Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

As the result of an investigation by detectives brought into Wabash by Prosecutor Carpenter, fifteen affidavits have been filed charging illegal sales of liquor. Billy Papke, who claims the middleweight championship of the world, Wednesday knocked out Williams, champion of Victoria, in the sixth round, at Sydney, N. S. W. In a fire that destroyed the farm house of Albert Jarrett, near Economy, ind., Tuesday l , his one-year-old daughter was burned to death. The child’s father and mother were both away. Thomas M. Herrold, of LaPorte, has Entered into contract for furnishing the B. & O. with 1,000 piling for, use in renewing the bridges between Wellsboro, Laporte county, and LaPaz, Marshall county. Ellis E. Sands, aged 21, of Utica, Ky., was refused admittance to the United States army at Evansville Wednesday because he had reduced his weight by attending forty-one dances this year. The only woman bartender in Vigo county has renounced-her profession and is suing her employer, John Whalen, of Terre Haute, for $75 back pay. Her name is Mrs. Anna Douglas, a Ludiwich woman of Austria-Hun-gary. Senator and Mrs. Robert M. LaPollette left Rochester, Minn., Wednesday for Madison, Wis., their home. Senator LaFollette has completely recovered from his recent operation at a hospital in Rochester. The feminene craze for wearing rats in the hair is having such a serious effect on the fancy comb business that the largest comb factory has announced a curtailment. „ Women who used to wear large back combs now hang a cluster of puffs and wear a barette instead of a comb.