Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Page 4

GENERAL STRIKE IN NEW YORK TODAY

700,000 Workmen Ordered to Walk Out. ALL PEACE EFFORTS FAIL Mayor Mitchel Notifies Labor Heads He Will Use Military to Maintain Orcler—Attacks on Cars • Continue. New York, Sept. 22.—A general strike of union workmen in New York city, involving 700,000 men and aimed to kelp the striking street ear employees, will be called today, it was announced by Ernest Bphm, secretary of the Central Federated Union. The announcement by Bohin came after a conference between labor leaders and a citizens’ committee which both he and Mayor Mitchel declared had failed in efforts to avert the strike.

Labor leaders were given formal warning by Mayor Mitchel that he would employ the “full civil and military powers” conferred upon him by law to prevent disorders if the threatened general strike of trade unionists is called today to aid tfie street ear* employees who quit their places September G. State Takes Hand. A new factor which it is hoped may avert the proposed geueral strike entered the traction situation when M. J. Reagan, a member of the state hoard of arbitration and mediation sent notices to the strike leaders and the traction managers to appear at the office of the board next Monday morning, wlfen hearings wili begin for the purpose of finding a Way out of the threjitened deadlock. This action was decided upon when it was apparent that the critical stage of the traction strike had been reached. With the railway officials stiff defiant, the outlook is that the next few hours will do,term)ne tlie outcome of the, strike. , William. I». Fitzgerald, organizer of the carmen’s union, announced that lie was highly optimisin' of a sympathetic strike of the building trades unions, not • miiy in Manhattan and the Bronx, but in Brooklyn, Long Island City and Staten Island.

Seven Millions Endangered. The determination of the state board of arbitration and mediation to take a hand in the strike \<Eas announced after a meeting between Batumi (fntnpers, president of the American Fed-prat ion of Labor; labor leaders and the citizens’ committee of seven, which is working to avert the threatened deadlock. No -further appeal was made to the traction managers to arbitrate, as President Shouts of the lnterliorough company made it clear tlait lie laid nothing to arbitrate. Attacks on surface cars continue. More than a score of strikers attacked a Madison avenue Car at Seventy-sec-ond street, throwing s'ieks sit the crew. Several passengers were bruised. The ear was stopped and at that moment a police lieutenant drove up in an automobile, and With three detectives dispersed tin; crowd. Three strikers were arrested.

SIX-CENT BREAD IN CHICAGO

Ward Company First to Announce Price Increase Effective Thursday —Other Fisms to Follow. ". . i Kept. 22.—A now scale of j broad prices for Chicago;, predicted -ever since tlio conference of themaster ’ bakers in this oily inure than a week ago, was luinmutcod liy one of the city's largest wholesalers, the Ward linking company, as effective next Thursday, September- 2s. There will still Ik* a 5eont loaf, but it will he smaller titan the present one and will not be wrapped. A new size loaf, resembling the present 5-cent loaf, will lie put on the 'market, but will cost 0 cents. When the master bakers were in session here tiny Were advised by a lawyer that they must not agree to raise the price of bread or they couhi.be prosecuted under the anti trust law, but that one firm might raise the price independently and others follow of their own volition. The Wtrnl company is the first firm to make the announcement of its raise in price, but others have indicated their intention to follow.

ARREST ANNOYER OF PERKINS

Mrs. Helen Hurdeil Writes Financier to “Get Watchdogs Out of My Residence." New York, Sept, 22. —Mrs. Helen Hurdeil of Brooklyn, after several visits to his office, sent George W. Perkins a postcard on September 4 last, saying: “Get your watchdogs out of my residence, especially the O. O. with the stevedore voice. Mrs. HurdelL You know my address?’ She was arrested and paroled until Monday. She described herself as an author and announced that she had W ritten a book, “The Decline of the New Rationalism,” in satire on Colonel Roosevelt’s volume, “The New Rationalism." The “O. O,” mentioned in* her postcard. she: said, meant the “old one.” one of the four men she insisted bad boon annoying her. ,

News of the Week Gut Down for Busy Readers

European War News British and French losses in the battle of the Somme have reached about 500,000 men. the Overseas News agency at Berlin estimates. • • • Reuter's Telegram company at # London says it learns officially that the Greek government has submitted a very urgent note to Germany regarding the removal to Germany of Greek troops from Kavala, and demanding that they be released. • * • The Roumanian army in Transylvania has been defeated. It has been driven back on both right and left flanks. Bucharest admits that superior forces have pressed the troops of King Ferdinand back on the northwestern front, and the Vienna report claims the expulsion of the Roumanian left wing from the province into its native land. • • • According to a dispatch to Amsterdam from Maastricht, 62 persons have been on trial at Hasselt, Belgium, on charge of espionage, of whom 22 were condemned to death. •• * V Serbian. Russian and French troops have driven the entire right wing of the Bulgarian army out of Greece across the Serbian frontier and are pressing on toward Monastir, according to official advices received at Salonika The Bulgur leaders are said to be evacuating that city.

