Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

J. F. Morrison of the board of trustees of the Markland Avenue M. E. church in Kokomo, has received a letter in which Andrew Carnegie agrees to -donate $1,500, half the cost of a new church organ. —^7 There were handled by the Indiana car demurrage bureau in January, 1910, 101,585 loaded cars, against 80,625 same period 1909. The increase this year as shown by the Indiana car demurrage bureau was 20,966 loaded cars. ' Sid Hester of San Francisco, promoter of the Nelson-Wolgast fight, has applied to Lloyds of London.for $30,000 insurance agqinst rain February 22nd. Hester’s arena is a roofless structure, and he is taking no chances with the weather. Mary Landis, mother of Judge K. M. Landis of Chicago, former Representative Charles Landis of Delphi and Fred Landis of Logansport, Dr. J. H. Landis and Walter Landis, post master as San Juan, Porto Rico, is critically ill at her home in Logansport. Senator Beveridge within a few days will introduce a bill making an appropriation for the establishment of a fish hatchery and fish cultural station in Indiana. The bill will not suggest a particular location for the station, but will leave to the commissioner of fisheries the selection of whatever site may seem to him best. Adolph Mease was arrested at Elkhart Wednesday charged with operating a blind tiger. He was held under $260 bond for his appearance Saturday, Detective Withers was almost strangled while testing a keg of ginger ale, while searching the place. He was ordered to taste all suspicious liquors in the search for evidence.

Judge Martin L. Bundy, aged 93, one of the survivors of the convention which launched the republican party, died at Newcastle Thursday." Judge Bundy was an intimate friend and adviser of Indiana’s great war gov-p ernor, Oliver P. Morton, and has been identified with the politics of the state as legislator and judge for many years.

Mrs. Wm. Darr, aged 42 years, the wife of a well known farmer residing near Syracuse, Ind., was hurled 69 feet by a B. & O. freight train Wednesday at Milford Junction. One limb was broken and her body horribly bruised. She was about to transfer from a Winona interurban car to the B. & O. when the accident occurred. Her injuries may prove fatal.

The annual meeting of the George Washington Memorial association was held in Washington Wednesday with members present from all parts of the country. Mrs. Henry M. F. Dimock, president of the association, In summing up the work of the year, reported numerous pledges to the building fund of the proposed George Washington Memprial hall, for which $2,000,000 will be required. Mrs. Dimock was re-elected president.