Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Alexander Cravens, brother of Representative Joseph Cravens, committed suicide Saturday at Madison, Ind. -11 l health is believed to have been the cause. gamuel Dickinson, of Richmond, 62 years old, president of the Dickinson Trust company, the biggest banking institution in eastern Indiana, died Saturday morning of a paralytic stroke. Bert Cohn, deputy state food inspector, says Kokomo merchants and shopkeepers sell the cleanest food in Indiana. He has Just completed the most searching investigation Kokomo has ever had. Representative Cox, of Indiana, has introduced in congress a n dollar-a-day pension bill. His bill provides for the abolition of all pension agencies and the payment of pensioners from Washington.

Reuben, the educated pig of the Robinson circus, in some manner got mixed up with a consignment of pigs to the culinary department of the circus and was killed and eaten by the employes. He was worth fl,ooo. Reports are to the effect that the Wabash railway which Is now double tracked between Clark Junction and Chicago, will double track ten mile 3 between Clark and Miller in order to establish a Gary-Miller-Hammond suburban service. Falling scraps of metal, released from a high-swung, giant steel magnet, struck Joseph Shulka, age twenty, breaking legs and arms and fracturing his skull. He died in St. Margaret’s hospital in Hammond. The accident occurred in the Inland steel mill, Indiana Harbor.

The Newcastle police are wrestling with the tramp problem. One [woman who has been kindness Itself to the neversweats, invited one into her kitchen and left It for a minute while she was boiling some eggs for hini. When she returned he had made off with a gold watch which she had left out to time the eggs. Application to appoint a receiver for C. G. Conn, the Elkhart band instrument manufacturer, on petition of W. J. Gronert, his former manager, has been abandoned. The Gronert case will be tried on Hb merits laier. It is claimed by Conn that the band instrument factory, which is employing 300 men, is now in full swing and that plans for the Angledile Computing Scale company plant, in which he is interested, will go forward. It is generally believed that Conn is solvent. _