Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 September 1915 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER

EN ED JASPER DOANE. Publlsr-sr. INDIANA No need of a society for the conservation of tea nettle! When nations throw brick some bystander ts bound to Ml bun. History .n the nuking bas a revolt log habit ot showing its seamy sir. i'ylnp for ote S country la flsa but living for it ts ever ao much better. American export of everything are enormous, with the exception ot peace. ' Many automobilists are getting out of the babit of indulging in Sunday accidents. Counterfeiting Mexican mone must be something like trying to spoil a de cayt-d egg. An eastern man bas compiled eight rules for picking a wife, and even then it s no cinch. Casualty lists from conclusively that do ating the- shrapnel the front prove one is adulterWot weather not only makes corn grow, but it keeps some people from trying to write poetry. When a man is old enough to know better, doing a foolish thing won t make him look young. Here Is one who speak of the "obese female." We believe fat worn an" sounds much better. Another interesting matter of speculation is: Why do the trousers of all public men nag at the knees? If you want to see perfect marksmanship just watch a man in the act of throwing a bouquet at himself. Hosever small bis superstitions, a powder manufacturer doesn't care to read about his mills going full blast. One advantage of thore tin automobiles Is that they do not hurt ao mucb when they run over sensitive pedestrian. Perhaps the reason so many stars of the stage are entering the movtes Is that they like to see their pictures in print. W'hat has become of the old fashioned man who used to dye his mustache and imagine himself getting younger? Every time the list of salaries paid movie stars Is published some begin to doubt anew the value of a college education. Judge Landis. who fined the Standard Oil company $29.Ov.OOO. recently fined a farmer two cents. Evidently he's after the maximum and minimum records. A crown man will exult more in catching another in a trivial mistake of fact or figures than a small boy of the long ago ever exulted over catching a rabbit. A college professor now in California claim to have discovered the secret of gravitation The first effort probably will be to turn It to some war account. The Georgia preacher who told hi congregation that the time would come when there would be no liars In the world Indicated a world without fish, politicians or war correspondenta. About the most exasperating way to condemn a man Is to remark, "but It Is only fair to say that bis Intention were good. Besldes the inventor engaged by the war department, a few philoso phers. economists and philanthropist might come In handy. A leather trade Journal energetically protest against "Needless Slaughter of Calves." It means the fourlegged kind. o. courte. Speaking of Inventions powerful for war. what has become of Tesla's vibrator, with which It was going o be possible to signsl Mars? Tell a mother that she looks younger than her twenty-year-old daughter, and she will not be long in getting a supply of new clothes and patronizing Ihe beauty doctor. A correspondent describes summer life Id the trenches as almost ideal, but It will take more than a newspaper man's word to make us believe that war I a picnic The baby's first tooth is regarded by its mothr and grandmother as of far more lrr portance than a hefty raise In the proud father's salary. The Teutons have captured Przasnysr. Prremys and Przasnyst seem to be to belligerents like a flame to moths; they can't keep away. England Is proudly calling he ammunition makers 'soldiers of the hops" How times change! It ha alw ays been the bane of a loss' life to keep soldiers" out of the shops.

