Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — CONDENSED TO THE LIMIT [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TO THE LIMIT

The old court house in Williamsburg, Va., was almost totally destroyed by fire, but the records are thought to be safe. A south wind freshed a smouldering fire in the paper debris on the fourth story of the capitol in Albany, N. Y. A chemical engine extinguished the fire. The Spanish government is worried over the action of France in Morocco since the French troops have occupied new military positions independently of Spain. Fire in the laundry building of the Philadelphia hospital almost destroyed that structure and spread terror among the insane and other patients. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Colonel Roosevelt spoke at Tacoma, Wash., high school stadium. At least 30,000 perosns heard his address of forty-five minutes on “Fundamentals that Go to Make Good Citizens.” The Sunday baseball bill was killed in the Massachusetts senate by a vote of 17 to 22. The bill would have allowed amateur Sunday ball in cities of 50,000 or over with admission fee prohibited.

The Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm started this morning to take off the passengers and crew of the Prinzes Irene, which went bard aground on the bar a mile and a half east of Lone Hill life saving station, Fire Island. Passengers landing from the steamship George Washington at Plymouth, Er gland, say that the assistant surgeon of the ship was stabbed by an elderly’ American when the vessel was two or three days out from New York. The passenger was suffering from delusion. , Officers of the department of justice in Washington do not agree with the Wall street view that the supreme court’s decision last Monday in the commodities clause case was favorable to the railroads and not to the government Wade H. Ellis, special counsel for the government. ‘ To prevent Harry Cooper of Oakland, CaL, busband of the late Mrs. Ida McKinley Morse Cooper, from disposing of property belonging to Marjorie McKinley Morse, his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter, application has teen made for a restraining order and for the appointment of Benjamin L McKinley as guardian for the girl.