Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

In a SIO,OOO fire at Lakeville, ten miles south of South Bend, Philip Ducomb, age eighty, and his wife, lost their general store, their home and everything (they possessed. The volunteer bucket brigade rescued the old people, but could not prevent destruction of their property. It was only after a hard fight that the town was saved. With thousands of blooded horses, cattle, sheep and swine arriving at the stock yards in Chicago on every train,” preparations for the opening of the International Uv# Stock Exposition today practically have been completed. Everything was in readiness when ' President W. E. Skinner threw open the gates. Rabbits are held responsible for the diphtheria epidemic that ha* been prevalent in Pike county the last two weeks. Several deaths have resulted. Hunters say that many of the rabbits killed are infected with diphtheria germs and that the people eating the infected rabbits are subject to the disease. The constitutional amendment providing woman suffrage in Michigan was defeated by 594 votes, according to figures compiled in the secretary of state’s office at Lansing, from every county in Michigan.