Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 March 1915 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER IN CO OCA NE, Pub.iiHr JASPER INDIANA

A couple Hut marries tor pite genemlly K1 tM it Sewing mines will never mend the International r nt With modern tango on tho tage, what's the use of furthr gymnastics there? The man who walks In the straight , and narrow way should be well bal ; anced Tho dove of peace finds it as hard to land on the waters now as in the days of Noah !n fhe. d'iys at:d times 11 man may se able to speak ten languages and still go hungry Why do women live longer than men? Certainly not because they have more birthdays. There la a bricht side to everything The war In Europe has put a atop to international marriages. The doctors some of them aay garlic will k.ep off rheumatism. Please pass the rheumatism. An English woman noveliat sayr, women are humbugs That's nothing new Few women think well of each other. Women can fight. A Russian girl put on trousers, enlisted, fought bravely in 19 battles, was wounded and discovered. A dish washing machine just invented will clean 18,000 dishea in an hour. Away with iL It is a breeder tf laziness. A contemporary wants to know the price of a woman's heart. It is not a fixed value. The price of a loaf of bread is a more pressing matter Just now. The perversity of human nature Is found In the fact that a chronic dyspeptic, placed in the war rone, would work up a pork and beans appetite in five minutes. If the food shortage becomes acute the Germans mty have to adopt a policy of shooing the Russians away instead of capturing so many of them as prisoners of war. There io one kind of man who will advise his wife to do whatever she thinks best, and then go round the place bragging that she always does what he tells her to do. There is a Mexican tribe of Indians which knows but 300 words. What show would one of those fellows have in the United States senate during a long debate, to get on to the first rage? Some people wait for business to get good. Others hustle. But this observation of course has no bearing on the fact that a New York undertaker's hearse ran down and killed two pedestrians. An eastern physician Is to the front with the advocacy of hot water as a remedy for snake bites. Now for the list of sportsmen who become bits tend from carrying around bottles of bot w ater in their nip pockets. It Is reported that nearly seventy per cent of the eo-eds of the University of California have flat feet. We don't know who made the discovery, cr how he did it: but e confidently affirm that he was mean to tell. Tl.e professor who taught a worm to turn to the right or the left as he directed must be a wonderful man. but even at that the chances are tht be can't steer an automobile. Rven at this early date the festive j book agent is abroad in the land with , "authentic histories" of the European j conflict, and the prospect of what is In store with the cessation of host Hitics Is enough to make a strong man i hudder Th Georgia court of appeals cava that a man may get drunk some time In his life and hla general character tili be good. This idea of allowing a man at least one legal jag ta on the order of the decision that every dog has a right to one legal bite. A bird census gives the population of birds at 60 pairs to the square mile and one pair to each acre of farm land Which affords the rath'-r peculiar quantity of 60 acres of farm land to the mile. The foretlghted man will prefer to buy land by the mile rather than birds, on that system of measuremenL Somebody has discovered that food prices are lower in milder weather. That they Invariably Jump In colder west her has Ion? been observed. Perishable products can be l;ept Irnger. A feminine theorlsL tth more en thuslasm than dear sight, declares that women cmild sH. war by marching out on the battlefield and standing between the men who are slaughter ing cm another. It sounds dramatic and thrilll.ig and Inspiring, the only difficulty with such a program is the twUratuatlc one that "it can't be did."

