Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — Page 2

Jasper County Democrat F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ; RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

CAVES UNDER THE LAVA BEDS

Wonderful Natural Formations, Seme .. of Them Miles Long, Found in California. In the vicinity of Tjile lake, California, about 40 extinct, volcanoes have been.found, many already being covered with thick vegetation, and beneath the -beds of lava given off by them in the past numerous interesting caverns have recently been discovered and explored. One is s?id to be 200 feet- long, 50 7?et wide and 40 feet high. Another has been reported discovered which is miles long; it has been named the •Mammoth cave of California. One recentlyexplored is said to contain two stories, ’thetemperature in the under one being so low that icicles two yards long depended from the ceiling. _ Large caves have various origins. Many” have once been solid ground, covered with heavy clay and limestone rock; the lower ground is washed away by underground waters, a roof and floor being left. ' Other caves are the result of air or other gases getting into the molten lava, expanding with the heat, and blowing themselves into Java bubbles, leaving hollows and caverns when the lava has cooled and hardened, just, as air bubbles may b»; seen to do in molten tar.— The Pathfinder

A Plume Hunter's Wealth.

TThe death of Herbert La Praith and the inheritance of his son George , of SBO,OOO in cash reveals a most un- : usual but highly profitable occupation j The elder La Praith was a hunter for the skins of white herons, crests of pelicans, and the glossy many colored wings of the western grebe. The favorite hunting grounds of the plume : hunter were in the tule and alkaline swamps and lakes in southern Oregon. ’ and he is known to have been highly, successful in evading the laws of two states and amassing a snug fortune by the iHegal sale of the valued skins, ; La Praith once told a friend that he shot from 10 to 20 birds each day during the nesting season and that each white heron represented a profit of SSO to him. When he was unable to secure more than ten birds in a single half day he went back to camp. The hunter shipped his spoils to New York and often accompanied the trunks, posing as a commercial traveler. . It is a misdemeanor to kill either herons, grebes or pelicans in Oregon and Washington, and there can be no doubt that the dead man’s gun destroyed thousands of the> beautifully plumed birds. —Seattle Correspondence St Paul Pioneer Press.

The Girl Dentist.

The girl sat next the woman at the Hungry club. She was very quiet, demure and smartly dressed. “Do you write or paint or what?” the woman asked her. “I’m a dentist,” replied the girl. The woman looked at her with renewed interest. “I didn’t know there were girl dentists in New York,” she | said. “Yes,” replied the girl, “there are many of them. Perhaps you don’t know them because we never put our girl names on the signs. We just put ‘Dr. So and So,’ because if they saw that we were women they might be afraid to come in, afraid we were no good. Once they get in they like us and come back again. We have to overcome some prejudice against our sex in all business, but particularly, I think, in ours. And I don’t Ynow why, either. Why shouldn’t a woman fill a tooth as well as a man? Oh, yes, I can pull them, too, without batting an eye. I don’t faint at the sight of blood or at causing pain any more than a man does. That is,” reflectively, “not any more.” —New York Press.

Astonished Quick-Lunchers.

It was lunch hour in a grab-your-food-and-hike emporium; a babel of voices mingled with the clatter of dishes and the strains of a three-piece orchestra made a din that was almost distracting. While the noise was at its height a tall, pale young man set his food on the table and then sat down in a chair. His head went forward into his hands and stayed there. His food was as yet untouched. His fellow lunchers looked up. “Probably bilious,” remarked the fat, man who had been reading the pink sheet. “Dead tired,” said the bill clerk to his companion. “Bet it’s a hangover,” ventured one girl. “Well, whatever it is, he ought to know that he is attracting attention all around him,” whispered a tea drinking matron. But the pale young man’s face still remained in his hands, unheeding the conversation. His lips moved slightly; he was saying grace.

Would Interest the Child.

Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of the schools of Chicago, says that she does not believe in much home work by the pupils, a statement that will delight parents as well as. children. She believes, however, that school work should be so interesting and concern' Itself so much with the daily life of the child that it will want to talk it over at home. Tho-fact that <Shfldr->; do not consider the work in- | teresting enough to talk about It out at school is, she says, a criticism *>f the schools. . ' , ...

