Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

In the Grand Opera Room at Vincennes, Ind., Samuel W. William* wm notified of his nomination as candidate for vice president by the Populists. Twenty-five persona were drowned when a pleasure launch going to Corregidor island from Manila foundered with seventy-five on board. China has asked Japan to consent to the restriction of the importation into China of morphine as well as the instruments used for the injection of the drug. John W. Riddle, the United States ambassador to Russia, has left St. Petersburg for Kislovodsk, a water Jng place situnted in the Caucasus, to recuperate from bis recent illness. Pilgrims to Rome, 200 Roman Catholic clergy and laymen, have sailed from New York on the steamer Carpathia. The funds so far received at the national treasury from national depository banks, under the secretary’s call of July 20, amount t 0,525,709,421. Secretary Cortelyou and family have left Washington for Huntington, Long Island, where they will spend the warm season. Jay and Myron Smith, brothers, aged twenty and fourteen years, respectively. were drowned w-hile battling In tho Sandusky river at Fremont, O. The London Daily Express states that Great Britain will purchase the three Brazilian battleships now under construction In England, - Eight care of time freight of a southbound Chicago Great Western train went off a bridge over North Skunk river, between Melbourne and Baxter, lowa, and were wrecked in the river bed.