Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Japan has placed oreds for the immediate construction of two battleships of 22,000 tons each. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the American ambassador to Great Britain, has made an additional gift of $60,000 to the Red Cross Guild hospital at San Mateo, Cal. It has been found that the site for the new postoffice at Mishawaka is owned by a man who has been dead twenty-five years, and suit has beer, begun to quiet title. Of more than 1,000 students enrolled in the college at the University of Kansas, 496 have failed to pass their examinations, according to announcements made by the faculty. The greatest number are freshmen and will be reinstated. Believing that the 18-hour Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and New York over the Lake Shore and New York Central roads has become popular with the traveling public, the Michigan Central will place in service a similar train between the two cities June Ist. The Crumpacker reapportionment bill that provided for an increase in the membership of the national house of representatives to 433 died in the senate Saturday morning. The membership of the house will remain at 391, Indiana and other states keeping their same number of representatives. The Missouri state senate has adopted a resolution commending its United States senators for voting against Lorimer.