Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Mayor Gebhardt, ofi Terre Haute, will ask the council for an appropriation for motorcycles to be used in capturing auto speeders. The speed mania has gone the limit, Terre Haute officials say. The Milwaukee city council Thursday carried out the socialistic policy of suppressing the disorderly saloons in the city by denying licenses' to 104 which had not been conducted properly. This includes two burlesque theatres. By direction of the president, Captain Ralph R: stogsdau, retired, now on duty with the organized militia of Indiana, on his own application, has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Notre Dame. The Cleveland American base ball team yesterday shut out St. Louis, 5 to 0. It was “Cy” Young’s 499th big league victory and he pitched a remarkable game, allowing only twentyeight men to go to baL St. Louis had only one man left on bases, that being the result of a base on balls in the ninth. The Pennsylvania company has announced its purpose to open division freight offices in Ft. Wayne, making that city a traffic as well as an operating center for the system between Chicago and Crestline. Quarters'have been leased in the Anthony hotel building for the offices, and Edward T. Wood, of Chicago, has been named as division freight agent. \ Nellie Farlev, age twenty, attempted sutcide at Tipton yesterday morning by throwing herself beneath an Alexandria and Tipton traction car. The car was just starting, and the conductor stopped it in time to drag the woman from beneath the rear trucks. She was declared insane later, and will be taken to the Central Hospital for the Insane of Indianapolis^ Postoffice officials throughout the country have been notified from Washington to exercise close supervision over the manner in which packages destined for the parcels post in other •f countries are wrapped. The postmasters at the various offices are instructed to return to the senders, for more careful wrapping, those packages that have been tied up in a manner that would be unsuitable for the long trip before them.

Tilley, of Terre Haute, was nominated by acclamation for congress at the Fifth district republican convention held in Martinsville Thursday. An anti-convention fight was made against him, but - ail was lovely when the roll of delegates was called. The platform did not mention names of Payne or Aldrich in the tariff resolution, though the standpatters made a vigorous fight for a stronger tariff plank than was adopted. After observing his father at work on cutomers, the four-year-old son of Fernando Woods, an Anderson barber, concluded there was no reason why he could not give himself a shampoo. The little fellow found a bottle of fluid in the rear of the barber shop and undertook the job. The bottle contained carbolic acid instead of hair tonic, and the child will be bald for a time, to say nothing of a badly burned face. Theives entered the home of Francesco Pastava, an Italian banker of Indianapolis, and stole S3O from a room adjoining one in which the banker’s dead daughter was on her bier. Pastava is one of the financiers of the Italian colony. Some one that knew the cash was in the house seized the opportunity for robbery when the girl’s parents visited the undertaking establishment. Another military religious organization entered the field yesterday with the incorporation in the supreme court of the state of New York of the “American Church Army.” Its purposes as set forth are similar to those of the Salvation Army and volunteers of America. New Yorkers are the incorporators.