Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — Page 4

DIGEST OF WORLD'S IMPORTANT NEWS

EPITOME OF THE 810 HAPPEN* I MGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A BURGE Items. Both Foreign and Domeatlo, That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience.

European War News The United States has made peremptory demand upon Great Britain that she immediately release the American tank steamship John D. ’Rockfeiler. seized by a British warship and detained at Kirkwall, Orkney islands. The Rockefeller was bound from Philadelphia to Copenhagen with a cargo of illuminating oil. Britain claims oil is contraband of war. Two other American ships have been seized by England. • * * Berlin newspaper estimates of the English, Russian, Belgian aud French casualties and prisoners are now 760,000. • * * Fighting continued throughout the day with unabated fury in West Flanders from the North sea across the French frontier A terrific battle raged along three fronts with a total line of 45 miles. Reports were received that the English fleet was bombarding Ostend. occupied some days ago by the Germans, but no mention of this was made in the official communique. •• • \ There is no change of importance in the positions of the troops in the Franeo-Belgian theater of hostilities, it was officially announced by the war office in Berlin. • * * The German government states that formal protest has been sent to France and to neutral nations against alleged violations of the rules of the Geneva convention by French. It is charged that both noncombatants and soldiers in th« French army were guilty of acts of cruelty against the Germans. » * * The entire civil population is in full flight from Warsaw because of the approach of the German army, and an attack on the city is imminent, according to reports from the Eastern front received in Berlin * • * A British casualty list of noncommissioned officers, under date of September 17, reports 95 wounded and fiOO missing, of whom over six hundred belonged to the Royal Munster fusiliers. Another casualty list, dated October 16 and October 18, reports five officers killed and 12 wounded. * * * The newspaper Nord Maritime of Dunkirk says that the allies have driven 5,000 Germans out of Bruges and are now in possession. *• • ■ Verdun appears to be doomed The French fortified position which is the main support of the French right wing army has been under constant bombardment for more than three weeks, and several of tire forts in the outer ring of the city’s defenses are reported in official dispatches from Berlin to have been reduced. • * * Seven distinct and violent attacks of desperate character were directed by the Germans along the whole battle line, extending from the Meuse to the sea, in a tremendous effort to relieve the constantly increasing pressure of the allies’ front, but all their efforts were repelled, according to reports from the battlefront.

In the field of the great battle for German ascendancy on the North 6ea coast the invaders were repnlsed by tlie Belgians. * * * j. An Austrian official announcement given out at Vienna says: "The battles to the east of.Chyrow and Pr?bmysl were very successful for Austria. The flgffflag near Mlzynieo was especially mmm* The Magiera heights of the Russians are now occupied by Austrians.” * * * The Army Gazette, official organ of the Russian military establishment, states that 18,000 Germans killed in the conflict along the Vistula have been buried by the Russians. • • * British steamer Exford has been captured by the German cruiser Emden off the Malabar coast. A Lloyd's dispatch reports the sinking of the BritIsh steamers Chilkama, Trollies, Benmohr and Clan Grant as well as a dredger off the Colombb coast •* * ' Of the 150,000 Belgian refugees In England, 100,000 are penniless. The remaining 50,000 have little money and they, too, will soon be without ,funds. Hundreds of Belgians have signified their Intention of emigrating to the United States. • • • The London Dally Mail’s Rotterdam .correspondent says three Zeppelin airship sheds are being built at Brussels and' four at Antwerp. The correspondent adds that bridges have been erected over the Meuse between Liege and

Official announcement was made by the German admiralty at Berlin that the new British submarine E-3 was sunk on October 18 by German warships in the North sea. This announcement helped relieve the deep regret felt throughout Germany as the result of the news of the fate suffered by the German torpedo boats S-115, S-117, S-118 and S-119. » •" •

The troops who are arrayed against each other between Arras and Roys are still driving with shot and shell, and probably with bayonet, and In this district the, allies have advanced at several points, reaching as far In some Instances as the wire entanglements which constitute part of the German defensive works. • • • Washington Confidence is the only thing needed to restore business prosperity, President Wilson told directors of the federal reserve banks whom he received at the White House at Washington. The president declared he thought business men were more nervous than wasn ee ess ary ; - —— -- - * * * Word was received at Washington of the death in Romancek, Upperville, Va., of Capt. Robert E. I.ee, the youngest son of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He will be burled in Washington and Lee University cemetery beside his father. ,* * * Declaring lie once was a lawyer but “had reformed,” President Wilson opened the convention of the American Bar association at Washington, delivering the address of welcome. Former President Taft, head of the association, in introducing the president, said the members of the association felt a “deep personal confidence in his ability to guide the ship of state in the present troubled waters and we give him our earnest support.” : * * • ' Tim United States Supreme couth at Washington advanced the bearing of the Harry K. Thaw extradition case to December 7. * * • .V Former President Taft visited the White House at Washington and chatted for a half hour with President Wilson.

