Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

has been chosen as the next meeting plaice for the Indiana Municipal league. The population of the District of Columbia is 331,069, according to the .returns of the 13th decennial census. The house committee on labor Friday decided to report favorably a bill creating a department of labor with a seat in the president’s cabinet. Mrs. Emma Allison, of Sandcreek township, claims the championship of Bartholomew county for profitable strawberry growing. She netted S2OO from one acre of berries this year. A baggage car on the Southern Michigan interurban Thursday killed Jeanette daughter of Eugene H. Miller, secretary of the American Trust company bank, in front of the family home in South Bend. % Indictments have been returned against John J. Schleicter, of Clark county, charged with making and passing counterfeit 5-cent pieces, and Richard Walker, of Elkhart, charged with manufacturing and selling oleomargarine without paying the internal revenue tax. The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend is said to be figuring on making an extension from Bend to Elkhart, Kalamazoo and Toledo. The company will take up the Bucklen lines now in operation east of Elkhart and also the old Elkhart & Western, which connects Elkhart with Mishawaka. One of the largest automobile factories in Indiana has been established in South Bend by the merger of the Clover Leaf Machine company and the Yuester Axle and Transmission company. The merger takes the name of the Glover Leaf and Axle company. The new plant will cover 22,000 square feet of floor space. Plans have been completed for a new elaborate suburban passenger station to be built by the Nickle Plate railroad at a cost pf $200,000 at the Euclid avenue crossing in Lake View. The station will be two stories in height, and have a frontage on Euclid avenue of 135 feet. The second floor will be on the track level. Broad steps will lead to thd second floor. Over $15,000,000 annually is poured into the coffers of those who exploit and advertise fake consumption cures, according to a statement issued by the Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The report stated that for this vast sum, the victims not only receive nothing in return, but often are injured permanently and deprived of the chance for a real cure.