Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

The councilmen of Hunnewell, Kansas, have at last obtained their “revenge” over Mrs. Ella Wilson, Hunnewell’s woman mayor, who has humbled the city fathers in a number of conflicts. They allowed the time for levying taxes for next year’s expenses to expire without making a levy. As a result Mrs. Wilson faces the serious problem of how to obtain enough money to pay the town’s 1912 expenses. Mrs. Wilson was agitated, but she declared her confidence in being able to adjust the situation. She said she was considering the institution of ouster suits against the concil, using the ground of negligence as a basis. She pointed out that there Was still a way to secure the revenue i by the collection of a poll tax, but the council must pass an ordinance before this can be done, and the council is flrm and refuses to act. Fully 1,000 persons from, throughtout the state of Indiana attended the first annual picnic given by the Indiana Brotherhood of American Yeoman, at Anderson. All brought heavy baskets and a big dinner spread under the trees was the special feature of the day. Twenty-five homesteads were represented and among the officers present were W. F. Carter of Decatur, 111., state manager, and Elmer H. Ely of Indianapolis, district manager, In the drill team contests after the dinner the Crescent Homestead team of Indianapolis won first prize, while Marion Homestead team of Marion won second prize. Owing to the inability of the chief correspondent, W. E. Davy, of Des Moines, la., to arrive in time, the speaking part of the program was omitted. The Hotel Frontenac at Round Island, on the St. Lawrence river, housing hundreds of prominent guests from many parts of the country, took fire and was threatened with destruction. All guests escaped, some scanty attired. Unable to coup with the flames, Round Island firemen sent an appeal for aid to Alexandria Bay, which place sent an engine and men to the scene. By that time the fire had spread throughout the Frontenac and flames were leaping hundreds of feet into the air, illuminating the picturesque St. Lawrence for miles around.

Edicts of the governments of England, France and Germany failed to terrify W. Hiles, ostrich farmer of Pennsylvania on his latest trip to Africa. The three governments had issued fiats that no ostriches .be taken out of Africa. Mr. Hiles is in Boston with fifty-three of the birds, brought to America and the steamer Kansas The birds were put on the Kansas secretly at Jibuti. Owing to the fact that it is practically Impossible to obtain more Mr. Hiles values his birds at $15,000 each. Chicago’s population is now 2,264,184, according to the announcement by Chicago Directory company. / An increase of 78,901 in the last year over the federal census figures of 2,185,283 was found by the canvassers who have been working for the company. Names numbering 28,550 have been added to the list of residents of the city contained in the publication and fifty pages of new names will appear when it comes from the press inside of the next two or three weeks. Utilization of cornstalks for railroad ties is the novel idea’ of T. Galt. He expects -to go to Washington next month to lay his unique plan before James .Wilson. secretary of agriculture. For steel railway ties, composed of steel and blocks of wood, Mr. Galt proposes to substitute blocks made of compressed corn stalks. If ft is possible to produce sufficient compression he *s confident that a block can be obtained which will be more substantial and more lasting than wood. Calling themselves the advance guard of the only army which ever can prevail against the trusts, with '“co-op-eration" as their cry and object the reduction of the cost of living to its lowest possible level, fifty farmers of stew York and Pennsylvania have arrived in Neew York for the purpose of placing on a business basis a plan whereby the farmer is to sell his produce direct to the city retailer without intervention by the middleman. At Tokio, Japan Count Katsura has tendered his resignation as premier. He recommends the appointment of the Marquis of Saieni for the post. The cabinet for which Ceunt Katsura is premier and minister es finance was formed July 14, 1908. His resignation was forecast nearly a month ago, and it was known that many changes in the cabinet had been under consideration. The entire town of Dragon is to be moved twelve miles as the result of the completion of the Uintah railway. Dragon, now boasting 600 inhabitants, will be moved bedily on flat cars to Temple, which will be the new town. Houses, railroad shops, stores and all are to be transported. A special received at Madison, Ind., from Chicago says that the Tinnis Construction company of Pittsburg has bought a controlling interest in the Madison, Ind., Light and Railway company? This purchase is a preliminary step toward building the traction road from Scottsburg to Madison. When the postal savings bank opens in Los Angeles, Cal., it is to be in the charge of Mrs. B. C. Shelton, who for years has been assistant superintendent of the money order division. She was once connected with the auditor’s division in. Washington. • Th.e National Hobo’s convention will be held near the state fair grounds at i Indianapolis Oct. 1 to 4.