Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 April 1911 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA The sleeping sickness Is Increasing in Philadelphia.

This is the season when flsh is considered a ilno brain food. Tho harem skirt sooms destined to a short life and an exciting ono. In Russia tliey call the harorn skirt a Jupecullottu." That ought to kill It Our notion of tho height of folly is nn nil attempt to shout up an ocean liner. The crusade n this year is to W cms. rnlnst tho housefly i x.eo llugly strenuMan has worn t!.. trousers too long to allow woiDO'i to appropriate them without protest Sleeping sickness is said to ho car rled t'v otd-fl-h Don't allow your gold tish to run at large. At: ns those who are not kicking about the weather arc the youthful sportsn:en who play "mibs." Mark frost has killed tho Georgia peach crop, though perhaps white frost would hae been as bad. Despite olectriclty uses, the mule goes lng every year more in Its various right on becom-valuable-Jail sentences should not be confind to women puiugglers. The malo wholesalers should get their share. Paris affirms that modistes are horn nn! not made. It is a pity that hats and gowns do not come the same j way. I A new revolution is threatened in Turkey. It begins to look as if Turkey must have Spanish blood in its veins. A Chicago mall order house has Just shipped 10,000 alarm clocks to China. What China really wants is something to eat. Ono man predicts the end of tho world in 1912 and another sees the coming of the millennium In 1915. One of them4must be wrong. A Danish warship going to Greenland 111 be tho first craft of that kind to enter tho arctic circle. Let us hope It will not get cold foot If radium Is to become tho rival of coal as a hent producer tho coal producers think that their article should bo nearer tho price demanded lor mo rival article. An American girl Is alleged to have paid J-'.O'Ki for a handkerchief in Pans a few dajs ago. Foolish maiden. She might have bought an intorest In a French count for that price. A lady who seems to have Investigated reports that one may live to bo 15o years old If ono will take tho precaution to avoid tho uso of hoavy underwonr. Sho is likoly to get In bad with tho wool producers. Thoro Is a natural precedent to support tho tale of tho New York dog which Is turning black as the result of eating a black kitten. Plenty of human beings eat crow and, as a rule. It makoa them look black. Another kidnapper has Just beon sontoncod to twenty-five years Imprisonment At this rate of offoctlvo justice the kidnappers, when thoy ro gain their liberty, will And their peculiar industry among tho lost arts. An Investigation recently brought out tli.- fact that students of a wellknown college nr- being supplied with skim milk. If tin- theory Is correct that men are what they eat, no wondor need be expres-ed at th opinion late ly delivered b) a promin tit lecturer ; that the colleges are turning out I crooks. j It Is proposed In Nevada to allow a prisoner sentenced to death to make choice between hanging or an Instant nnd palnlos poison. Taken In connection with Us willingness to sever unpleasant marital bonds for any old reason, this now procedlng certainly establishes past argument that tho State of Nevada has a most obliging disposition. A Gotham magistrate complimented In his court a wife who relented n betting with a forcible remonstrance convoed by a st'-ve lid if all wives were ho resourr fful with the fund)? furniture there would bo no need of the whipping lest, and oven the sentimentalists could not conplain that a wlf- injured l.er husband's self-re-tpif tu not takir.g tier boatings with pat nt submission. Th Htud-nu- of a well-known women h follege will probably be thrown int spasms of Indignation by tho (statement of ono of them that plain girls go to collogo to try to compnto with rivals moro endowed with natural gifts In the matrimonial market that protty and attractive glrU do not need college training to necuro husbands. This frank confession will not help to populnrlze college education, nor tho exponents, either of such itartllng candid theories.

