Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Page 4

IHt JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT f.I.BIBBOffI.iDIIORMDPOBLISBER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made known on apa ■■ plication. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday issue 8 Pages. SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1912.

PHYSICIAN ASKS DAMAGES

Jndlanapolls Man Sues Traction Company Alleging Disability. ' Shelbyville, Ind., Feb. 16. —The trial of the case in which Dr. Charles A. Rector, 714 North Alabama street, Indianapolis, is suing the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal company for $5,000 on account of Injuries he received Sept. 16, 1910, while trying to leave a Shelby street car at Maryland street and Virginia avenue, was begun in superior court here Dr. Rector alleges his shoulder was dislocated and that he was permanently crippled. He is an osteopath and his claim for damages is based mainly on the allegation that he is no longer able tp practice his profession profitably on account of his physical condition.

LAFAYETTE THEATER GUTTED

Poorly Insulated Wire Starts Blazj Just Before Doors Open. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 16.—Just before the doors were opened for the afternoon performances at the La Purdette theater, vast quantities of smoke poured out from the vestibule of the playhouse and the Sixth and Main street corner was enveloped in a dense cloud. For a time the Hotel Lahr whs threatened and in Adjoining stores preparations were made__to move out The theater was gutted and George G. Ball, owner, estimated his loss at SI,BOO. The fire started in a dressing room east of the stage and it is presumed that a poorly insulated wire ■was the cause.

FAIRMOUNT MAN BREAKS JAIL

Officers Search for First Prisoner Who Escapes from Cell. Marion, Ind., Feb. 16—Officers of the law in Grant county are on the lookout for Jean Brown, who escaped from the jail at Fairmount, and officers of that city are making an investigation of the getaway in hope of ascertaining the Identity of the person who liberated Brown by breaking a padlock on the jail door. Brown was put in jail last Saturday on a charge of intoxication, shortly after his return to that city after a several weeks’ absence. He has the distinction of being the only prisoner who ever escaped from the Fairmount lockup. ,

BANKER GIVES UP FIGHT

H. A. Barrel, Accused of Embezzlement, to Return to Brownstown. Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 16. Hugh A Burrell, formerly a banker of Brownsitown, In<t, charged with embezzling $79,000, gave up his long fight against extradition and started for Indiana. During the last sixteen months Burrell has been in Jail here. Seventeen indictments stand against Burrell at Brownstown The ground on which extradition has.been resisted is that a prison sentence will mean death to him because of his extreme age

Pupils Save Schoolhouse.

Petersburg, Ind., Feb 16 —Through the heroic efforts of the teacher of the New Lebanon school, eight miles south of here/>to pupils not only escaped from thWVirning building without a scratch, but, under his leadership, formed a fire company and, getting water from the schoolhouse well, extinguished the fire with the loss of a few hundred dollars.

Taken on Murder Charge.

South Bend, Ind., Feb. 16—Edward Thornton was arrested, charged with the attempted, murder of John Graham, who is reported to be dying from knife wounds inflicted by Thornton. It is said the latter became angry with •Graham because he would nbtr agree with his political views.

Jury Finds Grubb Guilty.

Petersburg, Ind., Feb. 16—After deliberating two hours the jury, reducing the charge from murder to manslaughter, brought in a verdict of guilty against Ford Grubb, the son acs cused of killing his father, William Grubb. The mother’s trial will be \ called later in the term.

Auction Sale of Tobacco.

Madison, Ind., Feb, 16.—More than 100,000 pounds of leaf tobacco were sold. 1 at auction here at prices ranging from. 23 to 25 cents. Qne backet "weighing 145 pounds brought 45 cents a pound.

Smallpox at Winslow.

• s Petersburg, Ind.', Feb 16.—Two more cases of smallpox have been ro ported at Winslow. Up to the prex ent time the disease has not made its appearance in the scnools. -

