Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — Page 4

UNION CITY MAN HANGS HIMSELF

IBen Raiser, a Barber, Ends Life in Old Fair Grounds. (BODY COVERED WITH FROST IWlfe and Two Children Survive Forty-Flve-Year-Old Suicide—Financial Difficulties Given as Cause. Union City.—Ben Raiser, fortyfive years old, a barber, committed suicide by hanging. The body ■was found hanging from a tree in the ■old fair grounds at the western edge •of Union City. The body was covered with frost. Financial difficulties are tiglven as a cause for the suicide. A widow and two children survive. Loot Divided in Indiana. Fort Wayne.—That the two robbers who dashed into the Homestead National bank, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., at noon September 17, held up customers and bank attaches and got away with SIO,OOO, divided their swag In the woods four miles east of Fort 'Wayne, has apparently been developed to a certainty. Mrs. Margaret Buffington, a detective attached to the Homestead police department, came to Fort Wayne seeking evidence corroborative of a confession which has been made by Joseph Kaufman, one of two men now held in Pittsburgh for the crime. The man’s story is to the effect that after the crime the robbers jumped into an automobile and headed for Chicago. They arrived at New Haven, five miles east of Fort Wayne, at night, according to the confession, where they drove their machine into a tree, wrecking it. They then divided the money and separated. The wrecked automobile, found some days after it had been abandoned, was towed into the City and has been in the custody of a justice court awaiting a claimant.

Two Men Kidnap Boy. Evansville.—The police reported that Homer, the eleven-year-old son of P. A. Poole, of this city, was kidnaped by two strange men, who bound and gaged him and placed him in a surrey and hauled him several miles from the city to a corn field. After the lad had been unbound, he managed to escape from the men and ran to a mile across a corn field with the men in hot pursuit, hut he reached the house of a farmer, who placed the boy on a traction ear and sent him to the city The lad’s story has been corroborated by the police, who are looking for the men who kidnaped him. . r .. A ii.t. Girl Rescued From Cistern. „ Anderson.—William Wells saved the life of Miss Sarah Martin, seventeen years old. when the young woman fell through the cover o'" a cistern and plunged into eight feet of water. Her mother saw her fall and called to the neighbor. Wells seized a clothes prop and went to the rescue of the young woman as she was sinking She grasped the prop and he pulled her from the cistern. The girl then fainted, and is yet in a critical condition Prisoner Saves Life of Sheriff. Hammond -Instead of Sheriff Y. E. White of Gran! county bringing E. E. Trowbridge of Marion county back from Francesville. La., on a forgery charge. Trowbridge brought White hack to Indiana. A short distance out of New Orleans after capturing White became deathly ill with ptomaine poisoning on the train. Trowbridge's unremitting attention on the way back to Indiana probably saved the sheriff's, life. Hog Cholera Causes Alarm. Goshen. —What was supposed to be foot-and-mouth disease among hogs on farms near Bristol, north of here, was found to be cholera. Many animals have died. Farmers, becoming alarmed, called County Agent Coffeen and Dr. W. J. Armour, deputy state veterinarian. Hog cholera is raging throughout Elkhart and Kosciousko counties, and the losses amount to thousands of dollars. Man on Foot Hunts Sister. Valparaiso.—Charles Turner of Indianapolis, en route on foot in a State-wide search for his sister, Mrs. fljarl Gruel, from whom he has been since childhood, arrived here and was directed to Hobart, where a family named Gruel was reported residing. Sentence Magazine Solicitor. Crawfordsville.—William Archley of Danville, 111., was sentenced hqre to one to seven years in prison on a plea of guilty to a charge qf obtaining maney. under false pretenses by means of a fake magazine offer. Train Victim Identified. Valparaiso.— The stranger killed at Kouts, this county, two weeks ago by a Pan Handle train, has been identified through papers as John Shoals of Warren.

