Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. Mis 3 Ida Clark, of Chicago, is the guest of Mrs. Ralph Alkire. Mrs. A. Lewis is visiting friends " ' —————— ——.— - - —— - in Reynoils, today. W, B. Austin is tn n ;aciing business today, at Lafayette. V Mr, and Mrs. F. A. Ross are the Wests of Mrs. W. B. Austin, in ©hicago today. Alfred Crisler went to Mt. Ajr this morning for a few days’ visit With his son, Robt. Crisler. The D. A. R. Chapter will meet at 2 p. m., Saturday Jan. 26th, with Mrs. A. McCoy. W. H. Parkison returned this morning from two days’ business stay in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Stoner returned today, from Chicago, where they have been attending the b : g poultry and pet show. A. K. Yeoman went to Rossville 111. today, and will remain a few days’ to further assist in the settlement of the L. K. Yeoman estate. The 14 year old son of Harry Jacobs’ on the Wm. Washburn farm, in Jordan tp., is very sick with inflammatory rheumatism. Miss Dora Conner, of Danville, 111., and Wm. Farmer, of Winthrope, Ind., are spending a few days’ with relatives here. Supt. L. H. Hamilton went to Monticello today to act as one of judges at the debate between the Delphi and Monticello High Schools. Mrs. John Richmond near Pleasant Grove, is very sick with the measles. Their four children are just recovering from the same disease. Attorney Weir, at LaPorte, is improving somewhat and his physicians say he will recover unless blood-poisoning sets in. Brill, the man who shot liim has been admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000. Monroe Banes was up from La fayette, today, and rented the Mrs. Blankenbaker house, in Newton’s addition, and intends to move back to Rensselaer next week. Like many others who move away, he has concluded that Rensselaer is the best place, after all. There was quite a slump in the temperature yesterday afternoon, and this morning the thermometer was down to 14 or 15 degrees above zero. Not an extreme cold by any means, but the high winds made it pretty severe. At the annual meeting of North ern Indiana county superintendents Tuesday, it was decided to ask the legislature to put all superintendents on salaries instead of per diem, as at present. Free text books are also favored, E. 8. Rhoads’ grocery delivery horse took quite a little runaway this morning, from Chas. Platt’s place, on Van Rensselaer street to J. F. Bruner’s place on Division. No great damage was done. Chase Shedd was in the wagon but got out betimes. Dr. Stratton’s lecture, last night on the mineral resources of the Northwest, at the court house had but a small attendance largely on account of the severe weather. He is interested in a large mine in Eastern Oregon and • desires to interest some of our 'citizens in the same enterprise. He is going to Chicago for a few days, but will soon return here.

I There is small pox in Michigan City, and the state prison has been quarantined against the town, and all the convicts ordered vaccinated. It is feared that if the disease gets started in the prison the convicts who take it will break out. The same disease has also appeared at East Chicago, which joins Hammond, and the people of the latter place are considerably frightened. Brookston has just had two pretty serious fires. The Union hotel burned last Thursday, entailing a loss of about $3,500 on C. C. French, the owner, and several lesser losses on different tenants. There was no insurance. The second fire was on Sunday, when Little’s tile factory was burned. The loss is estimated at SB,OOO to SIO,OOO and only $3,000 insurance. A dispatch from Lagrange says: Benjamin Miller, father of the four children cremated in the butning of his home at Peshau, near Shipshewana last Friday morning, has become insane. He harbors the delusion that his offsprings are in danger, and that .he can still rescue them. The death of Mrs. Miller is hourly expected.

Claude Sigler, of Kersey, is in town today. He reports his wife and baby sick with the grip. Also that his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Sigler are spending the winter at Guthrie, Oklahoma, for their health, and greatly enjoying the pleasant climate of that favored region. Miss Gertrude Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and Mrs Hanley have gone to Goodland to attend a masquerade party, given this evening by Mr. and Mrs, Gilman, Dr. and Mrs. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Bringham and Mr. and Mrs. Baer. Citizens of Wolcott and farmers in that vicinity are planning the organization of a company to prospect for coal a few miles southwest of there. Wells were drilled in the locality some years ago, when the drills brought up coal froih eightyfive feet below the surface. If there is any coal there more than a few small pockets, then the state geologists have always been at fault.

