Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1904 — THE WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK'S DOINGS

FRIDAY Mrs. Joe Nagle went to LaFayette today for a few days visit. Mrs. Oscar McClure went to Monon today for a few days visit. Mrs. Andrew Potts, a mile north of town, is sick with a severe case of pneumonia,

Today’s rainy weather followed very quick after the return to warmer. It seems there is only two kinds of weather left in stock, very cold or very wet. w There are no new developements in the all-engrossing subject of the bank failure, today, and no papers of any kind relating thereto, filed at the court house. The excitement has also quieted down, considerably. Mitchell’s smokeless powder promises to be an ideal agent for use in blasting either stumps or stone, says the Monticello Journal. Unexplosive by concussion or friction, unaffected by moisture, the powder is one that can be safely handled by anyone who is at all capable of exercising any ordinary degree of care in the use of fire. Judge S- P. Th son has a good five room tenant house near ly completed, on Front street, and plans made for another to stand beside it. He also has in contemplation the erection of a good two story brick business building, on Washington street, on the land now occupied by the old frame building occupied by White & Marion, the plumbers and windmill men.

Tue sheriff of Cook county probably nad his "Thia is my Busy Diy” sign up early thia morning. His stunt today waa to permanently cure the inability to aleep which baa been troubling three of hia moat noted priaonera lately. Namely, Nedemier, Marx and Van Dine, the car barn bandits, whose deaperate careers of crime were to reach their proper end on the gallows, at Chicago, today.

Albert Marshall, of our city, is sick with typhoid fever, at Northwestern Military Academy, at Highland Park, 111., and of which institution he is director of athletics and mathematical instructor. He ia said to be doing as well as can be expected. There are no other cas?s of the disease at the academy, and it is supposed that he must have contracted it during some visit in Chicago or at home here.

L. Willard, of Chicago’ got the big silver trophy, at the two days’ shooting tournament which ended here Thursday afternoon. He having made the highest average for the two days. The silver cup, for best in two special events went to Mr.‘Nichols, of Medaryville. He and Charley Peck of Remington, and Clint Brown, of Pleasant Grove, were tied in two events, and went they shot off for the cup Nichols won.

Uncle Clint Hopkins is about as greviously worried by the bank failure as anyone, and with present good cause too, although there is plenty of room for all to hope it will not prove so bad as many now fear. He had some SI,BOO in the bank, on deposit, and now a time certificate for $2,200, which he gave his son Reete to pay for land with, six months ago, has come back protested. This makes $4,400 in all, and represents about all Uncle Clint and his wife had, for the support of their old age.

Brodrick. Brown and Collins, the three eminent financiers that robbed and wrecked the First National Bank, of Elkhart, are by this time safely behind the walls of the U. S. prison, at Leavenworth, Kansas. Brodriok’s sentence is ten years, Brown’s eight and Collins’s six.

Sheriff Wildasin got no track of Newton’s county’s missing man, Gretnbury L/Strole, during his western, trip, and he has now gone east to continue the search. The Enterprise says it is now the general belief that Strole is dead. His estate in Newton county is considered worth $15,000.

The Indianapolis Star has another long dispatch today in reference to the bank failure. About the only points of interest |not already known here, is where W. V. Stuart and A. Orth Behm, of Lafayette, are alleged to be quoted. It states that Mr. McCoy told Mr. Stuart that he expected the bank nearly dollar for dollar. Also that Mr. Rinehart, the assignee, told Stuart that he estimates the liabilities of the bank to be from $200,000 to $250 000. On this basis the Star coirespondent estimates that the bank will be able to pay about 60 cents on the dollar.

SATURDAY Born, Weduet-day April 20, to Mr. and Mrs, Nate Richards, in town, a son. Orville Dunlap went to Bloomington, 111., today to accept a good position in a bank. Uncle Simon Phillips and daughter-in law Mrs. Fred Phillips arrived home last night after two weeks’ visit with relatives in Fowler and Lafyette. Milt Gundy, of Fair Oaks, ia another from the out townships just heard from. He has long been working by the month and had about SI,OOO laid up for himself and wife to start a home with* Now it ia all tied up in the tailed bank.

Rev. Elam will preach the third of a aeries of aermona on Paul the Christian, Bunday morning, In the evening he will give an address on Christian Citizenship. The subject of which will be "Uncle Sam ia sick. JWhat will cure him?”

A Crown Point paper has the following to say: A comparison of the money paid out for hunters license in Lake county this spring and the number of ducks killed make the ducks captured by nonresidents more than $5 each. Many city nimrods paid their $25 and didn’t kill a bird, One man was killed during the season and several valuable guns were lost, but the worth of the fun they get out of it' may over-balance the money and accidents.

The prospect for a fruit crop in Indiana, this year are exceedingly promising at the present time and that a larger crop of fruit is ex* pected than was gathered last year according to W B. Fleck, secretary of the state horticultural society and chairman of the committee that is arranging the Indiana horticultural exhibit for the World’s Fair. Conditions have been very favorable be says and there has been no damage done to any of the fruit except in case of the peaches and cherries.

Tommy Grant has his lumber bought and paid for and is going on with bis new house in spite of his large Inmp of wealth tied up in the failed bank. George Ulm, who is boss of a steam dredge gang, working near Fair Oaks, is severely sick at his home here, with a high fever and some symptoms indicating typhoid.

This morning was the first “real spring” morning we have had; and the first morning in six j months, one prominent citizen says, that he did not replenish his i furnace fire. * Fred Stooksick’s children were jnst getting over their long sicknesses with typhoid fever, and new they all have the measles. The latter however is not more than commonly severe in their cases. Mrs. Wm. Clift, and daughter Lola went to Veedersburg today, for a several days visit with her son Charles, and they took with them the latter’s two little children who have been visiting here.

