Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 November 1914 — Page 7

WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER JAMES W. WADSW0RTH. SR. OF CREADNAUGHT WHILE AT FRONT Era! Correspondent Tells How Audacious Went Down. WAS PROBABLY TORPEDOED mm Famous English Soldier Succumbs to Pneumonia. GEN. FRENCH WIRES NEWS

INER SAVED GREW

LORD ROBERTS DIES

Witness to Sinking of British Warship Says Vessel Had Hole in Stern and Later Her Magazine Exploded.

New York. Nov 16. The following letter from an International News Service correspondent on board the Olympic gives details of the disaster to the British super dreadnought Audacious: "Tuesday morning soon after breakfast, as we were off the coast of Ireland but not in sight of it, we saw four ... .9 or live miles away a nntisn nreaanaught, a cruiser and a torpedo boat. We made toward it and found H. M S. Audacious flying signals to us to staud by that she was sinking. "Waf w re breaking over h Iff ufter docks. In the rough sea she Mil' 1 tu b going down by the BteTB with a heavy list to port, as if she had been tori I d on the port Hide. Wave Overturns Boat. ' After 'Vf ry heavy sea water broke over her side a miniature waterfall. The whole crew of 960 men were on deck, all standing as erect as ninept&S, il.ose at the stem with waves breaking over their feet. "All our boats were lowered and manned and sent off to take the crew from the Audacious. "The battleship launched one of her own boats full of men, but a huge wave dashed it against her side, capsizing the boat. All the men were picked up in no time by small boats from the cruiser and the destroyers. Meanwhile the Audacious was making effort to get v heavy cable to the Olympic. "The whole afternoon was spent in trying: to fasten a cable to the Audacious. We had found the sinking battleship Just after breakfast p .d it was now getting dark. More than three quarters of the crew of the Audacious had In the meantime been taken off to the cruiser and a ?unbOfti, wt ich was also hovering near. "Abf-i: two bund rod mMi remained upon the Aldacious- all on deck wait- , Ing calmly with a little knot of ofH.-ers 'inder the signal flag fluttering from her only mast, and the great battle -hlp s 'I'mingly getting lower and lower Kb the water, while everybody was waiting helplessly "This was the sight until the last vestige of light was gone. Perfecl discipline seened to prevail en all the hlps. "After dark the rest of the crew vere taken off the Audacious and put aboard the cruisers and destroy CM to await morning and a salvage crew summoned from Liverpool by wireless. He all wondered if the stricken battleship would survive the night. Magazine Explodes on Warship. "Th Olympic got under way and was Koing at leas than half speed when the greatest noise I ever heard in my life made us all nearly jump out of our skins. "A huge red semi-circle of lurid light at least 1.000 fret in diameter flamed from the skies astern of us and In ibout thirty seconds all was Mack again. The Olympic crept slowly on without stopping. 4 It seemed obvious to every one on board that the magazine of the splendid udacious, one of the greatest bau ..fiihlps in His Majesty "s navy, had blown up and 112,500,000 had gone to tne bottom, nut l do not D neve a single life was lost. The officers of the Olympic were stricken dumb on the subject of the Audacious. I ne disaster is aunouieu to a mine; at least that was the w rd given the Olympic when she was sum moned to the dread naught 'a help, hut the underground gossip attributes the feat to a submarine. 8 GERMAN FLYERS KILLED Kaiser's Birdmen Are Riddled With Shot When Th.?y Pursue Foe Over Trencher. London. Nov. 14 Details of a thrilling encounter in the vicinity of Ypres between eight aeroplanes, four eCirman, two French and two Hritish. were received from Paris. The tlerman machines were finally destroyed by artillery fire and the eight officers they carried were killed. Th French r nd Pritlsh aeroplanes arose to .eet the M-rmans as they flew over the allies' lines, and for some time the machines circled about one another, while machine guns scattered bullets about them Then suddenly the four allied aeropl-jnes made a swift dash toward their own trenches and were followed by the lermans. who too late discovered the feint and perceived the perils of the situation only when shrapnel burst about them. In a few minutes the four German aeroplanes crashed to earth Newlands Re-Elected Senator. I arson City. Ne.. Nov. U. OpS plete returns from IC of the 16 counties in Nevada, and unofficial returns from the remaining three, Indicate the re-electior, of United States Senator Francis (. Newlands, Democrat, over Samuel I'latt, Republican.

