Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 July 1917 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER

BEN D. DOANE, Publisher JASPER - INDIANA Don't kill and grow. the calf. Let him graze ; Every Liberty horten the war. bond sold helps to An optimist does not believe In signs unless they portend good. i A booster can't understand why everybody isn't full of enthusiasm. 'Twill take some keep Russians from lof liberty. strong men to making a mess That loud and resonant call is civiljlzatlon demanding the answer to the submarine menace. , Don't hoard money and don't spend It before you make it. Keep in the middle of! the road. The day is not a failure to the person who manages to keep sweet during his waking hours. When America Invented the submarine did it start something it could not Ifinish? Probably not. War's volcano Is but smoldering; the calm is misleading and we must bo prepared for an eruption. Meteorological convulsions indicate .that the elements themselves do not 'Intend to keep out of the war. The troublenot afford t and the diam t the country canwheat necklaces tvon't digest. Just about now a little Information jas to how those "slacker" marriages are coming out would be interesting. When mother starts in to cut down jdad's trousers for the boy it's a sign ishe doesn't want him to be a slacker. Preachers who praise the Lord for their high salaries put their low-sal-Juried brothers in an embarrassing position. Berlin is reported to be feeling the potato pinch. Berlin has nothing on xts. We have been feeling it for nine months. While It would not entirely adjust the white paper shortage, a cessation of war poem productions would go a long way. America has so many national anthems that the strain is rather hard on the feet of a conscientious, upstanding patriot. With his own country at war, a man .who Is "neutral" naturally Is under suspicion of being either an Imbecile or a traitor. Uncle Sam draws 7,000,000,000 out of his sock with no more fuss than five would make In digging down for a laundry bill. The prospect of getting a safe and sane Fourth out of the war will also have a tendency to simulate us to greater efforts. Some idea of the reverberating power of war's alarums may be gathered .from the fact that deaf youths are rushing to enlist. No one who has tried to climb a .mountain is likely to speak slightingly of what the Italians have been accomplishing in the war. The way in which our old friend Wu keeps turning up on top in China shows that he merits the high opinion Americans formed of his ability and .adaptability. The serious side of life does not appear to the boy until he reaches the age when his associations force upon him the advisability of taking baths oftener than every Saturday night. One of the unfortunate .things about widows is the way they insist upon investing the insurance money in something that will bring in from 7 to 10 per cent with absolute safety. The aviation service is reported to be safer than the medical, infantry or artillery branches, the medical being the most dangerous. Facts that will upset two popular impressions. Beef stew, plain bread and black coffee for breakfast at the army post must be a revelation to the fellow who would have carried a grouch all day because his breakfast grapefruit was not properly chilled. The household department says the ;first tiling to be done when boiling eggs lis to cover the eggs with boiling waiter. This is the old-time way. Now ;the first thing to be done is to get eggs, land sometimes that is very hard to do. In the race for the road crossing many an auto driver has won against the locomotive engineer. ut some have run dead heats. Emperor William's railway lines are inearly worn out, nnd no wonder, with til the tearing back and forth from one frontier to another!

American citizens who do not know what America is fighting for need something done to their heads if they do not fall under a more sinister su. jplCiOZL

