Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Kansas City is Chicago’s rival for the Republican and Democratic national conventions next year. There is much indignation In the north of Ireland at a statement that a portion of the Giant’s Causeway is about to be removed to America. The Penwell coal mines at Pana, 111., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $125,000 and throwing 500 people out of work. At a public demonstration the Marconi wireless telegraph station at Glace Bay, Cape Breton, sent a messageto Clifden. Ireland, and within five minutes received a reply. The Allis-Chalmers company’s annual report is said to show a deficit of $387,298. Fire destroyed the buildings of the Harrisburg Elevator company and nearby stores at Harrisburg, 111., occasioning a loss of $15,000. The feeling in Wall street is that the worst is over and that the market will now take a ton for the better. Argument has begun in the Missouri supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo., in the suit for ouster against the Standard Oil company, the Republic Oil company and the Waters-Pierce company. Miss Helen M. Gould attended the dedicaticn of the a/my Y. M. C. A. building, which she gave to the private soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.