Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Beer was used to extinguish a fire in Portland, 111., when the water supply was exhausted. Three stores and their contents were ruined. The estimated damage was $15,000. -»• William Loeffler, former city clerk of Chicago and for years prominent in democratic city, county and state politics, died Tuesday at the Henroting memorial hospital, where he had been ill for several weeks. Ten saloons went out of business at Linton Saturday night and seven more go out this week. Five others will do all the business in Linton for a month. These five saloons have begun to extend the bars in order to accommodate the trade. The census of western Canada, estimated by the government of Canada and announced Tuesday, shows a population of 1,009|000; of thiß number 500,000 live in Manitoba, 350,000 in Saskatchewan, and 275,000 in Alberta. This is an increase of 300,000 in three years. Attorney-General Bingham, who has been going over the books of certain county and township officials at Evansville, finds a shortage of $48.12 in the records'of Eben C. Poole, a republican Justice of the peace. He found that Poole had not made a report since 1899. Poole is now visiting in Florida. Two baby antelopes, sent by exPresident Roosevelt to his daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, were brought to New York on the steamer Vaderland, arriving from Antwerp and Dover. Capt. Burman kept the little animals on the bridge deck and had then! fed with milk from a bottle on the way over. James Barker, aged 90 years, for many years a leading democratic politician having served in the general assembly from Pike, Dubois and Gibson counties in 1864, died at his home just west of Petersburg early Tuesday. In his early life he practiced medicine in Dubois county and was located on a farm west of Petersburg and now owns 500 acres of the best land in Pike county. \ Mrs. Earl Kremer has filed stilt against George Volkner, a former saloonkeeper of Mitchell, and the American Surety company, who were on Volkner’s bond, for $2,000 damages, alleging that the defendant sold her husband liquor on which l.e became intoxicated and staggering into a passing train was nearly killed. The accident happened a year ago.

Smallpox in a mild form has appeared in five families in Bloomfield. Wednesday the board of health established a quarantine at three homes. All public gatherings are forbidden until it is seen whether any new cases develop. The disease has been treated for some time as chickenpox, and not until Wednesday was it determined to be smallpox. Homq-coming week set for June 27, has. been postponed. Owing to the rigid enforcement of the law in the latter respect by the Ohio state railroad commission, all railroad trains are now required to come to a dead stop at a distance of at least 200 feet from the crossing of another line in Ohio. The stop must be made whether the crossing is protected or unprotected, and proves quite a delay to the fast eighteenhour trains on the Lake Shore and Pennsylvania. * At the session of the sovereign camp Woodmen of the World, at Detroit, the report of the emergency fund committee was read showing a grand total in the fund at present of $8,092,873. Major-General Yates, of the uniform rank of the order, reported the membership to be 82 regiments and 968 companies, an Increase of over 400 per cent over 1907. The report of the mileage committee showed the total expenses of the present convention to hove been $33,741. John 8. Glenn, postmaster at Huntington, has filed suit against the Herald and News-Express company at Huntington, alleging libelous publications concerning him, and demanding damages in ths sum of SIO,OOO. The Herald and News-Bxpreea company, publishing the Morning Herald and the Evening Herald, holdo that Its nulls have been discriminated •gainst in favor of the Morning Times, a paper in which Glenn is interested as an ofleer and director.