Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 April 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER

BUN ED. JASPER DOANE, Publisher. INDIANA Gossip is not always reliable, but It goes. tfplv A dull boy la sometimes a chip off the old blockLead. There Is no such thing as a girl of the period, for she never oines to a full top. Beware, oung man. The girl who looks like a candy kid may be only a lemon drop. The Philadelphia team has released Player Tincup Which is to Eay that he got canned. Dressmaker say the waist lino will be no higher this year, but we'tt bet the price will be. We suppose the British admiralty charges the cost of its submarines to the sinking fund. Chicago has twice as many telephones as London and still everything has not yi t been said. A German doctor has discovered a way to cure seasickness. He ought to die a very wealthy man. Rubber backing for the armor on battleships? And think what the cost of automobile tires is already. What has become of the old-fashioned states-man who used to write testimonials for patent medicines? Many a worn a a who never suspects It shows tl at she has plenty of backbone by wearing a low-necked gown. There I nothing new under the sun, but you can't make a woman believe It when she gets tired of an old hat. One wonders what would be the effect 0i sending some of our most illustrious bridge players around the world. "Why shouldn't a woman get a man's wages?" asks a suffragist. Well, she usually does when ehe is married to him. When people get to drinking radium solutions at banquets champagne will lose its glory as "wealthy water " Pos-tive Identification loses much of Its force when a person positively identified as dead disputes the identitters. It may be that the transparent waistcoat is expected to bring about a revival of the embroidered suspender industry. They now say that the beta rays of ratium are more curative than the iiamma rays, all of which is Greek to many of us. A correspondent wants to know on which side he sho'ild milk a cow. If she is a kicker he had better get on the far side. Ioubtless it will be perfectly splendid to use an aeroplane in arctic work, hit most of us would prefer to use a ste.im radiator. An Iowa bee inspector declares evrrv flat In a city should have its own beehive. Flat-dwellers are inclined to think that they a-e stung enough as it is. Lord Tankcrville has Just presented some rare breeds of cattle to the London zoo; with that name it is probable that the contribution consisted of water buffalo. Vcry well. If the mosquito that carrltf malaria gets the malaria from some man. swat the man! Some lovers of music go to the movies because the actors never try to sing. At the ba-sbau game between the White Sox and the Giants King George had a chance to watch the umpire and thus discover w hat a real autocrat is. Now the peanut may go up. Next in order will be pink lemonade, and then the woe of the land will be complete, especially when the circus comes along. Emerging from a trance a Pennsylvania girl announces that male angels are wingless; nevertheless, we're glad to know that some of them get there, just the same. More discrimination against women. When a man wins distinction he is regarded by being permitted to write a recommendation for a brand of smoking tobacco. A mar. generally has the blues next morning after he has been out painting the town red the night before. Those professors at the l'iiiv rsity of Chicago may t.. right in their theory that th Mirth is a solid body, but we warn thm to k p their hands of? the sacred human dor:i-' Where Thomas A. Kdiscn hr. worifr ed eighteen Ik urs a day on his wonderful inventions, some cth r men nav- pet in tn hours a day LYCAtiBf excuses for not going to work.

