Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS

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Washington The name of John Skelton Williams, assistant secretary of the treasury, was sent to the senate at Washington as comptroller of the currency by President Wilson. • • • A federal inquiry’ by the senate committee on education and labor at Washington into the Calumet, strike is proposed in a resolution Introduced by Senator Ashurt of Arizona. The resolution stirred up a spirited debate, but no action was taken and the resolution went over. • • • Secretary of Labor Wilson made public at Washington reports on the strike situation i,n the northern Michigan copper region. He officially announced that investigators were unable to bring the warring factions together, that the department could do nothing further to bring about an end to the trouble. « • •

Congress resumed its work after the ( hristmas recese, with matters of great importance scheduled for action. .■* * • Legislation taxing dealings in cotton futures with the object Of regulating the exchanges will be passed at the present session of congress at Washington, according to Representative Lever of South Carolina, chairman of the house committee on agriculture. » • • The United States district attorney for the southern district of Georgia has been directed by the of justice to have reassigned for trial the cases against the members of the alleged naval stores trust. • * •

I Negotiations between the American ; Sugar Refining company and the deI partment of justice at Washington I for a settlement out of court of the government’s anti-trust suit have been terminated. They were ended after the department of justice had rejected a drastic plan of reorganization which the company proposed. Domestic The .Marion National bank of Marion Kan., has been placed in the hands of a national bank examiner, according to word received at the office of the comptroller of the currency at : Waelringeoh. i '

In a pistol fight l with detectives William Schmulzer, said to be one of the convicts who recently escaped from the state prison at Indianapolis, Ind., was shot and probably fatallywounded at Pittsburgh, Pa. »■ • • ■ After being permitted to sing a hymn and pray, Lewis Pack and Wal,do James, negroes, were lynched for attack on Cass Tompkins, white planti er, at Tampa, Fla. * * * I Judge Smith McPherson in the fedi eral court at Kansas City, Mo., enjoined John T. Barker, attorney genI eral of Missouri, from proceeding in , state courts with suits for $24,000,000 , overcharges against Missouri railroads, and took the Missouri railroad rate case under further advisement for three weeks. Barker made a vitriolic attack upon Judge McPherson. ♦ ♦ ♦

Ihe Standard Oil company’s steamer Comet, with its engines disabled in a heavy sea, was picked up by the revenue cutter Acushnet and the tug Standard a few miles south of Nantucket. One thousand striking miners were charged by two troops of cavalry with drawn sabers at Trinidad, Colo., and several men were seriously hurt. The cavalry was escorting an automobile in which "Mother” Mary Jones, the strike agitator, was being rushed to jail. • • •

Miss Ethel Smith of Gary, Ind., for whom Billy Rugh, a crippled newsboy, who was not acquainted with her, gave up his life, eloped to Chicago with Leon M. Cline, a clerk, and was married to him. Three thousand . unemployed men stormed the Akron (O.) factories demanding work. Many are strangers brought by erroneous reports to the effect that the rubbef industries are taking on mep. * * * A general strike throughout South Africa was proclaimed by the Trades Federation and the Rand miners by a two-thirds majority voted to join in the movement. Governmental retaliation was swift. It took the form of the proclamation.of martial'law , ~ * * —■

A large number of relics of the revolutionary war were discovered at Philadelphia in a secret vault on the site of the residence occupied by the pro'ost marshal during the occupation of this city by the British under I.ord Howe, . “» ♦ » All Chicago national banks voted to enter the new federal reserve system. The verdict was reached at the annual meetings of stockholders. Several state banks and trust companies also have elected to enter the system.

“I m glad he has been caught. He deserves his punishment,” Mrs. Frank M. Henning, wife of the absconding assistant cashier of the Farmers’ State bank of Schaumberg, 111., made that comment when informed that her husband had been caught in New York. • • • The first marines to be withdrawn from the Philippines in accordance with Secretary Daniels’ previously announced plan will sail about -January 19 on the steamer Supply for Guam for drill and instruction in advance baee work. Eight officers and 275 men will remain on duty on the island. Ev idence obtained by the use of a telephone device in the headquarters of the M estern Federation of Miners at Houghton, Mich., is said to have Played a large part in the presentations made to the grand jury of Houghton county by Special Prosecutor George Nichols. Harry Kendall Thaw would not be a public menace if he were released on oail, according to the report of the commission appointed by Federal Judge Aldrich of Concord, N. H„ to inquire into the state of Thaw’s mentality. The commission finds Thaw is not afflicted with any of the mental diseases from which he was suffering when he slew Stanford White. After nearly three weeks of restand recreation at a little cottage near the gulf coast, President Wilson hade farewell to Pass Christian, Miss., and started for Washington. Justice George H. O’Keefe, president of the Emerald Association of Brooklyn. says its annual ball has been given up on account of the opposition of the Roman Catholic church authorities to the turkey trot, the tango, the hesitation waltz and other steps. The ball has been held for 76 years and" the receipts, averaging between SB,OOO and $9,000, have been devoted to Roman Catholic orphan asylums.

Reports of the early marriage of Mrs. Ava M illing Astor, circulated so freely last fall, are being heard again. This time they have a definite basis, as friends of the millionaire American widow say they have letters from her from London in which there are pointed hints about a new romance. ■* * * Mexican Revolt The Mexican government will default in the payment of the semi-an-nual interest on the bonds of the internal and external debts due this month, according to a decision reached at a cabinet meeting at Mexico City. All iunds are needed to carry on the war, Huerta said. All the Mexican federal soldiers in the custody of the United States border patrol at Presidio, Tex., will be transferred to Fort Bliss and interned indefinitely. Secretary Garrison ordered the transfer from Washington, » • »

Twenty-eight hundred Mexican federal soldiers, six Mexican generals and 1,500 civilian refugees are in the custody of the I nited States army border patrol at Presidio, Tex., as the result of the federal army’s evacuation of Ojinaga, Mex., and the occupation of the village by Gen. Francisco Villa’s rebel forces. One hundred and fifty prisoners were executed by Villa’s men. » • • A plot to kidnap American Charge O’Shaughnessy and his wife by holding up a train was behind an attack by rebels on the Mexican railway, said a federal officer at Mexico City. Information obtained by federal spies from rebels along the railway enabled the O Shaughnessys to escape running into the danger. • « • The Japanese have landed an armed force from their battle cruiser Idzuma for the protection of the mikado’s legation.at Mexico City. Washington has been advised of the step by Charge d’Affaires O’Shaughnessy. • » • ' Foreign

Japan is heroically meeting a double affliction, famine in the north and earthquakes, a tidal wave and volcanic eruptions in the south, where thousands are eaid to have been killed. Ten million people are in need or food and many have starved to death. In the south the Islands of Kiushiu and Shikoku are in the grip of seismic disturbances. The Royal Mail steamer Cobequid, with 120 persons aboard, went aground on Briar island, in the Bay of Fundy, as she was battling against a terrific storm just before dawn. All are believed to have perished. Cardinal Leon Adolphe Arnette, archbishop of Paris, France, in an admonition which was published in all his churches, forbids the dancing of the tango as a sin which must be confessed and require pennance. He also will publish ah official admonition on the daring and eccentricities of modern dress.

The pope at Rome has appointed Cardinal Merry Del Vai, papal secretary of state, archpriest of St. Peter’s, to succeed the late Cardinal Rampolla. Personal George F. Baker resigned from the board of directors of the Chase National bank of New York and was succeeded by John I. Mitchell of Chicago ■♦ « > Andrew Mayfield, seventy-two, member of the bodyguard of President Abraham Lincoln during three years of the Civil war, died at Marion, O.