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I WEEKLYjCOURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA Flyin around the world may be come quite a fad before long. The whole world in the busy year of 1913 dug $455.000,000 of gold. The hobo was right. The well-to-do are the most difficult to do. Newfangled togas are not fastened on with wires, as tht old ones were. Did you know that a well brought up orange tree will bear fruit for 150 years? "Rainbow hair" is the latest thing In Pans, but we are afraid it won't stand washing. When a dentist does charity work he always looks his gift patient in the mouth. ImpersonaMon of congressmen Is to be made a crime. As a matter of fact who wants to? The chap that doesn't have to pay an Income tax has at least one worry less than the man that does. ran America afford to Jet other coun tries distance her in the matter of fly ing machines? They have, so far. Yes, Jason; we agree with you that a man who pays n nolir to learn to dance the fish walk is a sucker. A New Yorker urges people to eat whales. P.rain food Is all right, but a whale aplecs is almost too much. Those young women who scorn to marry great wealth should stand back and give the other girls a chance. Do bi unites talk more than blondes? asks a correspondent. If so, It is because there are more of them. Of course It may be possible for a woman to keep a k ret. but as a gen eral thing she is woefull) out of prac tice. Surgeons have manufactured a wom an's jaw from one of her ribs; but didn't this rib business start all our troubles? The explosion of torpedoes by means of long-distance rays suggests the happy expedient of firing the cook by telephone. Recently exhibited samples of the stone age art bear evidence of the world-old desire on the part of artists to make a hit. If the aviators succeed in encir cling the globe a trip around the world may shortly be encompassed in a wek vacation. Those buzzard feathers they orna ment their hats with are good things to keep out of your eyes on a crowded street car if you can. It is said that a Japanese can build a comfortable house for $2. StW. one annot well live in a .house unless oe has some place to put it. Strange how eoUsgC professor ran HfeOT a lifetime In obscurity, and then become famous by devising a system to beat the bank at Monte Carlo. A Pennsylvania hired num. after Jerking on MM farm for nine years, has mo (i over to the next township. The wanderlust is a terrible tiling. A bill has DSSB Introduced In con gress to fche the navy three vice ad mirals at sea and three on shore. The latter will take charge of the rocking hair fleet. It may bo possible to transmit thoughts by wireless, as a siienttst claims, but be will never dare do iL Pisease germs are paid to find the free lunch fork a favorite lurking place. Maybe in this sanitary sge the poor little ?rms have not the price of a regular meal. A duke now in this country hopes to win an American girl by his abil ity to t; Perhaps he tan, for It Is to be care.l some of our heiresses have r -n attra ted to a title fo: les than that. One woman has been trying to sell her husband for $1,000 ami another Is suing a railroad company for $'J50.'oo damages for the loss of hers. The price of everything seems to be regulated by supply and demand. Only recently It was an accepted rule of good society that no gentleman would talk politics in the presence of l&dies. Now the rule seems to be that any men who declines to talk politics in the presence of ladles is no gentle man. urate k i.ater in th- south was Attacked by an alligator This con tempt of the Fenatorial dignity is so outrageous that the onh consoling feature of the affair seems to be that it was not committed by a shark. The palm for ingenuity In thi. vin must go to crooks in Munich, sho were foiled in an attempt to create a scare in a hotel by letting loose a half starved python to c reate . xcite ment sufficient for their work under cover Possibly the enraged guests wanted th ra caged with the python. Wbb I INGHOUSE DIES FAMOUS INVENTOR AND MULTI MILLIONAIRE EXPIRES SUD DENLY IN NEW YORK. WAS ILL FOR SEVERAL WEEKS Condition Was Kept Secret by Family Air Brake Was His First Impor tant Invention Honored by Many Nations Employed 50,000 People. New York, March 13. George West inghouse, aged sixty-seven, president and founder of the Weatinghouse Ma chine company, with home offices in