Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Four indictments have been returned Ln New York against the Armenian priest accused of extortion and blackmail. Analysis having failed to find evidence that Mrs. Pet Magill died from poison, the state’s attorney at Clinton hopes to show that she. was smothered with a quilt or pillow. The ore dock strikers at Duluth accepted the steel corporation’s terms and have decided to return to work. Trouble is still feared on the mining range. More than >1,500,000 of the >2,000,000 paid by the state of Pennsylvania for metal furnishings in the state capital was graft, the report to the investigating committee shows. German military circles are disturbed by the possibility that dirigible balloons may be used to get photographs of their fortifications. Branded as a coward, his badge torn off and hooted by his former comrades for shaming them, a New York policeman who hid from a murderer, not daring to pursue him, has been dismissed from the force in a dramatic scene at the trial. The Pere Marquette agent and operator at Salem, Mich., is Jack of all trades it was developed at the wreck inquest.

Ten thousand marched through Boston streets on New England day of “old home week.” Lieutenant Colonel William F. Tucker, accused by his wife, the daughter of Mrs. John A. Logan, of improper conduct, has been exonerated by an Inquiry. Carl Wolfsohn, a prominent Chicago musician, died in West End, N. J. Albert Walsh was shot and killed by a burglar in bls home in rushing to the rescue of his sister. Coroner’s juries brought in verdicts of suicide in Inquests Over bodies of Laura Matthews and A. B. Rumbaugh at Colorado Splmgs. Coey’s letters to the girl were read. A demand of the milk wagon drivers for higher wages is reported likely to force up the price of milk. Claims aggregating $13,046 were filed in the probate court at Milwaukee against the estate of the late Bishop Nicholson by Bishop Webb and others for funds said to have been in his care at the time of his death. Representative Charles M. Ward, speaker pro tem. of the Michigan leg: islature, was arraigned in the police court at Detroit on the charge of manslaughter, in conection with the death of Edith Presley, from a criminal operation. He was held for examination.