Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1912 — SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S EVENTS

Latest News of Interest Boiled Down for the Busy Man.

Politics In the gubernatorial elections, of which there were 29. the Democrats ' won in 17, the Republicans in 11 and the Progresives in one. The states i electing Republicans are Idaho, Kan-1 sas, North Dakota, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota. Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Returns from all over the United States insures the Democrats control of the house of representatives, and Indicate that they also will dominate the senate. < Four hundred and twenty-five electoral votes for President-elect Wlfson 1b the latest figure that the returns from all the states indicate. This number of votes represents a total of 40 of the 48 states. Of the other eight states, Roosevelt carried Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania. South Dakota and Washington, with a total electoral vote of 94. Taftl carried Idaho, Utah and Vermont or a total of 12 electoral votes. • • • Washington Hearing of the appeal in the contempt of court case against Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, leaders of the American Federation of Labor, probably will be set for January, 1913, at Washington. • • • Domestic The Pacific Mall liner San Tuan is ! in port at San Francisco with the i bodies of seven men of the United States navy, who were killed in the revolution in Nicaragua a month ago. Three were killed in the engagement ■ of Barranca hill and four were boloed in Leon. * • • Extracts from the Iron Workers’ Union Magazine concerning a demand made upon the American Federation I of Labor to impose a tax of one cent a month on all its members to unionize Los Angeles, three years before the Times building was blown up, were read by the government at the ‘ dynamite conspiracy” tried at Indianapolis. • « • Charles N. Kramer confessed that he killed Sophia Singer, the Baltimore heiress found murdered In Chicago. Kramer, whose stage name is Conway, said that he knocked Miss Singer • down in self-defense when she at-! tacked him with a razor after he had! rebuked her for making a suggestion' to Mrs Kramer to go out and meet some men. Kramer exonerated his wife from all blame. * * • Pansy Ellen Lesh, twenty-four years old, who said she had been deserted by her husband, surrendered to the police at Los Angeles, declaring that j she had murdered two women in Missouri, one at Greenridge and another at Sedalia. The victims, she said, were Mrs. Qualntance and Mrs. Coe. * • • Following charges preferred by an escaped prisoner that he had been aided in his escape from the work- ■ house by Superintendent John Carey, • Manager William Walters and County Commissioner Tice, Judge Fowler called these officials Into court at Fond du Lac, Wis. The officials denied the charges.

• * • T. S. Brice, a lumberman of Detroit, was killed when ah automobile In which he was riding with J. B. Little of Harriman, plunged into a creek near Kingston, Tenn. * • • A strike which may affect 5,000 clerks and stenographers employed at the stations and offices of the Canadian Pacific railroad has begun. * • • Governor Wilson of New Jersey sustained a three-inch scalp wound when the automobile in which he was riding from Red Bank to Princeton struck a mound In the road at Hightstown and hurled him against one of the steel ribs supporting the roof of the car. • • • '' 'j. '.I , ■ An ambition to become the moving picture magnate of the Pacific coast is alleged to have led Wallace J. Poland, cashier of the San Francisco office of the International Harvester company, to embezzle $84,000.

H. E. Campbell and Joseph G. Gavin, who were arrested at Columbus, 0., in connection with the bank robbery at New Westminster, Canada, several months ago, probably will be released for lack of evidence. * • ♦ John L. Wilson, owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died at a hotel in Washington, D. C., of angina pectons. after an illness of one hour. Mr. Wilson was a former United States senator.