Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — Page 4

IK JfiSPERICOU HTY MM F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher : . * ' ■ : ' ' ■ ' ' ' ■ • - OFFICIAL- DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office Sls Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8. 1908. at the poetoffice at Rensselaer, India rm, under the Act of March >■ 1879. ' ■■ / . Published Wednesday and Saturday. The Only All Home-Print Newspaper in Jasper' County. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 1917.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EXECUTIVE MACHINE

The state legislature got down to actual work -Monday, when Governor Goodrich delivered his. message to the assembly and the assignment of committees was made. The governor urged economy in the administration of state affairs —to which the taxpayers will say amen, and may he advice be heeded: The abolishment of the oil inspection department, which would throw sixty inspectors out of office, and that this work be assigned to the food and drug departmentwhich would, no doubt, mean lots more deputies there and probably effect ho real saving: he recommends that ” the responsibility for the expenditure of public money be taken from the various boards and commissions and be centralized in the governor; That the attorney general be appointed by the .governor; Suggested the discontinuance of the statistician s office and the collection of statistics be done by departments; abolishment of the office of legal clerk to the governor: A reduction of SI,OOO per year in the salary of the Quartermaster general because of the federal grant of this sum; - A non-partisan / commission of four, to serve without pay, to replace the fish and game .commission, the state board of forestry and state geologist and etomologist; Repeal of the three-mile road law; y.-'AJ non-partisan commission, without "salary, to be given authoti’.y to establish main roads; eligible, to state and federal aid; A separate department from the office of auditor of state to handle the banking and insurance; to be headed by a non-partisan executive appointee; s " State regulation of rate making for fire insurance: A reduction from fourteen to seven days of the “waiting period’’ in the workmen’s compensation law; • A law :o permit voting bv mail; A law to require vocational schooling for a part of the time up to sixteen years; ■_;■■■

In favor of an enabling act permitting cities to adopt commission and managerial form's of government; A survey of offices, bureaus and institutions to permit further economies and efficiencies to be reported to next general Constitutional amendments to permit the budget system to more centralize and control the finances of the state; for classification of property for taxation and fixing limitations upon tax rate; prohibiting any increase in salary during the term of any officer; a chance in registration law to relieve all but ten or twelve counties in the state of the operation of regisration; to make office of superinendent of public instruction a non-partisan office and appointive; For a constitutional convention in January, 1918. In conclusion ' the new governor declared it unjust that .the assembly should defer important matters until late in the session when “few know what is going on,” and asks that unnecessary adjournments be avoided in the interest of expediting business early in the sessions.

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News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News

The spiking of two neutral and two allied merchantmen was reported by Lloyds at London. The vessels were the Norwegian steajner Erica, the Swedish steamer Goosebridge, the Brit; ish ■ steamer Hollybranch and the Frent-h sailing ship Aconcagua. • * • The towns of Matchin ami Jilija, in northern' Dobrudja, have been captured, it is announced officially at Berlin. During 1916 French aviators shot down 450 enemy airplanes and British airmen shot down 250. while 50 more were brought down by high-angle guns, according to figures just compiled in Faris*. « « • The Russian steamer Suchan, cap-' tured by a German submarine recently in the • Arctic ocean, east of Cape North, has been brought into a German port, says an official Berlin announcement. • * ♦ The French armored cruiser Gaulois was torpedoed in the Mediterranean sea and sank in half ah hour, according to official announcement by the admiralty at Baris. There were only four victims. Two were killed by the explosion. » ♦ • On the Moldavian front the AustroGerman forces, continuing their heavy attacks, captured several height positions and two towns in tii’e Zabala valBerlin war office announced. Viorent Russian and Roumanian coun-ter-attacks were repulsed. In Wallachia the Russians were again defeated. In reply to the proffers ol Germany and her allies for a peace conference, the entente allies, in a collective note made public at Paris, declare that they “refuse to consider a proposal which Is empty and insincere.” The entente allied governments insist that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties and the free existence of small states and have not brought about a settlement for the future security of the world. The note declares that the proposal of the central powers is not an offer of peace, but a “war maneuver.” « « • An entire Russian regiment of coast artillery —about 1,500. men —with the exception of 50 men, yvas lost when the Finnish steanlship Oihonne* struck a mine near the Gulf of Finland, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to Berlin. One thousand horses also were drowned.

