Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

There have been no prisoners confined in the Elkhart county jail since February 1, which is an almost unprecedented state of affairs and is the cause of much wonderment by the officials.

Francis Juiff, 84 years old, a pioneer resident of Allen county and who was entitled to distinction owing to the fact that he had never in his whole life been aboard a railroad train, died Tuesday.

After having slept for five days the 3-year-old daughter of Eli Warner died at Goshen of cerebro spinal meningitis. Dr. J. P. Simnronds, an Indiahapolis specialist, was called in aiyeffort to arouse the child, but could not succeed.

C. C. Kesterson, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell under a freight car at Fierceton Tuesday evening and had a leg cut off just below the knee. The accident happened on an east bound local and the injured man was hurried to a Ft. Wayne hospital.

An initiative petition bearing 59,486 names asking for a state vote on an amendment to the constitution substituting for all prohibition provisions a system of high license and local option has ben filed with the secretary of state of Oklahoma.

The First National bank of Wabash established in 1864 and the 129th bank organized under the national system, has quit business, being taken over by the Wabash National bank. L. L. Daugherty of the First becomes second vice president of the Wabash National. .

It is stated that the interests which control the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railroad are negotiating for the purchase of the property of the Southern Michigan railway in the interests of the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railroad, which will be a part of, the through line between Indianapolis and the lake territory. Twenty-one railroad systems in the United States pension their employes and more than 600,000 men now working upon these lines are eligible to tW.I benefits, according to a statement compiled by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. Four of these systems have made the retiring age 65 . years and the others hold it at 70 years. About 4, pensioned railroad men in the United States received nearly $1,000,000 in 1907. -