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E PILOT ON WILD RIDE Death of Chester Johnson of Lynn, Follows Sudden Derangement While Driving Car With Friends. PACE ROUSES FEAR Anger When Companion Stops Engine Causes Uneasiness-Physicians Differ on Cause of Death. LYNN, Ind., Oct 19. As the car .driven by Chester Johnson, swung Mid careened along the road east of Fountain City at a terrific clip Friday 'afternoon, partial realization that they were being piloted on the -wild ride by m deranged man came to his companiJons. His subsequent actions and (death Sunday afternoon confirmed their fears. j Chester Johnson, a freshman at jEarlham college, and his brother Merl were on their way to Spartansburg, 'taking Rex Morgan, a friend, to his heme. East of Fountain City, young 'Johnson opened the throttle of his car wide, hurling the machine along the highway at such reckless, hairraising pace that his companions became frightened. One of them kicked the switch to kill the engine and stop tae machine. , Enraged by this act, Johnson left the automobile and started to walk to jhls home In Lynn. Subsequent actons convinced Merl Johnson and ! Morgan that something was wrong. Whey overtook the young man and seek him to the home of Charles Day, i Where physicians were summoned. He became unconscious immediately and remained in that condition until his death Sunday afternoon. The four doctors differed in assigning the cause for the sudden derangement. One pronounced the affliction as congestion of the brain and the other three gave the cause as double pneumonia. Services will bo held at the home in Lynn, Tuesday afternoon. President Robert L. Kelly of Earlham will have charge of the funeral. GERMAN CAPTAINS WRECK DESTROYERS TO EVADE CAPTURE 193 Lose Lives When British Cruiser Corners Craft Scouting on North Sea Saturday. BY FREDERICK WERNER, BUff Correspondent for International News Service. BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Oct. 19 Preferring wreck and death to capture, by the British, the commanders of the German torpedo destroyers S-115, S-117, S-118 and S-119 drove their vessels upon the coast of the North Sea on Saturday, when cornered by the English cruiser Undaunted, according to a statement issued at the admiralty today. The four destroyers were completely wrecked. The crews of the vessels numbered 524 men and nearly all of them are Relieved to have been lost. (The British admiralty announced ton Saturday that the Undaunted had sunk four German destroyers and that thirty-one members of their crews had been taken prisoners. This announcement and the Berlin statement would Indicate that 1793 Germans lost their Jives.) It is stated that the action of the German commanders in dashing their Doats upon the rocks were complying with orders that under no circumstances should they permit the enemy to take their boats. The four lost destroyers were built Sn 1902-03 in Naval Yards on the Baltic Sea. They were all of the same class, being 210 feet long, and have a displacement of 413 tons, a beam of 23 feet, a draught of 7.6 feet and a speed of 28 knots. Each destroyer corried a complement of 56 men, and an armament consisting of three 4-pounders and two machine guns. HARMAN DELIVERS FIRST TALK HERE New First Methodist Pastor Takes Up Work With Local Charge. Only a strong union with the great head of the church will secure success of the church in all its actions. Set your Ideals high, and do not lower them for anyone, and you cannot lose," said Rev. Harry C. Harman, new pastor of the First Methodist church, yesterday morning. In the evening Rev. Mr. Harman chose as his subject, "Why the War in Europe?" He said, "The war was undoubtedly caused by the fact that the people and their rulers did not have the peace element in their thoughts. They had been storing up equipment and munitions of war for years, and they simply had to use them." Members of the congregation were much pleased with the two sermons .tir Rev. fiarny -

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BEVERIDGE LIEN PLAN RECEPTION FOR CANDIDATES Senatorial Nominee and Elbert Russell Big Features of Progressive Rally in City Tuesday.

