Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — WHS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

WHS OF A WEEK

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The Titanic j Captain Wilhelm and passengers of the steamer Bremen, which arrived at Xew r York, reported that last Saturday afternoon, while in latitude 42 north,! longitude 49.23 west, in the vicinity j of ■ where the Titanic foundered, his \ vessel plowed through fields of bodies: of the victims of the disaster. - j • • • Failure to provide binoculars or spy glasses for the lookouts on the Titanic was one contributing cause of that ship’s loss and. with it. the loss of 1,600 lives. Two witnesses before the senate investigating committee at Washington agreed on this They were Frederick Fleet, a lookout on the liner, and Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, Canadian manufacturer and yachtsman, who was among the rescued passengers. * • • With succor only five miles away, the Titanic slid into its watery grave, carrying with it 1,600 of its passengers and crew, while an unidentified 6teamer that might have saved ail failed or refused to see the trantic signals flashed to it for aid This phase of the tragic disaster was brought out before the U. S. senate investigating committee when ’J B. Boxhall, fourth officer of the Titanic, told of bis unsuccessful attempts to attract the stranger's attention.

The first list of names of bodies recovered from the Titanic disaster by the cable steamer Mackay-Bennett was received at Halifax. N. S., through wireless messages to the White Star line offices. The list of twenty-live names contains none of several of the most prominent men who perished. • » • Washington The confidential correspondence which ■ passed between President Roosevelt, Attorney General Bonaparte and Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of corporations in 1907, about a government antitrust suit against the International Harvester company was sent to the U. S. senate from the files of th,e department* of justice. ,

* * * Partial home rule for Alaska, with authority to grant to women the right to vote, was approved by tie house at Washington when it passed the bill for a local Alaskan government. • ■ • * • Banks holding special deposits of the United States must pay the federal government two per cent, instead of one per cent, in future. A. Piatt Andrew, assistant secretary of the treasury, has decided to double thb rate of interest in accordance with the authority reposed in the trea&ury department by congress. ■ * ■ * • »An appropriation of V 50.000 in -the postoffice bill for experimental work in carrying of mails by aeroplanes was defeated in the house at Washington. • • • The house of representatives at Washington was addressed in the German tongue on organized labor i.nd its effect on world peace by Karl Legien. a leader of the Socialist party in the Gernaan reichstae

Another way "to reduce' the cost of living was "discovered” at Washj ington by Representative Buikley, . Democrat, of Ohio, who introduced a bill providing for the coinage of a haifj cent copper piece. :‘• • • Domestic The Rhode Island state Republican j convention adopted resolutions instructing the delegates to Chicago to support President Taft’s candidacy for the nomination “until released.” ♦ * * The new tuberculosis preventorium at Farmingdale, N. J., was formally dedicated by Governor Woodrow Wilson. It cares for .tenement children the members of wihose families are afflicted with tuberculosis. * | A crowd at New York not unlike that which annually flocks to Madison Square garden for the six-day bicycle i races is watching "Professor” Camillo ! ! Raueia, late of Venice, Italy, try to | play the piano for fifty hours. • * * i■ • - By a vote of 761 to 720 the regular , Republicans controlled the lowa state convention at Cedar Rapids, elected delegates-at-large to the national con- ! vention and instructed them for Pres- ' Went Taft • • • Application has been made by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com- ! pany at San Francisco to the California state railroad commission for permission to charge long-distance telI ephone rates by the mile. j