Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Indiana supreme court yesterday reaffirmed its former ruling in favor of the Vincennes university, in its claim against the state of Indiana. A petition for rehearing was denied. * > : .r. :J _■ ft . v VJ| The formal call for a strike of 10,000 miners in Ohio and western Pennsylvania was sent out from the headquarters of the United States Mine Workers at Indianapolis yesterday. The men, who are to 1 suspend work next Monday are employed by operators owning mines in th 4 Tuscarawas district The operators are charged with having violated their agreement with the men on the wage scale. It is expected that Indiana will pay about one-fiftieth x>f the entire amount of $25,000,000 which will enter the government coffefs as a result of the decision of the United States supreme court in declaring the corporation tax constitutional. It is roughly estimated that there are about 2,000 corporations in Indiana which will assist In paying Indiana’s portion of the tax and they will pay taxes aggregating about $425,000; The controller of the currency has received an application for the privilege lat organizing a new national bank at Hammond, to be called the American National Bank. It is proposed to start the new institution with $25,000 capital. Those who have agreed to become financially interested are J. C. Lavene, W. F. Bride, J. E. Brennan, W. J. McAleer and E. Minas. Mrs. Chas. C. Darwin, historian general and a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, also for years vice president general of the Children of the American Revolution, Is dead at her homp In Washington. She was a native of Mtddlebury, Vt The New York Central railroad was fined $35,000 and the Pennsylvania railroad $20,000 by Judge Hazel in the United States district court at Buffalo yesterday after attorneys for the railroads had entered pleas of guilty to granting rebates to the Standard Oil company. A unique political organization, one of whose principles is that its members are not to seek political office, has been formed in San Francisco. Its object is to promote sound munucipal government by the selection" of non-partisan candidates. John S. Pernett, field agent at the Indiana reformatory, has returned from California with Albert Whitehead, who violated his parole and has since been in the Ohio state reformatory, the workhouse in Chicago, and in the California penitentiary. Dr. F. R. Carson, president of the Central League, who has been 111 since the first of the year and who has been taking the baths at St. Joseph, Mlch„ for the last three weeks, returned to South Bend yesterday In good health. Thrown fifty feet down an incline when the boiler of the-Hoffman mine near Brazil exploded early yesterday, Dudley Herbert, 25, night watchman, was instantly killed. He was serving his last night’s position as watchman, having resigned his position.