Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Burglars Carry Off Pennies. [ARTICLE]

Burglars Carry Off Pennies.

Patoka, Ind., Feb. 16.—Burglars who blew the safe of the Patoka National bank obtained only $67 in pennies, for their trouble. NEW YORK—The county grand jury will make a special inquiry into the case of Folke E. Brandt to ascertain whether the former valet of Mortimer L. Schiff, the banker, was sent to prison for thirty years for burglary in the first degree as the result of a conspiracy. NANKING, CHINA—The assembly approved the edict of abdication. It will insist that the emperor shall have no voice in national affairs and. that Yuan Shi-kai, the former premier, must come to Nanking to take an oath to abide by the provisional constitution. Cleveland; oh io— John w. Hadfield, of the Hadfield Rubber company, and Benjamin E. Whitehead, both of Akron, were given suspended sentences of three and four years on pleas of guilty to shipping rubber goods illegally out of the state. NEW YORK—CoI. Theodore Roosevelt has received a' letter sent him from Chicago by eight governors asking him if he would accept the presldewtiaTnomination, but has not as yet framed an answer to it. .. CHICAGO—Warren Springer, the well known real estate dealer, who died a few days ago, left an estate valued at $2,000,000. All but $5,000 is left to his widow.