Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON —Leading Democrats of the house have practically fixed June 15 for adjournment of the house if an agreement can be reached with the senate. Majority Leader Oscar Underwood says the business of the he use can all be concluded by June 15 without doubt and congress can adjourn if the senate will “get busy." Several of the larger appropriation bills and important tariff measures have already gone to the senate, including the steel, chemical and sugar bills. Revision of the “schedule K,” the wool tarifT, was the last important tariff legislation in the house. Underwood is not disposed to proceed further with tariff legislation and will probably oppose revision of the cotton schedule.

LONDON, ENG. —Details of an attack by Italian dirigible balloons on the Turkish camp at Suani-Een-Aden are given in a dispatch received from a correspondent with the Turkish forces. He says the two Italian dirigibles carried out two reconnoissances over the Turkish lines, dropping dynamite bombs as they proceeded. The balloons made a complete tour of the Turkish camps, but rifle fire from the Turkish infantry compelled' them to swerve off and disappear. In the course of their second visit the airships succeeded in dropping thirty bombs, according to the correspondent, who does not give particulars as to the casualties.

WASHINGTON— President Taft has just transmitted to congress the report of the tariff board on the cotton schedule with the recompiendation that that section of the tariff law be taken up with a view to revision and reductions in the rate of duty. President Taft asks a deficiency appropriation of $60,000 for the board to continue its work during April, May and June, and urges congress to further continue the life of the board that it may prosecute investigation of the metal, leather, chemical and sugar schedules.

KETKUK, lOWA—The small town of Gregory, Mo., about twelve miles south of Keokuk, is reported to have been inundated by the Mississippi river, which rose out of its banks between Alexander and Gregory. -- According to reports which reached here, four houses are floating down the river and during the night people were fleeing the town. A huge ice gorge opposite the town has caused hundreds of acres of lowland to be flooded. Through trains between Keokuk and St. Louis are annuled.

BOSTON, MASS. More than 120,000 textile operatives in New- England received a general advance of wages today when the increases announced recently by many cotton and woolen manufacturers went into effect. The advances varied from 5 to 10 per cent, but with the exception of the 35,000 persons employed in the mills owned by the manufacturers of Fall River, where a 10 pbr cent raise has been granted, the. operatives will not know the exact amount of their increase until flay day.

WASHINGTON—The report of findings of the Republican tariff board, I created by the Payne-Aldrich bill, ! w'ere flayed by Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee in in a report transmitted to the house. Nothing was found in the board’s wool report, the Underwood report declares, to justify any changes in the Democratic bill placing a 20 JJer cent duty on raw wool, which was vetoed by President Taft las 4 year and reintroduced at the present session.

CARACAS—Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, accompanied by President Gomez, paid a visit to the military

A academy. The party then proceeded to Washington square, where wreath* were placed on the statue of George Washington, whose memory is held in equal esteem with that of Simon Bolivar, the great liberator, on whose statue in the National Pantheon a wreath was placed by the secretary of state.

NEW YORK —The regular annual profit of the big meat packing companies in New York city is fully 50 per cent on the capital invested In the purchase, slaughter and marketing of the cattle, as shown by tables submitted to the State Food Investigating commission here by George J. Edwards, general manager of Swift A Co.’s local offices.

WASHINGTON—It is estimated only one-sixth of the excavation necessary to open the Panama canal to navigation remained to be done March 1, and this must be completed in twentyone months, if Col. Goethals, is to redeem his promise to have an American battle ship—probably the famous old Oregon—pass through the waterway January 1, 1915.

NEW YORK—As a direct result largely of the sensational killing of Judge Thorton L. Massie and officers of his court at Hillsville, Va„ Chief Magistrate William McAdoo of the New York city courts has decided that all the uniformed attendants and clerks in the courts under his jurisdiction must carry revolvers.

ST. LOUIS, MO:—Daniel Callahan was arrested by postoffice inspectors, who say he is wanted for complicity in three sensational diamond robberies, the booty aggregating $150,. 000, one of them in Chicago, in the robbery of a postoffice substation la St- Louis, and other crimes.