Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Page 6

MEXICAN REBELS SLAUGHTER MANY

Zapatistas Attack Passenger Train From Ambush. BURN WOUNDED IN COACHES V.-’j. ’ -4. Thirty-Six Soldiers and More Than Twenty Passengers Massacred in Canyon Near City of Mexico. 4i ' . Mexico City, Aug. 13 Thirty-six soldiers and more than twenty passengers -were slaughtered by Zapatistas In a canyon one kilometer north of Tictiman, 110 miles southeast of Mexico City, when a passenger train southbound from this city was attacked from ambush. Only meager details have reached this city. So far as known only a part of the train crew escaped. The first news of the massacre was sent to Mexico City by the conductor and Marino Dominguez, who, although wounded, managed to make their way to Yautepec, twelve miles away. They were forced to steal through the Zapatista lines. Burned to Death in Cars. After a murderous rifle fire had ceased the rebels swarmed down the hillside and set Are to the three cars compo.-ing the train. -A few of the Wounded had crawled out onto the right of way, thus escaping the fate of those unable to leave the cars, who were burned. According to Reports the leader of the rebels made absolutely no effort to restrain his men from acts of brutality greater than any that has yet marked the campaign in the south. The wounded, pleading for their lives, were struck down without pity, and even looting was held in abeyance until the slaughter was completed. Bodies of Dead Mutilated. Not satisfied with robbing their victims in an ordinary manner, the fingers of men and women were chopped off with machetes, that rings they wore might be more quickly obtained. Ornaments were torn from ears of women and their bodies were otherwise mutilated. Most of the passengers belonged to the farmer and lower classes. The soldiers, who had been detailed to act as a guard, were from the Eleventh battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Reynoza. By costly experience the troops had learned to be on the alert, but from the time they left the national capital not the least hostility had been encountered until the train ran into the canyon. Here a rail had been loosened and as the locomotive left the track a volley of rifle shots was poured into the train. Passengers Shot With Soldiers. The fire was centered on the coach in which most of the soldiers were riding, but soon became general, the 'rebels apparently not caring whether they distinguished passengers from federal soldiers. Lieutenant Reynoza’s order to reply to the fire was promptly carried out by the entrapped soldiers, notwithstanding the advantage which the hillsides gave the rebels. Pluckily every man of the guard fought until silenced. A few of the passengers, seizing guns from the fallen soldiers, assisted in the defense, but the unequal battle lasted only a short time. U. S. Soldier Slain. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 13.—One United States soldier was killed and N one Mexican rebel wounded in a fight between border guards and ammunition smugglers near Columbus, N. M. Col. E. Z. Steever, commander of the department of Texas, has received a report of the encounter.

SEEKS FIVE TO SHOOT MAN

Nevada Warden Has Small Success in * Finding Executioners—Prisoner j ~ Chose Own Death. ♦ _ " Reno, Nev., Aug. 13. —If there are live men willing to undertake the grew so me task of shooting a man to death, Warden George W. Cowing of the Nevada state prison is anxious to obtain their services. He has made efforts to find the five, but has met ,£ith no success, and t£e gate of the execution has been set for Aug. 29. The situation that confronts the warden is due to a new law which grants the privilege to a man condemned to death to choose the means whereby he shall be executed—whether by the rope or by shooting. The man to be executed is Andrigi Mirkovich of Tonapah, who selected shooting as the means.

KILLS MAN, WOMAN AND SELF

' Mystery Surrounding the Motive for Triple Tragedy In Chicago Rooming House. [ t Chicago, Aug. 13.—Locking his intended victims in a room and pocketing the key, J. B. Lautzenheiser shot and killed a man and a woman at 2307 West Madison street, and then fired a bullet into his own brain. All died instantly. The two murdered by Lautzenheiser were: Jffrs. Mary Burwell, fifty-five years old, who kept a rooming house at the address where the tragedy was enacted; Thomas Dugan, fifty years old, a motorman. Lautzenheiser was a nephew of Mrs. Bnrwell. The motive for the triple tragedy |a shrouded in, mystery.

THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

JEWESS RESTORED TO LIFE. Mark v, 21-24, 35-43—Aug. 18. And tie took the damsel by the hand and gaid unto he<\ Talithsi eumi. which ig, being inUryreted. Damsel, l gay unto thee, arise.'' -T«- V, 'fM ■ .HEX'. JESUS and the AposM ■ I ties returned to the. vicinitv of Capernaum, the people were lookout for them, especially Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue. He came and fell at Jesus’ feet in great distress. He besought Him to come and heal his little daughter who lay at the point of death. As they went to the house of Jairus the multitude followed and thronged and delayed the procession. Meantime a messenger arrived from Jairus’ house, teiliug that the child was dead. But Jesus said to the bereaved father, "P«e not afraid. Only believe/’ - v , „ The multitude was left, and only three of the Apostles, Peter. James and John, went on with Jesus and Jairus. When they arrived they t>eheld a great tumult connected with the customary weeping and wailing. Jesus astonished the mourners by telling them not to weep, that the child was not dead, but asleep. What did He mean? .Did the Great Ttlacher prevaricate? He spoke in the same manner ru respect to His friend Lazarus, saying. "Lazarus sleepeth.” and then later He explained that ht i was dead. How shall we understand these words? What were the facts? . “All Live Unto Him.” The key to the matter is given us in our Lord’s own words to the Sadducees, who denied that there would be any resurrection of the dead or any future life (Luke xx. 27-38.) Jesus

proceeded to give them a proof that the dead are not really dead in the sense that the brute beasts are dead, because God In His Plan has made an arrangement for tile resurrection of humanity from the dea tfa state, whereas He has

made no arrangement for the resurrection of the brute beasts. The provision for man’s resurrection was that God would provide a Redeemer to satisfy the claims of Divine Justice against Adam and all his race, and who tlius would become the Great Deliverer. and, establishing His Messianic Kingdom, would release all mankind'' from the power of death. From this standpoint, God’s standpoint. no human lieiug is dead. Their awakening will be accomplished by Messiah's Kingdom, and all will theu have fullest opportunity of coming to a knowledge of God’s character and His will respecting them; and all will be assisted back to harmony with God, if they so desire, that they may thus reach again the perfection of life lost by disolKslience. It is In view of this Divine intention, of the dead, that Jesus spoke of death as a “sleep.’’ a period of rest, of quiet, of unconsciousness. Looking into the Bible for an answer as to where they sleep we hear the inspired words, "They that sleep in the

“Damsel, I say unto three, arise.”

Life." The Church will l>e the first from humanity to receive eternal life, and they will l>e granted a share with Jesus in His resurrection to glory, honor and immortality, as His Bride, His Joint-heir under His Headship. Then, as said the Apostle, will come the world qf mankind, “every man in his qwn order.” Jesus put the statement about the maid’s being asleep in a forceful way. in order to impress the great lesson that death does not end all, even though it appears so to do. The awakening which He was about to perform was to be a lesson and illustration of Divine power, which will be exercised toward the entire race under the Messianic Kingdom. Thus, as He declared, “All that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and come forth.'* The World will ' ( come forth, Jesus said, that they may have a resurrection or raising up, up, up to perfection, to all that was lost in Eden, to all that was redeemed at Calvary. The awakening will be but a preparatory step. It will be accomplished instantaneously, but the further raising up, to mental, moral and physical perfection, will be a gradual Work, for which a thousand years has been apportioned, and in which the individual will be obliged to co-operate for his advancement and instruction in righteousness. This resurrection of mankind in general Jesus styled. “The resurrection of judgment”—by disciplines, by trials and testings. Only those who wilfully reject the Lord and His way will die the Second Death, from which there will be no resurrection.

"He fell at His feet.”

dust of the earth shall awake.” (Dan. xii, 2.) Thus (iod has provided for Adam and his family a redemption from the i»ower of death and a deliverance from the tomb, by the power of the resurrection; and it is Jesus who declared. “I am the Resurrection and the

ASSERTS HIS MAIL HAS BEEN RIFLED

La Follette Creates Sensation in Senate by Charge. P. 0. OFFICIALS ACCUSED Bourne-Bristow Parcels Pest System Amendment Adopted by Upper Body of Congress in Place of House Bill. : .. i; v : ; I Washington, Aug; 1 13. —Charging that postoffice officials had rifled his mail while he was conducting an inquiry intended to disclose the treatment accorded railway postal clerks and other employes of the postoffice department, Senator La Follette created a sensation while the postoffice appropriation bill was under consideration. The Wisconsin senator told how he had sent out between 12,000 and 15,000 circulars to clerks asking for replies, practically all of which had been responded to. These were the letters he said had been opened by officials desirous of knowing what these clerks and carriers were saying about the departmental heads: Declares Letters Were Rifled. The senator showed a bundle of letters while talking and declared they had been tampered with before they reached him. “Every one of these,” said he, tapping the bundle with his finger, “was opened In violation of law and rifled by some one hostile to the purpose 1 had in view while making this inquiry. My mail was subjected to an espionage almost Russian In character.” The charge of Senator La Follette was considered of sufficient Importance to call forth a batch of official denials on the part of responsible heads of the postoffice department. Mr. La Follette submitted cprrespondence and facts to prove that faithful employes, long years of service, had been dismissed or demoted because they had been active in creating and fostering an organization to which clerks belonged that had for its, object the betterment of their condition as government employes.

