Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — Page 4

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Mexican War News The Ward Hue steamer Monterey arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz with 251 passengers, mostly American refugees. The ship passed through a cyclone. * * ♦ The immediate danger of the Mexican crisis was eliminated by the delivery of Carranza’s friendly and conciliatory note to Secretary of State Lansing at Washington, which promises co-operation against border raids and paves the way for the settlement of the entire controversy by diplomatic means. Carranza, in effect, withdraws all threats against the American expeditionary force in Mexico/ * • • Gen. Ignacio Ramos, a Carranza commander, was killed in a fierce and bloody battle that raged all day at Corral ranch, near Jiminez, Mex., between de facto troops and Villistas. Both sides suffered heavy losses; Corporal F. X. Cooke, last known survivor of the battle at Carrizal to be rescued from the desert, was formally turned over to the United States arm v officials at El Paso, Tex, ♦ ♦ ♦ Calling the notes sent by the United States to Mexico not only discourteous but haughty, and declaring that 140 Mexicans have been murdered in this country and their slayers unpunished, the department of foreign relations of Mexico issued a statement representing its views on the United States’ reply to Carranza’s note requesting the immediate withdrawal of troops from Mexican territory. The text declares Americans incite trouble by persisting in remaining in the Mexican danger zone. * * *.

Domestic .The net result of summary activity by the Boston police after they learned that an automobile had been driven up to the house of Police Sergeant Duffee of Salem with the body of Duffee’s sister-in-law in the tonneau, was ten persons arrested and held as having some connection with a case of an illegal operation. * • • While his five children slept undisturbed John Walters of La Salle, 111., shot and killed his wife and then turned the weapon upon himself, dying instantly. lowa Prohibitionists, in convention -at Oskaloosa, decided to place a state ticket in the field this fall. » * » A final settlement has been reached in the Rock Island arsenal wage scale dispute, it was learned at the war department in Washington. An increase -of about 25 cents per day per man has been granted. • » • Colonel Roosevelt, in a Fourth of July address at Oyster Bay, L. 1., de-i clared his intention of organizing a force for a possible campaign in Mexico. He said that he and his sons were going, and he promised to place any unmarried young man in Oyster ; Bay who wished and was prepared to accompany him. He did not mention politics. ♦ * ♦ Four cases of infantile paralysis were discovered in the Italian section of Standard. Putnam county. 111., and steps were taken immediately by the state board of health to avoid an epidemic of the disease. ♦ * Fire gutted the building at Dubuque, la., recently purchased by the Moose Ipdge for a home and lodgeroom. The loss on the building will be .$25,000, partly covered by insurance. * « • Diamonds and other precious stones imported at New York in the government's fiscal year ended June 30 reached the high total of $44,887,826, according to a report of the appraiser of the port of New York. The gain in 1916 over the year before was $30,000,000 in round figures.

Records kept at the Tuskegee institute at Montgomery, Ala., show that there were 25 lynchings in the United States during the first six months of this year, compared with 34 for the same period a year ago. * * * Charles E. Hughes at New York, on a two-days’ trip, approved the proposal of his advisers to have a liberal representation of the Progressive party on his campaign committee. This committee virtually will have entire charge of the campaign. , ♦ • • Charles E. Hughes, speaking at the nearby village of Easthampton, N. Y., told a Fourth of July audience that what America needs just now above all other things is an intelligent comprehension of the ideals of democracy. • * • The business section of Pharr, Tex., headquarters for the Third brigade of the New York National Guard, was practically wiped out by fire. The fire is said to have been of incendiary origin. Army equipment was not damaged.

Twenty-six children have died from the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the five boroughs of New York within the last twenty-four hours.

> ■ European War News The French have carried by assault the second Geimian lines on “a front of two kilometers from the Clery-Mari-court road to the River Somme. They have also captured the village Hom, according to the official statement issued by the French war office at Paris. The French have qaptured. all the German second positions south of the Somme on a front of seven miles. • ♦ • Russian cavalry have crossed the Carpathians and entered Hungary, according to a wireless dispatch received at London from Bucharest. The dispatch says that the patrols advanced from Kimpolung and entered Hungarian territory on Tuesday. * * * Berlin announced that all attacks by the allies were thrown back with serious losses. The Thiaumont work was again captured by the Germans — for the fourth time. ♦ * ♦ Berlin says German aviators shot down fifteen allied flyers on the western front in one day. • • * The Berlin official report admits gains of the allies both north and south of the River Somme. Fricourt was taken by the British, and the French captured a fortified stone quarry east of Curlu. South of thq Somme the French penetrated the second line of German defenses, capturing the village of Franz, and the Mereaucourt woods, according to the French reports. The French captured 6,(MM) and the British 3,500 prisoners. The French hold Thiaumont fortification. » * » The capture of Kolomea and Obertine, announced in Petrograd dispatches, marks another vital step in the crushing advance of the Russians in Galicia and Bukowina. Kolomea, with its railroads, is the most important seizure since Czernowitz. * * *

