Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM

RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making History —lnformation Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines.

Washington The naval appropriation bill was passed by the house at Washington after an unsuccessful effort was made to insert a provision for the two bat.tieships. A,s passed the bill carries approximately $119,000,000, which is about $7,500,000 less than the amount carried in the bill for the present fiscal year. * '♦ ♦ Germany's navah building program and a suggestion that an attempt may be made. to. place under the German flag many thousands of square miles of land in Brazil controlled by German nationals, are submitted to mem bers of congress at Washington in a letter from the Navy League of the United States, urging reconsideration of the house’s; refusal to make an appropriation for battleships this year.

Aroused by confideijtlal information that the real object of the insurrection sweeping like wild fire over Cuba.is the establishment of a sovereign negro republic like Hayti, at least at the eastern, end of the island, the United States has ordered two divisions of the Atlantic battleship fleet to take on their full quota of marines and rendezvous at Key West, ready to move to Cuba at the instant their presence is needed. President Taft cabled President Gomez in reply to Gomez’ telegram protesting against United States intervention in Cuba, that the United States did not intend to intervene, and taht the sending of ships to Key West was for the protection of Americans if it became necessary to do so. The monthly statement of the department of commerce and labor at Washington shows the total value of exports for April to have been $176. r 100,000, as againfet $154,900,000 for the same month last year. • * * Unqualified approval of the Bourne parcel-post bill was given by Postmaster General Hitchcock in a, report upon the measure sent to the senate post office committee. • • * Another call has been sent out by Postmaster General Hitchcock at Washington for bids on fast steamship Itnss for mail service between the Atlant’' and Pacific coast and gulf ports, through the Panama canal. This is the second attempt made to build up a coast to coast mail service through the mail subsidy act of 1891

Domestic The commissary at Hickman, Ky., where provisions have been given Out by the government to the flood refugees, will be closed within a few days. About 100 persons are still drawing rations and these will be given ten days’ supply when the relief work discontinues. A few families are still in tents in the camp in South Hickman. • » * Henry W. Page, a wealthy linen merchant of New York, was convicted of criminal libel in criminal court of the District of Columbia in Washington In an open letter Mr Page v charged Chairman Henry D. Clayton and other members of the house judiciary committee with being “crooks" and ‘‘perjurers?’

The motion of the United States government to have made permanent a temporary injunction restraining - Herman Sielcken and the New York Dock company from disposing of 746,539» bags of valorized coffee held in New York was denied by Judge Lacombe in United States district court. I* • * Four bishops, it is said, will be re tired automatically at the 1916 Meth odist general conference by the seven-ty-third birthday age limit. They are: Earl Cranston, born in 1840; John Hamilton, born in 1845; Charles W. Smith, born in 1840, and Missionary Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, born in 1842. i ■ ■■ ■■■'.■<' •' ■■ ■•,. ' ,y' r - Acting on an order from executive committee of International Freight Handlers union, freight handlers and freight clerks in St. Paul and Minne- . apolis, estimated to number 600, left work in sympathetic strike with Chi cago freight handlers. Forty nine of the sixty-five members of the graduating class of Rutgers college at New Brunswick, N. J., were suspended by order of President Dem arest because of their alleged participation in a “beer keg party” after the class banquet. • ' • • The recently-organized Pan-Ameri can Society of the United States gave a big banquet in New York in honor of the secretary of state and the am baasadors and ministers of the Amer lean republics.