Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — Page 6

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

17. S. —Teutonic War News At the plenary sitting of the reicfistag at Berlin Dr. Georg Michaelis, the imperial German chancellor, asserted that peace was impossible as long a,s Germany’s enemies demanded any German soil or endeavored to drive a wedge between the German people and their emperor. ■♦ * * “Americans who are discussing early peace with Germany forget that it would mean crushing the democratic ideals for which the United States has always stood,” declared President Wilson to the organizers of a patriotic educational movement who called at the White House in Washington. He said the only way to end the war is by corm plete victory of the nations representing those ideals over Germany’s doctrine of force. * • • Vice Admiral Sims cabled the navy department at Washington that tin American patrol vessel, on duty at night in the war zone, had tired on an Italian submarine, which failed to answer recognition signals, killing one officer and one enlisted man. Daniels sent a message to Rome expressing the deepest regret over the unfortunate occurrence. * • * An American patrol vessel on duty In foreign waters has been lost, the navy department announced at Washington. A dispatch from Admiral Sims states that the ship foundered, but the entire crew and officers werb saved and safely landed. * * * Domestic

Oscar Landmelsser, an itinerant evangelist, killed one man and wounded two other persons in a crowded courtroom at Hammond, Ind., then was , brought down, wounded in turn by the fire of two court attaches. Landineis- i ser was being tried on the charges of Aldina Hartman. The man he killed. Fred Bayne of Indiana Harbor, was testifying against him. * * * With the arrest of three men Captain Tunney of the bomb squad of New York, said that detectives had at last i reached the heart of the conspiracy to place bombs on ships carrying supplies to the allies. They caused damages estimated at $5,000,000, the police say. -l/ ! * * * A federal warrant was issued at St. Louis for Harry B. Krenning, until recently president of an automobile manufacturing company, charging violation of the espionage act, because of remarks he is said to have made at a theater. » • ♦ “I killed him to free our family of his tyranny," were the words attributed to Alice Karlson, aged twenty-four, governess in a Dewitt (III.) banker’s home, who is alleged to have killed her father, Werner Karlson, on their farm near Scotts, Mich. L- * * Just before Coroner W. D. Elliott opened his inquest into the death of Jesse Barker, millionaire banker and clubman, who was found dead in his mansion at Peoria, 111., W. G. Roberts, a cousin of the dead man, announced that relatives were satisfied that Barker had been murdered.

Plans have been perfected by Harry A. Wheeler, food administrator for the Chicago district, by which the housewives are to be informed evbry day Just what the price of staple articles ! of food, such as potatoes, flour and sugar, should be. These figures will > be given out as a safeguard against overcharging. ♦ * * The customs division of the treasury department at Washington announced that wheat and wheat flour from Australia will be admitted to the United i States without duty. **.*. .. - I Two persons were killed and four others injured when an automobile they occupied upset in a ditch near Beecher, HI. The dead—William Piepenbrink. millionaire farmer of Beecher, and his mother. ■♦ * * Five interned alien enemies escaped ■ from the nnnrrdh'6'hsr at Fort Mclntosh, Tex., where they had been interned since August 15, One was found dead and three captured. ♦ * ♦ Maximum penalties of a sentence of six years in the federal prison at Leavenworth and a fine of SI,OOO were given to each of the eight men convicted of conspiracy to resist the selective draft law at Enid, Okla. \. • * • Fire, believed to have been of in- • eendiary origin, destroyed the fivestory frame grain elevator of the Acme Elevator company at the National Stock Yards in East St. Louis, 111., with a loss estimated at $200,000. * * * The first Liberty motor for the United States army, product of the greatest motor truck designers of the country hnd the combined genius of 12 motor truck plants and 62 automobile parts factories, was completed at Lima. O, It a local manufaeturtns

