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

City News.

FRIDAY. Taylor AlcCcy is home from Orchard Lake, 'or the holidays. C. G. Spitler made a business trip to Crown Poin\ today. Mrs. Mary Drake and daughter Matie are spending a few days in Miss Leathe Wright, of Col. Parker’s training schoo’, Chicago, is home for the? 1 olidays. Students at St. Joseph’s college have gone home for the holidays, in large numbers. J. B. Workman the tax ferrit man, Spencer, Ind,, yesterday to remain over Christmas with his family. Willie Barkley fell 12 feet off a ladder, at Clarke’s jewelry store, this morning, and was quite painfully hurt. One rib was fractured and several others nearly so. Miss Nettie Needham, of our .city schools, has gone to Dublin and Indianapolis, for vacatiop, and Miss Lillian Howarth to her home at Oxford. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Robinson, students at the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville Mo., arrived today to spend two weeks’ vacation.

, Samuel H. Howe formerly of this county but for a number of year a resident of Dwight 111., is removing to the Sam Yeoman farm of 170 acres near Fair Oaks. Miss Lona Flynn returned yesterday evening from Lowell, where she bad been for the past three weeks, visiting her sister Mrs. H. V. Weaver and two children, through an agravated case of the measles. The passing week has been a very bad one for business, especially for so near the holidays. The intense cold has kept the country people away from town -almost as much as two feet depth of mud used to do.

Governor Durbin baa leased the Van Hummel residence at 512 North Meridan street, Indianapolis, and will take possession about January 1. The Governor and Mrs. Durbin have for some time made their home at Hotel English, Our former townsman, C. H. Porter, now of Delphi, has just returned from a trip to Helena, Mont., where he was called as a witness in a railroad damage suit. There was 15 inches of snow at Helena when be left there. Prices will rule higher on Poker Flats for a while now, until the poker pokers have- recouped their pockets for what they have been obliged to contribute to keep the course of justice running smoothly during the Christmas season, Eight of these ornamental citizens have already put up $5 each and costs in Squire Burnham’s court, and the drag net is out for about as many more.

The astonishing statement is telegraphed from Lafayettee, that not a single marriage license has been issued in Tippecanoe county since Dec. sth. It is said to be the longest period without a marriage in that county since records have been kept.

Do you appreciate good music? If you do hear the Indiana University Glee Club sing; the Mandolin Club play; Mr. McCracken, an expert whistler, whistle; Mr. Geiss, a German violinist perform; and Mr. Parks sing “Coon Songs.” The prices are 50 and 35 cents. The state will pay $317,000 more of its debt January Ist, making in all $617,000 that has been paid during the present year. The amount of the state debt that may be paid at any time is $2,296,000 It is expected that this will be paid within a few years, as the revenues are in excess of the expenditures, Superintendent of Motive Power Gill, has sent out a bulletin to Monon engineers instructing them to make a careful inspection of their engines at each end of the road. He states that it is evident from some of the recent accidents that some of the engineers are careless about inspecting their locomotives. The superintendent insists that every engineer knows personally that his engine is i© good condition before going out. C. C. Starr, our largest ice packer has cleared the snow off his ice pond, on the river, and will start his ice plows tomorrow, and begin putting up ice Monday. If the cold weather continues twaor three more nights, the ice will be 8 or 10 inches thick by that time. It has not formed as would ordinarily be expected from such a long spell of intense cold, but the reason thereof is that the weather previously had been so warm that it took a good deal of cold weather before the river would be cold enough to begin to freeze at all.

The U. S. thermometer at 7 a m. today stood at 7 below zero. The lowest registered during the night was 8 below. This is about 2| degrees warmer than Thursday morning, although the presence of more wind makes the weather today much severer to be out in than Thursday. And taking the day through it has been colder, the highest temperature today being 1 above zero, which was two above the highest last Saturday and

Sunday. This is the 7th day of below zero weather, during which the thermometer has been below zero every night, and on none of these 7 days has it reached higher than 12 above zero, which is 20 below the freezing point. The old Biddle home in Logansport is desolate these days. The old white stone mansion which for more than half a century was a center of interest for people all .over Indiana is now locked, the shutters are closed and the interior empty. The old Judge is buried in Mount Hope cemetery in Logansport and hie treasures are scattered to the four corners. His vast library is now the property of the bf the Logansport public library and his pictures and furniture were sold at public auction a few days ago. General John Tipton built the old house when he was a United States Senator and the political representative of General Jackson in the northwest. /

SATURDAY. Ed and Emory Mills, of Purdue, are home for the holiday vacation. Mrs. Simon Leopold and daughter Selma, went to Kentland today. Jay Say let 'came do.wn from Chicago Dental College, today, to spend the holidays. Misses Erma and Mary Belle Crosscup went to Monticello today for a week’s visit with relatives, z Miss Louise Martin went to Mpnticello today, for a few days’ visit. Misses Hazel McColl y and Nora Leavel went to Chicago Heights loday for a few days visit. Born, Sunday Dec. 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewellen, west of the river, a daughter.

