Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Short News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Short News Notes.

Bishop W. B. Derrick of the -vfrican Methodist Episcopal church, fcbose home is in Flushing, L. 1., says he does not believe that color or the race question entered lntQ, the President's decision to bate the Twenty-fifth regiment colored troops discharged. , j. \Jd. Boutwell, at present assistant geologist, will take charge on Jan. 1 of the collection of statistics on lead, xinc, aud quicksilver for the United States geological survey. A B. & O. order that commission men pay in advance all freight rates on iter; ishable goods has started a fight which may involve the whole Central Freight Traffic Association. Four hundred persons have typhoid fever in Pittsburg. Doctors have been forced, to send patients to the municipal hospital because of the crowded coßdilion of other hospitals.