Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Royal Geographic society of London, at a meeting Monday, decided to award a special gold medal to Commander Robert E. Peary. The executive committee of the National Education Association announes that the forty-eighth annual convention will be held'in Boston July 2 to 8, 1910. The census bureau reports the num* ber of bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1909 to January 16, 1910, was 9,792,990 bales, as compared with 12,666,200 bales for 1908. Clhude Hunt, of Richmond, who was assaulted and slashed with a butcher knife by George Muey, a saloon keeper, Saturday night, will recover, although he will be disfigured for Mfe as the result of a slash across his face. Muey is under arrest. Edward Boicourt, age 28, a Panhandle switchman, of Logansport, was caught between two cars in the yards there Sunday night and instantly killed. He slipped on the ice while making a coupling and his body was caught between the bumpers.

" J. D. Anderson, aged 40, an insurance man, was killed by an eastbound Wabash passenger train at Ft. Wayne Monday evening. He had just been warned by a flagman that the train was coming, but he started across the track. He leaves a widow and several children. A baby daughter was born Sunday to Mrs. W. Venen on the fast southbound Big Four passenger train that reaches Marion, Ohio, at nooh. The? babe, daughter of the Rev. W. J. Venen, of Cleveland, was named Marion in honor of the first stop in her little journey in the world. James Shouse, aged 50, a prominent farmer living near Monroe City, drowned himself in a big concrete water tank located in the' barn lotearly Monday. He left a note saying he took his life for the betterment of his children. He had been ill. Shouse was the father of twelve children. His wife died about a year ago.