Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

KANSAS CITY, MO.—Dr. Benjamin Clarke Hyde was placed on trial fora second time, charged with murdering Colonel Thomas H Swope with poison. The verdict of the first jury, which May 16, 1910, found Dr. Hyde guilty and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment, was reversed and the case was remanded for retrial by the Missouri supreme court April 11 last A special effort is being made by all attorneys concerned in this trial to make speed. A force of deputy marshals worked se/ving the last of the 200 special veniremen from whom the jury will be selected. It was thought the jury would be filled by the end of this week. The entire trial will last not more than three weeks, it .is believed. MILAN, ITALY—Both the British and German ambassadors had a long interview with the minister of foreign affairs, with the view of concluding the conflict between Italy and Turkey. It is said in official quarters that Turkey must abandon the idea of even a threatening demonstration with her squadron, as that would oblige the Italian fleet tc keep it under observation. If Turkey desires peace she must definitely renounce what she already lost. If that be done now Italy is prepaied, considering Turkey’s position. to give indemnity. Later Italy would not only refuse to pay indemnity, but would demand it herself.

CINCINNATI, OHIO--The Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank of Vandalia, 111., has filed its appeal in the circuit court of appeals against the verdict given against it in the federal court of Michigan. It brought suit in that court against former Sheriff Harrison W. Mains of Port Huron, seeking to recover $11,431 from him as damages. It was the bank’s claim that the sheriff, in making an execution levy for the bank, had failed through negligence to attach enough property when he might have done so, with the result that the bank was loser to the amount sued for. The Michigan court and jury decided in favor of Mains. NEW YORK—The federal navy yard shops and commissary department of the army in New York city are to be the subject of an examination by .the congressional committee which is ingovernment properties in this section of the country. The committee, which is composed of Congressmen Redfield of Brooklyn, W. B. Wilson of Pennsylvania and John Q. Tilson of New Haven, began its investigation of the Taylor and other systems of scientific management as applied to government shops in Boston last week.

WASHINGTON—A tribute to the government employe Is written in the annual report of Charles H. Whipple, paymaster general of the army, in a plea for an increase of salary and a system of retirement when the employe reaches the age of incapacity. Referring to the “50 per cent increase in the cost of living during the last fifteen years,” without a corresponding advance in pay, General Whipple says the additional pay is asked not as a reward for services, “but as a necessity.” r NEWBERG, N. Y.—Governor John A. Dix paid an unostentatious visit to Matteawan state hospital for the criminal insane, where Harry Thaw is confined. His visit was without knowledge of anyone at the hospital, it being his request that formalities be abandoned. He was taken through several of the wards and had Harry Thaw pointed out to him in one of the corridors. The governor paused and looked at Thaw for several minutes, and then passed on without making any comment.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The health officers of this city confessed that they could not say when the diphtheria epidemic is to be crushed out. Cultures taken from the throats of teachers and children in the public and parochial schools show that the disease is far from abating and the health authorities ordered parents to keep at home children unedr sixteen. Orders have been issued for the closing of all theaters, picture shows and other places of amusement to children. PEORIA, ILL. —About two thousand school teachers from nineteen counties, composing the Military Tract Educational association, attended the fourth annual convention of the association. The principal addresses were given by J’. N. Hurty, M. D., secretary of the state board of health or Indiana, and William H. Allen, director of the bureau of municipal research, of New York city. . LAFAYETTE, IND. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, has accepted an invitation to speak at the centennial of the battle of Tippecanoe and has been selected to preside at the evening meeting the night of Nov. 7. ROME—An official army bulletin reports that the Turks lost 400 killed and more than 800 wounded at Bengazi. It is farther reported that the Turkish troops, which retired in disorder inland, are trying to rally. MEXICO CITY, MEX.—Official notices from the state of Tabasco minimize the danger from the revolution tvhich started there when 200 armed hen proclaimed Reyes as president md cantured two small towns in the naintains.