Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1913 — This Game Not Played in Lands Populated by Heathens. [ARTICLE]

This Game Not Played in Lands Populated by Heathens.

A traveler who believed himseUf to be sole survivor of a shipwreck upon a cannibal isle hid for three days in terror of his life. Driven out by hunger,. he discovered a thin wisp of smoke rising from a clump oi hushes inland, and so crawled carefully to study the type of savages about it. Just as he reached the clump he heard a voice say: “Why in hell did you play that card?” He dropped on his knees and, devoutly raising his hands, cried: “Thank God they are Christians!”—Everybody’s. With numerous dairy maids, 1,000 blooded cows and hundreds of other interesting exhibits, the national dairy exposition will open at the stockyards amphitheatre in Chicago. The cows are valued at $2,000,000. ■... 'President Wilson signed the urgent deficiency bill Wednesday. This carries exemptions from the civil service of United States deputy marshals and deputy collectors of internal revenue. It also abolishes the commerce court. The bones of Christopher Columbus, now in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, will be sent to the Pana-ma-Pacific exposition in San Francisco as part of the Dominican republic’s exhibit, according to plans announced Wednesday. The trial of Dr. William B. Craig, under indictment On a charge of murdering Dr. Helene Knabe at Indianapolis the night of October 23, 1911, will begin at Shelbyville before Judge Blair November 28. A change of venue from Indianapolis was obtained. Verlin Spencer, who has been conducting a Raleigh Medicine Co. route at Kokomo since last April, came today to visit his brother, west of town. He has been doing a good business. The New York senate Wednesday night unanimously confirmed Governor Glynn’s nomination of James M. Lynch, of Syracuse, president of tho International Typographical union, as state labor commissioner. After thirty years of litigation in lower courts,' the American Bell Telephone coippany Wednesday asked the United States supreme court to decide the amount of royalties and rentals it owes the Western Union Telegraph company, under the contract of 1879, ending their rivalry in the telephone business. More than $5,000,000 is involved In the case.