Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1908 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PARAGRAPHS OF UP TO DATE NEWS

Culled From Press Dispatches From All Over the Country. A New Daily Republican Feature. Temperancb people are " trying to put Delphi on the list of dry towns._ 'there are now nine saloons there. Abraham Lincoln Brick has been renominated tor congress by the republicans of the 13th Indiana district. -r . ■ , The 65th annual session of the Methodist ministers of northern Indiana will be held In Anderson the first v/eek in April. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed in Chicago against Heath & Milligan, the large paint manufacturing firm. The Lake Sfyore and Baltimore and Ohio railroqjis are said to have reached an kgreemsnt about the erection of a union depot at Gary. The Illinois Steel Plant at Hammond reinstated 3,000 meployes this morning. It is said the company has a large rush of orders from the east. The jury that tried ex-county treasurer Wm. Clark, at Terre Haute, charged with shortage, has disagreed, and a new trial has been ordered to be held In March.

Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant postmaster- general, Vill retire from office within a few days to take charge of the presidential campaign of secretary of war Wm. H. Taft. Chas. N. Fowler, author of the Fowler currency bill, will address the Indiana Bankers’ Association on Feb. 14th, at Indianapolis, at which time the bankers will be the guests of the board of trade. Horace Hickam, of Spencer, Ind., will graduate from West Point Mili•tary Academy on the 14th of this month, and will be given a 2d Lieutenant’s , commission in the, regular army. A man at Evansville has been given a divorce because his second wife turned the picture of his first wife to the wall and refused to permit it to be turned out so that it could hft seen. • ■ . < It is said that the Indiana delegation to the national convention will split on a second choice, but that Taft will get fully half of the votes. It Is said that nine of the others can be relied upon for Cannon. One really commendable thing is being said about Bryan, and that is that he is no “quitter.” He war hte job of being president and knows that a quitter can’t have it. He’s ceiling wax, all right.

Bert Gillum, aged 30, met death in the Big Four elevator at Crawfordsville, Saturday, his clothing having caught in the shafting as he was adjusting a belt on a pulley. He had just gone to work after being ill, and he leaves a widow and two children. President Roosevelt has very commendably decided to abolish an old rule that required that postoffice clerks be at least 5 feet 4 inches high. His contention is that a man’s Stature should not be a drawback to him if his other qualifications gre all right To protect the troops of the Indiana National Guard from possible contact with disease, Major-General McKee has issued a bulletin ordering that within ten days all clothing worn by officers and men on strike duty at Muncie be disinfected by fumigation.

| An effort is being made to have the j joint army manuevers of the regular and state troops that were planned for Fort Harrison, near Indianapolis, take place at Luddington, Mich., in- | stead, and it is possible the Indiana I National guard may get a trip., to Michigan this summer. k —:— | The democratic state convention will be held in Indianapolis March 25 I and 26, or just one week earlier than the republican state convention. The democrats had originally decided on April 15 and 16, and made the change to conform to the wishes of thedemocratlc editors of the statu who met in Indianapolis last week. Tbfe democrats of Indiana are going to have another of their biggest eveT banquets, at |2 a plate. It will take place at the Claypool Hotel, in Indianapolis,’ and the "peerless one" will be the guest of honuor. John W. Kern will bo toast master. The date is Feb. 17th. It will probably be a more dignified affair than that pulled off by kirkyrlsk at Lafayette. ' \ William Hall, charged with having made a false affidavit In a suit for damages growing out of the Dig four wreck at Fowler on Jan, 18, 1907, has been found guilty of perjury In the criminal court at Indianapolis. It was proven that he was not even a passenger on the wrecked tr%ln. I