National Democrat (Newspaper) - March 30, 1916, Des Moines, Iowa THE PEOPLED Liberal and Fearless Frae to Democracy ONLY DEMOCRAT CAPITAL PRIDE Dutiful to Friends Always Progressive AT STATE CAPITAL ESTABLISHED 1899 DES MOINES IOWA THURSDAY MARCH 30 1916 NEW SERIES VOL VII NO 20 X NEWS Persons engaged to be married who become afflicted with fatal or incur able diseases are not bound to carry out their contract according to a rul ing the Iowa supreme court has made in the case of Nancy Bowie of Car roll county against the es tate Nor is the estate of the deceas ed who refused to contract marriage under conditions of fatal illness liable to damage for breach of contract Nan cy Bowie bad sued the estate of Ed ward A for She had been housekeeper for they were engaged to be married She also for her services as housekeeper The courts have allow ed this latter claim City officials who attended the third annual Municipal day program under the auspices of the extension division of the state university at Iowa City had the opportunity of listening to several discussions by experts of the practical working of the city manager plan of government The program of the first annual Municipal day was on the general subject of street lighting last year it was on city water supply and this year on the general subject of city government For this program the university a group of prominent experts on the subject as speakers Five courses in agriculture are in tte list of nearly three hundred which will during the summer ses sion at the University of Iowa The university is undertaking to teach on ly enough agriculture to fit teachers to meet the new legal requirements for certificates General agriculture agronomy animal husbandry and of teaching agriculture will be discussed which teachers now must know in home eco nomics and manual training are in the Four and onehalf miles of concrete Mar for the approaching season Included in the budget are almost two miles on the Lincoln highway The specifications call for one course con crete six inches thick adopted by the Lincoln Highway association This will be the first one course pavement of concrete paving to be laid in this city The concrete paving has a foundation and wearing surface in all seven inches thick and P M Musser of Mus catine liave donated to the Iowa endowment campaign This with the exception of the gift made by Andrew Carnegie is the largest single gift ever made the school Mr and Mrs Musser have contributed liberally to the schoor on past occasions The campaign will close April 25 There still remains to those in charge are con this will be secured Unless a shortage in materials in the giant strides of the auto mobile industry should carry it well beyond a million car production in with the figures more likely to be combined with cars now in use and allowing for those worn out should give more than 3000000 cars on American roads atthe end of the present year one for every 34 persons with records in states like Iowa of one for every 1 5 persons Sherman Iowa Falls was fatally injured when a carbide gas tank exploded Mr Acuff was experi menting with a carbide tank and en to perfect an improvement in the apparatus He was in the barn at the time no one was present when the occurred but the noise attracted the family and neigh bors who found Acuff unconscious with a badly fractured skull Definite plans have been made as suring the construction the largest union stations Jn the state at Clinton by the four leading railroads running through there The four rail roads which will unite in the con struction of the station are Chicago Northwestern Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Chicago Burlington Quincy and Chicago RockIsland Pacific City visitors to Dakota City Neb have been given a shock by the report that that oasis may go dry in the near tuture The town council has announced that the saloon Ques tion will be voted on April A The drys of the place are confident of winning and the wets are not doing any boast ing in the matter The farmers in the vicinity of Clarksville have completed the or of the ative Elevator company authorities are mystified by the ac of ghouls who opened the grave of Mrs Bond who was buried January 26 The outer box and casket had been broken open and the body was disturbed after which the body was returned and the grave refilled Nothing was stolen from the body and authorities are un able a reason for the act One theory is that the rob bers opened the wrong grave and then did not have time to open another Guards have been placed in the cem etery following the robbery European War News In retaliation for an attack on Ger man camps north of the Greek frontier by a squadron of French aeroplanes seven German aviators bombarded