Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1903 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY. A. B, Rowley left this morning for a three weeks business trip to South Dakota. Born, Tuesday morning July 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Johnson, of Hanging Grove, a daughter Born, Monday night, July 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lakin, of near Blaokford, a daughter. Mrs. James Griswold and son Clarenoe of Valparaiso returned home today after a few weeks visit

with Wm. Eger and family. * The marriage engagement cf Mr. W. J. Wright and Miss Maiy Bates is announced. It will take plaoe the latter part of August. Pete Giver, who moved to Hammond some months ago, expects to move baok here next month, and to work in the Barous horse stools faotory. Mrs. E. L. Osborne, of New' York, who has been visiting her oonsin A. B. Rowley and family for about a week, returned home today. Mrs. L. H. Gray and two littl daughters, ojf Salt Lake City, Utah, are visiting Mrs. H. 0. Hefner, for a few days. She will also visit relatives at Red Key, this state, before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Porter and Mrs. Rebeooa Porter went to

Winona, today, for a weeks stay, and daring which Mr. Porter will attend a meeting of the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Company. The K of P. Oaetle Hall Association met this morning and decided to hold a street carnival provided the citizens and business men want one enough to contribute liberally to the necessary funds. And a paper for whioh is now being circulated. ' W. H. Van Dyke, who (ravels for the Barous horse stooks. has just returned from a prolonged trip in the east during which he yisited all the northeastern states except New Hampshire and Maine. He left here on the 16th of Mkrob. Johnny Maloy, a ditcher formerly residing in Rensssla?r is now lining at Hammond and is totally blind. He lost bis eyesight by becoming over-heated, while working in a sewer, at Indianapolis, about a year ago. Uncle John Makeever ing to build a brick addition in the north side of the hotel, for sample rooms; the present rooms btiog too small. He also still contemplates putting up a briok business building, on Washington street, west of the new wooden building! ho put there this spring Fred Phillips got a letter from his brother Glues, last night, mailed at sea, and about one day out from South Hampton. Guss wrote that they had bad a rough atormy

passage, but that it had not disturbed his equanimity in the least. Guss and bis party will spend most of their time in Ireland, Scotland and England; and more especially in London. Contractor John Haok, of Lowell, who was here Monday figuring on the big Moffitt ditch, reports that the dredge he has just erected on the east sice of Virgie, for cleaning and enlarging the Scott Cooper ditob, was to be launched Monday., Mr. Hpok now has over 50 miles of dredge ditoh contracts on hand; and did not bid on the Moffitt.

Three new houses now under oonstruotion in Rensselaer will, we are reliably informed, be occupied by newly married couples, when completed. They are the Kresler house, on south Oulleu street, the J. C. Harris house, on Division street, and the house J. T. Randle is building, on north Cullen street; the latt being for Isaac Tuteur and his prospective bride. - .

Formal offioial notice has been reoeived by Capt, Washburn of the coming state enoampment at Indianapolis. The boys will take all their arms and accoutrements as usual, and nothing offioial has been reoeived regarding the new Krag-Jorgenson rifles the company ie expecting soon to receive No order has be§n received as to what train the company will leave here on, but as the order is to reaoh camp early next Sunday morning, it is probable that the “paper train”.at 449 a. m wiU be the one.

The foundations of J. C. Harris's house, on Division street, just south of his father’s residence, are completed, and work on the superstructure will begin in a day or two. Monroe Banes has the oontraot for the oarpenter work and the hardware. It will be a handsome and oommodious frame house, costing about $2,500 to SI,OOO. The original intentional making a veneer briok has been abandoned.

Wm. Lewellau, a worthy and industrious man when at himself, but an unfortunate victim of the drink habit, has been suffering from tremens for some days, and was particularly wild last night and was put in jail for safe keeping. He left his house and went to Marshal Abbott’s place, in bis absence, and tried to enter, greatly frightening Mrs. Abbott, who is siok. After Lewellan was taken in oharge by the Marshal he made suoh a great hollering and yelling that the report started that some one bad struck him on the head, outting him badly. But there was no troth in the report. It is said that the saloons will not sell Lewellan whisky, and that he

buys undiluted alcohol, and drinks that in great quantities. How anyone with the least glimmer of honest manhood in their natures can assibt the poor fellow to get hold of this terrible stuff is past all oomprehension. The contemplated removal of Mr. Peter Wasson’s family to Winchester, lnd., and the membership of Mrs. Wasson in the Milroy Circle Ladies of the G. A. R. was made the ocoasion£of a very in-j teresting social at Mr. Wasson’s residence last Saturday evening. The Cirole and Post 84, G. A. R aud several others to the number of fifty-three being in attendance, passed the time from 8 o’clock to near 11, in aooial intercourse interspersed with refreshment* 'consisting of ice-cream, cake and fruit and the presentation, by the Cirole as a token of a) predation of Mrs. Wasson as a member, of a beautiful Bavarian china diuuer plate, fanoifully decorated. The presentation was made with a neatly appropriate speech by Mrs. M. E. Spitler which was eloquently responded to by the recipient and ftlioitous remarks by several comrades were added. The affair was very entertaining and wilt long be remembered with pleasure by the participants.

WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Mary Drake returned last night from a several days visit with relatives, in Chicago. « Born, Tuesday, July 21, to Mr. and Mrs. H. V, Weaver, on south Division street, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Boicourt, of Wolcott, are visiting their Rensselaer relatives for a few days. Wm. Lewellan got so much better that he was released, last evening and is now at his home in care of his wife and mother. It has now been decided that Company M. will leave for tbe encampment on the 2.01 p, m. train, next Bunday.

Miss Belle Clark is siok at the home of her brother, Alvia Clarke, with a severe oase of typhcmalarial fever. Her home ik in Milroy Tp, Tbe MoCoy club house and resort on Jerry’s Island, in the Kankakee, has been named “Jasper Lodge” and MoOoys fine gasoline launoh whioh carries the visitors to and from tbe island has been named ‘‘Little Jasper.”

J. A. Lamboin’s'funeral will be held at Remington, Friday, at 2 p. m It will be conducted by Remington Lodge, Knights of Pythias. The Rensselaer lodge has been invited attend, and a considerable number will aooept the invitation.

Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hopkins and family returned Tuesday evening from a six month prospeoting tour in Washington and Oregon and other.points west. They are thinking of locating in this vioinity

Two big engines whiob have been rebailt at the U. S. Loooraoative Works, at Hammond have been taken to Fort Wayne, and will be allowed to bampinto eaoh other, at fall speed, next Tuesday, aa a speotaoular attraction at the firemen's national pionio. J. H. Montgomery, who escaped from the penitentiary at Michigan City, where he had been sent to serve .fourteen years for shooting a man and then robbed his brother of a'fortune and his wife, is under arrest at Macon, Georgia, awaiting the aotion of the Indiana authorities. Dr 8.0. Johnson loat his fine little driving horse yesterday afternoon, and from an unusual oanse. A water tnmor had grown over one of its bowels and having beoome raptured, the death of the aaimal resulted. John Alberson, who lives north of the railroad, is afflioted with epilepsy, and had a bad attaok late He fell on the oement walk, just outside of Hollin’s shoe shop, and fell in suoh a way that a corner of the walk out a bad hole in hi* head above the eye, outting an artery and bleeding severely.

Lieutenant Governor Gilbert' president of Indiana’s St. Louis World’s Fair commission, is plan-, hing fbr a special day at the fair, to be devoted to the entertainment of editors of the state, and which will be known as “Indiana- press day.” He has taken the affaij* up with the managers of the exposition at St. Louis and the replies so far indicate that the fair managers are very favorably inclined toward the idea. The street carnival proposition is now on E*sy Street so far as the financial end is concerted. T. J. MoOoy aud J. E. Wilson finished passing the subscription paper today, and announce that the requisite amount has been subscribed. The amount subscribed is SSOO. The carnival is expected to be held about the last week in August.

Some of our older residents have detected an error in our aoeouDt of the oldest frame buildiug, of a few days ago. It is fouud in the statement that the lumber for it was sawed in the mill that stood where Sharp’s gallery now is. In point of fact however, this mill was built long after the house was. Its lum--I)er was sawed in Van Rensselaer’s earlier saw-mill, whioh stood about across the river from where Donnelly Bros.’ carpenter shop now is The oommittee on agriculture of the World’s Fair Commission wishes to secure the services of some oapable, well-informed agriculturist in eaoh oouuty to take charge there of the selection of the cereals, fruits, grasses and grains whioh will be made a part of the Indiana farm exhibit. Capable parties who are willing to serve are asked to address Chairman Stevens, at Salem, or write to the headquarters of the Fair Commission, 83 State House, Indianapolis.

