Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Page 4

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Mexican Revolt A representative of the state department telegraphed the department in Washington information that Francisco Villa, hunted bandit leader, passed through Tfoya 25 miles east of Parral, on April 10, two days before the engagement' between American troops and Mexicans at Parral-, ♦ ♦ ♦ Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. chief of staff of the army, left Washington for San Antonio. Tex., by order of Secretary Baker in order to get accurate information as to the situation on the border and in Mexico. General Gavira, commander of the Juarez 'Garrison, received a message from General Gutierrez, military commander of Chihuahua, stating that fifteen civilians concerned in a Villa plot to seize the Chihuahua garrison were executed. • • • Senor Amador, subsecretary of foreign relations of Mexico, declared at Mexico City that Eliseo Arredondo, ambassador designate of the de facto government at Washington, had been instructed to demand the withdrawal of the American troops in Mexico. »» * d General Funston issued orders at San Antonio, Tex., that will place at the disposal of General Pershing 2,300 more troops. * • • Secretary Lansing officially called to General Carranza's attention the charges made by General Pershing that Carranza soldiers led the attack on the American cavalry at Parral. A synopsis of the report by General Pershing Was telegraphed from Washington to James L. Rodgers, special agent with Carranza. ♦ • • American army officers with Pershing in Mexico and Maj. Frank Thompkins received a written threat from General Lozano, commander of the Carranza garrison at Parral, that the American troops would be attacked if they advanced to the city. They say the fight at Parral was the result of treachery.

It was 300 Carranza soldiers engaged 100 American cavalry at Parral, according to a detailed report written by Maj. Frank Tompkins and forwarded to General Funston at San Antonio, Tex., by General Pershing. Forty of the Mexican soldiers, including one major and one civilian, were killed by the retreating Americans. The American casualties were twq killed and six woufided, including Major Tompkins. His wound was slight The United States troops were attacked after being invited into the town by Carranza’s officers. ■: • • There is no confirmation at either the state or war departments at WashLington of reports from the border that ■ Villa is dead and his body is being brought to northern Mexico to satisfy American authorities. The Mexican embassy has received similar reports of the death of Villa but places little - credence in them. * • * Domestic George Harshaw Phillips, former “corn king,” died at Chicago after a short illness. Corn was his hobby, and he did more to help the western farmers secure higher prices for their grain during the years 1899 and 1901 than any man in the trade. He was born at Morris, 111., January 11, 1869.

• * * Six persons were crushed or burned to death in collision of trains on the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad at Bradford, R. I. ♦ * * At an election held at London Mills, 111., a complete ticket of women was elected. The ticket includes the offices of village clerk, four trustees and treasurer. ♦ • * iiE* DeLloyd Thompson, an aviator, of Washington, Pa., soared 3,000 feet over Washington and dropped 300 excelsior-filled bombs on the city. Mr. Thompson said he made the ascent as a demonstration to members of congress to accelerate sentiment in favor of aerial preparedness. • • *’ Harry K. was granted a divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw by Judge Joseph Cohen-at Pittsburgh, Pa., Thaw named “Jack” Francis, a former reporter op the New York Morning Telegraph.

Typhus germs have been found in the blood of Mrs. Arthur Warren Waite, wife of the dentist awaiting trial in New York for the murder of his father-in-law, John K. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich. • • • The St. Louis ordinance fixing the speed of automobiles in the city limits at eight and ten miles an hour was declared invalid in the circuit court at St. Louis. A state statute fixed the speed limit at 25 miles ah hour.