Turning upon the Russians, the German and Austrian armies struck a smashing blow at the Russian line before Kovel. The Berlin war office announces that the Russian bridgehead Zarecze. has been taken by storm, .‘»1 officers and 2,511 men being taken prisoners. • • * The official report issued by the ministry of War at Paris shows that the French have captured u group of trenches only 2<>o yards south of Conibles, the important town, which they have nearly encircled. South of the Somme the French captured Deniecotirt and IJJUU prison rs. • • • Abandonment by the Germans of the village of Berny and* DeuicoUft, together with positions between Barleux find Yermandovillers, south of the River Somme, is reported in the official statement issued at Berlin. Lieut. Raymond AMjuith. oldest son of the British premier, has been killed at tlie front in action, it was announced at London. He Was in the Grenadier Guards and was thirty-live years old.

* * * Fiorina, an important town in northwestern Macedonia (nearly eleven miles within the < Ireek frontier), was carried by assault by French troops, according 11# an official states iiient issued at Paris. The Bulgarians are retiring in disorder in the direction of Mdnittstir. * * • A German attack against the Russians who are attempting to capture the Guiieian town of Haliez, the southeastern key to Lemberg, resulted in the defeat of the Russians, the Berlin war office announced. The Germans took :5..j01> prisoners. * * • Additional gains along a front of more than a mile and a half were scored by the British in pressing their ofTensivu north of the Somme, the war office announced. The “Danube trench." about one mile long, was taka n, and further territory on a thousand yard front near Courcelette was captured. Domestic Fire destroyed the grain elevator of McKenney, Rodgers \ Co. of Chicago located at Lapnrte. Ind. The estimated loss is $150,000. • * • The British “tanks,” the armored motor cars used in recent assaults on German trenches in northern France so successfully as to attract worhl- ! wide attention, were built for the most part in Peoria, 111., in the form of , caterpillar tractors, designed to meet ! some of the difficult problems of modi era farming. * * • ’ Wild rioting in New York by strikers along routes where surface cars were being operated kept the police in constant battles with strikers. Several cars were wrecked. A score of rioters were arrested. Others were sent to hospitals. • • • Three private banks operated by W. H. Paisley & Sons of Chicago closed their doors. The institutions were known as the North Shore Savings bauk, the Summerdale Savings bunk and the Broadway and Grace Street bank. • • • John Clyne, Missouri National Guardsman, was shot and killed by a guard in camp at Dolores, Tex, Clyue's arrest had been ordered by Lieutenant Zullum. Clyne threatened the officer, finally leveling his gun at him, whereupon the guard fired.

Caroline B. Hulbert was married at the home of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hulbert. in Mjddlesburg, Ya., to Raymond Belrpont, son of August Beimont of New York. Belmont married Ethel Lorraine, a’ chorus girl, four years ago. She sued for divorce and won. * • • Nine stores, ten houses and a score of sheds were destroyed at Erie, Mich., by a fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. • * * Chemistry hall at Notre Dame university was destroyed t>y fire. Two top stories of the same building were burned off one week ago. The work of reconstruction had just been completed. •• • • The five men and three women arrested at Chicago by government officers in a raid on the Tyson apartments as members qf a band that has mulcted wealthy men and women out of $250,000 or more, are to be tried in Philadelphia. It is said those held, together with others at liberty, have fleeced at least 15 prominent men and women in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York by blackmail methods of a most modern type and that there were many other victims who never complained, fearing the notoriety. '

Returns from the New York statewide primaries show the following results: Governor Whitman won the Republican nomination; William XL Culder of Brooklyn won the Republican senatorial nomination; William F. McCoombs won the Democratic senatorial nomination; Judge Samuel Seabury was unopposed for the Democratic nomintaion for governor. « * » Joseph Tuina, owner of the Turaa Savings bank at Chicago, one of the private institutions under investigation by State’s Attorney Hoyne, shot and killed himself while standing on a pier in the lake. Failure to obtain a loan of SIO,OOO is believed to have caused his act. * • • Five persons 'Were killed, two probably fatally injured, and four others less seriously hurt when an automobile In which they were rifling crashed through a guard rail on a bridge across the Harlem river at New York. * * * Worth’s museum at Newcastle, Ind., a private collection of relics arid curios, said to hi* the most extensive of its kind in America, was destroyed by fire with a loss of probably sl,000,000. ..