Jesse Barker, millionaire of Peoria, 111., who was found shot to death, ended his own life, a coroner’s jury held. He requeathed $2,000,000 to the widow, Mrs. Chamie Robinson Barker. • * • : Arthur W. Nix. alleged chief of southwestern Oklahoma draft resisters, was arrested in Chickasha by federal officials and held in SIO,OOO-bond for the federal grand jury. • • * Foreign j The German foreign secretary, Herr von Kuehlmann, will proceed at an early date on a visit to Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and Constantinople, says a dispatch to Amsterdam. It is said his mission has important political and peace significance. i* * * I Uruguay has severed diplomatic relations with Germany. A presidential ■ decree announced the rupture follow- • ing a vote in favor of it passed by the chamber of deputies. The vote was 74 to 23. The German minister has been handed his passports. « • • Washington Government control of foodstuffs is extended to-take in virtually all the essential articles of diet by a proclamation issued at Washington by President Wilson directing the food administration to license after November 1 the manufacture, storage, importation and distribution of some twenty 1 modifies. Many small dealers are ex- ' erupted, as are farmers, who were especially excepted in the food control law. * • • Virtually all the staple foods consumed by the American people will be 'put under government control November"). The food administration anInpunced at Washington that within a ( few days President Wilson will issue an executive order requiring that manufacturers yMlTdistributors of some 20 fundamental foods operate under license restrictions designed to prevent unreasonable profits and to stop speculation and hoarding.

The American navy’s war construction program consists of 787 vessels, including all types from super-dread-naughts to submarine chasers. In making this announcement at Washington Secretary Daniels said some of the vessels have been completed within the last few weeks and are now in service. ♦ * • Despite an estimated loss of 37,000,000 bushels during ‘September, the country’s corn crop still will-be the greatest in its history. Latest figures issued by the dpeartment of agriculture at Washington show the crop will be 3,210,795.000 bushels, and also that the spring wheat crop will exceed last year’s. Other crops approach bumper records. • « • The work of the congressional session adjourned was praised by President Wilsoiv.at Washington. The extraordinary session which began /Xpril 2, generally regarded as the most momentous In American history, was adjourned sine die at 3 p. in. Saturday. Vehement criticism of Senator La Follette and his policy, marked the close of the war session.

♦ ♦ ♦ Additional loans of $40,000,000 each to Great Britain and France were made by the government at Washington. With this transaction the total thus far lent to the allies is $2,613,400,000. * • • Contracts for tjie huge number of destroyers for which an emergency appropriation of $350,000,000 was provided very recently have all been signed, it was announced at the navy department at Washington.

• » ♦ European War News A further advance has been made by the French troops, which took the offensive in Belgium in co-operation with the British. Papegoet farm has been captured, the Paris war office announces, and more prisoners have been taken. , ♦ ♦ ♦ After a desperate hand-to-hand battle, Australians captured Celtic wood, southeast of Broodseinde. from the Germans, says a dispatch to London from France. * « * A revolutionary outbreak on four ' German warships'at Wilhelmshaven Is reported in a Central News dispatch to London from Copenhagen. This uprising Was suppressed only with the ’ greatest difficulty. The sailors threw the captains overboard. Emperor William went to Wilhelmshaven and or--1 dered that one out of every seven mutineers be shot: Chancellor Micbnolha. protested with the result that only three were shot. Heavy sentences were imposed on the others.

