The diamond drill., 1911-07-22
GENERAL NEWS


the department. OF Eicuituie, las
/ been condemned by ~committee on
personnel OF the department OF ag-
riculture with a recommendation TO
President Taft that he DE permitted
10 resign" from his official position.
Ii is charged that DR. Wiley permihl
| ted an arrangement 10 be made with
Dr. H. H. Rusby. a recognized pharma-
cognocist of Columbia university, New
York for compensation In excess OF
that allowed by the government. II
| is claimed that the arrangement was
10 put DR. Rusby on the payroll OF the
department at 81 900 year as an em-
| 2loye OF the bureau OF chemistry, an
agreement being made with him that
| he should be called upon 10 perform
only such service as this salary would
compensate for at the rate of $40 per
day for laboratory Investigations and
$50 per day for attendance in court.
AT Chicago strikes have been call
ed on nineteen apartment buildings
and one church where plumbers have
contracts Carpenters bricklayers,
lathers and building laborers were all
called out. This is considered the
most serious blow the United AssociaA
tion OF Plumbers has received sinceN
the beginning OF the jurisdictionai
fight against the International Associa-
ton OF Steamftters The Joint Arbi-
tration association called the strike.
This was done in accordance with
resolution adopted recently by the
board 10 stop construction work on
buildings where steamtitters that are
! affiliated with the plumbers organiza.
tion have contracts.
At Denver. Colo, Tuesday the fourth
annual convention of the National As
sociation OF Real Estate Exchanges,
with representatives from many parts
of the country. began the first day OF
it's four days meeting when It's dele
gates turned out to witness Denver's
industrial parade Preceding the pa
rade was the reception OF delegates.
The convention was called TO order
In the afternoon by President Alexan-
der S. Taylor OF Cleveland, o. Gov
ernor John Shafroth delivered an adj
dress Of welcome TO Colorado, and
Henry A. Lindsey. city attorney OF
Denver, delivered an address OF well
come TO Denver.
Indications OF the scope outlined for
the investigation OF Senator Lorimer's
election and the Illinois legislature
became known when IL leaked out that
the senate committee proposes to go
into the fish scandal and the furni-
ture deal in which certain Illinois
soons we're involved. The latter viii
take the United States senators fairly
into the activities of the legislature
Until now IL was not expected That tie
inquiry would extend 10 any such
limits. even though II already has
gone more into detail tuan any prior
committee.
At Cincinnati, Ohio the quick ac-
tion oy the police ayerted what gave
premise of being a lynching in the
center of the city. when the officers
captured Charles Lawrence, a negro,
from an enraged crowd at Vine street
and Opera place. Lawrence accosted
Miss Belle paugherty and dragged her
into an alley. Ry standers rescued tho
girl, whose cries attracted several hun
Gred people. The negro was captured
and almost beaten to death before the
officers could get him. He Is in a
critical condition.
Donald NJ Frame. clerk OF the cigar
stand in the Union League club in Chi
cago, corroborated the testimony or
Herman H. Heittler. the Chicago lum-
herman, who told the committee that
Edward Hines on May &c. 1909, tho
day on which Senator Lorimer was
elected, boasted at the cigar stand In
the club OF having personally brought
abCut the election OF Lorimer Mr..
Frame said he heard Mr.. Hines say
10 Mr. HeittleT. II elected Lorimer"
John Carson. special counsel for the
Alaska syndicate and author OF tho
letter 10 Captain ID. III. Jarvis regard
ing the Morrisey account, which was
included in the charges made by Dele
gate Wickersham against Attorney
General Wickersham, says the alleged
"Dck 10 Dick" letter which Miss Alb 4
bott asserts she discovered In the In
terror department record. is "rsnkcst
nonsense"
Near Hammond, Ind, Cecil Han
cock. twelve. who lives on his fathers
farm in Jasper county, Indiana, was
presented with a $1,000 touring car by
an exasperated New York uanscon-
tinental automobile tourist, who met
with an accident near Hancock farm
The tourist refused 10 give his
name. but the automobile had New
YORK license number,
States Attorney John T.. wayman OF
Chicago. admitting that he had been
grcssiy imposed upon byl1Frank Par
dec. an cx-convict. dropped the muir
der charge against Simon O'Donneli,
president OF the Chicago Building
Trades council, and Thomas Ksarney
pnd James Garvin. Maurice Enrght
will he tried