Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

Tb# application for a Jury trial for Harry IL Thaw, to test bis sanity, has been continued at White Plains, N, Y., to September; and Tbaw will stay meanwhile ini Poughkeepsie Jail. v The Republican state convention of South Dakota Is In session today at Mitchell to ratify the ticket named nr the June primaries and adopt a platform. .Five men are known to have been dtowned, and six more are missing as the result of a rowboat overturning In a storm at Baltimore. The New Castle stable at Brighton Beach, N.*Y., lias sold to Tbonu.s 11. Williams, president of the California Jockey club, the three-yen r-oid Big Chief for $12,000. • The hot wave at Washington, which scored the top notch in seven years at 104 Sunday, has mitigated somewhat. James A. Fowler, of Knoxville, Tenn., recently appointed assistant attorney general of the United States, has taken charge of his office. Reports received from Venezuela by way of Willemstad say that there have been no cases of the plague at Cttracas since June 2Dth. Charles Spencer Francis, the United States ambassador to Austria-Hungary will leave Vienna for home July JB. Senor Frederlco Varela, a noted phil anthropist, and one of the richest men In Chile, Is- dead at Santiago, He leaves the bulk of his great fortune to oharlty. _ Today la France’s Fourth of July, and all France Is merrymaking. The "Shrinera’’ are swarming - all over St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Elks ronty at will over Daßas, Tex.. and much good times Is baring at all three towns.