Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

George A. Kurtz, of South Bend, who was disbarred from practicing law several years ago for conduct unbecoming an attorney, has asked to be re-instated. The Chamber of Commerce of South Betid will incorporate, with a capitalization of $30,000 of which SI,OOO will be common stock and $29,000 preferred. ’ The building of the Wabash & Northern Indiana Railway is now practically assured, the promoter, J. A. Barry, having arranged for the funds for the construction of the road. Chas Heywood, once-an officetov: for Daniel Webster, and an appointee of President Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson, died in Chicago Tuesday. He was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1833. Governor Marshall has instructed the state militia to be ready, at minute’s notice, for service at Bloomlng-r ton, where trouble is feared from the striking employes of the Bedford stone quarries. F. E. Hering, of South Bend, and Harry B. Darling, of Laporte, will be two of the speakers at the Jackson day banquet of the Michigan democrats to be held in Grand Rapids. Farmers in the vicinity of Hagerstown are losing hogs from a disease diagnosed as brain fever. In first stages of the attack the animal refuses to eat, staggers about, becomes stiff and helpless and soon dies. Dr. H. H. Martin and family, of Laporte, were driving in their automobile when the machine turned over as Dr. Martin wap trying to avoid a team in the road. All five occupants of the auto were hurt.

Postmaster Wm. Miller and Wallace W. _Stauffer, of Nappanee, are candidates for the postofflce at that place. The salary is $2,000 per year with $1,200 clerk hire. ; Postmaster Miller’s term expires December 16th. Commander Robert E. Peary has announced that he will not go on the lecture platform. “If I do any talking at all,” said the north pole explorer, “I will speak before one or two scientific bodies. But I will not make a lecture tour.” The state convention of the Farmers’ Educational ■ and Co-operative Union of Indiana convened at Washington, Thursday, with National President Charles E. Barrett, of Union City, Ga., presiding. One thousand persons are in attendance. Friends of John Haseman, of Linton, a graduate of Indiana university, class of 1901, fear he is lost in Brazil, where he went to do research work for the Carnegie institute in 1907. No word has been received from the young scientist for a long time. Report has it that tests made on the Sunbury, Hazelton & Wilkesbarre division of the Pennsylvania, as to the efficiency of train dispatching by telephone shows that it is impossible to run trains as speedily with the telephone as with the telegraph and therefore the telegraph service will be retained for emergancy use.