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Show YOUNG BOY IS KILLED BY CURRENT Bingham, June 21. Atheral Need-ham, Need-ham, son of Mr, and Mrs. D. S. Need-ham, Need-ham, was killed by an electric shock hero at about C o'clock last evening:. The boy, who was 8 years old, was playing with his two younger brothers near their home on Markham avenue, and, being bolder than tho others, climbed one of the electric light poles. He climbed nearly thirty feet and evidently evi-dently grasped a wire in each hand. There were about 600 volts In each wire and the child must have been killed instantly. William Robbins, a noighbor, saw him fall to the- ground and was the first to reach him, carrying him to his home. Both of tho boj's hands were badly burned by the current The Necdham family came here about a week ago and Mr. Necdham 13 employed as a machinist by the Bingham & Garfield railway Tho body was taken to the undertaking rooms of Eber W Hail. Funeral announcement an-nouncement will bo made later |