Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — “Baby" Bliss Is Found Dead. [ARTICLE]

“Baby" Bliss Is Found Dead.

Bloomington, 111., Jan. -- Leonard , Bliss', Bioon ington’s famous fat man, widely known as “Baby,” weighing u7;i pounds, was found dead in his room He was forty years old and had traveled all over the world with amusement companies. NEW YORK—The companies issuing forgery insurance have adopted the most stringent restrictions in issuing policies, itis announced,: so widespread has become the crime of forgery in the United States and go great have been the losses within a year. While* r.o accurate account of the losses has been kept, Albert-S. Osborn, an expert on handwriting, estimates that they aggregated Uu.OCC.OCO, through checks’and drafts alone during 1911. WASHINGTON—The strong protests which the Oklahoma corporation commission, the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission, and GTcivernor Aldrich of Nebraska have made against ele\ ation of U. S. Circuit Jtidga Hook to the supreme court as the successor of the late .Tel n M. Harlan were received at the White House and laid before the president. There werffMntimations'that the Ohio state railroad commissioners might ioin in the protest. „ . - ■ •' WASHlNG!ON—Representative Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, Democratic leader of the house, who has been threatened with appendicitis, is improving rapidly. Indications.- now . are that Mr. Underwood’s abdominal trouble will' yield to treatment without Recourse to a surgical operation. While Mr. Underwood is still in bed, members of his family say that he' is in good spirits and that tie will return to his office early in the week.