Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK

LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man— Latest Personal Information. Politics i The seats of the members of the Republican national committee from New Jersey, West Virginia. North Carolina and California were declared vacant by the committee in a meeting at New York, and the resignations of committeemen from Oklahoma and Minnesota were accepted. All had joined the Roosevelt forces. • * • Judge John C. Karel, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, made a clean sweep of the Democratic platform convention at Madison when his platform, pledging the party to repeal the state inconie tax law, was adopted. * • • P* ter one of the most bitterly fought political conventions in Oregon’s history, United States Senator Jonathan Bourne, who bolted the Republican party, was turned down by the Roosevelt party, and a Portland lawyer, E. A. Clark, was nominated as the party’s United States senatorial candidate. • *

Washington Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagfa has detailed nine surgeons of the public health service to investigate contagious and infectious diseases among the Indians. Reports will be made on the prevalence of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox and other desases. * • * To prevent the Mexican insurrectos from crossing the line into American territory, the war department has ordered General Steever, commanding the frontier troops, to parallel the movements of the rebel forces on the American side of the border. * * * Secretary MacVeagh awarded a gold medal of honor to Private Henry Hanson, Company F, Sixth infantry, for extraordinary courage and endurance in saving the lives of a party of comrades from a capsized sailboat on Lake Lanao. Mindanao, P. 1., January 28 last. • • • Domestic The convention of the National League of Third and Fourth Class Postmasters opened in Richmond, Va., the delegates being welcomed by Governor Mann. Charles O. Barry of Walker, Ohio, presided. * * « Tying up work on urgent government orders for army automatic rifles, revolvers and machine guns, 1,000 employes of the Colt Revolver works went on strike at Hartford. Conn. It is the first strike at this plant in seventy years and was totally unexpected. * • * A striking letter against the attendance of Catholic children at the public schools has been issued by Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee, in which he forbids church sacrament to the families of those violating the rules laid down specifying attendance at Catholic parochial schools until the Eighth grade has been passed. * * * ' ■'• jl' A straw hat riot at Bridgeton, N. J., got beyond the control of the police and order was not restored until the firemen appeared as reinforcements and dispersed the^crowd with the fire hose. • • • “Suicide point,” a little promontory overlooking the brink of Niagara falls, has been cut away by order of the New York reservation commission. The number of persons who used the point as a jumping off place Increased so alarmingly In the last year or two that the commission decided to be rid of it.

• • • Woman charity workers on New York’s East side are to have a home that is to cost $400,000. The building will be built by Mrs. John Stuart Kennedy, whose husband left $25,000,000 to colleges, missions and hospitals. • • • Governor Glasscock of West Virginia has approved the finding of the military commission in sentencing 37 striking miners, nearly all of whom are Greeks, to 60'days in the Kanawha'county jail for Intimidation of workmen. * • • -One man in every twelve residing permanently In Atlantic City, N. J., has been accused of crime and will come up before the October term of the grand Jury, according to startling figures given out at the prosecutor’s office. ' 7- . ' <4 • • • Loot estimated by the postal authorities at SIOO,OOO w'as obtained by five bandits who held up the New Yofk & Memphis fast mall on the Southern railway at Stevens Gap. Ala., and escaped with all the registered letters and valuable packages.