Washington Orders for retirement July 29 of Admiral Cameron Mcßae Winslow, commander of the Pacific fleet, who will then reach the age limit, were issued by the navy department at Washington. The justice department bureau of investigation at Washington reported the capture of a Mexican spy on the border, having in his possession a copy of a communication to a Mexican commander, giving details of the disposition of American forces along the border. • • • The senate at Washington confirmed the following nominations as postmasters: West Lebanon, Ind.’ May Whitewood; Brazil, Ind., Theodore W. Engl ehart. * ♦ • President Wilson . dedicated “To Common Counsel and a Common Understanding” a labor temple erected at Washington as the new home of tl*e American Federation of Labor. He said at the dedicatory exercises that the greatest barrier to industrial peace had been the difficulty of insuring candid and dispassionate conference, and that ‘‘getting our fighting blood up” was “the long way and not the short way” of securing rights. * • • Both the state and war departments at Washington confirmed the report that tin* American forces would be withdrawn from Mexico in the near future under an agreement with First Chief Carranza. President Wilson sent to the senate at Washington the'nomination of I Brig. Gen. Albert E. Mills, head of the division of militia affairs of the war department, tb be a major general. The president also sent the names of the following colonels to be brigadier I generals : Charles Morton. Granger i Adams. George A. Dodd, Edward A. Plumber, Clarence P. Townsley. * » • Senator Kern of Indiana, Democratic leader in the senate, following a conference with President Wilson at I Washington about the administration’s legislative program, predicted that congress would adjourn on August-20. * * *

A census bureau table issued at Washington estimates the number of able-bodied meh of military age in the United States at about 21,000,000. ♦ • ■ • Private Mills of the Thirty-first company of marines was killed in a battle with revolutionists near Monte Cristo, Santo Domingo, the navy department at Washington was officially informed.

Foreign The American steamship Jacob Luckenbach was sunk in collision with an unidentified ship off Dover. Its crew of 31 men was rescued. ♦ * • Ten persons were seriously wounded and 50 arrested in the pro-Liebknecht riots in Pottsdam Platz, Berlin, the Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News of London asserted. Most of the participants were socialists. • • • . i

Personal Miss Sarah Brown, seventy, daughter of John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame, is dead at the home of her sister, Mrs. James Fablinger, San Jose, Cal.

EXPERT AIDS ORPET

DECLARES GARDENER’S CYANIDE WAS NOT POTASSIUM. Physician Believes Marian Lambert Developed Hysteria and Committed Suicide. Waukegan, 111., July 7.—Will Orpet’s defense to the charge that he murdered Marian Lambert was wound up in Waukegan with the submission of .proof that the poison which the prosecution has shown was easily accessible to him and probably caused her death really was sodium cyanide. Two of the state’s own experts satisfied themselves without doubt that the girl died from taking potassium cyanide. The difference between the two chemicals is distinct. It further was established that the cyanide handled by druggists Is sodium cyanide, offsetting ‘the impression created by the prosecution In crossexamining Orpet that he Could have obtained the poison that killed his high school sweetheart at a pharmacist’s in Madison, Wls., where he was attending the University of Wisconsin. It was Doctor Webster and Dr. E. R. I.eCount. who, from analyses of internal organs of Marian Lambert, reached the conclusion that she died from taking potassium cyanide. They found 3.99 grains of it in her stomach. Later in the day Dr. William O. Krohn caused a sensation when he gave it as his belief that Marian had suicidal tendencies, brought on by hysteria.

FISH, JR., LOSES FIANCEE

California Girl Eludes Her Mother and Marries Man While Fiance Is on the Way. South Bend. Ind.. July 7—While F. Studebaker Fish, Jr., member of the millionaire Studebaker family of this city, was speeding On his way to San Francisco to claim his fiancee, Miss Kathleen Coleman, eighteen years old, she eluded the vigilance of her mother, Mi-s. Rudolph Litchtenburg, and eloped with Hugh Porter, son of the late William Porter, vice-president of the Associ at ed Oi 1, com pa ny. They were married through a civil ceremony at Ross, Cal. Then, to appease the bridegroom’s mother, the couple appeared before a priest and went through the religious ceremony.

