Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — WEDNESDAY. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY.

Fred Miller is now making good progress towards recovering from his case of appendicitis. Mrs. Alfred Collins went to Indianadolis, this afternoon,* to visit her son who lives there. Another hot spell seems “headed this way, and opened the season today with a temperature of 85 degrees. The same baker, Richard Beck, who has been in the employ o? Wm Merica, for several years, will continue to do the baking for Nick Sell nutter.

Uncle Abe Leopold went to Mud lavia today, where he will take the baths aud drink the lithia water at Kramer’s place for a week or two. Mrs. C. H. Porter of Chicago, is visiuing her mother, Mrs. J. W. Williams, here this week, while Mr. Porter is over on the Tippe cauoe river fishing.

There will be trouble for the fish all along the Kankakee river, today. Bruce Porter and Baldy Powers have gone after them in one detachment and J. C. Gwin and L. H. Meyers in another.

Mrs. Wm. Bender, and children, of Magdalena, New Mex., are here for a protracted visit with her uncle J. F. Irwin, and aunt, Mrs. J. C. Porter. She has also visited her father, Robert Irwin, ot Carpenter Tp. Mr. Bender was heie also, but has returned to his home.

The nine year old son of Joe Long, the railway mail clerk, fell out of a hammock, Tuesday, and got a severe and painful injury of one of his legs. It is in the ankle aud just above, and while very severe and likely to lay tiie boy up quite a long time, the physician does not think any bones are broken, though he is not wholly sure there is not at least partial fracture in one place. v Mayor Ellis and Officer Vick went fishing this afternoon up be hind the stockfarm, but declared they had not lost any wild man, and were just going to fish tor fish. Still there is little doubt but that if their pockets had been examined closely they would have been found to contain something more dangerous than fishing tackle or even the liquid bait fishermen are so prone to carry.

That Jasper county had a dry June is a fact already well known, but how much dryer it was thau the state in general was not known “Until the appearauce of the state monthly report for that month, which is just out. From that it is seen that Rensselaer was lar the dryest place in the northern part of the .state, and that there were only f ur with less rain in the whole state. We had only about half as much rain as the statcaverage, and only a third of our normal amount for June. Every fat man in the country will rejoice when he hears the glad tidings of great joy embodied in a decision of Justice Severson, of Chicago, that for a fat man \to lose his balance and fall from a porch

to »he side walk does not constitute U- breach of piece. B. F. Fendig is circulating, a subscription paper, trying to raise .a fund to send .a yonng man to Colorado, as the only chance of saving his life. It is Roy Hickock, who lives wi h hisstep-father.WTn. Garland, abont two miles north of town. He is afflicted with tuberculosis. He is • anxious to make the trip, and it seems right to give him the opportunity, even if the chances of its benefiting him arennt very (Vrnrepwng. Rev M. H. McMahon, Methodist minister, was forcibly stood on his head yesterday at Elkhart to save him |from choking to death. A piece of food lodged in His- throat and heart action had almost stopped, pending arrival of physicians, when some one suggested this treatment and it proved to be eftective. Mr. MeManon weighs nearly 175 pounds, and the job was a severe task for the men executing it and they were about as a ar ‘‘all in” when the doctor got there as the preacher himself. Amos Alter, of near Parr, one of whose horses was killed by lightning last Friday and another injured, was in town today, and states that the injured horse is no good yet and may never be any betttr, though it has improved some from what she was at first. They were Mr. Alter’s best team, being a pair of fine mares, of five and six years old. His loss on them will be partly covered by insurance. The hired man bad been plowing corn hud was hurrying for the barn driving the team before him, when the stroke came.

The fame of our wild man of the tangle has spread so far, and grown so much in the spreading, that today there was a man here investigating to see if he might not be an insane man who escaped some time ago from some institution at Indianapolis. Judging by the description given the man here is not the one tha't is wanted there for this man is evidently a much larger man. The escaped man’s home is at Greenfield, Ind. The place secured for the Gollmar circus to exhibit when it comes here on the last day of this month, being the Misses Monnett land, just over the tence from the west end of Washington street, and little more than 500 feet west of the river bridge, is the best place in town for a circus, and better than any - ever before occupied, since big circuses have been coming here. Aud it will oe specially convenientjfor’the evening performance, was only owing to the fact that this show has a good reputation for morality that the owners of this location would consent to renting it to them. Dr. Arthur Kresler had a stump in his yard on south Cullen street which required a surgical operation for its removal, and he employed Dr. Charley Platt to administer the dynamite to lighten the pain, or perhaps the payin, and he used somewhat too large a dose. It got the stamp all right, but got it so violently that it neces: sitated another operation on the roof of the Dr’s, house, for half of the stump was blown so high in the air that whe i it came down, as it did eventually, it fell on the roof and smashed a big hole in it. Tbe operation took place Tuesday evening and when it was over tbe neighbors remarked “wouldn’t that jar you!”

According to a dispatch sent from here to the Indianapolis Star, W. A. Rinehart stated while he was here last week, that his fasher in law Alfred McCoy, was fast losing his mind, and his health with it, and not likely to “trouble” the people around here much longer. We have been unable to locate any person to whom Mr. Rinehart made any such remark this time. In any ease it does not seem probable that Uncle Mac is in any such for he was never in better posses-' siou of his faculties than when he testified at the trial in Moutieello, and was his own best witness. And those of our citizens w lft) saw him at the stock yards, just before he left for Queen City say he was evidently in full;health then and bright as ever mentally. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Terwilliger of a few miles south of

town, were called to Champaign, 111., last evening, -oa—amotb'er—of those sad errands which|have been so frequent with them during the past 15 nionths. This time it was the death of Mr. Terwilligers father which occured Tuesday. The particulars of his death w%]did not yet obtain. This is the first of Mr. Terwilliger’sown near relativtes to die recently, but in little more than a year Mrs. Terwilliger has been called to mourn the death of her father, brother, brother-in-law, sister-in law, two aunts, a niece and a cousi n. Besides which there were several deaths among near relatives of her near relatives.

Two companies of the army ot regulars now headed this way, on their hike to Indianapolis, are carrying a new form of pack, the invention of some crank or other and which is carried in a great bump on the back, and with two sticks which bear on the soldiers’ hips and just about drive the poor fellows crazy by the friction on their skins where the sticks rub. Already eight or ten soldiers have given out from carrying these mis erable packs, and two others have deserted rather than to carry them. The packs weigh 90 pounds, and the very idea of making soldiers walk 15 or 18 miles every day this hot weather carrying such burdens as this is simply barbarous. And this whole idea of compelling soldiers to carry great bundles on their backs on long marches, and •thus wear them out before they reach a place where-their energies are supposed to be needed against an enemy, is all wrong, and way behind the progress of civilization. It was all right when the lives of men were regarded as of less value Than those of horses or dogs, but it is all wrong now. Compare an army weighted down like this regiment is and a Japanese army. Suppose they were both moving on a strategic point, 500 miles away for the Japs and 400 for the Americans. The chances are the Japs would be there a day ahead of our men and would arrive there in fair numbers and in the best of fighting condition, while a large proportion of our men would be worn out with their big packs, and not arrive at all, and those that were there would be all tired out before the fight began. Mules, motors and hired packers should pack The heavy loads and not the men who do the fighting.