Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Alton road borrowed $1,400,000 from the Rock Island and Union Pacific for improvements. Cornell oarsmen won the varsity eight race at Poughkeepsie. Wisconsin took the freshmen two-mlle contest and Syracuse was victor in ths four-oared struggle. The police trial board at Chicago discharged Sergeant Thomas H. Prendergast for political activity in the yecent campaign. Fire at Chrlstianaburg, Va., destroyed the chilled plow foundry, Graham’s lumber yard, Childress Bros.’ store and Stuart’s buggy shop. Delegates from fifteen cities at the anti-flmoke convention in Milwaukee urged stringent laws to abate the nnisance. Chicago banks will distribute $1,279,000 In dividends to their stockholders during the coming month, and $2,400,000 interest to savings depositors July 1. , Fire started In the Minnie Healy mine at Butte, Mont, and the 300 miners employed .there were got out with difficulty. Superintendent Edwin G. Cooley was re-elected head of the Chicago public school system. A slight improvement has been reported in the condition of Francis Murphy, the temperance worker, who is 111 with diabetes at Los Angeles, Cal. Colonel Ferrara, secretary of the Cuban delegation to The Hague peace conference, has resigned because of the report that he was an anarchist.