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LOST WHEN ARABIC British Liner Sent to Bottom by Submarine. 16 U. S. CITIZENS RESCUED Germans Fired Missile at Steamer Without Warning as S-e Was Seeking to Aid Anothe' Wn cn Had Been Hit. Loudon. Aug. 21 The White Stat Una issued a statement on Friday nicht saying that 14 passengers of the Arabic, which was torpedoed on Thurs.I.iv bv a tierriian submarine, were missing, and that it was feared they w ere li'sT Ambassador Fag- has sent a cable gram to the state ;artuir.t at Wash ington, saying that eight Americana are among the missing. They are: Mrs. Josephine L. Brug.ere of New York. Or. Edmund F. Wood of Janesvills. Wis. Torpedoed While at Rescue. All the information that is coming ' to London and which was allowed to become public confirms the fragmen tary stories that the Arabic was tor- , pedoed without warning. As a matter ; of fact she was sunk by a German submarine when proceeding to the aid of i a Wilson liner which shortly before had been assailed by a German undersea boat. This vessel had been shelled by the submarine and was slowly sink ; ing when the Arabic hove in view. The testimony of officers, crew and passengers is unanimous that no sub , marine was seen. The torpedo was sighted just before tt struck the ship. Heroism Saves Arabic's Many. The heroism displayed by the en- 1 gine room staff is solely responsible for the large number of persons saved. . Captain Finch of the Arabic whistled down to the engine room, ordered full speed astern to check the way of the ship, and in less than three minutes she came to a standstill This three minutes spelled death to the engineer who stuck to their post, but it made possible the launching of the lifeboats and the saving of such a large percenti age of the human beings on board. Survivors Drift Five Hour. The lifeboats, most of them were not picked up for five hours. Captain ; Finch was the last man to leave the boat. He Jumped as the vessel, which ' went down stern foremost, capsized. , Wreckage kept him afloat until he was picked up by a boat. He said at ; Cjueenstown that if he had only a few minutes more time not a life would 1 have been lost. The survivors, some of whom were in their night clothes, suffered severeJ ly before they reached Queen st own j ! There was little panic among the pas i Magers. A number of tbem were tak I ing advantage of the beautiful weather (o have breakfast on deck. Captam Finch Tells Story. I The first official statement from an ; officer of the boat came from Captain Finch. "we were forty-seven mlls sonth of Galleyhead at 9:20 in the morning." he said, "when I perceived the steamer Dunsley in difficulty Going toward her 1 observed a torpedo coming for my ship, but could not discern a sub marine. The torpedo struck 100 feet from the stern, making terrible havoc ' of the hull The vessel bgan to set- ; tie Immediately and sank In about eight minutes. "My order from the bridge about getting the boats launched was promptly obeyed. Two boats capsixed. We had taken every precaution while n the danger ion. There were plenty 1 I of life belt on dock and the boats were ready lor immediate launching. The officers and crew behaved excellently and did everything possible in the circumstances, gett.ng people Into the boats and picking up those In the sea. 1 was the last to leave, taking the plunge into the sea as the ship was going down. After being In the water some nme 1 goi aooara a raft, to which I also assisted two men and , women " Captain Finch paid special tribute to the heroic conduct of several engineer 1 and firemen who remained at their post to the last and sacrificed their lives to execute order from the i bridge, thu insuring the safety of the ' passengers. Among those lost was the ; aptaln's nephew Fifty in Berths When Hit "Most of the passengers were 00 deck or at bieakfast when we were' struck." said Joseph G De Lorr'rner. j Montreal lawyer and son in-law of a former Canadian minister of marine "Possibly fifty of the passengers -ere still In their berths "It was about nine o'clock, or a litt after, when several of ua sighted what we thought was a submarine, quite s distance to starboard, ap proa hing a steamer we later found out was the Dunsley of London While we were watching we caught the faint sound of an explosion and took It for granted that tbe Dunsley bad been torpedoed "Our course wa taking u over In the direction of tbe Dunsley. We rre fared fof an attack at once. The crew ran about distributing life preservers and swinging out the boats "I adjusted my ran be'ow to get life preserver and s suitcase full of

