Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — Page 4

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Tree Saves Auto Driver's Life.

A.urora. —Patrick K. Vahey, age thirty-seven, Democratic city chairman, was painfully Injured when his automobile skidded down an embankment and turned over in a ditch near the Riverview cemetery. Vahey was under the machine, but a tree to death. Three ribs were broken, hla right arm was fractured, and he was injured about the head. Vahey lost his right leg a few years ago in a railroad accident. Three companions escaped uninjured. South Bend Women to Use Cotton.. South Bend.—Plans for the “back to cotton” movement on the part of South Bend clubwomen in an ■effort to assist in relieving the financial distress in the South, as a result of the war in Europe, were taken up at the meeting of the Progress club. Every member of the club had, before the meeting, promised to use cotton exclusively for their garments la the future, and were anxious to assist in any other way the movement which is spreading throughout the country. State Suffragists Meet. Laporte.—The state convention of the Indiana Equal Suffrage association began its sessions in this city. The opening session was known as “Voters’ night.” Dr. Frank T. Stockton of Indiana university delivered an address on “Does Indiana Need a New Constitution?" Miss Laura C lav of Lexington spoke on woman suffrage. Woman Hangs Herself. Aurora.—Mrs. Anna M. Marshall, age sixty-one, wife of Thomas j’ Marshall, living in Clay township, committed suicide by hanging herself. Mrs. Marshall had gone to the poultry house to gather eggs. When she did not return Mr. Marshall began a search, apd found her lifeless body suspended from a rafter by a piece of clothesline: Retired Farmer Is Suicide. Anderson.-—James Broosier, sixtyfive years old. a wealthy retired farmer living at Lapel, ended his life by drinking poison which he had purchased last spring with the intention pf killing potato bugs. Several weeks ago Brosier’s wife died suddenly and it is believed that grief over her death was the cause of his act. Poison Placed in School. Delphi.—School officials are investigating the poisoning of Edith Harmon, Deloris Tinkle, Audra Collins And Mary Timmons, whose respective ages range from ten to thirteen years, at the Burlington schoolhouse, last week, by eating strychnine tablets found by the Harmon girl in her pencil box. Supposing the tablets candy, she ate one and gave the Remainder to the other children. All became ill, two critically. The Harmon and the Tinkle girl suffered convulsions, although they recovered.

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DENIES CHIEF QUIT

MEXICAN MINISTER SAYS CAR. RANZA WON'T RESIGN. Declares That Provisional Preaident Will Remain Head of Republic. Mexico City, Oct. 16. —The Mexican foreign minister, Ysldoro Fabella, denied that General Carranza had r» signed the supreme power of the constitutionalists in favor of Antonio Vlk lareal, gpvernor of the state of Nuevo Leon. Minister Fabela said that Carranza considered the action of the Mexico City convention in rejecting his resignation settled the question, but If the convention at Aguas Calientes voted to reconsider it Caranza would bow to the majority. All the military chieftains, Including Francisco Villa, Emlllano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza, are subject to the orders of the Aguas Calientes conventlon, which, after a stormy secret session, voted Itself the supreme power of the land. The delegates took oath to abide by the majority vote on all questions, including the form of government and presidential succession. The question of the kind of government that shall prevail will be decided at a session to be held October 20, when a full Zapata delegation, numbering 22 men, will be present. Prominent delegates to the conference say the question of further civil strife in Mexico City has been definitely decided, and that peace is assured. Under the new arrangement General Carranza can be a candidate for the presidency in the general elections.

WIDOW OF BARTHOLDI DIES

Was Wife of Sculptor Who Made the Statue of Liberty for New York Harbor. Paris, France, Oct. 16.—Madame Bartholdi, widow of Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor who made the Statue of Liberty presented to the United States by the French government and erected in New York harbor, fiied at her residence in this city.

Confer on Cotton Pool.

Washington, Oct. 16.—Festus J. Wade of St. Louis lonferred with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo on the $150,000,000 cotton pool proposed by a group of St. Louis bankers. Mr. Wade is seeking the indorsement of the plan by Secretary McAdoo and the federal reserv eboard, but at today’s conference no decisive step was taken in the negotiations, it was stated.

Spain’s O. K. on U. S. Treaty.

