Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1902 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. B H. Raynor with wife and children of Gilman, 111, transacted business in Rensselaer yesterdayMrs. Nellie Hanscome, of Valparaiso, crme today to visit her grandfather, W. E. Moore. Miss Glen Burton, night telephone operator wentlo Rose Lawn last evening to spend a week’s vacation. Mrs. A. Graham returned this morning to her home in Wolcott after a few days visit with relatives here. Mrs. J. M. Troxell, Mrs. Bruce Scott and J. F. Antrim went to DeMotte this morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Geo. Antrim. Bill N. Jones left on the 1:45 train this afternoon for Indianapolis where he will meet McCay, the champion bowler of Indiana, in a contest. Mrs George Gorham and children went to Lafayette this morning where they were called by her mother-in-law’s serious 'sickness. Mr. Gorham having gone several days ago. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Nowels arrived from Lamar last evening and will remain here and at Culver until after their son Auburn graduates, on June sth. They have been enjoying excellent health at Lamar. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy went to Indianapolis this afternoon to attend the dedication. Their daughter Mrs Berkley and son Taylor went with them and Taylor will go on to Annapolis in a few days. Chas. E. Neff, of Warsaw, president of the Warsaw Cereal Company, and geheral ag¥rit’foF"the Artificial Stone Post, Is in town today. He wishes to arrange for the manufactuqp of his post in Rensselaer, for Jasper county. The sale of S. E. Yeoman’s farm in Union Tp., mentioned some time ago. was not finally consummated, and he still owns the place,' and his working it. He was to have sold it for $37.50 per acre, -and has since been offered S4O but thinks he will keep it himself.

Revs. C. D. Royse, of Rensselaer, O. E. Chivington, of Barkley, H. M Middleton, of Remington, and J. R. Troxell, of Morocco, all took the milk train here this morning to attend the Valparaiso district ministeral association at Hammond. Mrs. Middle ton was also a member of the party.

Auditor W. C. Babcock has gone to French Lick Springs, where Mrs. Babcock preceded him, and where he will take treatment for stomach trouble for about 10 days. His partner in the grain business, A. F. Hopkins will also go down there in a few days, for a short sojourn. Burgess Dillon, the newly appointed night watch, is doing some carpenter work in the country and Constable Christie Vick is acting for him until he* returns, In the meantime Mr. Childers is can--vassing among the merchants to obtain a continuance of their support, half or more of the night watch’s pay coming from the merchants.

Sheriff Hardy and Deputy Grant landed Charley Chadwick and James W. Edwards at Michigan City yesterday, without any exciting incidents. Chad wick was disposed to take matters philo-t sophically, but Edwards felt pretty badly broken up. And especially kt leaving his wife and young children. The sheriff saw A. P. Baker who still holds down his job in the chair factory, and who had no complaints to make regarding is treatment in prison,

WEDNESDAY. W. 0. Nelson is in DeMotte on business today. B. F. Fendig and Edward Rhoades are in Indianapolis. Mrs. Geo Robinson and daughter lima went to Indiaiaapolis this afternoon. Mrs. F. B Meyer went to Chicago last evening for a short visit with her son, Janies. Miss Blanche Potts went to OhalmerS last evening for ansfioTT visit with her brother Everett. Mrs. Wilber Hart returned this morning from an extended visit at Kankakee, 111., with her parents. Squire W. E. Moore is reported a little better today, and with prospects for recovery considerably more hopeful. Mrs Joe Kight, of Thayer, and Mrs. Isaac Kight, of Fair Oaks, came last evening for a couple days’ visit with Mrs. Arthur Catt. Mrs. E. A. Horner, of Leadville, Colorado, and sister Mrs, W. B. Austin, of Chicago, made a -short visit to Rensselaer this afternoon. Mrs. Charles Parker and chil* *dren went to Frankfort this afternoon for a short visit with her husband's mother, Mrs. Isabelle Parker.

Mr and Mrs. Geo. Sigler, of Mt. Ayr, took the train here yesterday afternoon for Chicago, where they will visit their daughter, Mre, Lee Haskell. , A two year old daughter of Byron Iliff is very dangerously sick at the home of its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Reed, north of the railroad. The farmers in this vicinity are all busy planting their corn now, or preparing their ground for planting, some of them not yet having started their planters. Mrs. Emerald Aldrich went to Kramer this morning to join her I husband who is still there taking treatment at the springs, and making progress towards recovery.

Joe Bennett returned from Chicago today where he has-been purchasing new recoids for his phonograph. He has quite a selection of the very latest pieces. Uncle Ad Parkison has been confined to his bed by ’sickness for some days past but his physician reports that he will soon be able to be about, as usuals Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark returned from Indianapolis this morning where they attended the encampment. Mr. Clark says that company M. is well located and enjoying camp life. Capt. J. W. Elam, the internal revenue collect for this region was in town today and requests -that mention be made of the fact that after July Ist all Spanish war taxes will be taken off. Sheriff Hardy has not yet taken James Edwards to the reformatory, at Jeffersonville., having been detained at home to look after one of his horses which has been sick. He will probably go to Jeffersonville tonight, or Thursday.

Mrs. E. L. Hollinsuorth arrived home from her California trip and left again this morning for Kalamazoo, Mich., for a short stay with her daughter Cecelia who has been quite siok with scarlet fever, but Is now somewhat improved. President W, H. McDoel, of the Monon, is now at New York confering with the Gates syndicate regarding the proposed consolidation with the L. & N. system.' Mr. McDoel talks of the consolidation as though not yet accomplished, but very soon to be.

