Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1903 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

A Polish woman in Toledo, 0., gave birth to three babies a Sunday or two ago, and the next day to a fourth that got away the first time. I The Northwestern Indiana Land and Improvement Company, is a White Co. corporation, with $64,000 capital, which will buy and develops farm and timber lands. Robert Parker, of Remington, is one of the incorporators. w At Urbana, Ohio, the coroner has justified the killing of Wm. Heck by Charles Ropp, recently mentioned in this paper. Ropp dearly acted in self defense. He is a brother of the several Ropps living in this vicinity. A party and social dance with everything on a scale of oriental magnificence, was given at the Carrol C. Kent residence, in Kentland, oh New Year’s night. The list of out of town guests fills half a column in the Enterprise. In thig list are the names of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, Mr. and Mrs T. J. McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. F, A. Rose, of Rensselaer. W. P, Chalfant has bought out Moses Leopold’s law and real estate business and succeeded him last Monday. Mose intends to move to Oklahoma in a short time. Mr. Chalfant is a young man whose residence was Burlington, 111, He is a graddate of Monmouth College, and also of the law colleges at Valparaiso and Chicago. There will probably not be any change made in the liquor laws by the present legislature, if the plans of leading members of both houses are carried out. The matter has been informally discussed among several of the senators and representatives, and the concensus of opinion seemed to be that the laws are about- as they should be at present and that it would be unwise to change them.

The fire alarm sounded about 9 o’clock, Sunday night. It was due to a burning chimney at Mrs. N, S., O’Meara’s residence on South Weston street. No damage was done. The fireman made the run and a mighty hard one it was, through the fresh snow and with the temperature below zero. People ought to be more careful about calling cut the fire company when there is no need for it. John F. Judy, of Judyville and every other place, and his former right hand man Neill, of Lafayette have fallen out and he and Judy are at it, hammer and tongs, in the courts and through the newspapers and every other way they can, and not put their skins in danger. They are saying some hard things about each other. Let’s see, what is. that old proverb about some kiqd of folks falling out?

After all it is not wise to poke fun at the weather bureau beoarse it sometimes makes mistakes. It is Claimed that there were $4,000,000 saved by the warnings sent out of the recent cold wave. Perishable fruits and vegetables were not shipped as expected, and in Florida oranges were saved by timely precautions. This is a fair offset against a lot of humor that is ground out during the year with the weather man taking the brunt of it.

The electric light plant at Rochester, this state, was badly wrecked a few nights ago. A new engine was]^propelling the machinery and two set*nuts worked loose on the rod which holds the governor [down, and the governor failed to work. The result was that the engine “run-away” and before the throttle valve could screwed down the plant wak g put out of business and

damage enough done to eat up a year’s profits on the whole system G t £L Healey in the U. 8. print shop at Washington, has just got his permanent appointment, although like all such appointments in that office, the first six months are “probationdry” with the regular permanent appointment sure to follow at the end of that tiinej'ff the appointee’s work proves satisfactory, as his of course will. George is on the night shift now and gets $4.85 for 8 hours’ work. He will this year be entitled to 30 days’ vacation on full pay. In his annual report Postmaster General Payne speaks of the rural free delivery system as having passed the experimental stage, and that it has become an established fact. He feels sure, and the country shares the opinion, that congress will continue to increase the appropriations until the service covers the 1.0C0,000 spare miles which have sufficient population to warrant the service. About onethird of this area is embraced in the 11,500 routes now operated. When the 2,500 other routes required are opened, the annual cost of the entire system, will be $24,000,000. Rev. T. H. Rail, of Crown Point, the venerable historian of northwest Indiana, has just published an account of seeing the great statesman and , orator, Daniel Webster, the “god-like Daniel” in this quarter of Indiana once. He had been to Chicago and was returning eastward in a two horse carriage, and stopped to get his breakfast at a new town on the lake shore called City West, w|iere Mr. Ball then was. From City West, a place which has long since disappeared, he went to Michigan City. The date of this oocurenoe was probably in the early fifties.