Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1900 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

...... FRIDAY.. ... . . Mrs. Wm. Hoover Jr , and children went to Delphi yesterday for a’ week’s visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Smitm Will Haltstead returned yesterday from a week’s visit with his auntj Mrs. Nellie Harris, at Kalamazoo, Mich. W. E. Moore went to Delphi yesterday for a short business stay. Mrs. M. B. Halstead returned today from a weeks’ visit with Mrs. Nellie Harris at Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs. L. A. Moss returned home ’today from a visit of three weeks with her son Will Moss, at Detroit Mich. Wallace Robinson, D. B. Nowels J. W. and Charles Paxton arrived home today, from their trip to Kansas and Colorado. Attorneys Kurrie, Hanley and Mills and Delos Thompson president of the Jasper Co. Telephone Company, are at Monticello today, on business connected with the suit over the taxes of the telephone company. The Juanita Glee Club gave their entertainment at the M. E. church last evening to a large and appreciative audiet c \ The rendering of their selections received great applause. The Barytone solos by John Brower were very pleasing, and all were charmed with the reading by Mrs. Robt. S. Gregg. Fred H. Oliphant is very accomplished in club swinging and all were much interested and pleased with his artistic performance. The state board of health receives some peculiar causes of death in reports sent in by the county board of health. One report ehys a man died with “information of the brane.” Another met his death by “being run over by a large log and has not been well since.” Another died from ‘‘jineral kongiston,” and one poor fellow gave up the ghost because “he could not breathe good all d y before he died.” One ‘‘had heart failure for twenty days,” and another was carried off by “general failure of the system. Wm. Newman, of near DeMotte was in town today, arranging to move here. He has bought the Hamilton property, north of the railroad, lately owned by E. A. Short.

Mr. J. Parker, of Hamlet, Ind., came today for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Luther Hemphill. The temperature this morning as shown by different thermometers, ranged from zero at Liberal corner, to 2 above at the postoffice and 3 above at the Odd Fellows’ building. The average was one and two fifths degrees above zero. The weather bureau predicts continued cold for today and Saturday.

J. B. Clemans, the Shelby merchant, and our old Newton township J. P., came down Thursday on the 11 train to take a last longlingering look at Charley Davig alias Ernest Rodgers, the young fellow who worked him for $lB by the same method he done Tom Mallatt,, of Fair Oaks, for $1.35. But just as Mr. Clemans got off the train, Mr. Davis-Rodgers got on, headed for his winter resort at Jefferson City, and Mr. Clemans missed seeing him, entirely. Will Donnelly went to Chicago yesterday on a business trip and will remain a week. Brookston Gazette.—As briefly stated in last week’s Gazette, Charles E. Smith, of Chalmers, desires to represent the district now composed of White, Jasper and Newton counties, in the state senate, and he is making a canvas of the district to ascertain his chances of being made the republican nominee for the position. . Mrs. Persia Morris, a few miles north of town returned from Lincoln, 111., yesterday after two months’ visit with relatives. The W. H. Hartigan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Company, ten strong, arrived on the 11 a. m. train today. The company was at Braidwood, 111., last night. There is no doubt but that Mr. Hartigan gives a great rendition of Stevenson’s great masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mrs. John Thornton is very low and hardly expected to live through the day. Frank Hardy, of Remington, is in town today. He has lately begun traveling for a Chicago shirt and neckwear house. He has the whole state of Indiana for his territory. The infant child of P. W. Clarke is very sick with pneumonia. B. F. Ferguson is in Lafayette today on business. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hester returned to Greencastle today after four weeks’ visit with their daughter, Mrs. Geo. Murray. S. M. Laßue went to Lafayette today.

