Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — EPITONE OF A WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITONE OF A WEEK'S NEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief

Politics A sensational attack on President Taft, Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican and Democratic parties in general marked the beginning at Atlantic City, N. J., of the eleventh national Prohibition convention. Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y., temporary chairman, made a speech which bristled with denunciation of the "boss-ridden, liquor-controlled old parties.” • * • Charles D. Hilles, secretaryr to President Taft, was chosen chairman of the Republican national committee and John B Reynolds of Massachusetts secretary by the nine members of the national committee acting as a subcommittee after conferences with President Taft. * • • A call to the people of the United States who are in sympathy with the “National Progressive movement,’’ to send delegates to a national convention to open in Chicago August 5, was ’ given out at New York by United States Senator Dixon, Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign manager. The call is signed by members of the committee chosen at a meeting held in Chicago, and also bore signatures of Roosevelt followers in 40 states. • • • Domestic Four persons are dead, seven are declared by physicians to be in a dying condition and eighteen others are critically ill as the result of eating what is supposed to have been poisoned meat at a reunion of the Canaday family at the home of Mack 1 Canaday, near Garfield. Ga„ July 4. » ♦ • Albert Bohen died at Rockford, 111., as the result of being struck on the head by a batted ball. • • # Ranks of the striking New York i seamen were reinforced by 500 freight ' handlers employed on North river! piers. ' [ Six men held up south-bound limited passenger train No. 9 on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, three miles south of Coffeeville. Kan., ior two hours, and after nine unsuccessful at- ; tempt.- to blow the express safe were, frightened away. The robbers obtained nbthing. The passengers and I trainmen were corraled and guarded In the coaches by two of the robbers. 1 » * ♦

The convention of the Young Peo \ pie’s Christian union of the Uni ver enlist church opened in Chicago with A Ingham Bicknell presiding and many delegates present. ♦ * ♦ Fire marshals and fire commissioners from nearly all the states began their annual meeting in Detroit. * • • For the benefit of those Europeans who cannot come to the United States to see the natural beauties it boasts, this scenery is to be taken to them. It will be shown in the form of moving pictures being taken in Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rainier and other magnificent parks of the west. • • • Details of an alleged conspiracy to ruin the reputation of Clarence 8. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester company, and defendant recently in the $25,000 alienation suit of John C. Henning, were given by Mrs. Josephine Henning, wife of the plaintiff, when she appeared before the grand jury in Chicago. Mrs. Henning asserted she has never seen Mr. Funk so far as she knows. The American Whist league began its annual sessions and contests in New York, Ellsworth Eliot, Jr., presiding. ■ • • The annual meeting of the National Municipal league In Los Angeles attracted a large number of experts on civic affairs. A prisoner mother s poem, woven about the desolation of her only child, so touched President Taft’s heart that he commuted to expire at once the five end one-half year sentence of May E. Brown, convicted at Salt Lake City, of violating the white slave law. • * • The steamer Pere Marquette No. 4, arriving at Milwaukee from Ludington, announced the disappearance of a man named Radke, who is supposed to have jumped overboard after alarming the passengers with a cry that the ship was sinking. • ♦ • th the federal court for the western district of Michigan at Grand Rapids Judge Sessions has issued an order summarily dismissing 748 cases, some of which had been In litigation twen-ty-five years.