Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

An official of the Pennsylvania states that the gross earnings of that line since the first seven days of August were the largest of any week since the banner figures of 1907. Ten thousand persons saw the auto races start at Indianapolis Thursday. Bob Burman, driving a Buick, won the 250-mile race, the big jfevent on the card. Time, 4:3.8:57 4-10.

—Acting on the advice of Supervising Engineer Alford, of Chicago, the Bloomington city council has ordered the poplar trees of that city cut down, as their roots damage sewers.

Frank Knopp, a farmer*-living near Alexandria, was badly injured when kicked by a horse Saturday, fracturing his jaw and injuring his ear drums. 5

Chas. Taft, cousin of the president, and a prominent merchant of Prier, Colo., was killed by lightning Thursday. A terrible cloudburst occurred. The country was inundated. The crops and property loss is heavy.

Mr. and Sirs. Otis Giery, of Cedar Lake, were killed Friday at Reading, Mich., when a Lake Shore train struck their buggy. The 3-year-old daughter was carried 100 yards on the pilot and escaped hardly being scratched. The body of Henry Waterson, of Mitchell, was found south of Bedford beside the Monon tracks Friday morning. He was going from Bloomington to his home by freight train and is supposed to have fallen to the track.

The Burlington road, during the last ficsal year, carried approximately 20,000,000 passengers without killing one. This remarkable record was equaled, so far as known through any official announcement, by but one other road, the Pennsylvania. The ground has been staked off for the new federal building in Michigan City and workmen and teams have began the grading of the grounds. It is expected that from now on the work on the building will be pushed by the contractor.

The standard of the Grand Army of the Republic, reported missing Wednesday, was found next day stored in the Commercial building at Salt Lake City, in which the executive committee of the recent encampment had its

headquarters. Elmer E. Small, a farmer of Duff, Dubois county, has filed suit in the Vanderburg courts for SIO,OOO damages, alleging that the Rev. Louis Fleener, a minister, formerly of his locality, but now living at Evansville, alienated his wife’s affections.

Freight and passenger officials state that business has increased with a majority of Indiana roads in the last sixty days fully 50 per cent, and the outlook is for still further improvement in both passenger and freight lines.

In a “blind tiger” raid by the Good Citizens’ League at Kendallville, City* Marshal O. F. Rimmel was found among others seated at drinking tables. The discovery caused a sensa<e> tion and will likely result in charges being filed against the officer. Miss Cecelia Sweeney, 52 years old, victim of the little known disease pellagra, under treatment at the Mercy hospital in Baltimore, is dead. The history of the case will be studied at the victim’s home, on the eastern shore of Maryland, and a report made to the United States government.

Miss Golda Kreider, of Wabash, who attracted notice because of her strange sleep recently, was Thursday night crowned queen of the Modern Woodmen carnival in that city in the presence of 3,000 people. She received more votes than all other candidates combined.

Chief A. M. Jackson, of the Kokomo police force is accused by automobile owners of having advised farmers to place fence rails and other obstructions across country highways to stop speeding. An Apperson machine recently was wrecked in this manner. The charges against the chief are being investigated.

After living within a short distance of each other for twenty-two years, neither knowing the whereabouts of the other, Edward Smith, of Louisville, and Mrs. Henry Tanner, of Jeffersonville, brother and sister, have been united. Smith and tyis sister became separated after the death of their parents In Utica.

James McGuire has been appointed manager of the Cleveland American League base ball team, to succeed Napoleon Lajoie, who recently resigned. McGuire was formerly manager of the Boston Americans. For the past year he has been doing scout duty for the Cleveland team. McGuire takes charge of the team in the laßt game of the present series witb Philadelphia. >

Amos Butler, secretary of the board of state charities of Indiana, has been elected president of the National Prison association in session at Seattle, Wash. ..

John Dumbrowski, age 62, a South Bend policeman, died while on his beat from loss of blood, following the bursting of a blood vessel in his left leg. , -

The secretary of the interior has' designated 631,680 acres in the vicinity of Portales, Talbon Yeso Creek and in the Estancia Valley, New Mexico, together with 60,320 acres in other parts of the territory as coming within the enlarged homestead act. This makes ai total of $15,523,520 acres so designated in New Mexico.

Roland Clary, aged 26, failed to appeal a,t Wabash for his wedding with Miss Ida Kirtlan. The guests and the pastor had assembled, and all was ready for the wedding. The bride, after waiting three hours, dismissed her guests. She is prostrated. Clay’s whereabouts are unknown. His relatives give no reason for his disappearance.

By an overwhelming vote the Alabama house Thursday passed the anticlub bill, by the provisions of which even the most sanguine anti-prohibi-tion leaders believe clubs will be forced to cut out every sort of liquor on sale or distribution. Every application for charter must bear the promise not to allow liquors sold or distributed or stored.

A G. A. R. post of South Bend.has inaugurated a plan to provide invalid chairs for old soldiers unable to walk. The first chair is to be purchased for ’Daniel Seifert, who has been bedridden for five years. It is the plan of the veterans to take him on trips to various parts of the city in the wheeled chair and to see that their unfortunate comrade enjoys plenty of outdoor air.

John W. Kern, Jr., son of the democratic vice presidential candidate in the campaign of last fall, is seriously ill at Petoskey, Mich. Mr. Kern and his family are spending the summer there, and the boy became ill while enjoying the summer vacation with his parents. During the campaign the same child was taken ill and Mr.

Kern w r as forced to abandon one of his speech-making trips in the east. Pending the arrival of financial assistance from relatives, J- Fleming, age thirty-eight, who married Miss Wilkinson, of Laporte, is being held by the Pittsburg police. According to word received in Laporte, Mrs. Fleming is being detained as a witness against her husband and a man named Barnett, who are charged with crooked dealing in operating a picture scheme.

M. C. Crowell, formerly vice president of Franklin college at Franklin, Ind., was elected president pro tern by the board of trustees of the college Saturday to succeed E. B. Bryan, president, who resigned last week to become president of Colgate university at Hamilton, N. Y. Mr. Bryan’s resignation was formally accepted and the business of preparing for the approaching school year turned over to Mr. Crowell.

Mark Thistlethwaite, secretary to Governor Marshall, has received notice that the figurehead of the warship Indiana, which has been loaned to the state for an indefinite period by the United States war department, has been shipped and probably will arrive in Indianapolis this week. The figurehead was obtained for tl£e state by Congressman Korby. It is planned to place |t in the corridor in the state house.

In broad daylight and in plain view of a number of spectators, John Wade, a negro, pushed John Nelson, of Muncie, against a tree on the grounds of the Delaware county fair association, Friday, and deliberately relieved him of all the money he had—a $5 bill. Nelson, who is infirm with age, made an unsuccessful effort to beat’ off his assailant, but was powerless in the grasp of the negro. Wade attempted to escape, but was captured.

When a fellow-passenger on a train shook Harry Chandler, a young man of Oakland City, Friday night and asked him if he had not gone past his destination, Chandler arose from his seat and while still asleep walked off the train. Although the speed of the train was nearly a mile a minute, Chandler escaped with a broken arm and fingers. The train was stopped and while a search was being made for his body, Chandler awoke and walked away.