Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — Page 8

WT KT < 4* kV MTI I*®"®* of Interes News Notes of IE 7 Town* Tersely Told Nearby Towns w> pening* in the Territory Jr Adjacent to the Jasper A. Furnished by Our Regular Correspondent. County Metropdu

| LAURA. < —1 IWe are having some nice weather at this writing. Wm. Knapp called on Jesse Williamson Tuesday. Henry Meyer» was seen 1 passing through this vicinity Sunday. John Pettet and Jack Lily delivered two loads of fat hogs Tuesday. George Breitenbauh is hauling his morn to William Hershman’s this week. Mrs. O. P. Braddock and & Mrs. Breitenbauh were Wheatfield callers Tuesday. Sunday school at Oak Grove every Sunday at 10 a. m. Everybody is invited to attend. Albert Sommers and Billie Wenrick were in this vicinity on business Thursday. t O. P. Braddock and sons are nowpressing hay for William Winrick, south of Wheatfield. Mass Cora Graham of Wheatfield spent a few days last week with Miss Loretta Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gordon of near Tefft spent Sunday with her parents of near Laura. Henry Meyers is preparing to build a new hous on his farm west of Walker Center school house. The Misses Frances and Mamie Klinger of Gillam visited with Laura friends Sunday, and Monday. George Dunn and daughter passed through our vicinity on a business trip to Wheatfield Monday. Carl Stockwell who has been at Frank Fisher’s husking corn for the past month, returned home Sunday. Tom Woolever and Miss Celia Hershman spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. August Breitenbauh. Mr. Lynn’s little boy, who suffered with blood poisoning all summer, is not yet able to be up and around much yet.

Here Is Relief for Women. If you have pains in the back, blader, Urinary or kidney trouble, try Mother Gray’s Aromatis Leaf, a pleasant herb remedy for women’s ills and a great system regulator. At druggists or by mail 50c. Sample free, Address, Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. I LEE. | : ; 1Asa Holeman is husking corn for Elzie Webb this week. Miss Ethel Jacks has been sick' during the past week, but is better now. L. M. Jacks has been laid up in the house for almost a week with lung fever. Harold LaMar and wife have moved in with her* mother, Mrs. Ida Lewis, here. Asa Holeman and wife and baby ate Thanksgiving dinner with his brother George, and family at Monticello. ; Mrs. Carrot hers aid her daughter, Mrs Iv? Kelly, of Monticello attended church here Sunday and called on old friends. . • ~~ William Large has the foundation laid for a new barn on the farm where Ray Holeman lives, the old barn having been destroyed by lightning. Lonnie Noland, who is jn the last year high school at Monon, had two bad spells with his heart in the school room Tuesday forenoon and they brought him home that evening. He is somewhat better at this writing.

PUBLIC' SALE The undersigned will sell ax_EjiJ>-_ lie Sale at the Andrus Faml mile north and 1 mile west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10:30 a. m., on Thursday, Dec? 12, 1912, the following property: S Head of Horses— 2 Heavy Draft Mares, good workers, one grey, one sorrel, weight 1,600; 1 Baiy Draft Colt, coming 2 years old in spring. 8 Head of Cattle— s good Milch Cows, fresh in spring; 2 Yearling Heifers, one full Jersey, one half Jersey; 1 Yearling Steer. 16 Head of Hogs— Eight Shoats wt. from 140 to 160 pounds; 1 full blood Duroc Sow with 7 pigs. Chickens — 100 full blood Rhode Island Red Hens and Pullets and 5 Cockerels. Household Goods Etc. — 1 good as new Golden Harvest Separator; 1 new Wagon Box; 1 new Endgate Scoop Board; 1 Washing Machine;. 4 tons Hard Coal; 3 tons Lurig Coal; 40 gallons Coal Oil; 2 sfands of Bees; 40 or 50 gallons of Gasoline; Single Harness; Sorghum Molasses; Potatoes; Apples; Canned Fruit; different kinds of Tools and some Household Furniture. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over $lO with the usual conditions; 6 per cent for cash where entitled to credit. MRS. JOHN ANDRUS. Col. Fred Phillips Auctioneer.

