Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Rev. Addison Parker, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church in Laporte, has closed his ministrations at Gas City. Mr. Parker has been living in Richmond. Ice gorges have practically suspended navigation on the Ohio river between Louisville, Ky., and Carlo, 111. There is also a great deal of heavy ice in the Wabash and White rivers. John Parmentier, aged 17, died at the end of the fifth round of a sixround fight with Andrew Kerr, at Green Bay, Wis., Monday night. A blow over the heart was the cause of death. Joseph Paul, a resident of Majenlca, Ind., and a student at Indiana University, arrived home in time for Christmas dinner, having walked the entire 170 miles from Bloomington in a little less than a week’s time. First Assistant Fire Marshall Charles Seyferlich has been made fire marshall of Chicago in the place of James Horan, who, with 22 others, was killed in the stock yards fire last week. The appointment of a chief was not expected for several months. Julius Grzesk, a farmer living near Crumstown, just east of Laporte, Saturday killed one of the largest foxes ever found in the northern part of the state. The animal was killed as it was entering his barn yard to steal chickens. It measures 28 inches high and weighes 58 pounds. Its color is light gray. The state board of pardons refused the application of William Fleming, convicted in St. Joseph county for a term of one to three years for promoting a fake wrestling match in which W. J. Springborn, of Cleveland, was duped. The petition for clemency was strongly endorsed in Cleveland, but was without South Bend endorsement of any character.