Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — Page 4

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News The auxiliary cruiser Hermann was attacked by four Russian destroyers in Norr Keepings bight. The vessel became afire and was blown up by the crew. The commander and most of the crew were saved, says a dispatch from Berlin. » * * The German cruiser Koenig von Sachsen (King of Saxony), a destroyer and 12 merchantmen have been sunk in a sea fight in the Baltic, according to a report received by the Exchange Telegraph company at London. * * * German troops renewed the attack the whole section of the Verdun front west of Thiaumont farm. They succeeded in entering some advanced trenches at one point, but were repulsed elsewhere, the French war office announced at Paris. • * • The great Russian offensive added nearly 7,000 more captives to the 108,000 already taken, and swept down upon Czernowltz, capital of Bukowina. The Russians are reported to have entered the city, Petrograd officially announces a total of 113,000 men and 1,700 officers captured in the two weeks’ drive. ♦ * • The Italian transport Principe Umberto, with 1,000 troops on board, has been sunk in the Adriatic sea by an Austrian submarine. The loss of life was very heavy. • • • It was announced at Amsterdam the Swedish bark Hehle and the Norwegian ship Orkedal have been sunk In the North Sea. The Helde was mined. The crews of both were saved. • * • It has been established that the cruiser Hampshire, whose destruction cost the life of Lord Kitchener, was sunk by a mine, it was announced in London by the admiralfy. * • • Continuing their offensive movement in Volhynia and Galicia, Russian troops took prisoner 400 officers and 35,000 men, says the official statement Issued at Petrograd. Since the present offensive was started a week ago the Russians have taken about 108,000 prisoners. • * • A continued advance by the Italians in the Arsa valley, in Pasubio sector, and along the Posina-Astico line, in the southern Tyrol, was announced by the war office at Rome. • • • Domestic Ten men lost their lives and about a score more were hurt when fire swept a large grain elevator of the Pennsylvania railroad on the harbor front at Canton, Md. The property loss was estimated at $3.00,000. * * * Charles Evans Hughes has chosen as his political philosopher nnd friend in his fight for the presidency, George W. Wlckersham. lie made tlxe selection at New York.

Theodore Roosevelt underwent an X-ray examination at New York for what lie characterized as “possibly a slight, breaking of the muscles" around the rib which Was broken when he was thrown from a horse May 24, 1915. * * * Official announcement was made at New York by the National City bank of the closing of a loan of $50,000,00(] to the Russian government by a banking group. * * * -President Wilson, in an address to the cadets at West Point, discussed preparedness, militarism, Americanism. the cause of the war in Europe, peace, the Monroe doctrine, divided allegiance and the ideals of America, lie declared it is the present imperative duty of the United States to be prepared, adding: “Mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says.” *jr * The Progressive national committee held a meeting at Chicago and elected officers, but did not pass on the suggestion made by Colonel Roosevelt 01 frame a reply to his letter. The committee adjourned until June 25 when the conditional declination of the colonel will be considered. * * * , The five-year-old lad who, through adoption, recently became heir to the millions of Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, may soon have a brother and sister. Two children are now at the Shepard home at Irvington-on-the-Hudson on “probation.” * * * In a statement issued to the Progressive party, following a conference with Colonel Roosevelt at New York, George W: Perkins told the Progressives to wait the action of the na tlonal committee on June 26 before making any moves. • * • Miss Mildred Fuller Aubrey, granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Melville Fuller* and James Bronson Blake of Milwaukee, Wig., were married in Washington,as the home of the brlde’f •ant, Mrs. Hugh Campbell Walles.

