Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 July 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DO A NE, Publlthor. MISS ISABEL VINCENT 8. SWEENEY STOREN INTO OFFICE JASPER INDIANA E INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION BARES LOOT OF NEW HAVEN ROAD. Shively. Although Not Present, Has Track Well Greased FOUND RESPONSIBLE FOR EM PRESS OF IRELAND DISASTER IN WHICH 1,000 DIED. Sunday Joy riders make a busy morgue on Monday.

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STORSTAD IS BLAMED

The music originating in this coun try is not popular abroad, ,

It looks good to see th girls wearing old fashioned ears figain. Love Is what makes a man imagine two can live as cheaply as one. In hot weather some reasonable substitute for food might make a hit. Ambidextrous people will be expected to swat flies with both hands. How can a. normal human being laugh, to use uiagaziue language, "hollowly?" What has become of the old-fash-ioned statesman who used to keep his ear to the ground? There is the silhouette women and then there is Beach suit for men. Kown for the Palm A fashion journal has a half-column description of a bathing suit, but the suit itself isn't that long. "Aviatrix" is such a nice word that the sport ought to become most popular among young women. Still when you see a girl kissing a feg you ought to remember that the dog doesn't smoke cigarettes. Every time we hear of a wife beating, we wonder why civilization travels with such a snail pace. Most self-made meu create the Impression that there were no mirrors when they were in the making. One of the n-west dances is called the twinkle" and is both modest and gnceftt it basal the ghost of a chance. It was bourn! to come, following the reports of agricultural prosperity automobile bandits have robbed a farmer. The troulle with men who wear wrist watches is that you can't inflict merited punishment without damaging the watch. Cloves and cinnamon are working overtime in these young onion days, and yet they leave much desirable work undone. Some of our acquaintances are so disagreeable that we feel sure that if they were farmers they would cultivate thistles. As Kongo cannibals are reported to be plentiful still, a fine opening remains for any distinguished naturalist not satisiied with his previous achie ements. "Do not ask a sick man how he feels," says a philosopher, "tell hL.i a funny story." Hut is any story funny to a sick man? Why should a man pay $10.000 to b -come a professor in Germany when he can open a dancing school in this country for nothing? What has become of the old-fashioned woman who used to throw a blanket over the sewing machine during an electrical storm? A lot of young athletes in this field day season are developing good leg muscles which should be handy behind cultivators a little later. Medical denunciation of the bathtub need not bnng joy to vagrants nd small, hoys. The scientists recommend the shower bath instead. An aviation magazine predicts that in ten years people wi!l be flying to business in aeroplanes The trolley companies should worr . No self-respecting sluggard is going to the ant at this time of the year whfcn the advice of the grasshopper is bo much rasier to follow. The Swiss burglar who has been m ntenced to prison for 13n years, the first 126 at hard labor, at least has the respite to look forward to. Birds can fly without brains, according to a Ge man professor. Aviators may not have found out how to do this yet. but it is being tried by automobile speeders. "How is your boy doing in college"' "Fine; four front teeth were removed by a baseball, one of his legs was broken at football and contact with a hatpin cost an eye. ' Now that It !s possible to locate ore by wireless telegraphy, the old-fashioned prospector may be weaned away from his divining rod. Cheap phonographs from Germany re being sold extensively in oriental countries, despite the fact that sleep Is highly regarded there. Man admits kissing a girl, chatters love to her, and then asks If her mother expects to live vith them. Modem courtship is too practical. Romance is dead!

