Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — Where? [ARTICLE]

Where?

artist— I This is my painting, "Youth In the Melon Patch." Critic—But. where are the melons? Artist—What * folish questions WASHINGTON—Both houses of the congress reassembled after a recess for the Christmas holidays, which began Dec. 21. Mos't of the senators and representatives had returned. Tho house was in sesslsn_only fifteen minutes. Representative Smith of California, -who had been ill since the b«I inning of the Slxty-secoqd congress, was sworn in. NEW YORK—Richard Oroker, the former leader of Tammany Hall, and his two sons, Richard Croker, Jr., and „ Howard Croker, were made joint defendants in a suit brought in the supreme court to recover $104,000 by ’ John J. Breen. Breen was married to Miss Ethel J. Croker, daughter of Richard Croker, on April 28,, 1910, in Hoboken, N. Ji Breen set forth that he was damaged in the sum of sloo,* , 000 because Croker and his two sons alienated from him the affections of, his wife. NEW YORK—If the gas in a “quarter meter" had not become exhaus-ed unexpectedly, Frederick Eck probably would be dead Instead of recovering from an attempt at self-destruction. Eck wrote a letter to the janitor announcing his intention to commit suicide. When tRe letter was delivered the janitor burst open Eck’s door and found his unconscious and one end of the gas tube in his mouth. Investigation showed that no gas was escaping and that the supply in the meter had run out.

(To be continued.)