Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Senator Beveridge has introduced a bill to increase-the limit of cost of the federal building at Wabash from $65,000 to SIOO,OOO. t * - Mrs. Beveridge, wife of the senator, continues to improve. The senator spent Friday in the senate. He said the attending physicians assured him that the danger point had been passed. A London cablegram states that the betrothal is announced of Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of William J. Bryan, and Lieut. Reginald Altham Owen, of the Royal Engineers who is now stationed in Jamaica. Resolutions declaring for a department in the federal cabinet devoted to the welfare of women and children and presided over by a woman, were adopted yesterday by the Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs, in session at AbeHne. Because her husband refused to allow her pet dog to sleep in their bed chamber, Mrs. Henry A. Wilbur, of South Bend, refused to continue to live with her spouse and she is now defendant in a suit for divorce filed in the St. Joseph circuit court. John Milthaler, a farmer living six miles east of Portland, Ind., has a hen that took under its wings a family of small kittens. The hen resists all efforts to remove the kittens from its nest, with the same spirit that might be expected were they a brood of chicks. -

Further reports from the Michigan fruit crop indicate that the damage to trees and buds as a result of the recent freeze is not so great as was feared. Apples and pears have suffered little in some sections and the loss to smaller fruits is less than first reported. The excitement of a cat hunt in his back yard was too keen for George Klise, of Onward, Just soqth of Logansport, and after he had brought down the quarry with his shotgun early Thursday, he fell dead.' An examination of his body showed he had died from heart failure. South Bend high school won a triangular meet from Goshen and Elkhart yesterday with 52 points. Elkhart was second, with 28-’ 2-3?»and Goshen third, with 27 1-3. Kirby, of the South Bend team was the star, getting 26 points and throwing the discus 103 feet, 2 inches, a new state record. Lewis B. Reynolds, just retired under the Lake Shore’s pension system, because he was seventy years old, is dead at Elkhart. He entered the company’s employ in 1862, then enlisteff in company G, Seventy-fourth Indiana and after the war renewed his railroad career. He was an engineer for many years on fast runs.

While figging a well in the vicinity of Nashville, Ind., Charles Wallace dug up a jug containing” whiskey. The jug was fourteen feet below the surface of'the earth. ,How long it has been buried no- one knows, but persons who sampled the contents say it is of the very best grade, and was probably buried thirty or forty yearß ago. Two thousand bottles Sf beer, one hundred gallons of whiskey and a dozen jugs of miscellaneous liquor yyere emptied into the sewer at the Sullivan qounty jail yesterday by order of Judge Charles E. Henderson. The intoxicants were seized in twen-ty-five raids over the county within the last year by Sheriff Frank Wible and his deputies. The big bull elephant which started the herd of Ringlings’ circus on a rampage at Danville. 111., Wednesday afternoon, was executed Thursday in the presence of a number of physicians. Chains were fastened around his neck and pulled from each end by two other elephants until he was strangled. Physicians claim the elephant was insane. , Plans for a golden, jubilee to be celebrated by Union and Confederate veterans of the civil war in New Orleans in 1915 were proposed at Mobile, Ala., yesterday to the Confederates now holding their reunion. The idea is to celebrate the 50 years of peace during the proposed Panama canal exposition, which New Orleans 1b endeavoring to secure in 1915. -