Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Two American salldrs who have been In jail at Mazatlan, Mexico, since November 12 on the charge of assaulting a Mexican, will be released at once, the state department at Washington was advised. Parcel post sales from army retail stores, discontinued December 10 to relieve the mails during the Christmas rush, will be resumed on January 1, it was announced by the war department at Washington. • • * • Organized labor united at Washington to direct an unrelenting fight against return of the railroads to their owners March 1; and, if that cannot be averted at this time, to prevent enactment of railroad legislation whiqh will include anti-strike provisions and penalties against workers who cease their employment. • • * • The creation of a national industriar tribunal and regional board of inquiry and adjustment for the settlement of all disputes between labor and capital is the chief recommendation in the preliminary report of President Wilson's second Industrial conference at Washington. • • • Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of Internal revenue at Washington, is considering means to curb the unrestricted sale of wood alcohol which, in the guise of whisky, already has caused many deaths. Domestic Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company of Detroit, Mich., announce a plan by which approximately $10,000,000 will be'" distributed as a bonus, together with an opportunity for every Ford worker to purchase Ford investment certificates. rvs* ~ • Robbers almost destroyed the building of the Beattie bank of Elwood, 111., a private institution, but were unsuccessfol in opening the safe, which contained several thousand dollars. • • • Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee Socialist, attacked the American Legion in a speech Detroit as the “catspaw of capital,” and declared big business “stole” half the money spent by the United States during the war. • • •

Thirty-two thousand employees of the Western Union Telegraph and Telephone company will receive a 15 per cent increase dating from January 1, It is announced in New York. ।• * • Firemen at Lowell, Mass., have voted to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor at the request of the fire commissioner. A secret ballot was taken. Sheriff Caldwell of Mount Clemens, Mich., arrested Lloyd Prevost and Mrs. Ruth Brown, who are suspected of having murdered J. Stanley Brown, the son of a deceased millionaire Detroit cigar manufacturer. ♦ » • i One huhdred and fifty cases of whisky concealed in a carload of hay in transit across the border at Vanceboro, Me., from New Brunswick, were seized by a United States customs officer. * » » A white woman was shot and kUled and a white soldier probably fatally wounded in a fight between negroes and soldiers on a street car near Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. * * • The United States army transport Logan departed from Vladivostok December 11 for the United States. The vessel carries 842 soldiers, which leaves In Siberia 53 drafted men. ♦ • • Seven men held up the People’s bank at Ottawa Lake, Mich., and escaped with $7,000 in cash and Liberty bonds after shooting Herman Rothfuss, the cashier. In their haste the raiders overlooked $20,000. • * • Burglars forced a safe in the office of the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical company at Perth Amboy, N. J., and escaped with platinum and gold valued at $7,500. * • • Vice Admiral Hilary P. Jones, now in command of the First division of the Atlantic fleet at Newport, R. 1., has followed the example of Admiral Sims In declining to accept the award of the Distinguished Service Cross. • * * . Fixing a retail price on fresh eggs at 50 cents a dozen by the county fair price commission at Topeka, Kans., caused retail grocers there to announce that they will have no eggs for sale after the price becomes effective, January 2. They declare they cannot buy them for that price. • • * Crazed with jealousy, Oapt. R. C. Potter, U. S. A., of Camp Custer, BattleVreek, Mich., shot down his wife, her escort, and accidentally wounded two girls In a Venice beach street car •ear Culver City, yal.

