Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

FRIDAY. Mrs. A, Leopold returned home todaj from a visit of some length with hei daughter, Mrs. Wolf, at Hammond. Merle Gwin performed 35 vaccinations at McCoysburg Thursday. Dr. Clayton, of Monon. slipped in there and vaccinated 52 j about a week ago, so that ‘‘The j Burg” is now pretty thoroughly j protected. The rains of Thursday afternoon j and this forenoon are generally voted sufficient for all presant purposes. The total rainfall on the two days was very nearly one inoh, being just half an inch Thursday and Thursday night, and .45 of an inoh this forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gamble ' returned home this afternoon from j an extended stay in Chicago, I They report Dr. H. L. Kannal as 1 slowly improving from his case of ! blood-poisoning, but that it will be at least two weeks longer before he 1 is able to return home. During the thunder storm this morning the lightning struck and killed a good jersey oow, belonging to Counoilman, Henry Wood. The cow was in a small pasture, in Leopold’s addition, in the southeast part of town, the pasture being a vacant half block, belonging to Capt. J. M. Wasson. Comrade Fox, at the pest house tent though well broke out is also still well kept in- But he is doing fine and he won’t be kept in nor broke out either, very long. His companion Hookem Haas is also about ripe for release. He had it very mild, hiß worst break out, being, when he broke out into poetry. THE republican is now receiving every day or two a fresh pieoe of smallpox poetry. But the smallpox is now a thing of the past, or mighty near it, in Rensselaer, the subjeot is lost interest and hhnoe no more smallpox poetry goes this trip The Odd Fellows’ grand lodge, in session at Indianapolis this week, by an overwhelming vote, deoided againt the proposed sale of the grand lodge’s building and lost at Indianapolis. The price offered was $300,000, and it seemed to be the general belief that the property was worth much more than that amount. Dr. F. L. Crocker wife and nurse, Miss Shaw, left for his home at Weston, 111., this morning

but in about a mouth he will go to Colorado, to complete his cure, in the dry climate of that region. He has been at the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. S.C. Johnson, for 8 weeks, slowly recovering from a very severe and dangerous oase of pleurisy. Dr. Johnson went with him as far as Chioago.

! J. J. Fry, of Rose Lawn, was in j town today. He reports the Bert i Baker case of smallpox there as j very mild, but a man on the Baxter i ranoh has a severe oase, and may not get well. General vcooination and disinfection is in progress and will prevent any serious spread of the disease. On the Baxter ranch, where the bad oase is, two other deaths from other oauses have just ocourred. One a young man named Charley Parker, from appo- , plexy, and the other Mr. Siger, | the ranoh foreman, from pneuj monia. Both after very short sioknesses.

Stephen Sohlintz and sister Miss Sohlintz, cf Defiance, Ohio, arrived last evening, to finally close up the affairs of their sister, the late Mrs. Marie Haas. They will also take charge, for the present, of her two little boys who since their mother’s death have been id the care of Mrs. J. F, Bruner. The future of the boys seem not to have been fully deoided . upon. The daughter Raphael, now in Ohio, will reside with another of Mrs. Haas’s brothers, at Alexandria, Va , and complete her musical education at a noted college of musio there.

Capt. D, H. Yeoman got vaccinated a few days ago, whioh is nothing surprising; but it is now working on him, and that is surprising. The reason of the surprise is that he had a hard oas6 of smallpox, way baok in 1882, and that is supposed to proteot against other attaoks of the same disease, and also against vaooination. Still the rule is not without its occasional exceptions. Mr. Yeoman had his round with the smallpox at Goshen, this state, just as he was starting out for the war, and was the ouly man in the camp who had it.

Frank H., infant son and only ohild of George and Maud Mustard, died Thursday, July 21st, 1903, at 6 o’olook, p. m. at their home on Mam street. Its age was 16 months, laoking two days. It had been ailing a long time with a ohronio spinal and brain trouble, but the aoutesiokness whioh caused its death was only of about three weeks duration. The funeral will be held Saturday, at the residence the former Henry Fisher property, next door to Hershman’s store, at 3 o’olook p. m.. Rev. T. A. Hall, of Rensselaer Christian obnroh, conducting the religious services. Interment will be in Weston cemetery. Judging from the tales told of their ineffectual battles with olods in their cornfields, the farmers bad about got ready to order an outfit of rock-crushers, as the only means of pulverizing them. Many of these l&tely plowed fields, especially those in low plaoes, or where cattle had ran over them, were like an old briok yard full of bats, or even worse, the olods generally being muoh larger than To go aorosa some of these fields, with, harrow, disc or heavy roller, or with all three combined woqld not make impression enough on the olods that the farmer oonld see where to drive next time aoross. The ooming of the reign of the rain will end the reign of the olods however. - • It is a week today, sinoe any

new oases developed; Of two supposed probable oases in quarantined families, one report >haa proven entirely unfounded, the person being as, well as usual. The other is quite siok, but as she has a vaccination just beginning to work, it is now believed that she will escape the oontagton. A week ago people thought Rensselaer would be lucky if not more than 50 oases in all developed. Now the total stands at 23, and in all probabiliy will stay at that figure. Though oue or two more oase may possibly appear in a day or two. The disease in the country is well headed off by vaccination, and beyond one oase at Pleasant Ridge and two at Fair Oaks, it is not likely to extend.

