Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

The State Printing Board has decided to print 2,000 instead of 1,000 copies of the report of the fish commissioner, Z. T. Sweeuey, because of a popular demand. 0$ these, 1,000 will be distributed through the members of the Legislature and 1,000 by the Secretary of Sta'e.

The Supreme Court of Indiana holde that a rule of a board of education requiring pupils to go directly home after school is a valid one, and one that may be enforced by the principal of a echo J. He may go pn the streets or in the stores and publio buildings and compel the ohildren to go home. Valparaiso Vidette: Judge Wm. Talcott, for years proprietor of this paper oelebrated his 87th birthday very modestly yesterday. The Judge is in good health and never complains. He has all tbe vigor of ose and in the past few years has frequently aooomplished as much work as c man of middle age.

The Lafayette Journal feels quite jubilant over the recognition of that city’s local statesmen. It says: “Henry W. Marshall will occupy the speaker’s ohair in the next Indiana legislature. The information comes from the powers that be. With Mr. Storms in the office of secretary of state and Mr. Marshall in the speaker’s chair, Tippecanoe oounty people will feel at home over at the capital.** % A drunken neighbor threatened Charles Ropp, a farmer living near Urbana, Ohio, with a revolver and fiaally pursued him to bis house and then broke in the door. Ropp, believing his life was in danger shot and killed the drunken man. Ropp is believed to be a brother of Horatio, Henry and Andrew Ropp, of this vicinity, as they have a brother Charles living near Urbana.

The people around DeMotia did not do much good for themselves raising pickles last season, owing to its excessive wetness. There was a meeting held there a few days ago, however, to consider what should be done in that line next year. The deoision was to keep up the pickle factory, and to plant a larger acreage next year. It is believed that in any ordinary season pickle raising there will be a very profitable industry. There are now seemingly certain prospects that the Venezuelan trouble will be settled satisfactorily all around, and without President Roosevelt being obliged to take upon himself the .heavy barden of arbitrator. He did not refuse to act in that capacity, but did stronglj urge England and Germany to refer the matter to the decision of the permanent international tribunal of arbitration at the and this they have at last consented to do

Mre. Margaret Hill McCarthy, now of Topeka, Kans., a former principal of the Rensselaer high echool, has just nude her appearance as an author, in the literary world. She has published a book of short stories under the title of “Cuddy,” and Other Folks. She has remembered some of her nearest old friends here with oopies of the book and which the recipients greatly appreciate. The stories are written in dialect.

Kentland’s Christmas preseut ar rived yesterday morning—two car loads of haTd ooal. The announce meat caused a panic. Wagons were lined up aloog the traoks twenty or thirty deep, and in some oasee as high as $2.00 was paid for a favored position. Not one in ten of those aotually oo the ground oould be supplied, bat the ship-, meat was mads to go as far as possible by distributing it in ton lots,

and less. A blinding snow storm from the northwest sparred on the fight for possession—Kentland Enterprise. The first of the five-ton steel I beams for the third floor of the K. of P. building was got into the building late Wednesday evening, after a long bard wrestle. It was taken in through a second story window and has still to be moved baok some distance and then elevated to its plaoe on top of its supporting iron pillars. The beam has to be lifted by jackscrews, and moved horizontally on rollers, by pulleys and levers Nothing more will be done with them until the weather moderates. Tbe othar beam still stands on the oars, at the depot. A bill to prevent the marriage of consumptives is now being prepared. and it will probably be presented before the Indiana Legislature next month. Tbe author of the bill is not yet ready to make any announcement concerning it or even to let his name be known. He is, however, consulting with physicians and gathering statistics. Last month over eighty mothers died of consumption in Indiana,

leaving over 160 motherless children, The death of fathers was hard'y a 9 large, The number of children who died of the disease was large. The Monon Raiload’s Christmas was a $6,000 damage suit, filed in Indianapolis. Edward J. Borman is the plaintiff, and he wants damages for being put off a night train, south of Englewood. . He got on at Englewood, and tendered the conductor an' interchangeable mileage book. The rules of the roads are that the mileage must be exchanged at the stations for tiokets, but there was no agent at the depot, and so Borman handed the mileage book instead. The oonduotor refused to accept it, and stopped his train and put Borman off in the nsual dismal, dark and dangerous locality, where suoh things always happen. Hence he has brought this suit.