Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Warrick county will hold a local option election June 17th. That date was set at a meeting of the commissioners Monday. Senator Beveridge has recommended Edwin L. Lautzenhiser for postmaster at North Manchester: This settles a long controversy. 5 Joseph Stoughton, 54 years dill, a farmer, was gored to death by a bull Tuesday night on his farm northwest of Logansport. He was driving the ; cattle from pasture when the bull turned upon him. While trying to put out a fire in his saloon at Indiana Harbor, caused by a gasoline explosion, Joseph Langowski, 42 years old, was so badly burned that he died Tuesday in St. Margaret’s hospital, Hammond. Representative Moss, of Linton, Sunday permitted an incision into his hip, and as a result a half pint of. blood and matter was removed. Mr. Moss has been confined to his bed since he was run down by an auto- > mobile in Indianapolis. Bruce lake, in Pulaski county, is to have a new hotel and other improvements this season, making it one of the finest summer resorts in Indiana. Keene & Mather, of Chicago, have the management of the enterprise and an Indiana corporation capitalized at $50,000 will furnish the funds. Two more damage suits have been -filed against the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend railroad company as the result of the wreck at Cavanaugh, near Gary. Erederlck E. Hames and Samuel Poulson have filed complaints in which thby- claim $2,000 damages, and all other proper relief for injuries they received in the wreck after the cars collided. The Laporte city council has engaged Prof. R. L. Sackett, of Purdue university, as the sanitary expert and consulting engineer in the construction ot a $250,000 sewer system. It is expected that it will require seven months alone to prepare the plans and specifications and make the profiles. A purification plant will also be built. It is expected that it will take ten years to complete the proposed system, which will Include five miles of trunk sewers and fifteen miles ot laterals.