Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXII MO. 6

Teddy Will Talk!

Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of New York, Colonel Rough Riders / Hero of Santiago, Republican Candidate for Vice President. In Rensselaer, Wednesday, October 10th, About 11 o’clock a. m. A few minutes only.

Court House Ordered at Kentland.

Its <’ust Limited to Ten TlmuMiml Dollars. The court house tight waged mightily last week in Kentland, before the county commissioners. Goodland presented a petition asking for an election. It had the requisite number of signatures but was rejected Tuesday on account of a technical objection, namely, that the bond should have had some signers who were not also signers of the petition. Kentland then asked for an order for a court house to be erected there. This also was on Tuesday. Two of the commissioners refused to take aotion at that time and an adjournment was ordered until Saturday.. By that time Goodland had another petition ready, and filed in the auditor’s office. For some reason, however, it was not presented, and instead action was taken on Kentland’s petition. It was decided to build a court house in Kentland. After much discussion it was voted to limit the cost to 810,090. What the next step will likely be we have been unable to ascertain, The County Council must make an appropriation before the court house can be erected, but whether there will be any difficulty encountered there, we are also

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

unable to say. There is also considerable probability of the matter being taken to the higher courts.

Roosevelt On Wednesday.

Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, or, next vice-president, will make a short stop in Rensselaer next Wednesday, Oct. 10th, and make a short speech. He travels by special train, ana will leave Chicago about 8:35 a. m. His first stop will be at Hammond and the exaot time of his arrival here can not now be given, but it will probably be about 11 o’clock. His stop here will be short, perhaps not more than 5 minutes or 10 at the most. District Chairman McCoy will be aboard the train when it leaves Hammond and when it is ready to leave then he will telegraph the time of its arrival at Rensselaer. The Citizens’ band will be at the depot, and when they begin to play will be the signal for the people to repair to the depot. The speaking will be from the platform of Governor Roosevelt’s car.

Marriage License.

0 , ~ t Benjamin E. Van Dusen, oct ' b 1 Mondana Burns. 1 - We have the most complete line| of millinery ever shown in this! town. Call and see us before buy- 1 ing. Meyer Sister,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY,* INDIANA, TUESDAY OCTOBER 9 1900,

It Was a Dead Cat.

That human head incident at Cedar Lake has turned out to be about the biggest fake on record. Tt was nothing but the very dead remains of a big cat,‘killed nearly two years ago, by some Chicago hunters. It belonged in the hotel and they killed it because it annoyed them by its “yowling.” The inquest, when it was found, was held by the Deputy coroner of Lake county, and was purely a farce, and no doubt for the legal fee allowed for inquests.

Rough Rider Suits.

The members of the Rough Riders’ Club are requested to call at the Republican Headquarter Tuespay evening, and obtain their suits.

Good Millinery at Cost.

New Millinery Very Cheap. Mrs. C. E. Harshman, on Main street, near the depot, desires to close out her millinery stock and offers aM goods, on hand art this date, Oct. 2nd at actual cost. The stock contains many desirable bargains. • She will also have on hand, a fine new stock of trimmed and pattern hats, which will be sold at prices just sufficient to cover expenses. They will be great bargains. Ladies, please call and see the goods. Mrs. C. E, Hershman.

Had A Fine Meeting.

There was a big crowd out Friday night, to hear Hon. Henry Powers of Boston, on the political issues of the day. Mr. Powers has been a Unitarian, minister, way down east, and is a man of highly cultured mind, and a forcible and logical orator. He was introduced by Cdunty Chairman, Hanley. The ever faithful Blackford martial band was present, and added much to the interest of the occasion by their music, both before and after the meeting. The Citizens band also played an opening piece, for the meeting. It was held from the court house entrance, and the chairs Jrorn the east court room were brought down for the oc- : —r —------

Mr. Powers opened his speech by refering to the Anti imperialist League, which has its headquarters in Boston. He wanted it understood that the League consisted of only a very few persons, and the people of Boston and of New England generally, utterly repudiated that treasonable organization, and would give voice to that repudiation in November, and which would be only a stringer repetition of what Vermont and Maine have already spoken. In speaking of what the 'east will do, Mr. Powers spoke with the fullest confidence that the east will give McKinley and the Republican ticket heavy majorities in all the New England states. In referring to New York state, he said he had lived in New York 12 years and he had just spent some weeks taking observations in the state, he predicted' that the state will give McKinley and Roose.% velt more than 100,000 plurality.

His presentation of the fundamental principles of our government, contrasted with the socialistic ideas and theories of Bryauism; bis denunciation of the Bryan false cry of imperialism and illustrations of the fact that our •. overnment is today farther away from imperialistic ideas than ever before in t filMmJipdory of our country; his references to the socalled trusts, comparison with the actual conditions existing in this country and the fact that the Republican party is the only party which ever fought the trusts; his defense of the Philippine policy and that of expansion were all made in a masterly manner, and made his speech as has been well said, “a mighty hard one to clean up after.”

Two More 1836 Voters.

The Republican made a slip in the item about Uncle Micah Sayler, when it said he was the only survivor here who voted in the campaign of 1836, when W. H. Harrison ran the first time. We knew at the time, but happened to forget it, that Grandfather H. M. Babb bad the same proud record as Uncle Micah. Namely, voting for “Old Tip” in ’36 and ’4O, and for every Whig and Republican candidate since. He is as firm a Republican now as ever he was and it would be the ment of his life not be able to vote for McKinley the second time next month. And yet one other name we can udd to these grand old Republican veterans. It is Uncle Henry Sayler, of Newtou Tp. He is only 86 years old and Ins older brother Uncle Mioah, in town, thinks he is still a youth comparatively speaking, and could not have voted in 1836.. But he did though, and voted for W. H. Harrison, and for every Whig and Republican candidate since/ He. bus voted twice for W. H. Harrison, twice for Lincoln, twice for Grant, twice for Benj. Harrison, and will soon make it twice for McKinley, and that Will be hia 17th presidential vete

Had Quite a Wreck.