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Willidm Rockefeller, one of the former directors of the New Haven road, as he apeared in New York when he pleaded not guilty to the indictment of conspiracy to monopolize the transportation facilities of New England. His bail was fixed at $5,000. GREAT YIELD OF CORN SHOWN IN CROP REPORT Increase of 250,000,000 Bushels Over 1913 Valued at $1.885.867,324. Washington. Nov. 11. The corn yield in the United States was placed at the enormous figure of 2.705,692.000 bushels in the estimate issued by the department of agriculture in its November crop report. Although the crop was reported injured from drought, chinch bugs and other detrimental cause, comparison with that of 1911 shows an increase of about 250,000,000 bushels over that of 1913. This brings the predictions of agricultural experts for a bumper crop of corn In the country up to expectations. Comparative gains are shown in other crops, the yield in wheat being HI, 950,000 bushels for 1914, as compared with 76.1.380,000 bushels for last year. Oats gained a few million bushels, the figures being 1,139,741.000 for 1914 and 1,121,768,000 for 1913. Barley and rye showed large gains, while cotton come relatively close in the figures, the gaiu being about 500,000 pounds. Although not so great in volume, the corn crop of the year is believed to be the most valuable ever grown in tho United States, because of the European war. On November 1 the average price being paid to the farmer for his crop, was 69.7 cents a bushel. Figuring on this basis, tho value of the entire jrtoM of tho country' would te S1.SS5.S67.324. HUGH SCOTT WILL HEAD ARMY President Wilson Selects Him as the Successor of Major General Wotherspoon. Washington. Nov. 14. Urig. Ocn. Htmh Scott was selected by President W ilson to be chief of staff of the United States army upon the retiroBtent next Monday of Major General W tlicrspoon. Tho vacancy of major general created by General Wotheripoon'i retirement will be filled by the nomination of Hrig. Gen. Fredcrick P Kunst on. Secretary Garrison said .'or the present General Funston would -emain at Vera Cruz, indicating that the stay of American forces at the Mexican port still was indefinite. Hrig. Gen. Tusker H. Hliss will become chief of the mobile rmy division, and upon the retirement of Major General Murray on April 19, 1915, General Scott will be appointed a major general. SANTA CLAUS SHIP SAILS More Than 1.200 Tons of Clothing and Food and Toya to Cheer up War Victims. New York. Nov. 16 With more than 1JM tons of Christmas gifts from the P ople of America a Santa Claus ship, the naval collier Jason, sailed for Kurope. A message of godspeed from President Wilson was received by Lieut. Commander C. F. Courtney, U. S. N.. shortly before sailing time. The docks as thf ship cast loose its lines were black with thousands of school children. The gifts that the Santa Claus ship carried were gathered from very state of the union. They include almost ever jrthlni from toys and dolls to clothing and food. Drop Bombs on Antivari. London. Nov. 16. Two Austrian aeroplanes dropped five bombs on Antivari. Montenegro, according to a Cet tinje dispatch to Reuters Telegraph company. One exploded In front of the residence of the crown prince, breaking the windows.

Field Marshal Was in France to Visit His Indian Forces on Battle Line Warned Nation of War With Germany.

