Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. '/ Eugene, Spitler went to Tipton, Ind., today for a few days’ visit. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker went to Chicago today for a short visit. Frank Foltz went to Montioello today on legal bnsineas. Mrs. Qrlando Fifiney returned to Elwood, Ind., today after a several days’ visit here. The Rensselaer dooters are busy now vaoelnating people. It is a wise precaution. v K Mr. anc Mrs. Joseph Corps, of Darlington, Ind., returned home today aftera week’s visit with Mrs. Mary A. Foltz. Today's blight sun, south wind and 45 degrees in the shade, is ufaking fast work of Saturday night’s ten inches of snow, The sleighing is already used up. H. P. Overton went to Hammond last evening where he has a position as bookkeeper with an elevator firm. He will probably move his family in a month or two. j Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sayler arrived from Lamar, Colo., today, and ex-j peot to remain about a week, visit- j ing friends and lookiug after business matters. . j Another instance of triplets born ' in Jasper oonnty has been, heard from. It oooured 25 or 30 years ' ago. The parenta were Unde j John Groom, of near Groom’s 1 bridge, and a former wife, now 1 deceased. ,None of the triplets' lived to grow up. The annual convention of the Lincoln League of Indiana will be ' held Feb. 12 and 13 at Indianapolis and it is likely that several Rena- 1 selaer republicans will attend the meetings. Senator Burton of Kan- 1 sas will open the convention with an address at the Denison .hotel at 2p. m. Feb. 12. That evening a banquet will be spread at the Denison, at which the most prominent republicans of the state will be present. Frank Wempe, the elderly party charged with doing up Geo. Strickfaden, has not yet been brought into oourt for a hearing. The matter is being delayed pending an attempt to have the man at Louisville whom he drew the bogus " draft on. oome up and testify. C. E. Morlan, who took his son Forrest to the Presbyterian hospital at Chioago, today, will remain during considerable part of his stay. Mr. Morlan’s work as janitor of the oourt hohse will be looked after by 8. B. Jenkins, during his absenoe. Four more additions to the mamberslitp of the Christian ohuroh were made yesterday raising the total to 28 sinoe the meetings started. The sermon subjeot tonight will be: "If Christ came to Rensselaer some of the things He would see and Tear.’’ ' J. W. Walker, the oourt stenographer, went to Indianapolis, today. He has a 30 days' job at reporting for the state legislature, It is not likely that there will be any very great need of a stenographer during the present term of our circuit oourt, and what need there is can be supplied by some of our resident stenographers. There is nothing like the Evkmiko Republican for quick results in advertising. Thus the nottoe in Monday’s paper that George Strickfaden was lost or stolen hadn't-been published more than two hours When George came rolling in on the milk tn|in. Like the big Injun, : he does not acknowledge having been lost, bat intimates thki his wigwam may

