Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — Page 4

BE m MT HW F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher pfficial DEMOCRATIC paper of jasper county SATURDAY, JUNE 23?~J 917

red cross fund increases

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local committee. However, it is certain that Union township will , render her full apportionment: ; A meeting was held at McCoys- , btirg Thursday evening. The attendance was' fairly good and the spirit of the people in harmony with the purpose of the meeting. Rev. J. B. Fleming made a strong appeal to the people and $211? was subscribed. This sum will be largely increased as a thorough campaign is being made of all who were not at the meeting.. Several auto loads from this city, including the band, were at the meeting. A meeting will be held .at Fair Oaks tonight and a large number from this city will attend. The people there have been doing some good work and a large attendance and good subscription is expected. Rev. Fleming will address another 1 meeting at Parr tomorrow’ night,' and W. L. Wood will also speak. The apportionment for Union township is -5450, but it is certain that more than that Will be secured. Arrangements are being perfected for a monster meeting in Gillam township Monday night. Dr.. G. W. Switzer, district secretary for the Red Cross, will speak, and the Rensselaer band will furnish music. The meeting will be held at either the Gillam or Independence church, which will probably be determined some time today. . -While Jasper county was alloted $7,500 by the national headquarters, the state department asked for but $4,200. As this sum has already been over-subscribed The Democrat would respectfully suggest :hat all in excess of that be placed in a fund for the relief- of Company M and other Jasper county soldiers and other needs of men from this county. We have done our part toward the national fund and another fund for use of local men would be proper and Siting.

SIX GRADUATES AT MONNETT

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uating class, played piano solos during the intermissions with ability. The graduation exercises were held in the Methodist church Wednesday evening. Following is the program: ■ - Processional Piano duet-—Gypsy Rondo. .'Haydn Miss Waymire. Cherie Keith Chorus—Spring Song. . . ... . Pinsuti Invocation.... Rev. E. W. Strecker Organ solo—Romance in F, ... . - - -A - - • ■ Tschaikowsky Mrs. M. D. Gwin Address. . Rev. E. C. Wareing. D. D. Presentation of diplomas; ....... . .M. D. Gwin, president of board Chorus

Benediction.... Rev. E- W. Strecker Rev. Strecker introduced Dr. E. C. Wareing, editor of the Western Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who delivered a most excellent address. His subject was “The University of Adversity.’’ He gave to the fgirls and the audience

many useful and inspiring thoughts. Dr. Wareing is one of Methodism’s big men, and his address was in keeping with his high position in that great organization. About twenty-five years ago the doctor was pastor of the Barkley circuit and is remembered by a number of people who were at that time members of his church. On Tuesday the annual meeting of ihe board of trustees was held at the school. Dr. G. W. Switzer, Rev. C. W. Postill and Mrs. H. Ti. Brown, members whose terms expire this year were re-elected, and Rev. E. W. Strecker and George E. CdllinS were elected to fill vacancies. The faculty was re-elected with the exception of Miss May Robinson, who returns to her home in Ottumwa. lowa, for a year’s rest. Because of conditions incident to the war building plans were deferred for the present. ,

The following out-of-town guests attended the commencement exercises: Dr. G. W. Switzer, Lafayette; Dr. J. B. Waynick, New Carlisle, Indiana; O. F. Petz, Joliet, Illinois; C. Peyton, Chicago; Mrs. L. L. Keith, Laporte; Mrs. B. W. Gerard, Lafayette; Mrs. H. Moore. Chicago: Miss Lena Wilcox, Colony, Oklahoma; S. Miller, Attica, and H. C. Hicks, Chicago.

ALL DOGS MUST BE MUZZLED

Notice is hereby given that after this date, Jane 20, 1917,. all dogs found off the premises of the owner that are not properly muzzled, will be killed according to law. Thi* rule will be rigidly enforced.- —By Order of City Health Officer. *

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WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of th© World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U. S.—Teutonic War News It was announced at Washington that immediately after July 1 the operation of the draft will begin. During July and August the drawings will take place, the exemptions will be authorized and by September 1 the men selected will have been notified to report for service. * • * .... Two American destroyers reached an Irish port with 80 survivors of two torpedoed British ships. The ships were sunk at the farthest point westward in the Atlantic at which the U-boats have appeared since the unlimited campaign began and the response of the American destroyers to their S. O. S.' was a run of more than 100 miles. • • • President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington designating the week of June 23-30 as recruiting week for the regular army and called upon unmarried men without .dependents to enroll for war service in order that the ranks of the regulars nilght be filled promptly. * * » An American ambulance detachment of 250 persons has arrived at a French port. W. ‘K. Vanderbilt of New York crossed on the same liner. * * ♦ Vice Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the-allied naval forces in Irish waters, says an official announcement issued at London. •*- • ■ America is determined that Belgium shall be restored to her former place among nations. President Wilson stated in greeting the Belgian special commission at the White House in Washington.

