Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 August 1916 — Page 2

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RUSS ROUT TEUTONS DR. THOMAS DARLINGTON GREAT DEFENSE SUM MISS ELIZABETH B. JONES $ ftt aire IMHK INDIANA Happenings CZAR'S TROOPS DRIVE THEIR WAY INTO BRODY, KEY TO LEMBERG. ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL OF $314,000,000 PASSES THE SENATE. Foregone conclusions arc never exciting. Mind your business If you want business to be good. GERMANS ADMIT RETREAT PRESIDENT BACKS FIGURES

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Has anybody thought to mobilize the eflicient Missouri mule?

He who fights and runs away will live to boast he won the day. People who live in glass houses must not throw money at the birds. We're willing to believe he Is an Intelligent man if he thinks our way. Sometimes one can follow a crowd without getting anywhere In particular. Nature has done much for man, it has made It impossible to water the gasoline. The safe rule for parents is to dress their daughter as if they were her friends. Why should anyone want to see himself as others see him? They might be prejudiced. A rise In diamonds Is predicted. Which means more suffering and privation for the masses. Europe has quite generally set Its clock ahead, hoping the sooner to get through with its woes. Married men have to be patient. It takes a good deal to make them mad enough to beat the rugs. Take It from one day to the next, there are more occasions for keeping quiet than for saying something. Will a fly census prove that early swatting accomplished anything? Or wasn't it kept up long enough? Glowing accounts of the 1917 motor cars are said to be increasing the discontent In boarding house circles. Aerial travel across the Alantlc will ,not involve seasickness ; only frequent periods of one's hair standing on end. Buckles for women's shoes at $40 a pair bring a fancy price. However, fit Is assumed that they are fancy huckles. A Cleveland preacher says a girl should never walk with a cigarette smoker. This may be good advice, but it won't he taken. A magazine writer declares that the Russians have kicked out the grafters. However, grafting is by no means a lost art In Russia. Putting up the clock an hour apparently has no effect upon the birds, for they still begin their matin songs at the customary time. A German newspaper reports that the crown prince is suffering from overwork. This is a new malady in the royal family, anyhow. Second only to that of the captain at the head of a military company Is the pride of the amateur gardener when he picks his first ripe tomatoes. The New York banker who says, "Money was never so plentiful as at present," is, of course, speaking from a banker's point of view. As Tom Edison says there'll be no poverty a hundred years hence, there's no apparent reason why we should continue to save up for posterity. : ' Statisticians estimate that the total cost of the first year of the war was $1S,000,000,000, and that the cost of the second year will be $33,000,000,000. Philanthropy is far less expensive than devilishness. It is said that Lord Kitchener did not like married officers on his staff. Perhaps he was like the commauder wno declared he would have no one under him who acknowledged two commanding officers. A dlnosaurus with a neck more than 03 feet long has been dug up in Utah. Prehistoric man must have had the dickens of time putting a collar on that beast. An eastern doctor used a column of space to tell why we do not eat insects. But. of course, he wrote it before the strawberry shortcake and blueberry pie season set in. Speaking of automobile dangers, it is to be hoped that when the time of aeroplane passenger service comes there will be no such thing as aerial ma! de mer. Those recalcitrant Haidens seem to be mighty slow about learning that marines are not to be trilled with. A course In undertaking and embalming has been added to the eurrielum of one college. "Hitch your wagon to a star" or to a team of black horses. Slippery elm bark Is still being used for medicinal purposes, but sassafras tea, except in old-fashioned families, is Relieved to have lost its primitive punch."

