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Hammerton Chupp Wedding.

'"Mr. George Hammer ton Bon of Ijfjhs Hammerton of tbia city and Rosa Ohnpp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Obnpp of Surrey, were married at the home of the bride’s parents Sunday Sept 2Tj 1903 promptly at 8 o’olook pirn, i The ceremony was performed by tJ. A, Qockran, pastor of the Bajptiat churoh of Renßeelaer. bflHKgjjaiCiras Miss DoHie §hook |and. .the groom’sman Mr. Prank Ohnpp, both of Rensselaer. the ceremony a fine wadding supper was served. The onnal presents were rftimerons and h i

site a large party of friends elatives witnessed the wedand partook of its aooomfing festivities including the’ wiDg from a distance, om Rensselaer: Elias HamMr. and Mrsr Anson Ctamp, Lemuel Hammertoe; Miss Odifa Thorton, Oliie Hammerton, Eva Hammerton. Mrs. J. A. Qopbran, Mr. and Mrß. Wesley* Hammerton. \jtroai Parr: Mr. and Mrs Chas. ffi&fen, Mias Ada Elder. > Wta. Clouse. Wis., Miss Velma T,aoker. East Lynn, 111., Miss Minnie Hammerton. Montioello, lad., Mr. and Mrs. Allen Witbam. \Wbrtford, Kansas, Mr. and Mra. James Hammerton. Mancie, Ind ,Alrs. E. D. Maua-

hap. A largely attended reception was given to the newly married ooople Mehday evening, by ttye father of groom, Mr. Elias fiammerton,' at his residence in Rensselaer. Tdday they took their departure Jo? thqk future hum«|/*t East Lynn, where Mr, Hammertoe limP been engaged in ieaohing yfohool for the four years add ia engaged foNßlfapreaeot school year, al^.

A Record Breaking Bone Breaking

Ten years ago at this time, MoKay, the hustling proprietor of the Model Laundry, of thfef plaoe, was lying in a Chicago hospital, suffering from one of the worfit aooidents any man ever went thkmgh and lived to tell it. He on the 6th floor of a big laundry in Chioago, and got upxm a high step ladder to oil the beariogt of a shaft that was revolving about 250 times in a minute. Tbe eud of a Bet sorew oaught in his olotbing and in a second be was wound up and revolving with the shaft, his feet striking the oeiling at every tnrn. There was no way to stop the the engine except by some one going to the engine room in the basement.' Before that oonld be done however, Mr. MoKay’a feet strnok the belt whioh tnrned tbe shaft and threw it off, and }iia olothing about all being torn off too, be became free from tbe Bbaft. But he was still whirling so fast that he was thrown bodily through a window, taking out saeh and glasa as he went, and be then was thrown across a ten foot alley and lighted on a gravel roof, three stories lower down.

One leg wsi broken both above and below the knee, the othqrwas broken [.below the knee. One arm was broken both above and below the elbow, and other below the elbow, and one bfcnd was orushed Also in the doubling up around the shaft the toe of one boot, pierced and i broke one of his shonldes Great bums extended clear across bis chest and stomach opnsed by the friction of the revolving abaft- The fall on the'gravel roof out and bruised

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h|oj alsOfci4#um||p-lqg| places. '% He thinks be most have been on the shaft 2 or 8 minutes, and nntil consciousness left him he oonld see everything and body in the room. And stranglst of all he saw his watch wherelit fell on the floor,- and with its case sprung open, and he observed thnjf, it wae just 11 o’olook and was inj* terested in knowing the time whih. he passed over the river, for Mfelt certain he would be killed. Pi; HeremaitfCdin the hospit|l from - July to- February, and hi b not mnob to show for his terrib e experience, exoept a few soars hei 9 and there, and a very slight lim o when be walks. s , . :1., I . • i’ . 1

The former law firm. of Auptia & Hopkins, whichbegin business here just ten years ago, and wap dissolved Sbme year later, has jasl been renewed, and is now in bus# ness again. The members are Wm| B. Anstin and Arthur H. Hopkinaj Their place of business will be i£ the corner rooms over B. Fori sythe’s store. Mr. Hopkins, vrhdS reoently moved'into rooms in tbe new K. of P. building, has moved from them and is already looated id the FtofVthe building. He will be here all the time and Mr Austin two days in every week, deVoting tbe rest of the time to his Ohioago business.

