Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

By an executive order the employes of the government printing office in Washington will be given a half holiday on Saturdays during July, August and September, the same as is granted to the employes fit other government departments. John Getterman, the Interstate commerce commission expert, who visited Oklahoma recently and investigated freight rate and cotton seed oil trust matters, is now in Hamburg, Germany, investigating the Hamburg-American line of steamers in regard to excessive freight rates.

Dick Barnes, the axed man charged with the probably fatal shooting of Richard Williams, was captured at his home, eight miles southeast of Tulsa, I. T. He is now in th# Tulsa jail, waiting a hearing before the United States commissioner. Barnes says be is iXi years of age. Janie Friszell, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Frixseil of the Woodburg ranch, south of Colorado Springs, Colo., met a sudden and frighfr ful death as the result of being bitten by a rattlesnake. The fangs of the reptile pierced an artery In the calf of the le£ and death resulted In a short time.