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FOR RATE RAISE 1916 Most Prosperous Year in History for Carriers, Commission Says in Opinion. INCREASE GRANTED ON COAL McChard in Dissenting Report Eastern Carriers Must Have New Rev- " enue War Has Not Affected Business of Companies. Washington, July 2. The arilroads of the United States lost their light for a 15 per cent Increase in rates. The interstate commerce commission denied their petition. The commission's order was dated June 27. Commissioner McChord dissented. The commission finds that 1916 was the most prosperous year the railroads ever had. "It may be assumed," the opinion says, "that they might suffer some abatement of the prosperity of that year without being crippled or in any way incapacitated." The order sets forth : That the operation of the schedules submitted by the railroads upon which Increases were asked "be and hereby are suspended until October 28, 1017." Exception Made on Coal. Exception is made to schedules applying to bituminous coal, coke and iron ore, naming rates in the southern district. Exception Is made to schedules applying to bituminous coal, coke and Iron ore, naming increased rates In the eastern district. All schedules naming increased rates apply interterrltorlally between districts excepting only those applying to bituminous coal, coke and iron ore be tween the eastern and southern districts. That the use of the rates, charges, regulations and practices stated in such suspended schedules be deferred upon Interstate trafllc until October 28 unless otherwise ordered by the com mission. Increase on Coal. The commission grants certain Increases In eoal, iron and coke rates on the basis of equalizing this rate structure. The opinion also recognizes that the roads In the eastern district must have increased revenue beyond what the new coal and Iron rates will produce. The commission permits the eastern carriers on five days' notice to increase the class rates between New York and Chicago to the following scale: Class l 2 3 4 5 0 Kates 00 70 GO 42 36 30 Class rates within the territory may also be Increased In the same proportion as the New York-Chicago class rate. The technical terms of the commission's order merely "suspend" the proposed increases to October. But the opinion points out that full argument has already been had on the proposed rates. Whether the argument can now be renewed is not disclosed. The order was a surprise. It is asserted that last fall when the country was facing the greatest strike peril it has ever known, an intimation so authoritative that it was almost branded as a promise, was conveyed to the railroad heads that the government would stand ready to return the favor. The commission finds that the war has not affected the railroads as disastrously as the first general statement of railroad witnesses might have Indicated. COLORADO MINERS TO STRIKE tt Rockefeller Plan" of Adjusting Grievances Is Major Reason, According to Leader. Denver, Colo., July 2. Formal notice of their intention to strike was filed with the state industrial committee by John F. Moran, president of district No. 15 of the United Mineworkevs, as representative of the members of that body employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. Moran said opposition to the "Rockefeller plan" of adjusting industrial differences was a major factor in the strike. No increase of pay is asked. DIVER ALLOWED TO DEPART Spain Exacts Promise From Germany That U-Boat Would Go Straight Home. Paris, July 2. A Madrid semiofficial note says that a German submarine which took refuge at Cadiz left port escorted to the limit of territorial waters by two Spanish torpedo boats. The. Spanish government asked and obtained from the Berlin government a formal promise that the submarine would go direct to a German port without attacking enemy ships or performing any other act of war. FRENCH WARSHIP HITS MINE Armored Cruiser Kleber Sinks Off Point St. Mathieu ThirtyEight Men Perish. Paris, July 2. An official announcement was made that the armored cruiser Kleber had struck a mine oft! Point St. Mathieu and Slink. Three o"cers and 3o men were lost The "VU1U uul"A;u&ttl and was on its way to Brest,

