Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

\ 'S-T-Vf''** s. ' Company M, second regiment, I. N* G., of Greenfield, is to tye mustered out of service, because of poor attendance and lack of interest. An Indianapolis dispatch says that Senator Will R. Wpod, of Lafayette, will be a candidate for the republican nomination for attorney general. Owing to the rains little honey will be marketed in Hancock county, the rain having washed the honey from clover blossoms and flowers. Sugar will be fed to the bees next winter. *—o —• Elmer Fager, an alleged deserter frotn the United States navy, was arrested at Peru Wednesday. He left the United States battleship Tacoma at New York City, May Ist. He will be returned to the navy. Officer Wm. Marquardt, of the Gary police, narrowly escaped with his life when a chair was hurled at him by a drink-crazed foreigner whom he was trying to arrest. The leg of the chair crashed through the officer’s helmet, inflicting an ugly wound on the head. The annual session of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association will be held at Ft. Wayne April 7 to 9, 1910. Professor L. N. Hines, of Crawfordsville, chairman of the executive committee, announced the selection, after a trip to Ft. Wayne, investigating the hotel accommodations. - o— ■ Senator Beveridge expects to be ready in a few days to announce the names of the men he will recommend for census supervisors in the eleven democratic congressional districts in Indiana. Representative Crumpacker will recommend a man for the Tenth district and Representative Barnard for the Sixth. ——o—

The bodies of Ella Zistern and Herman Lindeman, of Chicago, who were drowned in the St. Joseph river, at South Bend, on Monday, were found together Thursday. Relatives will take the bodies to Chicago. No record of a marriage license issued to Lindeman has been found. —o — Eel river farmer, near Clay City, having a large acreage of wheat on low ground, whiclr, because of the heavy rains, w-as too soft to bear the wheels of his harvester, made a mudboat on which he put the machine. He hitched six horses to the boat and proceeded to cut and save his crop. John Harris, of Greenfield, who for thirty-five years has Relieved his father dead, received reliable information that he is alive and well in Kendrick, Okla. When Harris was eighteen months old his father' left his family and had not been heard of since. In a few years Mrs. Harris obtained a divorce and remarried. t —-0Ernest Redinger, age thirty-two, a lineman employed by the Home Telephone company at Logansport, was killed while working on a pole at Ful--0 ton street and Michigan avenue. The tragedy occurred in full view of a crowd of people. Redinger touched a telephone wire which was in contact with a high tension wire carrying 2,200 volts. The Anti-Tuberculosis League obtained -a location for its tuberculosis colony, and the cottages will be erected at once. The site will be the old fair ground, midway between South Bend and Mishawaka, on the north side of the St. Joseph river. The camp will be modeled after the one in Indianapolis. G. A. Everett, of Indianapolis, arrived in South Bend Wednesday to superinte&l the erecting and furnishing of thercottages.