Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1903 — Told in a Few Linces. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Linces.

Heavy rains have flooded streams in southern England. Many basements in London are submerged. James J. Hill and E. H. Hairiman, it is said, are trying to “corner" the lumber lands of Washington and Oregon. The Secretary of War has directed that all officers yho have been on detached duty for a period of four years must return to their regiments or companies. George K. McCain, Philadelphia newspaper man, has bought the Colorado Springs Gazette and will change its politics from Democratic to Republican. At the annual meeting in Detroit,, Mich., of the Society of the Army of Santiago do Cuba all the old officers were re-elected. Moj. Gen. William R. Shatter is president. Calvin Price and Jerry Graves were hanged at Marion, 111, for the heartless murder last February of Mrs. Nellie Richelderfer, a popular teacher. Both men before the drop ‘fell maefe confessions.