Madrid, Spain. Oct. 16.—The council of ministers has approved the ratification of the treaty of arbitration between Spain and the United States.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago. Oct. 15. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— lug. ,st. est. ing D*c, 1.12% 1.13 % 1.12 1J 2% May 1.18%-% j.ix% 1.17% 1.17% Corn— Dec. .........67%—% ;67% .66% 66%-3j May 69%-70 .70 .69% ,69%-ft Oats- " Dee. 48%-% .48% .47% ,47%-4J May s|’»-' h .51% .50% .51% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis, hard Hour. $6.20 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota, patent, $3. 10*85.40 lute, straight, £4.60(84.85; first clears, jute, $4.3064.60; second clears, jute, $3.20'63.40' low grades, jute. $3.60'63.20; rye flour white, patent, $4.90(05.00; dark. $4.60(84.75. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 30c; extra firsts. 28<628%c: firsts. 25%i827c; seconds 23(824%c; packing stock. 20l„c; ladles ”>*3 22%c. ’ ' ' EGGS— Miscellaneous lots, cases included, 19@22e; cases returned. 18%t6:21%c;*ordinary firsts. 19%(020%c; firsts. 21%(822c' extras. 25%*826c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 16c per lb.; chickens, fowls, scrubby, io@llc; average run, 12%'ii 13c; springs. 13c; roosters, 11c; ducks, ISflldc; geese, 11(612c. POTATOES—Wisconsin and Michigan, white stock. 40'052e; red. 40@47e; Minnesota and Dakota early OhioS, 4S@s3c; white. 45<852c. Live Stock. Chicago, Oct. 15. CATTLE—Steers, good to prime. s9.so<g 11.00; steers, fair to good, [email protected]: year lings, good to choice. [email protected]: inferior steers. >7.5Q«x8.25; stockers, [email protected]; feeding steers, [email protected]; medium to good beef cows. $5.50*86.R0; stock cows, $4.75(85.50; fait to choice heifers. [email protected]; stock heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cow’s, [email protected]; common to good cutters. $4.50(85.00; fait to good canners, $3.50*84.50: butcher bulls, [email protected]; bologna bulls, £[email protected]. HOGS—Fair to fancy light, $7.80(88.15: prime light butchers, 200@230 lbs., $8.00*3 8.15; prime medium weight butchers, 250*8 275 lbs.. $8.00(88.10; prime heavy butchers, 270*8325 lbs., $7.85(88.10; heavy mixed packing. $7.25*87.75; heavy packing. $7.10(87 40’ pigs, fair to good. [email protected].

East Buffalo, N. Y„ Oct. 15. CATTLE—Market fairly active and steady; prime steers. [email protected]; butcher grades. $7.00(88.75. CALVES—Market active. 25c higher; cull to choice. $6.00(812.00. SfiEEP AND LAMBS—Market active and firm; choice lambs, [email protected];'’cull to fair. [email protected]; yearlings, £[email protected]; sheep $2.00'86.00. HOGS—Market active, 10@15c higher; Yorkers. [email protected]; pigs, S<WO; mixed. SS.4C @8.50; heavy, $8.50; roughs, $7.00(87.40; stags, $6.50*87.25. St. Louis, Mo.. Oct. 15. HOGS —Markpt 5c higher; and lights, [email protected]; mixed and butchers, $7.6$ @7.85: good heavy, £[email protected]. CATTLE—Market steady; native beef steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $6.00@ 9.65; stockers and feeders, [email protected]; Texas and Indian steers, $6.00@8 00; cows and heifers. [email protected]; native calves, $6.00® 10.50. SHEEP—Market steady; native muttons K00<&5.40; lambs. M-OOQS.OO.

DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS

EPITOME OF THE BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A GUNGE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic, That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News President Poincare of France had a narrow escape from death when a German aviator attempted to drop a shell on him while he was visiting General Joffre at Romllly. Frantz a French aviator brought the German down and was decorated with Legion of Honor by Poincare. * • • In East Prussia a renewed attack by the Russians, in an effort to make an encircling movement at Schlrwlndt, has been repulsed, the Russians losing 1,500 prisoners and 50 guns, says a report from Berlin. • • • Willis R. Peck, American consul at Tsing Tao, together with the women and children, will leave the German concession at Kiauchau. • • * The occupation of Ostend has not been officially reported in London, but there is no doubt in London official circles that it will be accomplished .within a very short time. Ypres is occupied by the allies. A further victory on the allies’ left is announced from the war office, at a place not named. It is stated that the Germans were forced back. • • • Dispatches to London from Lisbon and Madrid Indicate that before many days a tenth nation, Portugal, w-ill have become involved In the European war. Her treaty with England will line up the new republic, if she goes to war, among the foes of Germany, increasing the number of allies to eight. A Reuter dispatch declares mobilization will be ordered at • • Official announcement was made at Bordeaux, France, that the Belgian government has been transferred from Ostend, which is menaced by the Germans,, to Havre, France. King Albert will remain with his army. This announcement indicates that the allies have little hopes of being able to keep Ostend out of the Germans’ hands. « • * It is reported that the Germans have arrived at Selzaete, near Ghent, and the commander announces the village must provide quarters for 6,000 soldiers. • • * Thousands of refugees awaiting boats for England are lining the quays at Ostend, Belgium, and pathetic 1 scenes are witnessed aboard and ashore as the ships cast off • • * It is announced officially by the commander of the Russian naval forces in the Baltic that two German submarines were destroyed during the attack on the Russian cruiser Pallada.' * • * The 44 lists of losses in the Prussian army which have been published contain a total of 211,000 killed, wounded and missing, according to a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam. The lists do not Include losses among the Bavarians, Saxons and Wurtemburgians. * ♦ ♦ Great Britain announces that part of the forces of the Union of South Africa have rebelled. The revolting troops are those under Colonel Maritz and they have been stationed in the northwest of the Cape provinces, supposedly close to German Southwest Africa. It is understood that the mutineers are mostly Boers and that they have joined the Germans. Martial law has been declared. » ♦ • Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland, is threatened by German forces and may fall at any moment, according to an official dippatch to the American government from one of its consuls. » • ♦ The following official communication was Issued in Berlin: “It Is officially reported from Vienna that 40,000 Russians'were killed or wounded near Przemysl. The Germans now possess the whole of Poland west of the Vistula. The Russians occupy only Warsaw.”

• • • Montenegrins are attacking .Ragusa, an Austrian city of Dalmatia, and its fall is believed to be imminent. • • • b Germany has imposed a fine of 20,000,000 pounds sterling (1100,009.000) on Antwerp as a war indemnity. * *. * General Rqndony, commander of the Third brigade of French colonial troops, and General Marcot, have been killed at the front. Two nurses of English Red Cross corps were killed by a shell. x see Reports are current In Berlin that a large fleet of Zeppelins, now numbering 80, but which is constantly Increasing, is gathering at Klei to await the kaiser's orders to begin an attack against England.

! A dispatch to the Nieuwe Courant 1 from Hulst, Holland, quotes a Belgian officer as saying that the total number of soldiers who hare crossed from Belgium into Holland Is about 26,000. Berlin newspapers are distributing posters announcing that ths civil population is leaving Belfort, France, in fear of a bombardment. • • • The Anglo-French fleet oft Ragusa. Dalmatia, Friday sunk two Austrian torpedo boats, one of which was escorting a steamship laden with munitions of war. Their crews were saved. • • • Two German aviators threw a rain of bombs upon Paris. It Is officially announced that 20 projectlies were thrown. Four persons were killed and 20 Injured. • • • News has been received at Bordeaux that King Albert of Belgium marched out of Antwerp at the head of a portion of his army. The Germans are bombarding Antwerp furiously. Added to the terror caused by the heavy bombardment is the fear of Zeppelin raids. Six of the craft -dropped bombs, -which. killed 20 persons and destroyed seven houses. • • » Maj. Gen. Augustus Zelman was killed In action, says the forty-third German casualty list, issued in Berlin, which contains 10,000 names in dead, wpunded and missing and is headed by the name of Major General von Walter, who was wounded at Tarnovka. Russian Poland. Washington Justice Mcßeynolds, the new member of the U. S. Supreme court, took the oath of office at Washington when the court convened the October term. * • • The house committee on banking and currency at Washington rejected the Henry bill, proposing a $500,000.000 government loan to national and sta'te banks to move the cotton crops. Only three members of the committee, Representatives Eagle, Ragsdale and Wingo, voted for the bill, which was tabled by a vote of 10 to 3. • • • Foreign 1 he Haitien rebels have won a victory over the troops of the government at a point near Llinonade. on the north coast. The president of Haiti is retreating In the direction of Grande Riviere. Other government forces are returning to Cape Haitien. • • • . Mexican War General Felix Diaz, in a message from the Villa headquarters at Juarez to the Villa agency at Washington, conveyed word that General Carranza had put in his resignation as provisional president to the Aguas Calientes convention. The resignation w'as accepted. Antonio Villareal, president of the convention, was nominated. • • * TTre Arizona National Guard was ordered by Governor Hunt to be in readiness to entrain at a moment’s notice for Naco, where bullets and sheila fired by Mexican forces in battle across the border have been falling in American territory for many days. • • • Carranza officials at El Paso. Tex., received an unconfirmed report that Adolfo de la Huerta, private secretary to Rafael Zubaran Capmany, Carranza ‘agent at Washington and later one of Carranza's special envoys to Sonora, has been killed by Villa officials at the Aguas Calientes conference. • • • Domestic Iva von Claussen, recently sentenced to six months in jail for sending a threatening letter to Charles Strauss, a New York lawyer and president of tfie board of water supply of New York was committed to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Mattea wan. • ♦ * The board of arbitration to settle the wage and working conditions dispute between 98 Chicago railroads and their. 65,000 enginemen will meet in Chicago November 9, it‘was announced here. Both the men and the managers have chosen their representatives. The Boston Braves are the world’s baseball champions of 1914. They defeated the Philadelphia Athletics at Boston by the score bf 3 to 1, winning the series with four straight games, the champions of the American league not capturing a contest. Rudolph hurled for Boston and Shawkey and Pennock for the Athletics.