Hayti has broken diplomatic relations with Germany, according to Word received by the state department at Washington from Port au Prince. * * • Simultaneous construction of 16 war army cantonments, each to house 40,000 troops, has proved such an enormous task that officials' at Washington do not now believe it can be completed in time to permit mobilization of the first full quota of 650,000 by September 1. : » * * The first official reference to the National army, the designation which will be applied to the forces raised under the selective draft in orders at Washington directing several reserve officers of the engineer corps to report to the commanding officer of “Tlie Second Engineers, National Army, at St. Louis, Mo.” ♦ ♦ ♦ European War News Canadian troops captured a nest of German trenches at the front of Reservoir hit! and iiave made the entente approach to Lens less difficult.

• ♦ * Twenty-seven British ships of more than 1,600 tons have been sunk, according to the weekly British summary. Five British vessels under 1,600 tons also; were sent to the bottom. • » » Marine circles at Boston were advised of the sinking by U-boats of the Warren limn- Bay State, the British steamer Elele and the Dutch steamer Eemdijk. • • ♦ Minister of War Kerensky at Petrograd discarded the pleasant phrases of oratorical persuasion for iron-hand-ed disciplinary measures to force Russia's troops to fight. Two persons were killed and 16 injured in an air raid in England during which a Zeppelin was brought down.

A resolution calling for an immediate offensive by Russian troops has been adopted by the duma at Petrograd in secret "session. The Pan-Rus-sian congress of all councils of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates ratified the action of the provisional government in expelling from Russia Robert Grimm, the Swiss Socialist, medium through which the Germans attempted to arrange a separate peace with Russia. * * * • While Japanese destroyers were attacking a submarine in the Mediterranean the destroyer Sakaki was torpedoed and damaged, says an official announcement of the Japanese admiralty at Tokyo. It is believed many of the crew were killed or wounded. Contracts for ten more steel merchant ships complete and for 24 .additional wooden Mils were announced at Washington by Major General Goethals, general manager of the emergedcy fleet corporation.

Personal Commissioner Judson C. Clements of the interstate commerce commission died at Washington. He was sixty years old. ♦ ♦ ♦ Foreign A list of persons to be expelled from Greece, ~ following the abdication of King Constantine, has been forwarded by the entente allies to the Greek minister of the interior at. Athens. ■* * * J ■ ■ The kt Petrograd has begun to take severe measures against the highest officials of thp regime, who are declared to. be guilty of breaches of the laws of the empire. Throughout. Germany, according to reports reaching Copenhagen, all valuable grain crops-are burning up, as they did in 1915, in an unprecedented heat wave. The prolonged drought has not been broken -.since early in May. • ♦ ♦ A Vienna dispatch to Basel, Switzerland, says that the Asutrian cabinet has resigned. ■' -■* *!' ■ The house of commons at London by a large majority passed the'final reading of the clause in the Electoral reform bill dealing with the question of woman suffrage. • ' - ♦♦ ♦ ♦ Count Plunkett, member of parliament and .Sinn Feiner, and the other members of the Sinn Fein who were arrested on June 9 when attempting to hold a prohibited meeting at Dublin, Ireland to protest against, the imprisonment of Irish rebels, were released. * * * Washington . Government pools of coal production and distribution and of rail and water transportation were recommended to congress at Washington by the federal trade commission as the only means of avoiding a disastrous * coal shortage next winter. ♦ » ♦ Ordinary internal revenue receipts, composed chiefly of taxes on whiskj. beer and tobacco, were $424,327,463 so far this year, compared with $365,126,544 last year, says a statement issued at Washington. Gauged by revenue receipts the present year probably will go down in history as the banner year of the liquor traffic. --

* * * Registered men must keep themselves informed as to whether or not they have been drafted. This pronouncement was issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder at Washington. • * * Food speculators have been taking $50,000,000 a month for the last five months —a total of a quarter of a billion dollars —from the American people, Herbert C. Hoover told senators at Washington in explaining the purposes oTthe food control bill now before-con-gress. - ■ ♦ ♦ * Secretary Daniels has ordered coal and oil producers to'supply the enormous quantities needed by the navy at prices to be fixed later by tly 1 president when the federal trade commission has determined a fair rate. Similarly steel for the entire navy building program Is being bought at a rate fixed when Secretary Daniels, rejected the proposals of the steel makers as too high. • ♦ ♦ Herbert C. Hoover outlined his plans at Washington for enlisting the nation’s housewives as actual members of the food administration and on the theory that 90 per cent of American food passes through their hands appealed to them to join him in the fight for conservation measures and elimination of waste. The women will be enrolled during a period of registration from July 1 to July 15. ♦ • * Full approval has been given by the war department at Washington to the air supremacy program of the defense council's aircraft board, and President Wilson has been asked to put the administration’s support behind the appropriation of $60,000,000.

