Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1904 — THE WEEK’S DOINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WEEK’S DOINGS

TUESDAY W. J. lines was in Hammond yesterday. Miss Dora English is visiting relatives at Hvopston, 111., for a few days. Hr. Hartsell, went to Bloomingvqp, Ind, today to sf end a few days seeing the oouutry. v Mrs. H. W. Jaokson, and daughter are visiting relatives at Ltfa yette for a few days. Miss Lena Smith of Louisville Ky„ came yesterday for an txtendid visit here with iVirs. Gee, Hopkins. Miss Blanoh Hoyes returned lome yesterday, from a month’s Sfay at Hot Springs, A r k., and a visit to the world’s fair. Unole Bob Dowler Las returned from a six weeks'stay in Warren souaty, where he was doing some jig jobs of carpenter work for a son-in-law of hie. Mis. Arthur Oole of Lafayette, vbo has been visiting, Mr. and Mrs. U. W. Spriggs for some time est this morning for an extended Visit with relatives in Miohigan. • Miss Bernice Sayhr is new so well on her road to full recovery, hat she no longer needs a pbysi <i*n. She was in bed ten weekp, md muoh of the time her life was deepa r d of. An item in Monday’s news reado * me sickness cf Mrs. W H t rohill, was, by tbe t c ndenthf'ou.is.ion of an s, made to name M*. Ohurohiil, instead. Sj far us '©t reported, the Squire is eojoyng good hralih. A wind anl ruin storm cf considerable magnitude, and a vast amount cf bluster, passed over this region last evening.. Some of the farmers report damage in tbe breaking down of extra Urge ocra stalks. The rainfall wbs only rbout half an inob. Dark And mysterious rumors rave beeh circulating around town hat a great sensation was to de velope today, that would shake the whole towu from oenter to circumference, ana half way baok There is nothing to it except a little kidding of over inxiouef- representatives of out oftowu newspapers.

The Chicago Chrouiole, the only conservative demooratio paper in Ohioago, has bolted the aotion of the St. Louis convention, and will support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The Chronicle thinks Bryaniam and Hearstism cat too wide a swath down at St. Louis, and hence its repudiation of the platform and bioket. Around here the brethren are dissatisfied because there was mot more of Bryan and Hearst and leas of Hill and Wall street in kt\# convention. The News of Hammond, saya a former resident of that town, who skipped out with another man’s wife and soon deserted her, is now at St. Louis doing a stunt in fiery robes and blackened features as an Egyptian fortune teller. A former society belle of Whiting is posing as a Turkish beauty, at the Turkish theater. It is saidthat these two are pretty fiir sanvples of all the far off and foreign people on the JPike. That moat \of them are Americans in disgufes and who 'pould not tell what part of the world they are supposed to oome irom if they tried, A „ ,

Prof. Albert Marshall has arrived home from his trip to St. Louis by the water route with tho oadets of Northwestern Military Academy. He stayed with them in the world’s fair grounds for ten days, and thus had full opportunity to see all there was to be seen. Hi has resigned his pjsition at Highland Park, and accepted a considerably better one at Fargo, North Dakota. It is that of director o? athletios, for the North Dakota State Engineering and Agricultural University, an intitution with 800 students. The considerably talked of law snit between L)w T. Hammond a d F, W. Bedford, regarding the sale of the building occupied by G. W. Tanner’s restaurant, has at last been filed. Mr. Hammond brings tbe snit and asks for S6OO damages. He alleges in his complaint that he contracted to buy the building for $8,750. He paid SSO down, was to pay $950 when tbe deed was execut d, and the balanoe in one, two and three years. By the'centred eLtered int >, if tither party refused to do their part in perfecting the sale, he was to forfeit io the other SSOO. Mr. Hammond o'aims be was ready to do his part, tendered his other $950 in cash and offered toe notes for the deferred paymenfp, but Mr. Bedford refused to do his part, henoe the suit. As we have understood Mr. Be: ford’s position in tbe matter, he wanted to put in tbe deed a clause that the bui.ding could not be used fora sdoon for a certain term of yearp, there being already such a clause in the lease to Mr Tanner.

WEDNESDAY Drs. Tuifler audTu fler left for St Louis, this nioruing, tc see the big fair aud attead a convention of Osteopath physioians. Highball, the horse thatwon the Derby at Chioago a few months ago, broke a leg at Brighton yesterday, and bad to be killed. Rev, Haney, ot Illinois, announced to preaoh Sunday at the F. W, Baptist oburoh, sends word that he is prevented from coming, by sicknessHon. C. B Landis will arrive from Delphi at 6:32 this evening, He will spaak in the Presbyterian ohnroh, and not et the oourt house as previovsly announced. The Remington Telephone Company whioh is seeking a franchise in Rensselaer for a toll line system is the snooessor of the Halleok lines formerly in Remington and now owned by Dr* Beeser. There seems no good reason apparent why be should not be given the the franchise he esks tor.

