Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

William Damar, the former Laporte man who robbed a butcher shop in Michigan City, was arraigned in the Laporte superior court in Michigan City and plead guilty. He was sentenced to a term of 2 to 14 years in the penitentiary. After a quarrel with her husband, who dared her to jump in the river, Mrs. Lizzie Feldman, of Evansville, leaped in. As she was sinking for the last time she was rescued by Ira Rogers. As the rsult of eating grass in a field where mad dogs ran wild a few months ago, a - horse belonging to Mrs. May Burdine, of near Aboite, became rabid while in the pasture. The horse was killed before it attacked any persons or animals. President Taft, if the program now planned is carried out, will spend a portion of a day in Fort Wayne next October, and probably deliver an address there. He will be enroute to Monroe, Mich., where a statue of General Custer is to be unveiled. John H. Wood, former president of the Matthews National bank of Matthews, Ind., has just been released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans., after the expiration of a term of six years. He was convicted of making loans in excess of the amount allowed by law. Miss Jennie Wilson, of South Whitley, won the SSO prize in the contest to give Fort Wayne a slogan. Out of the many thousands of suggestions the directors of the Commercial Club selected “Fort Wayne with Might and Main.” Miss Wilson is an invalid, compelled to live on a wheeled chair.

Washington proposes to require that bathtubs be put In all new buildings. Next thing they will have official bathing masters to see that the residents get busy every Saturday night.