BLAME PUT ON DIRECTORS

Federal Body Calls Financing of Eastern Railway One of the Most Glaring Instances of Ma'administration in History of Nation's Railroading. Washington, July 14. "One of the most glaring instances of maladministration revealed in all the history of American railroading," is the interstate commerce commission s characterization of its findings in the investigations of New Haven railroad financial affairs, reported to the senate. In a report of 30,000 words, probably the most drastic in terms of any ever made by the commission, the New Haven's directors were pronounced "criminally negligent." Evidence pointing to violation of law has been transmitted to district attorneys in Massachusetrs, Rhode Island and New York, and the federal department of justice. The report, moreover, will be made the basis of proceedings by stockholders to recover millions of dollars alleged to have been wasted by the management. Loss Put at $90,000,000. A reasonable estimate of the loss to the New Haven by reason of waste and mismanagement." says the report, "will amount to between sixty and ninety million dollars. Directors should be made individually liable to civil and criminal laws for the manner In which they discharge their trust." -Ml the commission's strictures wpre upon the management of the New Haven system under formeF-Pres ident Mellen. Citations in Report. The report cites these "significant incidents": "Marked features and significant incidents in the loose, extravagant and improvident administration of the finances of the New Haven, as shown in this investigation, are. Boston & Maine despoilment. Inequity of the West Chester acquisition. Double price paid for the Rhode Island trolleys. Recklessness in the purchase of Connecticut and Massachusetts trolleys at prices exorbitantly in excess of their market value. Unwarranted expenditure of large amounts in "educating public opinion." Disposition, without knowledge of the directors, of hundreds of thousands of dollars for influencing public sentiment. Fictitious sales of New Haven stock to friendly parties with the design of boosting the stocks and unloading on the public at the higher "market price." Unlawful diversion of corporate funds to political organizations. Extensive use of a paid lobby in the matters as to which the directors claim to have no information. Attempt to control utterances of the press by subsidizing reporters. Payment of money and the profligate issue of free passes to legislators and their friends. Investment of $400,000 in securities of ' a lev England newspaper. Regular employment of political bosses In Rhode Island and other states, not for the purpose of having them perform any service hut to prevent them, as Mr. Mellen expresses it, from "becoming active on the other side." Retention by John L. Billard of more than $2.700.000 in a transaction in which he represented the New Haven and in which he invested not a dollar. Inability of Oakleigh Thorne to account for $1,031,000 of the funds of the New Haven intrusted to him in carrying out of the West Chester proposition Story of Mr. Mellen as to the distribution of $1.200,000 for corrupt purposes in bringing about amendments of the West Chester and Port Chester franchises. Domination of all the affairs of this railroad by Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellen, and the absolute subordination of other members of the board of directors to the will of these two. Tn warranted increase of the New Haven liabilities from $93.000,000 in 1903 to $417.000.000 in 1913. Increase in floating notes from nothing in 1903 to approximated $40000.000 in 1913. Indefensible standard of business ethics and the absence of financial acu men displayed by eminent financiers in directing the destinies of the railroad in its attempt to establish, a monopoly of the transportation of New England "A combination of all these has resulted in the present deplorable situation in which the affairs of this rail road are involved, says the report. J. E. Willard to Return to U. S. Washington. July 13.Joseph E. Willard. American ambassador to Spain, haa obtained permission to return to the United States on a short leave to attend to personal affairs. Confirm Morris as Minister. XI- - V.. I 1 4 rr . wswi um, win j n.-ine senate , confirmed the nomination of Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago to be minister to Sweden. J

Daughter of the President of the University of Minnesota, and Mrs. George E. Vincent, who will become the bride of Mr. Paul V. Harper of Chicago in August. JUSTICE HORACE H. LURTON DIES SUDDENLY IN HOTEL U. S. Supreme Court Jurist at Seventy Succumbs to Heart Trouble--Was Appointed by Taft. Atlantic City, July 13. fiorace Harmon Lurton, associate justice of the United States Supreme courfc died in his apartments in a beach front hotel. The cause of death was heart failure. Justice Lurton was in his seventieth year. The body will be taken to Washington this afternoon in a private car attached to one of the regular trains. Justice Lurton was born at Newport, Ky., and after being graduated from Cumberland university was admitted to the bar in 1867. He served three years in the Confederate army during the Civil war. He was appointed chancellor of the sixth chancery division of Tennessee from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned and returned to private practise. Appointed to Bench by Taft. In 1S86 ha was elected judge of the supreme court of Tennessee and in 1893 he was elected chief justice, resigning to accept an appointment by President Cleveland as United States circuit judge in the sixth circuit. On this bench for years he was associated with former President Taft, which association led Taft to appoint him to the United States Supreme court in 1909, despite criticism that he would favor the corporations. It was charged that in cases analo gous to the Standard Oil case Judge Lurton had invariably leaned toward a construction of the law favorable to the corporation defendants. And particularly in his decision on the safety appliance law, which was sharply criticized, he was charged with having pointedly disagreed with the construction of the l.iw hv the Sn. preme court. He was dean of the law department and professor of constitutional history at Vanderbilt university. MIGHTY NEVADA IS LAUNCHED One of the Navy's Most Powerful Battleships Is Christened at Quincy, Mass. Qulncy, Mass., July 11. The battleship Nevada, exceeding in tonnage, armament and displacement any American warship except her sister ship, the Oklahama, was launched here from the yard of the Fore River Shipbuilding & Engineering compauy in the presence of a cheering multitude. As the giant vessel slid down the ways into the waters of Fore river, ten-year-old Eleanor Ann Siebert, niece of Gov. Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, broke a bottle of "extra dry" over the massive stem of "No. 36" and christened her with the name of the Western common wealth. The Nevada is heavier by 500 tons than the Texas or the New York, and will be exceeded in size only by the Pennsylvania and No. 39, now building. The Nevada's full load displacement is 2S.400 tons. SAW MRS. BAILEY SLAIN? Counsel for Mrs. Carman, Held for Crime at Freeport, L. I., Charges Maid Was Kidnaped. Mineola. N. Y.. July 13. An eyewitness to the murder of Mrs. Louise Hailey, who was shot down in the pri vate office of Dr. Edwin Carman lI Fre'port. has been found by District Attorney Lewis I. Smith, it was reported. Mrs. Carman, wife of the doctor, is now locked up in the Nassau county fall, charged with the crime. The one other important development in the case was the declaration by George Levy, counsel for Mrs. Carman. that C'ocolia Coleman, the Carman neero maid, who ha9 played an important part as a witness for the defer. p. had been spirited away. Mr i.ov ,aid the maid dir,aPi-eared lat Monday. He charged that she has been kidnaped by private detectives.

