Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Losses of Richmond business houses as a result of a heavy rain Saturday which overflowed sewers and filled many basements will aggregate about thirteen thousand dollars. A death certificate filed in the office of the state board of health has disclosed that Mrs. Kate G. Thomas died at her home in Kokomo on July 14, of pellagra, after an illness of more than ten months. While riding in an automobile at the rate of nearly thirty miles an hour. J. Benjamin Rowlett, rural mail carrier of Kingman, and Miss Edna Florence Coats, of Kingman, were married by the Rev, 0. W. McGaughey, of Veedersburg. The records of the commissioners show that Marion county has lost fifty saloons since the enactment of the Proctor liquor regulation law. Otto Belzer, license inspector, predicts that one hundred saloons will have been closed by March 4, 1912. Services which were scheduled at the United Brethren church in Newcastle Sunday were called off, as the church was in ruins. Only the north wall of the building is standing and a part of the west wall and the belfry leans at a dangerous angle, ready to fall in on the roof that went down Saturday afternoon. An autopsy on Ove Blade, saloon porter, who died in jail at Terre Haute, disclosed he was the victim of a rare affliction, calcarius percarditis. A bone had formed over the top of his heart. The formation started between two tissues in which the heart was incased and grew downward from the large arteries. > While freight handlers at the Pennsylvania depot in Richmond. Ind., were loading a heavy iron safe into a car Monday one of the doors of the Inner vault opened and about four hundred dollars, in currency fell on the platform. The safe was on way from some point in the south to a safe factory at Hamilton, fJhio.

The treasurer of the Indianapolis Orphans* asylum was surprised Monday by a visit from a middle aged man, who asked her if she would sign the receipts which he held out with one hand, while with the other he offered a roll of flfty-dollar bills amounting to |l,ooo. Asked what his name was, he said he preferred to be anonymous. The old log jail, which has been a landmark at Nashville, Ind., for many years, has been abandoned officially, and now, on the rare occasions when Sheriff Calvin of Brown county makes an arrest, the prisoner will be taken to Franklin, Ind., for safe keeping. The walls of the jail, which is the last of its kind in the state and probably in the country, are three feet thick and made of three tiers of logs, the middle logs being stood on end to make it impossible for anyone to cut his way cut