Giant Caproni airplanes rained bombs at night upon the great Austrian naval base at Cattaro, starting fires among the buildings in the nevy yard and causing da'mage to Austrian ships in the harbor. * » * The capture of the villages of St. Jean de Mangelare and Veldhoek, with numerous blockhouses, is reported in the French official communication dealing with the operations in Flanders. More than 700 prisoners were captured. * • ♦ ——- ■ - An uncensored dispatch to Copenhagen from Berlin says Heinrich Dove, Radical Socialist, who has returned from the front, reported to the members of the reichstag that the soldiers everywhere had expressed the desire that the war speedily be ended.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. DRAFTED MEN TO GO SOUTH Five Thousand Indiana Soldiers to Be Transferred to Hattiesburg and Little Rock to Fill Up National Guard Quota. Louisville, Ky„ Oct. 12.—Indiana drafted troops will be sent both to .Hattiesburg, Miss,, and Little Rock, Ark., it was learned here. About 5,000 Indiana men In all will be transferred, part to fill up the National Guard units at Hattiesburg and part to help form a new “rainbow division” at Little Rock. No colored men will be trained here. Rich Farmer Held. Shelbyville, Oct. 12. —James Samuel Atwood, slxty-nine, and one of the wealthiest farmers in Shelby county, has been ordered into the custody of Alvin O. Baker, sheriff, by Judge Alonzo Blair. The judge held, following a hearing in circuit court, that Mr. Atwood was dangerous to be at large. Mr. Atwood owns 300 acres of good land in this county and has much personal property. Following the hearing a sanity commission found that Mr. Atwood is of unsound mind and recommended that he be committed to a hospital for treatment. He is alleged to have threatened to kill his wife, daughter and son. Sentenced to Go Home. Muncie, Oct. 12.—Mrs. Etta Baker, the choice between paying a SSOO fine and spending six months in the Indiana M Oman’s prison, or going, to her old home In Pennsylvania, having been given her, chose the latter, and William A. Thompson, judge, suspended the maximum penalty that was assessed against her on the charge of operating a “blind tiger.” She admitted her guilt, and gave as her excuse that she had seven children to support and thought that was the easiest way of doing it, especially as so mikiy other persons Seemed to be making-money easily by selling liquor unlawfully In Muncie.

Held as Auto Thieves. Warsaw, Oct. 12. —Five young men, ranging in age from eighteen to twen-ty-one, are in the Kosciusko county jail, on suspicion of being automobile thieves. They were arrested Tuesday when they appeared at a local garage driving a touring car, and sold a new tire, mounted on a rim, and worth S4O, for $5. They explained that they were on the way from West Virginia to California. They had several other extra tires, none of them fitting the machine which they drove. The youths are being held pending an investigation. Gets Change of Venue. Bedford, Oct. 12.—Earl Richardson of Mitchell, who has been held in jail here awaiting trial on a charge of murder, has been taken to Salem, where the case has been sent for trial on a change of venue.from this county. Richardson, who is nineteen years old, is said to have confessed killing Bonnell Edwards, a schoolboy, age fourteen, whose body was found in a thicket last February.

Paris McCord Convicted. Columbus, Oct. 12.—Paris McCord, twenty, was convicted in circuit court here on a statutory charge filed by a young woman who is his first cousin. His father, James McCord, fainted in I court when the verdict was read. Carl i J. Carter, prosecuting attorney, who j was assisted in the trial by Attorneys Kollmeyer and Sharknock, testified for the defense. Heads Lutheran Synod. Fort Wayne, Oct. 12. —E. V. East of Three Rivers. Mich., was elected president of the Brotherhood of Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan General synod of the Lutheran church, in session at the Christ Lutheran church, in this city. J. E. Rice of Elkhart was elected secretary and George Garber of North Manchester treasurer. Alleged Pro-German Discharged. Laporte, Oct: 12. —Because Fred Schmidt made an'alleged pro-German speech to his neighbors he has lost his job as the best paid employee of the San Pierre post office. Schmidt was notified of his discharge after patrons of the office had wired charges against 'him' •to tfre -post office •■department as Washington, I). C. Will Look After Church. Brazil. Oct. 12.—Rev. Father David Fitzgerald of the cathedral of Indianapoljs will serve as administrator of the Church of Annunciation during the absence of Rev. Augustine J. Rawlinson. who has been appointed chaplain in the National army, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor.

