Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — Page 4

President’s Note Given to Berlip by American Envoy.

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Fgard to the sacred freedom of the seas. pi' “The government of the United (States has been apprised that the Imiperlal German government considered themselves to be obliged by the extraordinary circumstances of the present war and the measures adopted by their adversaries in seeking to cut Germany off from all commerce, to adopt methods of retaliation which go much beyond the ordinary methods of warfare at sea, in the proclamation of a war zone, from which they have warned neutral ships to keep away. This government has already taken occasion to inform the imperial government that it cannot admit the adoption of such measures or such a warning of danger to operate as in any degree On abbreviation of the rights of American ship masters or of American Citizens bound on lawful errands as passengers on merchant ships of belligerent nationalities; and that it must hold the imperial German government to. a strict accountability for any infringement of those rights, intentional or unintentional. It does not understand the imperial German government to question those rights. It assumes, on the contrary, that the imperial German government accepts, as of coursq, the rule that the lives of noncombatants, whether they be of neutral citizenship or citizens of one of the nations at war, cannot lawfully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of an unarmed merchantman, and recognize also, as all other nations do, the obligation to take the usual precaution of visit and search to ascertain wheflier a suspected merchantman is in fact'of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband of war under,a neutral flag. Seas Must Be Safe for Americans. The government of the United States, therefore, desires to call the attention of the imperial German government, with the utmost earnestness, to the fact that the objection to their present method of attack against the trade of their enemies lies in the practical impossibility of employing submarines in the destruction of commerce without disregarding those rules of fairness, reason, justice and humanity , which all modern opinion regards as imperative. It is practically impossible for the officers of a submarine to visit a merchantman at sea and examine her papers and cargo. Manifestly submarines cannot be used against merchantmen, as the last few weeks have shown,without an inevitable violation of many sacred principles of justice and humanity.

“American citizens act within their indisputable rights in taking their ships and in traveling wherever their legitimate business calls them upon the high seas, and exercise those rights iii what should be the well justified confidence that their lives will not be endangered by acts done in clear violation of universally acknowledged international obligations, and certainly in the confidence that their own government will sustain them in the exercise of their rights. Warning Is No Excuse. “There was recently published in the newspapers of the United States, 1 regret to inform the imperial German government, a formal warning, purporting to come from the imperial German embassy at Washington, addressed to the people of the United States and stating in effect that any citizen of the United States who exercised his right to travel upon the seas would do so at his peril. No warning that an unlawful and inhuman act will be committed can possibly be accepted as an excuse Or palliation for that act, or as an abatement of the responsibility for its commission.

Hopes Germany Will Disavow Acts. “Long acquainted as this government has been with the character of the imperial German government and with the high principles of equity by which they have in the past been actuated and guided, the government of the United States cannot believe that the commanders of the vessels which committed these acts of lawlessness did so except under a misappre hension of the orders issued by the imperial German naval authorities It takes it for granted that, at least within the practical possibilities of everysuch case, the commanders even of submarines were expected to do nothing that would involve the lives of noncombatants or the safety of neutral ships, even at the cost of failing of their object of capture or destruction It confidently expects, therefore, that the imperial German government will disavow the acts of which the government of the United States complains, that they will make reparation so far as reparation is possible for injuries which are without measure, and that they will take immediate steps to prevent the recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of warfare for which the imperial German government has in the past so wisely and so firmly contended. “The government and people of the United States look to the imperial German government for just, prompt and enlightened action in this vital matter with the greater confidence because the United States and Germany are bound together not only by special ties of friendship, but also by the explicit ;6tipulations of the treaty of 1828 between the United States and the kingdom of Prussia. Will Maintain Rights of U. S. “Expressions of regret and offers of reparation in case of the destruction jof neutral ships sunk by mistake, ■ while they may satisfy international iobligations if no loss of life results,

