Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The 17th annual convention of the Indiana Association of Photographers will be held at Winona Lake the week of July 10th. While coupling cars on the Big Four at Fowler, George Llckleiter, of Indianapolis, was crushed between them and instantly killed. ' Oliver P. Reese, a former Ft Wayne railroad man, has been appointed master mechanic of the Alleghany division of the Pennsylvania company. He succeeds the late George P. Sweeley. The village of Clunette, just west of Leesburg, is in the throes of an epidemic of measles. Not a family in the town has escaped without at least one case. Two milliom dollars for the support of superannuated ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church was decided on by the board of conference claimants of the national body which met in Chicago Wednesday. zl George Brown, Lafayette’s first superintendent of police, under the metropolitan act, is dead in Chicago at the age of 66 years. He was appointed police superintendent by Governor Matthews in 1823 and served four years. David Tranbarger, 84, is near death at his home in Anderson. He is probably the oldest justice of the peace in Indiana, having been in office more than fifty years. The wily jewelry he carries is a silver watch won when a boy in a spelling match. The largest missionary convention of women ever assembled at Washington opened Thursday when the Women’s National Foreign Missionary jubilee gathered in a two-day session. The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of women’s organized work for foreign mia«inM in America. Sixteen out of seventy-five pupils chosen from Joliet, 111., public schools were standing Thursday afternoon at the end of a two days’ "spell down,” during which all common words In Webster’B dictionary had been fired at them. At the end of the first afternoon thirty-eight were standing. Some are only 13 years old. George Reprogle, resident of Kokomo, was arrested Thursday morning on a charge of bootlegging. The police found in his possession 109 pints of whiskey. The liquor had been purchased from Martin Bllgh, a wholesale liquor dealer of Logans port. The liquor was put up in fancy bottles with glass stoppers, and wrapped in tissue paper. Arthur Smith, a young aviator of Ft Wayne, fell thirty-five feet Wednesday with an aeroplane of his own manufacture and sustained serious injuries. His machine is a »»»«« of ruins. The accident occurred when Smith was rising from the ground and was due to inexperience. It was his second flight, the first, made several days ago, haring been successful. A 96,000 team is to be put to work in the streets of Huntington: Q. & Fahl has a team of Belgians that are prize winners, purchased from the Crouch firm at Lafayette. He wishes to keep them well exercised between seasons and has offered them to Hunt ington’s street commissioner at the same rate that the ordinary attached to the dirt wagons brines for its labor.