Woman County Agent. Fort Wayne, Oct. 12. —Miss Mabel E. Erwin has been made county agent for Allen county by the Purdue university extension society. She will co-op-erate with the agricultural agent, her work being home economics. Pastor Accepts Call. - * Princeton, Oct. 12. —Rev. St John Halstead of Jamestown has accepted a call to the Broadway Christian church here, and will begin bls work I* Princeton December 1. 1

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

FARMS FOR SALE

60 acres. On Main road, half mile from pike and mila from station, school and church; is on R. F. D. and telephone line. This farm is all black land, in cultivation except eight acres in timber adjoining buildings. The outlet for drainage is good <( , There is a. new five-room bungalow with nice porch, barn for four horses, six cows, grain and hay; hog house, chicken house, all new; a good well and young orchard. Price SBS. Terms, $1,500 down and long time on remainder. 43 acres. In Barkley township. This farm lies on main road, near pike, R. F. D. and telephone line. It is well tiled and all in cultivation, except two acres in timber. There is a good small house, good barn, good well, and plenty of all kinds, of fruit. _JLL-is hickory and burr oak soil. Owner will sell on good terms and might take property as part payment. Price $75.

120 acres. This farm is on main road and half mile from pike. 65 acres in cultivation and is heavy clay loam soil, with good outlet for drainage. 55 acres is in pasture and mostly pole timber. There is a new eight-room house and several outbuildings, a large bearing orchard, lots of walnut and trees. Price $65. Owner will accept property or smaller tract of land as first payment and give long time on remainder. Or will sell on terms of $1,500 down. 83 acres. On main road, near two stations and in good neighborhood. 35 acres in cultivation and now in good crops, remainder pasture and timber. There is a large barn, three-room 1 house, a young orchard and good well. There is .15,000 feet of lumber on the farm that goes with the place. Price $45. Owner will sell on terms of S6OO down and long time on remainder. Or he will take good property as first payment. 90 acres. This farm lies on main road near station, pike and school. It has a set of fair improvements, good well and is all level black soil with clay subsoil, and is in cultivation except pasture around the house, which is a hickory grove. There is some tile and is near the proposed Ryan ditch. Price $75. Owner might take part in good property. 120 acres. This farm lies eight miles from this city and in good neighborhood, two miies from station. All black land, except 15 acres, 10 acres timber. The buildings are common, consisting of four-room' house, barn and well. This is a bargain at $55. There is a loan on this farm of $3,000, due in three years. 53 acres. Near pike and station, all in cultivation and all tiled and good clay subsoil. There is a sixroom house, barn, well and seven acres in alfalfa: in Barkley township. Price $65. Terms. 200 acres. This farm is well tiled and all good grain land in cultivation except 40 acres in pasture containing about 20 acres of timber, but is all good land. It is on public road and mile to pike. There is a large new two-story cement block house, large barn, good well and other improvements. Price SBS. Owner does not live on the farm and is not situated to look after it. She will sell on terms of $2,500 down and long t’me on remainder. Or she will accept a clear smaller farm or clear property as first payment. This farm is a good one and well situated in good surroundings and has good outlet for drainage. 75 acres. This nice little home lies on the Jackson highway four miles out from this city. It is in a closely settled community and in one of our best neighborhoods. It is all good grain land, I all in cultivation and well tiled. I There is a neat five-room 1 house, a : nice barn and other outbuildings, good well and windmill, lots nf fruit and nice shade. Price $125; terms, $2,500 down and suitable time on remainder. 156 acres. This farm lies on pike road, two miles from station, school across the road, has R. F. D. and telephone. There is a ten-inch tile that heads at line of this farm, giving fine outlet for drainage. 130 acres is in cultivaI tion and remainder pasture; the ■ pasture has some timber on it; 140’ acres of this farm is level and deep black loam soil, remainder little rolling and lighter soil. There is. neat five-room house and substantial and roomy barn, plenty of fruit, a' good well and other outbuildings. The fencing is mostly new. There is a loan on this farm of $10,500 that runs long time. Ownier will trade his equity in this farm for smaller farm, good property, Western land, hotel or merchandise,Price SIIQ, . Or will sell 'on payment of $2,000 down and suitable time on remainder. Describe fully and price what you have to offer. 40 acres. This tract of land lies on public road and mile from pike, j There are no improvements except fence. There is about 25 acres in nice black prairie land that has

GEORGE F. MEYERS

It is stated that the Russian government is considering the, feasibility of reducing the army. In this they are receiving the full cooperation of the kaiser and his forces. Austria’s war chickens seem to be coming borne to roost, and she has a large flock.

