Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings in This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington Ten billion dollars’ worth of products, $5,000,000,000 of cash income—a bumper year in spite of droughts and other setbacks—is the 1913 record of 6,000,000 American farms abcording to the department of agriculture at Washington. The jewelers’ trust, against which a bill in equity was filed by the department of jus.tlce at Washington, has agreed to accept the terms laid down in the government’s brief and will escape prosecution. ** » ' Attorney General Mcßeynolds Returned to Washington after a holiday vacation, most of which he spent at the home of his mother at Elkton, Ky. * • » With many of the well known theoretical and practical economists of the country in attendance, the tenth annual meeting of the American Political Science association .opened in Washington. ♦ • * With Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson in the chair, the American Association for Labor Legislation began its annual meeting in Washington by discussing “Administration and Industrial Relations.” * * * Information has reached Washington that Great Britain and Germany have entered into an offensive and defensive commercial alliance against the United States. ♦ » • Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of Agriculture Houston, comprising the organization committee of the new currency system, will hold hearings in 14 cities in the United States to obtain views of bankers and business men regarding the boundaries of the federal reserve district, the regional reserve bank for each district and other questions relating to the execution of the law.

The resignation of Charles F. DeWoody, divisional superintendent of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice stationed at Chicago, was accepted by Chief Bielaski of the bureau’at Washington to take effect January 1. Mr. DeWoody has been assigned to the anti-trust bureau. ♦ ♦ * Secretary McAdoo of the treasury at Washington suspended until January 15, 1914, and until further instructions are issued, collection of the normal income tax of one per cent, at the source on incomes from interest on the obligations of special taxation districts, such as are frequently created in the west for irrigation or other local improvements. * • • Domestic An agreement of counsel was reached whereby the fourth trial of Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, charged with the murder of Thomas H. Swope, a millionaire philanthropist, will begin at Kansas City January 12. * * * College yells in 22 languages were given at the banquet closing the convention of the American Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs at lowa City. The next convention will be held at Ohio university. ♦ ♦ ♦ Several thousand noted educators and churchmen, from 46 states and 70 foreign countries, met in Kansas City for the Student Volunteer Movement convention. * * * Both houses of the Kansas City council passed an ordinance making It illegal to work a crippled horse or to work a healthy horse longer than 12 hours in any 24. Information obtained by Los Angeles detectives which showed, they declared, that Roy Glover, San Antanio land agent, had purchased two automatic pistols prior to the tragedy of last Sunday, in which the ■ former Boer soldier, Henry de Villiers, met death, resulted in an announcement from the district attorney’s office that Glover would be held for trial. * * * Ernest L. Thurston of Washington has been made superintendent of the public schools of Washington by the board of education, to succeed Dr. \\ illiam M. Davidson, who resigned recently to become head of the schools of Pittsburgh, Pa. * * * The jury which held in its hands the fate of Hans Schmidt, who has been on trial at New York for the hnurder of Anna Aumuller, after deliberating 36 hours, was. discharged after the 12 men were unable to agree upon y. verdict. ♦ * * Pennsylvania as a producer of coal broke all records this year. According to advance statistics announced by the geological survey, the combined production of anthracite and bituminous coal in the state probably will amount to 267,000,000 short tons.

A coroner’s jury, that investigated the explosion weeks ago in the Vulcan mine near Colorado Springs, Colo, which resulted in the death of 37 Americans, returned a verdict declaring that the negligence of the Coryell Leasing company and the Rocky Mountain Fuel company was responsible for the disaster. The Crocker National bank of San Francisco has filed suits against threie stock brokerage firms to recover more than $161,000 embezzled by Charlee Baker, former assistant cashier, and lost by him in stock speculation. Baker is serving ten years in San Quentin prison. Six hangars and two aeroplanes at Hempstead (N. Y.) aviation field, where some of America's foremost aviators learned to fly, were destroyed by fire. The loss was $25,000. Miners, citizens and paid detectives are walking the streets of Calumet, Mich., with loaded revolvers. The feeling of the striking miners and their leaders against the mine managers, members of the Citizens’ association, and strikebreakers is bitter. The Citizens’ association has developed a feeling just as desperate againgt the leaders of the miners still on strike. Two witnesses testified before a coroner’s jury at Calumet, Mich., that the man who caused the Christmas eve disaster wore a white button like the badge of the Citizens’ alliance. • » * » An X-ray negative taken at a Chicago hospital disclosed that a bullet penetrated the back of Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Moyer charges he was shot during an attack on him at Hancock, Mich., while he was in a room at the Hancock hotel. Doctors say that he has an even chance to recover from his wound. The supreme court of Missouri assessed $436,000 in fines and ousted 20 lumber corporations and revoked the licenses of five foreign (umber corporations in the case of the state ex rel Attorney General vs. the Arkansas Lumber company. The respondents are found guilty of a conspiracy to limit the output of yellow pine and fixing the prices to be charged in Missouri. ■* • * At Chicago suit for $10,000,000 under the punitive damage clause of the Sherman anti-trust act was filed against the Quaker Oats company, its directors, Joy Morton and other directors of the Great Western Cereal company in the United States district court. William A. Tilden and Charles D. Thompson, receivers for the Great Western company, signed the petition as plaintiffs.

Mexican Revolt Special Envoy John Lind left Vera Cruz on the scout cruiser Chester to report on conditions in Mexico to President Wilson at Pass Christian, Miss. It is said he was recalled. * ♦ * The northern division of the Mexican federal army is demoralized. With its dead and wounded stretched over the hills and some of its soldiers fleeing in a panic across the U. S. border, only to be pushed back again, the 4,000 federals are scattered in all directions as a result of their first battle with the rebels at Ojinaga. • ♦ • Foreign The steamer Tasman, which has been ashore for several days in the Gulf of Paqua, was floated with the assistance of the Japanese steamer Inabo Maru. • • « Another severe earthquake has occurred in the province of Aymareas, department of Apurimac, southern Peru. Two persons were killed and many houses destroyed. The railroads have been damaged so as to make transit impossible. * * * Frederick Burlingham, an American, employed by a British moving picture concern, accomplished the remarkable feat of descending to the very bottom of the crater of Vesuvius in Italy while the volcano was active. • » ♦ Foreign Minister Grenadioff of Paris has decided to resign to prevent the fall of the Bulgarian cabinet, according to dispatches from Sofia. • • • Personal Mrs. Lillie Devereaux-Blake, one of the pioneer suffragettes in the United States, died at Englewood, N. J., aged seventy-eight. * • • Notice of appeal was filed by attorneys for Edmund E. C. von Klein of Chicago, alleged marrying swindler, who was sentenced last Saturday at Portland, Ore., to a term pf one to four years in the penitentiary. ♦ * ♦ Dean Leßaron R. Bijiggs of Harvard, president of the National Collegiate Athletic association, presided over that body’s eighth annual meeting in the Hotel Astor, New York city. « » » Queen Mother Sophia of Sweden died at Stockholm, Sweden, in her sev-enty-eighth year. She had suffered acutely for seveial days and succumbed to an attack of inflammation of the lungs. ♦ * * James W- Murphy, the youngest man ever elected to the Wisconsin house of representatives, father of Laura Tiffany, Detroit actress and singer, died at Denver, Colo. He was sixty-two years old. ‘