Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 December 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher.

JASPER INDIANA Bay goud morning and say it pleasantly. Hush money does more talking than any other kind. i You may not love him, but you can't really hate a fat man. No Ei meralin, an army's wings aro not always used for flight. The censors seem to think that tie pen may defeat tho sword. It may be that Sherman didn't say It, but everybody else has said It Sunday seems to he set aside for worsnip and automobile accidents. Wife abandonment is infamous, but sometimes it is lucky for the wife. After buying a bale it might be well to take the change and buy an apple. Current styles make some curious disclosures cf feminine ideas of what is charming. ' The headline writers continue to display marvelous skill in handling their forces. "The line's busy" is the answer all the way from Switzerland to the English cha inel. There is a lot of good in the old world," as the making of homes for homeless boys proves. Speakii g of algebra helping the cooks thoy ran let x equal the unknown oysters in tui stew. The old-fashioned man who wound his watch with a key now has a son who rides in a self-starting automobile.. Perhaps the country has so long been wearing cotton masquerading as wool that the change will not be noticeable. There isn't mich in that argument about the saloon being the poor man's club, except that it keeps the poor man poor. Some people like the sound of a shower on a tin roof, but the musical ear prefers the patter of the rain upon the shingles. Chicago claims to have hotel waiters who make $1,000 a month. It also has some that try to make it in muc . shorter time. The lady who invented a surgical shirt with a slit down the sleeves evidently possesses a husband that patronizes a Chinese laundry. The American business man who UFf 1 to fret and fume because he couldn't gel to Europe in a day is now glad that the Atlantic ocean is wide. A California naturalist is ::uthority for the statement that skurtks like to be potted; but that is an instance where absent treatment ought to work just as well The packing houses in Chicago are working day and night for the first time in 18 years and still some people in this country cannot get enough to eat The edict has gone forth that the slit skirt is to go. and the suspicion is only natural that the movement In favor of discarding silk petticoats and hose for cotton is at the bottom of it. A girl can put in ten years acquir- !: ig culture. Hut that won't keep her from snoring when she is asleep. Edison has invented a telescope to write down what one says over the telephone. He should not be permitted to work on an invention to take down what one thinks when the line Is "busv." German soldiers at Breslau fired upon the planet Jupiter, thinking the luminary a Russian airship. The next thiug we will find the solar system ! -daring war for whe violation of its neutrality. There Is probably no truth in the report that certain ' bush league'' managers are thinking of feeding their players on beans next year in the hope that they will emulate the Boston Braves. Instead of building guns to have longer range than those Busy Herthas, why do not the allies enlist a corps of Federal league backstops to catch the Herman shells and thus prevent damage to fortifications? American ambassadors are not growling now about their places of r. idence providing the cellars are d i enough. Weiiesh y girls are knitting mittens for soldiers. But wouldn't it break a soldiers heart to get the mitten from a VdIe!ey tri rl T . The farmer who used to think it wasn't safe to live in a bouse that wasn't equipped with lightning rods Joy rides back from town every Saturday night in his motor car.

