Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Page 1

No. 174.

Tonight AT THE GAYETY —EXTRA— The Original Bernards, America’s Peerless Equilibrists. These people traveled with Ringling Bros.’ Circus three years. This promises to be the best act of this season’s booking to date. In addition. George Kleine presents the rollicking farce, Who’s Who In Society” in 4 parts. Also a 1-reel comedy “THE DIVING GIRL.” 5 and 15c. Next Friday night The National Guard Film

Reported That Carranza Has Flopped to Villa.

Reports were circulated Thursday evening at Jaurez that the Carfanza garriosin at Torreon Durango, 130 miles south of Parral, had capitulated to the main Villa band led by the bandit chieftain. The rumors were also to the effect that Villa, riding in a coach, a crutch at his side, went into the town and received a surrender of the government commander. General Gonzales said 'atest reports of the bandit campaign were contained in Thursday’s Chihuahua city dispatches. Arrivals from Chihuahua city stated that an attack on Parral a week ago last Sunday failed because a Villa commander disobeyed orders. The Villa command of 600 men they declared was divided into two columns which were to attack the city simultaneously. One column advanced hours before the other, however, and was beaten off by the garrison, which recovered in time to hold the town against assaults of the second column. Mexican officials Thursday extended a public invitation to the citizens of El Paso to attend a military and civic kermess to. be held at Jaurez next Sunday for the benefit of the flood sufferers in the Queretaro district.

All accounts are payable at my office to Miss Morgan.—Dr. C. E. Johnson.

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PROGRESSIVES NOMINATE COMPLETE TICKET

Progressives Placed a Complete Ticket In the Field atj Indianapolis Thursday.

In a four-hour convention at the Odd Fellows building in Indianlapolis Thursday, the progressive leaders of Indiana placed a complete state ticket in the field, reasserting their feelings toward the Hughes compromisers by double riveting a set of progressive presidential electors of the November ballot, and took numerous oratorical falls, veiled and openfarced, out of former state and national leaders.

To give variety to the emphasis of their determination, they sat down hard, and in Boyd’s opinion so unprogressively, that he resigned in one breath from the resolutions committee, the convention and the party. It was a small convention, possibly smaller than some of the enthusiastic leaders expected. There were only 175 delegates and proxy holders in the seats, although the allotment of the convention was 544 delegates. John F. Lawrence, state committeeman from the 11th district, voiced the view of the opponents of a state ticket when he said: “The majority of the delegates didn’t think it necessary to come. .They know the party is dead, and that a convention is farcical. This view prevails not orily-among the delegates but among the rank and file of the men who made the great progressive party of 1912 and 1914 in Indiana.”

The Stork Special. Born, Friday, July 21, to Mr. and Mrs. George. Seigo, four miles south of Rensselaer, a girl. The operations performed upon Ad Parkison and Mrs. J. H. Hansson at Wesley hospital, in Chicago, yesterday, were apparently successful and the patients are getting along nicely. Miss Viola Glazebrook went to Monon today and will return this evening.

WRESTLING PERRY MARLOW of Watseka vs. < NAT WELSH Preliminaries AUSTIN ILIFF FRED GOODRICH I ELLIS THEATRE SATURDAY, JULY 22 Match starts 8 p. m. Admission 25c.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1916.

INDIANA SOLDIERS MAY GO TO SANTA MARIA

Several Troopers Are Sent to San Antonio Hospital—Salute Is Fired For Bliss.

Mercedes, Tex., July 20. —Although it is not announced officially and no one knows just when it will happen, it is understood that a cdm'pany and perhaps two companies of the Indiana troops will be sent to Santa Maria, 10 miles from the present Llano Grande camp. This is a point of more than usual importalnce, for it is in the Rabb’s ranch country, which is at the edge of Santa Maria, that the bandits were busy and there is no telling when they may try to cross the Rio Grande river again. For that reason Troop A of the 3rd cavalry, in command of Capt. Philip Mowry, which went there from New York a few days ago, is at Rabb’s ranch, whale thirty more cavalrymen are at the pumping station on the Rio Grande, half a mile away. The town of Santa Maria resembles the page of some old picture book. Adobe houses are filled in among a few modem dwellings and two big signs, “United States Customs House” and “Santa Maria Postoffice,” top two white frame buildings. There is a general store and a modem school house and an old fashioned church.

