Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 November 1911 — Page 3

ASKS BIGGER NAVY

TAFT rTER REVIEWING FLEET IN NEW YORK HARBOR CALLS FOR MORE SHIPS. ONE SEAMAN LOSES HIS LIFE Only Incident to Mar Mighty Pageant of Marine Fighting Forces Is Drowning of Man From Battleship New Jersey. Nov York, Nov. 3. Standing barehebdi d In a whipping slc William lioi.td Tnft. president of tho United Muuo. and commnndor-ln-chlof of tho iuo. reviewed the greatest inoblllrat,.,ii of I'ntio Sam's marino ilslitltig Iu, , s. i ver convened. J'rt-Mdint Taft and t5o 30.000 offl-f,r-juid men of tho fighting fortresses turne an epoch Into the history of tho iu thut will enduro forover. Taft Craves 60-Mile Gale. landing on tho bridge of tho Mayflower, anchored off Twenty-third tirttt, tho president braved a GO-mllo gaii- to receive tho homagoof 22 great steel-clad levlathnns steaming down tuo river along the shore of New York city. As the line of ninety-nine ships of war sw cpt past tho Mayflower, on which stood Mr. Taft and boomed the presidential saluto of twenty-one guns, tho threo tiers of incn manning the port rail were In rigid salnte. A3 the New Jorsey. seventeenth vessel In line. cpt by everyone on tho president's yacht uncovered in silent respect to the memory or Gustavo Frey, able scanuin, who had lost his lifo only an hour before. The seaman lost his footing while assisting at the starboard gangway of the Now Jcrssy and plunged Into the raging river. For an rnur the vast armanda WaB held up while boats from various ships made a vain search for the unfortunate sailor. Ii c aus of the delay tho president was rorccd to leave Secretary Meyer !n sole occupancy of the Mayflower after the last of tho warships had passed. Tho president departed from the Mayflower and left Jersey City for Hot Springs. Va. President Lauds the Navy. Defore his departure the president Issued tho following statement: "Those who saw the fighting fleet xhlrb was assembled In New York harbor could not fail to bo struck with Its preparedness and with its high rail Uarj etr.ciency nnd must have been proud ot Its personnel. "The demonstration has had an educational value In arousing patriotism. Increasing the general knowledge of and interest In the navy. Illustrating the ability to mobilize on short notice aod showing the skill of the officers who turned the whoio Hoet the uar row river and sent It to sea it the rate of 14 knots an hour. "Tbi- qulpmont of the fleet Is excellent, except as to the number of dostroers and cruisers and colliers In proportion to tho whole number. Wo had In the fleet today 22 destroyers, and to meet the requirements there should have been approximately one hundred destroyers, or an average of four to each battleship. It Is true that thero has been a marked improvement In tho type of colliers and fast cruisers tn our navy, but Ills also true that we haven't a sulllcicnt number. "In addition to building great battleships, other nations are building enormous high-speed cruisers 28 knots an hour -and It is believed that our navy should be similarly equipped, t'nless a navy Is maintained at the highest possible state of efficiency It Is a needless extravagance. "1 am moro than ever convinced of tho desirability of conferring upon tho commanding officer of our fleet tho title of admiral, orntlcast of vi co-admiral At present tho ranking officer 13 rn' -Imiral and this title 13 not comnu-nsuratc with the Importance of the fleet. At the review of tho German fleet at Kiel a smaller number of ships were under the command of a full admiral; two squadrons were commanded by vice-admirals, nnd each of four divisions was commanded by a rear admiral." WOULD EXTEND U. S. CONTROL Commissioner Lano Favors the Creation of a National Corporation Commission. Washington, Nov. 4. Creation of a national commission with power to control and regulato largo business enterprises engaged in interstate busies is advocated by Interstate Comrocrco Commissioner Lano in an Interview given out hero. While recognizing a smnll difference between rillroad and private corporations, the commissioner declares that control of all corporations doing Interstate bust Dtss should rest with the federal government. Ho also believes that small enterprises should have the right of grpotnK on minimum prices to prevent ruinous competition. MISTRIAL IN MRS. M'REE CASE Jury Dsagre as to Woman Who Killed a Student In LouisianaAcquittal Expected. Opeiousaa. La.. Nov. 4.-.Miatrlal JM recorded In the case of Mrs. Zee If 1n McRce, accused of the murder oi Allan Garland, a young Tulanc tinlhnf w 8,U.tlcnL Th0 -ury repotted 'hat it could not agree A,IcRco expected acquittal on on Jcl;,mt,0n thnl sho D,10 young Irland In defense of her honor.

