Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

'For the nineteenth time James W. Bums'has boon elected by the'board of managers gtwthe local Railroad Y. M. C. A. as secretary of the organization at .Ft. Wayne; The Knights of Pythias ‘bf the Fifteenth District will meet in Edinburg Tuesday, Jan. 12th. The district is composed of Decatiir, Bartholomew, Johnson and Shelby counties. An epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in the southern part of Shelby county, and schools and churches have been ordered closed for a week at least. Three cases are reported in. one family. After several years of inactivity the Teachers’ Association of Montgomery county will meet in anhual session in Crawordsville on Jan. 22 and 23. The meetings will be held in the chapel room at Wabash college. Barney Duerr, a former employe of the Monon railway company, is plaintiff in a suit filed against the company, in which he asks $5,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been received May 11, 1907, when he was struck by a yard engine. The interior of the kitchen and a massive steel range was completely demolished by the explosion of the waterback of the range at the home of Richard Lowe in Crawfordsville Wednesday. Miss Martha Pittman, a , domestic, was standing near the stove and only by. throwing herse.f to the floor did she escape injury. Goshen Socialists Tuesday began the circulation of a petition asking President Roosevelt to veto the extradition of Rudowitz to Russia. There will be no state encampment at Fort Benjamin Harrison this year for instruction of the militia. In the future the encampment will be held every other year. The Panama canal will be opened Jan. 1, 1915, according to an official communication received by the California promotion committee from Joseph Buckline Bishop, secretary of the canal commission. D. T. Praigg, of Indianapolis, has purchased the Portland Commercial Review from J. L. Braden. The Commercial Review has been rated one of the very prosperous country newspaper properties of northern Indiana. The safe of the Van Buren postoffice was blown open some time after 2 o’clock Tuesday morning and $17.50 in money and $286.60 in stamps stolen. The thieves used nitroglycerine in destroying the lock, into which they had drilled. John Novak, a well known farmer of Springfield township, Lapoite county, committed suicide Monday night in his barn by hanging. He was believed to have been temporarily deranged, for he had been acting strangely for some time. Arrested for carrying concealed weapons, August Sherhorn, of Hammond, a short time after being locked up ! in the Chicago police station, hanged himself by means of a handkerchief. He was discovered hanging from a bar of his cell and died on the way to the hospital. The Pan-Handle railroad is to build extensive yards and shops at Hartsdale, south of Hammond, through the working out of an agreement by which the United States Steel Corporation at Gary 1b to have direct rail communications with the steel corporation’s coke ovens to be. built at Joliet.