THURSDAY. The Misses Lydia and Flla D wiggins returned home to Marion today, after about two week’s visit here. • Constable Christie Vick is now so nearly recovered from his long, hard seige of sickness, that he gets about the house and yard and will be getting down town in a day or two. Our former townsman, C.' B. Harrold, now with the Conkey company, at Hammond, has organized a company at Hammond whioh is called the Harrold Marine Cadets, and whioh drills for fancy exhibitions and gymnastic exeroises. They drill with a lanoe 6J feet long. Labor complication! may drive the Baker Car works from Michigan City. The company has a payroll of SIOO,OOO per month and John H. Barker in a public statement says he is prepared to dose the plant there permanently if the necessity should come. George Matthews, Fowler’s leading grocer, was in town on business today. He made a thorough and very admiring inspection of our court house, and intimated that he thought the time was not ao very far distant when the rich oounty. of Benton would need a new and modern court house.

The first oats threshing for this season in Jasper oonnty, so far aa heard from, began today, on the MoOoy Sc Porter farm, in Jordan Tp. It is a field of early oats, 100 acres in extent, and is being thrashed right from the field. There are about 600 sores of oats on the farm thla year, bat the others' are not quite ready to thresh yet.

The Lowell Tribune states that Lew Newoomb, who went the Carbolic route, at Shelby Monday night wae waa buried at Lowell the next day. It also states that ha had gone to Shelby in the first instance to take the Diokey liquor oure, but had laoked the will power to keep straight after taking it, and had continued his drinking habits.

Charley Nowels arrived home last evening from Inwood, having finished his job there of patting up a big grain eleyator. His next oontraot of the kind will probably

be in Ohio, as an Indianapolis firm has offered him the job of overseeing the constrnotion one of two ~new elevators they are ibout to erect. One is at Hudson, Ohio, near Cleveland, the other at Fletcher near Akron. EJach is to have sU,ooobushels capacity, ‘~ 5 ’

• Billy Smith won second money in a pretty good trot at Marion, yesterday. The best time was 2:23j; Another Rensselaer horse whioh started yesterday was Duvalls’ pacer, Irene D. She was at Bainbridge, way south. We did not learn the result. She is also to start again Friday. An official circular has been sent out by Dr, J. N. Hnrty, secretary of the state board of health, in whioh he suggests the abolition of street displays of groceries and other perishable goods in oities and suggests the passage of an ordinance making it compulsory for merchants to remove the displays from the dust and germ-laden atmosphere of the street.

Various regions of Indiana were visited bj destructive storms, Tuesday night: one of the worst being through the southern part of LaPorte county. Along a strip two or three miles wide all kinds of orojfe are said to be rained. Also frait and berries, and also sheep and pigs killed by the hail. Tens of thousands of window lights are reported broken, but probably the press aooount is somewhat exaggerated.

A Chioago paper says that after expending $2,000,000 to build the finest railroad terminal in the world it has been discovered that the new Chicago station of the Rock Island and Lake Shore railroads is too short; that the train shed will not acoomodate more than nine cars to a train. To stand a train of more than nine oars in the big train shed and have it all under roof the train must be out in two and placed on two tracks. As there is no surplus track room in the station the officers of the road are in a dilemma It is likely the railroad companies will ask the city oounoil for authority to extend the station to Taylor street.

Every farmer boy wants to be a school teacher, every teacher hopes to be an editor, every editor would like to be a banker, every banker would like to be a trust magnate and every trust magnate hopes some day to own a farm and have chickens and cows and pigs and horses to look after. We end where we begin, says the Berrien Springs EraThey still “have snakes” in Jordan, if not the same kind some of

Rensselaer’s bad soakers art threatened with. Thos a few days ago, Guss Larsh killed a bull snake in a hay field, that was 6 feet, 4 inches long, and large around a c~oordingly. Bat that one was laid in the shade by one of the same species, L. H. Meyers of the west end of Jordan, killed a short time before in his barn. When first seen the snake was on a beam np high in the hay loft. But it had oanght a young pigeon and in handling the pigeon it "lost its footing” so to speak, and fell off the beam and down into a horse stall, where Mr. Meyer dispatched it. That snake was a whopper, if this story isn’t, and was over 7 feet long. In our aooount last evening of the return of Miss Monnett’s $5,000, we find that our not very explicit reference to the location of the man who worked the first $1,250 deal, is likely to be rnisun* derstood. At least by those who forget that at the time of his exploit, we stated plainly that he was from Benton county. He liven there and has held a leading oonn* ty office there; and be is also a pretty smooth article. And while he did not work as big a deal as Killen, of Indianapolis, he get away with what he did get, and that is mors than Killen succeeded in doing. This Benton county man is also credited with having steered Killen up here with his reports of big money and an easy mark, but whether truly or not we can not say.