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SUNK B! BLAST Battleship Bulwark Is Blown Up j in the Thames, CHURCHILL TELLS SITUATION First Lord of true Admiralty Says England Could Lose Twelve Dreadnaughts and Retain Naval Superiority. London, Nov. 27. The British battleship Bulwark was blown up and sunk in the estuary of the Medw'ay river. Between 700 and 800 men were lost, including Capt Guy Belatar, her commander, and all her officers. Only 12 of her crew were saved. It is announced officially that the explosion was interior and originated in the ship's magazine. The disaster is the most appalling, with the exception of the loss of the Audacious, the British navy has suffered in the war. It is even more of a shock than the loss of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue at the hands of a single submarine iu the North sea, for the Bulwark was destroyed from within destroyed utterly and instantly. The men aboard her had not a fighting chance for their lives. Sinks in Three Minutes. The band was playing aboard the Bulwark. Near her were anchored several other ships. Alongside the Bulwark was a lighter. From it were being loaded over the side of the 15. 000-ton battleship fresh ammunition stores for her 12 inch and six-inch guns. Suddenly a terrific explosion occurred in the bowels of the ship. A great cloud of smoke arose, enveloping the Bulwark and shutting her from sight. A great white flash of fire streaked through the black veil; the smoke cloud thickened and rolled oi.tward and upward. Practically every pane of glass within three miles was shattered. Debris was scattered six miles. The Bulwark was built in 1S99. She was 400 feet long and 75 feet in the beam. She was heavily constructed with Krupp armor and carried the following armament. Four 12-inch guns, 12 rix-inch guns, 16 three-inch guns and six three-pounders. In rddition she carried two machine guns and four 12-inch torpedo tubes. She carried a crew of 800 men. Three British Ships Sunk. Herman submarines have sunk two more British steamships and a German mine has sent to the bottom a British naval collier, according to admission of the British admiralty. The submarine victims were the merchantmen Malachite and Primo. They were destroyed in the English channel. Their crews were saved. The Khartoum struck a mine off Grimsby on the south bank of the Ilumber. The collier's crew was landed at Grimsby. Churchill Seeks to Allay Fear. A supreme effort to allay th growing terror of the British people was made In an extraordinary speech !n the house of commons by Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty. He reviewed the operations of the British fleet in the war and contrasted the present and prospetcive strength of the British fleet with that of the German fleet, declaring new warships were being finished rapidly in England now that Great Britain could lose one drcadnaught every month for a year and still retain her present superiority over the Germans. Referring to criticisms of the admiralty's failure to utilize its submarines as effectively as the Germans had done, Churchill said the fact that British submarines had been unable to produce results on a large scale wa9 due to the "seldom offered opportunity to attack." MUST SERVE ALL ALIKE Railroads Must Furnish Sleeping Cars, Chair Cars and Dining Cars for Negroes. Washington, Dec. 1 Sleeping car. chair car and dining car accommodations must b furnished by railroads for whites and negroes alike. This, in substance, was the decision of the United States Supreme court in the test case of Oklahoma's "Jim Crow" law. which bars negroes from such accom modations The opinion was read by Justice Hughes and concurred in by Chief Justice White and Justices Holmes, Lamar and McKoynolds 919.000 AUSTRIANS LOST? Casucltles of Kaiser's Ally Said to Be 9O0.OC0 Men ana 19.000 Officers Since War Began. retrograd, Dec 1 On the basis of reports received in Petrograd from Hungary it is stated here that the Autro-Hungarinn casualtiej to date amount to 106,400 men and 19.000 officers Lincoln Aid Dead. Appleton. Wis. Dee I. Dr V H Graves, who drove Lincol. and Doug las on their memorable debating tour of Illinois, and the oldest veterinarian in the state, died at the Odd Fellows' hoj&e in Green Day, aged eighty live.

