Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. f-r ' ' M. L. Hemphill the blacksmith is remodelling and enlarging hie residence building on Front street. Work on the superstructure of Littlefield’s new residence on Cnllen street is under wav. Mrs. Harry Knrrie and M s. Add Parkisou went to Crawfordsville today to attend The State Federation of Literary Clubs. Mrs. Sarah Weil of Peoria, 111, came today for a few days visit with relatives the Tuteurs and Wildbergs. The insane asylum deoliued to receive George Hellingreen, of the county asylum, on the grounds of lack of room. Mrs W. A Hetlioh of New York returned home last evening after a short visit with her mother Mrs. E J. Morris. Dr. I. B Washburn’s new residence on Milroy avenue is making good headway It is a brick venier building and will make a very pleasant residence. Mrs. Parker Uveitou went to Hammond last eveuiug to visit her husband who has a good position as stenographer for the Junction-City Kail road Co. A severe snow storm Las been raging in the state of Montana for two or three days past and there is now a depth of from four to ten inohes, and m uch damage done. M. L. Hemphill has gone to Indianapolis, today, to arrange to have the oastings made for his improved horse-stooks, whioh he expects to begin to put on the market, in a short time. Dr. I. M. Washburn, oounty health officer, went to Medaryville, today, on offioial business. The doctors over there oau not agree as to what a disease they have there is, and so they oalled him over to settle the matter for them. Mrs. E. P. Honan went' to Delphi Monday afternoon, on acoonnt of the death of James O’Conner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. O’Conner, old friends of the Honans. He was a very bright and promising young man, and only about 21 years old. The funeral will be held Wednesday foranoon. Mr. Worth Kolb, of Omaha Neb., spent Sunday here with bis family and his sister, Mrs. Frank Foltz. Worth is now in the employ of the Union Paoifio Railroad Co., in its signal department, and came east to att nd a meeting of the Signal men of the various roads,, at Chioago Saturday. He returned to Omaha yesterday. Oapt. Crawford, of the U. 8 army, returned to Fort Sheridan, this morning. He inapeoted Company M. last night, and waa well pleased with them; and will report

them as in good shape to become a part of the militia branch or tbe regular army. Only 40 of the members were present, whioh was a really larger ntrfhber than was expected nnder present oonditionp, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Watson, of Gillam Tp., arrived here from Boone county, Monday afternoon, on their way home. They were called down there by the news of tbe supposed immediately fatal sickness of Mrs. Watson's mother, j Mrs James Reece. They found her still living, however, and left her so, but with no prospect for , recovery. She has asthma and lung trouble. J. F. Antrim, a former recorder of Jasper oounty, and onoe quite well fixed financially, is now sick at the home of Jim Harrison, in northwestern part of North Dakota He seems to have a obronio stomaoh trouble and with but little prospeot for improvement. A movement is under way to bring him baok and have bim placed nnder tbe oare of bis brother, Frazif r Antrim of Wheatfield Tp. A barn belonging to C. J. Hand who lives miles south of Wheatfield in Walker township was. destroyed by fire Monday evening about 6 o’clock. It w«s valued about SBOO and waa insured with C B. S‘award’s agency for S2OO. The fire is supposed to have been set fjem emoking about the barn. Toe horse were all gotten oat but some harness and minor artioles wero burned.

The injury to John Tanner, cn the Wm. Washburn farm, in Jordan tp., was a pretty severe one, but he is getting over it all right. He%ae holding a post whioh another man was driving with a heavy sledge, when the head of the sledge Came off the handle, and struok Tanner in the ohes*. Man? a man. has been badly hurt, and not a few killed in that very stfhe way. It would be the part of prudence for tbe man holding the post not to stand direotiy opposite to the man wielding the 6ledge, but to one side.