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BRIDE OF A DAY IS SLAYER

Elizabeth Lang Shoots Mrs. Mary Coppie, Who She Says Spoke of Her as Ugly—Tragedy at Logansport.

Logansport, Dec. 5. Elizabeth Lang, a bride of one day, shot and killed Mrs. Mary Coppie, who, at the wedding supper, is alleged to have ! told other guests that the bridegroom ' had selected an ugly and worthless woman for a life partner. Mrs. Lang was arrested shortly after the shooting, and the police say she ' made a full confession and expressed pleasure that she had stopped slanderous remarks. In her confesion, as ; reported by the police, Mrs. Lang said: "Yes, I shot Mrs. Coppie. I shot her down as her two little children ' stood beside her, holding to her skirts. I killed her because she said that no man ought to marry me and that my , husband would repent. ' “She said I was ugly. She said I was old. I killed her for that, and I am not a bit sorry for it. She was Jealous of me and would have made my life unhappy.” Shoots Employer Twice. Brazil, Dec. 5. —Robert Stlner, who says his home is in Milwaukee, Wip., I was shot in the right arm and left side with two bullets from a revolver by Glen C. 1 Day of Anderson, in a room in the Davis hotel. Day, who admits shooting to kill Stiner, is held at the local police station. Stlner is field agent for two Des Moines (la.) publications. He had borrowed money of Day, whom he employs to take subscriptions, and it was a quarrel about this that resulted in the ' shooting. Stlner is not badly injured, the bullet in his side being flattened in the flesh. Day seems unconcerned about the affair. Stiner says he fought with Roosevelt in Cuba and is a player as well as a magazine agent and a soldier of fortune. Bride of One Day Kills Woman. Logansport. Dec. 5. Elizabeth Clark-Lang, a bride of a day, shot and killed Mrs. Mary Coppie at the threshold of the Coppie home. The tragedy followed disparaging remarks made by the victim about the age and looks of the bride. Superintendent of Police Morris and State’s Attorney Fansler, on examining Mrs. Lang, elicited from her the following statement: “Yes, I shot Mrs. Coppie. I shot her down as her two little children stood beside her holding on to her skirts. I killed her because she said no man ought to marry me and that my husband would repent having married me.” . Visits Fort Wayne School. Fort Wayne, Dec. s.—The visiting committee of the Indiana state legislature was here inspecting the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth with a view to determining whether or not the institution needs the appropriation of an additional $20,000 for the construction of a new hospital building, for which $60,000 has already been appropriated. The committee will make its findings public when the legislature meets. Other appropriations amounting to $54,000 are asked for by the school. Two Killed While Hunting. Hammond, Dec. 5. —As the result of two hunting accidents near here Frank Lak, seven years old, and Howard Hartman, ten years old, living at "Dyer, near here, are dead. Lak was with his brother and was shot through the head. He was brought to his i home and died while physicians were probing for the bullet. Hartman was with Raymond Stolber and met Instant death when Stolber’s gun was discharged as he stumbled against a ( stump. in I Merchants Name Speakers. - , Fort Wayne, Dec. s.—lt was nnI nounced by the local merchants who have charge of the arrangements for the annual meeting of the Indiana Retail Merchants’ association here on January 21, 22 and 23, that the following speakers will address the gathi ering: R. B. Hanna, C. H. Worden and Theodore Thieme of this city; H. W. Heegstra of Chicago, Ralph Clark of Anderson and Harry H. Tolles of Chicago. Holiday Oranges I I will' send to any address select oranges nicely packed upon receipt of $2.50 per box or $1.25 per half box. E. PEACOCK, Tarpon Springs, Fla - Dec. 20.

Notice of Letting Contract for County Supplies. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will until 2 o’clock p m., on December 19th, 1912, receive sealed proposals for furnishing books, blanks, Stationery and other supplies for the county; its several county officers, the courts thereof, for the year 1913; all bids to be filed acording to law. Tihe board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. - r ■...

