Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 July 1910 — Page 3

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INDIANA HAPPENINGS

Newsy Notes of Interest from the Capital and All Around the State,

BLAZE TAKES HEAVY TOLL OPINION BY W. J. WOOD

Firemen Narrowly Escape Death, One Being Barely Dragged From Dan-

When Cornice Crashes Down.

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Rates Should Not Be Advanced Unlesa It Can Be Demonstrated That There It a Revenue Reason (or Making Advance.

IxcanBPOrt, July 27. Piro, Willig IndtaMnolla.ThA mil road cnrmntR.

t uuttl Ks of $30.000, swept the block B,on adoplld an opinon prepared by

William J. Wood, chairman, and baaed

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iuri- tora. tho Thoinaa leyers harnt tre, tho C. M. Roads plumbing l and the Hop Keo restaurant are hk .! The tin started from n pile i tmi'lsior In a back room of tho

t hereon an order directing that tho Pullman company reduce its parlor car rate between Indianapolis and Terre Haute from 40 cents to 26

cents, the former charge made by the

Hadley storo and In a few minutes compRnyi and jn adopting the opinion

was beyond control, isnac uirh.cn- !aJ(J down what lg (aken t0 bo a pro ruth, a llreinan. was carrying a Hue jecl0 i,aBg for ltg action in tho conof hose across tho roof of the Hadley ..jderatlon of railway rato questions, building when it suddenly collapsed. which are expected soon to occupy altarrylng tho flreman down with lt. mOBt lne emjre tirae 0f the commisCouncllman P. J. Farrell, formerly Bjon uniosg tno railroads are prevented thief of tho fire department, solzed from putting into effect the new freight the Hno of hose and directed the res- rates proposed for August 1. tu of Blrkenruth, who was dragged ..jt ls tho opjnion 0f this commlafrutu dnngor, having sustained a bro- slon Mr Wood wroto. "that public k.n arm in the fall. Charles McClos- carrjers should be required to give key, another fireman, was cut about roost B&tlBfactory reasons for raising the head by a falling piece of cornice. tne prices long established for servThe Hadley block, where the fire start-, jcea performed by them. If for no ed. Is noxt the Campbell Laundry other reason than the well-known fact building, which was destroyed by firo that population and business constanta month ago, and at that time the y increase in this country, and that Hadley block was slightly damaged by generally, aa the number of units of the blaze. Apartment Hats and room- business increases, the cost for each log houses occupied the second and unjt of business necessarily decreases, third stories of the buildings in the &ad that part of the decreased cost block, and In the lowering of house-; ahould bo allowed tho public who use bold effects to safety every' first floor' these facilities In lowar rates, or, t show window in the block was broken, least, that a rate long established should not b raised when there la Would Enjoin Park Board. j more business from which to derivo Evansvllle, July 27. Suit was filed reveuo and a consequent lower cost of in the superior court by directors of doing that business.

ik Es-fincx-illo Museum society acalnst "Oenerallv rates should not be nd-

the board of nark commissioners and vanced unless It can bo demonstrated

the city of Kvansvlllo to enjoin the that there is a revenue reason for ma-

nark commissioners from dismantling king the advance. . . . H mo irainc

and removing the present Armstrong revenue of a carrier Is sufficient to

residence property, used as a museum pay operating expenses and a reasontor ten years, from Sunset Park. Th- able return on the Investment, or on plaintiffs are Maj. A. C. Rosoncranz. tho value of tho property, any revision Charles F. Artos, Mrs. North Storm 0f rates should either conform to the and Mr. Andrew Keck. Tholr allega 1 scale thon in use or should be downi.. . muiiia miles uprp , a.-arA lntpn1 nf uriW&rd. Or . . . WO

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DYING OF SHOT FROM THIEF

Tcrre Haute Watchman Identifies Negro as Man Who Fired Bullet While Trying to Rob Building. Terre Harrte, July 25. -George M. LInta. bins; In a dyirg t-oodiUcn at the 'lOfpltal fr.tiu a bjüet fired by a Uu:g

ar. nar positively tacaruea v. unvo

McOtjonn, a lUfco. as the mar ho

hot him. After the arrest ard idenIf.cation Mc'Iowid was taiten to Jail

uid there was ftar for a time that an attempt would be made to take

him from the jail and lynch him.

