Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — Page 4

PICK LAFAYETTE FOR GATHERING

City Selected by State Bar Association of Indiana. NEXT CONVENTION IN JUNE Executive Committee of Body Prepares for Session at Meeting in the City of Indianapolis. Indianapolis.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the State Bar association of Indiana, held in the office of George A. Batchelor in the. State Life building, it was decided to hold the next meeting of the association in Lafayette. The meetings have been held in Indianapolis for several years. Hammond was a strong bidder for the meeting, but Lafayette won. Will R. Wood, representative in congress from the Tenth Indiana district, appeared before the committee on behalf of Lafayette. The meeting will be held in June, and will be a two-day affair. Mr. Batchelor, who is secretary of the association, said that the taking of the 1916 meeting away from Indianapolis was not done because there is any objection to holding the meeting here, but that the committee believed it should accept the invitation of Lafayette.

Pulmotor Revives Girl. Kokomo. —Miss Opal Grous, eighteen years old, who says that she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson of Chicago, was nearly drowned here at Mel-Falfa park, when Sherman Taylor pulled her into the swimming pool playfully, he asserts, and before he could rescue her she had gone down twice. The girl was taker, to the Good Samaritan hospital,, where doctors worked for an hour with a pulmotor before she was revived. She was unconscious two hours, but is now in a way to recovery and has been removed to her room in a hotel. Miss Grous is little known here and was reluctant to tell anything. '-about' herself, but finally said that she left home in Chicago ostensibly to visit her brother, Bari Grous, 2122; Oliver avenue, Indianapolis, but ir. real ity to meet a friend id this city. She I i been in the water with her escort and a number of other fellows for several hours, and the young men were “ducking" her Miss Grous. who is pretty and vivacious, took the play in cood fun. but not being able to swim sh<» sank when she Was pulled into water seven feet deep Sheriff Brown is investigating the affair/

Couple Married Fifty Years. Kokomo.—Almost the entire population of Windfall, south of here, turned / out in Celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Cue, pioneer residents of the town and parents of J. L. Cue of Kokomo. More than two hundred relatives and near friends were present, at the old homestead to enjoy an old-fashioned dinner, which Mrs. Cue helped to prepare. The Methodist church was packed to the doors when the old couple were entertained with music and speeches Mr. Cue is seventy three years old and his wife is one year his junior. The three children of the couple were present. They are J. L. Cue, Kokomo; Mrs. Pearl Hinshaw, Windfall, and Mrs. E. E. Clawson, Cicero.

Boy Stands Up in Canoe; Drowns. Rochester.—Arthur Guthier, sixteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Guthier of Huntington, drowned at Lake ManitOu here when he fell out of a canoe in sixty feet of water: Guthier, after being warned by his companion, Curtis Casper of Peru, to sit down, stood up in the frail craft, saying: “I don’t have to sit down.” With this remark he fell backward, never coming to the Surface. All efforts to find the body have failed. The accident is surrounded with mystery, in that Jack Metz of Rochester and Markin Klinger of Huntington, who were following the canoe in a rowboat, did not see Guthier fall out, and Caspar did not tell anyone about the disappearance until morning. The Guthier family has been staying at a lake cottage. His parents are prostrated. The drowned boy was one of nine children.

Boy Drowns in Ohio River. Evansville. —Cornelius Lennox, age thirteen, was drowned in, the Ohio river, two miles below here while bathing with a number of other boys. He could not swim, and waded into a ‘“suckhole.” The body has not been recovered. ■ \ Baby Escapes Injury in Runaway. Kokomo. When their driving horse took fright at a motor truck on a streeet in the northern edge of this city and ran away, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hutchison were thrown from their buggy into a wire fence. Their baby was hurled over the fence into a patch of weeds and landed on a thick clump of dock and did not suffer a scratch. Mr. Hutchison suffered a severe cut on his right arm. Mrs. Hutchison escaped with slight bruises. The horse was badly cut and the jbuggy demolished.

ATTACK U. S. MARINES

LANDING FORCES RUN INTO FIGHT AT PORT AU PRINCE. Admiral Caperton Takes Charge of City—Proceeds to Disarm Soldiers and Civilians. Washington, July 30. —Dispatches to the navy department from Admiral Caperten, who landed a force at Port au Prince, the capital of Haiti, Wednesday night, show that the Americans were attacked, but without casualties. Admiral Caperton has taken possession of the city and is cooperating with the British, French and American legations in Haiti. Admiral Caperton’s dispatch is as follows: "Landing force was established In the city. There was some resistance during the early part of the night as the advance was being made. This resistance was easily overcome. There were no casualties to our force. lam proceeding to disarm bodies of Haitian soldiers and civilians today.” This dispatch of Admiral Caperton rm-eals the extraordinary power given to him In his instructions from the state department. He has become absolute master of the city and has undertaken to disarm even the soldiers of the government. His disarming of the civilians is substantially a declaration of martial law. His dispatch does not show, however, that it had yet been necessary to interfere at the municipal government.

