Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Page 6

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FDR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe —Latest Home and For» elgn Items. Washington

The federal incorporation of all concerns engaged in Interstate commerce ■whose capitalization or value exceeds $50,000,000, is the keynote recommendation of the Republican minority members of the Stanley steel investigation committee. ■* * * ■ The U. S. senate by a vote of 52 to 3, parsed the Bristow bill with an amendment offered by Senator Lodge, eliminating the Dutch standard .9-nd the differential, and reducing the duty from $1.90 to $1.60 per hundred pounds. This result Was achieved through a combination of Progressive and regular Republicans. * * * The 1 eef trust, which the government has fought for ten years, is no longer in existence in the opinion of the department of justice. Attorney General Wickersham has accepted the plan proposed by the packers for the voluntary dissolution of the National Packing company, a holding concern Owned by the Morris, Swift and Armour packing companies. ♦ ♦ ♦

Democrats and insurgents united in the senate and by a vote of 36 to 18 passed the Democratic excise tax bill, extending the present tax on corporations to the business of individuals, private firms and copartnerships. Attached to the measure were amendments for the repeal of the Canadian reciprocity law and the fixing of a $2 per ton tariff on print* paper, and for the establishment of a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission. • • • The United States senate defeated the Cumming wo.pl tariff bill by 34 to 32, adopted the Penrose compromise measure and finally passed the La Follette wool hill of 1911 by a vote of 46 to 20, the Democrats and Insurgents voting together. '. ♦ •» • George R. Sheldon of New York, treasurer of the Republican national committee, testifying before the senate committee investigating the source of campaign funds, flatly denied that President Roosevelt knew anything about the Harriman contribution of $250,000 to the campaign fund of 1904. He further declared that no such contribution was ever made. ♦ • * .Confident the troubles in Cuba are at an end, the navy department gave orders that all marines at Guantanamo, with the exception of 100 which will be maintained there as a permanent garrison, be returned to their home posts in the United States. • • •

By a vote of 70 to 62 the Democratic members of the house in caucus decided to oppose the authorization of any battleships at the present session of congress. ♦ ♦ • The sundry civil, appropriation bill, carrying approximately $116,000,000 for the support of various bureaus and branches of the government, passed the United States senate. It contains Increases of about $6,000,000 over the appropriations 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. * •• • Domestic

John D. Rockefeller Is making deterniined efforts to stop the advance of business into the private residence district of New York where his city house is located. For a long time retail trade has been moving slowly up Fifty-fourth street, toward the Rockefeller home, but the Rockefeller agents have been bidding In every parcel that was offered for sale at a price higher than the business buyer cared to pay. t •' • • i The arbitration commission In the controversy between locomotive engineers and 52 railroads east of Chicago finished its hearings in New York. Warren S. Stone said that whatever award was made It would be accepted by the Brotherhood of Engineers. • ♦ ♦ Slain and thrown into the Calumet river by thugs, the body of P. R. Holland, a private detective employed as watchman on a nonunion tugboat near Chicago, who disappeared the first night he was assigned to work, was found floating in the river. i -k • • • ■ ” v . ■ V i As the result of his refusal to ifesign at the request of Secretary MaoVeagh, Joseph O. Thompson was removed as collector of internal revenue for Alabama and Mississippi, rwlth headquarters, at Birmingham.

SINGER AT STATE FAIR

MISS JOSEPHINE DUNFEE.

Miss Dun.fr e will sing wi»h Patrick Conway's band of New York, at the Indiana fair’s horseshows afternoon and evening, week of Sept. 2.

FAIR'S NIGHT SHOW

BLOODED HARNESS AND SADDLE HORSES IN RICH SPECTACLES. Indiana Leads All State Fairs in Horse Show Prizes—Concerts by New York Band and Singer.

If a rich prize list can be taken as an indication, the night horse shows at the Indiana Sjtate Fair, opening on Day, Sept. 2, will be the most pretentious of any given by a state fair in the I nlted States. A comparison of the Indiana premium list with the lists from nine of the largest state fair horse shows, places Indiana far in the lead of any of them in amount cf premiums offered. The horse show prizes at the Hoosier fair amount to $7,280; Ohio fair, $2,590: Texas, $5,000; Michigan, $2,360; Kentucky, s4’605; Blue Grass fair, $2,685; lowa, $5,310; Minnesota, $4,060; Illinois $5415.

The Indiana fair’s horse shows have steadily gained in quality and in popular favor every year since the Coliseum was built. A careful revision of the premium list for the coming horse show will make it more popular with the public than ever, for there are few classes which will permit a horse to appear in the arena more than once, and the wealth of prizes is expected to attract many more horses from Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and other states. The horse show will open with parades of horses and cattle—a spectacle that is not equaled for splendor by any other state fair, and each evening there will be ribbon contests for high steppers, tandems, unicorns, four-in-hands, business teams, saddle and high school horses and special equestrian events. The night concert will be by Patrick Conway’s Band, of New York, a band that has never been heard in Indiana, and Miss Josephine Dunfee, soprano, will be the soloist. The horse show will close in ample time for visitors from out in the state to get interurban cars for home.

