Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1901 — City News. [ARTICLE]

City News.

FRIDAY. W. A. Moore, of Lafayeffe7~is here on business, today. Mrs. J. Jones is visiting friends in Lafayette for a couple of days. Phil Parcels returned to Monticello, today, after a week’s visit here. Mrs. W. A. Rinehart, went to Delphi, to visit relatives for some time. Mrs. Austin Hopkins went to Chicago today, to visit friends until after Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark drove to Oxford, today, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Heath. Mrs. Jess Fry and Stella Gundy, of Rose Lawn, were Rensselaer visitors today. it G. W. Terwilliger, southeast of town, returned today from a week’s visit in Chicago and the stook show. Miss Ethel Prater, of Edinburg, 111., is visiting Miss Rosa Chupp, here, and ffm. Blankenbaker’s family, at Parr. Mrs. Geo. Reed, of Havana, 111., returned home today, after a month’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Matheson. Mrs. R. W. Spriggs went to Chioago today. Her nephew, Ray Osborne, of Glenooe, 111., returned home with her, after a week’s visit here. The new addition to Fisher Bros, feed, hitoh and sale stable is now oompleted and they are ready for business. The new addition makes it one of the largest barns of its kind in the state. Peter Eessinger, now living southeast of town, and his son, are preparing to go to Nebraska early in January, and will probably locate there permanently. He has one son already living there. Unole Billy Bussell has been very dsngerously siok, at his home on Grace street, sinoe Tuesday night, with a recurrence of his ohronio stomach trouble. He is now thought to be in a dying condition. Engineer A. S. Barker and ConSoott who were in oharge of one of the Monon freight trains that had a collision at the Wea bridge last month, and for whioh they were taken out of service have been reinstated. Albert Marshall, hurt in the Wisconsin-Chicago foot ball game, at Chioago, on Thanksgiving day, has had to have his broken collar bone re set, sinoe returning 4o Madison, the .job in Chicago having been baaly done. Oapt. J. M. Wasson, who returned from 6 or 6 days’ stay in Chioago, reports that the first three days in December there, were all bad weather, and that during that

time an inch and a half of snow fell. Here all those days were fins, except a part of the 2nd when a few flakes of snow fell. The s7Jper 100 received at tfae stock yards Thursday for the Moody and the Parkison & Moody steers is thought to have been the highest price paid for any Jasper county cattle since 1882, or nearly twentyfyearsago. The price reached then was $8 per 100 or more. Squire Burnham rendered bis deoision in the ease of Otto Steel, of Union, charged with trespass, this afternoon. He found him guilty and assessed a fine ct $5, being the lowest penalty the law permits. The costs, also assessed against him, will amount to 119.10. Steel raised a orop on Mrs. Fendig’s farm and went upon the place and hauled away produce, after be ing notifiedjto keep off. The will of the late Clem Studebaker has been admitted to probate in St. Joseph county. The estate is worth several million dollars, and is mainly divided among his children and his wife. Each of the seven grandchildren receive 110,000 and provision is made for their education. No bequests are made to charity, but his family is requested to make such gifts as they should, considering their financial conditions.

SATURDAY. Earl Hausman, now of Chicago is visiting his Rensselaer relatives. The town of Wolcott is again considering the electric light pro position. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grow went to Wolcott to spend Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wright, of Indianapolis, are visiting G, W. Casey, near Aix. Mr. and Mrs. A. Parkison have gone to Frankfort for a few days’ visit with relatives. The 12th annual White county farmers’ institute will be held in Idaville Dec. 16th and 17th. J. B. Workman went to Rockville, today, to look after his tax ferret work now in progress there. Rev. O. F. Jordan, of Rookford 111., returned home today, after holding meetings at Newland for a week. Unole Billy Bussell is still slowly but constantly sinking, and no

hopes are eiteitaiD-d for bis recovery. Mi6s Martha Giimore, of Lafay.' ette, returned hi*n»g, today, after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Roth. Miss Florence Sayler returned from a visit at Monticelto, today for a short stay previous to leaving for Colorado. Fred Tharp, who has just returned from North Dakota, visited here yerterday, and has gone to Lowell, today. Mrs. S. A. Royster, of Westfield, after a short visit with friends here, went to Kankakee, 111., today, to visit other friends there. Mrs. Elizabeth Purcupile arrived home -today, from three months visit with relatives at Lincoln and OmaLia,'Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lowe, of Monon, came up yesterday afternoon, on the account of the sickness of her father, Wm. Bussell. Miss L. M. Crow, R. H Crow and B H. Vance, who have been visiting D. F. Crow, near town, returned to their home at Madison Mills, 0„ today.

