Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS

Paragraphs of. Up-to-Date News Culled From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers. < THURSDAY'S DAILY. . Law does not require saloons to close on legal holidays unless speciall) mentioned as to the day, and in most cities the saloons were open yesterday, Lincoln’s birthday. Bank robbers at Rich Hill, Mo., succeeded in getting away with $23,000. The burglars were, heavily armed and In getting away with their booty had a running fight with the police. The Lincoln League was in session yesterday and today At Wabash, and United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge madte the principal address. Most of the republican candidates for state offices are on hand. When Mrs. Walker Smith, of Lebanon, Ind., stepped out of the house Tuesday evening, her six year old son thought it would be a good time to look at papa’s shot gun, and the shells being handy he thought would load the gun. In doing so the gun was discharged and the two year old baby was killed. A charge of dynamite was placed under a house at Noblesville occupied by two young women, and the house was considerably The dynamite was placed directly under the bed room where the young woman usually slept, but they had changed sleeping r rooms that night There seems to : be no clew or motive tor the act. ‘ Thos. Mills, the murdered stockman, was buried Wednesday at his home at Eminence, Ind. There are no new developements in the case, and Geo. E. Cassell, who is accused of the murder, still protests his innocence. He is confined in jail at Indianapolis, as the feeling was so intense at Spencer, that it was feared he would be lynched.