Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Charles McClure, aged 20, of Akron, was killed Sunday night by a Winona traction car near Gilead. ■ John D. Allison, 62 years old, Panhandle dispatcher at Trimmer, was found, dead with his hand on the operating key. Other operators had been unable to raise “CW." James Frederick, aged 42 years, was instantly killed by lightning Tuesday morning near Middlebury. His hat was torn to pieces and his body bajlly burned. Dorothy May Huddleston, 2 years old, choked to deat£ at Kokomo Jgues-. day upon a peanut. Every effort was made to save the child’s life, but without success. Although barred from the city limits of Chicago, the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures will be shown at Forest Park, a suburb of that city. License to show the pictures was issued Tuesday. David O. Hinkley, a pioneer farmer living near Kendallville, died Tuesday of bee stings received when he unearthed a nest of bumblebees while plowing. He Was found lying in a furrow with his head and neck covered with bee stings. Manager Fred Clarke, of the world’s champions, established a new record Tuesday afternoon in having four assists from the outfield. The record of three assists has been made several times, but never four, by one man from the outfield in a single game. Fire of uncertain origin early Sunday morning wrecked the J. B. Ridgely building in North Manchester and destroyed the stock of groceries owned by E. L. Mort. For a time adjoining business houses were threatened. The loss is $5,000, partially covered by insurance. The annual 10-days’ camp meeting of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, at Goshen is ended. Attendance throughout the meeting was large, hundreds going from a distance to hear the services. Several hundred people lived in tents in the grove during the camp meeting. Given a dose of medieine containing a-nopiate prepared for his mother, Frank Byrum, 11 days old, son of C. P. Byrum, of Kokomo, died Monday afternoon. The medicine was known to have an opiate in it, and'was intended to put the child to sleep, but the drug proved too powerful/ - The total gross earnings of all railroads, of the ’United States reporting for the first week in August was $8,354,059, a gain of 3.5 per cent as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the corresponding period of last year. Earnings in all parts of the counti-y continue good. The per cent of gain for the first week of August, however, is not as large as in earlier months of the year.