Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Stokes Jackson, sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives at Washington. fell down the steps to bis home in Greenfield, this state, Saturday and was severely bruised and his back sprained. Dola Brandenburg, of Lebanon, taking his niece. Miss Golda Warren, for a burglar, shot her in the head with a .32 caliber revolver. The bullet grooved her skull three inches. She was not fatally Injured. x Clarence A. Kenyon, president of the Indiana Good Roads association, baa returned from a 3,000 mile trip through the east, with a determination to give this stale a modern system of road building and maintenance. Gus Bonner, a meat dealer of Lafayette, was struck by an automobile and so badly hurt that ber died Sunday. He was sixty-five years old and had conducted meat; markets in Lafayette for nearly half a century. ’ • On pleading guilty to the charge of burglary, Adolph Bo)igh, age twentythree, and Ben Bly, age seventeen years, of Bedford, were sentenced to the reformatory, Bough for ten to twenty years, and Bly one to eight years. More than 2,000 acres, south of Bloomington, this state/ have been optioned i>y the Lawrence-Green corporation for oil purposes. Four wells are to be sunk at once. Excitement runs high among farmers in that section. ,' '■ - 7 . ■ - A new counterfeit 310 national bank note on the Blair County National Bank of Tyrone, Pa., has been reported by the secret service. It is of the 1902-1908 series, £heck letter “E” and bears McKinley’s portrait. ( A jury in the Grant county circuit court that tried Charles Jessup, 18 years old, of Sims, on a charge of horse stealing, found him guilty of petjt larceny and imposed a term of imprisonment in the county Jail for 270 days. * ,7 Obediah Gardner, of Rockland, has been appointed United States senator from Maine to succeed the late Senator William P. Frye. Mr. Gardner was democratic candidate for governor of Maine in 1906. Senator Frye was for years a republican leader. John Samuels, age seventy-six, a retired farmer, married twice before, and Mrs. Mary Coffee, age seventythree, who has had five former husbands, were married at Tipton, Friday. Squire M. Racobs officiated and all the courthouse officials were witnesses. The dairy department of the Ohio State university was notified"Baturday that another world’s record had been broken by an Ohio cow. A cow owned by Daniel Dimmick, of East Ciaridon, completed Saturday a seven day record by producing 18.2 pounds of butter.

The formal dedication of the Gettysburg National Military Park .on the fiftieth anniversary, in 1913, of the battle of Gettysburg and the construction of the Lincoln Memorial highway from Washington to the battlefield are favored by the commission having jurisdiction over the park. The pathological laboratory of the state board of health has been called on by the school authorities of Greensburg, to aid in abating an epidemic of diphtheria at that place. The laboratory authorities have received cultures from the throats of five hundred children for examination. Mrs. Charles Shaneyfelt, of Wabash, was granted a divorce on a crosscomplaint. In a bill she filed after her husband had instituted proceedings she asserts that her husband continually robbed the bank of his boy, 6 years old, which contained the youngster’s savings she had given him. v - ’ ' • Philip Zollm&n, of Franklin township, Harrison county, has h cherry tree of the Governor Wood variety on his farm. The tree measures nine feet two inches in circumference near the ground and the first limb is ten feet from tlfc ground. The tree is about thirty years old and is in a thrifty condition. In the neighborhood of four million pneumatic tires will be required to shoe the automobile* running In America during the year 1912. This estimate of the nation's Impending tire needs fi made by J. M. Gilbert, general manager of the United States Tire company, and, as an Indication that he really bellevps the coming yetr will develop some wonderful sales records. What have yen to sell at this thee o t the year? Try a classified ad in the Republican and you can sell it. Remember, that all classified ads go • v WMPVeaVAAeadfidßw