Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Johanna Meisenberger, 62, was burned to death Wednesday at Evansville by the explosion of a gasoline stove. . Arch Snow, a farmer, who lives four miles from Bedford, was found lying paralysed in a field. He was bitten by a. large black spider. His condition is serious. Referee Harry C. Sheridan, in the United States district court, has found the Planett Lumber Manufacturing company, of Laporte, an involuntary bankrupt The wheat crop at the Indiana Village for Epileptics, north of Newcastle, is one of thtobest' in Henry county. The average is a little over 27 bushels to the acre and the total of the crop, as weighed at the elevator, is 3,107 bushels. In announcing the designation of fifty additional second - clffss postbfflces in twenty-six separate states as postal savings banks. Postmaster General Hitchcock Wednesday declared the system was growing in favor with the public. This, he said, was especially true in the western states. Dr. George L. Andrew, 89, who was chief inspector of sanitary commission in the Army of the Potomac and of the Army of the West, died Wednesday at Laporte. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and was active for many years in the leading medical associations of the country. John A- .Jones, living two miles north bf Fairmont, is believed to have established a new record for wheat production in the state, a twenty-acre field averaging a little more than fiftyfive bushels to the acre. A second field of eight acres on the same farm averaged forty bushels to the acre. There will be no passes to the Indiana state fair, which will be held during the week of Sept 4, and there will be no tickets. The state board of agriculture has decided to instal! slot machine turnstiles, which will be worked by 50 cent pieces when adults wish to go through and 25 cent pieces for children.