Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Dr. Nelson Ross, a physician of Muncle, Thursday afternoon shot and killed Daniel Lidder, conductor of a traction car, in a quarrel over the excess fare of 10 cents. While Henry Fultz was fishing with a party off French Island, near Beenville, Ind., he pulled in the body of a negress. It is thought she was drowned at either Cincinnati or Louisville. Orville O. West, captain in command of General Morgan’s troops, which he accompanied in their famous raid through southern Indiana, died Wednesday night of old age, at his home in Jeffersonville, Ind. Mrs. Martha A. R. Matthews, widow of ex-Governor Claude Matthews, is critically ill at the home of Miss Belle Campbell, a friend in Clinton, Ind. Mrs. Matthews is suffering from a nervous breakdown. About 3,340 acres of Kankakee land belonging to the estate of ex-Senator Holler, of South Bend, is to be sold. It Is estimated to be worth about $200,000 and there are several buyers in view. Governor Marshall has granted a parole to Sam Morehouse of St. Joseph county, that he may go to Illinois to be with his mother, who is in a critical condition as a result of a fall. The governor haß also granted a ten days’ parole to Henry Wine to go to Marion to see a sick daughter. A monument erected to the memory of the Pottowattomies at Twin Lakes, Marshall county, will be unveiled on September 4th. Miss Julia Qua-no Po-ka-gon will pull the string, while Congressman Barnhart and other big guns will laud all the “good Indians.” Henry McElhinney, of Princeton, while operating a thrasher, attempted to seize an oil can which was being carried into the machine and his arm was caught and crushed at the elbow'. It was with great difficulty he kept his arm and entire body from being drawn in. The arm may be saved. Bernard J. Mullaney, formerly a newspaper man of Indianapolis and Chicago, and at present private secretary to Mayor Busse, of the latter city, Thursday declined to accept the position of chief of police, offered him by thje mayor. Chief Shippy tendered his resignation Wednesday. Wilson Carter, of Jonesboro, Ind., has a hen which is making a record. The industrious biddy was hatched in the spring of last year, began producing eggs last November and has continued since then without missing a day, having laid 270 eggs during the time, and showing no signs of discontinuing. The commissioners of Shelby county, all democrats, have made requisition on the county council, which meets in annual session next month, for money to purchase voting machines. The council will be asked to appropriate $13,000 for the machines. The commissioners say that this will be enough to purchase eighteen. The announcement officially of the appointment of Dean Harry B. Hutchins to the office of acting president of the University of Michigan was made Wednesday by President Jas. B. Angell for the executive committee of the board of regents. Prof. Hutchins has accepted. The appointment is made to become effective October 1, and is for the coming year.

A $50,000 hat, made entirely of 1,000-dollar bills, owned by a Portsmouth (N. H.) man, is the unique possession which makes Joseph L. Lamb's collection of curiosities one of the most prized in New England. The hat, one of three made many years ago by a government official at Washington out of redeemed bills, originally belonged to a sailor. Eloping to St. Joseph, Mich., to escape relatives and friends, Miss Blanche Bollinger, 20, of Wabash, and Gabriel V. Godfrey, 21, of Peru, were united In marriage there and then returned to Wabash and Peru. The groom is a descendant of Qabriel Godfrey, of Peru, the last Miami chieftain in Indiana and one of the most noted Indians in the state. Miss Bollinger is popular in her Bet of young people, none of whom seemed to know she had chosen an Indian to be her husband. ;i r ... ~-.~f . J ......... ;