Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1913 — Good Brood Mares For Sale by John M. Knapp. [ARTICLE]

Good Brood Mares For Sale by John M. Knapp.

John M. Knapp has several head of good brood mares, mostly draft mares, which he shipped here from Missouri, and any farmer needing a mare should see this string at his stable. Call any time.

A national committee on prison labor to study that whole question has been proposed in a bill by Senator O’Gorman. A resolution to amend the eon* stitutlon so as to empower congress to prevent polygamy in all states and territories has been introduced by Representative Gillette of Massachusetts. Frederick Dickson, of London, was made president of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at the annual meeting in Boston Monday. John V. Dittemore, of Brookline, was named for clerk, and Adam H. Dickey, of the same city, for treasurer. ■« Fearing mob violence upon Will Williams, a negro who murdered W. H. Fielder, an Illinois Central conductor late Saturday night. Sheriff Walter Jones of Bloomington spirited the prisoner away to the prison at Jeffersonville for safe keeping. Fielder's former home was Freeport, DI. The house democrats in caucus Monday restricted the legislative program of the extra session to tariff, currency, emergency appropriations, and election cases. Committee assignments as submitted by Chairman Underwood and his colleagues of the ways and means committee majority were adopted without change.

,Government revenues from customs receipts fell off more than $6,000,444 during May as compared with the same month of last year. Treasury officials attribute the loss to the period of tariff revision, which, it is declared, is invariably characterized by the business interests “marking time” to await the advantages of lower duties. Presidept Wilson Monday pardoned Dr. Theodore Kharas, of Elmira, N. Y., sentenced at Omaha, Neb., to four months in jail and to pay a fine of S3OO for alleged misuse of the mails in connection with the selling of the stock of a company promoting an invention. Since his conviction the invention is said to have proved successful. Alfred Austin, poet laureate to England, died Monday in London, aged 78. Austin was educated for the law but abandoned it on the death of his father in 1861 for travel and writing. He was a graduate of London university. Among his works are “Portunatus, the Prisoner,” ‘The Season” and “Interludes.” He was also the author of considerable prose. Edward Payson Weston, the famous long-distance pedestrian, who has twice crossed the continent afoot, started on a 1,500-mile tramp to Minneapolis. The 75-year-old walker expects to complete the journey in sixty days. His route will take him through the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Laws requiring production of health certificates by applicants for marriage licenses and the teaching of sex-hygiene were urged at a conference in Washington, D. C., Monday of prominent society women and sociological workers. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan attended the meeting, which was held at the home of Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wife of the mining engineer.