Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Frapk Suits, a young man, totally blind, has completed breaking a fifteen acre field on a farm near Greenfield, Ind. He is the first blind man in Hancock county to undertake this kind of work. Suits used an ordinary walking breaking plow. When he supposed the plow to be near a corner he would stop the team and feel over the ground to get his bearings. Suits completed the field without any assistance. V Los Angeles now has probably the ,only woman deputy district attorney in the country. Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz received her commission from District Attorney Fredericks last week and took the oath of office Wednesday. The appointment came as the result of the request of various woman’s ; clubs and organizations. The house Saturday afternoon pass,ed a senate bill for the payment of overtime claims of letter carriers. The amount appropriated is 6282,943. i Edwin M. Lee, republican state S chairman, has announced the appointment of the following members of the republican executive committee for the campaign r Charles G. Sefrit, Washington; William A. Guthrie, Dupont; Harry D. Falls, Brazil; Charles F. Remy, 'lndianapolis; Orla A. Armfield, Elwood. t * A snow fall of an inch is reported from Atlanta, Ga. Snow is reported as far south as Pensacola, Fla. For the next ,half year at least the future of Commodore Peary has been settled by the issue of an order from the navy department granting him six month’s leave, with permission to depart from the United States. This means that Commander Peary is neto at liberty to make the trip to Europe which he has projected and deliver certain lectures that he has arranged for. The proposed American south polar expedition, under the joint auspices of the Peary Artie club and the National Geographic Society, has been abandoned for this year, according to an announcement made in Washington. •The abandonment of the expedition was due to the failure of the National Geographic society to raise the $50,000 agreed upon.