Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The National Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents opened ita annual meeting at Richmond, Va. State’s Attorney Healy, at Chicago, may order an investigation of charges that Stuyvesant Fish misused the finances of the Illinois Central railroad. s Late returns Increase the magnitude of Mayor McClellan’s victory over Boss Murphy in the New York primaries. After a lively debate the Chicago board of education voted, 10 to 2, in admitting adults. Including all foreigners, to the high schools. Athelson Gaston, of Meadsgjlle, Pa., a wealthy retired lumber merchant, was shot accidentally and killed while hunting In Canada. The Canadian Valley Bank and Trust company of Muskogee, I. T.. closed Its doors. Charged with the larceny of $8,060 from the city of Boston by furnishing a poorer grade of coal than his contract called for, Maurice H. Klous, Boston agent of a New York coal company, was arrested in Providence, R. I. A rule prohibiting In all cases marriage of divorced persons by Episcopal clergymen will be proposed at the Episcopal convention in Richmond, Va.