Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Robert Stratton, a merchant at Sullivan, Ind., was electrocuted while taking his automobile into his garage Saturday night. Richard Hunt was arrested at Evansville for trying to kick in the lid of his mother-in-law’s casket to show his dislike for her. John F. Goppert, of Knox, democratic candidate for county commissioner, while making his first electioneering trip Friday ( dropped dead at Hamlet while boarding a train. t John Teffelie, city electrician of Nappanee, met instant death there Saturday morning • when a pole upon which he was working broke and permitted him to fall forty feet to the ground. Miss Carrie Shafer, of South Bend, who in search of health went west a few weeks ago, is reported to have committed suicide at Ocean Park,* Cal., by throwing herself into the Pacific. The body was not recovered. Dr. George F. Smith, of Lawrenceburg, opened the leg of Walter Bruce and wired fractured bones together, after riveting the work with silver nails. The bone was splintered some weeks ago by a shot fired by Bruce’s wife in a quarrel. The board of directors of the National Business League of America at a meeting in Chicago memorialized President Taft to strongly recommend in his forthcoming message to congress, enactment of the “merit system” of Examination, appointment and promotion of consuls, the creation of an examining board and a complete Americanization of the consular system. San Francisco was indorsed as the ideal site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Sometimes a man disappoints a girl by not keeping his promise to marry her —and sometimes by keeping it.