Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

The bureau of corporations’ report clearly indicates that if there is trouble ahead for United States steel because of the Sherman anti-trust lawcomplications, it is likely to be on the score of the corporation’s control o£ ore deposits and the transportation facilities leading from the ore fields. The commissioner charges that the steel corporation controls 75 per cent of the “lake ores" on which the present steel industry of the country is based and that this advantage is materially enhanced by the corporation’s grip upon the railroad situation. He looks askance at the Great Northern ore lease, apparently viewing it as a move to prevent independent operators from reaching this supply. As regards the production, of steel, the commissioner finds that the relativ r oporOon of the business controlled by the trust has been gradually diminishing since its organization The corporation, according toj the government figures, now controls a little more than 50 per cent of the crude and finished steel production as against 60 per cent in 1901. President Taft spoke on arbitration and currency reform to the Hoosiers at Marion. He was the guest of the town of Marion in particular, but all Indiana joined in the welcome. En tbusiastic crowds greeted him at every station along the route of his Journey and he was interrupted in his work on his speeches every little while by calls for a speech. He made short ad dresses at half a dozen places from the platform of hi scar and chatted with the people who gathered to greet him at every stop. The heat was intense, the thermometer in the presi dent’s car registering over 100 de gress. Mr. Taft, however, stood it re marbably well.

At London, Eng., a fashionable audience, assembled in church for a wedding, was disappointed when the bride elect, l ady Constance Foljambe, a half-sister of the earl of Liverpool, comptroller of the king’s household, failed to appear for her marriaee to the Rev. A H. K. Hawkins. It is believed that the discrepancy it It is believed that tbe discrepancy in ages of the bride and bridegroom, twenty-six and forty-six, was responsible for Lady Constance’s change of mind. Lady Constance attained notoriety two years ago by climbing the spire cf Whitwell church. Representative Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, conferred with the leaders. He told them that the house cotton bill would be ready for the sen ate in about two weeks. He stated further that the ways and means committee would not remain idle. Con firming what Speaker Clark said Chairman Underwood said that the committee would immediately take up the other schedules of the Payne-Ald-rich law and revise them and send them over to the senate. This work will go on, he says, as long as con gress is in session.

Robert W. Swazey wag burned at the stake by Mexican bandits neai Fort Sumner, N. M., on June 15 according to. a letter received here from Mrs. Emma Bingman, tormerly of this city, and mother-in-law of the dead man. He was killed for refusing to reveal the hiding place of a large amount of money that had been left in his care by a Mexican railroad that employed him, the letter said. Mrs. Bingman has notified the British government of the case. It is likely that within a few days Senator Penrose, chairman of the finance committee, will ask the senate to fix a date by unanimous consent foi a vote on the Canadian bill. The in surgent senators declare they have no intention to obstruct and, with a few speeches yet to come, they will be ready for a vote on the Canadian bill. There was a general feeling around the senate that that body was nearer to an adjournment vote than has been generally believed.

President Winchell says Frisco lines have acquired under long time leases the Louisiana Southern railway and that beginning July 1 this line, which connects with the Frisco’s extensive New Orleans terminal, which follows the Mississippi river’s east bank from New Orleans south to Bellair, thirty miles, with a line from New Orleans to Shell Beach on Lake Borgne, a distance of thirty miles, will be operated as part of the Frisco. * Three Presbyterian clergymen have departed on the Carona to visit all the Presbyterian missions of the world. They are the Rev. Charles E. Brandt of Chicago, secretary of the foreign board in the central district; the Rev. Dr. William R. King of Mon mouth, ,111., chairman of the foreign missions committee of the synod, and the Rev. Dr. W. H. Reherd of Waterloo, la., ebairm an of the synodical :