Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 July 1916 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER UN CD, DOANE, Pubilthtr, MUPER INDIANA

Who was tlie guy that .put the harm In harmony? A globe-trotter says he "hesitated" at Colon. A sort of semi-Colon, as it -were. Night has fallen and the favorite sons will shine no more for four dark, dreary years. Young people, who worry about what , is going to become of them, shouldn't. Nothing will. If. might be observed that when politics makes strange bedfellows there isn't much sleeping. . , It Is becoming apparent that our old friend Przemysl may figure In the war news again soon. Another thing the war has demonstrated Is that the way to save daylight is to use more of it If fashion shortens garments to keep pace with increasing cost, a good many will venture out only at night. It seems rather odd that so many people become insane just about the time they do something they ought not to do. It's a mistake to suppose that any man who could subsist on a diet of old boots would make a successful polar explorer. "Serbia will be born again," says a London paper. After all the trouble it has had we wouldn't think it would want to be. The men who never knew when to quit do not embarrass the world half so much as those who never know when to begin. Many a man in the cyclone belt doesn't make up his mind to dig a storm cellar until he no longer has a house to dig it under. All Europe should by this time be frankly tired of economizing on bread and meat In order to buy more explosives and projectiles. You can't make a woman believe that the flea which vexes her came from her own poodle If her next door neighbor owns a dog. The annual question of what to do with a boy who is too young to get a job and too proud to work about the house is again upon us. Some people's writing is so bad anyway that it wouldn't make any difference if one did know whether it was slant system or vertical. Secretary McAdoo says he believes the new dimes, quarters and halves and quarters will be popular. This seems reasonable enough. And then there are men so honest that they could not be tempted to steal a million, but who will swipe a dollar (umbrella at the drop of a hat. This being leap year, employment of those girl life-savers at Coney island would seem to be only Increasing the perils of bathing for bachelors. Whether or not the war has anything -tp do with it, you will notice that the .prize fighting profession is getting previous little publicity these days. A writer says, potatoes cause Idiocy. .No doubt most idiots eat potatoes, but why not say that drinking water causes Idiocy, as they all drink water? The one good point that Is made for short skirts is that they don't sweep up the dust. But the dust is not as thick as some of the designers estimate. France has moved her clocks back tin hour in order to get more daylight. And Germany has been doing her best to let more daylight through Prance for two years. With each recurring summer it is well to remind V ose intrusted with responsibility for the rearing of the young tli at every troy and girl should be taught how to :?wim. A Philadelphia doctor says It is just as important for a man to guard against overwork as it Is for him to be sure to do enough. Yes, all of us seem to be afraid of the fatal effects of doIns too much. When a college president tells college girls that respectability Is a great handicap to a career for women the assertion is either a very serious slur on both professions and women, or a very poor joke. The number of accidents reported every week suggests that many people cannot be brought te take the "safety first" movement seriously. A sick kitten that has just fallen Into a rain barrel Is a miserable tiling. So is a young man who has just fallen In love with a silly, namby-pamby girl. Every married man knows In his own heart that he can be influenced more jby n plate of hot biscuits than by a rrolllng pin, but it is not alw&ys bis 1 . i opportunity to make his choice.

