Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Princo Ferdinand of Bavaria, King Alfonso’s brother-in-law, is ill with the measles. . ’ John Willard, 75 years o’.d, a farmer of Lisbon. O, who has just died*, bequeathed $3,000 to Trinity Reformed church ancT SIO,OOO to Heide.berg 'Theological seminary at Tiffin, O. Mme. De Massy, on trial in New York for shooting Gustav Simon, dentes committing the crime. Anderson, Ind., May 2. Samuel Closser, 27 years old. epileptic, iji dead as the result of falling Into a pile of burning cornstalks. May day demonstrations resulted In serious fighting between troops and workers in Purls and great demonstrations In other cities of Europe. George Velth, a visitor at Berkeley, Cal., from New York, is missing. The planing mill and lumber yard of J. A. Hollnger, at Chambersburg. Ta., was burned, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Fish lake forest reserve in Sevier county, Utah, has been increased by the addition of 75,000 acres. Eleven men are known to have been killed and four others are seriously injured as a result of an explosion In the Whipple coal mine in the Lean Creek district, near Charleston, W. Va.

John L. Sullivan denies <£he report that he Is to marry again. Carroll B. Short, an attorney of Center, Tex., was shot and killed by Dr. Buck Pau) as he stei>ped from a train. The public debt was reduced nearly $6,000,000 for April. A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train jumped the track near Parkersburg, and twenty persons were injured. The crusade against cheap theaters and penny arcades in Chicago began In earnest.