The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 9, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 September 1916 — Page 2

ZEPa RAID LONDON; IWJEKILLED Two Arhips Are Shot Down During Attack. CREW OF ONE SHIP DEAD German Dirigible Bursts Into Flames After Being Hit by Shell and Falls to Earth—Crew of Another Captured by British. London, Sept. 26. —Twelve Zeppelins, ■which raided London and the southeast count»es of England last night, killed 30 persons and injured 110 others, according to a British official statement issued here. Os the casualties 28 men, women and children were killed and 90 men, women and chil- '* dren Were injured in the metropolitan area of London. Two of the Zeppelin airships, both of a new pattern, were shot down in Essejt. The crew of one was killed, but: the crew of thp other, consisting of 2? men, was captured. ObtSide of the London district two persons were killed and 11 injured in an East Midland town, and it is feared that two other bodies may be buried in the ruins. The missiles dropped by the hostile aircraft caused numerous tires and demolished or damaged a large number wf residences and stores in London. The casualties in the metropolitan area, according to an official compilation, are as follows: Killed, men, 17, women S, children 3. Total, 28. Injured, men 45, women, 37, children 3. Total. 99. Messages from correspondents at various# points between London and the Essex coast describe the delight of watchers when the first raiding airship was brought down in flames about one o’clock in the morning. People rushed from their houses to points of vantage when the sound of guns was heard and they watched the airship as it proceeded eastward conin the glare pf concentrated searchlights, with shells bursting around it in such close proximity that watchers were convinced hits must hi*ve been scored. Suddenly there was aflash, then a burst of flame and a storm of cheers as the blazing airship descended slowly, a huge ball of fire still outlined Ln the rays of the searchlights. BOMB DROPS NEAR HOOVER. Leader of Belgian Relief Beside Man X""\nded on a Seized Ship. J. Sept. 26. —The Dutch mail • steamer Prins Hendrik, which was seized by German naval forces while bound from Flushing for London and taken into Zeebrugge, was in great danger when as the steamer was being escorted toward that port’ for the second time an entente allied aeroplane dropped a bomb intended for a convoying German destroyer within twenty feet of the steamer. One Dutch passenger and two sailors were wounded. This is the story told by passengers of the Prins Hendrik who have landed here. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American commission for Belgian relief, was standing beside the wounded passenger and narrowly escaped injury. The hull of the vessel was penetrated in 23 places. 250 RESCUED FROM STEAMER. Ship in Danger of Breaking Up on Maine Rocks. Cape Elizabeth, Me., Sept. 26. —The ■coastwise steamer Bay State went ashore and is in danger of breaking, about a mile to the westward of Two Lights, near here. The crew from the local coastguard station went to the rescue. The Bay State carried. 250 passengers, all of whom were taken off by the revenue cutters Ossipee and three tugs. The steamer was abandoned on Sunday fiy the last of its crew. The steamer began to pound so heavily the men signaled the tWStguard, who took off the 14 men in the breeches buoy. I BRITISH FREE 38 TEUTONS. Civilians Seized From U. S. Steamer China in Far East Are Released. Washington, Sept. 23. —The state department was officially notified on Friday in a dispatch from Consul General Brittain at Sydney, of the release there of the 38 civilians of the Teutonic powers who were seized illegally while on board the American steamer China in the far East months ago. The release resulted from a strong protest by the state department to ' Great Britain. ;. i ■ Acrobat Leaps Under Train. New York, Sept. 26.—Louis Kelso Brennan, an acrobatic performer in leading vaudeville circuits under the name of Louis Kelso, threw himself in front of an exifress train in the subway and was ground to pieces. U. S. Airman Dies in France * Winston-Salem, N. C., Sept. 26,—Kiffen Yates Rockwell, a young American who has been serving with distinction in the French aero corps on the western battle front, was killed in a fight with a German aircraft. Kaiser at the East Front. Copenhagen, Sept. 25. —Kateer Wilhelm has arrived at the Ko#l front, .according to advices received here, arid it is believed that Von Hinden-K,-lmrg is about to inaugurate a drive against the Russians. U. S. Aids War Orphans. New York. Sept. 25.—Seventy thousand dollars has been raised in the 1 nited States for the Holland-Ameri-can Home for Homeless Belgian Orphans. It was announced by Miss Hen- • drika Van Der Flier. t

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New and hitherto unpublished photograph of William M. McCombs, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, who has just received the Democratic nomination for United States senator from New York.

