Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Party of Russian Jews on way tei America waylaid and twenty-five were slain. Theodore Roosevelt Is not the first ta give Oyster Bay presidential distinction. George Washington once spent two days there. Prof. E. Clayton Wyland of the school for the deaf in Frederick, Md* himself a mute, is the first person so afflicted to be admitted to membership into the Knightm of Pythias. H« is a member of Lodge 29, and it waa necessary for the initiating committee to learn the sign language. If the rate of consumption in 1905 were maintained indefinitely without change, our coal would last approximately 4,000 years, bat if the constantly increasing rate which has marked the consumption daring the last ninety years be maintained, our coal supply will practically be exhausted within 100 years.