Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Sporting “Howdy" Wilcox of Indianapolis piloted hla Peugeot to victory in the 500mlle automobile race at the apeedway, in Indianapolis. Arthur Thurman of Washington was killed and his mechanician, M. Molinaro, was seriously Injured. Louis Lecocq and his helper, It. Bandlnl, were burned to death when the gasoline tank on their Itoamer exploded. • • • Personal Miss Helen Herron Taft, daughter of former President Taft, has been chosen by the board of directors of Bryn Mawr college to serve as acting president of that institution next year. Howard Chandler Christy, artist, was granted a decree of divorce from Mabelle Christy at the close of a brief hearing in common pleas court at Zanesville, O. • • • Detroit’s millionaire mayor, James Couxens, announced that he would donate $300,000 to build a home for the nurses of Harper hospital. Couxens is a trustee of the institution. • • • Washington Checks amounting to $33,933,962 were mailed to 959,906 dependents of men in the military service in May by the bureau of war risk insurance. Appealing to the house judiciary committee for repeal of the war prohibition law, Adolph Neurad, chairman of the legislative committee of the Family Wine and Liquor Dealers’ association, said that Senator Simmons told hlin lust November the law would take care of itself July 1, and that he might as well "return to New York and not worry.” • • • Unanimous approval was given by the house to a' resolution increasing the war expenditures committee to fifteen members so that five separate investigations of disposition of funds by the war department may bo made. The $31,600,000 agricultural appropriation bill was passed by the house at Washington, with only one dissenting vote, and sent to the senate. • • • The house woman suffrage resolution was adopted by the senate and the proposed constitutional amendment now goes to the states for ratification. The yote was 56 for adoption and 25 against, or one more than two-thirds majority required. • • •. Favorable report on the bill of Senator Kellogg, Republican, of Minnesota, for the Immediate return of the telephone and telegraph wires to private ownership was ordered by the senate interstate commerce committee after the measure had been amended so as to continue existing telephone rates for GO days after final action by congress. Secretary Baker told the house military committee he had authorized the sale of $25,000,000 worth of surplus food stocks held by the aftny to the Co-operative Purchase society of Russia. Mr. Baker said that some of the food probably would reach the bolshevikl. Only by increased ra|es can the government controlled railroads meet operating expenses, Director General Hines told the house appropriations committee. He is opposed to any Increase at this time, however, because it might advance the cost of necessities of life. Laxness in the cancellation of tax stamps will not be tolerated by the internal revenue bureau. Failure to comply is punishable by a fine of SIOO, says an order Issued by the bureau. Continued use of naval ships In returning troops from France was urged before the house naval committee by Secretary Baker. With the aid of the navy, the secretary said, practically every soldier will be out of France by August 1 and the French expedition closed. a

Foreign American Marines have been landed at Puntarenas and Port Limon, Costa Rica, because of the revolution against the government headed by General Tinoco, according to dispatches printed in newspapers at San Salvador. • * ♦ The Rhine republic was proclaimed Sunday m various Rhine cities, says a dispatch from Mayence. The new government is headed by Doctor Dorden. It has been installed provisionally at Wiesbaden. Spokesmen for a big delegation of returned soldiers opposed to the general strike at Winnipeg told Mayor Gray that if the strike forces persisted in their efforts to curtail food supplies in Winnipeg they “would tear the Trades and Labor council to pieces.”

Austria placed ita fate in the hand* of the allied and associated powers, following receipt of the peace terms, which wore presented to the Austrian delegation. Under the terms of the treaty Austria Is reduced from a nation of some 50,000,000 population to a country of between 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 nationals, occupying a territory something less than 40.000 square miles in area. From the old AustroHungarian eiifplre are carved out the states of Hungary, Cxecho-Slovakla, and the new Serb-Croat-Siovene nation, the Independence of all of which Vienna is required to recognlxe. The remains of the old Hapsburg empire is to be known as the republic of Austria. • • • At the last meeting of the council of four in Paris President Wilson made another effort to bring about an agreement as to the principle of the reply to the German counter-propos-als, but the meeting ended without an agreement It Is understood that Premier Clemenceau maintains a firm attitude against any revision of the treaty. • • • The Austrian government has decided unanimously that the peace terms presented at St. Germain are unacceptable, the Neues Abenblatt of Vienna says. • • • Six companies of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry, aggregating 1,600 men, or approximately one-third of the American force on the Archangel front, constitute the first detachment to leave Russia. They embarked at Economia, the "Winter port of Archangel. • • •

