Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Charles Anson, of Huntington county claims to have found a potato through which had grown a good sized corn stalk root. •*" Frank Richardson, age eighteen, of Detroit, was struck by a passenger train and instantly killed in the Gibson yards. The young man, who was a victim of the wanderlust, had run away from home fifteen times. George Beavers, 14 years old, a son of Samuel Beavers, a farmer residing near Bedford, met a horrible death by falling under the wheels of a thrashing machine on which he was riding. His head was crushed. —o— United States Commissioner Bigelow has denied the prayer of Freeman Knowles, of Rapid City, S. D., socialist editor and former representative, that he be permitted to pay his fine of SSOO, for which he was committed to jail. An application has been made to the Cuban government by Jacinto AHa7 an Argentine engineer, for permission to raise the battleship Maine, which lies in Havana harbor. His proposition is under consideration by the department of state. Mrs. Susan Rowe has filed suit in the Lawrence circuit court against the city of Bedford for $15,000 damages. It is alleged in her complaint that she sustained permanent injuries last March by falling into a ditch left open and unprotected. Parents of Myrtle Wright, a 14-year-old Huntington girl, that she has been caught in the net of the white slave traffic. She and a stranger left that city Thursday over the traction line for Fort Wayne. Police are unable to locate the couple. Eight Bloomington youths, whose ages range from 11 to 16, visited a watermelon patch belonging to James H. Brown, a farmer, east of that city. Before a justice they were each found guilty and the fine and costs for each one of them amounted to $10.50.