GERMAN PEOPLE ARE SAVING

Immense Increase of Deposits in Country’s Banks Is Shown by Report Recently Made.

The Hague, July 7. —According to the Sparkasse, the organ of the Gerrr>n Savings banks, new savings accounts in the second year of the war have increased in Germany as never before during times of peace. Stafrom* the big cities and the industrial regions aione indicate an increase of 288,000 accounts and a total of 6,25T*,000 accounts. The excess of deposits over withdrawals is 2,500,000,000 marks. The total increase in the capital of savings banks is 3,250,000,(100 marks-

IOWAN KILLED BY RAIDERS

Prof. D. A. Kent and Two Employee Victims of Bandits on Border in Texas.

Webster City, la.. July 7.—Word was received here that Prof. D. A. Kent, formerly a professor at the state agriculture college at Ames and later owner of the Lake Cairo farm, south of this city, had been killed in Texas by Mexican border raiders, with two of his ranch hands. It is not known when the murders took place. Two years ago Professor , Kent went to Donna, Tex., where he owned a large ranch.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, July 6. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. July ......1.03-03% 1.03% 1.03 1.03% Sept. .1,06-06% 1.06% 1.05% 1.05 Decl.o3-10 1.10 1.00% 1.08%-H CornJuly 75% .76% .75% .76 Sept. ........73% .74% .73 .73% Dec. .62 .62% .61% .62% OatsJuly .4,38% .39 ,35% .38% Sept 35% .38% .38% .38% Dec. 39% .39% .39 .39%

Live Stock. CATTLE—Good to choice Steers, J9.50@ 11.20; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; inferior steers, JB.ft'[email protected]; Stockers and feeders. [email protected]; good to choice heifers, 37.00@9,00; fair to good ewes, [email protected]; butcher bulls, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; canners. J3.se@ 4.60; bologna bulls, J6.00@ 6.80; good to prime calves, [email protected]; heavy calves. [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, ,[email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., J9.80@ !<•.a",; prime heavy butchers. 270@310 lhs. K [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, J9.55@ 9.80; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]. SHEEP Yearlings, J7.75@8,75; fair to choice ewes, [email protected]; wethers, fair to choice, [email protected]; lambs, J9.50® 10.85. ,

East Buffalo, N. Y„ July 6. CATTLE—Market fairly active and steday: prime steers, [email protected]; butcher grades. J7.00@ 10.50. CALVES—Market slow: cull to choice, J4.<v>@ll_7s. SHEE PAND LAMBS Market slow. 25@50c lower; choice lambs, [email protected]; vull to fair. [email protected]; yearlings, SS.OO@ 9.50; sheep, |[email protected]. HOGS—Market active and shade lower; Workers. [email protected]: pigs, J 9.75; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, J5.W9.00; stags, [email protected].

STATE NEWS

Again That Triangle.. Fort Wayne.—Coming back from her girlhood home in Australia, where she had gone on a visit, to decorate her husband’s grave here. Mrs. Sidney Collins learned that her husband had cabled her his death under the assumed name of an attorney In Waterloo, la.,* so that he could marry Mrs. Katherin Breedon. When Mrs. Collins landed at San Francisco she wired the “attorney" at Waterloo, but as there was no attorney of that name the telegraph manager called up Collins because of the signature and read him the message. Collins denied knowledge of such a woman, as he was then living with Mrs. Breedon, who supposed she was his lawful wife. He disappeared that night and his location is still unknown here, where the sheriff is ready to serve divorce papers upon him. Mrs. Breedon returned to this city at once and brought suit for divorce. Mrs. Collins also came here with her little daughter and filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against Mrs. Breedon for alienating Collins’ affections.

Church Shaking Debt. Elwood. —The First M. E. church here, whose $30,000 property was almost hopelessly involved In debt a few years ago, has paid more than $9,000 of its indetednbess, according to reports of the church stewards. Another note for $3,300 has Just been paid, and will be burned, with public ceremonies in the church Julyl6.

Safe and Sane Record. Indianapolis.—Ten persons injured but none dead, was .the record of a safe and sane Fourth of July here. Two children may lose their eyesight and others suffered burns from the explosion of cannon crackers. No deaths resulting directly from the use of fireworks were reported from outstate. ,

Mine Men Talk Troubles. Terre Haute.—A special meeting of the Mine Operators’ association was held here to discuss labor trouble at the Shirley mine No. 3 in Sullivan county, where the' miners have been on strike since April 1, and at the Speedwell mine across the river from the Shirley mine.

