Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — Page 4

nt JISPH CW DEWI I. LMMCIBMIMinUKI. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. I Entered a» Seconc Class Matter Jane 8. 1908. at the post otfice at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 Pages; Saturday issue 3 Pages. SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1911.

High School Football Ban.

The sentiment against high school football is becoming so strong in Indiana that it is quite probable that before another year has passed the game will be abolished in the schools of the state. The shocking accidents that have taken place throughout the country again this year on high school football fields point out with renewed emphasis that football is np game for boys. The sooner school authorities recognize this the sooner they will be exempt from criticism. A lad of 15 years of age has about as. much chance in 3, grueling football game as has a pullet in a cock pit. This has been demonstrated so often that ( the indifference of some parents in regard to their boys is remarkable. The troth of the matter is, most fathers and mothers are decidedly opposed to their j boys playing football. Many of them have never seen a game or they would not permit their sons to participate for a moment. •—Hammond Times. .

Eye Like a Spy Glass.

John Leonard Effingham o! Rensselaer, a man with aa eye, which sailor’s say, is a good substitute for a spy glass, has been rejected at *.he naval recruiting station because of extreme far sightedness. He thought he was a desirable recruit beduse of his ability to see far over the ocean, but he was told he could not be accepted, even if he could see half way around the world. The regulations prescribe certain tests, and the prospective recruit could not come up to the requirements. In th'€ distance tests the candidate read from various distances, cards bearing different sizes of letters. Effingham was unable to see the distance card at all at normal distances, but on being moved away from the card to a distance of fifty feet he was able to read the letters that with a normal vision should be read at ten feet. At one hundred feet he read the 20-foot test easily. His only representation as to ■the distance he could see was that he could see things a great .deal farther away than they irinsld be seen by other persons he knew. —Indianapolis News.

RUMOR IS RIDICULOUS

Says No Thought of a Special Session of the Legislature Has Been Had. Indianapolis, Oct. 31. —In re? sponse to a number of inquiries concerning a report that a special sesion of the general assembly was being considered to provide means of meeting the financial ■ condition in the state government. Governor Marshall denounced as ridiculous the report that such a session was being contemplated.

“We have to acknowledge that*, the state is in rather straitened t circumstances.” said -the Governor. “That has been known for some time. It comes from our trying to adjust our expenditureto cur income. The state, however. is not confronted by any such condition as to make necessary a calling of the general as-i sembly, at a cost of 5125.000. “The state -board of finance, composed of myself, the auditor and the treasurer of state, has a plan worked out by which we can carry the state through the winter and spring, when the June settlement with the county treasurers will be available. This, with the reduced .appropriations bv the recent general assembly, will not only put us in good condition, financially, but will enable us to. pay. I now approximate. <250,000 of the state debt next year.” The Governor said the December settlement would carry the - date nicely into the next calendar year. By April, he said, the stafe board would be able to call fcr advances on the June payment. He expected, he said, to be able to carry on the state’s business after June next year without further advances from the county treasurers, because ot the reduced approprations and the increased appraisement of taxables.

CHICAGO WHEAT CORNER ALLEGED

Uncle Sam Scents Effort to Control Prices. AFFECTS LARGE PART OF SUPPLY Government Said to Be About to Ask QranW Jury to Restrain Armour Grain Company from Disposing of Receipts. Chicago, Nov. 3. —Centering in Chicago and extending to Minneapolis, Duluth, Buffalo and Baltimore, an alleged corner in wheat, by which it is declared 60 pe» cent of the country’s wheat supply is controlled, has been under investigation by federal agents, and the results may be presented to various grand juries within a few days. To insure necessary evidence the government, it is declared, is about to ask the grand jury here to prevent the Armour Grain company, through which it is alleged those who control the corner operate, from transferring or disposing of any of its warehouse receipts

