Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

George A- Kellar, of Decatur, 111. called off the Great Western harness meet because of the prohibition vote. Thomas C. Howe, dean of the faculty of Butler college, was elected president of the institution by tht trustees. Seaborn Wright, a Georgia Democrat, will be the Prohibition cand<dade for president The Ohio MU giving the state railroad commission power to fix rates and adjust claims of shipper’s has passed both bouses and needs only the governor’s signature to become a law. The centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Philadelphia will be celebrated beginning Easter Sunday. Charles Quarles, a well known Milwaukee attorney, died suddenly of heart disease: President* Roosevelt has demanded that accommodations for negroes on southern railways be equal to thus# furnished for whites. William Pitt McVay was installed president of Heddlng college, Abingdon, 111., In exercises lasting two days.