Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — Page 4

2,000,000 Troops Engaged in Fight; Germans Lose.

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There has been fighting, of which no details are given out, at Longwy, where the first German invaders burst through into France on the border of Luxembourg. A German report asserts that 1,000 French soldiers were taken prisoners. Germans Lose 10,000 at Muelhausen. The fighting about Muelhausen, in Alsace, has been especially severe, though the war offices refuse all details. From Switzerland comes the news that the vast number of wounded from the battlefields has filled every hospital, school, church and convent and that thousands of wounded have been taken away on trains and some into Switzerland to be cared for. The German loss is placed at 10,000. Another artillery battle has been going on for two days between the Belgians and Germans at Huy, about half way between Liege and Namur. The opposing forces have intrenched on opposite sides of the Meuse river and are shelling each other. The inhabitants have taken to caves. Belgians Driven From Headquarters. One significant admission by the French war office is that the Germans moved on Louvain, Belgium, and drove ~ the French and Belgian forces out. The war office asserts, however, that the allies returned and routed the Germans. Louvain is the Belgian army headquarters, where King Albert In person commands, and is only 15 miles from Brussels.

The first indication that the English have taken a hand in the fighting in Belgium came when a number of wounded soldiers arrived at Southampton. No mention of the home troops has been permitted to pass the censors since the first detachment of 22,000 was landed more than a week ago. The French war office announces that in the first battle on the Othain river, near Spincourt, 15 miles south of Longwy, the French were forced to retreat, but that later the French, with re-enforcements, made a counter attack and captured a German battery. The office also says that pine officers and 1,000 men of the Twenty-first German dragoons have been made prisoners. BY C. F. BERTELLI. Germans Beaten at Two Places. Paris, Aug. 14.- —The German army has been badly beaten at two vital points during the last two days. The advance guards of the right and left wings of the German army which are now massed between Liege and Thionville have suffered serious defeats atthe hands of the French and Belgian troops. While the Belgians inflicted great losses upon the enemy at Diest, northeast of Brussels and obliged the German cavalry to retire precipitously near St. Trond and Hasselt, the french forces, stationed around Ixlpgput a numerically superior German force to rout. German Dragoons Annihilated. , A brilliant military feat was accomplished by the French soldiers during the fighting when a French battery surprised the Twenty-first German dragoons which was serving infantry and annihilated them. Two battalions of French infantry which had been at tacked by a German force, much superior in numbers, took the offensive and by a very vigorous counter attack compelled the Germans to retreat. In the course of their flight the enemy lost numerous killed and wounded. During this engagement which lasted two days the French took as prisoners nine officers and 1,000 men. In addition a battery of artillery, three machine guns and several cases of ammunition fell into the hands, of the French.

Germans Forced to Retreat. As a direct result of this double victory the advance movement of the German forces has been repulsed and the enemy is in retreat, closely pressed by the French. The inferiority of the German artillery has already been conclusively proved. Their shells burst before they reach their mark and the heavy German artillery which on Wednesday bombarded Pont-a-Mousop with more than 100 projectiles, each weighing more than 100 kilograms and charged with an enormous quantity of dynamite, did such insignificant damage that there were only four killed and a dozen wounded amongst the French. French military experts are con vinced that this inferiority of artillery will be one of the principal factors in the eventual complete defeat of the German army. Belgians Chase Kaiser’s Air Scout. Brussels, Aug. ' 14,—An exciting aeroplane chase was' witnessed in the evening close to Namur. A German aeroplane which for three days had persistently reconnoitered the Belgian position vas observed hovering over an important fortified position on the banks of the Meuse. Two Belgian biplanes immediately gave chase and the enemy's aerial scout, finding itself pursued, turned and tied at full speed toward Huy and Liege. One of the Belgian machiens had risen high above the German air scout when darkness fell leaving the result of the chase, as far as could be seen, undecided. Stray bands of Uhlans are still being captured at various points east and south of Brussels.