Adopt Zone Parcel Post. So much headway on the postoffice budget was made that an agreement was reached to take the vote on all amendments and the t hill itself at 4 o’clock this afternoon. To the surprise of everybody, when the BourneBristow parcels post system amendmend was reached it was agreed to practically without discussion and without dissension. A vote will be demanded when the senate rises from committee of the whole. The parcels post provision is the result of several months of hearings and a very thoroughly worked out , scheme based upon zones, in which the charges are regulated according to the distance carried and the weight of the package. The house provided for an experimental parcels post system and made a straight-out charge of 12 cents a pound the country over. The house provision appropriating a considerable «um for the construction of good roads was rejected and a substitute adopted to create a commission to investigate this subject and report to congress. A third important change from the house Sill relates to aewspapers. magazines and other publications using the mails. It rejuires the filing with the postmaster jeneral of the names of the owners, publishers, editors, stockholders and polders of the bonds and mortgages, 1 any, of all such concerns.

TAFT SAVES COLORED WOMAN

President for Third Time Reprieves Murderess From Death on •he Gallows. Washington, Aug. 13. —Mattie Lomax will not be hanged next Monday for the murder of her husband ifa this rtty in December, 1910. President Taft has signed a commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, acting on tbe recommendation of the attorney general. - Tbe president has three times reprieved the woman from death on the gallows. ,

FEAR CHILD IS MURDERED

Scores at Gary, Ind., Search for Girl Believed to Have Been Kidnaped. , Gary,' Ind., Aug. 13. —Scores of men and boys are beating the woods In and about Gary in search of five-year-old Alice Grubba. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grubba- The child disappeared last Saturday afternoon while playing near her home. Fears are entertained that the little girl may have been kidnaped and murdered.

KILLS SELF, WIFE SUCCUMBS

Prof. James H. Correy of Denison (O.) University Ends His Life By Hanging. Newark, 0., Aug. 13. —Mrs. Mary Correy, wife of Prof. James H. Correy of Denison university, who suicided by hanging at Granville early Monday, is dead. She has been critically ill for several days and it was because of her condition that the professor killed himself. Mrs. Correy never knew of her husband’s death.

POULTRY

PORTABLE COLONY HEN HOUSE

Structure Is Suitable for Brooding Early Chicks and May Be Used on Range In Summer. (By H. L. KEMPSTER, Michigan Experiment Station.) The illustrations show a portable colony house which has a universal use, being suited for brooding early chicks, when fitted up with Indoor brooders. It may be* used as a colony house on the range for growing chicks during the summer, or as a special

Side View of Colony House.

pen for breeding hens In the early spring. The house is 7% feet by 12 feeL It is built on runners four Inches square, extending lengthwise of the building. Pieces of 2 by 4 inch material are placed on edge for joists 4 feet apart, and the floor is then laid before the frame work is constructed. The studding is then toenailed to the floor, being 6 feet long in front and 4 feet In the back, and placed three feet apart. Two by four inch pieces are used as plates. The door in the center is 2 feet 6 inches by 6 feet On each side of the door is a ninelight 8 by 10 inch glass window, hinged at the top to swing out and fitted in a way to permit its removal In summer. The house can be easily hauled from one location to another, largely eliminating the question of yarding young chicks, and making the summer care of growing chicks comparatively easy. Simplicity of construction, economy of building material, efficiency of ventilation and lighting, with due regard to location and dryness are the essential points to be considered in building a poultry planL All fixtures should be movable and simple In construction, being so placed as to utilize

Front View.

the least possible amount of floor space. Feed boxes, hoppers, nests, etc., should have sloping tops and windows should be arranged in a way to prevent birds from roosting in objectionable places. A little forethought in planning win make the house much more satisfactory and convenienL

COOP IS MADE COLLAPSIBLE

“Knockdown” Affair, Invented by Indiana Man, Can Be Taken Apart in Few Minutes. A sort of “knockdown” chicken coop has been designed by an Indiana man. It can be put together In a minute or taken apart and laid away in six flat surfaces in the same time. Tbe coop is of metal, and has rolled bead edges for slidable engagement with each other. One of the most

Collapsible Coop.

ingenious features of the whole affair, however, is the front of the coop. This has a revolving circular plate pivotetd to it, and ip this plate are three holes —two large and one small. One of the large holes is covered with wire netting. In the lower part of the front of the coop is a large hole the size of two on the plate. When the old heh and her chicks are to be kept in the coop the plate is turned so that the screened opening covers the door. When the hen is to stay and the chicks are to have free exit the small hole Is turned down. When the whole family can go oat the large hole is moved la front of its mate.

