Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 August 1910 — Page 2

WEEKLYCOURIER DEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

Hotter even than March! They're polishing the sanda of tho An aeroplane docs not seom to be taightitr than its motor. An Illinois professor says skenks are cdlblt1 So aro onions. 'Tfitionco Is essential to fishing." Gays tho Detroit Nows. So la good bait. Now boiuq sclontist suggests tho Vaccination of foodstuffs. We don't "believe It will tako. Once In awhllo an automobile driver runs down a pedestrian, and once In uwhile a motor cyclist doesn't. A New York doctor who has fasted 31 days lost 35 pounds. But it should be noted that ho had thorn to lose. If aeroplanes are U6ed for carrying the mails, will tho franks of the congressmen entitle them to freo rldos? An aeroplane-motorcyclo-nuto race 1b a novelty today, but what would it Lave been ten or fifteen years ago? With $30.000.000 worth of Irrigation bonds on hand there should bo no lack of moisture for tho crops of the west tmJ northwost. By general consent Professor Wood, who declares that skunks are good to at, 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 bondb nf matrimony becauso his wife keeps thirty-one cats. Why didn't he buy a dog or so? When we have intor-collegiate aviation contosts tho rain of undergraduates from tho skies is likely to make football seem a tamo and effste diversion. Aeroplano torpedoes directed by wireless! If Baron Munchausen had thought of this, his stories would have teen rejectod as too fantastic to be iunny. Pays a cable from Calcutta: "Three meu are reported frozen to death, and six KJiled by sunstroke in India, today " India must bo nearly as big as Tc xas! Thf sultan of Sulu. who Is coming In visit tr.u country, will bp welcome, nnd tho r '.! would tu lad to sc t'f cole1 r:if,.j wizard of Oz at the 6.tHK tin.' Tr.r- a- : rT- .'alary "f th American F " tif. : !.t fitfl a -ir This Is j"' v s i v. l or, you r. ril r what 1 o ts t' . pn achr in l.ave donate : I a: .- hU Ikj 'rh 7' !lin a'rr 'r 'v?s exactly cr. time rry tat t n. frbaps ow hc t . ? . fa. t that sh' was not com T ": t ':ilt anyw"rf for llttl jrkwattr ai;.-hlpg to u ake connec t! LP If the man in New York who now hp a jawbone "f solid gold possesses In addition a tongue of silver, an Iron mrve and a trrlp of steel, ho may aptly and accurately be described as a man of rr.pttW; Tho fnrolfri professors at the Imperial university In Peking Insist at a chair of bousecleaning be Installed If they nro to continue In their posts, liven tho lore of the ngos Is the betiter for an occasional dusting. A Judgo having a speed maniac before him. advised the prisoner to see u doctor. Hut the Judgo fnlled to give his ndvlco tho fullest effect, since a reliablo prison dtrtor would bo able to give tho most offoctlvo treatment. A hasty glimpse at tho children's 'magazines shows that they aro Instructing the youth of the land In tho method of making airships and wireless telegraph outflta. At Inst the boya nro finding something to play with that their fathors cannot Bhow tbt-m how to run. The Cincinnati man who currlos his own Htr.'et railway strap Ig giving the r"bllc nf that city an example of ultra precaution in the baffling of stray ETiiw. There are doubtless germs without number on enr straps, but If the man with the Individual strap were to carry his precautions Into all of hl3 dally activities ho would bo wry lonoaomo. Uowevor. a happy medium In the struggle against gorms would doubtless soon reduce the nuiuIf yon take advantage of this discouraging spoil and lot yourself be coaxed artfully, you can get a pretty fair rate at tho beach hotel or tho farm boarding house for the summer. Thcr peems to bo practically no limit to the uses to which tho automcbile can bo put. Tho latest Is tho automobile plow, an experiment on a largo acalo in indlima having demonstrated tho vnluo of the machine ns a leaver of labor and cost Will the next thing bo plowing, sowing aud feapng by tae aid of an airship?

