Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PEOGEAM —• —• PICTURES. k - Riding Feats by Cossacks. Max Foils the Police. SONG Take Me Back to Kidland. Miss Helen Morrow.

FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY. • Sept. 14. Blondin, famous tight rope walker, carried a man on his back across Niagara Falls and also crossed on stilts, with the Prince of Wales for a spectator. Twenty. Five Years Ago Today. The American yacht Puritan beat the English yacht Genesta in a race for the America’s cup off Long Island by over sixteen minutes. After four Ineffectual attempts to sail a race for the cup, then in possession of the New York .Yacht club, the competing yachts accomplished it, and the American boat won the race easily. A large number of women registered in Boston to vote on the school question.

Deputy United States Marshal Merrill E Wilson, of Indianapolis, was Monday made defendant in divorce action filed by his wife, Carrie Wilson, in the Elkhart superior court. Attorney L. W. Vail, of Goshen, who filed the petition immediately took it away, and later explained that the parties desired that there be no publicity until the cause is heard. The entry docket shows that the alleged ground for divorce is cruelty. Coroner Cecil, of Muncie, believes that before he administered the fatal dose of laudanum to himself Jesse Carpenter, who committed suicide with his aged wife, made sure that shg was beyond recovery. There were two hours and a half between the two deaths, and Carpenter must have waited until he was certain of her death before he swallowed the poison that ended his own life. Fear of poverty and the ill health of Mrs. Carpenter, which might lead to their separation, were the motives given in notes left by the two.