Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — FROM SHORE TO SHOES FOR THE BUSY READER. [ARTICLE]

FROM SHORE TO SHOES FOR THE BUSY READER.

Gist of Dally .Happenings . Boiled Down for Those Who Do Not Thoroughly Bead Big Papery Ballinger Resigns—Richard A. Ballinger has resigned as secretary of the interior and President Taft has appointed Walter L. Fisher, of Chicago, to him. * Shot Wife and Self—Joseph Burgoyne, of Liberty, Ind., murdered bis wife as she slept Tuesday morning, and then suicided. Burgoyne is thought to have been temporarily insane.

Roller Rolled Cutler—Dr. Roller, the athletic physician from Seattle, in a wrestling match at the coliseum in Chicago Monday night, threw Charley Cutler, employing the deadly toe hold. President to Go South—President Taft is planning a trip to the south, which some construe as the beginning of a campaign for renomination. He will make his first speech at Atlanta and will probably talk Canadian treaty.

To Advocate World’s Peaee—Baron be Constant, president of the International Conciliation Association, is coming to America for a speaking tour lasting three months, during which time he will extol the peace movement in forty cities. Women Go To Springfield—Three hundred women went from Chicago to Springfield in a special train Tuesday to nrge the cause of equal sufrage for women. The train was mot at every station by crowds of women, who were in sympathy with the suffragette movement. Cubs at New Orleans —The Chicago Cubs, last year’s national league champions, who went through Rensselaer recently, en route to West Baden,' are now in New Orleans, getting the ‘•kinks” out of their system fox the opening of professional ball. Other big league teams are also at various southern points. Escaped From Prison—Harris J. Morgan, a prisoner In the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, made his escape Tuesday morning. He sawed his way out of his cell and escaped the guards and eluded the bloodhounds. He was a desperate man and was serving an 18-year term for burglary and larceny.

Dunne Gives Up—Edward P. Dunne, former mayor of Chicago, and defeated candidate for the democratic nomination in the primaries held last week, has given up the recount based upon fraud. He says there was not enough evidence of fraud to change the result. Carter H. Harrison is the democratic nominee. Desperate Men Captured—James Walker and Rufus Warren are confined in the Indianapolis jail for safe keeping. Last Saturday they undertook to rob a bank in Alexandria and Walker, in making his escape, killed a policeman. He was traced to the home of his father, where a battle ensued and where he inflicted wounds on Chief of Police Ellis that resulted in the latter’s death. Walker wept when informed that two men were victims of his pistol. He said that he and Warren had been drunk. Fearin? a mob would lynch them, the men were taken to Indianapolis.