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turned when I saw a watt atreak rushing toward tt Arabic, churning op foam at a great rate Then there waa a tremendous explosion. The ship stopped almost Instantly. 8b rocked from side to side and began to keel over. Most of the passengers were in I the boats in an festMMM nJ there was j not the slightest panic. I barely had time to make tb last lifeboat. We were launched success ! fully, but hadn t got clear when 'he Arabic rolled over and went down She was half t .med on her side and , her starboard j Rafft struck our boat. caving In the tide and throwing us into the water Swimmer Rescues Woman. T thought it was all over, bat I j finally came up and swam to a raft. I dont know what happened to the oth j era While 1 was clinging to the raft I I saw another lifeboat about to sink, i They ( ailed to me and threw me a I hawser. I tied tt around the raft and ; hung partly to the hawser and to the raft until I was picked up exhausted. 1 counted ten lifeboats pulling away. One of them filled with water ! Just after ;t cleared the Arabic's side ana sank. A woman, whom I later learned was the sister of the Arabic s surgeon, was thrown into the water. One of the Arabic's sailors swam to her and helped her get into a boat. It ! w "a P' of work. Women Sjffer m Cold Stella Carroll, a professional singer, who was among the survivors, said there was no panic. The women, she said, were particularly cool; but several of them, very scantily clad, suffered from the cold wind after they got into the boats "There were four women and twenty-nine men in our boat. said Miss Carroll "When the wompn became greatly distressed. I sang 'Its a Long Way to Tipperary' to cheer them ap ." Reports Only 21 Aboard. Washington. Aug 21 Two Americans are missing from the list of the steamship Arabic's survivors, according to official report received on Friday at the state department Vice-Consul Thompson at Queenstown cabled the state department that there were only 21 American passengers on the Arabic, according to the list from Liverpool; that be had checked up the names of 19 survivors and "may find more." Names American Survivors. Following are known American surv'vors of the A. able: A. Heilme Nebeker. Logan, Neb. George A. McAllister. Chambersburg. Fa Dr. James T Rowley. Chicago. Zellab Covington. New York and London. Mrs Zellab Covington. New York and London Louis Bruguiere. New York. John Olsen. San Francisco. Fhillp Collier. Buffalo. Mrs Fhillp Collier. Buffalo. Miss Sadie Shrimpton. Syracuse. Claude Roode. Schenectady. N. T. John Nolan. Trenton. N. J. John Olschewskt. Trenton. N. J. Christopher McTanney, Trenton. H J. William Cummins Leopold P Moore. ILLINOIS HIT BY STORM Levee at East Alton Gives WayTown Flooded Ten Die in St. Loui County. Alton, tt, Aug. 21. The levee of Wood river at hast Alton gave way last night and sent flood waters rushing through the streets, tearing down barns and bouse and forcing many people to upper stories. Ap peals for motor boats and skiff to rescue hundreds of marooned persons were sent to Mayor Beal of Alton. St. Louis. Aug. 21 A gale and flood of rain that rivals the tropical hurricane that bas devastated Galveston and the surrounding country Is sweep ing up the valley of the Mississippi toward Chicago and the great lake region. The heaviest twenty-four-hour rain fall in the history of this city Intern,pt" trfflc' M property and live Ten persons are dead In the flood. 5.009 have been driven from their homes a St. Louis county and 500 were marooned on their bouse top or on the top of street car. The rainfall was 5.20 Inches between 7 p. m. Thursday and noon Friday. The rain continued without cessation Friday afternoon. No estimate of the damage to property could ue obtained The police used rowboats from the park lagoons to -escue marooned residents Srrtngfleld. 111.. Aug 21. Inestimable damage to crop in process of barv sting ha been cause by a terrific downpour of rain which has been general In Illfuola for the last twenty four hour. The northern section of the state is the worst sufferer because a larger percentage of the grain remains unharvested At Plncjineyvllle the deluge brought a sudden end to the soldiers' reunion. In the vicinity of Mount Vernon thousands of acres of corn sre destroyed. COV. HARRIS IS THREATENED Executive of Georgia Warned Not to Continue Search for Lynchers of Leo Frank. Atlanta. Ga . Aug 23 Governor Harris has received letters threatening him with lo Franks fafe If be persists In prosecuting search for mm her of the lynching party At the same time the governor Is receiving scores of abusive communications from out side the stste for not guarding; Frank and threatening him if he does not sp the lynchers

