Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Elkhart city council has appointed a committee to devise means of waging war on the San Jose scale in that city, which is declared by tree experts to be ten times worse than a year ago. William H. and George Bundy, brothers, of Crawfordsville, were notified Friday that checks worth $600,000 will be mailed them this month as their share in an estate in the east George Howard, 45 years old, a drunk confined in the Gary police station, cut his throat Tuesday afternoon with a razor, and also attempted to carve one of the officers who undertook to take the weapon from him. Apparently they do a good job of searching prisoners in the Gary jail. The unidentified man killed on the Lake Shore railroad was not William Glehdenning, of Laporte, as Mr. Glendenning has appeared, very much alive, and has viewed the body that was supposed to be his own. The partial identification was based on a postal card found in the dead man’s clothing. The real Glendenning .did not .know the stranger. Menlo E. Moore, of Vincennes, recently acquitted of the murder of Charles E. Gibson, has advertised for sale the furnishings of his home in that city. Mrs. Moore and her little son are at Mrs. Moore’s father’s hom-> at Washington. Moore has evaded questions as to whether or not he and his wife were again to make their home together. He would only answer, “I wish I knew.” He has been making trips to Chicago and Cincinnati on business connected with his theatrical enterprises. Although 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body when he short circuited a live wire at the plant of the Muncie Electric Light.plant at Newcastle Thursday, Paul Stewart, a young electrician, rallied and hospital physicians believe he has a fair chance to recover. At the time of the accident It was thought he could live only a few hours. His body was blackened by the electricity and his burns were deep. His wedding day had been set for Christmas eve. Declaring that she will never be taken to prison, Mrs. Lydia Owens, recently convicted in the court at Tipton on a criminal charge growing out of the so-called white slave case, refuses to eat and has tasted no nourishment since being returned to jail to await Her sentence. Her son, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges growing out of the same case, has tried to induce his mother to eat, but without avail. Four serious accidents marked Thursday at Lafayette. While operating a com shredder, Samuel Bausman, living at the edge of the city, lost his right arm. Michael Blaugh, a blacksmith, was badly burned when a blasting furnace exploded at the Esterline Labratory Supply company’s factory and a lot of blazing crude ’bjl was thrown in his face. He may die. A west bqund Wabash train struck a buggy in tyhich Mrs, Irwin Reppard and her son, 2 years old, were driving, and both were seriously hurt