Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1914 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The postal department has announced the appointment oif George A. White to be postmaster at Union Mills, Laporte county, to succeed John Schweitzer.

The secretary of the treasury announces (that in the distribution of the crop moving money being put out by the governmerft the banks of Evansville will receive and the banks of Ft. Wayne $200,000.

The largest concrete silo in the United States has just been completed on the farm of W. H. Harman, "Cedar Grove” stock farm, six miles southeast of Pine Village. The silo is sixty feet high and twelve feet in diameter.

Reuben Letter, of Mansfield, Mo., who has been with his son /near Washington, Ind., since last March, >is now visiting his eon, Charley Lefler, near Lee, and other relatives in this, county. He will be here for about two months.

Secretary of State Bryan will be asked by the war department to make formal application to send military observers to the Scene of the conflict just as soon as It is known officially here that there & to be a general war-in Europe.

The Rev. Mark J. O’Neal, for the last two years professor of rhetoric at Georgetown college, Washington, D. C., is going to Tokio, Japan, to assume the chair of English literature in the university there. Father MeNeal grew up in Indianapolis.

Henry Spencer was hanged Friday at Wheaton, 111, for the murder of Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat. The hanging took place in. a stockade erected In the rear of the jail, and was witnessed by a small party of men who had accepted the invitations issued 'by Sheriff A. A. Kuhn, Of Du Page county.

All exports of petroleum and other oil products destined foir Europe have been'stopped-hy the Standard Oil company, such commodities being considered contraband of wair. Several Standard tank ships that were to leave Atlantic ports Saturday have been ordered to remain at dock.

John C. Crabtree, owner of Lady Maud 0. and Hedgewood Boy, said to bo the fastest pacing (team In the world, was killed at TaylorvtHe, 111., Monday morning when a door of a box oar struck Mm, crushing his skull. Crabtree “was returning from Indianapolis with Lady Maud C.

The Brazilian government has placed a contract with a British firm tor a battleship to (take the place of the onie sold to- Turkey and now known as the Sultan Osman t The new vessel (will be the most powerful armor-clad warship in the world and will greatly exceed in offensive power and defensive qualities any battleship at present afloat

Three indictments were returned Friday by the federal grand Jury 4n Chicago against officials of the New York Central lines, officers of the O’Oara Coal Co., the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad company, the develahd, Cincinnati, Chicago ft St. Louis railroad company and the Chicago, Indiana ft Southern railroad company. The indictments grew out of charges that rebating had been practiced by the railroads in conception with the coal company. ■ .... .S'■■ . \ FOR SALE—A new No. 5 Oliver typewriter; an oak bedroom suite, a good center table, a lounge, a work table.—Geo. H. Healey.