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U-BOATS SINK 28 SHIPS WEEKLY REPORT ISSUED IN LONDON SHOWS FALLING OFF. Liner Mongolia Hit Mine Passengers and Crew Landed at Bombay American Vessel Torpedoed. London, June 20. Twenty-one British vessels of more than 1,600 tons each and seven under 1,000 tons were sunk by mines or submarines last week, according to the weekly statement of losses issued on Wednesday by the admiralty. No fishing vessels met with disaster. The aggregate number of vessels flying the British flag destroyed by mines or submarines last week shows a net falling off of four, as compared with the losses reported the previous week, which numbered 3227 of more than 1,600 tons and five in the smaller division. I In the larger category a decrease of six vessels is shown, while among the smaller craft an increase of two ves sels lost is indicated. Bombay, India, June 20. The Penin sular and Oriental liner Mongolia struck a mine off Bombay on June 23. London, June 20. The American sailing ship Galena, 1,04S tons, was sunk by submarine bombs on June 25. There were no casualties. The Galena was sunk off Ushant island (off the coast of France, 23 miles northwest of Brest). Fifteen survivors were taken to Brest. BIG CHICAGO BANK FAILS Private Institution of Graham & Sons Closes Doors Has Deposits of $5,000,000. Chicago, July 2. The private bank of Graham & Sons, 650 West Madison street, closed its doors on Friday, and two hours later detectives from State's Attorney Hoyne's office broke in the door with fire axes and too' possession of the place. An involuntary petition in bankduptcy was filed in the federal district court later on behalf of William Shale, who made a claim of $3,000. The bank is the one of which the late Andrew J. Graham was president. It was considered one of the strongest banks in Illinois. Estimates of the deposits ran as high as $5,000,000. Heavy investment of the bank's funds in real estate bonds that could not easily be transformed into money is said to have embarrassed the bank. DAIRY AND POULTRY MEN AID Representatives of Association Agree to Put Industries Under Supervision of Food Administration. Chicago, June 20. Representatives of the country's chief dairy and poul try associations, after a conference here with Herbert C. Hoover, voted to put their industries under the supervision of the food administration and named George E. Has kell of Chicago to serve as a volunteer aid to Mr. Hoover in charge of a dairy and poultry division. Mysterious Disease Kills Many. Cape Girardeau, Mo., June 30. Seventeen children are dead and 29 ill, four of them seriously, from a mysterious malady which has swept the village of Oron near here. The disease has baffled every doctor. New Army Flying Record. Newport News, Vn., June 30. What is believed to be a new army flying record vns osonhliehnrl Bartholf and Lieutenant Stevens flew from Hampton Roads to Mineola, N. Y In 4 hours and 15 minutes,

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DRAFT BOARDS NAMED PRESIDENT APPOINTS LOCAL BODIES NAMED BY GOVERNORS. White House Report Says That Will Be Selected for Army and War Work. Men Washington, June 28. President Wilson on Tuesday appointed the local boards named by the governors to hear exemption claims on the first draft, by which 650,000 are to be selected for the army. The Itules governing exemptions have not yet been issued, but will be soon, as the work of selecting the ,irmy may be begun next week. In a Kreat majority of the cases the Personnel of the hoard shows that President Wilson followed the sugges110118 01 army otücials that city and county officials be utilized. J-UO president, however, had asked j i ine governors of the various states to nominate candidates för the boards, and it may be assumed that the boards as announced have the approval, not only of the president, but of the state executive. The 24 states in which committees are complete, with those exceptions, are: Washington, West Virginia. Utah, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Minne sota, Nevada, Montana, Nebraska, New York and Pennsylvania. Information emanating from the White House during the last two davs indicates the draft will be much heavier than had been suspected. Instead of merely nicking men for the nrmv many will be drafted for other war work. CANADIANS DRIVE ON LENS Dominion Troops Gain on Two-Mile Front Within Mile of City's Center Take German Front Line: Canadian Army Headquarters in France, June 30. Under a protecting concentration of artillery fire Canadian troops on Thursday stormed and captured the German front lino heforo Avion, a suburb of Lens. By this ad vance the British line has been carried forward to within one mile of the cen ter of Lens. The attack was made along a twomile front. On the extreme left Nova Scotians pushed their way up the LensArras road to the village of Leauvette. MANY PERSONS FLEE FLOOD Town of Rock Creek, Ore.. ReDorted - I Swept Avay Fifty-Foot Dam Gives Way. Baker, Ore, June 30. Reports from Haines on Thursday said the town of Bock Creet virtually was swept away when a 5(Hoot dam at the flooded Killamancuc lake, lo miles west of Haines. gave way. Residents of Haines, which is in the path of the flood, are report ed hurrying for high ground. Nearly every building in the town is said to have been destroyed. Communication with the flooded district has been cut off. It is not known whether there has been any loss of life. Prison for Society Embezzler. Philadelphia, July 2. Jesse Wil liamson H, a social leader, was sen tenced to a term of eight to twentyfour years' imprisonment and pay a fine of $1,000 on indictments charging embezzlement of $275,000. Elect Earl's Son to Parliament. London, July 2. Lord Stanley, old est son of the earl of Derby of Eng land, hae been elected to parliament for the Abercromby division of Liv erpool, to succeed Col. Bichard G. Walmesley.