D. B. Nowels and wife arrived last night to superintend the sale of their household goods, and to make arrangements for their final removal to Lamar, Col. Reno, the magician, gave a good performance at the opera hous?, last night. The crowd was small, owing probably to the severity of the weather.

Mrs. Candace (Loughridge and daughter, Mrs. J. H. Chapman returned last evening from their two weeks’ stay at the springs, Mrs. Loughridge was much benefitted by her treatment there. The notice of election of.tiusteee for Osborne cemetery is republished, a mistake having been made in the first one. The election is to be Dec. 28th instead of 21st, as published. Mrs. Wm. Burns met with a severe accident Thursday at her home in Baikley Tp. She fell down the stairs, cutting her scalp open for several (inches, and badly bruising her right hip and arm. Mrs. Charles Battleday, in the west part of town, is suffering from a painful injury in her foot, one of the small bones having been broken, some days ago, by a wagon box falling upon it.

The American Express Company is distributing 1100,000 this year in 10,000 Christmas presents of 110 for each of 10,000employes. Local agents like Mr. Reeve of our city, dojnot get in under the head of employee. Last year the presents!were 15 each. The temperature was 7 below zero last night, and at 6:30 this morning'was 4 below. The change of the wind to southerly is bringing warmer weather, although the wind today, like all south winds directly! after a severe cold spell, is more chilling than the coldest north winds that we have had.

Judge Harry B. Tuthill, of Lake Porter and LaPorte superior court has just sued the Monon R. R. for $11,525 for damages from fires on bis land, alleged to have been started by the Monon’s locomotives.

Bert Marshall, the Wisconsin University foot bail player, arrived home today for the holiday vacation. He is now almost well from the injuries sustained in the game with Chicago University on Thanksgiving Day. Miss Essie Wasson, teacher of the Valma school, reports a very excellent time at the box social held Friday evening. A good sized crowd was present, the boxes found a spirited market, and about sls was netted the school library.

Mrs. Elizabeth Chilcote has been very sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Merry, at Mt. Ayr, ever since her return from Michigan, a few weeks, and reports received this morning were that she would hardly live the day out.

Dick Stone’s family is in very destitute circumstances, and need immediate help from individuals or organizations. They lack food and fuel, and have not clothing enough to keep them warm,

Me rle Gwin and Arthur Kresler from the Indiana Medical College, Wayne Gwin from Indianapolis Law School, Delos Coen and Rice Porter, from Hyde Park Military Actdemy and Auburn Newels, from Cu’ver, are home for the holiday vacation. Two more gamblers were puller in last nigh*, and today the/ are coming in one by one and two by two. Some of the biggest are the hardert to catch, but the dragnet will get ye if j e don’t watch out. When they are all caught there will te eu< ugh for a nice mess,— that is a very nice mess, in ihe newspapers. The regu'ar rate assessed is $5 fine and $9.70 cost?-, in each case. Four dollars on each fine is suspended until the parties are caugldgambling again.

Ann Odelia Diss Debar, a woman < nee 1 otorious in this country, 88 a worker of all shady schemes, and a spiritualist and theosophist fake of the first water, has just been given seven years in Lodon for immoral practices and fraud. Her alleged husband, named Jackson, got 15 years. This Debar weman used to be around Chicago a great deal, and one of her pn nks was suddenly appearing in Cincinnati, in her night clothes, and with the story that she had been abducted by Cathooil priests. It was, of course merely a scheme of her’s to gain notoriety.

G. W. Marshall, of Union Tp., who recently sold his farm to Mrs. Sol McCurtain, has lately returned from a stay of some weeks on the far north side of North Dakota. He has pre-empted 160 acres there and will spend most of next year there, until he can prove up and get his deed. It is the wonderful deep black soil that is found in that region, and George says he never saw finer crops in his life than they raised ..there this year. He don’t intend to stay there permanently, however, as eight months holed up for winter every year is not a prospect much to bis inclination. Call at Huffs Jewelery store before you select your holiday presents