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

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Lewis Strang, the famous automobile driver, was killed Thursday near Blue River. Wis., when his car turned turtle. Slipping on a wet brick. Miss Mlnnetta Taylor, prominent club woman and author, of Greencastle, fell heavily on the sidewalk and was seriously injured Wednesday evening. Roberts, a small place southwest of Lafayette, reports an epidemic of infantile paralysis. One child is dead, and three others are in a critical conditions from the disease. For the first time since Mt. Clemens, Mich., became a .combined health resort and a “Monte Carlo,” the city is actually without gambling. It is a result of Governor Osborn’s ultimatum. As a result of a public market in South Bend, it is expected that the high cost of farm products and poultry will be greatly reduced. The market will be in the heart of the city. Henry. King, of Huntington, has sued seven saloonkeepers of that town for |21,500 judgments. He alleges they sold his son liquor, and that while the boy was intoxicated he was struck by a train and killed. Fred Couch, of South Bend, was supposedly drowned at Kalamazoo, Mich., but when the police went to notify his family they found the man himself at work driving an'ice wagon. He nearly fainted on hearing the report of his death.

Major David C. Peyton, general superintendent of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, has announced the appointment of Dr. Halstead Murat, of Bethlehem, Clark county, as physician at the institute, to succeed Dr. H. H. Smith, who has accepted a position as physician at an iron works in Youngstown, Ohio. After a search of several weeks Peter P. Atkins, 33, was arrested at Richmond, this state, charged with being a bigamist, forger and robber. His operations, according .to Superintendent Gorman of the Richmond police department, have extended over the eastern and middle western sections of the United States. The board of regents of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted the resignations of Professor Gardner S. Williams and J. M. Griffith, both important men in the civil engineering department. The trouble arose over establishing a new chair in engineering mechanics. A fellowship of SI,OOO was established for a new course in railway transportation.