Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 March 1914 — Page 2

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WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher.

JA8PER INDIANA Flying around the world may become quite a fad b fore long. The whole world in the busy year of 1913 dug $455,000,000 of gold. The hobo was right. The well todo are the most difficult to do. Newfangled togas are not fastened Cn with wires, as the old ones were. Did you know that a well brought up orange tree will bear fruit for 150 years? "Rainbow hair is the latest thing in Paris, but we are afraid it won't stand washing. When a dentist does charity work he always looks his gift patient in the mouth. Impersonation of congressmen is to be made a crime. As a matter of fact who wants to? The chap that doesn't have to pay an income tax has at least one worry less than the man that does. I an America afford to let other countries distance her in the matter of flying machines? They have, so far. Yes, Jason; we agree with you that a man who pays $5 an hour to learn to dance the llshwalk is a sucker. A New Yorker urges people to eat shales. Brain food is all ri?at. but a whale apiece ip almost too nuch. Those young women who scorn to marry nriat wealth should stand back and give the other girls a chance. Do' brunettes talk more than blondes? asks a correspondent. If so; it is because there are more of them. Of course It may be possible for a vornan to keep a secret, but as a general thing she is woefully out of practice. Surgf-ons have manufactured a woman B jaw from one of her ribs: but didn t this rib business start all our troubles? The explosion of torpedoes by means of long-distance rays suggests the happy exp-dint of firing the cook by telephone. Recently exhibited samples of the stone age art bar evidence of the world-old desire on the part ot artists to make a hit. If the aviators succeed in cncirling the globe a trip around the world ina shortly he encompassed in a weeks vacation. Those buzzard feathers they ornament their hats with are good things to keep ot't of your ees on .t crowded Btreet car if you can. It Is said that a Japanese can build a Comfortable houso for $1 Still, one cannot well in a house unless one has some place to put it. Strang" how a coii -e professor can lat.nt lifetime in obscurity, and then bMOM famous by d vising a system to beat the hank at Monte Carlo A Pennsylvania hired man. after working on one farm for nine years, lias moved over to the next township. The wanderlust is a terrible thing. A bill has be Introduced in congress to give the navy three vice admirals at s :i and three on shore. The latter will take charge of the rocking I air fleet. It may be possible to transmit thoughts by wireless, as a scientist claims, but 1 e will neser dare do it. Disease germs are said to find the free lunch fork a favorito lurking place Maybe in this sanitary nge the poor litt i Tins have not the pric of a regular meal. A duke now in this country hopes to win an American girl by his ability to tango. IVi i aps he can, for it Is to be feated some of our heiresses have been attracted W. a title for less th!i that. One woman has boon trying to sell her husband for $1.0o0 and another is suing a railroad company for y: . en damages for the loss of hers. The price of everything seems to be regulated by supply and demand. only rcc.;itl it was an accepted rule of good society that no gentleman would Mlk politics in the presence of l.d:'R Now the rule seems to be that in) man Who declines to talk politics in the pro n of ladies is no geutl nu A state senater in the routh was Attacked bv an alligator. This qsjsV tempt of the senatorial dignity is so o u t rngou that the onl consoling .'nrf ef tin- affair rtns to h- that It was not committed t a shatk The pafan fr iftgenultN in thieving must ico to crooks in Munich, who were lotted In an attOSSpt to create a rare in a hotel b letting loose a half Ma : ! python to (..,. .-eitw ment sufficient for 'heir work under cover l'obslhl ts enraged guests mt. d lh. it: caged ltli t!:- p t!ion.

