Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — WEDNESDAY LOCALS [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY LOCALS

—A. Bamiis ter, of thsticHerrOklar arrived this afternoon, to visit a sister. Mrs. Catherine tScripter.iu this county, and a brother in Motion. He also expects to meet a brother'from California, whom lie has not seen for 51 years. He reports that the country west of the Missouri river is a dessolation on"account of the drouth. Miss Ora J. Tallman, of Valparaiso. died at a Kansas City hospital Monday. She was hurt in the C. AA. wre o ck near Norton, Mo., and ber's is the 23rd death resulting from the wreck. Twc days before, John F. Williamson, a newsboy, died at the railroad hospital at Peru, this state. His was the 16th death from the Wabash wreck, near Logansport. The amount of freight now being handled by the Monon is unprecedented. The engineers and fireman are complaining of not getting a sufficient rest between trips. - The company has fourteen extra engineers and seventeen firemen on the extra board. An extra man usually gets as much time in a month as the man who has a regular engine. A. McCoy, T. J. McCoy, Granville Moody and Addison Parkison went to Chicago this morning with the intention of buying several car loads of Western feeding cattle, if they can get them at a low price. The hot and dry western weather is still forcing the cattle from the drougth districts to market, and the feeders in the more favored districts are buying them up at a very low price. Mrs. Candis wife of Am on Bricker, who reside on the Springer ranch, near Kniman, died this, Wednesday morning, at 4 o’olook. The Bricker family removed here from Chebanse, 111., in the spring of 1900, and the death of Mrs. Bricker is mourned by all the acquaintances of the family. A husband and four children survive. The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. John Wilken, the traveling salesman for the Bnrt-Terry Stationary Co., of Lafayette, was in Rensselaer today, for the first time since receiving his injuries in the Wabash railroad wreck near Logansport, four weeks ago. John’s injuries as mentioned by The Republican at that time, consisted of the dislocation of his right shoulder and the breaking of his right wrist, in addition to this a large splinter was foroed entirely through his right arm and another splinter cut a severe gash in his left side. His olothiug was torn from him and he lost a pocket book containing $36.75. He is by no means recovered from his injuries and is making no effort to do business, but was tired of laying around home and came here for a day’s rest among several acquaintances. The Wabash has no't yet settled with the injured of the wreck.