Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — South Union Township. [ARTICLE]

South Union Township.

The republicans of South Union township will meet at Parr Saturday afternoon, Feb. 7th, at 2 o’clock, to select a chairman and name delegate to the district convention as per the call in this paper. W. L. WOOD, Chairman.

The nomination of Colonel Geo. W. Goethals to be governor of the Panama Canal Zone was confirmed by the senate Wednesday. The appointment becomes effective April 1, 1914, with President Wilson’s order creating a permanent civil government for the Canal Zone.

MrS^Randolph, of Newton township, was called to Stockton, 111., today, by telegram, which announced the death of her brother’s wife, Mrs. John Kennedy. The funeral will be held Monday. Mrs. Kennedy was 53 years old.

Robert Gunn Bremner, member of congress from the Seventh New Jersey district and editor of the Passaic Daily Herald, died yesterday of cancer at a Baltimore sanitarium, where he had been undergoing radium treatment since last December. He had been suffering from the disease for four years. Charles E. Hughes, associate justice of the United States supreme court and former governor of the state of New York, Wednesday was elected a trustee of the University of Chicago at a meeting of the board. . Federajdnspection and grading of all grains entering into interstate commerce Is proposed in Senator McCumbeFs bll, the passage of which was recommended Wednesday by the senate committee on agriculture.

Federal employes organized In Chicago Thursday the U. S. Government Employes’ association of America, designed to procure better wages, better working hours and more thorough application of civil service. Harry C. Johnson is president. *

Owing.to an epidemic of smallpox dt Poseyville, a strict quarantine has been established and even the carrier boys of the town are not permitted to deliver newspapers.