N AUSTRIA THOUSANDS OF INHABITANTS FLEE AS TOWNS ON "STYR FALL BEFORE RUSS, SLAVS MENACE MANY POINTS Vienna Admits Capture by Russians of Beresteczk and Werben Threaten Brody, Kovel, Lemberg and Other Important Cities. .London, July 22. Effective renewal of the Russian drive in the Volhynlan region, with the passage of the Kiver Styr, the capture of 1,600 prisoners, and the occupation of the two towns of Beresteczk and Werben, is officially announced by the ltussian war oflice and admitted in an official statement received from Vienna. Berlin claims the repulse of Russian offensive actions in the Riga district around Baranovitchi and on the Sokul river, but a reference to increased activity on the Llpa in the region of Werden indicates that the Russian gain there was of considerable moment. The Austriaus claim only minor advantages in scattered actions in Bukowina. Panic in Brody. A dispatch from Milan to the London Telegraph says: "According to news received from Hungary, a panic preceded the exodus of the population of Brody, where the Russians are expected. Eighteen thousand persons have left the town, only 100 families remaining. (It was in this section today's advance took place.) "Alarm has spread through Hungary, even political circles being deeply moved. "Judge Peppenberg of Radantz, describing the hasty evacuation of the town. In which he participated, estimates that half a million refugees from Bukowina have encamped in the woods of the Carpathians. "A terrible panic occurred In Klmpolung, resulting in many deaths." New Move on Kovel. From the success of the Russian attacks on the Styr the entire district from Kovel to Lemberg, with those two Important centers as well as the stronghold of Vladimir Volynskl are more seriously menaced. With the passages of the Styr now in Russian hands any further advance in this region is believed to be a matter of hours at most Study of the situation leads to the belief that the Russians will now continue their blows against Kovel from the southeast, hoping to take that important railway center and so hamper the movement of Teuton re-enforcements and supplies that Lemberg will be a comparatively easy victim. MEXICO SUBMITS PROPOSAL First Chief Carranza Proposes That Etch Government Appoint Commission to Arrange Settlement. Mexico City, July 21. First Chief Carranza submits to the government of the United States in a formal note to Secretary Lansing the proposal that the de facto government and the United States government each appoint a commission of three members to meet and arrange a basis for the settlement of the differences between the two countries. The note, which is signed by Secretary Agullar, urges that the joint commission Grst take up the matter of fixing definitely the time for the withdrawal of the American forces from Mexico. It also suggests that the commission agree upon the terms of a protocal which shall govern the "reciprocal crossing of troops from the territory of one country to that of lie other. It proposes that the commission Investigate and fix the responsibility for the recent border raids and agree upon measures that should be adopted to prevent their recurrence. DEATH DANCE OF BATTLES German Correspondent Says Angel of Death Is Passing Through Army With Great Fury. Rotterdam, July 24. Max Osborn, In a dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin, from -western headquarters, saya : "We are shaken by burning pain as new streams of German blood are flowing and we recognize our powerlessness over what cannot be changed. "After two years of war the angel of destruction is passing through the ranks of the German arms with a fury and mercilessness as if the death dance of battles had only just begun." GAINS $3,000,000 ON U-BOAT German Who Sent Dyestuff Cargo on Deutschland Under the Sea ' Wins Fortune. Washington, July 24. The comfortable profit of $3,000,000 was made by the man who conceived the Idea of sending the Deutschland to the United States with a cargo of dyestuff. It was learned here that Herr Lohmann, whofle idea made him wealthy, purchased concentrated essences of dyestaffs at cost price in Germany. He arranged for direct sale of the product to American manufacturers, thus avoiding the payment of commissions and jother brokerage charges.

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Dr. Haven Emerson is the health commissioner of New York city, who is making such a determined fight to stamp out the epidemic of Infantile paralysis that has been afflicting the metropolis. ALLIES CALL SUBMARINE MERCHANTMAN A MENACE Enter Another Protest Against Washington's Ruling on. the Subsea Boat Deutschland. Washington, July 20. In accordance with Instructions from their governments, Sir Cecil Spring-Ri-ce, the British ambassador, and M. Jusserand, the French ambassador, set forth to the state department the reasons why the United States should not regard vessels of the Deutschland type as merchantmen. The reasons are as follows : "That submarine merchantmen cannot be overhauled and visited and searched, as is possible in the case of surface craft, because of their ability to dive and escape. "That such ships, because of their submersibility are able to evade municipal law with special reference to customs, quarantine, etc. "That such ships can be transformed with ease from merchantmen into warships. "That In case of war between a great maritime state and a smaller nation the latter would have the right to purchase submarine merchantmen, and when the ships arrived at the port of the purchaser they could be provided with guns and torpedoes and sally forth to attack the enemy ships. "That a refusal on the part of a state to sell submarine merchantmen could be regarded as an unneutral act." STONES HALT THE ITALIANS Austrlans Repel Three Attacks South and East of Borcola Pass, Says Berlin. Berlin, July 21. Hurling stones down the mountain sides, the Austrlans repulsed three strong Italian attacks near Borcola pass, the official statement