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PETROGRAD SAVSGERMAN FLEET WAS OEFEATED IN BATTLE AT RIGA. MOLTKE SENT TO BOTTOM Oreadnaght. Three Cruisers and Seven Torpedo Boat Destroyers Lost by Teutons. According to Official Petrograd Dispatch. London. Aug 23. A dis;tch to the Central News from Petrograd says: The president of the duma bas announced that the Germans lost the battleship Moltke. three cruisers and se en torpedo boats in the Riga battle." Sink Eleven Warships. The announcement of th- president of the duma. as sent by the corre spondent. follows: 'In the Riga bettle the Germans lost one superdreadnaugbt. the Voltke: three cruisers and seven tor pedo boats. The German fleet has withdrawn from Riga bay. The Germans tried to mähe a descent near Pernpvm i Pernigel. on the east shore of the Gulf of Riga some thirty-five miles north of Riga). German Force Wiped Out. "four barges crammed with soldiers took part in the descent. They were repulsed by the Russian troops without the co-operation of artillery, the Germans being exterminated and the barges captured." An official statement from the Petrograd war office also says the German Meet has left the Gulf of Riga. "Our destroyers in the Plack sea have sunk over a hundred Turkish boats." the stateme rdds. The statement adds that the Russian land front is firm in the region of Riga and in the direction of Jacob stadt and Drinsk. West of Kochevary the Russians held in check the persistent offensive of the Germans. It also is claimed the Germans have been held back by counter-attacks in the region of Dielsk. A dispatch to the Times from Petrograd confirms the announcement of M. Rodzianko. the president of the duma. of a Russian victory in the Gulf of Riga and the sinking of the German battle cruiser Moltke. Moltke Carried 1.107 Men. The German battle cruiser Moltke was a vessel of HJM tons and carried In ordinary times a complement of 1.107 men. She was a sister ship of the famous Goeben. which became a part of the Turkish navy after the commencement of the war and was rechristened Sultan Selim The Moltke wa 590 feet long and was armed with ten 11-inch guns and 12 six-inch guns and 12 24 pounders In addition, her armament included four -'o-inch torpedo tubes. She was built in 1911 and had a speed of about twenty-eight knots. The Moltke was in the battle with the British fleet In the North sea last January when the German armored cruiser Bluerher was sunk Visited U. 8. in 1912. In 1912 the Moltke was in the German squadron which visited the United States to return the visit of the United States battleship squadron at Kiel during its trip around the world. Th cost of the Moltke wa about $12.OOo.OOO. Berlin announced on Saturday In an official statement the loss of two Russian gunboats and one torpedo boat during a battle In the Gulf of Riga In addition it was said two Russian destroyers and one other large warship were damaged, while one German destroyer was beached and another was damaged and wa escorted to port. The Russian gunboats which were sunk were the Slvutch and Koreets The names of the German ships damaged or lost were not given. RUMELY OFFICIAL DEPORTED u. S. Claims Transfer of Auditor Frrm Canada to Laporte Violated Alien Labor Law. Laporte. Ind.. Aug. 21. A B. atc- ! Donald, high-salaried auditor at the Rumely offices In this city, was deported with his wife and son by a : United States government agent who arrived and started back to Regina, Sask- with the family. Me Don i aid was employed in the Rumely branch house in Regina and laat November was transferred to the home office in Laporte. ine government ; claimed this was a violation of the 1 alien contract labor law and that Sic- I I Donald would have to return to ' Canada EIGHT DROWNED IN FLOOD Scores of Persons Missing Following Sudden Rise of River in St. Louis County. St. Louis. Aug 23. Eight persons are reported drowned, score are missing and hundreds of pleasure boats torn from thir moorings by the sud den rise of the Meramec river. The rreatcr part of St. Louis county is flooded. The .Meramec. normally a brooklet, is now a raging torrent miles out of its banks Frank's Body Laid to Rest. New York. Aug. 21. Leo M Frank's body was laid to rest in the family lot in Cypress Mills cemetery His widow his parents and a few other relatives and friends stood beside the grave.

