Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — GENERAL NEWS, [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS,

The bloody street riots which occurred in Hankow, China, necessitated foreign intervention and resulted in the killing of eight Chinese and the injury of many others. The British police in the foreign settlement found a coolie dying in the street and attempted to take him to the police station, but- he died on the way. This caused a report to spread that the po lice bad killed the man, and a large number of Chinese attacked the police. The disturbance, became dangerous and the British and German gunboats in the Yang Tse Kiang landed parties of marines and sailors, and the volunteers were called to arms. The mob was uot overpowered for some time. There was severe fighting. Several foreigners and sailors were wounded in the fighting. Two thousand troops, sent by the viceroy of New CTrwang, have arrived here to restore order.

Three years after his original indictment, and nearly two years after his conviction and sentence to fourteen years in San Quentin for bribery, Abe Rues, cnee the all powerful political boss of Frisco, secured a rehearing of his case from the supreme court The effect of the ruling is. to place Rues in the same position he occupied when he appealed two years ago from the sentence o! the superior court and gives him an indefinite extension o the liberty he has enjoyed on bail The action of the appellate court Nov 23 in denying Reef’s appeal is se; aside by the highest court, and the whole case Is reopened. Holding that U. S. Senator Lorimer of Illinois had no knowledge of bribery in connection with his election 4s senator from tha; state, denying that his seat was bought, but finding that if even the minority report citing ten tainted legislative votes cast for Mr. Lorimer as currupt was true, Lorimer still was elected by one majority. Senator Gamble of North Dakota, a signer of the majority report of the senate committee on privileges and elections which vindicated Mr. Lorimer, addressed the senate The speech was the ablest defense of Mr. Lorimer yet presented. Fire which originated in the servan*s’ quarters in the Traders’ hotel at Clarksburg, W. Va., swept a part of the business district, inflicting a pecuniary loss of $250,000, while it is es timated two died in the ruins. The fire spread from the Traders’ hotel to the Grand Opera house. It was destroyed with the effects of “The Told in the Hills” company. The Herald Printing company's plant, the D. M. Ogden Drygoods store, Whose loss is $30,00|), Palace Furniture company loss, $30,100. and other smaller structures, whose loss will total $250,000. At Pittsburg, Pa., by dropping an inflated inner tube of an automobile tire down a well, Margaret Saylor, eighteen years old, saved the life of John Wagner, who had fallen in and was drowning. The well is located ir the rear of the Saylor girl’s home. Wagner’s plight was discovered by Miss Saylor. Observing an inflated automobile tube she grasped it and dropped it to Wagner, who, almost exhausted from two hours’ battle for life, used it as a life preserver until rescued by the police, who were called to : 4h,e scene. The retiring treasurer of North Dakota, G. Luther Bickford, was arrested on a warrant charging him with the misapplication of $74,000. He was taken into custody as he came downstairs from the senate balcony following a consultation with his friends. Bickford recently was accused of placing state funds in banks that did not furnish sufficient guarantee in the form of bonds, and a few days ago, the bouse adopted a resolution calling for an investigation -of the affairs of the state treasurer. Representative Denby will be appointed a member of the commission of six created in the treaty betw'een the United States and Canada for the settlement of disputes in connection with the joint use of the boundary waters between the two countries. -The convention provides that the commission shall consist of three American and three Canadian members. Mr. Denby, who was defeated for re-election last November, is the only American commissioner chosen so far. The Miller & Donohue Lumber company oL South Bend, Ind., one of the largest in northern Indiana, has failed for $250,000, and is now insolvent, according to a petition filed by the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lufnber company, asking for a receiver. The Miller & Donohue company failure follows the failure of the Bogardus Land and Timber company of Ford county, Illinois, the paper of'which it had indorsed to the extent of approximately $117,000. Wearing a ring given him by the late Chief Geronimo and covered all over the front of his red sweater with bronze and silver medals of many sorts, Joe F. Mikulec, an Austrian, who has passed the last thirteen years of his life walking around the world, called at the White House to see Pres ident Taft. He desired a letter from the president to paste in the book he carries with him and which contains the signature of every governor in the United States. Attorney - General Kuhn at Lansing,, Mich., has handed down an opinion that legislative employes cannot draw pay for Sundays—an opinion vFhichi it is said, will cut the expenses of the legislative session at least $lO,000 and many additional thousands if the supreme court holds that the legislators and employes are entitled to cry ri!y On working days.