Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1901 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXII NO. 102

Indiana University Students Organize.

At a meeting of students and former students of Indiana University held here Thursday evening, Sept. sth, it was decided to form an association of alumni, students, patrons and friends of Indiana University in Jasper Co., under the name of the “Indiana University Association.” The object being to advance and promote the interests of the excellent college. The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, W. H. Sanders, Supt. of Rensselaer schools; Vice President, W. R. Murphy, Supt. of Remington schools; Treasurer, J. F. Major, olerk of the Jasper circuit court; Secretary, Jesse E. Wilson, attorney at law, Rensselaer. The president was authorized to appoint a commillee to drawup by-laws governing the association. The organization was effected during the progress of a banquet, given in the dining parlor at Haus’ restaurant. Prof. Sanders acted as toast master, and responses were made by State Superintendent Jones, of Indianapolis; Dr. Norman Triplett, of Emporia, Kans., Dr. S. E. Sparling, of Wisconsin Univer- j sity; and John F. Major, clerk of Jasper county, who was a student at the university 25 years ago.

Providence Don’t Forsake Us Now.

The Crown Point Star continues i its column of “Old Time News,” from an early paper. For the week from March 10 to 17, 1850, is, among others, this item: The paper said this week that the recapture of Shep Latin and “Curly” was about given up, as it had been learned that they had safely crossed the Kankakee swamp and arrived in the wilds of J asper county, “a God forsaken place,” and a great resort for law-breakers. Well, if Jasper county was, in some parts of it, a “God forsaken place” in 1850, it has its full share of the smiles of Providence now. And has as good society and as few law-breakers as any community in the country, not to speak of the best crops this year of any county in Indiana.

Indiana Cr. A. R, Vets.

Adjt.-Gen. Smock, of the Indiana department G. A. R., stated yesterday that there will be between five and six thousand old soldiers from Indiana at the national encampment at Cleveland next week. Arrangements have been made for the accommodation at the encampment of nearly 1,800 members from this state, who are not liable to go to a hotel. Indiana will have three buildings for this purpose.

Presbytery to Meet.

The Presbytery of Logansport will hold its regular fall meeting at the Presbyterian church in Union Mills, LaPorte county, on next Tuesday and Wednesday. The opening session will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock by an address by Rev. J, P. Hearst of Crown Point. Rev. A. G. Work will attend.

Marriage Licenses.

a , 7 j Charles W. Thomson, bept ’ ‘ \ Anna Fliokenstein.

When you are looking for bargain in the latest new up to date, fall goods drop in the Chicago Bargain Store for anything you want. "Sweet Auburn Waltzes” get it of the Composer Prof. B. Dentinger or at Fendig’s Drug Store. Cider Mill Now Running. We are now operating our cider mill at our residence 2| miles northeast of Rensselaer. 3wpd James P. Clark,

No Tramp Cremated.

Warren Robinson has saved about 250 bushels of damaged oats from his fire, and some 30 or 40 bushels of damaged corn. The last good only for hog feed. No new light has been thrown on the origin of the fire, further than that soon after it started two or three tough looking bums boarded a freight car and got out of town. It is surmised that they were lodging in the hay mow and accidently started the fire. The report sent out from here to- the city papers, by some lyiug local idiot that a tramp had been cremated in the fire, was, of course, a lie out of whole cloth. Nothing df the kind oceured and no one even thought such a thing had occured.

Engines Will Get Good Treatment.

President McDoel, of the Monon has answered the complaining engineers and say that if the earnings of the road show* up as well on December 31st as they did on August Ist, or even July Ist, he would grant the engineers on 200 class engines a reasonable advance in wages. It is thought if the engineers receive an advance the firemen will also come in for an increase. Regular engineers on the road will not be required to learn both ends of the roads. Engineers who have no regular engines will be required to learn both ends of the road. The men who have charge of the engine on the south end of the line, and who have to take care of their engines, will also receive an advance in wages.

Conway Wins Out Again.

Joseph Conway, the Parr saloon keeper, had his second round in the Rensselaer justice court Friday afternoon and again came out victorious. He was tried by a juryon the charge of assaulting one Harry Kelley. The assault it seems, consisted in putting Kelley out of the saloon, when the latter got abusive. The jury acquitted Conway. Kelley, who had been charged with provoke, in connection with the same affair, plead guilty, and was fined $1 and costs, $9.60 in all. The former case against Conway was for selling to a minor, on which charge he was acquitted also.