NEGRO EASY VICTOR

JACK JOHNSON KNOCKS OUT JIM JEFFRIES IN FIFTEENTH ROUND. BEATEN THRICE TO FLOOR Onslaughts of Colored Champion Irresistible and White Man Proves Himself Not to Be the Wonderful Pugilist cf Old. Reno, Ney., July 5 —Jim Jeffries, only the empty shell of the great fighter of seven y ears ago, was whipped by Jack Johnson before the most remarkable assemblage of sporting men ever gathered together in the history of the game. Johnson not only outclassed Jeffries, but. actually played with the big white man as he played with Tommy Burns and Stanley Ketchei. The end, while it came with the suddenness of a thunderclap. was not a surprise; it had been in plain sight from the fifth round. There Could have been but one ending and even the most rabid Jeffries men could not'deceive themselves into thinking that the white man had a chance after the fifth round. It was not that he was taking much punishment for the blows John-, soil landed were not enough to have beaten a strong man of ordinary vitality. Old Form Missing. Jeffries did not display a semblance of his old-time form. There were none of his short, determined rushes; none of his trip hammer blows to the body, and when after the fifth round the negro began handling Jeffries in the clinches and easily blocking any attempt at retaliation, there was nothing to do but wait for the end of the I fight. Instead of the old Jeffries, we had a man who ducked and clinched and fumbled away with both hands in the clinches while the negro systematically and methodically whipped up 1 either hand to the face, bringing the blood in streams. When Jeffries lurched out of his corner to begin the fifteenth he shuffled into a clinch. There was nothing about his leg action to Indicate that he was groggy, but he seemed tired and his face, over Johnson’s shoulder, was a picture of defeat. He hung on for a few seconds and then disentangled himself, backing slowly away toward the west side of the ring and toward his own corner. Johnsen following with left extended. Again the men clinched and this time Jeffries came to a halt with the upper rope across his back. This time it was Johnson who broke from the clinch and as he did so he drove the right hand to the body, following it immediately with a left to the point of the chin. Jeffries’ hands dropped at his sides-and he bent double, slowly collapsing to a sitting position. He tried to rise but fell over backward half in and half out of the ring.

Lifted Back Into Ring. Jack Jeffries moved over and placing his arms under his brother’s shoulder, helped him back into the ring. Jeffries was helpless and' staggering, and just as his knee cleared the floor, Johnson stepped forward to deliver a right to the jaw, but Rickard pushed the negro aside. Jeffries swayed over toward his corner and Johnson stepped in with a deliberate jaw punch which sent the white man down for the second count. This time Jeffries lay on | his side for four seconds, and then slowly crawled to his hands and knees. From the west side of the arena came the yell: “Stop it, Tex! Stop it!” Negro Mauls Jeff. Jeffries lurched to his feet just at the count of ten and as he raised himself from the floor he spat out a great mouthful of blood. The last blind instinct of tfie fighter warned Jeffries to clinch and he hung on with what little strength he had left while Johnson mauled him clear across the ring. Sam jumped through the ropes, but Rickard’s back was turned and he did not see the acknowledgment of defeat until Jeffries had been floored for the third and last time. Jeffries, so close to the timekeeper that he might have touched him. heard the count this time and was trying to rise to his feet when Rickard pushed • Johnson toward his own corner and raised the negro’s glove as a signal that the fight was over.

BROTHERS SPAR; ONE DIES

Coroner Halley Summoned to. View Dead Man Discovers Own Son Been Accidentally Killed. Quincy, 111., July s.—Coroner Michael Halley of Adam.s county made a hurried trip in answer to a call stating that a young man has been accidentally . killed. Upon arriving at West Quincy, where he had been summoned, he learned that- the dead man was his own son. James Halley, aged twenty, and Michael Halley, aged sixteen, sons of the coroner, were engaged in a friendly frolic without gloves. Michael received a blow over the heart, which caused him to fall to the ground. ,

Official’s Body Is Found.

Detroit, Mich., July 5. —The body of Frank 8. Gpldthrite, formerly superintendent of the printing bureau of the Canadian government and accused at embezzlement of $200,000, was found floating in the river off Grosse Point Isle. This dispels the mystery caused by Goldthrite’s disappearance from a steamer, which it was believed was a ruse to help him escape.

EQUAL RATES AIM

TAFT SAYS ROADS NEED NOT “EAR NEW RATE LAW. WILL NOT BE USED AS A CLUB President Is Desirous of Leassuring AH Interests That Interstate Commerce Commission Will Enforce Provisions of Act With Fairness. Beverly, Mass., July 2.—Legitimate railroad interests need have no fear of the rate adjusting power that has been lodged with the interstate commerce commission under the new railroad law. . In a long interview with Chairman Martin A. Knapp of the commission President Taft went exhaustively into the provisions of the new law and later in conversation with callers he earnestly pointed out that there need be no apprehension that the commission will run amuck or that the new law will be used to club indiscriminately all railroads that propose an advance in rates. Equal Rates for All. The law, the president pointed out was not passed for the purpose of lowering rates, or even of holding all rates where they are at the time of the passage of the law, but rather for the purpose of equalizing rates and | keeping them so far as possible in I tune with business conditions at all times. Fear has been expressed that the idea would go abroad that the United States government was about to embark upon a campaign of oppression against all railroads, which would be disastrous to the railroad business, with crop moving time approaching, through the avoidance of American securities by foreign investors. This is one of the things that the president desires to avoid. He is desirous

