Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1907 — THE NEWS IN BREIF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BREIF

The death roll of the battleship Jena, wrecked by the explosion at Toulon, has reached 120. , Announcement is made that President Roosevelt soon will establish a permanent commission for the promotion of iudnstrlal peace. Peoria, 111., has a new graft scandal, saloon men with Influence selling feed and other supplies to fire department. New York stocks experienced the greatest slump in years, the shrinkage of values represented by one day’s decline amounting to $300,000,000. Ernest Niva, a miner of the Homestake mine, Lead, S. D., was killed by the fall of a rock. Bills appropriating $150,000 for the suits of the state against the Illinois Central railroad were passed by the house at Springfield, 111. In plain view of a neighbor Horace Tibbitts, a resident of Hingham, Wis., for sixty years, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. Fire destroyed the Chippewa county poorhouse near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The Italian cruiser, which has been three w eeks at, New Orleans, sailed for Havana. narry Little, foreman for the Cleveland and Cliff Iron company, at Gladstone, Mich., was killed by an explosion of a gas tank which he approached with a lantern. The 3-year-old son of Peter Kurlits, of Collinsville, Hi., fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. The body of Joseph Green, aged 50 years, was found at the bottom of the Tierrie eoal shaft at Lenzburg, 111.