Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 July 1910 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

Hotter oven than March! They're polishing the samls of the tst-ashure. An aeroplane does not seem to be mightier than Its toot or. An Illinois professor says skunks are edible. So are onions. "Pstlenco Is essentia to flsUlag," says the Detroit News. So Is good bait. Now some scientist suggests the vaccination of foodstuffs. We don't fcclievo It will take. Once In awhile an automobile driver Tuns down a pedestrian, and onco In awhile a motor cyclist doesn't. A New York doctor who has fasted 211 days lost 35 pounds. But It should le noted that ho had them to lose. If aeroplanes are used for carrying the malls, will tho franks of the congressauu entitle them to free rides? An aeroplane-motorcycle-auto race Is a novelty today, but what would it nave been ton or fifteen years ago? With $30.000.000 worth of Irrigation bonds on hand there should be no lack of moisture for the crops of the west an! northwest. By general consent Profossor Wood, who declares that skunks are good to eat, will be allowed to have the ontlro supply fcr his own use. The small-boy fatality Is likely to bo on the Increase, now that the aviationexperiment craze has seized upon the fancy of adventurous youth. Massachusetts man wishes release from the bonds of matrimony because his wife keeps thirty-one cats. Why didn't he buy a dog or so? When we have Inter-collegiate aviation contests the rain of undergraduates from the skies Is likely to make football seem a tame and effste diversion. Aeroplane torpedoes directed by wireless! If Baron Munchausen bad thought of this, his stories would have Leen rejected as too fantastic to be funny. Says a cable from Calcutta: "Three men are reported frozen to death, and six Kfiled by sunstroke In India, today " India must be nearly as big as TYxas! The si !an of Sulu, who Is coming to vlält t:i rountry, ill b welcome. n"d be i ; would b? g!ad to se tf rfU'ra' d wicard of Oz at the 6'iirr Uj Thr ,-. calary f the AfrTicT-, rr -ir hr- - "t .;3 ; v.ar This ' TT"-v s. .""'Hr wl:a It ( o.-ts ' i r-ac1)i"- have donate :i par - -it l.:s h - .-c Tl f ? on tit:: ! n nirr r a exactly 'Vitt stat rrrhaps ew'r: to tl, f;.ct that p .. s not corn-I--:1 t' wai' anyh r for littl jf rk-wat r a.rthlpa to niake connec t! r.s If tho n an In New York who now fcas a jaw ben of solid gold possesses in addition a tongue of silver, an iron nTve and a grip of stfl. ho may aptly and accurately be described as a man of mettle. The forolgs professors at tho Imperial univerUty in Peking insist that 1 a rhalr of hous "cleaning be Installed j If they are to continue In tbelr posts, i ven the lore of the agos is the betiter for an occasional dusting. A Judge having a speed maniac before him. advised tho prisoner to see u doctor. But the Judge failed to glvo his advice the fullest effect, since a to give the most effective treatment. A hasty glimpse at the children's magazines shows that they nre Instructing the youth of the land in tho method of making airships and wireless telegraph outflta. At last the boys aro finding something to play with that thoir fathers cannot show (them how to run. The Cincinnati man who carries hi'., own street railway strap Is glvl',; tne riib'lc of that city an example of ultra precaution In the bafflicg of stray grrms. There ar doubth-ss germs without number on car straps, but if the man with the Individual strap were to carry his precautions Into all ( of his dally activities he would be "ry lonesome. However, a happy medium In the strugglo against germs would doubtless soon reduce the numIf you take advaniago of this discouraging spell and let yoursolf be coaxed artfully, you can gtft a pretty fair rate at the bench hotel or tho farm boarding house for tho summer. There seems to be practically no limit to the uses to which the automcbfle can be put Tho latest Is the automobile plow, an experiment on a large scalo In Indiana having demonstrated the value of the machine as a saver of labor nnd cost Will the next thing be plowing, sowing and reap ng by Use aid of an airship!

