Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 October 1914 — Page 3

Uscs oTiOfflAM and KOENIGSBERG, BESIEGED BY THE RUSSIANS enaL INDIANA I BREVITIES

Here Is Your Jewel Casket, Madam," He Said

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M.'ulamp," and the handsome station master looked into her our jewel casket, I am happy to inform you, has been found."

The violet ey.-H looked up into his and JEWEL

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enough to have returned these jewels o i She shook the leather- r red box apprehensively and listened. "I wt. said the H. S. M., "that you examine the contents before you go farther. Perhaps some of them might be missing. My office is at your disposal if you wish to do so." And so she of the violet eyes went to the office and the H. S. M. saii -to one of his assistants, "Odell, just give the lady this desk, will you. She would like to make an inventory of her jewels, which she just lost and found again." And so she of the violet eyes opened the lid of that leatherbound box, and these are what she took out, one by one: On small mirror, cracked. One rabbit's foot. One comb. One bottle of perfume. One pot of rouge. One tube of cold cream. One eyebrow pencil. One date book. "How funny." shs said, after a pause, glancing at the limp form of the H. S. M ., which had fallen back in his chair, "that you should have thought riis was tilled with diamonds! Why, this is my tango vanity. All the girls n them. Don't you think it is an especially nice one? Everything is all right bur the little mirror. Thank you so much. (Iood-by. You have been very kind " An'! Um station master went into his private office and lighted a dank. ! irk cigar and pondered on the ways of womankind.

Firemen Steal the Bed of Pair Wed in Secret CHICAGO. A Maxim silencer on the wedding chimes failed to work when Charles F Passow, a fireman, married .Miss Margaret Mulligan at her home, KMn North Avers avenue. Passow recently asked for a furlough, but dtd not explain that he intended to be

married He had heard of the pranks played on prospective bridegrooms by their heartless mates in the flrehouse. So he decided to have a secret wed ii'W.K Passow and his flanc picked out ii iy flat ;i? 5306 Maryland avenue, ad during his hours off they visited furnituie emporiums and picked out .ill the accessories dear to the hearts of the new Iv-married.

Hut fV.ssow underestimated the discernment of the other members of t ht engine company. Mr. and Mrs. Passow went to their new home after the wedding tho other night Passow tried to open the door, hut the key would not work. This was because the members of company 1! had plugged up all the keyholes. In a rage hotter than most of the tires he has turned the hose on, Passow struggled with tin key until tinally he and his bride gained entrance. On the dfeÜHg-rOOin table they found an elaborate set of aluminum kitchen utensils with a card conveying the company's best wishes. "They ere just beautiful." Mrs. Passow said. "Yes, the boys are pretty good-heart d, even if they do have their little ke." Passow conceded. Tiieu he suddenly missed the bed. Once nor he feit murder In Iiis heart. He raced back and forth through Mat and .it last found that the door of a closet was locked and the keyhole teffed Peeeov. got. a chisel and hammer and got the door open. The bexi

! nl been carefully taken downed stored in the closet

This Couple Knew a Good Cow When They Saw It Ml MCIE, IND, Charles Bhlck, when he retired from the mercantile bus! ness. moved to a suburban home. Me had always wished to live out a here hi COtlld keep chicken. I driving horse Off two. and a COW. Whenever Snick and his wife drew mental plans

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none looked like the cow they wished, tair came Shu k and til wile went At the t attle barns It belonged to the genus Jersey Its eyes were soft and

