Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 January 1915 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER

UN ED. DO A NE, Publhmtr.

JASPER

INDIANA

Wurm cases of

hearts aro cold feet

a consolation In

On the planet ToIIus at the present time the canals of Mars are trenches.

This Is the season of the year when

the outdoor sleepers get their money'

vorth.

FIRE AND DISEASE

MENACE VICTIMS

OF EARTHQUAKE

Death Total Is Now Estimated

at 40,00050,000 Hurt.

CAPTURED BY THE TURKS

The old fashioned man who used to

bo first up and last to bed is still on

the job.

100 TOWNS IN ITALY RAZED

ine uussky Invalid, it should be

explained, is a Russian newspaper and

not a sick soldier.

That eastern theater of war, with Its

fluctuating fortunes, has all the thrill

of a stage horse race.

inousanas or Persons Are Still Buried

Beneath Ruins Disaster Halts Call for Conscripts Aid Rushed to Stricken.

GUTIERREZ DÜSTE

runtvictt ntAD OF MEXICO SENT

AWÄY FROM CAPITAL UNDER GUARD.

MISS ANNA 0'GORMAN

GARZA IS NEW PRESIDENT

-Estimate of Quake Dead

öomeDody found a costly pearl in a cocktail Generally the investiga

tor finds a headache there.

Map showing location of Tabriz, Persia, taking of which by the Turks

gives them a base for new oDerationcs

against Russia. The Russo-Persian

S4t1M t A A

vund it, reoonea to nnve nn

if the little girls knew what men thh:k of them for daubing their faces with red paint they would change the color.

Official figures show that 357,598 pay income tax. But there are almost a hundred million of us willing to do so.

London, Jan. 18. A careful estimate

of deaths in the earthquake region of ticuMrly strong defenses.

Italy as received here is as follows:

Avezzano 11,000

Alba . 6,000 Sora 5,000

Pescina 4,000

San Benedetto 3,000

Magliano 1,300

Capelle 1,200

Scurcolo 870

par-

Lese

Castelliri

A Dublin nrofessor h

Greek version of "God Save he King." CaP0,acroce

i-ie snouio now try his hand at "Tip perary."

Deaths' in 60 other towns

at 8,000.

Total 40,887.

450

70

10

estimated

been recovered from the ruins there, and it is estimated that 30 more are

still beneath the debris.

The -town of Scurcola is now nothing

but a pile of ruins, beneath which are

buried hundreds of hodies. Of the

population of 900 only 30 escaped

death.

Leader of Northern Forces to. Uphold Chief and Moves His Forces to

Mexico City Cabinet of Convention

Government Is Abolished.

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luuAico uity, Jan. IS. Provisional

resident Eulallo gutierrez has been

superseaeo as head of the convention government by Gen. Roque Gonzales

barza, presiding officer of the conven4-: i i ,

tiuxi, wincu elected him provisional

president to serve until an election

shall be held and a president dulv se

lected by ballot. General Garza is

Known as a Villa adherent. Gutierrez Is Guarded.

venera uuuerrez left Mexico City

lor iJacnuca, accompanied by Generals Blanco, Robles and Jose Vasconcelos

as a body guard." These officers,

touea on ny General Garza ostensibly

as protectors of the deposed provision

al executive. HS n mnffa fnf

J L itlW.1. 111 act as his captors, in the sense that they are charged with

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WOMAN REFUSES OPERATION

Nearly the enl

If the German crown prince really thinks it's a stupid war he's going to

uts more popular with innocent by

Standers.

Miss Anna O'Gorman, second dauah-

ter of tlje senator from New York and

Mrs. O'Gorman, together with her

yOUnoer sister. Annnc morla u., ju..j.

tire population of San il ?TtS n aCt detriraental recently in Washington society.

sola 52 rhe towns of Ortucchio, with 2,400 in- no " 1 arza firs came into promia 37 hflwfafn .. ....;. nonce in a political sense when Iip

are in ruins. At Percina the number VHI ne U -nf" -r rranaof deaths is about four thousand. ? '".P,e"Ce COmnilsslon' which a'-

M, i ,,.imt,,. c "'i'teu io arrange a settlement be

tween the two leaders early last sum-

BERLIN CLAIMS ALLIES LOST 150,000 IN FIGHT

death- toll of

rocked Italy

Petrograd is wise. It sends out its

reporcs or victories early and before

too many hampering details are

brought to light.

