Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — Page 4

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WALSH HALL COMING SUNDAY

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university on the college gridiron. Walsh Hall has an excellent record this season and, since St. Joe has not yet met defeat, a hard battle is expected. While the visitors have a very strong line-up, St. Joe will have its best men in the game and, with Bruin, Wellman and McLaughlin playing the back field, hopes to carry away the honors. This will be the final game of the season for the local team. More games would have been played this fall had it been possible to arrange suitable dates; but as it is, the athletic association is well satisfied with the work of the team, the success of which it feels is due greatly to the efiicient work of Coach Parker. That a fine spirit exists between the high school and St. Joseph is plainly evident. The students from the college have been loyal supporters of the high school eleven, both in the matter of attendance and rooting, and the same can be said of the high school students in regard to St. Joe. It that a good crowd will be present next Sunday to see the final and, as it would seem, the best game of the season.

PUBLIC WEDDING AND SOCIAL

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to be Wilbur Cooper and Albert Sage, Mr, Cory took his place as auctioneer and the boxes were sold. Some prizes were given, Chris Nafziger being the hungriest man, won a roasted chicken; Miss Evelyn Michaels was voted the most popular young lady and Gaylord Sommer was given an angel food # cake for guessing nearest the number of beans in a can. V The proceeds of box social amounted to over $4 1, which will be used for the purchase of reading circle books and other things needed by the school. ' *♦

Dies of Tetanus.

Greencastle.—Arthur Coffman, thirty, died of tetanus. A week ago he stepped on a nail and tetanus developed Sunday.

Sail for Petrograd.

Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. SommerviHe left for New York to sail for Europe November 18. Mr. Sornmerville is to become an assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Petrograd, Russia.

Old King Cole Was a merry old soul! A merry old soul was he! If alive today he would burn OUR COAL and even merrier be. Burn OUR COAL and be merry. 6MU-WARNER LUMBER CO

SHIPPERS WARNED OF RAIL STRIKE

Roads Notify Firms to Prepare for Impending Walkout. MAY BE CALLED JANUARY 1 Carriers Declare Supreme Court May Decide That Eight-Hour Law Is Unconstitutional—Washington Expects Early Decision. Chicago, Nov. 17. —Warning that the attacks on the Adamson law may result in the eight-hour law being declared unconstitutional, in which event a railroad strike would tie up the country, has been sent out by railroads to large shippers and manufacturers, according to reports in the federal building. The roads have warned shippers to lay in large quantities of supplies, predicting that the strike, if it comes, will be called January 1. Representatives of railroad labor unions are known to have held conferences with United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyue. Mr. Clyne admitted that the situation is delicate. Early Decision Expected. Washington, Nov. 17. —Early decision by the Supreme court of one of the railroad suits attacking constitutionality of the eight-hour law probably will be sought by the department of justice. An appeal probably will be made in the first case decided in the hope that the Supreme court may be able to pass judgment as near as possible to January 1, when the law would become effective, if not suspended by injunction. A decision in the highest court would be binding on all lower federal courts and might dispose of all other suits. The department's policy has not been finally settled, but it was said today that this course is being considered and probably would be followed. If an appeal is taken the court would be- asked to advance the case and in view of its importance officials feel that such a motion would be granted, since such procedure is not unusual. Official notice of the filing of 16 suits had been received by the department. Big Rail Conference Monday. Preparations were being made for the meeting Monday of the joint congressional committee to investigate railroad questions including government ownership. The committee has sent notices to every state governor and attorney general and all state railroad commissions, to commercial and industrial organizations and to the president of every railroad in the country. : ■/ No dates for the appearances of witnesses have been set, but the hearing will open Monday with testimony by state railway commissioners. Santa Fe Ready for Strike. Dallas, Tex., Nov, 17. —“The Santa Fe will he as ready for a strikfe January 1 and as determined, to fight the strikers as it was a few months ago when a nation-wide strike threatened the country,” E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe, said tu«e. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 17. —President Stone of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, when asked what the brotherhood's position was on the injunction sought by the railroads against the Adamson law, answered:

“We are law-abiding citizens. As for our plan of action, no one has authority to say whether rfiere will be a strike or not until the four brotherhood presidents meet in Washington next Monday. At that time, too, it will be decided whether the strike vote taken last spring still gives us the power to declare a strike. “We are not worrying in the least over the injunction proceedings. We know what President Wilson intended the law to rneuii and what the framers of the law intended it should yiean. If, after it is tested in court, it is found the law does not give us an eight-hour day, we feel confident the president and the mon who passed the law will give us a law that does. We are not going to defend the injunction suits, but .will let the depart--1 meat of justice do that.”