London, Nov. 16. Field Marshal Karl Roberts is dead in France :rom pneumonia. A telegram from Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the Hritish expeditionary forces on the continent, appiised Karl Kitchener, secretary of state for war, of the death of England's great soldier. The telegram read : "I deeply regret to tell you that Lord Roberts died at eight o'clock in the evening." The place where Britain's aged hero died is not known definitely. It is supposted to have been somewhere along the Helgian-French frontier, where the Hritish have been fighting for weeks. Left to Visit Indian Troops. Field Marshal Roberts, who was colonel-in-chief of the Indian troops, had gone to France to give them his greeting. Soon after his arrival he became seriously ill. He suffered from a severe chill on Thursday and pneumonia rapidly developed. His great ego eighty-two years militated against his recovery, the crisis in the disease coming quickly. He was the most popular military figure In Great Hritain and a national hero without rival in the affectior of the people. During the last five or six years, When the German war cloud had been growing. Lord Roberts prosecuted an active campaign to persuade the nation to adopt a compulsory military service. In his last speech to parliament he warned the nation of the danger of a war with Germany. Breast a Blaze of Medals. The brilliant record of achievement of Lord Roberts, England's greatest and most popular soldier, was written mblematically in the medals and honors which he wore in a perfect blaze on lis breast when he attended the royal levees at St. James' palace. Frederick Sleigh Roberts was born September 30, 1832, at ( awnpore. India, while his father, Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, was conducting ono of the Indian campaigns. His father owned an estate in VVaterford, Ireland, and his mother came from Tipperary Hi was very young when sent to England to be educated. There he was graduated from Eton. Sandhurst and Addiscombe. It was in Delhi that his career of glory began, perilous though it was, and often all but cut short by the bullets, shells and sabers of the Sepoys. ' "herever the fighting was hottest young Roberts was pretty sure to be in great evidence. Wounds he recovered from and fevers he defied. Married a Captain's Daughter. He became a lover, and he courted as he fought resolutely, determinedly, with no thought of defeat. On May 17. 1859, he married her Kora Henrietta Bews, the daughter of a captain. She gave him two daughters and one son. The latter was killed in the Hoer war. Two years ago he retired to private life, hut when the European conflict began his war spirit was reawakened and he hastened to the side of his huge friend. Lord Kitchener. Lord Roberts died possessed of more than $1.600.000. thanks to his trust In his Me&d, J. J. Hill, the American railroad wizard. "Hobs." with no desi re for riches for himself, for he would rather live in an army post than in a palace, hut with a thought for his children and their children, placed his entire fortune- $280.000 la Mr. Hill's hands and told the latter to do his best with It. That was just rrior to the Hoer war. 0LDFIELD WINS LONG RACE Makes Best Time In Los Angelas Phoenix 673-Mile Auto Run -Nik-rent Lands Second. Phoenix. Ariz., Nov 13.Looking like a heathen idol made of mud, Darney Oldfleld drove his Stutz into the fair grounds here, winner of the 673mile automobile race from Los Angeles on elapsed time. Louis N'ikrent. No. S, was second; Heaudet. No. :. third. Hramlette, No. 10. was beaten out of fourth place by V C. Durant, No. 2. The running time from Los Angeles was as follows: Oldfleld, 23:01:35 2-5; N'ikrent. 23 : P: : 56 2-5 ; Beaudet. 25:05:23 4-5; Durant. 26:01; Rramlette. 28:20:40 1-5. Nikrent was first into the fair grounds at 3:39:21 p.m. Bramlette followed at 3:52:21. and Oldfleld was third at 3:56. Heaudet came in a minute later and Durant trailed In at 4:35. All the racers were incased in masks and garments of mud hurled up from rain-soaked roads by their car wheels. Wants Babes Named Emden. Cleveland. 0 . Nov. 16. The Waechter Anzeiger, leading German dally, urges that all tierman children born on Nov. 10 be named "Emden" to commemorate the sinking of the German cruiser Emden.

