Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Michigan Prohibition state oonvest ion indorsed Joseph Tracy, of Detroit, for the presidential nomination. By a vote of 109 to 83 the house of representatives rejected the president’ s program for four battleships and voted for two. The damage at Craig. Mont., caused by the breaking ot the dam at Mauser lake Is estimated at *3,000,000. State’s Attorney Jehn McNutt announced at Mattoon, 111., that he would ask the April grand jury to reindict Judge Grosscuqp and other officials and employes of the Central Illinois Traction company for the wreck last August. Danville, Va., voted for prohibition, reversing Ks decision es Sept 14, 1906. Dr. Robert Koch, the German bacteriologist, left Chicago several days ahead of his schedule because his privacy was constantly interrupted. Colonel J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, has formally entered the race for governor. Dr, Ci O. Swinney, of Asheville, N. C., shot and fatally wounded his six-teen-year-old daughter, Nellie, and C-Jn killed himself.