W. C. T. U. CONVENTION OPENS

“Dry” Leaders at Indianapolis Discuss Plans for Prohibition Amendment ■ in Constitution. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 17.—Results of the presidential election bearing on the possibility of a prohibition amendment in the federal constitution were discussed at the opening of the convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance union here today, following the address of the organization’s president, Miss Anna A. Gordon of Evanston,! 111. The convention will continue six days. A novel feature will be the “efficiency congress” to be held every morning for the purpose of training temperance workers. More than 40 specialists in the different departments of W. C. T. U. service will lecture at these meetings.

Carl Morris Wins Bout.

Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 17. —By winning the last two rounds by a wide margin and being the aggressor in almost every session, Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant, won a decision over Battling Levinsky of New York.

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War Netos The Germans succeeded, according to the Paris war office in its communique, In gaining a foothold in Frenich “advanced elements” in the outskirts of the St. Plerre-Vaast wood, north of the river, In the eastern part of Pressolre village, south of the Somme. The Copenhagen Morgenbladet says that a Norwegian torpedo boat has fired upon a German steamer which refused to stop when passing Stavanger. The Norwegian boarded the steamer and dismantled its wireless. • • * The British have captured Beaucourt, on the Somme front, as a result of the continuation of their powerful drive on both sides of the Ancre brook. The prisoners taken by the British number more than 5,000 up to the present, according to the official bulletin issued at London. » » • British troops in a new offensive north and south of the Ancre river have advanced north of the river on a front of fivemiles and to a maximum depth of one mile, rapturing from the Germans the towns of Beaumont, Hamel and St. Pierre-Divion, according to a dispatch to London by the correspondent of Reuter's Telegram company at • • • A “mosquito squadron” of the German fleet boiffbarded the fortified Russian naval support point Baltischport. The kaiser’s admiralty announced that the Russian port was “efficiently bombarded.” Petrograd declares that “a majority of the German vessels were sunk.” > - * * * Capt. Frederick Curtis of the American steamer Columbian, who arrived at Coruna, Spain, with the rescued crew of this steamship, declared that he was a prisoner on board the German submarine U-39 for six days after the destruction of his vessel. • * ♦ ♦ In an all-day battle in the region of Dragoslavele, northeast of Campulung, south of the Transylvanian border, the Roumanians maintained their positions, the Bucharest War office announced. On the Tight bank of the River Alt, however, the Roumanian forces were compelled to yield ground. • « « After an all-day battle in Unlicia, southeast of Lemberg, Austro-Gprinan forces captured a sector of the Russian trenches, the Petrograd war office reports. The engagement occurred In the vicinity of Lipnichadelna tmd Syistelniki. * • • The Russian army, which is invading Transylvania to assist the Roumanians in the defense of their western frontier, has gained further successes, the Petrograd war office- announces, and has penetrated Transylvania a distance of more than 50 miles below the Bukowina border. In Dobrudja -the advance against Von Mackensen’s army continues. _

Domestic Four express companies—the Adams, American, Wells-Fargo and Western—announced at Chicago that raises in pay to employees will go into effect on November 1 in all parts of the United States “where working conditions ami cost of living fairly warrant such adjustments.” As attorney for himself, John Armstrong Chaloner of Merry Mills, Va., author of the expression “Who’s looney now?” filed in the Supreme court at Washington a brief, attacking proceedings in New York in which he was pronounced insane years ago. ♦ * * Unless the railroads put an eight-* hour day into effect by January 1' the 400,000 members of the “big four” brotherhoods will strike. This was the threat issued at New York as officials of the brotherhoods—the organizations of the union men—went into a secret conference. * * * The thirty-sixth' annual convention of the American Federation of Labor opened a two weeks’ session at Baltimore, Md. • • * Julius Rosenwald, Chicago millionaire, has agreed to give half a million dollars toward the foundation of the medical school at University of Chicago, which the Rockefeller interests announced recently they intended to establish there. • • * J. C. Diemer and his wife and their daughter Magdalene were released under SIO,OOO bonds each to appear before the grand jury at Pontiac, 111., in connection with the, death of the daughter, Christine, who was found in Vermillion river. * * * In a letter to President Wilson, made public at New York, the secretary and treasurer of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks entered a protest against working post office clerks more than eight hours a day.

Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler, widow of Henry M. Flagler, one of the organisers of the Standard Oil company and builder of the Florida East Coast railway, was married to Robert Worth Bingham of Louisville. Ky. The ceremony was performed at New York. Mr. Flagler died in May, 1915, leaving about $70,000,000, mostly to his widow. • • • Horace Jackson, the Chicago board of trade man who was lost in a blizzard in the woods of northern Minnesota while hunting, has been found by members of a rescue party. • • • That the coal shortage has reached a critical stage was demonstrated at Clveland, 0., when the Big Four railroad seized for its own use 150 tons of coal consigned to a manufacturer. * • • The Standard Oil company of California voluntarily granted an eighthour workday to all refinery, pipeline and producing department employees. There will be no change in wages. • • • The strike of coal miners in Oklahoma is ended. The conference committee of operators and miners agreed at a meeting held at McAlester, Okla., on disputed points in the biennal contract and the strike was called off. Harold Wells, of Phoenix, Ariz., won the Douglas-to-Phoenix automobile road race. His time for the 245 miles was seven hours and twenty minutes. • * : Washington Suits by railroads attacking the constitutionality of the eight-hour railroad law were begun in many parts of the country and the department of justice at Washington laid plans to defend them.. The department of justice will take direct charge of these cases, and Frank Hagerman of Kansas City, Mo., has been retained to assist in their preparation and trial. • ♦ » • Trial by court-martial of Capt. Edward L. Beach of the armored cruiser Memphis, wrecked in a hurricane on a Dominican reef several months ago with the loss of many lives, was ordered by the navy department at Washington. ♦ ♦' • XNecessity for broadening the scope of military training in agricultural colleges was emphasized by speakers of nation-wide reputation at the opening session of the thirteenth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultral Colleges and Experiment Stations at Washington. • * * The British reply to the latest American note protesting against the trade blacklist, made public by the state department at Washington, denies that rights of neutral traders under international law have been ruthlessly canceled. The note fails to meet the American demand that the names of American firms be stricken'from the blacklist. • « • Suits testing the constitutionality of the New York, New Jersey, Washington, Ohio and lowa workmen's compensation laws were ordered reargued by the Supreme court at Washington. • • •

Foreign Maj. Gen. Hon. Sam Hughes has resigned as Canadian minister of militia and defense. His resignation was requested. Charges were made before parliament by George VV. Kyle, Liberal member. Kyle produced documentary evidence purporting to prove that Colonel Allison^ purchasing agent for Hughes in the purchase of war munitions, had organized mushroom companies in the United States, secured sales for shells and shell fuses from the Canadian shell committee, through the aid of General Hughes, and had charged exorbitant prices for the shells and pocketed millions as a result. * * • ■ It was announced in Vienna that there is no foundation for the report recently published in the United States of the death of Dr. Constantine Dumba. former Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. • • • Advices from Stockholm to Berlin state that a large Russian armored cruiser, either the Rurik or the Gromobol. ran aground in the Gulf of Finland. It is feared that the cruiser will be a total wreck. Sir Robert Borden denied all reports and rumors at Ottawa, Ont., that/he contemplated vacating the premiership of the dominion. He made it clear that he will remain in office until the end of the war. ♦ • • Mexican War News The murder of an entire American family on the Gulf coast*near Tampico was reported at Brownsville, Tex., by £irs. Eva Han Son, a refugee from that place. She was unable to give details of the affair. ' • • * De facto government troops of Mexico under General Murgia have recaptured Parral and Santa Rosalia, according to a report from the border. • • • After being in the Juarez (Mex.) jail since November 7, during which time he expected to be shot as a Villa spy, Benjamin Brahan was released at the military headquarters in Juarez and came to the American side of the river. He says the only charge against him was that of aiding General Pershing- • • • Personal Molly Elliott Seawell, the novelist, died at her home in Washington at the age of fifty-five.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From AU Over Indiana. INDIANA GUAfID IN MANEUVER Hoosiers Take Up Position as Part of Army of 12,000 “Whites" to Defend Valley Against Equal Number of “Browns." Llano Grande, Tex., Nov. 17. —TJhe camp of the Indiana National Guardsmen is the scene of great activity. The Hoosier guardsmen took up their position as a part of an army of 12,000 guardsmen, known as the “white” army defending the lower Rio Grande valley from an equally large force of the z “Brown” army, composed of guardsmen and regular army organizations. The maneuver probably will continue several days. Burglar Pleads Guilty; Sentenced. Seymour, Nov. 17. —Joseph Miller, twenty-one, of Reading, Pa., pleaded guilty to burglary in the Jackson circuit court, and was sentenced by Judge Oren O. Swails to serve from two to 14 years in the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville. Miller was arrested a week ago in Cincinnati, when detectives found him in a pawnshop trying to sell several rifles and revolvers he admitted he had stolen from a hardware store hereBlaze,Attacks Hospital. Brazil, Nov. 17. —Several patients in the Dr. James Rawley private hospital were forced to lie in bed while smoke filled their rooms and hospital attendants fought a fire which started from an overheated furnace. Some of the patients had just undergone critical operations. Others in less serious condition were carried out of the smokefilled building. The building was not badly damaged. -- Seek $200,000 for Y. V/. C. A. Indianapolis, Nov. 17.—A campaign for $200,000 for the erection of a new Y. W. C. A. boarding house opened auspiciously here with the announcement that Arthur Jordan and George Snowden had contributed SIO,OOO each, conditioned on the raising of the entire amount of money desired In ten days. Accused of Stealing Hogs. Anderson, Nov. 17.—William Gorman, forty-five, and Oscar McAlheny, twenty-seven, are under arrest on a charge of larceny, being accused of the theft of two hogs from the farm of Thomas Ford, near Pendleton. The police said the prisoners have confessed stealing three hogs. z Hunter Kills Big Gray Eagle. Bloomfield, Nov. 17.—While hunting on the Hanegan Rainbolt farm, near the Greene-Lawrence county line, Elwood Holmes killed a gray eagle that measured seven feet, two inches across its wings. The bird was brought to Bloomfield and will be mounted. Burglars Cut Off Ear. South Bend, Nov. 17. —Miss May Sumpton was found gagged and suffering from a fractured skull in her home here. She was attacked by a burglar she surprised when he was searching her home. Her right ear was cut off by one blow. Fifty Shot in Leg. Alexandria, Nov. 17. —Ten days after Leo Vogel, a farmer residing near Summitville, was the victim of a hunting accident and was brought to the Alexandria hospital for treatment, Dr. L. F. Schmauss extracted 50 small shot from the man’s right leg. Celebrate Harrison Birth. Sullivan, Nov. 17. —O. P. Badger entertained at his home, northwest of Sullivan, in celebration of the birth of Benjamin Harrison, pioneer of Fairbanks township, who died recently. Dinner was served for 85 persons. Ask Salary Increase. Elwood, Nov. 17.—Stating that the high cost of living has made their salaries insufficient, the members of the police and fire departments have filed a petition with the citv council, asking for an increase of $lO a month. To Save Waste Paper. Indianapolis, Nqv. 17. —A campaign to teach the schoolchildren of the state to help conserve the paper supply was launched by Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public Instruction. Falls Thirty Feet; Unhurt. Logansport, Nov. .17.—Ralph Hunter, age twelve, fell 30 feet in the city electric light plant to a cement floor. He suffered only slight bruises, as his fall was broken by a projecting board. 1 Burglars Get SSO. Evansville, Nov. 17.—Burglars stole SSO from a small metal box In the Underwood typewriter office here. A rear window in the building was pried open. 'S Rat Bite Serious. Lagrange, Nov. 17.—William Davis Was attacked by a rat he was releasing from a trap and developed blood Dolsoning. His condition is critical.

