Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 March 1911 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DO A NE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

Anions other things, tne automobile has takon a load off the Humano socletr. As yet, the aeroplane has not bogun seriously to worry the automobile business. It Is bettor for ono's aeroplane to bo wrong ton miles from land horizontally than vertically. A Gorman woman ndvocntos cumpulsory domestic service for all girls. Sho must llvo In tho suburbs. American belressos when caught very young may be moro easily trained by thoir titled husbands. Flvs generals of tho Haitian revolutionary army have boon captured and shot. Presumably the private got away. Maybe the woman who received con! whon sho thought sho was buying eggs is In luck that it was not diamonds. Aviator Latham has gono duck hunting In a monoplnne. Tho innovation adds to tho undeslrablllty of being a duck. Fresh air advocates will not be surprised to learn that a hermit who had remained Indoors for forty years died of pneumonia. Paris wants a new law to discourage dueling, the Idea being to shed oratory instead of blood when some one has a grievance The enterprising Journalist will see to it that the Hope diamond keeps true to its traditions In the matter of worrying its owners. Possibly the Chicago thievos who were betrayed by the singing of a canary have como to the conclusion that a bird on tho dump is worth two in tho flat. Funny the lightning picked out the Missouri statehouso as its objective, when big. tall, glittering rods are up In New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts and New York. One of the scientists predicts that the women of the future will be baldheaded. Pshaw! He Is dreaming. It women were bald-headed, how could they use hatpins? The Montana bride w.ho had never spoken to her prospective husband until a few minutes before the marriage ceremony will probably make up for her lack of loquacity. Throe thousand girls are taking a commercial course In the Boston high Bchoools. Perhaps this Is one of the reasons why schoolboys are being taught to sew and darn. In Germany there is a dog that can speak seven words. No woman is likely to have much respect for a dog that can't make use of a moro extensive vocabulary than that. New York city Is about to legislate against hntplns. Being strung on one dues not Improve the temper of the tired citizen who must rldo home picked In a subway train. American football may be frowned upon by European educators, but we can point with pride to tho fact that our universities have not accepted anarchy as a popular sport. East St Louis wants eggs to be stamped with tho date on which they were minted. Cannot Wizard Burbank or Wizard Edison invent a hen sufficiently intelligent to use a time clock? fho party who referred to the Smithsonian Institution as a "trash heap" evidently labors under tho Impression that the speclmons slaughtered by Col. Roosevelt are already there. A New York Judge has decided that a wife, even though she be chlldloss, Is a man's "family" to the extent of sharing In his money. Even the law theso days of women's rights Is deferring to the lady. A peaceful citizen who was held up and robbed by two Chicago crooks wants to thank them becauso thoy didn't kill him. All of which const!tutcs our notion of the uttormost limit of optimism. A rich coal operator of Wost Virginia wants a divorce because his wife Insisted on putting on boxing gloves with him and whipping him ovory night Hoforo deciding to break up his happy home ho should have tried putting on a catcher's mask and an umpire's pad. HusBia Is going to build a $75.000,000 licet for the Black sea. Evidently Russia Isn't taking much stock In this universal peace business. A Philadelphia woman wants a dlvorco becauso her huBband nllowed her only 25 cents a day. Evidently ho Isn't satisfied with her quarters. It Is not surprising that tho remains of a dinosaur should be found ln New York city. Dead onos are plentiful in the Ticlnlty of Broadway.