TRAIN GOES IN RIVER

SPAN ON WABASH ROAD COLLAPSES IN INDIANA THREE KILLED AND 50 HURT. CREW VICTIMS OF CRASH Passengers Saved From Death by Breaking of Coupling Engine a;id Three Cars Plunge Off Structure One Wreck Was Just Cleared Away. Attica, Ind.. April C Three persons were killed, another fatally injured, and 50 others lest seriously hurt when the Wabash river bridge collapsed and hurled the Continental Limited train of the Wabash system into the ditch and partly into the river. Wrecking crews had just cleared away the debris caused by a wreck earlier in the day. Apparently the supports of the bridge had been weakened, for the whole span under the engine crumpled. The dead are: Tim Hull, engineer, Peru, Ind., married. Jacob Miller, fireman, Peru, Ind.; married. J. A. Thomas, express messenger, Huntington. Ind. The engine, tender and three cars plunged through the broken span, all falling a distance of about thirty feet to the bank of the river, and one car partly submerged. Only the breaking of the couplings prevented the remainder of the train from falling, and only the fact that the cars were of steel averted terrible loss of life. Engineer Dies in Cab. Tim Hull, the engineer, died at his Eost, and was apparently killed instantly. The engine turned over backwards and Hull was crushed. Fireman Miller was flung out of the engine cab, but caught by falling fragments o" the bridge. Express Messenger l nomas was killed in the combination express, hazpnee and smoking car by some "-CO-O" w " heavy express packages, or possibly his own safe, falling on him as the car plunged through the opening in the bridge. The mail car. which was directly behind the tender, carried six clerks. This car made an almost vortiral drop, and though every one of the c lerks was injured, none was killed nor even injured seriously. Next came the combination car, directly at the edge of the river. One-half of the car alighted on land, the other in the water. About fifteen men were in the smoking compartment in the rear. Water Reaches Windows. Fortunately for them the car remained right side up, and though the car sank until the water was up to the windows, the occupants managed to crawl out of the windows. Had the car turned over they would have been drowned Next came a passenger day coach, ;d here was displayed one of the and nearly miraculous things that sometimes happen in accidents of this kind. This car was half way over the edge of the pier on the river side of the broken span. When the forward cars fell the weight and momentum of this rar sent the forward end topping downward. Every passenger was hurled in a screaming, fighting mass to the front end of the car, and finally it became apparent to them that the car was no longer moving, and that they would be all right if they would extricate themM'lves. Then it was seen that the forward end of this car had struck the rear of the smoker, already in the water, so fairly that it balanced. rI he rear trucks still clung to the bridge raHs on the. pier, and there the car hung at n anelfi of more than forty-live de grees; in fact, almost vertical. LIQUORS BARRED IN NAVY Secretary Daniels Forbids Use of toxicants by Officers of Vessels. InWashington, April 6 Prohibition will bo extended to the entire naval service, under an order issued on Sat urday by Secretary Daniels, which will go into effect on July 1 next. Here is his order: "The use or introduction for drinking purposes of alcoholic liquors on board anv naval vessel, or within any yard or station, is strictly prohib lied, and commanding officers will be h. Id directly responsible for the en forcement of this order. The anti-drinking order was issued upon the recommendation of Surgeon General William C. HraL-ted of the navy In signing the order. Secretary Paniels Mid, in part: 1 am in hearty agreement with the views r; ;c,m i! by the surgeon gen oral in his paper accompanying the recommendation. During the last week it has been my painful duty to approve a court-martial for dismissal from the service of an officer for intoxication, lie tolii DM that he had never tasted intoxicating drink until he did so in the wine mess on his cruises. Others, vho have been disciplined for drinking to excess, have ments to me." made similar stateKeltey Given Six Months. Saeram nto. Cal.. April iL Gen." I "harh I Kelley. who started last month on a proposed march to Washington, at the head of an "army ' of about one thousand four hundred unemployed men. was MflftflMN to Fix months in the county jail for vagrancy