GENERAL F. C. BYERS

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General F. C. Byers is one of the leaders of the rebellious Boers in South Africa who thought they saw at this time ar opportunity to get revenge for their defeat by Great Britain In the conflict of some years ago. GERMANS FAIL TO AID PRUSSIANS IN -0IXMUDE Allies Prepare to Advance on the Banks of the Yser Reims Shelled Again. Paris, Dee. 1. The allied lines are now being advanced south of Ypres. It is declared here that a gradual withdrawal of the Germans is evident. British and French troops are pressing forward, occupying the abandoned trenches. South of Ypres, which is th ruins from the German bombardment, the allied advance has been cautious. Heavy artillery fire has been directed against the Germans under cover of which new trenches were occupied, but a general offensive has not yet been developed. London, Nov. 28. r resh efforts of the Germans to cut through the allies lines to the south of Dixmude and relieve the beleaguered Prussian occupants of that ruined ci;y have been defeated by the Franco-British forces holding this section of the front, according to official announcement from the war office at Bordeaux. The Germans directed two furious drives at the bridges which had been constructed by the British and Belgian engineers across the Yser at two strategic points and both were repulsed with ease by the defenders at the crossings. This is the first official admission of the French war office that preparations were being made for a forward movement from the Yser positions. The bridges were constructed for the purpose of transporting troops in great force to the right bank of the canalized river for the purpose of following Up the advantage which has been apparent to the allies for the past two days. Reims was bombarded by the Germans with vic.ent cannonading and in the Argonne there were sporadic attacks and counter-attacks between small detachments of infantry which attempted sallies from their trenches and were content with alternate gains and losses of never more than twentyfive yards. WAR TAX BILL IS IN EFFECT Luxuries, Transportation, Theaters, Banks, Brokers, Telegrams, Etc., Are Taxed. Washington, Dec. 1. The emergency war tax bill to raise $100,000,000 in revenue has gone into full effect. The provisions of the measure levying taxes on tobacco, beer and wine went into effect November 1. The other provisions include taxes on bankers, pawnbrokers, brokers, proprietors of theaters, including notion picture houses, owners of circuses and other shows; perfume, cosmetics, chewing gum and similar articles; commercial paper of all kinds, steimshlp tickets, parlor car seats and sleeping car berths, and telephone and telegraph messages where the charges exceed 15 cents. Stamps in denominations are to be affixed to these articles. SUSPEND RATE INCREASE Interstate Comrr.erce Commission Holds Up Railroad Freight Advance. Washington. Dec 1. Proposed increases in freight rates extending throughout the middle West and West, affecting many classes of freight, were suspended by the interstate commerce commission, po ding investigation Increases on coal, live stock, meats, hay and grain were suspended, as were elevator allowances at Kansas City and other terminal points Increases on fresh me. its from Neu York to St. Louis and East St. Louis also were suspend i! VERA CRUZ NORMAL AGAIN All laces of Business Reopened No Discrder Since Evacuation by American Troops. ". shtngton. Nov. 28.-All plac of iBCM at Vera Cruz have been re opened ud th ro has been no diso ! re since the evacuation by the American troops. Consul Canada re ported to the state department

ENGLAND DEMANDS THAT NORWAY AID

IN BAUIUTTACK Nation Refuses Use of City as Naval Base. ARMY TO CHRISTIANSAND Troops Rushed to Port to Defend Neutrality Sweden May Be Involved in European Conflict Has Defensive Alliance. Christiania. Dec. 1 England has demanded from Norway, for use as a naval base, the city and harbor of Christiansand, on the southern coast of Norway, such use to continue only during the war. This demand has been refused by the Norwegian government, and preparations are being made to defend its neutrality. Troops have been sent to Christiansand from all parts of Norway, and the defenses of the city are being strengthened. Will Draw Sweden Into War. If Norway's neutrality should be violated by England, Sweden also v.ould be drawn into the struggle, because of its defensive alliance with Norway. The people of Sweden also dislike the Russians. The significance of England's demand for Christiansand is believed to lie in her determination to force the German fleet to come out for battle from the Kiel canal, where it has lain sheltered ever since the war began. For this purpose Christiansand would be an ideal base of operations. SHOW HERRICK GREAT HONOR Retiring American Ambassador to France Furnished Special Train Filled With Flowers. Paris, Nov. 30. Cordial expressions of esteem marked the departure from here of Myron T. Herrick, the letlring American ambassador, who left for Havre on a special car accompanied by members of his family. They will sail for New York on the steamer Rochambeau. Sir Austen Lee, acting for the British ambassador, handed to Mr. Herrick a letter from Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister, thanking him for his services in behalf of British subjects. The French government had placed the special car at the disposal of Mr. Herrick and he was presented with a big bouquet of roses by a deputation of French army officers. So man flowers were receiver! that the private car was half filled. WINS FIGHT NEAR TAMPIC0 Carranza Men Defeated and Many Prisoners Captured by Villa's Troops. El Pa?o, Tex., Dec. 1. Local representatives of Provisional President Gutierrez of Mexico declared that following his triumphal entry into Mexico City, General Villa would take the field against the forces of General Carranza and Gen. Pablo Gonzales, latest claimant to the presidential office. A dispatch from General Gutierrez reports the defeat of Caranza troops nine miles from Tampico by a force led by General Torres and the capture of numerous prisoners and three machine guns. Zapata has not entered Mexico City personally, but has appointed a military autocrat to represent him. It is by the edict of this autocrat that the proscriptions are being announced and the hangings for political offenses conducted. RATE INCREASE IS APPROVED Terre Haute, Ind., and Similarly Situated Points Affected by Interstate Commerce Body. Warhington, Nov. 2$. Increases of about two per cent on freight rates from Terre Haute. Ind., and similarly situated points to destinations In Missouri river territory were approved by the interstate commerce commission. Protest had been made by the Terre Haute chamber of commerce and the Terre Haute Retail Merchants' association. A suspension of the increase was vacated by the commission and they will become effective December 15 "CALAIS NOV. 29 OR RETREAT" Germsn Colonel Captured by French Öfters Life if Above Statericr." Is Not True. Paris. Nov. 2S According to the Temps, a German colonel, a prisoner of war in Belgium, declared: "If we don't break through by November 29 the general staff has decided to retreat to the second line of defense In Bclgiutn If you Ii n d this untrue you may shoot me on November 20." Sam Langford Wins Bout. Los Angeles. Cal . Nov. 27. Asking no quarter and giving ncne. hand! i tipped by a lamed ankle and shoulder lug a stenn of foul fighting. Sam Lang ford of the hea?yweigbt divistuu knocked out Harry Wills In the four teenth round.

