Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOB THE BUST MAN [ARTICLE]

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.