Tn addition to the Coliseum, where the horse show will be held, all of the important buildings of the fair will be open and illuminated at night, including the barn for show horses, the art hall, horticultural, poultry and agricultural buildings. This will enable sightseers from over Indiana to go to the fair early in the morning and spend a day and evening in all divisions of the big exposition. Visitors to the fair always find the “midway” sjiows one of the chief attractions in lighter entertainment, many thousand people every day and evening spending some time in this division of the exposition. An entirely new list of clean, midway attractions has Been engaged for the week of Sept. 2, made up of the Mazeppa, and Greater .United Shows, which offer as one feature a horse which rescues a child from a burning house;"a hippodrome show, including high school horses, Indian and acrobatic riders; performing elephants, donkeys and dogs, are on the list, as well as eight open dens of lions, tigers, bears and monkeys. A monkey circus and a wild west show, exhibition drills by a zouave company, daring automobile feats in mid-air, and a number qf other atractions will furnish amusement for sight-seers. The “midway” will also have a large cdnceivband.

The regular program and the extraordinary features which will mark the coming fair will so crowd the activities of each day and evening that it will not be possible for a visitor to exhaust the attractive resources. The programs will begin at 9 each morning, and with all of the important buildings open at night,

JAPAN’S EMPEROR DIES AT TOKYO

Crown Prince, Yoshihito, Succeeds to Throne. 10,GOO GATHER AT PALACE Mutsuhito Led His Nation Through Period of Transformation and Radical Reform; —Been Ruler Since 1867.

Tokyo, July 30. —Mutsuhito, the emperor of Japan, died at 12:43 o'clock this morning. Acute nephritis, was given as the cause of death. The crown prince, Yoshihito, has succeeded to the throne. Tens of thousands of persons who had gathered in the park about the palace, prepared to spend the night in prayer for the emperor, gave expression to their grief when the announcement of his death was made. All the imperial, princes who had ben within the vicinity of the imperial palace since the beginning of the serious period of his illness on July 19 were summoned to the sick chamber last evening and remained there till the mikado expired. Accomplished Great Reforms. Mutsuhito possessed a .personality of which but little is generally known. Of a quiet, unassuming nature, yet possessed of a will of iron, he accomplished great reforms. As a statesman he commanded the respect of the nations of the world. As a leader of his people in peace and in war he was both loved and feared. To his virtues they attributed the victories over their enemies by land and sea. To . his wisdom they credited the advance of ancient Japan to a plate in the front rank of nations. His reign began in 1867 and outlasted that of all but two or three living monarchs. Under the rule of Mutsuhito Japan enjoyed an unprecedented era of prosperity. Civilization has made rapid strides. The arts and ideas of the western world have been adopted and Japan has emerged from darkness into light. Career Started in Storm.

Mutsuhito was born in Kyoto November 3, 1852. He was the second son of Emperor Komei and succeeded to the throne on the death of his father in 1867, becoming the one hundred and twenty-first emperor of Japan. The country was then in a ferment owing to concessions which had been granted as the result of a treaty made in 1856 "after the visit of the expedition commanded by Commodore Perry, the American naval officer, in 1852-4. This threw open some ports to foreign trade. It was only by force of arms that the new ruler enforced his decree and saved Japan from a reversion to primitive conditions.

Era of Progress Is Opened. In 1869 the emperor established a deliberative assembly. This and other reforms Then inaugurated' ended feudalism, which had existed for centuries in Japan, and the nation moved forward on the road of progress. Everything European was eagerly adopted, including frock coats and patent leather boots for officials. Torture was abolished in 1873 and a I modern judicial code was authorized. The first railway.was built in 18-72 and the English language was taught in common schools.

Washington Goes in Mourning. Washington, July 30— President Taft and official Washington went into mourning upon receipt of news of the death of the Japanese emperor. A number of minor ambassadorial entertainments were cancelled and it is probable that there will be a ban on official pleasures of this nature for some time. The death of the Japanese ruler came as something of a personal shock to the president, who had met Mutsuhito several times on his junket to the east and also during his term of office as governor of the Philippines. Taft Sends Condolence. The president sent the following telegram to the new Japanese emperor: “On the sad occasion of the death of His Majesty, the Emperor Mutsuhito, your illustrious father, I offer to your majesty my most profound sympathy and that of the government arid people of the United States. “Accept my good wishes for a long and prosperous reign and the continuance of the welfare of the Japanese empire. “WILLIAM H. TAFT.”