STUDENTS TAKE PART Earlham Voters Organize Drum Corps and Glee Club for Richmond and Liberty Meetings. Tomorrow will be Beveridge Day in Wayne county. In the afternoon, at 1 o'clock, when Mr. Beveridge, the Progressive candidate for United States senator, speaks at Cambridge City an immense crowd from all over western Wayne county and northern Fayette county will greet him, and in the evening he will address at the coliseum one of the largest audiences that ever attended a political meeting in Richmond. Mr. Beveridge will address an open air meeting at Cambridge City if the weather is favorable and preceeding his address Elbert Russell, the Progressive candidate for congressman, will deliver a brief address and then leave at once for Liberty where he will address another political meeting until Mr. Beveridge arrives. At the conclusion of Mr. Beverldge's address both will leave for Richmond. Mr. Russell as well as Mr. Beveridge will address the Richmond meeting. Many Send Delegations. William Judkins of Cambridge City, 1 Park Gipe of East Germantovvn and ; Orange Hall of Dublin, have charge of the Beveridge acd Russell meet ing. The Milton band will furnish the ; music. j Delegations from all over Wayne i county and neighboring counties will i attend the Beveridge meeting in Rich-1 moiid. Word was received today that; hand accompanied by a drum corps composed of twenty-one first voters. Progressive headquarters was also informed today that the Progressive voters at Rarlham college intpnrl tn ! attend the Beveridge meeting in a I I body and will march to the city from ! the college. They will have their own !

drumcorps and glee club. The Ricb-iee Saturday evening in an attempt matid city band has been engaged to : to rout the Freshmen, who were holdfurnish the music for the big meeting. '. ing a reception in the parlors of the , Seats on the platform have been re- library. The innocent little freshies served for old soldiers and it was were unprepared for this sort of at-

learned today that a large number of them will attend the meeting as , Mr Beveridge is very popular with them. Gus Hoelscher, Progressive candidate for representative, is to be chairman. GOES TO LIBERTY. LIBERTY, Ind., Oct. 19. -Union

county voters expect much of Bev-1 building and for a while a massacre eridge's address. Senator Beveridge seemed evident. will invade Union county for the first j "Don't kill thorn," screamed Miss time in his public career tomorrow, ! Bassett, director of girls' at hletics, when he will speak in the new Stanley 1 who attended the reception. Her adMemorial building at 3 o'clock to an ; monition was heeded, and they didn't audience that, it is predicted, will pack kin them, but when the lights went the theatre. That he will be greeted ! on they looked much the worse for the here with a rousing reception is an orieal "l'' ,v. .... I Put Chemical in Room.

ience until Mr Beveridge's arrival performing the ' same service at the ! Cambridge City meeting early in the afternoon. A quartet and drum corps made up from among Earlham students will take part in the Liberty meeting, which will take on some of the "ear marks" of the real, old-fashioned political rally, and will make Union county, the so-called "stand-pat" citadel of the Sixth district, sit up and view the dawn of a new political day. Mr. Beveridge is expected, by his overwhelming political logic to double the Progressive vote in this county at tomorrow's meeting. SINKS SUBMARINE Austrian Attacks Cruiser, But Is Sent to Bottom of Sea. BY LEASED WIRE. CETTINJE, Oct. 19. It is officially announced by the Montenegrin war office that the French cruiser Wal-deck-Rousseau has sunk an Austrian submarine off the Dalmatian coast and is now bombarding Cattaro. The official statement follows: "Two Austrian submarines left the Bocche Di Cattaro today and attacked the French fleet which was proceeding from Antivari to Dalmatian coast. The French cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau sank one of the submarines and the fleet afterward bombarded the forts at Cattaro. "An Austrian aero-plane from Castelinova dropped several bombs upon French war-ships conveying transports, but the bombs failed to explode. WIN AMATEUR TITLE BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO. Oct. 19. The TellingStrollers of Cleveland, O., won the national amateur baseball championship here Sunday, defeating the Butler Bros.' team of Chicago, 3 to 2, and gaining possession fof one year of the $1,000 challenge bowl. Crygalis pitched for Cleveland, allowing but four hits. Shiners pitched for the Chicago club. YOUNG MOLTKE DEAD BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Oct. 19. The death of the son of Field Marshal Count von Moltke, head of the German general 6taff, in the military hospital at Fecamp, Is announced by the Matin. He was wounded during the early fish tins in jTaao.

