Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal Vinson Walsh McLean, nlne-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beal McLean, was run down by an automobile at Friendship, the country mansion of the McLeans at Washington, receiving Injuries from which he died. • • • Washington Exports from the United States in April surpassed the previous high record of last January by nearly SIOO,000,000. The department of commerce at Washington announced the total as $715,000,000, compared with $623,000,000 in January. • • • The equal suffrage constitutional amendment was passed by the house nt Washington after less than three hours’ debate. The vote was 804 to 89, or 42 more than the necessary two-thirds majority. • • • Election of Waldo S. Read, formerly a New York banker, as vice president of the Emergency Fleet corporation In charge of finance, was announced by the shipping board at Washington. • • • A Washington dispatch says the naval seaplane NO-1, which was forced down by fog early Saturday during the transatlantic flight to the Azores, has sunk at sea. The "second of the trio of planes, the NC-3, which was lost for nearly sixty hours off the Azores, is being dismantled for shipment back to the United States. The crew of the NC-1 had been taken off. • • • For the first time in history a message from the president of the United States was cabled from Europe and read to the congress at Washington. Among other things he recommends legislation to halt the prevalent unrest of labor; adoption of woman suffrage and lifting of the war ban on the liquor business. • • • Senator Lodge, Republican senate leader and chairman of the foreign relations committee, in a statement at Washington said the revised league of nations covenant is “unacceptable,’* and predicted it would not be ratified by the majority of the senate without amendment. • • • The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh regular divisions have been released for return to the United States, General Pershing notified the war department at Washington. The four divisions are to sail from France in June. • • • The war risk insurance bureau at Washington, through which 4,000,000 soldiers or their dependents receive payments of insurance, allotments or compensation, is in process of reorganization through the appointment of R. A. Cholmley-Jones, formerly a New York insurance man, as director. • » * A Washington dispatch says following his warning that tl*e administration of soldiers and sailors’ insurance, compensation, allowances and allotments is “on the verge of breakdown and failure,” Col. Henry D. Lindsley resigned as director of the bureau of war risk insurance at the request of Secretary or the Treasury Glass. * * * Creation of a department of education headed hy a secretary of education, who will be a member of the cabinet, is proposed in a bill to be introduced in both houses of congress at Washington. • * • Foreign A Helsingfors dispatch says British ships engaged the bolshevik fleet in the Gulf of Finland. The bolshevlkl fled to Kronstadt after one of their ships had been sunk and another stranded. • * • Violent*rioting is again reported at Stettin, where nine civilians and twenty soldiers are said to have been killed. German troops occupy the station houses throughout the city, according to a Berlin dispatch. • * • Lettish guards have occupied Riga and have executed the most of the bolshevik commissioners there, according to an announcement made by the Lettish information bureau at Copenhagen. • » •. A Paris dispatch says Japan was reported to have recognized the Omsk government, headed by Admiral Kolchak. ♦ • • A Paris dispatch says a Japanese military commission consisting of two captains in the Japanese navy and a medical authority have left Japan for Germany. Their purpose, it is explained, is “to study conditions.” ♦ • * Frederick William Hohenzollern, the former German crown prince, will be liable to trial under the terms of the German peace treaty, It was declared by Andrew Bonar Law, the govern* J ment leader, in the house of commons at London.

