Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD’S HAPPENINGS

Paragraphs , of Up-to-Date Newt Called From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers.

The rural mail carriers out of Shelby; are making their rounds in boats om account of the high water. A Gas City man shook hands m violently with 'a barber acquaintance that the barber’s arm was dlslocated mid a stroke of paralysis followed. The syndicate that has controlled the price of cotton thread >»»ff reduced the price to the jobber, and It will again be possible to sell it at sc. Dr. Wilkinson, the oldest veterinary surgeon in Northern Indiana, is dead at his home in Crown Point He was recognized throughout the state as an authority on the diseases of cattle. |

Despondent because his divorced wife married again Jerome Richardson, a former resident of Hobart, committed suicide In a hotel at Hammond by shooting himself thru the head. Hunters are flocking to the Kank»> kee river In great numbers. Game reported as plentiful. -Irish are also reported as more numerous than for several years and exceptionally arge. * —’ —• Persons wishing to protect their trees from the ravages of certaiA insects can do so by placing around the trunk of the tree near the ground sticky fly paper or a strip of heavy cotton material. This should be done at once.

Monticello will have a Republican convention Friday, March 20. On that date a joint senator for the counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White will be nominated. Monticello is a town of hospitality. Even “Mose” Leopold, of Rensselaer, regards it as a first class place, and “Mose” is one of the particulars.—lndianapolis News. Laboring under the delusion that the United States Government owes him $40,000,000. Franklin Bradley, 7$ years old, an inmate of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, has been manufacturing counterfeit bank notes with pens and paper for twenty years, the time he has been confined in the institution. Although efforts have been made to prevent It, he has successfully passed dollars.