Llntz was shot while acting as spe

cial watchman at the Elks building.

The burglnr entered and shot Llnu down before he had time to defend

himself. Tho bullot entered near his heart, and the doctors tay his death

Is only a matter of a few hours.

Llntz was on tho police force a

number of years as a patrolman and

when HIdaman was mayor he wds made chief of police, and was hold

ing that position when HIdaman was impeached for failure to enforce the law. In the trial of Bldamcn, Llntt

was an Important figure. Since leaving the department he has conducted a private detective agency. He haB a wife and several children.

Doings ÄTTHE

Odd Answers to Teachers' Questions

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ASHINGTON. One of the princi-

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Marines Erect Headstone at a Setter's Grave.

Came to Klttery Navy Yard a Friendless WaifBecame a Life Saver and Left Many Mourners.

"Poison," wrote another, "should b doctored at once and not allowed to run on as It Is dangerous. Don't treat poison rough it la llablo to run into blood poison. If anyone should take Ik ron it ls a good Idea to keep it a high up out of reach as possible." "You ought to keep polsnn in a little

room unlT lock and key In a litt I I.' .t tie and the cork In so it can't be pot out and hide the key an. I have skeleton on the bettle and not let nobody go In there." "A good aoty dote for poison." Bale one. "la to take a teatupful of aoap suds every ten minutes to make you vomit till the doctor comes." (It is awful to think of the doctor's being delayed several hours.) A class of six-grade pupils were asked to write a short biographical sketch cf Longfellow. One mombcr of the class proudly submitted thu following: "H. W. Longfellow was a grand

man. He wroto both poems and poetry

Mining Partor Returns. RushvHlc. July 25 Rev. B. M. Hawthornc. former pastor of the Gwynnerllle Christian church, who roddenly disappeared from his home cast of here June 3. has returned aa mysteriously as he departed. He refused to give any reason for his extended stay away from home. When he vent away he left a letter. It Is alleged, paying that he would never return. During his absence a new minister was employed and the congregation has decided to build a new church.

deeded in trust to the city upon con-

would bold that permanent lmprove-

d:tinn that It provide a permanent j ments In tracks and equipment, adding

jilace for housing them at Sunset' to tho Intrinsic value oi tue proper.

are not to do cnargeu to uwu jimu iui by the public and the price of stocks and bonds advanced In this way. but

should be paid for by those who own

Park-

Church Observes Birthday. Newcastle. July 26. The coagrega-

I tlon of the St James Episcopal church

of this city held a celebration In observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Its crtabllshment Rev. William Hellraan conducted the services. Rlnhop Joseph Frsnels of Indianapolis was to be present and assist In the cvlrraJlen. but contd not come. The chnrch was orlafaally located on

Young Tramps In Trouble. vi-aH.. iniw ?7 James Osborne.

fi ,rsc Sthlroll. David Dunn, all of j tho property, as they are the chief j south Seventeenth street and was

iioboken. N. J . and Thomas Uofclto; beneficiaries or tnese permanent auuiof Corning. X. Y., who were bound for J tlons to the property."

the west, all lads about sixteen years . The rauman uecunon was imsuu u

a complaint nie wnn me cuiniuinhiun

!ater ircred to the present location on

East Broad rtreet

nM uro in tail for stealing dinne

buckets from section wen on the Chi , ago and Erie railroad, near Disco The lads sre running away from their

homes. Because section mon, who pet J150 a day. asserteil the loss to them wa heavy slnco the buckets and contents were not recovered, the boys will bo tried here for larceny. They presented a good appearance, despite their long tramping. Officer Dies From Wound. Terro Haute. July 27. Detective George Llntz. shot by a negro burglar for whom he was lying in wait at the Elk's home, is dead. Although there Is no tangible evidence of danger from mob violence precaution ls taken at the Jail with a full forco of deputy sheriffs with riot guns and the fire hose at hand. William McGowan. the negro under arrest, has withstood the third degree perfectly, but the Identification by Llntz and other evl dence seemingly makes conclusive his guilt strike Breaker Will Sue.

