Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

Special agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have just completed a “survey" of all the moving picture show houses and similar amusement places in New York city. As a result, of their find-

ing, the society will ask that the licenses of forty-five of these places be withdrawn and will recommend a sweeping reconstruction of the city ordinances governing picture shows. "We do not question the claim that the moTing-picture playhouse may be an educational institute," says Albert H. Hoeckiey, one of the society’s managers, "but we ere more Interested in the respectability of the attaches employed in certain of these places. We have before us nearly a hundred instances in which employes of the playhouses resorted to questionable methods in their treatment of young girls. The continued use of the darkened room to present the pictures is objectionable. It is found possible to throw pictures on glass screens, in well lighted halls, with better success than in the dark rooms."

Believing for nearly forty-five years that each was dead, Mrs. John Madden, of Saginaw, Mich., and Mrs Sidensticker, of Newayo, are about to be united through the appearance of a mortuary notice of John Madden, who died in Saginaw some time ago. The announcement of his death was carried around the state, and Mrs. Sidensticker read the notice in her home and immediately wrote to Saginaw to ascertain if the Mrs. John Madden was not her sister. The surprise and Joy of Mrs. Madden in eventually locating Mrs. Sidensticker can be imagined. It was in early childhood that the two girls separated and lost all trace of each other, each finally giving up hope of ever seeing the other alive.

The supply ship Celtic arrived from Cuba with a big draft of men whose enlistments have expired or will expire shortly, and the Uncas was dispatched from the Norfolk navy yard to bring the men to this city. When the tug started back to Norfolk, despite the fact that the channel to wide and deep, it went about 1,000 feet off its course and shit hard on the beach. Finally the vessel floated, but only after a night of terror during which distress whistles were blown and rockets and revolvers fired continuously. The men declared the tug on several occasions T: early capsized. At Tokio. Japan, about three hun-

dren politicians, mary of them prominent in the affairs of the government, held a massmeeting In which an attempt was made to create a sentiment unfavorable to the new commercial treaty between Japan and America. The meeting was held for the expresa purpose of embarrassing the government, on the ground that it yielded to America's demand for a limitation of Japanese immigration.

Former Judge William H. West, of Bellefountaine, 0., aged eighty-seven, Ohio’s “blind man eloquent,” is dead. Judge West, who nominated James G. Blaine for the presidency in 1884, was born within six miles of Blaine's birthplace in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He is credited by many with having given Blaine the title of “the plumed knight.”

Harry Thaw may be called to the witness stand here in connection with the state's investigation into charges of cruelty by attendants at the Matteawan State Hospital for the Insane. He has offered his services to Dis-

trict Attorney Mack, ard the latter indicates that he will make use of any

evidence which Thaw presents. At San Francisco, Cal., a spectacular raid in Chniatown resulted in the capture of six Chinese slave girls, said to have been illegally imported and purchased fcr the sum of $25,000. The girls were removed to thd Angel island immigration station and will be held there to await the action of the government. At Boston, Mass., one hundred and thirty-one boxes, each containing 200 candy Easter eggs, were seized at the request of the pure food inspector here It is claimed by the government that the eggs are coated with talcum powder. Which the pure food, laws prohibit as a constituent in confectionery. Great difficulty is being experienced in getting a jury at Viterbo, Italy, to try the Camorrists accused of the murder of Gennasso Cnccolo and wife The people are so in terror of the no torious secret organization that they will pay large fines rather than serve as jurors.

At Lowell, Mich., Mrs. S. P. Hicks, aged sixty-four, was fatally turned when her clothes caught fire from a kitchen stove, death ensuing in a few hours. Mrs. Hicks came to Lowell forty years ago. Jan. 2 she celebrated her fortieth wedding anniversary.

James J. Hill, in New York, when asked about the state of general business is. the northwest and west, said at first it was bad- Then he qualified his statement by saying'that busiue. was steady, cautious and pretty fa.it on the whole. -

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott are preparing to leave Highland, Kan., for their new home in Oklahoma on a farm near Mnskdgee. They are the parents of nineteen children, all of them boys, and thirteen of them living. A church meeting held in the chare! of the Fifth Avenue Baptist churchjin New York accepted the resignation of Rev. Charles F. Aked by a two-thirde vote.