Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Rev. M. H. Gerrard, pastor of the Christian church at Laporte, has resigned, the same to take effect within three months. He has several offers, but has not. decided which one he will accept. • / Tired of roaming about the country as a fugitive, Meredith Cook, 28, gave himself up to the police at Goshen, confessing that three months ago he deserted from the United States navy. He was taken to Philadelphia. Forty-eight million dollars will be needed by the Jsthmian canal commission to carry on the work of digging the Panama canal during the fiscal year, 1911, according to estimates which have been received by Secretary of the Treasury MacYeagh. The Tipton county Sunday school committee, which has decided to hold a picnic at Broad Ripple on August 24, has sent an invitation to Governor Marshall, asking him to make a brief address to the visitors on that day. Last year there were 2,700 people in the party. Col. W. T. Durbin will sail for Europe July 29, from New York, to join Mrs. Durbin, who went abroad several weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Durbin will spend several weeks in Switzerland with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. E. Mansfield. The latter has a consular position in Switzerland. Mrs. Ralph Bump is dying and her infant child is dead from carbolic acid which she forced down the child’s throat and swallowed herself at her home near Roanoke. The woman, who is 28 years of age, had written a note to her husband saying she was tired of living. The first step of a thorough investigation of local health conditions was taken by the city health board of Laporte. Six carefully selected samples of drinking water from as many different sources of supply were sent to the state board of health for analysis. The milk question will be taken up also. ___ Arthur E. Bradshaw announced that lie would ask Probate Judge Ross for permission to withdraw the petition in which he asked for a guardian for Wm. H. Whitaker, former reformatory superintendent. Mr. Bradshaw says Whitaker has improved since the petition was asked and now is able to care for his property. A south bound freight train on the Evansvile and Indianapolis railroad crashed head on into a north bound passenger train, at Washington, Ind. J. H. Ashby, a mail clerk, was probably fatally injured In jumping from the mail car and several passengers were hurt, but none seriously. Both locomotives were demolished and the track torn up for a distance of about 100 feet. * Although officials of the First National bank, at Fort Wayne, do not believe that Edward N. Detzer, paying teller, who embezzled $7,800, did any speculating, a rigid examination will be made to see if anything of the kind can be unearthed. The bank officers are anxious to clear up the mystery surrounding the use Detzer made of the $3,500 of stolen money for which he can not account. The defaulter declares emphatically that he never gambled or bet. Married, June 16th, to Dr. Harry Boyd Snee, one of the most prominent surgeons of South Bend, divorced on July 7th, on allegations of cruelty and married on July 9th to ‘Roy W. Meyers, assistant to the booking manager of the Western Vaudeville association, is the record of pretty Madge Hunt, 24 years old. The couple are now in New York. The bride is a striking woman with a perfect complexion and auburn hair. For several years she has been regarded as the most beautiful girl in South Bend.