Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. James Mead of Hammond is here for a few days visit. U. M. Baughman' went to Medaryville today on business. Mrs. H. Burns went to Rose Lawn yesterday for a few days. 0. W, Murray Started back to Hobart Oklahoma today. Mr, and Mrs O. Hauter went to Chicago today for a short visit. A. P. Sample returned to Merrilan Wisconsin today after a months visit here. Mrs. P. J Pothuisje and baby of Remington came today for a visit with Mrs. Harry Kurrie. Luther Wartena of Hammond is here for a several days visit with relatives. Epworth League Social tonight at the Methodist parsonage. All are invited. , Sunday morning subjects at Christian Church. ‘.The Just shall , lite by Faith.” Evening, “Thou ehalt love thy brother as thyself.” Miss Anna Peters, returned to Monticello last evening after a few days visit with her sister Mrs. H. , W. Prince, northwest of town. Mrs. W. F. Baughman of Me- ’ daryville came yesterday for a several days visit with friends here and at Mt. Ayr. j Mies Nellie McCarthy started ' back to Baltimore Maryland today ; after a months visit with her par- 1 ente. j Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yeoman, of Hammond, came down today on a sad errand. Namely, the burial of their infant child, which died • yesterday. Its »ge was about six months It was buried in Barkley ' Tp Another day of bright sun south winds and rapidly vanishing snow. Overcoats were shed quite extensively, and occasionally a pair of shirt sleeves was in evidence.

Florida and California don’t get quite all the nice winter weather. Andy Anderson, a former resident here, but who made a long jump from Tennesse clear to North Dakota, sometime last year is located 100 miles north of Devil’s Lake, and clear up to the Canadian line. If its cold weather he wants he is*where he can get it. Tippecanoe county holds the record for housing tramps and charging the public treasury an exorbitant price for so doing, having charged up 632 out of a total of 4,101 for the whole state. They cost 50 cents each for sheriff’s fees and-40 cents each for board. Rev. W. E. Meads, who is assisting Rev. Cochran in the meetings at F. W. Baptist church, reports himself as very pleasantly located at Dunkerton, lowa. He could not bring his family with him, owing to the serious sickness of their little baby; which has had chicken-pox. measles and whooping cough, all in quick succession. January is a quiet kind of a month and has practically nothing but New Years day and the Week of Prayer to keep it moving. But little but lively old February always has a whole lot doing.

Ground Hog day comes on the 2nd, Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th, St. Valentine’s day on the 14th, Washington’s birthday on the 22nd, and Ash Wednesday making the beginning of lent nearly always occurs in February. This time on the 25th. Another car load of hard coal got in yesterday or day before, making 15 since the strike. These with the some 10 on hand from last spring make 25 car load for the town this winter. This last load like all others that come was all sold out before it arrived. This eagerness with which hard ooal is snapped up here, in spite of our comparatively very large supply show what the coal famine must be in towns where hardly any hard ooal can be secured, which is the case with most places. Four South Bend young men have been dishonorably discharged from the state militia. One of them, Theodore Krause, was charged with expressing satisfaction at the assassination of McKinley. The others were Frank Brimley, Frank Kitowski and Frank Niereirbime. The disadvantages of dishonorable discharges are many. Unless such charge is revoked, which is rarely the oase, the men under the ban are not allowed to bold public office or take civil service examinations. Judge C. W. Hanley and Reporter Walker returned from Kentland last evening. The Judge’s first term of court in that erstwhile hostile land opened up very nicely, and with an evident disposition upon the Newton county bar to appreciate and reciprocate the just, honorable and courteous treatment they will receive from the bench. In fact, everything went along without the least unpleasantness. There is no very great amount of court business on hand over there, and court is adjourned until week after next The new uourt {house matter did not come up, and is awaiting the return of E. B. Sellers, who is in the south. He is expected back about the 25th of this month.

SATURDAY.

Mias. Russel, Harmon returned from LaSalle today. W. C. Milliron of Monticello was in town today. Warren Washburn of Goodland is here today.

A. Lewis of Lafayette was in town yesterday. Mrs. G. E. Murray is recovering from a severe attack of bronchitis. Henry Eiglesbach, some miles southeast, is laid up with rheumatism, R. B. Harris is another sufferer from the very prevalent disease, bronchitis. Born, Friday night,' Jan. 17th, to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Leavel, in Barkley Tp., a daughter. Misses Ruby and Amy Knowlton went to Valparaiso today to attend sohooL . Frank White of Lafayette returned home today after a short visit with C. C, Starr. Miss Maude Healey went to Brookston last evening for a few days visit. Dr. Frank Hemphill of Se'eleyville came last evening for a few days visit with relatives. Mrs. J. A. Jones, after a few days visit with Mrs. G. H. Maines went to Ottowa, 111., this morning, for a few days before returning to her home in Delphi. Dr, J N. Hurty, the retiring state health officer, has been appointed principal health officer, for the St. Louis world’s fair exposition at St. Louis for the period of three years at the snug little salary of >6,000 a year. Mrs. Logan Wood is doing finely since her very severe surgical operation of Thursday after noon by Dr. Byron Robinson, of of Chicago. It was done with marvelous skill. It is said to be the 900th time he has performed the same operation.