hen thi they saw (Mini) a t ow

mellow. Its hoofs and horns were neatl) manicured. Its fawn-colored coat wus beautiful to behold. And as for the genera! symmetry and makeup the animal would suit the most exacting The herdsman said this particular cow a an abundant milk producer The Shirks exchanged knowing jinnee Verily hc had. at last, found I cow that looked like the mental picture the had drawn. I ipp..- Neu will seil this cow?" Snick asked Yes. tt Is for sale." said the herdsman How much do ou want for the animal '' said Shirk. Well, ''aid the hetdsaian. it is one of the best animals in the herd, but well take fifteen hundred dollurs for the cow Shirk pllltClhod ut his wife's arm. Then the started arross the fair -round t.'watd the rrandstand For hall an hour neither spoke Then Shirk broke the alienee. He lamed to his wife and in a meek oice said, 'Say, e. we k:.vw a good cow whrn we see one. dont we?" Finds a $367 "Roll" and Gets a 25-Cent Reward DBNVKK. t'Ol.O M. McC.rath. a lifeguard at t!ie Washington park bathing eaeh. found $:b'7 in bank hills on the shore. With no thought of reward in hll mind, he hastened to police headquarters and repotted his find There he learned the money was the prop-

rt c uu't at the Argonaut hotel, who had lost his roll whüe bathing j the lake. I s.-iit about two bits telephoning all over th city trying to locale the owner of that money," said Mc'i rath. H heu I found him 1 hm led to his apartments and turned the big bunch of cash over to him, with never a thought of reward. "Hut he was bo overcome with gratitude and joy, he insisted that I be rewarded He drew a dime and , them for fully a minute. Vo l d .-er k . i . a ard. Finally he He looked so ruefully at that would have broken his heart, I am

a flush mantled her chocks Thank you bo much," she said.

"You must have seen me when I dropped it." The H. S M. said no. but with an accent that did not make it sound like a harsh word at all. I knew it was yours.' he said, t c ause it just matched the color of

your gown. I was much worried until I found you, for I know that the contents must be very valuable. Do not ' mention it at all. It has been reward

& Sib c0,t ! their suburban home they Included a sketch of an ideal cow In fact, they decided they would spend, if necMssary, a hundred dollars for a cow, but it must look like a hundred dollars' worth of cow. After they be came settled iti their new home they started out cow shopping They read the classified advertisement! and canvas imI Delaware county's 12 townships The saw a lot of cows, but HERE'S CIMM6 As . . m 25f Pais ; Quarter from hll l ket and studied shoved the quarter toward me and said: twjvbits ! couldn't bear sure to take it. It

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Koenigsb.rg, East Prussia, one of to have invested. FIERCE BATTLE LASTS FOR DAYS; FIRST DETAILS fciyantic Conflict as the Allies Attempt to Hurl Back the Invading Armies. CARNAGE HAS BEEN AWFUL Really a Series of Attacks and Repulses That Have Gone on Along Front of One Hundred and Fifty Miles Bravery Amounting to Fanaticism Has Been Shown by Both Sides. t From the liattle Front, via Paris, Sept. T2. The seventh day ot the bat tie of the Alina has ended with the Germans and allies intrenched in practically the same positions they held .for the last two days. Artillery duels such as never have been Boen before are being carried on with the hope of comp Hin the evacuation of the strongly held positions, with occasional successes to the oppos ins sides, while the infantry, in the face of a galling fire, have charged riht up to the guns, only to make their opponents pive way slightly, or to be repulsed with rim at losses. The Germans took the allies' trenches on the river to the north of Soissons after hard fighting. A counter-attack was executed by the allies and the trenches were rewon. The fighting may go on for days yet. but sooner or later one side must find the continual fall of shells and the disconcerting infantry attacks too much for them, and, leaving a strong rear guard will draw back. It 1b now possible to give the first details of the terrific battle of the Aisne the greatest battle in the history of the world It is a story of a deadly duel of big guns, of furious attacks, of terrific counter-attacks, of hand-to-hand clashes and bayonet charge! and of frightfnl earnaga. It is a story of a succession of battles, which have hern fought now on one part of the line and now on the other, hour an r hour, for every hour of the twenty-four, day after day and nigh! after nigh!, for six long days, and still with no result at the timo of w riting The story starts with the day of the fourteenth. Krom the twelfth to the morning of the fourteenth, !he rival untiles had been tuhtli g a rear guard action, precipitated when the retreat ing Germans turned at bay to give battle to their allied pursio-rs. The real lighting started on the morning of the fourteenth, whan tii battle hi came c neral along the range of heights to the north of Alsno. The fight ing as sustained with deadly ain. Muess during all of the next day, the Germans contesting every foot of the way in a supreme endeavor to hold their positions until ran nforceinents could arrive. On the night of tho fifteenth they npjM.n-ed to have been strengthened, and commenced their formidable movement against the French and Hritish all along their front. A furious attack on the allies' extreme left, with the big guns of the rival artillerists lighting the line of the opposing fronts- in tierce silhouette, was repulsed with great courage by the allies. Again and again the Germans returned to the attack with the tenacity that wai the marvel of French troops, but each time they were repulsed. No fewer th. n ten times did they drive their dense masses of troops at the allied infantry, but never were they abb' to break through. All night long the righting laiUed. the allies bracing themselves, after each successive counterattack to meet the furious onslaught of charg