City Health Officer Dr. Av R. Kressler, in a notice published elsewhere, announces that is now s ife again to permit public gatherings of the various kinds. Four days have now elapsed since tbe reporting of any new oases in the city hnd it is now considered that the doctors and the .vaocination have got the best of the situation, It is fortunate indeed that this oomes just as it does as it will now be possible for the regular Memorial Day program to be carried out whioh for the time had begun to look donbtfnl.

It is pretty nearly a literal faot that a Rensaselaer resident can’t bark a- shin or a stab a toe now and not be rumored to have the smallpox. Thus a few days ago

Ernest Morlan, west of town, grated a considerable section of bis arm, while handling a big rook. He showed the place to someone, and remarked he had, “got it good,’’ at«d forthwith the rumor spread all over town that he had tbe smallpox.

The brothers and children of Mrs. Marie Haas left for Defiance, Ohio, with the body, at 2 p. m., today. Oae of the brothers will return here soon to settle up her affairs. Uuiil then it be known wbat diposition will be made of tbe three ohildren, thus left orphans. It is known that there is but little left for their support, a life insurance policy for SI,OOO in the Catbolio Order of Foresters being the prinoipal part. It has been stated that the girl, Raphael, a wonderfully giffed child, from a musical point of view, will be given a home by one of tbe brothers, and that tbe two little boys will be plaoed in some Catbolio Educational institution. It is trnly a sad thing that they can not all be kept together by some relative. It would not be many years before the girl could support both herself and the boys by her musical abilities.

The other day Joe Hoover, day quarantine guard at Elias Hammerton’s saw a man slipping about like be might be trying to get into the house, presumably to visit one of the young ladies there incarcerated. Joe ordered the intruder to be off but, instead, he skipped around the house, with Joe olose after him, yelling at every step, But he was too quick for Joe and got inside the honse, in spite of him. Joe then made a big row and was going to send for the polioe and have the intruder arrested and sent to jail. Explanations became neoeesary, and Joe then learned that a young lady quarantined at the house, Miss Carrie MoKay, had pat on men’s clothes and slipped oat of the house just to have a little fun at Joe’s expense. And the next day she played the same triok on Harvey Moore, the night guard.

WEDNESDAY. Granville Moody went to Chicago on business today. Born, Tuesday May 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Burris near Newland, a daughter. Ed Jakes has gone to lowa, to work in the harvests, and will work north as the harvest does. Mrs. Chris Nafziger southeast of town, is improving from a serious attaok of gall stones. Mrs. Sarah Oowgill arrived home yesterday after a six months’ visit in Louisiana. Mrs. Mary Drake and daughter Nellie went to Chicago today for a few days. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Yonnglas, west of Surrey, a son, May 19th. Hiram Jacks is still holding his own and a little better than that, tedav. The remains of Mrs. Eliza Sunderland were privately bnried last night, in Egypt cemetery, Born, this, Wednetday morning May 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Brown, on Elm street, a son. Mrs. A. E. Brown returned last evening after a several days visit at LaFayette and Brookston. Preparations for Memorial Day obaeryanoe are now under way and

the day will be commemorated in the usual manner. B. S. Fendig was np at Wheatfield Tuesday, to see how hia brother Simou was coming on. He found him quite severely sick, with a liver trouble,

The report of a case at Remington has not been confirmed, and was probably not correct. Anyhow they have been vaccinating over there so well that there is no danger of an epidemic. Unole Abe Leopold is now staying at Hammond with bis daughter, Mrs. Leo Wolff, and making daily trips to Chioago to have his affected ear treated; whioh still gives him a great deal of trouble. There will be the usual services at the Christian ohuroh Sunday, evening. Subject “New Testament History” There will be no morning service on acoount of the Union Memorial services at the M. E. Cnuroh.

