Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 July 1914 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE. Publisher.

JASPER INDIANA The r girl better be freckled thi Ther U urb a thing a too much concentration of lummrr. Some men forget favcrs. and a f"w are willing to forgive them. Kiting at daybreak 1 comparative! easy where the neighbor keep chickena Lend on hat a school for eervantt. but the Ideal servant la born, not u. . i a of baring a One way of disappointing a oman is to let her have her way without opposition. A bumper wheat crop means, of course, that the fanner will hare plenty of 'dough ' What has become of the old-time cranks who used to set the date for the end of the world ! It Is easy to predict the end of the young man who spends too much time dancing the hesitation. TV- old farmer wasn't so backward. He railed one of his pigs Ink because it ran from the pen so readily. As the "perfect house" Is to contain no closets, seme families will have to keep the skeleton in the cellar. The Oregon miner that got rich on a $' lean must have held out the interest on the shark he borrowed it from. There s one consolation in being a rebe! general when he wants a new uniform, all he's got to do is change his hatThere seems to be a great deal of Jealousy In aviation circles, perhaps because most aviators have such highflown notions Considering the development of aeronautics the fortifications of the future muy be constructed on the doodlebug plan. A doctor says danc'.ne is healthful exercise because it jogs the liver Presumably, the more a man dips the better his liver works. "Water vapor baa been detected on Mars." Or. the other hand It may be) nothing more than the hot air caused by a canal dispute. And which Is he mere sen eel the starched, high collars the men wear or the V openings In the bodice of the women's gowns? Xenophon Altlmo Squainabol. royal Inspector of Italy's schools, will doubtless become known as the moat fav mou college yell In history. s!ve weddings In the White House put a puncture In the old theory about lightning's never striking twice in the same place. "After next fall men will not be embarrassed when they see their wives dressed in the height of fashion " Rat is this a faahion note or financial Inform ation? For the first time for 11 years a wedding was solemnized at Isley Walton, a village In Leicestershire. England, where there have only been 30 marriage since 1754. A Frenchman says that the sun Is not as hot as formerly It has not been notably hot hereaway since 1a t Aurust. From a feminine fashion expert It Is learned that ears are coming back. Backbones, however, are. of course, no longer worn The zigzag appearance of lightning Is said to be an optical illusion, but there is no illusion about what happens when it strikes. A Georgetown astronomer thinks the new comet reported by observer Is only a tramp and has no real standing In the society of comets. Profeseor Metchnlkoff would never have said that there Is no such thing as a natural death If he had seen a man get caught holding Ave aces. It Is now claimed that within 2.000 -OOO years the son will have become a chunk of ice and all the world will be like unto It. Of course it will burst the ice combine, but what's the use? No douht. the Uck astronomer who conducted his courtship above the clouds will come to arth after the honeymoon. Just like other men. The hale and hearty old gentleman whose life was saved by a certain spring tonic Is having his picture pub Ushed again In country newspapers. An entirely new form of Insanity has developed In Pittsburgh, where a man Is paying his debts because he thinks the end of the world Is coming soon.