SATURDAY. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kurrie went to Paoli today to spend Sunday. Mrs. E. R. Hagins went to Indianapolis today for a few days visit.

Mrs. Bert Amsler and daughter went to Fowler today for a few days visit. Arthur Shedd of Chioago oame home today for a two weeks visit with his parents. The 5 days old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, of Barkley Tp., died Thursday evening.

E. P. Honon has been added as the third member cf committee to solioit subscriptions for the library bnilding. Uncle Abe Leopold oame home from Hammond today, to spend Sunday. He expeot to continue his ear treatment for about two weeks yet,

On acoount of the funeral of George Mustard’s baby, this afternoon, the Barous Horse Stocks works closed at noon, for the day; Mr. Mustard being a regular employe at the works. D. V. Yeoman, at Miami, Florida, has been having a hard round with typhoid fever. As soon as well enough for the journey, be and bis sister Miss Harriet will return home by the water route to New York. It looks like a whole lot of the young fellows around town have been getting good very fast lately; so many of them have quit fishing on Sunday. Or is it because they can’t hold the fish pole and wind in the reel with only one serviceable arm?

Judge Hanley, Court Reporter Walker and probably several attorneys will journey to Kentland, Monday, for oourt, quarantine have been relaxed. All that is required there from Rensselaer people now is a certificate of vaooination, and that is all that ought to have been required at any time. Charles Hanson, who has ovined and managed a blaoksmith shop on Front street, for a number of years past, has traded it to Joseph Freshour, of near Kniman, for a 57 acre farm. Mr. Hanson felt obliged to quit blaoksmithing on aooount of his health. He has not yet decided whether he will move on the farm bimself, next year, or not.

We have had ten days or more of solid hot weather here, and actually didn’t know it. The thermometer being above 80 degrees, every day, and many days above 85, whioh is pretty hot for May. The reason the heat was not felt more was evident-

ly because of the- very dry atmosphere. Now that the air is more humid, the heat is felt a great deal more even when the temperature is not so high. At Valparaiso the grand j ary has indicted Traman Beam for the murder of Miss Martha Lawrence. She was fonnd dead in her bed at the home of Beam’s father, some miles from Valparaiso, on the morning of April 24th. She worked for the elder Beam, bat intended to have left on the day of her death. The motive, if he killed her, was probably jealousy, as he had been courting her for a long time, but she had lately turned him down for another young man. Montioello Journal:—Rensselaer papers think that smallpox is under control in that city now. The people of that town are to be oommended for the radioal course which they took in stamping out the pest. They frankly acknowledged the plague to be there and abided by the oonsequenoes, (The resalt hue been that in the long run they will lose less financially through the stoppage of trade than if they had temporized and tried to quibble over the matter. Winamao Democrat: The Jasper oounty board of health has ordered that all persons in the oounty must be vaooinatined exoept those who have been vaooinated within the last five years. Stations for vaooination have been established at towns where there are no dootors, and arrangements made all over the oounty to do the work without oharge for those who are not able to pay for it. That ought to be sufficiently “strenuous” to kill what smallpox there is iu that county.

The wind and rain storm of Friday afternoon was muoh more severe in other near-by places than it was here. Thus up around Blaokford the wind was strong enough to flatten all of John Renioker’s berry bushes, and to beat off bushels of his young oherries. While the rainfall was so great around there that it will be some days before farmers oan get on their fields. Around town the rain was just enough to make the olods gifind up easy. The rainfall through tp. was also very heavy. At Medaryville it is reported they had a tremendous wind storm.

The people up at the river have got over their scare and Rensselaer people can now go and fish in peace. Heretofore they were more likely, instead of fishing in peaoe to fish in pieoes, the people up there being hostile enough to have reduoed our fishermen to that condition if they had gone there. But our fishers oan go back now and all will be forgiven. Especially if enough liquid bait is taken along to make up to the “river rats” what they have missed the past week, on aocount of the Rensselaer supply having been laoking. Well, the river quarantine was really the only one that was worrying Rensselaer any, and Remington and Kentland oan keep theirs’ up the rest of the summer, if it affords them any amusement. The Remington Press reveals the selfish business reasons that are mainly behind the extremely vigorous quarantine they have enforced over there, by proclaiming largely last week, the existence of the contagion here, and grossly over-stating the danger; and this week making a very small item indeed, without any headlines, of the contagion being about over here, and their shot gun quarantine likely to be raised in a few days. That oourse is in line with, although, of course, not nearly so rank and outspoken, as the action of a merchant in a small town north of Rensselaer who boldly advertises, this very week, that “Smallpox is worse than ever” in Rensselaer, when that same merchant oomes here several times every week himself, and knows what he advertises is wholly and entirely false.

