Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1907 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Big crowds In London gave the German emperor a chilly reception during his drive to Guild hall. Fire did $200,000 damage in Parsons. Kan. The biggest losers are Kress & Co., $40,000: Cooper Lumber company and the Dodge-Bryan Lumber company, $30,000. The Chicago Clearing House assoc'a tion will issue checks'ln small denominations. > Secretary Cortelyou went to New York to urge bankers to resume easli payments, believing that the supply of currency Is ndw sufficients to make It feasible. The town ball and opera bouse nl Sibley, 111., belonging to Sullivan township, was burned. Loss, $(!.OCO. The aggregate assessment of taxable property lu Illinois as made by the state board of equalization shows an increase of $125,401,074 over last year. .*• The town of Tunnellton, Ind., was almost destroyed by fire. Abraham Evens, grandfather of the duchess of Manchester, is dead at the borne of a relative near Bellefontaine, Ohio.