Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A lone highwayman .boarded a sleeping car on Burlington train No v 9, just as it was leaving the transfer depot at Council Bluffs, la., shortly after midnight Thursday night and held up the porter and, robbed several sleeping car passengers and made 'his escape. Presence of bubonic plague and yellow fever on the great trade routes from the south converging upon the Panama canal is giving grave concern to American health officers. During the month of October there were 112 cases of plague in Guayaquil and yellow fever is on the increase. If Nat Good Win pays more than $3,000 a year alimony to each of his-ex-wives must he or the wives pay the income tax? This vexed the treasury department .officials, but they admitted that it was not particularly for his sake that they were worried, but for the sake of a puzzled army of other exhusbands. . Thos. Lang, a painter, living in Columbia City, died Thursday afternoon of gunshot wounds inflicted by the accidentail discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Rev. Charles Marlow, pastor of the Methodist church at Laud, Whitley county., Marlow was lowering the hammer when his finger slipped, causing the gun to discharge.

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