Domestic

Two hundred and fifty woodsmen, strikers and Industrial Workers of the World, agitators, were arrested at Cussan. Minn. J* * • - A committee from a local union of office clerks .sought a conference with Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor at'Washington In an effort to have tjje federation pay its clerks employed at national headquarters the same rixtes advocated, by the federation for government clerks—s 3 a d;iy minimum and S2OO increase for, those now earning $3 daily. * • » Three Filipino firemen from the naval collier Ajax, which is qjoored at Cavite. I’. 1., were asphyxiated following confinement in irons for several hours in a room above the boilers of the ship. They were being punished for mutinous conduct. It was reported at Washington that Congressman Claudius U. Stone, Democrat, is to be appointed by President Wilson as postmaster at Peoria, 111. Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist, after hearing representatives of logging companies in northern Minnesota, announced at St,, Paul his purpose to Investigate complaints that I. W.' W. activities threaten to halt all logging operations and to create a reign of terror in that section. ’ ‘• • * Fire in the Angel business block at Logansport, Ind , destroyed the Park hotel, the White hotel, the Colonial theater, and. damaged a number of business firms. '■ « • . The Hagerman State bank of Hagerman, Tex., Was robbed by five bandits. The safe was blown open. The robbers escaped in a motorcar with $5,000. Gov. Charles-S. Whitman, in his inaugural address at Albany, N. Y., urged that, the state troops who recently have been on border duty, bb paid an extra wage for Mexican service. • ’ Juan T. Burns, Carranza Consul at New York, was arrested, charged with being concerned in a conspiracy to ship arms and ammunition to Vera Cruz in violation of President Wilson’s embargo proclamation of October, 1915. Three indictments have been brought against Burns, it was learned. .

Herman Billik.. who was -sentenced to the penitent Jury for life in 15*07, after a*mun|er trial-in Chicago in which he was accused of poisoning five members of the Vrzal-.faiifily.wva.s granted a pardon by Governor Dunne. '■■■*. * ■» From the United States in 1916 manufnettires yyere exported to a value greater than the value of manufactures exported from any other country in any year, according to a compilation issued at New York by the National City bank, which showed that the year’s total exceeded $3,000,000,000, as against $2,012,000,18 hi. the highest export record ever made by Great Britain. 7 .» • • Aaron\lacob.s ami Charles Thomas were instantly killed when a northbound Pennsylvania railroad passenger train struck' the automobile riding in at Noblesville, Ind. '* * * Wabash express,train No. 3, Decatur to Kansas'City, struck a broken rail at Illiopolis. 111. Three Cars were derailed. None of the passengers were injured.’ ♦ * » . “My chief desire is to be tlje servant of the people,” said E. C. De, Baca, New Mexico’s'new governor, as he stood wearing a bathrobe to take the oath of office at a sanitarium in Santa Fe, N.< M. .... ' * * * Mexican War News President Wilson is contemplating the early withdrawal of General Pershing’s troops from tile Mexican state of Chihuahua to the American border. This action wil l be taken independently of the Atlantic City protocol of agreement, which, it was announced at Washington, General Carranza has declined to sign in its present form. Secretary of State Lansing announced that Eliseo Arredondo. Carranza’s envoy, would return to Mexico. * * *. ■ ■ „ J ■ Minister of War Obregon announced at Mexico City that the City of Torreon had been recaptured by Constitutionalists under General Maycotte. G ♦ • *. Sixty Villista soldiers, made prisoner by Carranza troops in a battle at RustlUa, Mux.. were promptly executed by a firing squad, a Carranza official In Juarez announced. » * •