ERS IN RIOT GRAND TRUNK PASSENGER SERVICE ABANDONED AT SOUTH BEND, IND. ORDER TROOPS TO BE READY One Man Shot and Three Detectives Arrested Attempt to Derail Train ; Is Frustrated by Alertness of Engineer. South Bond, Ind. Governor Marshal! Sunday night ordered CapL Charles 11. Calvert, Company P. Third Infantry, of this city, to bold his troops In readiness to assemble at a moment's notice. There was spasmodic rioting In the Grand Trunk yards all day by mobs of strikers and their sympathisers. Grand Trunk officials announced 1 that no attempt will be made to move i any passenger trains through South Bend, orders having been Issued to ' cancel all passenger servlco to or from the city. Advices from all along the Grand Trunk system Is to the effect that strikers are quiet at all points except at South Bend. Strikers, or their sympathizers, attempted to derail east-bo'und passenger train No. S at Olivers, the first station at which Grand Trunk trains stop when entering South Band. The engineer saw tho thrown switch Just in time to bring his train to a stop and prevent heavy loss of life. J. Freel of South Bend was serious- j lv u'mtnHart T,t.n O. , Jnlnntlia of Battle Creek. Mich., who with j Eldrldge Graham and William McRey- j

arrest Freel was shot In the back j London. Tho Central News has and is at Epworth hospital. A mob ; a private telegram from Montreal burned two cabooses and attempted to , stating that a wireless message has destroy several freight cars but the been secured there saying: arrival of police and fire department i "Miss Leneve confesses." foiled the plan. j u js BaId Mlss Leneve denied all , A freight train of 50 cars was I knowledge of the murder of Belle Elstalled for seven hours by some one ; more and threw herself on the capcutting the air hose and taking the j tain's protection. t couplings, and It tied up five passen-1 The Express says: ger trains. The police are authority "Doctor Crlppen was searched on j for the statement that the stalling of board the steamer Montrose and de-' the freight may not have been the ' prived of a revolver, a number of cart- i work of strikers but of men In the I ridges and a penknife, while Miss empley of the company, the pollco Leneve burst Into tears. i believing that the move was brought "Doctor Crlppen has ben told that 1 about as a part of a plan to get state , he had contravened the law by repre- j troops In the field and thus break the senting a woman as a boy, and by glv- j backbone of the strike by turning ing a false name In papers he had

imune sympathy away from the I signed. strikers. j "Grippen was unable to produce a A crowd of 1.500 to 2.000 men and marriage certificate showing that Miss boys, sympathizers, made an effort Leneve was his wife, or any docuMonday night to burn a refrigerator , ments bearing out his assertion that car that had been switched on a his name was Robinson. Both were crossing west of Oliver's Station. Tho ' placed under arrest." city fire department succeeded in t Crlppen is watched day and night quenching the flames after the car had by officers and seamen. A stewardess blazed for 20 minutes or more. i keeps guard over Miss Leneve. CripIt waa evident that the trouble was pen declares he can prove his Innobrewing early In the evening for the nonce. rrot) began to congregate at the June- i Zlnt, ? iJSl SCORES SAVED BY WIRELESS Trunk. A3 th crowd Increased In '!z- It movtd wt r from Oliver's Sta- Sister Vessel Goes to Relief of Burn-

rim and h n a uil;t train of sevn Trt and a ci'k appeared on the r.. ;,n i :r ic-r it was greeted i'a a t-hv- r Ptnnts. splk'a and

