Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The American community in Peking, numbering eighty persons, telegraphed to Washington Monday urging an early recognition of the Chinese republic. Daniel and Katharine Germann, husband and wife, 70- and 60 years old, respectively, died from, pneumonia a day apart, at Carlyle, 11l The double funeral was held Monday. Concrete work on the foundation walls of the proposed Pennsylvania depot at Ft. Wayne was begun last week. It is intended to have the foundation completed and . everything in readiness to push the construction work on the building in the spring. The number of children in the juvenile court in Chicago from July I, 1899, to Oct. 31, 1912, was 44;407, according to the annual report filed in the circuit court Monday. Cases dismissed last year totaled 402; warrants issued, 175; truants committed, 437. The fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Stone river was celebrated today in Lebanon by the National Association of the Survivors of the Battle of Stone River. Secretary J. K. Bowers, of Shelbyville, had sent out more than four hundred invitations. One thousand four hundred firemen threaten to resign within a few weeks, as a result of the expected 80 I’iwtti sahtrfos of all employees of the city of Chicago for at least the first six months of 1913, made necessary by lack, of funds in the city treasury. Miss Bessie Townsend, 24 years old, was Monday afternoon appointed city comptroller of Atlantic City, N. J., at a salary of $1,500 a year. She will have the care of more than $3,000,000, the sale of all bonds, and her signature will be necessary to secure payments by the city. A new counterfeit said to be the most remarkable imitation since the famous “Monroe head” SIOO note was suppressed in 1898, has been discovered by the United States secret service, which has sent a warning throughout the country. The notes were found a New York City. A bill to re-establish the metropolitan police system in Indiana will be introduced In the legislature this winter by Representative Geo. Billman, of Shelbyville. He will make it apply to cities of 8,000 or more population, but he has not yet decided on the maximum population to be included. Get the "Classified Ad” habit and get rid of the things you don’t need. You will find that there is some good money in a judicious use of The Republican’s classified column.