SATURDAY. Chas. Paxton returned to bis honle at Albany today. Walter Gasper of Barkley tp. returned home today after three months’ .visit with relatives at W.stfiekl. Mrs. Daisy Niccura of Danville 111. came yesterday, on account of the sickness of her mother, Mrs J. T. Thornton. Glenn S. Allen of Kalamazoo, Michigan arrived today for a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. E. L. Holingsworth, The temperature was reported at five degrees below zero at five o’clock this morning. At seven o’clock it was three below. Continued cold is predicted for today and tonight. J. F. Bruner, of the Makeever House, is now the official weather keeper of the city. He has just received from the weather bureau an official self-registering thermometer. This morning stood at three belcw, but some time during the night it registered seven below. \\ . H. Beam, our station agent, who had been sick for a day or two but was out again yesterday, had another bad attack last night, and required the attendance, of a physician nearly all flight. He is better, today. A series of- sermons on the Lord’s Prayer is being 'preached at Trinity M. E. church by the

pastor, Rev. H. M. Middleton. The sermon tomorrow morning will be on “Our Daily Bread” the fourth petition. The subject < f the evening sermon will be “Joy,. in Heaven over One Sinner that Repenteth.” The public is cordially invited to these services.

One of the stories told by Elder Reiff, the Dowieite, at Monon* on the occasion when a justly indignant populace ran him out of town, is thus related by the Monon News: Another of bis fairy tales which caused every one in in the room to cough was the healing of a man with a severe cancer on his tongue, in twelve hours by the influence of Dowie’s prayers. One year afterward this man was at a Presbyterian meeting and gave $lO to the aid of the church and at very instant the devil stung him in the mouth and the cancer returned. Walter Porter had a very close escape from a bad accident this morning, while driving over tracks at the.depot. A freight engine was switching some cars, and- a box car, which Mr. Porter did not see came along just as he- was on the tracks. He has a very lively team, and when the car was almost upon him he whipped up and got out of the way, just in time, the oar grazing one of his hind wheels. A number of the spectators who saw his situation thought that be would be killed, sure. The Ladies Literary Club will hold their annual Patriotic Meetin the east court room, Tuesday evening, Feb. 20th, at 8 o’clock. The meeting will be open to friends of the members. No admission fee will be charged. Uncle Eph Fleming has recovered from his late very severe sickness. Mrs. Wm. Yeoman, some miles west ot town, is recovering from a case of inflammatory rheumatism. The state board of health believes that smallpox is subsiding in Indiana. Reports received at the office of the board up to yesterday show that there has been a decrease in the number of cases of the disease of 40 per cent. Mrs. Thomas Gilmore, on the Nim Hopkin’s place, near Surrey, died at 9 o'clock last night, after a long sickness, of dropsy. The funeral will be held Sunday, at 10 a. m. Interment will bo in Sand Ridge cemetery. W. H. Hartigan and his company produced Jekyll and Hyde to a fair sized audience, at the opera house, last night. Mr. Hartigan is an actor of unusual ability and his rendition of the characters of Jekyll and Hyde is pretty nearly perfect. The play follows the book closely and is really too bloody and morbidly horrible for production on the stage. Mrs. Harry Wade and son, of Hammond, came last evening and are visiting her parents west of town for a few days.

Miss Flora Harns and Mrs. Wm. Wiahard went to Mt. Ayr, today for a week’s visit with relatives and friends there and at Goodland. Miss Grace Thompson and Harry Kurrie are in Chicago today. A 17 months old child of Mr. Burk, who lives in the Abner Griswold house, in the west pert of town, died today.

Carl Struck, a member of Dr. John Alexander Dowie’s bodyguard was found guilty of assault and battery upon former City Marshal Allison A. Walker, of Hammond, and fined S4OO and costs by a jury in the Lake Circuit court. Fire destroyed the linen of the cadets at Culver military academy, and now it is not necessary to enforce the order to keep blouses buttoned to the chin. While two Ohio boys were hunting for a skunk the other day they found a bag of gold worth more than $2,000. The dispatch does’nt say whether they got the skunk or not. A Portland woman will soon begin the publication of a magazine for gentlemen. She asserts that she can publish just as good a magazine for men as “Eddie” Bok, the editor of the Ladies’ Hogie Journal, can put out for the women. The first issue will contain a “Heart to Heart Talk with the Men on How to Tie a Cravat.” It will also contain a short story entitled “Hot Air, or What to Tell Your Wife When You Get Home at 1 a. m.” —Decatur Journal.

