Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — CURRENT NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

The national mining congress, in ses sion at Joplin, Mo., adopted resolution* favoring stricter federal control of mining lands. Attorney General W. H. Dixon of Colorado action in the'District Court at Deflver to break up the so-called groqprs’ trust. Fire did $200,000 damage in Parsons* Kan. The biggest losers are Kress A Co., $40,000; Cooper Lumber Company and Dodge-Bryan Lumber Company, $30,‘JQO each.