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SENATE REJECTS BEVERIDGE RESOLUTION DECLARING VACANT POSITION HE WON. ENDS LONG TOGA BATTLE Speeches Pro and Con by Nearly a Score of Senators, Cullom's Defense of Himself and His State and Hard Work of the Lobby. Washington, March 2. Tho United Stntos senate, by a vole of 4G to 40 declared Senator Lorlmer of Illinois was entitled to his Beat in tho uppor house of congress, nnd thoroby voted down tho resolution of Senator Beverldgo of Indiana declaring his seat vacant on the ground that money was used to purchase a number of tve votes given the Chlcagoaa In tho Illinois legislature May 26, 1909. Senator Cullom Voted for Lorlmer. Speeches had been made for or against the accused man during the months of January nnd February by Senators Bailey, Beverldge, Borah, Bristow, Brown, Burrows, Crawford. Cummins. Davis, Fletcher, Galllgber, Gamble, Heyburn, Johnson, Jones, Owen, Paynter. Root and by Mr. Lorlmer himself. Mr. Cullom also spoke, but was noncommittal as to his colleague. He defended himself and the state of Illinois. Efforts were mndo dally by friends nnd foes of Mr. Lorlmer to lnfluenco the votes of tho senators for or against him, and during the last two weeks Mr. Cullom received an avalancho of letters and telegrams 60 large It was feared his health would break under It. Lorlmer Is Jubilant. Senator Lorlmer was jubilant at the result of tho vote, but would make no Immediate statement to the press. His friends are showering him with congratulations and his ndhercnts in tho senate declare the result is a matter of great satisfaction to them. They have been battling hard for the Junior member from Illinois, and have had faith that their colleagues would find the defendant "not guilty." For Senator Lorlmer. Bnlley. Texas. Itankheml. Ala. Bradley. Ky. llranJeiree, Conn. IlrtKKS. N. J Hulkley. Conn. Hurnham. N IL Burrows. Mich. Carter. Mont. Clark. Wyo. Crane, Mass. Cullom. 111. Curtis Kan. Depew. N. V. nick. Ohio, nilllncliam. VL Du Pont. Del. Fletchfi. Kla. Flint, Cat Foster, La. Trye. Maine. Safllnger. N. II. Against Se Samhle. S. D. Guggenheim. Col. Hale. Maine. Heyburn. Idaho. Johnston. A In. Kenn. N. J. MeCumber. N. D. Oliver. Pa. Paynter. Ky. Penrose. Pa. Perkins. Cal. Plies, Wash. Richardson. DoL Scott. W. Va. Smith. Md. Smoot. Utah. Simmons. N. C. Stephenson, wis. Taliaferro. Fla, Tlllmnn. S. C. Warren. Wye. Wetmore. TL I. nator Lorlmer. Baron. Co. Devt-rldKe. Ind. Borah. Idaho. Bourne. Ore. IJrtstow. Kan. Brown. Neb. Burkett. Neb. Burton. Ohio. Chamberlain. Ore. Clnpp. Minn. Clarke. Ark. Crawford. 8. D. Culberson. Tex. Cummlna. Iowa. Davis. Ark. Dixon. Mont. Frailer, Tenn. Core. Okln. Gronna. N. D. Jones, Wash, La Follctte. Win. Lodge, Mnss. Martin. W. Va, Page. VL Money. Miss. Nelson. Minn. New-lands. Nev. Nixon. Nev. Overman. N. C. Owen. Oklo. Percy. Miss. Hayner. Md. Boot. N. Y. Shlvely. InU. Fmlth. MSch. Smith. S. C. Stone. Mo. Sutherland. Utah. Swanson. Va. Taylor. Tenn. Thornton. La. Warner. Mo. Watson. W. Va. Younff, Iowa. Absent Aldrlch, Frailer, and Terrell. Senator Lorlmer did not vote because of his Interest in the case. Moct Sensational of Fights. The Lorlmer fight has been one of tho most sensational In the history of tho upper house. When the committee on privileges and elections returned a report declaring that no evidences of bribery having Influenced tho legislators in tho election of Mr. Larimer had been found, It was considered that he was amply vindicated, and that his senate seat was secure This report was prepared by a subcommittee and was tho outcome of an exhaustive Investigation both at Washington and Chicago, In which the charges of bribery at Springfield were thoroughly gono Into. Lee O'N'ell Browne, who was acquitted of tho charges of having bribed Democrats to vote for Lorlmor, Legislators White, Link, Holstlaw and others were haled before the committee nnd grilled on their alleged confessions of having been bribed. Failed to Find Bribery. The subcommittee failed to find legal evidence of the alleged bribery and the report went thus to tho senate. Immediately, however, a minority report appeared. This was from Senator Frazlcr of Tennessee, who declared ho had found that tho LoKmor election was tho result of corruption nnd bribery. WRITER GIVEN PRISON TERM Broughton Brandenburg Nearly Collapses When Sentence la Pronounced for Forgery Charge. New York, March 4. After a Jury in general sessions court had considered tho evidence for fifteen minutes, It brought in a verdict of guilty of forgery agalnBt Broughton Brandenburg, the mngazlnc writer, and Judge Swann sentenced him to Sing Sing prison for a term of from two to four years and six months. He almost collapsed when sentence was pronounced. Drandenburg was charged with forging and cashing a check (or $G0.