WAR OF EXHAUSTION

BRITISH OFFICER SAYS CONFLICT HINGES ON RAW MEN. Asserts Kaiser Massed 750,000 Troops Against Allies in Attempt to Reach Calais. fr London, Dec. 4. —Declaring that the war will be one of exhaustion after the regular armies have done their work and that final success will depend on the raw recruits of the countries Involved, Col. E. D. Swinton details some of the sensational fighting in Belgium and northern France. He relates from the British point of view how Emperor William massed 750,000 soldiers north of La Bassee and hurled assault after assault against the allies* line in a supreme effort to break through and reach Calais or Dunkirk before November 26. Of these 750,000 troops 250,000 were fresh men “hastily raised and trained.” The main onslaughts were made against the British front, the colonel reports, and the British machine guns and rifles mowed down the ranks of the Germans repeatedly. When General Joffre finally sent French re-enforcements to the British line the British soldiers were exhausted. Colonel Swinton, who is attachedto the intelligence department of the British general staff in the field, points out the difference between the German regular army and the kaiser’s newly raised troops. While praising both kinds of soldiers as brave and heroic, he says the veteran Prussian Guards soon recovered from the effects of the withering fire of former battles, whereas the kaiser’s new troops have not yet recovered from blows inflicted by the British a month ago. Admitting the losses have been enormous on the British side, Colonel •Swinton says the efficiency of the British regulars has not been impaired. The gaps have been filled, the sacrifices made up and the allied line stands firm while awaiting whatever the future has in store.

VON MOLTKE MEETS STAFF

High Military Officials From War Zone Confer With Field Marshal in Berlin. Berlin, Dec. 4, by wireless.—Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke. the chief of the German general staff, who has been in ill health, conferred with high military dignitaries from the German headquarters in the field.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, EtcJ Chicago, Dec. i. Open- High- Low- ClouWheat— Ing. eat. est. Ing. Dec 1.14% i.i 5% 114% IM% May 1.21%-% 1.21% 1.201/4 1.20% Corn— Dee. ~..63%-64 .64 .63% .63% May 69%-% .69% .68%-% .68% OatsDec. 47%-% .47% .47 .47 May ...52% .52% .51% .51%-% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Minnesota, hard, wood, $6.20 to retail trade; Minneapolis and Dakota, patents, $5.50® 5.75; jute, straight. [email protected]; first clears, jute, $4.65(7(5.00; second clears, jute, $3.70® 3.65; low, grades, jute, [email protected];. soft Wheat, patents, $5.00@5,20; jute, rye flour, white, patent, $5.fi5®6.00; $5.i0@5,25. RUTTER—Creamery, extra, 32c; extra firsts. 30@31c; firsts. 27%@29%c: seconds, 24@26%c; packing slock, 21'?/21%c; ladles 22%@23c. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included, 20@29c; cases returned, 19%@28V.c: ordinary firsts, 26@27e; firsts, 28(029c; extras 32@33c, LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, 12%<? per lbs.; chickens, fowls. 10c; springs. 11c; roosters. 9c; ducks, I1@11%c; geese. S@llc. DRESSED POULTRY—iSressed turkeys, 17@18e; chickens, fowls, 10@llc; springs. 11 ®l2c; roosters, 10c;. ducks, S@l2c: geese 8 @iic. POTATOES— Wisconsin. White, stock. 35 l '(43i>; red. 35@40c; Michigan, white, 35@43c. New York, Dec. 3. WHEAT—Firmer, trade less active; ,No. I northern, $1.29; No. 2 red. 51.24; No. 2 hard, $1.26; December. $1.23; May, $1.30. CORN -Weaker, quiet demand; export, 71c; No. 2 yellow, 72%c; No 3 yellow, Tl'Ac. OATS—Steady, less Inquiry , No. 2 white. 53%@54c; standard, •3'7T53%c; No. 3 white, 52%@53c; No. 4 white, 52@52%c. BA RT .EY.—Steady; 72fi82c, . -* * Live Stock. • Chicago. Dec. 3. CATTLE—Steers, good to prime, $9.00® 10.80; steers, fair to good, [email protected]; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; Inferior steers, [email protected]; stockers. [email protected]; medium to good beef cows, [email protected]; stock cows, $4,75®5.50; fair to choice heifers, $6.00 @7.70; stock heifers. [email protected]; good to choice cows. [email protected]; common to good cutters, [email protected]; fair to good cannerg, [email protected]; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bologna, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime light butchers. 200@230 lbs., $6.75® 7.00; prime medium weight butchers, 250® 275 lbs.. [email protected]; prime heavy butchers, 270@280 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing. [email protected]; heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 3. CATTLE—Market slow and steady; shipping steers, [email protected]; butcher grades. [email protected]. CALVES—Market slow, 25c higher; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market slow; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, $6.00® 8.75: yearlings. [email protected]; • sheep, $3.00® 6.75. F?OGS—Market fairly active; Yorkers, $7.50; pigs, $7.50; mixed, $7.50; heavy, $7.50; roughs, $6.00^'6.50;-stags, $7.50, Omaha, Neb., Dec. 3. HOGS—Market lower: heavy, [email protected]; light, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, [email protected]. CATTLE—Market steady; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steers, $6,[email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; calves, [email protected]. SHEEP—Market higher; yearlings, $6.75 07.25; wethers. [email protected]: lambs. $7.65@«.<8

