Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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NEWS ITEMS IN PARAGRAPHS. Gives SIOO,OOO to Harvard.—'Harvard university is bequeathed SIOO,000 for the study of methods to reform and cure criminals and mental I defectives by surgery, under the will lof Dr. J. Ewing Mears, which has Must been probated in Philadelphia. Prince of Wales Coming. —Plans were announced yesterday at Washington, D. C., for the formal visit to the United States in August of the Prince of Wales, who will be the first of the foreign guests to return the European visits of President and Mrs. Wilson. Would Free U. S. Writer.—Without debate the senate yesterday adopted a resolution by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, asking the state department for information regarding the alleged detention of William T. Ellis, correspondent of the New York Herald, by the British authorities at Cairo, Egypt. Night Sessions for Senate. —The I senate will hold night sessions beI ginning tonight-to insure passage of the remaining appropriation bills [needed before July 1. Senator Curtis, of Kansas, republican whip, formally gave that notice late yesterday. The District of Columbia appropriation bill comes first. To Map Air Route Across America. —'The army air service announced yesterday that four planes of the Ourtiss JN-4 type soon would start on a transcontinental flight from Hazelhurst field, Mineola, N. Y., to Seattle, Wash. The flight will be for the purpose of mapping out an aerial route between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. British Dirigible Due Sunday.— The giant British dirigible R-34 will start from England Friday and reach Hazelhurst, Long Island, the following Sunday, according to the present plans. Brig. Gen. L. A. O. Charlton, of the British air service-, stationed at Washington, D. C., has notified the London authorities that the field will be ready. Cy De Vry of Zoo Suspended.— Cy De Vry, director of the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, was suspended yesterday, pending trial before the civil service commission on charges filed by Supt. John C. Cannon of the park board. The charges are “intoxication while on duty, assault and battery on a civilian, assault and battery on a lieutenant of police, and the use of abusive language.” New Cruisers to Pacific. —All six of the high speed battle cruisers under construction for the navy probably will be assigned, when completed, to the reorganized Pacific fleet as a special squadron. They are regarded as the most powerful battle cruisers being built anywhere in the world. The new cruisers will have increased turrets protection and will carry a main battery of ten sixteen-4nch guns. Bolshevism Chart* d.— General Churchill, of the military intelligence bureau, told the senate military committee yesterday that the war department had carefully mapped, charted, catalogued and indexed Bolshevism in America. Rendezvouses infested by dangerous radicals are carefully marked, and regions where radicals of all descriptions operate are also charted. Individual leaders are being closely watched.

Isaac J. Parker, of Wolcott, was in Rensselaer today.

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