Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 March 1912 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DO AN E, Publisher.

JASPER i INDIANA I A nw euro (or c&nctr has bten dlI covered again. Chicago women smil naturally Mihether it helps their looks or not France seta a new cabinet more frequently than many a man gets a new tat The American farmer will be pleased to know that ho is worth nearly nine billion dollars. If the "tip trust" provokes the traveling men to effective resistance it will not have lived In vain. It is said that Yale will have a record-breaking crew. Accent on the record or on the breaking? An English preacher has discovered a cure for snoring. An old-fashioned dig in the ribs works pretty well sometimea. Wasp soup Is said to be a delicacy in China, but Yuan SJii does not appear to relish the hornet's nest he has atirred up. Lawn tennis on ice is the latest sport. Knowledge of the game might have helped the American players in Australia. Kansas City citizen wants a divorce because his wife keeps thirty-five dogs in the house. Another marriage gone to the dogs. New York gunmen broke into a gambling house the other day and held up the proprietor. One good holdup deserves another. It Is predicted that 25 years hence we will be eating reindeer meat After that we may be ready to eat the Christmas toys. Since the automobile began to make uch great strides Into popular favor very few horse thieves have gained prominence in the country. Brands? Matthews predicts that we shall have war again by 1930., We predict that In 1930 "war" will continue to be spelled the same old way. The Boston Transcript says: "An exchange of feline amenities is entertaining Boston." One notion of feline amenities is to see the fur fly. "The mother-in-law is omnipotent in China," says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Evidently Ella has discovered the real cause of the Chinese revolution. The Cambridge clergyman who doesn't mind if men sleep through his sermons probably will commend an alarm attachment to the contribution box. A Connecticut preacher denounces rice throwing at weddings as a filthy habit The only excuse for it is that it gives English sparrows a change of diet Aviators are abandoning the flying game because of Its dangers, and yet there are plenty of men who persist in venturing into the woods to hunt deer. A style congress in Chicago has doomed the hobble skirt to extinction, which, paradoxically enough, will rejo!c the narrow-minded critics of feminine attire. Wolves are said to menace the population in some districts of Michigan, but Michigan is not' the only state In which people have trouble in keeping the wolf from the door. Russia has imprisoned a man for writing a volume of poems. Are there, after all, virtues in autocracy? A learned judge was asked to pass Upon the complaint of a family which objected to rag time overhead. He couldn't do it. being a mortal. New York policemen are learning -wrestling that they may arrest offenders "with less brutality." Why shouldn't they study etiquette? Chinese highwaymen, we are told, succeeded in getting away with a triflinr sum like $S50.000. Even at this early date the Chinese republic has developed successful financiers. One of our historians arises to remark that Mother Eve was not a good looker, but what's the use of being beautiful when there is only one man Jn the world and no other women? New Yorker dropped dead when he learned that he had been left a legacy of $180.000, but In spite of Its dangers most of us are willing to take a chance on being Jeft that much money. A young woman in Chicago has gone to jail rather than talk. Such a thing would seem incredible if there were not court records to prove this amazing charge against any daughter of Eve. A rfch man In Pennsylvania, and a member of the bar at that, has had to pay a $20 fine and $S0 costs because he tried, to be?.t Uncle Sam out of a cent by sending" through the mall a check folded m a newipaper. Served him right, 3ou say? We thought you would.

