Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A novel method of conducting a lawsuit was introducted at Warsaw. Judge F. E. Bowser, who is quarantined because his son has scarlet fever, sat at' the telephone at his own home and imposed a fine and a sentence of sixty days on Edward Butts, a young man from Milford, who entered a plea of guilty to petit larceny.

Representative Adair made a speech in the house of representative Tuesday afternoon in favor of abolishing the eighteen pension agencies and paying pensioners direct from Washington. He argued that the money that could be saved in this way should be used to increase the pensions of soldiers. Andrew Steel Gilmour, a wealthy farmer of Decatur county, is dead after an illness of. four years, r%markable from the fact that during that period, he often stated he never suffered an ache or pain. He was the first man in Indiana who attempted to breed finer stock and was an expert in the raising of Poland China hogs, and was considered the oldest hog fancier in the country. He wat also one of the organizers of the State Poland China Hog Breeders’ association. Try the Classified Column.