FIERCE RIOTING IN NEW YORK STREET CAR STRIKE Officers Battle With Mob and Many Cars Are Wrecked—Police Captain Injured. New York, Sept. 22. —Wild rioting by strikers along routes where surface cars were being operated on Wednesday kept the police in constant battles with strikers and their sympathizers. Several ears were completely wrecked. A score or more of rioters were arrested. Others were sent to hospitals or sought refuge in their homes, where broken heads caused by police sticks were mended. Police Captain Dempsey was seriously injured and was sent to a hospital. Flying squadrons of policemen in automobiles, detailed to circulate in plain clothes through Rtfty-ninth, For-ty-second and One Hundred and Twen-ty-fifth streets, where cars were run, routed many attacking mobs of strikers. The ferocity of the strikers eclipsed any previous attempts on their part to check traffic. Scores of passengers were more or less injured by dying glass. Bricks and bottles were hurled through car windows. Wherever possible motormen put on all speed when they espied waiting crowds of strikers and in this way escaped hand-to-hand, encounters. EIGHT AUTOISTS ARE KILLED. Four Illinoisans Lose Lives When Machine Collides With Train. Terre Haute, Ind.. Sept. 26. —Two men. one woman and a child were killed and another woman seriously injured on Sunday when their automobile collided with a Vandalia passenger train at Liggett Crossing. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Orla' Lang, Fred B. Conley and ills four-year-old son. all of Charleston, 111. Mrs. Conley was brought to a local hospital, where it was said she probably would recover. It is believed the brakes of the automobile failed. Van Wert, 0., Sept. 26. —Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Binkley of Hume, Allen county, and two of their children were killed when a train struck their automobile near here on Sunday. ‘Their two other children were seriously injured. FRENCH WIN AT VERDUN. Joffre's Men Take Several Hundred Yards of Positions. London, Sept. 23.—The furious German assault on the French lines north of the Somme had its echo on the great battlefield of Verdun on Thursday, where on the two hundred and thirteenth day of that battle the French renewed the combat with a drive which gained them several hundred yards of German trenches. There were two French attacks, one directed at Thiaumont and the other at the German positions in the eastern part of Vaux-Chapitre woods. The Germans admitted officially that they lost ground. U-BOAT FIRES ON LINER French Steamer Caucase Arrives Safely at Marseilles. Marseilles. Sept. 25. —The French Mediterranean liner Caucase, of 4.126 tons, was brought safely into port after being chased and fired upon by a Teutonic submarine. When the submarine opened fire the captain of the liner ordered everyone below deck. Tire Blows; Driver Is Hurt. Keokuk, la., Sept. 25.—A bursted tire caused the accident in which Louis Corbeitle, a driver, was injured in the 100-inile automobile race at Macomb. Thomas Colemeyer, his mechanician, also was hurt. German Leaders to Confer. Berlin, Sept. 25.—The relchstag. which is to be reopened Thursday, will he preceded in the course of the next few days -by confidential conferences between Gottlieb ven Jagow and party leaders. Shoots Father and Mother. Chicago, Sept. 23.—1 n a fit of anger because his supper did not please him, William Schuetz shot both his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Kasper Schuetz. Surgeons say Mrs. Schuetz will probably die. Bacon Cbncedes His Defeat. New York, Sept. 23. —Robert Bacon conceded his defeat by William M. Calder for the Republican United States senatorial nomination at Tuesday’s primaries. He then offered his services to Hughes

THE SYRACUSE AND LAKE WAWASEE JOURNAL

APPONYI EXPECTS 0. S. TO MEDIATE

Austrian Diplomat Expresses His Faith in Washington.

LOOKS TO UNITED STATES

Says When Peace Comes and Time Arrives for Services of Neutral Power Great Republic Best Fitted for the Work.

