Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Rev. Patrick J. Roche, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Ft. Wayne, died Thursday after a long illness, aged 52 years. He was born in Rochester, N. Y. Harry Coveleski, a pitcher on the Cincinnati National League team, who was with Philadelphia last season, has been released to the Birmingham club of the Southern League. The Cincinnati management retains an option on his services. Throwing rings at knives or canes, which is in vogue at county fairs and other places of amusement, is not gambling within the meaning of the law, but a test of skill, according to an opinion issued recently by the New York state attorney general. That the United States will receive a million immigrants during the fiscal year ending June 30, is the prediction of the officials in Washington. During April 133,276 arrived, making a total of 810,225 thus far this year. The last million immigrant year was in 1907. The last echo of a sensational escapade was heard in Philadelphia Thursday afternoon when the grand jury ignored a bill of indictment charging Ferdinand Cohen, a hotel waiter, with kidnaping and running away with Roberta B. DeJanon, 18 years old. The couple, after being missing a week, was found in Chicago. A bill has been introduced in the house which, if passed, would probably prevent the Jefferies-Johnson fight, by prohibiting the interstate transmission of prise fight pictures or prize fight reports. Representative Smith presented the measure. One of the main features of the fight is the value set upon the moving pictures. President Taft has not communicated with former Vice-President Fairbanks offering him the ambassadorship to Great Britain to succeed Whitelaw Reid. At the White House the report was denied explicitly. It denied al so that any communications on the subject have passed between Mr. Taft and Mr. Fairbanks.' Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, who was for many years the head of the Winona Bible conference, and Miss Mabel Moulton, only daughter of Mrs. Ruth Weeden Moulton, of Providence, R. 1., will be married in August. The announcement was made Thursday by Miss Moulton on the return of Dr. Chapman from an evangelistic tour through Wales and England. The budget of expenditures for the Burlington railroad for the current year, which has just received the approval of the board of directors, calls for the use of $30,000,000. Of this amount, $10,000,000, approximately, is to go for new equipment and power; an equal sum will be expended for new lines and for double tracking and the remainder will be used for miscellaneous improvements. That four great express companies get net returns of from 43 to 115 per cent or more on capital employed in actual express operations was stated in a report issued recently by the Merchants’ Association of New York. The association and other commercial bodies representing business interests through the country are about to ask the interstate commerce commission to investigate the matter, with a view to compelling a reduction of existing rates.