Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. Sheriff Nate Reed is at Monticello, today, on business. Miss Irene Borsch, of Lafayette is the guest of Mrs. E. J. Wilcox. Moses Leopold is on the sick list. . —— Dr. Bill Babb is reported quite sick. A. Rosenbaum’s infant child is improving after a week’s sickness. Dee Watson is very dangerously sick with typhoid fever, at his home, nortjvdf the railroad. J. J. Montgomery is at Wolcott this week superintending work on the telephone lines. Mrs. Anna Wartena returned home today from a few days’ visit with her sons, at Hammond. Mrs. M. H, King and son Arlie, of Aurora, 111., are visiting former Rensselaer friends. Mrs. B. C. Hill went to Rose Lawn last evening for a week’s visit with relatives. Miss Millie Casey, north of town went to Indianapolis, today, for a short visit with friends. Frank SeawTight, r.f the Lafayette Stock Farm, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Mrs. Benj. Barger, 12 miles southwest of town, is quite sick with fever. Sam Roth returned home this morning from a short visit with his wife and parents at Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Williams, of Chicago, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. Goodrich, near Remington. B. D. Comer, trustee of Union township, went to Simms, Inc 1 .., today, to attend the Methodist Protestant Conference. B. F. Funk, of Wheat field, left here for Indianapolis this afternoon to attend the Bryan notification meeting. Wednesday evening is the time for. the regu'ar meeting of the Commercial Club. A full attendance is requested. Frnnk Schott, who has been working north of town for several months, returned to his home at Yorkville, Ind., today. Mrs. Lib Burns, of Mouticello, after a short visit with her sister Mrs. Chas. Fox returned home, today. A. Leopold has a good new house under roof, on Front street, opposite his own residence. He is building it for renting purposes. Miss Hazel Warner event to Wabash, Ind., today for a months’ visit with Dr. and Mrs M. M. Hale and other relatives and friends. Isaac V. Alter and grandchildren Lillian and Fern Alter went to Forest, Ind., today for a few weeks’-visit with his son Isaac F. Alter, and other relatives. Mrs. A. R. Poyer and children of Kniman, left here today for Peru, Ind. to join her huaband, and make that their future residence. Mrs. S. E. MoKelvy, of Oxford after about two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCarthy returned home today. Mrs. Jep Crouch and daughter, Mrs. Nannie Seawright, of Lafayette, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, and other Rensselaer friends. Ed Heath, of Aydelott, who came over to go to Chicago to have his ears operated upon, is still waiting here, having received word that the physician is sick. Miss Iva M. Wills, a Brookston young lady quite well known here, has just gone to New Yosk to accept a position as drnmatio reader in a Redpatli Lyceum , Bureau quartette. She * graduated last June from the dramatic department of the Chicago Musical College

