Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1913 — GEORGE PHILLIPS DIED OF APOPLEXY [ARTICLE]

GEORGE PHILLIPS DIED OF APOPLEXY

Son-in-Law of W. H. Randle Passed Away at Burnham, lll.—Funeral Here Friday. >- ' " ■ <! .. A. R. Rishling received a telephone message from Burnham, 111., this Tuesday morning, informing him of the death this morning of George Phillips of apoplexy. Mr. Phillips is a son-in-law of W. H. Randle, of Rensselaer, and a brother of Mrs. Rishling. The body is to be shipped here Thursday and the funeral will take place Friday. Burial will be made in the Osborne cemetery. Deceased lived in this county for many years before locating at Hammond. He later moved to Burnham. He was about 55 years of age. Mr. Rishling will go to Burnham tomorrow to accompany Mrs. Phillips here with the body. I Start spring right by having the piano tuned. Prof. Otto Braun will do the work right. Orders may be left with any members of the boys’ band. < Thirty-nine dogs have been killed at Columbus, this state, as a result of a determination on the part of the police to require dog owners to pay a city license. Gov. Ralston has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual memorial day address at the Shiloh M. E. church, ten miles east of DanVille, Sunday afternoon, May 25. Two weeks on the tariff bill in the finance committee of the senate, with five weeks of debate on the floor, is the estimate of the length of the fight given out Friday by Senator Simmons, the finance chairman.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton returned yesterday from an automobile trip to Rankakee, 111., where they visited from Friday to Monday with their son, George, and family. They made the trip each way in about three hours, the roads being in good condition. Mrs. Jane Beebe, the elderly lady who was declared insane by an inquest conducted by Squire Bussell 1a st week, was taken to the asylum at Logansport today by Sheriff Hoover. Mrs. Beebe has been living with her daughter, Mrs. James Jeffries, in Hanging Grove township, and he was accompanied by Mrs. Jesse Nichols, who looked after the welfare of the old lady.

B. F. Barnes expects to open the Gayety Airdome next Monday, May 12 th, and will go to Chicago tomorrow to engage his opening week talent. He has ordered a picture machine and expects to have everything in readiness for the opening night. It is probable that he will also buy a new top for the airdome and will establish tables in the rear of the theatre and serve ice cream and other confections while the show is in progress. This feature, however, he does not expect to have completed until some time later. , For a ten-cent show Lanham’s Lyric Players, which opened a week’s engagement at the opera house last night is as much as any one could expect for the money. The bill presented last night, “The Gold King,” was “put over” in a way that would do credit to many a higher priced attraction. Tonight the company will present a three-act comedy drama entitled, “The Love Pirate.” The price of admission will remain ten cents during the week’s stay here with the exception of Thursday and Saturday nights. Oh Thursday night the players will present that greatest of modern western “A Girl of the Golden West.” On account of the royalty they have to pay for the rights to use this bill, and the length of time it takes to produce the piece, only one performance will be given and the prices of admission will be ten, twenty and thirty cents. Reserved seats for Thursday night's show can be had now at the box office.

Six hundred pounds of mushrooms declared unfit for use were seized in a storage house at 113 East Michigan street, Chicago, Wednesday by revenue agents armed with a complaint by District Attorney Wilkerson. The mushrooms were shipped there a month ago and acceptance refused by Glass & Preaskil, the consignees, who said their value as food had passed some time before. The United States public health and marine hospital service will investigate the alleged tuberculosis cure which former United States Senator William Lorimer, of Chicago, says Dr. Peter P. Duket has perfected. This decision was reached by Dr. Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital service, after a conference with Mr. Lorimer Tuesday. .The White county track meet takes place at Monticello tomorrow. Six teams will compete, Including Monticello, Burnettsville, Brookston and presumably Wolcott, Monon and Chalmers. The Delphi and Flora schools will hold a track meet the same day at Delphi.