Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. The first Scottish Rite convocation in the new cathedral at Ft. Wayne closed last wteek with the conferring of the thirty-second degree on 238 candidates. , Earl T. Hall, alleged insurance swindler, was found guilty of embezzlement ih the Wayne circuit court and was sentenced to two to four' : years in the Michigan City prison. He was also known as Schaffer. Notwithstanding his neck is broken, Robert Twineman, an Indianapolis brick mason, who fell from a scaffold on the Masonic Temple that is building at Nashville, Brown countyv Wednesday afternoon, is still alive, but there is no hope for his recovery. Miss Daisy Hoover," said to have been the best professional second baseman among women baseball players in the United States, was buried in the potters’ field at Kansas City Friday. She died in destitute circumstances at the city hospital there last Thursday. A series of football games to determine the ‘Sigh school football championship of Indiana will be arranged among the Logansport, Richmond and Brownsburg teams. None of these teams have been defeated, while- the Logansport team has not been scored on. Serving as her own attorney, Mrs. Maleane Logan, blind and somewhat feeble, examined witnesses and presented argument with skill in Justice of the Peace Holmes’ court in Indianapolis Thursday, and succeeded in obtaining an acquittal on charges of profanity and provoke. , Suits brought against the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, beneficiaries of the .will of Mrs. Lydia Bradley, deceased, affecting the $2,000,000 estate, were dismissed from court at Peoria, 111.,- Friday, through the action of Thomas M. Holmes, a nephew of Mrs. Bradley, who is complainant in the 'case.

Joseph H. C. Denman, an attorney disbarred from practice two weeks ■ago, shot himself to death in.his office at Indianapolis Friday, a few minutes before a deputy sheriff arrived to take possession of the attorney’s office furniture to satisfy a claim, JOenman was disbarred for obtaining $2,- ( COO under false pretenses. William Bennett, alleged pickpocket arrested at the Knox county fair in September, was Thursday evening fined $1 and costs in a jury trial in the .Knox circuit court. Friends of Bennett from Danville, 111., paid the fine. When attested Bennett pcsi sessed a complete list of fairs in Indiana, Illinois and Miphigan and’ a map of President Taft’s recent itinerary. Dr. John R. Mcore, of Greenfield,’ k and James Whitcomb Riley were boys together and their friendship has never waned. When Mr. Riley published his book, “The Old Swimmin’ - Hole and ’Leven Other Pomes,” the poet presented Dr. Moore with a copy of the book? This week Dr. Moore received an offer of SIOO for the volume, ’but it was no temptation to the owner to part with it.

Lecture Course Dates. Dec. 10—Ram s Horn Brown. LecJ ture that none should miss. Jan. 14—Byron King, president of i King’s School of Oratory, Pittsburg, : Pa. "Shakespearean lecture. Feb. 15—The Columbian Concert I Co., which has been ond of the most | popular companies on the road, ami [which lecture course, committee considers themselves very fortunate to have secured.. March 25—George P. Bible, humorous lecturer and entertainer. * Notice. We have again secured the service of Mr. Resh, and are contracting for cucumbers for the season of 1910 at better prices than ever before. Don’t contract till you see us. ILLINOIS PICKLE CO.