Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Evansville car strike, which began on May 20, was declared off last week after long continued negotiations between the company and the union members. Forty of the men will return to work, but the company docs not recognize the union. Ellis De Bruler, formerly of Rockport, Ind., drew a fine plum when President Taft appointed him commissioner of immigration at Seattle, at $4,000 a year. Mr. Be Bruler has been a practicing attorney at Seattle since he left Rockport several years ago. Deputy Game and Fish Warden Andrew Vanderford, of Columbia City, caught John Cotterly and William Shiveley netting in Big Lake Thursday and confiscated two 250-foot nets, Both men plead guilty and the fines and'costs amounted to S2B each. A local option election has been ordered by the county commissioners of Union county for August 24th. A petition signed by over 50 per cent of the voters was filed with the auditor last Saturday afternoon and on Monday was presented to the commissioners, who later set the date. The county is now “dry” by remonstrance. A tank containing 1,500 gallons of ■7 ' '-. J boiling blood burst at the side of four employes of the Hammond Packing company at Chicago Friday and all were terribly scalded. One victim. W. Pueha, will die. His flesh literally dropped from his bones after the accident. The other victims are F. Ryska, S. Kudabka and J. Skowden. The famous Howard county, ana, race track, representing an investment of $50,000 and over, which it was hoped to make one of the best known in the United States, has been finally abandoned. The grand stand and barns are being torn down and the track is being permitted to grow up in grass and weeds. Walter Reeves is confined to his home in New Albany suffering from concussion of the brain resulting from a blow on the head received during a meeting of the Ohioah tribe o's Red Men Thursday night. Members of the order denied that an initiation was in progress, and declared that Reeves was Injured in a scuffle. “Physicians were called to the lodgeroom and found Reeves in an unconscious condition. A. Platt Andrew, a former Hoosier, now a resident of Massachusetts, was Thursday nominated by President Taft to be director of the mint. He will succees Frank A. Leach, resigned. Mr. Andrew was born at Laporte, Feb. 12, 1873. He was educated at Lawrenceville School, N. J., from 1886 to 1889, and Princeton university from 1890 to 1893. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard university in 1900 and has studied at Berlin and Paris. The employment bureau of the bureau of statistics of the state is running upon the same snag encountered by every employment bureau —the need of skilled workmen, and the overabundance of unskilled labor. While there are far more calls for positions as unskilled laborers than the office can find positions, the office Thursday was called upon to furnish twelve wood-workers and six sheet iron workers. The majority of these places are still begging for men. The state board of education has recently made some new rulings which will be of interest to teach- 0 ers and prospective teachers of Jasper county. Heretofore the rule has been that all new teachers must be high school graduates and in addition must have a twelve weeks' professional teacher’s training course at one of the accredited schools of the state. The new rule is that a license will not be Issued upless the applicant has been given credits sor every subject pursued during the twelve weeks’ course. In some instances prospective teachers have dabbled a little in some of the unrequired subjects. Hereafter the teacher must make good In every subject undertaken.