T"-

ii.ven to the man who doesn't know

anything about poker, four kings on

tue nring line suggests something

like a royal flush.

Tim rr : i

piuiuaaiuum nagger, man or

woman, and the professional flirt, man

or woman, could be eliminated without being missed.

Rome, Jan. IG. The

the earthquake which

is estimated at 40,000.

From thirteen towns of possibly one

hundred that were completely demol

ished or partly wrecked come reports

of more than forty thousand dead.

The number of injured is placed con

servatively at 50,000, and the list is

growing hourly as the government dis

patches announce the names of towns which have been cut off from all communication since the shock. Thousands Buried in Debris.

Thousands of persons now have lain

which is approximately one-half of the

population. Villages Wiped Out. The entire population of Albafucenses also is believed to have perished, and out of 500 inhabitants in the village of Lese, 450 are said to be dead. King Victor Emmanuel, who returned to Rome from Avezzano last

night, personally superintended the

release of a number of such unfortu

nates.

The king reached the capital in his WILSON ORDERS WHEAT QUIZ

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private car, to which was attnohpri

mer. Villa Moves to Capital. The present cabinet of the convention government has been abolished. General Villa with all his men is entraining at Aguascalientes tc move immediately into the capital to sustain the new president and to straighten out the situation.

"Victory at Soissons Greatest Since Fight at Marne" Ailies Gain at Nieuport.

three coaches bearing 40 wounded.

Pope Benedict offered to the mayor of Rome the use of the hospital of

days beneath crumbled buildings la"ta Iarta; wllich lle Vlslted Thursughout the earthquake zone. Some 2 fhe ffer was acvM and its

ueus serve as a material relief for the difficult situation.

Soaring Prices Cause President Start Nation-Wide Investigation.

to

One must hope that the old-fash-4 n - 3 a

Juueu aunt wno used to knit red

woolen mittens has not become discouraged and quit.

for

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throughout the earthquake zone. Some " t 0KQT Was accented and its Washington, Jan. IS. Soaring wheat

are dead while others still are living r, serve as a maenal relief for prices and the threatened rise in the

Many have been removed from thP Ü uimuc situation. cost of bread caused President Wilson

wreckage and brought to Rome hos- Ixeports lrom Switzerland show that to order two federal inquiries intended

pitals for treatment or are beine eared , J as relt amonS the Alps, to determine whether conditions are

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v-.uocu uesLiuctive avalanches

there.

xaiK oi hunting trouble, consider

those two Frenchmen who walked

2,o00 miles, from Canada to New. York

to sail to join the army. fT" l

-i-esia announces an invention that

win end the war. In which case it is

flis obvious first duty to end it and

taiic about it afterwards.

for in their home towns in temporary

structures presided over by physicians

and nurses rushed from the capital and

other cities in- Italy.

Victims Die in Fire. It is believed many of those caught

in the wreckage were not injured but perished from cold and hunger or were

incinerated in fires which hrni mil-

amid the ruins.

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miuiuci uuoieu piooaniy was

largest at Avezzano and Magliano-Di-

Marsi, where fires started and there

due to natural brought about bv

economic the war.

causes,

or have tinue.

Berlin (wireless via Sayville), Jan IS. -Further details of the crushing of General Joffre's offensive in France, given out by the main headquarters staff, show that the French have lost 150,000 men during the last four weeks' furious fighting from Flanders to the Argonne. The Germans say they lost one-fourth as many men as the French have. The report declares the French were driven back from two to four kilometers (approximately three miles) :n the battle at Soissons, which las.ert a week, showing that this was the

beetle!, ouigiu viqcory acnievea on

the western front by the Germans since the retreat from the Marne. The official report follows: "In Flanders nrtilip

Tells How She Was Saved by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound. Louisville, Ky. "Ithinkif morwiffenng women would take Lydia E.