J. J. HILL QUIZZED IN STEEL PROBE

Throws Light on Ore Land Lease to Railroad. MAKES TRUST PAY HIGH PRICE Declares He Did It for Benefit of Great Northern Shareholders for Whom He Acts as Trustee. Washington, Feb. 13. J. J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern railroad, testified before the house steel trust investigating committee. When the railroad builder took the stand and had been sworn Chairman Stanley welcomed him and announced that Mr. Hill had willingly responded to the committee's request and consented to aid the inquiry all he could. Throw Light on Lease. Mr. Hill's testimony was designed to throw light on the so-called Hill lease of the Lake Superior ore fields to the United States Steel corporation, a lease which was recently ordered to be canceled, in 1915. Mr. Hill told the committee how, out of his own pocket, lie had bought $4,000,000 worth of ore and railroad property on the Mesaba Range, how he had engineered the lease with the United States Steel corporation, by the terms of which the trust was unmercifully "chiseled," paying $1.02 per ton forbore while independents paid other companies between 15 and 47 cents; how he had turned over the James J. Hill. Mesaba properties and half a dozen other concerns to the Lake Superior company, limited, thus keeping inside the Sherman act, and how the profits of the Lake Superior company had afterwards been turned into the Great Northern Ore company, whose stock was distributed share for share among the shareholders of the Great Northern Railway company. Acted as Trustee. Mr. Hill confessed that he did thi3 because for thirty-three years he had acted as trustee for the Great Northern shareholders and made it a rule to make money for them whenever he did for himself. Mr. Hill said that he lost nothing by his generosity to the shareholders of his railroad, although he "stood to lose" if the investment he had made had turned out badly. He got his $4,000,000 back from the Lake Superior company with five per cent, interest. Incidentally, lie secured for the railroad the privilege of holding and leasing the mines in the Mesaba and building and operating an elevator in Buffalo, privileges which would have been denied the railroad as a corporation. AVIATOR HAS EXCITING TRIP Struggles With Hysterical Woman and Disordered Engine 1,000 Feet Above Earth. New York, Feb. 13. Struggling with a hysterical woman 1,000 feet above the earth and with his engine out of order because the gasoline had frozen in the carbureter. George V. Beatty, the aviator, brought his aeroplane and passenger. Mrs. William A. Dunlap, safely to the ground after perhaps the most exciting trip of his career. Mrs. Dunlap stated after recovering from her hysteria that neither gold nor precious stones would ever tempt her to again leave the earth In a flying machine. LANQFORD BEATS JIM BARRY Heavyweights Battle Twenty Rounds Before Large Crowd in Sydney, Australia. Sydney, Australia, Feb. 13. Sam Langford, heavyweight American pugilist and heavyweight champion of England, defeated James Barry, the Chicago heavyweight, on points in a match of twenty rounds. The fight took place in the Stadium in the presence of a large audience. Runs Away; Weds a Soldier. Washington, Feb. 13. Escaping the vigilance of her father, S. A. Bartlett of Rock Island, 111., who removed her from here to that city v ith a view of separating her from ner fiance Mary J. Bartlett, twenty-three years old, arrlred here and immediately was married to Alfred E. Pickard, a prlT&te in tht marine corps.

