Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — GENERAL KEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL KEWS.

At New York, Saturday twenty-five men standing in a First avenue saloon experienced a spasm of terror when a powerful racing automobile leaped through the plate glass window, pushed its hood into the room and came ta standstill in the debris Just as the rear wheels cleared the window sllL The men liberated John Juhass and his wife. Juhasz is a noted racing driver and he deliberately pointed his car at the window to avoid running down two children who toddled In front of the car. He wrecked the car and was glad of it, he said, so long as he did not strike the children.

Notice that the executive board of the International Association of Structural Iron Workers had levied an assessment of $5 on each member of the union for the purpose of obtaining a defense fund to be used in aiding Secretary J- J- McNamara, who is to be tried at Los Angeles for alleged complicity in dynamiting outrages, is contained in the May issue of the Bridgemen’s Magazine, the official publication of the union. The call to the unions for, money is included In a statement by F. M. Ryan, president, who sets out the iron workers’ views of the McNamara affair. t

Education of the Filipino ia a task toward which insular bureau officials are directing special effort and to augment the small army of 9,000 American teachers already employed in Philippine schools the government is appealing for more instructors. Examinations will be held throughout the country Aug. 30 and 31 next to obtain a list of eligibles. The educational system in the Philippines, according to the insular bureau, has grown during the last ten years to such an extent that there is now an attendance of more than half a million school children. Three and a quarter million dollars of Philippine revenues is expended annually In this branch of the service. Leaving his engine, which was pulling an eastbouna Wabash paseenger train, Charles Miller, an engineer, led a party of fifty passengers to the burning home of Miss Daisy Whittaker, west of Chilliccthe, Mo., and extinguished the flames, probably saving the lives T Miss Whitaker and her aged mother. Following the placing of a small brown bean pot filled with a white powder under the famous “Bridge of Sighs’’ at the Tombs prison. New York, an Italian boy and an old woman were arrested. They are suspected of trying to blow up the prison. Attorneys for the Alpha Cement company have presented to the interstate commerce commission figures to show that the total capitalization of the United States Steel corporation and J. P. Morgan & Co. concerns amounts to $15,857 629.339. Captain John H. Gibbons assumed the superintendency of the United States naval academy at Annapollß. The wealth produced on farms of the United States was $8,926,000,000 during 1910, as estimated by ths department of agriculture. George Dryer, son of a New York banker, revealed his identity to officers of a boat at Seattle, Wash., on which he w as working his way to Alaska, after it was rumored that he committed suicide, following his disappearing from home. .

Under the will of Walter E. Duryea, filedi n New York, the bulk of his fortune. estimated at $2,500,000, goes to Miss Eleanor Peregrine, a trained nurse, who was his housekeeper for the last twelve years of his life. To decide the ownership between nations of $7,000,000 worth of property now on the American side of the Rio Grande river, in the southern section of El Paso, an international commission met at El Paso, Tex. The government is holding out attractive inducements to ambitious young men and women to become teachers in the Philippine Island schools. Examinations are to be held Aug. 30 and 31. The steamship Corwin sailed from Seattle for Nome, the famous gold camp on Bering sea, where 1,500 people have been cut off from direct connection with the woTld since last October.

Farm life is more perilous than that of the artisan or factory employe, say statistics of the National Association of Manufacturers, which is in sixteenth annual convention in New York. The first aero taxi will be put into service in a week or two at Lucerne, Switzerland, according to advices received by the New York Aero club. A French company is the builder. The irrepressible American interviewer has succeeded at last in talking with the dalai lama of Tibet, generally regarded as the most unapproachable being in the world. New York brokers appealed to United States supreme court to hurry up Standard Oil and tobacco case decisions, saying wait hurts business. Colonel Roosevelt denied that he would hunt polar bears in the Arctic with Captain Robert Bartlett, during 1912, presidential year. It is reported that the engagement of Claude Grahame-Wihte, the British aviator, and Pauline Chase, the actives, has been broken. Remains of the ancient clixt dwellers will come into possession of the'United States, through giving the TTte Indians more land. The Yale scientific expedition to Peru recently authorized by the university corporation will leave New York June 8. '