the strongest fortified cities in Germany, which the Russians are reported

ing Teutons, until toward dawn the men of both sides were ready to drop from sheer exhaustion. Just before daybreak the Germaus threw all their remaining strength and energy into one final charge, that was conducted with all the vim and courage that could be expected of fresh troops. They charged like madmen like fanatics who knew nothing of the fear of death. Hut they were rolled back again, and to their enormous losses of the night was added another long roll of dead and wounded. It was as if tnis was their one chance of salvation, and all the desperation and all the resolution at their command was thrown into it. Hardly had they recovered from this final grand sortie when the allies followed with a vigorous counter-attack in an effort to catch the Germans off their balance. In this the allies were partly successful, for they gained ground slightly. On the morning of the seventeenth fighting again was resumed with the desperation that rivaled that of the big night attack. At the end of the day it appeared that the Germans had been forced to retire about seven miles. During the fighting, which lasted all day and into the night, the Germans lost 000 prisoners, aside from the dead and wounded, which could not bo computed, and a number of rapidfire guns. Darkness made the operations extremely difficult, as the use of searchlights by the rival commanders was retrained from, owing to the danger of exposing their positions. Hand-to-hand fighting, in which the bayonet was used extensively, resulting In terrible losses, marked the combat as one of the most furious ever fought. The progress of the battle indicated that the rival supreme commanders .no going to leave a decision of the gigantic conflict to the big guns. The struggle is so titanic that mere numerical strength, even when that strength is counted in the millions, has proved itself inadequate to force the issue to a decisive result. Puts German Loss at 45,000. G. F. Stewart, correspondent of the London Daily News, telegraphs from Rotterdam: "I learn from a private but absolutely reliable source that during the last fortnight the Germans have been losing in killed, wounded and missing an average of 0,200 men per day. This represents a loss of roughly 1.".m0 men. of whom it is estimated 14,000 were killed. " Termonde Almost Wholly Destroyed. The ii nnans completed the destruction of Termonde ( Dendermonde) . The communal olllcos were bombarded and are in ruins. The ehurch still stands though Its tower is damaged. The hospital was spared, but all other public buildings and houses were destroyed No Proposals for Peace. Great hrltain has received no proposals for peace from Germany or At. stria, according to a message received by Sir Cecil Spring Hfce. British ambassador at Washington, from Sir Kdward Grey. The Hritish war office issued another casualty list, which showed that Britten oflkeeri arc still falling in large numbers on the battlefield. Thousands of Belgians Slain. A telegram to the Imdon Observer from a correspondent at Antwerp says: ;The authorities are preparing an otllcial casualty list of the operations at Liege and I am informed it will show that no fewer than 27,000 Uelgian soldiers were killed in that heroic defense." There Is a high death rate among the.-German officers. The ratio of wouiided to the dead is about two to one. The total casualties, as given out in Berlin, are 6,535 killed, 8,311 seriously and 42,242 slightly wounded. Russians to Have 7,C00,000. The Russian army now in Galicia will be left there to complete its work, for, according to a Rome dispatch, an army of 900.000 Russians is marching into central Poland, followed by another army cf 2.000m, while a third army, also aggregating 2,000 000, Is

