Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — Page 6

TERRE HAUTE MEN RECEIVE TERMS

Four Plead Guilty to Fraud Charge in Election Cases. JUDGE ANDERSON SENTENCES John F. Nugent Gets Year and Day at the Leavenworth Federal Prison —Hess, Hines and Bruns Given Terms in County Jail. Indianapolis.—John F. Nugent, John Bruns, John Hines and Frank Hess, the four Terre Haute men who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the Terre Haute election cases and whose sentences have been deferred pending the trials of others indicted ■on the same charge, were sentenced by Judge A. B. Anderson in federal fourt. Nugent was sentenced to a year and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.; Frank Hess received a sentence of live months in the Marion county jail; John Hines, four months, and John Bruns thirty days. The court chose to dispose of all other cases wherein pleas of guilty had been, entered on arraignment day. To Be Cured by Operation. Evan^yille.—-Teh of the leading surgeons of this city consulted in an endeavor to straighten the twisted limbs of seven-year bld Francis Gigson, who, as a result of an attack of infantile paralysis, is compelled to patter along on all fours like a dog. The doctors determined that by cutting the tendons and drawing his leg into a natural position and keeping it in place with a plaster cast, the boy can soon walk with the aid of braces and crutches. The Gibson boy's case has aroused city-wide interest. Because the boy’s parents are poor, the doctors volunteered their services.

To Free Alleged Bigamist. Kokomo.—The first wife of Charles Tyler, charged with bigamy, told Judge Purdam, when Tyler was arraigned, that she desired tp take back her husband if the judge would release him. Tyler is alleged to have married Georgia Eckman of this city at Wabash last September after deserting his wife iit Muncie. Sitting by the side of her husband, the first wife, to whom he was married in Frankfort four years ago, pleaded for his release. The alleged second wife did not attend the trial. No decision was given. , Miss Hoffman Declines. Bloomington.—Miss Dalphine Hoffman of Indiana university, who was Invited by Henry Ford to make the trip to Europe on the Oscar II with Fords peace party, has decided not to accept the invitation. Miss Hoffman gives as her reason for refusing that there will be some risk to the trip and that as she does not see how she could accomplish anything on such an uncertain proposition, she has decided not to go. Pleads Guilty to Fraud. Fort Wayne.—Sara D. Hanna, president of the Hanna-Breckenridge company of Fort Wayne and of the American Woodworking company of Chicago, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and Will be sentenced on Saturday. Hanna was accused of defrauding two Fort Wayne banks and several outside banks out of $170,000 by means of forged checks and “phony” ledgers. Teachers Wanted in lowa. Indianapolis.- Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, has received an unusual request from G. A. Yoakam, county superintendent of schools at Marengo, la. Yoakam says his county needs many teachers for rural schools, and that there are none to be had. He asks aid from Indiana, and attaches of Greathouse’s office said that an attempt would be made to supply the lowa deficiency.

Alleged Forger Pleads Guilty. Columbus. George Smallwood, twenty-seven, of Indianapolis, who came here from Louisville a fewdays ago, and was arrested after passing an alleged check Oh Policaman Jesse Riddle, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and was sentenced from two to fourteen years in the Indiana reformatory. Wets at Kendallville Win. Kendallville. —The local option election here was the hardest-fought i battle in the history of the city, scores of votes being challenged by the drys. A total 8 votes was cast and the majority of 264 votes for the Wets two years ago was reduced to a majority of 23 for the wets. Will Move Gary Church. Gary.—Members of the Roumanian Orthodox Catholic church started to move the edifice from its site in the deserted colony of the late Rev. Edmund Kayser, the murdered pastor of St. John’s Evangelical church. The Roumanian church will be moved two miles. A guard is being maintained over the deserted Kayser parsonage and the church because of threats to destroy the buildings. Several days ago unknown persons destroyed bv fire the dwelling adjoin-