Foreign President Wilson now* knows the peace conditions of the Teutonic allies and the entente powers can learn what they are from him, Count Julius Andrassy, former premier of Hungary, is quoted as saying in a dispatch to London from Budapest,, according to the Central News agency, by way of Amsterdam. • • • A British army scandal, involving the exercise of influence over high officers by* a prominent society woman of London, is described in the report of a court of inquiry, and Mrs. CornwallisWest, wife of Col. William CornwallisWest and mother of the princess of Pless and of the duchess of Westminster, is officially severely censured. * * » The three Scandinavian nations, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, through Identic notes, the Nordegian copy of which was handed to the state department at Washington by Minister Bryn, have expressed their interest in President Wilson’s proposals “looking toward the establishment of a durable peace” and their “deepest sympathy” with all efforts to shorten the war. * * * Sisters of Charity were without aid. in rescuing inmates of the St. Ferdinand de Halifax Insane Asylum at St. Ferdinand de Halifax, near Quebec, when fire destroyed the building at night, resulting in the death of 45 ; woman inmates and one sister. ♦ * * The Russian steanfship Kursk, while bound from Archangel, Russia, for New Yoyk, with 126 passengers aboard, hit a mine on November 29 off Kirkwall, Scotland. One passenger and two inembprs of the crew were drowned.

A Berlin dispatch says that the merchant submarine Deutschland and Its sister ships will carry on future voyages special mail at rates recalling those of the transcontinental post in the days of the forty-niners. A special charge of two marks for a postcard or letter will be levied in addition to the regular international postage. • ♦ ♦ ♦ Washington It was announced at Washingtonthat President Wilson has appointed Lieut. Col. Chester Harding governor general of the Panama Canal Zone to succeed General goethals, v ♦ * . * Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the senate foreign raltions committee, bitterly arraigned Thomas W. Lawson on the senate floor at Washington and decided emphatically 'that “no public official is guilty, of wrongdoing,” in connection with the “leak” to Wall street on the Wilson peace note. *♦ ♦ - At the closq.of a conference between Thomas W. Lawsbn and Chairman Henry of the house rules committee at Washington Mr. Henry declared he had not received information from Lawson warranting an investigation Into an alleged stock exchange. “leak” from the state department. y .... President Wilson said at Washington that he would veto the $28,000,000 public buildings bill if it comes to him in the foriii in wnich it’is now pending in the house. -

State Happenings

SEEK LIEUT. JOSJFH C. ELLIS • >■ Militia Officer of Third Indiana Infantry Missing Since He Was Mustered Out Last Week—Had S7OO in Possession. Indianapolis.—The police have instituted a search for Lieut, Joseph G. Ellis, -Company 11, Third Indiana infhntry> ot Plymouth. A letter from his mother stated that he ’ had about S7OO when he was mustered out last week and has not heard from him since that time. x . •

Says Wife Killed by Side.

Veedersburg. Oscar Goddard told authorities who directed a hot fire of questions at him how his wife had been murdered by his side in bed ana how he fled in terror as he saw her lying there ■wi th her head crushed in. Screaming at the top of his voice, Goddard ran through the streets in his night clothes early in the morning attracting the attention of two men. Authorities found Mrs. Goddard dead in bed, her skull crushed and an ax covered with blood in the house. 4 ,

Boys Battle With Air Guns.

Elwood. Twenty boys armed with air rifles they had received as Christmas gifts, divided forces and ea* 1 tered into a battle-royal in the north part of the city. Adults who feared the results of the conflict telephoned the police that the boys were firing on all who sought to stop them and a number of officers were dispatched to enforce peace. The boys were released upon promising to turn the guns over to their parents.

Horsethief Makes Escape.

Danville.—A man who stole a horse belonging to- John Wright of Amo, apparently has escaped from the vicinity. He fired five shots at persons in the home of Martin Mitchell when Mitchell refused to help him repair a wheel that broke on the buggy he was driving. ami after being driven from there by Mitchell with a shotgun, he fired three shots at Jacob Howard, who refused to give the .stranger a place to sleep.

Expect to Get Library.

