Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

& Churches, schools, moving picture shows and other playhouses have been ordered closed at Defiance, 0., as a result of an epidemic of smallpox. Cold weather yesterday claimed its first victim in this section when an Erie train ran down Joe Karanski near Highland, Lake County. A pair of ear muffs Karanski wore prevented him from hearing the train. Boys digging in the hills near Williams, Lawrence county, unearthed an Indiana mound containing skeletons and a large number of Indiana relics. The mound lay in the Indian trail that old settlers say their fathers had talked of when they were boys. A Washington dispatch says: "Lieutenant‘General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, admitted to a reporter that he had been approached witji the suggestion that he permit the use of his name as a candidate for vice president on the democratic ticket” Two employees of the Pensylvania railroad, B. Frank Snavely and P. Shapely, both of Harrisburg, Pa., who recently Invented a steam guage eock, which it is said will prove invaluable to railroads, steamships and manufacturing plants, have disposed of their patent rights at a high figure. S. Duncan, a well known attorney of Indianapolis, member of the firm of Smith, Hornbrook & Duncan, was stricken with apoplexy while engaged in a case in court at Martinsville yesterday. He was taken to the Martinsville sanitarium and his wife was summoned from Indianapolis. His condition is critical. , Two committees, one representing the railroads and the other the postoffice department, will confer in Washington this week for the purpose of adopting a uniform specification for steel and wood postal cars. It is conceded by many that standard designs can not be adopted, owing to different idqas prevailing. Miss Lucy Page Gaston, founder and superintendent of the Anti-cigarette league, is now a “policeman,” having been duly commissioned by Chief McWeeny of Chicago to enable her to make her own arrests when she finds boys smoking Cigarettes, The law authorizes the arrest of any boy found smoking a cigarette on the street. Farmers in northern Jackson and southern Colfax townships in Newton county express the belief that an organised band of chicken thieves is operating in that part of the county. In the last two weeks heavy losses of poultry have been reported almost daily. Henry Deardurff, living in that vicinity, raised 600 chickens last summer, but now has less than IQO, the rest having been stolen. A number of farmers are patroling their premises at nights, armed with guns, with a view to discourage this particular brand of larcency.