BARON SLAYS PRINCESS AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

Lady In Waiting to Queen Helena la Shot to Death by Cavalry Officer. Rome, March 3. Baron Paterno, a cavalry lieutenant, shot und killed Princess Ciula Trlgona, lady In waiting to Queen Helena. Tho baron then attempted suicide, but was unsuccessful. The tragedy took place In tho Hotel ltebecchino. the trystiug placo of tho two members of tho Sicilian aristocracy. Some time ago Prince Trlgona realized that his wife was bestowing her nffoctlon upon Baron Paterno nt clandestine meetings, and ho instituted logal proceedings with a view to obtaining a Judiclnl separation. The j court's decision was ready to bo given out. but becauso of tho high standing j of tho pnrtlos concerned, tho presld- j lng Judgo decided to attempt rccon- j dilation. i It Is said tho prince was ready to pardon his wife's unfaithfulness If she wouM consent to renounco Baron Paterno. The princess acquiesced. On her way to court, whero the affair was to be finally settled, sho stopped nt tho hotel for n last meeting with tho baron. According to the authorities Baron Paterno decoyed the princess to the hotel, where he demnnded that sho elope with him. When she refused ho strangled her. afterward shooting her. From papers found among the effects of tho princess It was plain that she intended to compel him to break off their relations. HONDURAS TREATY IS 0. K'D. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Orders Favorable Report Will Settle Republic's Finances. Washington. Mar. 2. Tho senate committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report on the treaty with Honduras relative to the settlement of tho financial troubles of that republic and tho protection of tho Morgan interests. By the terms of tho Instrument the United States guarantees the fulfillment of the contract by Honduras with the Morgans for the refunding of the debt of tho republic on a basis of fifteen to one. Arrangement also Is made for perpetuation of the collection of tho customs duties through accredited ngents acceptable to tho United State3. the disposition of the public moneys so collected nnd the deposit of those funds for the repayment of the interest and principal of the loan. The treaty also provides for an allowance of a certain percentage of the funds Involved In the contract for tho completion of projected railroad construction. POSSE IN SEARCH OF BANDIT Four Men Who Looted Vault at Watnut, III., Still Elude Their Pursuers. Sterling, 111., Mar. 2. Sheriffs Wahl of Whiteside county. Reld of Lee county nnd Buyers of Bureau county took up the trail of the Walnut bank robbers. The men, however, nro either out of tho state or in hiding along tho Green river. It is tho opinion now that, after eluding a posse, they made their way to the Peoria branch of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, and either reached Peoria or Chicogo. Tho four bandits nro described as being well dressed and well built. Each of the four men. when seen last, was carrying packages, and It is tho belief that they had with them tho booty of $3,700 they secured from the bank. Bloodhounds are expected this afternoon to take up the trail. A reward of $800 has been offered for their capture. B0UTELL FOR PORTUGAL POST Illinois Congressman Is Nominated by President Taft as Minister to Lisbon. Washington. Mar. 2. President Taft sent to the senate the name of Representative Henry S. Boutell of Illinois for the post of envoy extraordinary nnd minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. In place of Henry T. Gage, resigned on account of Illness. Representative Boutell comes from Chicago and has been a Republican member of the house during six congresses. He will ho succeeded In the new house by Lyndon Evans, a Democrat. CLARA MORRIS GOES BLIND Actress, Feeling Her Life Is Short, Works Night and Day on Her Memoirs. Yonkors, N. Y.. Mar. 2. Clara Morris' birthday will mark the completion of tho first year of her falling eyesight nnd general breakdown. Sho Is now almost totally blind and, renllzlng that sho cannot live long. Is working day and night dictating her memoirs. Tho stricken actress derives her greatest pleasure from listening to music from grand operas played at her bedsldo by a phonograph. Hit High Magazine Rate. Washington, March 4 In place of ho proposed Increased ratos on mngatines stricken from tho post office bill In tho senato an amendment was adopted providing for a commission of three members to investigate the whole subject of handling of secondclass matter.