never been broken and has been used for pasture; the remainder is in timber. There is some saw timber on it, enough for frame for house and barn. Owner of this land will sell on terms of S3OO down and long time on remainder. Or if purchaser will build good house and bam they can have good time on all the purchase price. This is a chance for one having limited means to get a nice home. Price $45. This land lies four miles from good town with elevator and high school. 31 acres. This is a splendid tract of land and is beautifully situated. It is all good heavy loam soil, fine for all kinds of grain and grasses and splendid for truck. It is all in cultivation and is all in oats this year, which has been sown to timothy. There is a pike road along the west side and there is a couple of acres of a nice rise facing the pike, making a nice place for buildings. There are no improvements on it except fence. On the south line there is a dredge ditch that gives fine outlet for drainage. It is 80 rods from village and station and school. Price $75. Terms, SI,OOO down and long time on remainder. Or if purchaser will build neat house and barn it can be arranged to give good terms on the entire amount. 120 acres. This farm lies on pike road joining station and at head of dredge ditch. It is all in cultivation, except eight acres timber and 20 acres in pasture which could be broken. It is mostly black soil. There are two sets of improvements on this land. One set consists of good five-room cottage, good small barn, chicken house and other buildings; the eight acres of timber lies back of barn and is fenced for hogs. There are two good wells. The other set of improvements consist of fair fiveroom house, small barn, well and lots of fruit. Price SBS. Terms, $2,000 down and suitable time on remainder. Owner would accept clear property as part payment if not too" far away. 80 acres. This farm lies on public road and less than mile from pike, and is on R. F. D. and telephone line. There is a dredge ditch that touches one corner of the farm that gives fine outlet for drainage. There is a new fourroom house and small new barn and good well. This is all black land except a few acres and has 60 acres in cultivation and 20 in pasture, which has some nice young timber. Owner will sell on easy terms. Price $75. Owner might take some clear property or live stock.

120 acres. This is a rich piece of soil and lies four miles from this city. It is on main road near pike. Is on R. F. D. and telephone line. It is all in cultivation and fiice bluegrass pasture. It is gently rolling enough to drain well. There is good outlet for drainage and two large tiles pass through it. There is a good five-room house, fair barn, good well and bearing orchard. Price $135. Farms around this one are priced much higher. This belongs to an estate of four heirs and must be sold for cash. 100 acres. This farm lies eight miles out from this city and on main road, fourth mile from pike. Hat telephone, R. F. D. and near church and school. This farm has 85 acres of good black loam land adapted to all kinds of grain and 15 acres a little rolling. Part of this land is in pasture and has nice bluegrass. There are a few patches of light timber, in the pasture. The farm has good outlet for drainage and is near large ditch. There is a good five-room house and a number of serviceable outbuildings, a good well, windmill, tank and good bearing orchard and lots of small fruit. Owner will sell at $75 and on terms of $2,500 down. Owner might take part in clear property. Owner lives on this farm. 40 acres. This little farm lies on main road joining station and village, is near school and fourth mile from pike. It has good outlet for drainage and is all cultivated except small grove near buildings. The soil is productive and partly black land and part sandy loam. There is a comfortable five-room house, barn and outbuildings, good well and lots of fruit. Owner will sell this farm for SBS, on terms of SI,OOO down and suitable time on remainder. 100 -acres. This farm lies six miles from this city and is well located, being' on the Jackson highway. It is on R. F. D. and telephone line. 75 acres is in cultivation, which is well tiled and has large. tile outlet on the farm- and is good grain land. The remainder is in pasture and..has some timber on it but mostly small and scattering and well set to bluegrass. There is a three-room house, large new barn and good well. Price $92.50. This farm has a loan on it for $6,500 that is in easy payments and has long time to run. Owner will trade his equity for smaller farm, live stock or good