It is declared that the investigators for the department of justice claim i they have conclusive evidence that of the €2,000,000 bushels of wheat about 17,000,000 bushels are in Chicago grain elevators, while the rest is scattered in elevators elsewhere. It was also asserted that warehouse receipts for this grain were held as collateral by certain banks and that negotiations had already been begun with New York institutions to enable the Armour Grain company to negotiate these receipts. One of the plans of the government investigators, it is said, is to seize these receipts as evidence. It was believed by some that Adolph J. Lichstern. and the Armour Grain company had lost nearly $1,000,006 in their effort to send up the price of May and July wheat Over 26,000,000 bushels were said to have been left on their hands. It was this deal which directed the attention of the federal authorities to the grain markets. A St. Louis broker who was caught short was obliged to buy 100,000 bushels of wheat at $1.04*4 per bushel on the day following the one on which the price was 90 cents. Ke appealed to the'federal courts and Judge Kohlsaat ruled that he had jurisdiction to settle what was a fair price in a defaulted trade. This decision was followed by rumors of an investigation, which caused a break of several cents in the market It is now believed that a former stenographer of the weighmaster’s office of the board has given evidence to the government District Attorney James H. Wilkerson issued a statement as follows: “It would be the grossest breach of official duty for any government official to make any statement or give any information with reference to proposed grand jury proceedings. These proceedings by law are held secret”

MAINE ABOUT UNCOVERED

Examination Strengthens Belief in Outside Explosion. Havana, Nov. 3. —Work of uncovering the Maine is nearly completed, the excavation inside the boat now extending forty feet from the apex of the heaved up tottom, with thirty feet more to go inside the ship towards the «tem. The removal of the boiler has been delayed by the inefficiency of the derricks, it being necessary to get stronger appliances. Within three weeks the bottom of the vessel will be entirely revealed. Evidence of an cutside explosion is ever strengthened.

RODGERS OFF FOR COAST

is Flying on Last Leg of Journey to Los Angeles. Stoval, Ariz., Nov. 3. —Calbraith P. Rodgers, the coast-to-coast aviator, who left Sheepshead Bay Sept. 17, departed from Phoenix at 1:15 p.m., flying southward, with intention of striking Southern Pacific tracks and flying west to Yuma. He ran put of gasoline and was forced to descend in the Arizona desert at StovaL His day’s flight. Covered 130 miles. Alter an hour’s stop at Yuma today he will start on the last leg of his flight to Los Angeles.

MISS KRUTTSCHNITT WEDS

Becomes Bride of H. C. Woodhouse in New Orleans. New Orleans, Nov. 3—Miss Rebecca Kruttschnitt, daughter of the president of the Harriman lines, came here from her home in Chicago and was wedded to Henry Clifford Woodhouse of Montreal, Can., who was too busy to go to his financee. Julius Kruitschnitt’s gift to his daughter is said to be $1,000,000 in stocks and bonds. The couple will reside on a ranch at Klamath Falls, Ore.

Kyrle Bellew Dead. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 3—Kyrle Bellew, the actor, died here suddenly of pneumonia. Funeral services will be held here and the body shipped to New York.

JUDGE C. C. KOHLSAAT

z Jurist Who Rendered Decision in Wheat Price Case.

MAY ABOUSHJHE LOOP Planningto Do Away with Downtown Structure in Chicago, i Elevated and Surface Cars May All Run into Subways in Middle of City. Chicago, Nov. 3. —The first offer from the traction interests, including an agreement to abolish the union loop, was presented to the city council. Leonard A. Busby, in behalf of the Interest which plans to merge all the elevated and surface lines, offered a plan before the local transportation committee of the council. He admitted that not only were surface lines congested beyond all reason, but that the union loop was also crowded far beyond its carrying capacity. The traction interests declared they were willing to abandon their claims to the union loop and to run their cars in the proposed subways on condition that a plan be found by which they could be guaranteed ample trackage to handle the traffic. Universal transfers and a five cent fare to all parts of the city were included in the offer.

MRS. ROMADKA KEEPS ALOOF

Has Not Been Heard from in Over Year, According to Her Attorney. Fond du I-ac, Wis., Nov. 3. Mrs. Eveline C. Romadka, former Oshkosh society girl and divorced wife of a Milwaukee trunk manufacturer, has not beeft heard from by those interested in her in over a year, according to a statement made by Attorney Maurice McKenna, who secured her release on parole from the Joliet penitentiary where she was serving time for burglary. At the time Mrs. Romadka was wanted in Chicago as an alleged accomplice in the robbing of Edward C. Gatlin of Kansas City, Mr. McKenna endeavored to obtain some trace of her but has been unable to ascertain whether or not she is dead or alive.

PEOPLE FAVOR ANNEXATION

Champ Clark Gives Hi* Idea of Opin.on in United States. Freemont, Neb., Nor. 3. —“Ninetenths of the people favor the annexation of Canada,” declared Champ Clark, speaker of the house of Representatives, here, “and I don’t care who hears me say so.” Beginning v ith a speech here Champ Clark was scheduled to make addresses in twenty-one towns of the Third Nebraska district in the interest of Dan V. Stevens, Democratic candidate for congress. The speaker’s remarks concerning the annexation of Canada caused considerable comment among his hearers.