NES UNDER FIRE HI BUSINESS RIVAL TELLS OF LUMBERMAN'S BOAST ABOUT LORIMER'S ELECTION. THOUGHT IT WAS EGOTISM Packer Tilden Objects to Giving Inquiry Committee Access to His Bank Deposit Records Marquette Developments Are Related. Spriugilold, III., April 14. Edward Tilden, tho packer, who has been named ns treasurer of the nllogod $100.000 1-oriiner fund, appeared before tho Helm investigating committeo here. After naming the different hanks in which he carries accounts, he declared he had strenuous objections to giving up his records of deposits In the Drovers' Deposit National bank, of which he is president. The questions of Attorney Healy, conducting the examination for the committee, brought out that a subpoena had been issued for these papers, but that they had not ben obtained. Mr. Tilden was sorvod with a subpoena duces tecum to produco tho books and accounts of his bank desired by the committee. This subpoena was served as Mr. Tilden left the stand. Repeats Hlnes Alleged Boast. Herman H. Hettler of Chicago, president of tho Herman H. Hettler Lumber company, told the committeo that Edward Hlnes declared to him he had elected Lorimer. He said he met Mr. Hines at the Union Lcaguo club In Chicago May 20. iyo9. "This meeting." said Mr. Hettler. "occurred by accident at the cigar tll0 ' stand In the club. I stopped in Union League club on the day of Senator Lorimer's election. I was leaving Chicago for a trip to Toronto. As 1 was buying some cigars I felt a tap on my shoulder. 1 looked around and met Mr. Hines. "Mr. Hlnes was apparently elated and happy. He said: 'I havo Just had a telephone call from Springfield and I have elected our next senator." Mr. Hines was emphatic in his remnrks." Said He Had Beaten Taft. "I was not much Interested In the senatorial tight and with a vlow of changing the subject I brought up tho subject of tho tariff," Mr Hettler added. "Mr. Hlnes said that he had beon having a great tlmo in Washington and that he (Hlnes) bad beaten President Taft on tho tariff." Mr. Hettler declarod under cross-ex-nminatlon that Mr. Hlnes had said nothing to him regarding money or the use of Improper methods in the elec tion of Lorimer, "I simply took Mr. nines' actions on the day that I met him in tho Unlou League club as an outburst of personal vanity or egotism. He was bragging. more or less, about tho election of Mr. Lorimer." Marquette Developments Given. M. D. Coan, Investigator for the committee, followed Mr. Hettler with a story of a conversation of Mr. Hines with several citizens of Marquetto, Mich., In which tho Chicago lumberman is said to havo boasted how lm rose from a poor boy to a millionaire and crowned his career iiy electing William Lorimer senator. Mr. Coan declared that the Mnrquetto men who had given him tho story had refuBod to come to Illinois as witnesses because of their friendship for Mr. Hlnes. As a substitute for their testimony Mr. Healy read affidavits from Frank Ruasell, Robert C. Lowe and I. D. Mosher. The Hlnes conversation was supposed to havo been at either Bush's saloon or at a hotel bar. Russell, Shelby 13. Jones nnd Huss Culver nro said In the affidavits to have been with Mr. Hines. "We have put Lorimer over, but It cost us a lot of money," was alleged to have been Hlnes' boast. DENMAN THOMPSON IS DEAD Veteran Actor Who Created and Starred "The Old Homestead" Passes Away In New Hampshire. West Swaniey. N. II., April 15, Dcnnian Thompson, the actor who male "The Old Homestead" famous, died at his country estate here. Mr. Thompson had been III with heart disease and uraemia since last month. For 25 years Demnan Thompson and tho play which he wrote and starred in. "The Old Homestead," havo occupied a place In the American Imagination and sympathy comparable only to that of Joseph Jofforson and "Hip Van Winkle." Mr. Thompson, who was one of tho last of tho old school of Amorlcan netors. was born In Hoechwood. Erie county, Pennsylvania. In 18S3. At tho ngo of seven years his family moved to New Hampshlro, whoro he K-gnn to study tho New England fnrmor, afterward rendered famous in his sketch. "Uncle Joshua Whltcoinb." Mr. Thompson is tho author also of "Tho Sunshine of Pnradlso Alley." which was produced In 1S00. FIVE STEEL WORKERS KILLED Fourteen Others Are Injured, Two Fatally. When Molten Metal Splashes on Them. Vhllndelphln, April 17. Five workmen were killed, two wero fatally Injured, and 12 others seriously hurt nt tho Mldvalo stool works nt Wayne Junction when a huge conjnlner filled with raolten steel gave way, the fiery liquid pouring or splashing over moro than a score of tho employes, flcorgo F. Stool, superlntcnderi, Is among the Injured,