MEETING HELD IN BOONVILLE

Session of Pocket Publishers Attended by Seventeen. CONNELTON GETS GATHERING C. T. Miller, President of Body, Calls Meeting to Order—Address of Welcome Is Delivered by Judge Roscoe Kiper. Boonville.—The meeting of the Pocket Publishers' league was held at the Knights of Pythias hall and was attended by seventeen members. The meeting was called to order by the president, C. T. Miller, editor of the Cannelton Enquirer, after which an address of welcome was delivered by Judge Roscoe Kiper, followed by remarks by Senator J. A. Hemenway and S. B. Hatfield. The session was adjourned for dinner, which was given in honor of the guests at the St. Charles hotel, and was followed by an auto tour. The following program: “How a County Editor Can Own an Automobile,” A. J. Hearing, Winslow Dispatch; discussion, C. T. Baker, Grandview Monitor; “Country correspondents—How to Secure and Retain Them,” L. J. Early, Cannelton Telegram; “What the Last Legislature Did for the Country Newspaper,” G. H. Hazen, Boonville Enquirer; discussion, Lew M. O’Bannon, Corydon Democrat; “Should a Country Newspaper Use Clubbing Offers?” Elmo Wilson, Marengo Observer; discussion, Henry Haake, Ferdinand News. A resolution was offered by W. W. Kellams resolving that every member of the league should abstain from further clubbing rates. The motion was adopted unanimously. The next meeting will be held at Cannelton, August 16.

Auto Victim's Widow at Laporte. Laporte.— Deeply eviled in mourning for her husband who was killed in an automobile tragedy near this city, Monday, May 3, though admitting that she had not seen him for twelve years, Mrs. Carrie Whitbeck of 1-143 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, came here and by examination of the coroner’s evidence proved that the victim was John Whitbeck, to whom she was married thirty years ago, and that he had again married without securing a divorce from her. The woman who came to this city and accompanied the remains to Chicago, while both women, each unconscious of the presence of the other, were mourners at. the grave, was his second wife. Mrs. Whitbeck declared that she would legally contest for possession of her husband's property, even though it is claimed by the second wife.

Slayer Sent to Prison. Indianapolis—Frank Pierson, fortynine years old, charged with the murder of James Deep, March 30, 1912, pleaded guilty to manslaughter ill criminal court and was sentenced by Judge Collins to the state prison for two to twenty-one years. According to his story he went home the night of the trouble and found Deep and Mrs. Pierson together. In the fight which, followed Leep was knocked down and his skull was fractured. Pierson immediately left the city and was gone until a few weeks ago when the police returned him from St. Louis. He was told in court that had he appeared before the grand jury indicted him he might nOt have been indicted. An application for a change of venue from Marion county was made by Roscoe G. Detamore, charged with the murder of his wife. He alleges that because of excitement and prejudice against him he cannot have a fair trial in Indianapolis/ • • Sister Bonaventura Is Dead. Oldenburg.—Sister Bonaventura, for many years teacher of mathematics at the Academy of Franciscan Nuns in Oldenburg, died in Cincinnati, and the funeral* was held at Oldenburg. Sister Bonaventura was a native of New York, and was known in the world as Miss Pauline Smith. She joined the Franciscan community at Oldenburg in 1861, and was one of the best known teachers in the order. The funeral was attended by the following Indianapolis people: Mrs. J. J. Cole, Mrs. Rose Conett, Mrs. R. Harry Miller, Mrs. Cora Langsdale and Mrs. Louise McCarthy O’Brien. Indiana Scientist Dies. Terre Haute.—Dr. J. T. .Scoville, scientist, author, and whose measurements of Mount Orizaba, Mexico, was accepted by the government, is dead here, aged seventy-two years.

cannot justify or excuse a practice, the natural and necessary effect of which is to subject neutral nations and neutral persons to new and immeasurable -risks. “The imperial German government will not expect the government of the United States to omit any work or any action necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. (Signed) “BRYAN.”

