Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The police at Wabash Thursday killed the one hundredth dog in the campaign against rabies. The shade trees of Auburn have been examined because of the premature falling of the leaves. Experts say that this is due to the lice that form scales on the twigs ih the fall. There is an oil well on the farm of Fred "Huffman, near Huntington, tha:. is considered a freak. That part of the country is a small producer >hls well produces seventy barrels per day.

George Tullis, a Warsaw barber, 30 years of age, attempted suicide by saturating a cloth wjth chloroform and lying down with his face in the cloth in the alley at the rear of his home. An innovation has taken effect at the soldiers’ home in Marion, women waiters supplanting the veterans as table waiters in the general mess hall, seating over one thousand men. Old age of the members is the cause of the cnange.

Kidnapping is to be made a capital pffense in Louisiana, both principals and accomplices being held culpable for the infliction of the death penalty. A measure to this effect was passed almost unanimously in the house, and it is stated that no 1 real opposition will develop against the bill in the senate.— The bih of complaint of the General Electric company, of Schenectady, N. Y., against the Winona Interurban Railroad company, in which infringement of an invention of Charles P. Steinmetz, on an improvement in the regulating of alternating current systems was alleged, has been dismissed for want of equity.

Welchonce, Koehler and McCarty, of South Bend, have been sold to the Brooklyn club of the National league Scout Sutton, of Brooklyn, wap in South Bend for three days watching the work of the trio, and it is averred that he offered no objection to the price of $5,009 for the three men. They will report to the club about Sept. 15, the close of the Central league season.

Dr. George D. Richardson, of Marion, health commissioner of Grant county, has reported to Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, that he found, as a result of an investigation ordered by the state board, that the fish which wer-j recently found dead in great numbo -s in the Miasissinewa river had been poisoned either by the refuse from the strawboard works at Hartford City and Eaton, or from the sewerage from these two cities.