Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Page 4

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOB THE BUST MAN

MOST IMPORTANT. EVENTS OP 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 eign Items. Washington Representative Roddenbery of Georgia on the floor of the house of representatives scathingly arraigned Jack Johnson, the negrq prize fighter, for his recent marriage to Lucille Cameron, a white girl, in Chicago. He declared the action of the state of Illinois in permitting the marriage ■was ' damning,” and said the continuance of the practice would plunge the United States into bloody war. * • * Great Britain’s formal note of protest against that section of the Panama canal act which exempts American coastwise shipping from payment of tolls for passing through the Panama canal, a document written by Sir Edward Grey, British minister for foreign affairs, was presented to Secretary of State Knox by British Ambassador Bryce. * * * The common towel was ordered abolished from railroad cars, vessels, all other interstate vehicles and from stations, by Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury department, in an amendment to the interstate quarantine regulations. • * * President Taft and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson have decided on the appointment of Dr. Carl Alsberg, a chemist, in the bureau of drugs and plants, as chief of the bureau of chemistry, a position that has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. * • * In a speech to twenty-six governors in Washington, President Taft urged the adoption of uniform state legislation to make possible the adoption of a system of rural credits and low interest bearing loans to farmers. He i favored a system similar to that in vogue in many European countries. * * * Unsparing condemnation of those who would from “misplaced sentimentality or lazy self-interest," cast the Filipinos upon the world in a j state of helplessness and before they , had acquired the full benefits of Amer- ! ican civilization, is a strong feature | in the annual report of Secretary of ! War Henry L. Stimson. * * * Bom&stic George W. Perkins won a complete triumph over all opposition in the meeting of the Progressive national committee in Chicago. He had the national headquarters removed to New' York, put through his plan for branch bureaus and then announced that the next official business of the Progressive party would be at a meeting of his executive committee in New York city, December 18. • * * Two hundred striking Italian coal handlers of the Susquehanna railroad, armed with revolvers, shotguns and rifles, charged a force of Erie railroad special police at Shadyside, near Edgewater, N. J.. killing two of the police and wounding eight others, two or three of whom may die. * * * Senator Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana had one of the toes cf his right foot cut off in a Washington hospital. The toe had become irritated and blood poisoning was feared. Senator Snively refused to take ether or chloriform. During the operation he smoked a cigar. * • * Kinney Bergman, train bandit and cracksman, was killed and three other bandits who have terrorized the trainmen and robbed banks and postoffices throughout the southwest in the last two years, were captured in a raid by local detectives in a lonely hut in the south part of Memphis, Tenn. * * * Richard H. Townley, a retired naval officer and at one time state comptroller of Nebraska, accidently shot and killed himself in cleaning a gun preparatory to a hunting trip. In recent years he had been superintendent of the Lincoln hospital in New York city. • * • William H. Quigley, business agent of the carpenters' union at Detroit, a witness for the defense in the ,dynamite conspiracy case at Indianapolis, was arrested for perjury, and ordered held to await an investigation by the federal grand jury. •• • ■ Miss Leona Sherer, St. Louis, was stabbed and probably fatally wounded by V. Metis on a Wabash passenger train near Centralia, Mo. Metis then stabbed himself, inflicting wounds that will prove fatal. The motive for his attack is unexplained. !,>'•. • • • Foui* midshipmen have been recommended for dismissal from the Annapolis naval academy by Superintendent Gibbons, following an inquiry by a Aboard of officers covering a month, for alleged maltreatment of a fellow midshipman.

BAVARIA RULER DEAD

PRINCE LUITPOLD SUCCUMBS TO BRONCHIAL CATARRH. Deceased’s Heart Is to Be Embalmed, Placed in Silver Case and Taken to Altoetting. Munich, Bavaria, Dec. 13.—Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria, died here. He was ninety-one years old. The prince regent had been in failing health for several months. The immediate cause of his death was bronchial Catarrh, which was aggravated by the feebleness of old age. He passed away before his eldest son, Prince Ludwig, could reach his side from his estates in Hungary. Prince Luitpold had been compelled to cancel all public engagements for some time, hut he insisted until the

Prince Luitpold.

last moment on receiving the Bavarian cabinet ministers and his personal suite. Prince Luitpold was the oldest ruling prince in Europe in point of years. He was nine years older than Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. Emperor William telegraphed that he would attend the funeral, the date of which has not yet been fixed. In consonance with the wishes of the now deceased prince, his heart is to be embalmed separately, inclosed in a silver case and taken to Altoetting, in Bavaria.

FIRES PERIL TO HUNDREDS

Patients in Peoria Hospital Are Thrown Into Panic by Flames— Property Loss Heavy. Peoria, 111;, Dec. 13 —Fire in the old section of the . St. Francis hospital caused a heavy property loss and created a panic among the one hundred patients before they were removed to another part of the building. The fire was discovered in the attic, above the fifth floor, and had gained considerable headway before the firemen arrived. The flames were extinguished after two hours of fighting. At one time preparations were made to remove the several hundred patients from the entire building. Chicago, Dec. 13—The lives of 150 panic-stricken, fainting girls were menaced and many hazardous escapes were made when fire swept the fivestory building at the southeast corner of Fifth avenue and Lake streets, causing a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. Bayonne; N. J., Dec. 13.—A fire seen for miles and at which the damage is estimated at $125,000 to $150,000 destroyed the barrel factory of the Tidewater Oil company, a Standard Oil corporation, at Constable Hook. It is i said to have been caused by a watch- ! man knocking over a lantern.

DARROW WILL BE RE-TRIED

District Attorney to Empanel Grand Jury to Probe New Evidence Against Labor Lawyer. Los Angeles. Cal., Dec. 13. —All doubts that Clarence Darrow would be tried again on charges of bribing jurors in the McNamara dynamite trial were set at-rest when it was ,learned that the district attorney’s office will shortly empanel a grand jury to probe new evidence in the bribery case. Darrow will be placed on trial January 6on the Bain indictment. Assistant District Attorney F. J. Ford has subpoenaed Cleveland Dam, a San Francisco attorney, to testify before the ri grand jury regarding the SIO,OOO check alleged to have been given by Darrow to Olaf Tveitmoe iff San Francisco,

MOTHER AND SON END LIVES

Pair Commit Suicide as Phonograph Record Plays “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” New York, Dec. 13.—After placing a sohg record, “Nearer, My God, to TJiee,” In a phonograph at their home in Brooklyn last night, Mrs. Marie Ultzen, sixty years old, wife of a well-to-do architect, and her son, william Ultzen, Jr., forty, committed suicide by fastening rubber tubes to theta faces and turning on the gas.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. DEMOCRATIC MEET IS- ON Neariy Every Representative and Senator Answers to Call of Chairman Korbley for a Conference. Indianqpolis, Dec. 12.—The conference of the . Democratic representatives, called for this afternoon at the Denison hotel, took a nfuch wider scope when nearly all of the Democratic senators came in from over the state in answer to a call sent out by State Chairman Kcrbley. In his call Mr. Korbley said that this would be a good time to consider a legislative program, and that he had invited Governor Marshall and Governor-elect Ralston, state officials and members of the Democratic state committee to attend the meeting. When the conference opened very few senators or representatives were absent. It was reported that a plunder committee would be aftpointed to distribute the jobs in the house. Candidates for speaker and other positions in the house were numerous in the crowd, l?ut it was not expected that the meeting would take any action regarding the filling of positions.

Officers Break Trunk Open.

Kokomo, Dec. 12. —A trunk which Was taken to Cassville on November 23 by Mrs. Nellie Swineton and left at the home of Edward Huston, occasioned the people of the little town and the police officials of this city no little worry. Mrs. Swinerton left Cassville two days after her arrival there, leaving the trunk, which was deposited in the Huston barn. All sorts of rumors were circulated and. when it became general talk that a body was inclosed in the trunk, Chief of Police Windoffer and Prosecuting Attorney Don C, Strode of this city made an investigation. The trunk was found to contain a quantity of clothing and a number of old letters. Mrs. Swinerton has wired that she will return to Cassville within a few days.

THE MARKETS.