DEFEAT F0ff REBELS

MANY SLAIN IN BATTLE AT MOQUI, CHIHUAHUA. Madero Minister Now Trying to Buy Revolutionists to Lay Down Their Arms. Juarez, Mex., Feb. 13. Rebels in Chihuahua, commanded by Braulio Hernandez, were defeated at Moqui, west of Chihuahua, by feder.il troops. Many were slain on both E.des, and the federals captured many prisoners. Captain Salgado of the government troops is reported to have Leen killed. Hernandez and his band are said to be in flight. Orozco was going to meet Hernandez with a flag of truce, the government claims, when the rebels fired upon him, and Orozco returned the fire. Abram Gonzales, constitutional governor of Chihuahua and minister of gobernaclon in the Madero cabinet, left El Paso in a special train for Chihuahua to distribute $300,000 among the rebels in an effort to get them to lay down their arms. Cananea, Sonora, Mex., Feb. 13. The leaders of the Yaqui Indians reported to the Madero government that they would attempt to prevail lipon the discontented members of the tribe In revolt against the loyalists to accept President Madero's offer ol land for services during the late revolution. This action on the part oi the Indians, it is believed, will have a salutary effect upon the other inhabitants of the state. FAILS TO LASH RUSS PREMIER Duma Rejects Urgency Interpellation of Minister Kckovsoff as Minister of Finance. St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 13. The duma rejected by 104 votes against 74 an urgency interpellation concerning alleged illegal actions committed by Premier Kokovsoff as minister of finance. He is said to have permitted an extensive issue of patents of membership of the Merchants' First guild to Jews in Kiev, giving them the right of residence in that city and exempting them from the original segregation law, which restricts the territory habitable by Jews to the Polish provinces and Little Russia. Members of the duma who introduced the interpellation asserted that the Kiev branch of the imperial bank Df Russia was patronized by Jews. NEW ROUTE FOR CANAL ROAD Relocated Track Between Gorgona and Gatun, Panama, in Operation February 15. Washington, Feb. 13. "Work on the Panama canal has progressed so far that the Panama railroad is being worked out of its old right of way. On Feb. 15 the railroad will begin using the section of the relocated track between Gorgona and Gatun, a distance of 33 miles, and by the first of April the section of old track will be entirely removed. By that time it is expected Gatun lake will begin to rise to the 50-foot level. The new track increases the distance across the isthmus from Colon and Panama, approximately five miles and adds ten minutes to the running time, which is now two hours and five minutes. NEW BALL LEAGUE FORMED Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Kansas City Enter. St. Louis, Feb. 13. All doubt regarding Chicago having a third league club was dispelled at the meeting of the Columbian league here. William Niesen was granted the franchise. Louisville,. St. Louis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Kansas City were also granted franchises. The most important action taken by the magnates was tlie decision not to ask piuyers to jump major league contracts. Those not under reserve, however, will be secured by all cities. JOHN D. AND FRANK AT OUTS Oil King's Brother Testifies Two Rockefellers Have Not Spoken For Twelve Years. Cleveland, 0.. Feb. 13 Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D., testified in municipal court before Judge Levin that he had not spoken to the oil kng for twelve years. Besides, Fran'c insists his name should be pronounced Rock-e-feller, with accent on the e, to di.ningulsh it from his brother's name. The statement was made by Frank Rockefeller when he was in court as the defendant in a suit brought by his chauffeur, Samuel Filed, for 63. STATE FIRST IN SCHOOLS California's Per Capita for Education Larger Than That of Any Other State. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 13. California stands first among all the states of the Union in making public expenditures for education, is the assertion of State Comptroller A. B. Nye. This state spends seven dollars per capita, including state and local expenditudes, while the average for all the states is $4.50. New York and Massachusetts rank next to California, with aji expenditure of six dollars per capita.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. TAKEN ON HIS HONEYMOON Woman Accuses Heating Appliance Maker With Having Three Wives and Causes His Arrest at Valparaiso. Valparaiso, Feb. 13. Apparent possession of three wives and the insistent demands of one of their number resulted in the arrest of John William Smythe in the midst of an otherwise happy honeymoon. The wives of Smythe, who is a maker of heating appliances, are listed by his accuser as follows: r No. 1 Mrs. Smythe; married in Philadelphia about 1895. No. 2 Mrs. Mary Smythe; married in Philadelphia, 1903; has two children. No. 3 Mrs. Lillian TillotsonSmythe; married January 8, 1912. While installing a heating appliance in the high school at Chesterton, Smythe wooed Mrs. Tillotson, widow of a prosperous land owner. They were enjoying their honejmioon in the Tillotson country seat near Chesterton when Mrs. Smythe No. 2 appeared with two children. At first Smythe denied ever having seen his accuser. But when the children called him "Papa" he confessed that they belonged to him. Trains Sparrows to Sing. Bloomlngton, Feb. 13. A graduate of Indiana university, Dr. L. Conradi, now of Clark university, has trained young sparrows to sing like canary birds by simply putting them with the songsters. Doctor Conradi has been making experiments with the much-aespised sparrow for several years, and his work has now been crowned with success. Prof. E. M. Haggerty of Indiana university has been conducting experiments much along the same lines in connection with his study of the imitative behavior of animals. He says that it is now a known fact that the young sparrow when placed with the canary will imitate that bird and pick up many of its notes. Defends Parole System. Laporte, Feb. 13. Filling the pulpit of the First Methodist church by invitation of the pastor, Harry B. Darling, editor of the Argus-Bulletin and secretary of the state board of pardons, made a vigorous defense of the Indiana parole system and of the work of the state board of pardons. Mr. Darling cited as proof of the statement that the board of pardons was doing a work of reformation reports submitted by 100 men to whom clemency had been recommended and granted by the pardon hoard, showing that only three had been returned for violations. He declared that modern penology is rapidly ceasing to be retributive and is becoming redemptive In its purposes. Meets Death While on Trip. Lafayette, Feb. 13. William Wepley, for fifteen years an engineer on the Lake Erie & Western railroad and a former resident of Lafayette, was killed in a railroad accident at Elgin, 111. His home was in Battle Creek, Mich., and he was on a pleasure trip when he met death. His wife was formerly Miss Mary Burk, at one time a resident of Indianapolis. Wepley was fifty-five years old and was engineer out of Battle Creek. Wanted to Outlive Him. Richmond, Feb. 13. John Merrett, aged seventy-two, died of pneumonia at his home near Centerville. Mr. Merrett, when taken ill a week ago, declined to take any medicine because as he said he preferred to die rather than to survive his wife who also is very ill and whose recovery is not expected. His grief over his wife's illness was the primary cause of his own sickness. Entire Train Goes in Ditch. Fort Wayne, Feb. 13. Wabash pas-5 senger train No. 3 on the Montpelier division Avent into a ditch at Thurman, ten miles east of here, when a bar dropped from the engine. The entire train went into the ditch, but, it is reported none of the passengers was injured. A relief train was sent from here. Sick, Kills Himself. Lebanon, Feb. 13. T. K. Clawson, aged fifty-five, a farmer living four miles northwest of the Thorntown, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He left a note in which he gave ill health as a motive for his act. Six sons and one daughter survive. Dies Alone in Her Home. Vincennes, Feb. 13. Mrs. Louisa Windman, aged eighty-eight years, the widow of Frederick Windman, who was killed by a train two years ago, was found dead in the kitchen of her home, which she inhabited alone. The body was frozen. Gas Kills 'Two Girls. Hammond, Feb. 13. Miss Marie Seligman and her friends, Miss Margaret Mills, were found dead in a room in Robertsdals, a suburb of Hammond, from gas asphyxiationr

