Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE [ARTICLE]

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

In two boors at London a Japanese loan of $10,000,000 was oversubscribed five times. > The Germans are still trying to understand “where they are at” under the kaiser’s recent concession. Irishmen of Chicago, with Bourke Cochran es chief orator, held a meeting in honor of the memory of the late Colonel John F. Finerty. The output of the shipbuilding plants of the United States in the year ended June 30 was the largest in the history <* the business. The balloon “Yankee,” which started from St Louis Wednesday sailed over Illinois and ludiana, landing In both states, and finally came down to stay near Tiger, Ga., 450 miles from St. Louis.. The sitnation at St Pierre-Mlquelon has improved, and there has been no further disturbances. “The prevalent result of football is not favorable to the best moral education of the great body of our youth,” says Professor Jos lab Boyce, of Harvard. It is announced at Winnipeg, Man., that the purchase of the Duluth and Winnipeg railway by the Canadian Northern railway involved a cost of sc,ooo,ooa The war department has declined to appro* the plans presented for a municipal bridge to be constructed by the city of St Louis across the Mississippi river. Complete official returns of ths Kansa election show that Taft’s vote, was 197,298 and Biyan’s 161,088. Another labor conference was held at the White House, T. J. Nolan, secretary of the abovelers and dredgemen’s union, calling to talk with the presUsnt on labor questions.