Two changes in the German peace terms, one territorial and the other financial, are being considered by the council of four, it became known In Paris. The financial question Is the possibility of the acceptance of Germany’s proposal to bind herself to pay a total indemnity of $25,000,000,000. The second proposal is for a plebiscite in Silesia. • • • Petrograd has been captured by the Esthonians and the Finns, according to an unconfirmed report received by the newspaper Tldens Tegn of Christiania from Vardoe. • • • That Consul General Garcia, representing the Mexican government at El Paso, Tex., left hurriedly for Mexico City In pursuance of orders wired him from President Carranza immediately following the report that Chihuahua City had fallen is taken by Carranxa and Villa officials as proof that the situation at Torreon. Jlmlnex and Chihuahua City is critical. • • • The allied forces of occupation will take no part in the movement for the establishment of a Rhine republic, the Paris Journal says. The allied powers will observe an attitude of watchful waiting. • • • The ranks of the Toronto strikers were re-enforced by several hundred members of the Marine Workers’ Federation, who stopped work following the decision of the union on Saturday night to call a sympathetic strike. Domestic A reign of terror, with wholesale bombings and killings, to be followed by the calling of a general strike throughout tlie country and seizure of cities and towns isolated by the tieup of transportation facilities, was planned by the plotters to follow the bombing raid. This is the declaration of a member of the military intelligence bureau at Pittsburgh, Pa. • « * ' Three men were killed and four injured at Hopkins, Mich., when the boiler in the creamery there exploded, wrecking the plant and shaking the entire village. • • •

The striking employees of the Southern Bell fWid Atlanta Telephone companies were warned by Postmaster General Burleson that strikes are not permissible in the government service. * • • The “flying circus," comprising six army airships, landed at Chicago, after a flight from Indianapolis. The machines will give exhibition flying in Chicago for several days. * * * Two men were shot to death and two were seriously wounded in a riot growing out of the labor disturbances involving 13,000 employees of the Wil-lys-Overland Automobile company at Toledo. The victims, presumably idle employees of the company, were killed by discharged soldiers who are guarding the plant. Mayor Schreiber wired Gov. Cox for troops to restore order. • • • The entire One Hundred and Twen-ty-ninth Infantry, which reached Camp Grant for demobilization, Is under quarantine as the result of the death of Private Ed Johnson of Belvidere, 81., who died at Camp Merritt, N. J., from spinal meningitis. « • * In an address before the. United Spanish-American 'War Veterans at Cedar Rapids, la.’, Gov. W. L. Harding of lowa accused the city government of Chicago of being un-American and pro-German. • * * Railroad freight and passenger rate increases made by the railroad administration last June were upheld by the United States Supreme court. Increased telephone and telegraph rates put into effect last January 21 under an order of Postmaster General Burleson also were upheld.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

WIRE SYSTEMS GIVEN TO OWNERS

Postmaster General Issues Order Which Is Effective Immediately. PRESENT RATES WILL STAND President of Commercial Telegrapher** Union Ordere Strike of All Western Union Operators in Southeast. Washington, June 6. —Postmaster General Burleson Issued an order returning the telephone and telegraph systems of the country to private ownership, effective immediately. In a statement accompanying the formal order the i>oetmuster general stated that the existing rates would remain in effect, and that orders forbidding discharge of employees because of union afllllatiom* also would stand.

