Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Ft. Wayne board of public safety has issued an order to the police department for a safe and sane Fourth of July in that city. The day will be celebrated with a monster picnic at Swinney Park. By the order no dealers can sell cannon crackers or any fireworks until July 2. Vital statistics made the public show a decrease in the birth rate in France. The births during 1909 were 770,000 against 792,000 in the preceding year. Since 1851 the population of the republic has increased by 3,000,000 only, wlijle the population of Germany In the same period has been increased by 30,000,000. David E. Sherrick, of Indianapolis, former auditor of state, was married Wednesday to Miss Cora Carolyn Williams, daughter of John J. Williams, of Newcastle. It was a quiet wedding, with only a few personal friends and relatives in attendance. Mrs. Sherrick has been engaged as a trained nurse in Indianapolis. George Wilson, of Chicago, engineer of an excursion train of twelve cars loaded with people bound for a picnic at Kenosha, Wis., averted a disastrous wreck near Harlem, on the Chicago & Northwestern road, Wednesday, by quick work. Wilson halted the train on the edge of a bridge which had been almost completely burned away. Milk theives are getting in their work in Princeton, evidently following dairy wagons and stealing the bottles of milk from doorsteps before any one comes out of the house to get them. Within the last few days one dairyman has lost twenty bottles of milk in various parts of the city in this way and other dairymen have sustained similar losses. Police are working on the case. >... The master bakers are unable to bring to an end the bread war which has been on in South Bend and in Mishawaka for several months. At a strenuous meeting all efforts to settle the matter and establish a uniform price for loaves failed. All that was accomplished was the decision to renovate their shops so as to comply with the laws laid down by the state board of health. As he stepped from the Eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia, after completing a three-years’ term for forgery, Alexander Van'Horning was arrested by detectives on the charge of breaking a parole given him at the Indiana state prison in Michigan City. With the detectives was Thomas Larmore, an agent of the Indiana penitentiary, who went to Philadelphia to bring Von Horning back. Seeking revenge for v having been outwitted by Lelah Leonard and Myron Murphy, who eloped to Warsaw and were married, a crowd of seventy-five acquaintances and a brass band met the young couple at the railway station when they returned to Silver Lake and loading them on a wagon drawn by a team of mules, paraded them through the streets, constantly showering them with rice and old shoes. The E. I. DuPont de Nemours Powder company, incorporated in New Jersey, with headquarters at Wilmington, Del., has filed in the federal court a suit against the Aetna Powder company of this state, alleging that the defendant is infringing patents for the manufacture of explosives granted to Christian Emil Bechel, of Germany, and now held by the plaintiff. The suit asks for an accounting for the proceeds of the sale of products manufactured under the infringement and for an injunction against further infringement.

Fire originating from sparks thrown out by a locomotive on the Grand Trunk railroad, which burned over a section of farm land in Laporte county in 1908, will cost the company the sum of $2,275 in court judgments, according to a decision of Judge Walter A. Funk, of the St. Joseph circuit court. Attorney General Dana Malone, of Massachusetts, has filed a petition in the supreme court of that state asking for an injunction restraining the order of Owls, of South Bend, Ind., from doing business in Massachusetts on the ground that the order has been engaged in the fraternal insurance business without authority. The petition will be heard June 21. Plain drunks” will receive lashings, instead of fines, if Muncipal Judge C. A. Houston, of Tulsa, Okla r -h<>q his way; He has asked the city commissioner to supply him with a post and a whip in order that the court may mete out punishment to the Intoxicated offenders. The average number of arrests on a charge of drunkenness made at Tulsa Is six a . . . a.'