O. 8. Baker, [is the southeast part of town, while unloading wood yesterday, let a stick fall and catch his front finger of the right band, breaking the bone. He has already been laid up a good deal this winter, from sickness. The local ice men have made fine progress in filling their ice bouses. Moody & Roth, G. A. Striokfaden and J. J. Eigelsbacb all finished filling their houses today. M. P. Warner has a big start made on his, but will not finish filling until Monday. Donnelly Lumber 00, received a oar load of hard ooal of the egg or furnace size, today. A couple of days ago they got a car of the nut size. These make 10 cars in all of bard ooal for that one firm since the strike. The nut coal vanished like mist before the summer sun but some of the egg size is still to be bad. The Hebron News mentions the remarkable fact that since March 4tb, 1865, when the first passenger train ran through that town on the Pan Handle road, 14 persons have been killed on a mile of track through that town. They were all killed by separate accidents and only one in a wreck. The News says it is the most fatal mile of track in the state, outside the large citiiee, and not the scene of some terrible wreck.

Crown Point Register: The Rensselaer Republican spoke some solid truths last week in regard to murderers and mobs. It noted several terrible oases of murder in this stats in recent years, which were soon dropped, by the guilty ones esoaping through the meshes of the law, or were never oaught, and then cited the “awful” mob case in Sullivan county where f the guilty one got his just deserts at

the hands of the people, which will never be forgotten, and is “a grea blot on Indiana’s fair name.’ Lynchings are never forgotten, but the worst murderers drop of sight, and in many cases are pardoned out after serving a short time, i| sentenced. mondayT Ernest Stewart of Hammond w- • * spent Sunday here. Miss Grace Jacks spent Sunday at Lee. U. M. Baughman went t j Winamac today on business. Dr. I, B. Washburn went to" Logansport, today on a business trip. Mrs. B Forsythe arrived from her extended stay in Ohio, Saturdays night. Ed Tharp of Chicago, came down today to visit his relatives here. Student Grimme, at St Josspn’s College, is recovering from an attack of pneumonia. Frank Ransford and three children of Chicago spent Sunday with his brother E. V. Ransford and family. John Faroe, on the .Cale Hopkins farm northwest of town has a severe case of grip, with complications. Miss Flora Harris entertained a party of young people Saturday evenihg. Piano music by an apollo was the principal entertainment.

Paris Daugherty, of six miles southeast of, town who is going to move to the Big Horn country soon is advertising a sale for Wednesday Jan., 28th. Joseph Schofield, the liveryman tenant of the brick bam on Front street, has moved his entire outfit to Goodland. He has been located in Rensselaer quite a number of years. Alpha a little daughter of Mason Kenton, fell on the ice at the Surrey school house last Tuesday, and was severely injured, and has been seriously sick, but is better now. Chester Zea moved today from Mrs. Spitler property on Weston street into Mrs. Hammona’s house corner of Divison and Washington street, lately vacated by Joe Schofield. The meetings at the F. W. Baptist church, by Revs. Cochran and Meads are being very largely at • tended, and with constantly increasing interest,,. Two additions to the church membership have already resulted. The manager of the grand opera house at Anderson is under indictment for giving Sunday theatricals. He says he will retaliate by going after other businesses run on Sunday, and the preachers for performing their work on Sunday.

The Lafayette Democrat has been making wholesale charges of corruption in the city government, and the ministers of the Star City have taken up the matter and have asked Governor Durbin to appoint an investigating committee. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vedder and children arrived from Montana Sunday, and are at present staying with her sister, Mrs. C. A. Dean. Mrs. Vedder stood the journey well and is feeling better than when she left Bozeman, Thursday. They will make their home somewhere in this state or in Illinois. Rumors of further impending warfare on Hostile Row have been rife today, but so far peace still reigns, and no occasion has arisen for calling out the militia. Oom* pany M. will sleep on their arms for a night or two yet, however, to be ready for emergencies. Charles W. Fairbanks will be re-elected to the United States senate, Tuesday, by the unanimous vote of the Republican members of the state legislature. The chief nominating speech in the house will be made by Representative Booth Tarkington, of Indianapolis the distinguished author. In the senate the chief nominating speech

will be made by Senator W. A. Kittenger, of Anderson, Dr. A. J. Miller, in the room in Forsythe’s block lately vacated by Dr. Berkley, has ordered a new x-raymaobine of the latest and most approved make, which he expects to arrive in a few days. These machines are not only invaluable in locating foreign sub stances in the body and diseased or injured bones, gall and bladder stones etc, but they are also remarkably effective in the cure of a large class of disease. Reprcientaiive Jesse E. Wilson spent Saturday and. Sunday at home. He has introduced a bill amending certain drainage laws, and the Democrat says it reduced the pay of viewers and that Gifford was probably the father of the bill. As a matter of fact the bill increases the pay of viewers, and it was introduced at the request of the Iroquois ditch promoters, and to which ditch Mr. Gifford is not friendly. It is necessary to pay viewers more as none can be got to work at the rate paid them now. The weather grew much oolde Saturday night and remained cold all day Sunday, the temperature on both Saturday and Sunday nights being down to 10 degrees above zero Today the shifting of the wind to southerly brings warmer weather again, The colder weather worked mightily to the advantage of Uncle Marsh Warner in keeping the ice in good shape till he finished filling his ice house but whether it turned that way exclusively for his benefit we are unable to state positively. The German gunboat Panther shelled a fort at Maraioaibo, Venezuela, Saturday, but according to accounts, without any injury to the fort, and with 3 men wounded on the ship. It is stated that the shelling was done without provocation and without previous notice to the fort. The bullying, bulldozing methods of the Germans in this Venezulan affair is only a sample of that nation’s bearing towards all weak nations since the Great War Lord came to the throne; but it is far indeed from what the masses of the peaoable just-minded German people would be in favor of. Be that as it may, it is fortunate indeed for the peace of the world that England, now our best and only European friend, is united with Germany in this demonstration against Venezuela, although not in any of these uncalled for acts of arrogance. If it were not so Germany would be called down, and the danger of a war would be very great. As it is, these German outrages ought to convince congress of the necessity of at once providing for an immense increase in our naval strength.