Vulcanizing and Tire Repairing. Tom Bissenden is now located in the Rensselaer garage with a full equipment for vulcanizing, repairing automobile tires. Take your work to him and get satisfactory results at reasonable prices. ts

CROWN POINT MAN LOSES HIS LIFE

Son of Lake County Commissioner Is Killed. DIES UNDER TRAIN WHEELS Youth Runs Into Monon Passenger Train on the Ridge Road at Hammond—Was Near End of Auto Endurance Run. Hammond, With a perfect score, but a half minute late at the last checking station, Harry Brown, twenty-three years old, second son of Lake County Commissioner Mather Brown, of Crown Point, ran into a Monofi passenger train, No. 88, pn the Ridge road at Hammond and was Instantly killed. Brown and thirteen friends had started out in the morning from Crown Point for a two hundred mile endurance run via South- Bend and Hammond. It is thought that Brown had lost his way as he was going in the wrong direction when he collided with the baggage car of the train. He was caught under the wheels and was rolled a hundred feet. His body was badly mangled. It was picked up by three eye witnesses. William Golden, a Hammond business man, is in a local hospital in a critical condition because of Injuries received when his auto carrying five passengers turned turtle. The accident occurred when he attempted to pass a buggy. The other four occupants escaped with minor injuries.

Paroled Cohvict Again Arrested. Lafayette.—William C. Ell of Indianapolis, government inspector In the postal department, is responsible for the detention of John Ballard, a paroled convict, who was sentenced for from ten to twenty years for robbing a drug store at Indianapolis. The drug store was a postal substation, and it was because of this fact that Ballard came into contact with Inspector Eli. Ballard was arrested when the police raided a camp that had been established by tramps south of the city. Eli was passing through the police office and Ballard took it for granted that the inspector was after him. Ballard walked up to Superintendent of Police Powell and admitted that he was a paroled convict and told about the robbery at Indianapolis. .

Fears Insanity May Ruin Nation. Kokomo. —“If something is not done by the American people to reduce the enormous increase, of Insanity In the country there need be no worry about peace or war,” declared Gov. Samuel M. Ralston in an address at the opening of the Chautauqua. ‘ All of us will become insane and cut each other’s throats.” Presumably as an answer to criticisms against the present administration of penal institutions for the insane, the governor said: ‘‘The boards of these institutions are nonpartisan. Politics has nothing to do with the selection of the men. and, as long as I am governor politics will have nothing to do with the institutions.”

Father Who Disappeared Returns. Lafayette.—A\ illiain F. Wainwright, one of the largest land-owners in Tippecanoe county, who disappeared mysteriously from his home south of this city last April, has returned. His family had given him up for dead and was of the opinion that he met with foul play. He had a large sum of money when he left here and he did not Inform his family he was going. He could give no explanation why he left home. He said he spent the time In Colorado. The wife and daughter were overcome with jpy when he returned. They spent a large amount of money in trying to locate him. . I Farmers Fight Marsh Fires. Laporte.— Hundreds of farmers in the Kankakee country, which extends across four northern Indiana counties, worked heroically ! in the fields plowing up thousands of acres of land to prevent the spread of marsh fires which are threatening to sweep everything in their path, causing loss of crops, .homes and other buildings. Rain has not fallen in this valley for/ five weeks and conditions are beginning to beggar description.

Gary Men Held in Russia. Gary.—Mrs. Margaret Falvey of Gary, who has been touring Europe, cabled that she had sailed from Liverpool on the Philadelphia. Gary officials are acting in behalf of Charles Baron and Walter Hlsarkl, local business men who went on a visit to Russia several weeks ago. It is feared they have been drafted into army service. Buildings Wrecked by Wind. Nashville. —A severe wind and electrical storm visited the southen part of Brown county. Several large barns were blown down, the house of Jesse Sims was struck by lightning and destroyed, and at Belmont telephone poles for two miles were blown down. Much corn was leveled and streams are all over the bottom land. The two-montha’ drought at Nashville was broken with a steady rain of three hours. Farmers believe that the early corn was too jnuih burned to be saved.