coming from more distant regions and

will reach the front in October. It is said Russia will soon have 7,000,000 men on the move. Britain Out $166.500,000. Calculations based on official returns show that the cost to Hritain of 43 days of war, continuing from August 1, when disbursements began, has been about $166,500,000, or at the rate of $3,870.000 per day. Announce Fall of Maubeuge. Herlin has officially announced that the fall of Maubeuge took place on September 9, w ith 400 guns and 40,000 prisoners. Three Nations May Join War. Dispatches from Europe received in official quarters at Washington contain information indicating that the grtat struggle in the eastern hemisphere is entering upon a new and much more serious phase. Italy has decided to join the fray on the side of the allies at the moment deemed most opportune for striking a decisive blow and in preparation for the movement is rapidly mobilizing its army. Turkish officials are in Herlin negotiating the terms upon which the Ottoman empire will throw its support to Germany and Austria Etoamania has given an official reply to Turkey, which indicates that it is likely to get into the fight on the side of the triple entente Battle on the Occam There has not been a gun fired in the North sea for days, so far as the British public knows, but tho admiralty issued bulletins of important encounters in far off waters. Successes and misfortunes were both chronicled impartially. The German protected cruiser Koenigsberg caught the Hritish light cruiser I'egasus overhauling its machinery in Zanzibar harbor and attacked and completely disabled it. The Hritish lost heavily and the Kocnigsberg was able to steam away. The Hritish less is given at 25 killed and SO wounded. The German cruiser Emden captured six British merchant steamers i'i the Hay of Bengal in six days and sank tivo of them. The Emden reappeared at Rangoon, possibly having taken part in other exploits, as yet not known. On the Hritish side of the score was thfl sinking of a German merchant (raiser, believed to have been tho Cap Trafalgar, by the former ( unard liner Garmania. Tin- British loss was smaU - nine killed and :'; wounded. The German loss is unl nvvn, but tho survivors were rescued. German Losses Are Heavy. A casualty list, made up largely of the losses of a few regiments, was made public in Berlin. Of the 6,IL; casualties reported. :;,!;; of them tall to l." battalions of right regiments. The One Hundred and Thirty first reg. Imant reported 1,141 casualties, six of its officers were killed and L': wound ed. The one Hundred and Thirty-second infantry reported :v2 officers and ran men killed, wounded or missing. The Tenth Grenadiers lost L'O officers and sju men. and one battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh infantry had eight officers killed and llv wonndad. Ulster Volunteers Enlist. The London Morning Host correspondent at Belfast wires: "The flow of recruits from the Ulster volunteer force to the new army continued last week, the total for two weeks up. to last nig'at being in round figures ovtr nine thousand. Belfast naturally contributed the larger portion, recruits from the city numbering about 5,600.' Russians Advance in Galicia. In a dispatch to the London Times a correspondent at Petrograd says: "Near Sandomir, iiussian Poland. tle Russians have again defeated the broken remnants of the Second German landwehr corps under General Woirsch. Here, evidently, the Austrians had prepared to cross the Vistula river." Famed Cathedral Razed. The French minister of the interior, Louis J. Malvy, announced today that the famous cathedral of Notre Dame at Ratal had been destroyed and all tta other historic and public buildings ither laid in ruins or seriously dam1 - d during the bombardment of Keims by the German artillery.

