Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUST MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUST 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 ol the Globe—Latest Home anlhFor elgn Items. Politics Without the taking of a single bal lot, after breaking the record for demonstrations, after introducing women for the first time as a force in national politics, the Progressive con vention at Chicago adjourned sine die having named Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency and Hiram W Johnson candidate for the vice-presi-dency. The platform adopted by the national Progressive convention at Chi cago advocates political, industrial, j agrarian, commercial and social con- j servation and tariff, reforms. It Is in the form of a “contract with the people” and was mostly written by Colonel Roosevelt. George W. Perkins, former partner of J. Plerpont Morgan, is to be the chairman of the campaign executive' committee of the Progressive party, • and United States Senator Joseph M. j Dixon of Montana managing director of the Roosevelt-Johnson campaign. • • * William Jennings Bryan is not going to follow the trail of Colonel Roosevelt around the country in the coming presidential campaign, as had been planned. This was decided at a meeting of the sub-committee on speakers of the Democratic national committee at New York. • » * Many Prohibitionists were present at Waukesha, Wis., at the formal notification of the nomination of Eugene W. Chafln of Tucson, Ariz., as their party’s candidate for president of the United States. The notification address was delivered by Rev. Charles H. Mead of New York, permanent chairman of the national convention. * * * Taft and Roosevelt men reached the parting of the ways in Ohio politics when following the nomination of General R. B. Brown of Zanesville for governor, at a meeting at Columbus of the Republican state central committee. eight members of that body, led by Slate Chairman Walter F. Brown, and Secretary I. N. Foster resigned. • • • Former Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson is to take the stump for Wilson and Marshall. His son Lewis made the announcement at Democratic national headquarters in New York. ‘‘While my father is seventy-six years old,” he said, ' he will make four or five speeches at least for Wilson in his home state, Illinois. He is ready to visit other western states:” * • • The nomination of Winfield T. Durbin of Anderson, former chief executive of Indiana, for governor and the adoption of a platform which pledged faith in the Republicans of the state to President Taft were the features of the Republican state convention held in Indianapolis. • • •

Domestic Judge H. L. Shattuck of Denver set aside the sentence of five days in jail and a fine of SI,OOO imposed on former Mayor W. Speer for contempt of court in connection with articles published in a newspaper of which Mr. Speer is editor. The defendant was purged of contempt. • • • While assisting nine other men threshing grain near the penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., John Connell, a convict, jumped off a wagon and escaped. • * * The Retail Druggists' association began its annual meeting in Milwaukee. • • • Five and ten cent merchants gathered in Indianapolis for their yearly convention. .• • • Homer Crandell, seven-year-old son of Frederick Crandell of New York, Edwin Hawley’s nephew, who received $2,000,000 of the railroad man's estate, is dead as a result of being accidentally hit on the head with a stone thrown by his ten-year-old brother, Richard. • • • Passengers on the mail steamship Dora, which arrived in Seward, Alaska, on her monthly trip from the westward, say Mount Katmai, which vtas in violent eruption in June, is emitting gteat volumes of dense smoke. • • • Tbree girls were killed and a dozen severely injured when a water tank containing 3,000 gallons of water on the top of the Nnion American Cigar company’s building in Pittsburg, Pa., crashed through the roof and the sixth and fifth floors. The northbound Mobile & Ohio passenger train No. 2 was totally wrecked while making up lost time between Percy and Sparta, 111., and running at a high rate at speed. A number of passengers were more or less seriously injured.