Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1910 — United States, Population is 92,520,394 According to Census. [ARTICLE]

United States, Population is 92,520,394 According to Census.

Exclusive of the Philippines, Guam, Samoa, and a few other outlying possessions, the population of the United States as established by the 1910 census is 92,520,394, Ten years ago the census was 76,303,394. Jem Mace, the oldest living pugilist and at one time the world’s champion, died in London Wednesday in abject poverty, aged 79 years. Mace came into possession of the championship title in 1861 by beating Sam Hurst of England. In 1870, he defeated Tom Allen in America for the championship of the world. Elbert Merida, who lived his ninety years without having his face shaved or his half cut, is dead at his home .near Nashville, Ind., of typhoid fever. In his little log house are a number of rattlesnake' skids, to the wearing of which, as belts, he attributed his long life. George W. Miles, state fish and game commissioner, favors a change in the present law regulating the number of bass two men may catch in one day. The present law >ermits them to catch thirty-six fish, Mr. Miles would have the number reduced to eighteen or - twenty. The apprehensions of p t relatives of Marion Wade, 15 y if age, that he had sought the fa w. . have been quieted by the information that tty boy is visiting in South Bend. Calling cards at the Republican.