Washington Honduras cattle growers, long barred from American markets by the presence of the cattle tick, are treating their herds and will begin shipments to New York soon, according to a report from Washington. • • • William M. Ingraham, former mayor of Portland, Ale., has been selected, by President Wilson at Washington for assistant secretary of war. Mr?lngraham will succeed Henry Breckinridge, , who resigned with former Secretary ’ Garrison. I ' ■; * »■ . Sharply indicting Germany for its use. of submarines', against trierchant; vessels, President Wilson, before a joint session of congress held in the house at Washington, issued public no-1 tice to the world that unless the German government changes its methods the United States will have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations. ,j » * »

• The United States 7 note to Germany, demanding an im mediate Cessation of submarine attacks on unarmed passenger and freight vessels, given out by ! the state department at Washington Simultaneously with its receipt in Berlin, is regarded generally in the nature of an ultimatum. The note demands I that the German government immediately declare and effect an abatement of its present methods of submarine ' warfare. » • • The army reorganization bill was passed by the Sena te at Washington without a roll call. As the bill passed it carried provisions for increasing the regular army to 250,000 men; the coast artillery to 21,748 men and pro- ( Vided for military training in certain schools and colleges, 7 7 * *■ • Acting on a protest from the German embassy, the-state department at Washington asked that the department of jutsice release Wolf von Igel, secretary to Captain von Papen, the recalled Germanmilitary attache, arrested in New York on a charge of conspiracy to blow up the Welland ] canal, unless the activities complained 1 of were committed before Von Igel be- * caqe attached to the embassy staff. The embassy claim diplomatic immunity for him. President Wilson, speaking before [ the Daughters of the American Revo- ! lution at Washington, declared that the only excuse for the United States ! ever to fight would be in the cause of humanity. • • • President Wilson approved at Washington the recommendation of the secretary of war imposing a sentence of reprimand on Lieutenant Colonel Goodier of the aviation service, who recently was tried by court-martial in connection with charges over the conduct of the San Diego station. • • * The American people, famous as coffee drinkers, consume 40 per cent of the amount sold in the international markets. acording to figures announced by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington. More than 1,000,000,000 pounds of coffee came to this country last year. * * • European War News The British admiralty announced at. London that 49 lives were lost when the British steamship Zent was sunk without warning by a German submarine on April 5. » » * The Berlin war office issued the following statement: ‘Russian attacks at the Dvinsk bridgehead on the narrow front south of Garbumovka broke down in front of our positions with heavy losses for tire enemy.” » ♦ • Trebizond. the most important Turkish city on the Black sea, has been captured by the Russians, according to a Petrograd dispatch.

* * * The Russian army in the Caucasus has penetrated to within eleven and one-fourth miles of Trebizond, the Turkish stronghold on the Black sea, according to an official report issued at Petrograd. ♦ » • Two Americans, William Smith and Nathan Tillman, were on the British steamer Eastern City w’hen she was attacked April 9 off Cardiff, Wales, and sunk by shell fire from a submarine. No lives were lost. * « • Foreign The Scheldt dike has broken near Quatrecht, six miles east of Ghent, and a large area of southern Holland and northern Belgium is under water. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. Thus far nd loss of life has been reported. * • • A dispatch to the Kieler Zeitung at Copenhagen from Wilhelmshaven says there was a great explosion in the new torpedo works there, a number Of persons being killed and others wounded. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company at London says that travelers arlving at The Hague from Berlin report that a woman fired two shots from a revolver at Dr. Karl Liebknecht, while the socialist member of the relchstag was walking in the street. Both shots missed. * * * A destructive fire in Belgrade, formerly the capital of Serbia, is reported in a dispatch to the Paris Matin fnm Bucharest. The eastern section of the citv was almost destroyed

INDIANA AT A GLANCE

interesting. Newsy Notes From All Sections of The State.