CAR DRIVES INTO NIAGRA TORRENT Five Dead and Several Injured As Result of Accident Sunday.

F0BTY PASSENGERS ON CAR Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 2. Five persons perished here Sunday afternoon when a trolley car on the gorge route jumped the track, plunged down a twenty-foot embankment and dived into ten feet of water on the edge of the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara river. Two known to have been on the car are missing and a score have been taken to hospitals. The bodies were recovered when the car was removed by a derrick five hours later. The fare register indicated that the car was carrying about forty persons. It is assumed that fKo swept down stream in the rushing current. The car left the track just below the cantilever bridge on the American side of the river and turned bottom side up. The cause of the accident Is said to have been a washout. The roadbed under the cantilever bridge lat the point where it occurred is a clay fill and recent heavy rains coming down the side of the chasm washed it out below the surface of the roadbed. When the heavily loaded car struck this weak spot, the rail on the river side, about ten feet from the embankment, gave way. The car turned on its side, slid down into the water and as it struck the rocky bottom of the river turned completely over, the top of the car resting on the bottorn of the river. Not more than half a minute elapsed between the time the car left the rails until it came to a standstill in the river. The suddenness of the- plunge prevented any attempts to escape, although the crowds in the vicinity quickly began the work of rescue. The point where the accident occurred was only a short distance below the falls and in full view of the crowds that throng the giant cantilever bridge. The car was one of the open type, the seats extending from side to side with steps on both sides the full length of the car. All the seats were occupied and some of the passengers were standing between them and there were others on the rear plat form. The car was running at a speed of about twenty miles an hour when it struck the weak spot in the roadbed. As it slipped down the twenty-foot incline from the tracks to the edge of the river, screaming men and women fought to escape and some of them were able to get free, but unable to obtain a footing on the steep bank. there was a mad scramble in the shallow water between the wrecked car and the river bank. From the river side the bodies of at least two of the passengers were seen to be caught in the swifter waters and were car ried down to the whirlpool. W. H. MOODY DEAD Haverhill, Mass., July 2. William H. Moody, former associate justice of the United States Supreme court, died at his home here at 1 o'clock this morning. The condition of the former justice has long been considered hopeless. Yesterday he began to sink rapidly. His sister, with whom he lived, was at his bedside when the end came. For many months a disease that caused a hardening of the joints made Judge Moody a helpless invalid, but he retained almost to the end the keenness of mind that made him one of the prominent figures in the public life of his country. Illness forced William Henry Moody's retirement as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1910. at the com paratively early age of 57 years. Arduous service, notably as head of the Department of Justice during the anti-trust campaign of the Roosevelt administration, and then four years on the Supreme court bench during which he was remarkably active, re sulted in a nervous collapse, which, with a severe attack of rheumatism, developed a prolonged illness. POWER PLANT BURNS Indianapolis, July 2. Fire of un known origin destroyed the pumping station and the power plant at the Marion County Home for the Incurable Insane at Julietta yesterday morning shortly after 6 o'clock. The fire originated apparently in the rafters under a slate roof in the cupola of the building and had gained considerable headway before it was discovered. There was no panic among the inmates of the institution in the main building, about forty feet away. The building was two stories high, of brick, and contained both the pumping station and the electrical and heating plants. The most serious loss to the institution was the two electrical dynamos. Both of these were put out of commission and the plant is without electricity. Efforts are being made to effect a junction with the wires of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and relieve this situation.

