up.

Indianapolis Sun. Assistant-attorney-gen. Moores stated, Monday, that the case of Dr. Kirk may be carried to supreme court. Kirk was tried in Brazil, last week, on the charge of obtaining a license on a certificate from which the name of another physician had been erased, and was released. It is said he can be tried on the \ the same charge in both Jasper and Vigo counties. It is not known whether he has left the state. Attorney Moores says that one of the objections of the judge who tried the case may be well founded. That is, that while the name was erased, it did not prove that Kirk did it.

The long standing matrimonial infelicities of that estimable couple, Mr. L. D. Marion, and his wife Mrs. Eliza A. Marion, two miles east of town, have finally culminated in a separation, and a suit for a divorce, in which the latter is the plaintiff. They have lived together a little more than a third of a century, having been married Feb. 21st, 1866 and separated Oct. 9th, 1899, The grounds upon which divorce is asked for is cruel treatment. The defendant is stated to have property of the value of SSOOO and the defendant asks for $2,000 alimony; also for the custody of their 18 year old daughter.

Marriage Licenses. j Lonenza Hayward, ( Sarah Effie Brick. Township Trustee’s Office Day. Notice is hereby given that I, Robert 8. Drake, Trustee of Hanging Grove township will have Friday of each week as office day at my residence. Robert S. Drake, XlUfiVvvi All the late songs at Fendigs 25c,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1899,

The City Council

Since Y-a-c-h-t Spells Yot. A Briton once built a big yacht, To compote for an old sUver pacht. But the pace gacht so hacht That he almost forgacht, If he ever was in it or nacht.

A New Divorce Case.

From Way Out West.

Spokane, Washington, ■ Oct. 19th. 1899. Deab Republican;— This is one of those melanoholy days in the which’natures tear-drops incessant ly fall until everything soluble seems to have forsaken its former steadfastness and in sympathy has softened to the occasion. Even humanity grudgingly abandons itsßfixed purpose, and passively yields to the inevitable. Being thus hindered in myjwork my mind has taken me back to former times and associations, and have thought perhaps those might be some one who would be glad to know the whereabouts of a former resident of old Jasper. July 15th. I left Chicago for Helena, Mountana. My ticket was over the Chicago Milwakee & St. Paul to Omaha Neb. From there over the Burlington to Denver, over the Denver & Rio Grand to Salt Lake & Ogden. From Oden over the Oregon Short Line to Garrison Montana. Then over the North Pacific to Helena. It was a circuitous route but as I did not purchase the ticket by the yard it cost no more than it would to have bought it over the North Pacific or the Great Northern. As the train sped over the rich agricultural district of Illinois, and Nebraska I wondered if there was another place in this big world of ours, where the Yeomanry received a better returned for his labor than that which is reaped in the great Mississippi Valley. I stopped but a little while in Denver.’* From Denver over the Denver & Rio Giand there is seen some of the most rugged and picturesque scenery of our continent. We passed the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas in day light. The awe inspiring scene as we enter the bridge suspended (hundreds of feet above the seething cataract) by the perpendicular walls of the mountains on either side has been described by abler pens than mine. I stopped 24 hours at the Latter Day Saints: Visited the tabernacle and had a bath in the Great American Dead Sea. I arrived in Helena on the night of the 20th. of July. Helena is a rather pleasant city, it was once the centre of rich placer mines, and there are yet some, paying mines near the city. I was in Helena about six weeks and Butte about 3 weeks Butte is the larger city, and is the richest mining camp in the west There is over $30,000,000 annually taken out of the ground in the county, and mostly in a district covering about six miles of which Butte is the centre. I was told that over seven hundred million has been mined in Silver Bow County. On the Ist of Oct. I left Montana for Spokane, Washington, Spokane is destined to be the best inland city of the northwest. It is in the centre of a rich agricultural and fruit growing county. Besides it is surrounded by rich mines and it is the point from which supplies must be had for a large mining county both in this state and British Columbia. Then it has a water-power second to none perhaps except Niagara. There is a fall of about one hunddred feet from within the city limits. I expect to be here or in . this part of the country until about Christmas, after that I shall be subject to the'orders of the firm for which I am working. With kindest remembrances for old Jasper and its associations I will close.

Get prices on Bibles at A. F.

J. H. WILLEY.

Turpie vs Lowe Again Grinding.

Evidence is again being accumulated in the circuit court in the cause celebre Turpie vs Lowe. Judge Watkins is hearing further testimony in this long drawn out case, and the present hearing of the cause is likely to occupy the attention of the court for some time. This cause is being tried in the north court room, and many familiar figures are noted among those drawn down here by the |re-trial of the case. People who have been attending court in this case for the past thirteen years are here again, and from all present indications they may be kept in court for the next five or ten years, as the cause at issue is apparently as perplexing to all concerned as when the famous trial began. Among the lawyers interested in the case at present are Sellers & Uhl, of Monticello; DeWitt C. Justice, of this city; Capt. William Guthrie, of Monticello, and Judge R. P. Davidson, of Lafayette. The greatest bulk of evidence ever taken in a cause at the Cass circuit court has accumulated in this case, and this bulk will be largely augmented before the present trial is at an end.—Logansport Journal. This case has been tried in the circuit courts over and over and over again, and has been to the supreme court several times. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, son-in-law of our townsman, Wm. Bussell, is the defendant; and 8. P. Thompson, now Judge of this circuit, was one of his first attorneys. The case was first begun in 1886. There were, in fact, three separate cases originally; and claims and counter claims and complaints and cross complaints without number. The second time the case went to the supreme court was in 1891. The Repbulican printed the appellant’s brief, that time, and it made a book of 139 large, closely printed pages; and was far the largest brief ever printed in this county. The particular trial from which that appeal was taken, was held in Logansport, and lasted from Oct. 3rd, 1890 to Jan. 21st 1891. It was thought by some that the tragic death of James H. Turpie, in Lafayette a few months ago would end the celebrated case, but such is not the case, as it is now on trial and seemingly as far from an end as ever.

