Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Party of Russian Jews on way to America waylaid and twenty-five were slain. Theodore JRooseveK is no l the first to give Oyster Bay presidential distinction. George Washington once spent two days there.' —— —~~~~7" ■“—* Prof. E. Clayton Wylatul of the school for the deaf in Frederick, Md., himself a mute, is the-first person so afifiuted to be admitted to membership into the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of Lodge 29, sad it was necessary for the initiating committee to learn the sign language. If the rate of consumption in 1905 we«*o maintained indefinitely without change, our coal would last approximately 4,0J0 years, but if the constantly increasing rate which' has marked the consumption during the last ninety years be maintained. our coal supply will practically be exhausted within HX) years.