Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Vincennes university, the oldest college in the northwest territory caught fire Thursday at noon from a defective furnace flue, and was damaged fully $3,000. With the temperature a few degrees above zero "in the shade," Bid Duffy, gray haired and fifty, dived into a canal at Indianapolis and curving in and out to dodge blocks of ice, won a $lO wager by swimming across the stream. Supposed robbers who plundered the Delta Tau house at DePauw university, Greencastle, Monday night, returned the stolen goods Wednesday morning. It is thought that some one with an enlarged bump of humor played a practical joke. Governor Marshall has Received word that the business men of Gary had made up a purse of $75,000 to offer for the Jeffries-Johnson fight, and that a committee would come to ask him to consent. The governor refused to make a statement, but he will not grant the request. Major D. F. Allen, of Frankfort, former prison director, who was stricken with paralysis a few nights ago and was not found in his office for twenty-four hours thereafter, is holding* his own and the attending physicians express the hope that he may pull through. Major Allen is conscious part of the time now. The Indiana railroad commission has issued a circular to all of the telephone and telegraph companies In the state, telling them of the conditions of the wires where they cross the railroad or traction lines. The wires in many places are too low or are sagging, and they endanger the lives of the trainmen. Representative Barnhart of Indiana has forwarded to the Rochester; Ind., chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution a gavel made of wood grown on the estate of George Washington at ML Vernon. Mr. Barnhart is convinced the gavel is genuine, as he insisted on seeing the stump of the tree from which it was manufactured. Owner Bert Annis of. the South Bend Central League baseball club, announced Thursday that he had sold his franchise to South Bend capitalists, but refused to divulge their names. Annis says he received $6,000 for the franchise. Eddie Wheeler, of the Western League, or Joe Raldy, last year’s manager of the Grand Rapids team, It Is said, will manage the team. ...