Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

After looking death in th* tec* ter nearly seventy-two hours Dr. Marsh, a New York man, succumbed to hydrophobia. t Congress has granted (35,000 to pay the expenses of a delegation of American scientist* to the fourth LatinAmerican conference. John Austin Hamlin, of Chicago, proprietor of the Grand Opera House and one of the most prominent theatrical men in the country, is dead. The thirty-six delegates from Missouri to the national Democratic convention at Denver will vote as a unit for the nomination of W. J. Bryan for the presidency. Joe Gans has signed to meet Battling Nelson in a forty-flve-round bout July 4. Prohibitionists of Indiana in session at Indianapolis nominated a state ticket headed by Sumner W. Haynes for governor. Six persons were Injured In an explosion of gas in the John A. Oolby A Sons furniture store at Chicago. A rule has been adopted by the Chicago board of education forbidding use of intoxicants by school engineer* while on duty. The pope has rejected the plan proposed by the French government for the control of the fund In aid of aged priests. Reports of the sixteen national banks In Chicago show a gain In deposits of (9,000,000 since Feb. 14. Conferees of the house aud senate have abandoned their effort to reach an agreement on the Aldrieh-Vreeland bill. John W. Armstrong, once a leading architect of Chicago, went to jail because he was unable to furnish $5,000 bonds.