The Mexicans there are friendly to the Americans and give the army officers a great deal of information. At Rabb’s ranch the Mexican scouts report that there are Mexicans who slip across the rivet, gather what information they can and report to the federal authorities.

Also the river guards or custopis inspectors are found about the ranch When riot on duty. Their business is to patrol the river bank and prevent smuggling. They are men of more than ordinary intelligence, dead shots and of untiring energy. The country about Santa Maria and Rabb’s ranch is about the same as found all through this neighborhood. The roadis are fairly good for this part of Texas. On the ranch are orange and lemon trees, and a few banana palm.s Close by are several fields of cotton. When the Indiana troops get to Rabb’s ranch they will have pure water, from wells sunk forty feet into the ground, and the soil is so hard that nothing drains into the wells.

The Indiana troops will have to face a situation as dangerous as the Mexican bandits, for the mesquite, undergroWth/is infested with rattlesnakes, tarantulas and scorpions. None of the cavalrymen have been bitten by the snakes, but several of them have' been stung by tarantulas and scorpions. The stings did not prove fatal. In order to protect themselves from bandits, the troops have built barricades around their camp. These are about three feet high and two feet across and there are rows of logs filled in with, earth and brick. The top is surmounted by barbed wire. The same barricades are built -arotrnd the camp at thb pumping station on the river. * SoMfiers patrol the roads in all directions, and a border patrol is on the alert up and down the river. . It would be hard for bandits to surprise either camp, so if the Indiana soldiers escape the rattlesnakes, tarantulas and scorpions, they have not much to fear. Although the heat is intense in the day, it is tempered with a breeze from the Gulf of Mexico and the nights are delightfully cool. Only the troops that go to Rabb’s ranch and Santa Maria will find an improvement over the camp at Llano Grande.

Pearl R. Rimer, of Detta, Mo., Died of Acute Appendicitis.

[Miss Pearl R. Rimer, aged 17, of Detitia, Mo., granddaughter of Mr. Sdhanlaub, of Mt. Ayr, died at her home in Detfta Tuesday, of acute appendicitis. The body arrived in Rensselaer today and was taken to the home of her grandfather in Mt. Ayr, where the funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Burial will be made in North Star cemetery. The body was accompanied here by her mother, and brother and several other relatives.

THE WEATHER. Fair Friday and Saturday; warmer Saturday; gentle northeast winds, probably becoming southerly Saturday.,. /LX'.

The Howard county grand jury has returned an indictment against Ellis Wood, suspect in the Walter Collins killing case, charging him with murder in the first degree. The Carroll count celebration will be held Aug. 10, 11 and 12. .

Knights of Pythias Day At Fountain Park Aug. 18.

Friday, August 18, will bo known as Knights of Pythias day at Fountain Park, and the following program Will be held on that day: 10:30 a. m. Music. 10:45 a. m. Sermon lecture, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, subject, “An Old Fashioned Mother.” 12:00 Picnic dinner.

1:30 p. m. Band conceit of about 150 pieces, furnished by Rensselaer, Brook, Fowler, Brookston, Reynolds, Goodland, Morocco, Delphi, Remington and other lodges. 2:15 p. m. Lecture by Dr. E. F, Lilley, subject “Fratemalism.” 3:00 p. m. Concert, Wood’s Orchestra, Miss Ruth Wood, soloist. 3:30 p. m. Address, Hon. Robert A. Brown, past* grand chancellor and present G. K. of R. & S. Hon. Chas. F. Remy, grand chancellor, is expected to be present and other grand lodge officers, who will be on the program for a short address; 5:00 p. m. Band concert on lawn. 5:30 p. m. Band concert on lawn. 7:00 p. m. Band concert. 7:45 p. m. Concert, Wood’s Orchestra, Miss Ruth Wood, soloist. 8:15 Moving pictures consisting of high class films. This is to be a free day and there will be no charge of admission.

Sir Roger Casement Not to Be Executed.

Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason against the British crown, will escape the penalty of death. The understanding is that Casement will be sent to an insane asylum because his mind is abnormal. His dairy contains references to acts which he writes he committed and which are of a character the British government feels it cannot make public. Public sentiment in England and even in Ireland is demanding his execution, but the reports received here indicate that this will not defter the King from setting aside the death sentence and directing the incarceration of Sir 'Roger in an insane asylum.

Hay Crop Lost On Thos. Lamson Farm.

Last week, when Omar Felmy, Who lives on the Thos. Crimson pllace, had just finished haying, he concluded to burn the trash along an old ditch. He succeeded in this and thought the fire Was out and went to the house. In a short time they looked out and the stubble was burning and before they could stop it he lost his entire hay crop in the leld, consisting of two stack*.—Brook Reporter.

The Chicago and Wabash Valley Railway Company.

To Stockholders: A special meeting of the stockholders of The Chicago and Wabash Va’ley Railway Company will be held at the office of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company in its station at Hammond, Indiana, on Wednesday, September 27th, 1916, at eleven o’clock a. m., for the purpose of taking action with respect to approving and authorizing the sale on such terms as the Board of Directors of the Company may approve and authorize and as may be submitted to the meeting, of all of the property, rights, privileges and franchises of The Chicago and Wabash Valley Railway Company to the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company. The transfer books will close from September 16th, 1916, at three p. m., until September 28th, 1916, at ten a. m. The meeting is called in compliance with a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of said Company, and on the order of its president. BYRON CASSELL, Secretary.

Miss Ruth Harper, of Defphi, has been visiting friends here and at Parr. She will return home this evening. Lee Richards has accepted a contract to paint the elevator of the. Goodland Grain Co., and will go there Mondiay to commence the work. Christy Mathewson, for sixteen years a member of the New York Giants pitching staff, has just been traded by that club to the Cincinnati management for Buck Herzog, whom he has displaced as ■ manager of the Redlegs. Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery reports that several new hydrants are being installed in Rensselaer. Several new ones are to be placed in Rabbit Town and a few in the eastern part of the city. Two of the daughters of Rev. J. Budman Fleming will assist in the music ait the Sunday morning service at the Presbyterian church, Jjfiss ( Lula, of Chicago Heights, as organist, And Miss Jessie* of Deer Lodge, Moat., as soldist

MONON DEFENDANT IN INJUNCTION SUIT

Government Alleges That Railroad, With Other Concerns, Used Ingenious Method of Rebating.

An ingenious form of rebaiting is charged in a suit for injunction filed by the government in Chicago Thursday. The defendants are the Monon Railroad, the Monon Coal Co., Vigo Mining Co., Indiana Coke and Gas Co., the Bankers Trust Co., William Morris Imbrie, James fm'brie and Alfred M. Ogle, eoal mine operators. The Bankets Trurt Co. is named as trustee of the first gold mortgage bonds of the Mobon and Vigo Coal companies. It is alleged that the individual operators own mines in Vigo, Clay, Green and Sullivan counties, trainsferred their nrobcrtv to the Monon Coal Co., and that the latter discriminated against other railroads by granting the largest tonnage and the longest hauls to the Manon. It is charged that the Monon Coal Co. paid the individual defendants $750,000 of its original $100,000,000 capital stock and an additional lien on its $2,500,000 twenty-five year 5 per cent gold bonds. The Monon railroad is alleged to have paid the interest on the bonds since 1911, aggregating $500,000, and that this act is alleged to have constituted rebating. The injunction asks that this arrangement be terminated.

Albert J. Beveridge Comes Out For Hughes.

Albert J. Beveridge, who was the progressive nominee for U. S. senator from Indiana during the 1914 campaign, has announced his intention to support the republican party during the present campaign. After a threehour conference with Charies Evans Hughes, republican nominee for the prsidency, Mr. Beveridge gave out the follownig statement: "The progressive party as an organized party no longer exists. People have many opinions as to the causes that produced this condition, but it is useless to discuss them, for the fact itself stares us in the face.

