Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Governor Marshall addressed a large audience at Peru Thursday night in connection with ceremonies dedicating Miami county’s $300,000 court bouse. A resolution ratifying the income tdx amendment was adopted by the Tennessee senate. The house also adopted a similar resolution. John R. Voris, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and instructor in biblical literature at Indiana university, has resigned and has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church at New Albany. Mrs. Ella Wilson, -elected mayor of Hunnewell, Kas., has announced that during her term of office there will be no intoxicants sold la Hunnewell, and a woman chief of police will be put in office to enforce the laws. A bill providing for the election/>f United States senators by a plurality vote of state legislatures was introduced in the senate Thursday by Senator Root of New York. The purpose of the measure is to prevent deadlocks in elections, Joseph Healy, 40 years old, third general vice president of the Brotherhood of Paper Hangers, Painters and Decorators of America, is dead at St. Elizabeth's hospital, Lafayette, froi uremic poisoning. Hla home was in Cincinnati. After being out all night, the jury hearing the case of James Waltei. charged with killing Police Chief Ellis and Patrolman Kirkman, at Alexandria, returned 8 verdict of guilty Wednesday. The Verdict carried with it a life sentence. Refusing to pay dog tax, Mrs. Ann Walters, of Columbus, drove the assessor from her home. She says she has paid the tax for seventeen'years and that the present high cost of living prevents further contributions of the kind. A bill appropriating $7,000 for the widow of Governor John A. Johnson has been passed In the upper branch of the Minnesota legislature. This sum represents the salary Governor Johnson would have received during the final year of the term for which he was elected. There is no doubt that the house will pass the bill also.