Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

The autumn session of the British parliament was opened yesterday. Tiie organized miners in the anthracite Coal region are holding a convention at Scranton, Pa., with the purpose of demanding higher wages when the present agreement expires next April. Judge Mills, of the New York supreme court has ordered Harry Thaw back to Mstteawan prison as a dangerous paranoiac. The case has been - appealed. Chairman Hitchcock of the Republican national committee says that no successor will be appointed to take the place of I»*i]H>nt. who recently resignad as chairman of the speakers' bureau. Bainud Hainen, sixty-five years old, was killed in the Erie railroad shops at Meadville. I’a., where he had been a foreman thirty years. New York city registration this yea» is 6,789 less than it was in 1904. Deaths from heart disease at New York increased last week, due, ths health department physicians say, to the acute baseball situation. The treasury has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for delivery at New York at-51.1M4 cents per fine ounce. The official notification of Sidney C. Tapp. for.president, and John Maddock, for vice president of the Liberty party, will take place in Chicago. The Farmers' and Trader*’ National bank of Lagrande, Ore., has closed. A United States soldier. 8. C. Harvey, of the-Twenty-seventh Infantry, waa drowned in the San Cristobal river, Cuba. The whole island of Cuba baa been influenced by semi-cyclonic wave which has been accompanied by tenrenttai rains with floods at many places.