Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS Of THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLC Complete Review of Happenings a Greatest Interest From All Parts o the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. Washington The steel schedule tariff bill anc the wool bill failed to repass In the senate by the two-thirds necessary tc nullify the executive veto. The stee bill received only 32 votes to 39 casi against It. • • • The house failed to pass the leglsla tive, executive and judicial approprla tlon bill over the veto of President Taft by a vote of 153 to 107. The de section of 17 Democrats prevented the house from passing the bill containing a clause limiting government era ployes to year terms and abol Ishlng the commerce court. • • • Former Governor Odell of New York told the senate committee investigat Ing campaign contributions that Mr Harriman after a visit to the White House made at the request of President Roosevelt during the campaign .of 1904 raised (240,000 for the state campaign. • • • Following President Taft’s disapproval of the steel tariff revision bill the house, by a vote of 173 to 83, passed the measure over his veto. Sixteen Progressive Republicans made an alliance wtlh Democrats to make the two-thlrds majority necessary to override the veto. • • • President Taft sent to congress a special message asking It to appropriate (400,000, half to be paid to Great Britain and half to Japan, to carry out the agreement under the fur seal convention, ratified by the senate last December. Domestic Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, was acquitted by a jury at Los les, Cal., of the charge of having attempted to corrupt a prospective juror In the McNamara murder trial. Another indictment remains against Darrow, charging the bribery of Robert F. Bain, the first Juror sworn In the McNamara case. • • •

With Supreme Dictator Arthur R. Jones of Indianapolis in the chair, the supreme convention of the Loyal Order of Moose opened in Kansas City. * • • Six thousand troops are taking part in the war game in Kansas between the Red and Blue armies, every branch of the service being represented. • • • Concluding sessions of the Catholic Press association’s annual meeting were, held in Louisville, Ky., preliminary to the opening of the convention of the National Federation of Catholic Societies of America. Most Rev. John Bonzano, papal delegate to the United States, will be present. • • • 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. ~ • • • A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck an' outing party of eight on the Western Maryland railway extension one mile west of Frosburg (Md.) station, killing five persons and Injuring two others. * • • Chester Roach, accused of stealing a diamond ring from the Relnsberger hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., February 3,'was taken in charge by Detective R. H. Robinson at Washington, la., and ■tarted back to the Pennsylvania city. • • • A Jean Valjean in real life was disclosed in Philadelphia when William Burke, elected a city councilman on the reform ticket, headed by Mayor Blankenburg last fall, resigned his seat and told how under the name of Benjamin H. Tripp he had served a long term in the Massachusetts state prison, after a career of crime in Boston and New York. e • e Ernest Dickey, eighteen years old, and Euna Pashley, sixteen, of Chandlerville, 111., were married at Virginia, DI., by County Judge Charles Martin, breaking Cass county’s record for early marriages. Their parents gave consent. • • • Mrs. H. K. Hilloms of Omaha and Mrs. A. L. Burgent of Terre Haute, Ind., were injured when Wabash train No. 1; St. Louis to Omaha, went into the ditch half a mile south of Bineham, la. • • • Humphrey Owen Jones, F. R. s. Fellow of Clare college, and a noted scientist, and his wife, on their honeymoon, were killed by falling from the Freanay glacier in ascending the Aiguille de Peteret, one at the peaks of Mont Blanc.