Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

*• TDESDAY. Highest temperature today, 36 degrees. Lowest last night 6 degrees. Dennis Gleason & Son have a car load of horses ready to ship to Cincinnati, tonight. They bought about all of this load right around in this vicinity. The play “A Celebrated Case” was repeated at the college auditor ium last night, and as before, in a very successful manuer. There was a very large attendance, including a good representation from town. Mrs. J. N. Baker and little daughter of Barkley tp., left today for Sparta, Tenn,, for several weeks’ visit with her parents, Dr. Willard Stockwell and wife, former well known residents of Rensselaer and yicinity, C. D. Nowels and Isaac Glazebrook left today for Bucklin and •other points in Kansas. Mr. Nowels will look after his property interests in that state and Isaac will prospect for a possible future location. They expect to be away a month or more. • \ Jasper Kenton, John L. Nichols ana mny iwuuauw!) took their familiar trail for South Dakota, this morning. Mr. Kenton will look after his big farm near Mitchell, and Nichols and Roudy will go to their claims in the ..osebud reservation.

A. mistake was made ia oar previous report of the Williams-Porter trouble in speaking of the affidavits filed against the Williams, before Squire Irwin. They were not signed by U. M. Baughnfan, as stated but by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Leopold. According to a late ruling of the pcfetoffice authorities at Washington a newspaper publishing a list of prise winners at euchre or whist parties may be encluded from the mails. The new ruling comes under the head of anti-lottery law, and according to the same law the postmaster who buys a ticket in any sort of guessing contest of any kind may be deprived of his position as postmaster. The C. H. &D. railroad, which lor some years has been operated jointly with the Monon as a through line from Chicago to Cincinnati, was placed in the hands of a receiver at Cincinnati, Monday. The road has heretofore been classed as one of the most prosperous and best mauaged in the countrjvJmt it now developes that it is enormously in debt, and entirely insolvent. Congressman Crumpacker, of fc'iis district, is re appointed to his old places on the House standing committees. Namely chairman of the committee on Census and member of the committee on Insular Affairs. Congressman Landis, <of Delphi, also has his .former chairmanship on Printing and as member of the committee on Foreign Affairs. Congressman Overstreet, of Indianapolis is also again Chairman of Postoffices and Post Roads. These seem to be' the only chairmanships for Indiana, but nearly all the members from the state have places on important committees. Uncle Al>e Leopold is beginning to get old enough to have a birthday onoe in a while, and Sunday he had his 72nd. His children and other near relatives kept track of the day and surprised him by all dropping in to help him celebrate

t Those present from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Benhart Leopold of Brook; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leopold and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Leopold of Wolcott, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolf, of Hammond, and Mrs. Schmidt of Chicago, all with their respective families. Also many friends and relatives from around town' They had a fine time and gave Father Abraham some fine presents. The absurd libel suits of Miss Bessie Cronin, of Valparaiso, are being incontinently dumped out of the courts as fast as they are come up with. The latest to share this fate was one for SIOO,OOO agaiist A. F. Zimmerman of the Valparaiso Messenger, which was taken to Crown Point, on change of venue. John B. Peterson, as special judge, held the article not libelous and threw it out of court. Two other Valparaiso cases had previously met the same fate. In this case Zimmerman was chaiged with sending an article to an Indianapolis paper. He now states that he never sent the article anyhow, but says it was sent by a former city editor of the Valparaiso Vidette.

From later information it now appears that the little Hickman boy was shot in the leg Sunday in a very different manner from It? and the boys with him first related. All owing to a natural impulse of boy nature to shield themselves and their companions from blame. It seems that the owner of the gun a boy named Hildebrand, had it in his hands at the time. In some manner a branch or twig caught the hammer of the gun, and the Hickman boy was pulling the branch off when, the gun was pulled off, also With the result of a bullet in the boy’s leg. It was all an accident, of course and such as is always easy to happen in cases of that always dangerous combination of four or five small boys and a loaded gun. Jasper county boys away at college have a way of coming to the front in matters of brain as well as brawn. One of the latest instances of which is the fact that in the debate with the University of Minnesota, in the Central Debating League contest, January 19th, 1906, Northwestern University of Evanston, 111., will be represented by G. P. Wishard of Rensselaer, C. D. Royal, Des Moines, la.. E. S. Bogardus, Belvidere, 111. The subject of the debate is “Resolved that the United States should establish a fiscal protectorate over any West Indian, Central, or South American Republic, whenever it shall manifest a chronic failure to meet its foreign financial obligations; granted that these nor any other foreign nation would object” Tbe contestants were chosen after competition among various literary societies, and the winners of this debate will meet in April the winners of a semifinal debate between the University of Chicago and University of Michigan. * WEDNESDAY J. C. Porter is in Delphi today on business. Highest temperature today, 46 degrees. Lowest last night, 19 degrees. Mrs. Hettie Reynolds returned last night .from au extended visit at Chalmers. Mrs. J. M. Bell of Frankfort, returned home after a short visit with her daughter Mrs. Dr. Meyer,