Extend Atlanta Strike. Immediately upon receipt of thia Information a strike of all Western Union telegraph employees in the Southeast was called by S. J. Koneukamp, international president of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America. The strike is effective immediately and is an extension of the present Atlanta Western Union strike. Employees of the Western Union Telegraph company in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and New Orleans, La., go out under the new order. Mr. Burleson’s Order. Mr. Burleson’s order turning back the wire properties read: “The preisdent having recommended the return of the wire systems and the control of the owning companies with certain legislation designed to stabilize their operation, and the senate committee having taken action looking to their immediate return, and the house committee in Its hearings on the proposed legislation having indicated concurrence in the suggested immediate return with or without legislation so recommended, I feel It my duty to now return the actual control of operations to the companies. “Some days ago I directed the necessary orders to be prepared to accomplish this and have today Issued same. These orders do not affect questions of rates and finance with which the congress may determine to deal. “The rates now in force and the financial relations between the government and the companies, and the order of October 2, 1918, prohibiting discrimination because of nnion affiliation will continue unless congress may decide to change them or the ‘emergency’ is terminated by the procclamatlon of peace. Resume Actual Control. “By the action now taken, however, the wire companies resume actual control of operations of their respective properties, ami are free to formulate and put into effect their own policies unrestricted by government control, which is to continue in any case but a few Ayeeks, and thus will be able to prepare themselves for a complete resumption of the management of their property. “It will be necessary for each comply to so keep its accounts during the continuance of government control, that its books may be closed on the day government control ends In order that a full and accurate statement may be promptly made when it is called on for same.”

COURT INVOKED IN STRIKE

Petition Filed in Toledo Requests Judge Order Reopening of Plant. Toledo, O„ June 6. —A petition, was filed in the United States district court here requesting the court to order the reopening of the Willys-Overland Automobile company plant, which has been closed since the rioting, in which two persons were shot to death last Tuesday. The petition also asks that a restraining order be issued to prevent idle workers from interfering with the operation of the plant. Federal Judge John.M. Killlts set Saturday as the day for hearing on the application.

M’ADOO WARNS REDS IN U. S.

Says Anarchists Have Tough Job Trying to Overthrow Government. New Yorks June 6.—Terrorists who think they can overthrow the United States government by violence were warned by William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, that they have come to the wrong place. Mr. McAdoo, speaking at a dinner given by the Rotary club of Brooklyn, blamed lack of education for the recent na-tion-wide bomb outrages.

QUEEN OF BELGIUM IS ILL

President Wilson's Visit to Brussels Postponed. Brussels, June G.—Owing to the illness of ’the Queen of the Belgians, President Wilson’s visit here has been postponed until the epd of next week. Queen Elizabeth is suffering from hay fever. ,

TROOPS AWE STRIKERS

RETURNED CANADIAN SOLDI ERO IN CHARGE AT WINNIPEG. Pledge Aid to Uphold Low—Demand Alton* Bo Deported—Mayor Opona Food Depots. Winnipeg. Man.. Jane fl.—Mayor Gray twgau h wearing tn 2,000 returned soldiers as constables during the day to preserve law and order in Winnipeg. Riotlug at the city hail broke out as the veterans marched up to take the oath. Soldier strikers Jeered the antl-strlke soldiers, a score of flat tights started, and the police were hurried out on a riot call. With drawn truncheons they went through the crowd and dragged out eight combatants, both strikers aud prospective constables. Meanwhile Mayor Gray opened milk and bread depot* in the schools and fire stations, and school children took home the family supplies. The food committee summoned the strike committee to the city hull to resist the effort of the strike leaders to starve Winnipeg Into submission. The city took over the pasteurizing plants of the two largest dairies and operated them under full protection. Returned soldiers tilled the Auditorium rink at a great meeting to organize the force,of constables. Mayor Gray addressed the soldiers. The meeting then passed formal resolutions denouncing some of the strike leaders as anarchists and agents of revolution; demanded that the government bring the men responsible for the Winnipeg upheaval “to Justice;” urged the Immediate deportation of “all undesirable aliens.” and declared that the only one big union which Canadian soldiers would recognize was the “Union Jack.' Reports to the mayor from all parts of the city were that the radicals overnight had clamped on a program of terrorism far more extensive than they had before attempted. They directed It against the wives and children of anti-strikers. Indications of this were shown In the tone of the strike organ,, which dwelt on the “new temper*’’ that is manifesting itself. It said “vigorous aetlorf must be taken by labor to force the Issue,” and that was the keynote to the day’s developments. In the meantime the strikers were holding the largest parade they have yet held. About 4,000 were In line and they moved through the streets carrying banners. “Down With Profiteers and Up With the People."

