Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Body of Mrs. Nancy Freeland Buried Here. [ARTICLE]

Body of Mrs. Nancy Freeland Buried Here.

Mrs. Nancy Freeland, widow of Charles Freeland, died at Brook Thursday and the funeral was held there this Saturday morning and the body brought here for burial, which took place in Weston cemetery at about 1 o’clock. Deceased was about 80 years of age and was an aunt of A. F. Long, of this city, and a sister-in-law of Jackson Freeland, of Newton township. An aj>peal from the decision of the Indiana supreme court, holding unconstitutional the bill enacted by the Indiana legislature which constituted a new state constitution, was Thursday taken to the supreme court of the United States. The little cottage in the Bronx, New York City, where Edgar Allan Poe once lived, is to be bought by the city. The board of estimate voted to pay $3,000 for it and $2,000 more to move it across the street to a site in Poe Park. Joseph Lomax celebrated his one hundred and third birthday at the home of his daughter in Indianapolis Thursday. He was the first president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad and at once time owned the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette. * ____________ The supreme court of the United States Monday canceled, as violative of the Sherman anti-trust law, the contracts by which railroadowned coal companies in the Penn-< sylvania anthracite fields had purchased the output for all time of | “independent” mines. The charge of a general combination was not sustained.