Lawyers have the call to Congress. Two hundred and eighty seven members of that profession were elected to the coming session —more than all the other pursuits combined. Next in number comes business men and manufacturers. They have fifty. There are twentythree farmers, twenty-one bankers, twenty-one journalists, eight who have no particular pursuits and who are designated politicians, seven doctors, six school teachers, two ministers and one actor. Quite a combination. Rev. V. O. Fritts, former pastor of the Baptist church here, seemed extra well pleased with his present surroundings, at Dunkirk, as the following extract from a card from him will show. He says. “We are doing quite well here. It is nice to sit by a gas fire and get up of a cold morning to find the room as warm as when you went to bed. We greatly enjoy the “Republican” and there is a scramble to see who gets it first. It is like a visit of an old friend from Rensselaer. The return of Marvin Kuhns to the Ohio penitentiary to begin the hopeless routine of a life sentence is the climax of the outlaw’s own folly, remarks the Ft. Wayne Sentinel. It has been evident from the time he made his escape the Ohio authorities did not want him and were wholly indisposed to molest him. Had he quietly left this section of the country and gone where he was unknown and entered upon the peaceful, honorable life to which be professed to aspire so fondly, there would have been room for him outside the prison walls. He has simply forced the Columbus', penitentiary officials in sheer self respect to take him back.

SATURDAY. Mrs. Joseph Cain, west of town, is quite sick. Born, Friday Jan. 25th to Mrs. D. L. Meyers of Parr, a son. E. D. Rhoades returned today from a week’s business stay in Chicago. Miss Maude Atkins, of Monticello. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ralph Alkire. A. R. Hopkins has gone to Englewood for a few days’ visit with his brother, A. W. Hopkins. Mrs. S. E. Timmons of Blue Island 111. returned home today after a weeks’ visit with relatives and friends here. Miss Mabel Nowels southwest of town, went to Chicago Heights, this morning for a few weeks’ visit with her sister Mrs. Wm. Morris, Rev. D. E. Converse, of Delphi, an Episcopalian minister, will hold services at Slaughter school house Sunday, at 2:30 p. m. Alfred Peter’s 13 year old daughter, Bessie, southeast of town, is improving from a dangerous attack of peritonitis.

Miss Lillie Witham, of Monticello, returned this afternoon after two weeks’ visit with relatives in this vicinity. Elmer Medworth, of Chicago, came today for two weeks’ visit with J. H. and C. L. Carr, southwest of town. Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and children have gone to Kentland for two weeks’ visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. A. J. Biggs, south of town, left this morning for three weeks’ visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Biggs, at West Lebanon Ind A. L. Adams, P. Zalart, T. Jennings, of Chicago, and F. Pitzer, of Sheridan, 111., are spending a few day’s hunting in this vicinity. Mrs. B. A. Parkison and sis er, Miss Kathryn Rodgers were called to Gillam tp„ today, by a telegram stating that their father, John Rodgers, an old resident of that township, was very seriously sick. J. E. Gibson, the Logansport contractor, wanted in Mississippi for alleged attempt to bribe the governor, and who jumped his $5,000 cash bail, was arrested at

Detroit and will be taken to Mississippi. It is thought be was trying to escape to Canada. He evidently thinks he is up against t pretty hard. I. W. Warner, a business man of Fowler, of many years standing, has just retired from his occupation there and will move to this county, and occupy a half section of land he has recently purchased, near Kniman. The Fowler Republican makes a most favorable mention of Mr. Warner, both as a business man and a citizen. A family named Beasy, living in the little house just across the street, to the south from the Makeever House, formerly occupied by J. F. Hieronymus, was yesterday discovered to be in a very destitute condition, Mr. Beasy being sick and unable to work. Various charitably disposed people exerted themselves in their behalf and their immediate needs were quite liberally provided for. They recently came here from Monon.

John Brown “The Queen’s faith ful Scotch gillie and a life-long attendant in her Majesty’s household when asked by a friend there “How is her Majesty?” replied, “0 mon, she is just a dear old woman dying. All majesty is gone out of her.” “She is just a dear old woman dying,” not England’s glorious queen any more, but a dear, good old woman, whom all the world loved, for her early love of her husband and her sweet remembrance; for her bare and love for her children and grand-child-ren; for her boundless love for all her subjects, who justly thought their queen a good, noble woman. It looks very much as though what hanging is hereafter done in Indiana will be in the way of such private enterprises as suicide, or in the more public but not less illegal line of lynching. The state Senate has passed the electrocution such a nearly unanimous vote as to clearly indicate that the House will pass it also. In the Senate there were 37 votes for it and only two against it. The method baa been in successful use in New York for several years and in Ohio for a shorter period, It is a very [humane not to say elegant and attractive method of inflicting the death penalty on condemned murderers.

