Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 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. Lake county is to have a new jail at a cost of $60,000. W. H. Van Schaik, captain of the ill-fated Gen. Slocum, who sank with a thousand souls aboard, has been sent to prison, where he will probably remain the rest’of his days. .

E. E. Carr, the Monticello dairyman, recently went out of business, and. that town is suffering from a milk famine. Mr. Carr’s herd brought an average of $47.50 a head when sold at auction. John W. Elder, of Warsaw, has spent 18,980 consecutive nights In his home in that city; in fact he has never been away from home over night and he observed his 52nd birthday anniversary recently.

On Thursday evening, March sth, the K. of P. lodge at Reynolds will dedicate its new castle hall. They will have work in all three ranks and will give a jewel to the lodge having the greatest per cent of its membership present. J. L. Peetz, husband of the editress of the Monon News, has recently been notified that he had received a federal appointment inWashjngton.but he has by no means withdrawn from the race for the republican nomination for state statistician. Fur buyers in this locality say that not since 1880 has the price *pf fur been so high as at the present time. Good mink skins sell for for $7 each, with all other kinds of fur proportionately high. Local fur dealers say prices will go still higher before spring. Gen. Perry has determined to hold the annual encampment of the Indiana National Guard at Fort Benjamin Har rison even if congress fails to make an appropriation for army maneuvers. The 10th U. S. infantry, now stationed in Alaska, will arrive at Fort Harrison in June. John O’Connor, 40 years old, was found near the Monon tracks in Crawfordsville just after a north bound passenger train had gone thru that city Wednesday morning, and he had suffered wounds that caused his death in a hospital a few hours later. He is supposed to have been drinking and to have gone to sleep on the track. It is about decided at Logansport that the Impeachment proceedings started against Mayor McKee will now be dropped. The Mayor has been addicted to the drink habit and it is said has often appeared in public places badly under the infuence of intoxicants. It is believed he has made an honest effort to overcome the habit

Peppermint will be one of the leading crops in the Kankakee marshes next season. The quantity of oil produced from each acre of plants averages 80 z pounds and is worth from 75 cents to $1.25 a pound, according to quality. It is said by farmers, who have experimented with peppermint the past three or four seasons, to be the most profitable crop that can be raised in the marshes. Samuel Voorhees, one of the three saloon keepers at Flora recently defeated by the remonstrance method, has climbed on the “water wagon." He recently entered into a contract with the town board to do the street sprinkling for the cmoing year. The other former saloon keepers have entered the restaurant business, and this now leaves Flora a “dry” town. Delphi is the only town now in Carroll under the law. B Thieves are camping on the trail of the motorists tn the New York to Paris race, and at Wawaka, Ind.,they took repairs and equipment to the value of >750 from the French machine. Most of this equipment cannot be replaced in this country and the result may be that the French car will be compelled to give up the race. Souvenir hunters is a name applied by some of the thieves who dismantle the cars, but this is a very mild term.

Valparaiso University, which has always led in economic living, has established a system of living at the university that goes a long ways toward disproving the theory of price advancement, for they can feed and room students at the very moderate cost of 23 cents a day. The breakfast served only costs 4 cents, the dinner 10 cents, the supper 4 cents and the lodging In a single room with A good bed only 5 cents. The meals are not skimped In any way, but each student boarder has three good square meals a day. The feeding has been made a great study and the most palatable and nourishing food is served.