GRAND TRUNK PASSENGER SERV ICE 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 Bend, lad. Governor Marshall Sunday night ordered Cnpt Charles U. Calvert. Cotnpauy F, Third Infantry, of this city, to hold his troops In readiness to assomblo at a moment's notice. There was spas modic rioting In the Grand Trunk yards all day by mobs of strlkors aud their sympathizers. Grand Trunk officials announcod that no nttempt will ho mndo to move any passenger trains through South IJend, orders having been Issued to cancel all passenger service to or from the city. Advices from all along tho Grand Trunk system Is to the effect that strikers are quiot at all points except at South Bend. Strikers, or their sympathizers, attempted to derail east-bound passen- i ger train No. S at Olivers, the first staHon at which Grand Trunk trains stop when entering South Bond. The ' engineer saw tho thrown switch Just In time to bring his train to a stop and prevent heavy loss of life. j J. Freol of South Bond was serious- ! ly wounded by John Pock, a detective of Battle Crook. Mich., who with Eldridge Graham and William McReynolds, also of Battle Creok. are under arrest. Freel was shot In the back and in nf Rnu-nrtli ImanlMl A mnh - - i' v.. iiu; j'l.iiti v j burned two cabooses and attempted to j destroy several freight cars but the ; arrival of police and Are department I foiled the plan. I A freight train of 60 cars was I stalled for seven hours by some one i cutting the air hoso and taking tho j couplings, and it tied up five passen- j ger tralua. Tho police are authority j for the statement that the stalling of tho freight may not have been the work of strikers but of men In the empley of the company, tho police believing that the move was brought 1 about as a part of a plan to get state troops in the field and thus break the backbone of the strike by turning , public sympathy away from the j strikers. j A crowd of 1.500 to 2,000 men and boys, sympathizers, made an effort Mondity night to burn a refrigerator 1 car tiiRt had been switched on n , crossing west of Oliver's Station. Tho city fire department succeedod in ' quo nchlng the flames after the car had blazed for 20 minutes or more. It was evident that the trouble was brewing early In the evening for tho mob began to congregate at the June- ! Hon of the Lak- Shore & Michigan Southern railroad und the Grand Trmk. An th crowd Increased In s-Izo it moved we t from Oliver's Station and when a tiek'ht train of seven car and a iIkkxp a peared on tfap ff!i- an ho-ir later it was jrreetod with a fchov r (' stones, spikes and ouplint; pinAs '- on at tho train was stopped at the w-t end of th yards the engine rtvw was attack' a by several forbrn'is. lmt the ;rriv.l of Assistant Chief of Police Cb.ipp-1 and a squad of pollcnnn rout?d thv? rioters for the time ing Mavor Charles L. Goetz of South Bend and Sheriff Millard F. j Kerr of St. Joseph county Instructed ' I). Cronibie, Montreal, first assistant j to Grand Trunk chief of transportation, who has been In this city, that j all local police protection would bo j withdrawn from the railroad yards unless every PInkerton detective was ' removed from th city. The private , detectives were withdrawn. j Anticipating the possibility of trou- i hie in the yards, Governor Marshall i took time by the forolock and ordered 1 tho four companies of the First bat- j talion. Third Infantry, Indiana Nation- I nl Guard, located nt South Bend, Ply- j mouth. Warsaw and Elkhart under I command to MaJ. George W. Freyermuth of South Bond to hold them- ' seivos in readiness to move on to South Bend at 30 minutes' notice. The governor ordered Gen. Will J. McKce, commander of the state militia, who is In tho city, to remain in South Bend nnd keep In close touch with the strike situation. The battalion for the most part consists of experienced men, the officers with very few exceptions having been In tho service for from five to ten years. Mayor Com Issued a proclamation urging all Inhabitants to refrain from gathering hi crowds on the streets and to assist in preferring order. Freed to Help Harvest Crop. j Georgetown. Ky. A novel method I to save tho wheat crop of Scott coun- i ty was resorted to when n number of ' Judge and iaid tho fines of ten prisoners in tho Jail In order to get ho!p to harvest the crop. Rear Admiral Looker Is Dead. Washington. Rear Admiral Taomns H. Looker, n veteran of tho Mexican and Civil wnrs and for many yonra paymaster general of tho army, diotl Monday at the ago of eighty years. Ho was a native of Ohio. Negro Official Dies; Named by Grant. Newport News. Vn. John B. .Mitchoil, collector of customs at historical old Yorktown. Vn., for more than forty years, dlod Monday. lie was a negro and was appointed to office by President Grant.

WHY NOT MAKE A THOROUGH JOB OF IT?

