Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Haynes automobile company, of Kokomo, has received an order to ship four of the ,model 19 cars to Honolulu. Christian Engle, aged 80, a pioneer resident of Goshen; died Tuesday night after being stricken with apoplexy while sitting in a drug store. The hobble skirt, according to one of the fashion journals, “will die a natural death.” Having seen it in ac? tion, we are afraid some of the wearers will not be so fortunate. Going to the aid of Harry O. a lineman employed by the Pennsylvania railroad in Columbus, Ind., John Hoffmeyer, was killed Thursday by a live wire, which also killed the lineman. Dr. W. A. Millis, president of Hanover college, will deliver the principal address at the corner stone laying of the new high school building in Crawfordsville next Tuesday. Dr. Millis was superintendent of the city schools there for seven years. Officials of the Indianapolis motor speedway announced the plans for an automobile race to be run May 27,1911, in which American cars will be pitted against the best of Europe for a purse of $25,000. The contest as announced, will be for 500 miles. Russell A. Boggs, of Fort Wayne, became so excited betting on the outcome of a pool game with three crooks Tuesday after winning a number of times that he went home and got his entire roll of $520 and staked It all. The crooks took a Joy ride after the winning and Boggs told the police. The trio are now in jail. In saving his home from destruction by fire early Tuesday, Fred Schmidt, an Anderson faetdry employe, was frightfully burned and may not recover. A mattress was discovered on the second floor of the home in flames. Mr. Schmidt carried the burning object to a window and as a result his hands and face are badly burned. - Miss Catherine Crismond, of Logansporfc; fell from a street car while blindfolded during her initiation into the mysteries of the .Delta Theta Tau sorority and was pickfed up by a patrol wagon and taken to St. Joseph’s hospital. Her parents declare she narrowly escaped total blindness and she is still in a critical condition. The police say that nightgowii parties and similar “sorority” • stunts will be stopped by arrests in the future.