Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Henry Eiglesbach went to the Lexington Brothers’ hospital in Chicago today, where he will take treatment for a week for a gathering in his head. The trouble affected his hearing greatly and one ear is almost totally deaf. He took treatment there about two weeks ago. The trouble seems to have started by a bad cold which he contracted last April, since which time he has been bothered. It is not probable that an operation will be necessary to effect a cure. One battleship to cost $7,425,000 without armor or armament and not to exceed $15,000,000 when completed; eight submarines costing $4,480,000, and a fleet of torpedo boats, colliers and machine ships, constitute the building program for the navy, approved Monday by the senate, and which probably will be adopted without change by the house. It was agreed that the new battleship should not be a superdreadnought, but a vessel of standard size. Opium valued at $5,000 was destroyed in the furnace of the federal building in Chicago by decrees of the federal courts Monday. There were ninety-eight cans of the opium, which had been seized from time to time by federal officers for having been smuggled into this country. The. value ranges from SSO to SIOO a can. The orders for the burning of the drug were signed by Judges Carpenter and Landis. - In recognition of the quiet heroism of a physician whose life was a sacrifice to the disease he long had fought to eradicate, Senator Myers of Montana has introduced a bill to pay $5,760, an amount equal to two years’ salary, to the widow of Dr. T. B. McClintic, who died in Washington last week of Rocky mountain spotted fever. Dr. McClintic was connected with the public health and marine hospital service. - - . ... - • S. E. Kiser of the Chicago RecordHerald was the chief teller of tales at the last campfire of the school of woodcraft of the Culver summer schools at Culver Monday night. Woodcrafter Fawcett was awarded a special badge for excellence in firstaid work, Woodcrafter Moore for the “best trail” and Woodcrafter Long for skill in woodcraft.

A uniform corporation law, to be offered to the legislatures of every state in the union, probably will be adopted at the conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, to be held in Milwaukee August 21-26. A draft of such a law has been completed by a committee headed by John C. Richberg, of Chicago. Returns of the 1912 wheat yields on the Illinois experimenting fields under the direction of Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins just reported, show the application oL phosphoris to Illinois soils has Increased the wheat yield from 14.4 bushels to 28.9 bushels an acre. " John Schuster, serving a term in the state prison of from two to fourteen years for arson, attended the funeral of his mother at Wabash yesterday. He goes back to the penitentiary today. Miss Jennie Gentry, 23 years old, who has been in bad health for the last year, committed suicide Monday at her home in Evansville by taking carbolic acid, t