Mrs. S. Cowgill and daughter, | Miss Sara, of Rosemond, 111., came : this morning, and will make their home with her son, A. B. Cowgill. They will occupy Mrs. Louella Phillips’ house on S. Weston street. Mrs. Isabel Parker and son, James, of Frankfort, passed through here this morning on the 9:55 train, on their way to Duluth, Minn., for a month’s visit with her eon Russell Parker. The instense heat has moderated a very little. At 5:30 this afternoon it was 95. by the U. S. thermometer. For several days past it has been % or 3 degrees higher, at that time of day. Little Miss Lola Damerian, of Mason City, 111., who has been the guest for several weeks’ of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Murray, has gone to Chicago for a few weeks’ visit with relatives there, before returning home. Mrs- M. D. Walsh, grand district deputy of the Rathbone Sisters Dist ;No. 5, 111. returned to her home at Chicago last evening after two weeks’ visit with her daughter Mrs. J. Murfitt, near Mt. Ayr. In the surety of the peace case against Frederick McGee, tried last Friday, but continued until today, on account of the 'sickness of a juror, the jury reported that they were unable to agree, and were discharged The jury stood six to six. The case is set for another heaving next Friday. The Lyda murder case is up before Judge Rabb, at Fowler now. Mrs. Lyda and Starr Cox are trying to secure their 'release on bail, by habeas corpus proceedings. The state has called 75 witnesses, the defense 10. Geo. P. Haywood of Lafaj ette, who defended Rev. Pettit m his famous trial, for poisoning his wife, is the attorney for the defense. Ezra L. Clark and Omer Morlan are going to Columbiana Co. Ohio, next Monday to visit scenes of their early boyhood, and will attend a very intefesting reunion. It will be of the surviving old school mates of 50 years ago. A special unusual feature is that it will be held in the same old country school house they attended in 1850, which is still standing and, with a later addition, does duty as a school house. It will be Mr. Clark’s first visit there in 4fi years. Judge Thompson, yesterday, heard the injunction case of Fred J. Lang of Surrey against Harriet M. Rowen and others Mr. Lang wishes to enjoin a lot of people from tiling their land into the Nowels ditch, claiming that the ditch is not large enough to carry off any more water. Also that the defendants did not help pay for the Nowels ditch. Judge" Thompson granted a temporary restraining order against the defondunts, forbidding them to tile into the ditch. The order will be in force until after the application for a permanent in junction is tried the hearing of which is set for the second day of the September term of the circuit court. Fowler Republican: The democratic congressional contention at Monon Wednesday was eminently satisfactory to the republicans of this district and it is evident that the democrats are anxious to increase Judge Crumpacker’s majority. They nominated John Ross of York township trustee fame. The democrats two years ago held their breath, shut their eyes and took stomach powders before casting their votes for Ross, and the nomination of Ross again on the democratic ticket insures Crum packer an increase of votes in Benton this year. The democrats in other counties in the Tenth need only to examine court records to know their candidate’s record. Benton democrats know his record by heart. WEDNESDAY. Geo. Barcus is in Chicago, today, on a business trip. N. Littlefield, of Fair Oaks is in our city today. , .

Sister Sancta, who has been a guest at St. Joseph’s college returned to Winamac today. James N. Johnson returned to Goodland, this morning after »» short business stay in our city. Delos Thompson weut to Sagimaw. Mich., today to accompany his daughter Lois, home. Born today, Wednesday, Aug. Bth, to Mr. and Mrs. John Rush, a son. I Ed. Heath, of Ayedelott, as before stated, who was here awaiting word from his doctor, in Chicago, returned to his home, today. Mrs. Cynthia Beougbter went to Amboy, Ind., today for an extended visit with her sistei, Mrs. John Miller.’ Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Moad, of Grandin, Mo., came last evening for a week's visit with her brother, Grant Reed, west of town Mrs. M. E. Wolf, ten miles southeast of town, went to Delphi, today to visit with relatives until Monday. Miss Rose Hoppie and Mrs. C, Leipold, of Burlington, Wis., came today, for a week’s visit with their sister, Mrs. Werner Miller, south o ' town. » Mrs. - Mark Reed went to Lafayette. today to attend the funeral of her cousin, James Hudiow, who was killed in the wreck mentioned in yesterday’s paper. Miss Irma Crosscup left for a month’s visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Daugherty at Hammond, and other relatives at Crown Point. Frank Duvall of Sharon, Austin Moore, of Pleasant Ridge, J. W. McEwen and F. E. Babcock went to Indianapolis this morning to attend the Bryan meeting. Mrs. Mary Lewis, of Lafayette who has been visiting for the past month, with her daughter Mrs. Grant Reed west of town, returned home today. Miss Grace Brown after a short visit with her brother and sister Dr. H. L. Brown and Mrs. E. C. English returned to her home at Danville, 111., today. Her nephew Walter English accompanied her home for several weeks’ visit. A strange disease has broken out among horses in LaPorte county, which attacks them in the manner that consumption does people. Its attacks are said tq be fatal, and a number of valuable animals are reported to have died in that county.. Governor Mount says if street fairs are held this year at which there is as much objection as there has been in the past to some exhibitions of the kind he will instruct the police boards of the cities in which they are held to observe a strict enforcement of the law. Rensselaer people have gone to Fountain Park today in droves to be in attendance and hear the lecture to be delivered by Hon. Charles B. Landis, Member of Congress from the Ninth District, who is billed to be there today. The Rensselaer Citizens’ Band is also on the program to furnish the music for the occasion. Lewis Josserand, of Douglass County, 111., who has for a short time been visiting his sons L. B. and A. E. Josserand at McCoysburg, started yesterday afternoon for Paris, France. He was accompanied by a younger son, Paul Josserand. Paris was Mr. Josserand’s former home, and they will spend about three months visiting familiar scenes and the World’s Exposition before returning Harvey Robinson, of Medora, in the far western side of North Dakota, is here for a few days’ visit with his brother, Warren Robinson. He is still largely in the stock business, and brought a shipment to the Chicago stock yard. He reports North Dakota as ver)- dry, ns the newspapers have stated. It also gets just a little warm there on rare occasions ; on one day last week when the thermometer went to 114 degrees in the shade

