Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

President Taft Tuesday signed a bill providing funds for taking the census of 1910. George Ross, of Star City, died Tuesday as a result of being kicked by a horse on Sunday. The biological station at Winona in connection with the Indiana University, had its first day of school Monday. Prof. Eigenman, of the state school, is again in charge. Ben Clem, of St. Anthony, was ridi ing across a field carrying a scythe when his horse became frightened. The scythe dropped from Clem’s hands and he was thrown on it. His body was almost cut in two. The Rev. Edmund E. Dunne, chancellor of the arch diocese of Chicago, has been named by the pope a bishop of Peoria, 111., according to advices received in Chicago from Rome. He succeeds Bishop J. L. Spalding, resigned. Prosecutor Smith, of Laporte county, continues his vigorous crusade against violators of the Sunday closing law. A Mill Creek saloon-keeper is the latest suspect. Several witnesses have been examined and arrests will be made at once.

It seems likely that the old Laporte county fair grounds, where more than 50 annual fairs have been held, will soon be a thing of the past. It is proposed to convert the extensive grounds into a city park, leaving room in the southwest corner for a dog pound. Herman Sheek, a section employe of the Pennsylvania railroad, living at Curtisville, is seriously ill from blood poisoning, the result of cutting his hand on a glass fruit jar. The cherry crop was larger than his wife could care for and he volunteered to help her. Mrs. Brodie, of Washington, reputed to be extremely wealthy, died at Winona lake Monday afternoon. Before Mrs. Brodie died she realized her condition and told Dr. J. G. Nohrbas she had no near relatives excepting a sister, who was traveling in Italy. Mrs. Brodie was about 60 years old. The disbarment against Former Prosecutor Joseph T. Talbot, of South Bend, cost St. Joseph county $2,145.04, according to figures Just compiled in the county auditor’s office. Attorneys have presented their final accounts and the county commissioners Tuesday will he asked to authorize payment.

Fremont DeGollier, of Elkhart, whose saloon was closed on Wednesday night under the operation of the county option law Tuesday expressed himself as glad to be out of the business. He said he had got tired of the long hours and wanted a change. He said that he would not take a saloon today in any dry territory if anybody would give it to him.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,.with three of her children, Ethel, Quentin and Archie, sailed for Genoa Saturday on the White Star Hner Cedrie, from NowYork. Mrs. Roosevelt and children will spend the summer at the home of Mrs. Roosevelt’s sister, who has a villa in Italy, and will remain there until Colonel Roosevelt completes his African hunting trip.

Mary Elizabeth (Dolly Logan) Tucker obtained a divorce in Chicago Tuesday afternoon from Colonel William F. Tucker, United States army, retired, on grounds of desertion. The matter of alimony, it was stated, had been settled privately. Colonel Tucker did not contest. The right to resume her maiden name was given Mrs. Tucker.

The case of the Walkerton “drys,” who are hot on the trail of the St. Joseph county commissioners their attitude in granting Vern Hardenbrook and Melvin G. Foster licenses to open bars in that township, reached the St. Joseph circuit court Tuesday afternoon. The transcript from the commissioners’ court was filed by the 216 men interested to rescind the order of the lower court.

It’s no crime to steal a bath, at any time, and with the thermometer at the 85 mark, no man should be prosecuted for plunging into a pond, or stream, so long as he does not expose himself to the public,” said Judge Zerface, in the city court at Elwood, when eight young men were arraigned before him to answer a charge of trespass, having pried off a board and crawled through, after which they took a plunge in the big pond inside the inclosure surrouning the American Sheet and Tin Plate company's mills.

A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia and constipation—weakens the whole system. Doan’s Regulets (25 cents per box) correct the liver, tone the stomach, cure constipation.