Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1901 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

The Republican State Committee has issued its oall for the organizing conventions for the campaign of 1902. The township, precinct or ward meetings are to "be held on either Jan. 10th or 11th, and the county committee is to meet on the 11th or 13th. The district meetings are to be hek not later than Jan. 17th. Forma calls for these meetings will be issued by the committee in a shot, time.

Senator Tom Platt, of New York ia in a great rage over an article about him in the current number of McClure’s magazine, by William Allen White, the “What’s the Matter with Kansas” man, of the' Emporia Gazette. The article or sketch is a scorcher, and it is no wonder that it riled Platt mightily. He talks of suing White and also the magazines publishers. He called on President Roosevelt to raise a fuss with him about the matter, because the president happens to be acquainted with White, but the President ia said to have turned the wrathfu senator down in short order.

President Roosevelt ha? set his teeth and charged into the Schley matter ss vigorously and as effectively as he charged into the Spaniards at San Juan Hill. He caused the secretary of war to administer a most stinging but well deserved reprimand to Gen. Miles for his entirely reprehensible meddling in the matter; has caused the findings of the court of enquiry against Schley to be approved, rejecting -Dewey’s opinion that Schley commanded at Santiago; and demanded the resignation, from Jhis employment in the navy yard, of Maclay, the historian, for his outrageous charge of personal cowardice against Schley. If all bands to the controversy do not now know when they have got enough and quit, it won’t be the President’s fault.

The House is now preparing to rash through the Hepburn Micaraugua canal bill, now that the Senate has ratified the new treaty with Great Britain. The frill is the same one passed last .winter, bnt which the Senate failed io act on. The bill is all right ■nd it can’t be passed and work started on the canal any too soon We need the canal and need it Udlj, and in these prosperous Republican times, with an oversowing treasury, is the time to - bwiid it. “By and by hard times will come a knockin at the door,” when the people again become possessed of the delusion that a done of free trade democracy is again needed to clean out the national system, aud then we won’t have any money to build it with. So let us have the canal while we have the money to build • 1* with.

Mack Sales, of Delphi, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Holiday goods jmd> novelties of all kinds at Huff’s. / W. T. Beahler, of Goodland is here on business today. A. C. Payne, of Colfax, is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. 0 You will find a nice line of ch|na goods for Christmas at John Eger’s.

- Mrs. J. F. Moore went to Thayer this morning for a week’s visit with her parents. Sheriff Abe Hardy and Warren Robinson went to Logansport today, on business. - W. O. Shanlaub, of Morocco, is here to spend the holiday vacation with his parents. . Roy Grayson returned home Saturday from Chicago Heights, where he has been working. Omar Smith, of Chariton, la., came today to visit his uncle, Frank Tillett, north of town. Joseph B. Sparling left this morning for Carlinville, HI., to visit his sister, Mrs. George Peck, during the holidays. D. E. Ross, manager of the Prairie Telephone Co., of Brookston, was here this morning on business with Delos Thompson. Mrs. D- M. Yeoman, and little daughter, of Ambia, came Saturday' to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong.

Mrs. D. E. Hollister returned yesterday from Kniman, where she had been at the bedside of her son George, who is now in a very critical condition. Mrs. I. N. Hemphill slipped on an icey walk this morning, and broke the end of the ulna, or large bone of her right forearm at the wrist. Dr. English reduced the fracture. Mrs. S. J. Bascom, of Knox, who was called here by the death of her brother, Richard Stone, returned home this morning, sickness in her own family requiring her presence there. Grandmother Chilccts took a turn for the better Saturday, and is now so much better that her complete recovery is confidently expected. She will probably remain at Mt. Ayr until warmer weather.

Michael Young, of near DeMotte, was marketing some of his extra fine quality potatoes here today. He raised about 1,400 bushels this year and they are said to be the best potatoes that are being sold here. Marshal Simpson is able to be out today for the first time in ten days. He was the victim of a severe attack of rheumatism and is still far from well. He will not yet resume his official duties which are still being discharged by Wm. Stephensen. Ed Peacock, for some time dry goods and advertising manager of Laßue Bros’, department store, and now traveling in Nebraska and Colorado for Carson, Pierre, Scott & Co., of Chicago, arrived in Rensselaer Saturday evening for a short visit with friends.

Robert McGreggor, of Arbor Vitae, Wis., came down Saturday for a short visit with Rev. A. G. Work, with whom he lived last year, while attending the Rensselaer schools. He has secured employment in Chicago and will go from here to begin work. It is expected that the trial of the Halligan cattle case, at Monticello would be finished today, though a verdict by the jury is hardly looked for before Tuesday. This is the eighth day of the trial. It is a very complicated case with much contradictory evidence, and the result can not be predicted.

‘•Uncle Dick” Stone was laid away this Monday afternoon, by his soldier comrades of Post No. 84, with, the honors due to a faithful soldier and an honest and industrious man. He was poor and uneducated, but ho was honest as the day is long and as industrious as he was honest. He minded his 1 own business, bis word was as'

good as any man’s bond. Whatever he undertook, he tried to do right, ‘'said nothing and sawec wood” in a figurative as well as literal sense, and strove faithfully to the last to earn an honorably support for himself and his family.

B. D. Comer returned this morning from lecturing at a farmers’ institute at Star City, and also visited his brother, John lives near Kewanna. “Barney says the farmers over there turn out for an institute like they do here for a circus, and that their improved and successful methods of farming show the good results of their interest in institutes. ■J' 1 All dr nearly all of the Rensselaer ice packers are at work today with large forces, putting up ice, It is of an extra fine quality, clear and hard, and ranges in thickness from about 7 inches, where the water was swift, to as much as 11 inches, in extra still places. The usual run is-about 9 inches. If the weather does not get too warm and wet a fine crop of ice will soon be harvested.

The Republican made a slip of the pen in saying Grandmother Margaret Shortridge, now of Hillside, Wis., was the widow of Lemuel Shortridge. She was his mother, and is the widow of ElishA Shortridge, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and she draws a pension as such widow. Grandmother Shortridge was the mother of about 10 children, but only one" son and one daughter are now living.

The formal announcement of candidacy of Daniel E. Storms, of Lafayette, for the Republican nomination for the office of Secretary of State, is being made by the Tippecanoe County Central Committee, and includes the endorsement of about sixty prominent politicians, professional and business men of Lafayette. Mr. Storms is a lawyer of experience and ability, is well known throughout the state; and here in Rensseselaer, where he has a number of quite warm friends, his candidacy will be received with the kind cheer ;hat will insure staunch support. Prof. W. R. Murphy, former superintendent of Remington schools, is writing the Remington Press some very interesting letters from Redlands, Calif. He went there some months ago in hopes of finding relief from incipient consumption, and the letters he writes show that he is doing very finely and quotes his physician in the statement that in a year be can safely return to Indiana. He has also been fortunate in finding opportunity for earning a support for himself and family. He ia superintending an orange farm at good wages and evidently likes the work better than any job of school teaching he ever struck.