Mrs. James Rober, 63 years old, was burned to death while burning grass on her farm near Hobart, Henry A. Martin, age sixty-two, was trampled to death by horses in his barn on his farm near Lebanon. George Teetsel, 45, superintehdent of the strawboard factory at Wabash, was instantly killed when his automobile turned over. The Federation of Women’s Clubs, of the Eleventh district of Indiana, will hold its seventh annual convention in Peru, Wednesday May 3. Donald Mcßride, three-year-old son of George Mcßride, city engineer, is dead of injuries he received when his father’s automobile overturned. Thomas C. W renick, 77’ years old, is dead at Morristown. He operated a drug store and a farm implement store in Morristown for thirty-five years. Emory R. Forst, age fifty-six, a prominent Sullivan merchant, is dead of heart disease. The body was sent to his former home in Bluffton for burial. t ( When the wife of Wi’liajn Dill, 58 years old, of East Columbus, returned home after a brief absence she found her husband kneeling in prayer beside his bed. Mrs. Dill learned that he had swallowed poison with suicidal intent. He died a few minutes later. Jeannette Briggs Reynolds, eigthynine years old, one of South Bend’s pioneer women, is dead in Albuquerque, N. M. She leaves an estate valued at $1,000,000. She was known as the “good angel” of practically all the charitable organizations and institutions in South Bend. Capt. H. L. Brown, commander of the Third Ambulance Company and Gen. Pershing’s personal physician on the expedition, died at the base hospital at El Paso. With him at the time of his death were his Wife and two children. He was a native of Indiana, having been born in Indianapolis in 1873. As Miss Leora Cross, whose father fell dead at Elwood, was in an undertaking establishment selecting a coffin for her father, the body of Donald Powell, 32 years old, her fiance, was brought into the place. Powell, a brick mason, was killed instantly in the collapse of the walls of a cupola he had just completed. The “tree house,” celebrated as a curiosity near Bluffton, is no more. The massive jthree-rooin structure, built by a dozen boys a year ago from lumber salvaged from a railroad wreck, caught fire mysteriously and was destroyed. The house was in the top branches of a high tree on the banks of the Wabash river and could be seen for miles.

Guy C. Hart, 28 years old, a rural mail carrier, will be the next postmaster.of Kendallville at a salary of $2,800 a year. Hart was chosen for the office in the first popular election of a postmaster ever held in an Indiana town. There were fifteen other applicants for the place. The election was arranged by Congressman Cyrus Cline, |vho said he would nominate for the Bffice the winner in the election. What it means to govern a city of 300,000 persons and what it takes to govern it with, was shown in Indianapolis Saturday when thousands of taxpayers stood on the sidewalks and watched the three-mile municipal parade pass in review. For nearly two hours Mayor Bell and more than 1,000 city employes placed themselves on exhibition, with the sole purpose of showing the public what is being done with its money. The wage agreement adopted at a conference of the officials of the United Mine Workers of America and representatives of the coal mine owners in New York has been ratified by a referendum vote of the members of the miners’ organization, according to an announcement made by William Green, international secre-tary-treasurer of the union. The vote was 84,498% in favor of the agreement and 42,820 against it. Joseph Long, Muncie restaurant keeper, was putting up an awning when he heard something fall to the sidewalk. “Well, what do you think of that?” he exclaimed, when he looked down and saw a finger lying on the w’alk, “some one has lost a finger.” Long kicked the finger into the gutter and started back to work, when he noticed his own finger missing. I had been pinched off between two “scissor irons” of the awning frame. Samuel Robinson was indicted at Bedford, for first degree murder. He killed Frank Quakenbush, a quarry superintendent, and entered a plea of not guilty. It is said that insanity will be the defense. The case has been set for trial May 1. J , An air craft company, of Anderson, will, within a few days, make a test of a 300 horse-power triplane, capable of carrying twelve passengers for twenty-four hours at a maximum speed of ninety-eight miles an hour, according to builders of the aeroplane and officials of the company.

20 KILLED IN STORM

SCORES INJURED IN TORNADOES AT KANSAS AND MISSOURI. Property Damage Heavy—Telegraph and Telephone Wires Are Down. Kansas City. Mo., April 21.—Reports received from the tornado-swept sections of Missouri and Kansas indicated tin; death list would reach 20. More than 100 were injured. Property damage probably will amount to more than s7= ,000. ' ‘ ’ Stover, Morgan county. Missouri, is cut off - from tjqminunieatioh and it is impossible to confirm reports that six persons were killed. Tire death list was added to by reports from Union town. 'Bourbon county, Kansas, which said four persons had been killed there, Otearif Mo , reports the death of John Farris and wife. . <*■ 11. Green, son-in-law of Judge John H. Lucas, was reported missing after the storm at Osceola. Two were reported killed and 20 injured west of Lowry City. '

CAPTURE BRITISH POSITIONS

Berlin Reports Marked Successes for Teuton Troops Operating Against the English.

