Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — Is This the Virtuous G. W. P. Beveridge Told About? [ARTICLE]

Is This the Virtuous G. W. P. Beveridge Told About?

New York, Dec. 28—It is announced that George W. Perkins will retire from the executive committee of the United States Steel Corporation and it is strongly intimated shat another leader, who has been conspicuously active in speculation, also will be retired shortly. J. P. Morgan, it is understood, opposed to the stock exchange opera<tipn#")of certain members of the executive committee. It has long been a story in “Wall Streetythat Mr. Perkins was forced from the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. because of his operations in the stock market. Mrs. Jennie A. Beane, who for years has enjoyed the distinction of being the only woman journeyman plumber in the world, died Wednesday at Rockford, 111., of injuries suffered a week ago in % street car accident. Ethel Rodman, 17 years of age, of Hobart, committed suicide Wednesday by jumping into the lake at Michigan City. The girl was an orphan and inability to find employment or a disappointed love affair, the police do not know which, caused her to commit the rash act Governor-elect Ralston will introduce Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, who will be the principal speaker at the opening of the fifty-ninth annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ association Thursday night, Dec. 26. The meeting will be held in Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis. Mr. LaFollette’s subject has not been announced.