Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

Passengers had a remarkable escape from death near Avant, Okla., when a train on the Midland Valley railroad crashed through a bridge fifty feet high. So far as known only six persons were injured, among them the conductor,! J. C. Smith of Muskogee. The engine passed over, the bridge before the pier gave way. The baggage car hangs at the west end of tne bridge, and the “Jim Crow” car, which went through, lies at the bottom of the creek, nearly buried in the water. The smoking car Js banging over the trestle, and the two rear passenger cars are on the track at the brink of the ravine The rebels oocupied Cape Haitien. The enemy also attacked Fort Liberte as President Simon and troops loft. The last of the Haitian government’s battalions embarked under a shower of lead. The division commanded by General Monplalsar, governor of Port-An-Prince and commander of the federal troeps fought valiantly, but the other forces of the government offered a feeble resistance. The greater part of the defeated federal are now scattered through the north. This city and the southern districts are quiet. The county grand jury at Keyser. W. Va., returned indictments against the Davis Coal and Coke iompany, subsidiary to the Western Maryland railway, and Mine Foreman John Kinney for resi»onsibility for the deaths of twenty-three milters, all Americans, but one —in the explosion of Ott Mine No. 20, near Eik Garden, April 24 last. The evidqijpt?,to show that there was Vn accumulation of coal dust and gas and lack of proper and lawful mining facilities, 3nd that the fans were inactive nearly three days. The regulars, or the Taft men, were in control of the Nebraska Republican convention. Resolutions endorsing the administration of President Taft were adopted without any opposition by the insurgents, who were supposed to be lined up for LaFollette. The latter did not even resist the adoption of the resolutions as they had threatened to do. Resolutions endorsing the Nebraska delegation in congress were also passed. Reciprocity was not inentioned. A dispatch from Ray City. Mich., says that for five minutes a snow flurry occurred several miles southeast of that city, the only snow ever recorded during July in that part of the state. A gale from the southwest lowered the river to such a extent that the traction and electric lighting plants ivere deprived of water for their boilers. Street car power and light current were off nearly an hour while an extension was fitted to the power house intake pipe. A falling off of casualties on Interstate railways during the quarter end ed March 31 last is shown in the accident bulletin for that period, issued by ihe interstate commerce commission. There were 2,124 killed and 16,430 injured during the quarter, including 706 employes killed and 10,974 injured. This is a decrease of 229 in the number killed and of 2,908 in the injured, with the corresponding quarter of last yefr.

In the first statement upon reciprocity since its passage through the senate, which was given out from the Beverly offices, President Taft ac knowledged the Democratic aid, with ovt which, he said, “reciprocity would have been impossible,” and thanked Secretary Knox and his special assistants at the state department for their work, “in the negotiations and fram irg of the pact and their lucid explanation and defense of its terms.” Castro, in the opinion of a diplomatic officer who has given some study to the problem of locating the Venezuelan, is now a sort of “Flying Dutch man,” making desperate efforts to reach a friendly port in his native country, and just as he nears his goal, being turned back, not by storms, but by watchful guardians of the Venezuelan coast or warships of other nations.

At Philadelphia in the presence of high dignitaries of the church and virtually all the clergy in the archdiocese, the Most Rev. Edmund Prendergast was epthroned archbish op of the Metropolital See of Philadelphai in the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, succeeding the late Archbishop Patrick John Ryan. McManigal, alleged confessed dyna miter, and informer against the McNamara brothers, has been abandoned by some of his relatives because he repeats all their conversations with him to the prosecution, according to a statement made by an uncle, George Behm at Los Angeles, Cal. The Paris courts have granted a decree of separation to the Princess de Chimay, formerly Clara Ward, daughter of the late Commodore Ward ol Detroit, from her husbandi, Ricciardi, an employe of the Vesuvius funiqulai railway. ']■ The body of Homer Dimai, of New York, who disappeared from the Dent Dumidi. in the Alps, a few days ago, has been found In a crevasse of that peak. W. F. M. Rice, aged ninety-seven the only survivor of the Seminole war, died at Flint Springs, Tenn., of old age and general debility. Edward Hines told the Lorimer Investigating committee of his lobbying at the capital during the first investigation of the rase. Colonel J. Ham Lewis of Chicago visited the Viterbo trial and Camorrists rattled the cage bars with exceptional vigor. Colonel Roosevelt blames selfish capitalists and hypocritjcal congressmen for retarding Alaska.