Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOBT 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 Fopsign Items. - Washington Eighteen banks and trust companies control, through interlocking directorates, consisting of 180 men, of 134 concerns, $25,325,000,000 of the capital of the country invested in industrial, transportation and general financial enterprises. Such is the report of 30 statistical experts, which was made public by the house committee Investigating the so-called “money trust.” * * * Former Senator J. B. Foraker produced a statement before the senate campaign expenditures investigating committee, prepared by Gilchrist Stewart, of how, W. W. Winkfield and Charles Stump took the “Archbold letters” from the Standard Oil offices and sold them to a representative of William R. Hearst for $34,000. * * * William J. Flynn of New York was appointed chief of the United States secret service by Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury department, succeeding John E. Wilkie, now chief supervising agent of the customs service. * * * President Taft sent to the senate the name of Judge G. A. Carpenter to succeed Judge Peter S. Grosscup as judge of the Seventh circuit in Illinois and Charles S. Cutting to succeed Judge Carpenter in the Northern district of Illinois. * * * William R. Hearst, who published the “Archbold letters,” gave the senate campaign funds committee in Washington photographic copies of all letters in his possession indicating a connection between John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company and legislative and campaign activities. The list contained several not heretofore published. He said John Eddy of London gave him the photographs of the original Archbold letters. * * * Because of the little time which remains before President-elect Wilson will appoint new men to all the important positions in the diplomatic service, President Taft has decided not to name a successor to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid at London, but to let the post remain vacant until after March 4 next. * * • The Supreme court of the United States canceled as violative of the Sherman anti-trust law the contracts by which railrbad-owned coal companies in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields had purchased the output for all time of “independent mines.” The charge of a “general combination” was not sustained. * *• • In their annual reports Secretary of the Interior Fisher urges the need of new public land laws and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel recommends the establishment of a board to adjudicate the difference between railways and their employes. * * * The annual report of the interstate commerce commission contains a caustic arraignment of the lax methods prevalent among the railroad companies with reference to providing protection for their passengers and employes. * * * Imports of luxuries into the United States during October were probably the highest on record. The bureau of foreign and domestic Commerce of the department of commerce and labor estimates that luxuries are coming into his country at the rate of $1,000,000 a day. • • • Domestic Driven insane, the police say, by hunger and poverty, John Mageio, a mute, shot and kille dhis deaf and dumb wife, Mary, in their home in Kansas City, Mo. 1 * 0 As a protest against the convict lease system Governor Donaghey of Arkansas broke all pardon records by pardoning 316 state convicts and 44 county convicts. * * * Abandonment of the Fulton market, which has been a public market place In New York since colonial times, Is being urged by city officials. An expert’s report to the board of aidermen shows that the market is being operated at a loss. * • • Mrs. Mary J. Wilson, eighty-two years old, and Mrs. Georgia Moore, Bixty-one years old, both widowk, were murdered at their home at Columbia, Mo. The slayer used an ax and probably a knife. Lee Moore, son es Mrs. Moore, was arrested. * * * As the result of a head-on collision between passengers trains on the Rock Island road near Mlnnek&h, Okla., one person was killed outright, fifteen seriously Injured and about twenty others received cats and bruises.