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

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Capt. F. H. Sherman, who has been at the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., for* some time, was assigned Tuesday by the Navy Department to take command of the battle ship Indiana. The Indiana is now in reserve. The B. & O. S. W. posted notices at the Washington, Ind., shops Tuesday that the 400 men employed in the engine department would hereafter work ten hours instead of nine. This increase of time will indirectly affect 700 men. Mrs. G. A. Murray, wife of the editor of the Nappanee News, who was severely injured several weeks ago, and whdse recovery at that time was considered very doubtful, is submittifig to a series of skin grafting operations at a hospital in South Bend. The Metropolitan Paving company will go to court to force payment of about $47,000 for four streets in Ft. Wayne which it paved more than a year ago and which were never accepted by the board of public works. An attempt has been made by the president of the company and attorneys for some time to effect a compromise. The first city election in Rochester was held Tuesday. The democrats elected their candidate /for mayor, while the republicans placed the clerk, two councilmen-at-large and two ward councilmen. Omer B. Smith, democrat, was elected over Dr. C. E. Gould, the republican candidate for city executive, by a majority of 109. W\th the wish expressed fifty-six years ago almost fulfilled, that she and her husband might live all their lives in the home they were then construcjrfng and that they should die together, Mrs. Peter Catherine Mutch, aged 91, died Tuesday a£ the home of her daughter, Mrs. Michael Schesky, in husband, Peter Mutch, aged 93, met death in October. S. Claus, Esq., has drawn oq the United States for between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000- in cash, to say nothing of merchandise, to help make people happy in other countries. That is a conservative estimate by bankers of the total amount that has been sent in small drafts atad money orders as Christmas presents from this country to homes beyond the seas. Exactly $42,430,476 will be spent on vessels of the navy now under construction during the fiscal years 1910 to 1913, inclusive, under the estimates submitted to congress by the navy department. Of this amount $30,732,563 will be for hulls and $11,697,913 for machinery. The total amount during the current fiscal year is estimated at $24,520,755; for 1911 it totals $13,375,220; for 1912 and 1913 it aggregates, $4,534,501. You must not call your wife a cow. You can say birdie, dearie, peachy, kittle, dovle or a raft of other names adopted from the fawnlike animals or sweet tasting fruits. But an Indianapolis judge has decided that the term •“cow” applied to a woman by her husband is objectionable and the judge sentenced Morris Gfeeflspann to pay a, fine of $lO and go to the work house for a year for the use of this and other terms to his frau. Men’s liberties are being infringed uj>on by the courts these days.