Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — Railroad Official III. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Official III.

Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 17.—W. M. Wardrop, superintendent of this division of tho Pennsylvania railroad, is critically ill with double pneumonia.

NEW YORK —Andrew Carnegie has just turned over $25,000,000 to the Carnegie corporation of New York, the body which was incorporated by the legislature June 9 of the present year for the purpose, practically, of taking over Mr. Carnegie’s work in connection with educational institutions, libraries and hero funds. The gift was in the form of 5 per cent first mortage bonds of the United cent first mortgage bonds of United States Steel corporation, the value of the bonds being taken at par.

WASHINGTON—President Taft met the cabinet Tuesday for the first time in three months Secretary Stimson was the only member absent- The reassembling of the president’s official family gave recurrence to the rumors that Secretary Wilson is soon tP resign. This is generally believed to be true, and in official circles it is stated that the secretary of agriculture is only delaying the announcement of his resignation until President Taft decides on another for his place.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—For the first time in this state phonographs Instead of stenographers are to 'take courtroom evidence. An elaborate system of phonographs and sounding boards has been installed in the Springfield courthouse in preparation for the trial of Bertram G. Spencer for the murder of Miss Martha B. Blarkstone As each of the phonographic records is filled it will be taken to another room to dictate to stenographers t' „

BOSTON, MASS.—Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, who is accused of the murder of Avis Linnell. by giving her cyanide of potassium under pretense that it was a medicine which would bring about a change in her physical condition, will be placed on trial for his life in the superior criminal court here jon Jan. 15.

SAN DIEGO, CAL.—A practical demonstration of the effectiveness in destroying aeroplanes of a new explosive shell, even when the explosion occurs as distant as 100 yards from the airship, is reported to have been made in aerial target practice by the Pacific fleet off Coronado islanda COLUMBUS While she was starting a fire with coal oil here, Mrs. Walter Stepro, thirty-five years old, was fatally burned. Her dress caught fire anJ her clothing was burned from her body.

LAGRANGE The St. Jpe Valley Delivery car barns and | repair shops were destroyed by fire. They were owned by H. E. Bucklen of Chicago. The loss was $30,000. All, the news in The Democrat.