Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — Page 4

SPURNS EUROPEAN MEDIATION PLANS

United States Peace Plot; Teuton Scheme Seen Back of Move. ARMY AND NAVY RUSH WORK Every Preparation for an Eventuality Is Being Carried Forward fay Every Branch of the Government — President Drafts Address. El Paso, Tex., March 23.—PresidentElect Carranza has called an extraordinary session of, the Mexican house of deputies to meet April 2, the same date on which the United States congress will convene. Washington, March 23. —Offers of mediation, to prevent actual war between the United States and Germany, are expected among the next developments. ... Administration officials heard that a European neutral was contemplating such a plan, and they frankly regarded it as . another effort. > backed by ■ Germany, to divide sentiment in congress and embarrass the presidenL •It was declared authoritatively that no proposals of mediation or for discussion will be considered unless Germany first abandons the campaign of ruthlessness. All administration officials from the president down take the position that the United States never has, and does not now, desire war with Germany, but is being forced into if to protect lives and rights of “its, citizens against unlawful aggression. , Kaiser Must Yield. Unless Germany is prepared completely to change her position, it was declared, offers of mediation and discussion are useless. Germany, it was recalled, never accepted former Secretary Bryan’s proposal to sign one of his “peace investigation" treaties, which would have bound the United States to inaction for a year, while a commission investigated the situation. Meanwhile, every preparation for any eventually is being carried forward by the army and navy, and the president is awaiting the assembling of congress. ' , - With congress called to convene in extraordinary session April 2 to consider further steps to, meet Germany’s ruthless submarine warfare, administration officials today were awaiting with the tensest' anxiety further developments in the situation. It is realized that between now and the assembling of congress are days pregnant with tremendous import to the United States. Meanwhile, believing that Germany, by the hostile acts of her submarines, actually is making war on the United States, and determined that it shall be so recognized, government officials are bending all their energies to meet that condition by putting the nation's armed forces and resources in readiness for any eventuality. Wilson Drafts Address. President Wilson is believed to be preparing congress and to show that war actually has existed for some time. Congress probably will appropriate a billion dollars for national defense and authorize the president to use the armed forces of the United States against Germany.

CONGRESSMEN RUSH BACK

All Expected to Be Ready for Session at Washington April 2. Washington, March 23. —Congress is speeding back to Washington from every quarter of the country. From all parts of the country there was a steady stream of telegrams to the capital reporting that members will be present. Speaker Champ Clark and Democratic Leader Claud Kitchin arrived in Washington today. Republican Leader Mann with Representative McKinley of and other members of the house are the objects of a frantic search by wireless. They are cruising “somewhere in the Carribean” — and » hurry call has been sent out from the Republican camp to bring the comma ritlers back to the colors. Meanwhile partisan advantage in the organization of the next house is not cutting the important figure it did before the international crisis became so acute. The Republicans have not lost hope of organizing the house, but neither, for that matter, have the Democrats. The two parties are equally balanced In the house with 214 members each, five Independent memiters, whose ultimate parry affiliation no one is willing to guess.

U. S. NEEDS 4,000 AIRPLANES

National Advisory Committee for 'z f ' Aeronautics Makes Report. Washington, March 23.—About 4,- * 000 airplanes annually would be needed to keep the United States on the proper military footing, in the opinion of the national advisory committee for aeronautics at a meeting to consider ways of speedingup aerial preparedness. " Of the 4,000 airplanes. LOW would be attached to an army of 1.000,000 men, 200 to the fleet, 800 would be for harbor and sea coast defense and 2,000 for ft* 1 ofs.