As -,.u as the train was Ffopii at "S. O. S," the call that has super-th-tts! f ad of :h. vardi the -ngine seded the "C. Q. D." the high sea crew was afackfft by everal foreign- cry for help Saturday resulted In the but the rrivi of Assistant Chief saving of scores of lives from the c i pi.iic-. Cfc : ; ; and a squad of po- burning coast liner Momus, owned by lie men rout 1 th.- riorrs for tho time the Southern Pacific company, off tho ine Mav.r liarU-a I.. Goetx of Florida coast. News of tho rescue South IlnJ -ml .shriff Millard F. was brought by wireless dispatches K'-rr of St. Jo.-ph county Instructed recelvod here. I). Cromble. Montreal, first assistant The Coraus, a ship belonging to the to Grand Trunk chief of transports same line, answered the call, standing tion. who has been in this city, that t by while tho passengers were trnnsall local police protection would be ; ferred. The advices sent out while withdrawn from the railroad yardß tho vessel was ablaze in twelve fathunless every Plnkerton detectivo was J oms of water said there was a miniremoved from th city. The privato ' mum of confusion among tho passendetectives were withdrawn. j gers. and that nearly all, especially Anticipating th? possibility of trou- , the women, ccted with heroism from ble In the yards. Governor Marshall the time tho flames were discovered took time by the forelock and ordered i until they were safe aboard tho rollef the four companies of the First bat- j ship. tallon. Third infantry. Indiana N'atlon- !

al Guard, located at South Bend. Ply- ! mourn. Warsaw and Eikhnrt under command to MaJ. George W. Freyermuth of South llend to hold themselves In readiness to move on to South Bend at SO minutes notice. The governor ordered Gen. Will J. McKee, commander of the state militia, who is In the city, to remain In South Bend and keep In close touch with tho strike situation. The battalion f -I ... inJfLrlm00"8180' P1' i enced men the officers with very few exceptions having been In tho service for from five to ten years. I

,,. , , .1 uemr mitfiuiJiuii iu lurco an enMayor Goerz Jsmied a proclamation I . , ,

.nitri,,?!,,ta ll ref,n fr0"! f-ntliarinfr In wt n am f 1. . . t t um MÜULS UHU to assist in preverving order. Freed to Help Harvest Crop. Georgetown. Ky. A novel method to save the wheat crop of Scott coun ty was resorted to when a number of , farmers appmred before the county j t"',sc ,u .J . . . on pns I too jmi in umer 10 gel ne.p to harvest the crop. Rear Admiral Looker Is Dead. Washington. Hear Admiral Thomas H. Looker, a veteran of tho Mexican nnd Civil wars and for many years paymaster general of tho army, died Monday at tho age of eighty years. Ho was a native of Ohio. Negro Official Dies; Named by Grant. Newport News. Vn. John B. Mitchell, collector of customs at historical old Yorktown. Va., for more than forty years, dlod Monday. He was a negro and was appointed to ofllco by President Grant

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GRIPPEN ARRESTED AT SEA HIS COMPANION, MISS LENEVE, CONFESSES TO CAPTORS. Privat rhlpnram A nnnlmr.a Ttiit Doctor Wanted on Charge of Slaying Wife Is Taken. , ing Ship and All on Board Are Safe. Charleston. S. C. The snap and flash of the wireless, sending out the NEGRO IS BURNED AT STAKE Belton (Tex.) Mob Revenges Death of an Officer Two Have Narrow Escape. Belton. Tex. Henry Gentry, n negro, eighteen years old, paid tho penalty cf his crime murder and intended assault at tho stako. Two others, a brother and a companion, charged utuuivi tint, . wtuiniiiiuu, vtKllKtZM with implication, missed a like fate on) th h tho pIoadlnR9 of Sherlff Bu?ke and several citizens, r,,. . , a widow, but waa frightened away with a shot by the woman's daughter Several hours later, whllo Gentry was being hunted by a posse headed bv Constable James Mitchell. Gentry, tiring from ambush, killed tho lender. Th. posse surrounded the fugltlvo. n0trv m.i . .iah rnr nwv .i WM 8not nnd crlpp,od. e wa8 dragged behind an automobile to Bel ton, where sovontl thousand men and boys waited. Rebel General Is Killed. Washington. The state department wns advised Monday that the revolutionists in Honduras mot with severe reverses on July 22. when Genoral AInrtIn of tho revolutionary forces was ropulsed and killed during an attack on the government barracks. Sell Eggs and Bread by Weight. New York, Kggs and broad will bo sold by weight only in Grontcr New York In the near future, was announced Monday by Commissioner of Weights and Measures Drlscoll.

