Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Dr. George B. McGoogan, of Ft. Wayne, now United States consul at Laprogresso, Mexico, expects to come home about April 17th for a visit. lie has been away for six years. After March 1, 1910, soda fountains in Illionis must be placarded so that customers may know the ingredients of the mixtures which are sold over ihe counter. Quail and owls are freezing and starving throughout Missouri because of the severe winter. The state is paying farmers in twenty-five counties to feed wild birds. Asa Davis, aged 77 years,' who lived east of Terre Haute, tried to keep up with the young men husking corn, but froze his feet and died from the effects of the amputation. Miss Lucene Goodenow, daughter of George Goodenow, of Kalamazoo, Mich., will be married on January 12 at the home of her parents to Kiohei ’.nukai, a Japanese artist of Chicago. The going dry of water wells at Waterloo has resulted in the shutting down of both the city water and light plants. The boilerß in the light plant were fed with water from the city wells. Hog cholera is reported in various parts of Wayne county. A loss of 80 head, valued at |2,000, is reported from south of Richmond, and a loss of S3OO by Mrs. Emma Lamb, near Greensfork. Marvin J. Rank, while feeding cattle at his farm near Wabash, was butted by a bull and his forehead crushed in. It is believed he will not live, but an operation to relieve the pressure upon the brain was performed. Thomas Merriman, colored, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Loesch at New Albany Monday night on a grand jury warrant charging him with illegal voting. Repeating is the specific charge and he is accused of voting twice at the recent city election.

Noble county's ‘‘grand old man,” Jacob Boszor, celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary with his children Tuesday. Mr. Boszor was born in Ohio, Dec. 28, 1809, of German parentage. During his early youth he was physically feeble. Mrs. Silas Anson, of Evansville, is a widow for the second time from the same kind of an accident. Some time ago her first husband was killed by a flying piston rod in an Evansville furniture factor? and her second husband met a similar death. The Kellner family, of Louisville, Ky., in a last effort to gain tidings of their daughter, Alma, who mysteriously disappeared three weeks ago, is mailing letters to every grand lodge of Masons in the United States and Canada, requesting aid in searching for the child. Halley'B comet will be visible here in about six weeks, according to Prof. Edwin D. Frost of the Yerkes observatory, William Bay, Wls. The exact location of the heavenly visitor can-* not be told even by the astronomers at present, on account of the bright moonlight.

The special committee of Copenhagen university, which investigated Dr. Frederick Cook’s polar records, is now considering whether or not it will publish a second report, giving further details of its work. If the committee decides to do so It will Issue the report about the middle of January. Harry Kline, who. with Harry Golding. escaped from the Shelby county Jail 'several weeks ago hr sawing through one of the Iron windows, returned and has given himself up to the sheriff. Kline was sent to Jail for 100 days by Mayor Swath, on the charge of loitering. After he had served fifty days be escaped. Ooldlng la thought to be in the northern part of the state.

It is declared that rabbits in Wayne county* are infected with diphtheria at the present time. Paul Woodward, 15 years old, son of O. C. Woodward, of Linton, died from over-exertion. With a number of companions the boy had been running and playing with his sled all morning, and while running after a vehicle in the street he became exhausted and fell to the ground unconscious. He died shortly afterward. The city council of Washington, Ind., has passed an ordinance allowing Fielding Colbert, sheriff of Daviess county, the SIOO reward offered tor the arrest of John Eagle, the man who was sentenced to Michigan City for life for assaulting 11-year-old Blanche Wise several weeks ago. The police qffleers at Vincennes claimed the reward. The arrest was made in Illinois near Vincennes.