Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK’S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK’S NEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief.

politics jy i Judge Edmund B. Dillon went Into the Republican state convention at jColumbus, 0., seeking the nomination for judge of the Ohio, supreme court and came away -with the nomination for governor, A platform was adoptled which indorses the administration .of President Taft and recites his victory in the national convention in Chicago. * * * After nominating Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey for president and Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana for .ice-president the Democratic national convention at Baltimore adjourned sine die after being in session eight days. The platform was adopted by a viva voce vote, ■* * * The national convention of the new ]Progi skive, party will be held at Chicago or about August 1, It was announced by Senator Dixon, after a conference with Colonel Roosevelt nd a number of Roosevelt leaders. ■ . * * * Domestic Four persons, two of whom, a man and a woman,' were beheaded, were killed -when the east-bound Dos Angeles Limited of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad hit an automobile at Nelson's Crossing, two miles west of Geneva,- 111. The occupants were all wealthy residents of Granger, la., enjoying an automobile trip from their home to Chicago and return. * * * Melvin Vaniman and his crew of four men were killed at Atlantic City, N; J., when his balloon, the Akron, in ■which he intended to make a trip across the Atlantic ocean, exploded half a mile v in the air. Vanlman’s home is Akron, O. When the accident occurred 3,000 spectators stood too startled to utter a single sound. The big balloon was shattered by the explosion of the gas bag and blown, to atoms. * * * One man is dying with a bullet in his abdomen, a score or more are nursing minor injuries and a dozen men are under arrest as a result of rioting by street car strike sympathizers in Boston. i *■ * * t ■ [ Three persons were killed and four injured near Kansas City when the automobile of G. W. Strope. a retired j merchant, was struck by a Chicago, : Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train. Mrs. Strope is one of the dead. * * * Miss Harriet Quimby, the world's foremost woman aviator, and William A. P. Willard' father of the famous aviator and manager of the Boston aero meet, were killed when Miss Qulmby’s New Bteriot monoplane, in which they were finishing a flight, suddenly turned over at an altitude of 1,000 feet, hurling them into the shallow water of Dorchester bay, near Boston.

The Alexander Ramsey state park was formally dedicated and opened at Redwood Falls, Minn., with Interesting exercise's. E. T. Young, former attorney general, delivered the oration of the day. Samuel G. Iverson dedicated the park to the people of Minnesota, for whom response was madb by Gov. A. O. Eberhart * * • Cornell made a clean sweep of the events in the inter-collegiate rowing regatta at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., winning the varsity eight-oared race, the freshman eight, and the varsity four. Wisconsin proved the “dark horse” of the regatta, taking second in both the freshman and varsity eight-oared races. * • * ** There will be no strike of the men employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company on its lines east of Pittsburg and Erie. An acceptance by a committee of the men of an arbitration proposal and a concession offered by the company brought about a satisfactory way of settling the grievances at issue. 1 * * * Prof. Frank Alvord Perret of the department of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston predicts that Italy will soon be visited by another catastrophe. He foretold the eruption of Mount Aetna in 1910. •.. J ’ ■ !; Mayor Lemuel Darrow of Laporte, Ind., who, 6ix years ago, was disbarred after having been found guilty of subornation of perjury in connection with the trial of a Chicago woman, has been reinstated as an attorney. • • • • Rev. Rees Wilmer Perkins, president of Leland university, New Orleans, and a noted Baptist preacher, writer and educator, was found dead In a Philadelphia rooming house in the red light district ;