Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Winona Interurban company has received 140,000 from the treasury of Kosciusko county, the amount representing the subsidy voted the Peru division of the line almost five years ago. Fifteen new bridges will be built in Kosciusko county this summer, an additional' appropriation of 818,582.26 having been asked of the county council for this purpose, and for the repairs on other bridges. The contract for Kokomo’s Y. M. C. A building was let Tuesday to Moore & Danner, a Kokomo firm, for 886,000. The building complete, with all its furnishings and equipment will cost about 8125,000. Towns and villages all over Minnesota held elections Tuesday; in most of which the important issue was license or nd license for saloons. The vote was about evenly divided in 123 towns, sixty-two voting for no license and sixty for license. In the town of Recker the vote was a tie. After being bedfast for twenty-four years on account of an injury and which was held responsible for a peculiar disease in which for nearly a quarter of. a century his flesh had been slowly ossifying, John Commer is dead at South Bend. He was 86 years old and had been a resident of the city for fifty years. His malady was a puzzle to the medical fraternity. Congressman Crumpacker, chairman of the census committee, fears that when the unit of apportionment is made, Indiana will have twelve congressmen instead of thirteen. Indiana has not kept pace with the other states .in growth. The next state legislature will reapportion the state into congressional districts to meet the results of the new census. If the state loses a representative in congress a lively fight will follow as neither member will want to be the “unlucky thirteen.” At the present time the membership of the lower house is 386, and it would -ba-the more wieldy body if the membership was lowered. But as that is impossible, the next best thing is to prevent an increase. The country has an abundance of bright men who want to show their light in the halls of congress. .If they had their way, congressmen would be as plentiful as Kentucky colonels. The most disappointing thing about the matter is to be told that Indiana has not kept pace with her sister states.