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WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA. As an autumn sport the tango is tfcrottllnc football. The, one most rare thing of the age is l movlo film with a kissless plot. Some oysters lay 50,000,000 eggs a year and yet they never cackle over the feat. To call the sleeping porch a "sola rium" makes it more habitable in cold weather. A scientist declares the oyster di gests ,tself. It should prove a boon to the lazy man. Smoke is said to cost Pittsburgh $10,000,000 annually. It certainly gives color to the city. Anew use for giants has been found. They are fine as fruit pickers and aro In great demand out west. You always are advised to look be fore you leap, but. what's the differ once so long as you leap? Those new English overcoats 'for men give the wearer the graceful contour of a shock of fodder. The way most theatrical men de- elop a sense of discrimination is by )oki?ig their chariots to stars. The meteorological preparations for next year's wheat crop, so far as they have gone, are pretty satisfactory, too. It is not infrequently the case that when a man brags that he doesn't stay out late at night he is simply hen pecked. When real Havana cigars may be known by the label there will be jus tification for looking a gift cigar in the band. The Pittsburgh man who was fined $25 for winking at a girl will leave the country if ho ever has the St Vitus dance. Any millionaire who objects to the Income tax can readily find plentywill ing to take over his burden of wealth, tax and all. An explorer claims to have discov ered an island where the women have two voices. Why can't he let bad enough alone? Doctors say that the tango is respon sible for a new disease. Most persans won't hesitate in calling tLi dance Itself a disease. Three women have organized a law firm with the likelihood that not one of the three wants to be known as tho senior member. Mesothorium being far less expen sive than radium, cancer comes that much nearer being placed within the means of the poor. When It .gets down to brass tacks, it will be generally agreed that, after all, mother does the best job as a teacher of sewkig. Now that the Gatun locks have set tled down to the job it looks as If it would take something more than an earthquake to disturb them. Over in Germany they have found a new way of beating the income tax. First thing wo know thero will bo an exodus to Germany to learn the secret. Five husbands up for sentence for non-support in Philadelphia pleaded that they could not find work. They should be compelled to take in wash ing. Among the other big jokes of tho season might bo mentioned the rumor that hoopskirts are coming back. Can you imagine it? An eastern preacher says society 1b on tho way to purgatory. Any one watching some ( f the present fashions may have little difficulty in agreeing with him. The suit for alienating $1,000,000 worth of a man's affections raises tho interesting speculation whether affec tions that aro worth that much can bo alienated. Why trouble ourselves with spec ulating as to what might 1 tppen if the earth moved sixteen times as fast as It does now, when we have such a momentous question as tho move ments of our oflico boys on our hands. Ono hundred and twenty-five miles an hour at tho International aeroplano races is plenty of speed. At that rate It will take less than 24 hours to croys tho Atlantic when a fuel is invented so light that a supply for that length of time can bo carried. Among a lot of funny things the federal government does, hero is a plan to haul several carloads of prunes from coast to coast for tho purpose of seeing Just how much a prune shrinks in transit. Gloom and worry cause appendici tis, while smiles and cheer are its deadly foes. Which recalls the dras tic command of the western photogra pfcor while pointing a pistol at his patron to smile or take the cons-jiuences. KILLMEXICAN POLICE REVOLUTIONISTS ROUND UP 47 OFFICERS AND TORTURE THEM TO DEATH. . TORN BODIES ARE HANGED Presldtnt Wilson to Act In Republic Soon and May Recognize Belliger ency of General Carranza Huerta Plotters Arrested. San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Nov. 1. Forty-seven members of a squad of 50 mounted police, who were sent to pro tect a ranch west of here were cap tured, tortured and put to death by a band of 600 rebels. The three sur vivors reached here with the story the outrage and a force of federal sol diers with rapid fire guns were sent against tho insurgents. Terrific bar barities were inflicted upon the cap tured policemen Diaz on Way to Havana. Vera Cruz. Mex., Nov. 1. Gen. Fe lix Diaz and his two companions put to sea on board the United States battleship Michigan, to which they had been transferred by Rear Ad miral Fletcher from the flagship Louisiana- The course of the Michigan "was laid for Havana, No public announcement of the de parture of the fugitives was made and friends of General Diaz on shore were unaware that ho had gone. Two German warships, the Martha and the Bremen, are now in this port, the Bremen having just