James W. Wadsworth, Sr., former member of congress and father of the newly elected successor to Elihu Root as United States senator from New York, is said to have won $75.000 on his son's election. It is also said his winnings will be placed to the credit of the child which is soon to come into the household of the young senatorelect. PRESIDENT REBUKES A NEGRO DELEGATION Wilson Objects to Tone of Spokesman in Protest Against Segregating Races. Washington, Nov. 13. In a heated, sensational manner negro delegates from the National Independent Equal Rights league demanded from President Wilson the abolition of Begregatiou in the government departments and received a sharp and pointed rebuke from the chief executive. The president made a lengthy address to the negro delegates, beginning by rebuking them tor dragging politics into the Question and saying that if they had made a mistake in voting for him they ought to vote against him. He said it was a human end not a political question that confronted them, lie baid he had not sought the presidency of the United States. Ho added that his present burdeus were almost too much lor human Been to bear. Shortly after this point in his address W. M. Trotter, tho spokesman, began to interrupt the president and question him about various points ho had made. The president declined to submit to this, saying that Trotter evidently was trying to put passion into his questions and that ho was speaking to him, Woodrow Wilson, the man, rather than the president of the United States. The president then rebuked Trotter In the manner stated above. The president declared that he believed the interests of the negro would be best served by making him independent of the white race. He said the segregation was undertaken to avoid friction and trouble between tho two races, and that no matter how much they might deplore prejudice existing between the white and the negro they must take into account the fact that it exists. The problem cannot be dealt with in a sentimental, but a practical way. he added. MAY END WAR IN MEXICO Leaders Agree on Armistice and Will Attempt to Settle Dispute Without Fighting. Mexico City, Nov. 16. Prospects of effecting a solution of the constitutionalists' factional disputes without warfare were declared to bo favorable as a result of an announcement by den. Lucio Hlanco that the supporters of General Carranza and General Villa had agreed upon an armistice until Nov. 20. On that date, he said, the Aguas Calientes convention will convene again to reconsidergthe election of Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez as provisional president. Enthusiasm is rife here as a result of dispatches from Washington stating that the American toops will be withdrawn from Vera Cruz on November 23. Arrangements for a great celebration and parade are being made. ANNUAL REPORT ON CANAL Governor Goethals Says the Cost of . the Panama Waterway Stands at $353,559,049. Washington. Nov. Iß. At the close of the last fiscal year, June 30. 1914. the cost of the Panama canal stood at 353.:59,049.69. according to the annual report of Col. George W. Goethals. governor of the Canal Zone, made public here. The figures include the appropriation of August, 1914. and the collection and return to the treasury of more than $6.250,000. Another Interesting feature of the report is the paragraph telling of the planning of the permanent town of Balboa. French Mayor Killed in Battle. Paris. Nov. 16. Deputy Edouard Nortier, who was mayor of NeuMly. has been killed In the flgnti ,g at Ypree.

How the Chief Justice Finally Gained Entrance WASHINGTON. It was the voice of the chief justice of the United States There was no response. The chief justice stood before the huge, bronze, barred doors of the Pan-American building. The cfeteC justice waited in di nified silence for the doors to be

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were to give reception in that very building to the members of the American Uar association, and the reception was scheduled to begin in a few minutes. The chief justice merely shouted: "Open up." Somebody snickered, but nobody answered the summons. The Associate justices grew uneasy and shifted from foot to foot. Inside, through the bars of the big bronze doors, was a scene of light, and cheer. Men in evening garb stood chatting gayly, awaiting the arrival of the Supreme court. The chief justice looked about for a knocker. There was none. Ho peeped here and there for a door bell. There was none. Suddenly he discovered he held a cane in his hand. He raised the cane menacingly. Once again his order rang out in the night air: "Open up." Hang! Hang!! Hang!!! It was the ferrule of the chief justice's cane against that valuable plate glass Instantly there was a commotion inside. No less than half a dozen uniformed servants dashed toward the door to save that plate glass. Put the chief justice did not see the commotion and his cane banged loudly against the plate glass until it seemed the glass surely must yield and shatter into bits. Then, the glass doors were swung open, the bolts on the bronze doors were shot, locks were turned and wide swung the great bronze doors to admit the chief Justice of the United States.

