Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS

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Washington Congressmen of both the Republican and Progressive parties found their own aims - and principles set forth in President Wilson’s ( message, according to comment heard about the lobbies in Washington. The majority gave almost unreserved approval of the plan for trust legislation outlined. •' * ♦ A fist fight between Representative Johnson of Kentucky and John R. Shields, an attorney, broke up a meeting of the house committee at Washington on District of Columbia. Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest daughter of the president, rose from her seat in the audience at a civic Improvement meeting in Washington and made a plea for the movement to have the schoolhouses of the country opened to the public as “social centers.” • * • Radium was described to the house committee on mines at Washington as the only cure the- medical world has discovered for cancer. The resolutions empowering the president to withdraw from entry public lands known to contain radium-bearing ores were discussed by many physicians. ♦ * • The nomination of John Skelton Williams, now assistant secretary of the treasury, to be comptroller of the currency, and, as such, ex-offlcio member of the federal reserve bank board, was confirmed by the senate at Washington. • * • Charges that $80,000,000 of public property has been destroyed and the fur seal herds of Alaska virtually exterminated to enrich a few individuals were made by Representative Rothermel of Pennsylvania in making public the results of an investigation by the house committee at Washington on expenditures In the department of commerce, of which he is chairman. • • • Co-operation among the farmers instead of competition, that “the farmer may receive the whole of the consumer’s dollar for his product, instead of 35 to 45 per cent., as is now the case,” is the alm of a bill Introduced by Senator Borah in the senate at Washington, to create an “agricultural capital” or clearing house, to be run by the farmers under government charter or subsidy. • • • A project for making part of the Panama canal zone free trade territory with a view of establishing there a sort of clearing house for North, Central and South American commerce, is being worked out by Representative Copley of Illinois, who will present it to congress at Washington in a bill. * ♦ » Individuals whose net income from March 1, 1913, to December 31, 1913, was $2,500 or more must make returns of their net income for the year, according to a regulation issued by the treasury department at Washington. The tax for 1913 is assessed oqly for the ten months mentioned. Hereafter only persons having incomes of $3,000 or more must make returns. • • • Representative Stanley of Kentucky, after a conference with President Wilson at Washington, introduced an amendment to the Sherman law which would make illegal the monopolization or restraint in trade “in any degree.” It is designed to eliminate the “rule of reason” laid down by the Supreme court in the Standard Oil case. » * * • Red Cross officials at Washington telegraphed Governor Hatfield of West Virginia to inquire if they can assist in caring for the refugees in the flood. • • • Senator Bacon of Georgia has just made the discovery that one of his ribs was broken two weeks ago. He was on duty in the senate at Washington, despite the Injury. » • • Domestic In addresses at a joint banquet of the Illinois Bankers' association and the Bankers’ club at Chicago, W. 'G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, and D. F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, analyzed the new measure and cited facts and figures to show that, under it, a panic would be impossible. * ♦ William Oberklerck and Harold Shirley, convicted in the federal court at Mobile, Ala., of changhairig McLaurin Clarke and Emmett Smith, Columbus (Ga.) boys, were fined S2OO and six months in the Atlanta federal prison. * * ♦ Tottering under the "weight of eighty years, William Eberwein stood in the criminal court at Philadelphia and told how his wife, 15 years younger, had pleaded with him to kill her and how he committed the deed. He was sentenced to seven years in jail. * * * The strike on the Delaware & Hudson railroad in New York whiqh began in the morning and by noon had tied up the entire system, was settled the same night. Railroad officials met the union’s demands that they restore two discharged employes.

Declaring that they had information that wages would be out, 400 employes in the Toledo plant of the General Electric company struck. • * • Declaring the Wisconsin eugenic law unconstitutional, Judge F. C. Eschweller of the circuit court at Milwaukee granted a writ of mandamus directing County Clerk Widule to issue a marriage license to Alfred Peterson without the previous presentation of a health certificate, which the law requires. • * ♦ H. H. Hanna, who was a member of the monetary commission appointed by President McKinley, and former head of the Atlas engine works at Indianapolis, Ind., has filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court. He listed his liabilities at $1,210,275, and his assets at SI,OBO. • • • Half of the estate of Richard D. Lankford, vice-president of the Southern railway, who was found dead in his Brooklyn home from gas asphyxiation, is bequeathed to his fiancee, Miss Nellie Patterson, in the will which was filed for probate. The other half is given to his mother. • * • Seven persons were killed and three others wounded, one a girl telephone operator, in a pistol battle at the Oklahoma state penitentiary at McAlester. The convicts were killed. Among the dead is John R. Thomas, formerly U. 8. district judge and a former congressman from Illinois. An Investigation intended to determine the truth of insinuations of corruption of federal employes at Chicago in connection with the recent "white slave” case against Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, was instituted by James H. Wilkerson, Unite! States district attorney. • • * Forty-one New England heirs of Abel Stearns, a pioneer who died in the early '7os, were defeated at Los Angeles in their contest for the $7,000,000 estate of Mrs. Arcadia De Baker, formerly the widow of Stearns and at brer death the richest woman in southern California. Mexican Revolt Fighting between a scouting party of the Zapata forces and a small detachment of federals at Tlzapan, a suburb of Mexico City, has renewed the fear of another series of raids within the federal district. Some of the government forces deserted to the rebels. * * • Despite denials, British Minister Carden’s transfer to Argentina has been arranged by the British foreign office. Notice now is on the way to him by mall. The foreign office at Mexico City has been informed that he is to go to Washington. - » * * Personal Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high commissioner for Canada, died in London. Hon. Mrs. Robert Howard, who was Margaret Charlotte Smith, Lord Strathcona’s only child, is his heir. She not only will inherit his fortune, estimated at more than SIOO,000,000, but also his title. * * • Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is ill at Buffalo, N. Y., suffering from bronchitis. Pneumonia is likely to develop. "Gunboat” Smith, the heavyweight pugilist, and Miss Helen Remley \of New York were married by a justice of the peace of Oak Park, 111. ' . ■ • ♦ • ■ Carl Browne, lieutenant of Gen. Jacob Coxey, who led an army of unemployed to Washington in 1893, died at Washington one hour after he was stricken with acute indigestion. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ambassador Page is confined to his room in. London suffering from a bad cold. ■• • • Foreign The task of Insuring greater secur ity for ships at sea and their passengers was dealt with in a thorough manner by the international conference on safety at sea in ; London, which came to an end. The delegates of 14 nations signed a convention laying down regulations for the future. * * * Secretary Bain of the South African Federation of Trades and his band of 300 armed comrades, who had barricaded themselves in the Trades hall at Johannesburg since Tuesday, surrendered unconditionally to 1,000 police Secretary Bain and ten other leaders were lodged in jail. The collapse of the strike is near. ♦ * » “How do you expect peace withi& natiop that is deliberately inciting out* neighbors to war with us?” asked Senator James Hamilton Lewis at the American club luncheon at Londoii in response to the hope expressed by an official of the British admiralty that the peace policy of President Wilson would prevail. Senator Lewis said th« policy of President Wilson is a sincere one. • • * A Tientsin dispatch says that on the arrival there of the ' express from Peking the body of a man who had been stabbed to death was found in one of the carriages. He was identified as the revolutionary leader, Jung Kwashlng, who was implicated in the murder of Gen. Sung Chiao-Jen, exminister of education, at Shanghai, last March. ♦ » * King George received the delegates to the safety-at-sea conference in London and entertained them at Ijnincheon.