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News The German army has moved north of Liege and is advancing Into the heart of Belgium An extraordinary force of cavalry screens the front of the allied armlee. The French cavalry Is fighting hard. * • • Arrangements were made for the departure of th© Austro-Hungarian ambassador, Announcement of war between Britain and Austria was expected. • • • Th? German general staff admits heavy josses on the Russian frontier, says a Berlin dispatch. Qermans bombarded Pont-a-Mous-sofi, killing inhabitants and demolishing buildings. The town is in France and 20 miles from Nancy. * • « Three columns of Servians and Montenegrins are making a combined invasion of Bosnia northwest of Novlpazar. • ,* ♦ It ie learned the German cruiser sunk off South Gedser August 5 was destroyed by a mine laid by Germans. * • * A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Russians routed Austrians on the Dniester, and adds: “The approaching big battle will probably be decisive." » * t New’s from French sources is that the French have repulsed the Germans at Muelhausen, but German messages claim an important victory there. • • ♦ Battles between Germans 'and French at Longwy and Ixmguyon, both in France, were officially announced in Paris. Another battle w r as fought at Virton, Belgium. * • • French troops inflicted losses of 8,000 and captured 1,700 prisoners in helping Belgians fight Germans at Liege. ♦ ♦ ♦ It is rumored that the Germans are massing on the Dutch frontier, but Holland Is determined to preserve neutrality. ♦ • ♦ Altogether 2,000 Germans were killed, 20,000 wounded and 9,700 captured in the recent lighting in Belgium. A news dispatch from Brussels gives the figures. ♦ • • Defeating Cossacks with a loss of 400, Austrian troops have occupied Miechow, Russian Poland. Austrian loss was 140.

• • • England has 500,000 to 600,000 men under arms and is well along with mobilization, not counting the national reserve. • • • A state of war in the Hutch prov* inces of Limburg, North Brabant, Zeeland and parts of Gelderland was proclaimed. * ♦ * Bankers, brokers, actors and men of all classes will make up a special police force of 30,000 which will be enrolled to guard public property in London. ♦ * • Russian troops have penetrated through the. Valley of the River Styr and have entered Austrian territory, driving the Austrian posts before them. * • • It is estimated that 800 Germans were killed during a desperate but futile assault on Fort Seraipg, south of Liege. • * * The French minister of foreign affairs at Paris asked the Austrian ambassador for information regarding the intentions of the Austrian government. The French government believes that part of the Austrian mobilization is directed against the French government. • Sharp cavalry engagements are reported south of the Meuse river between the French and Germans. It is understood the advantage rested with the French. Moving apparently in the direction of Thrase and Bulgaria, large Turkish forces are concentrating on the Bulgarian territory near Ferjk. Russian troops repulsed with loss German infantry and artillery that attempted to recapture Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia. <♦ * • Extermination of an Austrian cavalry brigade by Cossacks ta reported. * * » It is reported from Berlin that German territory has been cleared of the French. German troops near Mulhausen captured ten French officers, 500 men and four guns. At Legarde German troops took more than one thousand prisoners. ♦ * • France is officially at war with Austria, having broken oft diplomatic relations. With pistols and boiling water the women of Herstal, Belgium, repelled an attack of Germans, wounding 2,000.

A group of 59 German soldiers from Mecklenburg, who were detained after taking refuge on Dutch territory, arrived at Amsterdam. They are to be Interned at Alkmaar till the end of the war. • • • Amid terrible scenes of bloodshed and heroism,” says a dispatch from Maastricht, the Belgians are still holding Liege’s forts against a “fierce’’ German bombardment. • • • A German offensive movement north of Liege Is developing. It is reported the territory south of the Meuse has been cleared of German soldiers by French cavalry and other troops. • , • • Austrian cruisers that bombarded Antlvari, Montenegro’s sole port, shelled also crowds of Montenegrins who had taken refuge in adjacent hill. The port was severely damaged. • • » Washington '. A report that Great Britain has forbidden all aliens to land on her shores has caused Secretary Bryan to cable from Washington to Ambassador Page an order to protest vigorously If the story is correct. Without a roll call the senate at W ashington passed the administration bill to facilitate the registry of foreign vessels under the American flag, after amending it to permit such vessels to engage in trade between coast points and ports in the great lakes and either coast. • • • < harles S. Hamlin of Boston has been selected for governor of the U. S. federal reserve board and Frederic A. Delano of Chicago has been selected vice-governor. • * • The state department at Washington said assurances were received from the German government that no Americans are held in duress within German territory and that the orders Issued concerning Americans- simply prohibited them from using the ordinary means of communication while the German forces were being mobilized.