••America first,” shouted thousands of voices in the preparedness parade at El Paso, Tex. While thousands of small American flags were raised aloft by the marchers, a thousand voices sang “America” and other patriotic airs. * * * Charles |E. Hughes, to questions p|jt to him by newspaper men at New York in regard to his attitude toward the support offered him by the German-Americans, said it was “one of undiluted Americanism.” * • • r Nursing many bruises, the Kentucky delegation to five Democratic national j convention left Owensboro, Ky„ for St. ! Louis after a part of the train on which Its members were traveling*had been wrecked. * * * Charles Evans Hughes, associate Justice of the United States Supreme court,, was nominated for president by practically a unanimous vote in the Republican convention at Chicago. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana was named for vice president. Justice Hughes resigned from the Supreme court when notified of his nomination. * * * Theodore Roosevelt, refusing to accept Hughes as the fusion nominee of ( the two parties, was nominated for j president by the Progressive national convention at Chicago, which selected , ns its nominee for the vice presidency , John M. Parker of New Orleans, j Roosevelt declined to accept the nomination. * * • Mexican Revolt The finishing blow was given the largest surviving band of Villa followers in Chihuahua by 20 men of the j Thirteenth United States cavalry in a | fight north of Santa Clara. No Amerlcans were hurt. The Americans routed t 25 Villa bandits, killing three and wounding several. • * * With 1,500 additional regular troops ordered to the Mexican border and reports of the rapid spread of antl-Ameri- j can feeling continuing to pour into the state department at Washington' from consuls all over northern Mexico, | administration officials made no attempt to disguise their uneasiness. * * • One of the three Mexican bandits j killed in the chase of outlaws who made a raid on the T. A. Coleman ranch near Laredo, Tex., wore a Carranza uniform bearing the insignia of a Carranza colonel, according to a message received at Laredo, Tex. * * * Mexican bandits, under the leader- J ship of Luis de la Rosa himself, j crossed the Rio Grande at Hidalgo, rounded up 80 horses and drove them j back across the border. American troops under Captain Bell are in pursuit of the raiders.

Washington In a Flag-day spech at Washington the president charged that there were some foreign-born persons in the United States who were trying to levy a kind of political blackmail on the American political parties in the interest of foreign governments. This, the president declared, must be stopped. * # * United States consuls assigned to stations in Mexico have either left the republic or are preparing to leave. With the spread of the anti-American demonstrations south of the Rio Grande tlm United States Hag has been taken down and the national shields removed from the consulates all over the country. * * • A favorable report was ordered by the house military committee at Washington on the annual army appropriation bill, carrying $157,000,000. It makes provision for the increases and changes authorized by the new army reorganization law. • • * A constitutional amendment to disqualify federal judges from holding any elective offices for at least two years after leaving the bench was introduced in the senate at Washington by Senator Thomas (Dem.) of Colorado. * * * E. B. Carson, sales manager Consumers’ Refining company of Chicago, charged before the federal trade commission at Washington that “big oil interests" caused the increased prices of gasoline by the “speculating in crude petroleum and manipulating the market.” His testimony was part of the investigation of the gasoline price increase. * * * Justice Brandeis was assigned by Chief Justice White at Washington to the Second judicial circuit, consisting of Vermont, Connecticut, and the state of New York, formerly held by exJustice Hughes. * * * Inquiry into the advance in the price of gasoline was begiin by the federal trade commission at Washington with representatives of the principal oil-pro-ducing concerns on hand to testify. * * * Increases in the assessments imposed by the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, upon its members who hold fourth-class insurance benefit certificates, were held by the Supreme court at Washington to beAegal, * * s* Foreign Almore Sato will be the new Japanese ambassador to the United States, succeeding Viscount Sutemi Chinda, who is transferred to London. This innouncement was officially made by the foreign office at Tokyo.

Incidents of the Indiamcpolis Delegation’s Trip to St. Louis. j St. Louis, June 14.—-'Although i yesterday was the 13th, the Indiana , Democratic club of Indianapolis did not find a hoodoo from the banks of the -Wabash to the banks of" the Mississippi, They left Indianapolis on what is said to be the finest pasI senger train that ever " went out of the union station. At was made up of Solid steel Pullmans and r two Steel dining cars. The members of the Democratic , club, in their white hats with red | silk bands, Palm Beach suits and canes, presented a nobby appearance, and John Hollett, who had charge | of then, expressed his pride many times. The train made the run from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, 72 miles, in one hour and 19 minutes, including a three-minute stop at Greencastle. And that is going some. Ten passengers got on at Greencastle and 35 at Terre Haute. At the letter city the Indianapolis /Military band, that gave concerts all the way over, went to the platform and playeu “On the Banks of the Wabash,” and a big crowd that was

at the station cheered the Indianapolis nur icians. A short stop was made at Effingham, 111., and the run after that was made straight into St, Louis, the special train arriving practically on time. The baggage of the Indianians was piled in huge vans and taken to the American hotel, and when it got there, \there was a scramble and a rush. Every man got hold of ttye other man’s suitcase or grip. E’d Cox of Hartford City, who came with a silk hat in a box, got a box with a bonnet in it. E. P. Honan of Rensselaer rushed for a haircut, and when he went to look for clean linen, he found the kind of linen that men do not wear. Mr. Honan dashed downstairs and rescued his suitcase from a bellboy who was looking for its owner. After a while, however, everything was straightened out and the Hoosiers were happy. This town is topsy turvey. At Chicago the Republican national convention was a struggle for supremacy. Here the Democratic national convention is a celebration, a demonstration, a confirmation, an affirmation, a jubilee. In Chicago the delegates made the men and built the platform. In St. Louis, where no very intricate problems are to be , solved, the candidates already picked, and the platform already prepared. All this political machinery here is simply an illusion. At Chicago there was rain and mud and spitting snow and quinine. Here there is sunshine with the perfume of roses and the tinkle of the iced mint.