Vern Haas, a 12 year old boy, was before Squire Troxell, this morning, charged with throwing a stiok and striking one of the teachers, while she was passing on the street. On aooount of tbe yonth of the boy, and this being bis first offense* tbe Squire released the boy a reprimand, on his promise of fntnre good behavior. There has lately been apparent a lamentable spirit of hoodlumism among some of onr school boys, and Several of them mnoh older than this boy. and tbe school board have determined to put a stop to it, so far as it effects the school teachers, and the offioers of the law are equally determined to stop it so far as it applies to the publio generally. Any aota of rowdyism on the streets hereafter, whether it be throwing stioks or using offensive language or gestures will hereafter be followed by the arrest and punishment of the offending parties, and no more of them after this will be let off with a reprimand. Toanph an extent has this insftltmi conduct gone that already one of our moat efficient young lady teachers is bn tbe point of resigning her position on aooount of k it. It should be stopped and stopped to stay stopped.

Unole Mao is starting out with hard lnck in bis Angora goat raising experiment. He turned them into a big traot fenced by a seven wire barbed fenoe near Fair Oaks, and Monday morning a lot of them squeezed through the wires and got on the Monon railroad tracks. Pretty soon the milk train came along, and whistled "go-it go-ata” bat the goats, being all from Missouri, "bad to be shown” before they would believe the "milk shake” loaded. So they stayed on the traok and 36 of them were killed in one bunoh.

Uncle Mao has we understand, concluded to fence in the goats with woven wire fenoe. They push the wires of an ordinary wire fenoe apart "and go through like {here was no fenoe there; and the barbs apparently have no terrors for them. The Ladies of the Presbyterian ohuroh will hold a market on Saturday, Oot. Brd, in the, postoffine. dwff -..-,1-3 Remember that dainty “Majestio” lunch next week at Warner Brothers. Everybody invited, Don’t get left,

An Old Law r Firm Renewed.

A Killing Among the Kids.

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Act of A Fool or a Scoundrel.

Tuesday afternoon, Dr, Haosson 4W Modoq. veterinary-; ‘Wik here operating on a howfe belonging to W. 8/Parks, the for a badly then made the discovery that the horse was also suffering frcfcn the j?ffeots of, p small rubber nd its tongae. The tongue wai in a very bad condition, and probably -would finally have be rubber. It bad alip >ua|oabty oausedjtbe horke a great (seal of ■ fMr. Packs'ls oofarf or tbo rubber on the .tree’s ongue. It may laded here by olgfoi

gftrsou as a jubpoeed joke, A hoak wop bW ■the bjorjte. Ut aom»£ijj||nky hatfe a spi'te anfpfofab thsh ipetiiodjof v£sdSt. Wy uff: Emkajam plgatbly oeftr burning of higliay Btack spam of town nbiy. havffmie ‘n^thC” l # >ik of jflis sarilr'TOpon. b«r>< I If Dr. Ranraßh save be frSS JeariL of horaek being treated ‘this’ wawl by Gypsies or other horse traders,,' for tbs purpose of temporarily I imparing*there value, ia order to bay thenf*obeap. Anyhow it wasj • fiendishly oruel act. and the person doing it ia a fool if he did it as a joke, and a miserable aooundrel if he did it malioiously, and knowing its effect on the horse.

An important movement in the lino of secret society matters hag been on foot in Rensselaer toi some time, and ia now abonj; to be brought to • snocessfnl ooncloeion. It is the instituting here of & Royal i Aroh Chapter, in Free Masonry. The neanmasy anthofi zation has alreadylpeen received from the grand officers, and thy neoessary paraphernalia will be deoided upon and procured, and very soon after that the chapter will be organised and in-tanning The. name new order will be Chapter, but Its number to be assigned by the* grand ohapter, is known. / The obaptei 1 will organize with, eleven charter members, namely.* Albert R. Hopkins, John Major, James Matheson, Alfred, Peters, Thomas J. MoCoy, Frank. B. Meyer,l Walter White, W. Merrill, Willis J. lines, J. W, Williams and Charles P. Moody. These are all now Royal Aroh Masons, in other towns. A rapid inorease in membership is assured as some 25 members of the Bine Lodge have signified their intentions to enter the Royal Aroh as soon as it is established.

If tbe predictions of looal egg dealers are true, very few eggs will be sold this Already there ia a soaroity. The same report oomea from all qver tbe central states and people who are in the habit of praotloally making their breakfasts on eggs will have to pay dearly for them. Tbe looql dealers state that, from present prospeots, eggs will be higher this winter than ever before.

The First Corn Cutter Accident.

Harry Willits, a nineteen year old boy, who was working for James MoDonald on the MoCoy farm at MoCoysburg, got bis foot oaught in a oorn cutter, yesterday afternoon, which nearly severed the large tendon in the heed us bis right foot. A large portion qf t|ie bone was alao torn away. Dr. Johnson was in attendance and reports the boy as doing verynicely. ,11 UAidMt MX

A Royal Arch Chapter.

Prices Will Be High.

The City Council.