• • • Circuit Judge Jones sustained the validity of the new school tuition law at Jacksonville, 111. The decision la of state-wide Importance. » * • John Cross, aged seventy, was killed, and J. W. Hoadland was injured near Buckatown, south of Johnstown, Pa., when the tduring car in which they were riding was upset at a turn in the state pike. Other members of the party escaped Injury. _ Harry Woods, secretary of state of Illinois, killed himself in a garage behind his home at Springfield. He had been worrying, it is known, about his personal and political affairs, and it is believed that his mind had been affected. Bank examiners report his accounts O. K. • • • Personal Christabel Pankhurst, militant suffragette* leader of England, came unannounced to New York aboard the Red Star steamer Finland. t z '

AGED MAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

E. A. Gillette Kills Himself in Ft Wayne Bank. CROWD WITNESSES SUICIDE Before Shooting Self, Man Leaves Note With Teller Addressed to Wife, Telling Why He Committed the Deed. Fort Wayne.—Overburdened with illness which had continued for a number of years, E. A. Gillette, sixty years old, committed sui-cide-by shooting himself in the head while in the banking room of the Tristate Loan & Trust company. The deed was committed in the view of a half hundred persons. Before shooting himself he left a note with one of the tellers addressed to his wife, telling why he committed suicide and what undertaker he desired to have bury him. Death Is Family’s Fourth Tragedy. Shelbyville.—The death of Clarence Yager, fourteen years old, who died as a result of the accidental discharge of his shotgun while hunting squirrels, is the fourth tragedy in the family in recent months. His stepfather, Alonzo Moore, hanged himself; his brother died suddenly soon afterward, and James Pherigo, a young man who had come here from Florida to marry a sister, Miss Marie Yager, died suddenly® at she Yager home the night before the day set for the wedding. The boy’s mother has been an invalid and it is believed the shock of his death will prove fatal to her. The boy’s last words were: “Tell the boys to be more careful.’’

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FOR SALE For Sale—R. C. Rhode Island cockerels.—F. M. PARKER, phone 217, Rensselaer. n-8 For Sale—Three oil lamps for auto, two dash, one rear.—Call at Democrat office. For Sale—White oak posts, extra good ones.—J. C. BORNTRAGER. Rensselaer, R-4, phone 929-A. For Sale-4-Nearly new baseburner, used only 3 months and is in fine condition. Will sell at a bargain.— Phone 111. For Sale—s yearling steers, 1 Poland China male hog, also 1 2-year-old Hereford buII.—ARNOLD LUERS, phone 929-F. o-28 For Sale—Hard wood lumber of all kinds, sawed to order.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, Ind., or phone Mt. Ayr 54-C. ts —— ■' ' - : t : ■ For Sale—-A good leather-bound Webster’s International Dictionary, in good condition. Will be sold at about one-third its original cost.— Inquire at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. For Sale—A number of cockerels, White Orpingtons; S. C. B. Minorcas; S. C. White Leghorns. All full blood.—CHAS. W. POSTILL, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 499-B.

For Sale—lo acres good black land, all in cultivation, fair buildings, fruit, etc.; onion land close that can be rented, $1,500; SSOO cash, time on balance to suit; 7% miles Rensselaer.—j. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, 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 i than $125 per , acre.—J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind.

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 jne and 1 will promise a squ_re deal. Choice alfalfa, wheat, corn and pasture lands for sale from $25 and up.— JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff Jaspsr county, Rensselaer, Ind. WANTED Wanted—A good active solicitor to canvass Jasper county, a several months* job at which a good salary

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Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning Also state cyclone. Inquire <H M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan o® l a ?iJ n AA? rop £ rty ln any Sum> »P to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Money to Loan—s3so on real estate security or good notes. For name of party write The Democrat office. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of Interest. Ten year loans without commission and, without delay.—JOHN A. DUNI ftl 111 Pl = I UUI lUVjwithogt Charges for UnUFV | Maklng or Recording MUHtI