Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

During the year 1909 there were 3,739,000 telegraph and telephone poles used in this country, according to a report of the census bureau which was published Wednesday. Sixty per cent of the poles were cedar and 16 per cent chestnut. Miss Mary Gardener Thompson, daughter of the late Col. Richard W. Thompson, former secretary of the navy, and a child friend of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, is dead at the home of her sister in Terre Haute. She was 73 years old. Convicted on the charge of operating a blind tiger, Frank W. Wickwire, an old and well-to-do citizen, is in jail to serve a sentence of 30 days. Wickwire was secretary of the Elkhart social club, whose members bought beer for their own use. Pontiac Chothilde De Koi. 11, a Hol-stein-Friesian cow, owned by Stevens Bros., of Liverpool, N. Y., has broken the world’s seven-day butter record, producing 37.38 pounds. Since 1908 the record has been 35.55, held by Grace Fayne, 11, Homestead. William Cummins, of Dunkirk, was to have been married next Sunday to a Miss Carroll, but instead a funeral service will be held for him. He was instantly killed Thursday when he fell from an electric light wire pole upon which 'he, as a lineman, was working.