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fcMtn' Jot 01 RAWN WAS W0RTH M1LLI0N Will of Slain Railroad Chief Filed for Probate Widow Gets All Home Under Guard. Chicago. To Mrs. Florence WUMs Rawn. widow of the late I. G. Rawn. president of the Monon railroad, who was found dead last Wednesday In his summer home In WInnetka. Is given all the property left by the late railroad chief, according to the terms of his will, filed with the assistant clerk of the probate court Monday. Mrs. Rawn Is named executrix under the will. The t-state Is supposed to be valued at over $1.000,000. A guard has been placed In the Rawn home by Samuel H. Greeley, president of tho village board of WInnetka, because ho has learned that "material evidence as to facts concerning the death of the railroad official have been and may be suppressed." A letter was sent to Mrs. Rawn notifying her that Marshal Coutre of WInnetka would take charge of the premises until after the Inquest J. T. Harahan. president of tho Illinois Central railroad, joined forces with the Chicago police In their efforts to solve the mystery surrounding the tragic deuth of Mr. Rawn. In a conference with Assistant Chief of Police Herman Schuettler President Harahan turned over all of the evidence In the Illinois Central graft Investigation that Involved Mr Rawn. TAFT'S ANKLE IS STRAINED President Meets With Painful Accident While Playing Golf Puts " In Busy Day. Bar Harbor. Once more afloat. President Tart and his party on the Mayflower left Bar Harbor Sunday night for Penobscot and Casco Day. in which they will crulpe until Wednesday, when the ship will be turned toward Beverly. The president hurt bis ankle while he was playing golf on the links of the Kabo Valley club at Bar Harbor. Despite the excruciating pain which was evldencod by a decided limp and facial grimaces each time he bad to climb in or out of an automobile or train, the president carried out tho exacting program which had been arranged for him. It included a spech, an automobile rldo and luncheon In Bangor, and a speech and reception at Ellworth. Tho president was climbing a steep grassy slope loading to one of the greens when his right foot turned beneath him. Thero was Borne pain at the time, but Mr. Taft though nothing of It and continued his game. Later, however, ho suffored considerable pain. Surgeon Grayson of the Mayflower dressed the Injured ankle and made a thorough examination. He declared there was no general sprain, but a bad strain of some of the tendons. WOMAN AVIATOR IS COMING Mme. Mathilde Frank Expects to Enter In Race From Chicago to New York. New York. A French woman, ono of the four or five women who have dono serious work In avlntlon. has Indiented her Intention of coming to America shortly for the purpose of attempting a flight from Chicago to New York for t prize recently offered. She Is Mme. Mathilde Frank, the French wife of a British journalist Mme. Frank has made several excellent flights recently. She flow fourteen miles at Mourtnelons without stopping, establishing a record as a woman aviator. She Is at presoilt prornrltig for a flight across tho English channel from CalnU to Dover. Fix Blame for Gun Blast. Washington. The board of nrmy engineers which Investigated the gun explosion last Thursday at Fortross Monroe roportetl Monday that the accident was caused by tho fnllnre of the safety device of tho firing mechanism to function properly. Heat Kills Six Pittsburgers. Pittsburg. Pa. Six dentils from hoat In the vicinity of Pittsburg wore reported for .Monday, though tho thermomoter only ranched S8 degrees on the streets.