qoQ Indiana Brevities

Marlon. Directors of the Marlon Federated Charities announce that they have joined in the crusade against tramps and beggars in Marion, and authorize a statement that they will go before the city council seeking the passage of an anti-begging ordinance. The directors say if the ordinance is adopted the members of the charity organization will aid in every possible way in the enforce- , ment of the law. The police department has been enforcing the orders of Mayor John 0. Willson to rid the city of hobos and the result has been gratifying to the executive. Richmond. Charles Keever, thirty-five years old, married, and Wil liam Sommers, thirty-seven years ; old, single, were killed while engaged in clearing away the freight wreck which occurred on the C. & O. railway of Indiana here. Both men were members of the wrecking crew and j were residents of Peru. Keever is j survived by a widow and one child. It is said that the men were engaged ' In coupling two cars when another member of the wrecking crew gave a signal to the engineer to back his train, crushing Keever and Sommers. They died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital here. Fort Wayne. Daniel Lytton Harding died here from heart trouble. Re was sixty-nine years of age and came to Fort Wayne from England more than 50 years ago. He was elected mayor on the Republican ticket in 18S9 and served two years, being defeated for re-election. He had for 26 years been secretary of the Wayne lodge, A. F. and A. M., and was prominent in Scottish Rite work. He was also one of the prominent insurance men of Indiana. South Bend. Frank E. Arnold, one of the best known young lumbermen of South Bend and Schoolcraft, Mich., has turned over to the police a letter demanding payment of $500 or forfeiture of his life. Arnold has no idea who the blackmailers are. Arnold a short time ago fell heir to a large estate of his mother, Mrs. Manley P. Andrews of this city, and it is supposed the blackmailers, hearing of the fact, attempted to force him to pay over the $500. Newcastle. The police discovered that the city has been flooded recently with bogus checks, which local merchants have cashed and in each instance given change. A dozen different schemes were worked, and the merchants, although warned and using precautions, were absolutely taken unawares. Spurious coins have also turned up and the police believe there isa counterfeiter working in the city. Wabash. Because of his opposition to the operation of motor cars on public highways, Ora Abshire, twenty-five years old, a farmer, hurled an ax at Lewis Bing of Indianapolis as the latter passed him in an automobile near here. Abshire was arrested. The ax just missed Bing, and coming in contact with a tire on one of the wheels of his car, cut it in two. The farmer was in a wagon when the autoist passed him on a country road. Logansport. Mrs. Mary Landis, aged eighty, who has been sick for some time, is "now in a critical condition. K. M. Landis of Chicago, United States district judge, is here in answer to a summons. Dr. John Landis of Cincinnati, head of the health department of that city, and former Congressman Charles B. Land-is-of Washington have been notified of their mother's serious illness. Marlon. Three boards of county Commissioners will be in session at the Grant county courthouse on February 29, the boards being those of Grant, Wabash and Huntington counties. The tri-county meeting is for the purpose of passing on matters pertaining to the building of county line roads. During the past year Grant and adjoining counties have constructed several line roads. Indianapolis. James Ryan, alias JarcTc Quinn, of Cincinnati, who robbed the post office at Swazee last July, pleaded guilty in the federal court. Judge Anderson sentenced him to the prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for five years. Ryan is fifty-four years old, and had served a ten-year sentence previously at Leavenworth, having been convicted of a post office robbery in Illinois. Terre Haute. Ray Heiney, manager of the light and water plant of Jasonville, probably saved his life by rolling in the snow when his clothing took fire from a gasoline explosion. His burns are serious. Alexandria. Charles E. Baxter, forty-five years old, Is dead at his home in Orestes, three miles west of here. He had just finished a conversation with one of his friends when he toppled to the floor dead. Measuring five feet six inches tall and sixty inches around the waist. Mr. Baxter tipped the scales at 375 pounds, being the heaviest man in Madison county. His neck measured twenty-three inches in circumference. Eighteen years ago' he was an ordinary man, but an attack of dropsy caused him to sain in weight. ,

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