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FAMOUS INVENTOR AND MULTIMILLIONAIRE EXPIRES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK. WAS ILL FOR SEVERAL WEEKS Condition Was Kept Secret by Family A : D I VAS HI. I ir oranc a a rug rini imturtant Invention Honored by Many Nation Employed 50,000 People. New York, March 13. George Westmghouse, aged sixty-seven, pridenr and founder of the Westinghouse Machine company, with home offices in Pittsburgh, died here at his hotel. He had been seriously ill for several weeks of heart trouble, but his frnends anö relatives had kept secret hie indisposition. George Westinghouse was one of the most noted inventors and manufacturers in the world. He was born at Central Bridge, N. Y , October 6, 1846. As a youth he spent much of his time in his father's machine shop and at the ago of fifteen yeans made his first invention, a rotary engine. His education was obtained in the grammar and high schools. As a young man he was interested in matters military and he became a member of the Twelfth regiment of the New York National Guard. He was in the Sixteenth New York cavalry during the Civil war, serving from June, 1863, until November. 1864, when he became assistant engineer in the navy, performing the duties of his grade from December, 1864, to Auguat, 1865. After the war he attended Union college to the sophomore year. He was given the degree of Ph. D. in 1890. Invented Brake in 1888. To relate the history of the man quickly, he invented a device for replacing railroad cars on the track in 1865. Three years later he invented the Westinghouse air brake. He also made other inventions in railway signals, steam and gas engines, steam turbines and electrical machinery. He was the pioneer, in the face of the moet intense opposition, in introducing alternating current machinery in America. This has made possible the great development of water power for long distances because or thi means of electrical transmission. He built the great generators at Niagara Falls and those for the elevated railway and the rapid transit system of New York. He has established large works In the United States, England, France and Germany for the manufacture of air brakes, steam and electrical machinery. He was the president of numerous corporations, employing approximately 50,000 people and representing a capitalization of $120,000,000. Many Nations Honored Him. He has been decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor of France, the royal crown of Italy, the Order of Leopold and is an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is one of the two living honorary members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. August 8. 1SG7, he married Marguerite Krskine Walker at Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Westinghouse mad their residence both at Pittsburgh in the beautiful home called "Solitude, and at White Plains. N. Y. Th y had a summer home, Krskine Park. Ienox, Mass.. and t winter homo. Blaine bonne, Dupont circle, Washington, L. C. BIG U. S. BATTLESHIP READY Texas, Most Powerful In World. Gees Into Commission Dreadnought Leaves for Norfolk Navy Yard. Newport News, Va . March KV All ready for "fight or frolic." the giant BVptrd rend nought Texas, most powerful battleship afloat in the world, left the yards of her builders here, the New port .V 'a i Shipbuilding company, for the Norfolk nay yard, there to be turned over to Hear Admiral Tsher. commandant of the Norfolk station. This monster of the sea carries as its principal fighting equipment a battery of ten 14-lnch gutw. being the first warship in the world to be fitted out wiUi guns of such large caliber. In addition it has in its main battery 21 five-inch guns. In length the fighter Is .r73 feet, with a beam H feet 2 inches, so that in passing through the Panama canal locks she would have almost 15 feet to spare. Although her designed epe. ,i was H knots, in her trials off the Maine coast last October she did her fastest mile in 22.28 knots. She has a displacement of 27.000 tons, a horsepower of 35,000 and draws 28 feet 6 Inches. Her armor belt Is 11 inches thick. MEXICANS SLAY POSTMASTER U. S. Customs OnV.e and Postoftlce at i rcHir Vso., ournca ay I Bandits. San ! hego. 'al . March lf The I'nited States customs office and postoffice at Teeate were burned on Satur night and the postmaster, Frank V Johnston, was shot dead by three rob hers ac riling to advices received here Warren W'ideuhuck was wounded Observers of the tragedy say the robbers were V''ioana A posse startad At daybreak in pursuit of the robbers An American newspaper photograph r on the meriean side was ftred on by Mexicans but was not injured. British Steamer Goes Aground. Buenos Aires, March 12.- The Brit lsh steamer Vaugha .. from New York, grounded at dock entrance here

