Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

William McKay, state senator es Michigan, is dead at Cairo, Mich., after a year’s illness. The ocean mall subsidy bill, carrying increase in pay to “slower vessels,” Is expected to be enacted Into law at the present session of congress. Stockholders of the Chicago Telephone company voted to issue more stock and a lower dividend rate will be made. E. M. Fuller, a painter, of Crown Point, Ind., was killed 4ffi l’.e walking on the tracks of the Chicago, Indiana and) Louisville railroad at Cedar Lake. Mrs. Sarah Hall Stiles, chief matron of the Hahnemann hospital at Chicago for twenty-six years, is dead. At Mayfield, Ky., Robert Bennett Tobacco bnj er, found at the door of his home a note warning him to. cease buying tobacco. A big advance, guard of country merchants arrived In Chicago to make spring purchases and thousands are to follow. Williams Andrews, formerly of Sioux City, la., killed him Self in a Chicago hospital with a physician’s scissors. Suffocated in a Snow Bank. Amherst, Wls., Feb. 13. —August Patoka, aged forty-two years, was found dead near his home near Amherst Junction, where his home had crowded him into a deep snow bank and he had suffocated. He leaves a wife and fourteen children. Police Raid Italian Homes. Shamokiu. Pa., Feb. 13.—The state police raided many Italian homes between here and Mt Carmel, collecting a large number of knives and revolvers and arresting ten Italians suspected of being members of a band of outlaws. Riot Over Japanese Budget. Tokio, Feb. 13.—After an exciting debate lasting six hoars, which developed into a riot on the floor of the house of representatives, the financial budget was passed by a majority of 102. Widow of G overnor Gray Dead. Indianapolis, Ind.-, Feb. 13.—Mrs. Elsa Gray, widow of former Governor Isaac P. Gray, who died while minister to Mexico, la dead, aged sighty years.