Opera Singer Aska $15,000.

Chicago, June 6. —Mme. Amellta Galli-Oarci, opera singer, made demand on her husband, Luigi C. Curd, whom she has sued for divorce, for $15,000 to be paid for her support during the pendency of her suit. She alleges that Curcf possesses $25,000 in Italian securities, which rightfully belong: to her.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, June 5. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— Ing. est. eat. Ing. July 1.70%-1.71 L7i% 1.69% 1.72% Sept. 1.61 -1.81% L 61% 1.60% 161% Oats— July 68% .68% .68% -6»% Sept6s% .68% .66% .ffi% Dec 66% .66% .65% .66% Rye— July 1.54% 162% 1.50% 1.51% Aug 1.51% 148 1.47% 1.48 Septl.s2 1-45% FLOUR—Per bbl, 98-Ib. sack basis: Barley flour; com ftour, $8.70; white rye. In Jute, $8.75 per bbl., 98-lb, sack; dark rye $8.25; spring wheat, special brands, sl3 00- first clear, STO.XX); second clear, $7.00; hard’winter, soft winter, $12.50. Thbse prices apply to car lots fexcept for special brands. HAY—Choice timothy and No. 1, $35.00'8) 36.00’ standard, [email protected]; No. 1 light clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, $32.00© 33.00; No. 3, [email protected]; clover, $20.00 @30.00. BUTTER— Creamery, extras, 92 score, 51c higher scoring commands a premium; firsts, 91 score, 50@50%c; 80-90 score, 48@ 49c- seconds, 83-87 score, 46@47c; centralized 51%c; ladles, 46%@47c: renovated, 49c; packing stock, 40@44c. Prices to retail trade: Extra tubs, 53c; prints, 54%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 37@38c; ordinary firsts, 35@36c; miscellaneous lots, cases Included, 37@37%c; cases returned, 36@36%e; packed in whitewood cases, 42© 43c; checks, 30@32c; dirties. 32@34c; storage packed firsts. 38%@40c; extras, 39%@40%c. LIVE POULTRY Turkeys, 32@33c; fowls, 29%c; roosters, 18c; broilers, 1% to 2 lb average. 45@46c; ducks, 25c; geese, 15c; spring ducks, 38c; spring geese, 25c. Prices to retail trade, single coop lots, %@lo higher. ICED POULTRY Turkeys, 38@40c; fowls, 30@31c; roosters, 19@21c; ducks, 30c; geese, 18@20c, POTATOES—Per 100 lbs. bulk, northern, [email protected]; sacked, [email protected]. NEW POTATOES —Per bbl., [email protected]. CATTLE—Prime steers, $15.00<@16.00; 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, [email protected]; fair to prime heifers, [email protected]; fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]'; bologna bulls, $9.25@ 9.75; butcher bulls, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to choice light hogs, $19.90@ 20.40; choice to light butchers, [email protected]; medium weight butchers, 240-270 lbs., $20.20 @20.45: heavy weight butchers, 270-350 lbs., [email protected]; mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, [email protected]; rough packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, $16.75@ 18.75; stags (subject to 80 lbs. dockage), [email protected]. SHEEP—Shorn lambs, [email protected]; spring lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; clipped wethers, [email protected]; clipped ewes, fair to choice, [email protected]. Buffalo, N, Y., June 5. CATTLE—Receipts, 1,100; dull. CALVES— Receipts, 450; steady; $6.00@ 16.50. HOGS— Receipts, 2,200; active and 25c lower; heavy, mixed and yorkers, $21.50; light yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $20.25; roughs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 1,200; lambs 10c lower; lambs, [email protected]; others unchanged.

WHY HE WANTED A BOOK.

Olgy. I want to buy me a book. I am glad you are becoming literary, m y dear. Fudge. This article aaya one way to acquire a good carriage la to practice balancing a book on your nead.

BEAUTIES OF NATURE.

There’s beauty tn the thunder’s roll And in the ocean’s roar. I’d rather bear a ton of coal That hits the base meat floor.

BUSINESS FIRST.

••When is their marriage to b* solemnized?” —A , soon as it has been financed.

