Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Secretary fvilson says that Chicago packers are heartily co-operating in enforcing the pure food law.' The great council of the Independent Order of Ited Men of Ohio In annual session at Marietta selected Dayton as the meeting place for next year. " Clashes between counsel during examination of Jurors in the Haywood trial at Boise forced the court to Interfere and presaged a bitter contest. The lowa State Medical society convened at Cedar Rapids with a large attendance. That Arthur Preston Greene and Charles H. Roebrer be extradited to England was the decision made by United States Commissioner Shields In New York. The two men are accused of stealing jewelry valued at $15,000 from two London firms. Later returns from the Austrian elections show enormous gains by the socialists and anti-Semites. On a plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree John Stapp, 15 years of age, was sentenced by Judge Williams in St * Louis to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.