Indiana News Tersely Told

Jasper—Jasj>er Novelty works will build a three-styry addition. Vincennes.—Women have petitioned council'to tax all cats in City. Columbia.-Maj. Spurgeon N. Markley. resigned from the. National Guard, has been placet! on the retired list. Sherblan.—Charles Eller, farmer, forty-five, fell to his' death from a load of hay. ' Greenburg.—Thirty thirsty hoboes broke into the creamery here and drank five gallons of milk. Bruceville,— The 300 miners of the Oliphant-Johnson mine have struck because not allowed to use carbide lamps. Lafayette—Mayor Bauer wants council to take steps for a municipal lighting plant. Madison.—Thirty-eight cattle and 28 hogs were sold by James Firth for $4,100. Jeffersonville.—lndiana reformatory registered its 9.999 th prisoner. Marion.—Ambulance corps No. 2 has rented the city hall for an armory. PanviHe.—Restaurant which used to be patronized by James Whitcomb Riley has closed. Petersburg— Pleas Freeland, farmer. killed a black snake 4% feet in length. Lafayette.—Nearly 2,000 prospective woman voters of Tippecanoe county attended a political meeting here. Lafayette.—Wabash river is on its annual rampage here. -South Bend. —Notre Dame has awarded the I.a eta re medal to Admiral Benson. North Liberty.—Edward H. Rupe’s neck was broken by the kick of a horse. ' '. Vincennes. —Dan Ashby, gambler, confessed”to killing a miner at West Frankfort. , ’ Milton.—Measles are attacking adults as well as children here.

Windfall.—Mrs. John W. Croyle was exonerated from killing her husband. Muncie. —An unidentified workman here was beaten and compelled to salute the flag he had insulted. Marion.—A Grant county forum to discuss revision of the state constitution was formed here. Warsaw—Janjes Robinson, aged six-ty-five, an inmate of Kosciusko county infirmary, has not eaten for\3l days. Evansville. —William Suffon was acquitted of the murder of Fred Haggard. Logansport.—The Woman’s Council of Cass county was organized to study political science. «■ ' South Bend.—John M. Studebaker, Sr., is dead here, aged eighty-four. Lafayette.—The Monon road has cut the working hours at the shops here from 50 to 40 hours per week. mine set a new state record when it/hoisted 4,777 tons of coal in 7 hours and 45 minutes. Lafayette.—Beta Theta Pi fraternity met here in its tenth annual district convention. Marion.—This city has obtained judgment against John O. Wilson, former mayor, for $1,156.68 excess salary. Nashville. —Otis Lucas, member of an hilarious charivari party, was killed by a shotgun. ’ Whitewater.—A sealed letter postmarked Newcastle was found on a farm 39 miles from Newcastle. Plymouth.—The city has bought 22 acres of ground for $6,000 for a park. Indianapolis.—By a court ruling the of Spencer county will not be moved from Rockport to Chrisney. Marion. —The city will purchase a SB,OOO multiple pumping machine for fire protection.

Bloomington.—Dentists have agreed to inspect* the teeth of school children free., ■. Winchester. —An employment bureau for boys and girls under eighteen has been opened here. Logansport.—The Indiana Society of Sanitary Engineers selected South Bend as the 1918 meeting place and elected W. J. Woolley president. Taylorville.—Stamps stolen from the postdtfiee here a year ago recovered in Louisville second-hand store. West Marion. —Canton glass factory recently burned will be rebuilt. Bicknell. —Several cases of smallpox here. Wolcott. : —Epidemic of diphtheria and scarlet fever has closed the schools here. . * Franklin. The Johnson County Farming association organized with H. E. Locherby as president. Lagrange.—The C. F. Cain Water, Power and Light company organized to serve Lagrange, Rome City s Ontario and Wolcott. Indianapolis. Poultry association elected C. E. Grant of Marion president. Goshen. —Irwin vaudeville theater burned; loss $40,000. Elwood.—Lewis Reichart, grocer, shot _by holdup in his store. . Floyd Knobs —John N. ■ Loesch, postmaster, is dead. Rushville.—Rev. S. G. Huntington, pastor of die Baptist church, resigned to accept superintendency of northern district. Indianapolis.—Van Camp Packing company, plant partially burned; loss $15,000. , • Valley Mills.—Mrs. Earl Tolto in* jured in automobile collision in Indianapolis. ... '• . Shelbyville.—J. W. Van, Arsdali has resigned as treasurer of the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance company. • Lafayette.—Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ association of Indiana elected J, S. Minch of Chalmers president.

