Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Charles B. Chase has succeeded hia late father as president of the Hartford Fire Insurance company. Mrs. Thomas Metcalf, who fired shots at Attorney Hamill in the federal building, at Chicago, refuses to reveal the trouble that led to the shooting. Three Servian laborers were killed and three men wounded, one a policeman, In a riot near Gary, Ind. W. R. Montgomery, president of the Hamilton Bank of New York, has been indicted on the charge of falsely certifying checks. . Owing to the decrease in business and corresponding falling off In earnings all division superintendents of the Michigan Central railway have been ordered to lay off as many employes as business will permit Right Rev. John M. Mackay, Ph. IX, president of the Mount St Mary’s seminary, Cincinnati, is dead. Bankers are agreeably surprised by Hie few failures in the commercial world during the first half of January. War between steamship companies has resulted in further reduction of steerage rates to Europe. At Norwalk, 0., the doors of the Ohio Trust company were closed and a voluntary assignment was announced. Credit men at Chicago launched a plan for a “commercial clearing bouse” for settlement of debts without recourse to banks.