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Virginia Congressman Would Cut Down the Cavalry Force.

May Be Brought Againat Directors of the Taber Bank on the Ground That Bad Loans Approved by Directors Would Not Have Passed Their Scru tiny Had Proper Diligence Been Observed in Exercise of Official Duties

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Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 10.—To recover so much as possible of the bank’s loss due to Taber's shorten * while president and to bad loans he made, stockholders representing a large majority of shares in the American State bank not held by President W. H. Taber and his relatives, wWi bring suit arainst the directors, it being alleged that they were either negligent or connived at the had loans, it is said that some of the accommoda tion paper Taber put in the bank for money he used personally was approved by the directors, and that of the bad loans the greater part of them passed the scrutiny of the directors Frank Hawley, who is a stoekhold er. says the total of Taber’s shortage and bad loans will amount to 3100,000. Mr. Raw ley says they may exceed the estimate he makes. With a total los. of $100,000 the receiver would he able to pay not to exceed 40 per cent to de-

positors.

Under the law stockholders can be assessed, twice the amount of their stock, and it Is because of this assessment that some of them propose to bring suit against the directors.

THE GREENCASTLE BANNER.

HARRY M. SMITH, Editor. Entered at the Post Oilice at Green eaetle, Indiana, as second class mail ■natter. Published every afternoon except Sunday at the Banner othce. corner of Vine and Fransdn streets. TELEPHONE 95.

SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN GAINS. A concerted attack, through varions publications, on the Republican party in Arkansas, is oua of the first In k purUjwni sch.-me to blacken* the Republican party in the South, and to deny that has any existence in that aection outside of combines for federal patronage. This sort of talk was formerly a Democratic habit in Missouri, but it heard no more since the Republicans carried this Btate in the last two presidential elections, and also in the last state election. The Republican party Is gain ing ground too fast in nearly all the Southern states to suit the leaders of the Democratic party, and they have accordingly set to work several writers to assail Republicanism in the South with reckless misrepresents- ! tlon or the slangy persiflage that is one of the political eruptive diseases of the moment. What Democratic managers object to in Arkansas is the rapid .steady gain in the Republican vote. They have seen how this symptom works out in Missouri. The vote in Arkansas in 1908 was Taft 56,760, Bryan 87,015. That looks like a vigorous opposition, not merely a federal patronage combine. In 1896 the vote of Arkansas was Bryan 110,103, McKinley 37,513. In 1908 the Republicans of Arkansas cast 37 per cent, of the total vote, and in 1896 25 per cent. Between 1896 and 1908 the Republican vote in the state gained 19,248, while the Democratic vote lost 23,088. Throughout this whole period of marked Democratic decline and Republican growth all the state patronage and state election machinery have been in Democratic hands These figures are not touched by the magazines and weeklies that have been employed by the Democratic agencies to deny taht there Is any Republican party In the former slave states. The fact that Missouri and Tennessee are under Republican governors is also blinked. The Democratic fear that Arkansas also will scon join the group la evident.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.

Teacher Killed Herself. Indianapolis, Feb. 10.—Miss Florence Fay, aged fifty-eight, a teacher in IndianaI ' ljs public schools for thirty years, ended her life by taking a quantlt> of poison. She taught school until about one year ago, when she retlrf t bef«';.;e of ill health. Her condition caused her to become despondent

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Pr ke Dcwn and Confessed. South H, nd Ind.. Feb. 10.—After a search of two years, Dominick Graff was arresti d here for a murderous assault on a young woman in Newcastle, Pa. Worn out by his efforts to elude Ih police, the prisoner broke down and confessed. Law Enforcerrent Demanded. Bloom fit' 1 Ind, Feb. 10.—The Good Citizen;'.' I.«:- uc, which was organized In Bloom' • ul ev<-ral years ago, has been rev: - I, it having been decided that steps should be taken in an effort to havi n d < nlorcement of the laws in Bloomfield

NOW REf.RY TO GD TO SENATE Lorimer Committee Concludes Its tong loiestlgatlon. DIVIDED REPORT IS LIKELY

JEALOUS HUSBAND Took a Trip to Italy to Kill Wife and Then Killed Himself. Hammond, Ind., Feb. 10.—Paul ScatIna. for twenty years one of Hammond's merchants, who amassed a fortune as a fruit Importer, stabbed his wife at Lucca, Italy, and then shot and killed himself The woman will recover. Scatina sent his wife and three children to Italy, where Satina owns a big estate, last AugusL He was informed after her arrival In Italy that a h ver had followed. He went to Italy, surprised her, and inflicted Injuries on her which he believed fatal before he shot himself.