Pittsburgh, died here at his hotel. He had been seriously ill for several weeks of heart trouble, but his frnends ar.d relatives had kept secret all Indispo sition. George Westinghouse was one of the most noted inventors and manufac turers in the world. He was born at Centre! Bridge. N. Y., October 6, 1846. As a youth he spent much of his time in his father's machine shop and at the age of fifteen yeans made bis first in vention, a rotary engine. His education was obtained in the grammar and high schools. As i young man he was interested in matters military and he became a member of the Twelfth regiment of the New York National Guard. He was In the Sixteenth New York cavalry during the Civil war, serving from June. 1863, until November. 1864, when he became assistant engineer in the navy, performing the duties of his grade from December, 1864. to August, 1865. After the war he attended Union college to the sophomore year. He was given the degree of Ph. D. in 1890. Invented Bnke in 1888. To relate the history of the man quickly, he invented a device for re placing railroad cars on the track in 1865. Three years later he invented the Westinghouse air brake. He also made other inventions in railway sig nals, steam and gas engines, steam turbines and electrical- machinery. He was the pioneer, in the face of the most intense opposition, in introduc ing alternating current machinery In America. This has made possible the great development of water power for long distances because of this means of electrical transmission. He built the great generators at Niagara Falls and those for the elevated railway and the rapid transit system of Ntw York. He has established large works In the United States. England. France and Germany for the manufacture of air brakes, steam and electrical machin ery. He was the president of numer ous corporations, employing approxi mately 50,000 people and representing a capitalization of $120,000,000. Many Nations Honored Him. He has been decorated with the rib bon of the Legion of Honor of France, the royal crown of Italy, the Order of Leopold and is an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is one of the two liv ing honorary members of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science. August S. 1867. he married Marguer ite Krskine Walker at Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Vst inghouse made their resid tu e both at Pittsburgh In the beautiful home called "Solitude," and at White Plains. N. Y. They had a summer home, Frskine Park. Ijenox, Mass., and a winter home. Maine house, Dupont circle, Washington, D. C. BIG U. S. BATTLESHIP READY Texas, Mcst Powerful in World. Goes Into Commission Dreadnought Leaves for Norfolk Navy Yard. Newport News. Va . March 11 -All ready for "fight or frolic," the giant superdreadnought Texas, most power ful battleship afloat in the world, left the yards of her builders here, the Newport News Shipbuilding rompany, tot the Norf oik navy yard, there to be turned over to Hear Admiral I'Bher. commandant of the Norfolk station. This monster of the sea carries as ite principal fighting equipment a bat tery of ten 14-inch IBM, ! mg the first warship in the wor'd to be fitted out with guns of such large caliber. In addition it has iu its main battery HI five-inch guns. In length the fighter fa f73 feet, with a beam 95 feet inches, so that in passing through the Panama canal lock! she would have almost 10 feet to spare. Although her designed speed was U knots, in her trials off the Maine coast last October she did her fastest mile in 22.28 knots. She has a displacement of 27,000 tons, a horse power of 35.000 and draws 28 feet 6 inchee Her armor belt is 11 inches thick. MEXICANS SLAY POSTMASTER S. Customs Offi'c and Pottoffice at U. Tecate. Cal.. Burned by Bandits. San Diego. Cal.. March 16 -The t'nited States customs office and post- offlt o at Tecate were burned on Satur- nicht and th postmaster. Prank V, Johnston, was shot dead by three rob bers, according to advices received here. Warren Widenback was wounded Observers of the tragedy say the rob- hers were Mexicans A posse started st daybreak in pursuit of the robbers An American newspaper photographer on the American side was fired on by Mexicans, but was not injured. British Steamer Goes Aground. Buenos Aires, March 12. -The Brit ish steamer Vsugb&n. from New York, grounded at dock entrance horn. WILLIAM G. M'ADOO