B. F. White, the new Singer sewing machine agent, now has his residence and office in A. Leopold’s tenant property, on Van Rensselaer street, opposite Fisher’s big feed barn. Mrs. Candace Lough ridge went to the springs near Attica, today, to take a course of treatment for rheumatism. Her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Chapman accompanied her on the journey. Acocrding to dispatches from South Bend, Pat O’Dea has been offered a position of coaoh for the Wisconsin football team, but will not accept, preferring to remain at South Bend to practice law. C. L. and J. H. Carr, George Pumphrey, Mrs. A. F. Gwiswold and Miss Hattie Phegley. returned from a Chioago visit this afternoon. They were accompanied by Mr. and[Mrs. Elmer Phegley, of Montioello, who will remain |foi a short visit.

W, H. Randle, of Barkley tp„ who has just recently bought of Mrs. Nellie M. Harris her 9$ acre traot in the grove north of the railroad, bordering on Forest street, will build himself a fine residence there next 2 [season,} as we are informed. Andy Gangloff will oondnct a blue rockfshooting match at the Gangloff farm, lfmife east of town, next Thursday, Deo. 12th. All moneys will be divided, 50, 50 and 20 per cent. Shells and lnnoh on the grounds. Jerry Earsner, now porter at the Makeever House, got a tumble from the top of a high step ladder, while adjusting a stove pipe, and badly bruised his] shoulder, and damaged and '‘perhaps', fractured several ribs. The ribs were also driven against the lungs,] injuring them considerably. A report has been in circulation here this week that Bert Carter, a former pupil in our city schools, had died at thfe home of his father, Charley Carter, near Mt. Ayr, of diphtheria. The report is erronions, Bert came back from Hammond with diphtheria, but has recovered. A younger brother, Paul, has contracted the disease, and at latest aooounts was very low. John Eohler, who js baok here from Chioago Heights, is introducing a patent foot warmer, recently invented by our other former townsman Ellis Iliff, The warmer is a small roll made of galvanized iron, inside of whioh is placed a

small piece of burning carbon, and this will keep the warmer hot for 12 hours. They are specially intended use in buggies and carriages. R. A. Moore, of Lafayette, was j here yesterday and closed up the I sale of 40 acres of land in Newton tp., belonging to heirs of the estate of late "David-Stockton, of Lafayette R. H. Grow was the pnrohaser, and $42.50 per acre was the price paid.j£The Stockton heirs have left only 80 acres of the original 1,200 in Newton tp.

Frank L. Jones, superintendent of public instruction, has received $765.20 contributed by school children on* Harrison Day, week before last. This amount does not represent all the money that was contributed by school children but just what has been sent in. Mr. Jones has yet to hear from county school superintendents. The chances are that the planting of sugar beets in Lake county will not be as brisk next seasoD as it was this. In the first place it was not a real success, and secondly, the supposition that a large refinery would be built at Shelby stimulated many to go into the new business, as much to help that on as the profit they expected to realize.—Crown Point Star.

Governor Durbin and a .party of Indianapolis friends are due to reach the Kankakee regions in a few days on a hunting trip. Governor Durbin is an expert with a gun, and as game is plentiful there will be an abundance of sport. The Kankakee hunting regions, however, are fast losing their glory, and not many years will elapse before their fame will live only in memory.

A coroner’s jury in Georgia delivered the following original verdict on the sudden death of a merchant who had failed in business; “We, the jury, find from the doctor’s statement that the deceased came to his death from heart failure, superinduced by business failure, which was caused by failure to advertise, whioh. was the result of failure to see far enough ahead.” The annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Gage has been sent to Congress and presents an array of figures the magnitude of which fairly stagger the mind The fiscal year of 1901 shows receipts in the sum of $698,316,530.91 and expenditures amounting to $621,598,546.54, leaving a surplus of $77,717,984.38. The largest item of receipts is from internal revenue amounting to over three hundred million dollars, and the biggest expense during the year was the military establishment and Philippine war, costing over $144,000,000.