Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

John K. Tener, of Charleroi, p M has been elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks. The Jamestown exposition is making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden Aug. 8. ~ Edna Billik, 9 years old, told a jury in Judge Barnes’court at Chicago bw yeasons for believing her father, Herman Billik, did not murder the Vrul faini|y. z Secretary Taft has arranged to •peak in Oklahoma City Aug. 24. King Oscar of Sweden has sent an appeal to former subjects in America to return to their native land, which faces ruin through their loss. Milwaukee police are seeking R. H. McDonald and Walter McDonald, “who disappeared with a stork of $50,000 worth of jewelry secured on ten days’ credit. Miss Anna Nonnoyle, of Chicago, killed herself by Jumping from the fifteenth floor into the rotunda of the Maasontc Temple. William Townley Benson, a Canadian artist of note, was found dead in a park at Saltillo, Mex. Robert Fitzsimmons/ after insisting upon meeting Jack Johnson with a disabled arm, was “knocked out” in the second round at Philadelphia. The federal court at New Orleans decided the lighthouse tender Magnolia, on which President Roosevelt was a passenger, was responsible for the collision with a fruit steamer in that harbor Oct. 26, 1905. Insurance companies in which the late Lucius 11. Perkins of Lawrence, Kan., carried large policies have taken steps for a post-mortem examination of the body.