Mrs. D. A. Stoner and son Marion, and brother Wm. Enslen and family of Marion, Ind., went to Morocco, yesterday, for a few days’ visit with their sister Mrs. Sam Fischer, and family. • . A surety of peace suit is set for trial before Judge Burnham and a jury at four o’clock this afternoon, in the state of Indiana ex rel John Pierson vs. Fpank Jones, of Hanging Grove Township. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Kessin- •' , " ger went to Lafayette, last evening, to attend the funeral, today, of James Hudiow, one of the victims of Tuesday morning’s railroad wreck. His wife is a neice of Mr. and Mrs. Kessinger. He was about* 35 years old. and leaves a widow and one child, a son. A man in this vicinity died and went to the bad place. Upon his arrival there he was commanded to enter a room and write upon a large blackboard all the lies he ever told. As he was entering the room a friend came out. “Why, my friend,” he asked, “where are you going?” “Out after more chalk,” was the prompt reply. The raising of spgar beets is already a big industry up about Shelby and Thayer. The acreage is about 300 acres, this year, and if the results prove as profitable as expected, it will be much increased, next year. They are promising to be a great crop. There is a great demand for help, in pulling the weeds. Women and girls make the best hands at that work, and lots of them are working at $1 per day. They get more than boys, whose usual pay is 75 cents a day. The sugar factory is in Kalamazoo, Mich,, but is not the intention to ship the beets there, but only the boiled down juice, which r\ ill be extracted and boiled down before' shipping.

THURSDAY S. M. Laßue is in Lafayette, today on business. James Swain, of Young America, is visiting friends at Mt. Ayr. Mrs. R. J. Orane, of Logansport, came last evening to visit until Saturday with J. C. Thrawls. Miss Blanch Randle returned today, from two weeks’ visit with jVliss Clara Ames, in Chicago. Mrs. Earl Sayler, of Gilman 111., is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Leavel northeast of town. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, north of town, went to Monticello today for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. Mrs. Catherine Hann, of Gifford went to Attica, today, for two weeks’ visit with friends. W. H. Trook, a prominent attorney, of Marion, Ind., was in our city on legal business yesterday. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Thornton, of Surrey is quite sick with summer complaint. Mrs. Geo. Zerbe, of Mt. Ayr, left here today, for a weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Harp, at Monticello. Mrs. W. B. Teagarden of Houston, Tex., arrived today, and is the guest of her father Ellis Walton and sister Mrs. George. Miss Myra Pinney of Valparaiso, lnd., who has been the guest of Miss Grace Thompson, for the past week, returned home today Mrs. James Spencer, Mrs. Anna Spencer and son, and Mrs. McOwen and children of Monticello, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates, today. A. S. Kent, Chief engineer of the Monon Route, and Roadmaster Wright, were in our city today. They were looking after the improvements along the road. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Casey, of Union tp., returned this morning from Indianapolis where they atI tended the Bryan Meeting. Jesse E. Wilson went to Chicago, last evening for a few days’ business stay in the interest of obtaining rights of way for the Gifford road.

