Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1904 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

ITEMS HERE AND THERE

1 It has been decided by the Republican state committee that the English hotel, Indianapolis, shall 'in the future be headquarters for she Republican state organization ' and that the coming state convention headquarters will be at that hotel.

Secretary of state Daniel E. Storms, in making his semi-annual settlement with Treasurer of State Hill for the last six months of 1903 turned over to the state $441,708. This sum was collected from the fees charged the companies filing articles of incorporation.

Indiana has more Elks in Congress proportionately than any other state in the Union. She has thirteen congressman and of that number the following belong to the antlered fraternity; Representatives Cromer, Hemenway, Holiday, Chas. Landis, Miers and' Robinson.

Herman Gehr, a vicious and perhaps half witted tramp, who two or three months ago shot and dangerously wounded a farmer near Lowell named Brueck, and was sent to the reformatory for the crime, has since killed a fellow convict named Berry, by striking him with a bar of iron. It is supposed that Berry was teasing Gehr which caused him to commit' the act.

A supposed expert bank burglar named Thomas Keefe was arrested at Indianapolis a day or two ago, and a gold watch in his possession has been identified as one that was stolen when the Brook bank was robbed, last fall It is not unlikely that Keefe will be held for trial in Newton county, and in that case be may be brought to our jail for safe keeping. The Monon High School girls who are scheduled to play basketball here tonight at the armory with the Rensselaer High School girls, arrived here on the 3:30 train this afternoon prepared to play a great game. This will be the first contest of the kind that has taken place here this year and it is creating considerable interest. A big crowd is expecting to witness the game. Judge W. L. Penfir-ld, who is talked of as a candidate for the republican nomination for governor, says regarding his intention; ‘The outlook is more favorable to my contemplated candidacy. It will be some time yet before I decide definitely whether or not I shall be a candidate” Judge Penfield is a man of the highest character and of very eminent ability. His home city is Fort Wayne though he has been solicitor of the Treasury department a Washington for quite a number of years. He visited Jasper county during the campaign of 1896 and made a very able speech at Kniman.

The Brook Reporter talks like Brook and all of the rest of Newton county was now ready to lay down on the county seat proposition and let Kentland keep it. The Reporter insists however that there is general opposition to building anything very “scrumptious” in the w«*y of a new court house, at Kentland, something like a $25,000 or $30,000 building being about the Reporter’s figure. But even a building of that cost would be a veritable palace, compared with the present court barrack at Kentland. The Morocco Courier seems to be waiting to get its second wind before it says much on the county seat question, but there are some indications that there is still some fight left in that neck of wood.

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