The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 9, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 October 1916 — Page 2

OARIO RESTA ■ 2M-MILE WE , Johnny Aitken Finishes Second at Chicago. rZECHANiCIAN BADLY BURNED Wilbur D’Alene’s Aid Severely Injured When Machine Bursts Into Flames —Eddie Rickenbacker Comes in Third. FINISH OF AUTO RACE. Position. -Xanw. lime. First, Kesm ——4 *lO beeu:iu. AiUen . ,2:24:0J ’ihiru. R.ckvnbacher •«»- l ou.ih. Gaiviu 2;3 “ A !j Huh. Lewis bixiu, lieiiyersou 2 :32 m l Chicago. Oct. 17.—Dario RestydrivL., im same invincible blue Peugeot in" winch lie has captured every event staged at the Maywood speedwav tins \.ar, triumphed over a Held ol is in lite Grand American auto race oa b.aurday »»y tuktffg ursl place in - hours 24 minutes ami 16:67 seconds, un uvci'a-te m 103.9 miles per hour. "J<;l:..ii.» ' Ansell, aiso Grivtug a Peugeot, came in second, just • :3 sectrn.is behind llesla. Rivkeubiicher, m a Max.weii. I rami Galvin in a Pre m.er. Dave Lewis, also-in a Premier, ami Henderson i:i a Maxwell, finished io the aider mimed. De Palma. who v. iihdrev at the end of (he ninetymiuii lap. smashed all tram: records, making -0 taps (40 nines) m 23;03:i>.>, Uli average of lUo miles per hour. indy one accident marred the day s st-vii. and this happened al the finish o* the i’.Uielh lias.- Ralph lledlicll, mechanician for Wilbur I’ Alette. driving Crawford No. 13. was seriously Larned about the body when D'Alene's mount took tire at the pits while taking mi gasoline. Lilly Chandler, caplain of the Crawford team, was burned about the hands, liedlich s injuries may prove fatal. D'Alene, alter putting out the, tire v fetch enveloped Ids car, again took tiie wheel. This lienionstration of pure grit la-might i'orih a mighty cheer from the grandstands. After going four laps he had to withdraw from the race owing to mechaincal difficulty. Uesta practically clinched his right to ilie tide of champion driver for Wl/J. FINDS CHILD PLAGUE GERM. Doctor Burrows Asserts Disease is Caused by Milk or Water. Baltimore, Aid.. Oct. 17.— Lhe mystery stir; minding th? cause of the spread of infantile paralysis has been solved, ‘according to an oi'icia! announcement made on Sunday at ,l<>’ms Hopkins hospital. Extensive r search conducted by Dr. Horace T. b’i.rous, pathologist of the hmqhas resulted in tlie discovery of the infantile paralysis germ, th? existence of which was established nine years ago by Dr. Billion Flexner of Rocktteller Institute. According to Doctor Burrows, tlie disease is not spread by contagion but the'germ is introduced into the human system through the mouth' in milk or water. Present always in every case of the disease a germ lias bey found in the big intestine, showing that the disease is spread by some raw food. The investigators find that house flies and other insects undoubtedly help to spread the germ from one food to another. ’ The spread of the disease is so much like’ that of typhoid fever and its method of communication that tlie investigators are sure they have hit upon n way to make an antipolioriiyelitis vaccine like the antityphoid vaccine that stamped out typhoid in the United States army. 3 KILLED IN STRIKE BATTtLE. Standard Oil Workers Clash With 250 Officers at Bayonne. N. J. Bayonne,. e N. .1., Oct. 14. —At least three men were killed -and a score wounded on Thursday when a mob of several hundred Standard Oil strikers exchanged shots with nearly 250 detectives, policemen and special guards here. At ProspeCt and Twenty-second streets, hear 'the Tidewater Oil plant. 250 guards and officers were confronted by a mob of several hundred strikers. Inspector Cady- ordered them to disperse. Their reply was a fusil-' hide. Cady then ordered his men to fire. The strikers retreated only after a score of their number had fallen. In the afternoon Inspector Cady had the situation in hand, but it is feared If another outbreak occurs it will be necessary to appeal to Governor Fielder for the militia. American Dies at Front. Paris, oct. 17.—Norman Prince, sergeant major of the Franco-Ameri- , can aviation corps, died in a hospital as a result of injuries received last week in an accident behind.the lines, when both his legs were broken. Twenty-Five Hurt in Wreck. Danville. 111.. Oct. 17.—Twenty-five workmen employed by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway were injured, six seriously, when a work train struck and plowed through two coaches of the Freeland Pick express train. ' Mexico Rail Shops Closed. San Antonio. Tex., Oct. 16.—Railway shops in Afonterey and Nnevoleon Jiave closed because of lack of mechanics to operate them. Suspension of work in tlie repair shops threatens to cripple transportation. Warns of §lO Counterfeit. Washington. Oct. 16.—Secret service Jieadquariers gave notice of a dangerous counterfeit of the $lO note of the Minneapolis federal reserve bank, i. Inch is so well executed as to possibly deceive even experts.

