Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-01-14
oENERAL NEWS.

Representative SABBATH Of Chicago
scored against Representative Mann
when the Bennett-Sabath white slave
bill was passed by the house. That
action, in effect, sends the Mann bill
on the same subject to the waste bas-
ket Of the house.
The New York Geological society
win spend nearly 500, 900 In . world.
wide study Of pheasants. An expedi-
ton headed by Prof. Beebe will visit
England. China, India, Borneo and
other countries.
The city's tax books for 1910, which
were made public. show that. as q
general rule, the wealthy women Of
New York are assessed for much
larger sums in personal property than
the wealthy men.
Miss Roberta B. De Janon and Fred.
srick Cohen, who eloped from Phila-
delphla on December 20 and who
have been sought from end to end of
the country, were arrested by the
Chicago police in North side board
ing house. Miss De Janon IL the
granddaughter Of Robert Buist, mil
lionaire seed merchant Of Philadel-
phia, and belongs to one of the most
aristocratic families Of the Quaker
city. Cohen Is married man and a
waiter.
Judge r. s. Lovett. president Of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, sub.
mitted 9 proposition to President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham for
settlement out Of court Of the gov
e.nment's trust-busting suit against
the gigantic Hartman system. The
conference lasted nearly four hours
and at its conclusion Attorney Gen
'eral Wickersham announced that no
definite result had been arrived at.
The senate committee on public
lands backed down and the Ballinger-
Pinchot resolution. shorn Of the pro.
vision restoring power to Speaker
Cannon to name the house members
on the Joint committee of investiga-
ton. was put through the senate by
unanimous vote and without discus.
sion. Thus was avoided q clash be-
tween the two houses Of congress.
Frank and Harold George, brothers,
and w. r. Garner, three most promi.
nent young men In Atlanta, Ga, were
Instantly killed when touring loco.
mobile in which they were speeding
out was torn to pieces by q trolley
car w. H. George. father Of the
George brothers, and F. 8. Gable, who
we're also in the automobile, were
seriously injured and may not recov-
or. Henry Johnston, motorman on
the trolley car. was badly hurt.
Mrs. Pauline Russeiie. a trainer OF
performing leopards. was seriously
mutilated BY one Of three Of these anil
mails she owns while she was putting
the brutes through q rehearsal OF
their act in big cage on the fourth
floor Of Huber's museum, New York
city.
The illinois Firemen's association
held its yearly meeting In Granite
City.
The trial Of former Congressman
Binger Hermann on a charge OF con.
spring to defraud the government out
lot public lands opened IN Portland,
Ore.
Physicians Of Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio attended the semi-annual meet.
ing OF the Northern Tri-State Medical
association In Fort Wayne. Ind.
The best meeting ever held by the
Kansas Improved Stock Breeders, a.
Sociation began n Topeka. Gov.
0tlbbs welcoming the msmbsrs.
Trsdsrick Goebel, ! packer, IN.
ployed a = wholesale dry goods house.
80 sh0t ~ = policeman and probably
fatally wounded at Denver, Col. Wills
Gttsnptins q break into III Nifs.s
astnsents tos punish hor fos having
!! ! itpts1 divers pfocs edings aEainst