William G. McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, who will wed Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, President Wilson's youngest daughter. .Mr. McAdoo is twenty-six years Miss Wilson's senior nd hat a daughter. Nona, by a former marriage to-be. the same a$c as his bride- RITCHIE DEFEATS WOLGAST BEFORE 10.000 FIGHT FANS Michigan Likgtweight Claimed Foul in Seventh Round, But Referee Re fused to Allow It. Milwaukee, WK, March 13 Ad Wolgast failed to get his revenge. The Cadillac Dutchman was out-fought by Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie during the ten rounds of fighting in the Auditorium ring before 10,000 per sons. The Callfornian won, but not by a wide margin. He did not even con vince those present that he would surely he the better man in a long fight, for Wolgast was after him vi ciously and madly in the last round, and left the ring without a mark on face or body. The contest was won anr- lost through a dramatic occurrence in the seventh round. The men were fight ing along viciously, head to head, when Ritchie suddenly uncorked two right swings to the Wolgast stomach. With the thud of the secoud padded fist on his body the Michigan Dutch man backed away and sank to the floor, holding his hands over his groin. He looked up at Releree Stout with an expression of pain on his face, and asked that he be awarded the bout on a foul. Ritchie was between S'out and the fallen Wolgast rnd backed away to his corner, the while protesting that he had not struck low. Stout rushed over to Wolgast, refused to allow his claim, aud ordered him to get up and continue the fight. Here Stout proved his ability as a ring officer. He be lieved that Ritchie's blows landed above the belt, and he said so with out hesitation. Wolgast got up, appar ently unhurt, and fought back wick edly during thy rest of the three-min-uate spiel. As far as the writer could see. the Ritchie rights to the body looked to be fair punches. The men were close enough for us to watch them go home, though the blows were deliv ered with lightning quickness. TWO SLAIN IN HOLDUP Engineer of Northwestern Railroad and Bandit Killed Following Rob bery Near Langley, III. lhida. III., Marh 14. A big posse ran down here the last of four Mexi can bandits who killed an engineer on the Northwestern railroad near Langley, 111., and wounded sereml other persons, on Friday. One of the 1. audits who had heen wounded in the battle died at Spring Valley. 111. The tight, which opened at Manlius. 111., about one hundred and twenty miles southwest of Chicago, with the slaying of Arthur Fisher, an engineer of a Chicago & Northwestern freight train, and the wounding of Collins, his fire man, quickly shifted the scene further south, where the bandits were met by Sheriff Charles Heyer oi Princeton and two deputies. In this encounter Beit Skoglund. a deputy sheriff, was shot three times an Leslie Never, son of the sheriff, was shot once In the leg. Here also Mrs. G EL Wright, wife of the station agent at Langley, was struck by a stray bullet. MILITANT FREEID FROM JAIL Mrs. Pankhurst Wf.ns Freedom by Hunger Strike Daughter Also Released. liondon. March 16. For the seventh time Mi. Emmeline Pankhurst. head j of the Women's Social and Political unon the organization of the militant suffragettes, won a hunger strike vic tory over the Hritish government when she was released from Holloway JnJ because of illness. Several hours after Mrs P u khurst was released her daughter. Sylvia Pankhurst, who was arrested recently for rioting, was freed. Six womfm went in an automobile to the res'dence of Home Secretary Reginald McKenna, ard smashed nearly all the windows Stock Buyer Robbed and Slain. brooks frfU elected to the presl Omaha. Neb . March 16.Jack Will- i dency of the company as soon as the iams. Stockton. Ill . in South Omaha , Western Tnion has been dissolved for the purpose of buying a carload of ; from the American Telephone & Tele horses, was murdered and robbed, graph company, in acordance with the The slayers are believed to have j company's recent agreement with the base negroes. 