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SOME OF THE LARGEST BATTLE SHIPS IN FRANCO BRITISH FLEET LOST. 630 DIE ON FKENCH SHIP British Admiralty Admits Heaviest Blow of Naval War in Sinking of the Dreadnaught Irresistible. Ocean and Bouvet by Mines, London. March CO. The greatest : blow suffered by the allies on the seas ' since the war began was adminlstt red by the Turks Thursday, when drifting mines in the narrows of the Dardanelles blew up and sank three of the largest battleships in the Franco- j Turkish fleet while the ships were ' bombarding eight of the Turkish forts. The ships destroyed are the 15.000ton Hrlttsh second line battleship Irresistible, the 12.500-ton Hritlsh battleship Ocean and the 12.20;. ton French battleship BouveL In addition, the British dreadnaught cruiser Inflexible and the French battleship Gaulois 1 were damaged by the gunfire from the forts. Nearly every man of the 630 la the crew of the Bouvet was lost with the ship, but almost the entire crews of the Irresistible and the Ocean were saved. This tremendous loss was admitted In an official statement given out by , the admiralty. Official dispatches from Constantinople via Berlin, betide : from Constantinople via Berlin, be- : sides telling of the sinking of the Bouvet and saying the Irresistible was "put out of action." also claim that a British torpedo boat was sunk, but the English admiralty has not confirmed this fact. Sixteen Ships Shell Forts. The admiralty's statement Is as fol- j lows: "Mine sweeping has been in prog- j ress for ten days inside the straits, j A general attack by the British and French fleets was opened on the morn- j ing of the 1 Sth against the fortresses in the narrows. At 10:45 a m. the stiperdreadr.aught ; Queen Elizabeth and the battleships Inflexible. Agamemnon and Lord Nelson i bombarded forts J., L., T.. U. and V, j and the battleships Triumph and i Prince George bombarded batteries F., j E. and H. A heavy fire was opened ' on the ships by the enemy howitzers and Geld guns. Ships Fire at Close Range. "At 12 22 p. m. the French squadron, consisting of the battleships Suffren. Gaulois, Charlemagne and Bouvet. advanced into the Dardanelles and engaged the forts at closer range. Forts J.. V., F. and E. replied strongly. Their fire was silenced by ten battleships inside the straits. All the ships were hit several times during this part of the action. "At 1:25 p. m. all the forts ceased firing The battleships Vengeance. Irresistible. Albion. Ocean. Swiftsure and Majestic then advanced to relieve the six old battleships, which were inside the straits. "As the French squadron, which d enlaced the forts In most brilliant fjisbion. was passing out. the Bouvet was blown up by a drifting mine and mti In 3! fathoms of wafer north of the village of Aren Kios In less than thre? minutes. "At 2:36 p. m the relief battleships renewed the attack on the forts, which again opened fire The attack on the forts was maintained while the operations of the min sweepers continued. "At 4:09 p m. the battleship Irresistible quit the line, listing heavily, and at l:M m. sank, having probably struck a drifting mine. At 6 05 p. m the battleship Ocean also was struck hy a mine. Both vessels sank In deep water and practically the w-hole of their crews were removed to eafety under a hot fire Two Ships Damaged. "The Fronch battleship Oaulols was damaged hy gunfire. The British batttoahtp Inflexible was hit by a heavy shell, damaging her forward control position, which requires repair. "The damage to the forts effected hy the prolonged direct fire of the very powerful forces employed cannot yet be estimated The losses in ships was caused hv mines drifting with the current, which was encoun tered In areas hitherto swept clear. "The British casualties In personnel : were not heavy considering the scale of the operation, but practically the ' whole of the crew of the Bouvet was lost with the ship, an Internal explosion having apparently supervened the explosion of the mine. "The battleships Queen and Implacable, which were dispatched from England to rerlace ships damsged and casualties suffered In anticipation of this operntlon. are due to arrive 1m mediately, bringing the British fleet acaln to Its original strength. "The operations are continuing as ample naval forces are available. "On the ir.th Vice Admiral Carden. w ho had been Incapar Mated by Illness, was succeeded as chief In command hy Rear Admiral .lohn Michael Dernbeck, acting with the rank of vice-ad mlral." JAILED FOR PASSPORT FRAUD Richard Madden and Gustav Cook. :cnvlcted o Defrauding Government, Sentenced at New York. New Tork, March 20 Ulc'iard Madden and Gustav Cook, convicted of dfraudln the government by securing fals passport. -re semcncd to ten months to Ne.v York county prison Iu tho federal wurt here.