BLOW AT CAVALRY House Resolution Aimed at Reduction of That Arm of the Army. Washington, Feb. 10.—The Democratic house has made a raid on the cavalry branch of the army, voting into the army appropriation bill an amendment offered by Representative Hay of Virginia, reducing the regiments of cavalry from fifteen to ten. or by 3.980 men and 225 officers. Mr. Hay says the amendment will save the government $4,376,253 a year. The amendment was not Indorsed by the military affairs committee and wag bitterly fought by the Republican side of the house. Despite this it was adopted, hut It undoubtedly will be the subject of prolonged discussion when the army bill Is reported from the committee of the whole In the house next week. Mr. Hay. In urging the amendment, declared that the United States army was too heavy In cavalry regiments, having fifteen regiments in that arm to thirty regiments of Infantry, or one-half. In the British army the cavalry constitutes only one-stxth of the Infantry.

BURUL IMPOSSIBLE Bodies Being Held Until the Ground Thaws Out Again. South Bend. Ind., Feb. 10.—When the v other moderates sufficiently to permit i he digging of graves, burying of bod!, s nil a wholesale scale will begin In the cemeteries of South Bend and vicinity. The ground is now frozen to such a depth grave digging by i id'nary methods Is Impossible. All bodies are now being placed In the receiving vaulls. The vault at Rivervb w cemetery already contains thirtysix bodies.

Must Give Up “Frats.” Shplbyville. Ind., Feb. 10—Eight high school students Joined the Phi Delta Kai-pa otigpier instituted here on© wet k ago. and as a result the school bosrd has issued an order against studcnis affiliating with such organizations. Superintendent Holton first took op the matter with State Superintendent Greathouse before acting. Too Many Tramps. Mltcboll, Ind., Feb. 10.—This place is overrun with tramps, and the jteople are demanding that the authorities rid the cdty of the hoboes, 'rtyenty-thre© got iff one freight train this week and begin panhandling” for food and money. Most of the tramps refuse to wo;k for food, and they have become a plague

GOOD NEWS AWAITED WORKHOUSE INMATE Wile ot HaWey flair Gels a Eli of a Emprise.

New York, Feb. 10—To face the prospect of enjoying a fortune of somethin? like $2,000,000, a little woman with tired eyes and a face ii[>on which the struggle with want and care hud left its marks, landed from the workhouse at Blackwell’s Island. She is the wife of Frederick Crandall, the nephew of Edwin Hawley, who had been cast off by his uncle for hei sake, and who is now to Inherit with a brother and sister one-fifth of the railroad man’s vast fortune. Mrs. Crandall’s sentence to the workhouse had come as a sort of climax to the hard luck that had been hers and her husband’s from the day when his uncle. In high wrath, turned him out of his office and washed hts hands of him. It was followed by the dispersal of their little family and the virtual breaking up of their home. The sudden transition from comparative poverty to affluence did not make Mrs. Crandall forget her children, and her thought seemed to be of seeing them. They have been staying with relatives at Chatham, N. Y. When she did talk about her husband's prospective fortune her chief Interest seemed to he In the effect it would have on her children’s future. There are five children, the oldeet thirteen and the youngest two. Mrs. Crandall was a telegraph operator in Hawley’s office before her marriage, and went to the workhouse foi fighting with a neighbor In a tenement house. Crandall has been keeping books in a stevedore's office.

It Is Apparent That the Committee That Has Buen Hearing Evidence Looking to Unseating of the Senator From Illinois la Not Agreed on the Character of the Finding Which

Is in Preparation For the Senate.

Washington, Fob- 10.—At last th© Lorimer investigation has come to an ©nd. It has dragged along dismally since last June, ami the closing of the case brought relief not only to mem bers of the investigating committee, but to senators generally. It looks now as if the subcommittee of the senate committee on privilege© and elec- j tion, which conducted the Investiga tlon. would be about equally divided Although nothing definite Is known the tenor of qucsilona lately put to witnesses has indicated that Kenyon, Kern and Lea are against Lorimer and Messrs. Dillingham, Gamble, Johnson and Fletcher In favor of him. Th© belief Is expressed that Senator Jones of Washington U In doubt. Senators Dillingham, Gamble, Johnson and Fletcher were members of the old senate committee on privileges and else

tlons which cleared Lorimer.