The American Red Cross at Washington sent SI,OOO to buy corn and beans for starving thousands in the vicinity of Acapulco, Mexico. Secretary of the Navy Daniels arranged to send the supplies to Acapulco on the naval collier Nero. Federal reserve bank directors from all over the United States met at Washington to discuss all the details of the organization of the various federal reserve banks. • * • Foreign Oire man is dead, four are injured and a pile of debris that once was a tenement house is believed to hold other bodies, as a result of an explosion in Montreal. * * • The superdreadnaught Normandie, one of the most powerful battleships ever built by France, was successfully launched at St. Nazaire-shr-Loire. It will be placed in commission as soon as possible for service against the German fleet. * * * A Reuter dispatch to London from Petrograd says that the czar has ordered that all German and Austrian subjects granted the honorary rank of councillor of commerce be deprived of the title. * • • Mexican War Prompt withdrawal of the American forces from Vera Cruz was foreshadowed by the approval given by the Mexican national convention at Aguas Calientes to the requests of the American government for protection of Mexicans who served the United States and other desired guarantees. • N • • General Villa has issued an ultimatum at Chihuahua in which h« announced that unless Carranza "is removed from his self-appointed position as the de facto president of Mexico. I propose, with the consent of my commanders and my people, to go to Mexico and remove him by force.” • • * Domestic Celia Coleman, maid for Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, on trial charged with the murder June SO of Mrs. Louise Bailey in Doctor Carman’s office at Freeport, *N. Y., testified at Mineola that Mrs. Carman after the shooting told her that she “had shot him,” This is in conflict with testimony that the maid gave previously. *** 1 . / Eight men were drowned in the Mußkingura river at Beverly, 0., when a barge loaded with rock sank in midstream. Eleven men were on the barge but three were rescued. Five of the bodies have been recovered. • • • A daring raid was mad& on the First National bank of Sedro-Tooley at Bellingham, Wash., by six masked robbers, who escaped with more than twenty thousand dollars in currency. • • • Exhaustive efforts are being made by authorities at Keokuk, la., to locate Henry Gates of that city, who is wanted to clear up the mystery of the disappearance of Belle Thomas, to whom he was secretly married In Waterloo One month ago and whose was found in the Mississippi river.

ENDS OWN LIFE AT WINCHESTER

Farmer Commits Suicide by Shooting Himself. HEAD TORN OFF BY SHOTGUN Follard Howell is Said to Have Been Demented for Several Years— Headless Body Found by Mother.

Winchester. —Pollard Howell, age forty-four, single, a farmer, who lived south of Winchester, committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a 12gauge shotgun in his mouth and pushing the trigger with his toe. His mother found his headless body a moment after the gun report was heard. Howell had been demented, it is said, for several years. Excessive drinking during the last month is given as the cause for his act.

Brother of Famous General Dead. Marion. —L. A. Wallace, sixty-five years old, pioneer publisher and printer and cousin of Gen. Lew Wallace, died, the result of a stroke of apolplexy. Mrs. Mary Weeks-Wal-lace, his’Tnother, survives him at the age of ninety-one years. Mr. Wallace for number of years published the Grant County Democrat, which became valuable property and of which the Leader-Tribune is the successor. The family to which the deceased belonged probably was as famous as any in all the middle West. The father, Judge John M. Wallace, was one of seven sons; David Wallace was governor of Indiana at one time. A brother was a United States senator from a Western state; another was secretary of the state of Iowa; another was a distinguished military officer.

Cattle Quarantine Expected. South Bend.—All cattle in St. Joseph and Laporte counties will be placed under quarantine within the week, according to a statement made by C. K. Small, special agent of the department of animal industry at Washington. Mr. Small said that cattle in the vicinity of Niles, Mich., were placed under quarantine. Governor Ferris is expected to issue a general quarantine for Berrien county, Michigan. Man and Wife Indicted. Columbus.—The Bartholomew county grand jury indicted Mr. and Mrs. John Hubbard of near Taylorsville, charging the man with receiving stolen goods. A few days ago goods were dug from the ground at the Hubbard home bv deputy state fire marshals, who charged that it had been in a house in the neighborhood which burned a few months ago. U. S. River Boat Burns. Vevav—The government towboat Uncle Sam was destroyed by fire at Dam 29, entailing a loss of $lO,000. The boat had only recently been built and had steam up for the first time. The fire started in the pilot house and when discovered was beyond control. The government steamer M. D. Wayman. lashed to the Uncle Sam. was cut loose just as it also caught fire, but this vessel was saved.

