Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1914 — Mr. and Mrs. David Zeigler In a Bad Runaway Accident. [ARTICLE]

Mr. and Mrs. David Zeigler In a Bad Runaway Accident.

Mr. and Mrs. David Zeigler were returning to their farm residence west of town Tuesday evening at about 5 o’clock when their horse became frightened at a gocart on West Clark street. The horse crashed through the fence at the Charles pattleday place occupied by J. F. Bruner, and ran about among the trees in the yard, then back into the street and the buggy was turned over and the occupants thrown out. The horse ran for several blocks, finally being stopped after the buggy had been epmpletely wrecked. Aside from each receiving a sprained arm neither Mr. nor Mrs. Zeigler were injured. The board of regents of the University of Michigan has accepted the resignation- of Dr. D. T. Smith, professor of general surgery at the university since 1901. Dr. Smith will enter private practice. James Green, of Brazil, Ind., despondent, after being out of work, tried to end his life by drjnking carbolic acid. He was saved by the police, who took a bot> tie away from him. Henas a wife and eight children. The annual 'report of the Pinkerton National Detective agency, issued Monday, shows a total of 259 professional and amateur criminals arrested or located by the agency for the banks which the agency is under contract to defend. Exceeding $1,200,000 in his expenditures on art this season, P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, has acquired twenty-five superb pieces of Chinese porcelain for $300,000 from the collection of Richard Bennett and George R. Davies, of London. Hugh Th.-Miller, formerly lieutenant governor of Indiana, announced Monday that he would be a candidate for the republican nomination for United States senator before the state conventiori to be held at Indianapolis April 22 and 23. Newton C. Dougherty, ex-convict and former banker and ex-superin-tendent of the Peoria, 111., schools, was placed on trial Monday on a charge of forgery, the specific crime being the fraudulent use of a school teachers name on school Scrip issued by him in October, 1888.

Judge Dillon of the common pleas court at Columbus Monday granted an alternative writ ordering Attorney General Hogan to institute proceedings to oust the Standard Oil company and' its subsidiaries, including the Imperial Oil company of Canada, from transacting business in Ohio.