Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1908 — THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS

Paragraphs of Up-te Date News Culled From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers. WEDNESDAY’S DAILY. An assistant matron in the Ohio children’s home confessed to driving a tack through a boy’s tongue to punish him. A Philadelphia man has been arTOSted for a forgery which is said to have caused two deaths and a $1,000,000 failure. Hunters the fore part of the week reported that ducks and geese were coming in in greaY numbers on the Kankakee marshes. A bill was Introduced in the house of representatives to appropriate SIOO,000 for the survey of a ship canal to connect Benton Lake Michigan with Toledo on Lake Erie. The school teachers in Washington township, Fulton county, drew up a petition to be sent to the lunacy board, asking that Harry Thaw be released from the insane asylum. The petition commends Thaw for killing White. A fast train on the Lake Shore railroad made the distance between Elkhart and Ft. Wayne, 142 miles, in 120 minutes. A flock of sparrows attempted to cross the track near Kendallville and nearly all of them were killed.

All railroads entering Toledo, 0., concede cheap rates to the civil war veterans for their annual encampment to be held there next summer. This is probably the first concession made by the roads where the 2-cent law is in effect.

In anticipation of her death, Mrs. Margeret Lyons, of Pyrmont, near Delphi, whose death occurred Tuesday, had kept carefully laid away for 25 years a dress she caused to be made for her burial robe. The garent was made of brown silk. A beautiful gymnasium will be erected on the campus of Purdue University, in memory of the 17 who lost their lives in a railroad wreck in 1903. The building will cost $75,000 and this amount has already been contributed by members and friends of the university. Dr. Hurty wants the leglslAture to pass a rigid law laying a tax of not less than $5.00 on every dog, and requiring policemen, constables, sheriffs and health officers, under penalty, to kill outright on sight every dog not bearing a licensed tag. This, he says, would, to a great extent, mitigate the evils of hydrophobia.