Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 July 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER

BEN CO. DO AN E. Publisher.

JASPER

INDIANA

Sunday Joy riders morgue on Monday.

make a busy

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

It looks good to see the girls !ng old fashioned ears again.

Love 1s 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 Hies with both hands.

30 MILLION STOLEN

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION BARES LOOT OF NEW HAVEN ROAD.

MISS ISABEL VINCENT

BLAME PUT ON DIRECTORS

Federal Body Calls Financing of Eastern Railway One of the Most Glaring Instances of Maladministration in History of Nation's Railroading.

How can a normal human being laugh, to use magazine language, "hollowly?"

What has become of the old-fashioned statesman who used to keep his

to the ground?

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There ig the silhouette women and then there is Beach suit for men.

gown for the Palm

A fashion journal has a half-column description of a bathing suit, but the , ult itself isn't tbat long.

"Aviatrix" is such a nice word that

me sport ought to become most ular amon- young wefmen.

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Still when you see a girl kissing a dog 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 men create the Im Pression that there were no mirrors hen they were in the making.

One of the newest dances is caTed the "twinkle" and is both modest and graceful. It hasn't tti ghost of a chance.

It was bound to come, following the reports of agricultural prosperity au

tomobile bandits have robbed farmer.

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The

trouble with men whn wnr

ww w ww 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 ar.y distinguished naturalist not satined with his previous achievements.

"Do not ask a sick man how he feels," says a philosopher; "tell hi.a a funny story." Hut is any story funny to a sick man?

Why should a man pay $10,000 to become a professor in Germany when be 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 bring joy to vagrants and small boys The scientists recommend the shower bath instead.

An aviation magazine predicts that in ten years people will be flying to business in aeroplanes. The trolley companies should worry.

No elf-respectin sluggard is going to the ant at this time of the year when the advice of the grasshopper is so much easier to follow.

Washington, July 14. "One of the moat glaring instances of maladminis

tration 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 renort of 30.000 words nroK.

ably 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 Massachusetts, 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.

win amount 10 Detween 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." All the commission's strictures were upon the management of the New Haven system under former President Mellen. Citations in Report. The report cites these "significant Incidents": "Marked features and significant incidents in the loose, extravagant and 1 um kB 9 w m m

improviaent 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 srock to friendly parties with the design

oi Doosting tne stocks and unload

ing 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 ami their friends. Investment of $400,000 in securities of a New England newspaper. Regular employment of political bosses in Rhode Island and other states, not for the purpose of having them perforro any service but to prevent them, as Mr. Mellen expresses it, from "becoming active on the other side."

Retention by John L. Pillard of more than f2.700.000 in a transaction in which he represented the New Haven and in which he invested not a dollar. Inability of Oakleigh Thome to account for $1.032,000 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 distribu

tion or $1,200,000 for

STORSTAD IS BUM

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FOUND RESPONSIBLE FOR EM PRESS OF IRELAND DISASTER IN WHICH 1,000 DIED.

FORMER CHANGED COURSE

Commission Also Declares That It Is Practically Certain That Some of the Bulkheads of Sunken Vessel Were Not Closed at Time of Accident.

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. LURT0N DIES SUDDENLY IN HOTEL

U. S. Supreme Court Jurist at Seventy Succumbs to Heart Trouble Was Appointed by Taft.

Atlantic City, July 13. Horace Harmon Lurton, associate justice of A 1 -WW m .

me l nited States Supreme court, 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 Wishing trr t I, ; . .

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attached to one of the regular trains Justice Lurton was born at New

port, Ky., and after being graduated from Cumberland university was ad

mitted 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 1886 he 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 b nch for years he was associated with former President Taft, which association led Taft to appoint him to the United States Sn

1909. despite criticism that he would favor the corporations. It was charged that in cases analogous 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 -harged with having pointedly disagreed with the construction of the law by the Supreme court. He was dean of the law department and professor of constitutional history at Vanderbilt university.

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 Emures wc i v. o.

' wwmmm tJKAtixK ill iur öl. 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 16 by a commission composed of Lord Mersey, formerly presiding justice of the British admiralty court; Sir Adolpho Routhier of Quebec and Chief Justiz rT oh

of New Brunswick. The commissioners were assisted in their work bv Commander F. W. M. Caborne of the British Royal Naval reserve, Prof. John Welsh of 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 bv

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 occurred. "We reerret." RflVS the- finHino "tn

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have to impute the blame to anyone in connection with this lamentable dis

aster, and we should not do so if we

felt that any reasonable alternative was left to us. We can, however, come

to no other conclusion than that Mr

Tuftenes wa3 wrong and negligent in

altering his course in the fog as he undoubtedly did, and that he was

wrong and negligent in keeping the

navigation of the vessel in his own hands and failing to call the captain

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

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STÖREN INTO OFFICE Shively. Although Not Present, Has Track Well Greased

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

The recently appointed assistant secretary of the interior department.