CHARLES NAGEL

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Charges that Charles Nagel, former secretary of commerce and labor, Knowingly permitted violations of the federal fur seal act, resulting in the killing of thousands of seals illegally, were presented to the house by Congressman Rothermel of Pennsylvania in a report from the committee on expenditures in the department of commerce. PHAGAN GIRL'S SLAYER KNOWN, SAYS SLEUTH Detective Declares That Leo Frank Will Not Hang on April 17 Sees No Mystery in Case. Chicago, April 4 "The real murderer of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Gallas been found. Leo 11 Frank will not hang on April 17." In that fashion William J. Burns, head o: the Hums Detective Agency, announced his solution of the mystery that has set all of Georgia and much of the rest of the country by the ears. The detective arrived in Chicago over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe from Kansas City, Mo., where he has been clearing up a number of points in connection with this case. "I don't want to say anything that i have no right to say," he continued, "and I can't say who the murderer is whether Frank or some one else. Hut I knov who he is; I can prove that he committed the muruer ana m it Is a safe assumption that Frank will not be hanged on the date set for his execution." "I want to say," the detective as serted, "that there was not a panicle of mvstery in the case. The n.ost important points were lost sight of in the public clamor. When tue oostructions had been cleared away everything was plain. By the application of a little common sense any e could have accomplished all that I accomplished as quickly as I did. BALK AT RULE OF SECRECY La Follette and tight Associates in Senate to Defy Regulations Concerning Publicity. Washington, April 4. Nine mem bers of the eenate, headed by Senator I. a Follette, openly revolted against proceedings behind closed doors . . a after an executive session in wnicn the senate by a vote of 36 to 27 conf,rmed the nomination of Winthrop M. Daniels of New Jersey to De a mem ber of the interstate commerce com mission. Senator La Follette declared on the floor that he proposed to defy the rules of the senate in future and discuss publicly legislation not affectmg foreign relations and later it was announced that Senators Iiristow, Cummins, Clapp, Kenyon. Norris. Jones and Gronna, Republicans, and Poindexter, Progressive, would maintain the same attitude. Confirmation of Commissioner Daniels closed a threeday fight marked by one of the bitterest debates heard at the capltol in years. Hoth sides contested determinedly, Mr. Daniels' advocates having the support of President Wilson's well-known desire that his appointee and personal friend he confirmed without delay. Opponents to the confirmation ba.sed their objection on the ground that Mr. Daniels' views on the valuation of public service property were unsound. "LUMBER KING" OF U. S. DIES Frederick W. Weyerhauser Succumbs to Pneumonia at His Home in Pasadena, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., April 8. FredI Prick v. Weyerhauser, declared to be the richest man in the world, died here at his mansion at Oak Knoll, Pasadena. A corps of physicians had fettled in vain with death to save the life of the eighty-year-old modern Croesus. His wealth, mostly lumber interests, is estimated to be between two hundred and three hundred million dollars. For several days Weyorhauser's condition was critical, his illness being diagnosed as pneumonia. For several years Mr. Weyerhauser was known as the "lumber king" of America. Chief Asks Arrest of Accusers. Kenosha. Wis . April ft. Chief Owen Ohare of the police department has de-

manded the arrest, on charges of crira- j bile swerved off a temporary bridge inal slander, of all who circulated the over the ixng Island railroad at Winstory he had accepted a bribe from a j field. U I . and crashed to the tracks resort 30 feet below.

HON IN RUINS

DEAD CHOKE STREETS WHERt VILLA'S MEN BRAWL OVER PLUNDER. FLEEING FEDERALS CAUGHT Rebels Kill 100 Fugitive Troops and Capture 123 Near Scene of Long and bloody Battle Tamplco to Surrender. Juarez. Mexico. ADril 4. Torreon is completely in the hands of the rebel army under General Villa. It is a city of ruins and horror. The buildings have been wrecked by shells and fire and the streets are full of dead. After securing control of the city, the rebel soldiers were given the freedom of absolute license. Many were raving maniacs from their long vigil on the firing lines, loss of sleep and the excitement of battle. Saloons were broken open and looted and a massacre of federal prison ers followed. In brawls over loot, many rebels were shot by their companions. Many of the rebel troops were so exhausted that they fell across the bodies of the dead and slept soundly for hours. Villa Orders New Advance. General Villa, without giving his men time to rest after their terrific eleven days' battle, ordered an immediate advance on Saltillo and Monterey, two of the few important cities in northern Mexico still held by the federals. Even before General Villa wired the news of the capture of Torreon to General Carranza, the latter said he had been sending troops eastward toward the two federal strongholds. According to two dispatches received here from the rebel front, the entire army of General elasco, federal commander at Torreon, was wiped out, save a few hundred who escaped with Velasco during the darkness. Hundred Fugitive Federals Killed. Juarez, Mex., April 4. The rebel pursuing force engaged the rear guard of the fugitive federals at San Pedro, 26 miles east of Torreon, killing 100 and capturing 123, according to a report received from Gen. Villa. Gen. Tomas Urbina and Gen. Monclovio Herrera, who went eastward from Torreon to intercept federal re inforcements, were ordered to continue their march and invest Saltillo. They have about 3.500 men. Washington, April 4. Constitutionalist outposts within five miles of Tampico are preparing to attack the city, Rear A9dmiral Fletcher reported, adding that he had private advices that the federals were preparing to surrender without resistance. Washington, April 2 Warren Robbins, who is slated for the post of second secretary at Mexico Cfty, came to Washington from New York. His name will be sent to the senate in a day or two and it is expected he will be confirmed without delay. It Is un derstood Mr. O Shaughnessy will take a vacation, probably to the United States. El Paso. Tex., April 4. Foreigners owning property in Mexico started a movement for an appeal to Washington to recognize the Carranza government. Meantime federal sympathizers estimated that the Huerta forces lost 5,500 men in dead, wounded and prisoners in Torreon's fall. Velasco was said to be trying to join the federal garrison of 4,000 at Monterey with the rest of his original force Of 9,000 men. Gen. Pablo Gonzales is operating near Monterey with 3,000 rebels. COMPENSATION BILL IS UP Measure Represents Best Features of Similar Ones Enacted in Twenty-Three States. Washington. April 4. The bill pro viding workingraen's compensation for federal employes suffering injuries or occupational diseases in the course of their employment was reported to the houo judiciary committee by a subcommittee. The measure repre sents the best features of similar bills enacted in 23 states. It extends benmonth in cases of total disability, and less amounts monthly for injuries or partial disability to every employe under the government. The existing law applies only to accidents and to but one-fourth of the employes of the government, with one year's pay as the limit of compensation in any case. The pending bill provides no limit of total compensation but prescribes that in case the injured persons die within six years of injury a definite reale of compensation shall then be granted his widow, children or other depend er.ts. Family of Four Wiped Out. Oklahoma City. Okla.. April 6. Four persons are dead, the entire Indian country in Seminole county is in a fever of excitement, and threats of lynching are being made as the result of a murderous attack by two Indian youths on the family of Dcvid Pole a wealthy Indian farmer, near Seminole, Okla. Woman Killed in Auto Plunge. N i w York. April 6. Miss Hetty Mack of New York was killed, another woman elightly hurt and two men seriously injured when thtir automo-