KILL 700 IN MEXICAN FIGHT

Villa and Carranza Troops Clash Near Icamole —Battle Lasted Two Days—Villa Defeated. San Antonio, Tex., July 30, —Reports o fighting without quarter between troops of the Carranza and Villa factions near Icamole, Mexico, were received here. The battle lasted two days, the casualties being heavy, and was ended by the retreat northward of the Villa troops, pursued by the Carranza forces with orders to accept no surrender. It is estimated that 700 dead were left on the field. Two thousand Carranza troops were opopsed by a Villa force of 2,200.

Carnegie Very Much Alive.

Bar Harbor, Me., July 30.—Andrew J. Carnegie, the seventy-nine-year-old ironmaster, who was reported as dead or dying, is very much alive here, and is very much improved from the attack of grippe which sent him here about a months ago for recuperation.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. - Chicago. July 29, Open- High- Low- ClosWhcat— ing. est. est. ins. July ......:1.14 1.14 : 1.10% 1.10% Sept. .....1.-'T'c-"- 1 , t. 08% 1.05 1.".-,'- s Dec.,, .....I.' : - 1.09% 1.06% t.06%-07 Corn— July :80% .79 .79 Sept. ........74%-% .74% .73% .73%. Dee. 64-64% ,64% .63% .63% Gats— July 55%-56 .56 .54 .54% Sept. .33% : .37% .37% Dec. .39%-40 . 40 .39% .39% FLOUR—Spring wheat patents, .Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $7.50 to retail irade: 'Minnesota and Dakota patents old, $6.25@€.40; Jute, straight, [email protected]; first clears, $5.20610.25; second clears. Hite, $4.1) '54.20; • low grade. Jute, $3.50®3.60; soft wheat, patents, new, $4/S(Vgs.iO; rye flour, white, patent, new. $4.65615.00; dark, new, [email protected].

Chicago. July 29. PI'TTER —Creamery, extras, 25c: extra first. 246i24*4c: firsts, 22%6f23%cs seconds, 216(220: dairies, extras, 23c; firsts. 22@23c; seconds, 206721 c; packing stock, 19@19%c; ladles. 206(2<»4c. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases Included. 146 i 17c: cases returned, 13%6716%e; ordinary, firsts, 15%@16c; firsts, 16%@17c: extra, 21%@22%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 11c per lb.; chickens, fowis. 13%c; springs, U',»6?l9c; roosters, 10c: ducks, 14c; geese, 9@loc; spring geese. 12 1 p513c. ICED FOWLS—FowIs ,13%@14c; roosters. lOVpffllc; ducks, 12@12%c; turkeys, 13 @l4c; geese, 9@loc. POTATOES—Virginia cobblers, [email protected] per bid.: bulk. 4S(g5Qc per Ini. New York, July 29. WHEAT-Weaker. fair demand for new: No. 1 northern, $1.18%; No. 2 red, $1.16671. 19%; No. 2 hard winter, $1.21%: September, $1.15. CORN —Weaker, trade dull; export, 89%e: N». 2 yelow, 91%c: No. 3 yellow. 91c, ' OATS—Easier, moderate dealings; No. 2 white,, 65%c; standard. 65c; No. 3 white, 64%c; No. 4 white, 64c.

Live Stock. Chicago. July 29. CATTLE—Sters. good to choice, $7.45® 10.35; yearlings, good to Choice, $7.50® 10.20; inferior heifers. $5.00®6.25; good te choice heifers, $6.50®5,00: good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters. $3.75®4.90; canners, $3.00 ' ®4.40; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bolognas, i- $5.75®6.25; good to choice veal calves, $7.50 ®5.75. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light. $7.45®7.65: prime medium weight butchers, 240®270 lbs., $7.00® 7.30: prime heavy butchers, 270®340 lbs., $6.80®7.00; heavy and mixed packing, $6.35 ®6.75; heavy packing, $6.00®6.35; pigs, fair to good, $6.75® 7.50 I East Buffalo, N. Y., July 29. CATTLE—Market active and firm; I prime steers [email protected]; butcher grades. | $7.00®9.25. | CALVES— Market active, 60c higher; cull I to choice, $5.00®12.50. I SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, 25c j higher: choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, $6.00®5.75; yearlings, $6.00®7.25; sheep. ; $3.00® 3.40, HOGS—Market slow, 10@15c lower; ! Yorkers, $8.15®8.30; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, $7.60®8.00; heavy, $7.25®7.50; roughs, $6.25; . stags. $5.00®5.50. j Omaha, July 29. lower; heavy, $6.00®6.80; heavy, $6.00®6.80; light, $6.75®7.56: pigs, $0.75®7.00; bulk of sales, $6.10®6.90. I CATTLE—Market higher; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western sters, $6.50G8.60; Texas steers, $6.00®7.50; cows and heifers. $5.50®7.00: calves, $7.09®9.75. SHEEP—Market higher; yearlings, $5.75 a-ofhcra 9 5K* lomhs #0 m

