Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXXIV NO. M

A Letter From Mexico.

Editor of Republican;— Ought one to print any observations about a country whose language one does not know? In the best schools here the study of English is compulsory, Diaz proposes to fit the ooming Mexicans to speak both Spanish and English so as to be able to do business any! where on the continent. We looked in on the Pan American congress and no members so need an interpreter as ours. Senator Davis stated that all but our representa-tive-speak Spanish: Our Embassador Gen. Powell Clayton cannot yet communicate with the Mexicans by direct speech and says he was to. old to learn being now 71. When we crossed the river at El Paso we were de&rly aware that we were in a foreigneouotry. The revenue officers could speak Eog lish and courteously .looked over our ward robe ami found nothing dutiable. _ It will probably not be so easy to get back into our own country. The land is a desert for two hundred miles and our first night at Chihuahua and a tour of observation showed the many destinctive features. The cold-wave followed usj and at Lamar, Las Vegcs, Albuquerque, El Paeo, Chihuahua! and Mexico, every one said it was ; the coldest wave known for years, The school boy who thinks the torrid zjne is hot must reckon altitude as well as latitude. The churches, the markets and the people are the three matters to which a stranger is strougly attracted. The dry, cold air does not drive the Mexieanlto the use of fire, As the sun comes up, and nearly every day is a dear one, the Mexicans stand close along the wall, with eyes sunward to warm by their only stove. We being used to a house temperature of over sixty shiver in an air below fifty. In this country the men, like our birds, wear the fine feathers in their bats, while the ladies as a rule U:e plain sombre oolors in dress. The Indians, and peons of both sexeß take their places with the burrors as burden bearers. It is said if you raise the wages of a day laborer lie will work less days and in large manufacturing establishments all are paid each day. If the laborer has more tbau one pesos be won’t work as a rule. The strikes here are caused by high rather- than low wages. This oountry is making fast strides under Diaz who is givin/ the people a paternally free and peaceable government. He is serving kiß four k successive term under a constitution limiting the presidency to one term and yet Juo imperialist ones are heard. As human ‘slavery never existed here race distinctions are not known. Even Diaz hath a trace of Indian blood. The houses here have the lawn inside surrounded by walls, and every Apartment opens thereon all of which is very nice in warm weather. The Mexioan cooking is not palatable and we are not hungry at all. A sight is usually sufficient to satisfy the ordinary craviDgs of hunger. We will return well paid for our journey and glad we have been to Mexico, The cities are well policed as to the conduct of the people. Many of the houses are more than four hundred yearn old, and yet well preserved, and owing to the dry air not even moss grown, Prior to 1858 nearly all the costly buildings belonged to the Church, j The order of sequestration by Pre- j sident Juarez, caused the Empire cf Maximiliam. Now every school j library, museum, or theater is I located within a ohurefi, ~ent , or cathedral. Diaz whoso® -led Juarez is a liberal and permit church

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though his wife is a Catholic and nearly all the people, they do not have the freedom to worship and oarry out to the ritual of Church enjoyed in America. 8. P. Thompson, Agnas Calientee, Mexico. Dec 29tb, 1901.

Lee is a Wizard.

Victor Lee, who appeared at the opera house last night, is a wizard and no mistake. He completly mystified his audience and kept them in a roar of laughter almost continually Ms. Lee is a magician of the simon pure variety and we sincerely hope that our readers will take a bunch and paok the house to the dbora His work is artistic and deserves a crowded house. Last night in addition to his mauy feats of legerdemain he introduced the aerial suspension illusion and the Davenport trick, this being the first presentation iu this city. Tonight he will introduce his sword juggling, a feat that provoked much comment in the soientifio world. Take our reemnnjendation and see the prefortnance tonight.— Montieello Journal. Mr. Lee will be at Ellis’ opera house Monday and Tuesday nights.

New Odd Fellows’ Officers.

Iroquois Lodge Odd Fellows installed the following for the ensuing term, Thursday evening: N. G., P. C. Wasson. V. G , Reuben Dickinson. Sec , A. B. Cowgill. Fin. Sec , R. B. Harris. Treas, T. W. Haus. War., H. P. Overton. Con., John Rush. R. S N. G-, H. J. Kaunal. L. S. N. G., John Mann. R. S. V. G., B. E. White. L. S. V. G., Anson Chupp. R. S. S., G. K. Babcock. L. 8. 8 , Sam Scott. I. G-, 8. B. Holmes. O. G., Frank Morlan.

