Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

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Washington Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh is acting president in the absence of President Taft. As there is no vice-president and Secretary, of State Knox is at his home in Valley Forge, Pa., the statutory succession places Secretary MaeVeagh at the head of the government, he being the highest cabinet officer at the capital. * * * President Taft, will issue an order in January abolishing many customs houses for the saketof economy. * ♦ * A protest has been filed in congress by the legislature of Georgia against the course taken by congress In proposing to the state a constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of senators. The protest asserts that the course followed was unconstitutional. j * * *; ; Legal battle over the validity of the indictments against the United Shoe Machinery company under the Sherman anti-trust law has begun in the United States Supreme court in Washington. * * • The United States did more business within the month of November than in any month previous in the history of this country’s foreign commerce, according to a statement by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The value of goods imported last month was $153,134,995, and of exports $277,898,081. This marked a great increase over the business done in November. 1911. * * * Domestic Henry Luke, while employed as a truck man on the Santa Fe at Streator, 111., was engulfed when the earth under his feet gave away and he was precipitated into a bed of quicksand Luke’s companions were near by, but he disappeared before they could reach him. * • * W. R. Tobb, an accountant of Seattle, Wash., thirty-two years old, was arrested on request of the Detroit police, who charged him with the theft of $2,300 while in the employ of an express company. * * * Because three cases of bubonic plague exist at Hilo orders from Washington are that all vessels from Hawaiian islands must be fumigated on arrival at San Francisco. * • * Representatives of 200,000 garment workers in New York city met with national officers and appointed a committee to set a date for a general strike in New York. * * * A. M. Funk of- Cleveland, 0., shot and seriously wounded his wife and killed himself in a room of a Galveston hotel. A ten-year-old son witnessed the tragedy. A letter in a pocket said Funk was ill and despondent. * * * Six persons were fatally Injured and a score seriously hurt at Elkin, Ga., when a section of a school building in which a Christmas entertainment was being given collapsed. * * * Physicians are astounded at the case of Miss Ida Schooler of Washington, who lived ten months with a fractured skull, but who finally succumbed to her Injuries. • • • Not one member of the Ninth Kansas cavalry, one of the state’s most active regiments in the Civil war, is drawing a pension. This faot developed upon receipt of a letter by state officials at Topeka from H. B. Lapham of Lorton, Va., a member of the Ninth Kansas. ■V® • • • J. B, Porter, former mayor of Olney, 111., was shot when flogging David Bates, a well-to-do citizen, as the result of a quarrel between them, which had its origin longer than a year’ ago, when Porter was in office and Bates held office under his administration. * • * Mrs. P. H. Ludwig of Norwood Park, 111., was killed and three others were injured, two possibly fatally, when a north-bound Chicago and Northwestern train crashed .into an automobile in a funeral processioh at Valley Junction, near Waukegan, 111. ** * * Henry Bruere, director of the bureau of municipal research of New York, announced that John D: Rockefeller, Jr., had given $20,000 and promises SIO,OOO more If It should be needed, to finance the Investigation of the police department. • • • In the presence of Governor Deneen of Illinois, his staff and a large party of Illinois veterans and representatives of the government, the SIO,OOO monument erected to the memory of Illinois soldiers buried in Andersoavllle. Ga., was unveiled.