Harvey Robinson took his de parture for his home at Medora, North Dak, today, after a short visit with his brother, Warren Robinson. Wood Spitier went to Goshen, today, to accompany his aunt, Mrs. F. B. Learning and son on their trip east. They will join Mrs. M. L. Spitier and Miss Maude, at Atlanta City, N. J. Mrs. J. Crouoh and Mrs, Frank Seewright and daughter Miss Nina returned to Lafayette, today, after several days’ visit with Mr. arid Mrs. A. F. Long and Mr. and MrsJ. F. Hardman. - -- --• ... .... L. H. Meyer, southeast of town .was overcome with the heat yesterday morning while bringing in a load of oats. But has recovered and now thought to be out of danger. The hot spell still continues and has varied only 2 or 3 degrees, at any giveta hour of the day, for many days. - Yesterday the usual 97 degree mark was touched, and 94 degrees at 2 o’clock today, indicates 97 by 4 o’clock. A five year old son of Al Hodgewas drowned Sunday, by falling off a dredge boat, in the Monon ditch, on which Mr. Hodge worked. The accident in Pulaski Co., some miles from Medaryville. Mrs. W. •). lines and little niece Ellen Paris, left this morning for about two weeks' visit at New York City, with her brothers, Robt. and John Paris and sisters, Mrs. Amanda Lewis there and Mrs. Lyda Kimball at Brooklyn,

Mrs. P. M. Harm nud daughter Delora, of Chicago, who have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S, Grant, west of town and her siste r , Mrs. James Nelson, went to Attica, today, to visit with relatives, before returning home. Vance Collins, who was traveling in North Dakota for a harvesting machine Company, has returned home, on account of the sickness of his baby. He found the child well again when he got here. Mrs. Louis Witzlerand children, of Hurley. Wis., after three weeks’ visit with her uncle, R. Fendig, and family, left this morning for a short visit with relatives at Milwaukee, before returning home, Perry Marlatt, north of town, his son Isaac, and daughter Miss Jennie, left this afternoon to join the Wabash excursion, at Delphi. They will visit Niagara Fall and Buffalo, and also take a trip to Toronto. They will be gone about a week or longer. Eugene McCool, the rear end brakeman, injured so badly at the wreck at South Raub, is now considered cut of danger. The traveling men, Tyson and Finley have both left the hospital and gone to their homes. Mrs. Daniel Schrader, wife of the baggage man, has proven to be the worst injured of any, except the four who were killed. She* not only had her shoulder blade broken, but received internal injuries. Her condition is critical, but hopes are still entertained for her recovery.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Harris and daughter Miss Flora and Miss Mary Yates left, today to join the Wabash excursion to Niagara Falls. Going by way of Delphi. They will be gone about a week, but Miss Yates, on their return will go on into Illinois 1 6 visit relatives for some weeks. ' \ ' Harry Kessenger, the grocer in the Odd Fellows’ bnilding, was at Lafayette yesterday to attend the funeral of bis consin’s husband, James Hndlow, the fireman killed at South Raub. The fnneral was postponed until this forenoon, however, and he could not remain for it. It was deferred to permit the arrival of near relatives from distant states. The meanest swindler that has ever been heard of is*a man who has been operating in neighbor,ing counties. His game is a dental one —not accidental. He goes to a farm house and extracts teeth without cost, when a new set is to go in. He palls again in a few days, gets half the price for plate and fails to appear again, leaving his victim minus teeth and cash. Tlbere is wailing and weeping but owing to circumstances, no gnashiug of teeth. There % however, a terrible chewing of gum. The Tenth Indiana District Log Rolling association of the Modern Woodmen of America will hold their second annual “Log Rolling” at Hammond, Indiana, on August 29th, 1900. A splendid and lively program has been arranged and the Hon. William -J. Bryan, of Nebraska, a id Lieut: Gov. Northcutt of Illinois, will bo the most prominent speakers A grand parade will be held at 12 o'clock and it is expected that 5,000 woodmen will be in line. The meeting, will be held in a large park near the city and the G. rates of one cent per mile has been secured on j all railroads entering the city.

There was a beautiful battle at Tipton Sunday between the police and the tramps lounging about the junction, in which the “hobos” were worsted. This city lias been overrun by thise “won’t work” tourists and they became a menwee to ttie public by their insulting demeanor towards women and children and their petty thievery. They attempted to rob several people yesterday and the chief of police gave orders that they shookl be clubbed out of town. Twenty or more were given marching orders, and several of the more obstreperous were given cause to remember their visit there.