Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

G. A. Buchanan, superintendent of the South Shore railroad since April, 1907, has resigned, to take effect January 1. , Northern Indiana ice packers have began the harvesting of ten-inch ice from the fresh water lakes, furnishin employment in the several coun’fffies to a thousand men. Representative HenrJ'-A. Barnhart has filed with the house committee on Spanish-American war claims a bill for a pension of $l5O a month for the support of John R. Kissinger, of South Bend, who sacrificed himself in the cause of medical science during the army experiments with the yellow fever germ. Kissinger is a cripple and is unable to support his family. In striking similarity to the passing away of eleven brothers and sisters before her, Mrs. Olive E. Bullard, 85 years old, was found dead Monday in bed at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Woodworth, of Ft. Wayne. She was the eldest of thirteen children, only one of whom is now living. To every one of the twelve death came very suddenly, almost without warning. Lizzie Sanders, age sixteen, who for two years, since their parents died, has been a mother to four little brothers, is dead at Hammond. She had been ill for some time with tuberculosis, but Insisted on working at a fac'tory up to the last, so that she could buy them Christmas presents. The girl had refused to let the boys go to an orphans’ home, and her life was a sacrifice to their care and comfort. A legal battle of many interests for the possession of the >million-dollar estate of George Rh&dius, who died at Indianapolis Monday, began Tuesday when William Lehnert, a cousin of Rhodius, obtained in the Marion court an order restraining one of the dead man’s attorneys from filing for probate an alleged "pretended” will. The result is that the real boys—the boys which are a real problemrebel at the stuff that is set before them in the public schools, and at the first chance stop going to school. The girls and the girl-boys keep on more or less, and this explains the charge made by the English Mosely commis'sion several years ago, that American schools are effeminate.