Bloomington.—Dr. W. D. Howe of Indiana university, chairman of the Bloomington library committee, has gone to New York to plade before the-Carnegie library commission a resolution adopted by the Bloomington city eouncil providing $3,500 annually for the maintenance of a Carfiegie library, and it is expected the city will receive $31,000 from the Carnegte commission for a library building here.

Women Present Playlets.

Peru. — The Woman’s Franchise league, at the Wallace theater, presented “How the Vote Wats Won,” “His Platte Is in the Armory” and “Back of' the Ballot,” and greatly pleased a large audience. The playlets were managed by ’Mrs. Frank M. Stutesman, Mrs. A. E. Cathcart, Mrs. Mary Mowbray, Miss Grace Armitage, Mrs. John Crume and Mrs. Richard Edwards.

Loses Wanderlust.

Bloomington.—For years-Harry Kellogg, son of a Menlo (la.) banker, has been wandering about the country cashing checks on his father’s bank. His father had made them all good but one check for $35 which Kellogg cashed here. The wanderlust has left —he now wants to go home and find out why his father failed to cash the check.

Held as Robbers.

New Albany. Charles Renshaw, sixty, is in a hospital, here in a serious condition of a scalp wound and exposure, and William Brown, colored, of Louisville, is held in jail on a charge of highway robbery, accused of attacking Renshaw. The 'police say Brown confessed. Renshaw was found in an alley.

Hold a Jollification.

Jeffersonville.—Kwasind Tribe No. 268, of the Red Men, held a jollification and bond-burning in celebration of the payment of all debt at the lodge building. Herman Rave of this city and Dr. William Keller of Louisville, past great sachem of Kentucky, spoke.

Proclaim Prohibition Sunday.

Indianapplis.-rrThe Indiana Dry Fed--eration, which opened headquarters here to prepare for the fight for state-wide* prohibition, has proclaimed next Sunday “prohibition Sunday.” All churches in the state are expected to join in an appeal for statutory prohibition.

Movies Open at Midnight.

Marioq.—Theaters and moving picture show houses in Marion opened at midnight Sunday night and gave shows. It had been the purpose of the managers to open the theaters at 'll :30 o’clock Sunday, but the police department refused to permit that.

Guards Against Scarlet Fever.

Anderson.—As a precaution against the spread of scarlet fever in Lapel, where f air casys have developed among school pupils, the holiday vacation will be extended ahother week. '

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Edward (Strangler) Lewis

Robert Fredericks, otherwise known as Strangler Lewis, noted wrestler, is seeking a match with Joe Stecher, sometimes referred to as the “Omaha Wonder.” Since Frank Gotch, world’s champion wrestler, retired these young giants of the mat are seeking the world’s crown. Last year the pair

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BOBEBT FREDERICKS ( STRANGLES LEWIS ) . wrestled two hours to a draw, and both are anxious to try again for the coveted honor. Strangler Lewis is not the strangler of former days, but is a very different sort of man. He is a native of Kentucky and before becoming a professional wrestler was a student at the University of Kentucky. Lewis is six feet one inch in height, weighs 230 pounds in condition and is said to be one of the cleanest and fairest wrestlers now in training.

Mordecai Brown Passes On.

After playing eleven years in the National league and two in the Federal Mordecai Brown, the once famous three fingered pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, has been released unconditionally by Charles H. Weeghman, president of the Chicago club. Brown was released three years ago by Charles W. Murphy, then ’owner of the Cubs. Tinker, then the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, secured him. Brown jumped to the Feds with Tinker and managed the St. Louis club for a short period, when he was again signed by Tinker to play with the Chicago Feds.

Red Sox May Go to Europe.

Hugh Ward and Harry Frazee, the new owners of the Boston American club,, are planning to send a couple of baseball teams to Europe next falL “As for the expense,” said Mr. Ward, “it will cost less than to send a team from New York to San Francisco. I don’t see why the Red Sox and some other team should not go over to Europe next fall if the war is over by that time.” : ■

Baseball Salaries to Be Cut.

It seems almost' certain that there ■will be a general cutting down of baseball salaries next winter. A metal box into which an incandescent limp can be inserted has been patented by an Idaho man for warming beds. f

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