Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1909 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. v - Don’t hold your head so high that you can’t see where your feet are going. * - ... _ J_ .. ‘ : • ■ '<*' New York’s millions will have to pay record prices for their milk. Saturday it was announced that the price of milk would be raised from 8 cents to 9 cents a quart. While playing football at Linton, Herbert Forbes, age 18, fell and run the stub of a weed through the drum of his ear. He was given treatment at once, but physicians fear he will lose his hearing. Vital statistics for the first six months of the present year show an excess of deaths over births in France of 28,205. In 1908 the excess of deaths was 10,508. This growing discrepancy has raised again a cry of alarm for the future of the French race. The body of Frederick Haag, a butcher, was found lying on the floor of his store in Bluffton Sunday morning, with five bullet holes in it. Haag had been killed instantly. The police are working onHhe theory that Haag was robbed and murdered. The S. F. Bowser company and the Perfection Biscuit company, of Fort Wayne, have given orders to their employes to be vacinated. The board of health declares that danger of a further spread of the smallpox epidemic is now about passed. Horace Hedges, pf Newcastle, has been selected to fill the chafr of mathematics in the city schools at Alexandria, caused by the resignation of F. G. Stoler, who has been chosen as principal of the city schools. He is a graduate ofEarlham college. « Milton Rhyan, of Clinton, Ind., has a six-footed pig, now four months old and weighing 75 pounds. It goes about on five feet, having one extra on each fore leg, but one leg is an inch too short to allow the foot to reaclrthe ground.

Mrs. W. A. Lipkey, age 50, wife of Sheriff Lipkey, of Wells comity, died of pneumonia Friday morning at Bluffton. She was one of the best known women in Wells county. She was the mother of Clifford Lipkey, city editor of the Journal-Gazette at Ft. Wayne. --j”-*?— Andrew Carnegie’s offer of 450 acres of mountain land at Cresson, on the top of the Alleghenies, for a state sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, has been accepted by the state of Pennsylvania. Plans will be prepared at once for the erection of buildings. Dr. R. L. C. White, one of the most widely known men in the south, and for the last twenty-two years supreme keeper of records' and seal of the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias, died Saturday at his home in Nashville, Tenn., age 65. He was a native of Lebanon, Tenn. ; John Rennells and Orville Webb, two Anderson young men, were locked up for impersonating officers. They found a drunken man on the street and, pretending to be officers, called a patrol wagon and took the fellow to the lockup, where they were detained with him. James H. Beard, of Jeffersonville, has received information that a daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Banks in Panama, Mrs. Banks being a daughter of Mr. Beard. The letter to Mr. Beard stated that his granddaughter is the first child to be born to American parents on the isthmus. * Dollie Collins, who is twenty years old, and lives at 3100 West Erie street, Chicago, has brought Suit against Northwestern university for SIO,OOO damages which she believes is due her because of the destruction of her beauty by a dental student of the university, who spilled acid on her face while attempting td repair a tooth.

Miss Nancy P. Elllcott, of Baltimore, has been selected as superintendent of the new Rockefeller hospital, now under construction in New York City in connection with the Rockefeller institute for medical research. Miss Elllcott is one of the best known trained nurses in the country and has been connected with the Johns Hopkins university. Chas. E. Morris, after fleecing thir-ty-five of Kokomo’s citizens, it is said, several of them prominent and knowing business men, has left for parts unknown. Morriß had a plan of selling contracts for land in Wyoming, in 160-acre tracts, along the line of the Union Pacific, which he Bold at -$1 an acre, and it is said he took a cash advance in each case of $lO. The first Pennsylvania type of electric locomotive has been finished and was given its first test on the Long Island road last week. The engine weighs 320,000 poundß, and is capable of developing 4,000 horse power, about three times as much as the giant freight locomotives, .and can pull a heavy freight train at a speed of sixty to seventy miles an hour.

John Weaver, 22 years old, struck his father, Samuel Weaver, with a piece of pump stock at their farm home, near the southwest cotner of Oreene county, crushing hie skull, and death resulted soon after. According to the son’s story, he attempted to interfere when his father was beating the mule team which they were driving. The father then struck at the son, who snatched up the pipe and •truck his father bn ths head.