London, Sept. 25.—Budapest papers received in London contain the following report of a statement made by Count Albert Apponyi in the Hungarian parliament in the course of a speech on the foreign policy of the government regarding the absence of the Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Washington: “It is one of the failures of the foreign minister that he did not appoint an ambassador in place of the discharged Austro-Hungarian ambassa-. dor at Washington. We are all living in hope that when at last peace comes and when the time arrives for a neutral power to offer her services it will be the great republic across the Atlantic as most fit for a work of such magnitude. “We all hope tlie United States administration will take the affair in hand sooner or later when they deem it proper to do so, and we find ourselves not even represented diplomatically in a proper manner. “I know that certain steps or hints were offered on the part of the United States to the effect that the position of ambassador should be filled by the monarchy. In spite of this we have not moved, although the interests of the monarchy demand that we should have a reliable and able representative there.” In Hungarian political circles it is rumored that should Count Apponyi himself be asked to accept tlie mission as ambassador to Washington he would not refuse to 1 do so, and that his appointment would be received most favorably in America. ALLIES ROUTED, SAYS BERLIN. Field Marshal Van Mackensen Shatters Line in Dobrudja. London, Sept. 25.—8 y one of the most brilliant coups in the present war, Field Marshal von Mackensen has turned what looked like overwhelming defeat in the Dobrudja district of Roumania into a victory. Earlier dispatches declared Mackensen’s forces were retreating before the onslaughts of the combined Russian and Roumanian forces, which bad made a stand along the line from the port of Constanza. on the Black sea, to the Danube. The text of the Berlin statement issued on Friday, t’dllows: “In Dobrudja strong. Roumanian forces attacked southwest of Topral Sari (14 miles southwest of Constanza). By an encircling counter-attack by German-Bulgarian-Turkish troops against the flank ami rear of the enemy the Roumanians are being driven back in disorder. Bucharest officially stated that the invaders have been driven back more than five miles and “are still in retreat.” ULTIMATUM SENT BY GREECE. Demands Return of Kavala Troops, Held as “Guests of Germany." Athens, Greece. Sept. 22, via London. —There is reason to believe the Greek government has sent an ultitum to Germany and Bulgaria, expiring Wednesday night, demanding the immediate return of the soldiers taken prisoner at Kavala. A Reuter dispatch to London from Athens, under date of September 19 says: , “It is learned on good authority that Tuesday; morning’s conference of Premier Kalageropoulos and the foreign minister with King Constantine, resulted in a decision in principle for a -departure from neutrality with a view to dissipating the entente’s apparent distrust of the new cabinet.” GERMANS SINK TRANSPORT. Berlin Says Submarine Torpedoed Ship Loaded With Troops. Berlin, Sept. 25.—An enemy transport, loaded with troops, was sunk in the Mediterranean on Sunday by a German submarine, the admiralty announced. The transport sank in 43 seconds. An Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane in the southern Adriatic sank by means of bombs the French submarine Foucault. The entire crew of the submarine, comprising two officers and twent-seven men, were rescued and made prisoner by the naval aeroplane mentioned find another. Teutons Take British Ship. , Berlin, Sept. 26.—The British steamship Colchester, displacing L2OU tons and owned by the Greater Eastern compatty, was captured by German warships and brought into Zeebrugge, It was announced herfc. U. S. Gunners Set Record. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 26.—Fifty-four hits in 58 shots with 12-tnch guns is said to be the record established by the battleship Florida in the Atlantic fleet’s individual target practice off the ’ Virginia coast. 400 Canadians Are Kdluc. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 23.—1 n the “tank” fight on the Somme front Canadian casualties were 400 killed, 1,000 wounded and 300 missing. This brings the total Canadian casualties to about 40,000. Offer to Wed Wins Verdict Macon, Ga., Sept. 23.—Charles Miller effectively defended a $20,000 breach of promise suit brought against him by Miss Lucretia Caserio by the simple method of offering to marry the woman in court She declined.