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Commission Also Declares That It Is Practically Certain That Some of the Bulkheads of Sunken Vessel Were Not Closed at Tin of Accident. Quebec, July 13 The collier Storsstad is held to blame for the Empress of Ireland disaster, in the findings of the wreck commission, handed down on Saturday. The commission holds that the disaster was due to the Storstad's change of course ordered by the third officer without instructions from the first officer, who was in charge of the collier at the time. The Empress was sunk in the St. Lawrence May 29, with a loss of more than one thousand lives. Notables Conduct Inquiry. The inquiry into the disaster was begun in Quebec on June IG by a commission composed of Lord Mersey, formerly presiding justice of the British admiralty court; Sir Adolpho Routhier of Quebec and Chief Justice McLeod of New Brunswick. The commissioners were assisted in their work by Commander F. W. M. Caborne of the British Royal Naval reserve, Prof. John Welsh oT New Castle, England; Captain Demers of the Dominion wreck commission, and Engineer Commander Howe of the Canadian naval service. Comamnder Caborne and Professor Welsh were nominated by the British board of trade. Lord Mersey also presided over the inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Hold Tuftenes Responsible. The collier's third officer found responsible is Alfred Tuftenes. He was on the bridge when the crash oc curred. ue regret, says the linding, "to have to impute the blame to anyone in connection with this lamentable dis asiei, aiiu we snouia not üo so it we 1 1 A 1 . felt that anv reasonable alternative was left to us. We can, however, come to no other conclusion than that Mr. Tuftenes was wrong and negligent in alterine his course in'the fo as hA undoubtedly did, and that he was wrong and negligent in keeping the navigation of the vessel in his own hands and failing tn ii tVio ntin when he saw the fog coming on. After carefully weighing the evi dence we have come to the conclusion that Mr. Tuftenes was mistaken if he supposed that there was any intention on the part of the Empress of Ireland to pass port to port, or that she in fact by her lights manifested the intention of doing so; but it appears to us to be a mistake which would have been of no consequence if both ships had sub sequently kept their courses. Change Caused Crash. bhortly after the ships came into the position of green to green, as claimed by Captain Kendall, or red to red, as claimed by Mr. Tuftenes. the fog shut them out from each other, and it was while they were both en veloped in this fog that the course of one or the other was changed and the collision brought about. From the evidence adduced on behalf of both veS' sels it is plain that before the fog and when they last saw each other there was no risk of collision if each kept her course. Therefore the question as to who is to blame resolves itself into a simple issue, namely, which of the "hips changed her course during the io&. "There is, In our opinion, no ground for saying that the course of the Empress of Ireland was ever changed in the sense tl at the wheel was wilfully moved; but as the hearing proceeded another explanation was propounded, namely, that the vessel changed her course not by reason of any wilful alterations of her wheel, but in consequence of some uncontrollable movement which was accounted for at one time on the hypothesis that the steering gear was out of order, and at another by the theory that, having regard to the fullness of the stern of the Empress of Ireland, the area of the rudder was insufficient. Evidence was called In support of this explanation. "On the whole question of the steering gear and rudder we are of opinion that the allegations as to their conditions are not well founded." JOHN D. DENOUNCED BY 'REDS' Berkman Hints That Bomb Victims In New York May Have Been Killed by Oil King's Agents. New York, July 1,8. Several thousand persons gathered at Union square to hear Alexander Berkman, the anarchist; Carlo Tresca and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. the L W. W. agitators; Leonard Abbott, the head of the Free Speech league; Rebecca Edelson and a dozen or more men and women glorify th memories of three anarchists killed in the Lexington avenue explosion a week ago and to denounce capitalism in general and John D. Rocke feller in particular. Around the listen ing crowd at intervals of a few feet were massed 800 policemen ready to interfere if the law were violated. Perkman shouted: "First. It is possible that our comrades wer mnr d red by the hired agents of It a and of Rockefeller, for capitalwe ail know that Rockefeller hascommitted many murders and he would not stop i at anything." I