WEEKS NEWS

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European War News Russian success at several points where desperate fighting with the Teutonic allies has ’been in progress for the last few days is reported in the announcement of the Petrograd war oflice. : The was issued at the American embassy in London: , “As to the sinking of the Lusitania, it appears from all Statements which have been secured that no warning was given. A torpedo hit amidships on the starboard side. Seventy-nine Americans -were saved and one hundred and eighteen Tare Thi ssfngW - <- - —■ • * * The secretary of the British admiralty says that on May 1 two German torpedo boats and a British destroyer were sunk following an engagement. The British lost 16 officers and men. * ♦ * A dispatch from Cracow to the Journal de Geneye says that the losses of the Austrians and Germans since May 1 are 165,000 officers and men. Losses of the Russians in prisoners are placed at 50,000. • * •' ■ The sinking of the steamer Lusitania has aroused to a violent climax the smoldering hatred and suspicion of Germans living in England. This animosity has found expression in attacks on Germans, principally upon their shops in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birkenhead, Glasgow and other places. , Many Germans were injured. “Murder, lust and pillage prevailed over many parts of Belgium on a scale unparalleled in any war between civilized nations during the past three centuries,” declared the British government commission headed by Viscount Bryce, former British ambassador to the United States, in “a report given at London on alleged German atrocities in Belgium,” presented to Premier Asquith. ♦ * * French troops captured “a veritable fortress” at Notre Dame de Lorette, says the war office report from Paris; “an important German work and an entire system of trenches along the road from Loos to Vermelles,” the chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette, and all the trenches south of it, part of Carency. ♦ * * The London Times states that A. F. Wilding, the famous tennis player, was killed in a recent-action at the Dardanelles. ■* • * Official announcement was made at the German war office at Berlin that the city of Libau, in the province Of Courland. Russia, has been captured by the Germans. Libau Is an important seaport and industrial center. ♦* * 5 Canada had 108,760 men under arms at the front and in Canada May 1, says an official announcement made at Ottawa, Ont. The government expects the number will be increased to 150,000. * * • Germany, through Ambassador, Gerard, notified the United States that submarine commanders had been specifically instructed not to harm neutral vessels not engaged in hostile acts, and that Germany would pay for damages to such ships in the war zone. -. • ♦ The Austrians have taken the passage of the Wisloka and reached Linevernik, Haligrad and Bukowsho. The total loss of the Russians is at least 150,000, says Vienna. ■ ’ ■ * • ♦ ' While England was mourning for the dead lost in the Lusitania disaster, Germany launched another aerial attack upon towns between London and the east coast. A fleet of aeroplanes and Zeppelins bombarded several towns and villages, setting fire with incendiary bombs. A woman had been killed and many civilians were injured-at South End. • * * The London Daily Mail’s correspondent at Rotterdam says a proclamation has been posted in Antwerp declaring that Germany has annexed Belgium. The proclamation is dated May 5. • • • The semiofficial Berlin News agency issued the following statement: “The steamship Transylvania, which left New York, belongs to the category of ships which carry contraband and, therefore, is liable to attack by German submarines.” * • * Webb Ware, who was the British representative of Alfred Vanderbilt, was informed at Queenstown that Mr. Vanderbilt’s body has been recovered. The reports came from a small coast village. Ware is investigating. * * * -> ' A news dispatch received at Geneva, Switzerland, from Basel says a number of American citizens, mostly business men, are arriving there from Germany ■ where they will await developments in I the relations between the United ' States apd Germany.