♦ .♦ • Domestic , Three men were sentenced to jail for draft-law violations at New York. ♦ * * Liberty bonds sold at San Francisco gt $lO6, a premium of $6, in a private transaction. ’ . * . * * ■ i Operations in Michigan coal mines employing about two thousand men are at a standstill as the result of a strike of 200 machine workers, who demand an increase in their share of a wage advance allowed last April. » ♦ *,. Sheriff J. K. May and City Marshal August Leker were shot and killed at the’ Louisville & Nashville station at Nashville, 111., by H. C. Rice, a coal miner. The marshal shot Rice in the stomach and the latter probably will die. ♦ ♦ ♦ Sensational charges that naval recruits at the Newport (R. I.) training station are exposed to onen gambling houses, immoral resorts and Illegal ’ sales of liquor were made at Washiug- ; ton by Secretary Daniels in announcj ing that he had appealed to Governor I IJeeckman. , Cold weather has set the season back two weeks $o far as growing crops are concerned, the weekiy-crop bulletin for j the period ending June 19, issued at i Springfield, 111.,’ by the federal weather 'taftea states.

TEACHER SHOOTS RIVAL TO DEATH

Wife of Former State Veterinary of Wisconsin Murdered by Miss Grace Lusk. SLAYER DEFIES HER CAPTORS Turnc Revolver Upon Herself and May Die—Shooting Occurs at the Home of Miss Bianca Mills at Waukesha. O’ Waukesha, Wis., June 22.—One woman shot to death and another probably dying from self-inflicted wounds spell out a love triangle tragedy which occurred here. Miss. Grace Lusk, thirty-five years old, instructor in the-teachers’ training department of the Waukesha high school, was the principal in the crime. Her victim'was Mrs. Roberts, wife of David Roberts, former state veterinarian and president of the Doctor Roberts Veterinary company of this city. Mrs., Roberts went to the residence of jMiss Bianca Mills,. 416 West Park avenue, where Miss Lusk roomed. Mr. Roberts said afterward that his wife telephoned him she had been invited by the teacher to call at two o'clock.

Calls Her Husband.

After Mrs. Roberts reached the Mills residence she called up her husband and asked that he come and be present at a conference. He left at once with L. D. Blott and on arriving found his wife unconscious. He did not know then she had been shot, but supposed she had fainted. He summoned Dr. R. E. Davies. Investigation revealed thp bullet wound. Shortly afterward the woman died. Meantime Mr. Blott heard Miss Lusk call and. turning, Saw her at the head of the stairway. She waved, a revolver and defied any person to come up the stairs. Chief of Police McKay was notified. While waiting for him, Mr. Blott and Doctor Davies parleyed with Miss Lusk, and tried to calm her. Once she cried: “I love him. I want him, and I want him now.” * • Before Chief McKay arrived Miss Lusk placed the revolver at her chest and fired one shot. Despite the wound inflicted, she continued to defy Blott and Davies to come and take her. After McKay entered 'the house she shot herself a second time and fell.

Tells of Her Letters. At the hospital Miss Lusk said she wished to die. It was found her lungs had been pierced by two bullets. She told District Attorney M. S. Tullar there were important letters in her bureau. He took possession of them, but refused to show them. Miss Lusk came here six years ago from her home in Mosinee, Wis. Both she and Mrs. Roberts were members of the local chapter of the D. A. R., and were active in social and club work. Mrs. Roberts formerly was Miss Mary Newman of Racine, where she taught school. She was forty-nine years old. • , Several weeks ago Mrs. Roberts is said to have appeared before the board of . education and asked for the dismissal of Miss Lusk, alleging she was not a fit person to teach school. It was believed her action was prompted by reports her husband had been showing attention to the teacher. Mr. Roberts denied knowledge of any trouble between the two women.

GIVES RED CROSS $5,000,000

Large Donation for War Relief From Rockefeller Foundation. New York, June 22,—A donation of $5,000,000 to the Red Cross war fund by the Rockefeller foundation was announced here. The total subscription made today to the 30 teams working here for the fund was reported at $6,524,000.

Washington, June 22.- —The Red Cross campaign for $100,000,000 was half over today, with every prospect that before night $50,000,000 would be subscribed. Contributions passed the $46,000,000 mark, with other millions of the ‘-humanity dollars” mounting rapidly toward the grand total. New fork city maintained her lead with $20,587,355. The remainder of the country had subscribed $25,895,717, making the total for the entire country $46,482,072. Reports showed that Chicago held second place among the cities, with ,Cleveland proving a dangerous rival. Chicago had reported $2,594,262 and Cleveland $2,426,665.

