Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

A Lake City, in Florida, six negroes, suspected of complicity in the murder c" a orominent citizen, were taken from the jail, carried to the suburbs of the city, tied to trees and riddled with bullets. The negroes were gotten out of the jail by ten men who claimed to be officers and who presented to the seventeeny ear-old sou of the sheriff a fake telegram which ordered him to release the negroes The ten men had automobiles, in which they placed the negroes, and then speeded to the outskirts, where another mob was waiting. The negroes were bound to trees and at a given signal the members of the mob, some thirty in all, opened fire with rifles, and pistols Volley after volley was fired until the negroes were literally cut to pieces. The battleship Maine in Havana harbor, will, when raised, be towed out to sea and sunk in deep water unless congress directs otherwise. Information to this effect was received by congress from Secretary of War Dickinson. He forwarded a report of the board of engineers in charge of the work of raising the wrecked Maine. The board recommends that when the wreck is raised it shall -be stripped of all material of value and the remains “towed out to sea and be sunk in deep water.” In his letter of transmittal, Secretary Dickinson said that he had approved the reocmmendation of the board.

The motions at Cincinnati, Ohio, to quash the perjury indictments against George B. Cox, banker and politician, made by his attorneys two weeks ago, were granted by Judge William T. Dickson, of the common pleas court, who has announced his decision in the case. The judge found the indictments defective in substance, this phase of the decision operating to free Cox not only from the indictments in question but also from reindictment on the same set of alleged facts by any subsequent grand jury. Formation of a combination of electric porcelain potteries in Trenton, N. J., and East Liverpool, 0., was finished 1 by J. H. Parker of Boston and George Q. Anderson of this city. The holding company will be the General Porcelain company of New Jersey, recently incorporated. Deeds for all properties here have been filed at Lisbon, 0., the consideration in the several instances being from one to five dollars. New office w’ill be opened and all business cirected by the local headquarters.

At Indianapolis Friday Henry Seyfried, as attorney for John J. McNamara, secretary of the International Association of Structural Iron and Bridge W’orkiers, brought suit in the Marion circuit court to determine if Judge Collins of the police court had proper jurisdiction in turning McNamara over to the California authorities, April 22, when McNamara was arrested and hurried out of the state to answer to an indictment in Los Angeles, Cal. Following Madero’s announcement that peace follows President Diaz’ pledge to resign June 1 came news of a bloody twelve-day battle won by the Mexican rebels in the state of Sinaloa. The town of Corsala, with 7,000 population, was captured after its garrison of 400 had been shot to pieces in repeated assaults on the place by 1,400 insurgents In ’he executive session of the senate the nomination of Elmer Caldwell, of Oregon, to be marshal for the district of Oregon was rejected. The nomination had been unfavorably reported to the senate earlier in the day by the judiciary committee. The nomination was opposed by Senator Bourne.

The special committee of the house elected to investigate the United States Steel corporation began work, its first business being to communicate with the department of justice and the bureauof corporations to ontain records of inquiries made by those departments into the affairs of the steel corporation. Three places on Lake Minnetonka, in Minnesota, have asked the privilege and honor of making themselves the summer headquarters of the president of the United States. A delegation from Michigan called a| the White House to picture to Mr. Taft the beauties of Mackinac Island. Homer M. Messenger, a trustee of the National Order of Railway Mail Clerks, is missing from his home at •Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland. Messenger took a rowboat and went out into the lake to fish. A short time later the boat was found adrift The search of Dr. OrVille Owen of Detroit, who has been excavating in the mud of the River W T ye in England for manuscripts which he believes will establish that Bacon was the author of the Shakespearean plays, has been abandoned. Under the will of Walter E. Duryea, filedi n New Yorfy, 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. Chicago veterans of the Civil war voted against parading on May 30, Memorial day, unless the work-horse parade, scheduled for that,.-day, is called off. Democratic leaders of house served notice on senate that there must be a vete on reciprocity, farmers’ free list bill and on revised wool tariff. Lawyers in congress realize that Oil decision puts limit on monopoly; Tobacco ruling expected to be blow to trust. / Anti-trust suits against central, southern and western lumber associations are now rumored.