Washington. July 27. Immediately

after the acquittal of FranK r,iKins ih strike breaker who was shot sev

eral days ago in a fight with Fred Heger, a railroad shop guard, who dloil of his wounds. Arnold J. Padgett.

attorney for Elkins, announced that he

wnnlrt file a suit asking SIO.OUU uam-

ages from the Baltimore and Ohio

Southwestern Railroad corapan). me easo will bo given a hearing at the Septombor terra of court Corrects Own Obituary. Plymouth. July 27. The obituary of

Jasper Mann, a well-known citizen o this county, was published In the local papers Inst week. It was said he had died at the National hospital. Wash lngion. Tho death notice was a col unui In length. Mann hastened to correct that part of his obituary that said he was dead. Ho declares he Is yet on terra firma. with what he con aiders a strong hold on life. Slain Negro Leaves Will. 57 The will of J. W

Edwards, the negro victim of the bullet of Constable Oscar Welty, was ad roltted to probate. Mr. Edwards dl reeled that his property be divided among his six children equally, but cut off his son Edward with a dollar The will was made within an hour be fore the death of the fathor. Tho rea ons for the disinheritance of the son are not made known.

by George N. Snyder, who lives in Indianapolis, and has business in Evansvllle which requlros much travel

ing. Snyder usually goes by way of Terre Haute and grew tired of paying 10 cents for a Pullman scat which he occupied a little less than two hours.

Charge Railroads With Violating Law. Flvo suits for alleged violation of tho Indiana railroad laws, requiring equipment on cars to safeguard the lives of employes and passengers, were filed in the Dolaware circuit court hero by the Indiana railroad commission through Attorney General James Dingham. Three of the cases are against James P. Goodrich, receiver for the Chicago. Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad company; ono against the Lake Erie & Westorn Railroad company and

tho other against the Central Indiana Railroad company. The complainants

alloce that the railroads are subject

to fines of $100 for each alleged of-

fenpe.

Two of the suits against the C, C & I. . now owned by the C. & O., pertain

to alleged defective grab Irons on box

care, and the second relates to an al-

lM defective box car coupler, i ne

suit against tho L. E. & W. alleges that a defectivo automatic coupler on a box oar was In uso, and the C. I. road

case alleges that a box car with a bro

ken draw bar, which la said to nave

nuonlanted by an emergency

knuckle, was used. sil Government Land

r.nt w II Olive of the Indiana

tnnd danartment returned from Wash

Ington county, where ho disposed of threo tracts of government Innd. Two

tracts wero purennseu u juuu . Schäfer and one by Abraham Flcener. There were ten acres In all and brought $71.25. The land lies along tho Muficatucuck river, near Salem. Soven other tracts wero to have been sold, but the prospective purchasers were not present at tho sale. Betweon Bloomlngton and Salem, Captain Ollvo reported that tho land U- under water and many hundred acres of oats and flat on tho around. Harvesting

la said to bo Impossible and great damage has been done by continued rains. Asks School Tax Ruling.

Attorney General Bingham nas Deen

ASHINGTON. One of the princi

pals in the Washington pi:

schools has been telling her frien.! of some amusing incidents of the linal examinations before the close- of the Kchools for tho summer. Among the questions she gave to the children In tho third grado was: "Namo the fivo races of man." Imagine her surprise when one tot answered: "Automobile races, horso races, airship races, foot racos and bicycle races." Another question was: "Name somo of the organs of men." To this one child replied: "Mouth organ, hand organ, pipe organ." Tho snlnal cord was defined as a

