Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — SATURDAY’S DAILY. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY’S DAILY.

The St. Louis ‘baseball team is in training at French Lick springs. The home of McKinley will be sold in Canton, 0., at public auction. Thomas Edison, the inventor, is seriously ill in a New York hospital. Mayor McKee, of Logansport, was acquitted by the city council Friday evening. / The blind tiger law carried to the declared constitutional. Two Evansville street car conductors, are accused of having stolen SIO,OOO worth of street car tickets. Five children were bom to Mr. and

Mrs. Geo. Campbdl, of Steubenville, (Ohio, Friday. Three of ihe children 'were boys and two girls. A constable pursued the French racing car In the New York to Paris race and compelled the driver to give him $lO due him for assisting the car through the snow. The Wabash college basket ball team has started on a trip that will take them as far as Mobile, Ala. They will meet the strohgest teams of the Bouth. F. M. Quimby, train master of the first divibii n; of the Monon- route, says this ro. d will not rais t passenger rates to three cents per mile, and test the two cent law. A. J. Bunnel, a No, th Judson toy, after a six months’ absence, returned to his home and claimed to ha. e .■ r .r been shanghied in Mobile, Ala., and taken <on a ship bound for Norway.

159,000 worth of bonds issued for for the building of gravel and macadam roads, bearing 4% per cent interest, were offered for sale by the commissioners of Whi e county, but not one bid was offered. The ten hour railroad that was to have been built from Chicago to New has dwindled down until it looks as tho it would only extend from Gary to Chicago. The company that is promoting the venture has filled all the principal newspapers and magazines in the United States with their advertisements to sell stock in the air line, which was to run from Chicago to Ne.w York in ten hours. The Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station is again preparing to furnish a limited number of interested farmers in Indiana with a few leading varieties of corn, oats, cow peas or sooy beans to test on their own farms. Four or five varieties which seem to be suitable for the locality where they are to be tested will be furnishe.d free of cost, in sufficient quantities to plant a quarter acre of each variety of corn, and a tenth acre of each variety of the other crops, on condition that an honest effort be made to conduct the test according to instructions and report results at the end of the season.