About the Paving Brick.

The parties who went to Brazil Friday to inspect the paving briok, returned that night. Councilman MoColly and Kannal, and Contractor T. J. Sayler in addition to those previously mentioned. The councilmen express themselves as satisfied with the brick that are now being loaded for Rensselaer. The commissioners do not appear to be wholly satisfied with them. There is quite a difference in the oolor of the bricks, some being very much darker than others. The councilmen beleive the darker brick were cooked nearer the fire and got more smoke, but are none the worse for that. President Halleck, speaking for the commissioners, says the blftok ones are black dear through, and have had the life all baked out of them.

The Chicago Bargain Store received last week two car loads of flour, one car load of wire total 90,000 lbs this week one car load of peaches, one car load of sugar, 100 bbls and nearly one car load of dry goods. Dr. Geo. R. Prioe, osteopath, is coming. Dr. Geo. R. Price, osteopath, is coming. ' “Sweet Auburn Waltzes” get it of the Composer Prof. B. Dentinger or at Fendig’s Drug Store, For life insurance go to Bruner & Randle.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER to, 1901,

Isaac Stackhouse Can’t Come.

Isaac Stackhouse, of Indianapolis, the ablest writer among Jasper county’s early residents, can not come to the Old Settlers’ meeting, Sept. 13th and 14th. Replying to Judge Thompson’s invitation to be present, he writes the following interesting letter. Nothing in the world could give me more pleasure than to visit the old town around which cluster the happiest memories of my life, and to again clasp the hands of the kind friends inseparably connected with those memories. But, while “the spirit is willing the flesh is weak,” and irrevocably vetoes the impulse. When a half mile limits ones peregrinations, and a half hour his ability to stand on his feet, and his heart beats the, cake-Walk, with variations, if he does either of these it is needless to dream of ever again meeting you all on, “this .side of the divide,” much less to make you a speech. But how few there are left of those who-I counted and valued as friends, and how many there 'are on the other side! The fingers of one hand, I think, would serve as tally stick upon which to enumerate the men still living who, with those who have gone before, made up the town of Rensselaer forty years ago, And all there —the few who are left, and the many who are gone —co-mingled each day upon an equality, and with a bonhomie, and absence of restraint which I have never found in any other community. And this it was which constituted the great charm of the place, and the people. This it was that has embalmed those old days and those old friends m the memory of every one who was so happy as to constitute one of that community, and to participate in the cordial greeting which was every recurring day meted by all to each! But, for reasons above given, notwithstanding the great pleasure it would give me to again meet those who are left, I shall be constrained to postpone participating in a re-union of the old settlers of Rensselaer until it assembles where Alf Thompson, Gen’l Milroy, Doc Loughridge, Jeduthan Hopkins, Dr. Laßue. Doc Moss, Arch Purcupile, , John Spangle, Thos. Thompson, Will, Neum and Mora Hopkins and a host of others, truly “the great majority” of those dear friends whose names, along with those who yet survive, are ineffaceably engraved upon my memory by many acts of thoughtful kindness. That you who will meet on the 13th, and 14th, to refresh the memory of those old days may be long spared to perpetuate the kindly spirit whioh pervaded the town forty years ago, and which, linking us together as the people of a town are seldom united, now makes each thought of that olden time that passes through our gray heads a cherished memory is the wish of one who would be with you if he could. Your Friend, I. M. Stackhouse.

Wallace Show Horses Were Fed Acme Food.

Mr. George Gilman of Goodland interviewed the head superintendent of the horse department of the Wallace Show at Goodland recently, in regard to Aome Food. The superintendent spoke highly of Acme Food and said their best horses were purchased of two firms that were great feeders of Acme Food. Viz. Singmaster & Sons of Keota, lowa and Finch Bros, of Verona, 111. Both of these firms have used Acme Food for over two years and they say the longer they use it the better they like it. Singmaster & Sons are said to be the the largest importers of percheron horses in the world.

Anyone in need of a Stump Puller call on C. A. Roberts, agent for The Monarch.

The Shooting of tie President.

