Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Workmen, excavating a road at the edge of Navarre Place, a fashionable residence section of South Bend, uncovered an old Indian burial ground. So far a dozen- skeletons have been unearthed The police of Kokomo have arrested Pearl Peters, a girl who escaped from the Girls’ Industrial school in December and who has been eluding the officers ever since. Her parents reside in Indianapolis. Joe A. Burton, four miles south of Mitchell, Ind., one of the most successful fruit growers of the United States, opened his orchard for inspa •- tion to about 200 visitors Friday. He has 160 acres in apples and ten acres in peaches. The yield of apples thi3 year was 4,500 bushels. It is conceded in South Bend that the fight between South Bend and Mishawaka for the annexation of River Park, a town of 1,526 people, has been won by Mishawaka, and after the second publication of the Mishawaka annexation ordinance next week, Rl«er Park will be a part of Mishawaka The Seventh Internal Revenue District collections for August amounted to $1,541,048, which is $460,000 more’ than August last year, the increase being at the distilleries, the total of which was $1,444,810. It was the largest August collection in the history of the district. In response to a letter written by a Columbus, Ind., democrat to W. J. Bryan, in which he asked the “commoner” if he would consider the local option question in his campaign speeches in Indiana, his private secretary replied that Mr. Bryan would not touch the local option question in Indiana, nor elsewhere, except in Nebraska.

The Tippecanoe county republican primary resulted in the following nominations: Representative, C. H. Oglesby; prosecutor, H. W. Henneger; clerk, William Jackson; auditor, Geo. W. Baxter; treasurer, F. L. Duncan, recorder, L. N. Heffner; coroner, Van Reed; surveyor, H. G. Arnold; commissioner, Grant Holweda; sheriff, J. R. Fisher; assessor, J. M. Spingle. Edwin Walker, dean of the Chicago bar and one of its foremost corporation lawyers, died at his summer residence at Wequetonsing, Mich., Saturday night. Mr. Walker was special counsel for the United States in the conspiracy case against Eugene Debs in the railroad strike of 1894. He was born in Genesee, N. Y., in 1832, and began the practice of in Logansport, Ind. The late King Edward, in the nine years of his reign, cost England $42,438,772.80, according to ofiicial figures just made public. This is why members of the Labor party are today preparing for a renewal of their fight against the cost of royalty when parliament reassembles. They contend that Edward’s services were worth no more than those of a good president, and that a first-class president can be obtained for SIOO,OOO a year. A cash dividend of 100 per cent was declared by the Ford Automobile company of Canada Wednesday. The company is a subsidiary of the Fort Automobile company of Detroit. It was organized six years ago under Canadian laws and a plant built across the river to go after Canada’s trade. Henry Ford holds nearly one third of the stock and drew as his share of the melon cutting |§3,000. The total distribution was SIOO,OOO. ft "Classified Adv.” will rant It.