Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1915 — Page 1

No. 110.

DESPONDENT MANAT ROSELAWN SUICIDES

Edgar A. Lovell, Aged 56, Fired Fatal Bullet Into Heart—Had Long Been An Invalid.

Edgar A. Lovell, aged 56 years, 10 months and 22 days, and for? a long time an invalid, killed himself Saturday night at the home of his sister, Mrs. Ewing A. Best, a mile and threequarters north of Roselawn. Lowell was in poor health and had been for a long time, suffering from epilepsy. He had often threatened to take his own life. Relatives had guarded against such action and had tried to keep everything that might be used for the purpose of suicide out of sight.

The act was committed some time after 10 o’clock Saturday night, probably about midnight. Sitting on the side of the bed, with his clothing still on him and the bedclothes pulled up over his chest to muffle the sound when the pistol was discharged, Lovell pressed the muzzle against his left breast and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through his heart and death was doubtless instantaneous. The Best family did not hear the report of the pistol, which was a 32caliber one, and the deed was not discovered until Sunday morning. Lovell had made his home with his sister, Mrs. Best, for some time. They moved to the farm near Roselawn only last Spring, having lived for some time before that on a farm near Lake Village. Lovell was never married.

The body will be shipped Tuesday to Cycamore, 111., where the funeral will be held. Besides Mrs. Best the suicide has one other sister and his aged father. Son of Tul Malone Injured When Hit By Athletic Shot. Willie Malone, son of Tul Malone, was struck in .the stomach by an 8pound shot Saturday evening .and quite severely injured. Boys were “putting” the shot when he was struck.

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ImIA ■ ■ ■ The Great Reynard in a Thrilling Free Outside Exhibition, at the Show Grounds, immediately after the Street Parade Rensselaer, Thursday, May 13

The Evening Republican.

FACTS OF INTEREST ABOUT LUSITANIA

Great Ocean Liner Sunk Near Irish Coast Was One of the Greaest Sea Palaces Ever Built. The Lusitania, a great ocean liner sunk by one or more German submarines off the coast of Ireland Friday, was one of the greatest palaces of the sea, being magnificent in every appointment and made with a view to securing every luxury possible in the largest and mots modern hotels on land.

It cost about $10,000,000 and was insured for $7,500,000 or three-fourths of its cost. It required a crew of 650 to run it and there were 1,251 passengers on boa when it was torpedoed. There were 188 Americans on board. Fifty-eight of these were from Chicago. Based upon information compiled in the Cunard offices and by. press bureaus, the number of persons who lost their lives was Of these ... were Americans. The vessel was struck by two, possibly three torpedoes. It sank in 21 minutes from the time it was first struck. Many passengers declined to put on life preservers, believing they would be saved by the life boats. Several of these boats were jarred from their fastenings and fell into the sea when the vessel was torpedoed. Others were difficult to launch because the Lusitania listed to the port side and the rescue boats were cramped into positions from which they could scarcely be removed. Much praise is given the crew of the Lusitania for their work and their sacrifices. But few of the crew were rescued.

There was no provision made for protecting the steamer by either warships or hydro-aeroplanes. 'lt was from two Jo (three hours after the distress signal was given before the first vessels arrived to give aid. Many were saved who put life preservers on, after they had floated about for two hours or more. The vessel’s cargo was valued at $735,000. There were 4,200 cases of ammunition and cartridges consigned to the British government at London. Its value was $152,400. There were furs to the value of $119,000. There were 250 bags of mail. The strong box of the Lusitania contained money and exchange to the value of $5,000,000. As a precaution much of the exchange was made in duplicate. Among the prominent Americans on the boat who are presumed to have lost their lives were:

Alfred G. Vanderbilt, a capitalist worth $100,000,000. Charles Frohman, theatrical managed. Elbert Hubbard, editor of The Fra ancLThe Phillistine. Mrs. Hubbard, his wife. Charles Klein, playwright. Herbert Stewart Stone, pubilsher. Dr. Fred Stark Pearson, engineer. Order a flower for some sick friend. Nothing so fine as a blooming plant. —J. H. Holden.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1915.

HAS THE UNITED STATES BEEN NEUTRAL?

The sinking of the Lusitania promotes grave problems that must be firmly handled. President Wilson is receiving much advice and- a considerable part of it is for radical steps. The act of Germany is pronounced barbarous and there are indications that it was performed with the expectation of bringing this country into the conflict. Many who have been friendly to Germany since the war started have been turned away because of the sinking of the Lusitania and there have been few newspapers to defend the German policy on the seas. The writer has given some overSunday thought to this grave question and has become convinced that this paper was right last fall when it said that we could never be neutral so long as we sold contraband of war to the allied nations.