Bluffton. Mrs. Henry Carrier, nftyfive years old. was struck by a (Mover Ieaf train when an umbrella obscured her view, and died a few hours later Crawfordsville. Mr and Mrs. Gilbert A. Eldredge of this city have arrived home from an interrupted tour of Europe. They were marooned in the war zone for some time. Marion The largest Sunday sc hool convention in the history of this city ill be held here at the First Christian church September 30, when 115 schools of Grant county will be represented. Rochester. Because Nat Squirt t Minnesota citizen, who was vteitin here, did not know that he had to have a lieense to fish, he paid $19.50 in a justice's court here for angling in Lake Manitou. Newcastle Her. W. R. Motley, Prohibition candidate for congress from the Sixth district, is expected to withdraw from the ticket because he ha accepted the pastorate of the Central Christian church at Richmond. Evansville. Members of the Vanderburg County W. C. T. C. at their annual meeting here, avoided the subject of European peace, members asserting the subject would be left for action by the union as a whole Jeffersonville. Charleston, w hion has been "dry' for six years, became "wet" when the county commissioners granted a liquor license to Conrad Kahle, formerly a saloonkeeper, after a hearing on a remonstrance. Jeffersonville. At the reunion here of the Eighty-first Indiana Volunteers Veterans' association. Joseph G. Snider of this city was re-elected president, John A. H. Owens of Charlestown waa made secretary. Next year's meeting will be held at Scottburg. September 19. Bloomington. Ruth, the five-year-old daughter of Harry A. Axtell. narrowly escaped death when she was attacked by a pet deer at the Axtell home. The animal knocked her down and continued its vicious attack until clubbed off by Mr. Axtell. Mr. Axtell has a herd of nine deer at his suburban home, and this Is the only one that has ever shown any indication of viciousness. Greensburg - Fifty five survivors attended the reunion here of the One Hundred and Twf ity-third Indiana regiment. Officers elected are as follows: President, George V. Daniels. Marion; first vice-president, .Tarne B. Smith. Fairmount; second vice president. Hugh Weston, Fairmount. third vice-president, Enoch Hewitt; chaplain. Rev. Jesse Miller; secretary, William S. Kaier, Glenwood. Marion was selected as next year's meeting place. Rochester. Charles P, Benell t of Indianapolis, deputy grand master of the Masonic lodge, was a guest of honor at a banquet of Rochester bul., No. 79, F. and A. M., at which past masters' jewels were presented to 11 of the IS living former masters. The Rochester lodpc was founded in IM and has hud 3 masters. Arrangements are now being made to build a handsome clubroom as an adjunct to the Masonic temple here. Shelby ville. Lawrence L. Brown, a drug clerk, was fined $20 in tlw court of Mayor fi hoelch for selling a half pint of whisky on Sunday to Landy Williams. Brown entered a plea of not guilty, but later allowed the mayor to find him guilty. The fine was paid. When Brown wa arrested the charge was selling without a prescription, but this was dismissed and the fine was imposed for the sale of intoxicants on S tin day. Portland. When his team became frightened t a pa sni fr.un Melvin Wright of near I'enuville was thrown from his wagon, dying of a ruptured blood vessel a f.-w minutes after. With his wife Wright was driving home behind a spirited team attach d to a spring wngon On th outskirts of town Mm- hordes suddenly veered as the train approach-d. thron Ing Mrs. Wright to the street and dashing Into a side street and into tree Wright was thrown Glinst tin tree and his chest was crushed Mrs Wright was uninjured Evansville. Two girls not death here as a result of gasoline e plosions. Emma Keown, fifteen eurs old, a charge of the orphan asylum, who has been given a bom.- bv Albert C Voss, a bank cashier, poured gasoline into a stove, mistaking it for kerosene. Members of the Voss 'amiljr. who heard the explosion, ran to the outhouse, where the explosion oc curred. and found the girl's clothing afire. She inhaled the flames and died Beulah Gibbs, twenty-ono yean old. clerk in a West side department store, in cleaning and pressing a skirt at her home used a gas iron that set fire to a cup of gasoline The blazlug liquid ignited the girl's clothing and she ran from the house a living torch. Neighbors extinguished the flames, but she died a few hours later Anderson. Ralph TV Clark, pretldent Of the Indiana Retail Merchants association, has announced that the association has employed A V MrKland as state organizer, ith head quarters In Indianapolis Mr Mt Kland was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma City, Okla.. and increased the membership to loo Anderson - Henry Harr, fifty eac old. a former convict, was arrested in Alexandria as the man who obtained several dollars In this elty by selling peaches at one dollar a bushel and then falling to deliver the fruit Barr denies the accusation.