Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OULTINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OULTINE

Tbe will of John V. Fnrwell, the late Chicago merchant, gives $50,000 for a fund to maintain the Moody Bible Institute. His estate aggregated $2,000,000. Fire at Chelsea. Mass., which was devastated less than a year ago by a $10,000,000 blaze, destroyed property worth s.’’oo,ooo. The National cards of Kentucky Michigan and Wisconsin have arrived nt Cainp Benjamin Harrison. Indian apolis. Alexander Starbuck. aged eighty three years, a prominent Cincinnati man, sbot himself fatally because he feared insanity. In a -little difficulty’’ at a religious camp meeting near Danville, Ky.. seven persons were shot, some seriously. Wilbur \\ right, at I.e Mans, France, has beaten his brother George’s aerw plane record and stayed in tbe air nluet.v-one minutes. Partisans of President Gasfcro have in recent speeches initiated a movement to proclaim Castro president of Venezuela for life. 'Hie Odd Fellows of the United States number 1.865,130 members, a net increase la<t year of 104.384. Eight “Black Hand” Italians who went from. Chicago to Ferule. Man., and there plied their nefarious celling, have been sentenced to from six months to seven years in jail. The Independence party will have & ticket in tbe field in North Dakota. Insistent declarations that a revolutionary outbreak in Portugal Is impending continue to make their appearance In the Lisbon newspapers. Four hundred cotton mills In Lancashire. England, are idle owing to a wage dispute and 140,000 operatives •re losing $700,000 a week.