Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

King Edward officially opened ths new croquet lawn at Marelnbad and r played a game with Anthony Drexel, of Philadelphia. Seventy-uine men were killed by the explosion in the coal mine at Wigan, G. B. Bishop McQuaid, Roman Catholic, while speaking at exercises at St. Bernard’s seminary. Rochester, N. Y., collapsed and was thought to be dying. He revived in a few moments, however, but is seriously ill. Stories that there are dissensions between President McCrea and the directors of the Pennsylvania railway are officially denied. Elsie Janis, the actress, has given a trophy to the balloonists who are to take part In the international balloon race at Columbus, 0., Aug. 29. The National Editorial association has chosen Seattle as the .place for the convention of 1909. Captain Charles K. Jackson, seven-ty-one years old, a great lakes sailor for more than half a century, a dead at Algonae, Meh.