Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

While swimming in Silver lake, south of Warsaw, Ira Crowl, aged 34, was drowned Thursday evening. A daughter was born Thursday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr„ who have lived in San Pranciseo ever since their marriage. Mr. Roosevelt is engaged in business there. Mayor Charles L. Goetz, of South Bend, is confined to his home with injuries received in a severe fall on the street. He tripped over some object and in falling sprained his right ankle and instep. There is a pressing need for harvesters in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Farmers from all over western Canada are complaining of a shortage of labor in handling the bumper crop which is now ready for cutting. It is estimated that 30,000 men can be used. * i, C. P. Huff, a veteran of the civil war, drew his pension and went to an Elwood hotel to rest. He awoke with a stifling sensation and saw a man run from the room. Looking under his pillow, where he had placed 3125, he found nothing. The police could find no trace of the thief. Mrs. Floyd Bennett and four children were found by a humane officer at South Bend with nothing to eat except apples taken from a neighbor’s orchard and coffee without sugar or milk. Notice to vacate the cottage in which they lived had been served on them by the owner. Bennett was arrested on a charge of intoxication. Mrs. Emmeline Walton, one of the surviving real daughters of the American revolution, died Thursday at Hastings, Mich. She was the youngest daughter by a third marriage of Peter Edmonds, of the Sixth battalion of Northampton militia of Pennsylvania, who served under Washington. She was born in Plain, Wayne county, in 1853. Her father died in 1854.

Mrs. Albert Sprague, of Columbus, this state, who lost her voice on the night her husband was murdered, July 17, 1910, is still unable to talk. When Mrs. Sprague found the body of her husband beside her she screamed for some time and injured her vocal chords. Since the night of the murder she has been unable to speak louder than a whisger. Now it is with difficulty that she whispers.