Mexican War News General Carranza notified Secretary of State Lansing at Washington that every American-owned mine in Mexico not in operation in GO days will be confiscated. The threat is aimed at property valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. • * • General Obregon, minister of war, announced at Mexico City that a thousand followers of Francisco Yilla, who attacked the town of < 'liihuahua, were routed witii a loss of Goo men killed and many captured. During the fighting General Trevino was slightly w ounded in the shoulder. • • • Foreign The giant (lain situated above Hannwald burst, says a dispatch from Berlin. Many lives were lost and enormous property damage was caused at Galiionz, Bohemia, and in Weissendesse valley 250 bodies, many of them children, have been recovered. The villages of Deszendorf, Tiefenbuch, Tanmvald, Sehuml»urg, Sehwarow, Grosshannuer aiul liaratz are inundated. * • * Washington Great Britain formally apologized to the United States for tlie British violation of American neutrality in the Philippines When a British destroyer inside the three-mile limits stopped and searched the steamer Cebu, flying the Stars and Stripes.

It was announced in Washington that Germany will pay an indemnity for all American lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. * * * The navy department at Washington has sent the cruiser San Diego, flagship of the Pacific fleet, with Admiral Caperton on board, to Nicaragua waters, where revolution is feured as a result of the approaching elections and the dispute over Nicaragua’s cession of canal rights to the United States. • ' • • Secretary of War Baker at Washington ordered the Second New York National Guard home from the border for muster out. At the same time orders have been given for the return of four other regiments in exchange for five regiments ordered to the border last week. • • • Personal Pierce Burton, editor, writer and lawmaker, is dend nt Ayrora, 111., aged eighty-two years. In 1871 Mr. Burton sold a paper he had at Demopolis, Ala., and came to Aurora and established another. f • • • . . . William J. Calhoun, former-minister to China, died at his home in Chicago. Death came as the result of a relapse from a stroke of paralysis. Of Scotch ancestry, Mr. Calhoun was bora October 5, 1848, ip Pittsburgh.

Hoosier News Briefly Told

A. P, ANDREW COMING HOME Former Treasurer of the United States, Now Head of Ambulance Corps Serving in France, Coming Back for Volunteers.

Laporte. A. Platt Andrew, former treasurer of the United States during the Tuft administration, and ‘now head of the American ambulance corps serving in France, will return to the - United States early in October. Mr. Andrew is the son of Capt. A. P. Andrew, a Laporte banker. It is presumed that Mr. Apdrew is returning to the United States to seek volunteers. Mayor Is Restrained. Columbus.—Mayor H. K. Volland and Chief of Police Frank Huffman are restrained from interfering with amusements at the Red Men’s carnival by an order of Judge Hugh Wickens of Greenfield until an injunction suit filed by the Red Men can be heard. The Red Men, the mayor understood, intended to have games of chance at the carnival, which is to raise money for the campaign of Howard J. Tooley, for the position of great keeper of Wampum of the state. The mayor had plainly stated that he would tolerate no gambling at the carnival.

School Janitor Saves Boys. Huntington. Herbert and Fred Covey, twelve and ten years old, played truant from school and got out their homemade canoe for a ride on Little river. The boat upset, throwing both into the water. Frank Hier, janitor of the school the boys attend, heard their screams and,' running to the river bank, lie jerked .off his coat and overalls and plunged into the water. He had to swim across the river, and the boys were under water when he reached them, but both were revived and are little the worse for their narrow escape. Logansport Presbytery Closes. Logansport Presbytery closed its sessions after electing Rev. John Burns of South Bend moderator, and Rev. S. A. Stewart of Rochester, stated clerk. The Presbytery adopted a resolution urging the state synod, which is to assemble at Huntington in October, to select Laporte for the 1917 w meeting of the four hundred clergymen and laymen of Indiana. Plymouth was selected as the next meeting place of the Logansport Presbytery. Could Not Judge Own Capacity. Columbus. —Alex Spry, age thirtyfive, asked Mayor Volland, in the city court, to a4d bis name to the list of habitual drunkards here. lie had been arrested on a charge of intoxication. Spry told the mayor that bis greatest trouble was his lack of ability to judge bis own capacity. The mayor granted Spry’s request. Copies of this list are on tile in all local saloons and the saloonkeepers have orders not to sell these men intoxicating drinks.