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Emil Porumbaru is the Roumanian minister of foreign affairs. DECLARE VILLA TOOK CITY OF CHIHUAHUA Washington Amazed at General Bell’s Report—Bandit Was Unopposed in Raid. Washington, Sept. 23.—Washington was amazed on Thursday when it received an account of Villa’s raid on Chihuahua City last Saturday from Brigadier General Beil at El Paso. According to General Bell, the fight was anything but a “glorious victory” for the Carranzistas, as reports from Mexico City and Juarez indicated. General Bell says Villa captured a large supply of ammunition and made a spech from the balcony of the governor’s palace after this and other buildings had been captured. Washington is wondering what effect, if any, General Bell’s report will have on the negotiations of the joint United States-Mexico commission at New London, Conn. SIX-CENT BREAD IN CHICAGO. One Company First to Announce Price Increase Effective Thursday. Chicago, Sept. 23.—A new scale of bread prices for Chicago, predicted ever since the conference of the master bakers in this city more than a week ago. was announced on Thursday by one of the city’s largest wholesalers. as effective next Thursday, September 28. A new-sized loaf, resembling the present five-cent loaf, will be put on the market, but will cost six cents. When the master bakers were in session here they were advised by a lawyer that they must not agree to raise the price of bread or they could be prosecuted under the anti-trust law, but that one firm might raise the price independently and others follow of their own volition. Other companies have indicated their intention to follow. FRENCH FIGHT AT COMBLES. Joffre’s Men Capture Houses in Outskirts of Town. London. Sept. 25. —North of the Somme, in the outskirts of Combles, the French forces captured strongly defended houses from the Germans and took 100 men prisoner, three of them being officers, according to the French official communication. “The total number of prisoners tak- • en by the Franco-British troops since July 1. when the Somme offensive be- . gan. up ro September 18. is more than 55,800. of whom 34.000 were taken by the French troops." Berlin, via London, Sept. 23.—Re- ' parting military operations in France, the German official statement says: “Western front—Apart from lively artillery and hand-grenade engage- J ments on the Somme and in the Meuse region, there is nothing to report.” LOST IN MOUNTAINS 4 DAYS' Lawyer and Wife Found Exhausted and Hungry After Long Search. Dixville Notch. N. H.. Sept. 25—Joseph A. Dennison, former assistant district attorney of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ami who had been lost for nearly four days in the wilderness of the northern foothills of the- White mountains, were found. They had suffered greatly from exhaustion and lack of food and sleep. The Dennisons were found in an abandoned logging camp ten miles from their hotel. Earl Gould and Scott Copp, employees of the hotel, who found the Dennisons, are entitled to a reward of $1,500. offered by friends and relatives of the missing pair. Pope Honors Prince Albani. Rome. Sept. 25.—The poj>e appointed Prinee Ludovic Chimes Albani perpetual grand marshal of the conclave. °Sai!s to Nurse War Victims. New York. Sept. 26.—Mrs. William Ellis Corey sailed for Baris. She will resume her Red Cross work with the American ambulance anti will care for 600 wounded soldiers in her chateau in Paris. British Release U. 3. Mail. London, Sept. 26. —Consul General Skinner succeede 1 in effecting the release from the prize court of 1.200 of letter mail from the United States t' belligerent <x»imtries seized on the stct-msi i. ti f;: i»Uv. Civil War Veteran Dies. Itchmond. Va., Sept. 25. —Capt John Maxv. ell. ?!ghty-four, is dead here. During the Civil war he placed an infernal machine in a fleet of gunboats, destroying three and killing 400 men. New Tax Put on Belgium. Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—The Germans have Introduced in Belgium new taxation on bank notes. All bank notes must be stamped With a special seal by the German authorities in return for a small fee on each note.

HONOR OF NAMING CAPITAL UNDECIDED

STATE HISTORIANS ARE DIVIDED BETWEEN SAMUEL MERRILL AND JUDGE SULLIVAN.

STATEMENT BY W. C. LANGDON

Washington County Man Suggested and Earnestly Insisted on Its Adoption—“Sewarron” Also Proposed, But Indianapolis Chosen.

