Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond—Fire destroyed the Mustine saw mill at Cambridge City Tuesday, the loss being about >3,000, with no insurance. The mill has been running full force. Kokomo—The Howard county fair being held at Russiaville opened most auspiciously. There is a flue line of exhibits in every department and the attendance is good. Columbus—Mrs. Mary Walker, of Hope, is in a critical condition from a dog bite. She was attacked Tuesday by a vicious dog, which bit her on the hand, arm, throat and face. Fort Wayne—City Attorney Harry G. Hogan is drafting an ordinance* to be presented to the city council preventing any one under 17 years of age from driving a motor car, and also making every autoist pay a fee of |l. for a local license. Danville—A big “oil strike” was made when a freight wreck on the Big Four knocked a hole in a 7,000gallon tank of kerosene. Neighboring farmers and townspeople have been dipping up oil ever since. One man boasted that he saved sixty gallons from the wreck. Richmond—The Bureau of Municipal Researce, which has had under consideration a proposition to investigate local milk conditions, prompted by a recent increase in the price of milk, has determined to undertake the work. The investigation will be made general in so far as the dairies will agree.

Ernest Kantz and a visitor on his place several miles northwest of Elkhart killed a thiry-pound badger just after it emerged from Harvel Gayman’s orchard five miles north on the Edwardsburg avenue road laat week. The rare animal put up a hard light One man whipped it with a buggy whip, thus attracting its attention while the other slipped up from behind and hammered it with a fence rail. In a collision Saturday at New Albany, Ind., between south bound Monon passenger train, running 2 hours late, and a fire department truck the latter was demolished and one ot the horses was killed.. Driver William Moss and Philip Reilly and Harry Lowry, fireman, were hurled to the ground. They escaped serious injury. Mrs. Morse, of Atlanta, Ga., wife of Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, claims that she has secured thousands of signltures to a petition to President Taft asking a pardon for her husband. The signers represent all classes, she asserts.