JAMES W. GERARD Ambassador Gerard, returned from Berlin on what is supposed to be a most important mission in connection with the Wat, met Secretary Lansing very soon after landing but will not see President Wilson for some days.

NATIONAL DEFENSE BOARD IS NAMED BY WILSON President Appoints Prominent Men on Commission Created by the Last Congress. Long Branch, N. .1., Oct. 13. —President Wilson made public on Wednesday rhe names of seven men whom he has appointed members of ah advisory commission to be associated with the “council of national defense” created at the last session of congress. The names of the men are: Daniil Willard, president of the Baltimore ami Ohio railroad. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago. Howard E. Coffin..,of Detroit. Bernard Baruch of New York. Dr. Hollis Godfrey of Philadelphia. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. The president's statement in part follows: ‘‘The council's chief functions are: “1. The co-operation of all forms of transportation and the development of means of transportation to meet the military, industrial and commercial needs of the natic ;. “2. The extension of the industrial mobilization work of the committee on industrial preparedness of the naval consulting board. Complete information as to our present manufacturing and producing facilities adaptable to many-sided uses of modern warfare will be procured, analysed and made use of.” TEN KILLED IN RAIL WRECK. Nebraska Cattlemen and Boy Lose Lives in Stock Train Crash. Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 17. —Nine cattlemen of western Nebraska and a four-teen-year-old boy lost their lives on Sunday in a collision between two sections of a heavy stock train near Bertrand, Neb., on the Burlington. The dead are: J. J. O’Connor, Elsie, Neb.; W. H. Merrill, Wallace, Neb;; Adam Miller, Rain, Neb.; William Kilner, Holstein, Neb.; E. S. Kronley, Maywood. Neb.; William Canton, Van Andel, Neli.; J. C. O'Brien. Wallace, Neb.; R. G. Hanna, Sommerset, Neb.; Larry Sullivan, Wallace, Neb.; E. Hy"att. fourteen-year-old boy, Wallace. The engine of the third section telescoped the caboose of the second section. J. D. TRAVERS TAKES BRIDE. Champion Marries Miss Dorris Tiffany of Newburgh, N. Y. Newburgh. N. Y.. Oct. 16, —The wedding of Jerome Dunstan Travers, former amateur golf champion; and Miss Dorris Tiffany, daughter of Mrs. Walton Cuyler Tiffany of this city and New York, took place in the First Presbyterian church. The ceremony was followed by a second in a local Catholic church. Mr. Travers, who is about twenty-nine years old, two years the senior of his bride, is a cotton broker and a member of the New York exchange. He won the national amateur golf championship four times and at one time was open champion. GEN. OROZCO IS CAPTURED. Leader of Zapata Forces Executed in Mexico With Twelve Men. Mexico City, Oct. 14. — General Emilio Orozco of the Zapata forces, who lias caused much trouble in the state of Mexico, was captured in th? nearby hills with 12 of his men. They were shot. Reactionary spies captured in the federal district when attempting to buy ammunition, were shot at Xochimilco. No More Mail in Pope’s Care. Rome. Oct. 16.—'I'he Holy See will no longer be responsible for the transit of letters of prisoners of war. This step has been taken so as to give no ground “for the calumnious accusations of espionage.” Swedish Ships Released. London. Oct. 16. —The Russian government has released 21 Swedish vessels which have been held in Russian harbors, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. Portuguese Advance.i.B Lisbon. Oct. 14. —The general commanding the Portuguese forces in East Africa reports that after an engagement in which he repulsed the German troops, the Portuguese advanced 19 miles north of Royuna. Adriatic Sails With Arms. New York. Oct. 14. —In defiance of possible lurking submarines the White Star liner Adriatic sailed for England, carrying 18,000 tons of war supplies. The Adriatic carries 240 passengers, 40 of them first clussl