Frank Chnpp, delivery clerk and salesman in Forsythe’s grocery department, went to his parents’ heme, near Parr, this morning, to reonperate from a sickness from a stomaoh trouble. Frank, tbe 16 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mustard, east of the depot, was thought to be dying with a spinal and brain trouble, as we went to press. He has been siok about a week. Today is the last day for free vaccination at tbe oourt house. About 10 osme in this forenoon, mostly from tbe country. Practically all of the town people are well vaooinated now, and can kick np their heels at smallpox, now, and for years to come. Dr. and Mrs. S. C Johnson went to Greenoastle, today, and will take part at the initiation of Senator C. W . Fairbanks, at DePauw university, into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in the Alpha Chapter, of Indiana. A grand reception will be a feature of the funotion. George Rishling the 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rishling, of Gretna, Neb , was accidentally killed by tbe discharge of a 22 Calibre rifle whioh he was cleaning, one day last week. He is a nephew of Mrs. Harvey Wood and Mr. T. A. Crookett, of southeast of town.

A big fir© in tbe residenoe district on tbe north aide, in Chicago Tuesday, must have come too near our former townspeople, R. F. Priest and family to be pleasant. The fire was largely on Dunning street on which he now lives. His number is 1214, and tbe fire got as near him as No- 1223, or probably in the next block. Some 45 families were burned out. George Gorham has recently installed a carpet loom at his place, north of the railroad, and has become quite aq. expert weaver of rag carpets, in spite of the possession of only one arm. He weaves “hit and miss” carpets, at 16 cents per yard, and furnishes his own obuin. He should be liberally inoouraged in his effort to support bis family, under difficult circumstances. Montioello Journal: B. M. Donnelly arrived from Kankakee last evening to take charge of'the Bennett Studio which he formerly owned. He and Mr. Bennett exchanged Studios and the latter named gentleman has gone to Kankakee to take charge of his property there. The long drawn out oase of Turpie vs Lowe was to have been oalled in the Cass county oourt at Loganeport this week. On the aooount of the illnees of-. Mrs. Lowe and the indisjjoeition of her husband who is at her bedside it has been postponed. Edward Ryan, a prisoner in the Miohigan penitentiary, who, with two oomrades, was convicted of blowing up a bank at Adrian, Mich., is believed to be the murderer of Wesley Reynolds, the young bank olerk of Westville, Ind., who was shot while trying to defend the bank against three robbers. Suspicion has fastened

upon Ryan because of a gunshot wound in his leg, whioh tbe doctors say mast have been inflicted about tbe time of Reynolds’ murder and also because the three men now in jail answer closely to the descriptions of three stiangers wbo were seen in Westville tha day before tbe bold-np and murder.

THURSDAY. Geo. Mnstard’s-little child remains about tbe same as yesterday, F- B. Learning, of Goshen, is visiting his Rensselaer and relatives, today. Mrs. Hiram Day and family went to Hammond today for s two weeks’ visit. Hiram Jaoks is feeling better sinoe the weather changed, and be rested qnite well this morning, H. J. Wolfrum, of Joliet, 111, is visiting his sister Mrs. Ed Herath, north of town, for a week or two. George Borntrager, of Louisville Ky., who was here attending tbe funeral of his brother, Chas. Borntrager, returned home Wednesday night. Mrs. W- Hartman, of Chioago, attended the fnneral of Charles Borntrager, of whom she was a distant relative. She returned home Tuesday evening. The movement to raise $1,2C0 for a library site, on Van Rensselaer street, is meeting with very encouraging snooess, The paper starts out with two SIOO subscriptions. Today is Ascension Day, a very important Holy-Day in the Catholic ohurch. It is being observed here, but the attendance was largely out down by the fact tbfit the news that the interdict against public meetings in town had been raised, had not reaohed the country people very generally. Lafayette Call: —A special train of six palaoe horse cars, loaded with fine horses, was ran from Louisville to Chicago over the Monon last Sunday. A very oreditable rnn was made, and the distance of 328 miles was covered at a rate of speed and in a careful manner entirely satisfactory to the shippers in every detail. Today’s rain is the first worth mentioning, this month. And so far May has been hot as well as dry. For 10 days the temperature has been 78 or above every day, and for 5 days it has been 85 or above,

For the Prison Reform Commission Governor Durbin yesterday appointed T. N. Frenob, of Alexandra; Charles G. Mauzy, of Fowler, and and John S. Rape, of Richmond. The warden of the state prison, the superintendent of the Indiana reformatory and the secretary of the board of state charities are exoffioio members. The legislature appropriated $2,000 for the expenses of the commission.