arrived from St Thomas. Wilson to Act In Mexico. Washington, Nov 1. Strong evi dence that President Wilson is plan ning immediate and forceful action against General Huerta, the Mexican dictator, was given here when he took up tho question of recognizing the Mexican constitutionalists. He had a long conference at the White House with Acting Secretary of State Moore regarding the legal aspects of the sit uation. It is understood that the rec ognition of the belligerency of General Carranza was tentatively approved. It is said that one of the vital fea tures of tho president's new policy toward Mexico will be tho support of tho constitutionalist cause by the United States government in tho same vigorous fashion that former Secre tary of Stato Knox encouraged the anti-Zelaya movement in Nicaragua. Huerta Will Not Resign. Mexico City, Nov. 1. "Victorian Huerta will reject any demand by President Wilson that ho resign his post as president of Mexico. General Huerta is tho legal president of the republic." This declaration of Huerta's firm stand in defiance of the wishes of the United States government was made by a Mexican official following their receipt of dispatches from Washing ton saying that the American adminis tration was going to servo a formal demand upon Huerta to retire. Tho Internal situation in Mexico Is becoming more serious daily. Govern ment employes are on tho vergo of mutiny because they are unablo to get any pay. 0 It is reported that the Banco Na clonal was asked for a loan by the government, but refused it, saying that the French board had given or ders to advance no more money. This indicates that France will exert finan cial pressure to force the retirement of Huerta. Arrests of supporters of Felix Diaz continue. Masses Mexican Troops on Border. Laredo, Tex., Nov. l.Tho Mexican government is massing heavy bodies of troops along the border. An army of 600 Mexican federals has been col lected at Neuvo Laredo, across the Rio Grande, and within 24 hours 1,000 morn government troops will have ar rived. These reinforcements, togeth er with the regular force in the garri son, will bring the troops at Neuvo Laredo up to 3,000. A detachment may be sent to the relief of Monterey, which is under siege by insurgents Bare Plan to Kill Huerta. Mexico City. Oct 31.- The capital city was thrown into a frenzy of ex citement by the arrest of several poli ticians who are accused of plotting to assassinato President Huerta. Two women disclosed tho plot, and tho polico, under orders from Presi dent Huerta, aro searching the city for other cvidenco against the prison ors who, if found guilty, will bo shot by Huerta's soldiers. Tho women accused several men who, they say, offered them $500 to in duco General Huerta to visit them so that tho plotters could have an oppor tunity of assassinating him. Tho women asserted that they had declined to participate in tho conspir acy. C. F. MURPHY MUST TESTIFY v Tammany Chief Called as Before New York Judge. Witness Now York, Nov. 1. Charles F. Mur phy, leader of Tammany Hall, was oue of the witnesses cited to appear at tho so-called John Doe proceedings into tho charge of corruption against Tammany, made by John A. Hennessy in recent speeches in behalf of 'he fusiou ticket in the mayoralty cam paign. The hearing before Chief Mag istrate McAdoo concerns mainly the allegations as to campaign contributions. New Trial for Frank Demanded. Atlanta, Ga., Nov l A new trial for Lee M Prank, convicted ot the murder of Mary Phagan, was denied TXg defense will appeal to the state tuprtmo court PRESIDENT AD0LF0 DIAZ A revolutionary plot based on the assassination of Adolfo Diaz, president of the republic of Nicaragua, was dis covered and frustrated in Managua. MRS. EATON IS FREED OF MURDER CHARGE Widow of Rear Admiral Not Guilty of Poisoning Husband De clare Jury. Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 31. Mrs. Jen nie May Eaton was acquitted of the murder of her husband. Rear Ad miral Joseph Giles Eaton, after the jury had deliberated her case 11 hours. The verdict of not guilty was re turned at 5:08 o'clock, after a crowd of lawyers, relatives, friendsJand cu rious persons had kept an all-night vigil in the courtroom. A remarkable scene took place in the courtroom when the foreman of the jury announced the verdict that cleared Mrs. Eaton of the charge of having poisoned her husband with ar senic at their home in Assinippi, Massi The acquitted woman rose to her feet and. gripping the hands of her lawyers, exclaimed in a shaken voice: "Thank God! I have the best law yers in Massachusetts." About 200 persons were In the courtroom when the verdict was an nounced In spite of a previous warn ing from the bench the spectators in tho rear of the room rose in their seats and started to cheer when the defendant was acquitted. With all possible despatch, Mrs. Eaton left for Assinippi to rejoin her aged mother, Mrs. Virginia Harrison, and her daughter, Dorothy Eaton. NEW SULZER SUIT IS FlLüD State'3 Officials Are Defendants Would Set Aside Impeachment of Former Governor. New York, Oct 31. The impeach ment and ouster