LIMITED TRAIN IN BAD WRECK

Pennsylvania’s New-York-Chi-cago Flyer Leaves Track. I THREE ARE DEAD; 67 INJURED Cars Are Plunged Down Embankment Almost into Juniata River, After Being Derailed by Broken. Arch Bar. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 16. —One of the fast Chicago-New' Yoik flyers, the Pennsylvania limited, eastbound, was wrecked at Warriors Ridge, four miles west of Hundingdon. A dining car and eight steel Pullman sleeping cars left the track and plunged down a thirty-foot embankment. ■ Of 102 persons on were killed and sixty-seven injured, several of these seriously. Thirty or more of the injuredi were taken to the Blair Memorial hospital at Huntingdon, where they were cared for by the local staff, supplemented by a corps of surgeons and nurses from Harrisburg and Altoona. . The dead. 1 as far as known are: Harry A. Nauss, New' York City. Mrs. J. F. Tavenner, Cordova, 111. Mrs. Hall, colored matron on Pullman car. Train No. 12, which followed the limited), was held at Warriors Ridge until all passengers who were unhurt or only slightly injured had been taken from the wrecked cars. These W’ere then put aboard No. 12 and carried east. Some of the slightly injured stopped off in Harrisburg over night to recover from the shock. The majority continued on to New- York and other eastern destinations. The wrecked train, though behind time, yas running at only ordinary speed. When, as it passed between the end of the mountain at Whrriors Ridge and the river the two locomotives and a combination baggage and mail car parted from the remainder of the train, consisting of a dining car, eight Pullman sleepers and an observation car, all of steel. All except the observation car left the track andwent over the bank, turning on their sides toward' the water. The observation car toppled slightly, bul did not go over The locomotives and combination car kept the track, running several hundred yards before they could be stopped. C. A. Preston, superintendent of the middle division of the Pennsylvania, reported to the state railroad commission that the wreck was caused by the breaking of an arch bar under the front truck of engine No 3,350, the locomotive nearest the train. The theory generally accepted is that the combination car, being an old style wooden affair, passed safely over the broken piece, but that the first of the steel cars, all of which sit low er than the old wooden ones, caught the obstruction and jumped the rails, the shock breaking the couplings and permitting the two engines and combination car to run ahead.

ENGINE KILLS FIVE MEN

Plunges Seventy-Five Feet into Bank and Dye Works in Utah. ■' * -- ■ Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 16. —Five men were killed and three hurt when a locomotive hauling three cars loaded with ore left the track, rolled down a hill seventy-five feet and crashed through the roof of the Citizens’ State bank and the Bingham dye works at Bingham, Utah. Three of the men killed were sleeping in the tailor shop. Fred Sharkey, cashier of the bank, was asleep in a rear room u hen the crash came. He was hurled into the street uninjured.

HALDANE STARTS DISCUSSION

Visit of English War Secretary to Berlin Is Explained. Berlin, Feb. 16. —In the Reichstag the chancellor. Dr. Von BethmannHollweg, stated that Lord Haldane, the British secretary of war, did not come to Berlin with the power of making a binding agreement between Germany and Great Britain, but was authorized by the English cabinet to discuss with the German government the points concerning the interests of both countries in order to lay the foundations for confidential relations between the two powers. The negotiations thus begun would be pursued, the chancellor declared.

BAKERY IS BLOWN UP

Italian Proprietor Says Is Work of Black Hand. Westfield, N. J., Feb. 16.—The bait ery of Frank Caponetti, on First street of this town, was blown up by some kind of a bomb. The shop was closed up at the time, but Mrs. William Brown, who lives on the floor above the bakery, was blown out of a window and landed in the street, but was only slightly injured. About five weeks ago Caponetti received a black hand letter. Two Italians have been arrested, buj are kept guarded by the police.

JUDGE A. B. ANDERSON

Presided Over Grand Jury in Indianapolis Dynamite' Probe.

HIGH OFFICER LET OUT

Adjutant General Ainsworth May Be Courtmartialed. Officer's Report Hit Stimson and General Staff—Crisis of Long War Department Row. Washington, Feb. 16. —The long expected culmination of the Wood-Ains-worth feud in the war department came in the form of an order from Secretary Stimson relieving Major General Frederick C. Ainsworth of his duties as adjutant general of the army and directing him to remain in the city awaiting disciplinary measures. Orders for the courtmartial of General Ainsworth, who as adjutant general is the second ranking officer in the army, are expected to be Issued within a few days The charge will be insubordination, based on derogatory references to the secretary of war, the chief of staff and officers of the general staff which Gene-al Ainsworth incorporated into many of his official reports. The announcement created a sensation in all official Washington. It is considered that the Ainsworth case will develop into the biggest military controversy since the Sampson-Schley affair in the navy.

MONUMENT BEGUN

Rear Admiral E. H. C. Leutze Leading Figure in Ceremonies. New York, Feb. 16. The cornerstone of the National Maine monument was laid by Rear Admiral E. H C- Leutze, U. S N„ commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, at the Colt mbus Circle entrance to Central Park. The monument is designed to commemorate an epoch-making event in American history—the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor fourteen years ago—on Feb. 15.. 1898—and as a tribute to the men who perished in the disaster and in the v.ar with Spain.

