Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS

Most Important Happen- , ings Told in Brief.

Washington Colonel Roosevelt again declared , not only his willingness but his eager ness to make public every scrap of evidence in his possession in regard to any action concerning the campaign funds raised for his election tc the presidency in 1904 and the Standard Oil interests. Senator Clapp, chairman of the special senate committee now investigating the subject of campaign contributions, said that he and his associates were looking forward to a most strenuous series of hearings when they reassembled in Washington on September 30 to take up the inquiry along the broad lines laid down in the Penrose resolution adopted by the senate. • * • Brig.-Gen. Frank Mclntyre, the new head of the bureau of insular affairs of the war department, will have as his assistants Maj. Charles G. Walcutt Jr., and Capt. Irving L. Hunt, Sixth Infantry. Maj. Walcutt assumes rank of colonel and Captain Hunt that of major. '♦ * ' All first and second class post offices will be closed Sundays as a result of one provision of the new postal appropriation bill passed by con* gress. EVery Important city in the United States is affected. Hereafter only special delivery letters will pass through on that day and no mail will be placed in lock boxes. A demand for an investigation of the election of Senators William E. Chilton and Clarence W. Watson of West Virginia was madq in a petition signed by Governor and others, presented to the senate. The petition called attention to charges of bribery publicly made/ in reference to the election of the two senators. 1 • • • President Taft signed the Panama canal bill. He sent congress a memorandum suggesting the advisability of the adoption of a resolution declaring the Panama measure was not considered by this government a violation of treaty provisions regarding the canal.

Domestic The log of the oil Steamer Rosecrans, which burned and sank at Santa Barbara, Cal., reveals many lurid pages. Built in Glasgow in 1883 and launched as the Meth ven Castle, the vessel was purchased by the United States government, rechristened the Gen. Rose crabs and used as an army transport In the Spanish-American war. ' • • • Following a petty quarrel with her husband, Mrs. William Fyther of New York city, aged twenty-five years, locked herself and her four children in a room and turned on the gas. Three of the children are dead, while the mother and the fourth child are at the point of death. •* • ' Joe Patchen 11., great son of famous Joe Patchen, won his eighth race out of nine starts this season when he trimmed the Neponset stake pacers at Readville, Mass., by cracking in three heats in 2:05*4,, 2:05% and 2:06%, the fastest heat and race New England has seen this season. « ♦ • President Taft declared in a speech from the rear platform of his private car at Springfield, Mass., that he did not intend to take any further part in active politics. •♦ • , The American Bar association in sesion at Milwaukee adopted a resolution requiring that hereafter when negro attorneys apply for membership their race must be made known In the application. 1 » • • A woman and a boy were killed and eight other persons were injured, one probably fatally, by lightning, during a severe electrical storm that visited St. Louis and vicinity. > With the surrender of Steve Israel at Salt Lake City, Utah, the mystery of the murder of Benjamin F. Platt at North Topeka, Kan,, February 22,1911, is cleared. Israel told the Salt Lake police that the ghost of the deW man was haunting him. * » * A severe storm which raged ovei northwestern Wisconsin played havoc with buildings In many villages and damaged farm property to a large ex tent, besides demoralizing telephone and telegraph service. * * • Ernest W. Pitman, a wealthy mill builder, committed suicide at his home at Andover, Mass. He had beer subpoenaed by the grand jury and was to have testified in connection with the planting of dynamite In Law rence at the time of the mill strike.