Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Leo Smith, third baseman for the Kokomo basearll club of the Northern Indiana league, died at a hospital in Kokomo from injuries received in a game played Sunday. Consul General Robert Wynne, of London, has resigned and Consul- John L. Griffiths at Liverpool will be nominated to succeed him. The London office is one of the best places in the diplomatic service. Senator Beveridge introduced an amendment to the tariff bill, the purpose of which is to prohibit tobacco manufacturers or dealers from using the coupon or premium system to stimulate sales. Burglars entered H. R. Keffel’s drug store in Knox Tuesday night and carried away jewelry and silverware valued at S7OO. The contents of the cash register, amounting to SIOO, was also taken. The robbery is supposed to have been the work of tramps. Three children were bitten by a cat afflicted with rabies in the home of Henry Meyer in Elkhart. The victims are Lawrence and Leonora Meyer, respectively 4 and 7 years old, and Robert Elwell, 5 years old. The cat attacked other children and was later killed by a policeman. Daisy Durbin, 15 years old, attempted suicide at Vincennes by jumping into the Wabash river. She was rescued by John Carlisle. The girl said she attempted to end her life because she w'as not allowed to go to moving picture shows and to parks at night. She also threatened to make another attempt to commit suicide. An employe of the Pennsylvania railroad at Richmond found a carrier pigeon inside the hehdlight of a locomotive. It had struck the glass with such force as to break through, but was not killed. The bird i» being cared for by railroad men, its injuries having been dressed. On one leg the bird has a silver band with the inscription “E 40009” and on the other a copper band marked “R B L 6”. Frank. W. Tucker, state food inspector, Tuesday went before Prosecutor C. E. Pattee, of St. Joseph county, and filed affidavits against Fred W. Frowen and E. S. Crockers of Mishawaka on charges of selling impure milk and Corporan & Jonquet and Ferreter & Co., of Mishawaka, on the charge of selling adulterated ice cream. Affidavits were also filed against F. L, Krutz and W. E. Renschler, of South Bend, whom he charges with selling impure milk. In a meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Princeton, it was charged that the reason the Princeton high school failed to make a single score in the recent "Big Four” athletic meet was because some of the boys w’ere cigarette fiends. From what has been made public of the meeting, It is believed the Princeton W. C. T. U. Intends to start an open war on the cigarette in that city. Some men w'ho talk loudest about the necessity of the country having an "elastic currency,” wouldn't con ■ tribute more than a rubber band to get it.' t Adam was the first man to have moving troubles—but he didn’t have to foregather with the piano and the cookstove.