The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-25
NeaDs Brevines


WASHINGTON - Speaker Champ
Clark. candidate for the democratic
presidential nomination, and Henry
Watterson, of Louisville, discussed he
political situation here Saturday.
Whether they discussed presidential
prospects neither would say.
NEW YORK-Mrs. oliver H. p. Bel
o says she is planning to start a
daily newspaper to be managed by
women and devoted entirely to their
interests. She declared that women did
not have a fair representation in the
news of the day and thought the time
was ripe for women to coine to the
front editorially.
CHICAGO--All babies born in Chi
cago hospitals are stamped, it was an
been called to the problem o vexing
two Paris mothers. AS soon as a baby
arrives a label bearing the name OF
the mother, the date n hour of birth
and the name of the attending physi-
sian Is attached to the child.
LAKE CHARLES, LA.-Badly mutt
lated, the bodies of Felix Brussard, his
wife and three children. aged S, 6 n
8, negroes, We're found Sunday in their
home here, making the second whole
sale negro murder in this state within
a week and the sixth within a year.
A bloodstained ax was found beneath
the bed on which h bodies lay.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-A warrant was
issued Saturday for Henry w. Rich
ardson, former president of the sus-
pended American Union Trus COM
pany, of Kansas City, which closed its
doors December 30. He is charged with
making a false entry in the books Of
the company while he was Its chief
officer. He was an organizer Of the
trust company which absorbed the Al.
Night and Day bank last July. He
resigned as president last August.
AUSTIN, TEx.-Killing Of George
Lock, a cattleman at Buda, Tex, yes
terday because he disregarded q%uaran-
denic of meningitis, probably will re-
suit in the immediate raising Of the
rigid quarantine. The state health Of
ficer said: Shotgun ~quarantines'
have not been warranted, and l will is
u a statement tomorrow saying the
epidemic Is under control n that rigid
quarantineS are unnecessary"
WAsHINGTON-Among friends Of
President Taft it Is generally under
stood that the nomination Of United
States Circuit Judge Hook, of Kansas,
to the supreme court, succeeding the
late Justice Harlan. would be sent to
the Senate during the present week.
Objections to Judge Hook, referred to
Attorney General Wickersham it was
said have not proved convincing to the
president, and he is inclined to make
the appointment shortly.
NEW YoRK-With a feeling denun-
citation of the principle of judicial re-
call delivered to the bar association OF
the state of New York at its banquet
Saturday night, President Taft con-
Guided a busy evening here, which he
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three different functions. After a plea
for simplification of legal procedure
which he argued with much earnestness
before the company of lawyers, Mr..
Taft waXed even more incisive in COM
ing to the topic upon which he evident
ly felt SO deeply.
WASHINGTON Senator Hepburn,
Of Idaho, is challenged by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. in an editorial in
the February issue of the American
Federationist to produce III d court OF
law any evidence he nay a of any
illegal operations performed by Com
pers. The editorial is based on the
occurrence in the Senate last Thurs
day when senator Hepburn declared
that no communication should be re,
ceived from Mr.. Gompers because OF
the facts disclosed in the Mcnamara
trial and subsequent thereto"
MUSKOGEE. OKLA.-Vvith botN
eyes ~blackened and swollen, his face
and lips cut, his clothing torn and dis,
heveled and with a policeman on guarG
at the pulpit, Rev. D.. holland Smitf
preached the dedicatory sermon in The
First Methodist Episcopal church here
Sunday. A tWo-weeks' legal battle fol
the possession OF the new edifice cul
minated this morning in an assault
upon the preacher as he was going t.
church. The assailant was G. M. Nc
Kee, a contractor, who had been helt
III Jail three hours to compel him t.
urn Owe the keys of the building t.
the church officials.
MISREPRESENTATION six person.
in every 100, 600 in the United State!
We're murdered in 1910. This estimat'
is made by DR.. Cressy L. WILDER. chic
statistician of vital statistics of tn,
census bureau. He attributes to homi
eide cause f,109 of the 4S,606 death
from violence in thai year. This /
at the rate of SO per 100. 000, as agains
Sc in 1909: Ga in 1908 and 6.3 in 1907
Violent deaths resulted to 90.3 person
out of every 100000 in 1916, and II
1909 only So in the same number me
death in tile same II Railroad
killed the greatest umbe and 7.S7
deaths are reported from injuries fror
that source. This is an increase o
14.6 in every 100, 900 population over 10.
in 1909.