Captured City in Flames, Though It Is Not Known Whether Town Was Fired by Shells or Put to the Torch by Austrian. London, July 31. Official announcements given out by both Austrian and German sources admit three severe setbacks for Teutonic arms on the eastern front. The czar's forces are pressing closer and closer ao Lemberg, the Galician capital, and Kovel, in Volhynla. From the reports of the central powers it is made clear that: The Russian troops under General Letchitzy have destroyed the AustroGerman first line south of the Dniester and are now before the second, east of Tlumach. Between Turya and the Rovni-Kovel railway the last of the Teutonic troops were forced to retire behind the Stokhod river. General von Linsl.ngen's array has lost more trenches in hand-to-hand lighting northwest ofKovel. Tutons PushjttffcBack. Petrograd, via London, July 31. In the region of Kovel and Brody in Volhynia, and also in the region to the south of the Dniester river, In Galicia, the Russians continue to advance and are pushing back the Aus-tro-Germans, says the Russian official statement. Russ Capture Brody. London, July 29. The Russians have captured Brody. This most important single victory of the great Russian drive, which started two months ago, Is chronicled in an official bulletin from Petrograd. Simultaneously the Slavs have smashed the entire Austro-German line west of Lutsk, where they had been held up for weeks in their drive upon the stronghold of Kovel. Capture of this great railroad center now appears imminent. The capture of Brody, which is one of the main railroad centers in eastern Galicia, marks an advance of six miles in a single day, by the czar's forces, a speed almost unprecedented in the great war for large bodies of troops. Thursday's official reports showed the Russians six miles from the town at their nearest point of attack and the capture indicates not only a defeat of its Austrian defenders but their absolute rout. City Is in Flames. The captured city is in flames. This much is disclosed by the report from Petrograd, though it is not made clear whether the town was fired by Russian shells before Its fall or was put to the torch by the fleeing Austrians. Sweeping Russian victories in Volhynia and Galicia peril the entire AustroGerman system of defense on a front of more than 100 miles, and according to military experts here will precipitate a general retreat and reorganization of the whole Teutonic front which now protects Kovel and Lemberg, the two chief objectives of the Slav drive. Vladimir Volynski, another stronghold, lies in the way of the Russian advance, but no serious obstacle in the nature of permanent fortifications now looms between the Russians and Lemberg. Berlin Admits Rerteat. The Russian advance, announced from Petrograd, was forecast In part by an official report from Berlin which announced a retreat by the forces of General von Linsengen northeast of Svinuichy, In southern Volhynia, and only a few miles southeast of Vladimir Volynski.

SAYS WAR THREATENS U. S. General Parker, Commander of Brownsville District, Declares Conditions Much Worse. Brownsville, Tex., July 31. In a' sensational statement appearing over the signature of Gen. James Parker, in command of the Brownsville district, and printed in the second issue of the "First Rlinois Cavalryman," General Parker declares that conditions in Mexico are worse than ever before, and that war still threatens, and prophesies the upbuilding of a tremendous army for the United States. The statement was written to answer the question heard so frequently among the soldiers on the border: "What are we here for?" The opinion was expressed by officers In the Illinois camp that this training of the militia regiments was but a step toward the calling out in the near future of a huge army of volunteers, whose ofiicers would be chosen from among the ranks of the militia. FREE SINN FEIN PRISONERS Committee Favors Clemency to Majority of Captives Casement Reprieve in Abeyance. London, July 27. The committee which has been sitting as a tribunal to hear the appeals of the Sinn Fein prisoners will conclude Its inquiry within a few days and present Its report to the home office, with recommendations. -The proceedings have boon private, but, according to the London papers, the tribunal will advise the release of a majority of the 2,000 prisoner!.

Dr. Thomas Darlington, one of the best-known experts in sanitation and hygiene, now investigating health conditions of the United States camps along the border, put his O. K. on the sanitary arrangements and medical preparedness at the first of the camps visited, that of Fort Sam Houston, the famous old post three miles north of San Antonio. Doctor Darlington was formerly health commissioner of New York, and is at present medical adviser to the United States Steel corporation, the Midvale and other companies.