"upland carefully inspected bein building', the greatest care is taken to guard I ag'ainst the use of defective material. 1 ’ Then, to make assurance doubly sure, before any Studebaker spring vehicle is crated for I shipping' it is set up ready to run and (under a | strong light) undergoes a final and rigid inspection ; ■ by an expert. Every Studebaker buggy we offer for sale has ‘1 passed this rigid inspection. 9 You can depend upon any vehicle that haa been 0. K.’d by Studebaker. C. A. Roberts, RE S AER

FARMS FOR SALE. 95 acres, large house, mostly cultivated/ near head of dredge ditch, half mile to school and near station. Only $32.50 per acre. Terms SSOO down. 1 21 acres, live blocks from court house, cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood. Price SSO; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, Pes near station and school, gravel walk, and in good neighborhood. Price $65, terms SSOO down. 40 acres, all cultivated, all black land, near school and station. There is a fair four room house, outbuild-! ings and orchard. A bargain at $50.; Terms S4OO down 80 acres cn main road, R. F. D.,l in good neighborhood, has fair house good barn and outbuildngs, orchard and good well. There is 4 5 acres in cultivation, 15 acres timber and 20 acres in grass. This is good heavy soil. Price $45. Terms SSOO down. 160 acres, level land, black soil; 40 acres timber, remainder tillable, near station and school in well improved neighborhood. There is a good six-room house, large barn good well. Only $45. Terms sl,000 down. G. F. MEYERS. To Friends of The Democrat. “ Instruct your attorneys tp bring all legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointment—administrator, executor or guardian—survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc., the clients themselves control, *nd attorneys will tase them to the paper you desire for publication, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish.

Notice to Owners of Farm and City Property. The following dealers in this vicinity handle and carry in stock a full line of Usona Roofing, supplied by Hiram Day as our jobber: Cr. H. Thornton & Son, Surrey, Ind. Wi L. Gumm, Remington, Ind. W. H. Boyle, Rosefawn, Ind. F. R. Erwin, Fair Oaks, Ind. Geo. Stembel, Wheatfleld Ind. J. W. Heilscher, Kniman, Ind. Warner Bros., Rensselaer, Ind. John Crook’s, Roselawn, Ind., asphalt paint. Hank Granger, Thayer, Ind. A. E. KIRK.

Notice of Sale of School Bnildings and Grounds, Milroy Township. The undersigned Trustee of Milroy Township, Jasper County, Indiwill offer at public sale on the grounds in said township, to the highest repsonsible bidder, the school buildings, with some school furniture, and the acre of ground comprising the old “Queen City” school buildings and grounds, District No. 3, on Friday, August 23, 1012. at 2 o’clock p. m., of said day. Said sale will be for cash. Said buildings and ground will be sold separately, for not less than twothirds of its appraised value. G. L. PARKS, Trustee. j27a3-10 Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of William E. Moore, late of Jasper County, deceased. i Said estate is supposed to be solvent. AUSTIN O. MOORE, July 18, 1912. Administrator. j27a3-10

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THE GOLDEN AGE AT HAND. Scriptural Evidences That Are Astonishing—No One Can Afford to Be Without the Knowledge. We do our friends a valuable service when we call their attention to the valuable book entitled, “THE TIME IS AT HAND,” in which are given many Scriptural evidences to prove where we are on the stream of time. “Men’s hearts are failing them for fear” and many of the leading thinkers are proposing remedies to better conditions. The Scriptures assure us that man's extremity will be God’s opportunity, and this book holds out an anchor to those who fear the wave of unrest now spreading over the world. The honest heart confesses that it is at a loss for an explanation of transpiring events. While we refer to this as the BRAIN AGE and the Age of ENLIGHTENMENT, nevertheless many realize that we are fast approaching a crisis which is wrapped in darkness owing to the present worldwide social, religious and political unrest. As though by instinct the whole creation, while it groans and travails in pain together, waits for, longs for and hopes for the DAY, calling it the “GOLDEN AGE”; yet men grope blindly because not aware of the great Jehovah’s gracious purposes. And to his wondering creatures, looking at the length and breadth, the height- and depth of the love of God, surpassing all expectation, Re explains: “My thoughts are not your thoughts,i neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord; for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isa. 65:8, 9. Send 35 cents at once for the book. Bible and Tract Society, 17 Hicks Btreet, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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