NEGROES LYNCHED BY MOBS

Three Colored Persons Appease Wrath of Texans and Tennesseeans. Marshall. Tex., Feb 'l6—Unidentified men lynchdd two * negrces, a woman and a man. George Sanders and Mary Jackson, hanging them to the same tree, just across the Panola county line. The negroes had lived at the same house with Tennie Sneed, the young negro who shot and killed Paul Strange, a white man, on Jan. 29. Memphis. Tenn., Feb. 16.—A mob near this city lynched an unidentified negro accused of having attacked a sixteen-year-old white girl. It is said the negro confessed in part.

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR HERE

Viscount Chinda and Wife Arrive in San Francisco. San, Francisco, Feb. 16. Viscount Chinda, ambassador to the United States from Japan, arrived in San Francisco on the liner Shiniz Mura. Ambassador Chinda, who is accompanied by his wife, Viscountess Chinda, will be the guests of the Fairmont hotel for several days before proceeding to Washington to assume his official duties In a very guarded manner Viscount Chinda spoke of a new order of things in China.

Cudahy Plant Wrecked.

Newcastle, Pa., Feb. 16.—The Cudahy Packing plant "here was wrecked by an explosion of gas. . The gas came from a leaking pipe in the basement, ignited by an employe. The loss is” about SIB,OOO.

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ARMED TROOPERS 60 INTO MEXICO

Nineteen Infantrymen Endanger International Peace. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN JAUREZ Mexican Populace Is Aroused at Thought of Armed Invasjon, Guards Are Distributed Along Border and Intervention Is Feared. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 16. Because nineteen United States infantrymen wanted to save a walk of three blocks, and attempted to make the “Juarez loop” while going to guard duty, there came near being international hostilities between Mexico and the United States. Cars from EL Paso to Juarez cross into Mexico on Stanton street and return after making a loop in Juarez over the Santa Fe street bridge. These nineteen United States infantrymen just arrived from Fort Whipple, Ariz., were assigned to guard duty at the Santa Fe bridge. Instead of getting off at the Stanton street bridge and w-alking west to the Santa Fe street bridge on American soil they remained on the street car fully armed and equipped, and rode into Mexico. Lieutenant H. W. Fields was in command. The Mexican officials stopped' the car at once and temporarily placed the United States soldiers under arrest. The comrades of the Americans heard of their detention arid were threatening to go over the line andi force their release. The Mexicans in Juarez heard of. the-United States soldiers being on Mexican soil and they were certain that intervention had arrived. It was a serious situation for an hour or more, and has not entirely quieted, as the Mexicans of the more ignorant class are not satisfied that the affair was anything less than a deliberate attempt at invasion. Street cars were stopped, Mexican volunteer guards were thrown across the Mexican side of the international bridges, the excitable populace of Juarez, veterans of a battle, a mutiny, and four scares, became alarmed and seized their rifles to repel the “invaders.”

GIRL AND FATHER SLAIN

Bodies Are Discovered on Farm Near > Topeka, Kan. . Topeka, Kan., Feb. 16.—John J. Rickels, a farmer, aged fifty-four, and his stepdaughter, aged fourteen, were found murdered in a slough on the Rickels farm, eight miles north of here. .The girl had been shot in the back of the head and the man’s head had been crushed by some blunt instrument. i

FORECAST OF THE WEATHER

Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin— Generally fair today and tomorrow; moderate temperature; moderate variable winds. Anyone desiring to purchase residence property in Ren&Jelaer will do well to call on me.—HARVEY DAVISSON.

ELLIS THEATRE ONE NIGHT ONLY Saturday, Feb. 17 -'' . ' I F. S. Gordon Presents The Stock Co. in the great four act drama lilt i to Oily Beautifully. niunted and costumed. Souvenir teaspoons given away to all lady patrons. Prices 25, 35, 50c / ■ SEATS AT JESSEN’S

