Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A monument in honor of the Confederate navy in the National Military park at Vicksburg, Miss., with a cost limit of $125,000, is authorized by a bill on which a favorable report was ordered Wednesday by the senate committee on military affairs.

Judge E. C. O’Rear was nominated for governor by acclamation in the Kentucky republican convention held Wednesday at Louisville. He had little real opposition at any time, as county primaries last Saturday instructed a large majority of the delegates for him.

Letters have been received in Washington, D. C., by progressive senators from former Senator Beveridge in which he states that he is having a very enjoyable summer at Lucerne, Switzerland, and is much benefited by the rest he has been having since he retired from the senate.

By the action of the judiciary committee of the general assembly of Connecticut, a bill will be reported to do away with the Australian ballot system, which was used for the first time in a state election a year ago. The ballot was not satisfactory to the electorate.

Blanche Martin, of Shelbyville, gave his son a severe thrashing with a buggy whip and the boy caused his father's arrest. The parent was fined one cent. The lad had been throwing apples with a number of other boys and one of them struck a woman.

The library of Schuyler Colthx, former vice-president of the' United States, has been divided following the death of Mrs. Colfax. The Northern Indiana Historical society and the South Bend Training school each received 400 volumes. The other books were‘retained by Schuyler Colfax, Jr., of Rochester, N. Y.

Charles Humerpless, who went to Gary from Dana, Ind., with his wife a few days ago, has asked the police to locate “the woman," who he says has disappeared with >1,500 in her possession. The couple went to Gary to visit relatives. Her husband, says Mrs. Humerpless. refused to place the money in * bank for safekeeping.