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The recently appointed assistant secretary of the interior department. RIOTS MARK THE END OF ORANGE DAY CELEBRATION Unionists Attack Catholic Church and Smash Windows at Londonderry 50,000 March in Parade. Belfast, Ireland, July 14 Outbreaks marked the celebration of Orange day in several towns. The demonstration at Drumbeg culminated in a scene of immense enthusiasm when Sir Edward Carson, Bible in hand, pledged the covenanters never to surrender to coercion, to remain loyal to the throne, and never to waver in their suPPrt of ther leaders mJ against Dome rule. I1C liribl berious ouioreaK was re1 Pwa irom iiaiioyboley, where Natlonanst8 the home rule supporters, attacked the police barracks and B,IldSUCU 111 a11 ine wmaows. ine police- using riot sticks, dispersed the mob. At. Londonderry Orangemen began their celebration by firing salutes from a battery of guns. The residents of the Catholic section of the city believed this was the beginning of an orsanized attack and organized for defense but the salutes stopped before serius trouble resulted. An outbreak came at the close of the celebration in Londonderry when a crowd of Unionist sympathizers at tacked St. Patrick's Catholic hall and smashed all the windows. The crowd was made up of the Protestants who had spent the day celebrating the an niversary of the battle of the Boyne. Although elaborate ceremonies had been planned for every community in I'lster province, the attention of the entire United Kingdom was focused on Belfast, where Sir Edward Carson, the Unionist leader of the anti-home rule forces, led 50,000 marchers through the city of Drumbeg. While the procession was passing through the city a woman suddenly dashed through the police lines and stabbed one of the marchers with a pair of scissors. The wound was not dangerous, and the woman was fined only five dollars when arraigned be fore a magistrate. At Drumbeg Sir Edward made an impassioned speech declaring that blood would be shed before Ulster would submit to home rule. The entire military iorce 01 tne aistrict was held under emergency orders in tho barracks by Maj. Gen. Sir Cecil .Macready. PETRAS JURY IS DISMISSED Suspect Is Returned to Prison to Await New Trial on Charge of Murder Following Disagreement. Geneva, 111., July 11. After delib erating almost constantly for three days the jury in the murder trial of Tony Petras reported to Judge Clinton F. Irwin that there was no possibility of its reaching a verdict and, after an address by the judge, was discharged from further consideration of -the case. Following the discharge of the Jury Petras was returned to jail, where. State's Attorney Tyers says, he will remain until tried again on the charge of killing Tressie Hollander. Homer Eddy was the one Juror who held for the conviction of Petras. The charge made several days ago that the defense in the trial of Anthony Petras had framed up its case was made again when State's Attornev perjury charges will be against two of the witnesses. Tyers made Bradley Heir Ends Life. Chicago. July 14. B. H. Hradb-y of Onawa. Ia.. one of the heirs apparent to the Bradley Farm Implement works at I'.radley, DL, died at St Luke's hospital from a self-inflicted bullet wound. Bradley shot himself through I both temi ks at the Hotel La Salle. Juilut Rodenberg It Dead. Berlin, July 13 Prof. Julius Roden. berg, the German poet and authoi, dtei here ta his elghty-fonrth year.