MONDAY. ’ Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Pierson and Mrs. Henry Wood left for Coats, Kans, today to attend the funeral of Mr. Pierson’s and Mrs. Wood’s sister, Mrs. Webster Laing. The two weeks’ old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sigler died yesterday afternoon at their home in Monon. The remains were brought here on the 3:27 p. m. train today, for burial. Mrs. Mary Saidla went to Frankfort, Saturday to visit with her brother there, and other relatives at Crawfordsville for two weeks. Miss Cora Mitchell went to Medaryville Saturday to visit with relatives until Tuesday. Mrs. Clias. Nichols and Mrs. J. B. Sayler are in Chicago today. Mrs. Joseph Kennedy and daughter Ethel returned to Morocco this morning after a few days' visit with H. O. Harris and family. W. H. ;Beam, whose sickness was mentioned Saturday, went to Chicago this morning, for medical treatment. Mrs. M. H. Tanner, of Botton Landing, New York, arrived today for a week’s visit wfth her brother, J. H. Perkins and family, in the east part of town.

Mrs. Byron Haskett returned to Chicago today, after a month’s visit with her sister, Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis. The Fiction Club will meet with Miss Della Harris, Wednesday, at Bp-cs, Mrs. Wm. Lewellen is on the sick list. Mrs. Gus Zacher, northwest of town, went to Lafayette today to Simpson E. Low, of Medaryville, is in town today. Mr. Low is talked of as the probable candidate for Republican presidential elector, for his congressional district. The general run of thermometers stood at about two below zero, this morning. The lowest indicated by the government thermometer, at the Makeever House, at any time last night, was just zero. The lowest Saturday night, by the same instrument, was three above. John .Kohler Sr. went to Chicago Heights, 111,, Saturday for a few days visit. James Poole, lately of Strawn, 111., has just moved to Jasper county upon a large tract of land, in Hanging Grove Tp , which he has owned for about seven years, and upon which he expects to make his future residence.

Miss Jennie Devault returned to Monon Saturday after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. Clarke. Mrs. Cora Hopkins and daughter went with her to visit over Sunday. Mrs. Liza Galbreath returned home from Colfax, lowa, Saturday after six months’ visit with her brothers and sisters. Miss Violet Brown after two weeks’ visit with her parents southeast of town, returned to Kanka•kee, 111., where she is a nurse in the ‘ Eastern Hospital.’’ Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Richardson, of Lake City, Mich,, after several days’ visit with relatives went to Wheatfield Saturday to visit with relatives. Sammie Hoshaw in northwest part of town, is-quite sick with lung fever. Peter Kc*ssinger,' southeast of town, before mentioned as having a bad abscess on the side of his face, had it lanced by Dr. S. C. Johnson last Saturday evening. Mrs. Kester, wife of Rev. H. S. Kester, of Valma, has been quite sick for some time with bronchitis She was improving at last account.

Arthur J. Eddy, a prominent Chicago man, was the special champion of the Boers at a banquet by the Chicago Bankers’ Club Saturday evening. During the evening he declared the American interference against Spain, in Cuba to be the most damnable wrong of the century. With people who look no further than to find who is “the under dog in the fight,” before bestowing their sympathies, Mr. Eddy’s view is entirely cdfisistent. Constable Christie Vick has traversing Gifford district in all eirections lately serving notices of ejectment suits. Four of these cases and one replevin suits rom the region will be tried here Wednesday Four of the cases are before Squire Burnham and one before Squire Churchill. Mrs.. Viola Thornton, wife' of John T. Thornton, north of thedepot, whose paralyzed condition has been mentioned, is still living but steadily growing weaker and the paralysis extending. There are no hopes for her surviving for more than a few days, ? at most. An editor of a paper in Nevada is hiding in the hills to escape a mob Which is after him for getting a report of a cattle show and a concert mixed. It read this way: The concert given by sixteen young ladies was highly appreciated. They sang in a most charming manner, winning the plaudits of the audience, who pronounced them the finest herd of short horns in the country. A few are of rich color, but the majority are spotted brown and white. Several of the heifers are able bodied and clean limbed animals. Last Saturday was Mr. and Mrs. James Flynn’s 31st. wedding anniversary, and their friends of Milroy Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R-, commemorated the day by a surprise party, in the Jevening. About 20 particpatad in the event which was a most enjoyable one.