Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — ITEMS MERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS MERE AND THERE.

The new treaty with England was ratified by the senate, Monday, by the nearly unanimous vote of 72 to 6. This abrogates the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and removes the chief obstacle to the construction of the Nicaraugua canal by the United States. The last “Inland Printer,” one of the finest publications in the United States, and printed m Chicago, had a half-tone and writeup of John Millikan, of Crown Point, who is supposed to be the oldest newspaper man in Indiana, and perhaps in the United StatesWhat’s the use of going to Chicago to shop for holidays? The department stores there are so crowded that it takes all day to get waited on, and what you do buy there costs more than it would right here in Rensselaer, quality of goods and what it costs, to go after it, and to get it here considered. The Indiana weather report for November says that thunder storms occured or thunder was heard, on the 11th of the month, at Anderson, Angola, Rensselaer, South Bend and Syracuse. Kokomo, evidently to beat Anderson, claims to have had thunder on the 11th, 19th and 21st. Can’t get ahead of Kokomo, either in hearing thunder or raising it. It is claimed that Indiana has the youngest delegation in congress. Major Steele is 60, and the senior; “Jim” Watson, 37, is the youngest and he has been there since 1895; Robinson is 40; Brick and Hemenway 41; Overstreet, 42; Landis, 43; Cromer and Holiday, 45; Crumpacker, 50; Zenor, 55; Griffith and Miers, 53. Senator Beveridge is 39 and Senator Fairbanks ten years older.

Harry Crawford, president of the Midland railroad, is making the fight of his life in the Putnam County Circuit court before Special Judge H. P. Mathias, for the retention of the control of his railroad property. Charles Kenney and others are suing the road for a receivership. The plaintiffs hold 177 claims which they have bought from the employes in the last two years or more, and the various sums aggregate between $5,000 and $6,000. The Indiana weather report for November, just issued states that the month, which seemed so unusually fine, was really 2.6 degrees colder than the average November, in this state. It was the large number of clear, bright days, that made the month unusual for fine weather. The dryness of the mcnth was unusual. The average rainfall in the state was only 1.30 inches, which was nearly 3 inches less than November 1900, and 2| inches less than the normal for the month.