Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Joseph W. Danck, a farmer living near Evansville, this state, was found dead in a barn Thursday. Mayor E. N. Woodruff, of Peoria, 111., Thursday, signed an ordinance prohibiting free lunches in city saloons.

For any itching skin trouble, piles, eczema, salt rheum, hives, itch, scald head, herpes, scabies, Doan’s Ointment is highly recommended. 50c at all stores. Speaker Champ Clark has withdrawn his name from the official ballot in the primary election in New Jersey to choose delegates to the democratic national convention. Dr. Isaac Kaufman Funk, president of the publishing firm of Funk & Wagnalls and noted for more than a quarter of a century as a prohibitionist and reform leader, died of acute indigestion Thursday at his home in Montclair, N. J. Levi Louderback, chief detective of the Vandalia railroad, Thursday made public a confession of Fred Bushay to holding up a mail train at Liggett Station; near Terre Haute, Feb. 16. Bushay was arrested in Terre Haute for robbing a man there a few weeks ago. Attorney General Wickersham has rejected the proposal to dissolve the harvester trust by dividing the concern into two companies. He demands the division of the corporation into six parts, each of which shall manufacture one of the patents on harvesters controlled by the concern.

Failure of the Illinois Central railroad to provide a complete block signaling system is held by the interstate commerce commission to be a contributing cause of the wreck on Jan. 22, in which James T. Harahan, former president of the road, and three officials of the Rock Island railroad, were killed. Rev. Cyrus Cline of the Twelfth Indiana district, has prepared an exhaustive speech on Philippine independence which be will deliver in the house soon. He is in favor of establishing a free republic in the Philippines, fashioned after the United States government, not later than 1920. Cats and dogs are dying of mumps at Spart&nsburg, a village east of Winchester, this state. The health authorities will make an investigation. The board received a letter Tuesday that two cats, one dbg and a boy had the disease, and that the animals had died. The disease is an edidemic in Winchester, more than four hundred cases having been reported during the winter. Fred Gardner is winning a high reputation as \ scene painter at Lafayette. Speaking of the state settings for a new play about to be put on by the Harlequin Club, the Courier says: “The scenery will be painted by Gardner, who did suet excellent work on the setting of the “County Chairman” last year that his services were accepted in preference to those of a number of other artists who were very desirous of a chance to heighten their reputations by association with the club,” —Monticello Journal.