Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD _______ ———— Complete Review of Happening* of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and Foreign Items. Washington Sweeping reductions in express rates averaging, in general, approximately 15 per cent.; drastic reforms In regulations and practices and comprehensive changes in the methods of opera- ' tion, are prescribed in a report made public by the interstate commerce commission of its investigation Into the business of the 13 big express companies of the United States. » » » The appointment of William Marshall Bullitt of Louisville as solicitor general of the United States to succeed Frederick W. Lehmann, was confirmed' by the senate in Washington. ♦ ♦ • Naturalization of an alien confers citizenship not only upon himself and his wife, but also upon all his minor children, even though none of them has ever been in this country. Secretary Nagel so held, in a decision and completely reversed the previous policy of the government. » • • Tie importation of absinthe into the United States and its sale in interstate commerce was prohibited alter October 1 next by a pure “food decision signed by Secretary Wilson. It is generally recognized,” says the decision, "that this beverage is dangerous to health.” ■• • ■ Robert O. Bailey, who has been assistant secretary of the treasury at W ashington, with the supervision of the miscellaneous bureaus, has succeeded. A. Piatt Andrew, resigned”, as assistant secretary with supervision of currency subjects. • • • The house of representatives adopted by a vote of 222 to 1 articles of impeachment against Judge Robert W. Archbald of the United States commerce court. * * * Secretary of State Knox informed Great Britain, through Alfred Mitchell Inness, counsellor of the British embassy, that the United States must decline to defer action on the Panama canal bill, now pending in the senate, until the receipt of the formal British protest against the passage of the bill. • • » The Republican national committee in 1904 raised $1,900,000 for the Roosevelt presidential campaign, according to testimony given by George B. Cortelyou, then chairman of the National committee, to' the United States senate committee investigating campaign contributions. He denied knowledge of any contribution from the coal, steel or beef trusts or from the railroads. • • • . Information as to the relative standing of the various states in the amount of postal savings bonds applied for on. July 1, and a comparison of this standing with that of January 1 last, was made public by Postmaster General Hitchcock. The tot'al amount of bonds applied for on July 1 was $754,860. * • • Domestic

In the federal court for the western district of Michigan a|; Grand Rapids Judge Sessions had issued ,an order summarily dismissing 738 cases, some of which had been in litigation 25 years. * ♦ * The threat that the longshoremen handling freight on every railroad pier in New York will be called out within the next 24 hours lent a new aspect to the seamen's strike situation. The threat was made in an authorized statement by James Vidal, vice-president of the National Transport workers'. Federation of America. ♦ « ♦ Miss Elsie Moore and Miss Mildred Minor, society girls of Batlesville, Ark., were drowned in \yhlte river in the presence of a hundred companions, passengers on a barge being towed by a gasoline launch. Their bodies were •recovered. r Senator Isaac Huffman of fßutlbr county, Ohio, was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary for acceptipg. a bribe in the legislature by Judge Rathmell at Columbus. The motion filed by Hoffman for a new trial was overruled. • ♦ ♦ When a fuse exploded on a crowded street cat at Memphis, Tenn., the frightened passengers made a rush for the gates and in the scramble a negro woman was killed, four white women were severely hurt and five other persons were, bruised. ♦ • * Judge Dickinson of Minneapolis is unwilling to admit that he ‘made faces” and thereby influenced the jury to bring a verdict favorable to the city. He signified this when he denied a motion for a new trial to J. R. Canterbury, former city fire chief.