Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

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Washington In the absence of the president, Vice-President Sherman signed the resolution submitting to the states an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote. It was then sent to the state department and from there notice of the resolution will be sent to all the states, by which It must be ratified. • • • ’ Only through the intervention of friends was a personal encounter between George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department of agriculture, and Representative" Nelson of Wisconsin averted at the hearing- before the house committee in Washington, which Is making an Inquiry into the meat inspection service. * « * The house, at Washington, passed the Clayton anti-injunction bill by a vote, of 244 to 31. It .provides that .federal courts shall not issue permanent or temporary injunctions without notice to the parties concerned, Who must have an opportunity to be heard The standard of meat inspection hat become lower by progressive steps each year since the present law went into effect six years ago, according to J. W. Purroughs, a former Inspector of meat, who testified before the committee on expenditures in the agriculture department at Washington. At the present time, according to the witness, conscientious inspectors regard their presence in packing houses as something merely perfunctory. • • • President Taft approved the service pension bill. He wrote his signature making it law with an eagle quill tipped with gold. • * •

Announcement Is made by the secretary of the interior that water will te ready for 10,677 acres of land in the third unit of the Belle Fourche reclamation project, South Dakota, on ' May 25, and approximately one hundred government farms will be subject to homestead entry on that day. • • • Domestic The Mississippi river at La Crosse, Wis., reached the stage of 9.9 feet, the highest in eight years, according to "he government gauge. The Southern Baptist convention at Oklahoma City, Okla., is expected to have 6,000 delegates. * * • Two men were killed and seven injured slightly when a freight train on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern broke one mile east of Archbold, 0., throwing several cars into a ditch. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has determined to create the office of organizer and provided for four such officials to be named by the grand chief, at Harrisburg, Pa. • • • More than 1,000 cadets of the University of Minnesota and of St. Thomas college will engage in miniature war near Fort Snelling on May 20. • • • Robbers entered the farm house oi Mrs. Minnie Mack, near Secaucus, N. Jr., and strangled her to death with handkerchiefs, after which the house was looted.

• • • United States District Judge Cor nelius J. Hanford at Seattle, Wash., ordered the cancellation of the citizenship papers of Leonard Oleson, a Socialist agitator, on the ground that he had committed a fraud when he swore that he was attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States. * * * Dr. George Chalmers Richmond, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church ..at Philadelphia, who last summer denounced the wedding of Col. John J. Astor and Miss Madelaine Force as “an unholy alliance,” delivered a sensational sermon from his pulpit, in which he denounced Colonel’s Astor’s Action in making his will. Kansas City was selected for the 1913 meeting of the Independent Order of B’Nal B’Rlth, district No. 2, at •the closing session of the convention in Indianapolis, at which officers also were elected. J. L. Lorie, Kansas City, was chosen president. 1 * • • The one hundred and twenty-fourth general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States convened in Louisville, Ky. Rev. John F. Carson of Brooklyn, the retiring moderator, preached the opening sermon. • • ♦ Two men escaped with $140,000 after bolding up New Orleans-New York Limited train on the Queen & Cres ©ent railroad eight miles from Hattiesbarg, Mias., and dynamiting the safe express car. Passengers were not nwtosrerf and no one was injured.