Anderson Asked to Appoint Scottsburg Man, Ad Interim, to Fill Vacancy of G. O. P. Marshal.

Washington, July 15. It required not more than one minute's time of the U: ited States Senate y lay to confirm the appointment of Mark Stören of Scottsburg, as United State marshal for the District of Indiana and to clinch his confirmation so that it can not be reconsidered. Senator Shively was away from the Senate temporarily and Senator Ki rn took charge of the case and put Storen's confirmation through in doublequick time and apple-pie order. Af r the confirmation he moved that Provident Wilson be immediately notified of the action of the Senate, which if a step toward expediatir.p the issuance of the new marshal's commission. For a time it looked as if a monkeywrench might be thrown into the confirmation machinery. Telegrams came to Republican senators from Hugh Th. Miller, the Republican candidate for United States senate in Indiana, and from Will Hayes, chairman of the Booster Republican state committee, saying that the term of Edward H. Schmidt, the marshal who was removed yesterday, will not expire for eleven months, that no charges have been brought against him and that his removal was an outrageous exhibition of the spoils system, or words to that effect. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Indianapolis. David J. Xoian, .special police judge on several occa will sit in the trial of Bat Masterson this afternoon. Masterson is char d with malicious trespass in connection with the breaking of the front window of the Budweiser cafe, two weks ago Sunday. The window was broken when three bricks were hurled from an automobile at 2:40 o'clock in the morning. Grover Peters, who drove the automobile from which the bricks were thiown, testified in the trial o" tWveq other men arrested in connection with the case, that he hauled HlfffirrrMl and that Bat arranged the entire affair. Masterson was arrested at .Newcastle. He was brought back here on Judge Deery's order. Indianapolis. Governor Rai ton went to Plainfield yesterday on his first visit to the Indiana Boys' School since becoming the state's chief execu tive. He was accompanied b) Ihm If. Link, James A. Houck and E. H. Wolcott of the state board of tax commissioners. They were dinner guest 1 of Superintendent and Mrs. Guy C. Hanna at the school. The 600 boys of the institution drilled in review before the Governor and other guests and later they were addressed by the Governor. The boys greeted the Governor with friendly cheers. The Governor returned hoOM last night greatly pleased with what he saw at the institution. He expn---ed the belief that the school is doing excellent work and commended Superintendent Hanna. The Governor, who is somewhat of a farmer, was enthusiastic over the prospects for a bumper corn crop on the school's farm. Warsaw. In a suit filed in circuit court here yesterday afternoon James F. Peterson, Charles R. Britain and James Shepard, trustees, and Anthony J. Forbing, clerk of the town of Milford, are declared to be holding office illegally and the court is asked to oust them. The men are holding office on their contention that they were elected in November, 1913. The complaint declares no legal election war hell in 1913; that they failed to qualify within ten days; that they never ptook the oath of office, and that they

failed to comply with the new corrupt practices act in riling statements of expenses. Lebanon. Fred Clifford, the convict who assaulted Deputy Warden Gus Rogers of the Kentucky State Reformatory, and jumped fr,m a Big Four train at the eastern edge of I 1 anon Monday afternoon, was capturtd yesterday morning bv David and Forest W orrell, brothers, who were members of a posse of farmer boys, including Jesse Troutman, Than Scott and Clyde Robinson, who had been searching for the man since dawn. Columbus. Melvin Parks, M years old, son of Henry Parks, a farmer of Nineveh township, was arrested at his father's home yesterday afternoon and, when placed in the Johnson county jail at Franklin, confessed committing seven burglaries here an'i at Franklin. Ralph Lee, who was arrested at the same time at the home of his mother in Brown county, three miles from the Parks home, and was brought here and placed in jail, insists that he only 4 watched." Rochester. Ezra Bryan, 19 vears old, was killed near here yesterday morning when he was run over by a wagon loaded with thrashed wheat. The young man attempted to jump on the wagon while it was in motion and fell under the wheels. He lived tWt hours after the accident. Columbus. Harry Arthur, 35 years old. a contracting painter, fell thirteen feet from a ladder to a cement sidewalk, while painting the Columbus Milling Company's mill here yesttrUay. The back 01 his skuil." which struck the sidewalk, was crushed and he died three hours later. n

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