Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

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Washington Sweeping charges of Incompetency in the management of the White Star steamship line, strong denunciation of a number of the members of the “pick up” crew of the Titanic and severe arraignment of J. Bruce Ismay and other officials will be made in the report of the .United States senate subcommittee which conducted an investigation into the great sea- disaster, to be submitted to the senate, » ♦ ♦ President Taft lias ordered the action brought by the department pf justice in New York against the coffee trust to be suspended and all the papers dri the submitted, to the' department of state. This is the direct result of an angry protest made by the coffee trust. » • • The constitutional amendment for a six-year term for president with ineligibility for re-election was favorably reported to the United States senate from the committee on judiciary. The report was w ritten by Senator Cummins, a candidate for the nomination. * * * Senator Crawford of South Dakota introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to limit the terms of federal judges of the inferior courts to ten years. Terms of justices of the Supreme court of the United States would continue “during good behavior.” • • ■• >

Domestic Despite the countless reports from Europe that Charles Wyman Morse was near death’s door, the former ice king and convicted banker returned to New York from a three months’ trip, in Europe looking better and stronger than he ever did, his condition in striking contrast with that ■when he was pardoned by President Taft " *-* * * The, twelfth member of the jury! which will hear the evidence at Los ) Angeles, Cal., against Clarence Dar-i row and decide ultimately his inno- i cence or guilt of the alleged bribery j of jurors in the McNamara case, was ! accepted by both the state and defense. Judge Hutton, on motion of the chief counsel for the defense, ordered that a thirteenth juror be ’Chosen, to be used in case of emergency. • ♦ • Dr. Napthali Xmccock, pastor of the Hyde Park Methodist church, Kansas City, was elected bishop on the fifteenth 'ballot in the Methodist general conference at Minneapolis. This makes four new bishops elected with four more yet to be elevated to the Episcopacy. The other two we’re Rev. Dr. Theodore S Henderson, of Brooklyn. N. Y., and Rev. W. O. Shepard of Chicago. • • « Prof. Henry Samuels, a mail order doctor who it is alleged makes $12,000 a month selling a solution of sugar, salt and water as a cure-all, was arrested at Detroit. He had an office establishment requiring 25 stenographers and a number of business assistants. ~ '.

The roller towel, the common drinking cup and the public comb and brush are to be abolished immediately in Missouri and Oklahoma restaurants and hotels. This agreement was reached when the boards of health of the two states, the United Commercial Travelers’ association and the Missouri - Kansas - Oklahoma Hotel Men’s association met at Kansas City. •’ * % The twentieth annual convention of the National Railway Mail association was called to order in New Orleans by W. H. Chandler, president of the New Orleans division. The pay roll' of the Second battalion, Fourteenth infantry, stationed at Fort William Henry Harrison, amounting to $7,000, was stolen from a safe in the quartermaster's department at Helena, Mont. • • • Attorney General Wickersham has moved against the coffee trust, or Brazilian valorization scheme. In a petl tion in equity filed in the United States court In New York the valorization plan is declared to be a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.

Pensiops or annuities up to SSOO for every disabled minister of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, corresponding in amount to the beneficiary'a--term of service, were authorized by the general assembly of the church at Louisville, Ky. With delegates present representing probably half a billion dollars’ capital, the seventh annual convention of the Natural Gas Association of America was .opened at Kansas City. Many easterners will deliver addresses at the three days' session.