MISS DOROTHY !. MASON

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Among the most admired of the fair "rooters" at the Army-Navy football game on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, was Miss Dorothy I. Mason, the debutante daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Newton Mason. FORMER MRS. C. H. MACKAY IS MARRIED TO DR. BLAKE Ceremony in Paris Day After Physi cian Is Divorced Doctor Is Operating on French Soldiers. Paris, Nov. 30. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer, formerly Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, and Dr. Joseph A. Blake were married by the mayor of the sixteenth arrondissement, Passy. Doctor Blake's wife obtained a divorce in the United States on Friday. A little more than a year ago she sued the then Mrs. Mackay for $1,000,000, charging alienation of her husband's affection, but later the 3uit was dropped. Doctor Blake and the farmer Mrs. Mackay were married with a civil ceremony only. Neither desired a religious ceremony. Only the necessary witnesses were present. These were the Countess Henriette de Bonneval and Francis Riggs for the bride and Dr. Richard Derby, a son-in-law of Colfcnel Theodore Roosevelt, and Dr. Walton Martin, chief surgeon of Mrs. H. P. Whitney's ambulance corps, acting for the groom. The wedding was planned for next week, but occurred suddenly on account of the necessity of Francis Riggs leaving to join Mrs. Herman Harjes' field ambulance at the battle front. Until nearly two o'clock in the afternoon Doctor Blake was busy operating on the wounded at the American hospital. The mayor of the arondissement, who performed the ceremony, Doctor Bouillet, is a well-known Paris physician. The ceremony was sudden for the bride also. She had no time to change her costume, and went in ordinary blue velvet street attire. New York, Nov. 30. Dr. Joseph A. Blake's wife was granted a divorce from him in Connecticut on Friday on the ground of desertion. W. E. WILLIAMS IS WINNER Official Canvass Shows Democrat Defeated J. M. Davis by 1,733 Pfurality in Race for Congress. Chicago, Nov. 30. William ElzWilliams of Pittsfield, Democratic con gressman at large, was re-elected by j a plurality of 1,733 votes over J. Mc Can Davis, Republican, according to official returns from all counties in Illinois, which were available for the first time. Davis won on the unofficial returns by 3,250 votes. Discrepancies In the Cook county returns gave a net gain of 5,283 to Williams over the police figures. B. M. Chiperfleld, Republican, is the other newly-elected congressman at large, running ahead of both Williams and Davis. No other changes beside that for congressman at large were made. Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman's official plurality over Roger C. Sullivan is 17.258. SAY ALLIES LOSE 1,890,000 Berlin Asserts Russian Casualties Are 1,100,000. France 700,000 and England 90,000. Berlin, Nov. 27. An official estimate of the losses suffered so far by the allies follows: Russians, 1.100,000; France, 700,000; England, J0.000. No estimate was made of the Belgian losses. The figures above include killed, wounded and missing. Commemorate Battle of '6-i. Fraukliu. Tenn., Dec. 1. The fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Franklin. one of the bloodiest of the Civil war. was observed here by Union and Confederate survivors. Impressive exr vises were participated in by Qm D J. Palmer, commander of the G. A. R.. and Gen. Bennett Young, commander of the United Confederate Veteran.

