Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — GENERAL NEWS IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Busy Readers Can Thus Keep Abreast of the Times and Not Waste Much of Their Time. Unaccommodating Wife. James R. Harley, of Indianapolis, went home drunk, according to his wife and when she protested, he told her to get his revolver so he could kill her. When she did not get it he gave her a beating and she is asking for a divorce. Ten-Year-Old a Graduate. Miss Grace Newman, of Whitesburg, Ky., is probably the youngest high school graduate in the world. She recently passed the high school examination and passed with a high mark, obtaining her diploma. She is 10 years old. Many Called as Witnesses. Scores of Terre Haute citizens have been Called as witnesses for the government in the election conspiracy trials of Mayor Roberts, Judge Redman and other city officials. It is probable that there will be 300 witnesses called in all.

Size Up Your Income. It is time to make your report on your income if it has reached $4,000 for married men or $3,000 for bachelors. The income tax reports are now due. Don’t try to defraud Uncle Sam, he needs the money “worser” than ever. Silk Hose Argument. R. E. Hadley, of Elwood, attended a hard times social and wore a pair of cheap red socks. His tootsies had been accustomed to silk hose and the change so aggrieved his' feet that they were attacked with blood poisoning and one may have to be amputated. f -

, Don’t Buy Treevax. A man is traveling through the country selling “treevax” alleging that it will kill San Jose scale. The Farmer’s Guide pronounces it a fake, after it had been given a thorough test at Purdue and Ohio experiment stations. Better get some home person to do the tree spraying.

Japan for Open Door? Admiral Dewa, of Japan, speaking in Chicago Tuesday, stated that Japan favored the open door for China. Dewa is to represent China at the Panama-Pacific exposition. He says that he thinks the people of the U.S. and Japan Can mingle together without discord and for mutual profit. A Good Thing. A petition has been filed with the Shelby county commissioners asking that all the able bodied male prisoners in the. county jail be made to work on, the streets. The petition was backed by the mayor and all the members of the county council. Why not an action of this kind in Jasper?

Italian Anarchists. Two Italian anarchists tried to blow up St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City Tuesday. A lighted bomb was placed in th aisle of the church as the congregation was at worship. Detectives saw the men place the bomb and siezed the men and stamped out the sputtering fuse.

Famous Messenger Dead. Timothy J. Dawson, aged 66, an employe of the New York Central, is dead. Dawson began telegraph work at the age of 13 years, and often carried civil war messages to President Lincoln. Among the messages carried by Dawson was the last message from General Grant to Lincoln before the battle of Gettysburg. r Becker Gets Job. --Judge Lawrence Becker, formerly mayor of Hammond, was nominated Tuesday by President Wilson as a solicitor of the treasury department at a salary of $5,000 per year. This is one of the jobs that Congressman Korbley, of Indianapolis, had been seeking. It begins to look as though Korbley would be left out in the cold. • Trapped in Mine. A gas explosion in the Lay land mine of the New River Coat Co. * n West Virginia entombed 176 miners Tuesday morning. The rescue work started at once. The fans used to force air into the mine were hot stopped by the explosion, thus holding out hope that the miners can survive until the rescuers reach them.

Dangerous Assortment. > Vrigil Wing, of Madisonville, Ky., was arrested in Hammond on a charge of loitering. He said: “I’m a preacher.” He was searched and a Bible found but this did not convince the police f<kr they .also found a deck of cards, a revolver, a dagger, a set of dice and a bottle of whiskey. The combination looked dangerous and he was fined SSO. ♦MI ■I I Imm Carranza Repels Attack. Mexico broke into front page print again today. Carranza reports that his soldiers repulsed attacks Tuesday at Mexico City. Zapata and Garza forces lost severalkilled. Another dispatch says Villa has met some defeats and has changed his location ■r

and is without ammunition. Several train loads of food have been received in Mexico City, relieving the hunger situation and the waterworks are being repaired-. . -.. ■, How About This? Twelve people attended the farmers* institute which had been extensively advertised. Forty or fifty attended a checker contest which had scarcely been mentioned. Both occurred in the court house at the same hour. There were taxpayers at the farmers institute and also at the checker game. Where does the fault lie ? Men still like a little recreation. Some say that they should be allowed to have It Many say "let the people rule?* Yet some one makes a ‘‘holler.” Strange world.