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GEN, WOOD PRAISES HEROES COMMENDS OFFICERS WHO AVERTED SECOND EXPLOSION. Lieut. Hawes Fights Fire With Bare Hands and Stops Further Disaster. Washington. Stories of valor and sacrifice Jn time of suffering and confusion wore detnllod to Gonoral Wood, chief of staff of tho army, and other ofilclnls of tho war department upon tho return to Washington of officers who witnossod tho explosion of the big gun In the first minute of battle practise at Fortross Monroo which resulted in olovon doaths. Thoso personal reports were augmented by furthor tolegraphlc roports from Lieut. Col. C. P. Townsley of the const artillery corps, commaudant of tho fort Lieutenant Hawes Is praised' by tho commandant for having extinguished with his bare hands burning material that threatened to Ignlto the second charge, which was on Its way to tho emplacement Conspicuous In tho group of thoae whose heroic conduct attracted attention was Lieutenant Van Deusen, who suffered a broken leg from tho body of one of his men being hurled against him. His body also was burned by gas. He was the timekeeper during tho target practise. Following the receipt of tho reports General Wood sent a telegram to Fortress Monroo expressing his sympathy for the bereaved and suffering, and his appreciation of tho "excellent conduct" of the officers and enlisted men. Tho war department has begun a rigid investigation to determine the cause and fix the responsibility for the explosion of tho gun.

700 HEMMED IN BY FLAMES Towns of Bloomvllle and Helnemann, ' Wis., Menaced by Forest Fires Railroad Tracks Burned. Merrill, Wis. Seven hundred persons of Bloomvllle and Heinemann were hemmed In Thursdny by forest fires at the former town with seemingly no means of escape. Tho fires have destroyed the railroad tracks for some distance between Bloomvllle and Merrill, making It impossible for the Inhabitants of the doomed village to seek refuge In that direction. The situation at Bloomvllle la critical. The 400 homeless of Helnemann fled to that village only to be confronted by a similar peril. Gleason. north of Bloomvllle. Is Isolated by the fire, and It has been Impossible to get word from the village for many hours. This leaves Bloomvllle with its 50 persons cut off on every side. With the population nearly tripled, the question of feeding the people is a serious one. Reports from Bloomvllle tell of the flight of scores of jopIe. some going no foot and others in wagons. The loss in buildings is over $200,000. Several farmers families have not ben accounted for. Fields which were about to be thrashed and live stock and buildings were abandoned. CAIRO CITIZENS NOT GUILTY Twelve Men Charged With Aiding In Negro Lynching Are Acquitted by Jury. Calm. Ml. Verdicts of not guilty were returned In the cas of 12 Cairo citizens, charged in indictments with having been leaders of the mob which stormed the Alexander county Jail and lynched the negrc, John Pratt the night it February 15 last The Jury was out two hours. The court had previously ordered a verdict of not guilty for W. C. Charles, while a request for a similar verdict for Georg B. Walker had boon made by the stato's atnrtiey $80,000 IN BONDS STOLEN American Agency of Russo-Chlna Bank at ew York Report Theft of Securities. New York. Bonds and other securities, the tnnrket vnluo of which Is estimated to be about $80.000. wero officially reported as having been stolen from tho American agency of the Russo-Chlnn bank. The par value of the securities is JCC.000. Profound myBtery nnd secrecy wero maintained by everybody supposed to , be In a position to have information as to the theft MAYOR KILLED WITH BOMB I Virginia Village Executive Is Slain Lying In Hammock by Assassin Who Throws Dynamite. Rldgeway. Va. Former Mayor A. H. j t Bousman was assassinated Monday ; I by a dynamite bomb which was thrown . from the street under a hammock In j which he was lying. He died an hour after the xploslon No clue to the Identity of tho murderer or the cause of the crime has been found. France Accepts Washington Statue. Paris. Tho French governmnnt Saturday accepted a bronze copy of Houden's statue of George Washington, which was presented by tho stato of Virginia through M. Jussornnd. the French nmbnssador to tho United States. Dickinson Arrives in Manila. Manila. Secretary of War DicklnEon arrived here Saturday. After ho and General Edwards landed they were escnrtod to the palace by n battalion of cavalry.