M'NAMARA JURY IS “CAGED”

Screen Erected to Prevent Members Hearing Reporters’ Talk. ' Los Angeles, Cal., Noy. 3 A transparent glass screen, three feet high; was erected in the courtroom where J. B. McNamara is being tried on charges of causing deaths at the Times building explosion a year ago. It is i placed between the jury box and the newspaper seats immediately adjoining. The object, it said, was to prevent fragments of conveisation from the newspaper inclosure reaching the ears of jurymen. The screen gave the jury box the appearance of a cage.

Bryan Takes Up Taft Challenge.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—ln an open letter to the president Mr. Bryan takesup Mr. Taft’s recent challenge and names the steel, oil and tobacco trusts as three that cannot be punished under the Sherman law.

Austin Dam Considered Faulty. Condersport, Pa., Nov. 3. That the Austin dam was faulty in design and construction is the opinion of the two engineers who testified before the coroner. ... ..

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BOONVILLE—WiIIiam Lee, the self confessed murderer of three psrsons has filed a petition here in the circuit court asking that he be permitted to use the proceeds of insurance policies earned on the lives of his alleged victims to Employ counsel to defend him against a charge of triple murder. In the petition Lee now avers that he is not guilty of murdering his father, mother and brother, and says that unless permission be given* him to use . the SSOO insurance money he will be forced to ask the court to appoint | counsel to defend him in court. • The filing of the petition marks the opening of what is expected to be a spectacular fight between relatives of the three victims for the insurance money now held by Homer Sutton, administrator of the estate, and an uncle of William Lee. All of Lee’s relatives have turned against biro. SOUTH BEND While a I.akr Shore train was speeding along sixty miles an hour between Mishawka aud South Bend, F. A. Higbman and J. Parsons, in the custody of officers from Madisonville, Ky., made a desperate effort to escape, and a free-for-all fight resulted, in which many of the passengers also participated The prisoners were finally subdued as the train pulled into the South Bend station . The prisoners were arrested at Buffalo, N. Y„ on a charge of embezzling from a lodge. They were in the charge of Sheriff Y. B. Stanley and. Deputy Moeley, who were both injured in the fight. INDIANAPOLIS The epidemic of diphtheria in the state has spread to virtually every county, according to J. P. Simonds, head of the pathological laboratory of the state board of health. All the test tubes the laboratory had on hand have been made nse of, and additional help has been procured to aid in the handing of the cultures. The state board authorities are bending every effort to handle the cultures, as they believe early action in this respect is responsible for the small death rate that has characterized tbe epidemic thus far. SHELBYVILLE James J. Corbett, sixty-two years old, who says his home is at Chicago, entered a plea of not guilty in circuit court to a charge of child stealing, and will be given an early trial. The aged man was brought here from Toledo. 0., and is accused of having enticed Harold C. Albert, thirteen years old. away from his hotne here three weeks ago. He had been held in the worghouse at Toledo-since the boy was located in his company at that city.

MUNCIE That “baths were •nly for dudes and women” was one of the principles of living of Ephraim Riffle, according to allegations in a complaint for divorce filed in the circuit court by Martha Riffle Riffle stated this principle, it is charged, three mouths after his wedding, during which period his wife vainly had pleaded with him to take a bath. Then she left him. INDIANAPOLIS The board of public safety and a committee representing the city council has approved of Mayor Shank’s- plans for reducing the cost of living by making it possible for the farmer to sell direct to the consumer without interference. An arrangement will be made so that the retailers and wholesalers will be separated at the city market place. SOUTH BENO Daniel Smith of this city was run down and probably fatally injured when an auto truck and the motorcycle which be was riding collided. Smith is in a local hospital and although he recovered consciousness, is unable to relate anything in regard to the accident, having suffered a complete loss of memory. MARTINSVILLE William George and Mrs. Loretta Cox, who attempted suicide in a lawyer’s office here by swallowing chloroform and remained unconscious for several hours, I seem none the worse for their experience. Both George and Mrs. Cox told the officers they had had enough and would not attempt suicide again with poison.

