Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — Mistook Meteor Fragment For Attack of Highwayman. [ARTICLE]

Mistook Meteor Fragment For Attack of Highwayman.

Petersburg, Ind., July B.—Wm. Hancock, while automobiling with a number of friends today, was startled when an object struck the back seat of the machine with frightful ’force, burying itself in the upholstering. Thinking he had been attacked by highwaymen, he rushed the car to Otwell and examined it. In the upholstering he found a fragment of a meteor that weighed twenty pounds. The stone fell beside two of his passengers but did not hit either of them.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Graham and two children, of Paw Paw, W. Ya., arrived this morning for a visit of a day or two with her brother, Dr. I. M. Washburn and family.

J. Lester Haberkorn, of Chatsworth, 111., came over yesterday to attend the funeral of Miss Clara Robinson. He will be remembered here as the baritone singer who appeared on a number of occasions at the Princess.- theatre during the management of Fred Phillips. He is now a member of the Al G. Fields minstrel company and will join the company at Columbus, Ohio, on July 2Oth to open the fall season.

Mrs. Waldo F. Congdon, of Los Angeles, Cal., came yesterday to visit her parents, Mr. and” Mrs. George Morgan and family. She will be here for three weeks, Mr. Oongaon joining her for the l&’t week and they will then go together to his former home in Boston, Mass. Her mother, Mrs. Morgan, and her half sister, Mrs. S. M. La Rue, who have been in Moline, Kane., tor the past month, are expected home Sunday.

The Protective Tariff Cyclopedia, prepared and published by the American Protective Tariff League, New York, will be ready for distribution on or about August Ist. It will contain the official text of the Underwood law; the Underwood and Payne-Aldrich laws compared, giving every rate or duty on articles in both laws; what one hundred and fifty-two U. 8. senators said for and against the Underwood bill; and copious index of over 8,000 citations. The volume will consist of about nine hundred pages and will answer all questions on the tariff question.

The New York Sun says the recent overwhelming republican vote in Pennsylvania is due to the following democratic acts: “A tariff that has decreased exportations, incerased importation of manufactured articles, a tariff for revenue that has produced a deficiency of revenues; the democratic policy of muddle and mar, foreign and domestic; fool attacks on business here, and an unintelligible, grotesque, shuffling, hamstrung, spineless policy as to Mexico.”