The Republican does not believe it was consistent to pray for peace and to manufacture and sell cannon, rifles, powder, cortridges, horses, mules, shoes, clothing, blannets and foodstuffs to England and France. The United States has tried to justify this right on a commercial basis, because it kept our factories busy. But we could not accept the attitude of any person as friendly or neutral if he handed our enemy a gun to kill us with.

Organizations have been formed in this country to promote peace and to - point out to the frenzied foreign nations the criminal folly of their murderous conflict, but Germany has had some reason to question the sincerity of our nation’s desire for peace when we have given endorsement to the making and sale of contraband to the enemies of Germany. The Lusitania contained over four thousand boxes of ammunition and cartridges for the British government. Its value was placed at $152,400. The Lusitania was a converted steamer and was carrying contraband and therefore was legitimate prey when it reached the war zone. The bullets in the cargo were to be used to shoot German soldiers, to make widows, orphans and cripples in Germany. German submarines surrounded the Lusitania and held it in their power. To permit it to escape meant the delivery of the ammunition to the British army. To sink it meant the terrible death of the passengers and crew. German officers commanding the sub-

AGED MOTHER OF MRS. RISHLING DIES

Mrs. Ruth Phillips Passed Away After Being Confined to Bed Five Years—Funeral Wednesday.

Mrs. Ruth A. Phillips, widow of Fleming Phillips, died this Monday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. R. Rishling, in this city. She suffered a stroke of paralysis fourteen years ago and five years ago fell and broke her hip. Since that time she had been unable to leave her bed. Up to the fhrst of last week continued in fair general health, but she declined rapidly the past few days. Her age was almost 87 years. She was a sister of Mrs. Norman Warner and of Alton and Shelby Grant. Mrs. Rishling was her only living child. The funeral will be held at the Rishling residence Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock, being conducted by Elder Williams, of the Church of God. Burial will be made in the Osborne cemetery in Hanging Grove township beside the body of her husband, whose death occurred 21 years ago.

Lost Purse Containing Railroad Fare to Montana.

Mrs. Elmo F. Thomas, daughter of S. B. Holmes, lost her purse containing $49.85 last Saturday and unless an advertisement that is being published in this paper recovers it for her she will be placed to a great disadvantage. Mrs. Thomas came from Minneapolis, Minn., on March 23rd to visit her sister, Mrs. Walter L. Smith, on the Holmes farm. Her husband went to Montana and took up a claim within a quarter of a mile of her father, Sidney B. Holmes. She was to leave here with their two children next Saturday and the tponey was to purchase her ticket. Her purse and handkerchief were in her handbag and the ]aag was lost out of the conveyance in which he was riding. - Later some one picked up the handbag but the purse and money, also the handkerchief, were gone. It is hoped that the finder will restore the purse and contents to Mrs. Thomas at once. ■ 'TT \

Notice of Post-Graduate Course.

Dr. I. M. Washburn will take postgraduate work at Rush Medical College in Chicago during the month of May four days in each week, being out of town from 5 a.m. till 2 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

marines decided that their course was plainly outlined. They sank the Lusitania and the 4,000 boxes of ammunition.

England had no right, the owners of the Lusitania had no right and in neutral, fair and unimpassioned America, where justice is the first thing sought, we must hold that Germany acted not without provocation. It was a horrible deed, one that you or I as individuals could never have made up our minds to do. But humanity is obscured in the madness of war and England had proclaimed with Some gusto that it proposed to starve permany into submission. London dispatches said that Germany was actually suffering for the want of food. Women and children, as dear to their loved ones as any who were passengers on the Lusitania were to be starved to death if England could enforce its policy. War is worse a hell than when Sherman so characterized

it and Germany, hemmed in on all sides by warring nations, with its ports blockaded by England, the proud master of the sea, was to be starved out. Perhaps the wives or children or the aged mothers of the crew of the submarine were suffering for want of food and the submarine had the power to retaliate by sinking a vessel with $152,400 worth of bullets and ammunition to be used to make further distress in their country. Americans had bhen warped. They knew the chances they were taking. If they did not know that the Lusitania contained contraband they were deceived by the British government.

These facts do not make the act any less terrible, nor lessen the anguish of the relatives of the unfortunates who lost their lives when the Lusitania was torpedoed, but The Republican feels that our failure to fulfill the neutrality of which we had boasted enter sextensively into the disaster. It is a consequence of our commercial greed, which made falsehoods of our neutrality claims and put the brand of hypocrite upon our prayers for peace. We dare say that Germany would now enter into an agreement with the United States to respect our rights at sea and our flag wherever it floats if we in return would quit manufacturing and selling to the allies ammunition and other contraband. Until we do this we may expect to have our part in the hell that conthe European war.

