Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1912 — NOTED LONDON CATHEDRAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTED LONDON CATHEDRAL

Bt. Paul's Has Been the Bcene of Many Notable Gatherings Blnce It Was Built. London. —The memorial service at St. Paul's cathedral in London in commemoration of those who went down with the Titanic was for a little while the focus of the world’s greatest City. The great downtown cathedral between Fleet street and Cheapslde has been the scene of many a tremendous gathering. It stands like a huge rock fair amid the Seas of traffic that wash up Ludgate Hill from the Strand and

on the east to thd Bank of England; different from the Abbey which stands remote at Westminster. St Paul’s was rebuilt f>y Sir Christopher Wren after the great fire of 1666. It is 616 feet long and 219 feet wide; took twentyAwo years to build until the time of opening, and thirteen years more for completion St Paul’s la the tomb of many great mm. Over the north door is the inscription, “Lector si monumentum requiris, circum■pice.” “Reader, if you seek his monument, look shout you.”

Six more deaths resulted from the heat in Chicago Wednesday when the government thermometers registered higher temperature than at anyj time this year. ; Lightning killed Charles Snyder, 24; years old, and severely burned Will Meyers, 30 years old, when It struck a barn near Amboy, Miami county, Wednesday afternoon. Martin W. Littleton’s scheme to have the government purchase Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, was approved by the senate committee on libraries Wednesday. Vess Stout, employed by the Southern Indiana Power Plant company at Williams, was drowned Tuesday in Wliite river' while moving some forms that had been washed out by the recent rains. Two thousand rainbow trout were sent to Willow Creek, in northern Indiana Tuesday by the bureau of fisheries. They were obtained by Senator Shively at the request of G. B. Beitner, an enthusiastic fisherman of South Bend. • \ ‘ ' The use of cocaine as an intoxicant in Indiana lias reached such proportions that reputable physicians are viewing its increase with alarm, and at the next session of the general assembly the state board of health will ask Tor" the :¥nactment of a health law that will curtail trie evil. The second attempt in four weeks to poison members of the families of Mrs. Thomas Hunt and her daughter, Mrs. Harry Ridgley, of Vincennes, was prevented when Mrs. Ridgley discovered carbolic acid in the ice chest and in the well pump. The police are trying to solve the mystery. Harry Arnold, chief clerk in the bank department in the office of the auditor of state, has issued a notice that the state is in no way bound to redeem bank notes issued by state banks in the days of early banking in Indiana, when the law provided the notes should bear the signature of the auditor of state, and be issued subject to his supervision. Scores of the notes have been sent in for redemption. Miss Peitje Bos, aged 22, arrived at CentraMa, 111., Tuesday from Holland and was married to Andrew Dykstra, a farmer. The ceremony was performed by Jlxsttce Grant Fethering. The pair never had met before. There was no. courtship, correspondence, or anything other than a letter of introduction from an aunt of the bridegroom in Holland, who accepted his bride on the recommendation of his aunt. C. J. Proudfoot has been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio road, with headquarters at Wheeling, W. Va., vice T. C. Burke, deceased. • Mr. Prdudfoot has been ticket agent at Parkersburg, W. Va. A new passenger agency has been established at Omaha In charge of Edward Emery as traveling agent. Mr. Emery has been city passenger agent at Pittsburg. Mrs. J. D. Allman received a letter a few days ago from her husband who is on a prospecting tour through the west. When he left here he was especially Interested in the country surrounding Bakersfield, Cal., but when he got there and looked over the country, he was greatly disappointed. His last letter came from Ashland, Or@. That city and the surrounding country is most beautiful and the land is very fertile. As a whole, it made a very strong appeal and a 20-acre fruit ranch looked especially good to him. Mr. Allman Is looking with much favor on that locality but probably will not decide on a permanent location until he returns hpme and consults with his family.

Attorney General Wickersham has rendered an opinion which will extend the eight-hour labor hour to every mechanic and laborer employed by the United States. Previous Interpretations of the law confined its operations mainly to public works, such as fortifications, buildings, etc. The question was raised in connection with 1,000 laborers at customs polts. Seventeen persons were killed, a number fatally injured and many others injured at 3:40 o’clock Friday afternoon when a double-header freight train on the Ugonier Valley railroad crashed into the rear of a passenger train at Latrobe, Pa. Only one passenger escaped without injury.

Beautiful Dome of St. Paul's.