Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

MADRID, SPAlN—Premier CanaleJas’ cabinet virtually has resigned. Itjs understood that the contemplated retirement of the ministry is due to the coolness of the king in his audience with. Premier Cahalejas in regard to the commutation of the sentence of death pronounced by a council of war on the revolutionists involved ip the murder of a judge and the wounding bf several court officials at Cullera, in thb province of Valencia. The reprieve of the revolutionists angered the conservative party and exPremier Maura went to Kl«g Alfonso and told him that his act constituted a condemnation of the conservative policies of rigorous; repression at Ba/ celona and of the 'Execution of Ferrer, and that such a proceeding was dangerous to the future of Spain.

EAST WALPOLE. MASS. Robert Perkins Bass, governor of New Hampshire, was married to Miss Edith Harlan Bird, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bird, at ‘‘Endean,’’ the residence of the Bird family Eight years ago, when Miks Edith Bird was a girl of fifteen years, she was at Hot Springs with her parents. Among the guests there was Robert Perkins Bass of Peterboro, N. H.. Harvard graduate, lawyer, rich, and brilliant. , You,ng Mr. Bass was introduced to the girl from East Walpole. The girl and the young man found Interests in common.

BALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—When the loss is due to the negligence of the railroad, is was said, the company cannot avoid payment of actual value for lost baggage because the railway ticket signed by the owner carries a clause limiting the valuation to SIOO. Such was the decision in the, district court here in the case of Mrs. Thomas Homer vs. the Oregon Short Line. Mts. Horter got judgment for S4OO. A trunk thief, the evidence showed, transposed checks at the Bhort Line station in this city and obtained Mrs. Homer’s baggage.

TRINADAD, COLO.—A Yery carefully pknned attempt to hold up Colora do Southern passenger train No. 2 at Garcia, sixteen miles south of here, was only frustrated by the fact that a freight was flagged by the bandits by mistake. The passenger train, which also carries the Denver and Fort Worth mails, was an hour late in leaving Trinidad A freight train left on the passenger train’s > regular time and near Garcia it was flagged. The trainmen saw eight armed men run away a moment after the train hadi slopped. ‘

NEW YORK— The will of late Battalion Chief WilJ'am Walsh, who ..was killed in the Equitable building lire on Jan. 9, as filed for proba’e here, provides for the disposal of an estate valued at SSOO, To each of his six children the testator leaves $5 “as a tokien of fatherly love. The remainder of the property goes to the widow. The family will be amply provided for out of subscription fiinds collected by friends of the dead chief. More than SIO,OOO has already been subscribed for this purpose.

MAY’S LANDING, N. J. Louis Kuehnle, Republican leader of Atlantic City and a millionaire, who was recently convicted of unlawfully Participating in the awarding of a con.ra ;t to a company in which he was interested while he was a member of the Atlantic City Water commission, was sentenced to one year imprisonment at hard labor and to pay a fine of $1,0(10. Kuehnle was released on bail pending an appeal for a new trial. .A-

effective moans of forcing a decreased price of these necessities, Dr. Guy L, fcunner, in a letter to the public, declares his belief that the skyrocketing 6! prices has been due to manipulation by concerns which are holding vast quantities of butter and eggs in oold storage.

WASHINGTON Great reduction! of 30 to 50 per cent on all items in tha iron and steel tarifT and the placing on the tariff free list of iron ore, sewing machines, printing machinery, cash registers, nails, and many other articles against which a tariff is now levled, are proposed in the Democratic steel revision tariff bill, just made public.