Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

MINNEAPOLIS, MlNN.—Minneapolis men sent $20,000,000 into the country in October to pay for the grain farmers shipped here. This is on a month’s movement of 20,437,110 bushels of grain into this market, compared with 19,380,200 bushels in October, 1910. The backflow of money to the country was nearly 25 per cent larger than at any previous period in the grain trade history of the city. The wheat farmers took out $13,000,000, the corn raisers $250,000, shippers of oats $350,000, barley shippers $3,000,000, rye Shippers $400,000, and the flax raisers, in the most profitable year ever known for those who had good yields, received $2,400,000. WASHINGTON—The freight rates on both fresh and cured meats and other packing house products from Cedar Rapids. la., to eastern destinations must not be greater, after Dec. 1 next, than those from Missouri river points or from Chicago. An order to this effect was made by the interstate commerce commission in the case of T. L. Sinclair & Co. of Cedar Rapids against the SL Paul and other railroads. Complainant showed that the rate on live hogs from lowa points to the east is lower man on dressed hogs and hog products. LOS ANGELLS, CAL.—William N. Selig, president of the Selig Polyscope company of Chicago, who was shot by a Japanese and reported fatally wounded, when Francis Boggs, local manager of the company, was killed by another shot, is reported as not so seriously wounded as at first supposed. Physicians at the hospital where Mr. Selig was carried say that he will recover from his injuries. The Japanese is in jail charged with committing murder in the killing of Boggs. It is believed he is of unsound mind. * WASHINGTON —The marriage of Miss Fola LaFollette, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Robert LaFollette, to George Middleton, the playwright, took place at the Washington residence of Senator and Mrs. LaFollette. Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, chaplain of the senate and pastor of All Saints' church, performed the ceremony. No cards had been issued and only the immediate relatives were present The couple were attended by Paul Kester, the dramatist and Miss Mary LaFollette, a younger daughter-of the senator.

NEW YORK—When the heavy mists lifted over the Hudson there were disclosed a gray line of fighting ships extending seven miles up the river—from West Seventy-seventh street to Spuyten Duyvil. It was the Atlantic fleet at anchor and ready for inspection by Secretary Meyer and President Taft. There are 102 ships of all classes, with more than 30,000 sailors and marines and 1,700 officers. There are six vessels of the dreadnought class, the Florida, Utah, Delaware, North Dakota, Michigan and South Carolina. WASHINGTON— The complete control of all the railroads of the country by the interstate commerce commission, and virtual elimination of the state commissions from such control,, is predicted by business and financial men, following the opinion handed down by the supreme court of the United States that hereafter all locomotives, ears or other equipment used on any railroad which is a highway of interstate commerce must comply with, the federal safety appliance act WASHINGTON— Frank W. Lowery, alias Brocks, the notorious cracksman and train robber arrested here for stealing an automobile laprobe, says several of the most dangerous crooks in the country have been camping here end plwwning a series of robberies. Two jobs already accomplished were credited to this band by Lowery, one of them being the robbery of the fashionable Chevy Chase club of SI,OOO in money and jewels. ’■ * —— ROME —The pope will create seven- , teen cardinals at the consistory to be held Nov. 27. The Most Rev. John M. Farley, archbiship of New York, and the Most Rev. William H. O’Connell, archbishop of Boston, are among those who will receive the red hat Manager Diomede Falconio, apostlic delegate at Washington, also wil be elevated. LONDON —A cable dispatch from Constantinople - "''says: “According to j news from Tripoli published here the Turks have captured the last of the Italian outer intrenchments and occupied the suburb Zahre and all the approaches to Tripoli from the northvest WASHINGTON— Very rich deposits of potash, said to contain more than enough of this substance to supply the needs of the United States, have i been located in the west by scientists j of the department of agriculture, according to Secretary Wilson. NEW YORK—The answer of U. S. Attorney General Wickersham to the plan of dissolution and reorganization of the American Tobacco company and : its co-defendants in the government • antitrust suit was fikd in the circuit court of the United States. TEHERAN-r-The former shah is reported to have reappeared and severely defeated a government force near BanHergaz, capturing guns and a camp It is said that the ex-Shah’s troops w >re commanded by Russian officers and aided by Russian troops.