Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS [ARTICLE]

BRIEF LOCAL HAPENINGS

Friday. The D. A. R. will meet Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Candace Lougbridge went to Chicago today. for a lew days visit with friends. 'j B irn, Thursday night, Nov. 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walker, of Barkley Ty., a daughter. Very R±v. B."A. Schulte, of "Templeton, lowa, returned home yesterday afternoon, after several day’s visit with Father George, at the Indian School. The interest continues to grow at the revival meetings at the Christian church and the attendance last evening was the larges!: yet. Rev. Wilson’s subject tonight will be, A Crooked Generation. The HostiDs out in the Rens selaer Bid Lands have been firing bullets again as well as their mouths, according to a report from Mrs. Turner, who says one of he children was nearly hit by oue of the dangerous missiles a day or two ago. Cliflord Parkinson, who lat.ly returned from a protracted stay in Kansas, has bought a grocery store at Cambria, down the line towards Indianapolts, and took charge of the same last Saturday. He form erly had the store at Pleasant Ridge for qu’te a long time. Vernou Hopkin’s trick dog, Dock, whose sudden sickness at Delphi was mentioned, died there last evening. Vernon said the deg hid a clear case of croup. He was a high diver of high renown, and Vernon considers his death quite a financial Ipss. About 60 friends and neighbors met last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Warner, on the east side of town, and had a joil.y good time helping them celebrate their I2th wedding anniversary. The party was a complete surprise to them and was originated by their bright and enterprising 11 year old son, Jim. ~~ I. M. and G. 8. Lesh are preparing to make a public sale sale at their farm eight miles north of town, on Dec. 20th. Mr. Lesh has bought a farm of 120 acres iu wes tern Wisconsin and intends to move oa it next spring. It is near Menominee, and 50 or 60 miles east of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. Earl Reynolds, the celebrated trick roller skater, now with the Anna Held company in Chicago, visited his mother, Mrs. 8. R. Nichols, here yesterday. The company has nearly completed its Chicago engagement and will go back east in a short time. Earl did some stunts at the rink here in the afternoon. Frank J. lines, the druggist at Grand Crossing, Chicago, has come to the front as one of the men who saw Guy Van Tassel, the des perate outlaw who murded Police ma i Fitzgerald, in Chicago, after they had robbed a grocery store safe in Hammond. After the murder Van Tassel went into Mr. Imes’s store and enquired when the next train went to Laporte, Ind. Frank lines is a brother of W. J. lines, of our city. Today was the time set tor the trial ol the case of the First National Bank of Rensselaer against Jaiuest H. Chapman, as trustee of the McCoy estates, before Referee

Bowers, at Hammond. The bank has ji claim of about 622,000 against the estates, which they hold is a preferred.claim, and to be paid in full. The trustee holds that about $9,000 of the claim should come in on the same footing as ordinary bank creditors, and get only the same per cent as they get. Those attending the hearing from here are Trustees Chapman and his att rney, 8. P. Thompson; and J. M. Wasson and E. L. Hollingsworth and their attorney, Frank Foltz, for the bank, and J. F. Irwin, who is a witness.

SAiumi. Mrs. Mary J. Hopkins returned home today, after a week’s visit with her son Homer and other relatives. John Renicker, of the Renicker fruit farm north of town, is suffering from a severe attack of facial neuralgia. It is expected that it will take all of today to get in all the evidence ii the National Bank case now on trial before Referee Bowers, at Hammond. The Monon is advertising some low rates to Chicago, especially for the Fat Stock BhbwTbut as yet no authority has . l < *-.i received for quoting any low Thanksgiving rates. John Culp, of Barkley, arrived home today from Wellington, Kans., where he has spent the summer. Wilbur Sayler, who was with him, got back a few' days earlier. When is stealing not stealing 1 ?” Answer: “When the fellow who steals ihe money had no right to have it in his possession, in the first place.” Which is the substance as the Supreme Court’s decision in the Sherrick case. Mrs. Theresa Avansino, of Sedalia, Mo., left today after a week’s visit at St. Joseph’s Col lege where she has a son attending. Shejintended now to go to New York and there take a steamer for Genoa, Italy, her former home, to remain until March. A 12 or 13 year old daughter is accompanying her. Charley Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Robinson, who form erly resided iu Gillam, became temporarily deranged at his home in Monticello last week. The young man has been attending Purdue university and the work appeared to be so heavy for him that the faculty advised him to take a rest. He appeared some what despondent and one evening last week left the house on the pretention that he was going to the ta.’n. He was found next day at a straw stack and was almost perished with the cold and exposure. It is thought that a good vacation will restore him to proper health Francesville Tiibune.Two men have been tried for murder at Crown Point within a week and both found guilty and sentenced to death. Both men and their victims are foreigners. One is John Lapidat, who shot and killed Alexander Ureba, at Indiana Harbor, last August. The other Constantino Strath iropoulos, a Greek. A remarkable feature of his case was that the man he kill ed lived two two days with a large knife wound in his heart, and the heart preserved in alcohol was exhibited at the trial. There was nothing specially heinous in either murder, both being largely attributable to liquor, and it seems like the death penalty was too extreme a punishment in their cases.

MONDAY. Dr. A. J. Miller made a business trip to Chicago, today. W. A. Rinehart, of Queen City, Mo., is here on business today. > Born, Saturday night Nov. 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Byrd on Elm street, a daughter. • - Miss Frances Marshall left Sunday for an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Fred Brown, at Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. aud Mrs. Puffer, of Chatsworth 111., returned home today, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum, east of town.

Joe Bennett hats rented the room in the Starr building just vacated by J. F. Bruner’s store, and will use it to exhibit and sell' phonographs in. Trustee Chapman and all the other parties counectfed with the trial of the suit with the First National Bank, returned to Hammond this morning, expecting that it would require all of the day tocomplete the evidence. Wittman, the much wived, com pleied his engagement here Satur day night, and he and most of his company went back to Chicago. His performances here were mainly in the nature of rehearsals in the organization of a repertoire company. Resides his substitute wife, and the one who wanted to be, both ol whom left earlier, Senrab, his leading gent, and whose weird and foreign and Arabian Nights looking name is only common Barnes spelled back frontwards, also quit and the piano player and his wife. Saturday night’s crowd was the largest of the whole two weeks, which shows what a good advertis ment the exposure of moral delinquencies is for a theater man. If the explosion among his wives ana substitute wives and would-be substitute wives had come a week earlier he would have got out of here with a whole bag full of money. band of Hostiles went on the w r ar path out in the Bad Lands, last night. It seems by the story that Landy McGee aud wife now .live in Mrs. May McClintock's house north of the railroad, and that'they started down town Sunday evening but soon turned back on account of the rain. When they got to the house they found their landlady, Mrs. McClintock and her star boarder, Fred Hartpiau on the porch, and Mrs. McClintock held the door refusing to let the McGees enter; claimingas is stated, that Landy had been allowing drinking and gambling in the premises and she would not stand for any such doings in her once im maculate domicile. In the course of the resulting struggle and dis pnte Landy alteges that she soaked him a hard one in the mouth. He was down town this morning with a view of having her arrested but Prosecutor Leopold refused to file a complaint.