The facts of the shooting of President McKinley are already no doubt, familiar to most of our readers. While holding a public reception at the Temple of Music, at’the exposition at Buffalo, last Friday afternoon, about 4 p. m., Buffalo time, he was approached by Leon Czolg b'st, an anarchist of Polish descent. He had his right hand covered with a handkerchief as though injured. The president extended his hand, smiling and affable as usual, and Czolgosz grasped it with his left, and then raised the covered right hand, in which was a revolver. He fired two shots in quick succession. One struck the president in the breast, but struck a button and did not penetrate to any depth. The second bullet passed through the stomach and is thought to be embedded in the muscles of the back. Czolgosz was seized at once and is now in custody. He has made a statement that he was incited to kill the president by listening to a lecture by Emma Goldman, the noted female anarchist. The president Was, at first, thought to be mortally wounded, and was even widely reported to have died, but he rallied from the shock, and at latest reports, on Monday was believed to have very good prospects for recovery.

The President Still Lives.

From Saturday’s Daily. The president rented well last night, and at the latest-bulletins received his physicians were strongly hopeful for his recovery It will be a day or two yet, however, before any very reliable judgement oan bo formed. The assassin is an anarOhist. He gave his name as Fred Neiman, but afterwards admitted that it was Leon Czolgosz. He is a Pole by nationality.

Order up to Monday evening Sept. 9th, for peaches nearly, 300 bushels. Chicago Bargain Store.

Latest Bulletin Very Favorable.

Monday, 3p. m President’s condition steadily 1 improves. He is comfortable without pain or unfavorable symptoms. Bladder and kidney functions performed normally. Pulse 113; temperature 101; respiration 26.

How the News Reached Rensselaer.

Pregident McKinley was [shot soon after four o’clock, Buffalo time, or three o’clock Rensselaer time. It was an hour later, or a little after four o’clook here, when the news first reached Rensselaer. It came to the telephone central from Logansport, and stated that the President was then dying. The news was at once communicated to The Republican just as The Evening Republican was going to press. The next news, a few minutes later, was obtained over the Western Union telegraph, from Chicago, at the instance of The Republican It was then generally thought he was dead. At 4:30 we had telephone communication with Lafayette, and the news just received there, by associated press, was that he had just died. With that news, The Evening Republican went to press at 5 o’clock. And to most Rensselaer people it conveyed the first intimation of the great crime. About 8 o’clock The Republican received an extended press dispatch, giving details of the shooting, and stating thai the President was still living and that the doctors said he would recover. That report soon spread over town, and gave great satisfaction. It was much too favorable, however, for later reports showed that the best the physicians were then willing to say was that his condition justified hope of recovery.

Peach sale, days, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept 11, and 12. GO cents to SI.OO a bushel, including bushel basket. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Purcupile’s millinery store, moved to Makeevers bpilding, door east of Bargain Store.

Another Barn and Contents Burned.

Fire early Sunday morning destroyed the barn and corn cribs on a farm in Union tp., about 2 miles northwest of Parr, occupied by Shi ndler Brothers. The farm is one recenty presented to Mrs. Harry Kurrie by herTather, Judge Thompson. The barn and crib were good new buildings, worth 8500 or S6OO. The Shindler Bros, lost still heavier. They lost a good threshing machine, all their harness, baggy and other implements, considerable hay etc. Their loss will probably reach SBOO or more. There was no insurance on barn or contents. The origin of fire is not known. It seems to have started in the threshing machine and the Shindlers think it was started intentionally by some one.

One of Uncle Sam’s Jackies.

A “sailor man” in full uniform of Uncle Sam’s navy was in town Monday. He was here visiting bis friend, Rev. Father Meyer, pastor of the Catholic church. His name is Francis O’Neill, and he has been in the navy 12 years, and since he was 15 years old. When he was discharged recently he was a gunner of the 2nd class and drawing $46.00 per month. He was on the battleship Texas, at Santiago, and heard Capt. Phillips when he said, “don’t cheer boys, the poor devils are dying.” He has recently been in the Philippines and was on the Vicksburg when it carried Aguinaldo and his captor, Gen. Funston, into Manila. His home is in Indianapolis and he left for there Monday forenoon.

If you wrnt extra fancy pea ches come to the sale Wednesday and Thursday Sept. 11, and 12. Two delivery wagons for the occasion. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Luella Phillips and Miss Della Nanman will move their dress disking establishment into the Makeever block, one door east of the Bargain store, in the same room with Mrs. Purcupilea millinery store after Monday, Sept. 9tb. Board and room wanted by a young lady. For name of party enquire at this office.