Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

A feature of the religious campaign in New York, which is scheduled for the middle of November, will be a great street parade in which men and •-oys will take part. The exact date for this was not decided, but left to the discretion of a special committee. No pains will be sparred to make this parade, which it is planned to hold on Saturday afternoon, elaborate and imposing. The leaders of the movement and the men locally interested agree that the campaign to bring the church to thh workingman will be more difficult in New York than in any ether city atd every speaker laid stress on the necessity for concerted, :lc vigorous action on the part of New York churches to make the movement effectual in New York.

The census of the district along the west shores of Hudson Bay and west to the height of land was taken under the dire< uon of the royal northwest mounted police and is complete, showing a population of 1,500 Eskimos and* Indians and a few white and halfbreed trappers. The enumerators there and in the Yukon and northwest districts had to travel thousands of miles by canoe and horseback and on foot. In osme remote sections of the far north the duties were performed by missionaries and the men of the Hudson Bay company. The census of the Arctic waters was taken by Captain Bernier, the explorer, who has just returned. At Springfield, 111., an announcement was made by Preesident Sherman of the state board of administration of the appointment of Dr. Sidney D. Wilgus as superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. Dr. Wilgus has been at the Elgin asylum the last two years. He succeeds as head of the Kankakee institution Dr. Frank P. Norbury, who was named as a member of the state board of administration to succeed Dr. J. L. Greene, who resigned to take charge of the new Arkansas insane hospital at Little Rock. Dairymen of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, members of the Producers’ Association of Dairymen, started a campaign at their annual meeting against the present federal tuberculin tests for cows. The killing of cows affected with the first stages of tuberculosis was denounced and a, resolution will be drafted and presented to congress asking for the repeal of the law permitting this practice. It is contended that milk is not afaffected by the presence of the disease in its incipiencyL At New York Monday hopes of a speedy settlement of the women’s tailors’ strike were abandoned following a fruitless conference of union representatives and employers. The employers declared that the unions had broken promises to arbitrate, and the workers demanded concessions which the employers said they could not grant. Proprietors jf leading shops say that the strike has already resulted in many orders for gowns being sent to Paris, London and Vienna. Operations on public buildings under construction throughout the country may be stopped indefinitely as a result of an order issued at the treasury department dropping from the rolls of the supervising architect’s office eighty employes, mostly draftsmen. This step was taken as the result of failure of congress at the last session to make sufficient appropriation to cover the expenses of the supervising architect’s office for the fiscal year. I At Coatesville, Pa., the most important development in the negro lynching case came when warrants charging two members of the mob with murder and two policemen with involuntary manslaughter were issued by Judge Butler upon the recommendation of the special grand jury. The jurors were discharged. They had been in session three weeks, and it had been charged that they were reluctant to take action in the lynchingcase.

During a fierce thunderstorm at Ann Arbar, Mich., the barn of the Ann Arbor Matinee Driving club on the fair grounds was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, together with a large amount of racing paraphernalia. The barn was one of the best of the kind in this part of the state and was erected only last spring at a cost of $2,500. No horses were in the building at the time. At St Paul, Minn., Friday, Chief of Police O’Connor announced that County Attorney O’Brien and Detective LaValle had' secured the arrest in Chicago of H. T. Robinson, who, the police say, was one of the men who held up the Shubert theater watchafaan last January and stole $3,392. Two other men whose names the police will not give are known to be under arrest for the same crime. Attorney General Wickersham is embarrassed by the Wiley decision, since he urged that the doctor be allowed to resign as the “condign punishment” which his conduct me-ited. However, the president le't his chief law officer something to retreat to when he said that the attorney general had given an opinion in the case without having all the testimony before him. Premier Canalejas announced that the government had details of a revCK lutionary plot uncovered at Valencia: and Barcelona. Part of this plot was to assassinate General Weyler, captain general of Catalonia. The government insisted it knew the names of the conspirators and the sources of their supplies. London gossip busy with rumors Earl'Kitchener has succumbed to the charms of Lady Naylor-Leyland, formerly Jennie Chamberlain of Cleve- r land. . _