Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — $90,000 Fire in Business District of Logansport. [ARTICLE]

$90,000 Fire in Business District of Logansport.

A fire that resulted in a loss estimated at $90,000 occurred at Logansport Thursday night and Friday morning. The fire destroyed the McGee 'business block. The fire is supposed to have started in the basement of the Pantazin candy kitchen. The Lewis jewelry store, the Hoffman drugstore, the Waters department store, the Porter drugstore and Obenchain’s photograph gallery were destroyed by the fire. The insurance seems to have been only about 30 per cerit of the estimated loss. Street cars are now running over •the new bridge at Lafayette. ' Miss Grace Hoes-gen, a school teacher at Kniman, was shopping in Rensselaer today. Carpenters who were erecting a 6-room tenement. house on R. A. Parkison’s Barkley township farm fouhd it too cold to continue work Friday and laid off until Monday. Hon. Will R.'Wood’s official majority over John B. Peterson was 4,583. He received 22,318 votes, to 17,735 for John B. Peterson, 8,637 for Will H. Ade, and 516 for E. A. Bush, the prohibition candidate, The weather moderated considerably since yesterday and today is quite a pretty day, just right for .football and there are a large number of games in progress this afternoon. ‘

Harry Kresler, who was injured Thursday of last week in a shooting accident, is making very excellent progress toivard recovery and it is probable will be able to get up town toward the last of next week. Rensselaer will be quite well represented at the Purdue-Indiana football game today, the following ■having gone down at . noon: W. J. Wright, John Somers, Delos Dean, Lloyd Parks, Elmer Wilcox, C. E. Garver, Moses Leopold and Emmet Laßue. , 4 ) Fred Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Korah Daniels, is now employed as a cook in a hotel at Sioux City, lowa, and Miss Bertha Daniels, who was employed in (Dr. Kresler’s office for some time, is now holding a similar- position in a doctor’s office at Colorado Springs, Colo. • The Mexican situation becomes livelier with each new declaration of peace and as Francisco Villa marches toward Mexico City, the Carranza forces are preparing to meet him and his army and give them a warm reception. The U. S. soldiers are to leave Vera Cruz within a few days unless another order is issued and the hot-headed Mexicans can then enjoy without restraint their national pasttime. Today is the fortieth ' birthday anniversary of C. S. Chamberlin, the city Tight and water superintendent, and he is celebrating it by starting plans for the erection of the poles for the new boulevard lighting system on Washington street, Part of the material for this jab has not yet arrived although ordered several weeks ago and it Is hardly probable that the system can be completed so that we can have the lights on by Christmas.