U. S. NOTE ON BLACKLIST WARNS GREAT BRITAIN Calls Attention to Many "Undeslred and Undesirable Results" That May Follow. Washington, July 31. Great Britain is warned In the American note of protest against the blacklist made public by the state department of the "many serious consequences to neutral right and neutral relations which such an act must necessarily involve." Already in the hands of the British foreign ofiice, the note says "in the gravest terms" that it is "manifestly out of the question that the government of the United States should acquiesce in such methods," and that the United States regards the blacklist as "inevitably and essentially inconsistent with the rights of all their citizens of all the nations not involved In the war." It reminds the British government that "citizens of the United States are entirely within their rights in attempting to trade with the people or the governments of any of the nations now at war, subject only to well-de-fiued International practices and understandings which the government of the United States deems the government of Great Britain to have too lightly and too frequently disregarded." The American note is even more positive in Its terms than ofiicials have intimated. POZIERES WON BY BRITISH London and Berlin Tell of Capture of Town, British War Office Reports No Further Fighting. London, July 27. Following official announcement both from London and Berlin of the capture of the Important village of Pozieres, the British war ofiice reported in its statement that there was no further fighting of any consequence. This is taken to mean that the Germans either have been unable to get organized for a counter-attack or do not contemplate any. The capture of Pozieres came after four days of terrible fighting from house to house in the little village. There is scarcely a house In the village In which death has not been dealt or received. The capture of the position was entirely the work of the Australians. It was their first big effort on the western front. The possession gives the British troops domination of the highest point overlooking the plateau on which the German lines extend to the eastward. RUSSIANS CAPTURE ERZINGAN Armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas Take Turkish Stronghold in Central Armenia. London, July 20. A dispatch received from Petrograd reports that Erzlngan. the great Turkish stronghold in central Armenia, has been taken by the Russians. The Caucasian armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas have been conducting a campaign against the city for months. The report follows earlier advices that the Turkish army was routed some distance before the city. The Russians were reported at that time to be ten miles from Erzingan. Russian aviators had reported that the Turks were removing from Erzingan In great haste. WILSON'S APPEAL FOR POLES Ambassador General Delivers Message to Minister of Foreign Affairs Von Jagow. Berlin, July 27. American Ambassador Gerard has delivered to Minister of Forelgu Affairs von Jagow President Wilson's Polish relief appeal. The message was Immediately telegraphed to Emperor William at the eastern front.

An Amendment Giving the Soldiers on the Border the Right to Vote on the Field at the November Election Eliminated.

Washington, July 2S. Nearly $700,000,000 for national defense In the fiscal yearaoiT is the aggregate of proposed appropriations reached In the senate with the passage of the army appropriation bill, carrying In round numbers $3 L4,000,000. This grand total for preparedness still is subject to revision, however, because the army bill will follow the naval bill Into conference, where reductions are probable, despite the firm attitude of President Wilson in supporting the liberal response of the senate to the call for adequate defense. The appropriations for preparedness as they now stand are as follows : Army 9313,970,447.10 Navy S15,S2G,S43.55 Fortifications (law) 25.74S.050.00 Military academy 2.23S.32S.57 Army and navy deficiency.... 27,559,34S.05 Total 5CS5.343.017.27 Beats House Figures. As It passed the senate the array bill exceeded the appropriations made by the house by more than $131,000.000. In the final hours of debate on the measure the senate agreed to an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the relief of dependent families of National Guardsmen and regular army soldiers in service in the Mexican emergency. Distribution of the fund is left to the discretion of the secretary of war, but in no case shall any dependent family receive more than $50 a month. Amendment Thrown Out An amendment giving soldiers on the border the right to vote in the field at the November election was eliminated from the bill on a point of order just before passage. As soon as the army bill was out of the way the senate took up and passed, after brief debate, the military academy appropriation bill, carrying $2,238,328.57, an increase of $1,019,524 over the house authorization. , FRENCH REPORT BIG GAIN War Office Says Entire System of German Trenches North of Somme Were Taken. Paris, July 31. The war ofiice reports that in a series of assaults French troops carried an entire system of German trenches north of the Somme on a front of from 300 to 800 yards. London, July 31. The Importance attached by the Germans to the possession of Delvllle wood is shown by the desperate characted of their constant counter-attacks on this wood since It was captured by the British. These counter-attacks, according to the British reports, have been repulsed on every occasion with heavy German losses. In the neighborhood of Pozieres also the British and Germans continue in the closest grips, and the severest hand-to-hand fighting is going on insessantly. The British, however, maintain their advance toward the remaining portion of the rising ground between Pozieres and Bapaume, still in the hands of the Germans. STATUS OF GUARD FIXED Judge Advocate General of Army Settles Question of Standing of State Troops. Washington, July 31. Mooted questions about the status of state troops called into the federal service for the Mexican emergency are decided in an exhaustive opinion given Secretary Baker by Brigadier General Crowder, judge advocate general of the army. General Crowder holds that the state soldiers are not subject to duty outside of the United States unless and until they are formally drafted by order of the president ; that they are under control of the federal government and not of their respective state governors, and that they are entitled to the same pensions and privileges as regulars. SOLDIERS WORK ON ROADS As Punishment for Minor Offenses Troops Are Made Useful on Texas Thoroughfores. El Paso, Tex.. July 26. Twelve hundred militiamen, prisoners in a warless war, were put to work constructing military roads In the vicinity of El Paso. The men have been arrested at various times during the last several weeks for minor offenses, mostly falling to return to camp at the proper time. VALUE J. P. MORGAN'S ESTATE Transfer Tax Appraiser Seta $78,143,024 on Froperty in New York. New York, July 29. The total assets of the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan, who died March 31, 1913, are fixed at S78.149.024. exclusive of property cutside New York state, In a report which j will be filed with the state comptroller j by Transfer Tax Appraiser Lyons,