ALEXANDRIA Three hundred finishers who are empolyed at the Lippincott glass factory in this city went on strike because three non-union men from Tulsa, Okla., were given positions as blowers in the bulb department. Six hundred men are affected by the strike and the factory is temporarily closed. EVANSVILLE being discharged from police court in a minor assault and battery case, Charles Fairchild, sixty-three years old, a furniture worker, dropped dead in a physician’s office, where he had gone for relief from faintness. It is believed the excitement of the trial hastened his death. GARY —A number of merchants and saloonkeepers were swindled out of between $5,000 and SIO,OOO by six well dressed men who flooded the place with counterfeit pay checks of the Illinois Steel company. One of them, James E. Moran, was arrested. MARION Edward Scott, aged twenty-four years, is in a serious condition as a result of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted by Chauncey Shanahan, aged seventeen. Shanahan did not know the revolver was loaded and snapped it as Scctt passed him.

RETURN OF KEY PUZZLES POLICE

New Complication in Knabe Murder Case. HAD BEEN MISSING A WEEK Implement to Work Spring Lock on Woman Physician’s Door Not Seen Since Murder Is Now Mysteriously Replaced. Indianapolis, Nov. 3. —A new complication has arisen in the Knabe case by reason of the fact that some one who took a key from the room of Dr. Knabe, either before or after she was found with her throat cut from ear to ear, has mysteriously returned IL When the doctor was found dead in h« r apartment the coroner discovered that there were three keys to the spring lock which the doctor had herself ordered put on the door. One of these was carried by Miss McPherson and one by Miss Augusta Knabe. The third could not be found, though search was made for it by the coroner and detectives, who kept the facts of the missing key secret A few hours ago the third key was found on a chiffonier in plain view of any one who would enter the room. The coroner says that he had searched the re om fcr it and had 1<» ked on the chiffonier and in every drawer of it and that the key was not in the room. Who returned it to the place where it was found and why it was removed from the room are questions that are unanswered. The time of the return of the -key is also a mystery. The officers do not offer any theory as to how the key was returned, but they think the finding of the person who had it will lead to important developments in determining whether Dr Knabe died by her own hand or by the hand of another.

ASK FOR NEW VICE CONSULS

Representatives «f Countries In Turkey May Be Replaced. Constantinople. Nov. 3. —The Porte has requested the ministers of foreign countries to replace the honorary vice consuls or agents of their governments (who are Italian subjects) in Turkey. The agreements between Italy and Turkey in various treaties having lapsed on the outbreak of the present war, the grand vizier has instructed all departments concerned fn the matter that Italians shall be assimilated subjects so far as their taxes are concerned and their houses may be searched without the assistance of a consular delegate.

WEATHER FORECAST

Ihtffana and Illinois —Fair today; increasing cloudiness and warmer tomorrow; moderate southwest to west winds. Wisconsin Fair today and tomorrow: rising temperatures moderate southwest to wept winds.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Cash Grain Quotations. Chicago, Nov. 2. Wheat—No. 2 red, 96%@38c; No. 3 red; 94@96%c; No. 2 hard winter, 99c @FLfI2; No. 3 hard winter, 96c @51.00; No. 1 northern spring, [email protected]; No. 2'northern springs, $1.09@l_10; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn —No. 2, 72% @.74%e; No. 2 white, 74%@74%c; No. 2 yellow, 74%@74%c; No. 3, 72 %@ 73%c; No. 3 white, 73@73%c; No. 3 yellow, 74@74%c. Oats —No. 2 white, 47% @ 48c; No. 3 white, 46%@47c; standard, 46%@47%c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs —Receipts 24,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice heavy, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 6,500. Quotations ranged at [email protected] prime steers, [email protected] good to choice fed beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, $5.35 @5.90 selected feeders, $3.70 @4.35 fair to good stockers, sß.oo@ 8.75 good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 28,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice to prime native lambs, [email protected] good to choice fed yearlings, [email protected] choice to prime fed wethers, [email protected] good to choice handy ewes. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 13c; young turkeys, 15c; chickens, fowls, 9c; roosters, 8c springs, 10c; ducks, 14c; geese, 12c. Butter. Creamery, 31c per lb.; prints, 32%c; extra firsts, 30c; firsts, 27 %c; dairies, extra, 28c; firsts, 25c; packing stock, 20c. Potatoes. Wisconsin, 65@68c per bu; Michigan, 68 @ 70c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y, quote as follows: 5 cars; market steady. Hogs—Receipts 20 cars; market steady; heavy, [email protected]; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigr, $5.80. Sheep—Receipts 20 cars; market strong; top lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $3 50@ 3.75; ewes, $3.00 @3.25. Calves, $5.00 @9.75.