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago. Dec. tt. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat- ing. est. est. ing r/ e -*«* S3T6 ■.«*%'.■■ May .89*4 <9 aj* July .........86%-% .874- '.«« R 74 Corn- ' npc *74-* •« .474 .474-% j May ........454 .45% 484-% j July .........484-49 . 434 .484-% .484 Oats— Dec. .........32«4 .324 .32 .324 May .........324-4 .33 .32% y»>-33 I July . .1...... ..S3 ; .334 .324-33 .334 FT.OlTß—Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis brands, wood. *4.90 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents. $4 °>>S4 30jute. straight, jute. $3.8554.00; first clears! jute. ?3..y>03.70: second clears, jute s"* 700 ! 2.9>1; low grades, jute. $2.6602.70; ’ winter wheat, patent, jute. *4.0064.90: straight, jute. $4.2504.40: rye flour, white, patent, @3 W) ark . standard. Jute. $2.90 BETTER—Creamery, extra, 35c: extra •firsts, 34c; firsts. 30033 c; seconds. 27025 c; storage, extra. 31c. EGGS—Cases returned. 23025 c, cases included, 234<5254c; ordinary firsts. 244® 25c; firsts. 26028 c; checks. 174018 - dirties. 20@21c. POTATOES—Minnesota. 47052 c; Michigan. 50052 c: Wisconsin. 45048 c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys. 15c; chickens, fowls. 11c: roosters, 9c; springs, lie; geese, 12c; ducks. 14c. New York. Dec. 12. WHEAT—Firmer, trade inactive; No. I ' northern, spring, 954 c: No. 2 red. $107; No. 2 hard. 97c. No. 1 Manitoba. 954 - No’ j 1 macaroni, $1,014; December. 914 c: May 95 15-16 c. CORN—Steady, business inactive; No. 2 yellow, 59c. OATS—Firm,- inactive business: No 2 i white. 3§4c; standard. 3Sc; ungraded. 36 041 c.. I BARLEY— Go@7oo. Live Stock. Chicago. Dec. 12. 1 CATTLE —Good to choice steers. 11.C0; fair to good steers. $7.2509.09; common to fair beeves. $6.0007.25; inferior I killers, $5.3006.50: range steers, $6.5009 59- ' fair to fancy yearlings. $7.2509.85; cannet bulls, $2.2503.25; fair to choice vealers $8.75010.50; heavy calves. $5.2509.00: feeding steers. $6.0007.50; Stockers? $4.7506.50; medium to good beef cows. $4.2505 75common to good cutters. $3.0004.00; j rior to good canners. $2.3003.25. HOGS—Good to' prime heavy. $7.3507 15- | good to prime butchers. $7.3007 49; fair to good packing. $.,150..25; rough heavy packing. $7.0007.10; light mixed. 1700200 lbs., $7.1507.25; choice light, 1700*00 ibs.. $7.2007.35; pigs, 110 lbs. and under, $7.00® 6.25; pigs, 1100140 lbs.. $6.2507.00. East Buffalo. N. Y„ Dec. 12. CATTLE—Market active and steady; prime steers. $9.0009.50; butcher grades! $4.5008.50; calves cull to choice, $6 <o® 12.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS-Marhet active, lambs 10c higher: choice iambs. $8.1509.00; cull to fair, $5.5008.50; yearlings. $5 00® 6.75: sheep, $2.0005.00. HOGS—Market fairly active, leg 15c lower; Yorkers, $7.5007.60; pigs, $7.2507 35; mixed, $7.60; heavy, $7.6007.65; roughs $6.5006.80; stags. $6.0006.50. Omaha. Dec. IX CATTLE!—Native steers, $6.50010.00; cows and heifers. $3.7507.00; western steers, $5.5008.25: Texas steers, $4.6506 35; cows and heifers, $3.5006.65; canners. $3.25 04.40; stockers and feeders, $4.7508.25; calves, $6.0009.00; bulls, stags, etc., $4 500 6.25. HOGS-Heavy. $7.3507.50; mixed, $7 300 7.40; light, $7.2007.40; pigs. $6.0007.00; bulk of sales, $7.3007.40. SHEEP—Yearlings, $5.0006.35; wethers, $3.7504.75; ewes, [email protected]; lambs. $6,500 7.75. Buy your box stationery and envelopes at The Democrat office.

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