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xl rr rr Miss Anne Seymour Jones is the pretty daughter of Congressman and Mrs. W. A. Jones of Virginia, and her engagement to marry Lieut. Roland Hopkins of the field artillery has just been announced. No date has been set for the wedding, but it will probably be celebrated in June. NEGRO ARRESTED AS AXMAN SLAYER Police of Monmouth. III.. Bel. eve Score of Crimea Will Be Solved With Arrest of Black. Monmouth, 111 . March 22 The iolice of tili city hope that the mystery surrounding more than a score of "axman " murders, in whidi entire families have been slain in the last lour years, will be solved by the arrest of a negro giving his name as Lining Mitchell, who was captured iu a squalid shanty at I CM Chestnut street, St. Louis. Mo The negro, a giant in size, was arrested on the siecific charge of having slain William K Dawson, bis wife and three-year-old daughter. Georgia, as they slept In their home in Monmouth, September o0, mi. The similarity of the other crimes has led authorities to believe all were committed by the same man The long list of victims of the "axman's " mania includes 29 persons, and his slaying cover Illinois. Missouri, Kansas, low a and Colorado. U. S. LAUNCHES BIGGEST SHIP Pennsylvania Put Afloat at Newport News Has Twelvt 14-Inch News. Va . March IS. Moored to a pier at the shipyard here lay tiie giant red hull of the new battleship Pennsylvania the world's greatest fighting craft awaiting completion after her successful trip from the stocks to the waters of James river. Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania headed the distinguished company on the launching stand to see the Pennsylvania take the water. Miss Elizabeth Kolb of Germantown. Pa., named the ship and broke a bottle of chain pagne against the receding bow, after Episcopal Bishop Berry of Pennsyl vania had delivered a prayer. The main battery of the Pennsyl vania will consist of twelve 14-inch .45 caliber rifles, set on four turrets, three guns to a turret. Her tonnage measurement is 31. '.00. against 27. 5. 0 for the Quern Elizabeth. The latter, however, carries eight 15-inch rifles. .45 caliber, set two to a turret. SCOTT TAKES PIUTE CHIEFS Chief of Staff Brings Old Polk. TseNe Gat and Others of Gang Prisoners at Bluff. Utah. Bluff. T'tah. March 22 The Piute Indian uprising in I 'tali is over. Brig adicr General Scott, chief of staff of I'nited States army, returned here with Old Polk. Tse-Ne-Gat. and other members of his gang as his prisoners, (leneral Scott took the Indians single handed. The Indians surren-t-red to Scott single handed on assurances that they would recelvse. fair day from the "Great White Father" at Washington. Six men were killed ar.d many wounded In early fighting between the Indians and members from the posse headed by United States Marshal Nebeker Shell British Naval Base. I'erlin. March 20 The Overseas News Agency gave out the following Reports h-e readied iwiin to the effect that two Cerman aviato have bombarded the British arsenals at . rtiess. the lirltish naval base" German Crops Are Frozen Copenhanen. March 20 A MMew .vere frost iu the east arid south of Ocrmany bas destroyed .be crops

PARIS IS SHELLED TWO GERMAN AIRSHIPS DROP SEVENTEEN BOMBS ON THE CAPITAL. EIGHT HURT BY EXPLOSIVE

Compeigne. Bibecourt and Dreslm court Shelled; Aeroplanes Drive Off Craft Berlin Says Raid Was Revenge for Attack on Town. Pari. March 22 - The first Zeppelin raid on Pans was carried out early Sunday. Four bombs were dropped in the city and 13 iu the suburbs Seven or eight persons were injured, one seriously, but none fatally. The inate!i.tl damage was slight. The raider were driven off by IVratlk aeroplane patrols and the Iff of antiairship guns. One of the raidera appeared to have been hit. hi ihfir retreat the raiders dropped bombs on Compeigne, Bibecourt and I 're.-liuiourt. Some were explosive and sjnm of incendiary character. No damage was suffered at these places Probably the most remarkable feature of the raid was the deport uieut of the Imputation. Warned of the coming uf the Zeppelins, men and women clad in night attire flocked n gay and jocular processions from their sleeping apartments to the streets, or in the case of the more discreet, to the cellars of their homes The discipline of the dtj s residents was marvelous. There was a complete absence of panic. City in Darkness. When the Zeppelins approached whistles were blown and the sleeping residents aroused, all lights were extinguished and when the raiders arrived over the city the capital was completely obscured It was a beautiful starlit night. There was a light westerly breez blowing The approach of the raiders was signaled from at least twenty places. Half a dozen aeroplanes were w heeling upward to beat them off and high angle guns were blazing from several different points It was the rapid appearance of an aeroplane squadron, each machine flashing a small. but powerful, searchlight that prevented the raiders from attacking the center of the city, with its historic monuments. The vast majority of the inhabitants of the southern section of the caiital slept on undisturbed. Everywhere the deportment of the people was remarkable. The "qui vlve" lasted for three hours, the bugles rallying the people to bed again shortly after four o'clock. The danger was over. Raid Was for Revenge. Behlin. March ?2. The war office gave out ihe following official statement on the bambardment of Paris by Zeppelins: " To render more impressive our reply to the misdeeds of two French avi ators in attacking the open Alsatian town of Schlettstadt. German airships dropped several heavy bombs on the fortress of Paris and on the railroad junction at Compeigne." 62.000 WERE SLAIN IN BATTLE Casualties at Neuve Chapelle Were Terrible German Declares Lesses Were Equal to Waterloo's. London. March 22. The casualties on both sides at the recent battle of Neuve Chapelle equaled those of Waterloo, which historians agree totaled 1 . according to the statement of a German officer who is quoted in a dispatch from Amsterdam as declaring that the battle was the most terrible of the w ar. The most significant announcement from Berlin is that of the capture of nearly one thousand prisoner, in the champagne region to the north of I atisejour. where the French Tenches were undermined by sappeis and blown up. after which the German infantry swept into the destroyed trench- s and drove the French back. BIG FIRE AT CHAMPAIGN Two Business Blocks Burn Loss Estimated at $400.000 Appeal to Neighbors for Aid. Champaign. III.. March 18. Twothirds of two separate business blocks were burned away hy . blaze that started In the Morrlssey building about sla-thlrty o'clock The total damage was estimated at between :t00.o00 and $406.000 Before the fire was under control. It was feared a whole section of the city would be wiped out A high wind drove the flames and carried sparks for many miles and blazing brands for many blocks. Calls for help were sent to Danville, Decatur and lUoomlngton. The response from Danville was Immediate. The Urbana firemen were on the scene early, and the combined efforts of these visitors with the local de partment prevented m greater dl ter Jolt for Gamblers In Nevada. CtfM City Nev.. Msrcli IM -Ke tsmtng the present strict gambling law excepting only pari mutuel betting on hcre races the Nevada senate defeat ed a Mil to legalize po. .room bettln ai '1 the playing of poker and other gaiiies The bill failed to receive a couatitutlonal maturity h Hgteta lurg adjourned od Thursday

