Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

T i e Princess Tonight. Song—“ The Lanky Yankee.’’ Pictures —“Boys in Blue” and “Dynamite Du6l.” The Princess program changes every evening and the public verdict is that each is better than the preceding one. Admission 5 cents; come and be convinced that the Princess (wards off the blues. Born, Monday, Feb. 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cain, a son. Born, Wednesday, to Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Snow, of near Aix, a son. Fred Macklenberg is considerably improved from his recent severe illness and is now able to sit up a part of the time. 1 Mrs Judson Perkins is improving from her sickness and it is thought now that she is practically out of danger Friday night Fannie Porter will entertain for the Misses Porter at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Porter. The L. H. D. girls will entertalh for Miss Dorris Porter and Mr. Emery Mills, Feb. 24th. They will have dinner at the Comer house at 6:30. Running at a rate of about forty miles an hour, the Pennsylvania’s 18hour train between Chicago and New York struck a landslide at Newton Hamilton, about forty-eight miles from Altoona, Pa., at 6 o’clock Monday morning, overturning the engine and baggage car and derailing three sleepers filled with passengers. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured. In a trolley wreck on the Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria railway Monday, caused by a collision, John Michetll, secretary of the National Civic federation, on his way to New York, was among a list of fifteen injured. Mitchell had several bruises attended to by a physician and was able to proceed on his Journey. The accident was due to a misunderstanding of orders.

Twenty-one bids for the erection of two marble monuments over the graves of confederate soldiers in the cemeteries at Indianapolis and Alton, 111., were opened Tuesday at the war department, which had allotted $6,000 for each monument. All the bids were within the allotment Ten bids were for the monument at Alton, and eleven at Indlnapolig. The awards will be made In a few days, A report has been Issued by the Pennsylvania railroad company showing that during the year 1908 657 trespassers were killed and 791 injured on the lines of the company. This is a decrease of 165 In the list of killed as oompared with 1907. M connection with the report the company says that this wholesale killing only “emphasizes the recommendations of the .State Railroad Commissions of Pennsylvania and Indiana that laws be enacted providing substantial punishment for all tresDIiKSOrB M

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