The New Money Orders.

A supply of the new form of post-office money orders has been received at the Rensselaer post-office, but are not yet in use, it being necessary to first use up a quantity of the old orders, still on hand. The new orders are printed on miserable paper to write on but otherwise they are a great improvement over their predecessors. In filling out an order the work of the postmaster is reduced just one half by the use of carbon paper, two copies being made at one writing. In addition to the above labor-saving device a receipt is given the sender and in the future in case an order is lost there will be no delay in having the amount refunded.

Oil Land For Sale. 200 acres in the immediate Gillam Oil Field. It lies on the main wagon rose from Wheatfield to Medaryville, | mile north of the the new M. E. church. It is wild land and not enclosed. It is not leased. Address the owner. Charles Foley, Danville, Indiana. 10w4w

The Foot Ball Outlook.

The foot ball schedule as so far definitely arranged is as follows. Friday of this week, with the Sheridans. Saturday, Nov. 11th with Crown Point Wednesday, Nov. 22nd, with Rush Medical College. The Northwestern Dentals, who were here last year, want to come again Nov. 25th, but that is too close to the Rush Medicals’ visit, and efforts are being made to have them come on Thanksgiving Day, which is Nov. 30th. The high school boys still have the chip on their shoulders but no other clubs seem dispose to knock it off.

Oom Paul Is Up Against It.

Uncle Paul Kruger is a very smooth old schemer and he evidently had his plans well studied out when he sprung the war on the British. His plan was to make quick work of all the British forces then in his neighborhood, and then be able to meet each new army as it came on. His 'plan has worked all right in one respect, and that is that every time his army has met the British so far, the Boers have had an enormous advantage in point of numbers; but in, a more important point than strength of numbers, his plan has failed entirely. His former success at Majuba Hill and the Jameson raid, has caused him to underestimate the fighting qualities of the British; and ineteadof one Boer being equal to ten Britishers, as was proudly boasted, it has proved so far that in a good square fight, one Britisher has been equal to two Boers; and the Boers are good fighters too. Oom Paul is getting most beautifully licked in one, two, three order, and if he realizes the fact and surrenders, as it is now reported he will do, it will be the best thing he can do.

The Inter Ocean Is Way Off.

The Inter Ocean is bitterly hostile to Great Britain in the Transvaal war, as it is in every question that comes up between England and other nations; and because of this unreasoning and permanent hostility the Inter Ocean is not a reliable guide nor a representative American paper, in matters where England is anyway concerned. There was, no other prominent paper in the county that tried so hard to force this nation into war with England over the Venezuelaa matter at the time of Grover Cleveland’s sensational outbreak, as did the Inter Ocean. Yet the result of the great arbitration just ended at Paris, shows that England instead of having been trying to rob Venezueala at that time was trying to settle with her on a very liberal basis, and was actually offering her by way of a compromise, considerable more territory than the arbitrators finially awarded her. For the United States to have gone to war with England at that time and in that cause, would have been at once, the greatest crime and the greatest calamity in all history yet, if the clamor of* the Inter Ocean and similar papers had been listened to that is what would have happened. The Inter Ocean was immeasurably in the wrong then and it is very far from being in the right now.

The Depot Blacksmith Shop. The undersigned desires to announce that he has bought the David Nowels blacksmith shop near the depot, just south of the Babcock grain office, and is ready to do all work in the blacksmithing line, and guarantees all his work. Horse-shoeing and and all kinds of plow work a specialtv. w3w Abe Wartena.

REGULAR WEEKLY EDITION

BALOON ASCENSION! At THURSDAY, NOV. L s® SB wwMjw ! ? * v H J Prof, Wm. GORE An All Pay Temperance Meeting At Christian church, Rensselaer*. Ind., Oct. 28, 1899. Rev. P. HL Faulk of Morocco, and I. S. Wade* | of Lafayette, who are among Indiana’s best, and other speakers will present, Subjects to be discussed; “Church Declarations,” “Duty of Pastor and People,” “Women in reform—Good Literature and Impor— . tance Thereof.” Let interested parties come prepared to talk on these' subjects. Contest in evening free, followed by P. H. Faulk with one of his most excellent talks. No one can afford to miss the evening’s 1 Notice. All persons indebted to the Alter estate will please call and settle either by cash or note before Nov. 1,1899 as after that date the accts will be placed with an attorney for collection. H. J. Kaxw. Admr. 1 Office in Odd Fellows’ Building room 3. The Rensselaer Steam Laundry. jl Is now prepared to do any num- /I ber of family washings. Washed | and starched, rough dry,—large and small pieces, 15 cents per doz. We will call for and deliver your work without extra charge- ' Telephone 115. Just Arrived. ,L| A fine line of pattern hats to bi* J be sold at veryjlow prices during the opening this week at Mrs* Hershman s near depot. Il Notice ot Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that tfio partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned under the former name of Antrim & Dean ia ’ this day dissolved by mutual consent. The books of the firm are iiO the hands of Warren & Irwin-.,|j All persons indebted to us are--requested to call at their ofifofel and make settlement James F. Antrim- 1 Chas. J. Dean 1 Oct 5,1899.