Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM

RECORD OF MOBT IMPORTANT EVENTB TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POBBIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making History —lnformation Gathered from Ail ... Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. Politics “Hadley for president." That was the cry taken up and carried high and far at the Republican national convention in one of the wildest demonstrations ever known at a political convention. For more than forty minutes the cheering continued, while delegates marched with banners. Taft men and Roosevelt men Cheered together. • ' * The Taft forces at the Republican national convention won what is regarded as Its second victory in a test vote that defeated a move to oust the delegates seated by the national committee which are contested by the Roosevelt faction. The first victory was in the selection of Root as temporary chairman. ■■■■■■■■• * * ' Less than half the vote at the last general election was cast at the first general primaries held in Maine. On the Republican side Edwin C. Burformer member of congress, received a plurality of about 6,000 over his opponent for United States senator, and for governor, William T. Haines was victorious. * * • Senator Eliira-Root was elected temi porary ehairman of the Republican national convention at Chicago, receiving 558 votes against 502 cast for Gov. Francis E. McGovern of Wisconsin. *** S Although the Democratic national convention will not assemble at Baltimore until June 25, some of the delegates and committeemen who are in ! that city are of the opinion that the j convention may be extended beyond the time set for its adjournment, owing ! to the prospect of a long-drawn-out j fight in the Republican convention at Chicago. * • • Washington j Representative Martin W. Littleton ! has prepared a resolution in Washing- f ton for a congressional investigation of the charges of bribery at the Re- : publican national convention, and it is j said he " ill submit it to the house on j his return from New York in a day , 1 or two. - • * * The house at Washington passed the Norris resolution making it a penal offense for agents or representatives of importers to enter into foreign pools or combinations for the control of supply or prices of any article imported for consumption and providing for confiscation of all such articles as contraband when the American courts shall have declared a tru6t or monopoly exists. * • » President Taft vetoed the army appropriation bill and returned the measure to congress with a message indicating his disapproval of the legislative provision which would oust Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood from the office of chief of staff on March 4 next. • • • Domestic President Taft pardoned Franklin P. Mays on the; ground that government prosecutors had pursued improper methods in obtaining his conviction of land frauds at Portland, Ore., in 1907. This is the second pfrp-> don granted by the president in the famous Mitchell-Hermann land cases. Willard N. Jones was patrdoned a few days ago. *** y ■ Evelyn Thaw, as witness for the state in its efforts to keep her husband, Harry K. Thaw, in the Matteawan asylum, repeated in a crowded courtroom at White Plains, N. Y., her 6tory of the series of sensations which culminated in Thaw’s murder of Stan ford White. : V * * * is the verified death toll ol an explosion in the new mine of tht Victor-American Fhel company ai Hastings, Colo. The mips is 16 miles north of Trinidad and belongs to the Victor-American Fuel company. 1 * *,l * The second double execution in the electric chair in the history of Auburr prison In New York took place whet Ralph Friedman and Jacob Kuhn kochester burglars, who murdered George A. Schuchart, a grocer, paid the penalty. T. A. Snid,er, a Cincinnati manufacturer, and his wife, who were on their honeymoon, were Instantly killed ’ when their automobile was struck by a fast train at a crossing of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad at Harbor Creek, near Erie, Pa. • • • Official announcement of the result of the strike vote recently taken by the Fur Workers’ union in New York shows that 87 per cent, of the members are for and 13 per cent, against a strike for demands involving B.OOC workers.