Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

The population of Dayton, Ohio, is 110,577, an increase of 31,244, or 36.6 per cent, as compared with 85,333, in 1909. The Hammond city council has authorized ap SBO,OOO bond issue for the purchase of a park and a new pumping plant. The Dekalb county council Thursday voted $250,000 for a new court house. The present structure was erected in 1804. Sylvester Young, of Kokomo, in a complaint for divorce, alleges his wife bit him. He lists several other instances of alleged savagery. Russell Huff, 16, was fatally injured when caught by a falling tree. His skull is fractured. Huff went Into the woods near his home at Nappanee to cut timber. Three men escaped from the Spencer county Jail at Rockport, Ind., Wednesday night by sawing through the bars. Bloodhounds have been placed on their trpil. The state auditor Monday revoked the licenses of F. H. Matthews and W. E. Schaffer, agents of the Prudential Insurance company, of South Bend, on charges of rebating contrary to law. Frederick A. Cook’s story of his ascent of Mount McKinley is branded as false by W. H. Grass!, the New York explorer, who says that the point reached by Cook is 20 miles from the summit. Mrs. William Rentzel, of Peru, rupr tured a blood vessel while walking on the street with friends, Sunday evening and fell to the ground, dying In an ambulance while being taken to her home. ’ ",

According to a, report submitted to the board of directors of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company, the strike of the conductors and motormen in the early part of the present year cost the company $2,300,000. William Streiss, of San Francisco, Monday banded a letter to Mayor Gaynor, of New York, from Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco. Streiss brought the letter all the way on a motorcycle, making the trip in twentyeight days. A „ semi-official communlcatidn issued by an Italian agency Monday declares that the reports printed In Italy and abroad of the approaching marriage of the duke of the Abruzzl and Miss Katherine Elkins are absolutely baseless. Oregon lands aggregating 1,873,280 acres were thrown open to settlement Monday under the provisions of the enlarged homestead laws. 'This brings the total of lands In Oregon, which have been restored to date, up to 11,040,240 acres. Isaac Leamaster, of Columbus, Ind., upon the death of Richard Leamaster, his father, came into possession of a handkerchief eighty years upon one side of which is printed the Lord’s prayer, still readily decipherable in spite of age. Frank Harding, a young farmer near Anderson is minus his right arm. The traction engine be was driving stopped on dead center and Harding, to start it up, put his shoulder to the wheel. It started with a rush and the sleeve, catching on a projection on the wheel, jerked the arm off. John W. Haggard, one of the best known sale criers and auctioneers in the st£te, is dead at Frankfort, Ind. He was born in Ohio, but had lived in Frankfort nearly all his life, serving as shrift of the county four years. For nearly forty years he was a sale crier and auctioneer, and daring that time cried approximately 4,000 sates, the estimated amount of the sales being 85,500,000.