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RUMANIA APPEALS TO ALUESFOB AID King Fears Fate of Belgium and Serbia Awaits Nation. SOUGHT TO PROTECT SELF Ferdinand Asks World to Consider Country’s Position Before War Move—Was Friendly to Germany. London. Oct. 16.—The Times publishes an interview given to its correspondents with the Roumanian army by tlie king of Roumanla, in which the monarch appeals to the allies not to permit his country to suffer the fate of Serbia and Belgium. "The Roumanians will not falter,” the king said, "in their allegiance to tlie cause, nor can the enemy wean them from their faith in their allies. Yet the Roumanians pray that, in ' spite of their existing exigencies and i their own huge problems, the allies | will not allow the affairs of Rou-1 mania, who has staked her all In this [ coutllct, to pass into the back of their ; minds and to suffer her to meet the ; fate of either Belgium or Serbia.” I King Ferdinand said that Roumanla | had not been moved to enter tlie war by expediency, but that her deci- I sion was based on the biggest principles of nationality. "Against Germany.” continued his | majesty, “there was, at the beginning ' of the war, no hostility, rather, perhaps, friendship, for economically. Germany was an asset to the development of our industry and a potent instrument in forwarding tlie prosperity oi ■ our country. “But with the” progress of the war j Roumanla began to feel .the subtle force of enemy intrigue endeavoring in every way to force us into the struggle against our own reai interests. “If Roumanla has been criticized i heretofore, let the world consider her | position: A small power, with a small army, surrounded by giants, facing a practical problem, “With a western frontier nearly 700 miles long, which alone was greater than the English and French fronts j combined, and Bulgarian frontiers, al- I most undefended and near her capital. ■ stretching for other of miles I to the south, she hail to wait the I time when she could act with reason- | able assurance of protecting herself ; and having the support of her allies. “A small country in a great war which promises to lust for at least another year, faces certain internal sacrifices and the consumption of her resources. But such is the confidence of Roumanla in the justice of her j cause and lhe faith of her allies that I she has cast her lot with them in the • conviction that her great associates will see that she does not prove to be the third small power destroyed in the great conflict.” Despite slight gains recorded for the Roumanians in the Bucharest official war office statement, Austro-German-Bulgar forces continue their crushing nut-cracker tactics and have expelled the Roumanians from further portions of Transylvania. A strip of territory in eastern Transylvania, paralleling the Roumanian front and including the Gyergyo and Miszek valleys and the upper and lower Csik, have been cleared of the enemy, according to a Berlin war office statement. GERMAN DIVER ON WAY HOME. U-53 Is Sighted by Neutral Vessel at Sea—Exchanges Messages. New York, Oct. 16.—Satisfied with its day’s work last Sunday, when five ships were sunk off the New England coast, the German submarine U-53 is on its way home, according to a story brought to this port on Friday by a neutral ship. According to the ship’s officers the submersible was sighted more than 100 miles east of Nantucket lightship on Tuesday. The submarine was moving in an easterly direction. The neutral ship received a wireless from the U-boat asking its name and nationality. This was given and the question asked in turn: “Who are you?” “German submarine from Newport, good-by,” was the reply. Shipping news heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this story. Washington. Oct. 16.—The search along the Atlantic coast for alleged secret submarine bases and radio stations of European powers instituted with the dash of 14 naval destroyers from Newport will extend from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. Secretary of the Navy Daniels said on Friday. In announcing Admiral Mayo’s action Secretary Daniels said the work would be done under the admiral. King Halts Greek Congress. Athens, Oct. 17, via London. —King Constantine signed a decree postponing for one month the meeting of the. Greek chamber of deputies, which, according to the constitution, was due to convene Saturday. Wilson Buys Diamond Pin for Wife. Asbury Park. N. J.. Oct. 17.—President Wilson upset the entire sales force of a local jewelry store when he came pver from Shadow Lawn to purchase a platinum brooch set with diamonds for Mrs. Wilson’s birthday. . ' LoSs in Storm Is $2,000,000. Washington. Oct. 14. — American Consul Payne at St. Thomas reported that the. hurricane which swept the Danish West Indies caused damage estimated i t $2,000,000 and left many homeless. People Die of Starvation. El Paso, Tex.. Oct, 14.—Many are dying of starvation in Zacatecas, according to a missionary. , He said that he examined men lying in the streets, apparently drunk, ami found them ex- ' hausted from the luck of food

COUNT TERAUCHI j I MRS*’ cvx 4 < ■ wk ; WL&Jei 1 UK-3; ft v i w j .. .A.r'.fc. r r, ’ ' '■ Lieut. Gen. Count Terauchl, the new Japanese premier, asserts that Japan will not take any aggressive step toward the United States or any other country “so long as Japan’s vital Interests and dignity are not infHnged.”