(®sifieaeUi [Under this head notices will btf-pub-lished for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keening cash should be sene 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 26 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—A good base burner.— J. B. THOMPSON, Rensselaer, Ind. R ~*- n-23 For Sale—Peninsular base burner in good shape.—E. J. DUVALL. For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale—One surrey, very nearly as good as new; 1 set livery harness; 1 one-horse mowing machine; 1 range stove; 1 five-tooth cultivator; 1 sausage grinder; 1 bedstead; churn.—F. M. PARKER. Phone 217. n-24 For Sale—Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well located. Can oe sold dn mpnthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. ts

For Sale—Red, white or bhr oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. ts For Sale—One 4-year-old mare, gentle; one spring colt; one black mare, good driver; 20 July pigs; hew Deere corn planter with fertilizer attachment; new gopher; sulkey plow; new.wagon and wagon bed; mowing machine; hay rake; set double work harness; platform scales, etc., etc.—MRS. M. E. DRAKE. Phone 243-Black. n-23 For Sale—One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved 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 call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. FOR RENT / For 6-room house, with garden and truck patch, at west side of town.-—JOSEPH NESSIUS, Sr. n-22 For Rent—Five-roofh house on River street, only two blocks from postoffice.—MAßY JANE HOPKINS: WANTED Wanted—Family washings . MRS. DOLPH DAY. n-28 Wanted Cheap typewriter, in good condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. Wanted—Man past 30 With horse and buggy to sell Stock Condition Powder in Jasper county. Salary S7O per month. Address 9 Industrial Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana. Wanted—Good reliable town boy to sweep out office and work mornings, evenings and Saturdays and learn to feed job presses, etc. A permanent “sit” for the boy who makes good.—THE DEMOCRAT. MISCELLANEOUS Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters, also for Burroughs adding machines. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts

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 6 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 slo,ooo,— e. P. HONAN. I sis l lIIP Wlth °"‘ I Uvl lllv , Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. w. H. PARKINSON SPECIAL STATIONERY BARGAIN The Democrat has a special bargain in fine correspondence stationery, nice bond papers i n several shades of color, that it can sell fifty sheet of paper and fifty envelops for 30 cents, your choice of shade. This paper i 9 i n bulk, and we can sell it in larger quantities at a slight reduction over the above pri&—-250 sheets of paper and ”250 envelops for only $1.25. This is an exceptional price and the stock will not last long at the figures we are offering It. Call in and see the paper and you 'will be sure to buy a supply of it for your future needs.