Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — THURSDAY’S LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY’S LOCALS.

Mrs. Cal Parks and .daughter Olivß and Miss Susie Ki Hering of Rose Lawn have been guests this week us Mrs. T. W. .Giant and daughter' Miss ResSie King, 1 ibrarian i n charge of the Carnegie library, went to Indianapolis today to at tend a two days’ meeting of the 1 state library association. Charles M. Sands and wife, of .Monon, are here today looking for rooms to begin light housekeeping, it being Mr. Sands’ intentivu to locate here for the practice of law. The Michigan-Wabash foot ball j game will take place at Indianap olis Saturday of this week, and Dobbins is scheduled to play hall backrfoi the little Giants. It will be a great contest and may be witnessed by some Rensselaer friends of our last y ear’s football hero. Sheriff O'Conner went to Kniman yesterday and returned in the evening with Mrs. O'Connor and her mother, Mrs. Phoebe Andrus, whose husband, Joshua Andrus, died there several weeks ago, and who has had a long and very hard siege of pneumonia? She is now greatly improved and withstood the trip here very well. The Monticello Journal of yesterday relates the capt ure at Chalmers of two horse thieves, one being named John Tague, a former roust about with Sells Bros.’ show, and the other being Homer Heath, of Remington. According to the Journal Tagne left the show at Danville, 111., and was bumming his way to his home in Pennsylvania, and when he reached Remington he fell in with Heath and they stole the bnggy near Remington and had gone as far as Chalmers when tney were arrested. Tague was found to be so filthy and infested whith vermin that he had to be given a bath and supplied with different clothing. They were bound over to the circuit court and are now in jail.

F. M. Butler, inspector of police ot the western division of the Pennsylvania railway, was in South Bend yesterday, seeking information in regard to Frank Webb, a member ot the gang who shot Sheriff Oglesby at Winamac, Ind. According to Inspector Butcher, O'Shea, who fired the shot that killed Oglesby, is in reality Patrick Sullivan, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, 1 but who has spent much time in South Bend. Webb and Sullivan have been pals for several years and are believed to have pulled off several “Yegg” jobs together. Inspector Butcher visited the home of Mrs. Rebecca Webb, and had a somewhat lengthy talk as to her son’s past career. He received but little information of real value, other than to obtain facts conc°rning Webb’s past escapades—Logan sport Pharos. Two new cases of diphtheria are reported at Fair Oaks, in the family of Jack Umphry, being his two little daughters. Mr. Umphry is net of the faith cure sect and will do all in his power to check the disease. Save for one or two whose inclinations are towa-d the faith cure belief the people of Fair I Oaks seem to be of one mind re* garding the attitude of the Warren 1 lamily, where the three death oc ■ curred. Several, people have i written to this paper commending its criticism of the fanatics and many more have protested vigorously against the shameful fact that they have permitted dependents to suffer and die when aid was at hand. It certainly is not our intention to do any injury to the poor and unfortunate family, as suggested by a correspondent in another paper, and it is not improbable that they are sincere in their convictions, but that they have very little reasoning power and a small amount of actual Christian charity is proven by the fact that they refuse to listen to any argu-1 Inent from auy source. It i* -aid that Mrs. Warren prays continually and shrieks so loudly that' she may lie heard several blocks away, and then falls exhausted as she summons memberefof the family to see her take her heaventy Hight. Such emotionalism is not Christianity and finds no justification In the Bible.

W. W. Burns arrived her from his home in Minnesota yesterday for a few (Jays stay to look after some business matters. He is living on a 400 acre farm near Alexandria, bis qwq farm of 36Q acres further np in the state having been rented for this year. He is so favorably impressed with the country where he lives that he is quite apt to till his farm and buy there. He says thet wheat is still the crop of greatest acreage but he thiuks the laud is wheat tired and tliat corn and oats can be raised with equal success and that the crop n tation thus afforded will be of great benefit to that country. The int n d action of Indiana and Illinois farming spirit and industry hisc.eahda comiderable change along this line and is responsible tor the better general farming c>ndiii<>ns there the last few years. Both Mr. Burnsand his wife have enjoyed improved health since going there, ___ Jack Montgomery has returned home from his eastern trip, and reports a thoroly enjoyable time. After visiting Niagara Falls, But falo and Albany he stopped a few days at New York City, saw our fellow townsman Augustus Phillips perform at Kieth & Proctor’s theatre, and visited a short time with Spencer Vick. At Norfolk, Va., he met Lientenant Niles, who was here last May with the 27th U. S. battery and who shared Jack’s hospitality while here. Lieut. Niles more than reciprocated this by taking entire charge of Jack, lodging him at the officers’ club and acting as his guide in visiting the exposition. He met several notables in the navy and military Branches of the army, among them the inimical Bob Evans.r Whea 25 miles out from Washington he had the experience of witnessing a wireless telephone system in operation and he brought home with him an official wireless telephone message as it was recorded on paper, ot ficially signed by Lieut. Niles, who was in charge of the instruments on board ship. Rensselaer will look pretty tame to Jack for awhile probably.