Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

George N. Black, seventy-five years old. tmnker and manufacturer, is dead at ids home In Springfield, 111. Au item announcing that the New York grand jury had exonerated the Metropolitan Insurance company <>f any wrongdoing, recently published, referred to the Metropolitan Street Railway company, not the Insurance company. Bankers of tiie country have opened war on express companies for the sal * of money orders. Late returns from the local option election in Illinois adds Pulaski county to the prohibition territory, making thirty-six counties in the temperance fold. The last public function tn honor of the fleet’s visit to lam Angeles was the grand ball given the officers in that city. W. J. Bryan, speaking at the banquet of the Associated Press and th? American Newspaper Publishers’ association in New York, outlined a plan for a bi-partisan newrqwper. Street car lines in Cleveland will consolidate and give 3 cent fare. Wallace H. Hopkins, head of a brokerage firm at 181 LaSalle street, Chicago, suddenly left the city and the offices are closed. Angry creditors wdll seek Ms indictment. The American Newspaper Publishers’ association thanked President Roosevelt for favoring free pulp and print paper and denounced Cannon.