Our attentioa has been oalled to a sentence in our report of the G. W. Tanner trial, as likely to oreate a wrong impression. It was the statement that what beoame of the Halligan cattle had never been explained. Mr. Tanner stated on the witness stand that a man named Watson principal stockholder in the Sanson Commission Co., oame down from Chioago, and superintended their shipment to the stookyards. This company, as before stated, appeared to have got all the money from the cattle, and hong to it. Some fellows np at Shelby tried to run Tom McCoy and Chick Chamberlain ont a night or two ago. Tom said the fellow wonld have too show him his authority and the fellow palled a paper signed by a township trustee. The township trustee had about the same power to quarantine against Rensselaer as Constable Lyman Zea, would have to declare Remington under martial law. Tom told the fellow to go to —Halifax or some other place and that was the end of it. . J. W. King writes that the Fr&noesville Tribune was mistaken

; , fn claiming that Francesville bad not had a case of smallpox sinoe L ( the civil war. fle says that in ’ 1 1871, while his father kept a hotel ,there, there was a man bad a case , good and strong, at a house owned by Gns Dazskey. Tbe boose stood right on tbe street, and John says people in passing, took to the middle of tbe road, as readily as Rensselaer people now take to vaccination Regular ohuroh services and Sunday school, at the F. W. B. ohnrob, Sunday, except the morning ohnroh service, which will not be held cn aooount of the Union j Memorial service, at the M. E. ohuroh. All regular services will be held as usual at the Presbyterian church, Sunday 'except the morning ohuroh servioe, whioh is dismissed in order to take part in the Union Memorial Services, at the M. E. Church. No new oases have been officially reported since last Friday, although one case of sickness in a quarantined family will probably prove to be the disease. Farther than that, the danger of new oases, even in quarantined houses, is praotioally over. Dr. Henry Jamerson of Indianapolis came today, to professionally visit Dr Crocker, at Dr Johnson residence, and consult regarding Dr. Crocker, condition, especially with reference as to what his future coarse had better be. Dr. Crocker is still slowly improving. Frank Kelley, who now holds a position in the Chamber of Commerce, at Colorado Springs, Colo., the ‘ City of Sunshine,” as it is advertised on all letters, sends ns a oopy of a paper giving piotnres and descriptions of tbe new oonrt honse for El Paso oounty, just completed at Colorado Springs. It is evidently a fine building, but Frank says Jasper county’s would show up well beside it, and the pictures confirm that statement. Soutli Bend Times: Former Lieutenant Governor Haggard, now editor of the Lafayette Journal, is of the opinion that Congressmen Bemenway of Evansville and Ornmpaoker of Valparaiso woald like to be nominated for governor next year. J. Frank Hanly is also suspected of cherishing gubernatorial aspirations. On the Democratic side there is a good deal of talk abont Daniel A. Simms of Lafayette, Prof. H. B. Brown of Valparaiso, and Jndge Allen Zollars of Fort Wayne. In spite of tbe fact that all oar population is vaooinated, and all cases have been kept nnder strict quarantine, Remington still keeps up its “shot-gun” quarantine against Rensselaer. It is probably a good thing for Remington from a business point of view, though there is no ocoasion for it otherwise. It is supposed it will be lifted by the time Fountain Park Assembly opens in August. Anyhow they will let ns send oar money over then, if we will properly fumigate it. The relatives of the late Chas. Borntrager desire oorreoted a statement in our account of his death, that they fear will oanse the impression that he went too long without medical advioe after the beginnitag acute sickness. He waa visited at his home by a physician until Thursday, bat he came to town himself, Wednesday and consulted a doctor.