Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM

RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. AT ' HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making History —lnformation Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in : a Few Lines. Washington charge that Wall street and the big corporations are controlling the house ’money trust’’ inquiry at Washington was made by Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota, Republican, in a resolution which would compel every member to disclose his business- an 1 cor-dration affiliations; Each member of the house would have to file his o. n bank holdings and those of his family. >- i j The, -mmeree court in Washington held that .’ the' interstate commerce ;; commission was without jurisdiction to. r- t tire ’he Baltimore & Ohio and Norfolk A Western railroads to construct and maintain switch connections in’ -Ohio ■ with the Cincinnati & Columbus Traction company, an electric line. -..j • • • The Supreme court of the United States announced its refusal to reconsider, its, “patent monopoly” decision. In consequence renewed efforts will be made, it is understood, to have congress amend the patent laws so as to limit the rights to use patents enjoyed by their owners. . • • • Senator Marcus A. Smith ot Arizona put himself and two other passengers in an elevator in the Ebbitt house in Washington in peril when he became angered at the elevator man and knocked him down. • • • Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith In his annual report to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel urges federal supervision of great commercial combines as the most practical method of solving the trust problem • • • The decision of the British Miners’ federation to order the men to resume work has brought Intense relief to the country. The termination ot the coal strike raises a ruinous siege of the nation's industries. • 4 • A delegation of Chicagoans, In Washington, urged President Taft to appoint Prof. J. H. Beal as successor to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. • • • - Because of the need of preparing for the opening of the Panama canal, the house, at Washington, agreed to put ahead the bill providing for the operation, government and sanitation of the canal and its zone. • • • Another bill designed to reduce the high cost of living was introduced in the house at Washington by Represent ative Doremus of Michigan, a Demo crat. It places on the free list butter eggs, potatoes, meats, lard-and poultry • • •

Foreign . , ' After a turbulent session the New Mexico lower house by a vote of 22 tc 20 restored to membership Represent atives Lucero. Trujillo. Montoyo and Cordova. who were suspended when they were Arrested several weeks age on charges of having solicited a bribe. Dr. Count von Poderwilz-Duernitz, Dr. von Borscht, lord mayor of Munich; Dr. Oscar von Miller and Dr Walter Van Dyck, members of the royal commission appointed by Germany to study art. architecture, museums and libraries in the United States. have arrived in New- York er the steamship Amerika. • • • The conservative convention met in Havana, Cuba, to effect organization and approve a platform. It is a foregone conclusion that the convention will nominate Juan Mario Menocal, now secretary of justice, for the presidency. • • • ' ' . /I ' " Domestic ' In a statement addressed "to the people of Michigan," given out at Lansing. Gov. Chase S. Osborn announces he will not be a candidate for re-elec-tion. Principals of Duluth schools And a number of business men have begun i teaching English to foreigner? at their boarding houses. The pupils, who are laborers, were too tired, as a rule, to go to night school, so the educators decided to take the school to them. ••* ’ » Dr Isaac Kaufmann Funk, clergyman, editor, publisher and investigator of spiritualistic phenomena, died at his home in Montclair, N. J., of heart failure following ai. attack of acute indigestion. Dr. Funk w-as seventythree years old • • • Several thousand delegates are attending the fourth annual meeting of the southern commercial congress, which was opened : Nashville, Ten? The meeting will continue for three days. Senator Fletcher of Florida la presiding