Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 March 1911 — Page 6

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

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Among other things, tne automobile has takou a load off the Hununu society.

As yet, the aeroplane has not bosun seriously to worry tho autotnoblla business,

It la better for one's aeroplane to go wrong ten miles from load horizontally than vortlcally.

A Gorman woman advocates cum pulsory domostlc service for all girls. She must live in tho suburbs.

American heiresses when caught Tory young may bo more easily trained by their titled husbands.

Five generals of the Haitian revolutionary army have boon captured and shot. Prosuinably the private got away.

Maybe tho woman who rocelved coal when she thought sho was buying eggs Is In luck that it was not diamonds.

Aviator Latham has gone duck hunting In a monoplane. Tho Innovation adds to the undeslrablllty of being a duck.

Fresh air advocates will not be surprised to loam 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 thieves who were betrayed by the singing of a canary have come to the conclusion that a bird on tho dump is worth two in tho flat

Funny the lightning picked out the Missouri statehouse 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 uso hatpins?

The Montana bride who had never spoken to her prospective husband until a few mlnutos before the marriage ceremony will probably make up for her lack of loquacity.

Three thousand girls are taking a commercial course In the Boston high acboools. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Bcboolboys 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 more extensive vocabulary than that!

New York city Is about to legislate against hatpins. Iielng strung on one does not improve the temper of tho tired citizen who must ride home packed 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 the date on which they were minted. Cannot Wizard Burbank or Wizard Edison Invent a hen sufficiently intelligent to use a'tlme clock?

"The party who referred to the Smithsonian Institution as a "trash heap" evidently labors under the Impression that the specimens slaughtered by Col. Roosevelt are already there.

A New York Judge has decided that a wife, even though Bhe be chlldloss, la a man's "family" to the extent of sharing In tils money. Even the law these days of women's rights is deferring to the lady.

A peaceful citizen who was hold up and robbed by two Chicago crooks wants to thank them becauso they didn't klllilm. All of which constltutes our notion of the uttermost limit of optimism.

A rich coal oporator or West Virginia wants a divorco becauso his wife insisted on putting on boxing gloves with him and whipping him overy night Iioforo deciding to break up his happy home he should havo tried putting on a catcher's mask and an umpire's pad.

RusBia Is going to build a 175,000, 000 fleet for tho Black sea. Evidently Russia Isn't taking much stock in this universal peaco business.

A Philadelphia woman wants a divorco because her husband allowed her only 25 cents a day. Evidently ho Un't satisfied with her quarters.

It Is not surprising that tho remains of a dinosaur should bo found iln Now York city. Dead ones are plentiful In the vicinity of Broadway,

SENATE REJECTS BEVERIDGE RESOLUTION DECLARING VACANT POSITION HE WON.

ENDS LONG TOGA BATTLE

BARON SLAYS PRINCESS AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

WILLIAM L0RIMER

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, Mnrch 2. The United States aounte, by a vote of -1C to 40 doclared Senator Lorimer of Illinois was entitled to his seat In tho upper house of congress, and thereby votod down tho resolution of Senator Bevorldge of Indiana declaring his seat vacant on the ground that money wns used to purchase a number of tho votes given tho Chicagonn In tho Illinois 'legislnturo May 2G, 1909.

Senator Cullom Voted for Lorimer. Speeches had been made for or against the accused mqn during the months of Jnuuary and February by Senators Bailey, Beverldge, Borah. Bristow, Brown, Burrows, Crawford, Cummins, Davis. Fletcher, Galllgher, Gamble. Heyburn, Johnson, Jones, Owen, Paynter, Root and by Mr. Lorimer himself. Mr. Cullom also spoke, but was noncommittal as to bis colleague. He defended himself and the state of Illinois. Efforts were made dally by friends and foes of Mr. Lorimer to Influence the votes of tho senators for or against him, and during tho last two weeks Mr. Cullom received an avalanche of letters and telegrams so large it was feared his health would break under It.

Lorimer Is Jubilant. Senator Lorimer was Jubilant at the result of the vote, but would make no ipimediate statement to the press. His friends are showering hlra with congratulations and his adherents 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 havo had faith that their colleagues would find the defendant "not guilty." For Senator Lorimer.

Lady In Waiting to Queen Helena is Shot to Death by Cavalry Officer. Rome, March 3. Baron Paterno, a cavalry lieutenant, shot and killed Princess Clula Trlgonn, lady In waiting to Queen Holena. The baron then nttempted suicide, but was unsuccessful.

