Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. PRESIDENT GIVES SI M OF $2,500 Sends Check to Help Make Up Deficit in Cani|»aign Fund. Washington. D. C., December 18. ’—-President Wilson has sent a check for $2,500 to Treasurer Marsh of the Democratic national committee as ills contribution to meet the deficit In the committee’s campaign fund. 11l LA HI LA’ DANCE IN CHURCH Sioux City. lowa, December 16. Men blushed, women walked out, .and young people giggled in Grace Methodist church, when in the course of a concert, number presented by Morningside college, a ’Hawaiian girl, clad in picturesque seaweed, sidled out upon the ’’stage,’* really the pulpit rostrum, and began an energetic “hula hula.” The concert committee explained later that it was all a mistake, that the lyceqni bureau had “slipped one over" on them by substituting a quartet of South soa dancers for what was scheduled as an "intellectual interpretation of Hawaiian musical trends.”

TO BUILD LARGEST BItIDGH Oakland, California, December 16. The largest bridge in the world is to bo built between San Francisco and Oakland, California. The coftt of the monster bridge la to bo $22,000,000, and it will be five and a half miles in length. On it will be three roadways and four railroad tracks. It will consist of sixteen spans, two of which will be high enough and far enough apart to allow the passage of any ship. The relief which this will furnisht to the five ferry systems now in operation between these cities Is not difficult of comprehension. FATHER IS SEEKING DAUGHTER Kokomo Man in .Search of Girl Who Di*ap|warv<! at Chicago. Kokomo, December 18. John A. Morrison, former- treasurer <>f Howard county, has gone to Chicago to investigate the disappearance on Thanksgiving eye of his daughter, Audra Morrison, age 29, who had been working there several months as a stenographer. She lived with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Pelton, former residents of Kokomo. She left her flat the evening of November 29, When they were away, taking only a suit case. Her trunk, clothing and other possessions all were in place in her room. The Peltons thought she find decided to go home for Thanksgiving, and were hot alarmed until several days later. Mrs. Pelton said she had no men friends, corresponding regularly with her mother, and 'had no reckless tendencies. She had been out of employment a short time, but had money j n the bank and was not despondent. The last word her mother had from her was a post card written the day she disappeared.

RADIVM NOT A CANCER CERE Result of Tests on Rodents Given Ont’ by Dr. Francis C. Wood. New York, December 18.-—After exhaustive tests' on rats, mice and guinea pigs the use of radium as a cure for cancer and tumors has been found to be a failure, according to the annual report of Dr. Francis Carter Wood, head of the Crocker cancer research fund of Columbia university. For cases on which operation is not possible, radium is successful as a palliative only, the report .tales. "It is unquestionably possible to prolong life in a few instances,’’ Dr. Wood says, "and to make the patients more comfortable by the judicious and intelligent employment of large quantities of radium. On the other hand it is equally

cer ain that the use of small quantities say twenty to fifty milligrams of radium element, often results in a rapid extension of the ■■■HIT so that the patient's condition is worse than if he had been left alone.” aged corm; killed home Money Which Had Hem Hoarded Since Bank Failure Is Missing. Peoria, Illinois, December IX.--"Mr. and Mrs. John P. Becker, age 85 and 83 years, respectively, were found murdered yesterday at their home near Mastm “<-'ity-,—-Hl-i-nois. They had been shot to death and the home riddled with bullets. Becker was the owner of 3,000 acres of farm land, and hoarded his wealth after the failure of a Pekin bank, several years ago. This money, together .with $3,000 rent received recently, is missing. MRS. RALSTON S IATHER“DEAD W. R. Craven Was Postmaster at Center Valley for Forty Years. Clayton. December 18, —The funeral of W. It. Craven, age 79, who died of heart trouble Saturday at his home here, will be held at Center Valley tomorrow morning. Mr. Craven was postmaster at Center Valley for forty years. For the last fifteen years he had lived in Clayton. Me is survived by four sons and three daughters: Arthur Craven of Indianapolis; Oscar Craven, postmaster at Blooihington; Theodore Craven of Indianapolis; John W. Craven, registrar of Indiana university; Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, Mrs. Julian D. Hogate of Danville and Mrs. John Underwood of Bedford. Mr. Craven was twice married, his first wife dying in 1 897. His second wife was Mrs. Jemiah Crawfords, the wedding taking place in Clayton in 1901. The widow survives.

JURY FINDS WOOD GUILTY Man nvicted of Collins Murder aces Terin in Prison. Peru, December 18.— After beineon t almost twenty-eight hours, the jury in the trial of Ellis V/cod for the murder of Walter Collins, age 16, near Young America Septem-

ber l.!»l">, brought in a verdict Saturday evening of manslaughter. The verdict carries a. sentence of from two to twenty-one years. Judge f. A. Cole probably will sentence Wood ins few days, and he wii] bd khigan City to begin serving his sentence. W r ood s trial began November 27 and lasted nearly three weeks. The state introduced fifty witnesses and the defense twelve. The evidence all was circumstantial, and the verdict was a surprise. The case was brought to the Miami circuit court on a change of venue from Howard county.:- :

Il RY FAILS TO REACH VERDICT Charles V. McAdams, former member of the state railroad commission, failed to obtain a verdict in his suit for damages from Lafayette young men who wrecked his touring, car several months ago when they were joy riding at Lafayette. The jury in the case, which had been on trial for a week, was dismissed Saturday after being out twenty-four hours trying to arrive at a verdict. Charles Kirkpatrick, Joy Jamison, Maurice Jamison and Thomas Morehead were the defendants. The second trial of the McAdams "joy ride” damage suit will be heard in the Carroll county circuit court at Delphi some time next year. A motion for a change of venue was filed in the Tippecanoe superior' ■ court Monday by McAdams and Jones, representing Charles V. McAdams. Keeping the air in rooms moist is the purpose of a new humidifier, consisting of a small electric fan to be hung on a wall and blow its breezes across a shallow dish filled with water. A well sunk 1,000 feet through solid rock has just been completed at a summer cottage at Small Point, near Augusta, Maine, and has the flow of four gallons a minute.