Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — THE MEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE MEWS IN BRIEF

Liquor men have opened a fight on the prohibition law of Alabama, claiming that It la unconstitutional. Rov. Thomas Blackburn Bratton, the oldest Methodist minister In the United States, la dead In St. Louis. He was a native of southern Indiana. In a message to the New York legislature Governor Hughes advised new banking law and the suppression ol race track gambling. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hlllis was taken suddenly ill after a prayer meeting in Plymouth church, Brook' lyn. Jesse Carnes, a veteran of the Mexican war and quartermaster general In the civil war, is dead at Muncle, Ind., aged seventy-nine years. The Interior department has - maife inquiry Into land deals with Indians by Senator Owen of Oklahoma. Moran and Attall boxed twenty-five rounds to a draw far the featherweight championship of the world at San Francisco. Vancouver Japs fatally wounded three firemen because a window was accidentally broken.