Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1913 — Took Money From Bank— Lost it in Burned Home. [ARTICLE]

Took Money From Bank— Lost it in Burned Home.

Newton County Enterprise. The dwelling house on the Fred Mashino farm, west of Lake Village, was destroyed by fire Friday night. The house was occupied by the Gehardstein brothers, formerly of this township, and they were away from home at the time of the fire. They were expecting to move in a few days and had drawn $450 out of a Momence bank and placed it in a bureau drawer at home, and this went up in smoke with the house and furnishings.

A good letter was today received from Augustus Phillips, who had a Trick coming because his Republican was not reaching him regularly. He said: “I can’t stand that, for the old paper is just like one of Abb’s company dinners, I sure miss them. Get away from home awhile and see for yourself. I don’t forget home and therefore I want the paper, both the Tuesday and the Friday paper (I think they art paid for?). I see by the last one that they are trying a frontier day in Rensselaer again. Must have been a close shave. I am getting along fina having a great rest from the arduous work in which I was engaged so long and I am well pleased. I get terribly homesick sometimes, but I don’t know when I will get back there. 1 want to go to Europe this summer and if I do I will run home for a week. My best to you and to all Rensselaer.”

A very disastrous sleet storm occurred in Chicago and northwestern Indiana last night or early this morning, doing a great amount of damage. The Western Union did not have any wires in operation out of Chicago for some time and it was almost noon before the Rensselaer office got into communication with that city. J. J. Montgomery, who returned home from Chicago on the 11:32 train, states that the sleet was bad at Hammond but had largely disappeared at St. John. Matthew T. Taggart, of South Bend, was badly injured in an explosion in the laboratory at Purdue university, Lafayette. He was experimenting with some chemicals whsn the mixture exploded. It Is feared that he will lose the sight of both eye*. Our fish department Is complete with all kinds of smoked halibut, fislmon. finnan haridles. bloater*} and herring; spieed herring andi sardines; salt mackerel, herring and

lake fish.

JOHN EGER.