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Mrs. W. D. Leeds, Owner or Famous ?3 10,000 Pearl Necklace, which has been In dispute since lDOti ovor tho amount of duty to ho paid. DENIAL BY STEPHENSON ENDS SENATE INQUIRY Senator Declares He Never Had Any Connection With Hines or Shields Concerning His Election. Milwaukee, Nov. 2. Tho senatorial Investigating committee, which has been probing the election of Sonntor Stephenson has completed Its work In Milwaukee. Tho committee finished the taking of testimony and adjourned to meet In Washington and propare Us report, Tho last witness was Senator Stephenson, as he had boon the first. He denied evor having any connection with either Hines or Shiolda in regard to his eloctlon. and denied over having given Shields or anyone olso a blank check. Senator Stephenson said that he had made no promises and had paid no money to any legislative candidate to assist In his election, nor had he authorized any one to do so In his behalf. Kdward Ulncs of Chicago took the stand again and denied that he had a conversation with IL J. Shields. Hlncs denied that he had ever had a talk with Senator Stephenson regarding the election or In regard to money. He denied evory detail of tho Hustf ng charges and then volunteered this unusual declaration: ".Mr. Chairman. If you can learn the date of the alleged conversation with Shields I can tell you where I was that day. 1 wish to say right here that for twenty years I have kept a record of wbore I have been every day and almost every hour." He offered thi3 record to tho committee. LOYAL LEGION BARS SICKLES Hero of Gettysburg Is Blackballed by Veterans; Jealousy Given 33 the Cause. New York. Nov 2. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, hero of tho battle of Gettysburg, has been blackballed in bis second attempt to Join the Loyal Legion, an organization of former officers on the Union side in the Civil war. General Sickles first nppllcd for membc ship in the order nine years ago. but his friends withdrew tho application before It went to a vote. Some of them attrlbe'e tho opposition In the Loyal Legion to Uo distinguished soldier to a clique whlci does not approve of his administration of the aflalrs of the New York state committee for tho erection of monuments on battlefields Others declare that It Is prompted by n feeling of Jealousy of General Slck'es for the hero part he played at Gettrburg. MADER0 IN A TRAIN WRECK President-Elect of Mexico Has Narrow Escape In Collision Trainmaster Is Killed. Torrcon, Mex.. Nov. 2. PresidentElect Madcro of Mexico had a narrowescape when n special train on the Mexican Central railroad carrylng.him from Chihuahua to Mexico City crashed hend-on into a freight near Gomez Palaclc. All or tho president's iminHntnlv narty escaped unhurt but 'a trainmaster, Albert Sanchez, who was killed. STEAMER SfflKS; 24 DROWN French Ship Goes Down In the Allantic After Collision With Another Vessel. tndnn. Nov 2. The French ateamcr Dlolibah was sunk In tho Atlantic ocean off the Canary Islands In a collision and 21 members of tho crow and three passengers were drowned The niollbah, which sailed from Marseille, was a schooner-rlgge steamer of 971 tuns. MRS. ROBERT MANTELL DEAD Wife of Actor, Herself Player, Suecumbs to Heart Dlse.se at Summe.' Home. Atlantic Highlands, N. J., Nov. 2. Mrs. Marie U-oth Mantel!, wife of Itobe.t Mnntoh. the nctoi. and herself famou? as a eo-s.'a: with her husband. Is dead nt he. stummer home, Brucewood Mm Mantcll's death was duo to heart disease, from which has ad been 111 sluco last June.

A THANKSGIVING POSSIBILITY

THE "DISMEMDERMENT" OF TURKEY.