FRE RAZES SALEM

I FLAMES SWEEP OVER SALEM. MASS.. BRINGING DEATH AND WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION. LOSS PUT AT $20.000.000 Thousands Homeless and Are Being Fed in an Improvised Camp in Streets Three Known Dead and Two Hundred Reported Missing. FACTS IN SALEM FIRE. Salem. Mus, June 27. Features of great Salem fire: HistoHc Salem, founded in 1629, next la ao to Plymouth itself, famous m literature and history of nation, onethird in ruinsThree known dead Two hundred unaccounted for. Fifty Injured. Twenty thousand of 43.000 populatlon ho me lese. Water supply gone. Governor Walsh makes appeal for aid. Militia camp feeding 10.000 fire sufferers. Property lows probably $20.000.000. City under martial law. Soldier ordered to shoot looters. Burned area in crescent shape two and a half mi lea long. One and one-half miles across widest part Ruins include 100 home, business Nocke, factories, churches, public instjtutione and other buildings. Fire burned 15 hoursHelp sent from 25 eitle and townsFire started from explosion of gas. City's famous hitoric structures Sale-. Ma.. June 27 Two hundred person were unaccounted for tn Salem's great Are. The flame were under control at 5:00 a. m.. after raging fcr fifteen hour unchecked, three, people are known to be dead. Fifty have been injured. From 15.000 to 20.000 are homeless. The property loa Is estimated all the way from $5,000.000 to $25.000.000. The city is practically without water. The thousands of homeless are being fed in a great army camp set up on Highland svenue. One thousand cot, one thousand tents and oue thousand blanket are being distributed among the fire sufferers. There are ration for ten thousand being served by the militia commissary department Five thousand homeless are being sheltered under canvas. The rations to the homeless consisted of a loaf of bread, a can of beef and a cup of coffee. Rich and poor were served alike. The wealthy section of the city as well as the tenement districts are in ruins. One thousand building were burned. List of Known Dead. GEORGE LEE. SARAH FISKE, a nurse. INFANT CHILD OF MART HA Fifty persons were Injured and removed to the hospital. Governor Walsh Is personally supervising the relief work- He arrived on the scene last night and worked all night among the Are sufferers. FIRE DESTROYS LAKE BOAT Passenger Steamer Manistee Total Loss When Vessel Burns in MichiganLoss I $300. 00. Grand Rapids. Mich.. June It The North Michigan Transportation company's passenger teamer Manietee was completely destroyed by fire at Spring Lake. Mich., with a loss of J 300,000. Robert Larson, watchman. was badly burned in his efforts to ex- j linguist) the fire. Twenty members of j the crew. Including Capt. George John- ' son, escaped. The hawsers securing the ship were burned and under pressure of a strong south wind the floating mass floated out upon the waters of Spring; lake. As it drifted hundreds of cottagers gathered on the bores and viewed the scene. For nearly two miles the flaring drifting continued before the ship finally broke into two pieces and sank out of eight In the middle of the lake. MANY HURT IN CYCLONE Tornado Sweeps Everything in lt Path at Eaton. Mich. Woman May Die. Eaton Rapide. Mich.. June 29. A cyclone passed just outside of the rtty limits here, sweeping sway almost everything In Its path snd injuring many people, some of whom. It is thought, cannot recover. Among the mist seriously injured were: Mrs. William Ford, mother of County Clerk Ford, and Mr and Mm 'oh rc Spring er. Mrs. Ford's Injuries are believed j to be fatal. Her house and barn were I completely swept away, as were also those on the farm of her son, Frank E Ford. Several barns were also wrecked at Petrlevllle The storm swept almost completely across Eaton Rapid and Raton township from the Eaton town ehlp fine and wrecked almost everything In Its path. Plague In New Orleans. New Orleans. June 2. Health officers announced that a case of bubonic plague had been discovered In New Orleans Charles Lundene. a. Swede, forty-nine years old. who has been In the city 11 days. Is th victim Where Lundene came from ha not been learned.