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Miss Elizabeth Brent Jones, daughter of Dr. E. Lester Jones, superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey, christened the Surveyor, a steel steamer of a thousand tons' displacement, which will cost $240,000, and was launched at Manitowoc, Wis. This steamer will be used for work on the Pacific coast and Alaska. She will reach her destination via the Panama canal. HEAT WAVE KILLS MANY IN THE WESTERN STATES Seventy Dead at Chicago, Eight In Milwaukee and Five In Oshkosh, Wis. Chicago, July 31. Chicago sweltered yesterday under the climax of the hot wave at 102 degrees. It marks the second hottest day In Chicago's entire history, the record being July 21, 1901, when the mercury climbed to 103 degrees on the official marker. On the street level accurate thermometers recorded 106, 108, 110 and 112 degrees, the highest mark being the official thermometer at Clarendon beach. Seventy deaths, directly attributable to the heat, were reported to the coroner's office. Prostrations were only vaguely estimated. Some reports put the number at 1,000, and some doubled that number. Milwaukee, July 31. Eight deaths occurred here from the heat and there were hundreds of prostrations. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 31. Heat caused five deaths here In 24 hours and set fire to the Imperial Furniture company's plant, the second largest concern in the city, causing a loss estimated at $50,000. The maximum was 109. In 24 hours the heat has caused 2S deaths in Michigan. Janesville, Wis., July 31. Three deaths, a half dozen prostrations and one drowning were recordedjiere, with the thermometer at 10G. Oshkosh, Wis., July 31. Five people died here from the heat. Ferdinand Hawn, seventy-five ; George Ziebell, fifty; John Mentzen, sixty-eight; George Dowdigan, forty, and Mrs. Anna Reischel, fifty-two. TWENTY-TWO WORKMEN DIE Disaster in Cleveland Water Tunnel Results in Heavy Loss of Human Life. Cleveland, O., July 26. At least twenty men are known to be dead and a dozen injured as a result of an explosion of gas in a water works tunnel under construction between a pumping station on land and an intake crib five miles out in Lake Erie. The men were working 50 feet below the bottom of the lake, which is 70 feet deep at that point, placing them 120 feet below the surface. They were 1,700 feet shoreward from the crib. The explosion came as the tunnel workers broke through a gas vein with their picks and shovels and tho fumes ignited from electric sparks. FIRE RAZES CANADA TOv.'NS Cochrane, Matheson, Nuska Station and Tlmmons Wiped Out EightyTwo Bodies Recovered. Toronto, Ont., July 31. Reports received from northern Ontario state that the towns of Cochrane, Matheson, Noshka Station and Timmons have been wiped out by disastrous bush fires. Porquoise Junction and Iroquois Falls are reported burning. Serious loss of life occurred and it is believed at least 100 persons have perished. Fifty-seven bodies are reported found at Noshka Station and 25 at Mathson. Many are injured. Steamer Olive Sunk. London, July 27. A Lloyds dispatch from Algiers states that the steamer Olive has been sunk In the Mediterranean, presumably by a submarine. The crew waj saved.