Stork Delays Train. Laporte.—Lake _ Shore train No. 3 was delayed nearly an hour at Elkhart while the stork made lvis advent. A physician ail'd a nurse rushed to the station and white several hundred passengers wondered at the cause of the long delay, a woman passenger whose name was not learned, gave birth to a ten-pound boy i " Girl Ends Life on Street. Anderson. —Dorothy Wicker, sixteen years old. daughter .of* Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wicker, committed suicide by swallowing acid while standing in front of a grocery in Park place. She died before a physician arrived. She had been employed in a local factory, and a disappointment in a love affair is believed to have been the reason she ended her life.

Alleged Burglars Held. Evansville. Fred Hart, twentyeight years old. of Fort Wayne, and John Baker, twenty-one years old, of Indianapolis, who are said to have confessed burglaries in’ Sullivan. Terre Haute and Fort Wayne, were arrested by local police. Church Corner Stone Laid. Evansville. —The corner stone for the new Linwood Avenue Evangelical church and Bible school was laid. The speakers included Mayor Benjamin Bosse, E. L. Mogge, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and Elder J. J. Wise, Indianapolis. Doctor Wins SB,OOO Damages. Shelbyville.—The case in which Dr. Charles S. Gore of Indianapolis demanded $50,000 from the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis Railway company for personal injuries, has been compromised, Gore accepting SB,OOO. Doctor Gore, who la one of the physicians of the State School for the Deaf at Indianapolis, was struck by a train while he and two young women were crossing the railway track near the asylum In a closed automobile.

GEN. VON TRIP SLAIN

GERMAN COMMANDER AND STAFF SLAIN BY SHELL. Bhot From British Warship Land* In Midat of Kaiser's Officers SbutH of Ostend. London, Oct. 23. —General ron Trip and his staff, commanding German Invaders In Belgium, were all killed by a shot fired from a British vessel In the English channel, a news agency dispatch states. The German commander was at Mlddelkerke, south of Ostend, when a well aimed shell landed in the midst of the group and the resulting explosion killed every one. The name of the vessel from which the shot came has not been learned.

HUNGARY FREE OF RUSSIANS

Statement From Austria Given Out by Nation’s Ambassador in Washington. New York. Oct. 23—The AustroHungarian consulate issued the following statement, reosived by Dr. Konstantin Dumba, the Austrs-Hungarian ambassador to the United States, from the foreign secretary at Vienna: “According to official statements dated the 18th instant, our offensive in several victorious engagements reached the line of the San heights, east of the Przemysl heights, west of Sambor. Przemysl, which had withstood and repulsed a heavy siege by the Russians, is relieved. Hungary is free of Russians. “In Russian Poland strong German forces, together with Austro-Hungar-ian forces, advanced up to the Vistula line and the mouth of the San river to Warsaw and south of Warsaw'. Re.pulsed eight Russian army corps. “No news from the Servian and Montenegrin war theater.”

ITALIANS LAND AT AVLONA

Marines Occupy Albanian City—Wires Cut to Stop News of Action. London, Oct. 23. —A dispatch to the Evening News from Venice says: “A company of Italian marines landed at Avlona. The Italian Forty-sevepth infantry, stationed at Lecce, is said to be ready to embark for Avlona. It is stated that telephone communication with other parts of Albania has been severed in order to prevent the spread of the news of the landing.”

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Oct. 21 Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. Dec 116%-% .1.16% 1.15 1.15% May .. 1.22%-% 1.22% 1.20% 1.21% CornDec. 68%-69 .69% .68% .69% May .........71%-% .72% .71% .71% Oats— Dec. .........50%-% .51 .50%-% .50% May 5.T%-54 .54% .53%-% .53% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis, hard flour. 36.20 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota, patents. $5.10#5.40; Jute, straight, 34.60«4.55; first clears. Jute] 34.3015:4.00; second clears, Jute, 33.253)3.50; low grades, jute. [email protected]; rye flour, white, patent. 34.80#4.90: dark, 34.50#4.70. BUTTER—Creamery, extras. 30c: extra firsts. 2S#'29c; firsts. 25@26%c: seconds. 23# 24%e. EGOS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included, 17(f523%c; cases returned, 16%#23c; ordinary firsts. 21'S22c; firsts, 23'g24c. LIVE POULTRY —Turkeys, 16c per lb.: chickens, fowls, scrubby, 10c; average run 11c: extra heavy. 12fi12%c: springs, 11%# 12c: roosters, 10%c; ducks, 13#14c; geese, 121513 c.