According to one report the reason of his long stay in Chicago and inability to be located, was due to the elevator boys’ strike. He having according to the report, gone to the top story of a tall building befose the Strike, and it starting white he was up there, it took him one day to find the stairs and another day to walk down them. The jury in the Patterson vs | Martin slander oase, of Carroll oonnty, stood at first ten for the defendant and two for the plaintiffs In their answers to the interrogatories, they find that the plaintiff did stay all night with Ira Moore, in a boarding house at Logansport. And that makes one more oase where rapaoious attorneys failed in their attempt to hold up a good man and rob him on a oase taken on speoul&tion, Mrs. Sarah Brown, of Danville 111., whose eioknees has been received frequent mention died this Tuesday morning Feb. 10th, 1933, at her home at Danville, at 3 o'clock. Her children were with her at the end, inoluding Mrs. Dr. English and Dr. H. L. Brown, of Rensselaer. Her age was about 63 years. She was the widow of Dr. M. whose death ocoured not a great while ago. The funeral will be held Thursday, at Urbaua, 111, their former home Tony dtriokfadeu, who went to Chioago yesterday' afternoon, to look for his brother George, who didn’t kuow he was lust, passed the latter somewhere on the road, and of oourse without knowing it. It was supposed that Tony would think George was still in Chicago, and that he would keep searohing for him until himself was supposed to be lost and bad to be sent for. Instead of that, however, Tony oame back on the late train, last night. Jerry Healy terminated his work as a clerk in John Eger’s grooery, last Saturday night and will now treat himself to a good long rest He has beeq, with Mr. Eger nine years and previous to that clerked for other parties about nine years also. That is 18 years in all or longer by four years than Jaoeb served for Raohel, and Jerry don’t seem to have ’ary a Raohel either. He has got a good start in this world’s wealth, however, and a reputation that is above rubies. So that if he wants a Raohel,' he oan find one pretty quick. Jerry is now figuring on a trip to New Orleans to see the Mardi Gras. For some unexplained reason the 4:30 a. m. train north, this morning, rushed thjbugh and never even slackened speed; and very much to the disgust and annoyanoe of a number of persons who had gone to the depot at that very inoonvenient hour, intending togotoOhioagoonthattrain. Tbs worst feature about it was that the party whioh was going to take little Forest Morlan to the hospital, was among these disappointed ones. Forest, who Was there on his stretcher, was taken to Burgess Dillon’s hones, snd waited until the 9:55 a. m. train. The milk train was avoided on aooonnt of its frequent stops and therefore, for an invalid, tedious trip to the oity. If any of onr readers have any radium in stock whioh they are holding for a rise in price, they had better unload, right now, before it gets any oheaper. A London ohemist, who pretty nearly has a oorner on the arttole, has just pot the prioe down from SI,OOOOOO to $900,000 a pound. Radium ie a subatanoe discovered

some years ago, whioh bna the quality of giving out a light that rivals the sun in and far exceeds sun light in penetrating power; as photographs have been taken by it through three feet of iron or a foot of lead. The whole known stock at present in the world, is only two pounds

WEDNESDAY. C. 0- Starr is getting about again after two week’s quite severe sickness. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gamble went to Chioago today for a few days’ visit.

Mrs. J. A. Larsh returned home from Kokomo, today after a weeks visit with her mother.

J. F. Irwin is recovering very satisfactorily, after about two weeks’ sickness, from a return of his old kidney trouble. F. B Meyer’s name was sent to the Senate, Tuesday, for reappoinment to another tqrm of four years as postmaster at Rensselaer. v

Philip Blue is getting down to the work in good shape as superintendent of the oonnty poor farm. The inmates at the farm are now only eight in number. Geo, R. Keever, on Dr. Hartaell’s farm, west of town, is preparing to move to Dakota, in a short time. E. C. Maxwell will succeed him ss tenant of the Dootor’s farm.

At last night’s meeting at the Christian oharch there were six new members taken into the church, making 29 in all. These six were all adults;

Gus Bushong is in town today, and reports himself just getting about after a spell of lung fever. He is still with the range people, but now in the oapaoity of an in speotor.

The Ladies Literary Club will hold their regular meeting, Friday at 2:30 p. m. at Mrs. Alfred Thompson’s residence. The change from the regularly appointed plaoe, is made on account of siokness.

February ought to be a very popular month if there ia anything in being a good “mixer.” [t gives ns rain, snow, sleet, fog, clouds, sunshine, winds from all directions, and sometimes pretty nearly all in the same day. s

A new driving team in town attracts considerable attention is driven by Aus Moore’s yonng son. It oonsists of a pair of goats, hitched to a wagon of about the proper size. They seem to be well broke snd pretty good steppers, for goats.