MONDAY. B. O. Gardner went to Pontiac, 111., today on business. Miss Nellie lines spent Snnday with relatives at Montioello. J. J. Hunt went to Montioello today on business. Mrs. Woo, Dixey oame home today after a two weeks visit with her daughter at Lake Forest 11l Miss Anna Haag went to Ply. month today for a several weeks stay. Mrs. Harry Wade of Hammond spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Yeoman, west of town. Trustee G. M. Wilcox proprietor of the Twin Stores at Surrey and Parr, circulated here freely, one day early last week. The “scare” didn’t soare him. Steward and Albert Hammond, Green Thornton and eon and Bert Sparling pulled out Tor the Kankakee, this morning in a and will hit the river north of DeMotte and fish till they get ready to quit.

Delphi Herald: The smallpox epidemio at Rensselaer has been effectually stamped out. The people up there are to be congratulated on the manner in which they handled the plague and the little trouble it oaused them.

Mr. and Mrs. Jaoob Day, of Woloott, who were here on account of the death and funeral of their neice, Mrs. George Mustard's, baby, returned home Sunday. So also did her brother, Frank Plummer, of the same plaoe. The township and city assessors will turn over their books J one Ist, or as soon thereafter as they oan get them in shape. Persons owning dogs would do well to get their reoeipts for the dog tax before that date, and thus ruu no risks of prosecution for non-payment of the tax.

The total rainfall here Sunday, in the very heavy storm early in the morning and the light one towards night was .96 of an inch. In all there was two inohes of rain here from Thursday to Sunday, whioh is enough for all present purposes, and more than enough. Lieut. L. M. Wilcox, manager of the “Twin Stores” of Surrey and Parr, attended the inspection of Company M., here last week the only public meeting held here during the quarantine period Evidently the gallant lieutenant was not soared of the smallpox. The supreme oourt has again deoided that the oounty assessor, auditor and treasurer are eaoh entitled to their per diem, as members of the Board of Review as well as the two members appointed by the oirouit oourt and that the oounty could not reoover such allowance from the auditor after it was paid to him.

The churohes and Sunday Schools resumed business at the old stands again yesterday. The attendance however, especially at the Sunday sohools, was greatly out down by the universal prevalence of sore arms, from vaccinations. Some of the Sunday sohools had soaroely a quarter of their ordinary attendance.

D. H. Yeoman reoeived a letter this morning from the nnrse of his son, D. Y. Yeoman, at Miami, Fla., written last Friday. The young man had not been doing so well as hoped for, and it had been found neoessary to retain the nnrse for a longer period. He is not yet out of danger, by any means, and his parents are greatly concerned about him.

The] oelebrated oaae of Moses Fowler Chase, whose father seeks to have a guardian appointed, alleging insanity, has shifted to Benton county, a motion for a change of venue, made by attorneys for the respondent, having been sustained by Judge DeHart of the Tippecanoe Oirooit oourt last Saturday morning. Attorneys on both sides appeared in and Mr. Knmler made the motion, after which he read an affidavit of all the attorneys for the respondent in support of the motion.

Stephen Sohlintz and sister MJsi Sohlintz, returned to their home in Chioago, Saturday evening, have finished eettleing up the affairs of their sister, Mrs. Maris j Haas, They took the two little boys, Tony and Florian with them. They will be plaoed in an industrial sohool at, Soherwinville, a Chioago snburb, managed by a Catholic religious society. Eaoh boy will be taught some vocation to whioh they seem best adapted, Our former\ townsman, Prof. Newton Warren, now of Fort Dodge, lowa, is Buffering from another attaok of appendioitis; a prior attack of whioh nearly oaused his death at LaPorte a year ago. He is now at a| Fort Dodge hospital and was operated upon, Friday, and at last reports was doing well. Previous to the operation he was so bad that the doctor said he would not live\24 hoars, unless he was operated upon. It develops that there is no such thing as “rubber,” as an elastic article is oommonly called. The scientific name of the thing known as rubber is caoutchouc, and is pronounced as if spelled kit-ohook The adoption of the new term will doubtless be generally accepted as an agreeable addition to the English vocabulary, especially by persons will realize how much more polite it will be to disoard the old familiar form of expression when they wish to remark: “Who are you caoutchouoing at?” There was a small but lively runaway in town late Saturday afternoon. Bert Sparling’s team started in the alley, back of Eger’s grocery, and ran down through the alley and across Van Rensselaer street, at a very lively gait. They plunged across the side walk and surmounted the curb, and entered the public square, but when the wagon struck the curb the tugs gave way, and the wagon oame to a stop, ?■ The broad expanse of green grass in the square suggested to the horses that they were at home in their native pasture, and they stopped, also, before they were more than half way aorocs the yard. The damage done was oonfined to the harness.