Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — From Far and Near. [ARTICLE]

From Far and Near.

Fire in Manila burned 120 native bouses, making 000 persons homeless. A heavy rain quenched the flames. Cardinal Domenico Svampa, archbishop of Bologna, Italy, is dead. He was born in Italy in 1851 and was created a cardinal in 1804. George Peyton, bartender at the Hotel Jackson in Elyria, Ohio, was cremated In a fire which destroyed a two-story annex of the hotel. Many guests fled in ’ their night clothing from the burning . buildtnf