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

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, aged 80, fell on the street at Columbus and fractured one of her arms. Chief of Police Shippy, of Chicago, resigned Wednesday. Bernard Mullaney, secretary to the mayor, will probably succeed Shippey. The Pennsylvania railroad company is erecting a new bridge at Madison costing several thousand dollars, and also a SIO,OOO station at North Madison, where the Southeastern Indiana hospital is located. While Earl Wonegardner and his wife were rowing on the Wabash river, in the vicinity of Kienly’s island east of Logansport, Tuesday night, two bass, each weighing over three pounds, jumped into the boat. The final rush to register for Indian reservation lands in Washington is on. Trains Wednesday were crowded with eager homeseekers~. Registration closed Tuesday. It is expected the total number on the list will reach 300,000. Albert Kinzie, of Ora, the young man who had his heel badly lacerated in a motorcycle accident south of Knox, one day last week, died Monday morning of tetanus, or lockjaw. He died in terrible agony, his jaws having been locked two days prior to his death. The proposed sale of $16,000 in bonds for remodeling the Marshall county court house in Plymouth had no bidderp, owing to a court decision granting an injunction to restrain the board of commissioners from paying money to the contractors for the work of remodeling the court house. Laporte will lose the services of another clergyman on the first day of September, when the Rev. Paris J. Cox will relinquish his labors a 3 pastor of the Friends church. Mr. Cox has not outlined his plans for the future, though admitting that he will accept pastoral work in Indiana. Frederick W. Royce, under arrest at Fort Wayne on a forgery charge, may bp the missing assistant postmaster from Cold Springs, N. Y., who decamped with over $2,000 in money order funds. Royce was arrested for passing a worthless check on the Romadka leather store, in Fort Wayne. Judge James B. Wilson of the Monroe circuit court abandoned his vacation over on White river, near Worthington, long enough to go to Bloomington Tuesday night to sit in chambers in an injunction suit to settle if possible the war between the billposting crews of the WallaceHagenbeck and the Sells-Floto cirpuses. Township trustees over the state who are now engaged in listing school supplies for the pending school year are being advised by school supply men to buy heavily at this time as the state board of accounts will after January Ist greatly restrict their buying capacity. According to the report received the school supply men are making a systematic canvas of the 1,016 township trustees of the state and are urging that when it comes to purchasing supplies in 1910, the accounting board will be in direct connection with township affairs, that new form blanks for bidding purposes will be supplied, that there will be various and sundry affidavits to make and that in order to avoid any unpleasant experiences the trustees should deal generously in the matter of supplies at this time. The two Gary druggists, Charles Herboldt and J. Steele, who were arrested for selling whiskey by the glass over their soda fountain counters, entered pleas of guilty and were fined and costed to the amount of $42.50 each. They have promised to be good in the future. William Ball, one of the oldest pioneers of Madison county, is reported to be dying at his home near Anderson. Try the classified column.