Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

Brazil announces that the battSeeMg now under construction for her m England are not for sale to any tlon. The Netherlands government Is sending -the battleship Jacob vail Heeme* kerk to the Carribean see. President Roosevelt, it ie said, refused the Austria-American Steamship company permission to name ia big liner "Alice Roosevelt." Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer (nee Kohlsaat) have sailed from New York for Europe on their honeymoon tour. The British house of lords has passed the old age pensions ‘trill with several amendments, which will be rejected by the house of commons.’ Four men were killed at Minneapolis by lightning accompanying the rains which brought relief from a week of sweltering heat * George J. Gould authorizes the statement that the Wabadh company has made satisfactory arrangements for the protection of the $8,000,000 Wheeling and Lake Erie notes at maturity. The German army maffiyffxperfnients in shooting at a captive balloon at a distance of two and one-half miles. Although it was struck thirty times the balloon did not collapse. Secretary Loeb will leave Oyster Bay this afternoon for his annual vacation. He will be away one month. The members of the Irish-American 'Athletic club got as Mg an ovation when they arrived at Dublin as Parnell used to get Eighty per ceflt of the trainmen on the D., L. and W. railway has voted to strike for the reinstatement of some men recently discharged. Frank Litzenberger, owner of the Eaton Dumber company at Eaton, €>., committed suicide by wading into the middle of a creek and firing a bullet into the roof of his mouth.