Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hurley. Beam came down from Chicago to stay over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Ross came down to remain over Sunday. Elmer Wilcox is attending the Cubs-Giants ball game in Chicago this afternoon. Mollie Orr and Leo Bureauguard came down from Chicago this after noon for a short, visit with Miss Margaret Hurley. Carl Duvall returned from Chicago this afternoon, and was accompanied by John Duvall, who will visit friends and home folks over Sunday. Miss Langworth of Davenport, lowa, a school friend of Miss Grace Norris, who has been visiting here the past few days, went to Goodland this afternoon, and will go to Albany, N. Y., next week, before returning home.

James Norris went to Chicago this morning to meet Mrs. Norris and Miss Marguerite who have been visiting in South Dakota the past two weeks. They visited Mrs. Thomas Parker, her sister, also visited Grand Forks, and Thompson, South Dakota, and spent a few days in St. Paul.

Two of the . world’s greatest powers—Great Britain and . Germany—have refused to participate in the exposition at San Francisco in 1915 commemorating the completion of the Panama canal.

R. E. Pollock, section director of the weather bureau at Trenton, N. Jd Prof. H. L. Heiskell of the office of meterology, and Daniel J. Carroll, chief clerk of the weather bureau, implicated in the alleged political activity of former Chief Willis L. Moore, Were removed front office yesterday.

Edward R. Mahoney, city editor of the Chicago Journal, was appointed controller of the sanitary district at a meeting of the drainage board yesterday. He was appointed to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Royce F. Eckstrom. He will get $5,000 a year. Joseph Diamond, ah Indianapolis painter, put not his trust in banks and yesterday reported to the police of that city that $2,000 in gold, j»his savings, tied in two handkerchiefs, was stolen from' beneath his pillow Wednesday night. The money consisted of $5, $lO and S2O gold pieces.

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo startled the financial world last night by announcing that, he is preparing to distribute from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 to national banks in west and south, “to faciliate the movement of crops,” and that “prime commercial paper” would be received as security for such deposits.

The entire Indiana democratic congressional delegation headed by Senators Shively and Kern, called on President Wilson yesterday and asked him to appoint G. V. Menzies of Mount Vernon, Ind., to be governor general of the Philippines. The president promiesd to hpjd Menzies’ indorsement under con sideration.

Recognition of the Huerta government in Mexico was urged upon the senate foreign relations committee yesterday by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. The envoy was in conference with the committee for nearly four hours, during which time he presented a long statement as to political, industrial, financial and military conditions in Mexico, on which he based his arguments.

Inebriates and users of drugs in the District of Columbia, upon be ing convicted, hereafter will be sent to a federal hospital and forced to work. The money earned will go in part to the support of the institution and half of the amount remaining will be paid over to those dependent upon the prisoners. This, in effect, is the recommendation of the commissioners of the District of Columbia, which was sent to congress yesterday.

Physical valuation of the railroads of the United States by the interstate commerce commission will take from five to seven years by a specially organized corps of men and will cost the government from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 or more, according to plans of the commission presented to the house appropriations committee. The commission has asked for an immediate appropriation of $1,500,000 for the organization of the corps of engineers necessary to undertake the work. Scenes of disorder in which personal encounters were narrowly averted marked yesterday’s local option election in Otter Creek township, Vigo county. The wet voters were in a great majority, but more than 200 were challenged as alleged nonresidents. Women working about the polls complained that they had been threatened by wets and telephoned to Governor Ralston for protection. Rufus Loudermilk, an election inspector for the drys, was arrested when he drew a revolver and. Hli-Mfarxui »

Scenes of disorder in which personal encounters were narrowly averted marked yesterday’s local option election in Otter Creek township, Vigo county. The wet voters were in a great majority, but more than 200 were challenged as alleged nonresidents. Women working about the polls complained that they had been threatened by wets and telephoned to Governor Ralston for protection. Rufus Loudermilk, an election inspector for the drys, was arrested when he drew a revolver and, threatened a crowd of wet workers hear a voting place.

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