RIOTS MARK THE END OF

ORANGE DAY CELEBRATION

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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 en-

thusiasm when Sir Edward Carson, Hible in hand, pledged the covenanters never to surrender to coercion, to remain loyal to the throne, and never to waver in their support of their leaders in the fight against home rule. The firfst serious outbreak was reported from Balloybofey, where Nationalists, the home rule supporters, attacked the police barracks and smashed in all the windows. The police, using riot sticks, dispersed the mob. At Londonderry Orangemen beean

their celebration by firing salutes from a battery of guns. The residents of the Catholic section of the city be

lieved

Washington, July IS. It reo ui red not more than one minute's time of

the United States Senate yesterday to confirm the appointment of Mark Stören of Scottsburg, as United S'ate marshal for the District of Indiana and to clinch his confirmation so that it can not be reconsidered. Senator Shively was away fron the Senate temporarily and Senator Kern took charge of the case and put Storen's confirmation through in doublequick time and apple-pie order. After the confirmation he moved that President Wilson be immediately notifi i of the action of the Senate, which is a step toward expediating the issuance of the new marshal's commission.

For a time it looked as if a monkeywreich 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 Hoosier 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 out

rageous exhibition of the spoils tern, or words to that effect.

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STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

this was the beginning of an

to pass port to port, or that she in fact orSanized attack and organized for deby her lights manifested the intention fense hut the salutes stopped before

of doing so; but it appears to us to he serous trouble resulted

MIGHTY NEVADA IS LAUNCHED

One of the Navv's Most P.,i

tW w ww vi I VI I Battleships Is Christened at Quincy, Mass.

The Swiss burglar who has been sentenced to prison for 13$ year, the first 126 at hard labor, at least has the respite to look forward to.

Birds can fly without brains, according to a German 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 b a baseball, one of his legs was broken at football and contact with a hatpin cost an eye."

Now

that it is possible to locntP nr

by wireless telegraphy, the old-fashioned nrospector may be weaned away from his divining rod.

''heap phonographs from Oermany mre betag sold extensively in oriental countries, despite the fact that sleep Is highly regarded there

Man admits kissing a girl, chatters Jo to her. and then asks if her moth er expects to live with them Modern courtship is too practical. Romance la dead!

corrupt pur

poses in bringing about amendments of the West Cheater and Port Chester franchises. nomination 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. Unwarranted 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 approximately f 40 -000.000 in 1913. Indefensible standard of huctnaCD

v wviriiicc? V III les and the absence of tlnancial acumen displayed by eminent financier

in directing the destinies of the railroad in its attempt to establi a monopoly of the transportation of New England A combination of all these has resulted in the present deplorable atttiation in which the affairs of this railroad are involved." says the report. J. E. Willard to Return to U. S. Washington. July 13. Joseph K. Willard. American ambassador to Spain, has obtained permission to return to the United States on a short leave to attend to personal affairs.

Quincy, Mass.. July 11. The battleship Nevada, exceeding in tonnage, armament and displacement any

American warship except her sister ship, the Oklaharaa, was launched here from the yard of the Pore River Shipbuilding & Engineering company 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 commonwealth. 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.

a misuse wnicn would have been of

no consequence if both ships bad sub

sequently kept their courses.

Change Caused Crash. "Shortly 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 enveloped 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 ships changed her course during the fog. "There is. In our opinion, no ground for saying that the course of the Empress of Ireland was ever changed in the sense that 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 n consequence of some uncontrollable movement which was accounted for at one time on the hypothesis that the steer

ing gear was out of order, and at an

other by the theory that, having re

gard 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."

An outbreak came at the close of the

celebration in Londonderry when a crowd of Unionist sympathizers attacked 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 anniversary of the battle of the Hoyne.

Although elaborate ceremonies had

been planned for every community in

Ulster province, the attention of the

entire United Kingdom was focused

on Belfast, where Sir Edward Carson,

the Unionist leader of the a nti.hnnm

- w m a a ' rule forces, led 50,000 marchers

through the city of Drumbeg.