The report of the Commissioners on Makemself sewer wap reoeived and the Couuoil will give final bearing on same on Oot. 14tb. An ordinance was ordered preparing for a aewer, on Vine fetreet from Franklin to Milton, and on Mittod to Plum. The employee of the water and light station were give an inoreaae in salaries from Oot. Ist. 1 Super* intendent Chamberlain, gets 110 more per month, and Conrad Hildebrand, Lem Mnaton and 6. D. Thornton eaoh l 5 more per mouthO Kellner, Herman Sobulta and Seury Hildebrand eaoh paid their >Uy saloon license fee and reoeiv •

!id tbeir oity lioenses. .'.mi- , 4 The tax levy ordinance passed, itfng the city taxes'at-tbe followting rates, on the $100! i 1 toad • • • • n ■ • .30 *( Corporation fund •* / ; i.J.. 30 1 dents f inking fund i bents k peoial Additional ....... 1 cent <!ity Library..... 8 cents Pater Works.. lfi oents I Ueotrio Lights j.... J 5 oents 'F peoial $qh001.... r ... r . 40 cents *1 niti0n.................80 oents If lleo. Lt Improvement... 15 oents Hnblio Parks...;. ,i. j ~... 1 cent

Refused to Accept Court House.

The Lake oounty commissioners refused to sooept the Superior court house at Hammond of the contractors because the roof was not ship shape. Tbe contractors agree to go over it. It is thought now that the building will be ready to be turned over by the 17tb of October.

Deputy Warden Named.

Frank Sewell, who has been connected with the Michigan City prison for 19 years, has been named deputy warden to fill the position made vaoant by the resignstion of W. M. Barnard, who ia now connected with the reformatory at Jeffersonville, /Mr,, Sewell will qualify and begin his duties at pnoe.

C. E Kersey, of the town of Kersey, at the oroseing of the Gifford and the Three I railroads, was in town Tuesday. He is tbe foreman of the Gifford farms, for his region, and well posted as to the wofk on the northern extension of the Gifford railroad. The long bridge being built for it over tbe Kankakee river is making fine progress, and the middle of the stream wiU be reached about tbe middle of next week. The bridge ia a a wooden structure, of course, but is being very substantially built, of heavy oak piling, and Georgia pine oaps and stringers. The big steam dredge that has been located between Gifford and Newland ia being loaded on the oars and

will be taken to the end of this bridge and unloaded in the river, and will then begin making the railroad grade on tbe north side of the river, There is about four miles of low land through whioh it is expected the grade will be ont by the dredge before winter sets in.

No ware made oompares with the “Majestic.” The foil set is worth $7.50, but we’re going to Drive a set free with every Majestic Range sold at our exhibit next week. Don’t get left, For 40ots per month you oan read 23 magazines at Christie H. Vick, Magazine Library. Mrs. Imes will havq no special Millinery Opening this season, but her stock of goods is now in, and anyone wishing to Call and Bee them are cordially so* You oan have one magazine at A Itirne. Change as often as desired or oan keep magazine seven days at C. H, Vick’s Library. ~ j r« •! «**»' I(' 4*l f* iI • * «*tV- *» »• -* tiff* *» **W •*

Off For Camp.

Company M. Leaves For Twelve Days' War Maneuvers in Kentucky. -Mid tbe stirring strains of martial mnsio of Unoie Charley Platt’s sheep-skin band, Company M. marched proudly away from tbe armory Wed. night at 11 o’clock. They went direotly to the depot jwbere the men, baggage and various jyere goaded into a combination baggage’ and |paes9nger coach that had been> reserved for their nse. il '-' ' 1 " 1 ! . ;M1.!.1 If ' A crowd of patrotio citizens and friends assembled at the depot tp bid the» boys farewell, and pa, the |rain started away ( with the load of

ioldiers towards the Blue Graes tlaina of Old Kentpok a mighty heer Went up from the EBsembled rong, that will rbmaia a chaerI ifig thoughL in the memory of eaoh j.member’of the oompany during

his tw6 wbek f s stay in camp. The trip will be a pew exper* for the boys as they will opme in contact with a different ofaes of soldiering; from anything they b»ve yet experienced- They Will come in daily contact with Isome of the best trakaed U, ’ S. regulars in tbe army, and can not fail id return borne even better soldiers khan when they left.

Tbe boys were all in excellent spirits last night as the train pulled out of the station and all seemed anxious to go. The sight seemed to bxing past memories back to some of the old boys of 61 who were at the depot. The yearning lo k, depioted on some of their oonntenanoes indioated that they were jnst as anxious to mix op in the present excitement as that of the old days. The company went d«p6tly to Lopisvilie last night from whioh plaoe th<s ps.*|ak % maroh this morning to West Point where they will go into oamp with the rest of their regiment. 1 West Point is situated on the Ohio river 25 miles sonth-west of Lonisville and is said to be an ideal camping plaoe, and that, tbe Indiana troops have the best part in the whole oamp.

