Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The democratic representation in the next house of congress will be 227, as against 163 republicans and one socialist, according to the roster of the house published Wednesday. These figures give the democrats a majority of 63 and a plurality of 64. The American Bridge company at Gary Monday let contracts for 190 houses to a Gary firm of contractors. -he price for each house ranges f'rom $1,500 to $4,000. The company will build 300 houses in all. Nineteen of the 190 houses will be built at once. The socialists of Terre Haute propose to publish a weekly paper in the interests of socialism. They are also making an effort to get Victor Berger, the congressman-elect on the socialist ticket from Wisconsin, to come there for a speech. Wabash county farmers are to install a telephone plant all their owja and liave named it the Cit.izens’ Telephone company. The Home company boosted the rural rates and the farmers ordered their plfcnes out and started the mutual company. They will have central offices in Wabash. James K. Polk Taylor, a former slave, 71 years old, and his wife, have given 480 acres of land at Calhan, forty miles east of Colorado Springs, Colo., to the Charles Sumner Tuberculosis association as a site for a national tuberculosis sanitarium for co'cred people. .It is understood $300,000 will be spent on the sanitarium. Attorneys for Newton C. Daugherty, former superintendent of schools of Peoria, 111., appeared before the Illinois state board of pardons at Joliet Monday, seeking the release on parole of the man, once prominent in national educational work, who was convicted of embezzling of thousands of dollars of funds of the Peoria school board. Thomas and Dewitt Rutledge, sons of Samuel Rutledge, of Koleen, Ind., were found dead in their room at Terre Haute Wednesday morning. A gas jet was turned on, and it is believed the gas was turned on by mistake. The brothers were about thirty years old, were business college students and had several hundred dollars in their pockets. .Alleging that his step-father threatened his mother with violence and had followed them from home to the house of a brother, bent upon shooting him, Albert Ellis, 27 years old, shot and instantly killed his step-father, 57 years old, near Farnsworth, four miles east of* Sullivan. Ellis admits t the killing, but says it was in self defense. He was arrested and taken to ttye Sullivan jail.