Chief Little Bears Promises to Remain Neutral THE secretary of the interior has received a letter from Little Pears, the chief of a roving band of Indians known throughout the far West as the "Kocky Mountain Hoys," in which he gives assurances to the federal government that "his forces will remain ab

solutely neutral during the present war In Kurope." Newspapers are not delivered regularly in the neighborhoods which Little Bears frequents. and it seems evident that somebody with high ability in descriptive language must have told him about the quantity and quality of the fighting now going on. Little Hears has a loeal reputation as a man unafraid of anybody in the world, but it eppeere

t hat he is not ignorant of the flmlttf tions of his own forces: he must have been thoroughly impressed with tlui BCale of the European war, for he lost no time in sending his letter to Washington. It is said that Secretary Lane immediately submitted the communication to President Wilson, w ho asked that Little Hears be thanked for his patriotic attitude. That a roving band of North American Indians should be so deeply impressed by the kind of lighting which goes on day after day on the Kuropi n battle grounds is pretty strong evidence that the ordinary noncombatant living in Washington, for instance, has full justification for his attitude of blank dismay at the enormity of the field operations.

Just as Easy as Burying a Politician, Said Taft FORMES PRESIDENT WILLIAM H TAFT proved the other day that ne has lost none of his physical strength in the time he has been away from Wushington. Mr. Taft was Honored by the Chevy Chase club, which purchased an oak tree to be planted by

Mr. Taft thanked the members of the club for the honor they had bestowed upon him, and declared he was happy upon his return to Washington to find that he had not been forgotten by his associates while here. During his administration Mr. Taft spent a great deal of time at the Chevy Chase club, where he was seen regularl) upon the links. ' The Chevy Chase club, ' he said, is doing a vast amount of work for which it is not given credit." His remark that the expansive grounds offer a safety valve to politicians who cannot give expression to their sudden emotions in public places" brought a chorus of laughter.

President Wilson Has Supplanted Niagara Falls FOR many years it was customary for Englishmen on meeting an American tourist for the first time to open the conversation with: "From America, eh? You must be very proud of your Niagara falls?"

This was considered quite the proper thing, and highly complimentary, since Niagara falls was the only thing that England did not have which excelled anything America had, in the liritishers opinion. Ed Kenna, former Missourian and former vice-president of the Santa Fe railroad, but a resident of France and England for the past 14 years, tells a new onp on the Knclihman. - - Kenna is a neighbor of Kipling in

Sussex, and the two are great friends. Kenna and Kipling were in conversation one day, with America and Americans for the theme. Something said by Kipling, who has a fondness for both, led Kenna to remark: "Yes, for years and years you Englisnmen, in the preliminaries folio ring an introduction to an American, would ask that question about Niagara falls. Now you say, on being introduced to an American: You must be very' proud of your Woodrow Y;!son, eh, what?' Woodrow Wilson seema to have succeeded Niagara falls in your estimation."

Senator Clarke of Arkansas is the fastest talfcer the United States senate probably has ever seen. When he speaks the stenographers bend over double and their hands lly from page to page like lightning. They tell a story' of an expert stenographer who was employed during a political rush. The stenographer was called in by the senator for a long letter. Several moments later he came out. He was perspiring freely. "I quit," he announced to the room generally, "when it comes to taking dictation from a gatling gun."

swung open, but the doors did not move. They were locked and double bolted. It was nine o'clock at night A chill breer.e blew :p across the Mall from the river, fanning the swallowtails of the chief justice's evening coat. All the associate justices of the Supreme court stood silently behind the chief justice, watching their chief hopefully. It was absolutely imperative that they gain entrance, for they

the former chief executive. The treewas five feet tall, and required a large space for the roots, but Mr. Taft handled the spade with ease, and it took him less than five minutes t level the ground after the oak had been placed in position. "Its as easy as burying a politician," he declared, as he smoothed the earth admiringly after the task had been completed. s7 f MX

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