There were 51 men in line, there being quite a laige number who oould not go, Several perhaps will join the oompany in a few days Tbe oompany left in oommaud of Lieuts. Wilcox- and Woodworth. Capt. Washburn oan not leave his professional duties, for more than one or two days at the finish.

Besides the offioers above mentioned, the following non-commis-sioned offioers and privates went with the company. SEBGE4NTS. Zern Wright D. J. Warner Frank Kresler Garland Grant CORPORALS. Perry Gwin Everet Huffman PRIVATE!.

Fred Irwin Charles Sigman Chase Day Grant Rtsbling George Platt Charles MoMannis Clyde Comer Frank Hullihan John Leaoh Emanuel Layman Frank Leach Will Woodworth Walter Lutz Walter Hopkins Abe Stone Leonard Bample Herbert Zea Harry Whiting Frank Giver Joseph Richards VernJacke William Poatill Lewis Payne Charley Smith Rufus Giver Earl Chestnut Wm. Baker Ross Benjamin Dan Duvall Jay Zimmerman Hale Grant John McClanaban Geo. Kohler Boott Chestnut Dave Yeoman Charles Murray Burton Sayler Eldon Hopkitys. Oliver Tharp l!tcy Grayson

House and Lot For Sals. For Bale, a four room bdna# and layge lot. ’ Price Very low.' Inquire at my harness shop. i Umi-.mi » J ,

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Eight Pages Tuesday.

Next Tnesday’s paper will con eist of eight pages. The misoel. laneons and general news matter omitted from this issue will be given then.

The Circuit Court.

James Whitehead, of Wbeat-i field township, was tried on the* charge of larroeny; namely selling, kb old mowing machine for old iron, i The machine btlonged to Henry Nevil, now of Renaeel&cr. He left it in a fence corner *pd, bqugkt q new mower. After being , there about two years, Whitehead'> sold it last May, and Nevil had'i him prcaeonted, Whitehead staled Mi Nevii so sell the old machine fo# old iron. The jury Was out obly a ifew | minutes and bronght in a df not guilty.

September Has Ended.

.J-U.-i l.m my,/ I i; I The month of September, 1903 >| ended at midflight Tuesday night. It was indeed a month to be plea--santly remembered. For 4 season* of “etherial mildness” it was the 1 veal thing, or as near it as anjr month ever is, in this region. It was pre-eminently a month of sunshine; 16 days being recorded as dear, 10 as partly olesr, and only fbhr ds wholly oloudy. There was enoughrain to keep to be injurieoe nor unpleasant. The wit* two big rains, on the 13th wjtlm.l2 inches the 20th with 1.03 inches. month started iiT'with an ; enormous oom mopm ptajipeot in thalonnty, yet all very late fay the time of year and heeding a} wa r «M»aj#ta#*S Wjtamiy- The farmers’ fondest |qjfthe. month waJfuj usually warm aid tbe two alight frorte worked qo injory to t'Je crop. Thetq. wereSQdays wijtb; maximum temperature of 75 degrees or abovq and 312 with 80 or above. The warmest was 90 on the 14th. The oddest weather of the month was 35 degrees on the morning of the 18th( It was indeed a beautiful and a • beneficent month, and far indeed from realizing the turbulent weather conditions the long range! fake weather prophets frightened their dupes with at the beginning of tbe month.' A mild bdt brief excitement was caused this morning, tyy a reported osle of horse-stealing, near A bay mafe waS found missing, from the barn lot of laaao Leave], just northeast of town, and she was reported as having been stolen between one and five p. m., Wed-

nesday, while all the family was absent. It developed later however, that W, W, Reeve, mail oarrier to Valma and Pleasant Ridge had arranged with Mr. Leavel to take the mare, and when he went after her not finding anyone at home, be took the mare and wendtd hie way peacefully away. Jim Leavel, did not know of the arrangement, and when he missed the mare he jumped at the conclusion she had been stolen. ■

Call on the new cement firm for all kinds of sidewalk and patching and foundations. All work sraaranteed first class. Phone 366. . 0, W. Platt & Yeidkk , Joe Jackson’s barn phone i*Tl on 342. yog want prompt vioe call mei np. I have two vehiolee I oan nte if necessary.' 1 iJ j Wanted:— 'A'' good girt at the Hans Rwtnnmnt u Appiy at btotil • *!«*«• i|H I n fiwVt .•j ,h,wi> u, ii. ,<>o i-t ,«CS