Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

John 8. Rainey, prominent In southern financial circles, is dead In'New Orleans in the sixty-second year of his ageI .ord Rosalyn and an Italian marquis are named as co-respondents by A. Hart McKee at the resumption of the hearing of Mr. McKee’s suit for divorce In Paris. Chicago Is promised $1,822,290 as compensation from the Commonwealth Electric company for five years. The Monongahela, Admiral Farragut’s flagship in the civil war, which •was also commanded at times by Dewey and Schley, has been burned to the water’s edge In Guantanamo bay. The Olympic theater at Springfield, 111., was destroyed l>y fire. Two delegates elected to the Republican national convention from the Twenty-First (Ill.) congressional district are pledged for Cannon. J. Edward Boeck, a New York jewelry buyer, was arrested In New Yor e charged with the theft of pearls and diamonds aggregating $165,000 Mounted police with drawn sabers charged a socialist procession In Berlin and dispersed the crowd. United States Senator Penrose Is confined to his home in Philadelphia suffering from a severe attack of the grip. , The mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., opening the campaign of the Illinois Liberty league, declared local option la a farce.