NOTED BANDIT CAUGHT

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'Cundmgo " a notorious Cuban ban dit. the last of a long list of highwaymen who have terrorized the rural population of the island for years, was caught recently by the Cuban rural guards after a hot chase, and is now in prison. RUSSIANS REPORT BIG GAIN AT PRZEMYSL Austnans Crushed in Sortie at FortressCzar's Men Capture 4.121. Petrograd. March 22. The follow-! ing official n port was issued'by the headquarters uf the Russian general .-j rr '"According to the latest reports from Przemysl a sortie there was car- I ried out by the entire Twenty third division, composed of the Second. Pifth. Itrvaaffc and Eighth regiments In repulsing this we captured 1'7 of J fleers, including the oniiiuinder of the Sew nth ragtamt, :::li men and 16 I machine guns The prisoners state . that the losses of the division were i enormous. Accordinc to an exchange dispatch the Austnans lost many prisoners at ' Przemysl and the town lost almost its entire garrison. Its surrender Is dedared to ! a question of days. Ixmdon. March 20 A new Russian drive through East Prussia to attack Koenigsburg from the north is be- ; lieved to be indicated by the invasion of the northernmost corner of the Ger RH empire by Russian raiders, who have occupied Memel. a fottlfled town of 20.000 on the Baltic, at the point where only ten miles of German terrl- ; tory lies between the sea and the Rue- : sian frontier. An official statement Issued by the Petrograd war office say a the Russian troops have won a complete success "before" Memel. while the Berlin announcement says 'it would appear that minor Russian detachments bare entered Memel."' The general staff makes announcement that for every village or estate upon German soil burned by the Russians the Germans will destroy three Russian villages It is further announced that. If the Russians burn any buildings of the German city of Memel public buildings in the provlnrial capital of Poland will be destroyed by the Ge;mans. DIGGS AND CAMINETTI LOSE Both Men Mutt Go to Prison In the California White Slave Case Were Convicted in 1913. San Francisco. March 1!. The convictions of F. Brew Caminetti. aon of Anthony Caminetti, I'nited States com niissioncr general of immigration, and Maurice I. Diggs. former rtate architect, under the Mann white slave art. wer affirmed by the I'nited States circuit court of appeals. Digga and Caminetti were tried and convicted before District Judge William C Van Fleet in 1913 for the transportation of Lola Norris and Marsha Warrington from Sacramento. Cal.. to Reno. Nev , for immoral purposes. Diggs was sentenced to imprisonment on McNeil island for two years and fined $2,000. Caminetti was sentenced to IS months' Imprisonment and a fine of $1.500 The case was taken to the higher court on a writ of error. SHIP SEIZED IN BLOCKADE Swedish Steamer Carrying Provisions to Germany Is Taken Into British Port. London. March 19. The first seizure made by (ireat Britain under the provisions of Us recently announced blockade of the German coast waa made when the Swedish steamer Geheland Dacon. carrying a cargo of provisions Intended for a Oerman port, was held up an brought Into Lee In the custody of a British patrol boat. Mra. Rockefeller's Body In Vault. Tarrytown. N. V.. March 17. The body of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller was taken from Pocantlco If if I and placed in the mausoleum of John D Arch bold In Pleepy Hollow cemetery There It wil'. remain till Its permanent resting place Is decided on President to Review Fleet. Washington. March ZO. President Wilson plans o review the Atlsntlc fleet w hen If gathers for MM vers at New York in May

