Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Illinois Mayors’ association at Bloomington elected Silas Cook of Bast St. Louis, president Fire la the building occupied by the Courier-Journal and Times at Louisville, the second in two weeks, cgussd a loss of $25,000. A thousand dock laborers are os strike at Galevston, Tex. Stuyvesant Fish and James T. Horahan were tame- and almost offensively courteous at an Illinois Central directors’ meeting in New York, and Mr. Haraban furnished tile information demanded by Fish. A reception and dinner was given Secretary Taft at Aberdeen, Wash., by the Young Men’s Republican club. During a reception at the Eagle club rooms in McKeesport Pa., Louis Delo, a well known" athlete, attempted to kill himself by shooting. His condition ia critical. Fire in the Parker block in New Haven, Conn., caused a loss of s6o,* 000. Three men lost ears and twenty others were badly cut in the face by flying glass at Toulon, 111., when aq explosion in a hardware store shattered the big plate glass windows. Reports come from New York that Amalgamated Copper will probably reduce its dividend for the next quarter. William A. Culp, aged 2A, awaiting trial for the death of his brother, Floyd C. Culp, last .Tmy at Turtle Creek, Pa.; committed suicide.