STANDARD OIL TAKES LEAP

Old Company's Stock Goes to SI,OOO a Share in Wall Street—Makes Record. New York, July 30. —Wall street saw the high mark of SI,OOO a share made for old Standard Oil stock. At SI,OOO a share, the market value of the old company, including subsidiaries, is represented by approximately $1,000,000,000, the capital outstanding of the disintegrated trust being $100,000,000. When the dissolution took place the market value of the old stock was $675 a share, or a total market value for the entire capital of $675,000,000. John D. Rockefeller owns about onequarter of the old stock, or 250,000 shares. Therefore, the increased valuation has meant $81,250,000 more for him.

ARCHBALD IN DENIALS

JUDGE DECLARES HE HAS NOT VI-’ OLATED THE LAW. Makes Formal Answer to Thirteen Articles of Impeachment Before Senate Sitting as Court

Washington, July 30.—Before the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, Judge Robert W. Archbald of the commerce court made formal answer to the thirteen articles of impeachment preferred,, by the house. Judge Archbald’s answer was submitted in the presence,of almost the entire senate and of the house managers. He was present, looking calm and unconcerned. •

He formally denied that he ever had used his office or his influence as a judge for profit, thpt he ever undertook, for a consideration, to compromise litigation before the interstate commerce commission, that he ever wrongfully used his position to obtain credit from litigants before him, or that he had undertaken to carry on a general business for profit or speculation in coal properties, as charged in the house indictment. To each of the thirteen articles of Impeachment Judge Archbald replied that none, even If true, constituted an impeachable offense, a high crime or a misdemeanor as defined by the constitution.

The judge admits being involved in numerous coal deals while on the bench. He admits soliciting high railroad officials to further such deals. He admits that promissory notes bearing his indorsement were presented to attorneys and litigants in his court.. He concedes he wrote letters to and visited railroad officials to further private business negotiations for himself, associates and friends. t But Judge Archbald says every such act was innocent and many were without hope of private gain. After hearing the judge’s answer the senate adjourned as an impeachment Court until Thursday, when a date for trial will be set.

RACES BEGIN AT CLEVELAND

Joe Patchen 11. Takes 2:12 Pacing Event at Opening of Grand Circuit Meeting. Cleveland, Ohio, July 30.—Three favorites, two of which were played heavily, were defeated in the opening races of the annual grand circuit meeting at North Randall track. Summaries: The Edwards stake, 2:12 pacing; purse. $5,000; Joe Patchen won, Knight Onward second, Chimes Hal third. Best time, 2:07. Twelve starters. First preliminary, the Tavern stake, for 2:14 trotters; purse $1,000; Th.e Wanderer won. Tommy Finch second, Lord White third. Best time, 2:11%. Nine starters. Second preliminary, Tavern stake; Esther W. wop. Dorsch Medium second. Castle Dome third. Best time, 2:08%. Eight starters. Third preliminary, the Tavern stake; Moko Dillard won, Mike Agan second, Newzel third. Best time, 2:12%. Nine starters.

TO AID MEXICAN REFUGEES

Senate Passes Measure Providing for Tents for Americans Fleeing Across the Border. Washington, July 30.—The senate passed a joint resolution authorizing the war department to supply tents for the care of American refugees from Mexico to El Paso. A telegram read by Senator Fall from the mayor of El Paso said that 2,500 Americans from Mexico would be in El Paso within twenty-four hours and that the city had no facilities to care for them. A telegram received at the state department from American Consul Edwards at Juarez seems to have put a quietus on alarming reports which came from Mexico regarding the intent of the rebels to kill every American within the rebel territory. In substance, the telegram indicates that the excitement is nothing more than a stampede caused by threats of rebel officers for revenge.

SHARKEYS END THEIR WOES

Ex-Pugilist's Wife Withdraws Her Suit for Divorce and Couple Are Again United. New York, July 30. —“Tom” Sharkey, the prize fighter, who, according to his wife, becomes “a roguish lion” when in his cups, has made up with his better half, who started suit for divorce, and the couple are honeymooping over again at one of the nearby coast resorts. Mrs. Sharkey withdrew her suit in a note which she sent to her attorney Newton McGovern, and now Mr. McGovern is the only one in the suit who is not supremely happy. He wants to know how much his fee will be and when he is going to get it.

PROBE HARD COAL PRICES

House Adopts Resolution Calling on Secretary of Commerce to Begin an Inquiry. Washington, July 30.—The house adopted a resolution calling upon the secretary of commerce and labor to inquire into “the different elements of cost and profit included in the present high price of anthracite.” Representative Difenderfer of Pennsylvania, Democrat, author of the resolution, dedared that a “hard coal trust” existed.

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