WEEKS NEWS

Summarized for Very Busy Readers

Washington President Wilson learned at Washington from Dr. Henry Van Dyke, minister to the Netherlands, and Henry White, former ambassador to France, recently returned from Europe, that peace was not in sight and the time had not come for the United States to renew or emphasize peace offers to the heads of the belligerent nations. • • • Secretary of Agriculture Houston at Washington told more than a thousand boy corn growers from Ohio that they should stay on the farm. The secretary pointed out that although the population has increased 23,000,000 there has been no increase in the production of corn, and he urged the boys to continue their efforts to increase the yield. * • » A telegram was sent out by Internal Revenue Commissioner Osborn at Washington to collectors all over the country, making it plain that the government has no Intention of prosecuting anybody subject to the war tax who shows that he is willing and ready to make the required payment. • • * More than one hundred thousand men were injured in American mines laet year, while 3,631 were killed outright, according to figures given in the annual report of Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the bureau of mines at Washington. • ♦ • President Wilson, after discussing with Secretary Garrison at Washington the request of Governor Ammons of Colorado that federal troops be withdrawn from some of the Colorado strike districts, decided that nothing should be done at this time. * * • ' Proposed increases in freight rates extending throughout the middle West and West, affecting many classes of freight, were suspended by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. • Resumption of the parcel post service between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary was announced by Postmaster General Burleson at Washington. • • * President Wilson announced at Washington the appointment of Seth Low of New York, Charles W. Mills of Philadelphia and Patrick Gilday of Clearfield, Pa., as a commission through which future differences between operators and miners involved in the present Colorado coal strike may be settled

European War News Germans turn on Russians in Poland, check advance, and resume offensive on new front; claim 80,000 unwounded prisoners during maneuvers. • • • With one dissenting vote, that of Herr Liebknecht, Socialist, the reichstag at Berlin, voted a new war credit of 5,000,000,000 marks ($1,250,000,000). Doctor von Bethmann-Hollweg, imperial chancellor, said: “We must and will fight to a successful end our defensive war for right and freedom.” The chancellor blamed Russia for the conflict, but said the real responsibility was Great Britain’s ♦ • ♦ It is officially announced that General De Wet, Boer leader who headed the late revolt against the British government of the Union of South Africa, has been captured. * * * The success of the Germans in cutting their way out of the trap laid by the Russians has i cost General Rennekampf his command, according to a dispatch from Petrograd. • * * Though it seems clear now that the German army in Russian Poland, or that part of it which the Russians almost surrounded near Lodz, narrowly escaped annihilation, the Germans fought with such fury that the cordon encircling them was broken, and as German re-enforcements are coming up the issue is not yet decided. • * » It is announced at military headquarters in Berlin that Emperor William is with the German army in the East. * ♦. * Belgrade, capital of Servia, occupied by Austrians after Servian army had evacuated city. »* * * Allies ready to take offensive in western zone; Paris statement tells of advance made at several points. ♦ * * Lieutenant General Couiit von Moltke, says a Berlin dispatch, has recovered his health and is returning to the front. • * • It is reported that the German fleet again has steamed into the North sea. The eighty-eighth and eighty-ninth Prussian casualty lists, Issued in Berlin, contain of 7,397 officers and 10,292 men killed, wounded and missing, w;hich brings the total of Prussian casualties to 644,762.

