Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A large elevator in the plant of the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co., loaded with factory workmen, fell four stories to the basement, because of a broken cable. Several workmen were trampled badly when the others sprang out of the elevator to safety. H. O. Wyant, of St. Louis, is dead as the result of being struck by an interurban car while riding in his automobile Thursday. He was on his way to Pendleton, Ind., to engage in the automobile business. He died in a physician’s’ office in Greencastle, near which' city the accident occurred. Charles B. Kopp has been granted a license to sell intoxicating liquors in Corydon. Corydon has not had a. saloon for more than twelve years. The last remonstrance was not upheld. An appeal will be taken to the circuit court and in the meantime an election will be called in the township. If the drought in Rushville continues for two weeks, the superintendent of the city water and light plant says that city will be without water. Wednesday the water in the reservoir was far below the fire limit and was several feet lower than it has ever been. An order will be issued that city water be used only for domestic purposes. Ad the result of black damp in the Caledonia mine, located near Sullivan, nine miners were overcome Thursday. Daniel Spencer and Richard Chambers are in a serious condtion. Three men were overcome Wednesday, but the miners say that when they went to work Thursday morning they were assured that the damp was all out of the mine. The new city directory of Chicago, which will be issued August 21, will show more than two million five hundred thousand persons make that city their home. This is an estimate in advance of the actual counting of the names in the big book. It has proved close to the facts in previous years. Because Mrs. Toney George, of Brazil, refused to elope with him, Selin Albert Thursday dragged her from her home, after putting the family out of the house, and shot her twice, one bullet passing through the abdomen and a second through the right hand. He then turned the weapon on himself, sending a bullet through his neck. Both are expected to die. . When a branch he cut from a tree pressed an electric wire down on his headr* Albert Easely, lineman for the Evansville Electric Light company, was alost instantly killed Thursday. Easely, with other workmen, was cutting branches which interfered with wires. He fell about forty feet, John Cobb, a fellow-workman standing below, caught him in his arms. Lettie A. Slagle has applied for a divorce from her husband, William H. Slagle, agent for the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction company at Clymers, on the ground that his prevarications have often placed her in embarrassing positions. She, also charges that he often remains away from home for days and nights and refuses to tell where he has been, on his return.