Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Evelyn Sylinski, five years old, was run down at South Bend and fatally injured by an automobile driven by Irving Jackson Saturday morning. - The Kokomo board of. health has begun a war on the mosquito, directing the sanitary officers that “summer crUde oil” be poured upon all stagnant bodies of water where insects dangerous to health breed with impunity. Milk was used, in quenching a fire at the plant of the Sanitary Milk company in • Peru. When the workmen discovered a blaze in the engine room they hastily picked up large cans containing milk and dashed the lacteal fluid over the flames and put them out. ci. Fred B. Johnson, for the last three years instructor in the newly established journalism course at Indiana university, will resign from his position at the end of the present school year to go into a law office at Indianapolis. No one has as yet been appointed to fill the vacancy. Ground will be broken tomorrow for the erection of the new Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, in Ft. Wayne, so be erected at a cost of some $20,000. The" Ladles' Aid society members have asked the privelege of throwing the first earth from the excavation for the new building. The controller of the currency has granted permission to the First National bank, of Ft. Wayne, to resume its original charter No. 11, instead of 2701, the number the bank assumed upon its reorganization in 1882. The First National was the eleventh national bank to be organized in the United States and the first in Indiana.

Members of the board of public safety say it is difficult to get good men for the Ft. Wayne police force, r ' and for that reason, no appointment has been made to fill a vacancy which has existed for a week. There are many applicants, but not many of them measure up to the physical and intellectual standard demanded by the board. What disposition the Indiana Union Traction company will make of an unclaimed trunk, supposed to contain liquor, which has been in the baggage room at Kokomo since April 28, is a question that is being asked. The company soon will hold a sale of unclaimed articles at Anderson, but it is not known whether the trunk will be offered. By the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Lanier Dunn, of Washington, D. C., $5,000 has been added to the endowment fund of Hanover college. Mrs. Dunn was the widow of Gen. William McKee Dunn, of civil was fame, and the mother of Lieut. Col. George M. Dunn, at present judge advocate general of the United States army at Washington. Gen. Dunn was a professor in Hanover before his enlistment in the army, John Dahn, a young resident of Columbus, found a trestle on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines on fire south of the . city and there was no time to give an alarm, because the fire was burning fiercely. barrel of water is situated at either end of the trestle for use in case of fire and he emptied both barrels fighting the blaze. The boy finally, extinguished the fire after several ties had been burned in two. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will probably address the Good Roads Congress of Northern Indiana, in South Bend, during the latter part of July. The directors of the association are now working on a plan to bring about an open air mass meeting in South Bend at which many well known goodroads advocates will speak. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill permitting Associate Justice Moody, of the supreme court of the United States, to retire from office with full pay, notwithstanding he has not served ten years, nor is he seventy years old, as required by existing law. Mr. Moody’s health is given as the reason for the proposed act.

Joe Long, of Kokomo, is perfecting a monoplane which is to have some features not common to present mechanical birds. )He expects his machine to sail backward as well as forward, and its equipment is such that it will settle gently to the ground if the motor fails. The machine is to weigh nearly 300 pounds, but is not designed for great speed. Harry Elliott, 10 years old, was drowned in the St. Joseph river, near his home, two and one-half miles west of Elkhart, shortly after 12 o’clock Monday afternoon. He was fishing from the end of a boat, which was tied to the shore, a short distance from his home. The circumstances of his death are not known, as no one was with him at the time.