There was a head-end collision between two Monon passenger trains; at Monticello Sunday and which did considerable damage and narrowly missed being a good deal worse. It was between the train which

passes here, south at 1:45 p. m., and the cne due here, going north, at 2:57 p. m. Sundays, and 6:32 p. m. week days. It occurred near the end of the switch; at the east side of Monticello. The south bound train was moving slowly, but the north bound train, though slowing up, was still at pretty high speed, 20 to 25 miles an hour, perhaps- Both engines were very badly damaged, and that on the south train is reported as totally ruined. All the engine men jumped and escaped except Engineer Covington, of the north bound train, and he had a Eg broken.

The passengers in the north bound train were terribly shaken up, and some were cut and bruised, but none were thought to-be severely injured.

Rev. Father Schill, of the former Indian school here, was on the north bound train, and says it was almost miraculous that no more of the passengers were injured. The shock threw him 10 feet and all the other passengers equal or greater distances. It broke the windows and lamps in the passenger cars, and in the dining car it smashed everything. The crash when the trains came together was heard all over Monticello. The south bound train was late, and a misunderstanding of orders caused the collision. The wreck blocked the main track, but left tile side track ,clear, tso that no great interruption to trains occured.

The Corn Show.

The corn show held at Ferguson & Wilson’s office last Saturday, was a great success. Some 10 entries were made, and they made a very fine display of Jasper county's corn crop. C. W. CoeD, J. R. Wilcox and R. B. Harris were the judges, aud they gave tlm Ist prize to Julius P Huff, of Jordan, and the second to Fred Tyler, of Hanging Grove.

Two Suits For $10,000.

Two damage suits for ten thousand dollars each were filed Friday in the circuit court at Delphi against the Wabash railroad company by Craven Smith and John H. Cartwright, administrators of the estates of the late Dr. Smith and Francisco M. Sousa, his Cuban boy friend, who were killed by a Wabash train west of that city on the afternoon of December 29th last. The circumstances the shocking accident are well remembered. In the complaint in the Sousa case it is alleged that the boy, who was but eighteen years of age, was the oldest son of a widow lady residing in Havana; that he has two sisters and brothers of tender years and that they were dependent on him.

Shafer Ditch Case Decided.

The Supreme Court has just rendered its final decision in the much litigated Wilson Shafer ditch case, of Newton tp. The decision is in Mr. Shafer’s favor, affirming . the commissioners’ and circuit' court's action in establishing the ditch. Mr. Shafer also gets $22 20 in damages from the remonstrants. * They are James, Joseph and Rob- . ert Yeoman, M. B. and O. O. Halstead, A. J. Freeland and Sarah E. Miller. The costs will be thrown upon them and will amount to about SSOO, it is stated.

An Overworked Sensation.

The sensational papers at Chicago and the telegraph liar at Crown Point are running a "race as to which will the most overwork that alleged human bead finding at Cedar Lake. The Crown Point Anannias is now eeveral points ahead. Th» sack when first found was alleged to have contained some fine hair that must have been from a man’s head, and some false teeth and a dental plate that surely came from a woman’s mouth. The Crown Point liar uses these two alleged facte, to invent a theory of two heads and a double murder. To give plans ibility to the theory, the boy who found the sack is now.made to say that when ho pulled it up something dropped back. That of course was the other bead. Over on the west side of the lake the people believe the whole thing is a fake, worked up by the people of the east side, where the find was made, to draw people there, to give their hotels, saloons and boat owners a little business. The weat-siders say all the sack contained was a small assortment of deceased cate.

A Death From Diphtheria.

Mrs. Mary Corbin, Vise of Frank Corbin, living near the west line of Jordan tp., some 8 or 10 miles Southwest of Rensselaer, died Thursday afternoon, Oct. 4th ot diptheria. Her age was 87 years her maiden name Stoner, and her birthplace, Pennsylvania. . She leaves a husband aud 4 children. The family has lived in Jordan tp. for 10 or 12 years. Three of the children have the disease, but two pf them are ’getting over it.

Rensselaer 36, Brook Just Nix,

There was a good attendance at the Rensselaer-Brook foot ball game here, Thursday afternoon, showing that popular interest in the game promises to show no diminution, this year. The game also showed that our celebrated foot ball team is in as evidently good shape as ever to play winning games. The Brook boys put up a pretty good game but, of course, they had no chance nor expectation of winning, nor scarcely of scoring, against the Rensselaer athletes. The game resulted in 36 points for Rensselaer and none for Brook. The Reneselaers made a touchdown in every inning The next game will be Saturday, Oct. 18th, with the Rush Medics, from Chicago, and our boys will be up to the real thing, then.

Death of Mrs. Stacy English.

Mrs. Mary English, wife of Stacy English, and a very old resident of this county, died last Friday morning, October, 5 th, at their home in Hanging Grove, tp., and about 12 miles east of town. She had been sick a long time and confined to her bed 11 months. Her age was 78 yeare. Mrs. Luthuij Hemphill and Mrs. Joseph Rowen, of Rensselaer, are her daughters.

The Circuit Court.

Mrs- Maggie O’Brien, of Fair Oaks, was granted a divorce from her husband, Thomas. They were married May 30th, 1896, and separated about August 1898. She charges him with being pretty near the whole thing in the way of grounds for divorce. Cruel, inhuman treatment such as calling awful bad names and striking her, with failure to provide, abandonment. and being a habitual drunkard. She gets the custody of her, two young, children-.- " -