Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings in This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington It was decided by the federal reserve bank organization committee at Washington that no bank shall be allowed to take stock in the reserve bank in its district amounting to more than six cent, of its capital and surplus. ♦ * * Former United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom died at Washington. The end came as the result of a general breakdown after the aged statesman had fought against death for six weeks. He will be buried at Springfield, 111. • * • By a vote of 53 to 13 the senate at Washington seated Blair Lee, a Democrat, as a senator for Maryland * * * That in case of war with Japan the Japanese could capture the Philippuines within a short time was the testimony given by Rear Admiral Vreeland, a member of the general board of the navy, to the house naval committee at Washington. • • • Millions of dollars paid annually to great industrial plants—so-called trusts —by railroad systems in the form of “allowances,’’ or special services, were held by the Interstate commerce commission at Washington to be unlawful and unreasonable preferences; in fact, unlawful rebates, operating to the disadvantage of smaller manufacturing concerns throughout the country. * • * • By an executive order signed by President Wilson at Washington, the permanent organization of the Cabal zone is prescribed. Col. George W. Goethals, chairman of the present canal commission, wiil become the first civil governor, * ‘ ' u. Frenzied finance wrecked . the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad system, according to the report of the interstate commerce commission, filed with the senate at Washington. The subject of an informal conference at the Washington home of Senator Newlands of Nevada, chairman of the senate committee on interstate commerce, was how to expedite the anti-trust legislative program as outlined to congress last week by President Wilson. • • * Domestic More than 1.000 unemployed men and women in the Ghetto district of Chicago fought policemen, who, with revolvers drawn sought to force them to leave; mass meetings being held in the streets. Two I. W. W. men, alleged leaders in the rioting,' were arrested. Policemen were fired upon by gunmen. • • » Frederick W. Vanderbilts yacht Warrior was wrecked off the northwest coast of Colombia, between Savanilla and Santa Marta. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt and their guests, the duke and duchess of Manchester, were taken off the yacht by the United Fruit steamer Almirante. * * * Cupid outwitted the Philadelphia eugenic marriage law when Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith of Everett, Pa., and John C. Merrick of Chicago, having been refused a license at Harrisburg because the bride was only nineteen, came to Hagerstown, Md., and were married at the First Baptist church. * • ♦ Ernest Krause, thirty-six years old, believed to be insane, was arrested after he had tried to make himself at home in the residence of Mayor Harrison of Chicago. Krause was formerly employed as a cook at Huron Mountain, Mich., where the mayor and his family made their summer home. • • , • Fifty representatives of the Illinois Grain Dealers’ association heard an address by 'Secretary of State Harry Woods at Decatur ‘and adopted resolutions of protest against the proposed increase of one cent in grain rates in that state. • • • Following a family quarrel John Henry shot and killed Charles E. Ezard, thirty-five years old, at Woodson, 111., and then called Everett Crain, aged forty, and his four-year-old son, from their home and shot them dead. Henry escaped. * • • President Wilson’s policy toward business and his proposed legislation affecting truste promise a lower cost of living at home and increased international trade, William J. Bryan declared in an address before the American Asiatic society in New York. « * • Mrs. Josephine Bromser Amend, forty years old, widow of Robert F. Amend, late member of prominent drug importing firm, jumped from a twelfth story window of a fashionable apartment house in New York and was killed.

A state hospital for the study and treatment of pellagra will be established in South Carolina under a bill favorably reported by the senate finance committee at Columbia, S. C. The measure appropriates an initial fund of $35,000. The scout cruiser Birmingham was badly damaged by fire at Philadelphia. Fifteen hundred bluejackets fought heroically, hnd it was by their efforts that the entire reserve fleet was saved from destruction. > ♦ • * Donald Patridge, aged eleven, was killed, another boy was fatally hurt and several other boys and two girls were Injured when a ‘‘bob sled” crashed Into a telephone pole at Honesdale, Pa. * * * Thomas F. Harris was found guilty of killing Miss Madeline Rowbotham and was sentenced to life imprisonment at St. Joseph, Mo. Harris cut the young woman’s throat with a razor in the presence of a holiday crowd at an amusement park last July. She had refused to be his wife. ♦ • * Special Prosecutor Nichols of Houghton, Mich-, received a telegram saying that Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners and the six other union leaders under indictment for conspiracy will return voluntarily to the state and stand trial with the 31 strikers who were indicted with them. Lucius N. and William Littauer, brothers, the former at one time a member of congress, have been indicted by the federal grand jury at New 7 York, charged with smuggling into this country a diamond necklace valued at $40,000. The defendants are prominent glove manufacturers of Gloversville, .N. Y. » * ♦ '-' : - Mexican Revolt Francisco Villa, military commander of the rebels, disclaimed any ambition to become president of Mexico in the event of the revolution being successful. He does not wish to over-, shadow General Carranza, whom he recognized as the leader of the revolution. • * American ranchmen and Mexicans on a train from Juarez. Mex., were held up by bandits near Guzman. Castillo is reported to have threatened to kill all foreigners. ' * - • ' • Th© police Of t,he . City, Of Mexico broke up a conspiracy which had for its object the overthrow of the Huerta administration, Several prominent Mexicans, including Col. Vita Alossia Robles, are among those arrested. » » * it is apparent that the Mexican situation is critical in the extreme. President Wilson had the members of the senate' foreign relations committee with him for three hours at Washington and, while various matters bearing on our international relations were discussed, the Mexican problem was the main thing. Some of the committeemen expect the president to take action toward raising the embargo on arms. • ♦ ♦ It is reported from Vera Cruz that Rear Admiral Fletcher is under orj ders to send a force of about 3,000 rnaI rines and bluejackets to Mexico City • as soon as President Huerta resigns | or is forced to leave the capital. Personal The nomination of Henry M. Pindell of Peoria to be ambassador to Russia. was confirmed by the senate at Washington. * * * Rather than suffer the humiliation of being tried by court-martial on a charge of perjury, Morgan C. Hall, a private at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., shot and killed himself. • • • “Kid" Kenneth knocked out Arthur Pelkey, former white heavyweight champion, in the sixth round of a scheduled 20-round fight at Taft, Cal. • • • Foreign With the arrival of the United States battleship South Carolina to join the armored cruiser Montana and with American and German bluejackets guarding the legations and patroling the town, conditions at Port au Prince, Haiti, took on a more orderly aspect. 1 • • • Despite the fact that the German government has decided not to participate officially In the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco, a cablegram from San Francisco to Berlin brought word that a site has been allotted on the exposition grounds for a German-American building. Fifty-eight children, 16 women and one man were killed during a panic caused by a fire in a moving picture show on a plantation in the Dutch residency of Surabaya, near Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Most of the victims were trampled to death or suffocated. • * * A' vessel, believed to be the Swedish steamer Robert, bound from England for Calmar, with coal, was wrecked off the coast of Gothenburg, Sweden, In a storm, with the loss of her crew. ♦ * ♦ An aviation instructor named Gipps was killed when flying at Salisbury plain, near London. A passenger was severely injured. » » • An explosion occurred on the Canard liner Mauretania, which is in dock undergoing repairs at Liverpool. Four men were killed and many Injured.