Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Gov. Marshall Monday approved the joint resolution introduced by Senator Stotsenburg and passed by the senate and house ratifying the proposed sixteenth amendment to the federal constitution, which is intended to give congress power to levy an income tax without reapportioning it to the various states. The resolution has been sent to Washington. Harry G. Newton, principal of the Vincennes high school, at an early hour Monday morning went to take a bicycle out of a sleetstorm and place it in his -barn, when a robber knocked him unconscious. The robber piied a SSOO-diamond out of a ring on Newton’s finger, then entered Newton's house and took $74, the January tuition of country students attending Newton’s school.

Dr. J. A. Snapp, health commissioner of Elkhart county, reported to the office of the state board of health Monday that an epidemic of scarlet fever was raging in Elkhart county. In one township, the report stated, there are 132 cases of the disease. Preparations will be made to assist the county health authorities if it is found that help is needed. The cases are said to be a mild form of the disease. At the democratic house caucus Monday night all of the democratic members of the Indiana delegation voted to sustain President Taft’s course in reference to Canadian reciprocity. Representative Cullop made a speech voicing the unanimous viewo of the members of the delegation in favor of the ratification of the treaty. He commended it in epthuslastic language and said the people of Indiana are in favor of it