According to a Berlin message to the Telegraaf, Cairo reports that 76,000 Turkish troops under Izzet Pasha are marching against the Suez canal. • • • It is reported in Rotterdam that the crown prince is about to take over the German' command on the western war front. The re-ehforcements which arrived in Belgium last week are estimated at 30,000. Arrangements have been made for the Immediate reception of 120,000 more. * • • Personal Brig. Gen. Frank P. Wells, commanding the Second brigade, I. N. G., was placed on the retired list and Lieut. Col. Henry R. Hill of Quincy was named to succeed him. • * • Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, retired, the noted naval expert and writer, died of heart trouble at Washington. • • • J. Borden Harriman, the retired New York banker, died at Washington, after an illness of several months. He was fifty years old. Lucius Tuttle, former president of the Boston & Maine railroad, died at Brookline, Mass. Death was due to angina pectoris. * • ♦ Katherine Alexander Duer, formerly Mis. Clarence H. Mackay, and Dr. Joseph A. Blake were,married by the mayor of, the sixteenth arrondissement, Passy, France. Doctor Blake's wife obtained a divorce in the United States last week. • • * Myron T. Herrick, the retiring American ambassador to France, accompanied by Mrs. Herrick and the members of his family, departed from Paris to New York. * * ‘ Mexican Revolt General Villa entered the City of Mexico at the head of about twentyfive thousand troops. He will not enter the main part of the city until the arrival of Provisional President Gutierrez. • • • Private Caine of B troop, Ninth United States cavalry, was shot in the head and probably fatally wounded. Four Mexican children were wounded, one seriously, on the American side in the siege of Naco, Sonora. ♦ * *

The city of Pachuca, where Gen. Pablo Gonzales, Jacinto Trevino and other constitutionalist chiefs, with their respective brigades, had taken refuge. Was taken by Villa's troops. • * * Gen. Pablo Gonzales, one of the leading division generals of the constitutionalist army of Mexico before it was divided by factional strife, has declared himself prnvislona.l president of Mexico. This makes at least three claimants to Diaz' power. • • • Domestic An industrial commission to serve without compensation as the panacea for the Industrial ills of the coal fields to which his administration will be heir, was suggested by Gov.-elect George A. Carlson of Colorado before the federal commission on industrial relations at Denver, Colo. Six hundred men resumed work in the Iron Mountain railroad shops at Argentine, Ark. * * • Thomas J. Hill, an aviator, twentyfive years old, was killed near Venice. Cal., while looping the loop. • * * “Love, not dreadnaughts and siege guns, is to bring peace to warring Europe.” Secretary Bryan took this for his text when he spoke before Presbyterians of Chicago. “The nations of the world have dealt with each other on the basis of fear,” Mr. Bryan said. “Why don't the nations learn that the only foundation on which nations can dwell together is love?” * * * William Eliza Williams ot Pittsfield, 111., Democratic congressman at large, was re-elected by a plurality of 1,733 votes over J. McCan Davis, Republican, according to official returns from all counties in Illinois, which were available for the first time. Davis won on the unofficial returns of 3,250 votes. B. M. Chiperfield, Republican, is the other newly elected congressmen at large, running ahead of Both Williams and Davis. Senator Y. Sherman’s official plurality over Roger C. Sullivan is 17,258. ♦ ♦ ♦ Unable to pay its employees, the United States Metal Products company filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy at New York, giving the assets as $3,700,860 and the debts as $1,008,550. Commercial organizations in 25 Illinois cities interchanged telegraphic greetings on > Thursday on the occasion of the ninety-sixth anniversary of the state’s admission to*the Union. A daring ‘‘wire-tapping” swindle was brought to light in Chicago when John G. Schafer, formerly a wealthy farmer of Morris, Minn., reported to the detective bureau that he had been fleeced out of $1«2,000 by two men he met in Chicago. ■* * ♦ One hundred and eleven dead and 162 injured is the hunting toll In 17 states of the Union and one province In Canada for the season which ended November 30. Wisconsin has a total of 33 dead and 36 wounded and Michigan 27 dead and 42 wounded.

Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store Peace and Prosperity are the harbingers of a Merry Christmas. The Lord has blessed our community with both. Our Christmas Will be as merry as we make it. Let us help you in the selection of the cheer-makers gifts for our dear ones. People are buying early. We are laying presents away every day. Don tbe a last hour shopper, * \i£ trt>la , and c l ,eer the whol « family—Ask those who have them—Prices from $15.00 to $250.00. aCCeptal>,e Preets for anybody. Prices from SI.OO skat “' ,n,, *»" <*■* For decorating—Holly Leaves, Poinsettas, Tinsels, Seals, Cards. mas et PeF,Ume8 ’ Toi,e <;- Waters and Powders in ’ Christ ’ Books, all the late copyrights. Padded Gift Books, Children's Picture Books. Bibles. 500 good titles at 50c el?h V u d, »V“ T . Oys ’ r>olls ’ American Builders, Radioptica™ Blocks, Spelling Boards, Crokinole Boards, Games. ’ <>ents Shaving Stands, Safety Razors, Smoking articles. U e are the home of White Ivory, having bought the largest line o'fv S bl °f Rht ‘V Clty ' Thls includes ladles’ toilet articles with ">u X ,nd,vMu * 1 <” »«♦ "".vf'l-V Remember our 25' years experience has taught us where to buv X aeUrlsht ,"'e Invite to call early and X tpnd to all the season s greetings. t Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store

