Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

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Washington President Taft informed the U, B. senate that the department of state has no evidence whatever adequate to show any acquisition of land or any intention or desire to acquire land, whether directly or indirectly, in Mexico by or on |he part of the imperial Japanese government. * The perfected post office appropriation bill as agreed upon by the house at Washington abrogates the rule which prevented federal employes in the postal service from complaining to congress of their treatment. * * J. Bruce Ismay' completed his testimony before the senate committee investigating the Titanic disaster and was allowed to depart from Washington.'' ;* • * The senate, in Washington, adopted the Culbertson resolution calling for a full report on the contributions made to the national committees of all parties In the presidential and congressional campaigns of 1904 and 1908. * • * A broad anti-injunction bill, such a measure as has long been advocated by labor unions throughout the country, was favorably reported to the house by Chairman Clayton of the Judiciary committee. The bill provides that injunctions in labor disputes shall only be issued after the defendants 'have had opportunity to make answer to the complaint against them. • • • Japan’s delegates to the International Red Cross conference, which 1b to be held In Washington next week, have reached New York, and will pass the next few days sightseeing there. • • • Mexican Revolt > “7 . . The boat destroyers Preble and Perry, the largest vessels of the flotilla at San Diego, Cal., went to aea with sealed orders. That they are bound for the west coast of Mexico la the general belief. The quick departure followed word received from San Francisco that the transport Buford - had sailed as a relief ship for Americans in distress on the west coast of Mexico. '. . .

Domestic The jury to try Floyd Allen, under indictment for murder In connection with the shooting of live persons In the Carroll county courthouse at Hillsville, Va., was completed, and the mountaineer began his battle for life. Ten of the jurors are farmers and two are merchants. * *. * The torpedo boat destroyer Beale was launched at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia. The vessel was christened by Mrs. John R. McLean of Washington. • • • Samuel Holler, head of the Broadway Bargain company of New York, pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging the use of the mails to swindle out-of-town merchants. • * * Thh numbers of jobs for both men and women exceed the number of ap- , plicants at the state free employment bureau at South Bend, Ind. One hundred and seventeen men asked for work and 199 jobs were offered. Twenty-one women asked for work and forty-six jobs were offered. These statements are made in the last monthly report of the bureau. • * •

One hundred and ninety bodies, among them those of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isador Straus, were brought to Halifax. N. S., on the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which had been searching an area of more than 30 square miles in the vicinity where the great .White Star liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. One hundred and sixteen bodies were buried at sea. ' • • • Milwaukee street cars are running, despite the strike of several motormen and conductors on the lines. » • * The west side main line levee of the Mississippi river near Torras, La., broke, and the crtevasse probably will be the worst in the flood history of the lower Mississippi. Flood water, the highest on record, rushed over parts of two thickly settled parishes. • • * F. W Fowler, a Chicago promoter, was arrested in a hotel at Kansas City, Mo. He is said to be wanted in Chicago in connection with a deal .in which several banks were defrauded of nearly SIO,OOO. " * • • Chief of Police John E. Briggs of South Omaha and Sheriff A. A. Hyers .of Lancaster county were held to the grand Jury at Papillion, Neb., on charges of killing Roy Blunt in the battle with bandits near Gretna, Sarpy coonty, March 18.