Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

' '3 ' CINCINNAT, O. —Some humane society officers witnessed a private performance given by a thrqe-year-old boy whose wrists and ankles had been broken when he was ten days old in order to make him an acrobat and wrestler. The youngster is the son of R. G. Neof, a Greek, who claims that he was a student of physical culture. Neof told the officers that he had broken the wrists and ankles of his son when ten days old and a month later began training the baby for an athletic career. In his performance the Neof child dislocated his ankles and wrists at will and caused them to assume many unnatural positions. I ■ I | WASHINGTON—A sudden collapse of Robert M. LaFollette, whose health has given way beneath the strain of his campaign for the presidential nomination, appears to be complete. Although it is strenuously denied at progressive headquarters, the statement is made that the senator will not be able for some time to resume the active part he has taken in Republican politics. His campaign managers insist, howevCT that he will have recovered in two wveeks. . ’■< * ■■ | WASHlNGTdN— Charging that the Uriited States Steel corporation has destroyed important books and papers wanted as evidence by the govI ernment in its suit under the Sherman law to dissolve t;he trust, and that it was about to destroy more, representatives of the department of justice se- ; cured an injunction restraining the I company from continuing its course. The injunction which is temporary, was granted by Judge Gray.

SUTSIEN, CHINA—The Republicans lost sixty men killed in an outpost engagement with the imperialists fifteen miles to the north of this city. Reinforcements consisting of 3,000 men of all arms are leaving here for the front and a battle is expected soon. Chang Hsun, who is in command of the imperial forces at Suchow, has made an offer to join the revolutionary army with his followers if his personal losses are reimbursed.

I WASHINGTON— Rresident Samuel Gompers of the American Federai tion of Labor, testified in the supreme ' court of the District of Columbia in the contempt of court proceedings growing out of the Bucks Stove and Range boycott case, against himself, John Mitchell and Secretary Morrison. The burden of his testimony was in- ! tended to show that he had not vio- ■ lated the restraining order of Justice I Gould at a certain time. I .

MONTCLAIR, N. J.— During an address in Unity church John Mitchell, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, declared that if he believed the success of the trade union movement depended in any degree upon the commission of illegal acts, he would not hesitate for a moment to sever his connection w-ith it. Mr. Mitchell made this declaration in a discussion of “Labor’s Program for Industrial Justice.”

NEW YORK—The officials of the Hamburg-American line said they had received a wireless dispatch through the marine department of a telegraph company that the steamship Allegheny, which was struck by the British steamer Pomeran, had sunk seventyeight miles northeast of Cape Henry, after the two passengers and the crew of the Allegheny had been taken on board the Pomeran.

WASHINGTON President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor told the court which is trying him, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell for contempt that when he wrote that the court could “go to - with its injunction" he had used the expression in the Shakespearian sense and not a prpfane’ one. He said he meant no disrespect of the court or of its decision. EL PASO, TEXAS — Eight persons were killed in Juarez during the night in a “rebellion” begun by former Madero men; according to a careful count. One was Ciapriona Torres, an insurrecto. The others have not been identified. The mutineers burned all the papers in the jail and the court adjoining, after freeing the prisoners. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The trials of Olaf A. Tvietmoe, Anton Johansen ahd ( E. A. Clancy, of San Francisco and J. A. Munsey of Salt Lake, the labor leaders .indicted for conspiracy to transport dynamite, went over until July 8 in the federal court because of the crowded calendar.

ITHACA, N. Y.—Stuck in by a large snowbank, thirty persons on a train on the New York, 'Auburn and Lansing railroad passed the night between this city and Auburn. The train, leaving Auburn at 7 o’clock in the<evening, “became stalled in a- drift near Mapleton. A relief train was sent out and fared the sme fate.

DULUTH, MINN. The prospects are that there will be 60,000,000 bushels of grain between the Duluth and Superior and the Port Arthur and Fort William elevators at the' opening of navigation next spring This is said to be unprecedented.

> DES MOINES, lOWA General James B. Weaver, Populist candidate for president in 1892, died at the heme of relatives here He was eighty years old. He had been ill only a few days -