I Ü D FIVE BANDITS WRECK ROCK ISLAND EXPRESS CAR WITH DYNAMITE. THREE SUSPECTS IN JAIL Switch Engine Frightens Robbers Away in Midst of Pillage They Escape With Sacks of Registered Mall Value of Which Is Unknown. Forest City, Ark., Nov. 2. Three suspects aro held in the St. Francis county Jail and half a dozen posses arc scouring the Mississippi bottoms between hero and Memphis In search of five masked train robb-s. who held up and robbed the express car of a Rock Island train, west-bound, dynamited the car and escaped with several sacks of registered mall, the value of which has not been ascertained. The men held gave their names as Waltor Orr or Montana, Kvcrett Miller of Willowhlll and Uen Dell of Edmondson, Arle The safe In tho express car, containing, it Is said, gold to the value of $36.000. had been trans f erred Into the car ahead and the robbers failed to get the rich booty for which they had evidently carefully planned. Force Engineer to Back Train. Tho robbers boarded the train -when it slowed clown near Hurlburt, eleven miles from Memphis. Intimidating the engine crew by a display of weapons, tho men forced tho engineer to back tho train several miles. Then the express and mall cars were cut from tho coaches and hauled ahead a short distance, where tho robbery was executed. In the meantime, other members of tho train crow, as well as express messengers and mall clerks, wore brought to submission by the robbers. When tho detached cars were brought to a stnedstili each of tho men set about a certain task. One began gathering registered mall and another set the chargo of explosives in the safe, while others stood guard over the train crews and tho passenger coaches. The robber having charge of tho express car selected the larger of two sares for his attack. This one. it happened, contained only the less valuable packages. Sides of Car Splintered. When the charge was fired the ends and sides of the car were splintered and tho entire front of the safe blown away. Just at this point In the hold-up a switch engine steamed in sight nnd the robbers took to their heels, with only whntfthey could hastily grab as a reward for their daring. The train proceeded westward after the crev; had notified the Memphis authorities. WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDER Arrest of Mrs. Louise Vcrmilya, Charged With Poioonlng of Chicago Policeman. Is Ordered. Chicago, Nov. 4. Following a report of the experts who examined the viscera of Policeman Arthur F. BIssonette, who died In the homo of Mrs. Louise Vermllya last week under mysterious circumstances, that they had found "arsenic In abundant quantities." a warrant charging Mrs. Vermllya with murder was issued. Coroner Hoffman announced that he would exhume two bodies Immediately In a further investigation of fatalities among persons related to or closely associated with Mrs. Vermllya. For reasons best known to the authorities Interested In the case. Mrs. Vcrmilya has not been taken to a police cell. Two policemen nre constantly on guard over Mrs. Vermllya nt her residence to prevent her from escaping or from hnrmlng herself In their hands the murder warrant has been placed, so that It may be served at a moment's notice If she attempts to lenvc the house. Chinese Manila Is Burned. Manila. Nov 3. The Chinese district was swept by fire with a loss of over J 1,000.000 The fire tntcatened to desttoy tho commercial center of tho city, anl tl.e Twentieth Infantry, with General Funston in charge, was called out to assist the fire fighters, i

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ROOSEVELT SAYS PEACE IS THE CURSE OF CHINA Declares Lack of Militarism Is Cause of Empire's Troubles Points Moral In Tripoli War. Chicago, Nov. 3. China Is a horrible example of the effects of a policy of "peace at any price," declares Theodore Roosevelt In an article on "Arbitration; Pretense and Reality." In the current number of the Outlook. The Turko-ltallan war was also cited by the former president as an illustration of the futilities of treaties without the backing of power. Mr. Roosevelt says In part: "Surely the real friends of peace in this country ought to be able to profit 1 by the events that have happened In China and in the Mediterranean during these fall months, since the arbitration treaty was considered In tho ! senate. "During these months we have seen a widespread revolt in China, with utter disorganization of tho empire, and we have seen war unexpectedly break out between Italy and Turkey. "The complete absence of militarism In China and China's effort to rely purely on pacific measures In dealing with all foreign powers have not only caused it to lose various provinces to various foreign powern within the last tew decades, but have had not tho smallest effect in saving it from tyranny, mlsgovernment and the most farreacblng economic misery at home, and, moreover, have had the effect of depriving it of means even of keeping order within its own boundaries. "As for the war between Italy and Turkey. 1 am not now concerned with its ethical Justification. The point Is that this war proved tho utter inefficiency of paper treaties wbjen they aro unbacked by force. Turkey has all the protection possible to give her by paper treaties, and yet all of these treaties thus guaranteeing her against dismemberment, thus pledging the honor of various great nations to guarantee ber Integrity, are not worth as much as a single gunboat of the small'est size tho minute that it becomes worth "while for any serious opponent to attack her." FRENCH TO GUARD MOROCCO Germany Concedes Right of France to Exercise Protectorate Over African Country. Paris, Nov. 4. The contents of tho Franco-German accord, officially given out, shows that Germany recognizes the rigbt of France to establish a protectorate In Morocco, while both nations engage to obtain the adhesion to this accord of the other signatories to the Algeclras agrcemcnL France, as compensation for German recognition of her protectorate In ATimnon pntlno tn fipT-Tnnnv nhniif ! rt A AAV . 1.11 nl . .n t .... 1. s.a.. French Kongo, touching the German Kameruns. The territory ceded is inhabited by about 1.000,00 0 negroes, and has a commerce valued at $2,100.000 annually. TYPO UNION AMENDS BYLAWS Six Changes Which Were Submitted to Referendum of International Body Adopted by Members. Indianapolis. Nov. 4. The sit amendments to the by-laws of the International Typographical union submitted to the members for a referendum vote were adopted, according to announcement made by President James Lynch. Tho most Important of the amendments was the one providing for a graduated burial benefit, according to the length of membership In the union, Instead of the flat rate of $75. FORTY-SIX HUNTERS SLAIN U. S. Biological Survey Keeps List of Victims Killed by Accident In Woods. Washington. Nov. 4. "Counting the two men Just killed In New Jersey. 4C hunting fatalities have been reported to this office this year." said Dr. T. S. Palmer, assistant chief of tho biological survey. "N'lne of these A're In New York, fourteen In Michigan, three In Washington and five In New Jersey and tho rest scattering. Seven of the number Rcre deer accidents."