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Cash Grain Quotations. Chicago, Feb. 15. Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.00%@1.02; No. 3 red, 99%c@$l 01%c; No 2 hard winter, [email protected]; No. 3 hard winter, SI.OO @1.03; Nq. 1 northern spring, [email protected]; No. 2 northern spring, [email protected]; Ni. 3 spring, $1 [email protected], Corn—No. 3, [email protected]%c; No. 3 white, 64%@64%c; No. 3 yellow, 63%@65c. Oats—No. 2, 52%@53c; No. 2 white, 53 1 ,4@53%c; No. 3 white, 52%@53%c; standard, 52%@531£c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 32,000 Quotations ranged a| $6 [email protected] heavy shipping, [email protected] light shipping, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 5,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] prime steers, [email protected] choice to prime fed beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $4.10 @4.65 fair to good stackers, $7.25 @ 8.00 good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 14,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice to prime native lambs, [email protected] good to choice vcarlhags, [email protected] good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to good ewes. Butter. Creamery, per lb., 30c; prints, 34 %c; extra firsts, 29c; firsts, 28c; dairies, extra, 28c; firsts, 26c; packing stock, 22%C. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb, 14c; chickens, fovls, 13%c; rodsters, 9%c; springs, 14%c; ducks, 15c; geese, 10c. „ Potatoes. Wisconsin, [email protected] per bu; Michigan, [email protected]. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y„ quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 3 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 15 cars; market steady; heavy, $6.60'; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $6.25. Sheep—Receipts 30 cars; k market steady; top lambs, [email protected]*syearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $4.25® 4.60; ewes, [email protected]. Calve®, $5.00 @10.50.

Poisoned by Bad Milk.

Washington, Ind., Feb. 16.—The family of Washington Reynolds has been poisoned by drinking milk. The family cow had been feeding on moldy cow peas.

Ice Gorge In White River.

Hazleton, Ind., Feb. 16. The ice gorge in White river at Decker threatens the C. & E. I. bridge. Ferryboat owners have beached their crafts.

Burglars Carry Off Pennies.

Patoka, Ind., Feb. 16.—Burglars who blew the safe of the Patoka National bank obtained only $67 in pennies, for their trouble. NEW YORK—The county grand jury will make a special inquiry into the case of Folke E. Brandt to ascertain whether the former valet of Mortimer L. Schiff, the banker, was sent to prison for thirty years for burglary in the first degree as the result of a conspiracy. NANKING, CHINA—The assembly approved the edict of abdication. It will insist that the emperor shall have no voice in national affairs and. that Yuan Shi-kai, the former premier, must come to Nanking to take an oath to abide by the provisional constitution. Cleveland; oh io— John w. Hadfield, of the Hadfield Rubber company, and Benjamin E. Whitehead, both of Akron, were given suspended sentences of three and four years on pleas of guilty to shipping rubber goods illegally out of the state. NEW YORK—CoI. Theodore Roosevelt has received a' letter sent him from Chicago by eight governors asking him if he would accept the presldewtiaTnomination, but has not as yet framed an answer to it. .. CHICAGO—Warren Springer, the well known real estate dealer, who died a few days ago, left an estate valued at $2,000,000. All but $5,000 is left to his widow.

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Nice eight room, two-story house city water, electric lights, two lots, small 1 barn, on improved street, cement sidewalks, sewer, etc., all paid for. Is now rented at $lO per month. This property is almost new amd is a bargain at the price sl,« 500. —'HARVEY DAVISSON. Farms For Sale—l have a n amber of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sherift Jasper county, Kniman, Ind. WANTED Wanted— To rent a 5 or 6 room cottage, centrally located, would buy if price is right.—W. A. DAVENPORT. Wanted— Strictly temperate, well dressed, single man, Gentile, 21 to 30 years oif age; to travel with a manager and solicit. Chance for advancement. Address E. C. CLARY, Gen. Del., •Renseiaer. Wanted— Woodchoppers and postmakers. Pay good prices.—DUß-, ANT & HEFERLINE, Rensselaer Ind - i , ' - ml FOR RENT For Rent— 24o acres of land, one mite west of Virgie, all clear but four or five acres. Will put a good 4-ft. woven-wire fence around same, and will lease for one year or a term of years. This is excellent pasture land. Now if you need anything of thia kind don’t miss thlis golden opportunity. Inquire of JAY W. STOCKTON, Rensselaer, Ind. He will be glad to tell you about it, or telephone 188 or 515B - f 22 For Rent— The room now occupied by, The Jasper County Democrat, which will be vacant about 'March 1. This room is now fitted up with two water motors, shafting, etc., which can be bought very cheaply of The Democrat, and one wanting a room with light power can step right into a room already equipped.—A. LEOPOLD. FINANCIAL Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO—E. P. HONAN.