Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

■i Fire, supposed to be incendiary, destroyed the business section of Barnes* boro, Pa. The loss is estimated at <90,000.

i All parties In England scoff at the Irish bill as a half-hearted measure designed to make a pretense of redeeming campaign prorhises. Harrison B. Riley has been elected president of the Chicago Title and Trust Co.

The four-story warehouse of the Graham Paper company at St Louis was damaged by fire and water to the amount of <50,000. x Herman Boche. who killed Frank Jarmes at Norfolk, Neb., was captured near Norfolk. Counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit for an accounting of the estate of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy filed at Concord, N. H., affidavits declaring that the original charges are true. Senator Cullom returned to Washington much improved in health. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in Washington has adjourned. * The Illinois senate killed the measure designed to place Cook county offices under civil service. His head coming in contact with a bridge while leaning out of the cab window of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania railroad, George B. Hart, a fireman, aged 25, of Philadelphia, was killed. Charles Calpers, aged 23, an electrician, was killed in a church at Huntington, Ind., by a live wire.