Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

War has been declared at Muncie on the high school fraternities. Every pupil entering school next fall is to be required to sign a statement not to join' a fraternity or any other se«cret society. Otto Krueger, an employe of the Gary Bill Posting company, is the latest victim of a “Black Hand,” having received a mysterious letter decorated with a skull and cross bones, from. Hammond. A dog trying to bury a bone on a farm six miles west of Wabash ran into the body of a baby in a basket. It had evidently been buried about a month. The child appeared to have been about three weeks or a month old. The body was wrapped in a woman’s skirt. Members of the John H. Emmett post, G. A. R, of Wabash, are mentioning it in whispers. Not a member of the post, which is one of the largest in the state, has died in the last year. They fear the pause is portentous of a bigger harvest for death the coming year. * Former -President Benjamin Harrihomestead in Indianapolip is to be sold. Thefiorder was included in Judge Collier’s final decree settling the partition suit brought by Russell B. Harrison against the other children. This property will not be sold for less than $30,000. H. E. Pieper, a teacher in the Philippine islands, who is now on a vacation at his home in Avilla, Ind., has presented a fine collection of Philippine curios to the state museum. In the collection are bows and arrows, miniature hemp strippers, nipa houses and dugouts, javelins, knives, forks, spoons and pipes. John Tiebens, farmer, has been arrested at Portland. charged with poisoning cattle. A quantity of paris green was found bendath his house. Recently two cows of a neighbor with whom Tiebens had had trouble were found poisoned by paris green, as an examination showed. Farmers chipped in and employed detectives to find evidence. Tieben’s arrest followed. A mint statement jqst made public shows that during the fiscal year of 1911 there were coined 9,760,277 pieces of gold, valued at $118,925,512.50; .22,320,725 pieces of silver, valued at $3,195,726.40, and* 184,438,529 minor coins, worth $3,948,909.09. Coinage for other counties: Philippine Islands, 4,733,059 silver pieces; Salvador, 5U,108 silver pieces; Costa Rica, 800,000 silver pieces. Green township, Madison county, including the town of Ingalls, named after M. E. Ingalls, went dry by fortytwo in an option election Friday. Two years ago it voted dry by a majority of seventy-eight, but there were thir-ty-six fewer votes Friday. The drys of the city of Elwood Friday afternoon filed a petition for an option election to close twelve saloons that re-opened on June 7. William E. Higgins, 73 years old, a native of Illinois, where he was born in 1838, prominent corporation attorney, republican politician and member of the Laporte lodge of Odd Fellows, Is dead at his home in Laporte. Mr. Higgins was formerly deputy prosecutor of Laporte county, x and frequently occupied the circuit court bench in the trial of important cases. He' is survived by his widow and one daughter. '