Marriage Licenses.

T 0 I Riohard E. Farlow, Jan ' M Flora E. Wilcox.

All The News All The Time.

The Chicago Reoord-Herald prints all the news all the time. That’s why the people read it. Members of the editorial staff are required to write only the news—and thb facts. “Fakes” and untruths are .pot tolerated. In domentio affairs no line of activity is overlooked. From the oapital at Washington the fullest and best reports are telegraphed daily. No event takes place in foreign capitals which is not promptly furnished to the readeas of this daily. Special features on the editorial page appear in each issue and add to the great news department an element of delightful matter for leisure moments.

Bicycle Men Getting Busy.

Bicycle men are beginning to drop in on tlm retailers with the spring stock of wheels. There is little change in price, $25 and up buying a good chain wheel while a ebaiuless sells from S6O to $75. A few years ago there were newfangled ideas on bicycles every spring, but a good substantial wheel was soon found be what was needed- Wheeling ceased to be a fajd and became a necessity and bicycles now sell like a wagon or buggy. There -will be no radical cDange iu stylcTas perfection has now abo it been reached.

Lost: —Monday, Deo 23, between A x and Rensselaer, t> light lead cole red overcoat. A liberal reward will be given the finder. Please le ave at this office. 2tp jGo to /Mrs. Purcupile for styles and ew «4l bats, *Two < oilers a mouth bnys a Singer < (wing machine. At the bjiiger c fioe. I dtf

Peach Crop Killed Again?

According to the telegraphic reports from St. Joe, the Michigan peach crop of 1902 has already sustained its first complete killing by hard freezing. This is some months earlier than the peach killing generally begins. Competition among St. Joe telegraph liars will yet result in their “killing” the peach orop for years ahead. But the fruit raisers there never seem to find out what the correspondents do, and go right on, year after year, harvesting and selling big crops of peaches, just the same as if they hadn’t been killed four or five times the previous winter and spring.

Hurty Has Another Spasm.

Dr. Hurty “breaks out” about smallpox oftener and harder than anybody else breaks out with it. This is his latest explosion: ‘Smallpox is popping up in every direction. The disease will prevail until it attacks 80 per cent, of those who are not vaccinated or immune.” Hurty, thou art beside thyself. Much meddling with microbes hath made thee mad!

Thinks It Knocks The T. & C. T. R. R.

Winamac Journal. , It is stated that the purchase of the Eel River road by the Vandalia has struck a stunning blow to the proposed Toledo & Chicagp Transfer line. Large subsidies have been voted in nearly all of the townships between Rensselaer and Ligonier to help build this road, which was to have been a fast freight and passenger line between St. Louis and Toledo, but now that the Vandalia has acquired a similar route it has practically blocked the other road-

Week of Prayer.

The churches of this city will observe the week of prayer with services foil# -nights, TuesdayFriday, January 7,-10. Below is a sohedule of places, subjects and leaders. % Tuesday, “The Church Universal” Presbyterian ohurcb, Rev. T. A. Hall. Wednesday, ‘‘Nations and their Rulers” Christian ohuroh, Rev. W E. Meads. Thursday, ‘‘Families, Colleges and Schools” F. W. Baptist church Rev. C. D. Royse. Friday, “New Christian Races,” Methodist ohurch, Rev. A. G. Wprk.

Stray Pigs Taken Up.

up by the undersigned, at his farm in Keener Tp-, two miles west and a half a mile south of DeMotte, on Wednesday, Jan. Ist.. 1902, 16 stray pigs. Each weighing about 100 pounds. w2t Gebret-Gbevinstuck.

Money To Loan.

I have several thousand dollarof private funds to loan on Real Estate (farms) for from one to three years time ou seven per cent, and small commission in sums of S3OO and upwards. M. F. Chiloote.

Delightful Home Paper.

