Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK

LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLO IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for th* Perusal of the Busy Man— Latest Personal Information. Washington Theodore Roosevelt is expected to appear October 2 or 3 before the special senate committee Investigating campaign contributions, to testify regarding the allegations of John D. Archbold and Senator Penrose that the Standard Oil company gave SIOO,000 to the Republican national committee of 1904 with his approval. • * • President and Mrs. Taft entertained the foreigh and American delegates to the eighth international conference of applied chemistry. • * • William Loeb, Jr., and George B. Cortelyou, both former private secretaries to Colonel Roosevelt when he was president; William Randolph Hearst and John D. Archbold have formally been asked to appear before the senate committee Investigating campaign contributions when it resumes hearings late this month. • • • Under an order by Postmaster General Hitchcock the pay of rural carriers is increased from SI,OOO to $l,lOO. • • •

Domestic More than 500 students at Columbia university worked their way through college last year, earning $95,000, according to the report of the committee on employment. • • • Private detectives who have been keeping a close watch over the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantlco Hills were equipped with a squad of watchdogs which will assist them in pursuing Italian bandits who have been responsible for recent holdups and petty crimes on the estate. • » • In 1890, when Kansas was passing through unusually hard times, the government census figures showed that 55.5 per cent, of Kansas farm* were mortgaged. According to the census figures for 1910 only 44.3 per cent, are mortgaged. • • • Specialists in the raising of vegetables from all parts of the country are in Rochester, N. Y. ( in attendance at the fifth annual convention of the Vegetable Growers’ association of America. • • • Unless the supreme court stays the order of a lower court the household goods of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, veteran of many battles of the Civil war, will be sold at auction to satisfy a judgment for $8,066 in favor of the Lincoln Trust company of New York. The judgment is based on a promissory note given by the aged soldier. * * ' • Miss Annie Dorothy Nixon, twentytwo years old, the daughter of Richard B. Nixon, financial clerk of the United States senate, was drowned at Colonial Beach, Va., in a vain attempt to rescue her swimming companion, Franklin W. Wiseman, aged twenty, of Havana, 111. ♦; • * The fifth annual meeting of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways association opened in New London, Conn. * • • The Brotherhood of St. Andrew met in annual session at the University of Chicago. • • • A riot among convicts in the Michigan state prison at Jackson was subdued only after a pitched battle with several companies of militia under Governor Osborn, the local fire companies, the prison guards and special deputies. One prisoner was shot while trying to escape and the interior of the prison was wrecked. Threats of Instant death by bomb for himself and wife unless a specified sum of money Is paid at once to the society of the Black Hand are contained in a letter received by WUI- - Rutherford Mead, head of the noted firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects of New York city. • • • ' The trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker on an indictment charging him with the murder of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, will begin in New: York city September 12, before Supreme Court Justice John W. Goff, appointed by Governor Dlx. • * * The thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of commercial incandescent lighting occurred Wednesday, September 4. September 4, 1882, Thomas A. Edison started in operation the world’s first central station In an old brick building In lower New York. ' • •' • Delegates from nearly every state In the union were it Denver for the opening of the fortieth annual convention of the American Fisheries society. President S. F. Fullerton of Bt. Paul called the convention to order. '