Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

. Th« Civic Federation bill to amend the anti-trust law was Introduced into the senate by Warner of Missouri, Abraham Rues sustained three adverse rulings In the courts at San Francisco. The writ of prohibition for a new judge to try Rues s case was denied. ? G. A. Smith, a music composer, at one time associated with Moody and Sankey la evangelistic work, la dead •t his home In Hubberdaton, Mich. Governor Hughes scored In the New York senate, which advanced the antigambling bills and reinserted the provision for immediate enforcement President* of national banks In conference in Chicago vigorously denounced the Aldrich currency bill. Counsel for A. Hart McKee concluded his speech In the famous Paris divorce case and denied that bis client tried to kill Mrs. McKee while tobogganing. William Roller, twenty-one years old, and Joseph Whittaker, twentytwo years old, are in Jail at Clayton, Me., charged with an attempt to wreck • train. The Missouri supreme court at Jefferson City remanded for a new trial the attorney general's suit to dissolve the Kansas City live Stock Exchange.