U. S. HITS FORD PARTY

PASSPORTS GOOD ONLY IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES. Several Refined Owing to Faulty Applications—Plans for Peace By Christmas Abandoned. Washington, Dec. 3. —Secretary Lansing announced that members of the peace party planning to sail on ships chartered by Henry Ford •will not receive passpo'rts to belligerent countries, but only to neutral states in Europe. Seventy-five passports, good only In neutral countries, were issued by the state department for members of the Ford peace expedition. Several passports were refused on account of faulty applications, or because the applicants were not citizens of the United States. Inez Milholland Bolssevain, suffragist, was refused a passport because her husband is a citizen of a foreign country. New York, Dec. 3. —Louis P. Lochner, secretary to the Ford expedition, said the idea of “getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas" had been given up. “The whole thing is trying the Impossible," he added, “but we are trying just the same.” Henry Ford returned to New York and announced definite plans for his peace expedition to sail for Europe Saturday. He said that during the voyage members of his party would be selected as permanent peace delegates to remain in Europe. He expects other neutral nations to send delegations to meet the Americans at The Hague. A general conference will then be held to decide on further ■.steps,''

CLOTHES READY FOR BELGIUM

Indianapolis Belgian Relief Committee Has Shipload of Clothing Ready for Shipment. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 3.—W. E. Burton, secretary of the committee for the relief of the Belgians, conferred with Henry Lane Wilson here relative to forwarding a shipload of clothing to Belgium. 11. C. Hoover, vice chairman of the Belgian commission, says 3,000,000 persons in Belgium and northern France face the coming winter without proper clothing.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Dee. 2 Open- High- Low- ClosWlic'at— ingi est. est. Ing. Dec. 1.06%-% i. 09% 1.06’4 1.09% May 1.09-09'f 1.12’4 1-09 1.12*4 CornDec. 65%-% .67% ■ .65% .67% May ...C9%-70 .71 .69% .70% ■ OatsDec. 42%-% .44 .42% .43%. May 44%-45 .45% .44% .45%; I’LOUR Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis. wood or cotton, $6.10 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents [email protected]: jute, straight, $4.80@5 00; first clears. [email protected]; second clears, jute, $3.00 @3.25; low grade, jute. [email protected]; soft wheat, patents. si,99@'>,ls: rye flour, white patents. [email protected];>dark; [email protected]. HAY—Market steady; choice new timbthy. [email protected]; No. 1 new timothy, sls 50 @16,50; No. 2 timothy. $13.50@14;»0; light clover . mixed, si3.6o?t 14.50; .heavy .clover mixed, sll.-005713.0?; No. 3 red top and grass mixed timothy, $10,005? 12.0'1; threshed timothy, $7.0057'9,00. : clover, ; [email protected]; heated and damaged. [email protected]; alfalfa, choice; [email protected]; 'alfalfa. No 1,. $13.00© 14.00; alfalfa, No. 2, $10,005? 11.00; Kansas and Oklahoma choice new. [email protected]. Chicago, Dec. 2. RUTTER—Cream-t y extras. 32%@33c; extra firsts, 315/32e; firsts. 2C'd3oc; seconds. 235?24%e; dairies, extra, 30c; firsts, 25@27c: seconds; 205722 c; packing stock, 19@20c: ladles. 215?21%c. EGGS—Firsts, 29@30c; ordinary firsts. 27 5728 c: miscellaneous lots, cases included, 20@29c: cases returned. 19%@25%c: extra, 34%4735%c; checks, 1557 18c; dirties, 16@19c; storage, Aprils. 20%?721%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkey. 14c per lb ; chickens, fowls, 95i 12c; springs, 13c; roosters. 9c: ducks, 11V.5?12c; geese, 10%@12c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys.'young, 19@20c per lb,; chickens, springs. 13@13%c; fowls, 1051T3c; ducks, lO@13c; geese, 16@ POTATOES—Minnesota, white, 60@66c per bu.; Wisconsin, whitte, 60@65c.

New York. Dee, 3. WHEAT—Higher. demand fair; No. 1 northern. $1.22\: No, 2 red. $1.29%'; .No. 2 hard, $1.29%; December, $1.16%; May. $1.18%. ’ ' CORN—Higher, business hindered; No. 2 yellow, 82%C. OATS—Stronger, inquiry fair; No. I white, nominaii; No. 3 white. 46@46%c; No. 4 white. 45@45%c. Live Stoclc. Chicago, Dec. 2. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, $8.15@ 10.40; Yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; inferior heifers, $4.75'5'5.40; good to choice heifers. [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]: cutters, [email protected]; canners, $5.50 @3.85; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bologna bulls. good to prime veal calves $9,[email protected]; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—PHme to light butchers, $6.50@ 6.76; fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., $6.50 @6.90; prinie heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 2. CATTLE-Market active and firm; prime steers, $9.0009.50; ' butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active and steady; cull to choice, [email protected], SHEEP AND LA M BS—Market active, light, 10C lower; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, $6.004/9.<90; yearlings, $6.00@ 7.50; sheep, [email protected]. HOGS—Market slow, 25@40c lower; Yorkers, $6.0006.75; pigs, $5,7506.00: mixed. [email protected]; heavy. $6.9007.00; roughs, $5,260 5.85; stags, [email protected]. Omaha, Dec. 2. HOGS—Market steady; heavy, $6 .2000.35; mixed, $6.3006.35; light, $6.3500-45; pigs. $5.2506.30: bulk of sales, $6.2506.35. CATTLE—Market steady; native steers, n;.i)[email protected]: cows and heifers, $5.25@645; western steers. $ ( [email protected]; Texas steers, '■■■•.T.'-fITZd, Stockers and feeders, $6.2507.73' S l l ’ Market steady; yearlings, $6 00

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Mort Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Moat Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News Sonnlno announced in parliament at Rome that Italy had signed the London pact of September 5, providing for no separate peace, and that assistance would be sent to Serbia. These announcements were greeted with tremendous cheers. » » » An official report given out at the Bulgarian army headquarters says: "Bulgarian troops, after a short and decisive engagement, took Prisrend and made prisoner between 16,000 and 17,000 Serbians. They also captured 50 cannon." • » • Monastir was formally surrendered to the Bulgarians, according to an Athens dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. • • •' The Vienna war office communication says: “On the Italian front it becomes clearer that the Italians will, at all costs, force a victory near Goritz if it is at all possible to do so.” ** . * British casualty lists published in London during November total 1,232 officers and 45,184 noncommissioned officers and men in all fields of war. bringing the total since the beginning of hostilities up to approximately SOu,000. ♦ ♦ ♦ While the entente cause in the Balkans received a serious blow in Roumania’s reported decision to bar Russian activities against Bulgaria, the advance of the Teutonic and Bulgarian continued on both fronts in Serbia. Bulgarian forces have captured Prisrend.

German submarines in the Mediterranean sank the French steamers Algerien and Omara, and the British steamer Tunis. Twenty-nine persons are missing. • ♦. ♦ The American oil tank steamer Wico, which sailed in July from Philadelphia for Stockholm, was seized by a German warship in the North sea and taken into Stettin, where her cargo of oil was discharged, says a cable to New York. Domestic William F. Walker, former treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain, Conn., who was sentenced to prison for embezzlement of about half a million dollars of the bank's funds, was paroled by the board of pardons. * * • The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway passenger train No. IS was wrecked by a broken rail a mile east of Freeman, Wash. One brakeman was killed and three passengers were injured. • • * New York city now has 5.257,885 inhabitants. These figures were made public as the result of the census recently undertaken by the police department at the request of.the health commission. * • * A man with sixty-five feet of fuse wrapped around his body was arrested at Penns Grove, N. J., in the vicinity of the Qjrney’s Point plant of the Du Pont Powder company. The authorities are holding him for investigation. • • * Thirty masked men entered the jail at Henderson, Ky , took Ellis Buckner, a negro who was arrested for detaining Mary Hardin, and carried him down to the river front, where he was hanged. •.-■ * ,* Grain trade of Canada is paralyzed, as the Canadian government has commandeered all No. 1, 2 and 3 northern wheat in terminal elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur, some 20,000,000 bushels, and, it is understood, will extend seizure to other parts of western and eastern Canada. Action was taken at the request of the British government. The object of the seizures was to stop speculative price fixing. The price has been fixed at $1.04. • • • The hunting season has closed With a death list of 59. Statistics covering 18 states show that 66 were injured during the year. The fatalities were only half of what they were a year ago, when the final score showed 111 dead and 162 wounded. • • • Andrew Strutzel, proprietor of a garage in the heart of the business district at Joliet, 1111., was injured perhaps fatally and property damage of more than SIOO,OOO was done by a fire which followed a gasoline explosion in the garage. • • • Seventy-two saloons of Hibbing and Chisholm in Minnesota must close at once as a result of the denial of a temporary injunction restraining agents of the federal Indian bureau from enforcing the treaty of 1855.

