Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 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 Happening* That Are Making History —lnformation Gathered from All Quarter* of the Globe and 1 Given In a Few Line*. Politics The Republican national committee at Chicago has seated 40 more Taft delegates in Arizona, California, Louisiana, Michigan and Mississippi. In most of the decisions the Roosevelt men voted with the Taft followers. This makes the score to date: Taft, 141; Roosevelt, 1. • * e The name of President Taft will be presented to the Chicago convention by Warren G. Harding, former lieuten-ant-governor of Ohio. Mr. Harding at Columbus, 0., announced that he had received a letter from Mr. Taft asking him to name him at the Chicago convention and that he had accepted the commission. • • • The Democratic state convention at Duluth, Minn., unanimously indorsed Wilson for the presidency and Instructed the 24 delegates to the national convention to vote for him as a unit until such time as it became apparent to two-thirds of them that his case was hopeless. • • • Personal Alexander Pollock Moore and Lillian Russell, the actress were wedded in the parlors of the Hotel Schenley, the most fashionable hostelry in Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Moore, is editor-in-chief and president of the Pittsburg Leader. « © ♦ V Thousands of visitors, including many prominent in educational and public life, attended the impressive service with which was $1,000,000 William Rainey Harper Memorial Library building, on the University of Chicago campus at Chicago, was dedicated. * • • George Winchfield, Nevada’s richest man, has been appointed by Governor Oddie to succeed the late Senator Nixon. ' * • • Edwin H. Blashfield, a New York artist, was appointed by President Taft to fill the vacancy on the national commission of fine arts caused by the death of F. D. Millet, lost pn the Titanic. • • • President Taft has sent word that it is doubtful if he would be able to attend the Yale commencement June 19. The national Republican convention will then be holding its second day’s session and his political advisers have urged him to keep closely in touch with the Chicago gathering. Daniel B. Harwood, one of Bloomington, Ill.’s oldest and wealthiest business men, died here, aged eighty-one. Two children, Mrs. Carleton Holdredge and Kirk Harwood, both of Chicago, survive. • • • Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former chief of the United States bureau of chemistry, declined the city of Boston’s offer to become chairman of its board of health. He made known his decision in a letter to Representative William F. Murray of Massachusetts. • • • Rear Admiral Benjamin Peffer Lamberton is dead at his home In Washington, after a lingering illness, aged sixty-eight years. Admiral Lamberton was with Admiral Dewey at Manila, where he was in command of the Olympia, flagship of the fleet • • • Domestic John Evanson, dry goods merchant of Leroy, 111., fell dead from heart disease when standing at the station platform ready to board a train for Chicago to purchase goods. ♦ • • Four unidentified tramps were burned to death at Mackinaw City, Mich., in a fire that destroyed * fish shed. A special train bearing 150 delegates will leave New York bound for the eleventh biennial convention of the club women of the United States, to open at San Francisco June 25. • • • R. H. Thomas, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, told the congressional committee investigating the alleged “money trust” that J. Pierpont Morgan stemmed the panic of 1907 by loaning $25,000,000 at a crucial time. • • * One man was drowned in trying to rescue his sister and property damage estimated at $300,000 done when a cloudburst struck Buffalo, Wyo., a town of 2,000 population. Several families down the creek were warned by telephone girls and escaped. '• • • Although she has no fingers on her left hand, Miss Mayme D. Miller, twen-ty-three years old, of Van Wert, 0., was awarded the highest prise of the music class at Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, 0., tor being the best piano player.