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JIOOSIKR NEWS BRIEFLY TOI i) 5250 I lainiiiuiid - Fire routed .".n i from the Bern loh hotel here uni drove them down burning wa.vs and ladders clad iu night at. el John Kills, a tinman, was ha Injured In fighting the tire. I'aul i ens. a wutil.man. Jumped throm , window and was badly cut by ffci The loss Is $:,.oy Indianapolis. Lester Mitchell, tw. ty-seven. dope" fiend, was f., hiding in the basement of Ichoa -drug store, after robbing the . . drawer of $43. When place! der arrest he cried that the p.. could kill him. but that he must i, ' do'ie." Rav ing, he was lo kl In padded --11. after a terrific agh -bis captors Kvansville--Mayor Boss I sued a statement to aKii vising them to refuse to pay t! . bills, which the Public Servic. pt pany has sent out computet! a u rate He declared that th. maximum rate with tho slid . fixed by the state public .-.-r mission has been in effe t - ary 1 last, and citizens shout'' ader this rate and no more I-aporte The $35.000 I promise case brought I - . II Port of thla city aga.: Mr Catherine Bowers Williams ui (Te land was settled here - for plaintiff and defenlabehind closed doors to art IB terms of settlement, and while f faamount paid by Mrs Williams to I is not known, it Is under:-toed that the heart balm was considerable In amount. Indianapolis - Oppoctflof) wr.rkers re slugged. hallen o i s were ar rested on absurd charg s and v Uepithets were applied tu women who sought to stop fraudulent voting in precinct It of the Sixth ward of Terre l!r ute last Novt mber. according to stories told In Judge Anderson -federal court In the trial of Mayor Roberts of Terre Haute and 27 other defendants, for alleged lection irauds Hammond Sheriff VhM of chri ton county was amazed to find fur many of his male prisoners accu mutating noisy jags during the par' month, and racked his brains to find out how liquor was smuggled into th Jail He discovered a Jug of whisky outside one of the cell house windows with a long rubber tube extending from the jug to the bars and tied to them. Laporte In the bankrupt! hear Ing of Max Harnett, a clothing merchant. It was developed that Harnett conducted a "traveling store." shipping goods from his Importe store to Peoria.. III.; letroit. Mich, and several Indiana towns. Bar nett's petition in bankruptcy Is pending in the federal court in Indian apolls. and the bearing Is being con ducted by Referee Sheridan of Prank fort. Harnett claimed liabilities of $14.000 and assets $5.000 Indianapolis. In an effort la terpret the provisions of the new ly enacted Jones-Kurns sta primary election law and determine a course of action with regard to its cod stitut ionalitv. the Republican .-täte central committee convened at Ifei Hr td Severn Confusion of idea-, exisis as to the exact meaning of vanou" clauses of the act. The clause creating the greatest amount of criticism Is that which com pels a qualifi-d voter in the . nt of a challenge to make affidavit that at the first preceding general eb-ction h affiliated with the party holding the primary election and that he voted for at least 60 per cent of the regular nominees of the party, and that he in tenda to vote for the regula- norm nees of such party at the coming eler tion. While contending that this clause 's unconstitutional, although it haken in effect in cities only through out the state since 1Sm7. the Republican solons Intend to conform to th im w law because It requires the ap pointm n of more committees and the consequent development of a better political machine. According to well informed sources, there will be more candidates for Republican noroinaUoa at the state convention n xt ar 'nan ever before In the history of the s'ate Prankfort - Orvllle Hodgson, who was arrested in Pittsburgh aft r a long oran h. was sentenced te two to 'ourteen years' Imprisonment In the state reformatory at .lefferaonviile. on his plea of guilty to a cbarg of forgery Hodgson is the son of a wealthy farmer near Marlon II con fessed forgeries in 28 cities In the middle West. The young wlfo and mother of the prisoner were in the courtroom when Hodgson was sen tenced After the court had finished passing sentence the young man 6tat cd he would start life over again when ho leaves prison, as an honest man "My parents are thoroughbreds and I have disgraced thrm." he aaid Hartford City Win Cook. lack Wlnings. Isaac Gehring. GeorgHains. John Moore and Pert Sayon. sll of Montpeller. are under arres' under grand jury Indictments, charging there with maintaining and frequenting gambling houses Craw fordsvllle A tramp, thought to be Roy Clark wanted for a double murder In Rid Oak. la.. Inst December, is under arrest here ( lark admits having been In Red Oak last summer, but will answer no que tlons concerning the murder Be Is held pending receipt of word from the Red Oak MstfcOTlU

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