f reassuring investors as well as the usiness managers of the railroads, hat the latter are not to be clubbed, bat the power of suspension of inreases in rates is not to be used on 11 rates, but only on those that apiear to be unreasonable and that the iroposedincreases are only to be jnalidated when they are proven to be mreasonable. Roads Given More Time. In support of this fixed policy of he interstate commerce commission t was pointed out that while the re■ent decisions of the commission relaive to freight rates rn the west was igainst a number of proposed inrreases and in all of the cases has slowed the railroads until next Octo)er to show by a practical working of ates, as fixed by the commission, the easpnableness of the latter’s rulings.

FIRE AT PETERHOF PALACE

Incendiary Blaze in Historic Building, Containing Valuable Treasures, Causes Loss of $2,000,000. Paris, July 5. —A wing of the historic Peterhof palace of St. Petersburg, containing treasures of untold value, was destroyed by fire, according to a dispatch received here from St. Petersburg. The blaze was of incendiary origin, according to the report, and the loss is at least $2,000,000.

Four Drown In Cloudburst.

Lexington, Ky., July 5. —One man and three children were drowiled at Winchester, Ky., when a cloudburst caused $50,000 damage. Many buildings were swept away. ... '. • ■ . i “

MELVILLE WESTON FULLER

19 KILLED, 20 INJURED IN BIG FOUR ROAD WRECK

Section of Twentieth Century Limited Collides With Freight Through Misunderstanding of Orders. Middletown, 0., July 5. —The “Big Four” Twentieth Century Limited, east-bound with 200 passengers, was wrecked in a head-on collision with a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight train one-half mile south of here, nineteen people being killed outright and moferthan a score injured. The two trains met and the locomotive of the freight plowed its way through four coaches of the fast passenger train. The “Big Four” train was running ten minutes late and was using the tracks of the C., H. & D. to get around a small wreck which occurred earlier in the day at Sharon, O. Through an error in the interpretation of its orders the freight train met the passenger before it had taken the sidetrack. The collision took place on a sharp curve, and cars were piled up in the ditch. r / When the engines crashed one of the steel monsters crushed through the combination baggage and smoking car and a day coach which was largely filled with women and children. It was some minutes before a move at rescue work could be started, as the crews as well as passengers were tossed about. When those still able reached the upturned cars they found dead and injured persons lying near or pinned under the heavy wreckage. While the dead were being removed willing hands were working with might and under distressing circumstances. The shrieks of injured, some of whom were dying, the din and shouting, the noise of escaping steam as it hissed from battered engines, made the affair most distressing. The bodies of the dead were conveyed to the station at Hamilton and here the scenes were heartrending. Crowds of men and women thronged around the building, many in search of relatives or friends they knew were on the train. _■ .

CLEAN SWEEP FOR HARVARD

Crews Defeat Three Yale Boats In Shell Races —Latter Struggle Gamely in Varsity Event. New London, Conn., July 1. —Harvard’s day of victory on the Thames culminated with success in the varsity eight. With her stroke oar all but collapsed, Yale crossed four lengths behind the Cambridge crew, after a plucky race that cannot be judged by the margin of victory. Harvard’s victories were the most decisive that ever marked the opening of her annual rowing regatta with Yale. The Crimson freshmen eightoared crew beat the youngsters from New Haven by three lengths, and the Harvard ’varsity four bettered this performance a little later by rowing away from Yale in the last eighth mile of a surprising race and finishing four lengths in the lead. .

Man-Eating Shark Caught.

Seattle. Wash.. June 30. —After a seven-hour struggle the combined crews of the gasoline fishing boats ■ Good Partner and Pioneer 11, captured a man-eating shark 36 feet long, weighing about 15 tons, in the Straits of San Juan del Fuca. In the shark’s stomach they found pieces of bones and a piece of a kodak plate.

Asher Hinds, Nominee.