Foreign A military guard was placed at the Canadian power plants at Niagara Falls, Ont., and at important stations in the system which supplies light and power to 40 Ontario towns and cities. Three person® were killed when a train plunged through a railway bridge near the Canadian military camp, Valcartler. The bridge was damaged during the night and a man the authorities suspect was implicated in the plot was shot to death as he was running away. xProvisional President Carbajal relinquished the authority of the Mexican government to Governor General Iturbide of the federal district. Carbajal states that his purpose is to prevent further bloodshed, but conveys the warning that the constitutionalists have refused guarantees of life and property. The federals will offer resistance to the rebels. The British minister, Sir Lionel Carden, cabled W ashington: “Organized government has surrenderedi to anarchy. Should be protected.” • • * “White Wolf," the leader of a large band of brigands who have been devastating central China for months, was killed by the government troops. » • » Domestic Three masked men robbed the Bank of Cove at Cove, Ark., of $1,300 and escaped after locking the cashier in the vault. • • • Twenty-five were injured in a pitched battle between Australians and Servians at Globe, Arlz. Forty Servians and 20 Austrians took part in the fight, using rocks, clubs and their fists. Many of the rioters were arrested. • • * The Mississippi river steamer James Lee struck a snag near Asher, Ark., 80 miles south of Memphis, and sank in ten feet of water. Passengers and crew reached shore In safety. The boat was valued at $40,000. • • • The $140,000,000 international Harvester company was characterized by the United States district court at St. Paul, Minn., as a monopoly In restraint of trade, and it was ordered dissolved. The giant harvester trust must submit to the court within 90 days a plan of actually splitting the combine Into at least three separate and Independent concerns, or the court will appoint a receiver for the corporation. • • • An electric storm, accompanied by a strong wind, swept suddenly over New York city and vicinity. Three persons were’killed and 20 injured, lightning striking in several places. * * * Because of the European crisis the thirty-third annual reunion of the Old Time Telegraphers’ and Historical association, which was to have been held at Kansas City, Mo., September 15-17, has been postponed indefinitely. ♦ « ♦ Before adjourning at Winnipeg to meet in Portland. Ore., the first Tuesday In August, 1916, the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, decided to recognize the Dramatic Order of Hnights of Khorassan as an auxiliary order and to purchase the Pythian library of the late William D. Kennedy of Chicago.

NEWS OF THE SPORT WORLD

Dick Rudolph Leads Great Boston Spurt.

Photo by American Press Association.

Dick Rudolph, the Boston Braves’ star right hander and the most consistent boxman on the club roster, has played a leading part In the recent spurt of the Braves. It took them just three playing days to climb from last place Into the first division, breaking all previous records to smithereens. Freak Motorboat. A motorboat, in the construction of which all previous laws of hull and engine cqnstruction have been largely disregarded, will represent the Chicago Yacht club at Cowes, England. In August in the contest for the Harmsworth trophy, emblematic of the world’s championship. The new boat, Disturber IV., owned by Commodore James A. Pugh, ac-

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[Under this head notices will be pub llshed for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeplna cash Should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twentv-flv» Cents but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 26 cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.} FOR SALE For Said—Three oil lamps for auto, two dash, one rear.—Call at Democrat office. For Sale—Good pair mare mules, I and 5 years old, sound. Wt. about 1200 each, well broke.—A. S. LARUE, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—Hard wood lumber of all kinds, sawed to order.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, Ind., or phone Mt. Ayr 54-C. ts For Sale—lndian motorcycle, nearly good as new, run but very little, at a bargain.—F. M. MARKIN, Pleasant Grove, Ind. For Sale—l6o acre farm, 7 miles of Rensselaer, all level clay subsoil, tiled. All can be farmed, SBO per acre. Nothing joining can be bought for less than $125 per acre.—J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale or Trade—Bo acres level, black corn land, well located; price $55 per acre, or will trade for live stock.—HARVEY DAVISSON, Pens selaer, Ind. For Sale —6 acres of land with good 8-room house, 3-room basement, electric lights and city water, inside corporation of Rensselaer. A bargain.—HAßVEY DAVISSON, phone 499. Icor Sale—Bo acres nice level black land, no buildings, but well fenced; 40 acres In oats, 15 acres hay, balance pasture, very little timber. Will exchange for good residence property in Rensselaer.— HARVEY DAVISSON, phone, 499. For Sale —A 1914 Model Mitz roadster, almost new, will sell it at a bargain; also a 40-horse power Overland, two seats, for sale; both are in good running order. Will sell one or both. Here is a bargain for one who wants something of this kind.—A. M. BRINGLE, Fair Oiiks, f nd. ’ 1 a-17 For Sale—Farms of different sizes in this and adjoining counties, and some for exchange. Also city and town property for sale and exchange. List your property with me and I will promise a square deal. Choice alfalfa, wheat, corn and pasture lands for sale from $25 and up JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff Jasper county, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—Complete school wagon or just the bed with top; Oregon fir one, piece silo 20x36 feet., used two seasons, better than new, shrunk and fresh painted, stored in dry, will cut it down in size if desired, sell for about half price; 2 driving mares, 3 years old, and gray mule 3 years old, wt. 1100; one black horse 5