Yes, St. Louis is topsy turvey and all it needed last night to be a carnival was the confetti. The windows were filled with flags and the balconies were hung with banners. Even the somber old court house, where much of the history of St. Louis lies hidden, was a pile of red, white and blue gorgeousness. The people deserted their homes early in the evening, and the side streets, as if rivers, emptied their homogeneous currents into Olive street, which became a torrent of human being from the Planters’ hotel to the Hotel Jefferson, rushing in double streams down one side and back on the other, and between the streams on the sidewalks were numerous bands leading marching clubs with merry music and martial step. And among them was the Indiana Democratic club, headed by tbe Indianapolis Military band, attracting attention and applause from the crowd. Olive street, last night was a glare with thousands and thousands of electric lights. The street was filled with gay and noisy revelers. Luxury and wretchedness danced side by side in the feverish brilliant life of the city. The crowd was everywhere, with all kinds of men and women dressed in all kinds of clothes. —W. H. Blodgett in Indianapolis News.

DEMANDS GERMAN-AMERICANS MEMBERS SUPPORT WILSON

Jackson Club at Lafayete Deckles to Expel Those Whose Pro-German Sympathies May Influence - V’ote. Lafayette, Ind., June 15.—The Jackson club here, a Democratic club known throughout Indiana, decided to expel any members who because of pro-German sympathies have declared they will not vote for President Wilson. At a meeting last night Jacob J. Biehn, president, spoke on the subject, and said there should be no place within the organization for members who intepd to vote against the Democratic national ticket. Mr. Biehn is himself one of the leading German-American citizens of the community, but he said in his address that the question of European sympathies should not enter into elections in the United States. Albert J. Krabbe, former city clerk, also of German parentage, seconded

v.hat Mr. Beilin - said, and - declared that he was for Wilson. Several other German-Amerieans spoke along the same line, it was decided to make an investigation to determine whether any of the Germans in the club intend to vote against Wilson and, if so, to remove their names from the club's roster.

Coming—The Great Graves.

Beginning next Monday, June 19, and continuing the "entire week at the Gayety theatre, the Great Graves commences an engagement extraordinary. Graves is by far the foremost hypnotist entour. He comes highly praised by both press and local managers, wherever he has appeared this season. Last week in Richmond at the Garden airdome, he played a capacity business all week. All of Graves’ work is on new and novel lines and is far away from the usual performances presented by other operators of this peculiar science. There is more real comedy and hearty laughter in an evening with Graves than in half a dozen with a so-called musical or farce comedy now on the road. This will be an entertainment out of the usual run and one that you will come again to see as the program changes in its entirety nightly. Prices: 10 and 20 cents.

Ice Cream Social at Barkley M. E. Church.

The Ladies’ Aid of Barkley M. E. church will give an ice cream social at the church Saturday night, June 17, after the commencement exercises. Everybody invited.

Wash ties in many up-to-date patterns. Straw' hats in all shapes and straw's. Prices right at ROWLES & PARKER’S. * l The right to elect one mehfber of the Belgian chamber of deputies is alloted to each 40,000 of the population.

RENSSELAER FARMERS’ GRAIN COMPANY

* See the committee having • * charge of soliciting the sale of • • stock in the Rensselaer Farm- • * ers’ Grain company and sub- • * scribe foi a few shares before all • • are taken, and receive better * • prices for your grain.—Advt. • • •••••••••••••a

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, June 15. Open- High- Low- CloaWheat— ing. est. est. lng. July 1-0214-% 1.03% 1.01% 1.03% Sept 1,04-04% 1.05% 1.03% 1.05 Corn— : ■ V July 71%-% .72% .71% .72% Sept 70%-% .71% .70% .71% Oats— July 39-39% .39% .39 .39% Sept. 38%-% .38%-% .38% .38%

FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent Minnesota, wood or cotton, $6.30 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents, $5.1006.25; jute, straight, $4.9005.00; first clears, $4.40(3 ,4.60; seconds, clears. Jute, $3.10(3:3.25; low grade, juto, $2.9003.00; soft wheat patents, $5.00(g6.25; rye flour, white patents, '54.9005.10; dark. $3.75<@4 00. HAY—Market firm; choice timothy, $19.0( @21.00; No 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. i timothy, $15.00017.00; light clover mixed, [email protected]; heavy clover mixed, $11,500 13.50; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, $11.00@)14.00: threshed timothy, [email protected]; clover. [email protected]; alfalfa, 'choice, $17.00018.00; alfalfa No. t $14,000 16 00; alfalfa No. 2, $11.00012.00; alfalfa No. 3. $9.00010 00. ’ BUTTER—Creamery, extra, 29c; extra firsts, 28028V&C; firsts, 27@27V4c: seconds, 2c @26c; dairies, extras, 28%c; firsts, 26*40 27c; seconds, 25*4@26c: packing stock, 22*40 23c; ladles. 24@24Vic: process, 26*4c. EGGS—Firsts, 20%@21Vic; ordinary firsts, •18@20e; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 20@21c; cases returned, 19t4@20*4c: extra, 24025 c: checks, 17@18c; dirties, IS@ISV4c; storage, packed, firsts, 21%022c. LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys. 17@20c per lb.; fowls, 18c; roosters, lie; broilers, 240 2Sc: ducks, 14016 c; springs. IS® 19c; geese. I. springs 16c. ICED POULTRY-Turkeys. 26@28c per lb.; fowls, 18V4@19c: springs. 24@28c; roosters, sl2@l2*4c; ducks. 16018 c; geese, 12® 13c. POTATOES—Minnesota, Dakota, white. $1.0001.15 per bu ; Wisconsin. Michigan, white, [email protected]; Minnesota and Dakota, Ohlos, [email protected]. New York, June 15. WHEAT—Firmer, quiet inquiry; No. 1 northern, $1.2B&; No, 2 red, No. ? hard. $1.14*4. . CORN—Stronger, inactive business; No. 2 yellow. S6@SS*ic. OATS—Steady, business fair; standard, 4M4c; No. 3 white, 44@44*4c; No. 4 white, 43%® 44 c. Live Stock. •V Chicago, June 15. CATTXiE—Good to choice steers, $9.50(3 11. yearlings, good to choice. $9.25010.50: inferior steers, $8.00(39.25; stackers and feeders. [email protected]; good to choice heifers, $7.0008.30; good to choice cows. $5.5008.35: cutters, $4.0005.25; cannters. $3.5004.60: butcher bulls, »i'[email protected]; bologna bulls. $6.5007.303 good to prime calves, SII,OOO 12.00; heavy calves, $8.50010.00. HOGS—Prime light butchers. [email protected]: fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 2400270 lbs., $9.75@ 10.00; prime heavy butchers, 2700310 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, $9,500 9.80; rough heavy packing, $9.2509.60, pigs, fair to good, $7.5008.75; stags, $8.9009.25. SHEEP—Shorn yearlings, [email protected]; fair to choice clipped ewei, $6.7507.50; shorn wethers, fair to choice, $6.7507.75; spring lambs, $10.00011.50; shorn lambs, $9,000 10.25. *

East Buffalo, N. Y., June 15. CATTLE—Market active; prime steers, $11.00011.40; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active; cull to choice, $5.00013.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs, $12.00012,50; cull to fair, $7.00011.50; yearlings, $8.00010.50; sheep, $3.0008.25. HOGS—Market active; Yorkers, $9.75® 10.25; pigs, $9.75; mixed, $10.20010.25; heavy, $10.20010.25; roughs, $8.2508.75; stags, $6.0007.25. •

King Henry IV \ ■ ■ Presented by the Columbian Literary Society at the College Auditorium June 19, 1916 8 o’clock p. m. Admission 25 Cents

Democrats Name Woodrow Wilson and Marshall.

