Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

John R. Walsh 1* organizing, a syndicate to complete the Chicago Southern road into Chicago. The national arbitration and peace congress closed at New York with two banquets and the decoration of Andrew Carnegie with the cross of the Legion of Honor. Three more counties in Ohio lined up for Secretary Taft in bls contest, with Senator Foraker for political supremacy. Fire In the furniture and carpet store of H. Felhelmer, Hot Springs. Ark., destroyed the stock, valued at $50,000, and damaged the building to the extent of SIO,OOO. First Lieutenant Louis F. Buck, artillery corps, was dropped from tpo roll* of the army on account of desertion. Germany Is aroused by the meeting between King Edward and King Victor Emmanuel, interpreting it as an attempt to Isolate the kaiser's land.

While attempting to extinguish a fire in an outhouse Mrs. Johanna Frenzef. aged 70 years, was burned to den th at Dubuque. The supreme court of the United States dismissed the appeal of John Johnson, who is now awaiting electrocution In Sing Sing prison for killing his wife at Yonkers. A deed of assignment was filed by the Evansville Glass company. The five-story building of Rochrbacber & Allen at Akron, 0., was practically destroyed by fire and the wholesale and retail hardware store of the same firm was totally destroyed- The total loss Is $70,000. in an attempt to escape from the state penitentiary at Raleigh, N. C., C. L. Scruggs was killed by the guard.