Rtrlni? runnlnc from tho back of the ! He graduated at Bowdoln and after

head to tho bottom of the heels. ' wards taught the same school where "P.irfi" snlil nnn. "firo lust as lmnor- ! he graduated. He didn't like teaching

tnnt as good clothes and should bo and decided to learn some other trade, taken care of Just as well. Don't let , so his school furnished him money to bugs crawl into your ears, but if ono j go to Europe and learn to be a poet should get in thero syringe your ear , He wrote many beautiful poemB for with soap suds .and afterwards drop i children. He wrote "Billy, the Blacksome molasses Into It" smith." Rural Free Delivery Is Growing Fast

work of tho mailing section. It includes a private postofllce through which every letter received or sent relative to rural delivery must pass. Every one of the half-million and

more letters sent from this department ls copied for record by a mechanical system which saves the labor of a hundred copying clerks even where the hand copying press or the carbon method has been employed A forco of only seventeen clorks ls need ed In this section, yet In addition to handling and copying mall they keep a dally rocord of all the outlay for postage expenses of the department and sort and examine the hundreds of letters daily received which must be returned to the postofllce whore they should have been directed. What the service does in receiving applications for new routes, petitions for carriers, decisions of the department, the payments and receipts, is told by the rostoffli e newspaper. Pub

lished every day by the accounting section, 1: 1h a record of what every one In this postal counting house, including hinylf, is doing. The esprit de corps of the rural free

deliv ry is best shown by the last an-

Portland, Mo. Beneath a headstoneIn tho naval cemetery at the Klttery na-y yard sleeps a faithful Uttlo soldlor, who, when ho died In April, 1909, left a long train of mourners and ho was only a dog. When Percy died, if tho American flag on the tall staff surmounting tho administration building was not halfmasted it was through no fault of the noncommissioned men about tho yard. Their devotion to Percy is shown by the following Inscription on his gravestone: "Percy, the marines' dog. Died April 7. 1900. Erected In his memory by his companions, the marines, whom ho loved." Percy was a full-blooded Irish setter. He came to the yard 14 yoars ago, a starved waif, in whom the marines at the barracks had much ado to keep tho spark of lifo alight Thonceforth, his life waB one long exhibition of dumb animal gratitude and he best showed it by saving three human lives, but unceasingly, too. In many lesser ways. No Alpine St. Bernard trained from

birth to life-saving ever did a nobler duty than Percy in the case of Private Cleveland. Percy habitually cheered the sentries on the loneliest beats about the reservation, whether tho tlmo were noon or midnight Clovelnnd ono cold, snowy night, had post No, d, nearly a mile out on the bleak, undeveloped

THE rural free delivery service of the United States means the distribution of nearly 3,000,000 letters and parcels annually along the highways and byways of every state and territory from Maine to Alaskaj A force of 41,000 carriers dally go over the routes assigned to thorn, says a writer in tho Bookkeeper. Bringing the mail to the farmer now costs tho nation $3G.OO0.000 a year in salaries for the carriers, expense of examining new routes, maintaining postofllces, payments of inspectors.

special agents, clerks and chiefs of

bureaus.

To secure information to make changes In routes and carriers, where deemed necessary, to establish new routes and to record and tabulate statistics and data for the postmaster

Bank Occtiplcs New Home. . v . i a. Tl & T7t mb XT .

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tlonal bank of this city moved lato Its i . . nnrmnnm ,B rM,ltrttA

m . . i a. i . a m t. a

in wasningion, in spue oi toe grem

new nnarters. leaving tne rooms

had ocrupled for years for the rent-

v completed ?nd handsoTie structure.

The bank hs Increafed Its capitaliza

tion from $50.000 to SI 25.000. the ap

proval or the controller of the currency being announced Friday. At a

reception gken by the banks oarers in the new Quarters nrore than three thousand perrons virited the building.

amount of office work and correspondence that must be finished daily. More than a million letters are received and answored by the department of rural free delivery In a year. Many of those received are merely addressed to the department. To save time of opening and reading missives not properly directed is a part of the

that out of the 41,000 In the service

the total dismissals for cause wero only 185. less than the total number of deaths. The reasons for the dismissals wero principally Incompetence and falluro to obey instructions. No dismissals whatever for stealing from tho mails or other dishonesty were on tho records.

