Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—Some startling allegations of cannibalism among starv- j Ing Persians are contained in letters from Teheran to the Persian-Ameri-can Educational society here from Dr. Susan I. Moody, formerly of Chicago. . She declared fathers are eating their children and Children are eating each other in northwestern Persia, in the vicinity of Hamadan, where famine has followed the sacking of twenty-one towns and villages by the rebel troopp of Salar -ed - Dowleh, brother of the deposed shah.

WASHINGTON—A full discussion of the relationship between employer and employe was the feature of the first day’s session of the twelfth annual congress of the National Civic Federation. Cardinal Gibbons was the first speaker on the program, which incuded Seth Low of New York, president of the organization; Judge Martin A. Knapp of the commerce •court, C. G. Norman of the New York Building Trades Employers’ association and Second Assistant Postmaster General Joseph Stewart.

WASHINGTON—John Mitchell, who Is vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, declined to give to Judge Wright of the district supreme court any assurance he expected “hereafter to lend adherence to the decrees of the judicial tribunals of the land.” To do so would be an admission that he had heretofore failed to comply with lawful decrees. Mr. Mitchell said he had rather be convicted of contempt than be acquitted on any other ground than the facta of the case. e , LAFAYETTE, IND. Fred HIX was arrested here on the charge of having robbed six stations on railroads within a radius of forty miles of Lafayette in the past four months. Hix, after being sweated by the police, admitted that he was a paroled prisoner from the Jeffersonville reformatory, having been sentenced from Crawfordsville a few years ago on a> charge of grand larceny. He is twenty-six years old and says his horns is in Illinois.

MARFA, TEX.—The first important skirmish incidental to the rebel advances on Ojinaga occurred at San Antonio, Mex., several miles south of the border.. The advance guard of the insurgents was defeated, but when the main body of rebel troops under Braullo Hernandez and Emiliano Ramirei came up the eighty-five rurales and volunteers retreated to Ojinaga. Several are reported killed. Three wounded rurales were brought to the American bank of the Riq Grande.

WILKES BARRE, PA.—lt is estimated here that the anthracite coal operators have about 6,000,000 tons of coal in storage in preparation for a strike, which may come when the existing agreement expires March 31. There are also about 2,000,000 tons in New York city at the present time, this being almost half a million tons above the normal supply. Most of the railroads have about a month’s supply ahead.

BEIRUT, SYRIA —The strict martial law which was put into force by the military authorities immediately after the recent bombardment of this city by Italian warships has brought quiet, although apprehension is felt in regard to the pent-up feeling of the Moslems against the Christians. It is questionable whether the Turkish government can continue to hold the Moslems in check. The majority of then are armed.

SOUTH BEND, IND.—A most mysterious disease which has baffled attending physicians and doctors called into consultation caused the death ol Alex, and Ladilaus Laposinski, six and eleven years old, respectively. The boys died, xvithin three hours ol each other. Coroner E. A. Martin ha i taken charge of the case and effort! are being made to diagnose the disease.

OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—The expected “siege of Sagamore Hill” is on. Colonel Roosevelt appeared in his homa town for the first time since his declaration of willingness to accept tha Republican nomination for president. A battalion of correspondents and telegraph operators came from New York wdth the colonel, all ready for tha campaign. t

ROME, ITALY—There was something akin to consternation here over the announcement that Turkey, instead of expelling all Italians from that country, has decided to establish concentrated camps in the provinces, similar to those -conducted by the British in South Africa during th® Boer war.

SEATTLE, WASH.—The complete unofficial figures in the municipal elections show the election of George F. Cotterill, municipal ownership candidate for mayor, over Hiram C. Gill, "open town” candidate, by over 1,000 majority.

BOSTON, MASS. Augustus Seaver, labor candidate for governor of Massachusetts at the last state election, was found guilty on twenty-four counts of filing forged nomination papers.

PEKIN, CHINA—F. Day, a missionary belonging to the Church of England, and attached to the district of Pao-Ting-Fu, was killed by mutinous Chinese soldiers.