Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Capt. Eugene Childs, a veteran of the civil war, who, as a child, flew a kite across Niagara Fairs, which permitted the engineers who built the suspension bridge there to draw the cables across, is dead at his home in Minneapolis. Attorneys for Mrs. Lucy Sayler, now serving a sentence in the Joliet penitentiary for the murder of her husband, John B. Sayler, at Crescent City, ill., a year ago, have filed a writ of error in ihe supreme court asking for a new trial of the case. By general consent Professor Wood, who declares that skunks are good to eat, will be allowed to have the entire supply for his own use. Cincinnati has a population of 364,463, according to figures enumerated for the thirteenth annual census and made public Thursday by Census Director Durand. This is an increase of 38,561', or 11.8 per cent, as compared with 325,902, the population in 1900. William Kerr, 84 years old, better known as “Major,” is dead at his home In Knightstown, He was a civil war ■veteran, having been a member of Company F, Twenty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and later of Company B, Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Cavalry. Postmaster General Hitchcock was gratified Thursday, when he returned to Washington from Europe, to leai-i of the fulfillment of his prediction of a $10,000,000 reduction in the yearly postal deficit. The' report of the auditor of the department showed the saving for the fiscal year to be $11,573,000. « Some time early Wednesday morning robbers attempted to blow' open the safe in the station of the Evansville & Indianapolis railroad at Washington, Ind., by pouring nitroglycerin into the cracks of the outer door. The explosion, which tore the outer door from its hinges, but left the inner door undamaged, awoke many residents, but before the police could reach the scene, the robbers had escaped. National bankers in twenty cities, among them bankers in New Albany, Ind., have signified a disposition to organize currency associations under the terms of the Aldrich-Vreeland act. A. Piatt Andrews, acting secretary of the treasury, is now in correspondence with bankers on the subject interpreting the new law’ for them and pointing out all the requirements necessary to the organization of currency associations. Government officials and employes who pay tips to waiters on shipboard as Well as gratuities to other servants en boats, may charge the expense up to the government, under a ruling of the controller of the treasury. Dr. J. H. Romig, government physician at Seward, Alaska, billed the government for 75 cents paid for “boat, table and room porterage,” and after auditing officials had puzzled over the bill, the controller finally sustained the account , Roy Sheneman, former deputy state attorney of St. Joseph county, who has figured frequently in South Bend eourts for the last ten days, has been held to the grand jury for embezzlement. Despite the accused attorney’s contention that the embezzlement charge was caused by a disagreement, the court ordered the prisoner held on S3OO bond. Sheneman was unable to procure bail and was returned to the county jail. He will remain in jail antil the grand jury convenes in September.’