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOUT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption* U. S—Teutonic Break Announcement was made that Vassar college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is in a state of “principal mobilization,” with nearly all of its 1,120 girl students signed up for war service in the National League for Women’s Service. Vice President Marshall in an address at Montgomery, Ala., said that a state of w r ar between the United States and Germany actually exists and made a plea for the people of Montgomery to stand behind “the sadeyed man in the White House, who is trying to determine what is best for the republic.” «•* > . The - administration at Washington has under consideration plans for a new revenue act conscripting all personal incomes in excess of SIOO,OOO a year during the period of war with Germany. ♦ • • Secretary Daniels held a conference with his naval chiefs at Washington. Following the conference it was stated: “We have stopped talking ; the navy is now in motion.” \ ♦ ♦ ♦ The first naval base hospital of the American Red Cross, stationed in Brooklyn, has received word to hold Itself in readiness for active service, it was announced. ’♦ * * The Newport (R. I.) hospital has offered to give 100 beds to the American Red Gross for use in the care of wounded soldiers in case the United States? should go to war. Agents of the federal secret service at Chicago awaiting momentarily a war announcement from Washington, acknowledged the difficulty of their task in suppressing the German propaganda which has taken root in .all parts of the nation. * * ♦ The administration’s feeling toward Germany was made clear in a note dispatched by the state department at Washington to Mexico rejecting the suggestion of General Carranza that all neutrals declare an embargo on all supplies to Europeim belligerents. German diplomacy was bitterly arraigned by Secretary Lansing. * * • President Wilson and his cabinet spent more than two hours at Washington reviewing the incidents of the German submarine campaign which brought the United States to the edge of the great war in Europe. The members of the president’s cabinet said that no change in the attitude of the United States toward Germany had yet been ordered. It became known at Philadelphia that the German sailors who escaped from the interned raiders Prinz Eitel Friedrich and the Kronprinz Wilhelm had a list of outside conspirators who were ready to aid them and that they had been supplied with thousands of dollars to finance their escape. Two of the raiders were shot while attempting to escape. ♦ • • According to a letter received at Washington by Senator Overman of North Carolina from E. B. McKinney of Pelham, agents of the kaiser’s government have been at work among the negroes of the state spreading the doctrine of secession.

Domestic J. M. Studebaker, Sr., of South Bend, Ind.; left an estate valued at more than $1,000,000. This became known when his last will and testament was filed for probate with the St. Joseph circuit court. He provided handsomely for Trinity Presbyterlon church, $55,000 being left that institution. - Twenty-six bags of mail addressed to Washington and the British embassy at Washington were found to have been rifled on board the Cunard liner Saxonia upon its arrival at'New York. I♦ ♦ ♦ Governor Gardner signed the bill abolishing capital punishment in Missouri. Life imprisonment will be the maximum penalty , for crimes now punishable with death. * * . Military training will be adopted for the convicts in the Oregon state penitentiary within a fewmo'nths, Warden Charles A. Murphy announced at Salem. Ore. The training will consist chiefly of marching and setting-up exercises. * * * Before the United States district court at Indianapolis adjourned 67 of 153 men accused of violation of the election laws in, Indiana had entered pleas of guilty. Seventy-nine entered pleas of not guilty. The majority who pleaded guilty were negroes.

