Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

When several iron doors fell on Ed Stetzel, a Huntington drayman, his companions rushed to him expecting to find him dead beneath the doors and it was then found that the pinioned man had escaped with only a broken wrist. Marion D. Long, a civil war veteran of Lawrenceburg, while hunting, was attacked by a large fox squirrel which is thought to have been suffering with rabies. The squirrel also bit Long’s dog, which has been acting strangely ever since and is being kept chained. Thomas Gerbrick, of Laporte, expects to be released from the Colorado penitentiary in which he has been confined on a sentence for wrecking and robbing a train. He obtained his pardon by proving he confessed to robbery while under the effect of drugs, and had no part in the crime.

Harold Corya, a clerk in a Shelbyville drug store, saved a young woman from serious injury when her hat was ignited by a cigar lighter in the store. He tore the flaming hat from her head and suffered severe burns on his hands. The young woman escaped with a few singed locks of hair. Veterinarians say that 6 per cent of the horses in Terre Haute are suffering from a disease contracted at public drinking troughs. The disease is similar to typhoid fever, and is especially severe on younger animals. The early symptoms are heaving and coughing and tightening of the throat. Frank Rawson, a detective of Kalamazoo, Mich., has filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railway. He claims to have been injured June 5, when the interurban car on which he was riding from St Joseph to South Bend ran into an open switch near the latter city. Coming in contact with a high voltage wire at Elkhart, W. L. Stookey, a lieman employed by the Indiana and Michigan Electric company, suffered a severe shock ana was precipitated td* the ground, a distance of sixteen feet, Saturday afternoon. He sustained several bruises and burns, but his condition is not considered serious. The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Esterline, of Princeton, lighted a piece of paper and placed it in the bed to see the flames. His mother heard the commotion and rushed in to find the bed burning and the little boy clapping his hands and laughing at the flames. The fire was extinguished after the bed clothing had been burned.

Admitting in his divorce complaint that his wife has been a good mother to his three children and leaving to the discretion of the court the matter of awarding the custody to either parent, Eli Troyer, of Kokomo, has asked for a divorce from Iva Troyer upon the grounds that for five years she has refused to speak a word to him. Only once in five years has his wife talked to him, he alleges. Mark Thistlewaite, secretary to Governor Marshall, has honored requisition papers from the governor of Kentucky for the return of Peter Paul Apkins, alleged bigamist, from Richmond, Ind., to Fayette county, Kentucky. The house investigation into the charges against Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, will come to a close, according to present plans, with the testimony of Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, who took the witness stand Monday. Dr. Wiley Saturday finished the presentation of his side of the controversy which is raging in the department. Striking furniture workers of Grand Ripids, Mich., ended their seventeenweek combat with their employers Friday, voting to call the strike off and return to work. It is said the vote of the workingmen was almost unanimous. 'The strike had been on for seventeen weeks, and was one of the most determined fights between organized labor and organized employers in the history of the city.