Shot by Former Indianian. Noblesville. William Sopher, a former resident of XoblesVille, and a brother of Edward and Charles Sopher of this city, shot and wounded A. 11. Seals, a real estate dealer at McEwen, Tenn., according to a telegram received here. Seals, Sopher asserts, interfered with his attempts to sell his fruit farm. The defendant also says he shot in self-defense. Valuable Museum Destroyed. Newcastle.—The museum of E. M. Worth, eighty, said to be worth a million dollars, was destroyed when the star-shaped building in which it was housed, wjjs burned to the ground. Among the things destroyed was what was claimed to be the head of Charles Giteau, the assassin of President Garfield and a collection of twenty mummies-,. Toothache; Asks Divorce. Noblesv ill e.—Sarah Sutton, in an application for divorce from John G. Sufton, a well-to-do farmer, sets out as one of her chief allegations that she has suffered intensely because of the toothache and that her husband has failed t7j employ a dentist to give relief to her. She also asks $3,000 alimony. Preacher Released. Bloomington. Rev. James C. Pearson of Worthington was released from the jail here-after serving a sentence for contempt of court, imposed by Roy Buckley, special police Jtfdge, several days ago, when Buckley and Pearson exchanged blows in court. Pearson was on trial for a charge of blocking the streets. He was arrested when speaking in the street. / Falls From Tree. Lawrenceburg. Booker T. Parker, age twenty-three, a tobacco grower- living about fifteen miles south of this city, fell about thirty feet from a tree into which he had climbed after young squirrels, and was Injured seriously. v Quarantines Own Home. Columbus. Harry S. Truitt, sanitary officer, here, was forced to quarantine his own home because his three-year-old son has scarlet fever. This the eleventh case here.

SURPRISE ON GLENN TANNER Saturday, September 16, being the twenty-first birthday of Glenn Tanner of Demotte, his parents,. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tanner, thought they would invite his uncles and aunts in on Sunday to help him celebrate the occasion. A fine dinner was served. Glenn was certainly surprised. The afternoon was spent in visiting, eating'grapes and watermelon and taking pictures of the different groups. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Clark and sons of Wheatfield; Will Tanner and family, Fred Tanner and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. B, Falk and son, Mr and Mrs. Menjo Hayden, all of Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Charais, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Michael of Remington; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Frame and daughter of Demotte; Dan Tanner and family. At about 5 o’clock they all gathered around the table again, where the birthday cake with twenty-one lighted candles was setting, with plenty of other good things, and unother lunch was served. All then departed for their different homes wishing Glenn many more such happy birthdays. xx

Insure Your Automobile If you have never had an accident it simply means that your time is drawing that much closer. Get our rates with the Auto Owner Fire Protective Exchange of Kankakee, 11l It’s the cheapest. LEE ADAMS, Agent. NOTICE After October 1, 1916, my office days trill be as follows: Rensselaer Monday Tuesday, Wednesday. Wheatfield Thursday, . Friday, Saturday. P. R. BLUE Law Abstracts Loans o-12 Subscribe for The Democrat.

ssifieaeYp teperlnigKt I [Under this head notices Will be pub lished for 1-cent-a- word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional ‘nsertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times— as the case may be —for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—My residence property on Forest street. —MRS. CLARA COEN. ts For Salev—l2 good yearling steers, half of them white faces. —W. W. SAGE, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 943-P. .... s-28 For Sale—Saturday, September 30, 60 good thrifty spring shouts, averaging about 100 lbs. Shoats are mostly Poland-China; some are fine young sows. Also nine last fail hogs, weighing about' 200 lbs., fine ones for fall butchering.—SAGE BROS. FARM, 7 miles south and 4% miles west of Rensselaer. For Sale—Two young 'horses; also McCormick corn binder in good condition, cheap.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l. s-23 For Sale or Trade—l9l2 model E-M-F Studebaker auto in fair con.dition. —ALEX ME RICA, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 176. o-6 For Sale-—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. <• ts For Sale—7 yearling steers, wt. about 700 pounds each.—PETER BAIER, Remington, R-4. Phone 95X Remington exchange. s-23 For Sale—Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well locate-1. Caji sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farnf,. wTth fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß 11. HOPKINS. ts