Five persons were killed and fvur others seriously Jnjured fu the tornado which swept a small section near Delark, Ark. ' • * Switchmen on the New York Central railroad will be given the benefit of the Adamson law dating from January 1, by the voluntary act of the company, on the same basis as the members of the four brotherhoods, it was announced by the ’road at New York. ♦ ♦ • State police reported at Plymouth, Mass., that an unexploded dynamite bomb, with a fulminating cap and fuse attached,was found outside the chapel of the Plymouth Cordage company’s local plant. . \ - . ♦ ♦ * Four aged persons were burned to death and thirty-three others were injured in a fire which destroyed the Scottish Old People’s home near Riverside, 111. \ » ♦ • \: It became known at New York that a divorce has been granted Mrs. William McCombs from her husbapd, former chairman of the Democratic national committee. The principal American copper producers have agreed to furnish the American government all the copper needed for the army and navy during the coming year at 16.6739 cents a pound, about one-half of the current market price. Forty-five million pounds is the amount to be delivered. This is the first big concession in response to the appeals to the patriotism of the country’s industries. \ ♦ ♦ ♦ Activities of the stock commissioners will come under the scrutiny of the grand jury at Chicago, according to plans which were announced by Thomas Marshall and Otto B. Schram, special assistants to Attorney General Brundage. Charges have been made of gross irregularities in cattle inspection, resulting in considerable losses to cattle raisers. ♦ * * The Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation company has given notice of suspension of its boat service between Baltimore, Boston an&'Erovidence. The scarcity and high price of coal at this port are given as the reason. ♦ ♦ * The American Steel Foundries at Indiana Harbor closed the ammuni-tion-making plant and laid off 400 men. The plant, which made shells, ran out of orders., Other plants hired the men.

European War News Germany has started a new and elaborate recruiting campaign in Poland. Under the new scheme 17 main recruiting offices, 74 district offices and 400 local bureaus have been opened. ♦ * * A large French battleship of the Danton class was sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean, it was officially announced at Berlin. » ♦ ♦ A dispatch from Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent to London states that Lieutenant General Korniloff, who has been appointed commander of the troops in Petrograd, has issued a proclamation to “the soldiers of the people’s army and the citizens of free Russia.” in which he says that the great Russian people have given the country freedom and that the army must give her victory. Replying to a question in the house of commons in London, Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, said the daily- average expenditure of the British government from April 1, 1916, to March 31, 1917, would work out at $30,000,000. ♦ ♦ * A British destroyer and a merchant vessel were sunk, and another destroyer was damaged in the German naval raid at Ramsgate, the British admiralty announced at London. * * * Paris reports that since the German retreat began France has regained, it is estimated, 620 square miles of territory. One hundred towns and villages have- been occupied by French troops in three days on the western front. * * * A British patrol. boat pounced on and sank a German submarine which launched a torpedo at the White Star liner Lapland as it was putting into Liverpool on its eastern trip. ♦ ♦ °

Washington A flat rate, of 3 per cent for insurance on vessels leaving American ports for ports of belligerent nations was fixed by the government war risk insurance bureau at Washington. The highest rate has been< 2 per cent, * * » Immediate nationalizing of railroad control was urged by Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific, in testifying at Washington before the congressional committee, investigating all phases of the railway., problem. » • » John Franklin Fort, former governor of New Jersey, and William P. Colver of Minneapolis were sworn in as members bf the federal trade commission at Washington.

Foreign Full right of Jews to citizenship and abolition of the pale was the further progressive step which democratic Russia took, says a dispatch from Petrograd’. Jews throughput Russia hailed the new order with great rejoicing-

Removal Notice I have removed my REAL ESTATE and FARM LOAN office from the First National Bank building to the ground floor of my own building, south of State Bank corner in Leo Mecklenburg’s Electric Shop. I have a supply of money to loan on mortgage at lowest current rates. Remember the new location, west side court house square. Regular office days, Friday, Saturday, Monday. Phone 109 Emmet L. Hollingsworth

