Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE.

The reception of our battleship fleet and its officers and nien in Japan surpasses hi heartiness any of the other receptions on the tour. Some roughs at Lugano, Switzerland, threw into the lake there a statue of George Washington which the town had bought from a United States citizen who once lived there. The Colonnade at the Jamestown, N. Y.. Chautauqua grounds burned. Loss, $50,000. Gus Rogers, the comedian of Rogers brothers, died suddenly at his home at New York. After a continuous drought for for-ty-eight days Kansas City has received a through drenching. ' J W. L. Cullerton, aged sixty-four, president of the First National bank, of Can-oil, la., committed suicide. The bank is closed. The latest story as io the president’s occupation after March 4, 1909, puta him in the associate editor’s chair of The Outlook. 7. ; The drought which had prevailed In northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas for two months has been broken by a heavy rain. The directors of the United States Express company have declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent