Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — Page 4

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEBT OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Cov< ring Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption.

Mexican Revolt Scores of Americans, on the west coast of Mexico are in grave peril, according to a report to the navy department at Washington from Rear Admiral Winslow, commanding the Pacific fleet. • • • Details of a five hour battle between the Carranza garrison at Pasaje, Durango, and an attacking force composed of bandits were brought to Torreon, Mex. The outlaws fled after losing seventy killed. • • • A band of Villistaa, numbering several hundred and possibly 1,000, sacked Sierra Mojada, five miles across the Coahuila line and 20 miles east of Jiminez, destroying many thousands of dollars worth of American property and looting the town of everything of value. ■** • : Several Americans have been killed or wounded in bandit raids In the vicinity of Guaymas, Sonora, according to a naval radio message received at San Diego, Cal. The message was forwarded to the navy department at Washington and resulted in an order to the cruiser Denver to steam for the Sonora seaport and investigate. • • • Francisco Villa has left the main body of his command and is hiding, almost unattended, in the Sierra mountains of Chihuahua, according to information given put at the war department at Mexico City. ♦ ♦ ♦ Apache man hunters have reached the advanced field base of General Pershing, ■’somewhere in Mexico,” and wil soon be in action. New aeroplanes are also on the way to the scene of operations against Francisco Villa. ♦ * ♦ A report reached headquarters south of Namiquipa that Troops K and M of the Seventh cavalry were in a fight with Villistas. A number of Villistas were killed and 35 captured. Eight of the captured men confess to having taken part in the raid at Columbus. Gen. Gabriel Gavira, Carranza commander at Juarez, announced that the forces of the de facto government were in a position to take immediate control of the Villa, situation if the American trops withdrew. .* • •

Domestic Fire in the center of the business district of Little Rock caused a loss! estimated at between 5100,000 and >130,000. • * » All mail from the United States entering Canada was opened in the Wind sor, Panada, post office, read and then i resealed with a small sticker bearing the printed word ‘ censored,” The post office is tracking a spy. i *♦ ♦ I In a fire which destroyed the home of Homer Dieble at Detroit, Mich.J Mrs. Dieble, twenty-two, and her two children, Irma and Evelyn, were burned to death. *. ♦ * * Mrs. Irma Kilgallen Howard, daughter of Martin H. Kilgallen of Chicago, j and the heroine of a tempestuous ro-. mance with Count .Jacques von Mourik de Beaufort, shot herself to death in a hotel at Omaha. Neb. She was married only a month ago to Joseph E. Howard, Chicago playwright, actor and composer. * * • “V\ ild Bob” Burman of Detroit, Mich., Mechanician Eric Schrader of Chicago, and Track Policeman W. H. Speer, dead, and five spectators injured, three of whom may die —that made, up the tragedy that wound up the third annual road race at Corona, Cal.—--'- .' •'; The big naval observation balloon which escaped and fell near Argyle. Fla., was so badly cut up by souvenir hunters that it will have to be returned to the factory. » » » A verdict in favor of the defendants In the Youman s 5255,000 damage suit against Governor Hanna, other state officials, and several local bankers, was directed by Judge Keneshaw in the district court at Minot, N. D. • • • The street car strike at Toledo, 0., .ended when the men were given an increase in wages of three cents an hour. They -will not be permitted to wear union buttons and the open •hop rule will prevail. * * . The bodies of Mrs. Hattie Crogan and her two daughters were recovered from an automobile that was engulfed ' in flood waters at Winona, Minn. The body of Ben Crogan has not been recovered. The Crogans were residents of Galesville, Wis.

A contract for 190 howitzers, at a cost of 12.700,000, was awarded the Midvale Steel & Ordnance company at Philadelphia by the British government. • • • Suit for divorce was filed at St. Louis against Harry Kendall Thaw by Mrs. Christina Thaw of St. Louis, who asked maintenance and the custody ipf their child, Lady Gwendolin Clemmens, twelve years, old. Who the petitioner Is could not be learned from her attorney. '• ~ . --- - T~7T- • * •

European War News General von Schoenberg of the German army has been killed in action, 1 says a dispatch from Amsterdam. j » • • A London Daily News dispatch from Paris states that the French Bulletin j des Armees says the Briitsh army in France, which numbered 60,000 in August, 1914, now numbers 2,500,000 . ’ A British Mesopotamia force was repulsed by Turkish troops in a sanguinary battle near Felabie on April 9, according to a Turkish report to I Berlin. Three thousand British were ! killed. • • • The steamships Englishman, Eagle Point, Manchester Engineer and Ber-} windvale were destroyed by German submarines according to admission in the German reply to the American note concerning the damaging or j sinking of five steamships. Evidence la presented to show that these vessels were torpedoed legally in accordance with the rules of war. In regard to the Sussex, the note says that only . one German submarine was in the vicinity and that it torpedoed one steamship. I • • • Another German spy was executed in the Tower Of He was the twelfth put to death since the war began. • • • The Spanish steamer Santanderino has been sunk by a torpedo with the ! loss of four lives Thirty-six s suryiv-' ors, several of them women, have been landed. • • • Fierce German attacks against the French positions on Le Mort Homme (Dead Man’s.HilL. were'_renewn<! and the Teutons occupied 500 yards of an advanced trench, it was announced by the Paris war office in an official communique. • • » The British steamers Avon of 670 1 tons and the Adamton of 2,304 tons , were the ships sent down, it was announced in Ijondon. The fate of their crews is unknown. ‘ • • The German government announced ' at Berlin that no German submarine or warship was responsible for the [ explosion which damaged the IJrtfish steamship Sussex • • • The great German drive west of the . Meuse has at last captured Bethincourt. The peak of the French salient, which has been the object of the German attacks for nearly two weeks, was evacuated by the French after a big battle, according to the communique from Paris. » » •

Washington Great Britain contends in her note to Washington that the removal of 38 Germans. Austrians and Turks from the American steamship China by the British cruiser in Chinese water on February 18, was legal because those persons were engaged in plotting against the British government. • • ’ • The senate at Washington passed ■ its substitute for the house free sugar repeal resolution, extending the present duty of one cent a pound on sugar until May, 11*20. The vote was 40 to 32. ■ ' ■ • • • The rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carrying 540.000, was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 210 to 133. The bill now goes to the senate. • • • The senate at Washington amended the Clayton antitrust law to permit interlocking directorates in non-com-peting banks. * » * The senate immigration committee at Washington decided to recommend passage of the Burnett immigration bill without amendment as passed by the house. ■£ * • . • The German note in response to inquiries of the American government regarding the channel steamer Sussex and the steamers Englishman, Manchester Engineer, Eagle Point and Berwindvale was transmitted to the American embassy at Berlin. Germany denies responsibility for the sinking of the steamers. • • • Meredith Nicholson, author, of Indianapolis, soon will be named assist- . ant secretary of war, it was stated in reliable official circles at Washington. • • • The enlisted strength of the United States navy has reached the highest .mark in its history. Secretary Daniels announced at Washington that the addition of recruits brought the total enlisted strength of the navy'to 54,011. • • Stirred by recent threats against the life of President Wilson, carried in White House letters, Chairman Webb of the house judiciary committee at Washington presented a bill which is to get immediate consideration, imposing a five-year penitentiary term for those making such threats.

INDIANA AT A GLANCE

Interesting, Newsy Notes From All Sections of The State.

Herman F. Hoffman, for fifty years a cigar maker and dealer of Greencastle, died suddenly of heart trouble. John W. Ply, 76, who has been out of Wabash county only once in his life, and then to join the Union army, is dead. Dr. Hugh H. Elliott, aged sixty-six, a practitioner here for thirty years, dropped dead of heart disease on the streets, at Rushville. Voorhees N. Griffith, formerly city controller at Terre Haute, under Donn M. Roberts, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Annis Halstead, ninety-two years old, a pioneer of South Bend, is, dead at her home here. She had been a widow for fifty-seven years.

The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant church of Anderson will have a state meeting in Anderson April 19 and 20. Despondent because of illness and financial reverses, Andrew Johnston, 52 years old, a prominent Montpelier merchant, killed himself by drinking poison. The new armory of Company E of the Third regiment, Indiana national guard at Elkhart, is to be dedicated by public exercises on the evening of Friday, May 5. E. R. Moore, aged sixty-five, president of the merchants’ bureau of Laporte and prominent Methodist churchman, died suddenly following a congestive chill. Bascom O’Hair, 79 years old, a wealthy pioneer resident of Putnam county, died at his rooms jn a Greencastle hotel following a long illness of a stomach disease.

No schoolboy in Kosciusko county | who smokes cigarettes, will be given a diploma or certificate of graduation?" according to a resolution passed by the county board of education. Workmen are engaged in attempt- I ifig to refloat the large dredge in Lick creek, southwest of Hartford City, ' which was suhk Sunday night. It is i thought the dredge was dynamited. The two G. A. R. posts in Warsaw, the Henry Chipman and Kosciusko posts, have united as Warsaw post. I charter has just been received, | and it bears the names of 108 Civil war veterans. James P. Goodrich, of Winchester, republican nominee for Governor, spent $18,515.50 in conducting his campaign, according to his itemized statement which was filed with the county clerk. Carl Catt and William Abbott, well drillers, were smoking pipes when gas was struck at a depth of 750 feet, three miles west of Petersburg. They were seriously burned in the explosion that followed.

Employes at the Ft. Wayne electric works are preparing to organize an independent battery of light artillery, and many have signed the roster, including a number of trained Indiana national guardsmen. Following a report of state examiners, who found that H. P. Schrer. Wayne township trustee, had used $4,073 of the township funds for his personal use, it is said that the grand jury will investigate. The Rev. U. G. Leazenby, of Crawfordsville, superintendent of the Crawfordsville district of the Methodist Episcopal church, was .elected president bf Moores Hill college by unanimous vote of the board of trustees of the institution. The largest judgment ever rendered by Judge Eichhorn was made of record at Hartford City in the case of H. Channon company vs. the Jackson Tool and Shovel company of Montpelier. The judgment was entered without contest in the sum of $140,206. Several old relics are now on exhibition at the old state capitol at Corydon, among them being dinner plates and a door lock owned by Indiana’s first Governor. The door lock from Governor Jennings’ mansion is six inches wide and a foot long. A wooden sausage grinder, more than 100 years old, was shown.

After a service of nine years as superintendent of the Franklin schools, Paul Vanßiper has resigned to become head of the Laporte city schools, succeeding Arthur Deemer, who goes to Fargo, N. D. Mr. Vanßiper is a graduate of Franklin college and has taken special work in Indiana and Columbia universities. He has been a leader in educational conferences in the state for years. George T. Jacobs, a brother of Mrs. Mary Frances Brookbanks, who was murdered in her home, at Jeffersonville, has qualified as administrator of the estate by filing bond for $40,000. Judge Hugh Wickens sustained the motion to quash the affidavit against Mayor James E. Mendenhall, of Greensburg, in which he was' charged with malfeasance and misconduct in office. Judge Wickens held that the action against the mayor did not come within the statute cited by the state’s attonreys.

Twenty years of service as manager of the Western Union telegraph ' office at Hartford City without a vacai tion was celebrated by George Brown, i The Eighth District Federation of Clubs _ held its annual meeting in Muncie. Mrs. J. H. Benton, of. Alexandria, gave an interesting talk on , “Value of Reciprocity." Jasper Cox, 38, a motorman for the Indiana Union Traction Company, was instantly killed at Muncie when he was caught between two freight cars at the Traction Terminal station. Announcement was made that Mrs. Charles B. Stuart has contributed SIO,OOO to the Home hospital of Lafayette, which is engaged in a campaign to raise SIOO,OOO to build a new main building.

John C. Morrison, age fifty-two, brother of Martin A. Morrison, Ninth district congressman, is dead. Death was due to tumor of the liver. Mr. Morrison was a swell-*known lawyer and philanthropist. Telling his wife when he arose that he would build a fire in the kitchen range, Gilbert McNab, a farmer, 40 years old, living at Leo, near Ft. Wayne, went to the kitchen and blew off his head with a shotgun. Deputy Prosecutor Gene Williams, who is charged in several indictments with accepting bribes and conspiring to solicit bribes, will go on trial before Judge Gause of Newcastle in the circuit court at Muncie, May 22. Word has been received at South Bend from twenty-seven Belgians, who left Mishawaka for the European war front several months ago, that none of -them has been wounded. They are with the French army in the trenches. Judge John W. Eggman, of the Wayne circuit court, has named W. A. Johnson, Clark Harrod and Albert T. Miller as commissioners to recount the ballots in the recent democratic primary balloting for the nomination for county recorder. The Commercial Club of Richmond announces that it is ready to take up its option on the real estate and buildings of the Richmond branch of the M. Rumely Company, and within the week the company’s receiver will be paid SIOO,OOO for the property. While sinking wells for the new waterworks system at Orleans, drillers, struck a 'powerful stream at a depth of thirty feet. The roar of the water could be heard for a considerable distance. It is thought to be a branch of the histone “Lost River." Clayton R. Gardiner and Victor Alexander, formerly residents of Kokomo, but who have been located at the Brooklyn navy yards, have received notice from the president of Haiti that they have been appointed second lieutenants in the Haitian army.

Mrs. Leahs F. Loudermilk, age ninety-two, who resides on a farm two miles south of Sullivan, fell against a chair Sunday evening while doing her housework, and severed an artery in her head. A physician closed the wound and it is believed she will recover. Howard Akridge, foreman in a railroad shop, at Madison, 111., was eating a bowl of soup in a restaurant at Petersburg when the top of a pepper box fell into his soup. He got the piece into his mouth and swallowed it. The lid'lodged in his throat, and physicians worked more than half an hour to extract it.

A mortgage on the holdings of the Indiana Coke and Gas Company of Terre Haute was filed in the office of the county recorder in Vigo countyin favor of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York and Henry W. Moore, trustee, for $1,000,000, to become effective April 1. Announcement of the engagement' of Miss Donna Regina Smith of South Bend to Lieutenant William Quigley, U. S. N., of Brooklyn, N. Y., has reached South Bend from the Philippines. Miss Smith is returning soon from the Philippines, where she has been visiting her brother-in-law, Guy Rohrer, Governor of the Province of Sulu.

The ordinarily quiet community around Hazelwood was thrown into a fever of excitement by the announcement that a “Zeppelin” had appeared in the town. The persuasion of cooler heads, -who argued that this village had not likely drawn the wrath of Germany, did not serve to lessen the excitement, for the “Zeppelin,” it was learned, is the property of Carl Labertew, a prosperous farmer near town.

At the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Supreme Council of the Loyal Order of Moose, held in Andert?Tn, the following officers were elected: Supreme dictator, E. J. Henning, San Diego, Cal.; vice dictator, Hy D. Davis, Cleveland, 0.; supreme prelate, John W. Ford, Philadelphia, Pa. The charter of the lodge provides that all annual meetings of the council be held in Anderson, as that , city was made the national headquarters when the lodge was organized. Well No. 1, drilled by Heien & Sherman on the Albert Poe least, near Sullivan, was shot and will average seventy-five barrels a day. Hamill & Steele, of Terre Haute, are drilling in location No. 4 on the Clyde Alkire lease.

St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, the mother house of the Sisters of St. Francis in the United Stites, honored the Rev. Clements Steinkamp on the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into the order of friar minor. More than forty clergymen from Ohio and Indiana attended.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many t Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places, K. OF C. PROGRAM ANNOUNCED State Convention to Be Held at Lafayette on May 7, 8 and 9. Lafayette, Ind., April 14.—The annual state convention of the Knights of Columbus will be held in Lafayette May 7, 8 and 9, and the program for the meeting was announced today. T. J. Connelly, grand knight, and Harry Kruse of the Lafayette council are at the head of the arrangements committee. The convention will open Sunday morning, May 7, with the celebration of high mass at St. Boniface church, and a special sermon by the Rev: Father Ernest Ott. The second and third degrees will be given Sunday afternoon to a class of 100. Entertainments Monday will include an automobile ride and a reception at the Lafayette Country club. In the evening the convention banquet will he served at St. Boniface hall; Charles M. Niezer of Fort Wayne, past state deputy, will be toastmaster. Quinn O’Brjen of Chicago will be the principal speaker. The convention mass will be celebrated Tuesday at St. Mary’s church. The Rev. Father Lyons of Rushville will deliver the sermon. The business session will be held Tuesday afternoon and officers will be elected. The convention ball will be held that evening. 85c overalls for 75c, when you’re Tlamillized.

RENSSELAER ASTONISHED BY SIMPLE MIXTURE. Rensselaer people are astonished at the INSTANT action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL removes such surprising foul matter it relieves almost ANY CASE of constipation, sour stomach or gas. Because Adler-ika acts on BOTH lower and upper bowel, a few doses often relieve or prevent appendicitis. A short treatment helps chronic stomach trouble.— A. F. LONG, Druggist.