WILLIAM

SIFT BIG LAND CASE REPORT OF COMMITTEE SAY THERE WERE NO IRREGULARITIES IN PHILIPPINE SALES. ISSUE AS TO SUGAR TRUST Find Deal Legitimate Because of Defect In Rules Majority Denies Corporation Acquired Tracts, Whereas Minority Believes It Did. Washington. March 4. Complete exoneration of the ofllcers of the Philippine government of charges of irregularities or improprieties in connection with the administration, sale or lease of lands in the islands is combined with pointed criticisms of the inadequacy, of the laws to prevent monopolies In what are known as tho friar lnnds In both the majority and minority reports of tho house commlttoe on Insular affairs submitted to the house. The charge mnde on the floor of the house a year ago by Representative Martin of Colorado that the so-called sugar trust had acquired 56,000 acres of friar lands led to an Investigation of the entire question of the administration of public lands as well as friar lands. Differ In Method of Sale. Both reports concur In the opinion that the organic act of 1902 limiting individuals to 40 acres nnd corporations to 2,500 acres in the amount of public land that may be acquired does not Impose the same restrictions on tho disposition of friar lands. Tho majority report argues that as a practical expedient the friar lands should bo sold In larger quantities to attract buyers, while the minority asserts that the sale in largo tracts may develop a system of absentee landlordism, as obnoxious to the Filipinos as that of tho friars against whom they once rebelled. Tho Intter also suggest that a friendly proceeding be begun In tho courts by tho ofllcers of the Philippine government to determine the exact legal status of the friar lands with respect to public land regulations. Ab to the acquisition of E. L. Poole of CC.000 ncres of the friar lands on behalf of Horace Havemeyer, Charles J. Welch and Chnrles H. Senff, both reports declare tl public officials Involved were not culpable, being guided by tho best available Interpretations of the lnw. The mnjorlty members, however, deny that tho land wns obtained by the sugnr trust, while the minority nsscrts that If the sugar trust did not acquire It "the next door neighbor to the sugar trust" did, nnd that there is apparent "a community of Interest" evidencing n holding by one person of upward of 50,000 acres. Considers It Unavoidable. Tho minority accepts tho situation an unavoidable, but holds tho Incident up as a warning against "further exploitation of the lands by Americnn capitalists," nnd suggests that no more sales of large tracts bo made pending tho notion of congress or the outcome of court proceedings that might be begun by the Philippine officers. Hold Big Cock Fight at Augusta. Augusta, Ga., March 4. The biggest cock right In this part of tho south since the Civil war took place near Augusta when a battle for tho championship between Mississippi and North Carolina was fought for a side purse of $1,000 on tho main nnd $100 on each fight. Fifteen hundred persons, representing a dozen states, attended. Puts Negro In Federal Office. Washington, March 3. James C. Napier of Tonncsseo was named by President Taft to bo register of the treasury. Napier la a negro.

LORIMER

21 CHINESE KILLED IN MAD RUSH FOR FOOD Many Others Injured at Sha-Yang When Missionaries Try to Relieve the Starving. Hankow. China. March 4. Twentyone persons wore trampled to death at Sha-Yang. Haupoh province, when a horde of starving Chinese fought for the food which missionaries wore attempting to distribute. A groat many othors were Injured. The work of relief is attended with some peril to those who have taken supplies into the famine districts, as the natives In many instances are mad with deprivations. A considerable amount of foodstuff was received by the missionaries, who immediately planned a systematic distribution. Their work wns hardly begun when thousands of desperate men. women and children who hnd learned that there was a chance of their hunger Lolng half satisfied swooped down on the supply depot. An uncontrollable riot followed. Esch fought for himself, nnd tlfp weaker went down and were ruthlessly trampled. Tho fighting continued as long as there appeared to ho anything to fight for. The missionaries were helpless. 500 REFUGEES ARE BURNED Chinese Villagers Destroy Wandering Band of Hungry Plunderers Who Rob and Kill. Victoria. B. C. March 3. Rendered desperate by hunger, bands of hundreds of starving refugees are roving through the famine stricken area of China, plundering and killing, nnd a reign of terror prevails, according to persons who arrived here on the Tarnba Maru, which reached port from the orlont. At Kunshan, a walled village within fifty miles of Shanghai, the villagers, after a desperate raid in which stores wero looted and many killed, meted out punishment peculiarly Chinese In its callousness to the raiding refugees. A band of more than 500 are reported to have been surrounded in a compound nnd burned to death. The refugees had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores of everything oatable, killing or wounding all who resisted. Many villagers wore slain and, others wero taken prisoners and held for ransom. SAY LASHES WERE USED Witnesses Tell Probers of Condition at Red Wing (Minn.) School for Boys. St. Paul, Minn.. March 4. Storlos of boys bolng flogged with leather lashes until thoir bodies were black and blue nnd of others who wore put In chains wore told before tho Joint legislative committee appointed to investigate conditions in the state training Bchool for boys nt Hod Wing. Twelve witnesses testified. Loren Vnnbusker testified that his hands had been shackled from ten o'clock at night until noon of the next day. Ho said that he was then taken to a root cellar, whero one olllcor snt upon his head and two hold his feet while a fourth beat him. COLLEGE BURNS; 250 ESCAPE Catholic School at Plalnfield, N. J., It Destroyed by Fire Monetary Loss Exceeds $200,000. Plalnfield, N. J., March 3. Tho main building of Mount St. Mary's college, a large Catholic Institution on Watchung mountain, waB burned. Tho dnmago was more than $200,000. Nearly 25.0 students and Bisters got out in safety.

