Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Leo Shinn, 15, was fatally injured Friday at Peru, when he fell to the pavement from a store window. The postoffice at Radley, Grant county, has been ordered discontinued and the former patrons of the Radley office will get their mail hereafter by rural carrier from Jonesboro. Forty horses, including a valuable trotting stallion, more * than 100 wagons, twelve automobiles and a large quantity of hay and grain were destroyed in a fire which swept the Hub stables at Nineteenth and Dearborn streets, Chicago, about 9 o’clock Friday night. As the result of the death of Melvin McMillan, of Elkhart, chief witness for the government in the prosecution of Charles A. Davey, a prominent South Bend lawyer, on a criminal charge, it is probable that the case against the lawyer In the federal court at Indianapolis will be dismissed. Winchester’s oil and gas field has experienced a sudden jump in production, following the drilling of a large gas well on the Jaqua farm east of that city. The well is the largest since the famous Wysong well was drilled Into gas bearing sand near Saratoga, The Monarch Gas company owns the new well. *" A new counterfeit |lO bill on the American Exchange National bank of New York has been found circulating in the middle west. It is a photographic reproduction of a genuine bill, and bears evidences of having been made by the same counterfeiters who recently circuited a bad $lO United States note. The St. Joseph annual conference of the United Brethren in Christ’s church will be held in Kokomo Sept. 13-18. Bishop G. M. Matthews, of Chicago, will preside. From 225 to 250 ministers and lay delegates will attend the sessions. The St. Joseph conference includes all of the churches of the denomination in northern Indiana. For the first time in United States naval maneuvers the wireless telephone was used successfully in communicating from land to ships at sea in a mimic battle at San Francisco Thursday night between the California militia and the attacking regulars. Messages were exchanged between Major A W. Chase and Captain A. T. Schenck, of the coast artillery, while the latter was in command of the government tug Captain Gregory Barrett, fourteen miles out at sea.