Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Hetch-Hetehy bill, to enable the city of San Francisco, to utilize the Hetch-Hetehy basin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 142 miles away, as a water supply, was passed by the 'house yesterday 183 to 43. The bill now goes to the senate. The Baldwin locomotive works has taken orders during the past week for six Pacific locomotives from the .Korean Government railways; for seven locomotives from the Brazil Northeastern and for one consolidated engine from a New York concern. Charles L. Fee, 18, of Gallipolis, 0., and Eugone Roberts, 19, of Huatington, W. Va., both of prominent families, were arrested in the former city Wednesday charged with grand larceny in Gary, Ind. Roberts returned with the officers, but Fee refused to go without a requisition. George T. Pfeiffer, of Milwaukee, was elected president and San Francisco selected as the 1915 convention city at the closing o! the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks at Indianapolis Thursday. The anti-saloon league and other temperance organizations are preparing to fight the confirmation of the nomination of Charles J. Vopicka, of Chicago, for minister to the Balkan states, which President Wilson has sent to the senate. Richard Hoopes, a negro who died at Osage City, Mo., Thursday, asserted he was 143 years old and said that he was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. Although his real age is not known, persons who lived at Osage? City were satisfied that he was more than one hundred years old. Try our Classiflel Colmn.

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