Read The Chicago ReoordHerald for all the news from all parts of tbe world Buy the Sunday Record-Herald for a delightful home paper which will furnish reading reading matter for every , member of the family, tbe young I and old. It ia “up-to-date,” bright, I beautiful and complete in every department

Money On Farms. At 5 Per Cent. A special fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 6 per cent, interest, with privilege to make partial payments any interest paying time. Also loans on CITY PBOPERTYat low Call or write < OMMERdAL

Vandebilt Said to Have Gobbled the Three I.

Indianapolis Journal. If the report of the transfer of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa road to the Vanderbilts be true, it greatly changes the railway situation in the seotion through which the road passes and is of more importance than would appear on its face. It will relieve the Vanderbilt roads from another competitor between Detroit, Toledo and Chicago. The Indiana, Illinois & lowa runs from Clinton to Bt. Joseph, Mich., and arrangements were being made to complete to Toledo and Detroit, but it is stated this move of the Vanderbilts will head off a feeder for the Lake Shore system. Under the new arrangement it is stated the through freight and passenger business from the East will be turned over from the Vanderbilts’ Eastern road to the Three I.’s at South Bend, Ind., and will pass south of Chicago through Streator, thence to Mendota, 111. from which place it will come to Clinton over a track owned jointly by the Three I.’s and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. The same route will be taken for east-bound traffic, and by utilizing this line much delay at Chicago will be avoided.

Through Sleeper for Florida.

The Monon Route will resume its Florida service Jan. 6, putting on a through Pullman sleeper, leaving Dearborn Station every night at 9 p. m., passing through the beautiful Appalachian mountain region by daylight and arriving at St. Augustine at a convenient hour in the morning. For information regarding Florida, “10 Routes to the South,” see W. H, Beam, agent.

Five Per Cent. Farm Loans.

Farm loans, without delay, at> five per cent., and one to two per oent. commission. No need to pay three to five per oent. commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, Ind.

The Old Becomes New.

An old fashion spelling school and peanut social will be given at the Virgie school house, Union township on Saturday evening Jan. 18th, 1902. A handsome prize will be given to the best speller. Everybody young and old invited, J. P. Garriott, Teaoher.

Fire Per Cent. Loans.

Irwin & Irwin loan the funds of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., whioh has made more loans in Jasper County • than any other Company or person. Loans made promptly. No “red tape.” No extra oharges for making papers; examination of land or abstract. Partial payments accepted. Office in Odd Fellows Temple. Rooms 1 and 2.

Thoroughbred Poland China Swine. For Bale —Some Aextra good heavy boned, Male pigs of the best breeding and fine finish at $lO to sls eaoh. Also several fine sows at $25 eaoh. Everything Guaranteed. Frank O’Meara, River Queen Roller Mills. 5t Rensselaer, Ind. 1 - Work Horses Cheap. Fourteen head good work horses, for sale cheap. At King & Murray’s hitch and feed barn. wtf Bee Dr. Merrill, over Moody & Roth’s meat market. Mrs. Purcupile’s prices are reasonable and she will make especial effort to please her customers. A party wants to borrow not to exceed SI,OOO, from private individuals. For name of party desiring loan, enquire at this offioe. watch, be- ■ : jj| leave