POT and Michigan, white stock. 42@32c: red, 430 48c; sota and Dakota early Ohios, 48053 c; white, 48053 c. SWEET POTATOES—Jerseys, $3.75 per bbl.; Virginias. $2.25 per bbl. New York. Oct. 22. "WHEAT—Weaker, demand brisk; No. 1 northern. $1.23*4; No. 2 red, $1.21%; No. 2 hard. $1.21%. CGliN—Strong, dealings moderate; export 84*40 ; No. 2 yellow. S3*4c. •ATS— Steady, inquiry fair; No. 2 white, 54054*Ac: standard, 53@5314e: No. 3 white, 52052%c; No. 4 white, 51*40520. Live Stock. Chicago. Oct. 22. CATTLE—Steers, good to prime, $9,500 10.90; steers, fair to good, $5.5009.40; yearlings. good to choice, inferior steers, $7.5008.25; stockers, $6,000:7.50; feeding steers, $7.2508.15; medium to good beef cows, $5.5006.50; stock cows, $4.7305.50; fair to # choice heifers, $6.0008.10; stock heifers, $5.2506.00; good to choice cows, $5.0006.00; common to good cutters. $4.5005.00; fair to good canners, $3.5004.50; butcher bulls, $6.7507.30; bologna bulls, $5.8006.25. HOGS—Fair to fancy light, $7.3507.55; prime light ’ butchers, 2000230 lbs., $7,400 7-CO; prime medium weight butchers, 2500 275 lbs.. $7.4007.70; prime heavy butchers. 2700325 lbs., $7.2507.60; heavy mixed packing, $7.1507.40; heavy packing, $7 1007.30; pigs, fair to good, $6.2507.15.

East BufTalo, N. Y., Oct, 22. CATTLE—Market dull and steady; prime steers. $9.50010.00; shipping steers $7.2508.50. CALVES—Market active, 25c higher; cull to choice, $6.00012.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active and steady: choice lambs, $8.0008.26; cull to fair. yearlings, $6.0006.75; sheep. $2.0005.90. HOGS—Market active and firm; Yorkers. $7.7507.85; pigs, $7.00; mixed, $7.8007.85; heavy. $7.8007.85: roughs, $6.2506.90; stags $6.0006.50. ’"tJmaha, Neb., Oct. 22. HOGS—Market higher; heavy, $6.8506.85; mixed, $6.9007.00; light, $7.0007.15; pigs! $6.4006.90; bulk. $6.9007.00. CATTLE —Market slow; native steers, $7.00010.25; cows and heifers, $5.7507.06; western sters, $6.0008.40; Texas steers, $5.7506.75; cows and heifers, $5.0006.50canners, $4.0005.00; stockers and feeders! $5.7508.25; calves, $7.60010.00. SHEEP—Market steady; yearlings, ss<| 06.15; wethers, $5.1006.60; lambs. $7,009

State News in Brief

Indianapolis.—Nathan Shields, thir-Cy-seven, of Akron, 0.. had both feet cut off when he went to sleep on the railroad track near Plainfield and was run ■ over by Pennsylvania freight train No. 60. Shields was brought to Indianapolis. His condition is serious. Jeffersonville. Miss Marjorie Chandler, age nineteen, shot herself at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chandler, Howard Park, west of this city. She is in a serious condition. The bullet, which was of small caliber, barely missed the heart. Darlington.—George Miller, fiftythree years old, of Indianapolis, Is dead of pneumonia at the home of his half-brother, William Lowrey. He came here a week ago. He is one of the survivors of the flood at lhdiahapolis in Marph, 1913, and was rescued from a floating horfsetop after he nearly perished. Columbus.—Rolla Devine of Indianapolis, who was serving a 110-day sentence in the county jail here for “bootlegging” at the receipt Bartholomew county fair, escaped by running while he was being taken by a guard to a stone pile to work. An unsuccessful effort was made a few days ago to effect the prisoner's release by a habeas corpss proceeding. Shelbyville.—The grain elevator at Lewis Creek, owned by the Nading Grain company of this city, was destroyed by fire with a loss of SIB,OOO. The insurance is $12,500. The fire is traced to spontaneous combustion in a cob pile. The elevator contained more than six thousand bushels of wheat and 1,800 bushels of oats.

