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imals have been dying by the score. and the complaint is said to be spreading. WEATHER MAN ARRIVES. Verne H. Church. the recently ap. pointed director of the Indianapolis Weather bureau. left Salt Lake City Monday night. He expected to stop at Denver and Chicago on the way east to look over the bureaus there and renew old acquaintances. He expects to reach Indianapolis Friday night. JUDGE PAULUS DECIDES. Over the protests of three of the depositors, Judge Paulus of the Grant circuit court at Marion yesterday afternoon appointed Harry T. Connelly as the receiver for the Grant County Bank at Upland, which closed its doors a week ago. WINDOW GLASS ADVANCES. An immediate advance in the price of all grades and sizes of window glass was decided upon yesterday at a meeting of representatives of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other states. The discounts were fixed at 90 and 30 per cent from the list on single strength glass and 90 and 35 per cent on double strength. BIG ODD FELLOW DIES. Jackson G. Stober, of Wabash, 65 years old, who attained the rank of brigadier general, Patriarchs Militant, of the Odd Fellows, and held every state office in that order except one, died yesterday of heart disease. He was a civil war veteran, enlisting as a drummer boy. He was prominent in local democratic circles. INDIANA BOAT IN. S. D. McLeish, representing the New York Central lines at Evansville has taken the initiative toward getting a special boat to represent Evansville in the parade escorting President Taft down the Missisippi from St. Louis to New Orleans. It is expected that from seventy-five to one hundred persons from here will join the trip. AUTO WRECKS HOUSE. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Miller of Indianapolis had a thrilling ride down one of the steepest hills in Indiana at Logansport yesterday afternoon following the failure of the brake on t their automobile to operate. The car rushed down a hill 100 feet high, tore down forty feet of fence, outer wal S of a house, and stopped only when it had plunged half way into a kitchen where Mrs. Charles McCune was wash ing clothes. Mr. and Mrs. Miller and d Mrs. McCune were not injured, but the rear of the house and the automobile were wrecked. TO SUE TRUSTEE. Because of the advice of State Sup erintendent of Public Instruction Aley they have been refused transfers fo their children from the township non commissioned to the city aceredited high school, seven Patoka township patrons yesterday filed suit against the township and Trustee Brazelton, a Princeton, claiming right to transfe under the new law. ATTORNEY GOES BROKE. George W. Beeman, an attorney a filed in volun