Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 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 ManLatest Personal Information. Washington Charles P. Taft testified before the Clapp committee at Washington that his contributions to the president's campaign for renomination aggregated $213,592, of which $125,000 was given to the national Taft, bureau, of which Representative William McKinley was director. To the Ohio state campaign, $64,800 was given and $23,000 went for miscellaneous items. • • • Duplicate lists of all contributions received by the Republican national committee during the campaign of Cornelius Bliss are locked away in a packing case in a Chicago warehouse. This Information was given out by Elmer Dover, formerly secre tary of the national Republican com mittee, to Senator Jones. • • • Acting Secretary Cable of the department of commerce and labor Instructed the immigation authorities at Ellis island, New York, to admit to the United States Prince Ludovlc Pignatelll d’Aragon son of Don Jaime, pretender to the Spanish throne, held since last Friday and threatened with deportation.

Charles R. Crane told the senate Investigating committee at Washington that he gave $26,684.40 to Senator La Follette’s campaign and SIO,OOO to Governor Woodrow Wilson’s fund before the Baltimore convention. • • • Domestic The Loyal Legion, an organization composed of officers and former officers of the army and navy, is holding its annual meeting at Cleveland, O. • • • Fully confessing himself a tool of corrupt interests which dominated the general assembly of Ohio durihg the six years he has served as Pike county’s representative In the house, Dr. George Burt Nye of Waverly, dealt a crushing blow to the defense of his Indicted colleagues by pleading guilty before Judge Edgar B. Kinkead of the Franklin county criminal court to one of five pending Indictments against him.

* • • After Ed Callahan, former sheriff of Breathitt county, Ky., was slain from ambush several months ago, his daughter, Mrs. Clifton Gross, vowed to find the assassins. She passed many days and nights In the lonely mountain trails seeking evidence, which, presented to a grand jury, resulted In the indictment of fifteen members of the Deaton faction. * * * Train No. 41, westbound, on the Rock Island railroad, was held up between Howe and Wister, Okla., the express safe blown open and registered mall taken. * • • A trust estimated at $2,060,000, established by the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, for the benefit of the denomination, was declared void by the Massachusetts supreme court. The court holds, however, that a charitable trust has been formed and that the new trustees may be appointed to administer It. The second international conference of Scottish Rite Masons opened in Washington, 26 out of 29 supreme councils of the world being represented. •' • • Several passengers were hurt when a Pere Marquette passenger train from Chicago to Grand Rapids, Mich., struck a broken rail five miles east of Michigan City, Ind. •• • 1 Hamlin Garland, the author, narrowly escaped death in the destruction of his home at West Salem, Wls„ when an explosion of gasoline Injured a maid and set the house in flames, which spread so rapidly that Garland yvas forced to leap from an upstairs window. ♦ ♦ • Williams college professors will hereafter get a year’s vacation in every seven years, with full pay. Funds for carrying out this arrangement are provided from the income of a gift by Francis Lynde Stetson of New York. • * • The one hundred and third annual meeting of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions has begun at Portland, Me, Officers of the organization will report the board free from debt for the fourth time In Its history. \ • • * I Mount Holyoke college will observe the rounding out of three-quarters of a century of life this week at South Hadley, Mass. The completion of a $500,000 endowment fund will be reported by a committee.