BOSTON RED SOX WIN WORLD’S TITLE 4 Uj 1 Forty-Two Thousand Fane Oce American League Chantf/ms Capture the Premier Prize. Braves’ Field. Boston. Oct. 14. —Before the greatest crowd that ever witnessed a professional ball game the Boston Red Sox on Thursday annexed their fourth world's championship. A vast throng, numbering 42,620 wild-eyed fans, saw the Sox down the Brooklyn Dodgers. 4 to 1. in the fifth game of the 1916 tussle. It registered the Sox’s fourth victory and clinched the title for them. To Ernie Shore, elongated right-hand-er of the Sox. went the honors of stowing away the championship. He is the onlj pitcher to be credited with two victories in the series. Shore was master of the Dodgers, holding them to one run and three hits. This lanky right-hander has reached a crest in baseball's high peaks of ftime. He was a slab hero of last season’s classic. Duffy Lewis again figured prominently in a world's series .as a heavy swatter. It was Lewis’ three-bagger that enabled him to score with the tying run in the second iuuing, when Gardner hoisted a sacrifice tly to Wheat. The Dodgers had scored the first run without the aid of a base.hit or a fielding error in the second inning. Fielding errors by Cutshaw and Olson let in two runs in tlie third and clinched the game for Boston. Hooper singled in the fifth and scored on Janvrin’s double to left. TO HELP FRENCH ORPHANS. American Society Is Formed to Aid Children in France. New York, Oct. 14. —America will take care of thousands of little French children made fatherless by the war. The plans of the largest philanthropy ever undertaken were made public when the incorporation of the American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans was announced. The organization plans to raise $130,000,(M.X) in 15 years. The children will be looked after in France until they are old enough to ..support themselves. Many prominent American financiers are behind the movement. The active officers are: William D. Guthrie,president; J. Pierpont Morgan. James Stillman and Ambrose Monell, vicepresidents; Thomas Cochran, treasurer ; Snowden A. Fahnestock, secretary, and Clyde A. Pratt, general manager. CAR HITS AUTO; FOUR KILLED. Real Estate Broker of Oberlin, 0., His Wife and Daughter Lose Lives. Cleveland, O„ Oct. 16. —A prominent real estate broker of Oberlin, his wife and daughter and the wile of a wealthy farmer were instantly killed on Sunday when an interurban car hit the broker’s auto which had stalled on the tracks near Pittsfield, O. The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, Jr. Helen, their nine-year-old daughter. Mrs. George Hollingsworth. Eleanor, the seven-year-old sister of Helen, sustained injuries which surgeons said would cause her death. Villa’s Family to the U. S. Havana, Oct.. 17. —Mrs. Francisco Villa. .Vift of the Mexican bandit leader, with her son and a party of friends, was a passenger on board the American steamer Atenas, which sailed for New Orleans. Senator Fiiipcscu Is Dead. Bucharest, Oct. 17.—Senator FRipescu. former minister of war, is dead. He was an ardent supporter of the entente powers. Filipescu virtually forced .Premier Bratiano to bring Roumania into the war. BoVnb Russ Transports. Berlin. Oct. 16. —German aeroplanes on the night of October 9-10 successfully bombarded Russian transport steamers in the Black sea off Constanza, the admiralty announced on Friday. England Needs All Youths. London, Oct. 16. —The. man-power board has reached the conclusion, according to the Times, that every young man in the country must he put at the disposal of the military authorities or of the ministry ot munittuus.