A recess adjournment has been taken by the Illinois legislature until February 23. The legislature cleaned up all the emergency appropriation bills. • • • Thirty men were killed and seven persons injured fatally in an explosion in the Pellet packhouse of the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours powder factory at Wilmington, Del. • • • Washington It was officially announced at the state department at Washington that this government has cabled Ambassador Page at London, requesting him to ask the British foreign office if it is true that Britain intends to requisition American ships before prize courts have passed on their seizure. • • • Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois was re-elected unanimously ‘‘whip" of the Democrats in the senate at Washington by the caucus of Democratic senators. President Wilson has received at Washington assurances from congressional leaders that there will be no serious opposition to a general revision of the neutrality laws of the United States. • • • The interstate commerce commission at Washington made final its order for big eastern railroads to divorce themselves from their great lakes steamship lines by refusing the request of the trunk lines for a rehearing. • • • Announcement was made by the papal legation at Washington that at the next consistory the pope would appoint Rt. Rev. George William Mundelein, bishop of Brooklyn, archbishop of Chicago to succeed the late Archbishop Quigley. The consistory is to be called soon, probably before Christmas. Rt. Rev. Mgr. George W. Mundelein, S. T. D., is forty-three years old. He was born in Brooklyn in 1872 and comes of an old American family.

The German embassy at Washington, according to information from an authoritative source, resents the accusations which are understood to have been made against Capt. Karl Boy-Ed, German naval attache, in the trial in federal court at New York of officials of the Hamburg-American line. • • • At the conference of senate Democrats at Washington, Senator Kern of Indiana was re-elected chairman of the senate caucus committee and floor leader by unanimous vote. Senator Pittman of Nevada was -elected secretary. • • » Personal Charles Edward Rucker, seventythree, a member of Maximilian's expedition from Austria, died at San Diego, where he had lived since the overthrow of Maximilian’s regime. He was born in the United States. » » * William F. Clark, seventy-four, the oldest prohibition editor in the United States, is dead at Indianapolis from heart disease. A widow and three children survive him. • • • ' William E. Bemis, multimillionaire, vice-president and director of the Standard Oil company, died suddenly of heart disease at his summer home at Glenspey, N. J. • • • Jane Addams is seriously although not critically ill in the Presbyterian hospital at Chicago. Miss Addams has been actively interested in various plans for peace and has been under considerable strain. • • • William P. Hepburn, congressman from the Eighth lowa district from 1889 to 1909, is reported dangerously ill from heart and kidney troubles at his home in Clarinda la. Mr. Hep-f burn is eighty-two years old. • • « Sporting Elmer Oliphant, a western man who learned all his football at Purdue university, won honor and glory for West Point at the Polo grounds in New York by defeating the Navy eleven in their annual game, 14 to 0. Oliphant scored all the points for his team.

