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

Telegraphic Brevities.

A receiver was appointed for the big wholesale grocery firm of E. C. Hazard & Co. of New York with liabilities placed at $200,000. Officials of the War Department at Washington are investigating their powers to grant permission to the Isthmian canal commission to incur a deficiency of $6,000,000 to avoid a partial suspension of construction on the carnal. Corporal James A. McLain, Jr., an army recruiting officer, committed auicidS at a hotel at Rutland, Vt., by drinking carbolic acid. The Georgia Assembly adjourned after a riotous session caused by the efforts to put through Gov. Hoke Smith’s legislation, including the railway oommiaalon bill. Henry W. Wagner, the aasaitant of Miss Alma Whitehead, near Turnersvillh, Pa., was captured and quickly pleaded guilty before a magistrate at Mcadville, Pa., in order to get into Jail to Recaps being lynched.