The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-09-27
NEWS NOTES.

hoGuIuS lIOIu UIlo OIdtOhlNO piihloiJ
in New Jersey show Hughes to be lead
ing former Senator Smith for the nom
ination for United States Senator by
25, 900 votes. Returns from the pri-
mary election in Massachusetts, indicate
the denomination of Gov. Foss on the
Democratic ticket by good majority
over Peletier, while former Speaker
Walker seems to have been nominated
for Governor by the Republicans.
After voting in the primaries at Prince
ton Gov. Wilson went to New York on
his way to New England on three
days speaking tour. He made brief
speech before departing, attacking ex-
Senator Smith, whose support, he said,
came largely from Republicans.
In testimony before referee in New
York Secretary Richard Veit, of the
Standard Oil Company, declared that
all working relationship between sub
salaries had been severed, although
former officers of the trust meet daily
at lunch.
The change in Col. Roosevelt's tin
erary will prevent his appearance Octo-
Der before Senator Clapp's committee
investigating campaign contributions.
In the meantime the committee will
attempt to interrogate J. P. Morgan
and George w. Perkins.
Ovations greeted Gov. Wilson in a
series of vigorous speeches at Column
bus, O., which closed week of siren
uous campaigning, and he started for
Seagirt delighted at the reception re-
ceived and the enthusiasm shown.
Along with rigid inquiries into COM
plants against the Standard Oil Com
pany the Department of Justice is study
ing the evidence in the Waters-Pierce
suit ready to institute criminal action
should disclosures warrant.
William H. Bell, 21-year-old bank
clerk at Pensacola, Fla, is reported to
have confessed to stealing package
containing $4,000 of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad pay rolls. The pack
age was later returned.
Two Government documents affect
ing the cotton market, the ginners' and
the condition reports, are due this week.
1t is believed that one will offset the
other and that the determining factor
will be the weather.
Interrupted while patronizing an Ell
Paso soda fountain, Senior Didapp, who,
while he was in Washington, said he
represented Mexican revolutionists, was
arrested by secret service men and
placed in Jail.
Mrs. Mary Leigh, the suffragette, who
was sentenced to prison for five years
for wounding John Redmond, the Irish |
leader, and who, since her incarceration,
had refused to eat, was released 'on |
license"
Plans are on foot to have the State
Fair grounds taken into the city of
Louisville. The first of the final steps |
towards adding large territory in the
western part of the city has already been
taken.
Speakers at the convention of the
Interstate Waterways Association at
Memphis urged Federal construction |
and maintenance of an adequate system
of levees along the Mississippi River.
Cuba is facing crisis in finances, and |
recently defaulted for the first time on
the Havana sewer and paving contracts.
The approaching elections also are caus-
ing grave concern in the island.
An express package containing $685.
900, part of the N. & L, payroll, mys-
teriously disappeared in transit between
Pensacola, Fla, and Flomaton, Ala.
The most attractive line of hats and |
notions ever seen in Union City is now