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FOR SALE For Sale —Full blood M. B. turkeys, toms $4; hens $3. —MRS. ROY DONNELLY, phone 953-F. For Sale—Full blood Plymouth rock roosters.—.HAßVEY R. KEEN, R-4, phone 949-C. d-13 For Sale—Bo acres good corn land in cultivation, well located, splendid buildings. Price $75. Terms, SI,OOO down, long time on remainder.— ARTHUR G. CATT, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—A Webster's International dictionary, indexed, full sheep binding, in -good condition, at onefourth regular cost.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Two Shorthorn bull calves; pure bred; Also brown leghorn chickens and white African guineas.—W. 11. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 94 9-H. ts For Sale —Mammoth pure bred Bronze turkeys. Also pure bred Barred Rock chickens, E. B. Thompson Imperial Ringlet strain. Pens w a specialty.—MCDONALD SISTERS, McCoysburg, Ind. d-31 For Sale—Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels, $2 each, also Mammoth Pekin Ducks, $1.50 each. Satisfaction guaranteed—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind., phone 192-D For Sale—My farm of 120 acres in Jasper county, 2i/ 2 miles northeast of McCoysburg.“ A bargain if taken soon.—J. H. PURSIFULL, Poneto, Ind. dec-1 For Sale—6o acres, ten acres timber, remainder black corn land in cultivation; on main road near school and station; fine outlet for drainage. New four-room house, barn and well. Price $75. Terms, SBOO down, long time on remainder.—Enquire at First National Bank. For Sale—lo acres good black land, all in cultivation, fair buildings, fruit, etc.; onion land close that can berented, $1,500; SSOO cash, time on balance to suit; 7% miles Rensselaer.—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 me 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 Jasper county, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—22o 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. Rea-

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sonable terms to right party. If interested write or wire.—J. A. WELLS, Aledo, Illinois. WANTED Sewing Wanted—At my home in Parr, at James Longstreth’s.—MßS. MYRA CASEY. d-6 Wanted—A couple of family washings, good work done.—For name of party inquire at this office. 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—lmproved sixty acres, Milroy tp., Address J. A. TUNE Forrest, 111. d-14 For Rent—The rooms over Rhoads* grocery, which wil be vacated by the telephone company by October 1 Enquire at RHOADS* GROCERY. LOST. Lost—Tuesday, Nov. 21, a black fur overcoat, some place between my home northwest of town, and John Daugherty’s residence in Rensselaer —JAMES PRICE, phone 902-. T, Rensselaer. Ind. Lest—Handbag containing two ladies’ handkerchiefs, $8 in small envelope, and small purse containing $5 in paper money, between Center school house and Rensselaer. Return to this office and receive reward.—MßS. C. B. WELLS. MISCELLANEOUS. Estrayed—From my place four miles south of Rensselaer, near the James school house, Oct. 25, a black sow weighing about 300 pounds. A reasonable reward will be paid for her recovery.—GEO. W. KENNEDY Rensselaer, R-4, phone 949-B. Estray Taken Up—Came to my place in Newton tp., about Nov. 24, a yearling steer. Owner may have same by proving ownership and pay™Vh^ rS *; S -~ JOHLN RUSH ’ Phone 20-G, Mt. Ayr exchange, P. o. Rensselaer, R-3 Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor es The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. ___ financial Farm Loans—Money to loan oa l a sn m AAP roperty ln any snnis up to SIO,OOO.—E. p. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of Intereat. Ten year loans, without commission and without delay;—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I Cp| ■ ■A.J!. ► Wlthout Char *®» for unucv Mating ° r Nil 1111 I Inßt ruments. IHvIIL I J W. H. PARKUfSOM