Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK’S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK’S NEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief.

Washington Two votes Were taken on the legislative, executive and judicial bill by the house of representatives. First It passed the measure which then contained a provision to abolish the commerce court over the president’s veto* but later it unanimously accepted the bill with an appropriation for the court until March 4, 1913. ♦ • • Senator Penrose, replying to a letter recently published purporting tc show that John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company had sent him $25,000 in 1904, declared in a speech in the senate that the money was part of a contribution of $125,000 made by the Standard Oil company to the presidential campaign. ,•♦ • " The naval appropriation bill providing for one $15,000,000 battleship, eight submarines, besides colliers and machine ships, passed the house by a vote of 151 to 16. The bill as it goes to the president carries $123,220,707. » » • Congress is rapidly thinning out in anticipation of adjournment In the house the attendance is sparse, sometimes not more than members responding on the question of the passage of a bill. It is estimated that almost 200 representatives already have returned to their congressional districts. * • • President Taft sent to congress a special message urging the amendment of the Panama canal bill which has passed both houses for the adoption of a joint resolution designed t® allow foreign nations- to test the validity of the free tolls provision of the bill under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. • • • Domestic Overcome by a sudden impulse to end his life, which had become unbearable through ill health, John W. Kennedy, a millionaire manufacturing jeweler of Des Moines, la., sent a bullet through his brains at Montecito, Cal. - Mrs Florence Bernstein, charged with having shot her husband to death while asleep in their home in Chicago last May, was found “not guilty” by a jury after they had deliberated 24 houis. • • • Vilhkmar ■ Stefanson, the ' explorer who discovered a race of blond Eskimos in Victoria Land, arrived at Nome, Alaska, on the revenue cutter Bear, after passing four and a half years in the arctic. • • • Walter A. Leonard of Illinois was appointed consul at Stavanger, Norway, by President Taft. • ♦ ♦ Gov. A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota issued a proclamation calling a second conservation congress. The congress will be held in Minneapolis, Minn., beginning November 19 and ending November 22. • • • A blanket indictment against seven men, five of whom are now under arrest. charging murder in the first degree, was returned by the grand jury before Judge Mulqueen in the court of general sessions in New York city, In connection with the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler • • • Sidna Edwards, one of the Hillsville court house assassins pleaded guilty at Wytheville Va., and was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary Two of his kinsmen had been found guilty of murder in the first degree. On his mother’s advice he accepted a compromise. • • • Built for travelers of moderate i means, the first "lunch counter car” ever put into service by an American railroad, was attached to trains running from San Francisco to Los Angeles!' | • • • New York state’s appraisal of the estate of John W. Gates, the financier, who died in August, 1911, shows that his fortune totals in round numbers $18,000,000, which is less than onehalf the amount he was supposed to be worth at the time of his death. • * • The business of handling other people’s money will be discussed in all its phases before the bank employes who make up the American Institute of Banking" finish their national con vention, which was opened in Salt Lake City. • • Five persons were seriously injured Ud forty bruised and cut in the collapse of a grandstand seating 400 in University place, Indianapolis, during the formal notification of Gov. Thomae R Marshall of his nomination as Democrat candidate for vice-president.