Indianapolis.—The honor of suggest- ■ Ing the name Indianapolis for the Indiana,.state capital will be divided bei tween® Samuel Merrill and Jeremiah ‘ Sullivan, so far as William C. Langdon, master of the pageant of Indiana, to be produced ut Riverside park, Oc- ! tober 2 to 7, is concerned. Several students of Indiana history have given their opinions to Dr. Harlow Lindley. They disagree as to which suggested the name. “In view of what Doctor Lindley has received,” Langdon says, “it seems to me that the weight of opinion is in favor of Judge Jeremiah Sullivan of Madison. On the other hand. Judge Sullivan himself said that Mr. Merrill was influential in getting the name adopted, and I have decided to represent the suggestion as having been made by the two together, giving Judge Sullivan the preference.” Among those who came to the defense of Jeremiah Sullivan when the state archivist wrote for opinions was Reginald H. SUUivan, great-grandson of the pioneer statesman. He said in a letter that it had always been understood in his family and by all historians who have written on the subject that Jeremiah Sullivan first suggested the name. Mr. Sullivan quoted from Col. W. R. Holloway’s history of Indianapolis, which relates that the legislature on January 6. 1821, confirmed the choice of the state capital made by the- commissipn and called new city “Indianapolis.” Afterward, Holloway’s history records, Judge Sullivan gave the following interesting account of the christening of the town: “I have a very distinct recollection of the great diversity of opinion that prevailed as to the name which the new town should receive on legislative baptism. The bill (if I remember rightly) was reported by Judge Polk and was in the main acceptable. A blank (of course) was left for the name of the town that was to become the seat of government and during the two or three days we spent in endeavoring to till the blank there was in the debate some sharpness and amusement. “General Marston C. Clark of Washington county proposed ‘Tecumseh’ as the name and earnestly insisted on its adoption, and when it failed he suggested other names that I have forgotten. They were all rejected. A member proposed ‘Sewarron,’ which met with no favor. Other names were proposed, discussed, laughed at and voted down and the house, without coming to an agreement, adjourned till the following day. I had gone to Corydon with the intention of proposing ‘lndianapolis’ as the name of the town, and on the evening of the adjournment, or the next morning, I suggested to Samuel Merrill, the representative from Switzerland county, the name I proposed. He at once adopted it and said he would support it. We called on Governor Jennings, who had been a witness of the amusing proceedings of the day before, arid told him what conclusion we had come to and asked* what he thought of the name. He gave us to understand that he favored it and would not hesitate to so express himself. When the house met and went into convention on the bill I moved to fill the blank with ‘lndianapolis? The name created quite a laugh. Mr. Merrill, however, seconded the motion. We discussed the matter fully, gave our reasons in support of the proposition, the members conversed with each other formally in regard to it and the name gradually commended itself to the committee and was accepted. The principal reason given for Adopting the name proposed, to wit, the Greek termination that would indicate to all the world the locality of the town, was, I urn, sure, the reason that overcame the opposition to the name. The town was finally named ‘lndianapolis,’ with but little or no opposition." Many Persons Injured. Tlie largest number of accidents reported in any one month since the industrial board of Indiana came into being were reported during August, the total accident list being 4,351. The report has just been made public. The largest number —104—were Injured on steam roads, with automobile manufacturing running second, with 297. Other industries reporting large THE SOLDIER’S DIARY. Thirty-five newspaper correspondents who have been item chasing in the Rib Grande valley and a number of telegraphers left for the North. They seem to think all the stories have been exhausted. In addition to the soldiers at Camp Llano Grande, three miles west of this Place about 5,000 more are stationed in the town and on its edge. A man without a uniform does not amount to uuch in these parts now. ’ i-at Edwin Kyte of Seymour, has decide I ' his wlfe t 0 Mer ‘ cedes. She is oh the Pacific coast and Kyte says he 'does not think she should brio" her through seven parcel post zones with the present uncertainty as to the Stay of the Indiana brigade on the border. Private Cecil Stalnaper of Company C Indianapolis,, reports the religious views of the camp for the Christian union and the Gospel trumpet. The Rev. Fred Thornburg, chaplain of the Third Indiana, writes a weekly letter on camp matters for the Christian Advocate. , .

