Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Governor Marshall Thursday declined an invitation to deliver an address at the democratic state convention of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, July 12th. He had previously made arrangements to make a commencement address at the Indiana Boys’ school on the same date.

John Humes, Charles Wamsley and Watt and Ora Beaver, living near Rushville, believe that they hold the record for catching frogs. One night recently they captured seventy in less than an hour. They held a frog feast, to which they invited all of their neighbors and friends. Mortimer P.’ Reed, for several years superintendent of the Southern Michigan railway, has been appointed general superintendent of all the lines of the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana system, next to the Indiana Union Traction company, the largest trolley system in Indiana. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company has just placed orders for 4,000 additional freight cars and will award a contract in a few days for another 1,000 gondola cars. The management also has ordered fifty additional locomotives of the Mikado type. The aggregate cost of the equipment is about $6,100,000. ’ ,

Miss Ella Hughes, daughter of Frank Hughes, of Franklin, who lost her voice ten months ago, and has not been able to speak above a whisper since then, felt a peculiar vibration in her throat Thursday morning and found she could talk in a natural tone. Miss Hughes at once called all of her friends over the telephone, telling the good news.

More than twelve tons of frozen or dessicated eggs, shipped from Chicago, were seized as unfit for human consumption at the King’s County Refrigerating company’s plant in Brooklyn Thursday. Government inspectors, acting under orders from the department of agriculture, made the seizure. It is the largest on record in Greater New York.

Investigations in Evansville within the last week, by Effie Stevens, of Columbus, Ohio, who is said to represent a national society for the suppression of white slavery, have disclosed conditions which will be brought to theattention of the September grand Jury in Vanderburg county. It is declared by Miss Stevens that girls are held practically in bondage because they are bound by debts they incur to resort mistresses.

On the allegation that her husband compelled her to do a man’s work in his lumber yard, located at Lakeville, Mrs. Maggie Merrill was granted a divorce by Judge Vernon Van Fleet in the superior court at South Bend. Mrs. Merrill stated that her husband, Hiram Merrill, had compelled her to spend all her time at work in his establishment. When she was not engaged in the office, she was forced to work in the yard, she said. Dr. J. J. P. Armstrong, of Douglass, Arizona, has contracted with A. M. Williams, an aviator of that city, to convey placer mining machinery from Douglass to a property in the Chicauhua mountains, Mexico. The distance is about 300 miles. The machinery is such that it can be carried only in 100pound lots. Williams owns and operates a monoplane. This is probably the first contract made, calling for the commercial use of a heavier-than-air machine.