Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

8. T. McKnight, a prominent real estate man and millionaire lumberman of Minneapolis, is dead of heart disease at that city. Hie attempt of French labor unions to “pull off” a strike for twenty-four hours In France was a failure. A lockout of 8.000 ship riveters, which is In effect at the Vulcan Shipbuilding yard at Stettin, Germany, threatens to spread throughout the country. Leading members of the Syrian colony at New York city have started a movement to present Turkey with a modem battleship. Notices have been pasted at the mills of the United States Cotton /company, at Central Falls, R. 1., that next Monday a reduction of wages will go into effect ‘ ..... The ' Shevlin-Mathin Lumber company’s saw mill at Beaudette, Minn., caught fire and horned to the ground, causing a loss of approximately $250,000. The mercury stood at 100 to 103 degrees in the shade yesterday at Burlington, 1a.,. the hottest of the season. Three hundred of the sultan’s soldiers visited him at the Yildie palace and assured him of the love and loyalty of his troops. United States Commissioner of Labor Neill, is attempting to settle the trouble between the switchmen and the D,j L. and W. railway. The Association of Labor Commie* in council at Detroit with about thirty commissioners present. The Japanese navy will take third place in the navies of the world In 1911, according to the tabulation of the German Navy league.