Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Congressman W. P. Brownlow of the First congressional distrim of Tennesree is repdr ted dying at nis home in Johnson City. - 1 The probe into charges made by Senator Gore has been postponed until the December session of congress, ow- ; ing to lack of funds. An unidentified woman returned a kidnaped child to its mother at Paasale, N. J., and escaped with another child Of the same-tamUy. t Eight hundred chickens and twenty horses were burned to death in a fiiw I along the Harlem river in New Yorn, in which twenty firms suffered losses. Policeman John Fl Rotchford. who has been on duty at the White House at Washington nearly eight years, is lead, following an illness of nearly two months. -

Frank L. Fhrris, th* thineen-year-old son of Charles L. Farris, formerly a state representative from Louisville, 111. eloped with Nellie Krutsinger. nineteen years old. Col. August Fleishman, sixty-eignt years old, a Civil war veteran, whose home was in Cleveland, escaped from the Ohio Epileptic hospital at Gallipolis and was killed by a train. Pledges amounting to $400,000 for the endowment fund of the University of Vermont, necessary to obtain 1100,00 offered by the Rockefeller fund managers, have been secured The duchess of ViaUn. who was Miss Anita Stewart of New York, gave birth to a daughter at the residence of the duchess’ mother. Mrs. James Henry Smith, on Grosvenor square. London. A private cablegram received at New Orleans from Bluefields, Nicaragua, states that General Matuty haa been executed, following a trial by court-martial. It was charged that he betrayed the Estrada cause. Everett Carleton Crear of Albany, N. Y., a cadet at West Point, denied that he was chewing gum when asked by the officer of the guard. Crear was tried and found guilty of making- a false statement and was dismissed. John C. Wurst, former treasurer of the Debolt Building and Loan association of Cincinnati, who was found guilty of embezzling $20,000 from that Institution, was sentenced to serve nine years in the Ohio penitentiary. W. J. Bryan returned to Lincoln. Neb., from his six weeks' trip to Europe. He will remain ten days in Nebraska, devoting his time to state politics. Just what form his political activity will take Mr. Bryan is not prepared to say. All the rooms' of the White House will be accessible to the public during the coming summer for the first time tn many years. Before leaving Washington President Taft gave instructions that the buildings should be thrown wide open.