Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

J. Arthur Kemp, chief clerk of the po--1 lies department in Washington, is missing and a shortage of $2,000 has been discovered in his books. Probably the oldest dog In the Stats of Maine is Jack, owned by C. E. Freeman of Norway. Mr. Freeman claims that the dog is 32 years old. American statistics show that the wail of a British scientist about tbs decrease In the size of the heads of the men of his nation does not hit Americans. ~ Consul General L. M. Iddings reports from Cairo that the contract for raising the Assouan dam in the Nile of Upper Egypt has reccetly been awarded to tbs firm who built tbs dam. The structure will be raised 23 feet and will cost $7,500,000.' The “Tenderloin" police precinct la New York, known from th# Battery to tbe Golden Gate, has been cut In two by Police Commissioner Bingham. A new station bourn has been erected in the lower half of tbe precinct and this was opened. No reason has been (Iren for th* change.