Berlin, April 21. —Marked successes for the German troops operating in Flanders against the British army were announced in the war office report. It stated that at Ypres German troops have penetrated English trenches while at Langemarck, English positions on a front of 600 yards have been captured. At Langemarck the Germans took an officer, 108 men and two machine guns.

RECRUITING CRISIS SETTLED

Will Be No Resignations From British Cab'net, It Is Officially Announced. London, April 21. —“The recruiting crisis has been settled,” it was announced on official authority. It was further stated that there would be no resignations from the cabinet.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, April 30. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ■ ing. est. ing. May 1.13% 1.14% 1.13 1.14% July 1.15%-% 1.14% 1.13% 1.13% Septl.ll% 1.10% 1.12% LU%-% ■■ Corn— . ■ . ■■ May 75%-% .76 .75%-% .75% July 76% .76% .76% .76%-% 5ept....76%-% .76%-% .75%-% .78 OatsMay ...44% .45% .44%-% .45%-% July ....42%-% .43% .42% .42% Sept 39% .39%-% .39% .39% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patents, Minneapolis, wood or cotton. [email protected] to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents, $5.60 @5.80; jute, straight, [email protected]; first clears, $4„40@)4.60; second clears, jute, $3.50@3 7 0; low grade, jute, $3.10@3:20; soft wheat, patents. [email protected]; rye flour, white, patents. [email protected]; dark, [email protected]. HAY—Market easy; choice timothy, $20.00 @21.00; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, $16.00@ 17.00; light clover mixed, $16.00@17,00; heavy clover -mixed, SU.OO@ 13.00; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, $13.00@15 90; threshed timothy, $7.50@ 10.00; clover, [email protected]; heated and damaged, [email protected]; alfalfa, choice, $17,000 18 00; alfalfa. No. 1, [email protected]; alfalfa. No. 2. $13.00@ 14.00; alfalfa, No. 3, sß.oo@ 10.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 34c; extra firsts, 33%c; firsts. 32%@'33c; seconds, 30@ 32c; dairies, extras, 33c; firsts, 81%@32c; seconds, 27@28c; packing stock, 25%@26%c; ladles, 28@29c; process, 27@29%c. • EGGS—Firsts. 20@20%c; ordinary firsts, 19@19%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 19@20%c; cases returned, 18%@19%c; extra, 23@’24c; checks, 16%@17c; dirties, 17%@ 18c; storage packed, firsts, 21%@21%c; extras, 21%@21c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 18@19c per lb.; fowls, 18c; young stags, 14c; roosters, 12%c; duek£, 16@18c; geese, 10@13c. ICED P&ULTRY—Turkeys, 25@26c per lb.; fowls, 18%@49c; roosters, 13%c; ducks, 16@18e;' geese. 12@13c. ; POTATOES—Minnesota, Dakota, white. 70@75c per bu ; Wisconsin, Michigan white 70@)75c; Minnesota and Dakota Ohios, 70@ 78c. NEW POTATOES Bbls.. [email protected]; hampers, [email protected].