accident lists were: Coal mining, 161 accidents; general contracting, 170; carpentering, 102; foundries, 220; fu» niture manufacturing and dealers, 126; iron and steel manufacturing. 254; machinery and machine shops. 259. . a Handling heavy objects resulted in 415 accidents in the month. Four hundred and seven accidents resulted in injury to one eye. The injuries, reported during the month, occurred to persons earning a total weekly wage of $63,086. Thirtyfour accidents resulted in the death of the injured persons. Six of these accidents occurred in coal mines and three in the telephone and telegraph business. The highest wage paid to an injured person was SBO a week and the lowest was $2 a week. The average wage paid to those injured was $15.17. For-ty-five of the injured were persons under sixteen years old and six persons injured were more than seventy years old. Os the total, 4.075 were temporarily injured ; 158 were listed as “temporary partial”; 84 accidents resulted in dismemberment. Os the total, 1,395 cases reported disability of 14 dsfys or less. Sixty-five accidents occurred, with women or girls as the victims. In this list the highest wage paid was $lB a week and the lowest was $3, tlie average being $6.96. One woman eighty years old was among the injured. A total of $42,124.33 was paid out in August by employers to employees in compensation, under cases handled by the state board. Os this amount $14,874.71 was paid on closed cases and $27,249.62 was paid on cases still pending. The total includes three lump sum settlements amounting to $1,850.21. During the month, 593 cases were closed by the state board. These 593 cases show a total expenditure by the employers or their insurance carriers of $22,569.37. On the above amount $14,874.71 was paid in August, $7,694.66 having been paid previously. The board’s report showed there being paid to employees by their employers, $11,880.62 a week on 1,528 cases under compensation, an average of $7.78 a week. Os this total 22 per cent, receive $5.50 a week; 5 per cent, $13.20 a week; 7 per cent, wages in full, and 6 per cent, compensation for partial disability. Fare Unit Decision. That towns and cities in Indiana, through which interurban lines are operated, are passenger units and that no more than 5 cents fare can be charged within the limits of the unit is held true by the public service commission, which has decided a case at Elkhart, through a letter written by Charles A. Edwards of the commission to Rev. F. J. Jansen, a Catholic priest there. Mr. Edwards said the Elkhart situation was the only “case of tlie kind" he knew of in tlie state. He said everywhere in the state a fare of 5 cents is charged for all travel within the city or town limits. Whether the passenger boards the car some distance from the central station of an interurban company in any city or town, or whether he boards it at the station, makes no difference tn his tare from that city to another city and makes no difference in the 5-cent fare charged between points in tlie same city, Mr. Edwards said. If the passenger leaves the car beyond the central station of an interurban, but still within the city or town limits to which he has paid his fare, no additional charge can be made, Edwards said. Rev. Mr. Jansen complained to the commission that the interurban car on which he was accustomed to /favel to the rectory of the church stopped at the Elkhart central station, and that the conductor insisted collecting additional fare from him it he rode on a few blocks to the rectory. State Fair a Success. The finery of the state fair gave way to wreckage. Tents fell, exhibits were packed up and caravans of live stock moved out of the gates for home or for other fairs, while the state board of agriculture loaded its books on a truck to move its headquarters back to the state house. Members of the board were gratified over the results of the week. About 90 per cent of the fair’s premium money went into the hands of Indiana exhibitors, although there was keen competition from other states in all live stock departments. J. Crouch & Son of Lafayette led the list of winners with $1,427. C. M. Bottema of Indianapolis won $250 with his dairy cattle; M. K. Gleason of Indianapolis was about the largest winner of farm products, his premiums amounting to $462. The Hope Poultry Breeders’ association of Hope led in poultry winnings with $307. T. S. Simpson of Downers Grove. 111., won $513 on his ponies. Mrs. Minnie Smith of Converse was one of the largest winners in the show of table luxuries, her awards amounting to $lO5, while Mrs. Ben Hardin of Indianapolis won $73 on pies and cakes. Lieutenant Buschmann, quartermaster of the artillery, and Doctor Whitsell, the veterinarian, took a flashlight and automatic pistols and went wildcat hunting in the mesquite. They heard several cats, but did not get a shot at any of them. One of the very first things a soldier in the camp has to do when the day begins is to shake the scorpions and little lizards out of his shoes. It does not make any difference how carefully the soldier hides his shoes, the scorpions will surely find them. The handsomest saddle horse in the camp is the one that Major Tyndall rides. The horse was presented to the major by Stoughton Fletcher, who knows what a good horse really is. Captain Foy and Captain'Reeves of the Third cavalry, encamped in town, visit the camp every day and frequently express admiration of the soldierly appearance of the Indiana troops. Thirty or forty schoolteachers visited Llano Grande and were guests at the officers’ club. Every “two-bituey" In Mercedes was In constant use and the strange cry of “Ladles first” made many an Indiana soldier walk to camp.