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William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, who will wed Miss Eleanor Randolph Wiir.on, President Wilson's youngest daughter. .Mr. McAdoo is twenty-six years Miss Wilson's senior 1 and has a daughter. Nona, by a former marriage the same age as his bride-to-be. RITCHIE DEFEATS WOLGAST BEFORE 10,000 FIGHT FANS Michigan Likgtweight Claimed Foul In Seventh Round, But Referee Refused to Allow It. Milwaukee, Wis.. March 13. Ad Wolgast failed to get his revenge. The Cadillac Dutchman was out-fought by Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie during the ten rounds of fighting in the Auditorium riug brfore 10.000 persons. The Californian won. but not by a I ide margin, lie did not even con vince those present that he surely he the better man in would a long fight, for Wolgast was after him viciously and madly in the last round, and left the ring without a mark on face or body. The contest was won and lost through a dramatic occurrence in the seventh round. The men were fightfug along viciously, head to head, when Ritchie suddenly uncorked two right swings to the Wolgast stomach. I With the thud of the second padded I fist on his body the Michigan Dutchman backed away and sank to the I tioor, holding his hands over his groin. lie looked up at Referee Stout with an expression of pain on his face, and asked that he be awarded the bout on a foul. Ritch'e was between Stout and the fallen Wolgast and backed away to I his corner, the while protesting that he had not struck low. Stout rushed over to Wolgast, refused to allow his claim, and ordered him to get up and eontinueVhe fight. Here Stout proved his ability as a ring officer. He believed that Ritchie's blows landed above the belt, and he said so without hesitation. Wolgast got up. apparently unhurt, and fought back wickedly during the rest of the three-min-uate spiel. As far as the writer could see. the Ritchie rights to the hotly looked to be fair punches. The men were doM tnongn for us to watch them go home, though the blows were delivered with lightning quickness. TWO SLAIN IN HOLDUP Engineer of Northwestern Railroad and Bandit Killed Following Robbery Near Langley, III. I'ikIji. 111.. March 14 A big posse ran down here the last of four Mcxi can bandits who killed an engineer on the Northwestern railroad near I.anglev. 111., and wounded several other persons, on Friday. One of the bnnditl who had been wounded in the battle died at Spring Valley. 111. Thtight, which opened at Manlius. 111., about one hundred and twenty miles southwest of Chicago, with the slaying of Arthur Fisher, an engineer of a Chicago Northwestern freight train, and the wounding of Collins, his fireman, quickly shifted the scene further south, where the bandits er met by Sheriff Charles Beyer of Princeton and In thin encounter Hfrt Skoglund. a d put y sheriff, was shot three times and Leslie Heyer, son of the sheriff, was shot once in the leg. Here also Mrs. G. R. Wright, wife of the station agent at Langley. was strick by a stray bullet. MILITANT FREED FROM JML Mrs. Pankhurst Wins Freedom by Hunger Strike Daughter Also Released. -i ...t. 1 EV tv .......... i U I.OnUOU. .Milieu i " rui i ur seeum time Mrs Kmmellne Pankhurst. head of the Women's Social and Political union, the organization of the militant suffragettes, won a hunger strike vie tory over the Hrttlsh government when she was released from Hollo way Jail because of illness. Several hours after Mrs l'..khurt was released her daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested recently for rioting, was freed. Six women went in an automobile to the residence of Home Be retary Reginald McKenna. and smashed a irly all the windows. Stock Buyer Robbed and Slain. Omaha. Neb March 16. .lack Williams. Stockton. Til., In South Omaha 'or the purpose of buying a carioad of horses, was murdered and robbed. The slayers are believed to have base n eg roe. i.

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REDUCED RATES ORDERED FOR FEB. 1 CAUSED ACTION OF U. S. EXPRESS COMPANY. PARCEL POST NOT BLAMED As Reult of Directors' Action 15,000 Employes Will Soon Be Without Position Many Women Are Owners of Stock in Big Concern. New York, March 14. -The United States Express eompaJDy at a meeting decided to liquidate and go out of business. Following is the resolution passed: "Resolved, That, pursuant to the power and authority conferred upon the board of directors of the United States Express company by its articles of association, the board unanimously declares that it is for the best inter ests of the company that the company be dissolved as soon as may be. without awaiting the expiration of its term of existence, and that its business and affairs be settled up and finally adjusted as promptly as may be done The president is directed to Inform the shareholders of said action of the boa rd." Although the heads of the Wells Fargo company. Adams Bx press company and the American Express company have declared that they are not considering liquidation of their concerns, it is generally felt that their stockholders will bring the matter to their attention as happened in the case of the United States Express. Reduced Rates Caused Action. D. I. Roberts, president of the United States Express, declared that the decision to liquidate has resulted largely from the reduction in express rates that took place February' 1 last. Hut fo this, he declared, the company would have continued in business. Iff Roberts said, that no steps had yet been .aken to proceed w ith the dissolution, which would be handled by himself and the board of directors. As a result of the directors action about fifteen thousand employes of the company will be without positions in the not distant future. The companyhas an annual pay roll of more than six million dollars. Mr. Roberts gave the following names of large stockholders and the amounts of shares held by each: Ilarriman estate. 21,000: Brown Bros., 3,000: William A. Head & Co. (about) 1,500: Metropolitan Life Insurance, 1,000: Ira C. Potts. 1,015; William Mass, 300; Catherine Thayer, 500: Warner M. Rrown, 600; Norman L. Bates. 260; Heten B. De Worth. 