An Archangel dispatch nays one bolshevik gunboat la reported to have been sunk on the Dvina river during an engagement between the British river flotilla and land batteries and the enemy fleet. • • • A Constantinople dispatch says that In the fighting which took place after the landing of Greek troops nt Smyrna on Thursday, 300 Turks and 100 Greeks were killed. • • • ' An Archangel special says arrangements are under way to begin the transportation to England of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth American infantry wftbih ten days. • • ♦ German war losses up to April 30 last were 2,050,400 dead, 4,207.028 wounded, and 615.922 prisoners, a total of 6,873,410, according to figures published in Berlin. The Ukrainian offensive against the Poles has been completely broken, according to an official Warsaw communique. After hard fighting the Poles occupied Balica and Novaslolkl. • • • Peace Notes A week of grace was granted Germany by the allied and associate# governments at Paris in reply to her plea that so vast was the task of putting all her complaints in writing and so Intricate were the details of the “expert” research required, tliat she could not possibly have all her notes in by one o’clock noon Thursday. • • • The answer of the council of four to the German note regarding reparation, which was handed to the Germans at Paris, points out in reply to the German refusal to admit responsibility for the war that It is impossible to disassociate responsibility from reparation. • • • A Paris dispatch says Italy has relinquished her claims to the Dodecanese islands, off the Asia Minor coast, in favor of Greece. This ends one of the most acute controversies before the peace conference. • • * Domestic Dewey C. Bailey, commissioner of safety and excise, was elected mayor of Denver by a plurality of 8,369 votes, according to returns from all precincts. • • * Forty-five officers and 760 men of the Eighty-second division arrived at New York from Bordeaux on the Sierra. • • • Twenty square blocks of Mobile’s residence section lying near the river front were swept by tire which caused $500,000 property damage, left 1,500 people homeless and destroyed probably 200 buildings. • • • Five youthful bank robbers, operating in a new green automobile, held up and robbed the Baker & Son Savings bank, 5823 West Twelfth street, Chicago, of money, Liberty bonds and other securities approximating $lO,000. • • • The Hoisting Engineers’ union, the largest labor organization in the Butte (Mont.) district, voted not to strike in protest against the conviction ahdrimprisonment of Thomas J. Mooney. ♦ * * Pilot Max Miller of the air mall service established a record when he arrived at Chicago after having flown fj-om Bryan, 0., a distance of 180 miles, in 1:20, au average speed of 130 miles an hour. • * • The French will never make baseball players, according to Bert Laury, editor of the San Francisco Call, who tried to teach the French the game while with the Y. M. C. A. overseas. Members of 16 labor unions at St. Paul, Minn., estimated at 5,000 men, went on strike at 8 a. in. in sympathy with common laborers, who are on strike demanding 50 cents an hour, a raise of 10 cents an hour. • • * A wage increase affecting 30,000 operatives at Lawrence, Mass., was announced in notices posted in the textile mills. Woolen as well as cotton mills are concerned in the advance. • * » The American steamer Lake Placid struck a submerged mine near the island of Vlnga, near Gothenburg, Sweden, and sank in five minutes. All those on board were rescued. • * • The Central Federated union will deliver a strike ultimatum to the Canadian railway war board unless wage Increase demands are met, according to one of the union delegates at Montreal. • ♦ * Sixty students of the high school at Burlingtoh, la., were suspended by Principal Bracewell for attending a dance given after the class banquet in a local hotel, contrary to orders Issued by the principal. • ♦ ♦ Twenty million dollars in gifts and signed pledges of the $105,000,000 sought in the Methodist centenary campaign have already been received. It was announced by Charles Sumner Ward of New York, director general of the campaign. • • • Four masked men In a high-powered automobile drove up to the interstate National bank of Hegewlsch, Hl., forced Lawrence Cox, the president, and Frank Zackarias, assistant cashier, to admit them to the cage inclosure, and took $5,000 in cash.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

20 DIE IN IOWA BLAST; 100 HURT

Score of Persons Are Killed in Cedar Rapids Starch Works Explosion. PROPERTY LOSS $3,000,000 Either a Dust or Boiler Explosion Wrecks Plant of the Douglas Btarch Works—Windows In City Blown Out. Cedar Rapids, la., May 23. —A score of persons were killed and a hundred Injured by the explosion at the Douglas Starch works. Of the 150 men and boys who had Just gone to work on the night shift few escaped Injury or death. The loss In the Are that followed la $3,000,000. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but It Is thought to be either a boiler explosion or spontaneous combustion. Twenty Bodies Found. The loss of life cannot be determined as yet, but 20 bodies were removed within half an hour. ’ Scores of persons on the streets and about the works were Injured by flying wreckage and broken glass. Windows in the business district were blown in and people in office buildings cut by flying glass. At eight o'clock at night cries were still heard from the drying room of the starch plant. The fire was so Intense that it was Impossible for the firemen to cut their way In. Several overseas soldiers volunteered to get Into the building and do what they could, but were driven back by the flames. Manager la Mystified. General Manager Lenders, who was at the plant five minutes after the explosion, would advance no theory as to Its cause. Others said It was a dust explosion. An engineer who was blown out of the building said he believed his boiler had exploded. Every window in the central part of the city was blown out. Chimneys caved In on families at the supper table and several persons were seriously hurt. Guests in the dining rooms of hotels were thrown from their seats. A Chicago traveling man seated In the Magnus hotel was blown from his seat and his nose was cut almost off. At nine o’clock It wap said that the vacuum was not turned on the starch dryers, which caused the dust to accumulate. Another theory was thtft some person was smoking in the btflldlng. The front of the city hall and the Y. M. C. A. building were shattered Ticket sellers In picture theaters were Injured by falling glass. All water mains were cut by the force of, the explosion and it was Impossible to fight the flames.

