Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

While jabbing a broom handle under the wheels of a passing train at Bedford, the eight-year-old son. of Charles Owens was jerked under the train and cut to pieces. -- Kneeling in prayer in a church at Evansville, Joseph A. Washington fell over dead from heart disease. A panic followed among the i'omen and children in the house. Halbert township, Martin county, voted dry Friday by eight votes. About five hundred votes were cast. The eastern part of Shoals is in Halbert township. Two saloons were licensed in August. Caph. Thomas Jefferson Gray, 75 years onL the oldest printer in Indiana and for more than a quarter of a century prominent in Red Men circles of the state, is dead at his home in Noblesville, of tuberculosis of the throat William C. Smith, 82 years old, president of the Warren county bank at Williamsport, died Sunday after an illness of four days. He was 82 years old and the richest man in Warren county, his estate being estimated at >1,000,000. It is a most gratifying fact, though not generally known, that during the past twelve.yaars the co-operative movement among farmers has grown so rapidly that there are now 75,000 economic associations with a membership considerably over 3,000,000. Worried over his love affairs with Miss Lucile Eschenbach, of East Chicago, to whom he was to have been married this week, George Brown, 21 years old, an electrical engineer of Gary, Saturday ended his life by shooting himself through the heart. In the family of Mayor Guerrier, of Centralia, Washington, is a Bible 309 years old. According to the title page, it was printed in 1602 by Robert Barker', printer to “Her Most Excellent Majesty,” Queen Elizabeth. This was nine years before the King James version of the Bible appeared. Ray Dubois, a farmer boy, five miles south of Rochester, who suffered from a strange malady for two weeks, is dead. Some time ago Dubois began bleeding at the nose and blood exuded from his skin. The case attracted wide attention because of the rarity of the disease.

With fingers torn and bleeding, his back severely strained and on the verge of death from starvation, Frank Newman, a former resident of Washington, D. C., was rescued from a sealed box car, where he had been a prisoner for five days, at East Chicago Friday. Lewis R. Foster, 25 years old, of Metamora, this state, who says he js “a painter and farmer by trade,” is the inventor of an aeroplane, of the monoplane type, which he believes is destined to lessen the danger of collapse of an air craft, and consequently add to the safety of navigators. Thos. Athey, a restaurant proprietor, of Elnora, Daviess county, assaulted John H. Owens, a state food and drug inspector, when the latter attempted to inspect the restaurant in opposition to Athey’s wishes. Athey seized a bottle of catsup out of Owens’ hand that the inspector had confiscated and then attacked him. The Daily and Weekly Attica Ledger, formerly owned by Edgar Webb, who was forced into bankruptcy, and the Saturday Press, owned by Harry F. and Will J. Ross. The two plants will be consolidated, the daily discontinued, and one paper issued weekly under the name of the Attica Ledger Press.

The annual meeting of -the Horse Thief Detective bureau association of the central states will be held in Noblesville Tuesday and Wednesday. Between 800 and 1,000 delegates are expected from Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. Tomorrow evening there will be a public meeting in the opera house, at which Governor Marshall will make an address. The sessions on Wednesday will be executive.