Mice Make Music.

Hartford City.—The mystery in regard to the music from a piano that had aroused the members of the Lucas family from their slumbers during the night for some time has been cleared up. Two mice, light housekeeping in the interior of the piano, have been caught.

Child Eats Poison and Dies.

Fort Wayne.—Bichloride of mercury tablets caused the death of the two-year-old daughter of J. D. Rauch, president of the American Dredge company. The baby picked up a box containing the tablets and ate several before discovered.

Heavy Storm Damage. Indianapolis.—More complete reports from cities in central Indiana showed that immense damage was done by the recent severe storm which passed over this section.

New Militia Company. Laporte.—Laporte, already’ represented by 108 men in a company of the Indiana National Guard at Fort Benjamin Harrison, now is organizing a second company.

New Evansville Church. Evansville.—A church organization with a charter membership of nearly forty, to be known as the North Park Presbyterian church, has been formed here.

Crops Suffer in Storm. Tipton.—Corn and oats suffered considerably when this region was visited by a hard rain, accompanied by heavy winds and hail. Corn was especially damaged.

Six Persons Drown. Indianapolis.—Six persons were reported drowned in the state during the Fourth of J uly holidays. All were pleasure seekers.

Boy Takes Dare and Dies. Lafayette.—Dared by his companions to walk on top of a high’bridge superstructure, Lyle Elevens, ten, fell and was killed.

Rev. W. C. Howard Resigns. Greenfield. —Rev. W. C. Howard has resigned as pastor of the M. E. church at Shirley, to accept a pastorate at Hospers, la.

Artist-Daughters Survive. Newcastle. —Mrs. Maria Louisa Goodwin, eighty-two years old, a pioneer, died suddenly of acute indigestion.

Has. Pet Jackrabbit. Bloomington. William B. Leonard has a pet Kansas jackrabbit which runs about his farm, but comes each night to -the kitchen to sleep. He has inserted an advertisement In the papers asking that ho one harm , the rabbit.

Bryan Speaks at Warsaw. Warsaw.. —William Jennings Bryan opened the 1916 season of the Winona assembly, of which he is president, with an address. He was greeted by a large audience.

Charles G. Spitler, President. Edward J. Randle, Vice-President.

The Trust & Savings Bank Condensed statement of the condition of THE TRUST &. SAVINGS BANK of Rensselaer, Indiana, at the close of business on June 30,1916.

' > RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. .. $257,611.42 Overdrafts 351.36 Bonds 3,360.00 Advances to Estates. ... ■ 212.94 Due from Banks and Trust Companies .... 25.044.19 Cash on Hand 6,801.06 Cash Items 58.12 Current Expenses 3,735.53 Interest Paid 1,251.98 Total Resources ...$298,426.60

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, SS: I, Judson J. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of The Trust & Savings Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true ’ v , v JUDSON J. HUNT. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of July, 1916. [SEAL] WOODHULL I. SPITLER, Justice of the Peace.

BATHER KILLED BY SHARK

Second Attack in a Week Occurs at Spring Lake, N. J.—Boy's Legs Bitten Off. Spring Lake, N. J., July 7.—While hundreds of summer visitors on the beach and in the south-end pavilion looked on helpless, Charles Bruder, a bather, was attacked by a shark and lost both his legs. He died ten minutes later. ——-

Drought in the South.

Lay the jest about the julep in the camphor balls at last, For the miracle has happened and the olden days are past. That which makes Milwaukee famous doesn’t go in Tennessee, And the lid in old Missouri is as tight-locked as can be. O, the comic paper colonel and his cronies well might sigh, For the mint is waving gayly and the south is going dry. By the stillside on the hillside in Kentucky all is still, For the only damp refreshment must be dipped up from the rill. No’th Gallina’s .stately ruler gives his soda glass a shove And discusses local option with the •South Gallina gov.; It is useless at the fountain to be winkful of the eye For the cocktail glass is dusty and the south is going dry. It’s water —water everywhere and not a drop to drink; We no longer hear the music of the mellow crystal clink When the colonel ana the major and the gen’l and the jedge Meet to have a little nip to give their appetite an edge; For the eggnog now is and the rye has gone awry And the punch bowl holds carnations and the south is going dry. All the nightcaps now have tassels and are worn upon the head; Not the nightcaps that were taken when nobody went to bed. And the breeze above the bluegrass is as solemn as is death. For it bears no pungent clove-tang on its odorific breath; And each man cam walk a chalkline when stars are in the sky. For the fizz glass now is fizzless and the south is going dry. Lay the jest about the julep ’neath the chestnut tree at last For there’s but one kind of moonshine and the olden days are past. Now the Water Wagon rumbles through the southland on its trip And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the driver’s whip, For the mintbeds make a pasture and the corkscrew hangeth high— All is still along the stillside and the south is going dry. —Wilbur D. Nesbit. Ideal Account Files, $1.50 each.— The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