companTed the latter when he sailed from New York on the Minnetonka on July 1& It weighs eight pounds per horsepower, or eight pounds less than any other speed boat thus far constructed; it has an air pump with a pressure of eight pounds to the square ipch, which Is expected to furnish an air cushion between the hull and the water; it has twenty-four cylinders, developing 1,800 horsepower at 2,700 revolutions of the screw per minute. The boat weighs 14,400 pounds. Much weight has been saved In the selection of metal. The pistons, for instance, are of magantium, weighing one-third of the same quantity of steel. The propellers have thirteen inch blades with sixty inch pitch, which, It is calculated, will give the boat a five foot jump at each revolution. Fear New Steel Boom. On account of possible trouble with the sloops compass the new steel boom that was built for the Vanitie may not be used In any of her races. Her present hollow spruce boom is less than 100 pounds lighter than the steel spar, but the wooden boom is springy and not as stiff as the other one. The extra weight is distributed close to the deck and makes little difference in the boat’s speed in either light or heavy weather. It 'was reported in yachting circles that Addison G. Hanna, a well known amateur helmsman, had again been asked to sail the Vanitie in the forthcoming trial races. Dreyfuss Promises Action. President Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Baseball club Is going to use drastic measures if the Pirates do not get out of the slump in which they have fallen. With the club hovering around last place the > team is facing a storm of criticism from the patrons. President Dreyfuss is credited with having stated that he believes the players are not trying to win. It is rumored that he has asked for waivers on eleven members of his squad, and among those who are nominated to go are five regulars. He Intends to get rid of all the players who are breeding discontent on the

cead over The Democrat’s want afc column each week. '

years old, wt. 1700, will trade for Durham bull or any young live stock —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind ’, R-l. Phone Mt. Ayr, 37-K. - - I < For Sale—l6o acres. This is an opportunity for a man with little means to get a home. This farm is iin good neighborhood, shipping point $0 rods, school half-mile, three churches within two miles, and 20 rods from stone road. This farm has 135 acres in cultivation and 25 in woodland pasture which lies around the buildings. There is a dredge ditch near which gives good outlet for drainage. There is a good twostory, seven-room house, large barn and good well. Will sell this farm at a bargain and on terms of SI,OOO down and long time on remainder, or will take property or live stock as first payment.—G. F. MEYERS. WANTED Wanted— To borrow $1,200 to sl,500. Farm land security, will pay per cent interest.—G. F. MEYERS. Wanted—A good active solicitor to canvass Jasper county, a several months’ job at which a good salary can be made. For name of party inquire at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. MISCELLANEOUS. Estray Taken Up—Came to our place in southeast Marion, about Aug. 1, a 2-year-old steer. Owner may have same by proving ownership and paying necessary charges -THE MANSFIELD FARM. Estrayed—2 steers about 3 years old, strayed from Lawler Ranch, near F air Oaks, Ind. Finder please phone any information to 542-G., Fair Oaks, Ind., Maurice Gorman Foreman. ’ Painting— I am still in the painting business; equipped for going to the country. See me about your painting.—c. M. BLUE. Money to Loan—Loans on farms and city property at current rates. Also a few choice small properties to 2? easy monthly payments.— EMMET L. HOLLINGSWORTH, of. fice in First Nat’l bank bldg. s-6 Mutual Insurance— Fire and HghL ?, S- Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. financial Farm Loans—Money to loan oi ■ farm property in any sums hd tn SIO,OOO—E. P, HONAN. ° Farm Loans— l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest Te s y ?A r IoaHS without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I Rpl lIIP Commlsr on, I Uvl lIIU I Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H.