For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west of Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts For Sale —Improved farm of 55 acres, one mile from railroad station. Easy terms. Will take small town property or automobile in on deal. A bargain if taken soon. $2,500 residence in’Argos, will take fair residence in Rensseloer. Address C. L. PARKS, Argos, Ind. Call on Chas. Parks at Surrey, Ind. For Sale—lmproved farm of 55 acres, one mile from railroad station, 7 miles from Rensselaer. Easy terms. Will take small town property or automobile in on deal. A bargain if taken soon. $2,500 residence in Argos, will trade for residence in Rensselaer. Address C L. PARKS, Argos, .Indiana, or call on Charles Parks at Surrey, Indiana. For Sale—Bo-acre farm, three miles north and one mile east o' Mt. Ayr, good improvements, good apple and peach orchard and other

small fruits; 4 acres timber, remainder in cultivation. Good soil. —WILLIAM COATNEY, Fair Oat?, Indiana, R. F. D. • o-12 For Sale—l am offering to close an estate, farm otf 147 acres one mile from nice little city; mostly black land, fair improvements; a little off main roau, S2OO land adjoins. Quick sale $l2O per acre. See J. A. BAILEY, at Clem Hipp*s blacksmith shop, or address 119 Pettit street, Wabash, Indiana. For Sale —One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two imprdved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms If desired. For farther particulars rail or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Good, modern six-room dwelling, with pantry, full size basement, macadam sreet, cement Walks, well, cistern, good barn, cnicken house 12x80, cement floor; 7% acres of ground, lies just inside north corporation limits of Remington. Possession can be given in November. For further particulars and terms call on owner—MRS. J. B. THOMPSON, Remington, Ind. o-6 For Sal©— New York dairy farm of 135 acres, mile from small town with stores, postoffice, school, church, cheese factory, etc. Has lots of good . buildings, including good large house newly shingled, big basement barn 40x60, hop house, wagon house and other buildings all in good repair; is well watered, has maple sugar grove and other timber. Owner will throw in sugarmaking, utensils and sell the farm for $3,000. Fourteen cows and other stock now kept on farm, but 20 to 25 cows can easily be kept there. This is a dandy improved farm, lies well and is dirt cheap at the price offered. For further information address E. D. BABCOCK, Maple Valley, Otsego County, x. y!

FOR RENT 1 o Rent—Eight-room house with city water, electric lights, etc.; 3U blocks from court house, in good neighborhood. Enquire at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. ts WANTED \\ anted to Rent—Five or sixroom cottage, centrally located, with lights and city water.—THE DEMOCRAT, ts Wanted—Ambitious men desiring to earn S2OO or more per month. Every salesman given special-train-ing. Unlimited opportunities. Write immediately.—POWEß LUBRICATING CO., Detroit, Mich. s-23 Under Agents Wanted—Catholic, to introduce Beriziger’s Magazine, America’s greatest illustrated Catholic family monthly. Excellent premium feature., Hish commission —BEXZIGER BROTHERS, 36 Barclay St.. New York. "o-lQ W anted—Well-known men in this community to sell pure bred Farm Seeds, excellent .opportunity for hustler, good commission. Write today to BLAIR. HARPER & COM, PA NY, Aurora, Illinois. s-28 LOST Lost—Glass and rim for headlight on Studebaker car last Satur f day. Finder please leave at Democrat Office or notify DAVID S. BARE, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 945-J. s-28 Lost—September 21, a bunch of keys, between niv home and Central garage.—C. W. EGER. Lost—A bill book containing some notes and other papers of no value to anyone except the owner. A reward will be paid, the finder if he will ‘return same to me —E P LANE. *s_23 Lost—Lid off of tank of gasoline truck in Rensselaer. Finder return to Indian Refining Co. s-27 Estrayed While unloading in Rensselaer Saturday evening, a red hog weighing about 100 pounds. Leave word at Democrat office, s-23

FOUND Found—Physician’s medicine case in front of the E. S. Rhoads residence. May be recovered at The Democrat office by paying for this advertisement. Found— 1016 auto license number. Owner may have same bv calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this ad. Found — North of Rensselaer, near Aix, recently, Illinois auto license number 72447. — Call at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. 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 cyclcne. Inquire ol M. I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on yonr 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 approved ~ CHAS - J - DEAN Farm Loans—Money to loan on" £ a /« m nn« r ° Perty 111 BUmS OP tO *IO.OOO- —E. P. HONAN. P iSlssz- * 1)1 lIIU Without Charges for W Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PABKUIBOa