Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 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 Explaining his judgment was not in'fluenced by the Mexican situation, ■Major General Wood, chief of staff of the army, has advised committees of congress at Washington that it should appropriate $3,000,000 for field iguns and ammunition for the regular army and $3,000,000 for the militia. • • * Rehearing of the so-called tap Mine cases before the interstate commerce commission was set for February 4. • * * Representative, Hinebaugh, chairman of the Progressive congressional committee issued a statement at Washington giving excerpts from reports of national and state chairmen and announcing that "our chances for a red-hot fight in the coming campaign are exceedingly bright." * * * The right of the Kansas public utilities commission to fix absolutely the rates which the public service corporations might charge their consumers, without regard to franchises and contracts existing before the State utilities law was passed, was affirmed by the U. S. Supreme court at Washington. • • • Nation-wide investigation of labor disturbances will be undertaken Immediately by the federal commission on industrial relations, it was announced at Washington. The first step will be the dispatch of expert investigators to Calumet, Mich., and to Colorado. • • * The form to be used and regulations to be followed by individuals in making returns of income subject to the new’ federal income tax were sent out by the treasury department, at Washington. Return must be made n<ft later than March 1, failure to observe this time limit to be punished with fines ranging from S2O to SI,OOO. * * • ■ ■ States can, hold safe deposit companies responsible for the collection of inheritance taxes of possessions held in the safe deposit boxes'of patrons, according to a decision of the Supreme court at Washington. The constitutionality of an Illinois law placing responsibility on these companies, was sustained. • • »

Domestic That the strike of copper miners called July 23 y?as opposed by the officials of the Western Federation of Miners yas emphasized before Governor Ferris on Wednesday by representatives of the union at Houghton, Mich. Ferris told the labor men that the mine owners must recognize unions Troops in the. copper country will be recalled this month. • * * A severe arraignment of the authorities who administered martial law in West Virginia from September, *'"1912, to June, 1913, when the Cabin creek and Paint creek mine strike troubles were in progress, is contained in a sub-committee report made public by Senator BOrah at Washington. ■ * * + The Commercial Rank & Trust company at Rrookhaven, Miss., has closed its doors. Deposits were given as approximately $600,000, with $876,833 assets. * * * The gross value of the estate of Col. John Jacob Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, is $85,890,826, according to a report of reappraisement filed in the surrogates court in New York. t * « * Testimony favorable to Harry K Thaw marked the public hearing before the special Thaw sanity commis sion at Concord, N. H., on Harry’s petition for freedom on bail.

\♦ ♦ * Governor Cox issued a proclamation calling the eightieth general assembly of Ohio into special session January 19 to consider measure? proposed by the governor. * ♦ * For the purpose of considering various theories advanced by eugenists for the advancement and betterment of the race, the first national conference on race betterment convened at Rattle Creek, Mich. Dr. Stephen Smith of New York is president. . • ♦ * Finding the New York board of control backing Charles Meserve, president of Shaw university, Raleigh, N. C., in the dismissal of a student who married against the rules during the holidays, 250 male students left col lege. ♦ • * A motion was filed by District Attorney McPherson in the federal court at Cincinnati to advance the case of John H. Patterson and others of the National Cash Register company of Dayton, convicted of violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.

The federal reserve organization committee concluded its hearings in New York, having devoted three days to ascertaining the views of local bankers concerning the task of setting up the regional reserve districts provided in the new’ law and selecting the cities in which the banks are to be placed. ♦ ♦ ♦ A dinner will be given by the commerical bodies at Lynchburg, Va., January 17 to Representative Carter Glass as a mark of appreciation of his connection with the recent currency legislation. * • * George W. Hess, a native of the District of Columbia, has been appointed superintendent of the national botan* cal garden at Washington, to succeed C. Leslie Reynolds, who died recently. Mr. Hess is forty-nine years old and has been growing flowers and trees since he w’as sixteen. * * * That "gunmen” are employed among the “peace” forces in the copper strike region was brought out in the hearings opened by Gov. Woodbridge N. Ferris into the northern Michigan labor war at Houghton. Sheriff James Cruse admitted the employment of some of these men. * * • Dashed to death on the rocks in the treacherous Fraser river, British Columbia, was the fate of 75 laborers. This is the story brought to Winnipeg, Man., by Angelo Publlese, one of the 25 who escaped when the frail flatboat in which they were crossing the river sank.

Daniel Berch, forty, was killed, and Thomas Morrin and George Endres perhaps fatally injured when a mold exploded at the foundry of the Youngstown (O.) Sheet & Tube company. • » • Frank M, Ryan must serve seven years in the penitentiary. This sentence, imposed upon him by U. S. Judge A. B. Anderson, was affirmed by the U. S. circuit court of appeals in Chicago. Tw'enty-three other men convicted with Ryan in connection with the dynamiters’ cases will also have to go to jail. Sentences Imposed on six other men were reversed and their cases remanded to Judge Anderson for another trial. The number of automobiles registered in the United States, 1,128,000, has more than doubled since 1911. New York leads with 135,000, and Ne-, vada brings up the rear with 1,140. * * » "Big Bill” former streetcleaning commissioner, has signed a contract, to manage street-cleaning operations in Newark, N. J., at a higher salary than he received in New York. Mexican Revolt “Hell will hold both Woodrow Wilson and myself before I resign," said President Huerta to an American who called on him at the palace in the City of Mexico. "The time has gone past when I will give the slightest consideration to any proposition that I leave the presidency.” John Lind summoned Nelson O'Shaughnessy to Vera Cruz. » * » Announcement that Great Britain was about to transfer Sir Eionnel Carden was regarded by official Washington as a substantial manifestation of the purpose of the British government to remove 6very obstacle to the execution of the plans of President Wilson for dealing with the Mexican situation.

Foreign John Jasper was found guilty of killing Edwin Drood by a jury of which George Bernard Shaw was foreman at a trial conducted by the Dickens Fellowship London branch, in an effort to solve the mystery in Charles Dickens’ last and unfinished novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” at King’s Hall, Covent Garden. * • • Amid a splendor fit for royalty and in the presence of a brilliant throng, Fraulein von Friedlaender-Fuld, one of the richest young heiresses in Germany, was married to Hon. John Free-man-Mitford, son of Lord Redesdale. of Engfand, in Trinity church at Berlin. v * » ♦ A number of French anarchists were arrested at Paris because of their activity in retaliation for the death of their leader, Bonnot, who was shot down by soldiers in April, 1912. : * *.

Personal j Robert Higgins, a farmer of North Henderson, 111., accidentally shot and killed his wife while loading his shotgun. Higgins did not know the gun was loaded. • • • Mrs. Mary Beachey was granted a final decree of divorce by Judge Graham at San tYancisco from Lincoln Beachey, topsy-turvy aviator. » * h. Joseph Chamberlain, the venerable British statesman, has decided to retire from parliament at the next general election. ♦ » * Iguace Paderewski left Denver, Colo., suddenly after declaring he was too ill to give a concert. The musician’s wife said that he had learned he was followed by nihilists. * *, * Joseph G. Cannon, former speaker of the house, Is confined to his home at Danville, 111., by a severe cold, but is not critically ill, as has been reported. * • ♦ The Democratic assembly caucus at Albany, N. Y., named former Speaker Alfred E. Smith of New York for speaker.