2 ANARCHISTS ARE INDICTED

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Face Charges of Conspiracy. New York, June 22. —Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, called the two leading anarchists of this country, were indicted here by a federal grand jury on charge of conspiring to induce young men not jo..register for the selective draft. They pleaded not guilty and were held in $25,000 bail each.

Town Destroyed by Fire.

* Durangd, Colo., June 22. —A forest fire has swept El Vado, a town in northern New Mexico, from the map, according to. reports received here. About 500 men were employed in thb J)ig lumber mills in El Vado. .

Indiana News Tersely Told

Winamac.—The Winamac Telephone company has bought the Star <3ty and Pulaski exchanges. > f . Vevay.—Contract to improve the school buildings here awarded to Jasper G. Good of Columbus. : Jeffersonville.’ —The Southern Telephone company is jaying two and onehalf miles of underground cable line here. ? ' Burrows. —With judgments to secure some of the bank’s assets, the defunct Farmers’ State bank of this place will pay depositors in full. Q Terre Haute. —-Indiana State Sunday School association held its convention here with Marion a hot contender for the 1918 convention. Richmond. —School hoard has sustained action of Superintendent Giles tn-dismi D. D. Ramsey, principal of Whitewater school. • Columbia City.—-Columbia woolen mills have, order from government for 100,000 yards of “sky-blue kersey” cloth for Marine Corps uniforms. Tipton. —Tipton County Fish. Game and Bird Protective association formed here with George B. Frisz president.Bloomington.—A supervised playground, with S4OO worth of equipment, has been opened on the high school campus. Lawrenceburg.—The John B. Garnier brewery announces that after October 1 it will discontinue the making of beer. Indianapolis.—lndiana Millers’ association at its annual meeting here elected Charles M. Lenlmon of Bedford, president. Greencastle.—Commercial clnb organized here to take the place of the Boosters’ club, organized three years ago. .'■< ■■

Sullivan.—Chamber of commerce has elected Walter Routt president. Frankfort.—County commissioners have bought 20 voting machines at SBOO each for delivery September L Washington— M. S. Hastings has been elected school trustee for three years. South Bend. —City council has authorized a bond issue of $85,000. Elwood. —Gas rates will be raised by the Central. Indiana Gas company, and they will discontinue supplying natural gas for fuel. Huntington. —The five banks here are closing at 3 p.m. Fra nkYort.—George Chaney of Indianapolis has been retained as construction engineer for rebuilding pavements here. Fort Wayne.—A new Y. M. C. A. building will be erected here this summer. Monticello. The White County Short horn*Breeders association organized here with Guy R. Wolverton president* Lawrenceburg. —Floyd Veter, sixteen, burned to death when he struck a match in the Diehl fireworks plant. Elizabethtown. —Women of Sandcreek township organized a township league with Miss Grace Poland as president.

Rushville. —Alonzo Matox. forty-sx, killed by lightning while feeding hogs. Greenfields— Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bedkin celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Greensburg. —A horse broke four ribs of I. N. Wyncoop. sixty-six. Greencastle. —The new Rector hall, woman’s dormitory of DePauw university, will be ready for occupancy August 1. - v Jeffersonville. —Reformatory inmates have subscribed $5,300 of Liberty bonds. > Muncie.—Attempt to kidnap Lydia Oesterle, aged 2, frustrated by Child’s nurse. Richmond. —The city will sell in the city market in competition with the market-house keepers.

Tipton. —Century mark passed by four months when Mrs. Sarah Pursley died Otwell. —John Teague found his gold watch while plowing, which he lost in May, 1916. Rockport. —Township trustees of Spencer county are deadlocked over election of school superintendent. Mt. Vernon.—Mrs. Louis Keck, clubwoman, defeated three men for membership on schoolboard. Indianapolis.—Mrs. Julia Fried Walker, former publisher of the Educator Journal and prominent lecturer, is dead. Princeton. —Finger of Mary Klinor, aged 2, cut off while she was playing with a lawnmower. Logansport.—The first heat victim of the season was George Dennis, colored, .who will recover. Milford.—John T. Fisher, 65. crushed to death by tree he was cutting down. Warsaw.—A large rat probably fatally injured the seven-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Banghart. Bicknell. —Mine rescue station with a $2,000 equipment established here. Warsaw. —William Crist has been reelected to the schoolboard. Kokomo. —Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wooley celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

Jeffersonville.*—Ernest Taylor, principal of high school, has been elected superintendent of schools. Marion.- —New Grant county hospital is pearly ready for occupancy. > Rushville.—Finly Gray, Democrat, and H. H. Elliott. Republican, have begun their campaign for seat in congress vacated by death of Daniel ComIndianapolis.—Charles A. Greathouse will be elected chairman of state Dem•cratic committee.

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