Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—A plan—fer—a--big - celebration of the 100th anniversary of the treaty of Ghent is pending before the senate committee on foreign relations in the shape of a bill appropriating $,7,500,000 for that purpose. Senator Burton of Ohio fromed the measure. It proposes that a commission of seven members, all citizens of the United States, and one of whom shall be a retired engineer, shall be appointed by the president, to be, known as the peace centenary celebra-' tlon commission, The menmers of this commission, it Is provided, shall serve for not more than four years without compensation. Their expenses however, will be paid out of the appropriation.

WEST POINT, N. Y.— The semiannual examination at West Point proved disastrous to thirty-one members of the largest fourth-class ever gathered in the military institution. This class was regarded as the best prepared collection of cadets over matriculated, as the members not only passed In the competitive examinations, by which the majority of the appointees are selected, but also passed the regular academic examination with flying colors. The first six months, however, under the military discipline and class training proved too much for the thirty-one and they have been ordered to their homes.

NEW YORK.— Miss Violet Buehler, the sixteen year old girl who disappeared from the Meyers hotel, 602 South State street, Chicago, Nov. 26, and in whose search practically the entire police force of the city engaged, was found working in a kitchen in New York by a private detective agency. She was giving her services for $3 a week and board. She declared that she was well and happy and only feared that her foster mother, Mrs. Herman Buehler, proprietor of the hotel would find some way of compelling her to return to Chicago.

NEW YORK — The national Democratic leaders who have recently been in conference here are agreed that the presidential nomination will, in all probability go to a "dark horse.” “There is little chance for the various leaders to get together on any candidate,” said a member, “and when the convention is called to order June 25 everyone of the fourteen or more men mentioned for the honor will have a group of militant delegates behind him ready to fight to a finish. This means that it is likely to be a ‘dark horse’ year.”

NEW YORK— When Cardinal Farley, the newly crowned prince of the Catholic church, walked down the gangplank from the steamer Berlin, he received a greeting that in its elaborateness has been eclipsed only twice In the history of, the nation —once when cheering multitudes acclaimed the return of Admiral Dewey and again when the safe home-coming of Theodore Roosevelt brought out hundreds of 'thousands of his fellow-citizens.

NEW YORK—The large seven story warehouse of the Terminal Storage company, occupying a full city square near the North river water front, between Twenty-Seventh and Twentyeighth streets, and containing merchandise valued at more than $10,000,000, was swept by fire. The fire was discovered a few minutes after midnight. It was not under control until 6:45 o'clock, when the loss was estimated at $1,250,000.

PASADENA, CAL. —A fire of an unknown origin destroyed the Pasadena hotel, a favorite winter hoffie of many wealthy easterners. The loss will reach $250,000. At 1 a. m. the entire main structure of the hotel had been destroyed and the flames finished their work on the big north wing newly opened this season. No liyes were lost.

JETMORE, KAN.-—A railway branch line train bearing the first shipment of provisions that has reached snowbound Jetmore since Dec. 26 arrived here' in charge of a committee of a hundred Jetmore citizens, led by Mayor Harry Breeze. An ample supply of food and fuel was placed at the disposal of a group of ranchers.

CHICAGO twelve-year-old heir to a fortune, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay. “Vahdab” in Ottoman Zar Adusht Hanish’s Mazdaznan Tpmple in Lake Park avenue, again failed to appear before Judge Pinckney in the juvenile court when the contest over the boy’s custody was resumed.

WASHINGTON— How the millions of peopljkof the United States may have saved them millions of dollars annually ill the Operation of their governmental machinery was outlined by President Taft in a special message to congress on "Economy and Efficiency in the Government Service.”

NEWPORT BEACH, CAL.— Two bur glars blew open a safe of the State Bank of Newport Beach and obtained several thousand dollars. They also blew open the safe in the postoffice. The robbers escaped after a running revolver fight with a few esldents

WASHINGTON-—The constitutionality of the employers’ liability law, which was passdd 15 y congress in 19,8, was upheld by the supreme court of the United States in all the cases before it. The court also decided that state courts may enforce the act when local laws are appropriate.