VVPinkham'fl Vegeta

ble Compound they would enjoy better health. I lufTered from a female trou

ble, and tho doctors decided I had a tumorous growth and would have to

be operated upon, but I refused as I do not believe in onera-

uons. I had fainting spells, bloated, and could hardly stand the pain in my left side. My husband insisted that 1 try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I am so thankful I did, for I am now a well woman. I sleep better, do all my housework and take long walks. I never fail to praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for my good health. "-Mrs. J. M. Resch, 1900 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Since we guarantee that all testimonials which we publish are genuine, is it not fair to suppose that if Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable Compound has tho virtue to help these women it will help any other woman who is suffering in a like manner? If you are ill do not drag along until an operation is necessary, but at once take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetablf Compound. Write to !Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., (confidential) Lynn, .Mass. Your letter wil be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence.

Cutting Down the Laughing Stuff. Yeast I see a new step-ladder that has six legs and cannot be upset, and clamps to prevent a cow kicking or switching her tail while being milked, has been patented. Crimsonbeak If they keep on there'll be nothing left for a fellow to laugh at.

WILSON IS A GRANDFATHER

been induced by the action of specula

tors seeking great profits. The president's first move was to direct Attor

ney General Gregory to start a nation-

Son Is Born to Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, V-L fnl t0 .fart a natln" Daughter of the President, at finvestlgat;n fr the PUrpSe f at flfifPr n n tier Ti'liöfVirt 1, l i

White House.

Thus far the mere man has" not been wa? no water to quench them-

able to discern that the styles are no longer made in Paris, the homemade ones being quite as ugly. ,

Why do not more of the sole manufacturers make shoes for men and women as prettv eranefni

Washington, Jan. 3 S. A son was

born at the White T-Tnnc0 fn tuv

-VHUU LVi 1111 J Francis Bowes Sayre, President Wilson's second daughter. Mrs. Sayre and the child were reDorted to Iip fin.

Avezzano apparently suffered most ing well. The boy weiehed spvpti

irom the disaster. Ten thousand per- a half pounds. Both mother and son

sons in that district are said to have are doing well, Doctor Grayson said

perished and the entire town has been President Wilson made no ffnrf t

leveled. conceal his inv whon w,,

j w, " "til iiuuilUCU lllclL

hour Thousand Killed in Sora.

'Near Blangy, to the northeast of Arras, we blew up a big factory and captured some prisoners. In the Argonne we have made some progress. "Heavv Eales anrl min imnnrJo fiorlif.

wumnun ul me antitrust laws, ine front "

orders followed the demand made by the executive committee of the Na-

Sora

and

Pescini each has 4,000

fortable as the footgear they turn out dead' wllile the fatälities at Ciosimarsi

-v-v.v.v tuiu O.L Oct ii ieiieaerin

for the children?

tue child was a boy and that Mrs. Sayre was well. His face was wreathed in smiles for hours afterward. It was his first

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tional Association of Retail Grocers for such an inquiry. Legislation giving the president power to stop the exportation of foodstuffs whenever necessary and other bills designed to lower prices were discussed informally here. Meantime officers of the National Housewives' league were planning boycotts and similar action against the foodstuffs affected.

The word from Toledo, Ohio, that tight skirts r.re going out of fashion will be quite satisfactory when evi

dence is furnished that Toledo dictate the fashions.

o,000. Numerous other towns report a the president had no boys of his own. GOV. BLEASE QUITS OFFICE

ucu-Lii tun ruiinmer i mm tmi tr

can

Instead of forever praying for things that would.be of doubtful benefit to us, how much better it would be to repeat from day to day, this simple sentence of gratitude. "Thank you, God, that we can help those who are down'

1 Somebody has revived the question, "Should women propose?" Probably woman would prefer to go on disposing, as she always has done.

One of Mother Nature's little puzzles is how the average cat, such as the neighbor's, can leave so many hairs on the automobile seat and still look about the same as usual.

more

than two hundred.

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m iiie scricKen districts the people are camping in the open. Troops are

guarding the demolished or partly de-

inoiisiieci towns to prevent looting. Caste distinctions everywhere have been laid aside and members of the nohility, senators, deputies and high officials are working shoulder to shoulder with private soldiers and laborers in their efforts to rescue the living or remove the bodies of the dead. Halts Military Call. A phase of the political situation in the kingdom resulting from the earth

quake is that the call for conscripts in

GERMANS ADVANCE ON LUBLIN Lcarns of Abanded Impeachment

nan just Before Filing His Res-

Penetrate 350 Miles Into Poland South of Warsaw; Win Russ Position After Fight.

ignation -Pardons 27.