I HOOSIER NEWS fj

I BRIEFLY TOLD fczs, Linton. A local option c been called for Stockton ction has township, outside of Linton. Canneltcn. Rev. Ernest Loo LeeBirchby, vicar in charge of St. Lukes Kpiscopal church here, has resigned to become rector of St. Paul's parish at Columbus. Anderson. Rev. O. B. Sarber of Indianapolis, who has been in missionary work for the Baptist church, has received a call to the First Baptist church here. Elkhart. J. E. Seely, seventy years old. turnkey at the city jail for seven years, has resigned because he has received an increased pension as a Civil war veteran. North Vernon. Miss Lena Mangold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mangold, was hurled 20 feet when the buggy in which she was riding was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train, but escaped injury. Petersburg. The house of Horace Rainey, six miles south of here, was destroyed by fire while the family was awaj The fire was caused by a defective flue. The loss was $1,000. partially insured. Franklin The stalls at the west side of the Johnson county fair grounds and the building for sheep and hogs were destroyed by fire, with 1,000 loss. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin. Anderson.--James Longnecker, fifty-seven years old, a factory employee, who has a wife and two children, was sentenced to two to twentyone years in the state prison, after he was found guilty by a jury of mistreating a fifteen year-old girl. Franklin. James Bertram, secretary of the Carnegie library commission, has notified the library board of this city that the application for an increased allowance for Franklin ha been granted, the amount being increased from $14,000 to $17,500. Lawrenceburg. Col. Fred Kinsinger of Peoria, III., has presented more than two hundred books to the Public library here in memory of his daughter, Ora. This is the largest single gift ever received by the library. Guilford. Thirty cars of a Big Four freight train went into the ditch near here, due to a broken rail, it is believed. For four hours trains were run into Cincinnati over the B. & O. S. W. by way of North Vernon. Jefferson ville. Preparations an t ing made to begin the manufacture of brick at the I I by the first of next year. The product at first will be used for the con-, j struction of a wall extension to take In the land bought from the Pennsylvania railroad. BIoomingTon. An almost unprecedented drought which has prevail, d in this section all fall was broken by a downfall of rain which began during the night and continued throughout the day. The local government gauge shows that the precipitation for this community is considerably below normal. Practically all of southern Indiana has been affected by the prolonged dry spell. Petersburg A large stock barn on the farm of William Hoover, eight miles west of here, was fired by a small forest fire that covered a tract near the barn. Twenty-five hogs, which had taken refuge in the barn were cremated. Much machinery and feed were burned. The loss is $2.000, with no insurance. Fire also destroyed the large residence of William Hensley, six miles south of here. The loss is $1,500. partially insured HammondThree men employed by the Standard Oil company at Whiting were fatally injured when a car being switched on a sidetrack jumped the switch and crashed into the gondola underneath which the trio were -making repairs. The gondola fell on the men and they were badly crushed. The injured are: I'eter JAf. Georee Paul and Andrrw Vlacha, They were taken to the Passavant hospital in Chicago Lafayetfo The second outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease in Tippe ?anoe county has been discovered by Dr. L Gallagher, federal Inspector, on the farm of Brue Taggart, four miles east of this city and a half mile from where the first outbreak was discovered a month ago. The di.-;as" is amone a drove nf 45 -M " w w m " swine and 15 died in 24 hours. The federal inspectors say it is the greatest mortality list since the outbreak m 1 . UM was uncovered at ."Mie. Mien. South Bend A charge of embezzling more than two thousand dollars caused the arrest here of Boyd M. Cox, proprietor of the B M. ( ox piano house, one of the largest musical establishments in this city. Cox Is accused by the Jesse French A Sons Piano company of Newcastle, and is held on a charge filed in the circuit court here. H ? was released under bond of $1,000, and will have a preliminary hearing before Judge Walter A. Funk. Greencastle. Dr. L. J. Rettger. head of the department of physiology of the Indiana State Normal: Mrs. Julia j Fried Walker of Indianapolis, super intendent of kindergarten work, and Prof. L. R. Eckhart. head of the philosophy department of DePauw university, w,re the speakers at a meetint; of the Putnam County Teachen association held here. Grind View Two warehouses owned by the Cadiek Milling company, and containing more than flvo thousand bushels of heat and flour, vere destroyed by fire. Tt loss la Covered by insurance.

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