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Ammonium valeriate, the vilest ! smelling chemical ever concocted, was uaed bv sophomores of Earlham coltack and. as a result, they Buccumbed before the upper classmen and the party" was called off for a while, un til the building could be properly aired. In the melee which followed, Earl Kemp, the college yell leader, and Carroll Edwards, both sophs, were captured and bound hand and foot. By this time the light went cut in the The chemical, which started the ! trouble, was injected through a win- j dow by a sophomore on top of a lad- j JAP CRUISER DESTROYED BY TEUTON MINE 347 Nipponese Sent to Bottom of Kiao Chau Harbor in the First Big Naval Loss. BY MERRITT F. PRESTON, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. TOKIO, Oct. 19 The destruction of the Japanese cruiser Takachiko by a min in Kiao Chau was officially announced by the admiralty. This is the most important naval loss sustained by the Japanese since they began war against German in the far east. Only one officer and nine men, out of a total complement of 357 are known to have been saved. The disaster occurred on the night of October 17. The cruiser, while steaming through the bay to take up a better position for the bombardment of the German forts, struck a mine which blew an enormous hole in the hull of the ship. The Takachiho was 300 feet long and 46 feet in beam. Her displacement was 3,700 tons, and her speed 18 knots, The main battery of the lost ship consisted of eight six-Inch guns. WEST COAST SHIP WRECKED BY FIRE BY LEA8ED WIRE. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 19 The steamer Santa Catalina, a $700,000 freighter, owned by the Grace Steamship company of New York, was burned to the water's edge in the Columbia river, thirty miles from Portland, yesterday. She was beached In time to save her passengers and crew with the exception of a fireman named Johnson, who was burned to death. CRASH KILLS TWO GRANGER, Texas, 'Oct. 19. Two trainmen were killed and six passengers Injured when a Missouri, Kansas tc Texas train was derailed ner Bart

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The object seen in the foreground der. President Kelly had warned the sophs at a meeting the first of the week that if a skunk was used again, as was the cass last year, a number of second-year men would be hunting another college to attend. Conseqxiently, the sopha evaded the warn ing of the president by using a good substitute, i I I1 oiiowmg the reception a free-for-all , rough house ensued in both dormi-; ! tories. The second and third floor3 j of Bundy dormitory wore converted i , into bowling alleys. Governor Law-; rence was locked in his room and for two hours noise reigned supreme. A similar rcuph house took place in I Earlham hall along feminine lines, and some of the fair freshmen co-eds found their best lingerie waists tied i in bow knots. j j "It was simply awful," said one freshman girl. "They treated us awful." j In the celebration at Bundy hall, ! Carleton Edwards, a senior, got in the road of a flying dumbbell as he stuck his head out of his door to witness the freshmen-sophomore celebration, and is now suffering a broken nose. DISTRICT FRAY Congress Detains Democrat Eager to Present Case Before Voters of Wayne County in Speeches. Democratic county chairman, Jack Harper, today received a letter from Representative Finly Gray, stating that he was detained in Washington until the adjournment of congress and that it was probable he would not arrive in Richmond to open his campaign for re-election until Wednesday or Thursday of this week. He did not announce what his arrangements were for conducting his Wayne county campaign but it is expected that he will spend at least three days of his limited time before election in Wayne county ! and will make at least three speeches. The three leading, parties have centered their fighting in the Sixth district in Wayne county, which has the largest vote of any of the eight counties, and Mr. Gray is keenly anxious to get into the fray. Next Monday night L. Ert Slack will speak for the Democrats at Cambridge City. The big Democratic meeting of the campaign will be held in this city next Saturday night when Governor Ralston speaks at the coliseum. It is probable this meeting will also be addressed by Representative Gray. P. J. Lynch opened a week's campaign in Wayne county at noon today when he spoke to a number of factory employes at the Starr Piano company. He blamed the low tariff policy of the Democrats for the present industrial depression and he urged that the Republican party be placed in control of the government again for the restpration of prosperity. This afternoon Mr. Lynch spent In Richmond calling up voters. Tonight he will speak at Middleboro, Whitewater and Bethel, arriving at the lat ter place at 8 o'clock. He will conduct noon factory meetings in Richmond until Friday. The G. O. P. campaign will be brought to a close on the evening of October 30, when Senator Burton of Ohio, will

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TEACHERS OPEN PENSION FIGHT TO ATTAIN END Wh Renewed Vigor Wayne Cty Inf ctrs e of Protective System. OUTLAND NEW HEAD Association Elects Members cf Richmond Corps to All UlllCeS FOStpone - betting Date for Next Year.