“Therefore progressives must either refrain from voting for president at all or support the candidate of some other partv. I shall vote for Mr. Hughes. In taking this stand I do not make nor imply any criticism of progressives who may decide differently. I personally know large numbers of these men and women and hold them in the highest regard and esteeem. Whatever they individually determine to do will be the result of their mature judgment arrived at conscientiously. “I have known Mr. Hughes for several years and admire his ability, integrity and courage. He is, above all, a straightforward man, trustworthy and dependable. He means what he says and says what he means. I trurt him, like him, am his friend and shall support him. ■_ “The work on which I am engaged, the writing of the life of Chief Justice Marshall, has absolutely prevented all political activity on my part for the lart eighteen months; in case the demands of this work are such as to permit me to take any part in the campaign, I shall give my reasons on the stump for my conviction that the welfare of the country demands the election of Mr. Hughes.”

Hen Hatches Quail Eggs And Mothers Brood of 13.

A son of Eliza Smith, when working in a wheat field two weeks ago, near Bedford, Ind., found a quail’3 nert containnig thirteen eggs. He took the eggs to his home and put them under a setting hen. The hen hatched them out in a few days, and Since then Biddy has raised them with her other chicks and seems as proud of them as though they were her own kin. She looks after them the same as the others, feeding them liny grasshoppers, etc. The little quails run to her when she calls them, and hover under her at night, the same as her own clucks.

N.<C. Shafer, accompanied by Roscoe Halstead and a friend who is visiting the latter, went to Detroit Thursday night where the former will procure three new Maxwells and the three of them will drive them through to Rensselaer.

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PROGRAM REX THEATRE Friday Mai guerite Clark IN “The Prince and the Pauper” Saturday Robert Warwick IN “FRUITS OF DESIRE”

Showman Sings of the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Wonders.

It’s great to be a kid once more, and hear the lions growl and roar, and see the bears and feed the monks, and sprinkle peanuts on the trunks of the elephants, all in a row, that keep a-swiniging to and fro; it’s grand, you know, to be a kid and see that big Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Show. . . ' - - ' It’s great to sit and watch the clowns perform their funny ups and downs, and see them laugh and hear them chaff until you split your in half; and watch those blokes play wicked jokes upon some unsuspecting mokes, as fat and thin they amble in and make you squeal and smile and grin. It’s great to see the big circus parade, and swallow circus lemonade, and see the lights and wonder sights, arid pretty girls in spangled tights; and feast your gaze upon the blaze that the tent displays. Oh, once a year, it’s grand, you know, to see the circus show. After unbosoming of the above the circus man intimated that the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus would arrive in Rensselaer Saturday, Aug. 5, aboard three special trains. Two performances will be given, at 2 and 8 p. m. The doors to the monster zoological paradise will be opened an hour earlier. A three-mile-long street parade will leave the grounds at 10 o’clock.

If Your Name Is John You Have An Invitation.

As has been customary for many years, an invitation has been extended to John D. Rockefeller to attend the annual reunion of Johns, which will be held at Riverside Park, near Eaton, Ind., August 17. Representative J. A. M. Adair, of Portland, democratic gubernatorial candidate, and John W. Kern, democratic senatorial nominee for the long term, are expected to be present. Mr. Adair has promised he will attend. AH persons whose given name is John, are invited. The reunion was first held there several years ago, when it was more of a local event than now. Residential restrictions were removed at the 1915 reunion and it now has assumed a national character.

Presbyterian Church. Rev. J. Budman Fleming, Minister. 9:30 Bible school. 10:30 Morning worship and sermon. v - ■ 7:00 Union vesper service and sermon on the court house lawn. Baptist Church. Sunday school 9:30 a. m Morning worship and sermon, subject, “The Praise of a Redeemed Soul,” “0:45. James school house, Sunday school at 2:00; preaching at 3. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Union service on court house lawn, Rev. Fleming preaching, at 7 p. m. Remember, in case of rain the services will be held in the main court room.

Notice to Muzzle Dogs. On and after July Ist all dogs in the city or coming into the city, must be muzzled. By order of City Health Board. Hugh Yeoman, son of Robert Yeoman, of near Mt. Ayr, has the radius bone of his right arm broken Tuesday while cranking an automobile.

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