GENERAL NEWS.

MINNEAPOLIS, MlNN.—Minneapolis men sent $20,000,000 into the country in October to pay for the grain farmers shipped here. This is on a month’s movement of 20,437,110 bushels of grain into this market, compared with 19,380,200 bushels in October, 1910. The backflow of money to the country was nearly 25 per cent larger than at any previous period in the grain trade history of the city. The wheat farmers took out $13,000,000, the corn raisers $250,000, shippers of oats $350,000, barley shippers $3,000,000, rye Shippers $400,000, and the flax raisers, in the most profitable year ever known for those who had good yields, received $2,400,000. WASHINGTON—The freight rates on both fresh and cured meats and other packing house products from Cedar Rapids. la., to eastern destinations must not be greater, after Dec. 1 next, than those from Missouri river points or from Chicago. An order to this effect was made by the interstate commerce commission in the case of T. L. Sinclair & Co. of Cedar Rapids against the SL Paul and other railroads. Complainant showed that the rate on live hogs from lowa points to the east is lower man on dressed hogs and hog products. LOS ANGELLS, CAL.—William N. Selig, president of the Selig Polyscope company of Chicago, who was shot by a Japanese and reported fatally wounded, when Francis Boggs, local manager of the company, was killed by another shot, is reported as not so seriously wounded as at first supposed. Physicians at the hospital where Mr. Selig was carried say that he will recover from his injuries. The Japanese is in jail charged with committing murder in the killing of Boggs. It is believed he is of unsound mind. * WASHINGTON —The marriage of Miss Fola LaFollette, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Robert LaFollette, to George Middleton, the playwright, took place at the Washington residence of Senator and Mrs. LaFollette. Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, chaplain of the senate and pastor of All Saints' church, performed the ceremony. No cards had been issued and only the immediate relatives were present The couple were attended by Paul Kester, the dramatist and Miss Mary LaFollette, a younger daughter-of the senator.

NEW YORK—When the heavy mists lifted over the Hudson there were disclosed a gray line of fighting ships extending seven miles up the river—from West Seventy-seventh street to Spuyten Duyvil. It was the Atlantic fleet at anchor and ready for inspection by Secretary Meyer and President Taft. There are 102 ships of all classes, with more than 30,000 sailors and marines and 1,700 officers. There are six vessels of the dreadnought class, the Florida, Utah, Delaware, North Dakota, Michigan and South Carolina. WASHINGTON— The complete control of all the railroads of the country by the interstate commerce commission, and virtual elimination of the state commissions from such control,, is predicted by business and financial men, following the opinion handed down by the supreme court of the United States that hereafter all locomotives, ears or other equipment used on any railroad which is a highway of interstate commerce must comply with, the federal safety appliance act WASHINGTON— Frank W. Lowery, alias Brocks, the notorious cracksman and train robber arrested here for stealing an automobile laprobe, says several of the most dangerous crooks in the country have been camping here end plwwning a series of robberies. Two jobs already accomplished were credited to this band by Lowery, one of them being the robbery of the fashionable Chevy Chase club of SI,OOO in money and jewels. ’■ * —— ROME —The pope will create seven- , teen cardinals at the consistory to be held Nov. 27. The Most Rev. John M. Farley, archbiship of New York, and the Most Rev. William H. O’Connell, archbishop of Boston, are among those who will receive the red hat Manager Diomede Falconio, apostlic delegate at Washington, also wil be elevated. LONDON —A cable dispatch from Constantinople - "''says: “According to j news from Tripoli published here the Turks have captured the last of the Italian outer intrenchments and occupied the suburb Zahre and all the approaches to Tripoli from the northvest WASHINGTON— Very rich deposits of potash, said to contain more than enough of this substance to supply the needs of the United States, have i been located in the west by scientists j of the department of agriculture, according to Secretary Wilson. NEW YORK—The answer of U. S. Attorney General Wickersham to the plan of dissolution and reorganization of the American Tobacco company and : its co-defendants in the government • antitrust suit was fikd in the circuit court of the United States. TEHERAN-r-The former shah is reported to have reappeared and severely defeated a government force near BanHergaz, capturing guns and a camp It is said that the ex-Shah’s troops w >re commanded by Russian officers and aided by Russian troops.