The closing act in the Investigation was the Introduction of the plea res ^ adjutiaca. Judge E. C. Hanecy. counsel for lorimer. announced that if 1 permitted the senator would Interpose i the plea that he had once successfully defended his title to his seat in the senate before that body and that the validity of his title could not be attacked the second time on the same charge. The committee agreed to permit this plea to he submitted. It will not only be passed upon by the com-

mittee, hut also by the senate.

The closing session was given to J. A. Sheridan, the Mums stenographer, who was required by the committee to give a physical demonstration of his capacity to take conversation over the dictagraph under the circumstances wljlch are alleged to have surrounded his performance In the hotel at Toronto. After this performance was over the Lorimer side insisted that Sheri dan had falhn down and the antl-lAiri-merites declared he had given an 1m

presslve exhibition of skill.

The memb' a of the committee were plainly .ikept* al -is to the value* ot Sheridan's dictagraph performaifce and that was the opinion of most of the people In the committee who heard the rending of the report which he took ever the dictagraph. The fact could not he Ignored that when his rep’n’t of a conversnflon which he had taken over the dictagraph was read and compared with the roi>ort of the same conversation- made by two official report* rs of the aenate who were In h* room where the talk occurred, the talk was to the disadvantage of the nurna mail. Members of the commlttee expressed dissatisfaction with the Bums man’s report. He got only fraemei 1:- it was said, of the talk, and these were dl-i-onnected and prac-

tically of no value as evidence.

T olmony of Miss Helen Seavers the telegraph operator at the New WIk ird, who said that Edward Hines, the Chien ;o lumber merchant, who was Involved in the Lorimer case, had off* red to pay her to show him a talegra .if had been filed with her by A r. Halle, a Burns detective, was coii 'fd by the compijttee, who decldrd iiat the Incident had no djrect b< ; ng n I.orimer’s right to his seal, amt after considering the matter In thi- ligiit hey agreed to hear Edward Him:; delta! of the Incident, and clom l the matter. Mr Hines admit-G-d lie read the telegram while standing nr t. , c-raph booth because It was 1- r upward and had attract ed his attenti n, but he denied }}• had

I offi red nmney for the message.

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Money Trust Inquiry Now Be-

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Two Men Crushed to Death. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 10.—Charles Kiefer, aged thirty-five, and William Summers, aged thirty-seven, members of the wrecking crew that had come from Peru to clear away the debris resulting from a freight wreck on the C. & O.. were In the act of attaching a hawser to a derailed box car when a cut of cars was backed down on them. Both men were crushed to death. Body Charred by Electricity. St. Ixnils, Feb. 10.—Frank Smith of Indianapolis, a lineman for the Illinois traction system, was killed by electricity while at work on a pole at Wor den, 111. He short circuited the wire he was splicing. More than 2,300 volts passed through his body, entirely burning his clothe* and leaving the body charred.

Beggars to Be Suppressed. Marlon, Ind , Feb. 10.—The federated charities ha* announced ft will ask the council to pass an ordinance forbidding begging In the city, and will make efforts to enforce the ordinance If U la passed.

LIKE QUICKSAND Was the Coal Slack In Which Workman Was Drawn to His Death. I’hllad* ills Feb. 10.—Strangled to death k . . i.iii iiiack Into which he sank as though it were quicksand, wae the fat" ■ 1 ; Coughlin at the coal yards of T. W Math* e & Sons. Before the body coi ! he taken out it was cecetsai y to ,f-- ovi the entire quantity of coal from him, When he sp-pped Into the bin he eat k sl"V.ly r first and faster when a driver • 1 one of the chutee. He "1 a In the shifting coal heiotc in- n-alized his peril. Shouting f 01 ,l, Tp '-iuly tried to drag him st-'f fr-nr thi. , iitches of bbe coal, but wit -lou . j I,, ■ ?f d down. By the tit r> otli, r 11 1 loycs reached the top 1 'he man had disappeared The Sam# Old Story, • d. ill . >eb. 10. —Jessie, da u'htel "fex circuit Clerk J. E. Dine more, undertook to start a fire with ' explosion took place, setth g 1 • r 'hulling on fire, burning her so bad!, that she died. The bouse wt s burned to th© ground. P!ie 1 nr-,.;i], oe trust Is slated for In 7I ' "1. crordlng to announcement made at the department ot luMMee

