Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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 Chairman William F. McCombs turned over his desk at the New York headquarters of the Democratic national committee to his, assistant and began a vacation to which he has been looking forward eagerly: since election Dlght He will pass a month resting 'Jid recuperating in South Carolina. • • * Complete unofficial returns from the entire state of California give Roosevelt a plurality of 45 votes over Wilson. The result may be changed by the official count. • • • Washington The United Daughters of the Confederacy met in Washington and laid the corner stone of the Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery. • • * Charles Page Bryan, United States ambassador to Japan, tendered his resignation to President Taft, who reluctantly accepted it. Mr. Bryan gave 111 health, brought on by a carriage accident in Japan, as the reason for his resignation. He is now at his home in Elmhurst, 111., receiving medical treatment. A man claiming to be Jesse Dowdell of Silverwood, Ind., who insisted on seeing President Taft to get him to lower the cost of living, was taken Into custody at the White House. He was unarmed and will be examined as to his sanity.

Postmaster General Hitchcock announced that approximately $28,000,000 had been deposited to date in postal savings depositories by 290,000 Individuals, averaging $96 per depositor. , The system is now operated in 12,773 post offices and 7,357 banks have qualified to receive postal savings funds. : * -•• *. r James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, has tendered his resignation and will return to England. ' * • • • Domestic Mrs. J: Rappe Mvers, wife of the proprietor of the Rappe hotel, Greensburg. Pa., was shot by her daughter Gladys in mistake for a burglar in a sleeping car on a Pennsylvania railroad train bound for New York, She died a short time later in a Trenton (N. J.) hospital. • V • * * Sixteen persons were killed and as many more were injured when the Monon railroad s “Cincinnati Limited,’’ running on the tracks of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, ran into an open switch and smashed into a freight train at Irvington, a southern 6uburb of Indianapolis, Ind. Upon Mrs. Helen Dwelle Jenkins’ testimony that she has no real estate and that nearly all her personal effects were turned over to Deputy Surveyor Parr for loans made to her, Justice Schmuck, in New York, appointed Philip J. Dunn receiver of her property. * * * Mrs. Florence Dietz, 460 East One Hundred and Fifteenth street, Cleveland, 0., a bride of three months, is lying at death’s door at Provident hospital, a victim of hydrophobia. Her husband is frantic with grief, lie gave her the puppy whose bite it 1b feared will prove fatal. • • * There will be no special session of the Forty-seventh Illinois general assembly to elect two United States senators, one to fill William Lorimer's unexpired term and the other to succeed retiring Senator Culiom, Attorney General Stead held that a special session would not be legal unless new-ly-elected members of the legislature were seated. * * * i A two hundred and fifty thousand dollar fire destroyed the huge power house of the western plant of the Standard Steel Car foundry In Hammond, Ind. Four thousand men were thrown out of employment indefinitely. ■ * • * ■' “It costs $20,00.0 a year to supply bread and butter to each of the leading hotels of America,” said Lyman T. Hay, retiring president of the Missou-ri-Kansas-Oklahoma Hotelmen’s association, addressing the annqal convention of the organization at St. Louis. •* * ■ Personal taxes on the Aator estate were sworn off in New York. Representatives of the estate declared that October 1 the estate had in cash $2,200,000, against which there was chargeable $3,000,000 In obligations. Including the inheritance tax. * * • A resident of Chicago, seeking to ease his conscience, sent Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury department • postage stamp, which he was tempted -tb use unlawfully. Through error the post office had not canceled the stamp.