GRIPPEN ARRESTED AT SEA HIS COMPANION, MISS LENEVE, CONFESSES TO CAPTORS. Private Cablegram Announces That Doctor Wanted on Charge of Slaying Wife Is Taken. London. Tho Central News has a private telegram from Montreal stating that a wireless message has been secured there saying: "Miss Loneve confesses." It Is said Miss Leneve denied nil knowledge of the murder of Bolle Elmore and threw herself on the captain's protection. The Express says: "Doctor Crlppen was searched on board the stoamer Montroso and deprived of a revolver, a number of cartridges nnd a penknife, while Miss Leneve burst Into tears. "Doctor Crlppen has ben told that he had contravened the law by representing a woman as a boy, and by giving a false name In papers he had signed. "Crlppen was unable to produce a marriage certificate showing that Miss Leneve was his wife, or any documents bearing out his assertion that his name was Robinson. Both wore placed under arrest." Crlppon Is watched day and night by officers and seamen. A stewardess keeps guard over Miss Leneve. Crippen declares he can provo bis innocence. SCORES SAVED BY WIRELESS Sister Vessel Goes to Relief of Burning Ship and All on Board Are Safe. Charleston. S. C The snap and flash of the wireless, sending out the "S. O. S.." the call that has superseded the C Q. D." the high sea cry for help Saturday resulted In the saving of scores of lives from the burning coast liner Motnue, owned by the Southern Pacific company, off the Florida coast News of tho rescue was brought by wireless dispatches received here. The Comus, a ship belonging to tho same lino, answered the call, standing by while the passengers were transferred. Tho advlcea sent out while tho vessol was ablazo in twelve fathoms of wntor said there was a minimum of confusion among the passengers, and that nearly all. especially tho women, ncted with heroism from tho tlmo tho tlames were discovered until they were safe aboard the reliof ship. NEGRO IS BURNED AT STAKE Belton (Tex.) Mob Revenges Death of an Officer Two Have Narrow Escape. Belton, Tex. Henry Gentry, a negro, eighteen years old. paid the penalty of hla crime murder and Intended assault at tho stako. Two others, a brother and a companion, charged with Implication, missed a like fate only through the pleadings of Sheriff Burke and several citizens. Gentry attempted to force an entrance Into the homo of Mrs. Lamb, a widow, hut was frightened away with a shot by the woman's daughter Several hours later, while Gentry wna being hunted by a pospe headed by Constable James Mitchell. Gentry, firing from ambush, killed the leader. Th. posse surrounded the fugitive Gentry made a dash for liberty and was shot and crippled. He wna dragged behind an autoinobllo to Bolton, whero sevorul thousand men and hoys waited. Rebel General Is Killed. Washington. Tho state department was advised Monday that the revolutionists in Honduras met with severe roverte on July 22. when Genoral Martin nf tho revolutionary forces was repulsed and killed during an attack on tho governmont hnrrncks. Sell Eggs and Bread by Weight. Now York. Eggs and bread will be rold by wolght only In Graater Now York In tho near future, was announccd Monday by Commissioner of Weights and Measures DrlscoIL

RAWN WAS W0RTH million

Will of Slain Railroad Chief Filed for Probate Widow Gets All Home Under Guard. Chicago. To Mrs. Florence Willis Rnwn. 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 h11 the property left by the late railroad chief, according to the terms of his will, filed with tho assistant clerk cf the probate court Monday. Mrs. Rawn Is named executrix under tho will. The estate 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 the village board of Winnetka. because he has leamed that "material evldenco as to facts concerning the death of the railroad official have been and may bo suppressed." A lotter was sent to Mrs. Rnwn notifying her thnt Marshal Coutre of Winnetka would take charge of the premises until after the inquest. J. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois Central railroad. Joined forces with tho Chicago police In tholr efforts to solve the mystery surrounding the tragic death of - Mr. Rawn. In a conferonco 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 Taft and his party on the Mayflower left Bar Harbor Sunday night for Penobscot and Casco Bay. in which they will cruise until Wednesday. & hen tho ship will be turned toward Beverly. The president hurt his ankle while he whs playing golf on the links of tho Kabo Valley club at Bar Harbor. Despite the excruciating pain which was evidenced by a decided litnp and facial grimaces each time he had to climb in or out of an automobile or train, the prosldont carried out the exacting program which had boon arranged for him. It included a spech, an nutomobllo rldo and luncheon In Bangor, and a spoech and reception at Ellworth. The president was climbing a steep grassy slope leading to one of the greens when his right foot turned beneath him. Thero was some pain at tho time, but Mr. Taft though nothing of It and continued his game. Later, however, ho suffered considerablo pain. Surgeon Grayson of the Mayflower dressed the injured ankle nnd made a thorough examination. He declared thore 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 flvo women who havo done serious work In aviation, has indicated her Intention of coming to America Bhortly for -the purpose of attempting a flight from Chicago to Now York for the prize recently offered. She Is Mme. Mathlldo Frank, tho French wlfo of a British Journalist Mtne. Frank has made sevoral ex collent flights recently. She flew fourteen miles nt Mourmelona without stopping, establishing a record as a woman aviator. Sho Is at present preparing for a flight across the English ehnmiol from Calns to Dovor. Fix Blame for Gun Dlast. Washington. The board o'f army engineers which Investigated the gun explosion last Thurstlny at Fortress Monroe reported Monday that the accident was caused by tho failure of the safety device of the firing mechanism to function properly. Heat Kilts Six Plttsburgers. Pittsburg. Pa. Six donths from heat In tho vicinity of Pittsburg wore reported for Monday, though the thermometer only reached 88 degrees on the streets.

