Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM

RECORD OF MOBT IMPORTANT EVENTB TOLD IN BRIBFEBT MANNER POBBIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making Hletory —lnformation Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. Politics By a vote of 556 to 498 the Democratic- national convention at Baltimore abolished the unit rule which has prevailed at the party’s conventions from time immemorial. * * * Ollie James of Kentucky was unanimously named for permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention by the committee on perma nent organization after practically every state had Indorsed him. * ■* * Charles D. Wildes, a Roosevelt delegate who cast a Taft vote In the Chicago convention, received serious injury for his action when ex-Sheriff Hampton Jones, unseated delegate in the late convention, struck him with a glass of water and closed an eye, at Haleigh, N. C. * * • Alton B. Parker of New York was •elected temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention at Baltimore, defeating William J. Bryan. The vote was 579 to 506, there being three votes for Senator James A. O'Gorman of New York, one for John W. Kern of Indiana, and five not voting. * * • The Democratic national convention was called to order by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee in the Fifth Regiment armory at Baltimore. The opening prayer was offered by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. The seating capacity of the hall Is 15,000, and every seat was filled long before the fall of the chairman’s gavel. * 9 • _ President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James Schoolcraft Sherman were renominated by the Republican national convention at Chicago on the fir.st ballot. With nearly one-third of the delegates in the convention in revolt and their leaders forming a new party, the president was named by 561 votes, 21 more than the necessary majority. Of the 451 Roosevelt delegates in the convention, 344 refused to vote on the selection of the ticket on the advice of the colonel. • • • Former President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for president on an independent ticket in the dying hours of the Republican national convention, in which he had met defeat. The followers of. Colonel Roosevelt gathered in Orchestra hall in Chicago and pledged their support to the former president. The new party will probably hold a national convention at Chicago in August. Domestic A strike of New York v f?amen and other employes on coastwise steamships seems inevitable. The companies object to the renewal of the existing agreement, which expires at the end of this week. About twenty companies and 50,000 employes are affected. * * * The millionaire colony at Newport, R. 1., will find its tax bills about ten per cent, larger this year than in 1911. The new tax rate is $13.60 a thousand, instead of $12.50, as at present. * * * Fire destroyed many buildings, including the Chateau Sagueray, the cathedral, the town hail and the Chicoutimi hotel, at Chicoutimi, a rej sort in the district of Saguenay, Quebec. * * • At a meeting of the directors of the Chicago & Alton Railroad company in New York, the resignation of Theodore P. Shouts as president was accepted formally, and B. A. Worthington, who recently resigned as receiver j of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad company, was chosen president. * * • Alfred L. Seligman, a member of the prominent New York banking family of that name, was instantly killed and his nephew seriously Injured In an automobile accident in New York. * * * So acute has become the labor famine in the Pittsburg (Pa.) district that prisons are being raided by the big industrial concerns that are-work-ing against time to get out material on orders calling for delivery within thirty tb ninety days. * . * * New York waiteas and other hotel employes declared their long strike off and are prepared, they announced, to return to work. The vote to end the strike was almost unanimous on the part of 2,800 men present. .. # 4 * Ann Boston, a negro woman, who stabbed and killed Mrs. R. E. Jordan, wife of a prominent planter at hurst, Ga., and who was later taken from officers at Cordele by a mob, was lynched.