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w nne tne 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 before 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 force of the district was held under emergency orders in tho barracks by Maj. Gen. Sir Cecil Ma-cready.

SAW MRS. BAILEY SLAIN'? Counsel for Mrt. Carman, Held for Crime at Freeport, L. L, Charges Maid Was Kidnaped.

JOHN D. DENOUNCED BY 'REDS' Berkman Hints That Bomb Victims in New York May Have Been Killed by Oil King's Agents.

If taenia N. Y., July 13. An eyewitness to the BVdflff of Mrs. Louise Bailey, who was shot down in the private office of Dr. Edwin Carman at Freeport, has been found by District Attorney Lewis L Smith, it was reported. Mrs. Carman, wife of the doctor, is now locked up in the Nassau county jail, charged with the crimp

New York. July 13. Several thousand persons gathered at Union square to hear Alexander Perkman, 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 the 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

Confirm Morris as Minister. Washington. July 14. The senate confirmed tho nomination of Ira N 1son Morris of Chicago to be minister to Sweden.

The one other important development i ing crowd at Intervals of a few feet in the eaae was the declaration by were maeee S00 policemen readv to

PETRAS JURY IS DISMISSED

Suspect Is Returned to Prison to Await New Trial on Charge of Murder Following Disagreement. Geneva. lit, July 11. After deliberating 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 wfH remain until tried again on the charge of killing Tressie Hollander. Homer Eddy was the one juror who held for

the conviction of Petras. 1 he charge made several days ago that the defense in the trial of Anthony Petras had framed up its case was mad

again when State s Attorney said perjury charges will be against two of the witnesses.

Tyers made

were violated.

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u orge i.e.y. counsel ror Mrs. Car- interfere If the law man. that Cecelia Coleman, the Car-; Perkman shouted:

man negro maid, who has played an j siMe that our comrades were

important

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tne mald MW ;red iaot know that Rockefeller has committed' Monday. He charged that she nnc I mnnv murder nrf h u..m !

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nt part as a witness for the j dered by the hired agents of capital had been spirited a way. Ir jsm and of Rockefeller, for we ;i

Bradley Heir Ends Life. Chicago. July 14. R. H. Bradley of Onawa. la., one of the heirs apparent to the Rradley Farm Implement works at Rradley, 111., died at St. Luke s hospital from a self-inflicted bullet wound. Bradley shot himself through both temples at the Hotel La Salle.

Julius Rodenberg Is Dead. Rerlin. July 13. Prof. Julius Roden-

; berg, the German poet and authoi, j died here in his eighty-fourth year.

Indianapolis. David J. Nolan, special police judfre on several oca will sit in the trial of Rat Masterson this afternoon. Masterson is charged with malicious trespass in connection with the breaking of the front window of the Bud weiser cafe, two weeks 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 thrown, testified in the trial of eleven other men arrested in connection with the case, that he hauled Master -on

and that Bat arranged the entire affair. Masterson was arretted at N w-

castle. He was brought back here I

Judge Deery's order.

Indianapolis. Governor Ralston

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went to riainneld yesterday on his first visit to the Indiana Boys' Seh since becoming the state's chief execu

tive. He was accompanied by Dan M. Link, James A. Houck and E. 11. Wolcott of the state board of tax eommissioners. They were dinner quests 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 wereaddressed by the Governor. The boys greeted the Governor with friendly cheers. The Governor returned home last night greatly pleased with what he saw at the institution. He expressed 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 Jame 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 was held in 1913; that they failed to qualify within ten days; that they never took the oath of office, and that thev failed to comply with the nt tW corrupt practices act in filing statements of expenses. Lebanon. Fred Clifford, the convict who assaulted Deputy Warden Gus Rogers of the Kentucky State Reformatory, and jumped from a Big Four train at the eastern edge of L anon Monday afternoon, was captun .j yesterday morning by David and Forest Worrell, brothers, wlio were nu mbers of a posse of farmer bovs. including Jesse Troutman. Than Scott

and Clyde Robinson, who had bean searching for the man sine- Am

wiuniwu.-). .mvivim i ar ks, 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 Jefcaaen county jail at Franklin, confessed committing seven burglaries here and at Franklin. Ralph Lee, who was arrested at the same time at the home f fiis mother in Brown county, tares miles from the Parks home, and was brought here and placed in jail, insists that he only "watched." Rochester. Ezra Bryan, 19 years old, was killed near here yesterday morning when he was run over by a agon 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 1 1 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 yesterday. The back of his skull, which struck the siviewalk, way crushed and he died three hours later.