Tho tragedy took place In tho Hotel Robecchlno. tho trystlng place of the two members of the Slclllnn aristocracy. Some time ago Princo Trlgona renllzod that his wife was bestowing hor affection upon Baron Paterno at clandestine meetings, and ho Instituted lognl proceedings with n view to obtaining n Judicial separation. The court's decision was rondy to bo given out. but because of the high standing of the partlos concerned, the presiding Judge docided to attempt recon dilation. it Is said tho princo was ready to pardon his wifo's unfaithfulness If sho would consont to renounce Baron Paterno. The princess ncqulesced. On hor way to court, whero the affair was to be finally settled, sho stopped nt tho hotel for a last meeting with tho baron. According to the authorities Baron Paterno decoyed tho princess to the hotel, whore he demanded thnt she olope with him. When she refused he strangled her. afterward shooting her. From papers found among the effects of the princess It was plain that she intended to compel him to break off their relations.

HONDURAS TREATY IS 0. K'D.

U.S. FIGHTS CDMBIN

ATTACKS GENERAL ELECTric AND DECLARES CASE OVERSHADOWS STANDARD OIL.

CASE FILED IN CLEVELAND

Bailey. Texas. IJankhon.il. Ala. Bradley. Ky. HrnnileRee, Conn. BrlKKs. N. J Bulkier. Conn. Burnham. N. IL Burrows. Mich. Carter. Mont. Clark, Wyo. Crane. Macs. Cullom. III. Curtis Kan. I"tyew. x. v. Pick. Ohio. DllllnRham. Vt. Du Pont. Del. Fletcher. Fla. Flint. Cal. Foster. I.a. rrye, Maine. SalllnKer. N. IT.

Against Senator Lorimer.

Bacon. Go. Ileverldpe. Ind. Borah. Idaho. Bourne. Ore.

Bristow. Knn.

5nmhle. S. D. CuRgeaheim. Col. Hale. Maine. Heyburn. Idaho. Johnston. Ala. Kwin. N. J. McCumber. N. D. Oliver. Pa. I'ayntr, Ky. Penrose. Pa, Perkins. Cal. Piles. Wash. Richardson. Del. Scott. W. Va. Smith. Mu. Smoot. Utah. Simmons. X. C. Stephenson. Wla. Taliaferro. Fin. Tillman. S. C. Warren, ft'vn.

Wetmore. IL I.

Brown. Neb.

Burkett. Neb. Burton. Ohio. Chamberlain. Ore. Clapp. Minn. Clarke. Ark. Crawford. S. D. Culberson. Tex. Cummins. Iowa. Davis. Ark. Dixon. Mont. Frnzler, Teno, Oore. Ok la, Gronna, N. D. Jones. Wash. I-a Follette. Wis. Lodge, Mass.

Martin. W. Va. Page. Vt. Money. Mis. Nelson. Minn. Newlands. Nev. Nixon, Nov. Overman. N. C. Owen. Okla. Perry. Mies. rtaynr. Md. Root. N. Y. Shlvely. Ind. Rmlth. Mich. Smith. S. C. Stone. Mo. Sutherland. Utah. Swanson. Va. Taylor. Tenn. Thornton, La. Warner. Mo. Watson. W. Va. Young, Iowa.

Absent Aldrlch, Frazler, and Terrell. Senator Lorimer did not vote because of his Interest In the case. Most Sensational of Fights. The Lorimer fight has been one of tho most sensational in the history of jhe upper house. When tho committeo on privileges and elections returned a report declaring that no evidences of bribery having Influenced tho legislators In the election of Mr. Lorimer had been found, It was considered thnt he was amply vindicated, and that his senate seat was Becure. 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 gone Into. Lop O'Nell Browne, who was acquitted of tho charges of having bribed Democrats to vote for Lorimer, Legislators White, Link. Holstlaw and others wero hnled before the committee and grilled on their alleged confessions of having been bribed. Failed to Find Bribery. The subcommittee fallo(T"to find legal evldonce of the alleged bribery and the report went thus to the senate. Immediately, however, a minority report appeared. This wns from Senator. Frnzler of Tennossoo. who declared he had found that tho LoKmor eloction was tho result of corruption and bribery.

WRITER GIVEN PRISON TERM Droughton Brandenburg Nearly Collapses When Sentence Is 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 against Brotighton Brandenburg, the magazine writer, nnd Judge Swann sentenced him to Sing Sing prison for a term of from two to four yenrs and six months. Ho almost collapsed when scntenco wns pronounced. Brandenburg was charged with forging and cashing a check for S0.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Orders Favorable Report Will Settle Republic'3 Finances. Washington. Mar. 2. Tho senate committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report on tho treaty with Honduras relative to the settlement of the financial troubles of thnt republic and tho protection of tho Morgan Interests. By the terms of tho Instrument the United States guarantees tho 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 agents acceptablo to the United State3. the disposition of the public moneys so collected and the doposlt of these 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 the completion of projected railroad construction.

SIFTS

POSSE IN SEARCH OF BANDIT

16 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.

