Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

Heirs to the thrones of Europe, the princes and princesses, and special ambassadors who have been royal guests during the coronation festivities, have said farewell to King George and Queen Mary, and the greater number have already left London. Throughout the day special trains bound for the coasts rojiowed one another. The Duke of Connaught attended each departure on behalf of the king, while the regular embassies were present to/sajH good-by to the envoys of their respective nations. Th grat coronateeion fleet at Spithead also dispersed, the foreign warships saluting the flags of Great Britain and the commander in chief as they passed out. The census committee, of which LaFollette is chairman, considered the bill authorizing a reapportionment of the country for representatives in congress on the basis of population shown by the last census The committee voted seven to three to report the bill favorably in the form it came from the house, which provided for a house of representatives to consist of 433 members and which would reduce the representation of none of the states of the Union. Senator LaFollette asked for a week in which to file a minority report. Senators DuPont and McLean voted with LaFollette against reporting the bill favorably. It is said at the White House the Anglo-American arbitration treaty has been agreed upon in every important provision, there now remaining only a few minor details for settlement between the state department and the British foreign office. Ambassador Bryce called upon President Taft and the announcement was made following a conference between the two. The final negotiations in the work of smoothing out the unimportant points of difference between the state department and the British foreign office will be begun at once and it is hoped that the treaty will be ready for submission to the senate at this session.

Captain Williamson, Inventor of the Williamson submarine tube caisson, has been awarded a contract to recover the treasures sunk with the steamer Merida of the New York and Cuba Steamship company, which went down in collision with the steamer Admiral Farragut recently east of Cape Charles. The Merida carried besides the valuables % of 300 passengers, half a million dollars in silver bars. She also carried a valuable cargo of general merchandise. She was sunk in 200 feet of we ter, and marine men claim she cannot be reached by divers. At New York Tuesday Aietana Saglinbe, twenty and comely, met Anthony Fiverone, an admirer, in the street at night and upbraided him for not telling her that he was married. A crowd gathered as him and by mutterings of approval urged her to greater agitation. She whipped out from the folds of her dress a revolver and fired three times. Each bullet struck a different man and aJI three will probably die. Fiverone is one of the wounded. Justice Daniel T. Wright of the District supreme court, at Washington Monday issued a rule against Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, labor leaders, requiring them to show cause July 17 why they should not be judged guilty of contempt of court. This action followed filing of the report of the special committee of attorneys appointed by Justice Wright to inquire into the contempt proceedings in the Bucks Stove and Range boycott case. When the senate met Senator Penrose came forward with a proposed agreement for a vote on Canadian reciprocity on July 24 to be followed within a few days by a vote on the farmers’ free list-bill and the wool bill on definite dates. There was considerable disci ssion, but finally Senator LaFollett objected to the cate for the Canadian bill and Senator Smoot objected to fixing a day for a vote on the farmers’ free list bill and the wool bill.

The saengerfest held in Milwaukee of the North American Saengerbund closed with a picnic, at which an election of officers was held and Louisville was chosen as the city to entertain the next convention in 1914. For the first time in the history of the organization there is a deficit in prospect of nearly SB,OOO, due partly to the excessive heat during the concert days. Charles G. Schmidt of Cincinnati was re-elected president. The Chinese famine is ended. Re ports from the consular officers in various sections of the affected district, forwarded to the state department by Minister Calhoun, bring the news that the crops are now being harvested and there is no longer need of assistance from the United States. Students representing 225 colleges and including sixty Chinese gathered at Linwood park, just west of Cleveland, 0., to take part in the annual student conference under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. John H. King of Bridgeport, Conn., seventeen years old, is dead as a result of being hit on the temple by a pitched ball during a game in which he was taking part . H. H. Kobisaat of Chicago told the investigating committee in Washington that Lorimerism means a cohesion of Republicans and Democrats for party and private pelf. Bruno Oscar Klein, who was one of the best known musicians in New York, is dead at his home. He had been in this country for more than tihrty years.