Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

Dr. Wiley, pure food expert and chief chemist of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, has been condemned by a committee on personnel of the department of agriculture with a recommendation to President Taft that he "be permitted to resign” from his official position It is charged that Dr. Wiley permit ted an arrangement to be made with Dr. H. H. Rushy, a recognized pharmacognocist of Columbia university, New York, for compensation in excess of that allowed by the government. It is claimed that the arrangement was to put Dr. Rusby on the payroll of the department at‘sl,6oo a year as an employe of the bureau of chemistry, an agreement being made with him that he should be called upon to perform only such service as this salary would compensate for at the rate of >2O per day for laboratory investigations and SSO per day for attendance in court. At Chicago strikes have been called on nineteen apartnfent buildings and one church where plumbers have contracts. Carpenters, bricklayers, lathers and building laborers were all called out. This is considered the most serious blow the United Association of Plumbers has received since the beginning of the jurisdictional fight against the International Associa-1 tion of Steamfitters. The Joint Arbitration association called the strike. This was done in accordance with a resolution adopted recently by the board to stop construction work on buildings where steamfitters that are affiliated with the plumbers’ organization have contracts.

At Denver, Colo., Tuesday the fourth annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, with representatives from many parts of the country, began the first day of its four days’ meeting when its delegates turned out to witness Denver’s industrial parade. Preceding the parade was the reception of delegates. The convention was called to order in the afternoon by President Alexander S. Taylor of Cleveland, O. Governor John Sbafroth delivered an address of welcome to Colorado, and Henry A. Lindsley, city attorney of Denver, delivered an address of welcome to Denver.

Indications of the scope outlined for the investigation of Senator Lorimer’s election and the Illinois Legislature became known when it leaked out that the senate committee proposes to go into the fish scandal and the furniture deal in which certain Illinois soions were involved. The latter w il take the United States senators fairly into the activities of the legislature. Until now it was not expected that the inquiry would extend to any such limits, even though it "’•eady has gone more into detail tud.ii any prior committee. At Cincinnati, Ohio, the quick ration by the police averted what gave prepiise of being a lynching in the center of the city, when the officers captured Charles Lawrence, a negro, from an enraged crowd at Vine street and Opera place. Lawrence accosted Miss Belle Daugherty and dragged her into an alley. Bystanders rescued the girl, whose cries attracted several hundred people. The negro was captured and almost beaten to death before the officers could get him. He is in a critical condition. -

Donald M. Frame, clerk of the cigar stand in the Union League club in Chicago, corroborated the testimony of Herman H. Heittler, the Chicago lumberman, who told the committee that Edward Hines on May 26, 1909, the day on which Senator Lorimer was elected, boasted at the cigar stand in the club of having personally brought about the election of Lorimer. Mr. F:ame said he heard Mr. Hines say to Mr. Heittler. “I elected Lorimer.” John Carson, special counsel for the Alaska syndicate and author of the letter to Captain D. H. Jarvis regarding the Morrisey account, Which was included in the charges made by Delegate Wickersham against Attorney General Wickersham, says the alleged “Dick to Dick” letter which Miss Abbott asserts she discovered in the interior department record, is “rankest nonsense.”

Near Hammond, Ind., Cecil Hancock, twelve, who lives on his father’s farm in Jasper county, Indiana, was presented with a $2,000 touring car by an exasperated New York transcontinental automobile tourist, who met with an accident near Hancock farm. The tourist refused to give his name, but the automobile had a New York license number. State’s Attorney John E. Wayman of Chicago, admitting that he had been gicssly imposed upon by Frank Pardee, an ex-convict, dropped the murder charge against Simon O’Donnell, president of the Chicago Building Trades council, and Thomas Kearney and James Garvin. Maurice Enright will be tried.

Isaac Baker of Chicago, buyer for the Edward Hines Lumber company, gave testimony in which he corroborated the story of his employer, Edward Hines, as to the latter’s ments and telephone conversations in Chicago on May 26, 1909, the day on which Senator Lorimer was elected. At Fort Wayne, Ind., John M. Nolan, aged fifty-one, a night watchman in the Pennsylvania railroad freight house, shot and killed his wife and tried to kill himself. The bullet grazed his head and he suffered a scalp wound. Governor Deneen, unde? cross-exam-ination in Washington," denied Hsnecy’s theory that a conspiracy existed to overthrow Lorimer.