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MANY ARE KILLED IN SOUTHWESTERN TORNADO

Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mis60url Are Swept by Terrific Storms Much Damage Wrought. Kansas City, Mo., April 14. Tho details of tho tornadoes which swept wide pnths through parts of Kan&us, Oklahoma and Arkansas are yet far from complete. Five persons arc known to havo been killed In Kansas nnd thoro Is a long list of Injured. Tho property damago Is Immense. Fivo porsona are known lo havo been killed In Oklahoma. Tho number of Injured apponrs to ho greater there than In Kansas. A rollet train carried 30 persons from Mk Heart to Tulea for treatment in hospitals. Dip Henrt. n town In the Osage nation, apponrs to havo borno tho brunt of tho storm in Oklahoma. What appears to have been a second storm did much damage south of Muskogee. Meager reports toll of n tornado that struck PlumervlUo. Ark., killing three perrons and Injuring 25. lu Kansas the path of tho storm was unusually long and wido. The twister first made Its appearance at Kskrldgo. a town In Wabaunsee county, southwest of Topekn. After causing much damage thero It jumped back Into tho air and struck again nt Notawaka and Whiting, whore houses and barns were destroyed. Tho entire path of the storm was sixty or seventy miles long and from three-fourths to a mile wide. About sixty houses were damaged or dostroyed In this district, and 80 barns were completely wrecked. A tornado struck Cadet, a town of 500 population iu Washington county, Missouri. Two persons wore killed and 14 injured. The wind virtually swept tho town away. Only ten hoiiEos In the southeastern part of tho town wore left standing. Tho parth of tho tornado through Cndot was tnreo-quariers oi a mno wiue. A telephone message reports four killed and several Injured at Valley Mines. In Jefforson county. Missouri. A numbor of buildings there wore demolished. DR. PEARSONS GIVES S300.O00 Philanthropist Celebrates His NinetyFirst Birthday by Making Large Donations to Colleges. Chicago. April 11. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the aged philanthropist of Hinsdale, celebrated his ninety-first birthday today by distributing $300,000 among various religious and educa tional Institutions. Among thoso i which benefit by the distribution of this sum are tho Amorlcan Hoard of Foreign Missions. $100.000; Ilerca colloce. Kentucky, flOO.OOO; Doano col lege. Nebraska. $25.000. Northland colloge. Wisconsin. $10.000; Highland college, Kansas, $10.000, and McKendree college. Lebanon, 111., $10.000. Other smaller gifts total $45,000. Doctor Pearsons' fortune was made largely In Chicago real estate. In which ho Invested practically all lie had shortly after the lire of 1S71. To the money made In these and later real estato operations wero added hoavy profits from timber land purchases. LAWYER O'REILLY INDICTED Former Assistant District Attorney of New York Charged With Criminally Receiving Stolen Goods. New York. April 14. Daniel F. O'Heilly, former assistant district attorney and ono of tho best known of tho younger lawyers at the criminal bar, was Indicted by tho grand jury on a charge of criminally receiving stolon goods. A bench warrant was Issued for his arrest. O'Hellly's whereabouts are unknown. The securities which O'Reilly Is said to have received, knowing thorn to have been stolen, wero valued nt $85,000. They were stolen from Aaron L. Bancroft, a senior momber of tho brokerage firm of George Bancroft & Co.. 10 Ileavor street. Tho larceny took place on March 21 last The securities were In part returned to William M. Sullivan, nn attorney of this city, for a consideration of $5.000. O'Reilly was acting. It Is alleged, for tho thieves, and Mr. Sullivan for the owner or tne securities. ADD IE JOSS DIES IN TOLEDO Cleveland's Great Pitcher Succumbs to Tubercular Meningitis Pitched No-Run No-Hit Game. Toledo, O., April 15. Adrian C Joss, hotter known In the hasoball world as "Addle." well-known pitcher of tho Cleveland American baseball team, died at his homo hero. Death was duo to t uhercular meningitis, from which he tin (1 been a sufferer since Inst Sunday. Joss was thirty-one years old He Is survived by a wife and two children. Ho wns a thirty-second degree Mnson nnd a member of the Mystic Shrlno. Jobs Joined the Cleveland American leaguo club In 1903. Ho became ono of tho premier pitchers of the country and had tho honor of pitching a no-hit. no-run game against the Chicago Whlto Sox in 100S, his opponent being Kd. Wnlih. Paroles Turkey-Stealing Ulfe Convict. Frankfort, Ky.. April 17. Sontoncod to lifo Imprisonment because he stole one turkoy. that being his third conviction for a felonious offense, Caswell McCatten, a negro, Is to be released from tho penitentiary hero nt tho end of three months' Imprisonment nn n conditional pardon signed by Governor Willsou.

