Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

It is declared that the San Jose scale is probably the reason for tie large number of dead trees in Huntington. The annual 'state convention of the Master Horse Sboers of Indiana met in Evansville today for a two days* session. Farmers of Elkhart county report an epidemic of distemper. Many are behind in their farm work, owing to the amount of time demanded in the care of their horses. “We were playing burglar and I did not know the gun was loaded,” explained Ramon Burlington, age 16, after he shot and killed his chum, Duncan Young, at Terre Haute Monday night. The Ohio senate yesterday passed the Ditmar house bill, forbidding the sale of tobacco in any form to minors under 18 years of age. The bill as it passed the house fixed the age limit at 21. While returning from Harrodsburg, Ind., where he had attended the funeral of his father, Isaac E. Graves, 32 years old, of Terre Haute, was killed at Bedford by falling from the steps of a rapidly moving train. With former President Roosevelt, President Taft and Gifford Pinchot, deposed chief forester of the department of agriculture as speakers, the national conservation congress will convene in Convention Hall in Kansas City early in September. A bill appropriating >61,000 for repayment of citizens of that sum, advanced for the ransom of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, who was abducted by Bulgarian brigands in 1901, was passed yesterday by the senate. Howard Bridges, the son of Edward Bridges, vice-president of the Andrews Paving company, of Wabash, jumped from the second-story window of his home when bantered, Thursday morning and broke both bones of the left leg. One bone almost penetrated the flesh. Eugene Quirk, a Chicago newspaper man, has brought suit for >50,000 damages against Joseph Medill Patterson, author of “The Fourth Estate,” charging Patterson with plagiarism. Quirk sets forth that Patterson got the idea of “The Fourth Estate” from a novel written by him (Quirk) five or six years ago. Fourteen hundred pounds qf spoiled ham was ordered sent to the Ft. Wayne city crematory Monday from the establishment of the Ft. Wayne Provision company and was destroyed in the furnaces, under an order from Dr. Gillie, an inspector of the city healtn department. The meat came in a shipment from a Decatur packing house, and it is declared that it was spoiled before being smoked.

The population of the Indiana reformatory has shown a remarkable falling off in the last six months, since the present management took charge. In a little over six months the population has fallen 205 from a maximum of 1,298, soon after Major David A. Peyton became general superintendent, to 1,093 at the present time. The present number is even now more than the institution can accommodate with comfort. The railroads of the United StaLqs will expend this year more than $500,000,000 in new equipments, betterments, steel rails, additional and better equipment terminals and the like. If conditions are favorable they will spend on extentions and improvements more than $750,000,000. If traffic conditions warrant the expenditure the railroads will expend $1,000,000,000 to handle the greatly, increasing volume of business. The indications are that John R. Kissinger, of South Bend, the martyr to science’, who volunteered to be bit by yellow fever mosquitoes, will be paid an annuity of $1,500 by the government. The house committee an pensions decided Monday to allow him this annuity, and if the senate agrees to the amount, which is thought likely, the annuity will be granted without delay. The house committee has heretofore been the sticking point. Wedding announcements—engraved or printed—furnished by The Republican. ' - '.

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