3 HOOSIERS LOSI IN WILDCOONTRY Lafayette Soldiers Find the North Star in the “South.” STUCK WITH CACTUS SPINES Creep Through Brush for an Hour in Search of Bandits After Hearing Shots Fired—Become Confused and Rattled. Llano Grande. Tex.—Llano Grande has become such a monotonous and routine-governed city that the inhabitants do not realize what a wild country surrounds them. While deer ami the wild hogs and the coyotes still ; make themselves heard, they are taken as a matter of course as much as ! the daily drills and hikes. I Sergt. Floyd Sense and Corporals King and Ciapper of Battery C. Lafayette. however, have no doubts col* ! corning the fact that Llano Grande j is in the wilderness, and have learned that tin intelligent man can get lost in a remarkably short lime when j there are no landmarks. The men i were camped with their battery in uncleared country ten miles north of the main camp when Sergeant Sense ; heard shooting in the brush about half a mile distant. Calling King and ; Clapper, the three set out to investi- ' gate, and after creeping through the brush for an hour without finding any bandits, started to return. “We did not have any difficulty geti ting back,” said Sense: “the only trouI ble was that the camp was not any ! place around when we got there. We ' climbed up a mesquite, but could net j see anything except a whole lot of I horizon and no smoke, and we could i not hear even an echo when we called. 1 We circled around until dark, and then : decided to try and make Llano Grande, I but it was misty and wo- did not have much luck at that either. We began to get a little bit rattled and started ; t<> hurry a bit and got all stuck up with cactus spines, and* every time we would start a jackrabbit or some : biitls would g t up we would jump j out of our boots. King saw a Mexican ! and Covered him with his automatic. ’ but the ‘Mex’ happened to he a dead | shrub. We had a fierce time for a ‘ while, but it cleared up after a bit. ! though, and we mad<s"6ut the north star. It looked due south to us. but ! we took a line on it and finally came to ■ a cindero that ran north and south, and ! came out between Llano Grande and i Mercedes, and got back to camp just I" after taps. Major Tyndall sure did ; give us some bawling-out, too, next ; morning, believe me.” Notwithstanding occasional coirfuI sion in directions, however, the troops : have developed into fairly'good brush i- ipen and are able to run a skirmish line through uncleared .ground without piek- ? ing up more than ten thorns to the ■ inch. Indiana Crcp Summary. I Conditions throughout the month I have been favorable 'and considerable : plowing and fall seeding have been done, although the ground was exceedingly dry in some localities. Indications point to an average acreage ; of wheat and rye. i The corn crop was slightly damaged i by the frost, but considerable of it is i badly “down,” and the dry weather, ‘ together with the high winds, have I broken many blades off the stalks, j which makes the ensilage somewhat short. Extreme heat at the filling time injured the oats, and the crop as a whole is extremely light, but of good ■ color. Late returns show a lighter I crop than was anticipated. An excellent season developed a full J acreage and a splendid stand of to- • bacco, and most of the crop whs cut I under very favorable conditions. A I light frost about the middie of Sep- : tember did some damage, but as the greater part of the crop had been cut at that time this was not extensive. The late potato crop is practically a failure in some sections of the state. Insects and frosts l.eing the principal damaging factors, although the potai toes are unusually small and few in a I hill. i The’ hay crop this year was one of j the largest in several years, and it i was harvested under the most favor- ■ able conditions. Commercial orchards in all sections ; of the state will produce a fairly good ; apple crop this year, while the ordinary farm orchards are practically a failure. In some sections of the state clover seed is a very good crop, while in others it is nearly a failure. Big English and Mammoth seem to be better than ! the Little Red. which constitutes a ■ majority of the acreage. j New Incorporations. j Horn Mercantile company, Vanderbtirg county, has dissolved. ■ Kokomo Investment corporation. KoI komo; capital, $10,000; realty; direcj tors, \V. M. Wells. M, A. Brown. Henry j Quigley.. j Sellers Clothing company, Lognnsi port: capital, $10,000; wearing apparel; I directors, H. F. Wills, Oscar Laverty, I J. W. Wills. I . B. & B. Manufacturing company. Ini dianapolis, has increased its capital I from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. The Federal Agency company. Lawrenceburg; capital, $3,000; insurance; I directors, W. C. Farrar, A. W. Kops, j I. M. Cohen. I Anthony Auto Lifter company, Fort i Wayne; capital, $10,000; machinery; I directors. C. O. Blee, W. O. Chaney, ! G. F. Seymour. Kendrick & Sloan company, Indianapolis; capital, $5,000; hay and grain; directors, 15. F. Sloan, O. D. Kendrick, M. E. Swartz. The Summit Mining company. Linton; capital, $5,000; mining; directors, W. J. Hamilton, D. R. Scott and J. P. Jeffries.

