Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

There will be no more Sunday funerals in Mishawaka, containing 10,000 inhabitants. The ministers of that place have gone on record as being opposed to services over the dead on that day. » v Gertrude Wilkinson of Warsaw has filed suit for $5,000 damages against Paul Byrer. She charges the young man pulled a chair from under her when she was about to sit down, and that the fall she sustained permanently injured her spine. k ¥ The Brazil Enterprise says: “A peculiar accident occurred during the Fourth of July celebration Saturday night. Maude, the 10-year-old daughter of James Sawyer, was struck between the eyes with a sky rocket and the blow straightened her eyes that have been crooked since birth. Notwithstanding that the Injury caused the little one considerable pain she is delighted that the accident occurred, since It has placed her her eyes in a natural shape.” k 1 Harry C. Miller, of North Judson, was yesterday nominated as a candidate for joint representative by the republicans of Starke, Pulaski and St. Joe counties. The other candidates were Henry R. Robbins, of Knox, and Symon Bybee, of North Judson. Miller was chosen on the fourth ballot, the. vote standing, Miller 9, Bybee 5 and Robbins 3. Dr. Kelsey, of Pulaski county, and Mr. Sheppard, of St. Jpseph county, secretary, with Carl W. Reddick, of Pulaski, assistant. ar a An automobile owned and driven by H. C. Stahl, a wealthy manufacturer of Bellevue, 0., enroute from Chicago to his home crashed into a buggy containing three women one mile east of Laporte. The women were thrown from the vehicle, but not seriously hurt In the machine with Mr. Stahl were his son and daughter, Mrs. A. J. Stahl of Laporte, and the chauffeur. Although contending that he was not to blame for the accident, Mr. Stahl, settled for damages and continued his trip. I