Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1901 — Smoke Came From Canada. [ARTICLE]

Smoke Came From Canada.

People who have noticed the smoky condition of the atmosphere daring the past few days, and the smoke has been so dense as to attract univeroal attention and cause much comment, will be interested to know that it oomes from forest fires in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The smoke on Lake Huron and the St. Olair river was so dense as to make navigation almost impossible. It was carried across Lake Huron, over the State of Michigan aud across Lake Michigan at more than express train speed by the northeasterly storm, and was furnishing a new sensation to Chicago nostrils long before the telegraph had annonneed that it was on the way. The smoke arrived here Sunday morning and wps so dense that it actually at times almost obscured the sun. The smell of burned, wood was very distinct and so continued some days* It was the most remarkable example of smoke being carried to a great distance since the great Chicago fire. The fires broke oat in Canada Friday night and evidence of it was seen here, fully five hundred miles distant, in twenty-four hours. Brookston, after a long series of winning at base ball, ran up against the real article yesterday at Delphi, and were beaten by a score of 14 to 0. Delphi had an imported team mostly, Joe Reynolds, formerly of this place, being the only actual Delphi resident. Engine 111 of the Monon, just out of the shops, on Sunday hauled Train 38, consisting of four Pullman cars, from Indianapolis to Chicago in 4 hoars and twenty four minutes. Engineer Howland says thfe 111 on Saturday with five cars, attained a speed for several consecutive miles of 83 miles an hoar. Prof. W. R. Murphy, who, for several yeats past, has been the able superintendent of the Reming schools, has been obliged to resign his position, on acoonnt of failing health. His trouble is in his lnngs and of so serious a nature that he intends going at once to southern California, in the hopes of improvement from a change of olimate. Uncle Johnny Jaoks, who was married to a Remington lady a month or two ago and took her back to his Kansas home, is about to return to Jas per county, to again make his residence here. His wife is not contented in Kansas, and he has therefore sold oat there and will come back to Jasper oonnty. He will probably reside at Remington. Dr. I. B. Washburn was in Chicago yesterday, .having another attempt made to x-ray his interior, for gall stones. The xray man was away however, and the attempt was therefore not made. The doctor however, on the opinion of an eminent specialist, has abont concluded that his troubleis primarily in the stomach, and on the advice of the specialist will try to effect a onre by a rigid and permanent system of dieting. Dr. J. W. Horton, the dentist, who never lets a building season slip by withont carrying out some important building operations, either in residenoee or business places, now has a force of men at work at his family residence, at the corner of Division and Cornelia streets. He will extensively enlarge and remodle the same. He will add three large rooms and a very large porch; a bay window or two, and largely remodle the whole present house.