Wayne county teachers have again the scene Barnes was found on the renewed their activities to secure sidewalk with half his body off the tsachcrs' pension, this time on more I bridge. Ashby was on top of the extended scale than ever before. broken rallinS- hi9 h?ad, hanSin -..... .. . tl . 4 and perilously near losing his balance At the meeting of the Wayne County j and tumDHng lnt0 the bottoms. The Teachers' Association Saturday after- j f0re part of the automobile was off noon the legislative committee re-1 the bridge. It was prevented from volturned a resolution favoring a state-! Planing into the valley by the rear , , . , wheel holding securely to the curbing, wiae compulsory pension law which Threewitts. whose rig had been the teachers at ence made a matter of ' struck from behind, was found wanrecord almost unanimously. dering about in a daze when the crowd After the rebuff the Richmond teach-1 reached the scene. His face was cut ers received last year at the hands of i nnd his neck wrenched, but he Insisted

i the Richmond school board and the I proceedings of two years ago when the ; county board of education flatly re- ; fused to consider pensioning teachers. it is said that the association members will attack the proposition with more vigor than before. It is probable that the fight will go into the Indiana State Teachers' association which meets In Indianapolis the last three days of October. A resolution was passed by the teachers that it is the duty of all Wayne county teachers to attend the sessions of the state association. Want Powerful Law. The school teachers, few of whom are men, believe that a tight law should replace the present loose act on teachers' pension which would com-! pel school boards to heed the demands (Continued on Page Two.) mm hale RETOBNSJOJOTHAM William Bayard Hale, confidential agent of President Wilson during the Huerta embroglio, who has been the guest of his brother Alton Hale on the Henley road, and of his sister Miss Minnie Hale. South Nineteenth street. left late this afternoon for his home in New York city. Mr. Hale was accompanied to this city "by his wife and son William Harlan Hale. Mr. Hale spent a week in this city at the home of his brother on a short vacation. He denied himself to all callers and newspaper men, as he de - sired a rest after a strenuous session ! of work for President Wilson LAKE SHORE TRAIN GIVES STORK CHANCE BY LEASED WIRE. ELKHART, Ind.. Oct. 19. Lake Shore train No. 3 was delayed nearly an hour this morning while the stork made his advent. A physician and a nurse were rushed to the station, and while several hundred passengers wondered at the cause of the delay, a woman passenger, whose name was not learned, gave birth to a 10-pound boy. MORE ARCHIVES BY LEA8ED WIRE. BERLIN, Via Amsterdam, Oct. 19. The archives of the Russian embassy at Constantinople have been sent to Odessa, according to reliable reports here. This indicates that diplomatic relations between Turkey and Russia

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TO VALLEY 50EET BELOW Robert Smith Seriously Hurt by Fall While "Joy Riding"- Companions Get Badly Bruised in Crash CAR SMASHES THREEWITS BUGGY