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. European War Mews One thousand volunteers going to Italy to serve in the army were passengers on board the steamship Dante Alighieri, sailing from New York Wednesday for Naples and Genoa. • • • Extraordinary activity, in which the allies are taking the offensive, has been renewed along the Belgian coast. According to a dispatch from Amsterdam, a French warship has bombarded Zeebrugge, the German submarine base. • • • The Russians are delivering strong counter-attacks with great forces on practically every important front In the eastern theater, and the German gains, despite the arrival of large reenforcements of men and material, have been small, says a London cablegram. • • • According to a London dispatch Wednesday, German submarines, swarming British waters in a renewed campaign to sweep ships bearing food and supplies to England from the" seas, have sunk 25 vessels within the last two days. * * • While the battles from the Baltic provinces to Galicia continue with unabated fury, the Austro-Germans have been able to make little progress in the past twenty-four hours, says a London dispatch. At many points the Russians have turned, and by means of counter-attacks are keeping the Germans busily engaged in holding the positions they have gained. * * • By the conquest of a system of strongly fortified German hilltop trenches which overlooked the position of the French on the slopes of tke ridge stretching from Lingskopf to Barrenkopf in the Vosges, the French dominate the principal valley of the Feeht, according to a London cable • * * A dispatch from Villach, transmitted via Laibach and Geneva, states that Italian troops have captured two miles of the fortifications around Gorki ' . i.d are encircling the city after driving the Austrian defenders beyond the bridge in a violent combat. • • * The destruction of the American steamer Leelanaw, which was torpedoed by a German submarine while eh route ffotu Archangel to Belfast, is viewed in Washington as a violation of sacred treaty obligations imposed upon the German government by existing treaty stipulations between the United States and Prussia. * * • Within 48 hours after the German foreign office had received President Wilson’s latest note on submarine warfare, says a London dispatch, a German undersea boat torpedoed and sank the American steamer Leelanaw off the coast of Scotland. Her crew was landed at Kirkwall, Scotland. * * * The total casualties suffered by the Canadian expeditionary force in Europe was officially announced at Ottawa as 10,380, divided as follows: Killed, 1,822; wounded, 6,641; missing, 1,917. * ' * .* Monte San Michele is now almost entirely evacuated by the Austrians and occupied by strong lines of Italian infantry, according to a Milan report. The Italian batteries now can command nearly all the Austrian lines of communication behind Goritz. ; * * Five thousand dollars each, for the first ten dirigible balloons destroyed, while in the air, is the prize offered to the British airmen by Baron Michelham of London. * • * Domestic All beverages containing any proportion of alcohol will be refused shipment into Arizona by an agreement of all railroads entering the state, says a San Francisco dispatch. * * *■ Secretary William C. Redfield of the department of commerce arrived in Chicago Tuesday and will take charge of the Inquiry which his department is making into the Eastland disaster. He came to Chicago upon suggestion of President Wilson. * * • Investigation of the Eastland disaster by State’s Attorney Hoyne and Coroner Hoffman, at Chicago developed proof that approximately 3,000 persons were aboard the excursion steamer when she turned over and sank in the river Saturday morning. • • • Gov. Charles S. Whitman at Albany, N. Y., who now alone has the power to save Becker from the electric chair, declared that the convicted former police lieutenant must go to his death Friday morning.