110 QUIT BUSINESS REDUCED RATES ORDERED FOR FEB. 1 CAUSED ACTION OF U. S. EXPRESS COMPANY. PARCEL POST NOT BLAMED As Reult of Directors' Action 15.00C Employes Will Soon Be Without Position Many Women Are Own ers of Stock in Big Concern. New York. March 14 The United States Express company at a meeting decided to liquidate and go out of busi ness. Following is the resolution passed: 'Resolved, That, pursuant to the power and authority conferred upon the board of directors of the United States Express company by its articles of association, the board unanimously declares that it Is for the best inter ests of the company that the company be dissolved as soon as may be, with out awaiting the expiration of its term of existence, and that its business and affairs be settled up and finally ad justed as promptly as may be done. The president is directed to inform the shareholders of said action of the board." Although the heads of the Wells Fargo company, Adams Express com pany and the American Kxpress com pany have declared that they are not considering liquidation of their con cerns, it is generally felt that their stockholders will bring the matter to their attention as happened in the case of the United States Express. Reduced Rates Caused Action. EX I. Roberts, president of the United States Express, declared that the decision to liquidate has resulted largely from the reduction in express rates that took place February 1 last. But for this, he declared, the company would have continued in business. Mr Roberts said that no steps had yet been aken to proceed with the dis solution, which would be handled by himself and the board of directors. As a result of the directors' action about fifteen thousand employes of the company will be without positions in the not distant future. The company has an annual pay roll of more than six million dollars. en Mr. Roberts gave the following names of large stockholders and the amounts of shares held by each: II:.r- riman estate, 21,000; Brown Bros., 3 000; William A. Head & Co. (about) 1,500; Metropolitan Life Insurance, 1,- 600; 'ra C. Potts. 1 015; William Mas?. P.00; Catherine Thayer, aOO; Warner M. Brown, 600; Norman L. r.ates. 250; Helen B, DeWorth, 500; Platt family SöO. Many Women Own Stock. There are 1.556 shareholders, of whom 740 are women, and 14 estates Mr. Roberts aid that due notice would be served upon the public when ho Liquidation had reached a stage where the company decided not to take business. A stockholders' committee, consist ing of Charles A. IVabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company; Moreau Delano of Brown Hros.; Will iam A. Read, the banker; W. A. Har ri man and Haley Fiske. first vice-president Of the Metropolitan Life Insur ance company, recommended to the directors that Jie company be dis solved. Mr. Roberts became president of the United States Kxpress company In January. L013, following the acquisi tion of control of the llarriman inter est! and Piatt interests. He assumed control just as the parcel post system was inaugurated He immediately adopted a motto of "conrteajr and effl ( lency" and eat about to offset the loss in business to the parcel post by re ducing expenses. In 1012 the company was operated at a deficit and the four per cent, dividend passed the latter part of that year. There was also a deficit reported last year. CAR RIOT IN TERRE HAUTE Strikers Attack Workers and Wreck Coaches Service Abandoned by Company. Terre Ilaute. Ind.. March 16. A strike of union street car employes here developed riots which the police were powerless to stop. Cries of "strike'' drew crowds to the i-treet and trom pulling conductors and motormen from street cars the mob turned to wrecking cars. After break ing the windows out of a dozen cars which were stalled in the business section of the city because of cut trol ley ropes, the mob, which had grown to a shrinking crowd of more than two thousand, moved to the traction term inal station. The plate glass windows were wrecked Street car service was abandoned. THEODORE N. VAIL TO QUIT Reported That B. Brooks Will Be Elected President of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Denver. Colo. March 16. Belvidere Brooks, formerly in charge of the Den ver office, is to succeed Theodore N Vail as president of the Western I'nion Telegraph company, acordin to au thoritative information received in th4s itv The renort states that i government- MISS ELEANOR WILSON Wnw isfsa a I a jSa sssTMsWssssswS JsBF . . y . nj PJ 0sfl eAKsD nan It ' ' ' . ' A Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter of President Wil son, whose engagement to William G McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, was