Pensions, Patents, Trademarks. Pensions have been granted Indlamans as follows: William O. Trammell. Lafayette, S3O, special act; Charles O. Workman. Alfordsville. $6; Alonzo Scudder, St. Paul, sl7; Ma ha la Frazier, Indianapolis. Lizzje J/Scott of Oxford, and Paul F. Busch, Hobart, special act, sl2 each; Sophia Binkley, Union City, and Lucretia llarritt, Wabash, S2O each. Patents have been granted Indian!- I ans as follows: Frank A. Fahle, Indimachine; Joseph J. Giese. Ambia, spike; Marvin W. Holbin. Gary, windmill; William B. Hosford, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing cbmpany, Mishawaka, conveyor; Frank Kizer, North Terre Haute, can-closure ; , Charles J. McHugh, assignor to the H. > K. Toy and Novelty company, Indianapolis, power-propelled boat; John P. Smith assignor to Sidway Mercantile company, Elkhart, front axle spring suspension for perambulators; Dennis i B, Snyder. Anderson, Spring-sent; Joseph Thempsor.. hcakerod jaw; Joseph W. Thorp.CfnPst Terre Hauie, hay retainer; Ge Wiser, assignor to Sidway Mercantile company. Elkhart, side frame oAcollapsible go-carts, single-motion collapsible gocarts and seat suspension for?collapsible go-carts. Trade marks have been granted: ■ Alonzo Cook, Greencastle, for bottled ; film cement, to mend moving-picture , films; the Mayflower Mills of Fort f Wayne, for wheat flour; Sherman ( White & Co. of For Wayne, for dressed i poultry ami eggs, and Dudley 11. Wig- ; gins of Indianapolis, for war games. Indianapolis as It Was. An Indiana Journal of 1828, to be , found in the city library, gives an in- i teresting glimpse of Indianapolis in its . infancy. It appears that a “visiting i committee” of tfie Union Sabbath ‘ school made what we Would now call I a “survey" of the little capital in the | woods, 'i'he industrious committee did 1 its work well, and these were its find- I lugs; JThe population of the town was 1.- | 12<>. consisting of 570 white males. 511 white females. 19 colored males and 20 : colored females.® There were 203 fam- ' Illes. The vocations of the men were ’ quite diverse. Carpenters led the list as to numbers, there..feeing 20 of these. ■ Then came farmers, 16; laborers, 14; merchants, j); lawyers, 9; physicians, 8; grocers, 8; shoemakers, 6; bricklayers. 6; wagoners. 6; blacksmiths, 5 :<• tavern keepers, 5; tailors. 4; plasterers. 4; cabinet makers. 3; milliners. 3; hatters, 3; wheelwrights, 3; brickmakers, 3: wagon-makers, 3; ministers, 3; judges, 3; 3; clerks of courts. 3; justices. 3; saddlers, 3; printers, 2; tanners, 2; millwrights, 2; coopers, 2; barbers. 2; constables, 2; ; bookbinder, 1 ; fainter. 1; tinner. 1 ; ; drover. 1; farrier, 1: weaver. 1 ; ferryman, 1; watch-maker. 1; artist, 1; ' governor, 1; secretary of state, 1; ( treasurer of state, 1: auditor of state, 1; ! receiver public moneys, 1; register, 1; ag'ent of town, 1; sheriff, 1. The importations by merchants for the year ending October, 1527, were: ; Seventy-six kegs of tobacco. 