Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Representative Barnhart will make e speech in the house strongly against the increase of membership in that body. . : i The attempt of C. E. Russell, a Laporte oil prospector, to make a strike in St. Joseph county, near Terre Coupee has been abandoned. Sander Jureisen, employed at the Lehigh Portland Cement plant, near Mitchell, was blown to pieces when a blast that failed to go off with otheia exploded. Stella F. James was granted a divorce from Jesse E. James, son of the famous bandit, and SIOO a month alimony in the circuit court at Kansas City Tuesday night. Frank E. Free, of Lagrange, has begun” suit against the B. & O. road for SIO,OOO for damages received by him while at work for the company at Concord In 1909. Frederick Wellhouse, known at one time as the “apple king,” said to be the largest apple grower in the world died Tuesday at Leavenworth, Kans., aged 82 years.

Perry Rood, a Kalamazoo papermaker and evangelist, has been sentenced to fifteen days in jail at Cadilac for stealing a SSO bible. He said he had lost his copy and needed one to conduct his religious work.

Dr. J. W. Parrett, the oldest Methodist minister in' the state, is dead at Newport, aged 92. It is said he performed more marriage ceremonies and preached more funeral sermons than any other minister in the state.

Representative Barnhart has an-: nounced that he has recommended Thurman Beeman of Knox for a cadetship in the military academy at West Point. For alternates he recommended Frederick Meyers of Plymouh and Claude D. Snobarger of Syracuse.

Frank Gotch, world’s champion wrestler, met defeat by the powers of the pygmy wrestler cupid at 5 o’clock last night, when he was married to Miss Gladys Oestrich at the home of the bride’s parents in Humboldt, la. The ceremony was simple, only fifty of the immediate friends of the two families being present.