FEAR FOR FOREIGNERS

ALARMING NEWS REACHES WASHINGTON FROM TURKEY. Admiral Knight, on Cruiser Tennessee, Reaches Smyrna Ready to Act If Trouble Ensues. Washington, Dec. 6.—The first alarming news as to the danger of foreigners in Turkish territory came here privately through official diplomatic channels. The seat of the trouble is Smyrna. Admiral Knight, on his flagship, the armored cruiser Tennessee, has arrived at Smyrna. The Tennessee can put ashore about 450 men and still leave ample protection for the ship. The Intimations of the dispatches are that the fears and unrest of the foreign colony at Smyrna are based on the belief that there will be serious trouble when the defeated Turkish soldiers return in large bodies to Smyrna. It is inferred by those who discussed the danger that the soldiers who have been exasperated by the victories of the Christians will resort to mob violence. ’

The three American ships, the Tennessee and the Montana, which are armored cruisers, and the armed revenue vessel Unalga, were assigned to the post of Asia Minor because of the American missionary interest at Beirut and for the further reason that the ships of the European concert were scarcely more than sufficient to take care of the city of Constantinople and the colleges at Scutari. It is pot stated officially by the navy department that any assistance will be needed by the Tennessee, but if further reports from the consuls indicate that the fears of the people of Smyrna may be realized all the American naVal force in the Mediterranean will be sent to that city.

MYSTERY IN HOTEL DEATH

One Dead, Another Dying and Third Person Held Pending InquiryPoisoning Feared. Catlettsburg, Ky., Dec. 6.—-The body of Minnie Turner was found in a room In a hotel here when the owners of the hotel forced the door. James York, Huntington, W. Va., was dying and a second woman, who was registered as “Mrs. York,” appeared unable to account for the death. The three persons registered at the hotel Monday night and had not left their rooms. Coroner Swope believes death was caused by poison. Mrs. York is being held.

THE MARKETS.

Grain, Provisions, Etc. a Chicago, Dec. 5. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. Ing. Decß4%-% .85 .84% .84%-% Ma y 90%-91 .91% .90%-% .90%-% July 88 .88% .87% .87% CornDec...49%-% .50% .49% .49% May .48%-% .49% .48% .48%-% July 49%-% .49% .49% .49% OatsDec3l%-% .32%-% .31% .32%-% May 33-33% .34% .32%-% .33% July .........33% .33% .33 . 33%

FLOUR—Market easy; winter wheat, patent, jute, $4 [email protected]: straight jute. $3.40 @4.50; clear. Jute, [email protected]; spring wheat flour, choice brands, wood, $5.00; Minneapolis, patent, jute, [email protected]; Minneapolis, hard spring, straight, export bags, $4.00@ 4.10; first clears, [email protected]; second clears, [email protected]; low grades. [email protected]; rye flour, white, jute. [email protected]; dark, jute. 3.20.

BUTTER—Extra creamery, Jobbing prices on South Water street follow: Creamery, extra. 37@37%c; extra, firsts, 3P4c: first, 31@33t4c; Seconds, 28c; storage extra. 32@32%c. EGGS—At mark, cases returned, 25c;. cases Include, 25%c; ordinary first, 26c; first. 29c; checks, 18@19c; dirties. 22c. POTATOES—Minnesota, 46@48c; Michigan. 48@50c: Wisconsin, 43@48c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 15c; chickens. fowls. HHc; roosters, 9c; springs, 12%c: geese. 12c; ducks, 13c. New York. Dec. 5. WHEAT—Stronger, trade fairly good; No. 1 northern, spring, 95%c; No. 2 red, $1.07; No. 2 hard, 96c; No. 1 Manitoba, 96c; No. 1 macaroni, 99%c; December, 91%c; May,96 11-16 c. CORN—Strong, Inquiry moderate; No. 2 yellow. OATS—Steady, poor business; No. 2 white, 38c; standard, 37c; ungraded, 34(3 40c. BARLEY—Steady; malting, 57@68c. I Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 5. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.00@ 11.00; fair to good steers, [email protected]; common to fair beeves. [email protected]; Inferior killers, [email protected]; range steers, [email protected]; fair to fancy yearlnlgs, [email protected]; canner bulls, [email protected]; good to heavy choice cows, [email protected]; fair to choice vealers, [email protected]; heavy calves, [email protected]; feeding steers, [email protected]; Stockers, [email protected]; medium to good beef cows, [email protected]; • Common to good cutters, [email protected]; Inferior to good canners, [email protected]. HOGS—Good to prime heavy, [email protected]; good to prime butchers, [email protected]; fair to good heavy packing. [email protected]; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; light mixed, 170 @2OO lbs., [email protected]; choice light, 170@200 lbs.. [email protected]; pigs, 110 lbs. and under, [email protected]; pigs, 110@140 lbs., [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Yi, Dec. 5. CATTLE—Market steady; prime steers/ [email protected]; butcher grades. [email protected]; calves, cull to ' choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, lambs 5c higher; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, $4.50@ 5.75; sheep, [email protected]. HOGS—Market active and steady; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, $7.65 @7.70; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, [email protected];‘ stags, [email protected]. •V Omaha, Dec. 5. CATTLE—Market slow to 10c lower; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $3.75@6 75; western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $3,50@ 6.50; canneft, [email protected]; bulls, stags, etc [email protected]. ' " HOGS—Heavy, [email protected]; mixed. $7.50@ 7.60; light, [email protected]; pigs, $6.00@745; bulk of sales, [email protected]. SHEEP—Yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes. [email protected]; lambs, s6lo© 7.25.