U.S. FIGHTS COMBINE

ATTACK8 GENERAL ELECTRIC AND DECLARES CASE OVER SHADOWS STANDARD OIL. CASE FILED IN CLEVELAND Involves Patent-Law Test Suit n tended to Break Up Incandescent Lamp Monopoly Wlckersham Has Given Case Personal Attention. Washington, March 4. Tho fcdir., government struck tho first blow .,- the electrical trust. A suit wus ill. i at Cleveland aimed nt tho Incan . cent lamp monopoly. This probat: . will be followed by other moves t.r ,k similar kind. Oiliclals of the department of ju tlco declare that thoir Investigating of the combination have disclosed .. situation which overshadow a m . other anti-trust prosecution the eminent hns over undertaken, no' cepting the case against tho Standai i Oil company, Test of Monopoly In Patent. The action against the Geunl Electric company Is moro or lens in the nature of n test case, for t! courts will be called on to decide h w far the patent laws of the I'nlti i States may be construed to proUi t monopolies. Investigations of the departnif i have disclosed that the electrical bulncss of tho country nppears to be '11 vlded Into seventeen or moro division . or sections, each comprising nmm particular brnnch. and tho contention Is that It is controlled by the con. pleto organization of theso divisions Case Raises New Questions. Although it was the announced In tendon of Attorney General Wiek r sham not to begin any more ami trust suits until the Standard Oil and tho American Tobacco caacs have bevn ndjudicntod in the United States Supreme court, the questions relating to patent law are such as to bring tht case into nn entirely different class. Some of tho features in the action are substantially parallel to the bltuatlon In the pending prosecution against the so-called bath tub trust, in which the defense has been mado that the patent laws of the Vnlt-d States authorized the control of which the government complains. The best talent In the department of Justice has been engaged on th--electrical case, and Attorn1) (;r..ral Wlckersham has glvca it personal a tontlon. Details of Cleveland Action. Following a consultation b-u.-n W. S. Konyon, assistant United Su-. -attorney general, and United St.v -District Attorney W. L. Day at CMland. Attorney Day. representing ' government, filed suit against General Electric company of Sehn, tady. N. Y., and others, nHeßing unlawful combination nnd a conspi-. In restraint of trade. The specific charge is that the tional Electric Lamp company w -promoted by the dofondants for 'hpurpose of monopolizing the trad- r carbon filament electric Incnndesr. r lights. Tho petition alleges that taxational Electric Lamp company c.-t. trols 97 per cent, of that business The National Electric Lamp company, incorporated under the laws of Now Jersey, has Its hoadmmrters in Cleveland. BROWN WINS OVER WOLGAST New Yorker Has Lightweight Champion Nearly Out In Second Round of Gotham Bout. New York. March 4. Before a re markable assemblage. 20 per cent of whom were men noted In American life, and who had paid more than $:' 000 to see the contest. "Knockout" Brown nearly mado himself the llgl weight champion of tho world In tl.r ring nt the National Sporting club Wolgast, the champion, held title by tho sheer simplicity of dine lng to Brown. Once tho championship was with;: one punch of Brown's. In tho soron 1 round Brown delivered a short, sha toring left-hand hook to Wolgast -Jaw. The champion's knees were t r knocking and his head bobbed crazl Ho clung to the left hand that had dnzed blm nnd butted nnd wriggl 1 his way out of his predicament. All the way Drown carried the figr-.' to the champion nnd In every rosi- ' he repented his Philadelphia achieve ment. Ho won In ten rounds over tbchampion ns thoroughly as he had .i six rounds. SENDS BANKER TO SING SING Charles A. Belling, Former Manager of Bronx National Bank, Pleads Guilty of Forgery. New York. March 4. -In scntenir r Charlcs A. Belling, the former nu ngor nnd vice-president of the Um: National hank, to a term in Sn Sing Judgo Foster,, in tho court genernl sessions, said that It wa .m impossibility for any court to all" a bank official who pleaded guilty ' a crime to go free, although the o"1 clals of tho Institution and others urged clemency. Tho former banker was given a term of not less than on year and three months and not more than nineteen years. Belling was charged with forging stock of tho Bronx National bank and selling It to the Knickerbocker Trust company.