Four Men Who Looted Vault at Walnut, III., Still Elude Their Pursuers. Sterling. HL. Mar. 2. Sheriffs Wahl of Whiteside county, Reid of Lee county and Buyers of Bureau county took up the trail of the Walnut bank robbers. Tho mon. however, are cither out of tho state or In hiding along the Green river. It is the opinion now that, after eluding a posse, thqy made their way to tho Peoria branch of tho Chicago & Northwestern railroad, and either reached Peoria or Chicago. The four bandits aro described as being well dressed and well built. Each of tho 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 Toward 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 tho name of Representative Henry S. Boutcll of Illinois for the post of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. In place of Henry T. Gage, resigned on account of illness. Representative Boutell comes from Chicago nnd has been a Republican member of the house during Bix congresses. Ho will be 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. Yonkers, X. Y.. Mar. 2. Clara Morris' birthday will mark the completion of the first year of her fnlllng eyesight and general brenkdown. She is now almost totally blind and. realizing thnt she cannot live long. 1b working day and night dictating her memoirs. The stricken actress derives her greatest pleasure from listening to music from grand operas played at her bedside by a phonograph.

Hit High Magazine Rate. Washington, Mnrch 4. In place of tho proposed Increased rates on magntines stricken from the post office bill In tho Benato an nmendment was adopted providing for n commission of three members to Investigate the whole Bubject of handling of secondclass matter.

Washington, March 4. Complete exoneration of the oiUcors 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 the friar lands In both the majority and minority reports of the house committee on Insular affairs submitted to the house. The charge made 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 tho 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 and corporations to 2,500 acres in the amount of public land that may be acquired does not impose the same restrictions on the disposition of friar lands. The majority report argues that as a practical expedient the friar lands should be sold in larger quantities to attract buyers, while the minority asserts that

the sale in large tracts may develop a

system of absentee landlordism, as obnoxious to the Filipinos as that of tho friars against whom they once rebelled. The latter also suggest that n friendly proceeding be begun In the courts by the officers of the Philippine government to determine tho exact legal 6tatus of the friar lands with respect to public land regulations. As to tho acquisition of E. L. Poole of 50,000 acres of the friar lands on behalf of Horace Havemoyor, Charles J. Welch and Charles H. Senff, both reports declaro the public officials Involved were not culpable, being guided by tho best avallablo Interpretations of the law. The majority members, however, deny that the land was obtained by the sugar trust, while the

minority asserts that if the sugar trust did not acquire it "the next door neighbor to the sugar trust" did, and that thero Is apparent "n community of Interest" evidencing a holding by one person of upward of 50.000 acres. Considers It Unavoidable. The minority accepts tho situation as unavoidable, but holds the incident up as n warning against "further exploitation of the lands by American capitalists," and suggests that no more sales of largo tracts be made pending the action of congress or the outcome of court proceedings thnt might be begun by the Phllippino officers.

21 CHINESE KILLED IN MAD RUSH FOR FOpD Many Others Injured at Sha-Yang When Missionaries Try to Relieve the Starving. Hankow. China. March . Twentyone persons were trampled to death at Sha-Yang. Hnupoh province, when a hordo of starving Chinese fought for the food which missionaries wore attempting to distribute. A great many others were injured. The work of relief Is attended with some peril to those who havo 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. Thoir work was hardly begun when thousands of desperate mon. women and children who had learned that there was a chance of their hunger Lelng half satisfied swooped down on the supply depot. An uncontrollable riot followed. Each fought for himself, and the weaker went down and wore ruthlessly tramplod. The fighting continued as long as thero appeared fj bo anything to fight for. Tho missionaries wore helpless.

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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 nre roving through tho famine stricken area of China, plundering and killing, and a reign of terror prevails, according to persons who arrived here on the Tamba Maru, which reached port from the orient. 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 and burned to death.

The rofugees had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores of everything eatable, killing or wounding all who resisted. Many villagers were slain and others were taken prisoners and held for ransom.

Involves Patent-Law Test Suit in. tended to Break Up Incandescent Lamp Monopoly Wlckersham h Given Case Personal Attention. Washington, March 4. The fj,r4i govornmont struck tho Unit w-.w -t

uiw uiuciricai trust. A suit wa, um

ui -.leveinua aimed at tho int.. cent lamp monopoly. This pr. will bo followed by othor iuovv, similar kind. Officials of the department .r tice declaro that their invest lea

of tho rnmlilint I fn tin til. ..I.