AN EXPLANATION

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HILL RESIGNS POST

AMBASSADOR SENDS HIS RESIGNATION TO PRESIDENT TAFT, WHO HAS ACCEPTED IT. POTASH QUESTION INVOLVED This Has Constituted Main Element of Diplomatic Activity in Rochester Man's Tenancy of Position Sets July 1 es Date of Retirement. Washington. April 15. Ono of the 1 greatest surprises of recent years in j ofllclnl circles hero was caused by I tho announcement that David Jayno Hill of Itochcstcr, N. Y., has resigned his place as ambassador of the United States to Germany. The resignation was nccoptod promptly by President Taft, but in the formal letters given out thoro is no intimation of the reasons for Mr. Hill's withdrawal. The cause Is a mystery. Reports of friction betweon Mr. Hill and tho state department were In circulation, but no confirmation was obtainnble from any source. In his lettor ncceptlng tho resignation the president thanks Mr. Hill for his services at Berlin and says he is glad to know that he will remain there until July 1, when tho resignation goes into effect. Ambassador Ordered Home. Ambassador Hill was ordered homo from Berlin several weeks ago to discuss, according to an announcement by the state department at tho time, the potash controversy between the United States nnd Germany which for a long time has been the subject of diplomatic interchange in which Mr Hill has been Intimately engaged. Stato department ofllclals declined to discuss the resignation. Tho retiring ambassador has been connected with the Btato department for moro than twelve years, entering the Bcrvice as assistant secretary of state October 25, 1S9S. Ho was appointed minister to Switzerland In 1903 and two years later transferred to tho Netherlands. Since April i. 190S, ho has been ambassador to Ger many. While Ambassador Hill's resigna tion was a Kreat surprise to olllcinl Washington and the diplomatic corps here, it was argued that the fact that ho Is to remain nt his post until July 1 Indicates that there was nothing urgent In the ambassador's action. HETTY GREEN TO BE BANKER With Son She Will Establish Chain of Private Institutions Running Across the Country. New York. April 17. Mrs. Hetty Green, with the nsBistnnce of her son. Col. E. H. It. CJreen, has decided to consolidnto her interests iu a private bank, with a chain of branches running across tho country. "In New York." aahl Colonel Green, "our firm will ho named K. H. It. Green & Co. Hranch.es will he opened In Hoston, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco. We havo decided that our interests enn best he served from a private hank here in Now York. Since the laws of tho various states do not give us tho right to hold real estnto In the name of a corporation or trust compnny common to nil, we havo had to orgnnlzo like other private hankers of this city whoBt- Interests extend oliowhorc." PRIESTS MUST LEAVE BANKS Bishop Issues Orders Putting Into Effect Decree of Pope Forbidding. Participation In Business. Davenport, la., April 17. Bishop James Davia of the Roman Catholic diocese of Davenport has Issued orders putting; Into effect a docreo of tho pope requiring thnt nil priests phnll resign from positions which thoy may hold as officers or directors of banks or other business Institutions. Noted Train Robber Paroled. Sacramento. Cnl., April 17. Chris Evans, tho train robber of Hvnns and Sonntng notoriety, was paroled from Folfiom prison. Ho has been an Inmnto for 17 years. When tho news was told Evuns he collapsed.