500; Piatt family 850. ".'any Women Own Stock. There are 1.556 shareholders, of '.horn 740 are women, and 14 estates .Mr. Roberts said that due notice woulu be served upon the public when the liquidation had reached a stage w here the company decided not to take business A stockholders' committee, consisting of Charles A. Poabody president of the Mutual Life Insurance company: .Voreau Delano of Brown Bros.; Willlam V Head, the hanker; W. A. Harrlmao and Haley Fiske. first vie president of the .Metropolitan Life Insurance company, recommended to the (Inciters that üw company be dissolved. Mr. Koherts became president of the I'nited States Bzpraai company in January, 1913, following the acquisition of control of the Harriman interests and Piatt interests. He assumed control Just as the parcel post system was Inaugurated He immediately adopted a motto of "courtesy and efficiency" and set about to offset the loss in business to the parcel post by reducing expense l" IMI the company was operated at a deficit and the four per cent, dividend passed the latter part of that year. There was also a ietlcit reported last year. CAR R0T IN TERRE HAUTE Strikers Attack Workers and Wreck Coaches Service Abandoned by Company. Terre Haute. Ind.. March K. A strike of union street ear employes here developed riots uhich the police were powerless to stop. Cries of "strike" drew crowds to the street and from pulling conductors and motormen from street cars the mob turned to wrecking cars After break ing the windows out of a dozen cars which wer stalled in the business section of the city because of cut trol K rope, the mob. which had grown to a shrieking crowd of more than two thousand, moved to the traction term inal station. The plate glass windows w r- wrecked Street car service was abandoned. THEODORE N. VAIL TO QUIT Reported That B. Brookt Wilt Be Elected President of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Denver. Colo.. March Helvidere Hrooks. formerly in charge of the Im ver office, is to succeed Theodore . Vail as president of the Western I'nion Telegraph company, acordlnp to au thoritative information received in this city The report states that Hrooks will be elected to the presi dency of the company as soon as the Western Tnion has been dissolved from the American Telephone & Telegraph company. In acordance with the company's recent agreement with the government.

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Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter of President Wilson, whose engagement to William G. McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, was offiSially announced by the president and Mrs. Wilson The date of the wedding has not been announced. MISS WILSON ENGAGED TO WED SECRETARY M"AD00 Date of Ceremony Not Given, But It Is Believed It Will Occur Either on Easter or in June. Washington, March 14. Just as o ciety was despairing of an official announcement from the White House about the reported engagement of Miss Eleanor Wilson to William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, a statement was given out by the president's secretary. Mr. Tumulty, to this effect: "The president and Mrs. Wilson announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Eleanor Randolph, to William Gibbs McAdoo." Those fear words made certain that the wedding bells will again chime in the White House for the second time in the Wilson administration within the space of six months, and that Miss Eleanor Wilson will be the fourteenth White House bride. The briefness of the announcement was much commented on. because when the engagement of Miss Jessie Wilson to Mr. Say re was announced it wits with a wealth of detail and circumstance. It is understood that the wedding day has not been fied.' Rumor has it ho far, that it will occur at a very early date, either in Easter week or when the June roses bloom about the White House grounds. It was impossible to learn whether the wedding would be a family one or nartake of the public nature of the Jessie Wilson wedding. At any rate, it is considered certain that Miss Margaret Wilson, whose own engagement has been frequently rumored to Boyd Fisher of Princeton, win act as her sistar'l maid of honor, as she did for Miss Jessie Wilson It is said also that in a letter found iu Washington that the rumor of Miss Margaret Wilson's engagement te Boyd Fisher t Princeton, N. J., soon would b' continued. Acordlng to this letter both weddings were planned to take place in the White House within the year. The rumor of Miss Margaret's engagement, however, has been denied. SIEGEL STORES ARE CLOSED Nearly All the Employes of Defunct Institutions Are Given Work In New York. New York, March 16. About onethird of the employes of the Siege! stores which closed on a court order issued in the bankruptcy proceedings will be retained to take inventory and conduct the sale of the goods. The total number of employes is L'.mO, and of that number only about two hundred have so far been unable to obtain other positions. The auditing department of the Fourteenth street store has been employed by a wholesale ilrug firm Boston, March 16. -One thousand five hundred local employes of Henry Siegel Nc weta ssadc bann hv aV announcement that through a re-arrangement of the sale of the bankrupt st k by the trustees, another company would continue the business and retain their services. WILSON SIGNS ALASKAN BILL Measure Providing $35.000.000 for Railroad in Northern Country It Now a Law. Washington. March 13. -President Wilson signed the Alaskan railroad Mil in the presence of Secretary of the Interior Lane. Senators Jones of Washington. Chamberlain of Oregon. Pittman of Nevada. Representative Houston ;md many others interested in the bill. In signing the bill President Wtlson paid ho was glad that his administration as to b of service to Alaska i d that he knew a railroad would be I aaa baai of friendship between the I'nited States and the great territory in the north.