WON’T DEMOBILIZE BY JULY 1

Chicago City Clerk Is Advised by War Department. Chicago, May 23.—‘Official notification that the demobilization of the United States’ amy will not be accompllshed before July 1 was received by City Clerk James T. Igoe from Adjt. Gen. Julius A. Penn. The war department notice,, was a response to the resolution adopted by the city council May 6, petitioning President Wilson to declare the army demobilized by July 1 so that the ban on intoxicants could be lifted on that date. “The secretary of war directs me,” says the letter, “to advise you that the demobilization of the army will not be completed by that *date. It will therefore be impossible to make a statement of fact on July 1, 1919, that the United States army is demobilized.”

JOBS FOR MAIMED SOLDIERS

Henry Ford Will Employ 1,000 at Once, 9,000 Later. Mount Clemens, Mich., May 23. — Henry Ford wants to employ within the next 24 hours 1,000 American doughboys who were maimed or crippled while fighting for their country in the world war. He announced this in an interview with a reporter here while his counsel were arguing in his libel suit against the Chicago Tribune at the Macomb courthouse. Mr. Ford is prepared to go further. "I will undertake,” he said, “to employ all the men who were crippled while serving with the American forces. I will employ the 1,000 Immediately, and as many as 9,000 others as soon as possible.”

HUN WORKERS DEMAND PEACE

Berlin Council Adopts Resolution Asking Treaty Be Signed. Berlin, May 23.—The Greater Berlin Soldiers Workers’ council adopted a resolution demanding that the peace treaty be signed and appealing to the proletariat of the allied countries.

Prize to Hawker Heirs.

I London, May 23.—The Daily Mall (announced that its $50,000 prize which was to go to the first flyer to cross the Atlantic, will go to the heirs of Harry Hawker and his navigator, Grieve, if the two daring aviators are dead.

LENINE SCORNS PEACE

BELA KUN TOLD TO KEEP FOOLING ALLIES. Hungarian Army Haa Order* to Burn Budapest and Slay Hostages If Bolshevikl Lose. Vienna. May 23. —“Hold out at all costs,” Is the wireless word to Bela Kun, Hungarian communist lender, from Trotsky, Russian bolshevist chief. “Keep on presenting a fair face to the allies, thus fooling them until we are In possession of Roumanla.” The Hungarian red army has orders, It is asserted here, to burn Budapest, slay all hostages and then scatter In case the attacks of the bolsjievlst army on Roumanla full or If the Serb-Cxech advance succeeds. Dr. Ladlslas Hildas, a Hungarian professor who has just returned from a six months’ visit in Moscow, says Lenlne declared he would not make peace, but would continue class warfare until the whole world was “one in brotherhood." "President Wilson," Lenlne Is quoted as having said, “does not represent his time nor Its ideals. He Is merely a smoother-over, trying with a pint of oil to still the whole ocean of troubled waters. He does not see capitalism ended. “Neither President Wilson nor the allies can make an enduring peace or solve political and economic problems because a world revolution Is at hand. The destruction as capitalism may cost many lives.” Professor Rudas Is taking a message Jrom Lenlne to Bela Kun, the Hungarian communist leader, urging him to hold out, as bolshevism in Roumanla soon will relieve the pressure on Hungary. Gen. Franchet D'Esperey, in command of the allied forces In Macedonia and Constantinople, has arrived at Arad from Constantinople for the purpose of directing a new attack on Budapest.

