Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

A report from Oyster Bay say* President Roosevelt lp not expected to personally concern himself with the telegraphers’ strike. ' Judge Landis 'will require the de- 1 partrnent of Justice at Washington to •how why officials of the Chicago and, Alton railroad should be granted immunity before he will dismiss the grand jury. William E. Williams of Chicago was held for trial in Kenosha on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Secret service agents are said to b« on the pay rolls of railroads and big corporations seeking evidence of violations of the law. Jt has been learned that Cald Sir Harry Mac Lean has not been set at liberty, as previously reported. Attorney General Bonaparte says the number of corporations to be prosecuted is small and that business will not be upset. Fire In the storehouse of the Erl® Railroad company at Susquehanna, Pa., caused a loss of $185,000. Rev. George A. Bowel, pastor of th® Baptist church at Palmyra, N. Y., la dead from Injuries received by stepping from a moving electric car. General S. B. Dodsey, who served In the confederate army during th® civil war, Is dead at his home In Milford, near Cincinnati. President Roosevelt, after his conference at Oyster Bay with Secretary Root, adheres to his decision to extend no aid to Wall street. Attorney General Thompson of Nebraska will hi a few (lays attack th® merger of the Kansas City and Omaha road with the Burlington.