Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

A strenuous campaign is being waged In Milwaukee to secure the SIOO,OOO needed to complete the fund for the new Y. M. C. A. building. L. C. Van Riper, under cross -examination in the trial of Edwin S. Holmes, Jr.. _at Washington, for divulging crop reports, testified that on one occasion Holmes told him that Haas had given him $40,000. '■ John Looney, under indictment at Rock Island for attempted bribery, gave bail for $25,000. A receiver has been appointed at Omaha for the O’Dopohue-Redwojd-Normile Dry Goods company. On account of fear of assassins’plots extraordinary precautions are taken to guard the delegates to the peace con*, ference at The Hague. Secretary Wilson has ordered an Investigation into the increasing manufacture of absinthe In this country. Hary Vaughan, George Ryan and Ed Raymond, ringleaders In the mutiny at the state prison in November, 1905, when, two guards were killed, will be hanged In the county jail at Jefferson City, Mo., June 27. Prescott Keys, of Concord, Mass., has withdrawn his contest of the will of his unclet Henry Milliken, of Boston.