Mis* Blaach Randle, of Sumner, Mo., arrived today to visit lher grandfather J. T. Randle, and relatives. \ This entirely bright, beautiful and mild day is a reminder that winter is not having everything its own way, jet. Qeorge Strickfaden’s 10 or 11 year old son, George Jr. was the bright oyod lad to first recognize and announce his discovery, of thi Extra Good clothes man and there by to win a good suit of boys clothes, at the Chicago Bargain Store. He saw him Monday even ing after school. George Barcus of Wabash, was in town on business today. ’ He reports the Barcus Horse Stocks Company as employing 40 men now, about half of whom are in the stocks department and the others in the gasoline engine department. The engines they are making are mostly for automobiles. The surveyors of the C. I. & E. have now passed Wheatfield, and are woiking in a southeast direction from there, towards Medaryville. If the road is built on the line as now being surveyed, it will have a length in Jasper county of about 18 miles. And its nearest approach to Rensselaer wo ilbj s> u) 16 or 18 miles.

Rev. J. B. Bair went over into west Carpenter today, and at eight o’clock this evening will perform the marriage ceremony of Miss Jennie Corbns and Mr. Charles E. McCarthy, at the home of the bride’s father, Peter Corbus. It is to be quite a big wedding, and will wind up Thursday by an intair din ner at the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Franklin McCarthy, in Newton county. Senator Lodge tells of a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, who was much impressed with the dignity, of his position. Oue night his wife awoke him and J whispered: John, there are burglars lin the house.” “You must be ... dear said the busmistaken, m> band; “there may be a : lew . n Senate, but in the House—oh, no; thd idea is simply preposterous.” Congressman Landis argues that the national government can save at least a million dollars a year in its printing bills, by pointing to the tons of useless documents piled up in the basements of the Capitol carloads in the government printing office, tons in the committee rooms in the departments and in the garrets and woodsheds of senators and representatives throughout the country. Trapper Landy Me 3ee still keeps up his profitable pursuit of the ffir bearing animals and though

he has had no other day so success- j ful as one mentioned a few weeks ago, he seldom comes back from any day’s chase entirely empty handed. Monday of this week he. was exceptionally lucky; as that day he captured seven skunks and ( one very fine mink. All of their pelts he expects will bring him about sl7 for his day’s work. The skunks he expects to average sl.-50 e*ch and the mink, to do the rest; tiat is to bring about $6.50.’ A prime mink skin these days is worth more than its weight in silver dollars. I HURSDAI Rue Parcells, who teaches in Barkley tp , is sick with a fever at his parents’ home here. Manager Ellis has billed “The Romance'of Coon Hollow” for the evening pf Dec. 17th. Mrs. Victoria Woods of Taylorville, 111., returned home today after a short visit with her children here. Today is another wonderfully bright and beautiful day, with a minimum temperature of 25 degrees and a maximum of 50 degrees. Mr. and Mrs. J A, Gladden of Mansfield, 111., returned home today after a few day’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, north of town. Mrs. May Fox Barker; now of North Baltimore, Ohio, is here for several weeks’ visit with her mother and other relatives, in Barkley tp. It is her first visit to Rensselaer since she went to California, two years ago.

The following bills have been introduced by Congressman Crumpacker of this district: For an additional federal judge for Indiana; to protect life of President; to punish lynching of aliens; for public building at Michigan City; for- monument on Tippecanoe battlefield; to amend the pension law. The case of Bunton & Stevens, of Lebanon, Ind. vs the Three I railroad company is on trial before Judge Palmer and a jury, in our circuit court, and likely to last all day Friday* ? le£Wt ’ Tbe P laintltt s owned Black Pet, a mare with a record of 2.08. She was in a box Par in railroad yards at Kankakee, 111., on Jnij Bth, 1904, and the car was bumped by a car, and the mare more Or less bad ly and permanently injured. The owners are suing the railroad for $5,000. Tne evidence is largely being given by expert trotting and pacing horse-men, and is very voluminous. A market will be held in connection with the Presbyterian bazaar Saturday Dec. 9th.

Robt. 11. Milroy Circle No. 3 Ladies of the G. A. R. will ho d their annual election of offic< rs Thursday Dec. 14. Hettie E. Reynolds, Pres. Mary E. Marshall, Sec.