Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

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Washington Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago has ! been appointed chief of the recently j created children’s bureau of the na-l tional government, by President Taft. ' Miss Lathrop is the first woman ever selected to direct a bureau of the fed-' eral government. .*■ • • Domestic The roll of the saved frojn the Titanic disaster seems complete. Practically every attending circumstance in the transmission of news from the steamship Carpalia goes to show that only 328 of the 610 cabin passengers of the Titanic are safe on the rescue ship. The 282 cabin passengers whose Barnes have not appeared in the lists sent ashore by wireless must probably be conceded as among the 1,312 lives believed to have been lost; * * * Forty-eight .delegates instructed to ’ vote for Theodore Roosevelt in the Republican national convention were elected from Illinois districts. Two '< Taft delegates .were elected from . the Fifth the only one in the state carted by the president, in the preferential primaries. * • * Alabama’s 21 delegates to the Democratic national convention were instructed to vote for Oscar \Y. Underwood “until a nomination lor president shall have been made,” by the htate conveirtion at Montgomery * * * Four delegates at large to the Republican national convention were chosen by the Connecticut Republican convention at New Haven, and instructed to vote for the renomination of President Taft. Ten district delegates were chosen. All but four were instructed for Taft. * * * U Laxity in the methods of operation of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad is held by. the interstate commerce commission to have caused the collision of the two sections of the Columbian flier at Odessa. Minn., December 18, when ten persons were killed and 23 injured. •* ■ • ■ i Among the episodes of the Titanic wreck which engaged publid interest was the escape of J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director, of the line. No information has reached New York as ! to how or why Mr. Ismay found a place in one of the Titianic’s boats, r * * * The monument to John Paul Jones In Washington was unveiled by Admiral Dewey. President Taft and other notables took part in the ceremonies. A report reached Cairo, 111., that a large number of people near Dirk, Mo., were surrounded by water and upon the verge of starvation. Rations for 80 people were sent there and the people were found in a deplorable condition. The family of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant has not yet made public any of the arrangements I for the general’s funeral. It is stated at Governor's island that until Mrs. Grant and her son are ready to make known their wishes the government will not complete the details for the military services. • • • The Republican state convention in session at Dover, Del., elected six unlnstructed delegates to the national convention. The delegation favors President Taft. Postmaster Ldward M. Morgan of New York city states that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3,423

sacKs or ma. . as tne standard ocean mail bag holds about 2,000 letters, It is estimated that in all about 7.000,000 pieces of mail hiatter have been lost * * ■ • Comptroller of the Currency Murray has declared a second dividend of 16 per cent, to the creditors of the Union National bank of Columbus, O Trailed into a Florida swamp by bloodhounds, and surrounded by a posse, Sam Arline, a negro, who "shot a negress and killed C. M. Mclntosh, his employer, was fatally shot by Sheriff John Logan of Polk county. * * , • Politicians who had been close to Hugh J.. Grant, a former Tammanv mayor of New York city, who died last November, were surprised to learn that the state tax appraisers had fixed the value of his estate at nearly $10,000,000. * • • Learning that her hu'iSand had been arrested in Milwaukee after she had not him nor heard from him for six years, Mrs. Michael J. Patton of Philadelphia sent Judge Backus a two-cent postage stamp, with a request that he give it to her husbapd.