The coroner's jury at Chicago, investigating the Eastland disaster, ordered six men held to the grand jury on the charge of manslaughter. Two of the men are officials of the boat company, two officers of the ship, and two government inspectors. They are: Walter K. Greenebaum, William H. Hull, Robert Reid, Charles Eckliff, Harry Pedersen and J. W. Erickson. * * » A hurricane passed over the northern part of Richland county, Wisconsin, Thursday, totally destroying West Lima and half of Bloom City. John Piazzeke was drowned trying to cross a bridge. • • * Property loss estimated at $300,000 was sustained at Rock Springs, Wyo., when a flood resulting from a cloudburst rushed through the city. • • • Extensive damage was done near Olean, N. Y., Thursday by a severe storm. * * # The Standard Oil strike at Bayonne, N. J., was broken when 1,800 men returned to work. The other 2,400 strikers, who have been out for a week, probably will go back in a day or so. The home of a foreman of Dallas, Tex., saddlery, making a half-million dollar order for the British, was dynamited Tuesday night. He and his son were badly injured. • * • Divers abandoned their work on the Eastland wreck in the Chicago river Tuesday night. At that time the identified dead numbered 825, the unidentified dead four and the Western Electric company listed 488 as missing, making a total of 1,317. Work of floating the boat was begun. • • * Foreign News from Berlin says the American embassy is specially guarded since the latest American note, the authorities fearing a hostile demonstration. * * * American marines were landed at Port au Prince, Haiti, Wednesday to protect the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners. * * • Many persons have been drowned and considerable damage was done by floods on the Island of Hokkaido in Korea, according to a Tokyo cablegram. *■ * * The Norwegian steamer Avers, tim-ber-laden from Frederikstad for England, has been captured by a German submarine and taken into Cuxhaven. * * * The sailing of the Red Star liner Lapland, from Liverpool for New York, has been postponed. The Lapland was scheduled to sail Wednesday. « * * Sporting W. A. Lenders of Chicago, national amateur motorcycle champion, was killed at Sacramento, Cal., Sunday afternoon while racing in the 25-mile amateur championship event under the auspices of the Federation of American Motorcyclists. e * * Personal D. Russell Greene, the last of the family that founded Truax, Greene & Co., of Chicago, was killed Tuesday night when his automobile skidded while speeding on a road near Dyer, Ind., and turned over ** • ■ Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford Dictionary, died at Oxford.

Mexican Revolt Capt. Silva Villa, an officer of the Nogales, Sonora, garrison, shot and killed Capt. Manuel Murillo, Governor Maytorena’s paymaster, in a case at Nogales, Mex. Villa was arrested. * * * Two million rounds of 30.30 caliber ammunition passed through the American customs house at El Paso, Tex., Sunday for General Villa’s army. The ammunition was immediately shipped to Torreon on a special train. • • • William A. Lamkey, formerly attached to the United States aviation corps, was killed while flying over General Obregon’s forces Tuesday morning, according to a dispatch from Aguascalientes. * * * Washington Great Britain’s reply* to the American note of March 30, protesting against enforcement of the orders in council which restrict neutral commerce, was received at Washington. It holds that the orders are within international law, although they may involve a new application of principles, and argues that it is proper to await a judicial interpretation. A Washington dispatch says a general investigation of the steamboat Inspection service is to be made under the direction of. Secretary Redfleld of the department of commerce as soon as the pending inquiry of the Eastland .disaster is completed. >*■ • . • According to a Washington dispatch the formation of an initial army of defense of 500,000 to 600,000 men is the subject of frequent conferences between officials of the army war college and war department experts.

A PRACTICAL TWO FAMILY HOME.

Design 622, by Glenn L. Saxton, Architect, Minneapolis, Minn.

A duplex or two family" house makes a splendid investment in ‘the city or small town or village. In the plan here offered there is a sun room for each apartment, which makes a livable porch the year round. There are also a large living room, two good bedrooms, a splendid bath, a large dining room and a kitchen which is a model for convenience. Size, 22 feet wide by 14 feet deep over the main part. Full basement. Each story is 9 feet high. Finish throughout both stories, birch or red oak. Floors in both stories to be clear quality of birqh or white maple. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing, $4,000. Upon receipt of $1 the publisher of this paper will furnish a copy of Saxton’s book of plans, “American Dwellings." It contains over 300 designs costing from SI,OOO to $6,000; also a book of interiors, $1 per copy.

Sgl^Olir..4jg=> (Sssi!ieaAd [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times —as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for,forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE v-' For Sale—Fresh Durham milch cow, also an aged family horse, gentle anyone can drive or ride him.-— II. PAULI'S, Rensselaer, phone 938-G.

For Sale—An armload of clean old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Just the thing for putting under carpets, on pantry shelves, etc. ts For Sale—Rich onion land in Wisconsin; yield 400 to 600 bu. per acre. Land cheap now; small payment, long time. Address MEADOW VALLEY FARM, Sprague, Wis. For 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 recently 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. WANTED At anted—-Position as housemaid in good family, Rensselaer preferred.— MISS DORIS SMITH, Rensselaer, R-3, care J. Cooper. AA anted —f,oo stock hogs from 40 to 125 lbs. AVatch this ad, will pa]

8c per lb. until further notice. —A. W. SAAA’IX, phone 400. ts AA'anted —A good solicitor to travel over Jasper county. Previous experience not necessary, but is preferred.—THE DEMOCRAT. AA r anted—To borrow $4,900 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office.

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