213 bar- j rels of whisky, 2(H) barrels of flour. * 100 kegs of powder and 4.5(H) pounds of spun cotton. 71)'? cos t °f these was estimated at $5,000 and the cost of pH- ! vate importations as equal to that, j The merchants’ importation, as thus given, were undoubtedly incomplete, tis. they carried in stock many articles not included, in the list. The disproportionate quantity of whisky ami the inclusion of an “artist” call for special note. Upholds Validity of Law. Judge A. B. Anderson, in federal court, upheld the validity of the trad-ing-stamp statute of Indiana, passed by the state legislature of 1915, which provides that all companies doing such business in Indiana must pay a license fee of SI,OOO in each county in which they transact business. The suit originally was brought by three trading stamp companies, the Sperry & Hutchinson company, the Home Merchants’ Trading association and the Profit-Sharing company, against Alvith Rucker of Indianapolis and other prosecuting attorneys in Indiana, to enjoin the enforcement of 1 rhe law, A temporary injunction" was issued las.t spring. Under tbe ruling bv Judge Anderson this injunction is dissolved, and unless his ruling should be set aside on ap- ■ peal, trading stamp companies may | continue business in Indiana only by paying the license fee of SI,OOO in each county in which they desire to do business. Judge / iderson followed a recent ruling by ta>e United States Supreme court, in which laws similar to those of Indiana were declared constitutional. Alexandria. — Harrison Hammond, j thirty-eight, ■ a farmer living in Jay ■ county, was cut about tlie head and ; suffered internal injuries, when he was thrown against a telephone pole and hurled into a barb-wire fence, when I an automobile he was driving went j into a ditch north of Alexandria. Mrs. I Hammond and her daughter also were ; injured. SHORT STATE NEWS. — Clinton. —Joseph Short, fifty-three, i was found dead on the C. & E. 1. railroad right of way. No marks of violence were on the body and heart failure is supposed to have caused his death. His widow' and several children survive. Walkerton—Clem Powers, nineteen, was fatally injured at Tee Garden when he fell from the top of a school building, a distance of 50 feet, striking a cemeut sidewalk. Bloomington.—Two thousand stone cutters and planer men in the Bloomington district returned to work in.the quarries after a two weeks’ strike. The strikers did not gain their object, which was the recognition of the Holsters’ union. Members of this er- j ganization are still out. Monticello. —Gerald, ten, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Geier, who live near Reynolds, was injured severely during the centennial celehrtaion here when he was struck by an automobile, driven by Mrs. Bernard Goodman. He was unconscious several hours. It is believed he will recover.