--Mnviuu - vj uia if situation which overshadow .ny othor anti-trust prosecution th.eminent has ever undortakeu. r..t , cepting tho case against the Stai.urd Oil company, Test of Monopoly In Patent. Tho action against tho (J.-iural Electric company U more or .-r to the nature of a test case, fur the courts will be called on to decide how far the patent laws of the I nited States mny be construed to prot-ct monopolies. Investigations of tho department have disclosed thnt tho electrical lnlness of tho country appears to be dl vlded Into seventeen or more dUiil or sections, each comprising -n, particular branch, nnd the ronrVmi n Is that It Is controlled by the complete organization of these divUi r Case Raises New Questions. Although it was the announced intention of Attorney General Wlckt r sham not to begin any more anti-trust suits until the Standard Oil and the American Tobacco cases have been adjudicated in the United States Supreme court, the questions relating to patent law are such as to bring Uit caso Into an entirely different class. Some of the features In th action ate substantially paracet to the situation in the pending prosecution agninst the so-called bath tub trust, in which the defense has been matl-

that the patent lnws of the Unl'-d States authorized the control of hl'-b the government complains. Tho best talent In tho departir.f-nt of justice has been engaged on th electrical case, and Attorney General Wlckershnni has given It personal attention. Details of Cleveland Action. Following n consultation 1. -r-n W. S. Kenyon, assistant United 'a'attorney' goneral, and United S'a: District Attorney W. L. Day a? :.rland. Attorney Day, representing ;t government, filed suit again"' 'h Goneral Electric company of S r-i tady. N. Y.. and others, alligir.i: an unlawful combination and aconi-. !mc) in restraint of trade. Tho specific charge Is that tt.- v?

tional Electric Lamp compare promoted by the defendants t nurnose of monopolizing the 'r.

rarbon filament electric lncan-1. -:' lights. The petition alleges th.v National Electric Lamp .compare r. trols 97 per cent, of that busin -

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Jorsey, has Its headquarter -n

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BROWN WINS OVER WOLGAST

Hold Big Cock Fight at Augusta. Augusta, On., March 4. The biggest cock fight In this part of the south since the Civil war took place near Augusta when n battle for the championship between Mississippi and Nor.h Carolina was fought for n side purso of $1 ,0if" on the main and ?100 on ench fight. Fifteen hundred persons, representing a dozen states, attended.

Puts Negro la Federal Office. Washington, Mnrch 3. James C. Napier of Tennessee waB named by President Taft to bo register of the treasury. Napier is a negro.

SAY LASHES WERE USED Witnesses Tell Probers of Condition at Red Wing (Minn.) School for Boys. St. Paul. Minn.. March I. S torlos of boys being flogged with leather lashes until their bodies wore black and blue and of others who wero put In chains were told before tho Joint legislative committee appointed to Invostigato conditions In the stnto training school for boys at Rod Wing. Twelvo witnesses testified. Loren Vanbusker testified thnt his l.nnds had been shackled from ton o'clock at night until noon of the next day. He said that he was then taken to a root collar, whore one offlcor, sat upon his head nnd two

neia his feet while a fourth bent him. COLLEGE BURNS; 250 ESCAPE 1 " ' .

Catholic School at Plainfield, N. J., s Destroyed by Fire Monetary Loss Exceeds $200,000. Plainfield, N. J., March 3. The main building of Mount St. Mary's college, a largo Catholic Institution on Watchung mountain, wsb burned. Tho damago was moro than $200,000. Nearly 250 students and sisters got out In safety.

New Yorker Has Lightweight Champion Nearly Out In Second Round of Gotham Bout.

New York. March 4. Before a remarkable assemblage. 20 per ret, -t whom were men noted in Arn"' t life, and who had paid more than f000 to see the contest. "Kno kojf Brown nearly made himself the hp' t weight champion of tho world hi

ring nt the National Sporting let' Wolgast, tho champion, held I title by tho sheor simplicity of Ing to Brown. Once tho championship was ltt.n one punch of Brown's. In tho cf - ' round Brown delivered a short ! torlng left-hand hook to Wols; Jaw. The champion's knees were - knocking and his head bobbed rraHe clung to the left hand that Md dazed him nnd butted nnd wrigK'-d his way out of his predicament All the way Brown carried th f to tho champion and In every r'fhe repeated his Philadelphia arb.-k ment. He won In ten rounds o r champion ns thoroughly as he b.i! six rounds.

SENDS BANKER TO SING SING

Charles A. Belling, Former Manajf of Bronx National Bank. Pleads Guilty of Forgery. Now York. March 4. In scnen. a Charles A. Belling, the former n nger and vice-president of the Br x Notional bank, to a term In S ' ;' Sing Judge Foster, In the court general sessions, said that It 's ,:1 impossibility for any court to 'J a bank ofilcial who pleaded guilt- 1 a crime to go free, although the clols of the institution and ofh 4 urged clemency. Tho former ban''-' was given a term of not less than or year and three months and not m ' than nineteen years. Belling was charged with forgir.r stock of tho Bronx National bonk and Belling It to the Knickerbocker Trust company.

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