Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Richard Cochran, of Kokomo, asking for a divorce, his wife belabored him in his sleep with an umbrella. , v .Harley Drojlenger, pitcher last seathe Laporte high school team, who made a sensational record for an amateur, has been signed by Manager. Smith, of the South Bend Central league team. Ira Pope, a miner at' Cass, Ind., set his house and his clothing on fire Monday by starting the stove fire With coal oil. Though bis clothing was burning, he carried his child out, then fell unconscious, and died' later. Senator Shively has introduced ip the senate a petition of the Indiana Federation of Labor for legislation prohibiting the gove'rnment from printing stamped envelopes and leaving that work to private printing concerns. \ . ' - ■ V Fifty Richmond workingmen, moved by the high cost of living, have formed an organization called the Richmond' Co-operative Consumers’ club,, the purpose of which is to buyslhe necessities of life direct from the wholesale dealer and cut out the middleman’s profit. - John F. Meredith, one of the bestknown attorneys and. abstractors In Muncie, has filed suit in the Deleware Circuit court for a divorce from Rose D. Meredith. They have been separated for several years. Abandonment is the only, charge made. Mrs. Meredith is said to be living ivith her parents and two sons, near Indiana. - \ v With a* debt of $27,000 to meet, the Children’s~Afd Society, of South Bend and Mishawaka, has been presented with a donation of $5,000 by a person whose identity is withheld from the* public. The gift is conditional, providing that the balance of the debt be raised by subscription- The present indebtedness represents the balance of an original indebtedness of $70,000 incurred in building an orphan asylum. '

Those who sell intoxicants Jn Tennessee were declared ineligible to citizenship in the United States in & ruling announced by Federal Judge John E. McCall. Summarizing, Judge McCall said: “No man can support the constitution of the United States and of the State of Tennessee and uphold the laws of both, as they are required to do Under oath in securing naturalization papers, and at the same time engage in the unlawful vocation of selling liquor ip a state where its sale Is prohibited by law.’’

Officiate of the Illinois-ln diana Coal Operators’ association in their final session last week in Chicago decided to appoint a- committee from the twen-ty-six operating districts In Illinois. Indiana and lowa to establish retail agenctes to be controlled by the miner owner*, it is planned to sell coal direct to the consnmer at a lower figure than the present price and-thus eliminate the profit. The committee will meet in Chicago Feb. 20 to present the plans before the association for ratification.

Sidney Holmes was In town today settling up some business affairs preparatory to his removal to ’North Dakota. He will load his stock, etc, in Rensselaer Mbnday and it will be started Tuesday, him accompanying it Mrs. Holmes and the children will remain behind for a bant a week. Sidney rented a big farm 7 m lies north of Jamestown, and is taking with him ten bead of good horses and a lot of 1 Jasper county grit He expects to put out 600 acres of wheat, 200 acres of oats, 100 acres of rye, and about 100 acres of corn and rape, making 1,000 acres in all. Sidney’s brother Bam, who went to Jamestown last year, is also farming on an extensive scale and although last year was a very bad one he Urope even and expects with anything tike a fair chance to make some money' this year. • . . —-A.-