CONGRESS HEARS SECOND MESSAGE

President Tells of Treasury and Army Affairs. BUSINESS ON SOLID BASIS Foreign Trade During Year Exceeds 34,000,000,000 —Crop Value Greatest in the History of the Nation. Washington, Dec. 6. —President Taft today sent to congress his second message of the session, In which he deals with judicial, fiscal, military and insular affairs. The president in part says: The condition of the country with reference to business could hardly be better.; While the four years of the administration now drawing to a close have not developed great speculative expansion or a wide field of new investment, the recovery and progress made from the depressing conditions following the panic of 1907 have been steady and the improvement has been clear and easily traced in the statistics. The business of the country is now on a solid basis. Credits are not unduly extended and every phase of the situation seems in a state of preparedness for a period of unexampled prosperity. Manufacturing to the Limit. Manufacturing concerns are running at their full capacity and the demand for labor was never so constant and growing. The foreign trade of the country for this year will exceed $4,000,000,000, while the balance in our favor—.that of the excess of exports over Imports—will exceed $500,000,000. More than half our exports are manufactures or partly manufactured material, while our exports of farm products do not show the same increase of domestic consumption. It is a year of bumper crops; the total money value of farm products will exceed $9,500,000,000. It is a year when the bushel or unit price of agricultural products has gradually failed, and yet the total value of the entire crop Is greater by over $1,000,000,000 than we have known in our history. Condition of the Treasury.

The condition of the treasury Is very satisfactory. The total interestbearing debt is $963,777,770, of which $134,631,980 constitute the Panama canal loan. The non-interest-bearing debt is $378,301,284.90, including $346,671,016 of greenbacks. We have in the treasury $150,000,000 In gold coin as a reserve against the outstanding greenbacks; and in addition we have a cash balance in the treasury as a general fund of $167,152,478.99, or an increase of $26,975,552 over the general fund last year. 'Receipts and Expenditures.

For three years the expenditures of the government have decreased under the influence of an effort to economize. This year presents an apparent exception. The estimate by the secretary of the treasury of the ordinary receipts, exclusive of postal revenues, for the year ending June 30, 1914, indicates that they will amount to $170,000,000. The sum of the estimates of the expenditures for that same year, exclusive of Panama canal disbursements and the postal disbursements payable from postal revenues is $732,000,000, indicating a deficit of $22,000,000. For the year ending June 30, 1913, similarly estimated receipts were $667,000,000, while the total corresponding estimate of expenditures for that year, submitted through the secretary of the treasury to congress, amounted to $656,000,000. This shows an increase of $76,000,000 in the estimates for 1914 over the total estimates of 1913. This is due to an increase of £25,000,000 in the estimate for rivers and harbors for the next year on projects and surveys authorized by congress; to an increase under the new pension bill of $32,500,000; and to an increase in the estimates for expenses of the navy department of $24,000,000.