New York, April 20, WHEAT—Firmer, inquiry slow, No. 1 northern, $1.32*4; No. 2 red, $1.27; No. 2 hard, $1.26; May, $1.22; July, $1.15. OATS—Steady, inquiry light; No. 2 white, nominal; No. 3 white, 50%@50%c; No. 4 white, 49* / ic@49%c; ungraded, 48 @s3c. CORN—Firm, demand quiet; No. 2 yellow, 87@90*/jc; No, 3, 85*4c. Live Stock. «. Chicago, April 20. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, $7.75@ 10.00; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; inferior steers, [email protected]; stackers anti feeders, [email protected]; good to choice heifers,) [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; canners, $3.50@4 60; butcher bulls. [email protected]; bologna bulls,* [email protected]; good to prime veal calves. SB.OO @10.00; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., $9.70@ 9.85; prime heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; rough heayw packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Native wool ewes, fair to good, [email protected]; western fed ewes, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; shorn yearlings, SB.BO @9.20; wethers, fair to choice, [email protected]; sjjorn wethers, [email protected]; feeding lambs, [email protected]; fed western lambs, [email protected]; Colorado wool lambs, [email protected]; spring lambs, [email protected]; shorn lambs. [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y., April 20. CATTLE—Market slow; prime steer*, [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. ' ‘ CALVES—Market steady; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs. [email protected]; cull to fair, $9.00 @11.50; yearlings, $8.00@>9.00; sheep, $3.00@ 8.50. HOGS—Market dull, %0c lower; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs. $9.50; mixed. [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, [email protected]; ■tags, [email protected].

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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 horse. —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—Good four-year-old cow, giving good flow of milk. —E. S. RHOADS, Rensselaer, Ind. ts

For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed, $4.50 per bushel.—ED HERATH, phone 461. ts For Sale—Six-room cottage, bath, pantry, fruit, city; water, lights, cistern, built-in ice box, washhouse. Good terms. —CARL L. DUVALL. For Sale —Red Cross windmills. I also do well, drilling, having two machines in operation, an* can do prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rens-J selaer, Ind. Phone 418 ' j-12 Tame Hay—Good timothy hay in mow at farm, 8 miles north of Rensselaer. Phone 904-D ts For Sale—At public auction at dbor of court house in Rensselaer, at 1 o’clock p. m., on Saturday, April 29, the Walters farm in Barkley and Gillam townships, consisting of 114 acres. An opportunity to buy a good farm worth the money. For particulars see GEORGE A. WLLIAMS, over First National bank, a-30 For Sale Chea[> —Five acres one mile south of Goodman, story house 22x30, good outbuildings, ideal place for poultry farm; wild land joining for sale. Address MRS. CLARA JOHNSTON, Goodman, Wis. m-12 For Sale—Hedgeposts, five miles south and two west of Rensselaer.— RILEY TULLIS. Phone 927-E. ts For Sale—Blue Anduluslans are wonderful layers of large white eggs, non-setters, blue ribbon winners. 15 eggs for $1. —MRS. J. W. KING. 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., ’ ts 1

For Sale—From now on I will offer Barred Rock eggs for $1.50 per setting. Don’t let this chance slip.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medary 1 - ville, Ind. m -15 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—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west ®f Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts Fertilizer—Anyone wanting to use Bowker fertilizer see the local agent, B. T. LANHAM, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 943-B. ml For Sale—l 6-cylinder 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 RENT For Rent—Good 7-room house within two blocks of court house. City water and electric lights. Enquire at Democrat office. a-27 LOST Lost—Some place along the Dixie Airline roadside, a brown fur neck piece or stoll about 5 feet- by about 6 inches wide. Finder will receive an extremely liberal reward for information leading to the return of this article. —B. H. CORBETT, 508 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. a-27 r WANTED Wanted—Good farm hand by the month. —BARRY BROWN, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-2, phone 904-K. a-24 Wanted-—Good farm hand by the month.—ARTHUR PUTT, Remington, Ind., R-3. a-25 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 MISCELLANEOUS Estrayed—From my farm, 4 miles north and 3-4 rtiile west of Rensselaer, ope bay colt 1 year old; crippled in one hind leg, and one gray mare colt, coming 2 years old. Finder please notify SILAS TOOMBS, Rensselaer R-l, or phone 951-E. The Indiana Mutual Cyclone Company is in their ninth year of business, having $10,000,000 insurance in force and are carrying farm risks at about $1 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 cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. 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 flnf fhftl Wlthout Delay, nil Illi w,thout Commission I Uul IllU k Without Charges for llAliri/ Making or Recording MI 111 II Instruments. IIIUIIL I J W. H. PARKINSON