REBELS TAKE HIT

SHANGHAI IS CAPTURED BY CHINESE REVOLUTIONISTS WITHOUT RESISTANCE. THRONE ACCEPTS NEW CODE Constitution Adopted Provides For Perpetuity of Manchu Dynasty But Curtails Power of Throne: Fall of Wasung Expected Soon. Shanghai, Nov. 4. -The city of Shanghai was taken over by the rebels without a battle, the authorities offering no resistance and the troops of the Kiangnan arsenal Joining the invading forcos. A large force of rebels has sot out for Wusung, ton miles up tho river, and a report that the city has fallen, together with all the forts along the river, is expected hourly. Other forces aro advancing on Nankin and Chlng Klang. The province of Yunnan seceded and declared Its independence. The capture of this city was accomplished with astonishing case. There had been no fighting or disorder and the sudden movement was unexpected. Taotal Flees from City. The police and native soldiers made no attempt to Interfere. All the officials quietly gave up their offices to the rebels and thousands of residents swarmed into the streets wearing a band of white about their arms, signifying their sympathy with the new regime. An attempt was made to capture the taotal, but he had fled with the appearance of the first rebel flag Tho rebel leaders have notified the foreign consuls that they have established a republican government and that all foreign concessions and subjects will be amply protected. It Is stated that the rebels are planning to concentrate all their forces at Wuchang, evacuating Hanyang for that purpose. Throne Accepts Draft of Plans. Peking, Nov. 4. The national assembly completed a draft of the bases upon which it proposes to construct the new constitution of China. It was submitted to the throne and accepted immediately. The tentative plan provides for the perpetuity of the Manchu dynasty. The power ot the emperor is closely restricted by the constitution, which is to be written by the national assembly. The Imperial princes are made Ineligible to the offices of premier, members of the cabinet and administrators of the provinces. Hankow Is In Ruins. Hong Kong, Nov. 4. Fighting is still in progress In Hankow, according to late dispatches received here. The city is described as a pile of ruins with bodies strewn everywhere. The battle there between the royalists and the rebels is believed to be the most vicious of the revolution. The destruction of the city on the night of November 1 Is described as an appalling spectacle. Thousands of rebels and loyalists fought all night long in various parts of tho city and explosive shells from the Imperial batteries dropped Incessantly Into the native quarter. The rebels In the meantime sought to dislodge the loyalists with long-range guns from tho VVa Chang fortifications. Shortly before midnight fire attacked the most thickly populated district and in two hours the flames were sweeping over the entire city, devastating great areas and taking hundreds of lives. How many were killed cannot be estimated. NORMAN J. C0LMAN IS DEAD First Secretary of Agriculture Expires on Train Near St.. Louis Apoplexy Caused Death. SL Louis. Nov. 4. Norman J. Colman, first secretary of agriculture of the United States. In Cleveland's cabinet, died on a train which was bringing him to his home here. He suffered a stroke ci' apoplexy Thursday while In a sleeping car berth near Lexington Junction, Mo. Ha was elghty-rour years old. Resides having been the first to hold the office of secretary of agriculture. Mr. Colman was also prominent locally, being a former lieutenant governor of Missouri. At tho time of his death he was the editor of Colman's Rural World and a noted horse breeder. He is survived by two daughters. KYRLE BELLEW, ACTOR, DEAD Expires Suddenly at Salt Lake City After Brief Illness Was Successful Dramatist and Adapter. Salt Lake City, Nov. 3. Kyrle Bellew, one of the foremost actors or the English-speaking stage, author and explorer, died here of pneumonia after a brief illness. Mr. Bcllew was taken ill October 27, ! but, although part of bis Salt Lake en gagements were canceled, his Illness was not considered serious until congestion of the lungs set In. His body was taken to New York, accompanied by the members of the "Mollusc" company. In which Mr. Bellow was playing here. In addition to his successes as a romantic actor, Mr. Bcllew was a successful dramatist and adapter. Eighteen Hurt In Wreck. Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 4. Eighteen pcrtons were Injured when Seaboard Air Line train No. 43. New York to JacksonVlllc. wtfs derailed at Merry Oaks, twenty miles west of this city.

SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES

Frank H. Hitchcock Is not to rcslga as postmaster general and is not to marry. This announcement wa8 made by Mr. Hitchcock. A pajaraa party, at which both men nnd women were present In that garb, is the latest entertainment in society at Madison, 111., a St. Louis suburb. Eighteon persons were injured when Seaboard Air line train from New York to Jacksonville was derailed at Merry Oaks, twenty miles west of Raleigh, N. C. Fifty students of the University of Minnesota organized a La Folletto club to aid the Wisconsin sonator's candidacy for president and for progressive principles. Two trainmen and an unidentified negro passenger were killed when a Southern railway passenger train, from Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Fla., wsB derailed near Chattahoochee, Ga. Municipal elections la England are noteworthy for the large gains of tho laborites and socialises, especially In provincial cities such as Bradford, Liverpool, Leeds. South Shields and Manchester. News brought by the bteamer .Cyclone to Victoria, B C, tells of tho loss of the Japanese steamer Shiatsu, formerly the Baroa Cawder. In a typhoon off Hainan Island, with a lose of 50 lives. Rov. Charles E. Edgman of Napa, Cal., was killed by his own automobile when he cranked it without throwing out the clutch. The machine leaped forward when the engine sparked and Edgman was crushed against a telegraph pole. Mrs. Ada Marshall of Philadelphia was elected grand president of the women's auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in convention at Kansas City. Mrs. Clara Bradley of Chicago was elected first vicegrand president. Joe Jagersbcrger of Racine, Wis, driving a Case car at 07 mllos an hour In the state fair races at Columbia, S. C-, was badly hurl whea his machine threw a tire at a turn of the embanked track and went into the outer fence. J. Pierpont Morgan, whose gifts totaling J1.1S5.000 made possible tho present Harvard Medical school, has had his application for two football tickets to the Harvard-Yale game rejected because he failed to agree to a technical requirement, A. R. Armstrong, a wealthy merchant at Tucson, Ariz., committed suicide by shooting. Mr. Armstrong went to Tucson several years ago from Cedar Rapids. Ia., and was Interested In the string of Armstrong stores in Iowa and Nebraska. After thirty days in a small boat in which he had been swept out to sea by a storm when fishing off La Guayra, Venezuela, Juan Rodriguez, a Spaniard, was rescued off the west coast of Martinique October 2G by the steam ship Ikiria and has reached New York. Tho brightest four men in the Harvard law school as determined by tho annual award of the Sears prizes are: Robert A. Taft, son of the president; Charles E. Hughes, Jr., son i: Justlco Hughes of the United States Supreme court; J. C Buchanan of Pittsburgh, and F. S. Wyner of Boston. The prizes are of $375 each. SHOOTS THREE; KILLS SELF Man Inspired by Jealousy Tries to Destroy Whole Family at Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 3. Inspired by Jealousy and a desire for revenge. William Campbell attempted a triple murder and then committed suicide. He wounded his wife, Gertrude Campbell, twice, once in the left breast and once In the lelt arm. Fred Nash, who was a caller at the Campbell home, where tho tragedy took place, also received a bullet wound in the left arm. Tho third victim was Mrs. Carrie Cartridge, Mrs. Campbell's mother, who wa3 shot through tho shoulder. That his Intended victims escnped with their lives is due only to poor marksmanchip. THE MARKETS.

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