Portland, Me., July 2.—Asher C. Hinds of; Portland, parliamentarian of the national house of representatives, was nominated for congress by the Republicans of the Jlrst Maine district, after a most%itter fighL

CHIEF JUSTICE DEAD

MELVILLE FULLER, HEAD OF U. S. SUPREME COURT SUDDENLY EXPIRES. HOLDS OFFICE FOR 22 YEARS Death Comes From Heart Failure and Was Wholly Unexpected and Removes One of Most Distinguished Members of American Bench. Bar Harbor, Me., July s.—Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the United States Supreme court, died from heart failure at his summer home in Sorrento. The death of the chief magistrate was unexpected, as he had been in fairly good health lately, and there had been no premonitory symptoms of any kind of trouble. Sunday he attended church as usual, and when he retired at night he was to all appearances in his customary health. Daughter at Bedside. Death came about six o'clock in the morning. / His daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, and JElev. James E. Freeman, who was a guest of Justice Fuller’s at his Sorrento cottage, “Main Stay," wene with the jurist when he died. ' For many years the chief justice had spent his summers at Sorrento, a summer colony located on Frenchman’s bay, five miles from Bar Harbor. To Chief Justice Fuller fell the honor of third rank (or length of service as presiding judge in the highest tribunal of the American government For twenty-one *>Vars he was chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States. Before Grover Cleveland sent his name to the senate on April 30, 1888, for confirmation as chief justice, he was practically unknown except tc members of the legal profession. In Maine, where he was born February 11, 1833, he had been known as a wellbehaved, rather scholarly lad. Finally he blossomed forth as a fullfledged lawyer and politician of a high-minded sort in his native city of Augusta. His Great Argument. From 1856 to 1888 he lived in Chicago, but attracted little attention outside bis immediate circle of friends and Sssociates at the bar until he undertook the defense of Bishop Cheney on a charge of heresy. His knowledge of ecclesiastical history and procedure astonisheff those who conducted the case, and his argument of the cause of the bishop before the supreme court of Illinois is referred to still as a forensic effort seldom if ever surpassed In that court. He was a delegate to the national conventions of the Democratic party in 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880. The Maine boy who .had “gone west” accomplished much, however, notwithstanding his . quiet life. He had laid the foundations for a deep understanding ofc the commercial laws of the country, and along this line he had performed Services for clients that was estimated to have netted him an annual income of $30,000. Republicans Urged His Appointment. These accomplishments led Republican senators from Illinois to urge upon a Democratic president the appointment of Mr. Fuller to succeed Chief Justice Waite. The nomination of Mr. Fuller, then fifty-five years of age, was followed by a memorable contest in the senate. The judiciary committee, with 20 Republican majority, to which the nomination was sent April 30, held up the appointment until July 20. Then the committee reported it to the senate “without recommendation.” For three hours that body debated in executive session whether to confirm or reject the nomination. The attack on Mr, Fuller was led by Senators Edmunds, Evarts and Stewart. Senators Cullom and Farwell defended him. The reports that he had been a “copperhead” during the Civil war and that he did not possess the requisite ability as a lawyer were gone over; His Great Victory. Finally, by a vote of 41 to 20, his nomination was confirmed. Since that day the entire court, as it then existed, has passed away with the single exception of Justice Harlan. Of those prominent in the fight over his confirmation only Senator Cullom remains. Throughout his service Chief Justice Fuller was noted for the dignity with which he filled the position. He preserved tha't manner on the bench or off.

RACE RIOTS OVER BIG FIGHT

Five Negroes Dead or Dying—Thousands Throughout North and South Are Beaten. New York, July 5. —The victory of Jack Johnson over Jim Jeffries was the cause of race riots in nearly every city of size in the United States. Thousands of negroes were beaten and five are dead or dying. The mob spirit seemed to rise wherever a negro cheered for Johnson after the fight, or' permitted his exultation over the victory to grow to an extent that made it offensive. Negroes were chased through the streets of the cities of the south and north. In every city the police were on the jump all night quelling disturbance*.

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When Father Helped.

The fond father held the manuscript while his son practised the oration. “Shall we permit the ruthless hand of the hydra-headed tyrant,” cried the youth, “to—to —to —well, what is it?” The father was wrestling with the manuscript "Oh, yes,” he muttered, “here it Ist *to dessieate.’ Go on,” “It’s desecrate,” cried the boy, indignantly. “ ‘Shall we permit the ruthless hand of the hydra-headed, tyrant to desecrate the —the—the — why don’t you prompt me?” The father was staring hard at the manuscript "The—the poodle—paddle—poodleurn of our liver ties,” he stammered. “It’s the ‘palladium of our liberties,’ ” roared the boy. “Gimme that paper—l’ll say it meself.” And he stalked away angrily. Authority on Soup. A little boy, promoted to company dinner at the family table, enjoyed his oyster cream hugely until he came to an unrecognized object at the bottom of the plate. “What is it? Oh, just an oyster,, dear,” responded the child’s mother, sharply appealed to. “Why did Dora pnt it in?” “Oh, to make the soup good.” “She can leave it out next time,” the tiny epicure decided. “The soup’s , good enough without.” —Exchange.

O - Diplomacy is the art of making others believe you are interested in them, when in reality they make you weary.

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