MISS LAURA STALLO

Miss Laura Stalls, whose marriage to Pnnce Francesco Rospiglioso Pallavfncinl of one of the oldest families In Italy has been set for June 30. is a daughter of Edmund K. Stallo of New York and granddaughter of the late Alexander McDonald, Cincinnati millionaire. JACK JOHNSON RETAINS HOLD ON HIS TITLE Negro Champion Defeats Frank Moran in Twenty Rounds at Paris. Pans. June 29. Frank Moran of Pittsburgh lost the decision to Jack Johnson of Galveston. Tex.. In 20 rounds here in their battle for the heavyweight title of the world, but he did something no other fighter ha been able to do in recent years stay the limit. No other decision was possible under the circumstances, and while there was not a dissenting voice against the verdict of Referee Georges Carpentier there were no cheers for the winner, for the black man fought a "dirty"' fight an.i at times the fans thought the judge had enough cause to disqualify the titleholder tor holding and hitting The blow that really decided the contest came in the tenth round and it was a foul. After being warned several times In the early periods for rough work. Johnson walked into a clinch in the tenth and on the call of break" pushed in a straight left to Moran s nose and mouth. The crowd hissed and Carpentier stopped the battle for a second or two to warn Johnson that a repetition wou'd end the battle. This did not help Moran. how ' Mt for the blow u damaging and be never recovered thereafter. In the seventh, eighth and ninth Moran' continued rushing n?ttled Johnson, while the crowd was on its feet cheering his every blow and begging for a knockout Then came the tenth and the foul blow, which turned the tide against the white man. In the last few rounds Johnson had the PitUburgher absolutely at his mercy. FIRM FAILS FOR MILLIONS H. B. Claflin A Co. of New York Placed in Hands of Receivers Liabilities Are $35.000.000. New York, June 26. Federal Judge Hand appointed Joseph It Martindab, president of the Chemical National bank, and Frederick A Juilliard receivers for the H. B. Claflin company, one of the largest dry goods concerns In the United States, and Lho Defender Manufacturing company. The petition against the Claflin com pany was filed by John C Eames of New York on behalf of his other creditors. Eames claimed that the Claflin company owed him $3,668 on a loan and that It has several million dollars' of indebtedness. The petition against the Defender company filed by W. P. Odell of New Jersey. note creditor for $j.2O0. Judge Hand fixed the receiver's bond for the Claflin company at $500,00O and $50.000 for the Defender com pany The failure of the Claflin company Is one of the grestest that ha ever startled the commercial life of New York. It is estimated by those who are close to the company that the liabilities of the Claflin concern are 125,000.000 and the assets $44.000.000. NAVAL BILL IS APPROVED House Agrees to Conference Report on Appropriation Measure Washington. June 27 The bouse agreed to the conference report on the naval appropriation bill. As the bill finally came from conference and was approved by the houee, the senate yielded on Its amendment proposing a $3.000,000 dry dock for Norfolk. Vr.. The senate accepted substitute ouee section for the esle of the battleships Idaho and Mississippi to Greece The president Is authorized to sell the two ships and to use the funds received In building a new dreadnaught.

ROYAL Pi SLl ARCHDUKE AND DUCHESS OF AUSTRIA FATALLY SHOT AF TER BOMB EXPLODES. SIX PERSONS ARE WOUNDED

Frans Ferdinand and Wife Are Fired Upon by Student and Die Few Minutes Afterward Assassins Captured and Put in Prison. Vienna. June 29 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Iii morganatic wife the former Countess Sophie t'hotek. were assassinated in Sarajevo, 1 Vomit a A journeyman printer named Cabrinovic hurled a bomb at their carriaee. injuring six persons. Then a young Servian student fired several shots from a pistol at the archduke and duchess, each bullet strikiug a vital spot The archduke and duchesa died a few minutes after being carried into the palace Moth assassins were captured and lodged In Jail. News of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie created a tremendous sensation throughout the city. The aged emperor, whose health has been rather feeble of late, was prostrated by the news of the tragedy. "Shall I never be freed from pain and anguish In this world!" he exclaimed. This latest addition to the long series of misfortune which have marked his reign will. It la feared have a grave effect on the health of the aged emporor. The archduke and his wife were assassinated at 11:15 o'clock in the morrlng while driving from the rail road station to the city hall, where they were to attend a celebration Printer Hurls a Bcmt The royal pair had just started away from the station her. a journeyman printer named Cabrinovic hurled a bomb at the carriage, injuring six persons, all members of the royal party. A young Servian student standing alongside of Cabrinovic raised a revolver almost at the same t!. and !:r-J several SBStl at the archduke and archduchess, each of the bullets striking a vital spot. The archduke was shot in the head and the archduchess In the abdomen. They were carried into a palace, where they died within a few minutes. Those of the throng nearest to the two assassins stood paralyzed for a moment after the explosion and rhots. and then, before the smoke cleared away, flung themselevs upon Cabrinovic and his accomplice, who were trying to make their escape under cover of the confusion. The two were thrown down and men and women were fighting to get at them when the police and military escort charged, dispersing the crowd. Among those wounded by th bomb explosion were Count Booswaldeck and Colonel Mertzzl. Time Well Chosen. The time and place for the deed were well chosen. The city was en fete in honor of the coming of the archduke and duchess A huge throng had gathered near the railroad station, where a small military detachment was on hand to keep the way clear for the passage of the royal carriage. All the notables of the city and state were alting Inside the station for the arrival of the royal couple. JAP EMBROGLIO LOOMS BIG Whole Controversy May Be Referred to Hague Tribunal for Arbitration Keep Conferences Secret. Washington. June 27. That the pending Japanese embrogllo with this government over the treatment accorded Japanese citizens in the state of California, through its adoption of antialien land law, overshadows the Mexican situation in Importance, was indicated by state department officials. It Is feared that fresh complications of an International character will be precipitated by the department's answer to the Japanese note of August 20 last. The president and Secretary Bryan are making every effort to prevent any undue procedure by either country and there is much discussion a to the possible reference of the whole controversy to the Hague tribunal for arbitration, or as to possible mediation by friendly European nations. LABOR MEN WORK IN PRISON Frank M. Ryan and Eleven Associates Are Helping With Structural Steel on Addition to Jail. Leavenworth. Kan.. Jane 27. Frank M. Ryan, former president of the Structural Ironworker' union, and 11 other Ironworkers refused pardons by President Wilson, are helping with the structural steel work on the addl tlon to the federal prieon here. The men arrived at night. Ryan greeting Warden Thomas Morgan by saying: "Here we are. warden, back home again." and immediately began serv Ing the unexpired portions of their sentences By 10 p m all the men had been dressed In. given the same numbers and cell mates they had d ir ing their previous sty in the prison. ' and locked In their cells. It will re j quire about two years finish the ' prison steel work. i

