Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

F. Ainsworth, of Warsaw, declares that kissing in unnecessary and that it merely spreads disease. Gov. Charles E. Hughes, of New York, has accepted the appointment of justice of the supreme court to suc- ! ceed the late Justice David J. Brewer. The seventeen pension agencies abolished by the pension appropriation bill as it passed the house, 'were pestored to the bill as reported to the senate Wednesday. Mrs Pearl Armstrong, charged with the murder of her husband by the use of carbolic acid, caloma, vinegar and strychnine, took the stand at Jeffersonville yesterday in her own defense. When the stork visited Mrs. William Rife of Staunton, Va., yesterday it left four children in the Rife home, but one of the little visitors died almost on arrival. The other three are doing well.

Judge Anderson, of the federal court in Indianapolis, heard argument in the casp of the General Electric company against the Winona Interurban Railway company. Infringement of patent is alleged. James M. Smith and Nat Hayes, miners of Burnette, were run down by a Big Four passenger train near Burnette Wednesday and instantly killed. The bodies were badly mangled. The men were walking. A few minutes after he learned that his wife had dropped dead of apoplexy James Yiolett, of Goshen, tried to hang himself. Neighbors prevented the grief-stricken man from accomplishing his purpose. 1 James Murray surrendered to the Michigan City police Monday, confessing to be a deserter from the army. He enlisted in Detroit and deserted from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., two years ago. He was delivered to the Chicago Barracks'. -

Fire in the heart of the wholesale dmtri§f' , ~Ts"~Tn<lianapolis—ygsfeugiyi morning resulted in the loss of $200,000. The flames were confined to two buildings at Meridian and Maryland streets. Several firemen narrowly escaped when the three upper floors collapsed. Dr. James S. O’Brien, one of theoldest and known physicians of Milwaukee, gave his life for the sake of a charity patient Tuesday. He died shortly after midnight as the result of an operation performed for a poor patient, by which he became infected with blooct poisoning. Nate Coffman, 6-year-old son of Sam Coffman, of Shelbyville, .met with an accident Monday afternoon which may cause him to be a cripple for life. He was on his way to school, and started to. steal a ride on a buggy. His right leg was caught in one of the wheels and badly mangled. The state Monday filed a motion in the Orange circuit court for a new trial in the French Lick gambling cases. The original suit was for forfeiture of charter of the French Lick Hotel Company and for an injunction against gambling. On trial the jury rendered a verdict for the company. Henry Spawe, a young man of Shirley, Ind., has but one arm, but he was nevertheless able to put up a hard fight when Night Marshal Mogul went to arrest him, and he is now in jail charged with shooting with intent to kill. He opened fire when called from his home and four of the bullets cut through the officer’s coat. Earl C. Rice, of Elkhart, a real estate dealer and a well known Odd Fellow, died of burns received when he mistook gasoline for kerosene in starting the furnace fire. He was 27 years old, and leaves a widow and two small children -> While Mrs. George Slusher, of Xenia, 111., was attending to her setting hens one day last week, one of them flew off its nest and pecked Mrs. Slusher in the face, making a slight scratch which resulted in blood poison. She died Wednesday.