This is the warmest day for six months and three weeks, namely since the 3rd day of last October. Today at tnree p. m. it was 77 degrees in the shade, by government thermometer, Oct. 3rd it was 82| degrees in the shade. Tom Florence was down from north Union todiy, being his first trip since he slipped on the ice several months ago, and broke an ankle and a bone in his foot. He is still badly crippled from the accident, which was of a character very slow to heal. Yesterday’s light warm rain, one third of an inch, and today’s beautiful warm weather was just what was needed to start grass and sowed oats t d growing The rain was not sufficient to prevent farmers who had not finished from putting in more oats, today. Leroy Meyers, the young man who graduates in dentistry this year, and who secured the corner rooms in the second floor of the K. of P building some time ago, has already sent here some of his furniture and office fixtures, and which are being placed in position. The Remington Pret-s says the oil well drilling outfit that has been in that region for some months, has been shipped back into the Gillam field and that no more wells will be drilled near Remington, from which it may be inferred that the oil prospects there are not turning out as hoped for,

The Ransford 99 cent racket store, which has been in Leopold’s Arcade building for several years past, ia moving today into the room in Makeever’a bank building, formerly occupied by Mrs. Puroupile and R. P. Benjamin. At present Mr. Leopold has no tenant in sight to succeed Mr. Hansford.

Erastus Peacock has lost his fine fast driving mare, he has been driving for a number of years past, and which died a few nights ago. What makes him feel her lost worse, is the fact that for»4o years he has had a driving mare of her ancestry in his possession, and now this one has died and left no descendant.

Mrs MoFadden, of Milwaukee, is visiting her sister, Mrs. O. W. Platt and other of her relatives, the Zaoher family. Mrs. Lewis Sherch, and daughter, of Chicago, came with her. Mrs. MoFadden and two of her sisters, the Zankers are heavy depositors in the McCoy bank, considering they earned it all by hard work. Each of them are stated to have had about SSOO in the bank. The bodies of the two other men who were lost at the same tijne with Gus .Eckstrom, do not appear to have yet been found. Gus’s body was found on the lake shore, off South Chicago. He had $44.51, a watch and a knife on his body, when recovered, It is stated that judging from the time the watch stopped, the/ were drowned yery soon after leaving shore. Charley Eckstrom, of Brook, went up and buried his brother, at South Chicago.

George Barcus is packing his household goods preparatory to their removal to Wabash; for which place himself and family will leave next Tuesday. His partner, Mr. Rowley, will remain here for a few weeks to close up the business of the horse-stocks company, and to ship out, as ordered, about 100 sets of the stocks on hands here. His family however, will als6 leave Tuesday, but will not go to Wabash at present, but will visit relatives in the west for a few months.

MONDAY Dan Stone, of Oxford, spent Sunday and today with A. K. Moore, east of town. The D. A. R. will meet Tuesday at 230 p. m. with Mrs. C. W. Coen. We had two fine spring days m snooession, which is as much as was coming to us, probably. Joe Harmon, of Pontiac, 111., is here for a short visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Harmon, Cliff Oppy, of Watseka, 111., visited his brother-in-law Alfred K, Moore, just east of town, a few days last week.

Arthur Tuteur returned to Ann Arbor, today, to resume his studies in the law department of Michigan University. Mrs. Wm, Vedder, whose sickness has been mentioned, is now very low, and with no probable prospect for improvement, Dr. Aaron Wood, of Brook spent Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood. His wife has ‘been here for several days. R. V. Keesey, of Peru, Ind., arrived this morning, to take a position as salesman in the dry goods division of B. Forsythe’s Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Andrew Potts remains very seriously sick with pneumonia, but as the turning point of the disease has not yet been passed, its final result can not now be predicted.

The Indianapolis Journal is making a systematic canvass of crop conditions, in the state, with special reference to wheat. That crop is evidently in a very bad shape. The rainfall last night and today was f of an inch at noon, and more in prospect. It waa just that much too much, as the rain the latter part of last week was all there waa any present need for. Fred Parcells is arranging] to go to St. Louis and other places, to look for a new location. His wife has gone to her parents at Remington to stay until he finds a satisfactory location. Meaalea prevail here among the children, in wholesale, and occasionally adults are sick with the disease. Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Britt Marion, and also Mrs. Wm Lewellan, Aa is almost always the case with adults, they are all quite severely sick

Mrs Joseph Adams, south of town, went to Monticello today, called by the sad condition of her aged father, A. 8. McElhoe- He has a cancer on his face which was supposed to have been cured, or at least stopped from spreading, but Saturday it reached and destroyed one of bis eyes. As the other eye is covered with a cataract this leaves him entirely blind. He is 83 years old. Mrs. E. L. Harlow, a few miles north of Mt Ayr, is in a very critical condition from blood-poison-ing, caused oy running a wooden splinter in one of her fingers, about three weeks ago. The infected finger has been removed, and drainage tubes inserted in the palm of the hand, but it is still a question if the hand itself will hot have to be amputated, and even then be a problem whether her life can be saved.

The privelege of the free use of the base ball park has been so much abused that there is a probability that it will be strictly closed to everyone, except they have the authority of the managers and also the lessee, Ben Smith. The park is not public property, as many seem to think, and even if it was people would have no right to injured and destroy the property the property there. Thus unauthorized persons have gone in there, especially on Sundays, and have done considerable damage. Especially have they torn down and burned a fence erected by the high school athletic association.