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THE INJURED. Robert Smith, hemorrhage of the left lung and hemorrhage of the. kidneys. Seriously Injured, but not necessarily fatally. Alvin Threewltts, neck wrenched and face cut. Benjamin Barnes, hip badly bruised. Robert Aahby, slightly bruised. Late Saturday night Ben Barnes, an automobile mechanic, and Robert Ashby, a circulation solicitor for the Item, an afternoon' newspaper, induced Robert Smith, a tester employed by the Wayne Works, to take them "joy riding" in a five passenger automobile, which Smith owns jointly with Ed Drinker and Dale Bowers. The trip was concluded in two minutes' time, when a rig driven by Alvin i Threewltts, an Abington township farm er, was demolished near the east end of the Main street bridge, and the car plunged into the north railing.breaking off a whole section, and hurling Smith headlong into the valley, fifty-five feet below. He alighted on a pile of cinPf an is couoS 'iSSl'S though at first he was not thought to be very badly injured, having suatained no broken bones. Dangles on Railing. j from the back seat and narrowly es caped falling off the bridge. When the advance guard of the large crowd n-Vilr-h finrUorl tn the hridee reached that he was not badly hurt, and later secured another rig and drove home, The horse was uninjured and made no effort to run away after the accident. "Barnes and Ashby had been drinkingy and failed to realize what narrow escapes they had from death until the next morning," said Chief of Police Goodwin today "I do not believe Smith was drunk, although he may have been drinking that night. We are making an investigation of the case to determine whether the three young men will be prosecuted." Police for Prosecution. At the board meeting this morning the sentiment was expressed that the young men should be prosecuted. The ; city will repair the damage done to the bridge at once and then present the bill to Smith, Ashby and Barnes. Smith told friends after the accident that Threewitts was driving in the center of the bridge between the car tracks and the sidewalk. He said he decided to pass around the rig to the north, which is a violation of the traffic regulations, because he did not want to drive on the car tracks. Smith says that just as he turned his car to the right Threewitts turned in the same direction. The automobile hit the rig with such force that it broke it into kindling wood. Then the right ! frame of the macnine, usi unoer ine ! radiator snapped and the car plunged ! wlth the force of a battering ram into the railinghuriing smun over me winashield far out into the pitcby darkness of the river valley. Threewitts says he was driving close to the sidewalk and that the automobile struck his rig as it swerved to the left. "Some Drop," He Said. When the first arrivals learned that Smith was in the river valley they 'went to search for him, expecting to find him dead. iney naa no ngnts, and their search would have been a dlffcult one if Smith had not been conscious and directed them to the place The Weather FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer tonight east and south portions. Temperature. Noon 67 Yesterday. Maximum 67 Minimum 49 W. E. MOORE'S FORECA8T. LOCAL Fair tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and continued mild. Probably becoming unsettled. GENERAL CONDITION Present mild weather due to low barometric pressure over northern United States. No Immediate prospect tor eoM weaia-

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on Bridge where ho was. They picked htm op ' and carried him to Main street, where he was placed in a machine and hor ried to the hospital. He Insisted air the time that he was not Injured. "Gee, that was a long drop." he re marked. "I thought I never was going to hit the bottom. I thought a million things on the way down. Both Barnes and Ashby, It la said were far from rational when assistance reached them, despite the terrible experience they had joat gone through. Barnes was sobbing. Ashby was "dead to the world" and at first it was thought he had been terribly hurt. With tender care he was removed to the hospital In the police automobile and a physician was hurried to his bedside. Finally he revived long enough to exclaim, "Let me alone, I'm all In," then resumed his slumbers and snoring. The accident occurred about 11:30 o'clock Saturday night, and by midnight the bridge was congested with sightseers. Threewltts Goes Heme. Threewitts, who is one of the bestknown Democratic leaders In the county, absolutely refused medical aid. He said he had not called on a doctor for twenty years and did not intend to do so now. "Some fellow said I had better not drive home tonight, as I might die of heart failure," remarked Threewitts. "Well, I might as well die trying to get home as to stay in Richmond and get killed. I don't think there is much the matter with me, except that my neck is about broke." When the machine struck the rig Threewitts was thrown to the paring, a distance of several feet, with great violence. He had some groceries and a considerable number of nails, all of which were scattered far and wide. He finally secured another rig and drove to his home south of Centerville. Wheals Fall to Valley. Barnes had his hips badly bruised, but Ashby escaped with only a few bruises. Both were discharged from the hospital yesterday. The incident Saturday night was the first serious one that ever happened on the Main street bridge. The automobile driven by Smith was not badly damaged, although it demolished a buggy and tore away a whole section of the bridge railing. The right front fender was badly twisted, both front wheels broken off and the axle broken, but the hood did not receive a dent, and the engine and steerj ing gear are undamaged. One wheel ; fell into the valley when the car j the railing, and when the car was bit re moved later the other wheel and the axle fell off into the bottoms. Not a spoke of the two wheels was broken. VAIL SEEKS POST ON SUPREME BENCH Lou W. Vail of Goshen, Progressive candidate for judge of the supreme court, was born In Elkhart county, of Quaker parentage, and worked on a farm until he arrived at manhood. He was schooled at Raisin Valley Seminary in Michigan and at Earlham college, Richmond. Ind. In 1871 he settled In Kansas, taking up a homestead in Smith county. He spent three years roughing it in the frontier, after which be returned to Elkhart county and for several years was a successful school teacher. He took up the study of law in 1876 in the office of the late Judge Henry D. Wilson in Gosben. 81nce that ttma ha has lived and sreetleed law

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