Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — LIVE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

LIVE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

The United States battleship Michigan went ashore in a heavy fog near Cape Henry. It was floated tn a few hours. Miss Annie Gordon of Illinois was elected president of the Women's Christian Temperance union at Allan' ta, Ga The Portuguese government has received advices that German cavalry have Invaded Portuguese West Africa, or Angola. A mother and her two daughters were burned to death tn a fire that destroyed two frame dwellings at Homestead. Pa x A Michigan Central train crashed into an auto at Saginaw, Mich., killing R. J. McLean and William Hatton and Injuring five other persons In the car. Scott Faust, who killed Elija John son with a shovel in Cairo on October 10, 1914, was found guilty at Cairo, 111., and given a life sentence in, penitentiary. After a lengthy debate the Australian senate voted to prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquors In military establishments. This abolishes the oldfashioned canteen. A >arge force of Turkish troops, transferred from Adrianople to Trebizo >d, Asia Minor, sacked all the shops of the Christians in the latter town and killed three Christians Henry Roos of Laporte, Ind., fifteen-year-old son of a farmer. Is near death from a gunshot wound accidentally inflicted by a hunter. The officers have no clue to who fired the ShotJustice Lamar of the United Slates Supreme court at Washington denied the appeal of Leo M Frank for a writ of error tb review his conviction of the murder of Mary Phagan at Atlanta. Ga The will of Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, formerly chief of staff of the United States army, was filed in the superior court at Los Angeles, Cal. The estate, valued at $1,250, is left to the widow. James Thom, manager in Montreal of the White Star, Dominion and other ‘Affiliated steamship lines, died in Montreal at the sixty-seven tears. He was born in Montreal and had spent his entire business life tn the steamship business. John D. Rockefeller’s only hope of relief from Cuyahoga county tax assessment of $1,200,000 upon an involuntary personal tax return of $311,053,337 now lies in the federal courts at Cleveland, O. Rockefeller’s complaint asking an abatement on $31,000,000 in stocks and bonds was dismissed.