Washington, Feb. 10.—With a view to preparing remedial legislation if the facts collected warrant such a course, a resolution Investing the house committee on banking and currency with power to make an Inquiry into financial conditions has beeen announced by Representative Pujo of Louisiana, chairman of the committee. The Pujo resolution was presented in accordance with instructions by the recent Democratic caucus Tli© term ’’money trust” does not ap pear in the Pujo resolution. It directs the committee to make an Inquiry into financial conditions and to report what changea if any should lie made in the banking and currency laws. Broad powers are conferred u|>on the committee by the Pujo resolution. The committee le authorized to enforce the attendance of witnesses and to compel the production of books and papars While the Pujo resolution has not been formally passed on by Mr. Pujo's Democratic associates, It Is known that it meets with the approval of prac tlcally all of them. The Indications are 1 l«H #fe© ©eedutlon will be reoorted promptly by the committee on rules, of which Representative Henry of Texas Is chairman. William J. Bryan will in all probability be the first witness to appear. Mr. Bryan will be invited to make recommendations for changes In the monetary laws. The committee wants his advice and counsel. Incidentally Mr. Bryan may be asked upon what he based bis editorial declaration in the Commoner that the committee on banking and currency was “packed” with men wuo would not. be disposed to make such a thorough Inquiry of the activities of the money trust as was propofed In the Henry and Lindbergh resolution* Blown Out of Cellar by Gae. Kokomo, rnd., Feb. 10.—Going Into the cellar with a lighted lantern. John Uphuue and son, aged twelve, were blown out into the yard of the Uphaus home when gae exploded They were Intent upon lighting a coal oil stove to keep the cellar from freezing Mr Uphaua waa thrown against the door of another building Both father and son will recover.

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Promptly Rejected Hlrn, Evansville, Ind., Feb. 10—Julius Ayer* went to the local recruiting sta Mop and asked to be enlisted In the United Stales army, saying he wanted to be sent to the front to ho shot. Jle was not accepted. TjEtfSE TEJ.EGRAMS Salntoe Ixmis Du Rhone, near Mar eeiiiee. was visited by a tidal wave and there wm immense damage to shipping. The Woman Suffrage association of the District of Columbia has asked the president to appojwi a woman to the supreme bench. Twelve men were blowon to pieces and seven more Injured In a dynamite explosion m a construction camp at Rainy Lake, Ont. It 1* said that there are many more men in arm* againat the government In the state of Chihuahua than there are supporting It. All of the state of Chihuahua west of the city of Chihuahua and south of Jua;©* 18 ,n control of the rebels who am In arms against the Mexican got ernment. Mr. Taft’s political managers believe that the president will have a total of 780 vote* on the first ballot in the Chicago convention next June, while they think the opposition will not control more than 300 votes. Notice has been given to the government of Honduras that the United States reserve* the right to entertain olalme for damages In the event of the taking over by that government of the Valentine railroad In Honduraa, the evd 1 v road In that country-

American Trccjs Read/ tor an Instant Invasion. OUR INTERESTS ARE MENACED The Army Has Taken Every Step Preliminary to a Military Movement in the Event of a Crisis and the Word Is Now Awaited That Will Precipitate Uncle Sam’s Intervention in the Affairs of Troubled Republia Washington, Fob. 10.—That the Mexican situation is regarded as alarming, members of the administration, from tho very highest down, do not hesitate to say High officials see in the condition of the Mexican republic today a menace which they believe may develop into a crisis for the American people as well as the Mexicans. The disorder in Mexico is increasing daily. Every sheaf of reports frAm the American embassy at Mexico City and" the consular agents throughout Mexico add to the number of storm centers of lawlessness. The lives and property of 45,000 Americans are already seriously menaced by the disturbed state of Mexico. Rejtorts received in the last few days from all parts of Mexico say that the published statements in Mexican papers in the form of dispatches from the United States to the effect that this government Is contemplating intervention Is doing much to foment a spirit of great resentment against the Americans, for whom the Mexican has not at best any great love. There has been talk here of advising all Americans In Mexico to withdraw from that country. Tills suggestion. however, has been shelved. The army has laken every step preliminary to a military movement In the event of a crisis, yet not a man has been actually moved. Only enough soldiers have been placed near the boundary to protect the border cities and towns and enforce the neutrality laws. The troops are ready to go, orders are drawn, routes are mapped, but the very men who have prepared for a big military movement declare thing* will have to tieconie Infinitely more alarming before a Mexican invasion will he considered. SANITY QUESTIONED Movement to Save Man From Gallows Over.Hia Own Protest.# London, Feb. 10.—A petition has been filed hy the friends of Albert Reeves, who recently slew his infant son. ”to save him from I he maelstrom of modern Industrial life,” asking the home office to commute the prisoner’s death sentence. The plea is made aga list Reeve’s own protest. The man made an extraordinary plea when he was taken before the court. Refusing the services of a Counsel, he calmly arose and said In a firm voice: “Your lordship, l am guilty I am of perfectly sound mind and f knew what I was doing. I realize the gravity of the charge, and T am ready to satisfy the law's demands. It is Incumbent upon you to sentence me

to death.”

limning the black cap, the judge passed sentence as the prisoner requited. He expressed the hope, however, that the home office would Inquire into the man s sanity.