The Tingley (Iowa) Savings bank was robbed of SIOO,OOO in cash and securities by who opened the door of the vault by cutting out the lock with an acetylene torch. • • • The state tax commission at Springfield, 111., announced that the equalised value of all property in the state, excepting capital stock of corporations, is $4,055,700,386. The value last year was placed at $3,891,897,444. • • • Three armed men stopped a truckload of woolen goods valued at $lO,000 as it was leaving the store of Mike Kohn at Chicago, Intimidated the driver with pistols and escaped with the goods. • • • Personal Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, who commanded the Second division in France, was badly bruised when thrown from a horse at Camp Lee, Va. • • • Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury, retired, dropped dead at his home at Washington. • • • Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, retired, former commander of the central department and the department of the East, died at the Walter Reed hospital at Washington of uraemic poisoning. *• • • Pauline Hall, long noted as a light opera singer er h° me Yonkers, N. Y. of pneumonia. She was on the stage for more than forty years. • • • Boaz W. Long of Las Vegas, N. M., the new American minister to Cuba, arrived at Havana. Mr. Long was accompanied by his sister, Miss Theresa Long. Sir William Osler, noted physician, who had been ill for several weeks, died at Oxford. England. Foreign Fourteen thousand persons were shot by the bolshevik! of Russia, during the first three months of 1919, by order of the extraordinary committee at Moscow, according to an official note published in the bolshevik organ Isvestla of Moscow, says a dispatch received at Bern. • * • Fierce fighting in the Narova region, with a heavy gas shell bombardment by the Esthonlans, which forced the bolshevik! to retire over the Narova river, is reported in an official statement issued by the soviet authorities in Moscow. • • • Bolshevist forces have occupied Bakhmut, capturing several cannon, while beyond Novo Nikolaevsk they are pursuing Admiral Kolchak’s troops and have occupied Alexandrovlky, a Moscow statement claims.

Gabriele d’Annunzlo has ordered a new plebiscite at Fiuine to determine the future of the city, according to the Rome Epoca. Two plebiscites have already been held. * • * Official statistics made public at Berlin place the number of Germans killed in battle at 1,500,000. These figures do not include those who died in prison camps. ♦ • • X Political circles at Paris believe that the namerof Premier Clemenceau will be the only one submitted to parliament when the election for president takes place, according to the Echo de Paris. • • • Alexander F. Kerensky, successor to as ruler of Russia, is now working in a “pork and beanery” in London, according to a statement made in New York by Gregory Zllboorg, who says he was Kerensky’s secretary of labor. • • * Odessa Is being evacuated by the civilian population owing tq the rapid advance of the bolshevlkl In southern Russia, according to a Constantinople dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company at London. • • * Sentence of two years' imprisonment was given to R. B. Russell, one of the labor leaders in Winnipeg’s recent general strike. Russell was found guilty recently of seditious conspiracy. • * * A cable to the Vancouver World from Sydney, N. S. W., says the latest New Zealand licensing poll figures wipe out the prohibition lead and give continuance a majority of 1,327. * * * The French minister of agriculture at Paris, has lodged with the commission on war damages a claim for 26,000 dogs alleged to have been stolen by the Germans during the war. • * ♦ A Buenos Aires dispatch says German immigrants have been pouring into Argentina on every ship that came from Holland. One ship brought 400 of Teutonic nationality. One man was killed and one woman and five men, including two policemen, were Injured during a clash between the police and a crowd engaged in a demonstration against the high cost of living at Havana. • * * Arabian volunteers and French detachments have clashed at Balbeg, Syria, according to a dispatch from i Cairo. ♦ * * Exchange of ratifications of the treaty of Versailles will take place Jan--1 uary 6 at the Qua! d’Orgay at Paris.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

SUES FOR SEPARATION

Daughter of Late C. W. Fairbanks Asks Divorce. Accum* Her Husband, Captain John W. Timmons of the Navy of Nonsupport. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2.—Alleging aonsupport, Mrs. Adelaide F. Timmons, daughter of the late Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, has filed a petition for dlvdrce before Judge Linn Hay of the superior court against Capt. John W» Timmons of the Third Naval district, Brooklyn. Rumors that Mrs. Timmons, who Is seaklng to break the will of her father, so she can receive a full share of the $8,000,000 estate, including a three-fourths interest in the Indianapolis News, would seek a divorce have been common for some time. She aNeges that she and Captain Timmons were married September 19,’ 1903, and separated July 14, 1917; that he has failed to provide for her, and she asks that her maiden name be restored. The case will have to remain on the docket at least 60 days before it can be tried.

MEXICANS ATTACK CHINAMEN

Small Groups at Cananea Beat Individual Chinese. Douglas, Ariz., 3Wh. 2.—The municipality of Cananea, supported by Adolfo de la Huerta, governor of Sonora, made good Its threat that no more Chinese should conduct business houses there, according to arrivals here. The Chinese had hoped that threat of the federal government to send troops to enforce the order that the Chinese should receive the same treatment as any other foreigners would be effectual. This hope was lost on Christmas (fay when riotous scenes took place on the streets, It was stated, small groups of Mexicans assaulting individual Chinese, some of whom were beaten severely.

