Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

WASHINGTON—-The bill to establish a federal children’s bureau for the purpose of investigating Questions affecting the care, employment and general welfare of children was passed by the house of representatives by a vote of 173 to 17. The measure, which was drawn by Senator Borah of Idaho, has already passed the senate and President Ta< is expected to sign it. The movement for the establishement of the bureau was initiated by Jane Addams of Chicago and other leaders in humanitarian endeavor, who believe that the work of a federal agency will affect a great amelioration of the conditions of child life. —L

DEL MONTE, CAL.—Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston’s society girl athlete, wants again to try to break the walking record for the 110 miles between Burlingame and the Hotel Del Monte. Miss Sears arrived at the Hotel Del Monte after covering the 110 miles in 41 hours. Only the girl’s pluck enabled her to finish the walk, as she arrived at the hotel in an exhausted condition, her feet badly swollen from the hard roads and her head sagging from side to side from the loss ol sleep. She lest the record by only a few hours.

CHICOPEE, MASS.—A lucky accident was all that saved Mrs. Julia B. Urak from being killed when an express train overtook her and her sister, Katherine Conzig, on a trestle here. The women were running to get away from the train when Mrs. Urak stumbled and fell a few yards ahead of the locomotive. She slipped between the timbers of the trestie to an abutment below while the locomotive overtook and killed her sister.