Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

1 MONNESSEN, PA.— What is thought by William J. Burns’ detectives to be part of a nation-wide labor dynamite i plot was discovered here when George , Bridges was arrested, having In his possession a suitcase which Were found seventy-two sticks of dynamite and two quarts of whisky and in his pocket was found a roll of fuse. I Bridges is. locked up in the borough ! jail, here, while the authorities, assisted by detectives from the Burns agency in Pittsburg, are endeavoring to discover something about his history and intentions.

CHICAGO —The large plant of the Daily Calumet, a newspaper published in South Chicago, was wrecked by persons believed to be members of a “black -hand” organization. The press and linotype were smashed. Explosives were touched off under the press. George W. Boling, editor of the paper. has been active in a crusade against writers of "black hand” letters. He has received many threatening letters since several of the plotters were sent to the penitentiary a year ago as a result of the war he waged against them.

BROCKTON, MASS.—The shoe manufacturers declare that recent advances in the prices of material will compel an increase of 50 cents a pair in the wholesale price of shoes this winter. At present prices, they say, no profits are possible to the manufacturer. A statement by T. J. Evans, secretary of the Shoe Manufacturers’ association, says: “Leather is going higher all the time, and to make both ends meet we will have to raise the prices.”

NEW ORLEANS—U. S. Attorney Gcneial Wickershan, Ambassador Jusserand of France and Minister Loudon of the Netherlands, accompanied by their wives, arrived in New Orleans prepraatory to sailing for Panama After an inspection of the Panarr.r canal the party will visit Santiago and Havana, returning to Washington the second week in January. The tour, it Is said, is entirely personal, and has no relation to government business.

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

TEHERAN, PERSIA—Mr. W. Morgan Shuster is awaiting the nomination of a successor to whom he can hand over the functions of treasurer genera). The populace, which holds Mr. Sliuster in great esteem, is incensed against the cabinet because of its action in dismissing the American on the demand of Russia. Many letters of protest have been sent to the authorities.

DULUTH, MINN.— Leonidas Merritt, of this city, who gave" testimony before the Stanley committee in Washington, is a Chippewa Indian by adoption, and, as the chiefs of the Nikaniss band of the Chippewas are all dead, this distinction gives Mr. Merritt the right of adoption. While he was in Washington, it is just made public, he adopted Miss Katherine Green of Henderson, Ky., into the tribe. SAN, FRANCISCO, CAL.—That Abraham Rues, the former political boss of San Francisco, will be paroled from San Quentin penitentiary, where he is serving a fourteen-year term for bribery, within the next two months, was the confidential statement made by a well known San Francisco business man who a short time ago visited Rues at the prison. CHICAGO —Judge George A’~Carpenter, in the United States district court, overruled the packers on all their motions to dismiss two of the five founts in the indictments charging violations of the Sherman antitrust law and to recall from the jury some of the statements made by District Attorney Wilkerson in'his opening statement. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—A strike involving about 500 men is threatened at Bicknell, Ind., unless a machine man, discharged a few weeks ago, is reinstated by Friday, according to an ultimatum issued by President Van Horn of the Eleventh district mine workers. NEW ORLEANS, LA—Wire reports filtering in from badly demoralized wires all along the gulf coast east of here and from many points far inland tell of immense damage from the storja that swept that section. BOSTON, MASS.—More than i,GOS r 000 gallons of molasses were in a fire among the wharves and buildings of the Boston Molasses company. The loss is estimated to amount to between $250,000 and $300,000. PANAMA The United States congressional committed on interstate and foreign commerce, of which Mr. Adamson is chairman, after a week’s hearings on canal matters sailed for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Two laborers were killed and sevefit other persons Jngured when a wall of a building occupied by .the R. J. Ederer Thread company. Frankford, collapsed.