Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1905 — Brief Local Items [ARTICLE]

Brief Local Items

FRIDAY Mrs. Alfred Thompson has gone to Chicago for a few day's visit. Mrs. Joha Marfltt, west of town, is v.sitiag Her mother, in. Ouioago. Miss Lola C if: is visiting friends L\ Frankfort ami Marion, forafrw day. Young Harry Reed and wife hive g jae to Logan jp irt, aad expect to make their home there. H. V. Weaver has been confined to his homeahout a week, with grip, but is now much better. J. W. Walker has gone to Logansport to do some court work in the stenography line. B. F. Ferguson closed a deal this week for two vacant lets in Thompson's addition to George W. Ott. F. R Mosier, of Ohioago, traveling passeoger agent of the ‘’Maple Leaf Route” was in town today, in the interest of his road. Rev. E. Ralph Leake, of Eau Oiarie, Wis. visited friends in Rensselaer a few days, returning home this afternoon. Born, February 7th, to Mr. and Mrs Raeben Yeoman, 7 miles west of town, a daughter and their first child.

A 15 month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ohas. Zard, mrtb of towa is very seriously siok with a bowel trouble. An error was made in the age of Newton MoOurtain. whose death V near Kingman, Kansas, was related. He was 69 or 70 years old. Miss Zelma Rayer, who has been attending a business oollege at Marion, is now doing type writing in the county auditor’s officeMrs. Katie Lohmaa, of DeLong Ind., is visiting her father, Daniel Williams, west of town, who is siok. m The insurance adjustor has been here and agreed with A. Leopold for the insurance on his building damaged by last Sunday’s fire. He gets nearly S4OO.

Alva Nichols, on the 8, R. Niohols farm, ia Barkley, is preparing to move to the vicinity of Mexico, Mo., where he has rented a farm. He is advertising a sale for Feb. 24th. For the first time this winter there are complaints of the serions blocking of road* by snowdrifts. The north and south rjads are filled the worst and in many places it is nso'Hsiry f or te tms to take to the fields.

There was a bad wreck at Delphi, aoont eight o’clock this morning, caused by a fast passen ger train running into a looal freight, which was standing on a side t aok. Details are not yet available, but is reliably stated that four trainmen on the freight were killed.

John and Levi Renioker return, ed today from Oakley Oarroll 00. where they were hastily oalled by the very serious sickness of their aged father Levi Renioker Sr. He had a stroke of paralysis Wednesday which wae very extensive and from which it was feared he would never rally. He is now improving however and hopes are entertained that he will recover.

Bluebeard Hoob, the mau accused of having had 33 wives and of murdering about half of them, passed through Hammond, ou bis way to Chicago, Thursday. It is not reoorded that he proposed marriage to any women on the depot platform while the train stopped, but he wr uld nit have

[ been backward in eo doing had be oaught sight of a likely and rioh looking Gorman widow in the crowd. They were his specialties. The legislature has passed a bill allowing wardens of prisons to give paroled, as well as discharged prisoners clothing, transportation and $5 in money upon their release from prison Heretofore there was no provision for gate money for paroled prisoners The parents of Archie Robbins, the high diver who went through the net at Monticello last October, and later died, are going to sue the makers of tho net for damages. An Indianapolis conoern made the net on a guer-ntee that it wonld hold him if he jumped 125 feet The Presbyterian churoh at Monticello has been offered SI,OOO by Andrew Carnegie towards buying a pipe organ, provided the churoh will furnish an equal amount. Unole Andy will have to dig for the women of the ohurch are loaded f.r him having saved np their dimes for a good while for just suoh an opportunity. Will Imes, whose injury in Chicago Thursday was mentioned in that day’s items, arrived last evening, accompanied by his wife. He slipped on an icy place in front of the Great Northern Hotel, and struok on his back and hea' ) , with very great violence. He was very severely shocked, but unless internal injuries develope, his physioian thinks he will be over it in a few days.