issued yesterday at Vienna reports. The announcement follows: "After heavy artillery preparation strong Italian forces attacked three times our positions south and east of Borcola pass. They were repulsed with hand grenades, machine guns and avalanches of stones. "There was heavy artillery fighting. At Fella Raibler we captured a maChine gun. Tarvis was shelled by the enemy. HANLY AND LANDRITH NAMED Prohibitionists Nominate Candidates for National Ticket at Meeting in St. Paul, Minn. St. Paul, Minn., July 22.J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, on Friday was nominated for the presidency by the Prohibition convention. Dr. Ira J. Landrith of Nashville, Tenn., was named as Hanly's running mate by acclamation. Hanly's nomination was made on the first ballot, when he polled a substantial majority over William Sulze'r, ex-governor of New York, and the only other real contender for presidential honors. TRAIN KILLS TWO IN AUTO Northwestern Flier Strikes Machine at Grade Intersection and Boys Lose Their Lives. Woodstock, 111., July 21. A new automobile had a tragic christening here when It was struck by the Chicago & Northwestern's Duluth flyer on a dangerous grade crossing in the heart of the town. Two boys, Ralph Hatch and George Anthony, who were riding In the machine, died within a few minutes after they had been pulled from the wreckage. FEAR 200 FISHERMEN LOST Large Fishing Fleet Reported Caught In Monsoon More Than 100 ' Boats Fail to Return. London, July 21. Two hundred fishermen are believed to have lost their lives in a monsoon off the coast of Colombo, Ceylon, according to a dispatch received by the Exchange Telegraph company. A large fishing fleet was caught by the storm and more than 100 boats have failed to return.

in STORM Ü BRITISH BOYCOTT CAUSES FLOOD OF PROTEST TO POUR INTO WASHINGTON. U. S. IS PLANNING ACTION Publication of London Blacklist Believed to Be Opening Gun in a Relentless Trade War to Be Waged By Great Britain. Washington, July 21.-7-A Hood of protest from all parts of the United States against the British boycott is pouring in upon the White House and the state department. The action of Great Britain in making public a genial list of American firms who have been boycotted because they "trade with England's enemies" has aroused public sentiment, and demands for retaliatory legislation are reaching here from various commercial organizations and individuals affected. The state department Is planning action. It must wait, officials say, a "reasonable time" for official notification of Great Britain's action. If that is not forthcoming, a direct Inquiry will be made at London. Meanwhile, Acting Secretary of State Polk Is looking into the international law bearing on the subject It is expected that after all of the facts are compiled he will take the matter up with President Wilson before framing the planned protest Expect Bitter Trade War. Officials very frankly say that the making public of this boycott list Is, In their opinion, the opening gun in what likely will prove a relentless trade war against all neutrals who have refused to accept without protest the restrictions placed upon comjerce by the entente allies. They point to the fact that the present boycott list was prepared by the British board of trade and that it has been operative for more than a year, although only just now made public, as indicating that the measure is one planned by British exporters and manufacturers to regain their trade lost by the war. The making public of the list now, officials believe, was in anticipation that at the end of the present great drive on the eastern and western front peace negotiations will assume a definite form. Task Is Knotty OneWhile officials are discussing retaliatory measures no plans yet have been framed for such action. It is admitted that the task is a knotty one, and the federal trade commission and the department of commerce will be expected to act GIVES BIG SUM TO CHARITY Will of Norman W. H.arris, Chicago Banker, Disposes of Estate of About $12,500,000. Chicago, July 22. Norman W. Harris will, disposing of an estate of about $12,500,000, was opened and read by his son, Albert W. Harris, president of the Harris Trust and Savings bank, which his father founded. The will gave to charity a bequest of $500,000 and annuities totaling $9,900 in addition to tbe vast sums the banker and philanthropist gave away before he died. Only $1,500,000 of the Harris fortune will be divided immediately between the widow, the five children and the nine grandchildren. The remainder will be held by Albert W. Harris, the eldest son, and by the Harris Trust and Savings bank, as a trust fund. AUTO BANDITS ROB BANK Three Men Get $1,500 in Kansas Institution and Escape, Accompanied by Second Car. Bonner Springs, Kan., July 22. Three men drove up in front of the Linwood State bank, "covered" T. W. Martin, the cashier, with revolvers, gathered up $1,500 and escaped in their automobile. When the robbers were a block away from the bank their car was joined by another that had been waiting for them. The second car carried a man and a woman as passengers. SLAVS CAPTURE RAIL POINT Russians Keep Up Advance Beyond Erzerum Moslems Pressed Back in the Caucasus. Petrograd, July 21. The war office announced that Kugi, an Important point In the Caucasus, was occupied by the Russians on Tuesday. Kugi Is a junction point of high roads 60 miles southwest of Erzerum. Its capture marks further progress by the right wing of the grand duke's army pressing back the Turks In the Caucasus. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY DIES Laureate of Middle West Quietly Passes Away at His Indianapolis Home Paralysis Cause. Indianapolls, Ind., July 24. James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, is dead. Mr. Riley suffered from the extreme heat but was thought to be resting easy. He asked his nurse for a drink of water and when she returned with it he was dead. Death was due to a stroke of paralysis.

