Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE.

Circulars have been issued calling for a convention of the coal miners in the Pittsburg district to Ih> held at Pittsburg on Oct. 27. The board of commissioners for foreign missions in annual convention in Brooklyn, decided to hold its next convention at Minneapolis. Tire directors of the Latonia Jockey club have decided to allow bookmaking at the fall meeting which commences Oct. 19.

Announcement that ninety-one days of winter racing will begin in New Orleanian Dec. 5 has been made. Fire nt Pittsburg, Kan., destroyed 107 freight cars in the Kansas City Southern yards. Loss. $(>5,000. A course in tire new science of navigating the air is a recent addition to the curriculum of Columbia univer sity. It is denied In Roman Catholic circles at Rome that the pope has forbidden the Catholics of France to at tend the state universities. ' Orders have been irosted for the resumption next Monday of five-addi-tional hot mills at the Shenango tin t plant at New Castle. Pa. i The next annual convention of the Railway Signal association will ire held at Louisville. Oct. 12, 13 and 14. 1009. The strike of lasters in the shoe factories of Lynn. Mass., has been declared off. I The gross earnings of the B. and O. railway for the fiscal year ended June 30 last were 373,608,871. a decrease of $8,635,140 from 1907.