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Elihu Root of New York, was unanimously elected president of the American Ear association at the convention of that organization in Salt Like City. BIG RUSS FORT FALLS: 85.000 PRISONERS TAKEN I Si Generals Captured by mans in Fall of Novogeorgievsk. GerUerlin. ug. 21 (by wireless) Novogeorgievsk. mightiest fortress of the czar, has lallen. The capture by rruai. troops of the great stronghold at tbe Junction of the Vistula and Narew rivers was offic ially announced here. Six Russian generals and ao.dOO soldiers were captured by General von Mcseler s troops when they took Novogeorgievsk. The number of cannon has been increased to more than 700. an official statement say. General von Gallwitz s troops have taken MM Russian prisoners, tbe statement adds Tbe Russians retreated east of Kovno and in tbe district of Dawina as far as tbe road from Augustowo to Grodno. v ith the capture of Novogeorgievsk the Germans have taken the last cf the Vistula fortresses and removed a danger that 'listed as long as that stronghold was held by the Russians. The pursuit of the retreating Russian armies can be continued without any possibility of a sudden sortie. Novogeorgievsk was captured coder the ey-a of Emperor William h:n-s.-lf. he having arrived there while the German troop were making their attacks. The fortress fell after a siege of 12 days, during which the mighty German guns poured a rain of shell upon Its fortifications. The outlying fort were taken one by one while the German circle drew closer daily to th? main fortifications. The German general staff accompanied Emperor William to Novogeorgievsk to watch the closing act of the military drama enacted there. London. Aug. 19. Kovno. the great Russian fortress protecting the northern end of tbe Russian second line of defense through Brest-Lltovsk. on which the Slavs promised to make their final stand after the fall of Warsaw, has been captured by tbe Germana. Tbe official announcement of Kovno's fall follows: "The fortress of Kovno. together with all the forts and unaccountable war material, ha been in German hand since last night More than four hundred cannon vere taken. The fortress was stormed and taken by assault in spite of most tenacious resistance by the Russians'' ANDERSON WINS AUTO RACE Averages 77.256 an Hour, Smashing All Previoua Records at Elgin, III. Elgin. Ill . Aug 23 Gil Anderson and Earl Cooper have scored anoth er brilliant victory for Stutz cars at Elgin on Saturday by winning first and second places in the big road race for the Elgin National Trophy, duplicating th'-lr performance of Friday by reversing their positions. Eddie O'Donnell drove a beautiful race and took third place with his Duesenberg. and Ralph Da Palma, who tried desperately to get in the money, had to be content with fourth place The time of the four follows: Anderson. 3:54:2 miles an hour. Cooper, 3:57:2 average. 77.2.'6 average. 71.258 miles per hour. O'Donnell. 3. 9:018; average 75.769 miles per hour De Palma. 3:59.168; average. 75.69 miles per hour. Speed records were smashed right and left. Teddy Tc'zlafT laid down a mark of :O6:20 for a lap here two years ago Anderson knocked off a second. Then O Donnell covered one In :06:18. De Palma came up to the scratch with 06:17 and his last lap was :0V158. more than four seconds faster than the demon "Ytzlaff traveled. Senator Shively III. Importe. Ind . Aug. 23. t'nlled Stales Senator Kenjamln F. Shively of Indiana Is reported critically ill at the home of his parent In rtrooktleld. Pa Senator Shively has bee In 111 health for aontbs

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i57iS7iSTiScl57iS2SZSl- g niiiianMiis. uorenio it 1 druggist of ;ihi Siutli III n , a 1 hi k sti was fined $500 and costs tenced to lfeu days on t farm by Judne James K i, court, on a charge of illegalh . cocaine. Two affidavits 1 violation of the same law bad I filed by the police against King was charged with selling . tie I airy 10 ray DeWitt. .r. . ' , . Washington street, one of the vietlm of the alleged cocaine trust which has been working in the rfty for years. She ha been gastet tn tli police in Investigating the Illegal salg of drug and has been kastrumental In ( divining- five men on tin of the illegal sale of drug sy last few months. The other affli ,.it charges that King sold Identities of cocaine to Myrtle War I K . rat found guilty on the testimony 0! the Ward woman and was bound the grand Jury In the othi r sj . on the same charge Muncie. The prelimi- try i 1 prevention plans for M m ably will call for the at prices fixed by appra. r.