Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. E. Jensen came from Wheatfield this morning to visit their son! Jens, and family and their daughter, Mrs. J. P. Hammond. Averring that his heart had been broken and that he can never recover from the humiliation which has come to him, John H. Fort, of Laporte, Wednesday began action against Mrs. Bowers Williams for $35,850 damages, charging breach of promise. z Z zz Chicago faces a strike of 10,000 garment workers following the organization of unions in nineteen small tailorshops. The first step came Wednesday when 400 tailors employed by M. L. Oberndorf & Co., struck for shorter hours and higher wages. Mrs. Helen Longstreet, widow of the famous confederate general, Wednesday lost her fight for reappointment as postmistress of Gainesville, Ga. Mrs. H. W. J. Ham was nominated to the office after President Wilson had consulted the Georgia senators. Ed Brownell, of Lowell, an agent for the Haynes automobiles, has interested a number locally in that car and this afternoon Granville Moody, E. J. Randle and Dr. C. E. Johnson accompanied the agent to Kokomo by auto, there to further investigate the machines. Otto Chasteen, who has been working for the H. E. Rosebaugh dredge company at Elbertield, Ind., arrived at his former home at Medaryville for a visit of about a month, after which he will return to Elberfleld. He was in Rensselaer today, accompanying John Ryan here in the latter’s auto. E. W. Allen came down from Wheatfield Friday and returned there this morning. He has recovered his health to a great degree and looks practically as well as we ever saw him. He stated that he was weighed Thursday and lacked only a pound of weighing as much as he did before his long sick spell. Quicksand is swallowing a 220 ton freight engine of the Burlington road, which went into a ditch thirty-six miles from Rock Island, 111., last Friday. The locomotive has sunk four feet into the sand, despite the continuous efforts of a big force of men and two wreckers of 100 tons capacity each. The engine is valued at SIB,OOO. The case of John F. Hume against the city of Evansville, which had been pending in federal court more than twenty-one years, has been dismissed by the plaintiff. On October 20, 1891, Hume brought suit for $12,000, alleging that the city had refused to make payments on certain city bonds he held. Except for the filing of a demurrer by the defendant in 1891, no other steps had ever been taken by the parties to the case.