SO SHE DIDN’T RESIST.

Why did you let that young man kiss you? Well, ma, it was this way, I know if I didn’t let him he’d muss my complexion up.

TEST CASE.

Medical Student: Professor, how long did you say a human being could live with the braia removed ? Professor: Let’s eee! How old are you Mr. Du m - fool?

No better job work produced in this section of Indiana than that turned out by The Democrat.

Democrat want ads get results.

(Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, %-cent-a-word tor each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notices. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times —as the case may be—-for 25 cents. Where replies ate sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.) FOR SALE For Sale— A team of mules with harness and dray wagon.—HUGH KIRK. j? For Sale —Good driving horse, wt. about 1,000 lbs.; in good flesh.— GEO. McELFRESH, . Rensselaer, R-l, phone 951-F. ts

SCHOOL ROOM JOKES.

What is Natur a 1 History?” asked the teacher of the small boy at the end of tho class. I guess, answered the small one, that it’s the kind where people are always fighting and killing each other.

THEN HOSTILITIES WERE RESUMED.

Wifey (during a family jar)—l have always tried to be so fair, and — Hubby (Interrupting) Yes, your cosmetics have cost me a heap of money!

WRONG GUESS.

Why- Johnny 1 I ’ m astonished that you can’t tell me Methuselah’s age—whefl you have the answer in the book right before your eyes. Johnny: Thought that was h 1 s telephone number!

natcrday, JURE T.

Hungarian Seed- I have s quality of Hungarian seed tat sale. j. b. WOLFE, Nawland, Ind. Jl4 For Hale—Mnirt seed, «c a pound H have about 1,60® pounds.— PHILIP E. DURANT, Rensselaer JlO • F\»r Bale —Motorcycle in good running condition, at a bargain If sold soon.—LEWIS SMITH, Fair Oaks, Ind. For Sale—Unimproved 120 acres, Juneau county, Wls.; will make a good farm. —J. A. TUNE, Murphysboro, 111. JU For Salt*—A second-hand Overland car In good condition, all new tires and one spare tire in rear; fully equipped with starter and generator. A good value for right person -KUBO6KE & WALTERS. For Sale—Buick auto; combination cultivator; mowing machine; Indian Squaw seed corn, will ripen In 80 days of seasonable weather.— JOSEPH KOSTA, R-l, Fair Oaks, Ind., Phone 92-D, Mt. Ayr.tf For Sale—Buckwheat seed, recleaned. —FRANK STOVER, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2, phone 910-E. ts For Sale—At Fair Oaks, Ind., on 2*4 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 |SOO.—HERBERT L. BOZELL. JlO For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel le .umbering machines, rubber stamp d.»*ers, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribbon* for all practically make* of typewriters, spun glass Ink eraser*, account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blank*, etc. For Sale —Ford touring car, electric starter and lights, winter top, Hasller shock absorbers, new tires, many extras; $475. —HUGH KIRK. J 7 For Sale Good 10-20 tractor and 3 bottom plows, plowed les* than 20 acres; will sell cheap.—E. P. LANE, phone 537. ts

For Sale, cash or payments—Several rebuilt typewriters, 3 Olivers, Nos. 3 and 5, 2 Smith Premier No. 10, etc.; also brand-new Olive- No. 9. Rebuilt machines are in splendid condition and will do Just as good work as brandnew machines and you can buy one of these for one-half to less than one-half 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 kind*. 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 kind* 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 ana 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, 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 bargain* in Improved farms of all sine* 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 batn, 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

WANTED Wanted— A girl for general house work.—Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2, Box 93. J 7 Wanted—Experienced girl for general housework; good wages.— MRS. FIRMAN THOMPSON, phone 307. 37 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—Wrench for gasoline tank of auto; thin, flat, steel wrench. Finder please leave at Democrat office. ' Lost—Some place in Rensselaer last Monday, a bunch of keys. Finder please return to Rensselaer Garage or The Democrat office and they will be*ipaid for their trouble. FINANCIAL Farm Loans —Money to loan on farm property In any sums up ta SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. ts Money to Loan—-CHAS. J. DEAJF A SON, Odd Fellows’ Building, Rensselaer. ■ >1