Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. TOLD IN CONDENBED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happening* of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and Fop eign Items. Washington The committee of representatives which took testimony against Federal Judge Cornelius Hanford at Seattle, Wash., recommends to the house Judiciary committee that the Impeachment proceedings he dropped and that President Taft accept the julge’s resignation. * • * The trial of Judge Robert W. Archbald of the United States commerce court bn impeachment proceedings brought by the house of tlves was set by the senate to open December 3 the second day of the next regular session of congress. * * * The United States Steel corporation Is condemned as a gigantic monopoly In restraint of trade and its methods are strikingly erbuked in the burden of the report of the Stanley committee, presented to the house at Washington after a year’s investigation. Former President Roosevelt is blamed for making the control of the steel trust absolute. * • • The destitution of American refugees from Mexico now quartered at El Paso resulted in the passage by the senate of a resolution authorizing the war department to spend SIOO,OOO in transporting them to such points in the United States as they wish to reach. • • • After a three-hour debate behind closed doors the U. S. senate, by a vote of 51 to 4, adopted the Lodge resolution defining the attitude of the United States in disapproval of the acquisition by foreign Interests of any territory on the western hemisphere which riaight be used as military or naval bases or menace “the approaches” of this country. t* * * The five judges of the United States commence court will be retained in offlve as circuit Judges by an agreement reached by the house and senate conferees on the legislative excutive Judicial appropriation bill. The court will be definitely abolished. • • • The Democrats of the house, aided by most of the insurgent Republicans, by a vote of 166 to 72, passed the Underwood cotton bill, making an average reduction of 50 per cent, below the duties provided In the Payne-Ald-rich bill. The house at Washington voted 145 to 109, to disagree to the senate’s amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, continuing the present tariff board in office for another year. * • * President Taft was formally notified of his nomination by the Republican convention by a committee headed by Senator Root and delivered his speech of acceptance. * * •

Domestic Hadno Mamee of Philadelphia, a cabin passenger saved from the Titanic, has brought suit against the White Star line for $25,000, the value of jewels he says he lost. * * * The body of Harvey W. Black of Alton, 111., who died of Injuries received in a motorcycle accident at Dole, France, will be sent to the United States on La Lorraine. • • • A thorough and Impartial Investigation of the accusation made concerning the alleged connection between the New York police and the gamblers is recommended in a public statement issued by Police Commissioner Waldo in relation to the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. * • • Alexander Antona, his wife, Annetta Holliday Antona, and their nephew, Angelo Villa, who were arrested at Detroit, pending investigation of the death of Elizabeth Flaming, a servant, were released from custody. * • • That the wheat yield of Minnesota and the Dakotas will approximate 265;0OO,OOQ bushels this year Is the declaration of a Minneapolis milling paper, which states that the present harvest will be the largest on record, 109,000,000 bushels harvested In 1905. * • * Jacob F. Guthrie, a former school teacher, is locked up in Chicago, accused of being the perpetrator of the most extraordinary series of burglaries and forgeries ever committed in Chicago. The plunder is SIOO,OOO. * * * Walter Permenter, brother of Swinton Permenter, once convicted and later granted a new trial on the charge of killing Miss Janie Sharp July 22, 1910, at Louisville, Miss., was shot and killed from ambush In the yard of a relative’s home In Eupom.