CAPTAIN VON PAPEN

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Capt. Franz von Papen is the new military attache of the German embassy at Washington. On his arrival he was presented to the president and left at once for Mexico City, to which he is also accredited. SHIP WITH DEAD SEALERS ABOARD REACHES PORT Steamer Brings 69 Bodies and 50 vivors of Blizzard to St. Johns. SurSt. Johns, N. F., April 6. The sealing steamer Hellaventure steamed slowly into -the harbor at dusk bearing G9 of the dead and 50 of the crij pled survivors of the disaster that overtook the sealers of the steamer Newfoundland on the ice floes near Belle Isle straits in last Tuesday's blizzard. Thirteen of the living were removed to the hospital in a critical condition. Several others were seriously ill and all but one of the remainder bore the scars of their 48 hours' exposure to the arctic gale in which 77 of their a m r-r l 1 1 companions met ueatn. i nis uninjured survivor was stricken blind after being picked up, but it is ex pected he will recover his sight. There is still faith in many quarters that the Southern Cross, the stout steamer that Lieutenant Shackleton, the British explorer, used on one of his antarctic expeditions, weathered the blizzard with its 170 men. No wreckage has been reported anywhere along the coast. The disaster which overlook the Newfoundland's hunters was unavoidable, according to Captain Randell of the Bellaventure. On Thursday the weather cleared and the Bellevanture was making ready to start the men after seals again when a lookout In the crow's nest reported men on the ice. Captain Randell immediately ordered every available man from the ship to the rescue. Most of the castaways were four miles away over a broken field of ice. The Bellevanture was driven toward them with all possible speed, but so ! bad were ice conditions that it required nine hours to cover the four miles. In the meantime Captain Randell s men had reached the castaways. Only a few of the hardiest were conscious and able to help themselves. Many were in a stupor. Some were raving, others having been stricken with Ice blindness. Many bodies were found frozen so fast in the ice that pickaxes were necessary to chop them out. Two of the survivors were nearly mad from their suffering and grief. Each had watched a brother die in his arms. ASKS HIGHER FREIGHT RATES Samuel Rea Testifies Before the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington. Washington. April 3. "Present rates on the Pennsylvania railroad system do not yield a fair return on the amount Invested and are not an adequate return for the service rendered. declared President Samuel Rea, in urging a flat increase of 5 per cent in rates before the interstate commerce commission. J. S. Rogers, general superintendent of the road, also argued for the higher rates. "Despite the company's utmost efforts to offset increasing costs by the application of the most modern methods." said Rea, "the return on its in vestment has been continuously falling and unless this decline is arrested it will undermine the company's resources and cripple its power to satisfactorily serve the public. Strathcona Job to McBride. Vancouver. April 6. Sir Richard Mciiride. premier of British Columbia It said to have been offered the position of high commissioner for Can ada. it is said he will accept. Noted Iowa Auto Racer Dying. Des Moines, la.. April 4. Fred Dusenberg, noted Iowa auto racer. Is near death at his home in Des Molnee