Wool has now reached such a. price that very few of us need object to having it “pulled over our eyes.’’ • , The high price of sugar isn’t worrying the inhabitants of those bone-dry states. What’s the use to worry? They haven’t anything to mix with it.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917

property. Owner lives on this farm. 200 acres. Three miles from this city. This is a fine body of corn and bluegrass land and is all in grain except some in bluegrass pasture. It is all tillable. It lies on main road near pike, on R. F. D. and telephone. It has fine outlet for drainage and is well tiled. There are two sets of improvements, all in good condition. Fencing is also good. Owner lives on this land. The main set of improvements consists of good sixroom two-story house, cement walks, large barn, double cribs, tool sheds and a lot of other outbuildings, good well pumped with' gasoline engine, which also furnishes power for other purposes. There is lots of fruit and good shade. Price $155. We have a large tract of deep black soil that is especially adapted for the raising of onions and potatoes. There are many largo fields of onions now growing on this kind of land in this county and will make large yields to the owner. We will sell this land in small tracts at a much less figure than most of this kind of land has been sold at. Also will give terms. 75 acres. This is a splendid piece of land and a good home. It lies in well improved neighborhood, on R. F. D., telephone line, pike and fourth mile to country store, two-room school house and church. The land is tiled and all in cultivation and all good grain land. There is a good two-story eight-room house, good new harn and a number of out-buildings, fruit, good well and wind mill. This farm lies six miles from this city and is occupied by the owner. Price $135. Terms, $2,000 down. 240 acres. This farm is a good one and lies on main road that is to be piked and one mile from pike now built that leads to all parts of the country; This farm has been used as a stock and grain farm'. It is level and all in cultivation or bluegrass pasture ready for the plow, except three groves, in all about 30 acres. It is all good grain land and 160 acres in deepblack soil and remainder is lighter soil but productive. It has .good drainage, having large ditch through it. There is a good sevenroom house, good horse barn, two good cattip sheds, double crib, granary, work shop, milk house and several more outbuildings. There are three wells, two windmills, tanks and good bearing orchard. The fencing is good. Owner of this farm lives on it and his age and health is cause for selling. He offers it at the low price of $67.50. Terms, $3,000 down and suitable time on remainder. Or he would consider clear property or smaller piece of land not to exceed $6,000 as part payment. 100 acres. This farm lies on main road which is to be piked and is two miles from station. It is all black land in cultivation except ten acres pasture and timber. It is now mostly in corn, has 15 acres of wheat and some oats. It has fine outlet for drainage, having a good graded road on west side and a new dredge ditch on the south and east line. There is a five-room house, good sized barn, crib, work shop, chicken house, well house and good well. The buildings are in good condition and not old. Owner lives on this farm and has good reasons for selling. Price $75. Terms on half. 80 acres. Owner of this farm lives on it and is a carpenter and desires to work at his trade and offers to trade the farm. There is a loan on this farm of $3,300 which runs for some years. Price of farm $75. Owner will trade his equity for clear property or small tract of land. This farm lies on public road and near pike, three miles from village and station. It has good outlet for drainage and is in good neighborhood. 50 acres is in cultivation and is black grain land; 30 acres is in pasture and has some timber but could be easily cleared. There is a comfortable five-room house, large barn, soma other buildings, good well, windmill and fruit. Describe fully what you have to offer. 78 acres. This is a good farm and all in cultivation except a fewacres in grove. It is levelto gently rolling and has creek running through it which furnishes good drainage. It is well tiled and is a heavy loam soil. It has good fiveroom house, good roomy barn and a number of outbuildings, a good well and lots of fruit. This farm Is in well settled neighborhood and near school and church. Price $95. 80 acres. This farm lies three miles from this city and is one of the best farms in the county. It is all deep black loam. ‘ soil - and splendid grain and grass land. It is slightly rolling to make it drain nice and is well tiled and has two large outlet tile through it. There is splendid six-room house, good barn, double cribs and several other outbuildings, good well, cement walks, large orchard; Price $lB5.

We are told that "the kaiser has regarded it as his principal and most sacred task to preserve the blessings of peace.” And as he seems to have a widely different conception from the balance of the world as to the brand of peace that Should prevail, we suppose he considers It his sacred duty to exterminate all who differ from him.