Laporte.—'Wholesale vaccination is in .progress at Porter, a town of about fifteen hundred population, where, under instructions from the state board of health, men, women and children are being inoculated with virus to prevent what Is feared will be an epidemic of smallpox. Three eases have developed and hundreds of exposures are reported. Haftford.City.—Panhandle train No. 56 was nearly wrecked east of this city when it ran into a flock of sheep that had escaped from a pastured field on the Ed Armstrong farm. There were 400 sheep in the flock, and 24 of them were killed.

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FOR SALE For Said —-Wild hay.—JAMES WISEMAN, Virgie, phone 926-H. For Sale—R. C. Rhode Island cockerels.—F. M. PARKER, phone 217, Rensselaer. n -8 For Sale—-White oak posts, extra erqod ones.—J. C. BORXTRAGER. Rensselaer, R-4, phone 929-A. For Sale—Nearly pew 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.-—RAN-DOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, tnd., or phone Mt. Ayr 54-C. ts For Sale or Trade—One 3-year-old bay gelding, wt. ,1300; one 2-year-old black mule. For sale or will trade for stock cattle —FRED PHILLIPS.

For Sale—Royal hot blast heater, for soft coal or wood, in good condition.—C. G. HORSEWOOD, on Ed Ranton farm, Rensselaer, R-l.

For Sale—A number of cockerels, White Orpingtons; S. C. B. Minorcas; S. C. White Leghorns. All full blood.—GH'AS. W. POSTILL, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 499-B.

For Sale —lo acres good black land, all in cultivation, fair buildings, fruit, etc.; onion laqd close that can be rented, $1,500; SSOO cash, time on balance to suit; 7% miles Rensselaer. —J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—>Fnrmß of different sizes In this and adjoining counties, and some for exchange. Also city Mid town property for sale and exchange. List your property with me and 1 will promise a squ.re deal. Choice alfalfa, whoat, corn and pasture lands for sale from $25 and up.— JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-eherlff Jaspor county, Rensselaer, ind. For Sale or Trade—2 horses at $75 each, 1 a black mare, wt. 900, 1 a gray mare, wt. 1100, aged 9 and 10

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fii iwmm Hallow’een Party and Fair Friday Eve, Oct, 31 REDMEN’S HALL GIVEN BY THE POCAHONTAS Beautiful prizes for best costumed lady and gentlemap. Redmen, Pocahontas and friends invited. ADMISSION 10 CTS.

years, broke single and double. Will sell or trade for cattle or hogs CALEB FRIEND, Goodland, Ind. R-l. Phone 190-E Brook exchange, n-16 For Sale —220 acres improved Newton county land, four miles from market, 160 acres under cultivation and best tiled quarter in western Indiana, balance meadow and timber pasture. Fair improvements. Price $75 per acre for quick sale. Reasonable terms to right party. If interested write or wire.—J. A. WELLS, Aledo, Illinois.

WANTED \\ anted—More piano pupils.— LOIS THOMPSON. \\anted—A couple of furnished rooms in Rensselaer, by man and wife, for light housekeeping, not too far from central part of city. Wanted not later than Nov. I.—Address “G,” CARE DEMOCRAT. Wanted at Once—Local and traveling salesmen in this state to represent us. There is money in the work for YOU soliciting for our easy selling specialties. Apply now for territory.—ALLEN NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y. . FOR RENT For Rent —The rooms over Rhoads’ grocery, which wil be vacated by the telephone company by October 1. Enquire at RHOADS’ GROCERY.

miscellaneous. Estrays Taken Up—3 calves about Oct. 4 by KORAH POTTS, phone 921-D, Rensselaer exchange. Rug Making—Hand-made Eureka rugs, colonial rugs, rag rugs and carpets made to order at jheeidence on south Scott street. — T. W. BISSENDEN. Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 632-L.

financial Farm Loans—Money to loan oa farm property In any sums ap to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am n*«vim term loans at the lowest rates of Internet. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I flftf lhnl Wlthout TH3ajt Itr I F Wlthout Commler on, Uvl Illu I Without Charges for Making or Recording U N V Instruments. IUUIIL I W. H. PARKHIBOa,