Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — Told In a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told In a Few Lines.

Strict enforcement of contract labor law will be more serious blow to South than at first supposed. Speaker Cannon, addressing the Illinois Rankers’ Association at Moline, opposed State ownership of railroads. Ah average of 800 persons sre killed in the United States each year by lightning. This means one in every 100,000. Steel box cars have been bnilt recently which will weigh about 3,000 pounds less than wooden cars of the stuns size and capacity.