Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

104 veniremen were brought into court in Chicago yesterday in the Browne bribery case. It was found that fifty veniremen had been approached. Clarence Holgarth, a young farmer of near Cross Plains, Ind., is said to be missing. He left home Monday morning and has not been seen .since. He has a wife and two small children. Fire broke out in the heart of the wholesale district in Evansville at 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning. The loss was from $60,000 to SIOO,OOO, with the Evansville Grocery company the heaviest sufferer. Mrs. Lee Hardy, living one mile east of Nsw Harmony, Ind., visited that town a few days ago for the first time in thirty years. “I’ve been too busy,” was the only explanation Mrs. Hardy gave for not visiting the town oftener. With his face buried in cinders, Valentine Lapp, 42 years old, was found lying dead on the Herman Trier farm near Fort Wayne yesterday. He had suffered an attack of epilepsy and fell forward. He is believed to have suffocated in the cinders. Chester Goerlitz, fifteen years old, fell into a wheat bih at the Elkhorn mill Wednesday, and before the machinery could be stopped 1,500 bushels of wheat fell on him. Mill hands worked heroically to save him, but he was smothered when found. Information from a trustworthy source in Terre Haute is to the effect that Robinson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, has bought the Tferre Haute Central League club to use it for farming purposes. The price is said to be $15,000. In line with the policy of beautifying South Bend, the Board of Public Works has opened two more parks for the use of the people. That city is said to have more park acreage than any other city of equal size in the middle west. Cl 7L. Frasier, who suddenly left Warsaw several days ago, taking with him suits of clothes belonging to four Warsaw young men, has been arested at Louisville, Ky. He is charged with larceny, obtaining money under false pretenses and bigamy. Capt. Jack Caswell, a Louisville, Ky., aeronaut, was probably fatally injured while making an ascension at the fair grounds in Mount Vernon yesterday. The balloon burst while he was about 200 feet in the air and Cassell fell. His legs were broken and he reeieved internal Injuries. While forcing a cartridge into the chamber of a revolver by striking it with a pocket knife, Thomas Rhoads, 18 years old, son of W. S. Rhoads, a brick and tile manufacturer of Washington, Ind., lost his left eye by the explosion of the cap. The ball was removed by a specialist. The -St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers are lower now than they have been for five years, the unusual scarcity of rain having made the streams little more than good-sized creeks. At many places along the St. Joseph river it is possible for boys to wade a greater part of the distance across the stream. Milwaukee has moved up into the class of “large cities,” as the government' designates muncipalities having more than 300,000 population. The census bureau announced yesterday that Milwaukee has 373,857 inhabitants, compared with 285,315 in 1900, an increase of 31 per cent. Philip Rock, the merchant and banker, who was shot from ambush Monday noon while driving to his home at Oolitic, the quarry district, by an unknown assassin, died at the Bedford hospital last night from his wounds. No attempt to rob him was made by his assailant, although Rock had $2,500 with him. Revenge Is believed to have prompted, the deed. Rock had considerable trouble with Italians at Oolitic and three years ago shot and killed one of them. Since then he has received several Black Hand notices.