Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

■ s i ■ r"-. small colored children were -Crem.ited, and their mother and father burned and otherwise injured, when their home at Beverly, Va., was destroyed by fire. Benjamin Kish, seventy-five years old. brother-in-law of the late F. T. Barnuin. and one of the most prominent residents. Is dead at Bridgeport. Conn. A violent earthquake of three seconds' duration occurred at K|»u. Belhut djd no damage. The glazing house of the Excelsior Springs Powder company, at Dobson, ten miles south of Kansas City, was wrecked by an explosion which killed Herman Kline, the engineer, and injured thirty-five other persons, none fatally. The suit at Wilmington, Del., of the government against the Du Pont powder Interests tins twen continued until Dec. 2. The Cineinnati National League baseball team has won the first of a aeries of twelve games at Havana with native teams by a score of •'« to 1. Nearly 2,000 men are working day and night at Liverpool on the steamskip Mauretania, and the work Is ex- j pected to occupy all next month. The Spanish minister of finance has introduced in the eorte* a bill the object of which is to bring about reforms in the bauk of Spain. The Oklahoma conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south has adopted a memorial in favor of amalgamation of the northern and southern churches. The Acme Harvester company’s warehouse at Aberdeen, S. D.. has been destroyed by fire, the loss amounting to *IOO,OOO. I- V ■ , . ' / ' ' * •; •’ '! - «> t* f- *-v r +‘P »