Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1913 — NORTH NEWTON. [ARTICLE]

NORTH NEWTON.

Mr. Henry Wortley and wife, Mr.' Benton Kelley and wife spent last Sunday with Walter Kelley and wife. Mr. Joseph Kosta had two cows killed by lightning Sunday afternoon. v Mr. Janies Lane and family were in. Rensselaer attending church Sunday. Mrs. Milt Grimes and Dile were in Rensselaer Saturday. Mrs. Walter Kelley was in Rensselaer Saturday. Mr. Stanley Lane called at James Lane’s Monday evening. Wm. Bierley was in Rensselaer last Thursday. Mr. Tom Mitchell and his father, John Mitchell, called at’ Milt Grimes last Friday afternoon. Mr. Ed Lane was in Rensselaer last* part of last week. Miss Dile Grimes went to Fountain county last Tuesday to visit her sister, other relatives and friends for a few weeks. Geneva Bierley called at Milt Grimes’ last Monday. Switzerland has accepted in principle Secretary Bryant pe ;e proposal, making the twentyseventh nation so recorded. X ■I Glen Park, a community on the Little Calumet river near Gary, asked assistance from the city, of Gary because the drought had dried up all its wells. Laporte Germans have formed a German alliance. The German name for the organization is German Statts Vervand, meaning “to tie together.” Developments Monday disclosed the administration in complete control of the hougg of representatives on currency legislation, and indicated an early passage of the bill in the shape favored by President Wilson and his advisers. Cables of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone company (Bell) were cut Monday in Granite City, 111., opposite St. Louis, and in several places between Granite City and East St. Louis for the second time since the announcement of the settlement of the telephone strike a week ago. Barney E. Flaherty, a Lake Erie engineer, died suddenly in his cab Monday night after the train left Laporte for Michigan City. The train must have run for miles without his direction, as the mishap was first noticed when the fireman saw that “slow” signs went unheeded. He then looked on the engineer’s side and found Flaherty dead' Miss Eleanor Seibert of Reno, Nev., a niece of Governor Addie of that state, will christen the new battle ship Nevada, which will be launched at the Fore River ship yard, Quincy, Mass., on Oct. Ist. Several of the mining companies of Nevada have donated silver bullion enough to make a monstrous silver service for the new battle ship. A telegram was sent last night to democratic leaders in Alabama by Senator Overman, acting chairman of the senate judiciary committee, advising them that Gov. O’Neal, in the opinion of the democratic lawyers in the senate, had no power to appoint a successor to the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston. Democratic leaders in the senate are considerably perturbed over the failure to make progress on the tariff bill. For several days infofanal conferences have been held with progressive republicans and regular republican leaders in the hope that some means to hasten consideration of the measure might be found. It was stated Monday night, however, that nothing definite had been accomplished. Sweden yesterday was conceded the right to send wood pulp and paper into the United States free of duty. The state and treasury departments have decided the recent decision of the customs court that nations having “the most favored country” treaties with the United States were entitled to free wood pulp and paper because that privilege was granted to Canada is applicable in principle to Sweden. That it will cost the railroads $614,619,100 to comply with the proposed federal law requiring them to replace their present wooden passenger equipment with steel cars, is the statement contained in a bulletin issued Monday by a special committee on relations of railway operation to legislation which represents all of the leading rail lines in the country.

Barry Green is coming back to see us again at the Opera Bouse; welcome home, old scout, you are good for the sore eyes. You made us laugh before and wo are all cocked and primed for you now, and eargerly await'your coming and will look forward to something good. "The Town Fool" sounds good and it looks like a bomb, fisslin-siuling-hissing - ready •> to* explode With a world worth of good things, that will be as refreshing as a drink of good spring water from an old gourd. Special scenery for each act. Opera Bouse, Thursday evening. «