NOTICE OF BOND SALE Notice is hereby given that on the 31st day of July, 1916, at the hour of two o’clock P. M., that the undersigned township trustee of Union School Township, Jasper county, Indiana, will offer for sale, at his office in Parr, Indiana, an issue of Thirteen Thousand ($13,000) Dollars of bonds"of Union School Township, Jasper county, Indiana. Said bonds to bear date of August first, 1916. in denominations of Five Hundred (s.>oo) Dollars each, extending through a period of thirteen years, the first of said bonds maturing July Ist, 1917, and one bond each six months thereafter! said bonds to bear interest at' the rate of five (5) per cent per annum, said interest falling due semi-annually on July Ist and January Ist of each year being the maturing dates of said bonds. Said bonds are issued for the purpose of building a one-story and basement brick school house in Parr, district No. 7. in Union township, and also a one-story frame school house in Virgie, in district No. 2 of said township, pursuant to the statute in such cases made and provided and an order of the advisory board of said township authorizing the borrowing of said sum of money, and the sale of bonds therefor, which order was made June 27. 1916, authorizing their issue. Said bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder for cash, and for „ not less than their par value. Bidders are required to state the Burner of bonds bid for and the gross amount that they will pay for the bonds, and accrued interest to date of transfer. Eacn bid must be accompanied bv certified cheek of Five Hundred ($500) Dollars, made payable to George H Hammerton. Trustee of Union Township, of said county and , State. The right to reject any and all bids is hereby reserved. Dated this 30th day of June. 1916. GEORGE H. HAMMERTON, Trustee nf Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana. j-1-8-15

Judson J. Hunt, Sec’y-Treasurer. Charles H. Mills, Ass’t Sec’y-Treas.

LIABILITIES Capital Stocks 25,000.00 Surplus 20,000,00 Undivided Profits 11,056.55 Dividends Unpaid 150.00 Interest, Discount and Other Earnings 10,250.10 Demand Deposits' 188,964.71 Time Deposits 33,608.69 Saving Deposits 8,303.75 Reserve for Taxes .... 1,092.80 Total Liabilities ...$298,426.60

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FOR SALE For Sale—Eight-foot Deering binder, in good running order.—Phone 9 29-E. j_s For Bale— Two-seated rubber tired surrey in good condition. —H. W. JACKSON, phone 914-C. j-8 For Sale—Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,000; S4OO down;take live stock.—G. F. MEYERS. ts For Sale—Auto, ’l3 model Premier, G-cylinder, 60-horse, 7-passen-ger. Good condition. Sell or trade. —-GEO. W. JONES, Remington, Ind. jl3 For Sale—Red Cross wind mills. I also do well drilling, having two machines in operation, and can m prompt work.—ELMER GWIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 418. jy-12 For Sale—An oculist’s trial case, containing full set of lenses, tools, etc. Cost $l6O, but will part with same at a very low figure.—C. H. VICK, Rensselaer, Ind. ts Fann for Sale—-80 acres in Fulton county, y ? mile from station on Erie. Good soil and excellent improvements. All fencing new. $lO5 per acre. Long time on payments. No agents and no trade.—EMERSON W. AXE, 24 02 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. For Sale—Bo acres level land, near school, village and three churches; five-room house and outbuildings. Trade for property or stock. Price $45. Sell on easy terms. —GEORGE F. MEYERS. For Sale— Red, white or bur oak lumber, saw T ed 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 WANTED Wanted—Have buyers for farms in Marion, Union, Barkley, Jordan and Newton tps. Seo us.—GEO. F. MEYERS. ts LOST. Lost- —A girl’s gray sweater coat, some place on the street, or left in some store on Wednesday evening. Finder please leave at The Demo crat office and receive reward. Lost—By mistake I placed my 3-A Brownie folding camera in the wrong buggy at Fair Oaks Tuesday. Finder please notify me or leave at Democrat office and receive reward.— CHARLES BRITT, Parr R-l. Phone 923-0 MISCELLANEOUS 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 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 Ipan on farm property In any sums up to slo,ooo.— e. P. HONAN. I flnl thnl Wlthout Delay - ~~ nil Illi wnhout Commission I Uul lllV Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON Subscribe for The Democrat.