Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Obogreaaman Jay F. Laaalng w«s renominated by the Republicans of the Fourteenth Ohio district.

After making gifts of nearly $1,000,000 to ralatlvas and for educational purposes, Mrs. Anna M. Walker Weightman was married in New York to F. C. Penfield. A receiver for the International and Great Northern Railroad company, a Gould line, has been appointed at Fort Worth, Tex. Hilary B. Hancock, eighty-four years, old, twin brother of the late General Winfield Soott Hancock and a resident of Minneapolis for more than half a century, it dead at that alty.

At Bakersfield, Cal., one of the safe* in the postoffice was broken open and $8,750 in stamps of all denominations stolen.

Glacis Celia, opera singer, told in New York a remarkable story of the killing of her brother by her husband, Paul E. Roy, who claims self-defense. Republicans of the Fifth Indiana district nominated Howard Maxwell, of Parke county, for congress by acclamation.

In the supreme court at Springfield. 111., attorneys for Judge Willard N. MWTCwan filed an additional brief assailing the position of the oourt In the Ralph Linsey habeas corpus case. Suspension of work In the coal mines of Illinois April 1 seems inevitable. Twelve persons were seriously burned, two of whom will die, in s fire at New York in a five-story tenement which housed twenty families In the east end of First street. Through the National Society of Equity, which is spreading to every state, farmers expect to be able to control the price of their products.