Washington The United States government, in a note written by President Wilson at Washington to Germany, formally demands of the imperial government a strict accounting for the loss of American lives in the sinking of the Lusitania, and violations of American rights in the war zone. It also asks that there will be no repetition of such events or practices. With the plain intimation in it that the United States is prepared to meet any eventuality that may arise from a noncompliance, the communication, phrased in unmistakably emphatic language, was cabled to Berlin. • President Wilson received a letter at Washington from former President Taft expressing confidence in his ability to handle the situation growing out of the sinking of the Lusitania. The president has written a reply to Mr. Taft, thanking him warmly. * * * President Wilson at Washington appointed John G. Kuhn postmaster of Elgin, 111. * * * The department of state of the federal government at Washington has issued orders to steamship companies at Chicago and other cities to sell no more transatlantic tickets and to make no more steamer reservations unless the prospective passenger is supplied with passports and credentials. * ♦ * President Wilson gave further assurance at Washingtofi that the United States shall expect no interference with its treaty rights In the demands which Japan has made upon China. * * * Mexican Revolt Fifty persons were killed in disorders in Mexico City, which began as the result of a brawl between rival Mexican generals at a dance. Antonio Barona, a Zapatista general, shot and killed Gen. Francisco Estrada, chief of staff of Gen. Gonzales Garza. • • * Foreign The sailing of the Cunard line steamer Mauretania, sister ship of the Lusitania, advertised for May 29, has been canceled at, London. ♦ *■ The Japanese government announced at Tokyo that the naval and military movements in connection with the Chinese situation had been canceled. • • * Personal Grief over the war in Europe and the devastation of his native Belgium was believed to have hastened the death of Camillus P. Maes, sixtynine, who for thirty years was Catholic bishop of the diocese of Covington, Ky. P. J. Fitzpatrick, seventy, member of a wealthy Irish family, was found dead in his room asphyxiated accidentally at Chicago. Doctor Fitzpatrick was once a surgeon on an English steamship. Domestic Twenty persons were saved from drowning when the steamer Dixie ’struck a snag in the Mississippi river opposite Montrose, la., and sank in three minutes. The passengers and crew escaped. Mrs. Jane Kearney, aged eighty, was burned to death and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beckman were probably fatally injured in a fire at No. 792 East One Hundred "-and Sixth street, New York. ♦ * ♦ Pride in the United States navy and confidence that if called upon to vindicate the honor of the nation it would uphold the heroic traditions of its past were voiced at a luncheon tendered to Admiral Fletcher and the officers of the Atlantic fleet at Fraunces’ tavern at New York by the Sons of the Revolution. * » ♦ “America,” said President Wilson in an address to a gathering of 4,000 naturalized Americans at Philadelphia, “must have the consciousness that on all sides it touches elbows and touches heart with all nations of mankind. The example of America must be an example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but because peace is a healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not.” • ♦ ♦ Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan at the National Pencil factory at Atlanta, Ga., two years ago, was sentenced to be hanged June 22 by Judge Ben Hill in the criminal court. '*' ♦ * Ballot boxes were stuffed in the recent municipal election in Kansas City, Kan., according to George D. Jameson, a former sergeant of police, who testified In Governor Capper’s investigation. ♦ • * Ferdinand J. Zeni of Duquoin, 111., has received word from Austria telling him of the death of six cousins who were killed while fighting in the Carpathians. ♦ * ♦ Three divisions of the Atlantic torpedo flotilla, under command of Capt William S. Sims, U. S. N., arrived in the Hudson off New York and anchored opposite the battleships. With the arrival of the destroyers the naval mobilization of 1915 is complete and the fleet is lined up exactly as it will be reviewed by President Wilson.

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FOR SALE For Sale—Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 4 0 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18 tJ 45 bushels, followed by a crop of cow peas which makes from $25 to $35. Alfalfa from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hag flesh as an acre of corn. Go there and see if. we have told the truth; if we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which Is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly improved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location and improvements. Terms: Onethird down, balance on time at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of the finest farming country in the world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi county comprises 265,000 acres of fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products, it is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for general neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has great thrift and enterprise. Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants own their own homes. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons. They have the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 475., Rensselaer, Ind.