SCHOONER IS RUN BY WOMAN

Captain of Ship Dies and Widow Brings Ship to Port. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 2.—Under command of the wife of the skipper, who died at sea, the schooner Jean L. Somerville made port here. The Somerville was spoken to in the gulf December 17 by a United Fruit company steamer, which reported that Capt. W-. F. Oram was dead and the vessel adrift without a navigator. Sighted later by the shipping board steamer Moosehauslc, the schooner was towed to Pensacola 'bar and from there brought here, completing her voyage from Las Palmas. The body of Captain Oram, who died from natural causes, will be -sent to Portland, Me., for burial.

FOCH GIVES VISION CREDIT

Declares War Successes Due to Divine Inspiration. Paris, JAn. 2. —Marshal Foch believes the victory in the world war was due to Divine Inspiration, according to his own statement, printed in Echo de Paris. “I do not call it a miracle,” says Foch, “but in a supreme moment clear vision is sometimes given to a man, him to take certain measures of enormous importance. “In the formidable war I believe I had such a vision in the battles of the Marne, on the Yser and on March 26, 1918. The victorious decision came from the Supreme Divine will.”

KILL 4 MEXICANS IN TEXAS

Protest Sent to Washington by the Mexican Government. Mexico City, Jan. 2.—The government officially protested to the American government against the killing of four Mexican citizens in Texas during the latter part of December. The protest states a laborer was killed by his section gang foreman, near Kyle, and that three members of a Mexican family were killed on a ranch near Jarrel, and that no murderer has been apprehended.

TRUCE SIGNED BY ESTHONIA

Agree to a Seven-Day Armistice With the Russian Reds. Dorpat, Jan. 2. —After nearly a month of preliminary conversations the soviet Russians and Esthonians signed an agreement to cease hostilities for seven days. The protocol includes a temporary adjustment of the boundaries and military guarantees and recognition of Esthonian independence. It is the first step toward a definite peace between the two nations.

EXPLOSION DESTROYS MILL

Hercules Powder Company’s Magazine in California Blows Up. Hercules, Cal., Jan. 2. —The black powder magazine of the Hercjiles Powderi company here exploded, according to a statement from officers of the company. No one was at work at the plant except. the watchman, it was said. It is three miles from the office to .he' black powder magazine, and officials immediately hurried there.

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. STATE TO SUE FOR $150,316 Right of Treasurer to Keep Interest Accrued on Barrett Law Improvement Xugds Will Be Tested « in the Courts. Indianapolis, Jan. 1. —Formal charges against Edward G. Sourbier, Republican, and Carl Von Hake, Democrat, treasurer and former treasurer of Marion county, respectively, alleging that they have retained $150306.71 in Interest accrued on Barrett law Improvement funds, were certified to Governor Goodrich by Jesse E. Eschbach, state examiner of the board of accounts, for collection by the attorney general. Suits will be Instituted at once for the collection of the money for the city of Indianapolis, Ele Stansmury, attorney general, said. The charges are the opening wedge to determine in the courts whether treasurers can continue the practice of appropriating interest on improvement funds depicted with them in trust. Although tlie attorney general ruled that treasuers are not entitled to the interest in an opinion submitted to the board of accounts February 27, 1918, rhe report of the field examiners in the Sourbier case indicate that no change was made in the system in recent months. The charges against Mr. Sourbier aggregate $94,126.89. The Marion county treasurer, by virtue of his office, is the ex-officio treasurer of Inand as such is entrusted with improvement funds accumulated for the liquidation of improvement bonds or to pay for certain classes of improvement work done.