of William Sulzer from tho governorship of New York, was carried into the federal courts through the medium of an injunction Buit. The suit was filed in the United States district court by W. H. Moore to test and possibly set aside the im peachment of the governor. It is based on the assumption that the judges of the court of appeals and the state senate had no right to impeach Sulzer for acts committed prior to his taking oflics. The present governor, Martin M. Glynn, officers of the state govern ment, judges of the court of appeals and all the state senators are made defendants, .as is Sulzer himself, to make the proceeding legal. The injunction is asked to prevent Governor Glynn from performing the functions of his office. DYNAMITERS CLOSE APPEAL Former Judge Krum Ends Plea Before Federal Court Decision Due in January. Chicago, Nov. 1. Argument in the appeal of the thirty officials of the In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, convicted last December of conspiracy to carry dynamite in passenger trains, ended in the United States court of appeals here with a thirty-minute address by Judge Chester H. Krum for the de fense. Tho case was taken under advise ment and a decision is not expected before the first week in January. The defendants, however, loft tho court room well satisfied that their convic tion would be overruled. $110,000,000 FOR OIL FIRM Two Independent Concerns In Cali fornia Soid Big Deal Made in Lenden. San Francisco, Oct 31.-r-The pur chase of two independent oil com panies in California, the Uniun Oil company and the General Petroleum company, involving $110.1)00.0. was consummated In London by Eugene DeSabla, according to advices receiv ed here. Fourth Suicide In Family. Paterson. N J.. Nov i Joseph Howarth, the fourth member or tus family to commit suicide, drank car bolic acid and dleuMn the same room in which his wife daughter and bod killed themselves. 1 DEATH IN GAR STRIKE NON-UNION MAN KILLED AT IN DIANAPOLIS ONE WOUND ED IN .RIOT. RALSTON REFUSES TO AID Governor Ralston Refuses to Aid Police Failed to Do Their Duty and Urges Appeal Be Made to the Sheriff for Help. Indianapolis, Nov. 3. The flrst fatal ity of the Indianapolis street car strake came when Isaac Streicher, a strike breaker, was shot and killed by one of his own companions. The attempts of non-union men to run cars were followed b the shoot ing of James Johnson, a street car em ploye on strike. Superintendent Hy land had assigned twenty men to duty on any street cars that might be started, and patrolmen boarded cars into which the strike-breakers climbed. The trolley flew from the wire at the curve. Immediately the crowd surrounded the car. John son was one of the foremost in the crowd. Suddenly the door of the car was opened and a policeman fired into one crowd, and Johnson was struck. Johnson was taken to the city hos pital where his condition is consid ered serious. Governor Refuses Aid. Governpr Ralston refused to take any action in the street car strike, which completely tied up the service here. He told Mayor Shank, who admitted that the situation was beyond control by the city authorities, that the police were not doing their full duty and if they would not do their duty to appeal to Sheriff Theodore Porteus of Marion county for aid. The mayor conferred with the sheriff, but no decision was reached. Falls to Move Cars. No attempt had been made to move a car during the night, although about 400 strike-breakers were brought into the city on a special. train from Chica go. President Robert I. Todd of the street railway company, said he was prepared to start the cars at any time that he was offered adequate police protection for them. Mobs rioted in the streets in the forenoon and for more than an hour late in the day, a mob estimated at 5,000 persons fought in the down town business section, before it was broken up by the mounted police. Confers With Business Men. At a meeting of business men with Mayor Shank and his advisers the ad visability of closing the saloons until the strike is settled was considered, but no action was taken. Although vehicles of every descrip tion were pressed into service the great majority of the Indianapolis workers walked home. During a riot a negro was hit by a patrol wagon and killed and a motor man was cut by glass when the eSr he was running was stoned. His injuries were so serious that he may die. President William G. Beatty, presi dent of the Central Labor union, also telephoned the governor saying that the union disapproved of violence anJ charged that the p'olice were at fault in not dispersing the crowds and re serving order. GATES BODY PUT IN VAULT Services for Late Millionaire at New YorkReport He Died of Drugs Denied. New York, oNv. 3. Funeral serv ices of Charles G. Gates, the young millionaire whose hunting trip in the west was terminated by his sudden death at Cody. Wyo., were held in tho Madison Avenue Methodist church. The body was taken to Woodlawn cemetery where it will rest in one of the vaults until the family mausoleum designed to receive the body of the late John W. Gates