Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The school board at Cannelton, Ind., has denied Roy Bell, a negro boy, the right to enter the high school and Bell has employed an attorney to bring action against the school board. Mrs. Stephen Koupus, age 35, and her son, Stephen Koupus, aged 5, were killed Thursday by a Mineral Range passenger train near Dollar Bay, Mich., while walking on the right-of-way. Congressman John, A. M. Adair is confined to his bed at his home in Portland, suffering from fever, which his attending physicians say has every symptom of typhoid. Tuesday morning his temperature was 101. Alexander Shane, chief inspector of the Indiana railroad commission, has resigned. His successor has not been appointed. Mr. Shane will become general manager of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction company. The Lawrence county grand jury returned an Indictment against Dras Stannard for first degree murder. Stannard shot and killed Marion Devint, his father-in-law, a few weeks ago, following a family disagreement.

Women of the organizations affiliated with the G. A. R. will be barred from the encampment parade in Atlantic City next week. Announcement is made by Executive Director Sterrett that the line will be composed entirely of civil war veterans with {he exception of a gun detail from the Sons of Veterans for escort duty and to fire salntes. Wilkinson, Ind., being afflicted with two men that never bathe, has .been advised by Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, to have the unwashed quarantined at the county Jail, where the sheriff will apply soap aid water in profusion. The prescription was sent the citizens of Wilkinson, through Dr. Milo Gibs, health officer of Hancock county, by whom the complaint had been forwarded to Dr. Hurty. *

While shooting at a squirrel, which he sought as a delicacy for his sick grandmother,. Earl Nichols, sixteen years old, living north of Logansport, fell dead Wednesday. With the smoking gun in his hand the boy turned to a companion and exclaimed, “Guess I’m going to have another attack of heart failure.” As the words escaped him the gun dropped from his grasp and he collapsed, dying almost instantly. He missed the squirrel. One dead, one fatally injured and five seriously hurt is the result of a gas explosion caused by a miner’s defective lamp in Vandalia mine No. 10, nine miles from Linton, Ind., Wednesday. There were 300 men working the property, but they had been changed to another part of the mine that morning, and this fact alone prevented a fearful disaster. Andrew Baxter is dead and David Reese is lying at the point of death wth a fractured skull. Four men held up three Italians at Three Oaks, Mich., east of Michigan City Wednesday and robbed them of $2,000. The Italians belonged to a road gang and the money owned by the road gang was being taken from the railway camp to the village to be sent to a bank in Detroit. It is supposed that the robbers belonged to another gang of foreingers employed on the road in that vicinity; but no trace of them has been found.