SPRING

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It Indicates Fresh Hopes and Renewed Buoyancy of Spirit. How wonderfully tight the Fpring wander lust for the countryside grips one! Spring fever, with all of its health fulnese, is the harbinger of fresh hopes and a buoyancy of .spirit. I noticed a passenger on a DroitChicago train Um other day who had started out on his trip with the evident intention of becoming deeply ! taken with one of the best sellers. that he might shorten the trip between the two cities. You have done the same thing yourself. But his book had been cat aside. He had read only a (M pages. His interest in it had lagged. From the car windows he was counting the fields now bared of snow. The ditches were carrying away the water and the still less sluggish creeks were now streams bearing the overflow to the rivers. The farmer, in his shirt sleeves, was repairing the fenc - after the winte drifts; the catil showing proof of a winter's stabling and now heading here and there toward the meadows, seeking the acv. reeit patches of grass; the farm hlp. in field and stubble, was putting into repair this and that necessary feature, here looking after his plow and there his harrow, and on all sids were scenes which reminded the traveler that spring was here, at last! As the train sped onward and glimpses of the painter as he worked on the weather-beaten "buildings were revealed, the interest of the tourist was aroused and, when I aked him the reason, he answered: "Sftsfcg is here and I feel its blood flowing!" The truth was, that like many others, he was planning the work he was to do the coming summer. He was going out to the farm his farm in Western Canada. He had all wells to dig, his horses to get into shape, his grain implements to fix up, his seed grain to prepare, and other details for the land that wrs ready to receive it. Hie was what might be termed an "unrest" to get to the farm! Thousands in Western Canada today are making the preparations that this interested man contemplated. Their summer fallows are ready for the wheat, their spring plowing i being attended to, fences are being rebuilt or being put into repair; indeed, the entire country is one great hive of industry. Railroads are in readiness to take care of a great rush of settlers, those charged with the reception of whom are prepared to extend every courtesy and thus meet the rush with judgment and without the least friction. Thus, the enjoyment of the opening of spring is fully met. At many of the stations throughout many of the middle western tates, trains of settlers' effects are Ifl readiness to move to Western Canada. Not only in these states are scenes of this kind to be witnessed, hut, also, on either coast and throughout the eastern states there is the same activity among those going to Western Canada this spring. The crops have been heavy and all reports are that the vinter was enjoyable; also, that the prospects for a satisfactory y ar were never better. There is plenty of land yet to be had by homsteading or oth erwise. Adapted, as Western Canada is. to small grain farming, it is especially adapted to cattle raising and many of the farmers are placing small and large herds, as their individual moans will permit. The illustrated literature sent out by the Canadian government agents tells the truth clearly and the inquirer should send for a copy and if you be one of those who has an ambitious interest, you may be the gainer by a perusal of such information straight, cold facts in themselves. Advertisement. Unseasonable. Sonny Pa, what is mean temperature? Pa Zero weather in May. JUDGE CURED. HEART TROUBLE. I took about 6 boxes of Doddt Kidney Pills for Heart Trouble from ; which I had suffered for y years. I had diiy spells, my eyes puffed, my breath was short, and I hau chills and backache. I took the pills about a year ago and have had no return of tha palpitations. Am now 63 years old, able to do lots of manual labor, am and weigh about Judge Miller, well and hearty 200 pounds. I feel very grateful that I found Dodds Kidney Pills and you may publish this letter If you wish. I am serving my third term as Probata Judge of Gray Co. Yours truly. PHILIP MILLER. Cimarron. Kan. Correspond with Judge Miller about vhls wonderful remedy. Dodds Kidney Pills. 50c per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co . Puffalo, N. Y. Write fc; Household Hi its, also music of Nstiousl Anthem (English and German words) a:ui reel i3S for dainty dishes. All 3 teni fras. Uy Good advice will not discount a note in the bank.