Hoosier News Briefly Told

Indianapolis. Federal court juryfound guilty of poll frauds Samuel V. Perrott, chief of police; Roy A. Pope, police captain; Wayland E. Sanders, police sergeant; Mo-ion C. Hülse, police sergeant; Herman F. Adam, Inspector of weights and measures, and Lee stringer, detective. Evansville. In accordance with the dying wish of Mrs. Ella M. Hetzel the mourners and pallbearers wore white and the casket was white. Frankfort. A high school course will be started at the Jefferson school next September. Alexandria. Rev. R H. Smith elected president of the North Madison County Methodist conference of ministers. Marion. Verdict of suicide was rendered by the coroner's jury in die case of the death of Fred Brake, former county clerk. Rosednle. William Fugate, flftytwo, miner, killed by falling slate. Bloomington. CUy council hits authorized a public market to be held on Wednesday and Saturday of each week. Marion. Marcus M. Kilgore, president of the Farmers' Trust aud Savings bank, defeated Mrs. Anna Bishlr for member of the school board. St. Wendel. Miss Loraine Wiissmor, twenty-one, gored by a bull on her father's farm. Shelbyvillc. Mrs. Grace L. Cox of Indianapolis has filed suit for divorce in the Shelby county court because her husband has enlisted in the medical corps. Orleans. Union evangelistic services are being held here in a mammoth tent. Greencnstle. Surviving members ot the Eighteenth Indiana battery held reunion here. Orleans. Mrs. Paul Weaver has entered suit against a group of men at West Baden for heavy damages for money her husband lost in gambling. Michigan City. German-American alliance hero, which raised over $5,Q00 for German relief In the early days of the war, have turned over a balance of 523 to the Red Cross. Lafayette. Mrs. Cecilia Bankhead died after eating greens. Rushville. Anderson township, Rush county, claims distinction of having exceeded Its Red Cross allotment by 500 per cent. Delphi. Miss Beulah Reap, graduate of Franklin college, elected princi pal of Burlington high school here. Brazil. Group of children here have adopted a French orphan. Mt. Vernon. W. S. Painter has been elected superintendent of the schools here. Goshen. Rock em n mill employees vaccinated during smallpox scare unahle to work. Mill shut down. South Bend. Inventory shows Studebaker estate totals $3,3S0,744. Brookvllle. Franklin county exceeded its Liberty bond quota by .$32.000. Lyons. This city lias at last secured current for electric light from the Indiana Power and Water company. Winamac. Old brick canning factory will be converted into a sawmill. Columbia City. Contract for unfinished work on the new city hall building has been awarded to J. B. Goodall & Son of Peru for $32.034. Warsaw. Group 1, Indiana Bankers' association held Its annual meeting and elected W. S. Rogers of this city president. Winslow. Chamber of commerce organized here with A. J. Heuring president. Bicknell. Three new mines are being sunk in this vicinity. Shelbyville. State fire marshal has ordered that five buildings in the business district be demolished. Alexandria. The Alexandria Preserving company is adding machinery that will enable it to can 600,000 quarts of tomatoes. Paoli. The Paoli State bank has distributed a carload of calves to boys and girls here to raise. Ter re Haute. Three autos collided at the entrance to Cavalry cemetery and Mrs. Carl Bott was badly injured. South Bend. Alien German residents of South Bend registered total 1.2S4. Worthington,. Presbyterian church here has called as pastor Rev. G. C. Sprague of Oakland City. Crawfordsville. Silas Patterson, fifty-eight, fell from a tree he was trimming and was killed. Gary. George Throckmorton, Phil Cohen, Roy Ungersoll aud James McCullough Indicted for gambling. Columbus. -Miss Mary Kollmeyer given $150 in gold and a reception In recognition of her 25 years' service as teacher of German Lutheran parochial school. Evansville. A scratch on the foot caused fatal case of tetanus to Anna Bell Lynn, eight, daughter of Dr. J. H. Lynn. Elwood. Broken back was suffered by William Trowbridge, farmer, when his auto turned turtle near here. Tell City. The Tell City Planing mill has received $20,000 contract for mill work of Spencer county infirmary. Mlshawakf.. Bert Kenyon has sold a patent on a packing ring to a New York concern for $8,000. Anderson. Madison county will sell $103,200 worth of road bonds. Tern. The chamber of commerce .has secured two new Industries for the city: The Marion Gray Iron company and the Welgle Modern Tool company. Rochester. Dr. E. L. Walte ha bocn given a commission for serrici la France.