MONDAY. Mrs. Bert Blue a mile north of town, is on the sick list Dr. Moore spent Sunday in Chicago. Geo. Baroua ia transacting business in Manteno, 111., today. Ernest Stewart spent Sunday with relatives at Brookston. Joseph Kight and daughter, Mrs. Arthur Catt, are in Chicago, today. J. H. Jessen, of West Pullman, spent Sunday with his family here.

Attorneys Frank Foltz and C. W. Hanley are at Lafayette today on legal business. Joshua. Norman, north of town, is sick with the grip atd tbna'en ed with lung fever. M. F. Chilcote went to Indianapolis this afternoon for a short business stay. A 6 year old daughter of Grant Renicker, of Barkley tp.. is very sick with pneumonia. Pete Brenner, of Indianapohs is the guest this m eek of his father J. J. Brenner and brother Bert Brenner.

Uncle Ad Parkison was taken quite seriously sick, Friday, with a severe chill, but is now improving. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. McClure desire to return their thanks for the kind assistance of neighbors and friends, during the recent fire. Mrs. Nancy Fishell arrived home today from five weeks’ visit with her son Ancil Snodgrass, at Cayuga, Ind.

Machall and R. A. Cover, cw near Kniman, arrived home Saturday evening from five weeks’ visit with relatives at Baltimore, Md. Charles Watson shipped his house-hold goods to Chicago Heights, today. He has employment there at plastering and bis family will soon join him.

Miss Maude Daugherty has just purchased a] very fine Packard piano. The instrument was furnished by the Geo. L. Bruce Music House, of Lafayette, through their agent F. A, Demarcus of that city. The state,! veterinary, who examinedjtbe Davis cattle at Dyer, which were supposed to have been poisoned, says they died from eating sugar beets which formed a deadly gas in the stomach. At the debate between Monticello and Delphi high schools, last Friday evening. Monticello won by a close margin. The subject was the justifiability of labor strikes. The county school superintendents of Jasper, White and Carroll counties were the udges. The Indianapolis Journal remarks: “The fact that nearly half of the members of the Thirty-sev-enth infantry ordered discharged in the Philippines have chosen to remain and go into business does not sustain the statement that white men cannot live in those islands.”

Mrs. E. J. Morris was called to Chicago Heights yesterday by the sickness of her son, Wm. Morris, who has diphtheria. Miss Mabel Nowels who went last Saturday to remain a few weeks with her sister Mrs. Morris, was not permitted to enter the house on account of the quarantine, and 1) returned home this morning.

The 3or 4 months old infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Garriott, of Union tp, died Sunday night, of croup, at the home of Mrs. Garriott’s father, Charles Burns The funeral was held there, this afternoon, and interment made in Prater cemetery. The present spell of severer weather has not been so very severe, after all, and the worst is now evidently over, until the next time. The four inches or so of snow which fell Saturday, still stays with us but seems likely* from present indications, not destined to remain very long. Our young ex-towns man, "Louis Fendig, now of Brunswick, Ga-, has recently engaged in a new and very promising enterprise, fie ia a member and secretary of the “National Auction and Improvement Company.” The business of the company consists in buying favorable tracts of land near prosperous towns, laying the tracts out into lots, and then selling the lots at public auction. Sunday’s Inter Ocean colored picture supplement, yesterday, was a very fine view of a drove of cows. The original photograph was made by W. E. Vilmer, of Crown Point this state. Mr. Vilmer is evidently an unusually able artist in his line, and another instance of the fact is that he has just been, awarded a $lO prize for a picture of a hen and chickens, by the Ladies’ Home Journal The chicken picture will be published in the Home Journal. The venerable William Foster, founder of the town of Goodland, and ex-builder of railroads, died suddenly, last Thursday evening, Jan. 24, at his home in Goodland, He had been around as usual that day, and in the evening sat down to read a newspaper, and died sitting in his chair. He was in his 88th year. He was well known and greatly esteemed throughout all this section, although better known to the older residents than to the younger portion of the people. His funeral was held Saturday, at 1:30 p. m. An exchange thus explains the significance of the editorial “we-” It may have a variety of meanings, For example, when you read, “We expect our wife home today,” "we * refers to the editor. “We are a little late with our work,” includes the whole office force, even the devil and the towel; in "we are having a boom” the town is meant“we [received over 100,000 emi grants last year” embraces the nation; but “we have hog cholera in our midst” means that the man who takes the paper and does not pay up is ill. We have placed our accounts in the hands of E. P. Honan for collection. Please call and settle, dwlwp Kelubt Bros.