Recommends a thorough reorganization of the army. Favors passage of a bill to Increase the efficiency of the National Guard. Declares we have discharged our responsibilities to the Philippines, and that they are now prepared for selfgovernment, but declares himself opposed to the independence of the Islands. Regulation of Water Power.

There are pending before congress a large number of bills proposing to grant privileges of erecting dams for the purpose of creating water power in our navigable rivers. I deem it highly important that the nation should adopt a cohsistent and harmonious treatment of these water-power projects, which will preserve for this purpose their value to the government, whose right it is to grant the permit. The Panama Oanal. During the past year the work of construction upon the canal has progressed most satisfactorily. About 87 per cent, of the excavation work has been completed, and more than 93 per cent, of the concrete for all the locks is ill place. Although the / official date of the opening has been set for January 1, 1915, the canal will, in fact, from present indications, be opened for shipping during the latter half of 1913. Acting uilder the authority conferred on me by congress, I have, by executive proclamation, promulgated the following schedule of tolls for ships passing through the canal, based upon the thorough report of Emory

R. Johnson, special commissioner on traffic and tolls: 1. On merchant vessels carrying passengers or cargo, $1.20 per net vessel ton—each 100 cubic feet—of actual capacity. 2. On vessels in ballast without passengers or cargo, 40 per cent, less than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo. 8. Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships and supply ships, 50 cents per displacement ton. 4. Upon army and navy transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, $1.20 per net ton, the vessels t 6 be measured by the same rules as are employed in determining the net tonnage of merchant vessels. Rules for the determination of the tonnage upon which toll charges are based are now in course of preparation and will be promulgated in due season. * Panama Canal Treaty. The proclamation which I have Issued in respect to the Panama canal tolls is in accord with the Panama canal act passed by this congress August 24, 1912. We have been advised that the British government has prepared a protest against the act and its enforcement in so far as it relieves from the payment of tolls American ships engaged in the American coastwise trade on the ground that it violates British rights under the HayPauncefote treaty concerning the Panama canal. When the protest is presented, it will be promptly considered and an effort made to reach a satisfactory adjustment of any differences there may be between the two governments. Navy Department. The navy of the United States is in a greater state of efficiency and is more powerful than it has been before, but in the emulation which exists between different countries in respect to the increase of naval and military armaments this condition is not a permanent one. A year ago congress refused to appropriate for more than one battleship, in this I think a great mistake of policy was made, and I urgently recommend that this congress make up for the mistake of the last session by appropriations authorizing the construction of three battleships, in addition to destroyers, fuel ships, and the other auxiliary vessels as shown in the building program of the general board. Department of Justice. This department has been very active in the enforcement of the law. It has been better organized and with a larger fonje than ever before in the history of the government. The prosecutions which have been successfully concluded and which are now pending testify to the effectiveness of the department work.

WILLIAM H. TAFT.

MUST HAVE A BIGGER NAVY

Secretary Meyer Says We Need FortyOne Battleships and Proportional Number of Other Vesels. Washington, Dec. 6.—The annual report of Secretary of the Navy George Von L. Meyer, made public today, suggests extensive changes in the administration of the navy department; reports the efficiency of Uncle Sam’s battleships to be higher than that maintained last year, and recommends a provision for the building of four battleships, two cruisers, 16 torpedo boat destroyers, and a number of auxiliary vessels, by the present session of congress. Secretary Meyer states that the augmentation of the present naval force is a necessity to the perpetuation of the peaceful relations of the United States with the powers of the world. He denies the assertions of enemies of a large navy that the opening of the Panama canal would “double the navy." The report states that a total of 41 battleships, with a proportional number of other fighting and auxiliary vessels, is necessary to place this country on a safe basis In its relations with other world powers.

ADDS TO ENGLAND’S NAVY

Canadian Premier Asks Parliament for $35,000,000 to Build Three Warships for Great Britain.

Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 6. —In the presence of the duke and duchess of Connaught, Princess Patricia and the largest crowd that has ever taxed the capacity of the house of commons, Premier Borden submitted to parliament the result of his naval conferences with the British admiralty. The prime minister asked parliament to vote $35,000,000 to his majesty for the building of three of the most powerful dreadnaughts afloat to be used for the common defense of the empire. The ships will be at the disposal of the British admiralty and maintained and controlled as part of the royal navy.

OLD LANDMARK IS BURNED

Centerville Inn, Near Gary, Ind., Which Sheltered Many Famous Men, Destroyed by Fire. Gary, Ind., Dec. 6.—The old Centerville inn, located at Merrillville, five miles south of this city, built in 1832, a famous stage stop on the old Chica-go-Detroit stage route, was burned to the ground. The hostelry, a large rambling frame structure, was erected by Myron Pierce in the early ’3os. The inn has sheltered many famous men. such as Daniel Webster, John A. Logan and Stephen A. Douglas. In Civil war times northern Indiana troops were mustered in at this station.

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For> elgn Items. Washington Attorney General Wickersham submitted his annual report, In which he isked legislation permitting his department to continue its litigation against the United States Shoe Mar chlnery company and the so-called coffee trust. • • • .'J./.. The initiative and referendum and recall) of judicial decisions, as amendments to ,the federal constitution, * were proposed in two resolutions Introduced in the senate by United States Senator Bristow of Kansas. * • • A statement filed with the clerk of the national house of representatives In accordance with the campaign publicity law shows that it cost the Democratic national campaign committee $1,159,455 to elect Woodrow Wilson president of the United States In the November election. • • • President Taft, the Peruvian minister and other notables addressed the opening session of the National Rivers and Harbors congress In Washington. • • * For the ninth time in the history of the United States, its most plenary power—impeachment proceedings—was exercised by the senate. Robert W. Archbald, associate justice of the commerce court, was the defendant. His impeachment trial began, with a committee of seven representatives acting as prosecutors. * • • The U. S. Supreme court, in an opinion announced by Justice Day, held that the Union Pacific Railroad company, by the acquisition of stock in the Southern Pacific, had effected a combination in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The opinion indicated that the court would enter a decree to. dissolve the combination. * * * The court of appeals for the District of Columbia held that Thomas A. Edison is not the inventor of the motion picture film and that his patents are invalid and his assignee is not entitled to damages for infringement. Previous decisions were reversed. • • • Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of the president, led the contributions to the Republican campaign fund with $150,000, according to the final statement of the Republican national committee, filed with the clerk of the house at Washington. The total contributions received reached $904,828. - The expenditures were $900,363. » ♦ • • Domestic State Senator George K. Cetone of Dayton, Ohio, was found guilty of bribery after the jury trying him had deliberated but one hour. Sentence was deferred. • • • Hope for the safety Qf the threemasted schooner Rouse Simmons and her crew of ten men was practically abandoned when word reached Chicago that numerous Christmas trees, w'hlch made up the cargo of the vessel, and bits of unmarked wreckage had drifted ashore near Pentwater, Mich. « • • On a judgment of $2,000,000 obtained by the Lincoln Trust company of New York city as trustee, December 15, 1906, the holdings of LaFrance Copper company in Butte, which was organised by F. Augustus Heinze, were sold at sheriff sale to T. 8. Crotey of New York for SIOO,OOO. * * * Dismissal of four of the forty-five defendants because of Insufficient evidence to convict, the dosing of the government’s side and the opening of the defense with Frank M. Ryan of Chicago as its first witness and the resignation of Herbert 8. Hockin aa secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers marked the dynamite conspiracy trial in Indianapolis. • / f • • Eleven persons were killed in a wreck on the Pennsylvania lines, near Dresden, Ohio, in a rear-end collision. A passenger engine west-bound on the Zanesville diylsion plowed into the rear coach of a train bound Zanesville. » • • The first jury composed entirely of women which ever sat in a Kansas court of record began Its consideration of testimony in Eldorado, Kan., with prayer. Three hours latef the women returned a verdict In favor of the * plaintiff. • « * Henry Schoellkopf, member of the firm of Marksam & Schoellkopf, and one of the most widely known attorneys In Milwaukee shot and killed himself. No reason is assigned for the. act.