GEN, WOOD PRAISES HEROES COMMENDS OFFICERS WHO AVERTED SECOND EXPLOSION. Lieut. Hnwes Fights Fire With Dare Hands and Stops Further Disaster.

Washington. Storios of vnlor and sncriflee In tlmo of aufforing nnd confusion wore detailed to Gonoral Wood, chief of staff of tho army, and other oillcinls of tho wnr department upon tho return to Washington of oillcora who witnessed tho oxploslon of tho big gun in tho first minute of battle practls at Fortress Monroo which resulted in oleven deaths. Theso personal roports woro augmented by further telegraphic roports from Llout, Col. C. P. TownBloy of the coast artillery corps, commandunt of the fort. Lieutenant Hnwes Is praised by tho commandant for having extinguished with his bare hands burning material that threatened to Ignlto tho second charge, which was on Its way to tho emplacement. Conspicuous In tho group of those whoso heroic conduct nttracted 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 tho timekeeper during tho target practise. Following the receipt or the reports General Wood sent a telegram to Fortress Monroe expressing his sympathy for tho bereaved and suffering:, and his appreciation of tho "excellent conduct" of tho 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 Helnemann were hemmed In Thursday by forest fires at the formor town with seemingly no means of escape. Tho fires havo destroyed the railroad tracks for some distance betwoen Bloomvllle and Merrill, making It ImposFJblo for tho Inhabitants of the doomed vlllago to seek refugo in that direction. The situation at Bloomvllle is critical. Tho 400 homeless of Holnemann fled to that village only to be confronted by n similar peril. Gleason. north of Bloomvllle. la Isolated by tho fire, and It has been impossible to get word from the village for many hours. This leaves Bloomvillo with Its 550 persons cut off on every sldo. With the population nearly tripled, the question of feeding the people Is a serious one. Reports from Bloomvillo tell of the lilxkt of Hcores of people, some going on foot and others in wagon. The loss in buildings is ovor $200.000. Several farmers' families have not been accounted for. Fields which wire 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. Cairo. III. Wrdicts of not guilty were returned in the ca&es of 12 Cairo citizens, charged In IndlctI nients with having been leaders of the , mob which stormed tho Alexander ! county Jail and lynched the negro, John Pratt, tho night of February 15 I last Tho 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 J for George B. Walker had been made by the state's attorney $80,000 IN BONDS STOLEN American Agency of Russo-Chlnn Bank at ew York Report Theft of Securities. New York. Bonds and other securities, the mnrket vnluo of which is estimated to be about $80.000. wero officially reported as having been stolen from the American agency of tho Russo-Chlnn bank. The pnr value of the securities Is JCC.000. Profound mystery nnd secrecy wcro maintained by everybody supposed to be In a position to have Information as to the theft MAYOR KILLED WITH BOMB Virginia Village Executive Is Slain Lying in Hammock by Assassin Vho Throws Dynamite. Rldgewny, Va. Former Mayor A. H. Bousmnn wa3 assassinated Monday by a dynamite bomb which was thrown ! from tho street under n hammöck in which he was lying. He died an hour after tho explosion. No clue to tho identity of the murderer or tho cause of the crime has been found. France Accepts Washington Statue. Paris The French government Saturday accepted a bronze copy of Homlen's statue of George Washington, which was presented by tho stato of Virginia through M. Jusserand, the Fronch ambassador to tho United Stntes. Dickinson Arrives In Manila. Manila. Sociotary of War Dlcklneon arrived here Saturday. After ho and General Edwards landed they were escorted to tho palace by a battnllon of cavalry. '

