Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

“Oh, that’s just a little habit I have,” said Otis Hadley, of Huntington, as if it were trivial. He was charged with beating his wife and children. The mayor gave him orders to break the habit and suspended sentence on good behavior.

Evansville laundry owners have formed a combine, and have advanced the price of family washings 20 per cent. Other prices may also be increased.

In an effort to stop the spread of hog cholera in Birtholomew county, veterinary surgeons are vaccinating hogs, but this seems to have little effect.

C. V. Roy, alias Ferguson, of Chicago, and Daniel McKellar, of Toronto, were arrested in Hammond charged with brutally beating Mrs. Charles Clyde at her home and stealing money and jewelry.

Mrs. Nicholas Petgen, of Ft. Wayne, who, while demented, set fire to her clothing ten days ago, died Friday as a result of her burns. She was 52 years old and the wife of a Ft. Wayne patrolman.

The census bureau Saturday afternoon announced that the total present population of the state of lowa is 2,224,771. This is a decrease of 7,082, or .3 per cent, since 1900. The decrease was expected and resulted from the emigration to Canada. The Pennsylvania lines west handled more cars during October than the corresponding month, 1909. Reports of the freight traffic show that a total of 188,443 loaded cars were handled for the month against 187,084 for the same month last year. While pressing a pair’ of trousers Friday, Worden M. Small, of Evansville, let the ashes from his cigarette fall into a gasoline bottle, which exploded. Small will lose the sight of both eyes.

Having spent, as she claims, twenty months of the last sixty in tears because of the abuses to which she claims her husband subjected her, Mrs. Emeline Cagley has sued her husband, William Cagley, of Kokomo, for a divorce.

J. W. Sale, of Bluffton, a candidate for the state senate, has resigned as a memb» • of the board of trustees of the state school for feeble-minded, at Ft. Wayne, his reason being that beig a candidate he believed he should not remain on the board. The resignation was accepted, but no action was taken concerning his successor. King George, of Great Britain, has issued a proclamation fixing June 22 as the date of the coronation. Officials of the Big Four are investigationg a -k at McCordsville Sunday, when a section of a freight train left the track, killing one man, probably fatally injuring one, and injuring two others seriously.