Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Monticello-last night defeated West Lafayette at basketball by the score of 25 to 3. Lafayette did not make a field goal. Congress will make an investigation of labor conditions in Indiana, if-a resolution introduced in the house by Representatice Frank Buchanan, of Chicago, receives favorable action. Edwin Hawley, chairman of ’• the Memphis and St. Louis railroad and one of the leading railroad men in this country, died Thursday at his home in New York after an illness of severalweeks, - A. C. Ridgway, formerly assistant to F. O. ‘Melcher, second vice president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, who was killed in a wreck at Kinmundy, 111., recently, has been made acting second vice president of the road. The “third term” question came up in congress yesterday when Representative Slaydon, a democrat of Texas, proposed a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the house that any departure from the custom of two terms “would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to free institutions.” Mrs. Hattie E. Ames, of Portland, Mfch., claims the distinction of being the youngest grandmother in that and as proof points to the newly born daughter of Adelbert Ames. Mrs. Ames is 36 years of age. She was 15 years old when she was marred. Mrs. Nelson Atwell, mother of Mrs. Ames, is now a great-grandmother at the age of 55. panies by the public, the companies pay s2l transportation, the railroads get $24 and the remaining $55 is the express companies’ profit. This was the testimony of C. W. Hillman, a Cincinnati statistician, at the interstate commerce commission’s hearing on express rates and practices. Hillman based his figures on an investigation in Minnesota. After a fur muff and an ornamental comb were found on the pilot of the locomotive of a Big Four passenger train when it pulled into Anderson early Thursday, a searching ,party went back along the track and found the body of Miss Maude Argadine, at Ingalls. Her father had been anxiously hunting for her since she left home the night before to go to the postoffice, across the railroad.