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It is reported that General Mangin is directing the operations of the French army on the Verdun battle front General Mangin has come to be known In France as the "Hero of the Marne." It Was through his energy and presence in the midst of his troops that his division was able to maintain a counter-attack on the Germans at the battle of the Marne. INSANE NEGRO SLAYS 5 PERSONS IN CHICAGO Black Maniac Converts Home Into Fort and Holds Police at Bay Dynamite Is Used. Chicago, July 19. Six persons are dead and three wounded as the result of a pitched battle between 150 policemen and a negro maniac and his wife, barricaded in a house on Irving avenue. The battle was ended only when the police dynamited the flat building in which the negroes were quartered, after hundreds of shots had been fired. The dead: Stuart Dean, aged sixty, policeman. Edward Knox, negro, aged thirtyfour. Alfred Matthews, negro, aged thirty. Henry J. Mcintosh, negro, about thirty, the murderer, died in the Park Avenue hospital. Hattie Mclntyre, negress, aged about thirty, wife of the murderer. Mrs. Josephine Overmeyer, aged about twenty-eight 315 North Oakley avenue. The wounded : Edward Clement detective sergeant; condition serious. John Coughlin, detective sergeant; wounded in the right hand. Grover G. Crabtree, policeman, aged twenty-seven; shot In the right wrist and the right elbow. Mrs. Sadie Knox, aged forty; shot in the back. John Lavin, policeman ; right arm Injured. SENATE PASSES NAVY BILL Measure Calls for Ten Battleships, Six Battle Cruisers and Many Smaller Craft. Washington, July 22. The senate passed the naval bill by a vote of 71 to S, calling for ten battleships and six battle cruisers in the three-year building program. The bill was passed after a bitter all-day battle, In which the small navy advocates were beaten back point by point. Every effort to diminish the number of ships provided by the bill was promptly voted down. Republicans voting against the bill were Senators Clapp, Curtis, Cummins, La Follette, Norris and Works. Democrats opposing it were Senators Thomas and Vardaman. PRESIDENT AN HONOR GUEST With Cabinet Officers Chief Executive Attends Banquet of Post Office Appointees. Washington, July 21. President Wilson was the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the National Association of Presidential Postmasters. Several cabinet officers also were present. In an address at a previous session Anthony Carainettl, commissioner of Immigration, urged co-operation of postmasters with the labor department's employment bureau. 'Tf each postmaster will co-operate," he said, "we will have a free employment bureau in every little town and hamlet." RUSS ADVANCE ON ERZINGAN Take Town of Keikld-Cheftllk Big Battle Near Revanduz It Reported. London, July 24. An Important advance in the Russian drive on Erzingan was the principal event reported from Asiatic Turkey. The Russians have taken the town of Kelkid-Cheftlik, which is about midway to the west between Baiburt and Erzingan. the objective of the offensive from Erzerum. Both Constantinople and Petrograd report a battle on a larger scale oea: Revanduz,

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Indianapolis. Death took James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosler poet, Saturday night. July 22. He had suffereda violent stroke of paralysis early in the day. Physicians did not expect; the end Immediately, however, and on-; ly the nurse was with the patient whenl he died. He was sixty-two years old and a bachelor. One of the most unusual celebrations' In the country was held in his honor October 7, 1915, when "Riley Day" was observed by a banquet in Indianapolis and in schools of the countr;., attended' by more than 1,000,000 children. The poet was the son of Reuben A. Riley, a lawyer and political speaker of Greenfield. The boy could not be brought to the dull routine of school days, but he was wise in the lore of streams and fields. In the early 'SOs he began writing verses in "Hoosler" dialect for the old Indianapolis Journal. A