Board Explains Poll Tax. Brownstown, Jan. 1. —Former soldiers are not exempt from the payment of poll tax unless they were in service March 1, 1918, according to a ruling by the state tax board, received here by H. H. Alberring, county treasurer. The ruling followed numerous inquiries from discharged soldiers, which were forwarded to the state board. The board further said that the tax law in effect*March 1, 1918, exempted only those belonging to the active militia of the state. The new tax law, however, exempts all who may be in the active service of the militia or in the United States army. 80 Quarts of Liquor Given Hospital. Madison, Jan. I.—Eighty quarts of liquor in the custody of Sheriff George A. Monroe was given to the King’s Daughters’ hospital here on the order of Judge F. M. Griffith of the local circuit court. The liquor was seized by the sheriff during the past summer from alleged bootleggers. The Sheriff retires from office on January 1 and he planned to destroy the liquor, when a petition was presented to the court by the managers of the hospital asking that it be given for medicinal uses at the hospital. Practically all of the liquor is whisky in quart and half-pint bottles. Alleged Gary Radical Freed. Indianapolis, Jan. 1. —Michael Karshewsgy of Gary was released by Judge Albert B. Anderson in federal court after having been held a prisoner by the United States military authorities in Gary for several weeks. He was released after an attorney filed habeas corpus proceedings. Col. W. S. Mapes, who is in command of troops in Gary, brought the prisoner into court. He explained that Karshewsky had been arrested in raids against alleged radicals during the steel strike last fall, but that civil authorities had decided there was no case against the man.

Judge Holds Action Is Invalid. Lafayette, Jan. 1. —The action of the state board of tax commissioners, in ordering the county auditors of the state to place the surplus of savings banks on the tax duplicates, was held invalid by Emory B. Sellers of Monticello, special judge presiding in the Tippecanoe county superior court. The ruling was made in the case of the Lafayette Savings bank against John C. Doyle, county auditor; A. M. Sucese, county treasurer, and the state boajjl of tax commissioners. t Chief Destroys Load of Liquor. Evansville, Jan. 1. —Edgar Schmitt, chief of police, announced that he had destroyed a wagonload of liquor on a local dumping ground, the liquor having been taken from alleged violators of the liquor law. The chief did not call any of the local newspaper men or representatives of the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union, as had been asked, to see the liquor destroyed. Most of the liquor destroyed was taken recently from an alleged “blind tiger” here, he said. Safety Engineer Named. Anderson, Jan. 1. —The Union Traction company has established a new office and has named Ross Luellen, formerly of the claim adjusting department, safety engineer. The company, through this means, hopes to better instruct the employees in safety ideas. Order Salary Increase. Anderson, Jan. I.—The board of county commissioners has issued an order increasing the salary of the county superintendent of schools from f 1,409 to $2,400 a year.

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INDIA IRKED BY PEACE DELAY

Moslems Protest Turkey Division and War on Hedjax King. Bombay, Jan. 2. has the delny In settling the Turkish question had more unfortunate consequences than in India. The Moslem Indians 'regard partition of Turkey as an attack on their religion and refuse to recognize the king of Hedjaz as legitimate protector of the holy places. They demand the restoration of Turkey on. a pre-war basis, Laying it is essential for the protection of Islam and threaten to boycott British goods and to refuse to co-operate with the government. A deputation is to proceed to London to place the views of the Khlafat society before the British government.

NOT TO RESIGN, SAYS POLK

Undersecretary of State Denies Rumor He Is to Quit. Washington, Jan. 2—Undersecretary Polk denied published reports that he was about to resign. “I have no intention of resigning,” laid Mr. Palk emphatically. The report that Mr. Palk might o‘r would resign has been circulated many times. Before he went to Europe as ffialrman of peace delegation it was rumored that he would resign, principally on account of ill lealth. He went to Europe, however, iftet having been elevated to the position of undersecretary. He returned to America apparently in good health, ind it was a surprise to his friends to lee the rumor again revived.

SOON TO OPEN BAGDAD LINE

England to Make Kaiser's Rail Dream Come True. London, Jan. 2. —Train service berween Basar and Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey, at the head of the Persian gulf, jvill be established at an early date, (t was announced. Construction of the railroad is progressing at the rate of 14 miles a day. It is intended to tun daily, which will cover the journey in 28 hours, this tlrfie later being reduced to 12 hours. Freight trains will-make the trip in 48 hours.

WALES MAY VISIT PANAMA

Prince Probably Will Pass Through Canal on His Australian Jpp. London, Jan. 2.—Details of the prince of Wales’ Australian tour have not yet been definitely settled, but it is believed he will travel by way of the Panama canal. HiS” visit to India will not likely take place until 1821.