GOING TO FIGHT IT Alleged Butter Truet Will Have to Show Cauee In New York Court. New York, Feb. 10.—After a two wa rns' investigation of the butter situaUirn, Assistant District Attorney De Ford ha* arrived at the conclusion that the New York Mercantile Exchange, an organlza'icn of produce dealers which comprises most of the butier, egg ana cheese job bora in the city. Is virtually a conspiracy In restraint of trade. He bus filed with Madstrafe Murphy information to that effect, in which be asks for warrants for the 4D0 members of the exchange and within a week or ten days Magistral e Murphy will hear evidence corroboratlng the Information In a series of 1 ublle hearings similar to those held Ii-m summer by Magistrate Appletog In the Ice Investigation Abbe Charles t-oysoa. known throughout the world as Pere Hyaclnthe, is deqd in his eighty-fifth year.

INDIANA’S FAMOUS HEALTH RESORT The people of New York, Boston and other eastern cities have awakened to the fact that Indiana contains one of the most famous health and pleasure resorts in all the world. They have been visiting French Lick and West Baden Brings in increasing numbers year after year until now tbe travel has grown so heavy that the Monon, In connection with the New York Central Lines, has decided to establish through sleeping car service between New York and French Lick Springs. This service will be established on March 3, 1912. The first through car will leave New York Sunday, March 3, and the first through car will leave French Lick Springs, Tuesday March 5. This will continue daily through the spring season, the last car to leave New York May 24 and the last car to leave French Lick May 26. This service will be re-established in the Fall, the first car to leave New York September 15 and tbe first car to leave French Lick September 17, last car to leave New York November 13 and French Lick November 16. The schedule will be as follows: WEST BOUND. Leace New York, 12:40, N. Y. C. No 41. Ar. Indianapolis, 11:15 A. M. Lv. Indianapolis, 11:40 A. M. Ar Crawfordsville, 1:02 P M. Lv. Crawfordsville, 1:40 P. M„ C. I. & L . No. 5. Ar French Lick Springs, 6 P. M. EAST BOUND. Lv. French Lick Springs, 9:10 A. M., C. I. & L. No. 6. Ar Crawfordsville, 1:00 P. M. Lv. Crawfordsville, 1:16 P. M., Big Four No. 16 Ar Indianapolis, 2:35 P. M. Lv. Indianapolis, 3:05 P. M. Ar New York, 3:45 P. M. It Is Intended that the above service ^hall he in operation every year, until such time, and It is probaly not far distant, when a special train will be necessary to handle the travel.

WHEN HER BACK ACHES. A Woman Finds All Her Energy and Ambition Slipping Away, Greencastle women know how^23 aches and pains that come when the kidneys fall make life a burden. Backache, hip pains, headaches, dizzy spells, distressing urinary troubles, all tell of sick kidneys and warn you of the stealthy aproach of dropsy or Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills nre for the kidneys only. They attack kidney diseases by striking at the cause. Can Greencastle sufferers desk-e stronger proof than this woman’s word? Mrs. Amla Jones, 807 S. Grant St., Brazil, Ind., says: “Several years ago I suffered from kidney complaint and dull pains in the small of my hack. When I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills. I procured a supply and began their use at once. I soon felt much better and since then whenever I have been in need of a kidney remedy, I have taken Doan’s Kidney PUla, They have proved „of beoeflt and for that reason I have no hesitation In recommending them. I have previously told of my experience with this remedy through the local papers and I now willingly verify my former statement ” For sale hy all dealers. price 50 cents Foster-Milhurn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States Remember the name—Doan’s—and take r)li other.

TO CORRE-SPONDENTB Ptcaae use a bob lead pencil, m one side of the sheet a*d mop' r names very plain THF PANV1

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WEATHER EVERYWHERE

Observations of United States weather bureaus taken at 8 p. m. yesterday follow: Temp. Weather.

New York

Clear

Boston..

Clear

Denver

Clear

1 1 c 1

Rain

St. Paul —

-10

Clear

Chicago

Clear

Indianapolis...

Cloudy

St. Louis

Clear

New Orleans..

Rain

Washington... 28

Clear

Fair, slowly rising temjrat ure. 7

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