Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Found with a knife crouching on the porch of the home of Joseph D. Oliver, the millionaire plow manufacturer, Frank O’Donnell, of Sharon, Pa., supposed to be insane, gave the South Bend police an unusual chase before he was finally captured in the private apartments of Mrs. Adele Bidkford, owner of the Sheridan hotel. Thomas M. Honan, attorney-gener-al, in an opinion' to W. E. Blakely, state factory inspector, yesterday held that newspaper carrier boys who buy their papers direct from the publisher for delivery or sale to customers are not employes of the publisher and hence the publisher can not be prosecuted undr the child labor law. Mrs. Will Billings near Milroy is the victim of a strange malady. Recently she was bitten on the finger by a calf and the wound failing to heal, sought treatment from a doctor, and it improved, but her body began to be covered with blister? in each of which are microbes which physicians have been unable to kill without injuring the flesh. Mrs. Billings may lose both arms. Michael O’Tolski is dead and Stanley Szbowski seriously hurt as a result of a motorcycle accident at South Bend. The machine driven by O’Tolski, at a speed of fifteen miles an hour, struck a horse and buggy driven by Robert Bennett Szybowski was riding on the tank of the motor, and in the crash was thrown over the horse’s head. He suffered a broken rib and other injuries. O’Tolski’s skull was fractured. Captain Jonathan Snook, age seven-ty-four, a veteran of the civil war, died yesterday at Michigan City of cancer. He was a native of Pennsylvania. He settled in southrn Michigan in 1852 and in 1861 he enlisted in Company I, First Michigan infantry, the first regiment that left the state. He leaves a widow and a son. He was a member of the G. A. R. and an Odd Fellow. Quite a number went from Rensselaer today to attend the aviation exhibition at Stuart Field, Purdue. Dr. and Mrs. English and son Harry and Mrs. Alda Parkison went by auto, as also did N. C. Shafer, C. A. Tuteur and John Braddock, and probably several other machines. By train went Mrs. D. G. Warner, Mrs. J. H. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark, Dr. J. W. Horton, Bradford Poole, Don Weight and Kenneth Allman. Rex Warne.went yesterday and C. C. Warner today. They are both members of the Sigma Chi fraternity, to which George Ade also belongs, and they went particularly to attend the chicken supper at the home of Judge DeHard and to participate in a reunion of congenial college acquaintances. George Ade yesterday announced his willingness to make an ascension in one of the biplanes, and if the weather is agreeable and free from wind he will probably do it. President Stone, of Purdue, also stated that he would like to take a trip in one of the machines and he may do so. The two aviators to ascend today are Lincoln Beachy and C. C. Wittmer, said to be two of the most daring birdmen of the present time. The machines are of the Curtis pattern. ( Let your wants be known through our Classified Column. CaUiag Cards at The Republican.