Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Nelson White has been appointed postmaster at Bethel, Wayne county, to succeed J. E. Theis, resigned. Freeman Cooper, of Columbus, Ind., former law partner of John W. Kern, recovering from a stroke of paralysis, is discovered to have lost'his memory, Walter Neal, a Depauw university graduate, son of a minister, with a bride in Terre Haute, was arrested at French Lick Friday for passing an alleged forged draft for $3,000. The annual camp meeting of the Mennonites opened at the Mennonite grounds, south of Goshen, Thursday and will continue in session until Aug. 21. Mennonites from a radius of 100 miles are present. Mrs. Fred Hartman was attacked

by a cow at her country home, near Michigan City, last Thursday, and may die. She was milking, and the cow was frightened by a chicken jumping from the manger. Burglars broke into the homes of Rev. B. P. McCoy, pastor of the United Brethren church, and Rev. E. P. Lewis, pastor of the Methodist church at Odon early Thursday, stealing $7 and a new suit of clothes at McCoy’s home and sl.lO at the Lewis home. While giving her 18-months-old baby a bath Thursday, Mrs. W. L. Luck, of Bloomington, slipped and fell headlong through a cellar door. Mrs. Luck clasped the child in her arms and-in falling, broke its limb near the ankle. The mother received painful injuries. Andrew Wagner, of Osgood, Ind., who shot Rose Wagner and Skinner Turner in a fit of jealous rage Tuesday night, gave himself up to the officers Thursday night. He is in jail at Versailles. He spends most of his time in tears. The girl will recover, but Turner may die. Mrs. Albert Yager, of Kokomo, Thursday asked forgiveness by her husband whom she deserted. Mrs. Yager is on parole from the woman’s prison, and was returned there. She has violated parole several times, and Yager has forgiven her several times. “Never again,” he told her Thusday.

A swarm of bees that has been making its abode in the Young chapel, near Crawfordsville, since June, and giving the congregation, no end of trouble, was killed by Ping Champion. The bees had a hive above the window casement. Recently the swarm came out of its hive during the services and caused a near panic. An attempt was made at Washington, Ind., to poison the family of Alex. Seals, himself and Mrs. Isom Gootee, being the sufferers from a batch of corn bread which they ate Thursday. The bread was made from meal in the kitchen bin. Four years ago a similar attempt was made upon the lives of be Seal family. They know of no enemy. , Edward "Wedell, aged 44, a painter, committed suicide at Fort Wayne, by shooting Friday morning. He sat on the front steps at his home when he did it and the deed w r as witnessed by several passersby. Wedell, two or three years ago, shot his wife and spent a year in jail. He had been living with her since his release until two weeks ago, when she sued him for divorce. Harry D. Caton is being allowed to “sweat” in jail by his father, a wealthy cattleman of Bloomington, 111. Caton made a splurge in society at Brazil, Ind., and at Terre Haute, where he is wanted on the same sort of charge that holds him in Brazil. Caton forged hie father’s name. He had given the young man permission to use his bank account, but Caton had gone so fast the father thinks it well to let him reflect in jail. -

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