Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

President Taft Saturday nominated Fred H. Abbott, of Nebraska, to be assistant commissioner of Indiana affairs. • Anderson is to have a new high school building, the cost of which will be $132,900. It will occupy nearly an entire block, and must be completed by August I, 1910. The suburban residence of Arthur Eddy, a half mile south of the city limits of Michigan City, burned Saturday. The loss is estimatedat $5,000, covered by $3,000 insurance. Fire was caused by a defective kitchen chimney. • —O — The war department announces that Culver military academy ranks second this year among the ten private military schools at which army officers are detailed as professors of military science and tactics. The rating is made on the basis of proficiency in military training and knowledge. The new one-cent piece, bearing the head of President Lincoln, will he isued by the treasury department from the mint at Philadelphia begining on August Ist next. By that time it is expected a sufficient supply of these coins will have been accumulated to meet all demands. John B. Scott, a saloon keeper, was found guilty of manslaughter in killing J. Frank Thornton, of Toledo, in Scott’s saloon in Fort Wayne, last winter. The case was tried in Columbia City. The jury was out seven hours. Scott said he shot in self-de-fense. The penalty is two to twentyone years. Following the shooting of Fireno Adolph by James Ferello after an alleged attempted blackmail by the former, officer Gus Newman, of the Gary police force, received a letter threatening his life if he did not leave the city at once. This is believed to he due to his efforts to run down the evidence that a Black Hand society is operating in Gary. William Chopson, the aged Warren Methodist who so generously founded the Methodist old people’s home al Warren, will not live to see his donation of $25,000 bear fruit. He is rapidly failing, and there is slight prospect of his surviving until fall. He had hoped to live to see the building completed and occupied, but his physician states there is scarcely a possibility of his doing so. —o — Micajah Wise, of Beaver Brook, Sullivan county, who is said to be the oldest pensioner in the United States at the age of 108 years, has just received special home examination by a physician employed by the pension department. Wise was a member of Fighting Phil Sheridan’s cavalry. He took part in the campaign in the Shenandoah valley which resulted in the destruction of Early’s army. Jack Johnson, champion heavy weight pugilist of the world, came up from Cedar Lake, Ind., his training quarters, and unmpired the game of baseball between Crown Point and Fuqua Giants, colored, of Chicago. The presence of Jack proved a serious hoodoo to the colored giants and Crown Point defeated them 16 to 3. Johnson as umpire handled the game well and proved a great drawing card. Because of the ripened condition of the wheat and the illness of her husband, Mrs. Joseph Nowatskl, formerly Miss Ann Detert, living tour and a half miles southeast of Vincennes, in Johnson township, cut wheat all Friday night, driving tour horses to the binder. When she drove into the field at 7 o’clock there was still ten acres to cut. Mr. Nowatski had more than one hundred acreß of wheat and ail has been cut with* on# binder. He expects to have thrashers on his place the first of next week.