officially announcec by the president and Mrs. Wilson. The date of the wed ding has not been announced. MISS WILSON ENGAGED TO WED SECRETARY MAD00 Date of Ceremony Hot Given. But It Is Believed It Will Occur Either on Easter or in June. Washington, March 14 - lust as so- if ty was despairing of an official an nouncement from ihe White House nbout the reported engagement of Miss Eleanor Wilson to William Ci McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, a statement was given out b Ihn president's secre tary, Mr. Tumulty, to thin effect: The president and Mrs Wilson an nounce the engAgoment of ttonir young est daughter, Kleanor Randolph, to William (libbs McAdoo." Those few words made certain that the wedding bells will again chime in t ht White Mouse for the itoCOUd time in the Wilson administration within thv space of six months, and that Miss Kleanor Wilson will bo the fourteenth White House bride. The briefness of the announcement was much commented on. because when the engagement of Miss Jessie Wilson to Mr Say re was announced it was with a wealth of detail and cir cumstance. It is understood that the wedding day has not been fixed. Ru mor lias it however, that it will occur at a very early date, eiiher in Easter week or when the .lime roses bloom about the White House grounds. It was impossible to barn whether the wedding would be a family one or partake of the public nature of the Jessie Wilson wedding. At any rate, it is considered certain that Miss Mar garet Wilson, whose own engagement till been frequently rumored to Hoy 1 Fisher of PlinCStOO, w ill act as her sis ter'fl maid of honor, as she did for Miss Jessie Wilson. It is said also that in I letter found In Washington that the rumor of Miss Margaret Wilsons engagement to Boyd Fisher t Princeton, N. J., soon would be confirmed. Acordlnsi to this letter both weddings were planned to take place in the White House within the year. Tiie rumor of Miss Margaret's en gagement, however, has been denied. SIEGEL STORES ARE CLOSED Nearly All the Employes of Defunct Institutions Are Given Work in New York. Now York. March 16. About one third of the einploes of the Siege! stores which closed on a court order issued in the bankruptcy proceedings will be retained to take inventory and conduct the sale of the goods. The total number of employes is 2.T00. and of that number only about two hundred have so far been unable to obtain other positions. The audit ing department of the Fourteenth street store has been employed by a wholesale drug firm. BostOB, March 16. One thousand five hundred local employes of Henry Siegel & Co. were made happy by the announcement that through a re-arrangement of the sale of the bank rupt stock by the trustees, another company would continue the business and retain thoir services. WILSON SIGNS ALASKAN BILL Measure Providing $35,000.000 for Railroad In Northern Country Is Now a Law. Wasnlngton. March 13. President Wilson signed the Alaskan railroad bill in the presence of Secretary of the Interior Lane, Senators Jones of Wash ington, Chamberlain of Oregon, Pitt man of Nevada, Representative Hous ton and many others interested in the bill. In sijming the bill President Wilson said he wan glad that his administra tion was to be of eervice to Alaska and that he knew a railroad would be a new bond of friendship between the I'nited States and the great territory In the north. ADVISED HIM TO GET BUSY Laborer Resented Interest Shown by Statesman as to the Farmer's Prospective Crop. I The earl of Aberdeen, lord lieuten ant, whom Mr. Hen TIRett suggest hanging, is one of the mildest-mannered and most kindly of men. He takes a great interest in agricul ture, and one evening, while taking a walk in a country district, he paused to watch a laboring man at work In his little garden. Leaning over the fence, his lord ship asked: "Is this good soil" "Aye." said the laborer dryly. Several other questions were sn ewered in the same laconic way. th laborer digging busily all the time. Finally, Lord Aberdeen asked. 'What Is your next crop to be? ' The laborer paused in his work and looked at his questioner severely Seo here, my mannte," he re merked, "I dinna suppose you ken ocything a boot crops. Just you get a bit garden yersel' an' start work on't. an' then ye'll hse something bet ter tae dae than come botberin" busy folk!" 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