Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

According to the general belief in Washington, D. Cl, £<lifyi Root will become chief justice of ftie supreme tiffinJPW> » Ty 111 mMiifi '**■<..»- • “i I >ffTrTTii>ir court Sr X Sf A dispute arising from a argument between two brothers, Samuel and Jack Augustus, at Decatur, culminated in a fierce fight Samuel being beaten into insensibility. s f x 'S •' ■’ * ■ dobt. McCloskey. .age % of Young*, Vigo county, has been unconscious from concussion ot the brain from a' moving street ajid fell on his head. ■/H i ‘f-W* '* r P rv ®? Pm tog l I 1 ! 8 arm up to th> shoujder & % y?»n| who is the son of A. E. Branson, was Reding %e shr^r^He to the cjty hospital In SF^yville. ■ 9 xm~ M&ftd °i '9 m % o| |e>nmfyyßoM an average yield of aljno# lot bushels an - V-' ■■■ sb ;X zb • -< Scores of peoplp on Calkoun st eet, the principal thorougjfare of Fort Wayne, narrowly escaped deatlj, traffic on the car lines delayed several hours when the fiont wall of the old Y. M: 6. A. building, which is being demolished ci ashed into the street.

The bones of Gen. James McCubbin Ligan, personal friend of Gea. George Washington, and a hero of the revolutionary war, who died in 1812, were yesterday exhumed from the private burying ground in which they have reposed for almost a century, and were reburied in Arlington national cemetery. »x s 7 Roy L. Sonneborn, of Laporte, was shot, through one of his .fingers Monday by a bullet from a revolver that a customer had brought in for repairs and said was not loaded. The bullet also passed through fcte& back of a chair in which C. F. Sonneborn had been sitting-a few minutes before The gun was discharged, Thr reppi’t pf the operations and improvement of the Grand Tr mk railway system from Jap. 1, 1905,. to Dye. 31, 1907, shows that during, that time a total of, 425 miles Qf single tyaety has been adfied to the system, besides 6QB miles of double tracking, completing tie double track from Montreal to Toronto, and completing. a, total expendituje for double ti a eking of $14,933,663. ss'.'X as ■» Jam, H. Foxworthy, the. olde; t man in Rushvilie, voted for p-eside.nt Tuesday for the seventeenth tinjd in his life. Mr. Foxwortny’s* vote was cast for William H. Harrison, in 1840 at the age of elgbbem. He was then a resident of Kentucky, and the state law permitted apy member of the state militia to voie at that agp. In nearly eve;y ipstance his choice has been successful. He voted for Taft Tuesday. Two election celebration shootings occurred at Terre Haute yes'erday. Waiter Farreil, after a night of election celebration,; opened fire with a rifle in the saloon where he was porter, fatally wounding Alexander Cldd, a glass blower, and seriously injdt 1 - lug Edward Riley.: Belle Beds shot and killed Henry Brockhoiise 'early Wednesday morning, af.er hp had been up for returns and gone to her room, jealous. She says he tried to shoot fier, but she got the weapon aud killed him. '

TJfce fatq of Herman 81l ik of Chi*, convicted poisoner of ,the Vrsal family, will be finally,, decided. by, Judgq Albert, <i Barns#. on. Noy u I%* wbqp thq, court will anpounoe 1» final uppn. legal .points ra'aed- la* court yesterday, when Bllllk appeioed,for the fourth to recetlye,foe sentence. The unique plea upon which, Blliibl wiU glin, respte was thflt he Is legally dead, because, the, state, authorities. allowed, the datftj Of ejection to. pass wi.UjQUt»* ORd«*r from, the state court wbijt. the .United Siafo* courts. w«r* fcPßgelpd^tq,, The outlcwat for Thanksgiving tM>*' keys Is simply splendiferous.