The biggest thing in the line of a hog sale ever held in Jasper oounty, took plaoe Tuesday near Remington. M. B. Graham sold 56 full blood Poland Chinas, all of his own raising, and they brought an aggregate of $2,256, The prioes ranged from S2O np to $lO4. The sale was by publio auction. The D. A. Stoner poultry house shipped oat a lot of fine fowls today, and among theae were two fine bronze gobblers consigned to Wm. Cook & Son, Wopping House St Mary’s Cray, Kent’s England. They are ordered tor breeding purpose*. The Stoners have previously filled two orders for turkeys for Engl and, and some chickens Commissioner Halleok, whose intention to 'move to Rensselaer was previously mentioned, has ranted Mrs. Henry Thornton’s house in Mis northwest part of

town. He expeots to move down about Ist of March, if Mr. White his snooeesor in charge of the Halleok telephone central, is ready by that tiie to take charge, Mr. Halleok is moving to town to bn-' able him to devote more attention to hie law, practice, and to give his children schooling facilities. Mrs. Halleok. also desires to extend her field as a teaoher of music. Frank Wempe was arraingoed in ooort today, on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. He. refused to have an attorney appointed by the oourt, claiming that he had plenty of mohey to hire one. But after he had engaged one, it developed that he had no money and no known means of raising any. He wrote to his wife for money but she had none either. He appears to have been spending all he oould get lately in having a "good time.” His trial will be set for one day. next week.

Today is the 11th day of February. and both the calendar and the weather show that winter is wearing fast away. The winter of the calendar, Deoember, January and February is more than four fifths gone, and the aotual winter of the weather, is more than two thirds, and perhaps three fourths over with. We are getting a much more liberal deal in the way of daylight too, than we have been having for some time past. Thus today the sun rose at one minute before 7 o’olock. That is the first time the sun has crawled out before 7 o’olook, in this latitude, since Nov* 25th. The sun’s time of retiring is also constantly becoming later. Today it sets at just 5:30 p. m„ making the days’ length just 10 hours and 81 minutes.

THURSDAY. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth are in Hammond today. Mrs. A. J. Brenner went to 1 Woodland today for a few days visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Magee went to Stontsberg today on aooonnt of the serious siokness of his sister. Miss Mary Kent of Brookston oame today for a few day’s visit with Rev. A. G. Work and mother. Mrs. G. W. Goff went to Chicago this morning and will visit at Crown Point and Hebron before returning home.

Today is Lincoln’s birthday. The oloeing of the banks, as a legal holiday is about the only observance the day has reoeived here. Dr. E. C. English went to Danville, 111., last night to attend the fnnerei of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brown, at Urbana, today. He will return Friday morning, The expressage on the two Tom Turks shipped to England by Stoner, Wednesday, will be about $3.50 to New York. From there to their destination/it will be $lO. Putnam oounty, of whioh Grceaoastle is the oounty seat, has just held an eleotion, under a special law, on the qnestiou of building a new $150,000 oonrt house. The proposition oarried by a big majority* A new oonrt honse is needed there, badly enough. Gottleib Makus, a native of Germany long a resident of Union Tp., died laet Tuesday at his home there, at the age of 57 years, 5 months snd 19 days. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, at the German Lutheran ohuroh, in Union, by Rev. Bauer, of Goodland Interment waa in the Sohnltz* cemetery.

In accordance with he modified ripper bill, reoently passed. Gov. Durbin has summarily removed John B. MoDonald, of New Albany, aq pne of the board of managers of the Jeffersonville Reformatory. It is understood that MoDonald will demand a hearing and written oharges, as he has a right to do under the law.

February still keeps np the pace for the frequent ohanges of weather, yet so far the weather though much mixed has been decidedly 'mild, there having been neither m severe oold nor howL

ing storms. Even the bid snow of last Saturday night oame down as gently as it could, and has made *ll reasonable haste in getting out of the way again. There is only enough of it left now/to trim the black edges with white. The daffy damsel was in town again this morning, coming on the 7:30 and leaving at 11. She did not get to see the present special object of her persecutions, this trip, but seemed to take ht-r disappointment with accustomed jollity. On leaving she intimated that she was going for good this time and would never come baok anymore. At the depot she admitted that it was a pretty tough proposition to be ia love, but declared that ibis waa the first and only time she had ever been in that condition.