We are reliably informed that the celebrated cattle case of Halligans vs Tanner and others will now be appealed to the Supreme court. The fact that Judge Palmer who tried the case at Monticello had over-ruled the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial was mentioned a few days ago. Mrs. J. L, Hagios, of Minneapolis, Minn , who has been here some time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ned Irwin and her sister, Mrs. William Powers, left this morning for Kansas City, Mo., where she will join her husband. He has been in the employ of the Pullman Car Co., for a number of years and has lately been transfered from Minneapolis to Kansas City. C. B. Steward is at Indianapolis, representing Albert J. Guthridge Post, at the State Encampment G. A. R. He reports that there are three regiments of the state militia and one or two batteries in camp at the fair grounds. Also the Rensselaer boys may be seen scattered along the race track, except such as are excused from duty by the surgeon, on account of cold feet. E. L. Hollingsworth left for New York City this morning, to attend, in the capacity of a lay delegate the Presbyterian General Assembly, which convenes in that city Thursday evening and continues for ten days. He is one of the two lay delegates to which Logansport Presbytery is entitled, and was elected at the spring meeting of the Presbytery, in April,

David Clark of Joplin, Mo., is here for a month’s visit with his brother T. F. Clark, tue county farm superintendent and his sister Mrs. R. C. Dowler and other relatives, for abont a month. This is his first visit here, and the second time he has met his relatives since

the civil war. He wears the army blue and was in the army the whole period of the war, first in the 10th Indiana and then in the 33rd Indiana. A. F. Long’s drug store show window is now the center of almost as much interest as during the corn show last fall. Now there is nothing shown in the window except poisonous substances. Of theses there is a great- variety from a bottle of common “bug juice,” to strychnine, arsenic, corro sive sublimate, blue -vitriol, morphine, opium, all sorts of insect and vermin exterminators.etc- A small artificial human skeleton is labelled as that of a boy killed by

smoking cigarettes. A genuine human skull is labelled as that of a man killed by an onion breath, and some of the onions that Caused the breath afefhere to prove it. A card beneath the skull reads: “Alas poor Hardman. I knew him well.” (Ross)

THURSDAY. Mrs. Joe Jackson and daughter went to Mackinaw, Hl., today for a week’s visit with relatives. Miss Etta Stooksick returned to Paxton, 111., today, after two weeks’ visit with her parents here. Ft. Joseph College base ball team will go to Delphi next Thursday to play the Delphi ‘'White Stockings.” Julian Hopkins went to Lafayette last night, to accept a position as agent for the Scranton School of Correspondence. Mrs. Ruth Littlefield, of Remington, took the train here today for Fair Oaks, where she will make a few days’ visit with her son.

r Mr. and Mrs. Nick Krull went to Monon, their new location, this afternoon. Mrs. C. Ramp, her mother, went with them for a short stay. Rensselaer has again been honored by the choice of one of our residents to the chief state office of an organization. Mrs. Carrie Porter, of our city, was elected state president of the Ladies of the G. A. R., at their meeting in Indianapolis this week. She has heretofore held other state offices in the organization, and last year was state delegate at large to the national meeting. A bunch of big fat steers these days are more to be chosen than that many shares in a gold mine. As witness a sale of 20 head made yesterday by B. D. Comer, trustee of Union Tp. He sold 20 big ones at the stock yards and they brought $7.05 per 100 pounds*, which so far as we have heard, is the record price for Jasper county cattle, this year. The steers netted Burney SIOO 55 per head. The body of Carrie Stangelmaier, a 19 year old girl, was found in the Wabash river, below Lafayette Tuesday. She disappeared 10 days before from the home of President Stone, of Pardue University where she had been work- 1 ing, leaving a note that indicated intention to commit suicide. She was found by her father who had been searching for her ever since her disappearance. John Duvall, son of C.W. Duvall, has gone on a two months’ traveling tour with Ike Leaverman, traveling for a big Chicago firm. They .will make all important towns in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. John goes in the capacity of packer, and has the care of Leaverman’s ten big sample trunks. It will be a fine opportunity for John to get next to the clothing salesman’s business,

Other old soldiers, aside from < those already mentioned who have < been at Indianapolis this week, I for the state encampment the mon- < umentdedication etc., are J. M. < Wasson, J. A. Burnham, D. H. < Yeoman, J. M. Troxell who repre- < sentsPost 84,1. N. Hemphill, John I Sullivan. R. H. Grow, Shelby < Grant, G. P. Daugherty and Wm. j Powers. The last named was j color bearer for his old regiment, < dedication parade, today. ’ ' The work of demolishing the ' second and larger old building, at ' Liberal corner, began today. ' This is the building that Tom ' Clark built, early in the 50s, and in which himself and bis two brothers kept store for quite a long time. Its huge frames of hewed oak are sound as the day they were raised, and the buiilding would have stood for many years. Hiram Day bought both these big buildings for 1100, and will no doubt save enough good building material from them to pay him well for bis work and money. The United States government is now doing its full share towards the relief of the 40,000 or 50,000

famine stricken.people of Mar r t tipique. Congress has appropriated 5500,000 for the purpose and President Roosevelt has pushed forward the relief work with even more than customary energy and intelligence. In fact he did not wait for Congress to overcome the opposition of Underwood or Dunderhead or whatever his dispicable name is, of but ordered the Cruiser Cincinnati to proceed to the stricken island tc begin the work of relief before the appropriation bill was passed. The Oklahoma wild cat in the post-office window now has to take a back seat in popular interest to a correspondingly fierce water denizen, from Jasper county. . It is a 10 pound gar fish, about 3| feet long, caught here Wednesday evening by J. J. Montgomery and C. C. Chamberlain. They wefer seining for minnows back of the laundry when this big fellow and two much smaller gars came along and they threw the whole lot out on the bank, with their minnow net. These gars, which are useless for food and are very destructive of other fish, used to be very common in the river here but are not often seen now. About a third of their length is in their long bills, which are well provided with sharp teeth.