Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

It cost Uncle Sam $14,&00'000 to enumerate the 1910 census, According to Director Durand’s report Issued Saturday. Senator Beveridge has recommended to the president that J. C. Scheffler be appointed postmaster at Wolcottville. The safe in the postofflce at Center* ville, Wayne county, was cracked early Saturday by robbers, who escaped with SSOO in cash and an equal amount in stdfops. They escaped in a stolen rig. The Parks local option bill, making the county a unit in voting on the liquor question, has passed the Alabama senate in practically the same shape that it came from the house. It is favored by the governor. This puts an end to state-wide prohibition in Alabama. A man pretending to represent the Chanute, Kansas, Cement company, sold SIO,OOO worth of bonds in the concern to farmers of LaGrange county recently, and the stuff is said to be practically worthless. His bait was in making each buyer a present of SSOO in stock. Governor Harmon of Ohio has Just signed the Reynolds nonpartisan Judiciary bill, which has passed both houses of the Ohio legislature, and under which candidates for the Judiciary are to be elected on nonpartisan ballots, with similar tally sheets, poll books and ballot boxes. John N. Poison, of Michigan City, a leader in the movement for a canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake Michigan by way of Toledo and Defiance, Ohio, and Michigan City, has gone to Washington, where he will confer vtith Indiana representatives concerning the project. Mr. Poison has detailed drawing and maps for the canal. William Overesch, of Lafayette, Is designated for appointment as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, a vacancy in Indiana’s quota being in the power of Senator Beveridge to fill, subject to the ability of the applicant to pass the required examinations. The appointment was made on the suggestion of Senator WiU R, Wood, of Lafayette, and Henry C. Pettit, United States marshal. .