as well as that of the son is completed. The sermon was delivered by Rev. M I. Burton of Northampton, Mass. The preacher paid a tribute to the unlimited generosity of Mr. Gates while he was alive. The services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Lagrone of Lingsley. Ia., an old friend and pastor of the Gates family. St. Paul, Minn.. Nov. 4. W. L. Walls, city attorney of Cody. Wyo., and L. Howe, coroner of Park county, in which Cody Is located, telegraphed to tho Pioneer Press in this city a statement In the most emphatic terms to the effect that the death of Chnrles G. Gates which occurred sud denly In Cody was not caused by drugs, as had been intimated by an editorial in the Cody Enterprise. M'REYNOLDS M WARNING Attorney-General Tells Marshals Not to Name Deputies for Personal Ends. Washington, Nov 3.- Attorney Gen eral McReynolds directed United States marshals to be cautious in in terpreting the recent action of con gress in removing deputy marshals from the protection of the civil serv ice "Under no conditions," said Mr. McReynolds in a circular letter to all marshals, "must marshals attempt to use these appointments merely for personal reward cr partisan ends ' Approval by the department ft'ill be necessary before permanent ap. pointments to deputy marshalships are made. JAMES J. HILL James J. Hill, veteran railroad build er and financier, told 700 bankers, gathered In Chicago from all over the country, that they must Immediately check the Issuance of new securities or face a financial condition of an alarming nature. HEAD OF W. C. T. U. HITS LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN U. S. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens Says Or ganization Must Aid in Upholding Decision. Asbury Park, N. J., Nov. 1. "Wom an suffrage will crush the liquor traf fic. Enfranchisement of women will mean national prohibition. Suffrage and prohibition are indissolubly linked together." With these ringing statements, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland. Maine, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance union in her annupl address before the fortieth convention of that organiza tion, pointed the way for the future struggle of the membership. But while the relationship of suf frage and prohibition was the key note, Mrs. Stevens called upon her followers to continue their efforts to prevent a restoration of the canteen in the Unitec'. States army; to work for a constitutional amendment to prevent polygamy, and to demand from congress legislation preventing the use of tho United States mails for liquor advertising. "The liquor traffic is doomed," de clared Mrs. Stevens. "The growth of prohibition in the states where women have political influence shows what the ultimate result will be when the women of the entire country are en franchised." Mrs. Stevens made a bitter attack upon Senator Weeks for proposing that beer be exempted from the prohi bition bill recently introduced in con gress. "We must give deep attention to the problem of white slavery," said, Mrs, Stevens in touching upon this question. "We must do all in our power to uphold the interpretation of the Mann act aa given by the judge In the Diggs-Caminetti case in Cali fornia. The law must not be weak ened. DEPAUW BLEACHERS FALL Hundred Persons Hurt When Cheer ing Crowd Is Dropped at Greencastle, Ind. Greencastle, Ind., Nov. 3. One hun dred persons or more, most of them women, were hurt, eight seriously, when the bleachers on Depauw uni versity athletic field collapsed just be- for the Depauw-Rose Polytechnic football game. It was estimated that more than 700 men and women were on the bleachers when they collapsed. Members of both football squads did good work in disentangling the twist ed mass of lumber to free the persons who were caught In the ruins. The game was not played. , The swaying of the crowd in cheer ing the Depauw team as it came on the field is believed to have been tho immediate cause of the collapse. MONEY BILL AGAIN TANGLED Senate Banking Committee Unable to Agree on Capital and Control of Regional 3anks. Washington, Nov. 3. A snarl was reached in the running discussion of the administration currency bill by the senate banking committee when the committee spent hours In debating the capitalization and control of tho four regional banks tentatively proposed to administer the new system. The debate at times waxed vocifer ous, and the committee adjourned un til Wednesday without affirmative ac tion on the question. Tho committee rejected a proposi tion advanced by Senator Hitchcock by which the entire system would be capitalized at $100.000,000, to bo sub scribed by the banks underwriting tho stock and selling It to the public. W. C. T. U. TO HAVE FAST DAY Convention Sets Aside New Year's Day for Prayers for Prohibition Amendment to Constitution. Asbury Park. N. J.. Nov 3. -New Year's day, 19H, was set aside by tho National Woman's Christian Tem perance union in annual convention here as a day of fasting aud prayer in behalf of a constitutional amendment for country-wide prohibition The convention