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Obstructions Are Placed on Tracks at South Bend. ATTEMPT IS UNSUCCESSFUL Union Leaders Hold Conferences at Toronto Grand Trunk Officials Declare Worst of Strike Is Over. South Bond, Ind., July 27 AI -f.. . two attempts wero maüo to dt-ra.t Bunger trains and ono freight cur partly burnod by strike. sympaTLli tho Grand Trunk strike sltuati. i, l la one of comparative quietness. Union raon engaged in othur tri -wero at thoir own employment. .-. tho crowds at tho station and it. yards wero small and easily con'ru. ; A large force of policemen und . uty sherifts continued to patru -i railroad property. Attempts to dorall passenger tra rs were unsuccessful, thp obstruction, r, each Instance being discovered in to avert accident. The railroad resumed swtch:rg tho local yards, an assistant s-, r. tondont again officiating; as cr.Ju -of tho single crew at work. May Stop Trains Outside City. Little switching: was dono at r.ih: and all freight service probat : -bo suspended during the night tho trouble lasts. This mov- is line with a suggestion of Uu r a: . attorneys who aro gathering L rconference The lawyers bU ve a . trains should bo halted outsi.icity overnight The members of tho state rail., commission are expected in Sc.- , Bend to look over tho ground 1. . mors have been crurent that the 'rr. running are not equipped with f..: crewB, and the railway commissi ct-r It la said, and coming to Invt One passenger train, an ai con.cij Hon running from Port Humn. MMi to South Bend, was stoppnl by 'hf f of Detectives William Cassidy -ca.-it lacked the propor number ' brakemen. Although tho train ordinarily ; -in the yards In tho western ; a- . tho city, tho officer would not -it to go beyond tho local depot v distance is but two miles. Union Leaders In Conference Montroal. July 27. The i . dlan center of Interest In tho . Trunk atriko has apparently shi ' to Toronto. There local union 1 . era expect to meet President Loo of the Hroth-rliol of Hnair Trainmen and A I ;;irrtdon ' Order of Railway t 'ndu-tirs. Itaports that fji1- inently representatives will cunf r wl'h . mittee of Grand Trunk ffM.il-, little credence h r- Confe r-1. arbitration are tbir.-n f tl. according to the cü ;.!. . Th worst of this r.:nkv ifwild G n-rnl )lacacr f "Irr tion Brttwnle'. "Osr f. i:.' splendidly yesterday :. h' and northern divininrs 1 h pers will be given thiir pe and then; is no arruan.ifreight - REBELLION ON IN SANTIAGO Cuban Authorities Now Figtj j New Uprising Led by Genera Mtnlet. Havana, July 27. Rebellion broken out at El Caney. prm.:, Santiago, and the government 1.- : alarmed. Following a midnight council .t palace troops were rushed to tr affected district Tho Insurgents are reported atreating to the hills, pursued by r -already In the province. Tho Insurrection Is said to be ' -rloua character. Tho governrif learned that Gen. Mlnlot and Jane, revolutionary retornns, had . ken to the woods at the head of a'' a score of followers. Mlnlet Is a man of Influence an ! t was feared that many malcr. would rally around his standard T council of war was hastily oallcJ the palaco and tho situation thr .' ly dlscussod. It -was dotermln : ' rush troops to HI Canoy. Soon : -carrying 1,300 troops, Infantry cavalry, left Camp Columbia i:r command of Gen. Monteaguilo f Rural guard. Gen. Montengud" orders to reach El Caney in th- -' est possible tlmo. The Immediate cause of tiding Is not known here, imt for days past rumors have ir ' through tho province of Sam:.Impending trouble. The rumor been declared by ofllclals of t!.- -eminent to bo wit hont foundati- n BREAD PUDDING POISONS 500 Old Soldiers Are the Victims Do; tors at Home Deny That Any Deaths Resulted. Bristol. Va.. July 27. Probata ' old soldiers at the Mountain tr.r of the National Soldiers' hmi;Johnson City were poisoned by t-r- ' 1 pudding. The homo corps of physicians w. r kopt busy for several hours. Two deaths occurred. It was .n 1 that they resulted from the poisoning but ofllclals of the homo denied this.