For Sale— Extra good fresh Jersev cow, With calf by sioe.—J. A. NAGEL, phone 937-D. m-20 For Sale— Bass fertilizer, stored at Farr, also Indian squaw seed corn. —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, R-l, phone 37-K, Mt. Ayr. For Sale'— Barred Rock eggs from three grand yards containing my Ist prize cockerel, Ist hen, Ist, 2d, 3d pullets, Ist pen at the Logansport Fanciers’ show.—Mߧ. D. A. BICKEL, Remington, Ind. For Sale— 2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, Chicken house and park, good well and cistern, all kinds of fruit, cheap for quick sale.—Enquire at HEMPHILL BROS.’S BLACKSMITH SHOP. For Sale Cheap— Owing to my husband’s long continued sickness we wish to sell our residence property on Forest street, lot 7-room house, electric lights, cellar, cistern, splendid drilled well, barn, 2 hen houses and parks, all in good condition; fruit and strawberries.— See MRS. J. W. KING, or J. C. Passons, phone 132.

Notice to Heirs, Creditors and legatees. In the Matter of the Estate of John Groom, Deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1915. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees and devisees of John Groom, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 13th day of September, 1915, Being the day fixed and endorsed on The final settlement account of The Trust and Savings Bank, executor of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said court, on said day and make proof of their heirshop, or claim to any part of said estate. THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, Executor. Judson J. Hunt, Attorney for Estate. CERTIFICATE OF ENROLLMENT. Sound PURE BREED Stallion No. 17. (Standard Bred.) (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter, 28) The pedigree of the stallion BEN LEVEY, No. 38717 American. Owned by Orson Peck, P. 0., Mt. Ayr, Ind., County Newton, described as follows: Color and marks: Black, white left hind foot. Breed: Standard bred. Foaled in the year 1901, has been examined in the office of the Secretary O f the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby

lor Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8/acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. House cently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D,, and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y.

LOST. Lost—Saturday evening, between Rensselaer and the Sidney Holmes farm, west of town, a small, black leather purse, containing $49.85; finder please leave at The Democrat or Republican office and receive reward. —MRS. ELMO THOMAS. WANTED Wanted— To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.——Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidich brand, also cat, bon papers of the same make, on sale at The Democrat office. Storage Room— Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Painting Wanted— l .am again prepared to do painting either by Job or day, and in town or country. Have my own means of conveyance. C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Renssalaer, a -6 Auto Livery—“Frenchy” Deschand, prop. A new car just purchased. Will drive any where at any time. Phone 319. I'lowers— Call Phone 439 for cut flowers, potted plants, fruit, candy, bulbs, garden seed, onion sets, seed potatoes, cabbage and tomato plants. We carry at all times a nice lot of strictly fresh caught fish. We deliver to any place in the city.—OSBORNE FLORAL COMPANY. ts

FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance— Fire and light- ' ning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 'BSS-L. Farm Loans—l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a lowrate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. (•arm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums hp to $1(1.000. —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. Ont thnl w,thout ouay, nil 111 Wlttiout Commlst on, I Uvl llv Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKING)« Order your calling cards at The I Democrat office.

certified that the said stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered In the American Trotting Register Stud Book. The above Stallion has been examined by Dr. J. N. McPhail, Morocco, Ind., a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. CHARLES W. HICKMAN, President. C. M. McCONNELL, Vice-President. (SEAL) Not good unless countersigned by D. O. THOMPSON, Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 12th day of January, 1914. Renewed January 18, 1915. Void after January 1, 1916. Stand for 1915. Mondays—At Koons’ brick livery barn in Brook. Tuesdays and Wednesdays—At James Bartholmew’s hitch barn, Morocco. Thursdays—At Mt. Ayr. Friday and Saturdays—At Hemphill’s Stallion Barn, Rensselaer. Terms— sls.oo to insure colt to stand and suck; $12.50 to insurt, mare to be in foal. Moving from county or disposing of mare, service fee become due and payable at once. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be respbnsible should any occur. ORSON PECK, Owner and Mgr. Another new supply of Ideal Account files received in The Democrat’s J stationery department. These are much cheaper and more convenient | for keeping moderate-sized accounts than a cumbersome ledger.