Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Pittsburg casting company has turned out the world’s largest cast steel wheels, being 13 feet 3 inches in diameter and weighing 8,700 pounds. When they were loaded on a flat car of the Panhandle road officers refused to send it through the Sheridan tunnel, consequently it will be shipped by river. Elephantasis was a contributory cause of the death of Mrs. Theresa Habets, wife of a restaurant keeper, who died in a New York hospital. She weighed 500 pounds and it was necessary to construct a special casket for her body. Until three years ago the woman was of ordinary size. She was 38 years old. The examination of a dog’s head at the pathological laboratory of the state board of health Thursday showed the animal to have had a well-de-veloped case of rabies. The head was sent by Dr. F. A. Sigler, of Greencastle. It is reported to have bitten a little girl. George Newton, 80 years old, of Laporte, has been reunited with his brother, James Newton, of Ottawa, Canada, and with his sister, Miss Rebekah Newton, of Utica, N. Y., for whom he had searched for forty years. He will spend the remainder of his life with his brother, who Is wealthy. The body of Frank Gleason, a tinplate worker, was found beside the Lake Erie track south of Atlanta, five miles south of Tipton. While walking to his home at Arcadia he had been run down and killed. —°— [ Fleta Dillon, a 2-year-old Ally and daughter of Sidney Dillon, equaled a world’s record jrhen she, paced a mile in 2:10& at the Indiana state fair grounds. This record was established eleven years ago by Ecstacy the 2-year-old pacing division of thi Kentucky Futurity. The dedication of the Scottish Rite cathedral in Ft. Wayne will be held November 16, 17 and 18. The work on the cathedral is being rushed and day. The supreme council will attend the dedication. The present indications are that the class to takd the degrees from fourth up will exceed four hundred.