Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

NEW YORK—'Hie famous Maiden Lane jewelry district Is In alarm ovec the ar nouncement of another diamond robbery which occurred soma time during the day In the heart of the supposedly burglarproof section of the city, pespite the watchfulness of the police and numerous private detectives who arp constantly on guard there, the robbers entrance to the vaults of the building at 49 Maiden Lane and walked away with a handful of gems valued at $14,000, from the safe otJEmanuel S. Rose, wholesale jeweler.

WASHINGTON Senator Gardner, of Maine, has introduced a bill under which the would take over the properties of express com* panics and operate them as part of the postal service, extending the service to tlie rural delivery. The measure indicates the probable cost of taking over the express properties as follows: Real property, $14,35%,169; equipment, $7,381,405; , materials and Buys plies, $138,210; advance payment on contracts, $5,836,666; and franchises, good will, etc., $10,877,369, a total of. $39,165,819.

FORT SMITH, ARK.—About three hundred striking students of the I n-• versity of Arkansas paraded tl:e streets of Fayetteville and attended a dance in defiance of rules to signify their displeasure at the faculty’s action in suspending thirty-six students, held responsible for an anonymou.t publication charging the faculty with discrimination in favor of rich students. ' The strikers said they would not return to the institution until the it fellow-students were reinstated

INDIANAPOLIS, IND—Thirty Indiana county fair mangers representing associations which are members < I the County Fair Managers’ association and directors from the different counties, held their first annual banquet here and discussedmethods and plana for the bettering of their The offhers of the body are: Ir. tl« dent, John Irenborger of North Manchester, secretary, Charles W. Ili<to man of Lafayette, and tre-suier* Charles Anthony, Muncle.

CHICAGO —Some sensational testli mony, regarded by government atton neys: as strongly supporting tha charges against, the packers on trial before Judge Carpenter in the United States court was given by Archie E. Hayes, 5037 Evans avenue, a forme* employe in the office of Edwafd Tilden, president of the National Paoto Ing company. Mr. Hayes testified that he had often seen nine of the ten indicted/ packers go into secret confer* ences In XBden’s office.

DETROIT, MICH.— The federal p c.v* ernment caused a sensation in rta criminal suit against the so-called bathtub trust when, after announced that the prosecution’s case was clo: rd, Edwin P. Grosvenor, special assist ntto Attorney General Wickershcm, moved that the case against five ol the defendants be nolle proseed on account of lack of evidence. Tfc« court granted the motion.