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flQbnW IDLVS There’s Plenty of Christmas at Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store The Early'Shopper Has a Big Advantage. Why not have something laid aside this week? Can you beat the assortment of items listed below? We are sure entitled to a look. VICTROLAS on hand now at sls, $25, S4O, SSO, $75 and SIOO. 500 CHOICE RECORDS for Victrolas—come in and hear them. KODAKS on hand at $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, SB, $lO, sls and S2O. KODAK ALBI .MS from 10c to $1.50. SHUMATE RAZORS on hand at $2, $2.25, $2.50, $3, and $3.75. A gold handled one makes a dandy present for a man. We also have the Gem Safety for $1; Gillettes at $5. FOUNTAIN PENS at sl, $1.50, $2 and up to $6. IMPORTED WORK BASKETS at $7. PENNANTS at 25c 50c, 75c and sl. PILLOW TOPS for Rensselaer and St. Joseph's. . 100 BOYS’ BOOKS at 25c each. MARGARET HILL McCARTER’S new book “The Corner Stone,” at 50c, a dandy gift book. Absolutely and postively the largest display of white ivory sets and individual pieces of white ivory ever displayed in this section.,. . * • ’ Ladies’ party cases and manicure sets in leather cases. Gents’ seal and pikskin bill books at the right price. Cigars in 10’s, 12’s and 25’s, real Christmas packages. Tinker Toys for 50c. Meccanna sets from 50c up. Just what every boy wants. Cards, booklets, seals, holly boxes and [taper in endless variety. Now don’t pass us up, but come in right away and give us a look over. WATCH OUR WINDOWS FENDIG’S HEXALL DRUG STORE.

CfessifieuAd i D cpc Ti eut i [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-keepinc cash should be sent with notice. No no- | tiee 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 i cents. Where replies are sent In The I Democrat’s care, postage will be charged I for forwarding such replies to the adver- ; tiser.] FOR SALE For Sale— My residence property on Franklin street, can give possession Nov. 20, 115. —-C, W. EGER. For Sale— -No. 14 Ida Monitor round stove, burns either hard or soft coal, all in good shape, will be sold very cheap.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale— lß head of hogs, 16 shotes weighing about 125, and 2 brood sows with 18 young pigs. - MARION COOPER, 14'mile west of Virgie. d-9 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- — Oak lumber, bridge plank, slabs and topwood. 6 miles southwest of Rensselaer.—AßTHUß POWELL, Rensselaer, R-3 Phone 29-M, Mt, Ayr exchange. * d-17 For Sale — Red, white 01 bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired; 4 miles west of Rensselaer, on county farm road.—A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; Vance Collins, Rensselaer phone 935-D, or see John Zellers, sawyer. • • For Sale— loo good quality business size white envelopes with your return card printed in the upper left-hand corner, for only 50c, cash with order; 250 for $1; 500 for $1.50; 1,000 for $2.50. Mailed postpaid to any address in the United States for the above prices. Samples mailed free on request.—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale— A choice lot of pure bred Hampshire boars, sired by State Fair winners. My herd is cholera immune by use of the simultaneous method. Pedigrees furnished with each hog.—JOHN R. LEWIS & SON, Rensselaer, Ind., R. D. 1, or phone 912-J. < WANTED Wanted—Second-hand cook stove, must be cheap.—Enquire Democrat office. Wanted—Responsible men to sell Watkins Products in nearby counties. An opportunity to get into a profitable business of your own without investing one dollar in the goods you sell. Must be able <0 furnish e . a ’ n or auto and give personal bond 1 wivu. irtu reopousibie sureties—V. M.

PEER or ANDREW SIPKEMA, Fair Oaks, Ind. j 2 MISCELLANEOUS Estray Taken Up— A two-year-old heifer at ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE Storage Room— Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.— F. E. BABCOCK. Typewriter Ribbons—For all the standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidieh brand, also cat, bon papers of the same make, a sale at The Democrat office. FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans— We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans— l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans— l can now furnish 5 per cent money on good farm loans, and with the least possible delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. I flnt thnl WithoUtDelay ’ I 111 I Illi Wlthout Commission I Uul lllu I Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON COMINGSOON Ed Manley Presents The Prince of German Dialect comedians BEN HOLMES The Fatherland’s Sweet Singer. In His Famous Musical-Comedy- \ Drama “Happy Heinie” . (The play that made the Sphinx Laugh.) SCENICALLY SUPERB DRAMATICALLY BRILLIANT MUSICALLY GREAT New Songs—“l Love the Name of Katie,” “I’m a Jolly German,” “Th e Girl That I See in My Dreams,” “My Fatherland,” “Happy Heine.” HEAR HARMONIES Popular Prices