selected J aim ah 15 next as "national constitutional prohibition day." HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Fort Wayne. Katharine Fänger, age sixteen, who was hurt in a. Pennsylvania wreck near Vanwert, received a verdict of $12,000, being two thousand more than her demand- Her injuries were internal. Muncie. Elias Boltz, sixty years old, of Dunkirk, died, the third victim of the interurban wreck at. Yorktown. Motorman Stanley was ar rested at Anderson on a charge of in voluntary manslaughter. He" was brought to Muncie, where he was re leased on $2,000 bond. Fort Wayne. Stumbling on a tie as he threw the knuckle on a Wabash freight train, Henry Spacht, a. brakeman of this city, fell across thO' rail and had crawled backward for nearly ten feet in an effort to get clear of the tracks when the wheels caught him, severing his head. A widow and two children survive. Richmond. Coroner Pierce in his report filed of the death of the-two-weeks-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Settle, this city, October 18, found that the baby had been lit erally hugged to death, but without intentional violence, by its mother when she fell asleep while rocking the little one. Bloomington. Bloomington was; visited by the committee appointed to select a site for the state penal farm. The committee inspected & tract known as the Kyle-Ferguson farm, of more than 1,200 acres near Harrodsburg, and went from this city to Springvllle to inspect another pro posed site. Fort Wayne. The biennial in spection of the local ' Knights Temp lar chapter was made a big event when it was conducted by Right Emi nent Commander Joseph Ibach of the grand commandery of Indiana and Sid ney Douglas, the inspector general of the grand commandery of the state, both of whom are from Indianapolis. Evansville. J. D. Barber, ago-seventy-seven, and Mrs. Kate Mar tin, age sixty-two, both living at Oakland City, were married here by Ben, Morris, justice of the peace. It was the third marriage for each. Bar ber said marrying had got to be a sort of habit with him. Warsaw. Clarence Duffee, twenty- wo, and Chester Evans, seven teen years old, were run down by a Pennsylvania passenger train and in stantly killed. They were walking on the west-bound track as a passenger train passed on the opposite track, and failed to hear the train comins from the other direction. Duffee is survived by a widow and Evans by a motfier, brother and sister. Bloomington. There will be no tango dances at Indiana university during the present school year. Resolutions asking the co-operation of all the students In making the dances this year beyond criticism were given out by Miss Denise, dean of women,, and have just been adopted by the Pan Hellenic council of young women. The resolution asks that the students restrict themselves to the waltz, two step, Boston (without the low dip ping), the hesitation waltz and the one step (without the dip). Marion. Dr. V. V. Cameron, coro ner of Grant county, found that Jennie Robinson, age thirty-five, found dead in the Grant county jail, died of chronic alcoholism. The wom an was placed in jail when intoxicat ed. She came formerly from Fort Wayne.. Nothing is known of her rel atives. Evansville. W. H. Blanchett, fire man on tho towboat Taber, who shot and killed William January, tho engineer on the boat, on Green river, near Evansville, gave himself up at Morgantown, Ky. He has em ployed an attorney and will plead self defense. The body of January has been brought here for burial. Martinsville. Mrs. William Wright, age seventy-three, who lived north of Lewisville, about sixteen miles west of this city, committed sui cide by swallowing carbolic acid. She was found by her son In a dying condition. Mrs. Wright had dressed herself for burial. North Vernon. From all indications tho city, election to bo held here November 4 will bo a clean one. The Progressives and Democrats have come to an agreement, and no money will be used or any other means of influencing voters. Tho present out look seems most favorable for the Progressives, and thero Is little doubt but that they will mako a clean sweep. Lebanon. James Welch, seventeen year? old, of . Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to robbing tho homes of Jasper C. Shelburno and William Cllnger, near Zlonsville, and Judge Parr sentenced him to servo two to fourteen years In tho reformatory. While in jail hero Welch was Inter viewed by Superintendent Hyland of Indianapolis, and that official later said tnat his talk cleared up several recent robberies ir: the capital city. Laporte. Frank Rainer, until a few weeks ago a resident of Whit ing, was Instantly killed at Gar rett when he was thrown under a train. His head and both arms were severed from his body. South Bend. The climax In tho domestic afTalrs of Stato Senator Arthur J. Bowser of Chesterton came in the filing of divorce proceedings at Valparaiso by Bowser, whey charges cruel treatment Mrs. Bowser reoent ly figured In a sensational 'street flf ht with Bowser's sister, who Is charged with Interfering In tho domestic af lairs of the Bowstn.