STRIKERS SEEK

TO s Obstructions Are Placed Tracks at South Bend. on ATTEMPT IS UNSUCCESSFUL Union Leaders Hold Conferences at Toronto Grand Trunk Officials Deolarc Worst of Strike Is Over. South Bond, Ind., July 27 Al'h-. two attempts wore maCo to durmi ; aa songer traius and onu froight cur ' partly burnod by strlko aympathl. . tho Grand Trunk strike sltuutk.n L. -la ono of comparative qulotnesa. Union men engaged iu other tra ! woro at tholr own employment, u. i the crowds at tho station and iu tv yards wore small and euslly contrci.. ; A largo force of policemen and ; , uty sheriffs continued to patrol u railroad property. Attempts to derail passenger tm-r. were unsuccessful, tho obstructions .t each instance being discovered In tlu to avert accident Tho railroad resumed switch. i.g iu tho local yards, an assistant sui.j. tundont again officiating aa conda of tho single crew at work. May Stop Trains Outsldo City. Little switching was dono at uh:.and all freight service probata) bo suspended during tho night t, tho trouble lusLs. This mov. b line with a suggestion of tho r. a,; attorneys who aro gathoring h. r. . conference. Tho lawyers boll, vt- , trains should bo halted outsU- r. city overnight, Tho members of tho state railwjv commission are expected In Soi h Bond to look ovor tho ground li4 mors have been crurent that th tram running are not equipped with fu.i crows, and the railway cominlssin'rit la said, and coming to inv'8'i.it--Ono passenger train, an ace on.n.oda tion running from Port Huron, Muh to South Bend, was stopped Ly rhu-; of Detectives William Cas8id l . r.vuit lacked tho proper numb r r brakemcn. Although tho train ordinarily :ih in tho yards in tho wostorn jart o tlio city, tho officer would not j. -r:.:-It to go beyond the local d'i"'t 'I u distance Ls but two miles. Union Leaders In Conference Montreal, July 27. Th ui . dlan center of interest In th u a t Trunk strike has apparently sLl- ! to Toronto. Thero local union l- : era expect to meet President 1 . Leo of tho Broth-rh m! of K;ii;r...i.. Trainmen and A. 1'. tlarretson ( th Ordor of Hallway t'ond .it tora. Ilaports that sul,iufntly i.: repräsentatives will cnnf r wi-h ;i mittee of Grand Trunk . ffl n.-. i llttlo credence her-. unfer ti. arbitration are thin; t f th- ; according to the comii.ui "Th worst of this rik-- : paid General Manag' r t Imtion Hrownlee. "Our liek-h! splendidly yesterday on th' and northern divisions. The fpern will be rjlvcn lb ir spf. ' and there is no act-utn iU'. . froisbt - REBELLION ON IN SANTIAGO Cuban Authorities Now FigM.ig ,i New Uprising Led by General M In let. Havana. July 27. Hobellior 1 brokon out at El Cancy, provinSuntiago, and the government i n. i alarmed. Following n midnight council ;t' ! palace troops wore rushed to tinaffectod district. The insurgents are reported a h treating to tho hills, pursued by tr. ; -already In tho province. Tho Insurrection is said to he f v' rioua character. Tho govornn lesrnod that Gen. Mlnlot and i Jane, revolutionary veterans, had ta ken to the woods at tho head of nl a coro of followers. Mlnlet Is a man of influence nnd it was feared that many mnlcont-1.' would rally around his standard TV council of war was hastily called a' the palaco and tho situation thorn . t:, ly discussod. It was determined ' rush troops to HI Canoy. Soon ir." carrying 1,300 troops, infantry i 1 cavalry, left Camp Columbia or. ' command of Gen. Monteagudn i f t " Rural guard. Gen. Monteagud ! ! orders to reach El Canoy In th-' -li" est possible tlmo. Tho Immediate cauao of th- u, : Ing Is noi known here, but for days past rumors havo ein .1 ' through tho province of Santt.i Impending trouble. Tho rutins ' boon declared by ofllclnls of tin1 crnmeiit to bo without foundati n BREAD PUDDING POISONS 500 Old Soldiers Are the Victims-Do; tors at Home Deny That Any Deaths Resulted. Bristol. Va., July 27, -Prohnht old soldiers at tho Mountain Marx of tho Nntlonal Soldiers' hon.1 a Johnson City woro poisoned by i""1'1'' pudding. Tho homo corps of physicians kopt busy for several hours. Two deaths occurred. It was pa. a that they resulted from tho poison w. but officials of tho home denied this.