PUBLICITY BILL GOES THROUGH IN THE HOUSE Anti-Elections Campaign Contribution Measure Is Adopted by Almost Unanimous Vote. Washington. April 15. 13 y a practically unanimous vote tho house passed the nntl-electlons campaign contributions bill and then swung Immediately into consideration of the Canadian reciprocity bill. Democratic leaders have plunged

now Into their tariff revision work and thero Is to be no let-up until tho legislative program has beon carried through tho house. With the passage of the bill for tho popular election of senators and the campaign publicity bill, they have cleared the decks of general legislation outside tho tariff. Consideration of tho reciprocity bill will bo continued until a vote has been taken on Its final passage by th'e house. Chairman Underwood gave notice that ho would not attempt to restrict consideration or limit debat i and that ample time would be given nil members desiring to discuss the terms of the reciprocal arrangement. It Is the Impression a vote can be had on final passage of tho bill next Tuesday or Wednesday. Dally sessions, except Sunday, will be held by the house. Newness of many Democrats to legislative proceedings caused a stampede among them on the publicity bill and nearly resulted In writing into tho bill a provision providing for publication of election contributions before a primary with punishment In federal courts for violation of tho law. The provision was however, defeated. WOULD IMPEACH GOV. 0SB0RN Michigan Executive Is Censured for Not Removing Prison Warden and Board of Control. Lansing, Mich., April 17. Dlssatlsfled over the indifferent manner In which Governor Osborn received tho action of the house In adopting the minority report of the committee that Investigated Marquetto prison It is said a majority of tho representatives will favor Impeachment proceedings against tho governor unless ho brings about the removal of Warden James Russell and the members of tho prison bonrd of control. This is the first time In the history of tho state that threats of Impeachment have over been made against a governor. Tho report adopted by tho house set forth that Warden Russell had flogged men Into insensibility, had received tribute from tho contractors who operate tho fnctorlos nt tho prison, and in ono section It declared that Warden Russell should be serving time behind the bars instead of ""being in control of the convicts. Governor Osborn and Warden Russell have been closo personal and political friends for a quarter of n century. The governor snyp he will stand by Russell and declares tho Murquotte prison Ih the best managed of any penal Institution in this state. MUST CHARGE EXACT FARES Interstate Commission Adepts Ruling Forcing Roads to Give Change to Pasoengero. Washington. April 17. A resolution has boon adopted by tho Intorstnte (!ommorco commission putting nn ond to the practice of railroad companies, for tho sake of convenience, selling passenger tickets, whenever possible, at a charge in multiples of five. For Instance, If tho fare, according to the mileage, figured 44 rents, tho rate exacted has in many cases beon 15 cents, nnd If It figures 42 cents, it might bo -10 cents, llythe order Issued carriers are required to make tho charge in odd cents, exacting the precise faro In every Instance. Bankers' Conference Postponed. Denver, Colo., April 17. Denver bnnkcis have been ad vised that on account of the 111 health of former Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch tho conforenco between the national monetary commission and western bankers scheduled to be held hero this Hpring will bo postponed until next tull