-. of tooeal valuable real estate In the district lepired for the ue of additional ilr bed space. No estlmat. I the ralM of this property -or the t Of 1 improvements as proposed are made. The course of White river fo? 1 lietance of about four miles, beginning east of Muncie and enter..! a point b' yoml the western city limits, is to be partly straighten. ii l nnd w idened, the wHth of ,he str. itn to be uni' rti at 175 feet. A 1 w t mut be dredg;ed. several i-rii'.g. s altered and incensed In length, rind nianv other Improvements ma-!. rough guers is made that th. pro - 1 improvements would cot I&O0.Ö00 Indianapolis At the meetii.g of the liemoeratie state comr ... held at the Dennison hut.! here, Ciovernor Halston. Senator Rem, National Democratic commute- maa Thomas Taggart made the speeches. All were rOOOtvSd with applause. President Wilson w;is ihe only Democratic candidal.- dl . I for the 1!16 campaign, and the war situation was put under th- baa of sflenee No definite stand w - ..n nounced on the primary law. the members of the committee ap:-: be ing willing to permit th progreO1 alves to test the validity of the. law through the courts. Huntington Jesse McClm'f k a harber. committed suicide by I -ng-ing himself from a bedpest In hi rooming house. He used his b paaaing one end through the bum'. to form a noose and attaching thi nd to the b d How he succeüed in end ing his life with his body almost prone on the floor, when only a slight effort would have been required to slacken the belt, has caused mu li comment. Sheer will power is I only explanation Coroner R. S. Galbreath could find. Two years age Meclintock and his wife asperated. Brooding ovej this and the ii!;of his two children ts believed the cause of the suicide. Dluffton. Henry, nine-year old sn of Mr. and Mrs. William Enp- ? Pennvllle, Jicd of suffocation In I corn chute in hi fathers elevator. The father was flllin; a car Kfe shelled corn from a bin, and when the chute clogg.J the bo. wa sent to the bin to Investigate. One hour later ihe boy had not returned, but his Bstl ' supposed he was still at the bin. Tb chute became clogged again, an ! Mr. Engeler . opened a small dor baling Into It from the outside of i' " building. The boy's leg protruded from the opening, and It was found that he had fallet. Into the bin and was suffocated in the shelled corn. Angola. The body of Irving Pron, a farmer, was p.und hanging frogl the limb of a tree not far (M the llrown home near the C I gr gatinnal church at Lake Qagg Hrown had been In the hospital w 'iiia the last year for an operation 1 treatment for nervous trouble. HM wife died Jaiuary 1 and his mind " affected. One on. Harold BrOWS vives. He went to the Calif, rn;.. positions last week. Warsaw. Charles Percival of 'n dinnapolis and Mr. and Mr. Otto Phil" pott and daughter. Katherlnc. of 9 If saw. were thrown into the Tiri" I' river nwir her.- when their boat I Ifl I over. Mrs. I bilpott sank an 1 ' have drewnol hut for the asslstan" ot Imt husband ar.d Mr. Percivnl K.itherine Philpott swam to shore, water was nine feet deep. Torre Haute - Harry WIlFon, proled from prison, where be H sentenced from two to twenty ne year for an attack on a girl to years ago, was arrested for perjury :n getting a mar.iage license gftdeff nnother name and marrying Miss Mary Davis He will be returned to pris' D for tl-1 remnlnder of the 21 years Indianapolls Plans lookirg t 'he establishment of a school In Indianapolia for the instruction f WCla! center and playground krorkeri ; can to take form nt a r. - 1 the Chamber of Commerce hulldu .' J. J. Pettljohn. Hrertor of th .vision division of In liana university 1 nounced that William Lowe BIT", president -f the university, h .:'. r commended to the truatees of th" n stltutlon the appropriation I f for the first year's work. An SQUSl amount must be forthcoming frorr. I"dtannpnlls If the school Is efmd-etej on the plan now tentativly cut. '.a id