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

Rensselaer is brnsbing her skirts of gamblers and doing the good work thoroughly. Monon should go into dry dock and have her sides scraped of these barnacles. These specimens are quite tame and their brazenness is of general local comment. —Monon News. Governor Durbin has announced the appointment of Henry A. Barnhart, editor and publisher of the Rochester Daily and Weekly Sentinel (democrat), to the board of trustees of the Northern hospital for the insane at Logansport, to succeed Rufus Magee, of Logansport. Mt. Ayr is soon to have a telephone exchange. J. F. Bruner, of the Halleck company, haß been over there and arranged 10 put in a system as soon as’ the holes can be dug for the posts. It will start in with about 50 phones, which will include a considerable number of surrounding farm houses. A statistical report shows that there were more pounds of paper consumed in the United States during 1901 than there were of iron. The paper mills are all behind with their orders and the price of paper has advauoed considerably though it is expected to come down after the holiday rush, William Rayburn, a resident of Gillam Tp., for many years, died Dec. 26th, at the home of his brother, James Rayburn, in Medary ville. This age was something over 77 years. He was never married. The funeral was held at Independence, Gillam Tp., on the 27th, by Rev, D. L. Handley, of Medaryville. It was a newspaper office and the devil was sweeping the floor, to celebrate New Years. Enters lady, who asks if the editor is in. “No mum, he hasn’t come down yet. Anything I can do for ye?” “I don’t know, are you connected with the poetical department? ‘‘Yes, I empty the waste basket.” The lady said she wonld call again. The Monon freight wreck on the Michigan City division last Wednesday night was worse than at first rep jrted. The debris of the wrecked train oaught fire and about a dozen cars are said to have been burned. There were several slight injuries among the crew, but no one was seriously hurt. The wreck train and crew went up to clear the track which was blocked for several hours. The breaking of guy ropes on a pile driver that was being operated at the Barnes bridge, on the Kankakee river between LaPorte and Stark counties, Tuesday evening, caused the derrick to topple over. Bruce Barnes, of Kingsbury the contractor, was carried with it, being pinioned to the bottom of the river by the machinery. The body was recovered after several hoars of difficult work. He was forty-eight years old and left a family. Peter* A. Kliue, of Washington Tp., Newton Co., left Thursday for Oregon, where has bought 1,300 acres of land and intends going into the cattle business. This is one of the war-like and litigious Kline family, and the same Peter A. who had a big trial here, a few years ago, ou the charge of trying to dump Attorney Cbizum into the Iroquois river. The Kentland Enterprise says that after all that has been said, Peter is a square man financially and a genial good fellow personally; also a shrewd business man. Rural free delivery carriers will be placed under civil service on February I. The recent order of the president extending the classtied civil service to the rural freq delivery service contMfjjji .vision that it should

effective as to rural letter carriers until the necessary rules were agreed upon by the civil service commission and the postoffice department. Since that time the commission and a representative of the postoffioe department have held frequent conferences looking to the preparation of plana to meet the special conditions existing in rural communities. A dispatch from Peru, Ind., announces that Rev. Mr. Speicber, a noted elder in Dowie’s Zion church died at Mexico, Ind., Jan. 1, after a three weeks’ illness from pneumonia. No doctor was permitted to see him until it was too late to be of any service. Elder Speioher was one of Dowie’s most eloquent preachers and stood high in the councils of the church. The dispatch states that he came to Mexico about six weeks ago and succeeded Rev. Frank Fisher, as Superintendent of the Aged People’s and Orphans’ Home of the Dunkard denomination.

Still Another Divorce Case.

Still another new divorce case for the February term of the circuit oourt was filed Saturday. Mrs. Laura F. Smith is the plaintiff and John 0. Smith, the defendant. They were married Mar., 1881 and lived together until day of July 1901. She charges cruel treatment in that he cursed and swore at her, called her bad names that conveyed also an impntation against her chastity. Sho also charges that he is a habitual drunkard, ani has failed to provide for her support. Her residence is Rensselaer.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public sale at Swartz Bros.’ farm 4 miles southeast of Pleasant Ridge, in Marion Tp., beginning at 10 o’clock a m., on Tuesday, Jan. 14th, W The following property: 5 work mares, 1 work horse, 1 suckling colt, 2 yearling colts, 2 milk cows with calf, 1 two year old heifer, 1 yearling heifer, 4 spring calves, 1 binder, 2 Brown walking cultivators, mowidg machine, 1 Hoke riding cultivator, 1 corn planter with 120 rods of check wire, 2 steel harrows, 1 disc, 1 hay gatherer, 1 hay rake, 1 end gate seeder with seeder bed, 2 sets of work . harness, 2 sets of single boggy harness, 1 top buggy, 1 road wagon, 1 surrey, 1 broad tired wagon, 1 narrow tired wagon, 1 bay rack. Household goods, including 1 good Singer sewing machine and articles too numerous to mention. Terms of sale: $o and under cash in band; on sums over $5 ten months credit will be given without interest if paid when due, if not paid when due 8 per cent, interest from date of sale, purchaser giving bankable note. Six per cent, discount for cash where credit is due. Peter Ressinger. 8. Phillips & Son, Auctioneers. J. H. Chapman, Clerk. Qua Grant, hot lunch.

Ellis Opera Rouse TWO NIGHTS, £ Commencing flon day, Jan’y Q j MR. VICTOR LEE The World's Best and Funniest WIZARD and hie MERRY cnHPAMY. MjAtfflHkjjt'T...