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. . Chicago, March 22. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing- esc est. May 1.83%-84% 1-86% LS% July 1.55%-56 L 57% Loa’s Ls.%-% Sept. 1.43-43% 1-44% 142% L4*% May Tn .....-1.10%-% L 1 2% LlO% L12%-% July .109%-% L<®% Sept. ......L076-% 1.08% L 07% Oats— V ■ , ■ __ _ May 58%-% -59% -JfF®* July .56%-% -57% -56% FLOUR— Spring wheat, special brands, in wood SIO.OO per bbL; hard spring wheat patents, 35 per cent grade, in jute. $9-25; straight, in export bags, $9.05; first clears. $8 20 in jute; second- clears. s6.ia@7—a; low grades, $5.75®6.00; fancy soft winter wheat patents, in jute. $9-00: standard soft winter wheat patents, $8.85 in jute; fancy hard winter wheat patents, $9.<6. in jute: standard hard winter wheat patents, in jute; first clears, [email protected], in jute: second clears, in jute, s6<ao«-25; white rye flour, $8.25, in jute; pure dark rye, $7.75, in jute. HAY—Choice timothy. [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, $15.00016.00; No. 2 timothy. sl4-54 @ls 00" No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, $13.00014.00; light mixed. $14.00015.00; heavy clover mixed. 15 00; threshed timothy, $8.50010.50; Kansas and Oklahoma choice. sls.so@ltfi®; No. 1 [email protected]; No. 2, $13.00014.00- ’ BUTTER— Creamery, extras. 40c; extra firsts, 38@39c; firsts. 35%037%c; seconds. 33%@34%c; jacking stock, 25027%c; ladles, 28%29c: process, 30%@31c. <• EGGS—Firsts, 27%@27%c; ordinary firsts, 26%@27c: miscellaneous lots, cases included 25@27%c; cases returned. 24%®25%e: extras, 30@31c; checks, 23024 c; dirties. M @2sc. LIVE POULTRY— Turkeys. 20c; fowls, 22c; spring chickens, 22c: roosters, 15e; ducks, 21023 c; geese. 13016 c. DRESSED POULTRY— Turkeys, 28c; fowls 21022 c; . springs, 21023 c: roosters, 15@16c; ducks, 18022 c; geese. 15019 c. POTATOES—BuIk, white. Wisconsin. $2.2502.35; Minnesota, $2.2502.35; western, $2.5002.60. . SWEET POTATOES— Hampers. minors. $1.5002.00: Jerseys, $2.2502.40; Delaware. $2.0002.25. j New York. March 22. , WHEAT—Firm, trade fairly active; No. ,2 red. $2.08%; No. 1 northern, $2.24%; No. | 2 hard. $2.23%. CORN— Steady, trading quiet: No. 2 yel- - low. $1.24%; No. 3 yellow. sl-23%. OATS —Steadv. trade dull; No. 2 white j '76c: standard. 76%c; No. 3_white, 74%e; No. : ,4 white, 73%c; ungraded, 75®9&c.

Live Stock.

Chicago, March 22. » i CATTLE—Good to choice 12 85' yearlings, good to choice. $lO- «[email protected]; ‘fair to good steers. [email protected]; Stockers R nd feeders, [email protected]; fair to good cows. $7.0009.50; good to choice heifers, SB-OT@ 10 25’ cunners, $5.0006.50; cutters, s€-<»<o 7 00;’ bologna bulls. $7.5008.25: butcher bulls, [email protected]; good to prime calves, $12.50015.00. , HOGS—Prime light butchers. sl4 80t?Ii»; fair to fancy light. [email protected]: medium weight butchers, 2OOOSO lbs., sl4.Msffis-1>; heavy butchers. 250®40’> lbs.. choice heavy packing. [email protected]; rough heavy packing. [email protected]; pigs, fair tn good. [email protected]; stags. $14.50015.10. SHEEP— Yearlings. [email protected]; fair tc choice ewes, wethers, fair te choice, [email protected]; western lambs. $1175 @15.25; feeding lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, $13.00014.90.

