Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON— United States Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin is not entitled to his seat in the opinion of five members of the senate committee on privileges and elections, who filed a minority report With the senate. The majority report of the Investigation of Senator Stephenson’s campaign expenditures was submitted Feb. 12. In substance it held that the charges of corruption in the primary election of UK)B were not proven. The minority report Is signed by Senators Kenyon, CHapp and Jones, Republicans, Lea and Kern, Democrats. It contends that enough evidence was adduced by the inquiry to warrant the senate in declaring Senar tor Stephenson’s seat vacant. " * CHICAGO —Two prominent rail officials and two promoters of burlesque fchowf» and railroad and theatrical corporatiyns were indicted by the fed-! eral grand jury on a charge of vlo-! lating the Interstate commerce law In entering into a rebating arrangement, j One of the men indicted was Rudolph K. Hynicka, a prominent politician of Ohio. Others Indicted were William H. Underwood of Chicago, assistant general passenger agent of the Michigan Central Railroad company; | Harry J. Rhein, general passenger, agent of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, and Janies E. Fennesgy of Cleveland, O. There were four indictments of five counts each. NEW YORK —-.Francis R. Arnold, whose name has become familiar since the disappearance of his daughter, Dorothy, in December, 1910, and who has since then received dozens of threatening letters, believes that at last bis most persistent annoyer Is un-

| der arrest. The girl whom he accuse*, i is Bessie Green, a negress, twentythree years old, who lives at 14 West One Hundred and Thirty-Third street. She was arrested and held in $5,000 bail for examination 4 on a short affidavit charging attempted blackmail. Within the last year Mr. Arnold has received about three,, dozen threatening letters. Indianapolis; ind.—several new discoveries made in the dynamite conspiracy cases through 40,000 letters and telegrams quoted in the indictments as implicating practically all of the officials of the International Assoclatloin of Bridge and Strucural Iron Workers will be the basis, it is declared upon which the government will seek to convict the fifty-four defendants charged with committing or abetting In almost one hundred explosions. BOONEVILLE, MO.— A large interstate convention to form a national organization to perfect the plans for a transcontinental highway was called for Kansas City, April 17, at a meeting of the executive committee and officers of the Old Trails Road association here. At the seslon a report of fins progress was made on Boone’s Lick trail, a portion of the Missouri cross state road forming a part of the proposed coast to coast highway. POMONA, CAL. —Bank experts'at work on the books of the American National bank finished their work arid it was announced by the officials of the bank, that Bookkeeper Earl Standard’s shortage amounts of $149,000 instead of $50,000, as first published. The directors and stockholders of the bank have made good the shortage and have increased their capitalization of the bank. Standard’s whereabouts is not known. WILKESBARRE, PA. —ln order to share in the estate of their father, the Misses Ruth and Tacle Morgan, daughters of William P. Morgan, a wealthy real estate man, must stay unmarried for life. The will of the father, just made public, commands that the two daughters are to be given “a suitable living while they remain single.” In the event of marriage their allowance Is to be cut off. ~"COLUMBUS, OHIO Rodney J. Diegle, former Bergeant at arms of the Ohio state senate, must serve three years In the peftitentlary for complicity In legislative bribery. The state supreme court confirmed the decision of the lower courts, whieh convicted Diegle of aiding in the alleged bribery of State Senator L. 11. Andrews. BOSTON, MASS. —Mrs. Lucy Fisk, widow of James FIbK, Jr., who was shot more than forty years ago In New York by Edward S. Stokes as the climax of a bitter rivalry between the two men for the smiles of the famous beauty, “Josie” Mansfield, Is dead. She was seventy-six years of age. NEW YORK —A sum of twenty-five thousand dollars In currency was stolen from a taxicab In the heart of the financial district by three highwaymen who sprang into the vehicle and overpowered W. F. Smith and Frank Wardell, messengers of the East River Na» tional bank at 680 Broadway. WASHINGTON— The Hardwick "sugar trust” investigating commitfee, after many weeks of open hearing here and in New York, and almost continuous work since» last May, reported to the house that a sugar trust exists. WALLA WALLA, WASH.—War den C. S. Reed of the Washington state penitentiary, said that he had fifteen college and university graduates serving time in the institution, They will take charge of the new prison night school.