Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Following the firemen’s carnival of last week, during which various games were run, the police have placed a ban on all slot machines and other games of chance at Kingstown. Thomas Skene, aged 48, a wellknown miner of Perth, was ground to pieces under a fast freight train on the Big Four near Lodi while returning from Coal Bluff Monday. An average of one case of typhoid fever for every day in July and four deaths is shown by the report of City Health Commissioner McNamara filed with Mayor Fogarty, of South Bend. The Rush County Teachers’ Institute began a five days’ session in the court house at Rushville Monday. Dr. A. J. Kinneman, of Bowling Green, Ky., and Miss Rosa Mikles, of Newcastle, have been obtained as instructors. * Mrs. Nelson Woods, of Clayton, has received word of the death of her father, W. H. Ragan, expert In pomological nomenclature in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Prof. Ragan was a native of Fllmore, Ind. He was a cousin and neighbor of the late John Clark Ridpath, the historian. For eighteen years he was secretary of the State Horticultural society. Three hundred men have been imported to Gary from the sunny south by the Indiana Steel company, for the purpose of starting the new billet mill which is ready for operation. The men are all colored, and it was found necessary to bring them there because there are few others who are able to stand the intense heat that emanates from this mill while it is in operation. The starting of the billet mill is one ot the most important of the recent events at the steel mills, parking the completion and the operation of one of the important branches of the industry.