Sa from the air Four Greek sol and a number of civilians were killed by Reports have at Ber lin from Athens that a French trans port with troops on board from Sa had struck a mine and sunk Seventythree persons were rescued In a furious counterattack in the region German troops re captured the positions lost to the Slavs on March 20 adding 2161 men and of to the captives taken since the czars troops began their attacks in that region British liner Minneapolis was sunk In the Mediterranean by a sub marine according to the British steamer Leicestershire arrived at Marseilles from Ran goon The number of Americans who lost their lives as a result of the torpedo ing of the channel steamer Sussex is now placed The total death 80 according to London v Three British were brought down by German guns on and about the Island of Sylt during an air raid on northern Schleswig according to a German official communication is sued at Berlin The crews were tak en prisoners Bombs did says the statement London says two German patrol vessels were sunk by The British admiralty announced the sinking of the German commerce raider Greif and the British auxiliary cruiser Alcantara in the North sea with a loss of 254 lives The British loss was 74 men The Alcantara was torpedoed by the Greif Spurting A abolishing the state athletic commission and stopping prize fight ing in the state was introduced inthe York legislature Senator Jones Jess Willard champion world retained his title at New York when Frank Moran of Pittsburgh He broke the fore finger of bis right hand in the third roand Washington called at the White House in Washington and paid his respects to son The accompanied by his colleague Senator Kern Without a dissenting rote the house at increased the Mex ican war pensions from to a month Woman suffrage and national pro were set aside for the present session of congress iby the house ju than defray the expenses of the expedition sent after Villa and for recruiting the army up to full war strength is pro vided by a passed bythe house at Washington The total amount carried in the J President House Lead er Kitchin at to speed up consideration of two matters of legis lation on which he said the whole movement of our trade and industry seemed to shipping and the resolution for an investigation in to transportation conditions on the railways The United States has inquired of Germany through Ambassador Ge rard whether any submarines torpedoed the British channel steamer Sussex A creating a United States tar iff commission was the house at Washington byV Congressman Henry T Rainey of Illinois The pro visions of the proposed measure have the the administration and is the administration measure on this subject A 100000 volunteers to be used along the Mexican border is pro posed in a resolution introduced In the house at Representa tive Dyer of Missouri He asks that militia men calling men to service owners of Mexican properties with di rect concern in spreading false stories cf Mexican internal conditions in or der to bring about intervention The charge is contained in is sued from the White House at Wash State Has Twentythree More Towns Than in 1910 REPORT TO STATE Eighteen of These Have Not Yet Incor Former Towns Which Are Now Dead Will Be Dropped from States List Happenings of the World Tersely Told Des examining the re port of the census department the municipal accounting department of the that there are twen new towns in Iowa towns are being notified that they will be required to make annual reports to the state in the future No record is shown at the state house of the incorporation of eighteen pf the new towns These towns and the population are Centralia Dubuque county Dawson Dallas county 306 in habitants Guernsey Poweshiek coun ty 177 inhabitants j county 238 Hartwick Poweshiek county 113 Hills Siding Johnson county 210 Scott county 58 Middletown Des Moines county 106 Northboro Page county 219 North Tabor Mills county 160 sen Humboldt county 153 Oyens Plymouth county Chero kee county Quincy Adams coun ty 77 Reasnor Jasper county 205 Robins Linn county 125 Clay county 312 Wei ton Clinton county 75 Blanks have been sent by the muni cipal accounting department toall cities and towns of Iowa calling for a report of municipal business forthe year ending March 31 1916 There are 105 cities on the list an increase of 4 since last year There are 728 towns an increase of 23 A few towns will be dropped from the list From reports received from a few places the postoffice has been discontinued and the inhabitants have lost interest in the town to the extent that they neglect to elect officers Without officers ma exist in a legal sense at 225 to 82 to retain the literacy test in the Burnett immigration Mexican Revolt