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Elwood.—More than 21MI delegates attended the opening day’s session <>f the fall meeting of the Harmony Baptist association here. Greenfield.—Robert L. Mason vas appointed a memla-r of the school { board by the city council ami August j I Hafner was appointed superintendent of Park demeterj*. Evansville.-—George Jones, a coat .miner, suffered a broken .nd ■ . and was internally injured in an explosion In a mine near fieri. lie "as brought to a hospital her -. Terre Haute.—Lee Fredir’ck Shepherd, fifteen, died of injuries sii ’iei. 1 when he fell under a motor tr.;-k > which he was riding. title «>! ti.<wheels passed over his body. i Valparaiso. — Five horses \\er - j burned when a large barn ! urtit d < a | the James Shinkle farm near hole. - Much hay, grain and farm macho ry J were inclmled in the loss. v. Lu a I amounted to several thousand dollars. Greencastle.—-Fire, starting ire a a bolt of lightning, destroyed th? ’.urn on the farm of Merritt Rogers. Sev- ' eral tons of hay and farming it:q»e---i ments were destroyed. til live st><c!< i and a new automobile were sav.si. The | loss was about SBOO. Newcastle. —F. G. Tuxworth, fortynine, was killed by a passenger train ■ on the Pennsylvania rstilfotui liote. : when walking on the tracks on his i way home from the Union Spring factory, where he was employed, lie is survived by his widow. Veuwilles. —Miltou F. Merrill, who wife and who. it is I elieveii, intended to kill ti child that was absent, several months ago, was taken to the state prison to begin a life I sentence. Th? jury which found him I guilty refused to impose the deuilt i penalty. Rochester.—When two httlls charged I each other Harbld Hendrickson of ■ Kwanna, a director of the Fulton ! county fair, was hurt severely here. He and other men were britm- ! ing cattle to the fair. llemhieksou i was knocked down ami was cut about the head, but he will recover. a> Hartford City.—The Masonic lodge of this city is planning a celebration in October in honor of Joshua Kel'.ey of this city and F. M. Bnsley of Montpelier, who have been members of lhe lodge fifty years. The Masonic lodge in this city has six members who have been identified with Masonry for halt a century or more. Indianapolis.—Orders were received i here for Battery D, Indiana National [ Guard, to entrain for the border as ■ soon as possible. This battery was recruited a few weeks ago in Fort Wayne to replace the Purdue uni© versity battery, brougiit home. It consists of five officers and 95 men and probably will leave tomorrow. Lafayette.—Pickpockets got in their work at the Huglms meeting here, several men being fobbed while the Republican presidential candidate was : speaking. Edward Munger, a lumber ■ dealer, lost his purse containing $22; John Perry of Cramer, lost SB3, and J. W. Brinkley of Stockwell, $3.50. Several others lost smaller amounts. Valparaiso. —Robert Pinkerton, age sixty, was killed by a falling tree when sleeping in a tent at a camp I on the Kankakee river. A big tree was broken at the base of, the trunk, and was bent far over, but was held Iby the' rbots. Herman Koselaw cut ! the roots with an ax and the tree, ! fell. It bounded back through the I tent, and Pinkerton was struck in the head. t Hammond.—The mysterious subterranean cavern near Crown Point, into which the Chicago & Erie,Railway company has dumped thousands of carloads of stone and gravel, is again sinking. The fight to secure a foundation over the sink hole has been going on for 20 years. The roadbed has dropped eight inches in a week. Offi-* : cials believe that an underground river I runs near the spot and washes away the till. Franklin. —Ministers of the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference prepared resolutions adopted in a special meeting asking the bishop and his cabinet to protect their pastorates by not allowing one minister to be transferred to another conference at an increase of salary. The “insurgents” also propose that a district superintendent’ must be a member of his conference for a considerable period of time before he can Assume that position. Indianapolis.—The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has carried to federal , court it fight against the demand of Hammond that, It build a depot there. The city council of Hammond has passed an ordinance forfeiting the franchise cf tlie company because of failure to maintain a depot and the company avers this provision in the franchise has been so long forgotten that the city cannot enforce it. The company asked that the. city officials be restrained from interfering with the operation of the railroad. Indianapolis.—The public service commission granted authority to the Calumet Electric company of Gary to issue $65,000 in bonds, the money to be used in making improvements. Bicknell. —Delbert, three, son og Mr. and Mrs. George Wimmeanawaur, is in' a serious condition and probably will die of the effects of drinking a quantity of concentrated lye. Rockport—The jury in the case against Shirley McDonald found him guilty of assault and battery on his father-in-law, Daniel G. Seneff of Dale, and he was fined $5 and costs.' The trial lasted two days. ■ Greensburg.—School children of Westport will get credit l on their grades in Roman history if they see the moving picture, “Anthony-Cleo-patra,” being shown here, the school official announced. The “movie” owner is putting in more seats. Hagerstown. —The council has appointed Clarence Stewart town marshal after a strong fight between the, wets and the drys. Stewart was supported by the drys. Plymouth. —Rev. Frank W. Lineberry of this city has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Methodist church at Cambridge. O.