London, Jan. 18. Great significance

is attached here to the statement

from the Petrograd war office that

the German army has penetrated as

far into southern Poland as Konop-

mca, one oi the outnosts of T.uhlin

Columbia, S. C, Jan. 15. Gov. Cole L. Blease, whose term of office expires January 19, filed his resignation with the secretary of state after granting clemency to 27 convicts. The resignation, transmitted to the senate, was immediately accepted. Lieutenant Governor Smith took the oath for the unexpired term. No rea-

A report On the fijyliHno- nf Sniccrmc

says the French have been driven back from two to four kilometers along the front of from twelve to fifteen kilometers in width. London, Jan. 18. The official bulletin issued by the French war office in Paris says: "We have continued to progress in the region of Nieuport and Lornbaertzyde along a depression about two hundred j'ards in length. Our artillery forced the Germans to evacuate their trenches in the Great Dune, de

stroyed Rodan, which lies to the north of the latter, and bombarded the enemy's works in this part of the battle front and to the south of St.

Georges."

The towns captured by the Germans are Cuffies, Crouy, Bucy-le-Long,

Missy, Vauxvot and Vailerie. The French suffered heavy losses in the

retreat that abandoned these towns

to the Germans.

GASGARETS" FOR LIVER, BOWELS

r

For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation.

Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indigestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let, your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv

ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, happiness and a clear head for months-. No more days of gloom and distress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forget the children their little insides need a cleansing, too. Adv.

.Lublin is 100 miles southwest of Wnr.

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saw. The statement tlmt Rn?nn w,i. öUU iUi LUU governor s action was given

-"-w-.wJAXiWI I. .

unteers compelled the OermnnQ to m 111S resignation, it was stated that

tho rino , i 11 ! retreat at Kononnica shows ihnt uovernor lease was told of a meet

v.A1IW&tw uiit; mis ueen rescinded i 1 ,

' v. vcu'iuaLcu oo, in litis lnro i -g

Poland. Another significant

nouncement is that of the

THREE BANK BANDITS TAKEN

Citizens of Andale, Kan., Aroused by

Telephqne Operator, Fight Desperadoes for Two Hours.

For motorists who smoke a new electric torch is equipped with a cigar lighter on one side.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says half tjie war poets have been shot. Few of the v;ar correspondents have succeeded in getting near enough to the fighting to incur the danger of such a fate.

Possibly that St. Louisan who demands a license for cats is an old bachelor who has lived for years under the threat of the annually proposed bachelor tax. But his is a mean revenge.

A ivew steel has oeen invented that

is of such strength that big guns can

not shatter it. Why not put a coat of it on the bottoms of nur rtr-ooH

naughts and laugh at foreign sub

marines i

A man has been arrested in Canada.

lor singing a German song. Some

mem in this country should be arrested

ror singing any kind of a song

The movement for better babies will

touch a responsive chord in flVftw

Other's heart who knows how noorlv

f other folks are in this respect.

The rule for cold baths laid down

y a medical journal which says they

ire good ror tnose who enjoy them md bad for those who do not, looks

sane and safe to the average layman.

oy the military authorities. Automobiles containing members of the Roman aristocracy left Rome at intervals throughout the day, carrying relief stores to the earthquake victims.

Page Offers Help. Thomas Nelson Page, American ambassador to Italy, asked Signor Salandra, the Italian premier, and Baron o ...

öonnmo, minister of foreign affairs, whether assistance from the United SWtes government, financial or otherwise, in aiding the people stricken by the earthquake would be acceptable. Twice before a similar offer has been made, but, while the Italian government expressed great appreciation they were declined. Ambassador Page was told that, owing to the international situation the Italian government had decided as a question 'of principle to abstain from accepting officially any foreign aid. As this will not prevent private initiative on the part of Americans or

other foreigners living

their friends at

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ing of some of the members of the leg- Andale, Kan., Jan. 'IS. Discovering

lsiature 1 uesnav ni? it whon nnnn-A frmv rnhhovc -Viiio timi.