Police Confiscate Beer. Huntington. July 2C Three barrels

nf beer were conflfcated by the police

here in a toft drink pallor that was formerly a raloon lK?fore the county

wns voted "dry" by local option. The barrels had just arrived from Indianapolis and contained unbilled half-

it.: botOcs. The prcr-ence of nin

ntnxicatd perrons on tne streets hJn usual hss caor-cd the officers and

Civic lengue to tike active steps In tracing down the source of the liquor.

Baseball and the Declaration Mixed

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X1 ASHINGTON had a "safe

if sane" celebration of the national birthday. In years gone by the national capital has been noted for the

Killed by Interurban Car. noisiest Fourth of July celebration of

South Bend. July 26 Alex Annnp. Qny city in the union. Last year they

fifty-five years old. wa? struck by en j adopted the "safe and sane" idea, intemrban er on the Northern Indl- T)ay fireworks and a parade In the

ana railway and Inrtantfy Wiled, the body was dr?rgrd a block through the business yrcMon of the city before be

ing thrown from under the car. neither the moforman or conductor knew of he fatality until after they had reached the car barns.

Buggy Hurled Into Ditch. Wabash. July 27. A colt driven by Ernest I.Ines and Ernest Alexander, near Lafontaine, became frightened and leaped off -a bridge, carrying thorn

Despondent Girl Ends Life. Terre Haute. July 2C Despondent because her father, a local carpenter, drank too much. Mary Osborne took a

large done of carbolic acid and died i

before aid cnald be summoned sne was eighteen yp.irs old and recently moved here with her fathor from Pnd-

rleton. Ind.

STATE NEWS BRIEFS. Columbus. The Utl'Ity Icfgue, a commercial organisation of Hope, is ralFlrg a bonus to Induce the rcmoral or a smokeless powder factory from St. Paul. She'by county, to Hope. Jerrcrr-onrlllo, Ju'ia A. Smith has filed suit here against the Indianapolis loulrvlllo Traction company In

morning with speechmaking on the plaza fronting tho city buildings. In

tho afternoon a motor parade and, at night, an illumination of the Monument grounds and more fireworks. The "safo and sane" idea took woll at first and Washington determined to stick by the modern form of colobration this year. Therefore the celebration last Monday bogan with tho reading of the Declaration of Independence In front of the city buildings. Ten o'clock was tho hour set. but. as luck would have It, the same hour tho Boston Red Sox and tho Nationals crossed bats. The Washington Post and the Washington Times have offices opposite the city uulldiug. A crowd of about 1.000 people had gathered for the ceremonies. At tho newspaper ofllces the megaphone men had been connected by wire with the basoball park.

Promptly at ten o'clock a baldheaded man In a frock coat arose on tho flag draped stand In front of tho city building cleared bis throat and began: "When the course of human ev " Across the way tho megaphone man interrupted with: "Milan ls at tho bat Ball one!" "vents It becomes necr ssary ," continued the baldheaded reader. "Foul Strike one," roared the megaphone. The masculine portion of the listeners became restive. Their attention turned in the direction of the megaphone man and their backs toward tho baldheaded patriot "for ono peoplo to dissolve the polit " "He hits to loft For two bases Lelivolt at the batBy this time 794 male members of tho Independence day audience had dashed madly across to Newspaper Row. Of the original nudlonce of the "safe and sane" celebration, 134 women 22 children, a salubriously lnloxicatod eab driver and the police guard

remalnod. "Lellvelt sacrifices Elborfold singles -Milan scores." "Hurrah! Wow! Wow!" bellowed the crowd and the remalndor of the reading of tho glorious document was Interspersed with "Good boy. Doc!" "Oh, you Gnbby Street!" for 14 hot Innings. But Boston won.

j Why Burton Didn't Climb Mountains

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. ' iit, Kt- Rnhert whlrh she asks Slb.ooo flamsge ior

naiiM iitxmi mr u uv"i"' "J

i aw tato superintendent of public 'injuries allpgod to have been "naerea

Instruction, with reference to tho pow

or of a school corporation to borrow monoy in antidpatloo of revenues to be collected for tho following year by

means of the local tuition tax

In Louisville whllo preparing to alight from a car of defendant company. Worthlngton. Mr. and Mrs. Dodley Jewell celebrated their golden weddlmc Bt ihMr home on Rdwards ntreet. XfT.