FOR SALE Or Bent—Small cottage on Weston street, only three blocks from courthouse, lot 50x150, city lights, wood house, etc, —JOHN DANIELS. Phone 255-White. m3l Good Recleaned Timothy Seed. $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts Good Team of Work Mares, wt. 2400.—-W. B. WALTER, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 80-C, Mt. Ayr exchange. r - " ts Remington Typewriter, No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in' splendid condition and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. Seed Corn —Have a limited amount of Reid’s Yellow Dent seed, rack dried, all of pedigreed strains. If you wish any order at once-as supply is running low. —HENRY PAULUS, Rensselaer,. Ind., phone 938-G, route 3. a 5 Five-passenger Automobile in good running condition, electric horn,, Presto-lite ' lights, top, good tires,' two practically new; extra inner tubes, jack. etc. A bargain if sold sooift Will demonstrate.— F. E.. BABCOCK.

One Gasoline 16. Horse-power Engine, mounted on iron wheel wagon, . will run ensilage cutter or small separator. This engine .is a ‘Fairbanks Morse, and a good one. $l5O buys it. This is a bargain for some one. See JOHN J. STOCKTON, or telephone 915-3 or 409. ts 50,000 to 75,000 Feet of Oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6,

sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white oak posts on ground at Te each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 642. Rensselaer. ts

One of the Best Located Residence properties in Rensselaer. 7 5x3 ob feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other ou;-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked property. Terms ft desired. For further particulars call or address R c- THE DEMOCRAT. See JAY W. STOCKTON for some choice lots in the city of Rensselaer. Indiana. Fine location; all public improvements made-and paid for. Also some fine uncultivated land, as well as some of the best land that’s in Jasper county. There is no indebtedness against any of this property. If you are interested telephone 25 or 915-B. ■■ ■ Bees—l have for sale twenty strong hives of Italian bees. Price $8 per hive, cash. Each hive, if the season be favorable, will give from two to four swarms. I will sell May and June swarms for $5 per stand. Men who assume to know claim that a hive of bees should be in every orchard and pickle field to pollenize each bloom and thus produce a large crop. The old saying, I“A swarm in May is worth a ton of hay, and in June a silver spoon,” mav hold good this year.—FRANK foLtz. ~

FOR RENT 80-Acre Improved Farm, 2 miles southeast of Wheatfield. —HARVEY DAVISSON. ' ' 160-A ere Farm, well located, and in good condition. —ARTHUR H. HOPKINS,tf A Dandy Suite of Ofßce Rooms over The Democrat office. —F. E. BABCOCK.tf The Five-Room Flat over The Democrat office, city water, bath, electric lights, etc. To small family only.—F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 3ia or 311. Pasture of 160 Acres, has quite a good deal of timber on it, and there is also a lot of pasture in the open land for grazing purposes. Will rent reasonable. It is north of Rensselaer. See JAY W. STOCKTON for further information. Telephone 25 or 915-B. We Have Room for about 250 head of stock for the season on the J. J. Lawler pastures near Fair Oaks, plenty of grass and water. Cattle, all ages, $1 per month; horses, $1.50 per month for season. Call or see superintendent, JAMES E. WALTER. Phone 337. ts LOST On Monday Evening. March 12, on the streets of Rensselaer, auto chain for Ford car. Finder please return to ROSCOE HALSTEAD, at Main Garage. m-24

WANTED At Once, one-half dozen Setting Hens.—RAY D. THOMPSON. MISCELLANEOUS Butter Wrappeiu Vegetable parchment butter wrappers in any I quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat Office, ts Storage—l have two rooms for storage of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 315 or 311. Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat j carries in stock its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly ' all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan —5 per cent farm loans.—-JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance —Fire and Lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. L ADAMS- Phone 533-L ts Farm Loans—l 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 ih getting the money after title is approved—CHAS. J. DELAN & SON. ts Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm propertv in any sums up to $16,606.—E, P. HONAN. I Hal Hial Without Delay, I Mr I lilr s, '~ itiont Commission, Uul lllu Without Charges for or Recording MKV Instruments. hIUIu.I W. H. PARKINSON.