Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

SOUTH BEND, IND.—Several mortgages for $4,150,000 were filed with the county auditor by the Northern' Indiana Railway company. The mortgages given to the United States Mortgage and Trust company and to the Citizens’ Loan and Trust com pany, the former of New York and t latter of South Eend, and are for $4,000,000 and $150,000 respectively The property of the company in St. Joseph, Laporte and Elkhart counties, Indiana, is security. Similar mortgages for $7,000,000 were recently recorded. WASHINGTON—To fitly commemorate by a national holiday the admission of Arizona into the union; thereby completing the chain of commonwealths from the Atlantic to the Pacific and marking the end of territorial government in continental United States, is the aim of Delegate to Congress Philip Cameron, from the youngest commonwealth. He will introduce a resolution in the house after the holiday recess and Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee will introduce a similar resolution in the senate. KANSAS CITY, MO.—Harry W. Waldron, the juror whose disappearance Sunday night blocked the second 1 trial of Dr. B. C. Hyde, charged with the murder of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, returned home pale and emaciated after wandering over Kansas. He was brought into court by Mrs. Waldron and at once went into a conference with Judge Porterfield. Afterthe conference the judge announced he would dismiss the jury on the ground that Waldron was not mentally/competent.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—Fifteen persons were injured in a collision of a taxicab with a street car near the Union station. William Pullem, a secret service man riding on the taxi-' cab, was injured, perhaps fatally. He was on the taxicab to protect the nonunion driver from strike sympathizers. John Tucker, chauffeur, said hebad been struck by a brick thrown a few minutes before the accident, and this caused him to run into the cai.

WASHINGTON—A sharp issue is taken by the interstate commerce commission with the commerce court in the twenty-fifth annual report of hecommission transmitted to congress. The issue, is made principally upon what popularly is known as the“transcontinental rate cases,” involving freight rates from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts terminals and to Intermediate points, ordered by the commission.

PARIS, FRANCE —The name of Mme Curie, the discoverer of radium, and one of the most eminent professors of chemistry at the College of France, was cited in a petition filed in the divorce court by the wife of Professor also a professor of get' -al and experimental physics at the College of France. The charges w< *e made informally by Mme. Langevin several weeks ago.

SHANGHAI, CHINA —The consuls of the six powers called on Tang Shao Yi and Dr. Wu Ting Fang and presented a note expressing the good will of their respective governments and the hope that the present peace conf*ienc*s would be successful. ThepresentationS, first at the headquarters of Tang Shao Yi and then at the'horpe of Dr. W’ Ting Fang, made an impressive scene. , SHANGHAI, CHINA—The promise of peace in China became more definite with the announcement that all six of the great powerp—Japan, Great Britain, the United States, Russia France and Germany—are united in a co-op-erative effort to assist Dr. Wu Ting: Fang and Tang-Shoa-Yi tn their negotiations. CHICAGO —Samuel B. McHenry, ai| inventor of Chicago, who was recently arrested in Washington for annoying, Miss Katherine Elkins, was; brought to Chicago by two Washington detectives ahd given over to the authorities. He will be given a hearing; before County Judge Owens. .—. ■■■ j LONDON, ENG.—The British gov" ernment has decided to exclude all the American meat packers against whom prosecutions have been instituted in the United States from tendering contracts for the supply of meat for the British army and navy, pending the; settlement of the suits. BAD AXE, MICH.—Mrs. CarrieSparling, four members of whose family-have died supposedly from arsenic poison and who was arrested on the specific charge of having caused! the death of her son Cyril, was arraigned before Judge ' Skinner. PORTLAND, ME.—Ten long yearsin the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga was the sentence imposed upon the Rev Frank W. Sandford, leader of the Holy Ghost and Us Society of.Shilol for causing the deaths of six personon the yacht Coronet OLUSTEE. OKLA.—Rev. Charles. M. Brewer, former army chaplain, whois alleged to have been implicated in the dynamite outrages in Fort Riley, Kan., returned here, having been released on his own recognizance by - Deputy Sheriff Collins. -PARIS, FRANCE The petition’ for a separation from her husband presented in the divorce court by Mme Langevin has been granted.