Emerson Lathrope, the missing shoe dealer over at Delphi, has been heird from at San Francisco Heweat diiectly there and now expresses regret for his action. He has been informed that no good reason exists why he should not come home and he is expected to arrive ia Dephi this c ming Saturday W, T. Kerlin. a young fellow from Evansville, has opened a bowling alley in C. O. Starrs’s building, next door west of the post-office. Though properly named a bowling alley it i3~'not a ten pin alley by anv mean, as pins are not need, bat marks which are numbered. The game gives the same advantages to skill in bowling as ten pins, but otherwise is quite different, ana a deoided novelty here.

Two young womep and a 16 year old boy, the latter a brother of one of the girls, are in town looking for places to work, and evidently are deserving as well as needy. They state that they had been doing f otory work at Harvey 111., bat the faatory closed down, and they then came to Rose Lawn, where one of the girls formerly lived, aid where, and at Fair Oaks, she has relatives. Her 'name is Laura MoKay, and her father wss killed on the at Lowell, Borne years ago. They hoped to get work here for a few months and then to goto Louisville, where they have relatives.

Zero weather was with us again last night and this morning, good and strong; and with plenty of wind to “rubit in.” The lowest was six below zero. and which was still the temperature at 7 a. m. And it was o’clock before the bright bud raised the mercury above the zero mark. And th.s reminds ns that the first 10 days o 1 this February have been much severer than the same period las ; winter of frigid memory. This makes five z?ro marks in the 1<» days, with a total if 42 degrees be~

low z ‘T o; and three snow storms With a total of nine inches of snow. Last yea s , on the first ten days of February we had zvro three timer, and a total of 24 below, and only 1 inch of snow. The position of superintendent of ihe county poor asylum is no “soft snap” these days and on the contrary is one of a vast deal of laboi and responsibly, There are now 16 inmate* at the asylum many of whom are almost helpless either from age or mental or physical defeots and to give them the constant and efficient care that they required is an enormous labor Nearly half of these inmates are of advanced age and 6ix of them from 80 to 105 years old. When Mr. Blue took charge about two years ago there were only eight By the next quarterly report the number bad increased to 12 and has varied from that to 17 ever since In spite however of the greatly increased expense of Ihis increased number of inmates, so careful and successful a farmer and manager is Supt. Blue that the asylum is now more nearly on a self supporting basis than since anyone can remember.

SATURDAY Pro. G W, Michael, our former townsman, now of Lafayette was in town on business this morning. Mr. and Mrs. B K. Sayler have gone to Winamao for a few week’s visit with relatives. Mrs. J. W. White, of Kentland dis riot deputy grand chief of the Rathbone Sisters, visited Rensselaer Temple last night. L. M. Wiloix, of Surrey captain of Company M., is preparing to move to Springfield Ohio to engage in the marble and granite business with his father-in-law, J. JN. Sample is now showing some improvement in bis condition and his son A. P Sample, who has b en with him for three weeks, lefc today to return to his telegr tph w jrk at Merillau, Wis. J. O. Paesons has purchased of B. F. Ferguson two dwelling proportiea on Vine street, will take p ss-ssiou in Maroh. He will fit them np for tenant purposes. Toe great solitude that ht-a brooded over the county jail for these many days, has been broken by the incarcertain of OLe JGuy Brookway, of Keener Tp. He is charged with petty larceny. At Bedford Friday, the deputy prosecuting attorney dismissed the case against Elmer Browning, held to the grand jury by a justioe of the peace, and he was releasee; and thi Sarah Schafer oase is again at an end, and according to reports, "as great a mystery as ever.” However suoh men as Judge Wilson, who presided st James McDonald’s trial and plenty of others .well qualified to weigh evidenoe, do not oonsider it a mystery. It was simply a butchery cf an innooent girl by a lustful brute and McDonald was that brute.