volume was published and "the Hoosler poet" began to win a public. Publication of books of poems year after year brought Riley a fortune and wide recognition of his literary genius. Indianapolis. The public service commission has granted the petition of the Logansport Heating company to issue $250,000 worth of preferred stock. Fort Wayne. Twenty-two of Fort Wayne's leading stores will close Saturday evenings at six o'clock during the remainder of July and all of August Shelbyville. J. Oscar Hall, who was nominated by the Progressive state convention for judge of the supreme court, has announced he would decline the nomination. Kendallville. Rev. F. H. Bayles has tendered his resignation as pastor of the First Baptist church to engage in Evangelistic work. His resignation became effective October 1. Peru. Dr. Claire Taylor has given $1,200 to the Miami County Hospital association and the money is to be used to huy real estate adjoining the, hospital. Bloomlngton. Indiana university has established a branch library in Texas. It is located at Mercedes, has 100 volumes, and Is for the particular use of the university students in Company I, Indiana National Guard. Indianapolis. Two fires, both of unknown origin, caused $45,000 loss here. The Gibson Wholesale Automobile company's warerooms were gutted by fire which caused $40,000 loss and the Citizens' ice plant was damaged $5,000. Evansville. The Anti-Cult Lecture and Publication bureau has been organized here as a successor to the AntiInfidel league. Rev. B. W. Lile, pastor of the Park Memorial Fresbyterian church, is the secretary-treasurer of the bureau. Indianapolis. The Pottawattomie Goif club of Michigan City and the Hill Crest Golf club of Batesville have been admitted to the Indiana Gold club and will have representatives in the state tournament at Laporte the week Of August 14. Indianapolis. Persistent reports In political circles to the effect that Senator Thomas Taggart, Democratic leader In Indiana, had bought the Indianapolis News caused Taggart to telegraph a denial of the story from Washington. Indianapolis. There were 3,414 accidents in industrial work in Indiana in June the state Industrial board has reported In urging "safety first." Employers paid over $20,000 in compensation during the month. Seymour. Counterfeit silver dollars and paper money of $5 denomination have been circulated among business men here. The dollars are crude counterfeits and are much lighter in weight. The $5 notes are difficult to detect from real notes Lafayette. O. J. Chapman of Eaton will continue to head the Indiana State League of Postmasters for another year. Other officers selected are: C. B. Neale, Montgomery, vice president; W. C. Wesner, Campbellsburg, secretary-treasurer. Hammond. James Aifonzo, aged seventy-five, and Gastova Gentele, sev-enty-two, both Sicilians, fought a duel with stilettos in a box car here over an Italian lass whom they both loved 50 years ago and who had been dead half a century In Sardinia. Both men were cut into ribbons and the box car looked like a slaughter pen. Neither is expected to live. Hammond. Sixteen-year-old Lelia Tanner of Jackson, Mich., was found hidden by the police In the room of John R. Pollard, son of Rev. I. Pollard. She was doped and declares that Pollard, on a trip tp Whiting, induced her to dring some "funny fizzy stufT." Lelia is a beauty and engaged to Gayle Mathews of Jackson. She quarreled with her mother and ran away to Hammond. Pollard met and befriended her. He will be tried before Judge Barnett witl a statutory charge. Crawfordsvllle. E. A. Norman, state senator, organized n Montgomery county branch of the Indiana fish and game commission here. Gary. The first steps toward preserving a part of the 30-mile stretch of virgin wilderness In the northern Indiana sand dunes at the foot of Lake Michigan for a national park were taken when an Interstate conference was held at Tremont In the heart of the dunes 50 miles southeast of Chicago. A temporary organization was perfected and the permanent National Danes Park association will b formed fit GaryonSunday, August C