BACKS UP WARNING

PRESIDENT SENDS FULL CAVA,. RY REGIMENT FROM DEb MOINES TO ARIZONA. FORTY REBELS ARE SLAIN Insurrectos Attack Federal Troops n u I 1. 1 y v. ui MBUiluia ill lllllUflr j J and Conflict Lasts Several Hout Officers Die In Dauchc Battle. Washington, April 17. Ilrour" tho bnttlo of Agun I'riota to .. realization of tho dangor to u American settlements along the urn frontier nro exposed by tit. strlfo of Mexico, President Tn' moved swiftly and vigorous!) . nil the llnoB of precaution t ! any repetition of tho Douglas episode. With various rumors HoaduL Washington of tho imminence other conflict nt Agua Priota t!i- , Ident ordered tho entire regln the Sixth cavalry from Des M la., to Arizona to roinforcoUn there. This will add S00 men o guard in Arizona. Backs Up Warnings. This step on the part of tin ; dont supplements his warning Mexican and revolutionary am h ; that American lives and im must not he endangered b i. strained border lino lighting. I' -pletcfi, It Is said, the ndminlsuru present program of precaution The fact is emphasized in of. quarters that thoAmoricnn trj tho south havo specific lustre i not to cross Into Mexico under a circumstances. Tho officers in maud have boon ordered to pre:-. : a strict neutrality and to see i' American citizens do not expose th selves to unwarranted danger. Six Federals Are Killed. Iii Paso, Tex., April 17. The insurectos have retired from the viein!t of Ilauche, south of Juarez, and tho federals have returned to Juarez. Tho foderals lost six men. Including Lieuts Miguel Hnturini and Amblagl Glminand six wounded. Including C.i; Porflrio Hernandez. The woun I wore brought back to Juarez. 1 : e dead were left on tho battlefield Forty Slain In Battle. Chihuahua. Mexico, April 17 or moro Insurrectos wero klll .! ' bntto fought between Snuz nid s m C'ara ennyon. about fifty mi . i ' of here, according to fedot.il -who arrived hero. The brought orders to havo bos; . ready for tho federal wound : Tho federals roport five kill ' later developments may chang--llguroa. A numbor of women I children nro believed to ho among kllle'd. Coming across from Casas Gm- : -on their way to Chihuahua with r onors under Gen. Luis Valdez. th. orals, followod by about one h. refugees, wero attacked. Five hundred insurrectos i Gens. Orozco and Villa had ! structed by Francisco Madcro 1 : off the Casas Grandes conting n' : If possible capture and relnprisoners. Tho fight occurred ' hacienda as the prisoners, t-h. - ' together by ropes, and the womc. children refugees, weary from long tramp, were scattored In ;t ' ' " broken line. Fight Lasts Several Hours. Tho fedorals immediately nsi" i with heavy firing and placed the - oners and non-combatants un-b-r toction. Tho fighting continue .! several hours and resulted in lng north from hero of Genen! I bago with 500 reinforcements So far as known none of th. oners, nmong whom nro believe I ' many Amorlcans, wero wound- i none escaped, although these -ments are based on unoillclnl r- j New Hopes for Peace. Great hope for pence Is on-ef hero localise of the prosp-ct . arrival of Francisco Madcro. S thor of the Insurrecto loader. FIRE DESTROYS POLO STANDS Giants' Plant In Ruins Yankees C ' Their Park Cigarette Cause of Blaze. Now York. April 15. Th- r grounds, the Now York Nntiomagnificent homo at tho foot of ' torlo Coogan's bluff In tho upper i of tho city tho blggost baseball -In the country was swept by Everything Inside tho fences ruined, except tho loft field blea ' and the club house. Mnnagor McGraw thought the ngo might reach $250,000. Fnpnrtmont ofTlclnls declared $l probably would covor tho danmA match or a glowing clgirett. snld to havo 'started the blnz Frank Fnrrell. president of the York American Baseball club. ! fored tho Now York National I 1 club tho use of his grounds. FEDERAL' 0FFICAL IS DEAD Asslctant United States Treas George S. Terry Passes Away South Carolina Resort. Alken. S. C., April IS. Gcorp -Terry, nsslstnut United States ?p . urcr at New York, died at York lego hero. Ho had been suffering ' a week from nn attack of dial"'A Bon was tho only member of ' ' family who wns present nt tho de; bed. The body will be sent to N York.