OVERTON BROS, ciiwftjii Bulmers Let us figure on your next job. Nothing too large or too small. Shop near Hiram Day’s lumber sheds. PHONE 552

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FOR SALE For Sale—Prairie State incubators and brooders—as good as the best. It will pay you to see them before buying. JESSE SNYDER, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind. ’Phone 266. For Sale—Good work hoyse.—JOE PUTTS, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 909-F. a-24 For Sale—Bo-acre farm in Walker tp. and 160 acres in Gillam tp.—• See or call HUGH WILLIAMS, Winamac, Ind. • a -27 For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed at reasonable price at' RENSSELAER GARAGE. For Sale Cheap—Five acres one mile south of Goodman, 1% story house 22x30, good outbuildings, ideal place for poultry farm; wild land joining for sale. Address MRS.

CLARA JOHNSTON. Goodman, Wis. m-12 Lor Sale— l still have a few tons choice timothy hay for sale.—W. E. PRICE, phone 913-A. a-18 For Sale— Blue Andulusians are wonderful layers of large white eggs, non-setters, blue ribbon winners 15 eggs for $1, —MRS. J. W. KING. 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— -Six-room cottage, bath, pantry, fruit, city water, lights, cistern, built-in ice box, washhouse. Good terms.—CAßL L. DUVALL. For Sale— Red Cross windmills. I also do well drilling, having twm machines in operation, and can do prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418 j-12 For Sale-Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, $1 per setting of 15. Also mammoth Pekin duck eggs, $1 for 12, from special pen.—VICTOR YEOMAN, phone 913-K. a-16 For Sale— Barred 'Plymouth Rock eggs from my pens, $4.00 per setting of 15 eggs; utility, $2.00 per setting of 15. Satisfaction guaranteed.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. a-27 Seed Oats for Sale— Phone Nd. 7 W. H. RITCHEY. For Sale— Fine, hardy strawberry plants.—J. W. COEN, phone 947-C. a-15 Tame Hay— Good timothy hay in mow at farm, 8 miles north of Rensselaer. Phone 904-D ts For Sale — Recleaned timothy seed, $4.50 per bushel.—ED HERATH, phone 461. ts For Sale— Registered Jersey bull, three years old, with good record and papers. Price $75. Address EDWARD J. STEINKE, Thayer, Ind. a-18 —— 1 For Sale— The building and ground on which the Methodist Protestant church is located in Rensselaer on corner of Clark and Van Rensselaer streets. Want to reserve seats, selling only building and ground. For particulars call on or phone JOHN BILL, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 949-C. . • tt . Fertilizer— Anyone wanting to use Bowker fertilizer see the local agent, B. T. LANHAM, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 943-B, ' ———_- m i

For Sale— Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts For Sale— l 6-cyllnder Austin touring car, electric lights, good serviceable condition and a good looker, at a bargain. Also secondhand 5-passenger Overland, in good serviceable condition, good tires, 35-h. p., $275. Terms can be arranged to suit purchaser.—Dß. J. H. HANSSON, ’phone 443. FOR RRNT For Rent— Good 7-room house within two blocks of court house City water and electric lights. Enquire at Democrat office. a-27 ~~ WANTED Wanted— Work on a farm by single man. Enquire at The Democrat office. Wanted— To do -your carpenter work. We have installed new woodworking machinery and are prepared to do all kinds of work. — OVERTON BROS, telephone 552 or 233. m-3 LOST Lost— On streets of Rensselaer Saturday forenoon, two $lO bills. Finder please leave at Democrat office.—JOHN SHIDE, Parr, R-l. a-17 Estrayed— Last week a red, w'hitefaced cow, giving milk. Phone anv information to PAUL WEISSE, Remington, Ind. a-16 Taken Up— Three head of hogs, two red and one white sow. Owner may have same after paying for advertising and for taking care of them.—ROY L. JOHNSON, phone 904-H.

MISCELLANEOUS The Indiana Mutual Cyclone Company is in their ninth year of business, having $lO,-000,000 insurance in force and are carrying farm risks at about'sl per thousand per year. For further information inquire of their agent, M. I. Adams. Phone 933-L. ml Storage Room—For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year.—THE DEMOCRAT. 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 dent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans—Mopey 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. 1 flnf fhn) w ‘ tho ” t D#,w - Illi Illi Wlthout Commission I Uul IllU I Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON