Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Joseph Starkey cruelly beat his horse at Brazil Monday, after which the animal turned on him and kicked him- so that his left leg and two ribs were broken. Starkey is in a serious condition. The suit brought by the former wife of F. E. Hering, of South Bend, once head of the Eagles, against his present wife, charging alienation of affections, has been settled out of court and dispiissed. A. W. Hartman, of Star City, was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train Sunday, near that place, and was instantly killed. He was alone in a touring car, which was struck while crossing the track. Hartman was on the way to Camden, where he bad bought a hardware store.

Walter Frank, twenty-three, of Portland, this state, was killed instantly, on Saturday,- when he grabbed an electric wire carrying four thousand volts. He was working on a high tension wire of the lighting company in Dunkirk. Last December he narrowly escaped when a pole broke; throwing a fellow-workman to his death. Frank recently wedded a Dunkirk girl. Rosie Cullom, age forty, a Muncie widow, threw a cup of kerosene into a stove full of live coals Sunday night and was burned to death in the explosion that followed. The can containing a large quantity of oil exploded and Mrs. Cullom was burned all over before the flames could be extinguished by other members of her family who tried to save her. Mrs. Cullom was to have been married Soon. Governor Marshall has named Dr. George F. Edenharter, superintendent of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane; Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern hospital, and Superintendent Peyton, of the state reformatory, a committee to have charge of fixing the prices to be paid the state reformatory by other state institutions for supplies manufactured in the reformatory under the new law regulating such purchases.