Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS

Most Important Happenings. Told in Brief.

, Washington President Taft was formally notified of his domination by tbe ( Republican convention by a committee headed by Senator Root and delivered his speech of acceptance. * • * The IL'nited States again has protested to the Mexican government and to General Orozco, leader of the revolutionists, against attacks upon American citizens and property in northern Mexican. • • • Alleged sugar frauds at Philadelphia /under investigation by Secretary MacVeagh and Attorney General Wickersham for the last year, have been settled by the payment of nearly $250,000 to the government by the refining companies involved. » » • The house of representatives 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 coal." * * * ' Before the U. S. senate, sitting: as a court of impreachment, Judge Robert W. Archbald of the commerce court made formal denial to the thirteen articles of impeachment preferred by the house. • • • The federal incorporation of all concerns engaged “in interstate commerce whose capitalization or value exceeds 150,000.000, 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 passed the Bristow bill with an amendment offered by Senator Lodge, eliminating the Dutch standard and the differential, and reducing the duty from $1.90 to SI.OO per hundred pounds. This result was achieved through a combination of Progressive and regular Republicans. » • •

Domestic According to the figures of the Northern Pine Manufacturers* association and other dealers, the timber cut in Minnesota for 1912 will be 2,000,000,000 feet. Francis Tracy Tobin, Philadelphia attorney, has asked the house of representatives to impeach Associate Justice Wright of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Mr. Tobin alleges that Justice Wright was influenced by the Buck Stove & Range company in sentencing Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell to jail recently on a charge of contempt. • * • A contract by which Dr. Luis F. Correa, former minister from Nicaragua to the United States, sought to obtain $257,000 attorney’s fees from the bankrupt Blueflelds Steamship company was declared to be “contrary to good morals” in a report filed in the United States district court at New Orleans, La., by Special Master D. B. H. Chaffee. • * • The grand jury at Chicago returned indictments in the alleged conspiracy against Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester company, growing out of the alienation suit brought by John C. Henning. Attorney Daniel Donahue, Miss Aileen Heppner and Isaac Stiefel, a private detective, were indicted for conspiracy. • • •

The New York state comptroller has received a check for $166,682 in payment of the inheritance tax on the estate of Edwin Hawley. The net estate of the financier was appraised at $5,283,287- . , * * « Alexander Antona, his wife, Helen Antona, a teacher of historic artanfi foreign traveler and a writer for many magazines, and Angelo Villa, a nephew of Antona, were arrested, at Detroit, Mich., in connection with the death of Lizzie Fleming, sixty-three years old, who died at the Antona home early last month., • • • Lorene Whiteman, thirteen years old, daughter of Fire Chief Whiteman of Roswell, New Mexico, waS killed, two persons were probably fatally Injured and three others were severely hurt in an automobile accident east of Roswell. The strike of conductors and motormen of the Boston Elevated Railway company, which lasted 53 days and is estimated to have cost $1,028,000, was ended by. an agreement of the compan/ officials ter the terms of settlement, strikers winning every point. • • • Claude Allen, one of the Hillsville (Va.) outlaws, was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Commonwealth Attorney William M. Foster. At a former trial he was found guilty of killing Judge Massie.