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C. C. Harri, the new representative from the ighth Alabama District, has taken hie seat in congress. His home is In Decatur, and he was chosen st a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Richardson. WILSON'S MESSAGE BRINGS AIO FOR ANTI-TRUST BILLS Delay Would Result in More Agita tion Which Would Be Fata1! to Trade. Says Executive. Washington. June "7 - President Wilson's emphatic declaration of the administration's intention- to go straight ahead with its anti trust program and place those measures on the statute hooks of the country with the pred'efion of unparalleled prosperity to follow attracted widespread attention. In congressional circles especially the president's utterances were read with keen interest. While the president's speech was addressed to in rubers of the Virginia Pres association, it was regarded as perhaps the most imortant message the president has given to the business world aud as his final answer '.O those who oppose the enactment of the auti trust program at the present session of congress. The president made It clear that he was determined to push the trust program. He reviewed the efforts of the administration to carry out other features of its program- the tariff and the currency law which he said was attended by fear of business disturbance. When, however, those measures became law the fcellug of uncertainty was relieved. The same situation existed, the president pointed out. when anti trust legislation was proposed and urgent pleaa were made to postpone It. The president told the editors, however, that the trust program would not be postponed, because, he said, "we sre the friends of business." He assured them that he would not dare to stop. To do so, he said, would result tn another long period of agitation, which would be fatal to business. Assurances were given by the president that when congress passes the anti-trust legislation the country would witness the greatest business boom In Us history. In congress the belief was expressed that the president's attitude would have the effect of rallying Democrats to the plan to dispose of the trust program. BIG LINER GOES ON ROCKS Anchor Liner California Sends Wireless Appeals for Aid to British Ship. Iondon, June 29 The steamship California of the Anchor line is ashore on the rocks near Tory Island, off the coast of Donegal, and has sent a wire less call for assistance. There are 121 persons aboard. The admiralty has ordered gunboats to proceed Immediately to the scene. The bow of the California Is reported to have been badly crushed by the sharp rocks and she is taking water rapidly through two holes In the forward hold. It Is understood that those of the passen gers who were bound for points In Ireland have been transferred to other vessels. Rail Wreck May Cost Two Lives. Rlchwood, Ky.. June 29 Queen A Crescent southbound fast passenger train No. 11, the "Royal Palm special." running between Chicago and Jackson vllle. was wrecked about a mile from this placo. The accident may prove fatal to Engineer Will Fleming and Fireman Tom Hutchison. It was caused by the rails giving way on a new "fill " The passengers escaped serious Injury. Mill Burned Down; Loss, $1 SO. 000. Watrrtow n. N. Y.. June 27. --The mill and crushing plant of the Northern lire company at Edward. 28 miles fron here, were destroyed by Are with a loss of $160,00.