LEGUIA WINS PERU ELECTION

Independent Candidate Claims to Have Won Presidency by a Big Majority. ■ Lima, Peru, May 23.—Augusto B. Legula, candidate of the Independent party for the presidency of Peru, In a personal statement claims his election by a great majority. He said that telegrams from the provinces gave him ground for estimating his total vote at 100,000, against less than 20,000 for Antero Aspillage, the next nearest rival. Senor Legula said, as to his policy on taking office, that foreign capital would be given every possible facility and encouragement for the development of the virgin resources of Peru.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, May 22. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— Ing. est. eat. Ing. May 1.78 1-79% 1.77% 1.79 July 1.64%-1.65 1.66% 1.63% 1.65%-% Sept. ■»....1.58%-1.58% 1.59% 1.57% 1.58%-% OatsMay .67% .71 July 68%-68% .69% .68%* .68%-% Sept 64% -65% .64% .65%-% Rye— May ... ••• ■ t- 5 ® July 1.55% 1.50% 1.50% Aug 1.50% 1.47 1.47 FLOUR—Per bbl., In jute, 98-lb. sack basis: Barley flour, $9.00; corn flour, $8.70; white rye flour, $9.50; dark rye, $8.90; spring wheat, $12.75; first clear, In jute, $10.00; second clear, $7.00; special brands, $13.40; hard winter, [email protected]; soft winter, $12.50. These prices apply to car lots except for special brands. HAY—Choice timothy and No. 1, $35.00© 36.00; standard, $34.00 @ 35.00; No. 1 light clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]; No. 3, [email protected]; clover, $20.00 @30.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 92 score, 68c; higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, 91 score, 57%c; 80-90 score, 55%@57c; seconds, 83-87 score, 52%@54%c; centralized, 58c; ladles, 48@48%c; renovated, 53c; packing stock, 38@45c. Prices to retail trade: Extra tubs, 60c; prints, 61%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 43%@44%c; ordinary firsts, 41%@42%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 43@44%c; cases returned, 42© 48%c; extras, packed In whitewood cases, 49@50c; checks, 39%@40%c; dirties, 40%© 41%c; storage packed, firsts, 45@45%c; extras, 45%@46c. LIVE POULTRY Turkeys, 82@33c; fowls, 35%c; roosters, 20c; broilers, 1%@2Ib. average, 54@55c; ducks, 38c; geese, 28c. Prices to retail trade In single coop lots, %@lc higher. ICED POULTRY Turkeys 38@40c; fowls, 35@35%c; roosters, 19@21c; ducks, 33c; geese, 23c. POTATOES—Per 100 lbs. bulk, northern, [email protected]% sacked, [email protected]. NEW POTATOES—Per bbl., [email protected]. CATTLE Prime steers, [email protected]; good to choice steers, [email protected]; medium to good steers, [email protected]; plain to medium steers, [email protected]; yearlings, fair to choice, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders. [email protected]; good to prime cows, slo.oo© 14.00; fair to prime heifers, [email protected]; fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; bologna bulls, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $10.00©13.50; veal calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to choice light hogs, $20.25© 20.75; choice light butcheffi, [email protected]; medium weight butchers, 240-270 lbs., $20.50 @20.85; heavy weight butchers, 270-350 lbs., $20.60 @ 20.90; mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, [email protected]; rough packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags (subject to 80 lbs. dockage), $16.00© 20.25. SHEEP—WooI Colorado lambs, $17.50@ 18.75; western lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, [email protected]; shorn lambs, $13.00© 14.75; yearlings, [email protected]; clipped ewes, fair to choice, [email protected]; clipped wethers, $9.00 @12.00. Buffalo, N. Y., May 22. CATTLE —Receipts, 400; heavy. CALVES—Receipts, 650; active, 75c high, er; [email protected]. HOGS—Receipts, 2,000; active and higher; yorkers, s2l.7s:'light yorkers and pigs, [email protected]; roughs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 1,409; slow; lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, slo.oo© 13.00; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]; mixed sheep, [email protected].

BIG V. 8. ARMY 18 READY FOR HUNS

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Robertson, commander of the British troops In occupied Germany, visited American headquarters at Coblenz Wednesday. Mannheim In War Panic. Mannheim. May 23. —Alarmed by the belief that Germany t|lll not sign the peace treaty and that the allies will occupy Mannheim, citizens became panic-stricken and stormed the Municipal Savings bank. Many persons have fled from Mannheim. Large crowds later gathered and held protest meetings and other demonstrations, which added to the general confusion in the town.

Fire Losses Are Heavy.

New York, May 23. —Fire losses aggregating 1290,000,000, the greatest in any year except 1906, when the San Francisco earthquake occurred, were reported for 1918 to the national board of Are underwriters.

DIFFERENCE OF APPLICATION.

“Mr. Suave has p very light touch.” “Is he a musiciaia?" "No, a pick-pocket."

A JOKE ON HER.

"Did you hear the joke I played on my wife?’ “Not unless you refer to your getting her to marry you.’

A LONG-FELT WANT.

Miss Speedup— The automobile has proved to be a wonderful help to man, don’t you think? Mr. D'Edbroke —S ure thing! Now I can clean my ties with gasoline and people will think the emell comes from mv car.

Try some or our new pound paper, "Thistle Linen,” carried in stock in The Democrat's faney stationery department. Envelopes to match are also carried.

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FOR SALE For Sale—New reed baby buggy, fuir robe, high chair and child’s rocker.—PHONE 410. m 2 4 For Sale—Rebuilt Smith Premier typewriter, No. 2; in fine condition and will do as good work as a brand-new machine; $25 takes it. —THE DEMOCRAT. ts,

GIVE HIM CREDIT.

She You never wrote an original thing In your life—you are a plagiarist. He Well, you’ll have to admit that, as ft plagiarist, I’m an artist

HADN'T STUDIED THAT.

History Teacher Tell something about the Diet of Worms. Fright ened Miss I don’t take cooking.

