Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For> elgn Items. Washington Attorney General Wickersham submitted his annual report, In which he isked legislation permitting his department to continue its litigation against the United States Shoe Mar chlnery company and the so-called coffee trust. • • • .'J./.. The initiative and referendum and recall) of judicial decisions, as amendments to ,the federal constitution, * were proposed in two resolutions Introduced in the senate by United States Senator Bristow of Kansas. * • • A statement filed with the clerk of the national house of representatives In accordance with the campaign publicity law shows that it cost the Democratic national campaign committee $1,159,455 to elect Woodrow Wilson president of the United States In the November election. • • • President Taft, the Peruvian minister and other notables addressed the opening session of the National Rivers and Harbors congress In Washington. • • * For the ninth time in the history of the United States, its most plenary power—impeachment proceedings—was exercised by the senate. Robert W. Archbald, associate justice of the commerce court, was the defendant. His impeachment trial began, with a committee of seven representatives acting as prosecutors. * • • The U. S. Supreme court, in an opinion announced by Justice Day, held that the Union Pacific Railroad company, by the acquisition of stock in the Southern Pacific, had effected a combination in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The opinion indicated that the court would enter a decree to. dissolve the combination. * * * The court of appeals for the District of Columbia held that Thomas A. Edison is not the inventor of the motion picture film and that his patents are invalid and his assignee is not entitled to damages for infringement. Previous decisions were reversed. • • • Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of the president, led the contributions to the Republican campaign fund with $150,000, according to the final statement of the Republican national committee, filed with the clerk of the house at Washington. The total contributions received reached $904,828. - The expenditures were $900,363. » ♦ • • Domestic State Senator George K. Cetone of Dayton, Ohio, was found guilty of bribery after the jury trying him had deliberated but one hour. Sentence was deferred. • • • Hope for the safety Qf the threemasted schooner Rouse Simmons and her crew of ten men was practically abandoned when word reached Chicago that numerous Christmas trees, w'hlch made up the cargo of the vessel, and bits of unmarked wreckage had drifted ashore near Pentwater, Mich. « • • On a judgment of $2,000,000 obtained by the Lincoln Trust company of New York city as trustee, December 15, 1906, the holdings of LaFrance Copper company in Butte, which was organised by F. Augustus Heinze, were sold at sheriff sale to T. 8. Crotey of New York for SIOO,OOO. * * * Dismissal of four of the forty-five defendants because of Insufficient evidence to convict, the dosing of the government’s side and the opening of the defense with Frank M. Ryan of Chicago as its first witness and the resignation of Herbert 8. Hockin aa secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers marked the dynamite conspiracy trial in Indianapolis. • / f • • Eleven persons were killed in a wreck on the Pennsylvania lines, near Dresden, Ohio, in a rear-end collision. A passenger engine west-bound on the Zanesville diylsion plowed into the rear coach of a train bound Zanesville. » • • The first jury composed entirely of women which ever sat in a Kansas court of record began Its consideration of testimony in Eldorado, Kan., with prayer. Three hours latef the women returned a verdict In favor of the * plaintiff. • « * Henry Schoellkopf, member of the firm of Marksam & Schoellkopf, and one of the most widely known attorneys In Milwaukee shot and killed himself. No reason is assigned for the. act.