Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK'S HEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S HEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief

Washington By & vote of 70 to 62 the Democratic members of the house in caucus decide 2 to oppose the authorization of any battleships at the present session', cf congress. ' ~ . '■ th' The sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying approximately $116,000,0c0 for the support of various bureaus and brp^-®; a r.f :? * gnvr- rn m ent, Jigged the United States senate. It contains increases cf about $6,000,000 over the approp--.at;?ns authorized by the house. '■ The Alaskan civil government bill, establishing a legislature of one house in the territory, with authority to enact local laws, passed . the. senate in Washington with practically no opposition The house has passed the bill, but a conference will be necessary to adjust differences. • • • John Mitchell, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, was sentenced in the District of Columbia supreme court to nine months’ imprisonment for contempt of court growing out of the Bucks Stove and •Range- company case.. • • • Judge Cornelius H. Hanford of the United States district court at Seattle, Wash , whose conduct on the bench has been under investigation for nearly a month by a subcommittee of the house judiciary committee, has tendered his resignation to Presidept Taft. Judge Hanford gives ill health as the reason for his resignation. •• - • Former Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia told the United States senate committee investigating campaign funds of 1904 and 1908 that no contributions were made to Colonel Roosevelt’s campaign by corporations, by Henry Havemeyer. the sugar king, or by any representatives of the International Harvester company, so fur as he could recall.

» • • • In a strong arraignment of the United States government for "its failure to secure redress for injuries resulting from the Mexican revolution and insurrection. Senator Albert B. Pall of New Mexico declared in the senate that this country would not regain its prestige in Mexico in fifty years; • • • Domestic The steamer Old Colony of the Metropolitan Steamship line while turning the Battery. New York, on her way from Boston, crashed into the yacht Idler, which sank almost immediately. The passengers on board the Idler and the yacht's crew were taken off by tugs before the boat went down. ' • • • Peary’s arctic ship, the Roosevelt, was sold under the hammer in New York for $35 200, to H. E. J. McDermott, representing a concern, the name of which he declined to give. • • • Dynamite placed on the rails exploded under a street car in Boston, wrecking the car. injuring two passengers and frightening 30 others. • • • Flying at the rate of 100 miles an hour in an untried monoplane, which had cost him three years’ work and SIO,OOO in money, Edson F. Gallaudet crashed from a height of 400 feet to the new field near Westbury, L. I. The aeroplane was utteriy demolished. Gallaudet was painfully but not seriously injured. • • •

Nearly a score of persons lost their lives by drowning and lightning, property was damaged to an amount approximately 53.000,000 and two hundred or ndore passengers marooned by washouts caused by devastating floods and cloudbursts that struck sections of western Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Wisconsin and Michigan. The greatest loss of life was in the Superba coal mine, near Uniontown, Pa., where 12, miners, caught by an overwhelming flood of water, were drowned. • • • After having climbed nearly four miles to the steep sides of Mount McKinley, to a polht within 464 feet of the summit. Prof. Herschell Parker of Columbia and Belmore Brown of Tacoma gave up their efforts to reach the goal and are bn their way home. • • * • . ' ■ ■ r' ■ Engineer William Schroeder and Flagman Edward Lane were held responsible by a coroner’s Jury at Corning, N. Y., for the recent wreck on the Lackawanna in which 40 lives were lost. - The ahnual session of the national grand lodge of the International Order of Good Templars of the United States began in the old capitol in St Paul. Minn. Large delegations from all part* of the Union and from Canada were present. ,