Lawyer Burnett of Haywood and Burnett, of Lafayette, has beeu here a number of days making np thi schedule of liabilities and asse+ts of the MoCoy bauk, and of Alfred and T, J. MoCoy, individually. Snob a aohedule ia required from them, under the provisions of the bankruptcy law People now going to that popular resort, Jerry’s Island on the Kankakee, oan have an opportunity to witness the interesting process of a big steam dredge at work. John Hack & Son’s big dredge is near there now, building the Brown levee along the river and it is a big work. Oapt J. G. Dodd, ■o lons in charge of one of B. J. Gifford’s big dredges, is now in obarge of this work. j

Leroy Templeton the great Benton county stcckraiser now living in Indianapolis, and former mighty leader of Bryanism, says; “D—n tbe St. Louis ticket,” and also the platform Toe same thing and more 100, is being said by many Ja°per oorn’y Hearet and Bryan Demoorats. Templeton says Parker will be the worst beat man that ever ran on tbe Democratic ticket. He thinks times are ripe for a big third tioket movement by Democratic bolterp. Simon Chupp, of near Surrey has just returned from a two weeks’ visit to bis brother, Isaac Chupp, of near Barnett, in Ander son Oo„ Kansas He was called out expecting to find him in a dying condition, bat be bad ra'lied and was considerably better than he expeoted to find him. The improvement however is probably Only temporary as he probably has consumption. learo Chupp formerly lived near Mt. Ayr. Simon stayed with his brother about two we.-ke, and when it didn’t rain every day, it was made up by a doublejdose of rain tbe following night. D«n MoD jnald, the veteran Piy* mouth editor and demooratio politician, had a narrow escape from death by drowning at Lake Maxnkuckee Saturday evening, He arrived at the lake about seven o’clock and staited to row a boat aoross to his oottage. In some manner his boat was oapsized and sank and McDonald was left to shift for himself His cries for help wire beard by a young won an in a boat nearby and sh 6 oame to tbe man’s assistance, supporting b’m until other help arrived. Aft»*r Mr McDonald was but she had disappeared and her identify is vet uukuow.

THURSDAY Mrs. CWC en went to Knox today fur a eh ;rt visit with relatives hi d friends. Missis Lizze and Jennie Cbiloute returned borne to South Bend after a two weeks visit with there grandmother Mrs. Jennie Kinney. Misses Fay Clayton and Nannii n Reed of Monon and Miss Martha Wearriog of Bloomingioa. Ind., visited Miss Myrtle York on M.o* Coy Ave., yesterday. There was a big dance at tbe Armorv last night for the benefit of the Military Band, at whiob about 80 oouples were present. Good music was furnished by a drum and piano player, from Montioello.

John Milikan, of Crown Point, will celebrate his 90th birthday anni. versary on June 25th and the Crown Point I. O. O. F. lodge have taken steps to observe the event. Mr. Millikan has been a member of the order for 57 years. He is an old newspaper man. Last Tuesday’s Chicago Journal gave a large piotuie of Mrs. Roy O. Shane, of Chioago, formerly Miss Vifgie Austin, of our city. In connection with the picture, it was stated that Mr. and Mrs. Shane were going away to spend the summer on the lake resorts, and that her parents Mr, and Mrs. W* B. Austin would spend the month of August with them at Charlevoix. One of the biggest and finest automobiles ever seen in town* went through here today. It was a 20 horse power Wioton, and cost $2,500. It belonged to Herman Hnlman, a wholesale grocer of Terre Haute, and was going to Chioago. With Mr. Hnlman were Job Freeman, of Linton, Ind, A. H. Zimmerman, of Brazil, M. H. McColm, of Terre Haute and a ohauffier. They expected to make Chicago early this aft>rnoon, Andy Charles, the east Jordan man arrested in oompany with Shorty Adams obarged with stealing oorn from a man over in White county, is out on bail. He declares he was full of oocn when be swiped the oorn, and that Shorty led him into it. He also denies most emphatically the story* told by a

man of his own township that his father-in-law, Unole Joe Netius has paid $1,500 for him on security debts, and that he put up a fight when the officers oame to arrest him. Today the Barnum & Bailey cirous shows at Lafayette, and the following named persons will represent Rensselaer there: Messrs. J. Q. S. Ellis and sons John and James, Walter Forbee, Robert Fetdig, Conrad Kellner. Monroe Banes and son Ceoi), Ed, Rhoades, Will Postill, Vern Hopkins, Jim Hemphill, Turn Burns and liohard Beok, Misses Helen Tuteur and Jessie McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ketohum, Mrs, Geo. P. KeUhum, and Mrs. Lou Ella Berkley.

Hon, C B. Landis, of Delphi, member of Congress from the 9th Indiana district and nominated for re-election, delivered an address here last evening, at the Presbyterian ohnrob, to a large audience. He oame at tbe invitation of the committee on library oorner-stone laying, and hie address, in general lines, was appropriate to that o o oasion. Libraries and similar public institutions, ohurches, school?, oolleges and hospitals, and what they stand for in the world and above all, in the United States, were touched upon; and from them followed a general summing up of the present condition of the Amerioan people, today. The key-note of the whole address, was optimism; belief in the preeent and faith and hope for the fumre. The joy aad the goodness and the hopefulness of life w-re Bet forth. People are better, happier, vastly wealthier than they even were before. Opportunities are better; and never did brains and oharaoter and perseveranoe find readier and better recognition than now. There was not a vestige of partizaDship or politios in the address, though muoh about that noblest oharaoter in late American history, Wm McKinley. And of him Mr. Landis is well qualified to speak with authority for tbe two men were the most intimate of friends. In fact, McKinley and Landis were so muoh alike in their general oharaoteristios, as to be greatly drawn to one another, naturally. Both big brained, big and tender hearted men; pare and high in oharaoter, they could not be acquaintances and not be friends, it is impossible to give, in these limits, ev-n a fair outline of the address. But we can rot see how anyone who heard it, with an unprejudiced mind, could fail to his humanity, his hopefulness and his patriotism wonderfully encouraged and increased. Nor fail to preoeive that he was listening to the words of a truly great, broad and high-minded man. A man big and strong enough, in all the qualities that make men truly great, to fill and to honor any position within the gift of the people of Indiana, now or hereafter.