Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — GENERAL NEWS, [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS,

The Democrats expect to have their caucus a day or two before congress convenes in extra session. There are four Democrats prominently spoken of for the minority leadership. They are Senator Bacon of Georgia who, with Senator Martin of Virginia, is the oldest Democrat in point of service in the senate; Senator Shively of Indiana, the vice chairman of the caucus; Senator Stone of Missouri, who took the lead among senate Democrats in the last days of the recent session in the fight against the tariff board bill, and Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, who for a number of years was the minority leader of the house. The schooner yacht Loyal, as trim as foot schooner yacht Loyal, as trim as any boat in New Yory harbor, lies a prisoner alongside the destroyer Seneca, off the Tompkinsville warship station. It was seized by Captain Carmine of the revenue cutter service on orders from the treasury department in Washington while It was stealing past Sandy Hook just before daylight. According to unofficial information, the Loyal was seized because of representations of the Haitian minister to the United States, who said he understood that arms and ammunition were being put on board the boat which was to clear for Haiti.

A deal to purchase the New York theater and Criterion theater properties, running from Forty-Fourth to Forty-Fifth streets on Broadway, has been consummated by Marshall Field & Co., the Chicago department store owners. The transaction, which takes in also a stretch of property running to the east of the. theaters, involves an investment of more than $3,500,000. Marshall Field & Co. bought the property, it is understood, with the idea of putting up an immense department store, thus establishing the first great enterprise of the kind in the Longacre district. - Lightning struck the liner Oceanic while she was in mid-ocean during a terrific storm. Her foremast was broken off and fell heavily to the deck, waking up passengers and creating a small panic. Many, thinking the ship had struck or was in collision, jumped from their berths and crowded the companionways. Officers went about among them assuring them that there was no danger and they returned to their staterooms. .

At Des Moines, 1a.,. Saturday, Dr. H. B. Kelly of Council Bluffs, being taken to the Inebriate asylum at Knoxville, drew a revolver from his pocket and killed Deputy Sheriff Clarence Woolman, also of Council Bluffs, as the latter was taking him from the Rock Island station to the union station in Des Moines. E. Stursing, a bartender, hearing the shots, ran to'the officer’s assistance and was fatally wounded. The plan of patrolling portions of the plan of patrolling portions of the boundary along the Rio Grande, already proven feasible by the flight of one of the army biplanes from Laredo to Eagle Pass a month ago, is soon to be put into actual practice. Major George O. Squier is in command of the aeronautical detachment of the United States army signal corps that is to do the work. Upholding the contentions of Prosecuting Attorney Henry T. Hunt at every point, Judge Thomas A. Jones, chief judge of the Ohio circuit courts, removed from further consideration of the George B. Cox case Judges Peter Swing and Samuel W. Smith of the circuit court of Hamilton county, in Cincinnati.