AUTO TAX PRODUCES BIG SUM

License Fee in Illinois During 1919 Is $3,265,083. Springfield, 111., Jan. 2.—A total of $3,265,083 was collected from automobile license fees during the year 1919 by Secretary of State Emmerson, an increase of $500,752 as compared with 1918.

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For Hale—Aurred Rock 'eociuflj $3.00 a pi eke; also two fine fl bred Bronze\ toms, $12.00 $15.00 a piece- Satisfaction guaranteed.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. j-8 For Sale—«Hoase and two acree ot ground in Wheatfield, Indiana. Enquire of SENIA JENKINS, Wheatfield, Indiana. j-7 For Sale—Six-room house, one lot, on Van Rensselaer street; fair condition. City water and lights. —MRS. J. J. EDDY, phono SO2. For Sale—The A. J. Osborn buildings located in Remington. If not sold before Feb. 21, will be sold at public auction.— «W. S- PARKS, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 448. d 27 For Sale—Fine navy beans, 10c per 1 ipound.—E. P. HONAN, phone 334. ts For Sale—lo-room house, including two large halls and pantry; two basement rooms. All in excellent condition. Corner of Susan and Weston streets. Telephone 663.— MRS. J. J. EDDY. / — ■ > ■ — ■ .1 X For Sale —240-acre farm, well improved, 3% miles north of Rensselaer.—MßS- J. J. EDDY, phone 603. For Sale—A lot of second-hand lumber, consisting of sheeting, 2x6, 2xß, etc.—KUBOSKE A WALrTBR, phone 294. ts For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, In tne white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale or Rent—Big 40x80. threepole tent, 10-foot wall; just the thing for public sales. We are through with it, as we are now in our new white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts

For Sale—Nine rebuilt and secondhand typewriters of various standard makes, Such as Remingtons, Olivers, Smith Premiers, Victors, Densmores, etc. -Come in and let us demonstrate them to you and get prices.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—l6o-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn, corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land all in cultivation. Can give good terms on this. Price SBO per acre. —CHAS. J. DEAN A SON. ts New and Rebuilt Typewriters are carried in stock in The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply Department. We handle the Oliver, brand-new and various other makes in rebuilt and second-hand, typewriter we can save you some If you. are In the market for a -money.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts For Sale—Farm of 80 acres, knoigfl as the Samuel Hart farm, township, Jasper county, rights reserved. This is an cellent opportunity to own a farm at your own price, easy terms and immediate possession. If interested write J. L. LEONARD, Crawfordsville, Ind- f2B Lost—An A. O. T. I. sorority pin on Christmas eve, probably at the Van Rensselaer club dance. My name on back. Reward. —MARGARET BABCOCK, Rensselaer, Ind. J 8 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 sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further .particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home-— HARVEY DAVISSON. . • ts For Sale—Good two-story, 7-room house, with batn, electric lights, drilled well, large cistern, lots of fruit, splendid shade t~ees; 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. t ts . FOR RENT Farm for Rent—B2o acres near Fair Oaks—ERNEST BEAVER, Foreman J. J. Lawler lands, Pleasamit Ridge, Ind., phone 9 3 7-A. j-7 For Rent—44 acres pasture land for next season, water and tank. —H. A. LAKIN, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l. J 3

WANTED Wanted—Salesyian to demonstrate In every home in JASPER COUNTY, IND. The greatest labor saving article for the housewife known. Big money in It for the live wire.— Address S. A. MARCH, 717 Spring St., Michigan, City, Ind. j-17 Wanted—One saleslady, also cashier, at Rowles & Parker’s Big Corner Department Store. d-31 Cash Registers Wanted—Will buy yopr second-hand cash register if in condition and pay spot cash for same.—THE DEMOCRAT. FINANCIAL Farm Doans—Money to loan an farm property In any sums up to 110,000.—E. P. HONAN. ts - — — — . Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows’ Building, Rensselaer. ts/ Money to Loan—l have an unlimited supply of money to loan on good farm lands at 5%% and usual commission or 6 % with<MA commission, as desired. LotUf will be made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. See me about these various plants—-JOHN A. DUNLAP. /'W ts - ... — Try a want ad in The Democrat,