STATE NEWS

Crawfordsville.—Fire destroyed the Pioneer Box company’s plant. Loss. $50,000. Anderson.—John L. Peetz, forty-five, formerly state statistician, is dead Jiere of typhoid fever. Indianapolis.—The Kokomo Steel and Wire company of Kokomo tiled notice with the secretary of state that it had increased its capital stock from $1,000.0(H) to $2,000,000. Muncie.—Near riots by boy strikers at the Hemingrays Glass factory here have resulted in two calls for the police in 12 hours. The boys ask an increase from $1.40 to SI.BO per day. Hammond.—Before a crowd of horrified spectators Samuel Dodge, a wellknown Hammond business man. was trapped on tlie Nickel Plate crossing and killed by a fast train. For Wayne. — Dwight Zent, four of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Zi nt of Roanoke, was hurt seriously when run oyer by an automobile driven by Francis Glass, a farmer. Worthington.—Mr. ami Mrs. John Aydelotte celebrated their golden we<L ding anniversary at their home here. Many friends and neighors called during the day. Newcastle. —Sixty-nine’ veterans of the Civil war met in a county reunion at the courthouse. A program was given and nt noon lunch was served by the Ladies' Aid society of the Sugar "Grove church. Washington.—One thousand twohundred school children took part in the historical pageant presented at Eastside *>:irk as i» feature of the Daviess county centennial celebration. Early frontier life in Daviess county W4is represented. President and Mrs. Wilson were greeted by a reception committee on which were both Democrats and Republicans when his special train arrived here. ITesident Wilson was the honor guest on Highway day of lhe statehood centennial celebration. Colfax.—Ernest Davis, fifteen, disappeared from the home of C. L. ('rose, near here, where he was living, ami took an automobile with him. 'i’he boy ami the machine were traced toThorntown. It is believed he went to Indianapolis. Vernon.—After deliberating for nenriy tt day a Jury found Lynn Wacer guilty of the murder of his fathor-in-!:.w, lltnxr'i Brown. :::. l he was sen‘tenced to prison for life. He also is oncer indictment for tlie murder of Mrs. Brown. He was arrested after the double murder when bloodlmun.lfollowed a trail qeross fields to his lionse. ‘ Marian. —Rev. O. R. McKay of Blufftoll we.s. elocletl p' - sident • !' the In li‘htia Baptist convention for 1917 at (he closing session here. Terre Haute wilj entertain the convention next year. A i : ..»■ <:<-,?¥)<> for th-? state, including appropriations for ten organiz,:- , ;< .rietl <>y the church was; ported by the financial ■'•ommiltee. s'-f-ihy v ! ’lo. —Th? Universalis; s of Shelby county will h'Jd an all-day meeting Sunday at the D?loss H. T’;o; ■■" o:: lb>me for Aged Women at Waldron. The home was given to th--by Mr. Tlr-mpson. Rev. Samuel Urosley and Rev. William Gonden. both of Indianapolis, will preach. 1 lie annual report of the home will be made by Melyin A. Beagle, treasurer. Columbus. —Application has been, made to have the vocatiom-l department of the Columbus high school made a vocational school under state supervision. The state vocational training law i>rovi<!‘-s that this may be done, and in the event the applicathui is granted, a considerable part/»f the salaries of the teachers will be paid by the state. JeffeYsonville—Mrs. Emeline Malone obtained a judgment for $2,500 in th.Clark circuit court against Joseph 'furrier, a neighbor. Mrs. Malone was arrested July 28. 1913. on a complaint by Turner, charged with giving his son. Thomas Turner, doughnuts smeared w>th parts green. Mrs. Malone never was tried, and the case was dis- v missed by tlie prosecutor. September 21, 1915 Turner did not appear to defend the suit by Mrs. Malone. Indiantfptflis.—National Guard recruiting. parties in tlie state were called in by Adjt. Gen. Frank L. Bridges on orders from the war department. The recruiting campaign is admittedly a failure, only a handful of men being secured for border duty. The 25 men in the recruiting work wore smit back here from tlie border and have been working in the larger cittes of the state. Columbus.—Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, is to visit every school in Bartholomew eouiity, having accepted an in- ■ vitation from Samuel Sharp, superintendent of the Bartholomew ebtintyschools. to make a tour of inspection.. All of the school officials of the county have been invited to go also. A dinner will be served by the domestic science class of the East Columbus schools. Elkhart. —Fred Seilion, fifty-two, a lineman, is dead of a fractured skull suffered when he fell from a pole after being shocked by high-voltage wires. His widow and several children survive. Shelbyville.—A suit filed in the Shelbyville circuit court more than a year ago by William 11. Del’rez and Mrs. Maggie Stroup of this city against William E. Longley, state fire marshal, in which an order of court to prohibit the fire marshal from wrecking a condemned business building here was sought, has been dismissed, "the fire marshal’s order having been revoked. Indianapolis. —Dispatches to militia headquarters here announce, the death of another Indiana National Guardsman at the Mexican border. Private Herbert Glaner of Battery A, Indianapolis, shot and killed himself while cleaning his service pistol. —Ten councils of the Daughters of America, an nt&lliary to the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, were represented in a district meeting held here. Mrs. Anna Downey of Clinton, who was elected state councillor at the recent stute convention here, attended the district meeting.