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pledge themselves to a repeal of These acts or to a policy in Mexico that differs from that of the present administration. Mr. Bryan was congratulated by the party leaders while the crowd gave him liberal applause. A brief terrific burst of applause followed his concluding prayer that Woodrow Wilson might be given a chance to be the man to re-establish the brotherhood of man and bring the great European war to a close. The delegates reassembled at nine o’clock last night, determined to remain in session until all the business has been done. The first thing on their program was the renomination of President Woodrow Wilson. The resolutions committee had already promised faithfully to bring in a finished platform today, and the delegates were steadfastly minded to adopt that platform and do whatever else was necessary to wind up the affairs of the convention and adjourn. Under the rules adopted by the convention, it will remain in continuous session until all business Is disposed of. The big leaders framed the hurryty> program to the utter dismay of St. Louis, which expected the convention to remain in session until Saturday at least, and to the disappointment of delegates and visitors who like a convention overflowing with oratory, but the report of the rules committee was adopted without a show of opposition. Pledged to Stick to Finish.

Senator Iteed of Missouri made a speech in which he voiced the regret of the city that it was not to entertain such a distinguished gathering for a Ibnger period, and offered an amendment that the continuous session begin at nine o’clock, instead of eight o’clock, as asked by the committee on rules. The amendment was adopted, and then the convention met, pledged to stick to its work until it is finished. In parading through the aisles the delegates passed close to William Jennings Bryan, who has a seat in the press section at the edge of the platform, and the first in line reached up their hands to greet him. Mr. Bryan leaned over the railing and must have shaken hands with more than half the delegates in the convention as they marched past. It delayed the paraders, but helped bo strengthen and keep going the demonstration. The effect of the greeting to Bryan was experienced a few minutes later, and when it did come It almost broke up the convention and might have been a psychological moment, but Mr. Bryan was out of the convention halL

$3 Elkskin work shoes $2.50. — HILLIARD & HAMILL. Sv9 c ur ;^=, CpssifieaAd FOR SALE For Sale—White Shetland pony mare, 9 years bid.—A. K. MOORE, Kniman, Ind. . j-17 *■ For Sale—Roin registered Shorthorn bull, serviceable age.—CHAUNCEY WOOD, Phone 948-F, Rensselaer, Ind. j-17 For Sale—Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Brice $1,000; S4OO down;take live stock.—G. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale—Bargain in second hand R. C. H. New tires all around, spare tire on rim. Just ovehauled. In A-l condition.—RENSSELAER ■GARAGE. ts

For Sale—Red Cross wind mills. I also do well drilling, having two macuines in operation, and can .o prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418. jy-12 For Sale—Good improved 148acre farm lying just-north of Three-I railroad at Kersey. Price $15,000 cash. Call on or address PETER MeDAXIELS, Rensselaer, Ind. j-30 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 For Sale—Good, large building lots in the town of McCoysburg, junction of Monon and C. & W. V. Rys., at SSO each, part time if desired. Also will sell 15 acres of land right at town, with good new house thereon, at SBO per acre; 40 acres with new house and new barn, at same price, or will sell 300 acres, house and barn, house right in town of McCoysburg at same price, or will sell any amount of land desired.— JOHN HERR, McCoysburg, Ind. j-24 WANTED \\ anted—Good live man to write automobile insurance in this territory. For particulars write “Indiana Mutual’’ (Inc), Laporte, Ind. Wanted—Have buyers for farms in Marion, Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. See us.—GEO. -F. MEYERS. ts MISCELLANEOUS Found—Picked up on the street May 23, an auto tow rope or cow rope. Owner can have same by calling at THE DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this notice. 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. Gun Repairing—A. L. Willis, the old Rensselaer gunsmith, is still in the business of gun repairing, at his home on College avenue, just north of creamery bridge, No. 314 College avenue. < j_22

LOST. Lost—Last Saturday some place between Rensselaer and Remington, a large paste brush with 8-foot handle. Finder please return to or notify J. Hi S. ELLIS, Rensselaer, Ind., for reward. j-22 Lost—Pair of gold rimmed eyeglasses about the streets. Reward for return. —GEORGE MYERS, telephone office. FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts 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 same np to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. flnf hnl Wlthout Delay, if I Ir wlthont Commission Ub IU Without Chargee for H ‘-Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON Bed Bugs To kill Bed Bugs, Antp, Roaches and Fleas and tbe:r cygs its well, t:se the N nv chemical (Resky Devil's (Quietus), with P vil heads in each letter of P. D. Q. Made iu Indiana, Pesky buys can’t exist where it i 3 used. 25c. box makes one quart. Spout la every box to get them-in-the-iurd-10-get--t p!ace«. Does not ini-re b. ddinc, Kills Fleas on dogs. Drugyists have it or c»n get it. Mailed for 25c. by P.J). Company, Terre Haute, Ind.