Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

St. Bernard’s eominandery of Chicago won first pribe in drill at the grand encampment of Kifights Templar at Saratoga, N. Y. 1 The census and statistics department has figured out Canada’s population April 1 last at 6,504,900. an increase of 1,133,580 In the last six years. W. J. Travis won the gold medal in the national amateur golf tourney at, Cleveland. \ Admirals Evans and Yamamoto, representing the navies of the United States and Japan, greeted each other like Jong lost brothers In New York and deprecated the talk of war. The merger of the Central and United States Leather companies has been enjoined by Vice Chancellor Emery of New Jersey. John Meringer, 12 years old, is dead at his home in Chicago of lockjaw. He shot himself In the hand with a blank cartridge July 4. .Germany and Switzerland are negotiating with a view to assuring the navigation of the Rhine to Lake Constance.