Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Hetty Green may appear before the Chicago board of tux reviewers and submit to questioning. South American countries arcwatching with interest > Roosevelt's attitude toward a third term because of its in-„ fluenee on their interests. H. Douglas Giger, prominent In Democratic polities, is dead in Spripgfleld, 111. Earl Fleming, Charles, Fleming, Luuen Rankin and Harold Rankin, young boys, were drowned in the Kaw river at Topeka, Kan. The big national shoe nnd leather show opened with a rush at Chicago, $500,000 worth of exhibits being shown. A resolution of criticism of President Roosevelt was voted down at the final session of the annual meeting of the American Bar association at Portland, Me. Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis has been retired from the *navy, having reached the limit of age fixed by law for active service. / Arnold Grathen, the 6-year-old son of Nicholas Grathen, fell from the Diamond Joe dock at \yinona, Minn., in sight of hundreds of excursionists on a departing steamer and was drowned. The first violence of the telegraph strike is reported from Waukegan. 111. William Elbert, of Lexington, lib, the last of the Mexican war veterans from central Illinois, Is dead, aged 74 years, at the Quincy Home for Old Soldiers. During July there were 1,097 case? of sickness among the 38,000 employes

on the .canal zone, including the Panama railroad employes.