Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1903 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE

Gen, F. M. Drake, ex-governor 41 lowa, died yesterday at Centreville that state. : He was the principal builder and' long the chief owner of the '‘Three I’s” railroad, which runs through the north part of this oounty. He leaves an estate of several million dollars. A notable and most lamentable feature of the last terrible wreok on the Big Four near Tremont, 111., last Wednesday, was the large proportion of men with dependent families among the killed,like Ferdinand Bachman, whose death is mentioned elsewhere. Manager Carpenter of the Bucklen opera house in Elkhart has started a oustom that is being gradually followed. No pass out checks are given be&jreein the first and second acts! The manager of Hall’s opera . house in Laporte is the latest to fall in line.

Delphi Herald.: The Jttensselae team, the old obampions, have reorganized jfor one game. Some of the boys were scattered all over the oountry, but they have succeeded in getting together and will try to put it over the big GoodlSnd team which has not been defeated this year. The game will be playc ed Nov. 30. • * The Indianapolis News has as its latest prize gag an offer of the muoifioent sum of $5 for the woman sending in the best suggestion for entertaining a husband's friends. One woman says: “Take the ohildren and go. to mother’s, hußband will do the rest.” Evidently, she knows heir old man, and has a good understanding of .other fives’ old men, She ought -to -halve the $5, - A fact has developed recently that is aanrpriaeto Europeans who have always held to the idea that our Amerioan navy was composed chiefly of foreigners, but they are not. During the Spanish unpleasantness this idea was "thrown Up” to the American solciers by the: Spaniards claiming onr navy was of British birth, but Senator: Moody has made a research and published in his report that 80 per oent of the enlisted men in the navy are native Amerioan born, ten per oent, natnralized and the remaining ten per oent are oooks, musicians, etc*

W. D. Foresman, a well-known grain dealer and general merchant;; of Foresman, a Newton oounty village, just over the line from Jordan township, this oounty, bcls .failed! and made an assignment, J. D. Bioh of Brook is appointed his trustee. It is rumored that bucking ihe board of trade, that fruitful oauea of so many a prosperous oountry grain dealer’s financial destruction, was the principal caut>e of the failure. Iu any case, however, Mr. Foresman is said to have turned over every dollars' worth of property he had to his creditors. The liabilities are said to be about $20,000 and it ia thought the assets will nearly cover the the liabilities, , J