Confirmation that General Pershing already has been using a portion of the Northwestern railroad for trans of troops was received by General Funston at San Antonio Tex This information included a report of the overturning of two cars and the Injuring of ten troopers of the Tenth cavalry A dozen Indian chiefs from Arizona are to be enlisted as guides and scouts for the American columns in Mexico Major General Funston has asked the war department at Wash ington for the services of the warriors and Major General Scott authorized their employment Villa is flying southwest toward the foothills of the Sierras According to army reports received at Columbus N M the rapidity of his flight is pre the American pursuit All arms of the service are being an attempt to force the bandit into a corner Threatened complications in the Mexican situation disappeared at Washington when the senate Republi cans decided to accept the administra tions assurances that sufficient troops were on the border for protec tion of American interests and not to carry the agitation for more troops further at this time Elias Miles the shot through the head in the raid on Columbus N M March 9 died at Deming N M Juan S Sanchez and Jesus Paiz the two surviving wound ed prisoners arc to recover A telegram to San Tex from Mexico City made public by the Mexican consulate states that tte gov ernor of Sonora has issued an expelling all priests Air scouts are proving invaluable the American expeditionary Mexico according to Lieut T S Bow en who reached Columbus N M has been invalided to San as the result of a fall I Janes 40 miles northwest of Casas Grandes Mex and on the route taken by the American expeditionary force was set on fire presumably by a band of Mexican bandits Four large fires were reported by Americans Domestic A legal attempt to oust the Vander bilt interests from control of the man agement of the New York Central railroad was begun in the supreme court at New York Judge A B Anderson granted the motion to quash the indictments re cently returned at Youngstown against five steel companies charging them with conspiring to fix the price of labor and steel products American citizenship was denied to Takao Ozawa a Japanese in a test case at Honolulu H I The court ruled that Japanese Mongolians and that the word white include the Mongolian race Judge Charles F demons of the United States district court denied Ozawa cit papers Chicago faces a milk famine begin ning April 1 A strike has been called for that date by Producers as sociation which takes in the territory of northern Illinois and Indiana and southern Wisconsin A raise from 13 to per hundredweight is demanded Gen Harrison Gray Otis editor of the Los Angeles Times continues to improve in his fight against pneumonia He passed a good night without the aid of stimulants Six persons were drowned when a gasoline launch was run down and sunk by the Standard Oil tank steam er Coalinga near San Francisco Dr Arthur Warren Waite confessed at New York that he killed his moth Mrs Hannah Peck with dis ease germs and murdered his father inlaw John E Peck with arsenic The dentists confession was made to District Attorney Swann Gov Hiram W Johnson issued a proclamation at ex from intrastate business in California about 5500 corporations in the Ford Automobile com pany for failure to pay the state fran chise tax last year In the presence of Miss Grave Huff man a high school student Hardy Robinson twentyfour shot and killed Aucil Phillips seventeen a rival for Uie girls favor at Miss Home in Lexington Ind 14 15 TICKET Large to National Convention Vote for Two A 15 A 15 B 16 17 FOB 18 District Delegates to National Convention Vote for Two 19 20 21 22 FOR 23 24 25 Alternate Delegates at Large to National Convention Vote for Four 26 27 PROGRESSIVE TICKET For Alternate Delegates at to National Convention Vote for Two County 16 B JOHN P 17 B A K 18 B OMalley Stewart Stevens Perry Dallas Co Des Moines Polk Co of DCS Moines Polk Co 15 C GEO C White of in Filth Co Story Co 16 C H H 17 C HARRY W 18 C Griffiths Hill of of Des Moines Earlham Polk Co Madison Co 19 B H L 20 B PARLEY 21 B SAM 22 B JOHN F 23 B MICHAEL F 24 B H L 25 B GORDON Pierce Sheldon Swift Webber Cronin Exley Hayes of Linn Grove Buena Vista County of Ames Story Co of Dubuque Dubuque Co of Ottumwa Wapello Co of Muscatine Muscatine Co of 1 of Red Oak Derby Montgomery Lucas Co County T For es at Large to National Con vention on Progressive Ticket See Keys and 28 29 26 B 27 B 26 C C E 27 C CASPER Hampton Schenk of Mt Pleasant Henry Co of Des Moines Polk Co I f r HA r s A FOR Alternate District Delegates National Convention Vote for Two 28 B 28 C S B of Des Moines Polk Co 29 A E W of Ames Story Co 29 B 29 C 1 WD J Frey of Madison