The Dog's Monument. ; southeastern part of the lalnnd. He was ...1 I . nt ltlu I T1 0 n tlflT 1 11 tl f

Buujn.1 iu 1 1 ui u&iu . v.. ""rr w time had one. He fell Insensible In the snow and

nual report. During the year It states ; Percy, devotedly by his side, tried with

all his little might to drag his heavybody to shelter. Failing to move the log-llko form, he snatched the sentry's cap In his teeth and flew through the storm for the dlstnnt barracks. The sleepors there wero roused and a rescue party reached tho prostrate mnrino in time to save his life. On one moro occasion Percy performed an almost similar service for another mnrlne who succumbed to the rigors of a wintry night, and who, but for the faithful canine messenger, would now be undor the sod which covers Percy. Percy pitched Into two thugs who ono night attacked n marine on tho bridge leading from Klttery to tho navy yard, and tho ferocity of his onslaught not only made tho yeggmen glad enough to escape, but brought the g-sard from the main gate. The victim was badly usod up and but for Percy's

assistance would have fared worse. Percy always considered Intoxicated marines his especial wards, and the poor fellows who sought In this way torelieve tho monotony of navy yard routine never had n stancher champion. Woo to the meddler who sought amusement at tho helptess tippler's expense. Though detachments of marines wero continually coming nnd going. Percy never lacked for friends, for to see him was to love him. He had the run of tho entlro yard, and places forbidden to all dogdom opened their bars to Percy. Even that holy of holies, tho navy yard ferry to Portsmouth, was a favorite stamping ground of his. It was this rroedom from all rostrnint which finally proved tho good old dog's undoing. Ono day ho was roaming about tho corridors of tho big unfinished naval prison on tho southern end of the island, when ho got his tail caught In an elevator. The hurt, at first apparently trivial, became serious, and tho best veterinary surgeon obtnlnnblo tried for a month to relieve tho faithful animal's1 sufferings. The warm-hearted marines, nearly bankrupted themselves In the effort to restore him to health, but his age was against recovery and he was

nt last mercifully dispatched. Other mascots havo Blnco partially engaged tho affections of the marlno guard, but Percy's death left a void, nevor to bo filled.

It is established that a school cor- j and Mrs. Jowoll received many praa-

noratlon can draw in aavance uion i Cnts from tneir cnuurai

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funds to M rocfllvoa rrom mo buu

Elmer O. Bunnall, belfcvos the law

and leoped off -a bridge, carrying tnom .Dtllc8 to stato fund ahw applies and the buggy Into a flftecn-foot dltchj epdon fund. lhe Unset wan demolished, hut the I

Mr. and Mrs. Jewell wore married at

Go sport Tho only Burrivor or ttosswho attended their wedding Is DsvM P. Rtrrtoa, who made an address at U golden wadding.

SINCE Senntor Burton took his congressional Investigators of European waterways abroad ho has been relating this one. Thy senator was In Switzerland. In front of the hotel nt which be was stopping a mountain climbing party was arranging for a

stnrt to tho top of one of tho lessor

Alpine peaks. The guido was as busy as a bird dog nosing around, nnd giving limitless advice and instruction in whnt to do and how to do it "Is he a thoroughly skilled climber?" asked thu Ohloan of tho hotel proprietor. "Ah, zat ho eez," exclaimed tho bonlface. "He have lost two partez of tourccsts down zeo mountnlno zlde, and boze times ho havo como oft wlzout o mooch aa zsu ono leotlu zcratch." Burton did not climb any mountains during his sojourn.

First Train Ride at Age of 83. Johnstown, Pa. Mrc. Elizabeth, Shaffsr, olghty-threo years old, camo to this city recently from her homo at Stoystown, Somerset county, and for tho first tlmo in her lifo saw and rode on a railway and had her first vlow otj a trolley car.

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men escaped unhurt.

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