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 News Culled From the Press Dispatches of Metropolitan Papers. The Little Calumet river at .Hammond has been on the rampage and is higher than It has been since 1564. Trolley cars collided near Xoblesville Monday, injuring 13 people, 3 of whom may die. Samuel A. Ralston, of Lebanon, is being boomed for the democratic nomination for governor. As a result of a long fight the government will increase the pay of the army and navy. The republican state committee is holding a meeting in its headquarters in the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis today. Mayor James Lyons, of Terre Haute, has given notice that he will not prosecute Sunday theatres, base ball players and other Sunday amusements, contending that the majority of the public want these things.

Mayor McKee, of Logansport, has been found guilty of drunkenness, all five members of the city council voting for the finding. It Is probable that the impeachment proceedings will be dropped. . The fleet is now nearing the end of their record breaking trip and the amusement managers are making prep arations to welcome the American jackies. They will visit San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. At Winamac the Tippecanoe river is the highest It has been since 1833, and the water got so high that the municipal light plant had to shut down and the city was in darkness Sunday night and church services were suspended. Jacob C. Hoover, a prominent farmer residing in Pulaski county, near Winamac, was drowned In Indian Creek which he was trying to ford with a horse and buggy one day last week. The body was not recovered until Monday.

At Shoals, Ind., yesterday, a 2year old child of Henry Bennell, se- , cured a bottle of kerosene during the absence of its parents from the hou3j and poured it over the face of the 7-weeks old baby, causing the death of the Infant. I ■ ■ ' ’ i Four convicts in the Montana penitentiary made a desperate attempt to escape Sunday morning and dan-; gerously wounded the warden and his assistant. Two of the escaping pris-' oners were shot by the wounded warden and are now lying at the point of death in the prison hospital. The effort of the state tax commissioners, talking along the lines followed by Mr. Wingate in Rensselaer, has had the effect of setting many county treasurers in the notion a greater effort than ever before of making delinquents pay up. Delinquents must pay, and the treasurer should let none escape. Mayor C. D. Coffee, of Decatur, Ind., is another mayor under charges of Intoxication. - He is also charged with collecting license fees and appropriating the same to his own use. He is alleged to have, on the occasion of one of his sprees, embraced three women on the streets of Decatur. A privilege that even the mayor had no right to In that city, i ' Governor Hanly Monday caused to be mailed to voters of the state about 10,000 circulars in which he sets forth his views on certain legislation which .he favored or disapproved during the last legislature. If he vetoed a measure he tells why he did It. The opinions of certain lawyers that influence his vetoes are also printed in circular form and accompany his own circular.

{ A farmer tamed Strlckler, at Ladoga, became intoxicated when ha was trying to got up enough nerve to have a tooth pulled. He fixed hia nerve all right though, (or before /he got sobered up be had whipped the •town marshal and his deputy and a citiren who interferred and then he defied the juit'ce of the peace who undertook to fire him. Strlckler is Bald to be a temperance man and to have become intoxicated on a "pain lotion taken on recommendation of his dentist.