nn. I o" " .vvji u- I u m a. u nunc lucj nciu IJI cUdf"

i ?r-. rr fr tt n m Vinrf 1- e I ?-- 1 , 1 ij j i -i .

cantnrp hv fa mcmwcio ui me cumerence, a iA1ö tu mectiv into tne DanK nere Ulara

the Russians of the pass of Kirlibabä PronosaI to institute impeachment pro- Dressell, aged nineteen, a telephone

in the Carpathians. ceeaings against tne governor was dis- I operator, called citizens to the rescue

cussed, but was abandoned. Blease

For genuine comfort and lasting pleasure use Red Cross Ball Blue on wash day. All good grocers. Adv. Art is long, but spot cash is what the artist longs for.

WHOLE FAMILY IS LYNCHED ZTZTZ!

ranting clemency in some cases just

.rase

m Italv .'-nd

home, Ambassador

ment with a view of ascertaining the best way of directing relief work. Embassy Staff to Scene. The staff of the embassy was sent in automobiles to Avezzano after the conference with the Italian premier There is reason to believe that only a few hundred persons out of the 17".

uuu wno uiiiauiiett bora have death or injury.

Loss in Other Towns. At Cappadocio all the houses are uninhabitable and the people are camping on the snow. Twenty bodies have

Two Women, Father and His Son. AI!

Negroes, Are Killed arivlonticello, Ga.

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before he sent in his resignation. Last

August Governor Blease was defeated in the senatorial primary.

TABRIZ

TAKEN

BY

Men Are Reported suit of Fleeing Russians.

TURKS

in Pur-

Atlanta, ua., Jan. 16 Dan Barber,

his son Jesse and Barber's two mar

ried daughters, Eula and Ella Charles,

negroes, were taken from the Jasper Sultan's

county 3ail at Monticello and lynched by 100 men. Their bodies were riddled with bullets. The lynchings resulted

uiuiiecuy irom a ngnt that recently Constantinople, Jan. 14. "Turkish

occurrea at Dan Barber's home, when troops have taken all the dominating

frontier positions of the enemv dur-

the last fortnight's fighting," says

an oinciai statement issued here.

Snow and frost are delaying opera

tions in the region of Olty and Arda

nan. Despite tue bad weather, the

Turks operating near Azerbaijan are

pursuing the enemy, having occupied

Tabriz."

J. P. Williams, chief of police, attempt

ed to arrest him on a charge of selling whisky without a license.

FRENCH SUBMARINE IS SUNK? Turks Claim They Destroyed French Craft Eight Transports Carrying Troops Sunk.

escaped

Berlin, Jan. IS. The Turkish official statement issued in Constantinople announces that the French sub marine Saphir, while trying to enter

the Dardanelles, was sunk by Turkish artillery Part of the submarined crew was rescued. Petrograd. Jan. IS Eight transports conveying Turkish, troops from Anatolia are reported to have been sunk by the Russian Black sea fleet

TWO MASKED MEN ROB BANK

Bandits Force Clerks Into Vault Jacksonville, Fla., and Get $2,C00.

at

Jacksonville. Fla.. Jan. 16. Two masked men. armed with revolver forced two clerks of the American Trust and Savings bank here into a vault and escaped with )M n casn

and precipitated a two-hour battle

which resulted in the flight of the band. Three of the robbers later

were captured by Wichita police, but

only after another running battle. One was wounded while attempting to

break from his captors.

Fresh supplj- Mrs. Austin's Bag Buckwheat now on hand at your grocers. Adv. New York has one skyscraper to every 600 buildings.

URGES EMBARGO ON WHEAT

Mrs. Julian Heath of New York Makes Appeal to President Wilson.

Washington, Jan. 16. A telegram reached the White house from Mrs. Julian Heath of New York of the Housewives' league, who said that, speaking for S00.000 homes, she urged President Wilson to place an embargo on shipments of wheat abroad, that the supply might be conserved to keep prices at a normal level in America.

JOHN E. PARSONS IS DEAD

Former Counsel of American Sugar Company Is Pneumonia Victim, at New York.

New York, Jan IS. John E Parsons, former counsel of the merican Sugar Refining company diod here.

aged eighty-five years P-th was caused by pneumonia Vr Arsons cvas one of th3 ifdr? - ;e so-

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