LITTLE BOY KICKED IN HEAD BY HORSE

2-Year-Old Son of Greely Comer Taken to St. Elizabeths Hospital After Injury.

The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Greely Comer, of Barkley township, was kicked in the head by a horse Saturday evening and rendered, unconscious. Dr. Gwin was called and the child was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, where an x-ray examination was made to ascertain whether an operation would be necessary. The examination disclosed that both the inner plaite and outer lining of the skull had been fractured but it was decided that it would be better not to operate and consciousness began to return to the child at an early hour this Monday morning. Dr. Gwin remained with the child all night, returning home on the milk train. The parents of the child were also with it. Indications are favorable to the child’s recovery.

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MYSTERY SOLVED—WAS NOTHING WRONG

Couple Who Were Dodging Man at Depot Explain—Were Married Later in Kankakee, 111.

The mystery surrounding the couple who got off the early morning train in Rensselaer last Thursday and whose conduct aroused some suspicion has (been solved. The couple was All B. Smith and Mrs. Minnie Ham, of Crarwfordsville, and they were eluding a friend who was trying to ascertain whether they were planning to get married or were in Jasper county to buy a farm. A 1 is really more of a Jasper county resident than of Crawfordsville, for he has spent a considerable part of the past five years in Rensselaer and vicinity. Mrs. Hamm was his affianced bride and they came to Rensselaer Thursday with the intention of getting married, but they found a mutual but inquisitive friend on board the train and they decided to fool him and they succeeded, although it caused a change of their plans and caused them to go to Kankakee, 111., for their wedding. It was performed at the home of Mrs. W. C. Burroughs in that city Thursday evening and Mr. and Mrs. Smith went to Chicago that night and spent a day or two there and then came to Rensselaer Sunday. Today in Mr. Smith's automobile they left for Crawfordsville, when® they will make their home.

Not Long to Wait for Circus.

Thursday, May 13, Sparks World’s Famous Shows will hold forth in this city for a matinee and night exhibition, and the rare, unique and wonderful things that have been promised on paper will become a reality. The airy riders who, in diaphanous skirts have been pirouetting on the expanisve backs of beautiful and speedy circus horses (on the bill boards ( will be seen in all the gorgeousness of tulle and seductive smile. The elepthans will copy their pictured acts of comedy and go them one better. The contortionist will proceed to disintangle himself from the knots he tied in his responsive body last year. The acrobatic families will turn dizzy somersaults and the clowns will work off their latest comedy stunts to the great delight of the crowds present—we all like the clowns. The merit in a big circus like the Sparks Shows is in the fact that everything in the show is the very best of its kind. There must inevitably be riding acts, but the riders are the leaders of their profession. There must be acrobats, but the acrobatic artists add aerialists are gathered from the wide world, and are the best that money can procure. It is this superiority in the quality of the performers that makes the Sparks Shows such a welcome visitor.

ORTH NICHOLS IS LIVING IN KANSAS

Son of S. R. Nichols Wrote W. L. Frye That He Had Just Learned of Father’s Death.

Orth Nichols, son of S. R. Nichols, deceased, and for a number of years living in the west and whose whereabouts were unknown for a long time, has been heard from. He is living at Pittsburg, Kans., and in a letter to Billy Frye states that he had just learned of his father's death. He wrote to ask the particulars of his father’s death.

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JAMES H. FISHER DIED IN HAMMOND

Body of Former Rensselaer Citizen Will Be Returned Here For Burial—Funeral Wednesday,

James H. Fisher died in Hammond Sunday afternoon at 4:45 o’clock. He had been an invalid for some time and relatives feared that he had tuberculosis. A post-mortem conducted soon after his death disclosed that death was due to a complication of troubles, including liver trouble, but that the lungs were not affected. For a number of years Mr. Fisher worked in Hammond and his family lived in this city. All moved to Hammond, however, in the fall of 1912. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, Mrs. Harry Murray and Misses Clara and Ethel Fisher, all of Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. James Korns, of Rensselaer, went to Hammond Saturday evening and were at the home of Mr. Fisher when his death occurred, returning here that evening. The body will be shipped to Rensselaer on the 2 o’clock train Wednesday afternoon and taken at once to the Methodist church, where the funeral will be conducted by Dr. Curnick and Rev. Harper, the latter preaching the sermon. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery.

Another Highway Meeting To Be Held Wednesday Eve.

There were not many at the meeting at Jhe courthouse Saturday evening and action was postponed until Wednesday night of this week. It is hoped that a number will attend this meeting and that Rensselaer will do its part toward securing the Dixie Highway through this city and county. -

Attention Redmen.

Monday, May 10, degree work, geed time, several speakers, eats. AH members urged to attend. —Sachem.

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