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Laborer Resented Interest Shown by Statesman as to the Farmer's Prospective Crop. The earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutnart, whom Mr. Ben Tillett suggests hanging, is one of the mild st rain nered and most kindly of men. He takes a great interest in agriculture, and one evening, while taking a walk in a country district, he paused to watch a laboring man at work in his little garden. Leaning over the fence, his lordship asked: "Is this good soil "Aye," said the laborer drylj. Several other questions were anewered in the same laconic way. th laborer digging busily all the time Finally, Lord Aberdeen asked. "What is your next crop to be?" The laborer paused in his work and looked at his questioner severely. "See here, my mannie. " he remarked, "I dinna suppose you ken onything aboot crops. Just you get a bit garden yersel' an' start work on't. an' then ye ll hae something better tae dae than come bothertn' busv folk: ' THE BEST TREATMENT FOR ITCHING SCALPS. DANDRUFF AND FALLING HAIR To allay Itching and Irritation of the calp, prevent dry, thin and falling hair, remove crusts, scales and dai. druff, and promote the growth and beauty of the hair, the following special treatment is most effective, agreeable and economical. On n ng, comb the hair out straight all around, then begin at the side and make a parting, gently rubbing Cuticura. Ointment into the parting with a bit of soft flauael held over the end of the finger. Anoint additional pariings about half an inch apart until the wholo scalp has been treated, the purpose being to get the Cuticura Ointment on the scalp skin rather than on the hair. It is well to plae a light covering over the hair to protect the pillow from possible stain. The next morning, shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Shampoos alone may i be used as often as agreeable, but once or twice a month is generally sufficient for this special treatment for women's hair. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address p card "Cuticura. Dept. L, Boston. Adv. Tip in Time. The ferret-eyed little man stepped across the street car aisle and w'.i pered Into the ear of the tall chap in a gray suit: "You'd better wipe that bit of cc off your chin. The income-tax rn aa :a just two seats in front of you." Indianapolis Star. A fnod for pore lungs. Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops. Cure cough, b teliaviBf the bOi 'iie ' at l:ur M.re. Exotic. ' What large eyes that Boston girl has ' They were grown under glasMAKES HARD WORK HARDER A bad back makes a day's work twice as hard. Backache usually comes Ir weak kidnevs, and if headache, diz'iness or urinary disorders are add- . don't wait- -get help before the kidn v disease takes a grip- Ixdore dropsy, gfavel or Bright's disease sets in. Doaa'S Kidney Pills have brought new Iii m . new strength to thousands ot Working men and women. Used and recommended the world over. AN ILLINOIS CASE Q. I.. Ffcrrtrid. 11 2a Fixlh Av. . Moline. lit., mi: s bunmcas requlr-'! much horb k riding and tie owuai txr Jar weak' n -1 my kdnf m. I hil lrrlbl burkacht- an4 wai often laid up for month. I couldn't turn In bd without h- lp t lost fleh Thr d- r tr.atrd me, but 1 cot worn. Finally. I took loin Kidn y rill arid flva bv-i curd ri. have sin- -njuyed good health " "Fvrv Picture Ttus a Htury " Get Doen't at Any Store. SOe Bo DOAN'S VffLV FUS I LH Ml BURN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y. W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES MW S3.00 11WMOO imjll 4 S3. SO 14 m S4.BO Won s i3 so IS Muse, Bor, Children $1.60 Sl.7tl 1 SO 1 Qan 79, t J - o 4 . 0 In im S 1.006. 2 7 Doaäla mm la Vi it 1 . TdJb Ü Um raon tv you Um mom valva tor a uo. 4 So. S4 06 aad S4 AO afmtt6-f Um I boi Ss levered aad im prat to you reaalae um e Aik vourMakrr to kind of w L Dovclae aaeee ae m MHiaa far S3 00. SI mk MU)UC S4.Au. You vul iMa M eoavtMM luu4r aaoodaoüMr amkotaotdai aattrrpncaa Tbeoeij ! florae ai to tae pnae mki no auaaTiTUTi. iiniai irw m ar oi tar MM I jwt MtSw touimry . Meal tec mr i hm th taiir petotoa aeetoa Wrxf a lliuri4 taaltf Imw or4i bf . w. v popakaa. 110 Ipvl Itnrl SrockVM. Mm HR All LYE PAINS 10 YFAKNUI III MH TH AMKItlt nUMir rrica. lniigatiii iaivua"iui oiinoi Pronai taaaa aovut piUn. tortuBi4oa. Free) atemiar. Wui a iuid. ma.hurt.vw-

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