Laet night was another very oold one, though not, as it Beemed likely to be, a/ winter’d record breaker. The temperature fell very rapidly during the early part of the night, and at a rate which would have oarried it to 20 or more below before morning. At 9 o’olook p. m. it waa 9 below. Soon after that however a change in direoticn of the wind arrested the temperature in its wild downward oareer, and 10 below was the lowest point reached- By o’olook it had risen to 5 below, ani by 7 to 3 below. But this makes £six zero mornings out of 11 this month and that is quite oold enough O. T* Wrenn, our old time aud well remembered station agent and telegraph operator, was in town a part of today, the guest of Mr, anc Mrs. N, 8. Bates. He went to California 16 years ago, and for a long time was station Jagent at Meroed, but is nor in the furniture business at Medera, and a prosperous and respected citizen. He has been at Monon for about aix weeks visiting some aiok relatives, bat is preparing to return to California in a few days.

It is hardly necessary to state that our severe weather hss been very hard on him, and he has been confined to the honse most of his visit, with the grip.

The Montioello Democrat thinks there are strong probabilities for the electric railroad heretofore several times mentioned, and projected to cross the northeast part of Jasper County. The Montioello paper says: ‘‘The eleotrier railroad recently referred to in the Demoorat by Buffalo correspondent promises to be a sure thing. Ex-Trustee Tbos. Downey bee been in correspondence with parties concerned in the matter and is assured it will be bnilt this year. The route is to ho mostly airline from Indianapolis to Chicago, by way of Rookfield in Carroll Co., Idaville and Buffalo in this oonnty and Franoesville in Pulaski Co. Among other asjsnrance we have is that the Standard Oil Co. is backing the enterprise. All that is asked of the people is a free right of way, which without doubt bo had.”

MONDAY • The trains have all been from' a half hoar to two or three hoars late today. Wilson of Jasper and also Mrs. Wilson of Jasper were home over Sunday, returning to Indian lpolis t >day ■ It was their first visit back daring the session. A swell Valentine dance is being arranged for Tuesday night, at the Armory. The Hungarian band from Ohioago will famish the music. Mrs. J. F. Hardmaa and Mrs A. F. Long left for Lincoln, Neb. today, called by the dangerous condition of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Puroupile, who ia sick there with pneumonia. Owing to the severe weather two members of The Republican force are confined to their homes by sickness, and which faot has neoessarily oartailed the amount of home reading matter in this issue. Mr, Howard Brockway of Brookston is the guest of Rev. J. B. Bair and family sinoe Saturday evening. He is a fine clarinet player and is here to assist the band in their concert tonight. Owing to exoeesive odd and the blocked np roads none of the rural route mail carriers from "Rensselaer tried to make their rounds today. A wise and proper action on

their part. • > Mr. aud Mrs A. J Brenner" and Mr. and Mrs Joe Jackson attended the Ben Hur performance at Chicago, Saturday Dight and were greatly pleased with they enter tainment.

W B. Austin was down from Chioago Saturday ai.d reports that himeelf and Mrs. Anstin will make a big jump for warmer weather in a few days They are going on at trip through the south and over into Cuba. Harvey Dexter wa9 heard from again this morning on the state of the temperature at his place IS miles north. It was ‘ , 24]Btrqng”be. low at 7 a. m. and he thought that across the road from his place, in ‘‘Fair Oaks” tiwnsbip (proposed) it was fully ten degraei colder. At least he hoped it was and the wish was daddy to the thought.

K. A. Parker and faocily are now fully established as residents of Rensselaer, oooupying their residenoe, in the southeast part of town, and Mr. Packer in charge of the vehiole business in Roberts’ big implement building, on Van Rensselaer street, and whiob business he bought of Wm, Sohleman, some months ago. Van Leah will work the Parker farm two miles northeast, which Korah has been working for some years past. John E Bislosky and wife will take their intend d departure for tbeir future home in Ohioago to. morrow. They will live at 607, Wert 63rd street and in which vicinity Mr. Bislosky will have charge of a coal yard at a good salary. He sold his place 1$ miles west of town to Charles Schleman. There are 56 acres in the p'aoe and the price was $6,720 or sl2o per acre