I INDIANA

I BREVITIES Columbus. A Jury of Mrchanu convicted Ray öulley. twenty-! , ,,r, old. of visiting i faaabUai ao fined him lo and costs und s. , him to ten day In Jail Nine other de feuclants. who were arrested man, . , -rsjld made on the .lames l Ii i cigar store here, will kg rweulr t.u c lik. chai - tiary Sixteen hundred farm, with their families and I ham! were the gut-gig (,f u,, mercial club an.l th.. tinted Steel corporation. The laruierescort ml through tin- steel n special trains, taken lor an auti trip over the city, and taterta free concerts and theatrical perform antes. Terre Haute. Mrs. Myr Gibbon, confessed slayer of Elroy H Si Ith a motion picture theater 0WI preliminary hearing In th- ; and was bound over to the gl Bond was lixed hy Jadge ,t $10,000. An effort will b. procure a reduction of thi her attorney. The court r. crowded with curious spet t.r Indianapolis. Heavy rain ri i in Indiana increased the ( rO Ik i of farmers considerably . i ning and wind did cn I ui some sections, and hail di H many acres of growing grata parts of the state, the effect ol the general storm late Friday was I clal. In many counties the flrsl fall in two months was reported Princeton. The case again.! CI) k White, twenty years old. of E ville. c harged with UH 4mgW der. opened in circuit court hi White is charge.l with killing H Young, with whom he had ajMrt over Young's wife. White p self defense, but evidence Intr . i i l tended to show that Young h.-. unarmed when the fatal shot wa Evansville. At the nieetlai Indiana Democratic Educutlonal .. elation held lu re Mayor Don M Rob ert of Terre Haute, who w as r trie.! in the Vigo county circuit court on th charge of corrupting elevti announced he would neek the Demo crallc nomination for governor ol diana. The announcement threw eon i sternation into the ranks of the edi tors. Wabash. Lowered Into an abandoned well by two men, who held his feet. Karl Yentos. twenty-five years old, almost lost his life when overcome by damp. Teilten was attempting to find his watch, which he had dropped into the well, and was unaware of the damp When pulled out he wan believed to be ilead. but physicians revived him after two hours' i work. Illoomlngton. David Hiermann, ac ! seven years, son of Prof K EL Biermann, instructor in German at , Indiana university, may lose th power of speech as a result of being struck by lightning He. his brother. Arnold, aged nine, and Stanley Bo ' ers, aged ten. were struck bv lightning late Friday. David was Irnocked unconscious and the other tw boys were stunned. Goshen.--Warren Hrody ( C'khart, charged with steeling an ant "mobile belonging to Mra. Manning Rogers at Klinger Lake and trivial It ! to Lernmon, 8. D where he was raptured, and who was returned to I sopolls. Mich., for trial, attempted to j escape from the Cass county Jail try j firing the structure. Piling mattr. high, he touched a match to th m Smoke was so dense that the prl were rescued with great difficulty Sullivan. Sherman Salyards. loft years old. and James Pol man. fifty, while under the lnflu M f liquor, it Is said, enrcagfd in a quarrel, and Salyards is said to ha".'1 struck Polman In the head srlth a hatchet. Iater Polman obtained a shotgun and shot Salyards in list right shoulder, inflicting a dangerous wound Indianapolis. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan coal dealers, members of the Tri-State Coal Dealers' association, opened a two-days' session at the Hotel Severin. The resumption 1 f work In many of the mines, follow n the signing up of the new rate of wet scales as well as the more active trm! In coal and the closing of contracts tOf steaming coal next winter, are sabJects up for discussion at the gg I Columbus Three Thompson broth ers, from Stone Hall. Brown county, 20 miles from here, walked to the farm of Albert Newrom. a wealth farmer near here, for whom thjey ,a1 they had contracted to go to work in his harvest field. He refuned to i them to work and they filed suit for tqree dollars each against him In a l cal Justice of the peace court. Th three brothers said that they sroiW have to walk home and back and forth to the trial, and felt that they ought to be paid something for their time and their hiking Fort Wayne. Three ysjfjaMM loot ed the post office at Avllla. us Ing several charges of dynamite and awakening the whole town. On play by the yeggmen, however, arc vented Interference, and the bandi' .Inally decamped with several hundred dollars' vcorth of stamps. Blood hounds were brought from Auburn and a sheriff s posse followed the trail for 11 miles, finally coming upon U trio hiding In the underbrush. T were captured with the stolen prop rty in their possession, and are goe In Jail a Auburn They refuse to give their names.