DIDN’T WORK.

He told a touching story Elaborate much, But it was rather hoary. He didn’t make the touch.

SATURDAY, .MAY 21,

Fur Sale—New reed go-cart, fur robe, high ebalr and child's--’ rocker —PHONE 410. For Sale—Buckwheat seed, recleaned.—FßANK STOVER, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2, phone 910-E. -ts * For Sale—Some second-hand Fords, in good shape.—M. J. KUBOSKE’S Garage. ts F‘>r Sale—One Spotted Poland China male hog, 1 year old. Papers furnished. Best In Jasper county. —JAMES A. GILMORE, R-2, Rensselaer, Ind. m 24 For Sale—Good oak lumber. Am now sawing and want your specifications for building frames.— LAWSON BRUCE, phone 925-C. m 25 For Sale—One rocking chair, 1 sofa, 3 other chairs and looking glass—MßS. PETER MAY, 426 E. Washington street, Rensselaer. m 29 For Sale—At Fair Oaks, Ind., on 2Ms lots, a good, well-built house, has four rooms and large pantry in rear kitchen, good well, chicken park, grape arbor, good garden spot and a few young fruit trees. Only SSOO.—HERBERT L. BOZELL. JlO For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-lnch, recently rebuilt and In A-l sondltlon. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale Second-hand Country Club Overland, with wire wheels, and one extra wheel. All in good condition.—KUßOSKE & WALTERS Garage. ts For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel '.le umbering machines, rubber stamp du’.ers, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribbons for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass Ink erasers, account flies, filing eablnets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. For Sale—Registered Hampshire sow, Ina, No. 105618, and 9 pigs; 5 sows and 4 boars, all nicely belted; also red cow, weight 1100. —GEO. W. KIMBERLIN, Rensselaer, R-l. m 29 For Sale—Good 10-20 tractor and 3 bottom plows, plowed less than 20 acres; will sell cheap.—E. P. LANE, phone 537. ts For Sale—Several head of cows, one fresh, others will be soon; 13 head of fall and yearling calves. —ALBERT DUGGINS, R-2, phone 924-G. m 2 6 For Sale—Gasoline coll water heater, for bath room or bather shop. Little used, works perfectly, but tearing out of bath room left no use for It. Will sell very cheap. —Enquire at DEMOCRAT OFFICE.

For Sale, cash or payments—Several rebuilt typewriters, 3 OH- v vers, Nos. 3 and 5, 2 Smith mler No. 10, etc.; also brand-new Oliver No. 9. Rebuilt machines, are in splendid condition and do just as good work as brandnew machines and you can buy one of these for one-half to less than / one-Jialf the price of a new machine. Easy monthly payments, If desired, to responsible parties.— THE DEMOCRAT’S FANCY STATIONERY AND OFFICE SUPPLY DEPT. ts For Sale—Everything in the floral line. Cut flowers, potted plants, floral designs of all kinds. Potted tomato plants and all other kinds of vegetable plants, all greenhouse grown.—OSBORNE GREENHOUSE, 502 Merritt St. Phone 439. ts Oak Lumber —Will have all kinds of oak lumber for sale. Send In your bills before I commence sawing.—E. P. LANE, phone 537. ts Seed Corn —Are you in a corn club? If you have plenty of muck ground and sandhills, certainly not. But you can beat anybody and raise a bumper crop by taking seed corn from' a high-yielding and of poor soil. Per bushel $2.25. — JOHN EILTS, Rensselaer, R-2, phone 926-R. ts For Sale—Some real bargains In well Improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also (have some exceptional bargains in improved farms of all sixes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. tl For Sale—Good two-story, 7-room house, with bath, electric lights, drilled well large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade trees; on corner lot—really two lots each 75x 150 feet, each, fronting improved street and improved street on side. Splendidly located on best residence street in Rensselaer. Lots alone worth more than entire property can be bought for. —F. E. BABCOCK. ts

FOUND Found—Auto crank with wood handle. Call at Democrat office. Found—lndiana automobile license plates for 1919, No. 89259 and No. 226563. Owners may have same by calling at The Democrat office and paying for advertising, ts LOST Lost—Near slough bridge, south of Rensselaer, Goodrich Safety tire on Ford_jear wheel, with broken axle shaft. Return to MAIN Garage, “Best in Rensselaer.” • j 3 Lost—Wrench for gasoline tank of auto; thin, flat, steel wrench, Finder please leave at Democrat office. ™ FINANCIAL j Farm Loans—Money to loan <)«’ farm property in any sums up ts SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN.tf Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows* Building, Rensselaer. ||