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 Boonville. The county commissioners have decided that the wet and dry election here June 30, and carried dry, was illegal and will Issue licenses to applicants who have been running open without licenses, 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. Fort Wayne. Business men and others who volunteered to become underwriters of the statehood centennial pageant here will be forced to pay a deficit of about $11,000, It is estimated. The total cost of the pageant was $57,000. Muncie. The only industry of Saratoga, In Randolph county, was wiped out and 100 persons were thrown out of employment when fire completely destroyed the canning factory there. It Is thought the fire was of Incendiary origin. Muncie. The jury sitting in tho case of Mayor Rollin Bunch, charged with conspiracy to solicit bribes from blind tiger operators and other law violators, reported a hopeless disagreement and was discharged. The jury had considered the case 40 hours. Indianapolis. Mrs. Hugh Kenyon demonstrated her faith in her husband here when she gave up three ounces of blood to save his life after he had been stabbed by John Wright, who accused him of paying attentions to Mrs. Wright. The transfusion of blood will save Kenyon's life, physicians said. Greenfield. This little city yet has hope that the final resting place of the body of James Whltcomb Riley will be in Park county. The city council has offered the heirs of Riley the finest plot In the cemetery and has petitioned for the removal of the body from a vault at Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. Indianapolis. The camp of the Indiana National Guard at Mercedes, Tex., is taking on a permanent aspect, according to advices received here. In .addition to a $15,000 field hospital a field bakery with a capacity of 1,000 loaves of bread will be built immediately for the division of militiamen encamped there. Indianapolis. Indiana university Jias established in Indianapolis an extensive center that will be developed as rapidly as possible into an Institution of magnitude, and which may be the start toward the establishment of similar centers in other large cities of the state, such as Fort Wayne, South Bend and Evansvllle. Hammond. James Alfonzo, aged seventy-five, and Gastova Gentele, seventy-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. Indianapolis. Physicians at a charity milk station here have accomplished what they believe is one of the most unusual blood transfusion cases on record. To save the life of a four-months-old baby the physicians transfused two teaspoonfuls of blood which the father, Charles Lockwood, gladly gave. Immediately the baby showed much greater vitality, and It is believed It will live. Indianapolis. Because insanity is on the increase in Indiana, the state board of health is planning to Introduce in the legislature next winter a bill to create the office of sanitarian in each judicial circuit in Indiana. That insanity is on the Increase Is the statement of Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health commissioner, in a circular just issued and which he Is sending broadcast over the state. Indianapolis. Indiana Guardsmen who went to Uie border with the expectation of going into Mexico, may not be disappointed after all. Advices from the field camp received here state that the soldiers have been ordered ready to go across the border to hunt down arms smuggled, and Brig. Gen. James Parker Is quoted as telling the troops in an address that he believe yet "there will be a scrap." Hammond. Sixteen-year-old Leila 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 to Whiting, induced her to dring some "funny fizzy stuff.' 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 with a statutory charge. Gary. The post offices at New Chicago and Clarke station have been abolished and the territory will be served by two 50-mile auto rural mall routes out of Gary. Clarke station, which has had a post office for a half century, is tho last of the three Independent post offices that existed In Gary besides the main one. Indianapolis. The Pottawattoml Golf dub of Michigan City and th Hill Crest Golf club of Batesvill have !been admitted to the Indiana Gold club and will have representative In the. state tournament at Laporte the week, jot August 14. ,