Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 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 Erom All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. Washington Secretary MacVeagh asked for the resignation of Gideon C. Bantz as assistant treasurer of the United States because he is said not to be in sympathy with the administrative policy of the secretary of the treasury. Mr. Bantz will be succeeded by Christian S. Pearce, at present chief of the division of banks, loans and postal savings. • • • Carmi A. Thompson was sworn In as treasurer of the United States, succeeding Lee McClung. In accepting his commission Mr. Thompson said he would retire from political life with President Taft March 4. •• 1 • Charles D. Hilles again is private secretary to the president. The chairman of the Republican national committee bas resumed his position at the White House, taking the place of Carmi Thompson, appointed treasurer of the United States. • • • O. H. Briggs of Freeport, Me., was appointed by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh superintendent of supplies, heading the general committed i which purchases all supplies for the 1 executive branch of the national government. Mr. Briggs succeeds Dr. T. C. 8. Marshall, resigned. .Domertfc With the jury standing 11 to 1 for his acquittal on the charge of having strangled to death Rosa Menschik Szabo, Burton W. Gibson declared at Goshen, N. Y., that he felt nothing but bitter disappointment in the fact that his trial resulted in a disagreement.