Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 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 “Thi. bill attempts to Russianize America; it would establish a censorship*over thfe press by the postmaster general; American newspapers will not tolerate it.” Such was the comment of Senator Hitchcock to fellow members of the senate banking and currency committee at Washington at the hearing on the stock exchange regulation bill offered by Chairman Owen. • » * A constitutional amendment abolishing absolute divorce with the privilege of remarriage was introduced In the senate at Washington by Senator Ransdell of Louisiana. • • • The Burnett immigration bill providing a literacy test for applicants for admission to the United States was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 241 to 126. All proposed amendments relating to the exclusion of Asiatic immigrants previously had been eliminated. • • • Preparations are being made by the weather bureau for the establishment of a bureau and substations in the Panama canal zone to warn ships. * • • Col. Ceorge W. Goethals was confirmed by the senate at Washington to be governor of the canal zone. It becomes effective April 1 under the executive order creating a permanent civil government for the zone.

• • * A protest against the use of firearms and the employment of armed guards and private detectives in labor disputes and strikes was made by Secretary W. B. Wilson of the department of labor in his first annual report submitted to President Wilson at Washington. * * • L©d by the patriotic speeches of Representatives Mann, Sabath and Rainey of Illinois and Sherley Of’Kentucky the house at Washington overwhelmingly defeated, all Asiatic amendments to the immigration bill. • • • House Democrats in caucus at Washington sustained President Wil ron in his position that female suffrage is a state and not a federal issue. By a declr'ye vote of 127 to 53 they adopted a resolution referring the question hack to the states and refused congressional action. *'.<*■* Vice-President Marshall laid before the senate at Washington a resolution from the committee on privileges and elections ‘ that Frank P. Glass is not entitled to a seat in the senate of the United States as a senator from Alabama.” * * * Following a spirited debate the senate at Washington, adopted by 41 to 11 Senator Norris’ resolution mitcst ing the interstate commerce commission to ascertain whether in the las* six years the. United States Steel corporation has been guilty of giving or receiving rebates.

* * * That experts of the navy department at Washington •juggled statistics in the navy year book for 191 :t so as to make the American navy appear inferior to Germany's, and thereby set the United States down from second to third place as a sea power, was charged by members of the house who oppose a “big navy." * * * President Wilson again told the suffragists at Washington that he could not help them. When 400 working girls, representing ten states and more than 50 industries, called at the White House the president explained to them that he could not take the initiative In indorsing any legislation and that woman suffrage would have to be supported by the Uemocratic i party before he would express bis views upon it * • • Domestic Joseph Schnicke, a diamond broker, was waylaid and robbed of diamonds' worth $2,000 in St. Louis. The robbers escaped. * * -y The bronze tablet placed by Daughters of the American Revolution on the Split Rock in Pelham Ray park at New York to mark the spot where Anne Hutchinson 5 and her household were massacred by Indians in 1613 has been stolen. ' • m• .* Governor Glynn nominated William D. Hornblower as associate judge of the New York court of appeals and Bartow S. Weeks as justice of the su preme court for the First district. Both nominations were unanimously confirmed by the senate. * * * Former Senator Shelby Moore Cub lom was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery, 200 yards from the Lincoln obelisk at Springfield, Ill: Statesmen from all sections of Illinois and hundreds of persons from Springfield attended the funeral. ' ' ' * ‘ •'*** j.c

Religious teaching in the public schools was urged by the Episcopal deans of the Chicago diocese in resolutions adopted at Rockford, 111., calling on every board of education in the district to adopt a Bible reader acceptable to all denominations. * • * On the old Pines revolutionary road at Chappaqua, N. Y., near Horace Greeley’s old home, a monument to him, erected by the Chappaqua Historical society, was unveiled on the one hundred and third anniversary of his birth. • * • After deliberating less than half an hour the jury in the case of the state against Harry Haberly, William J. Lutton and Charles Cramer, Atlantic City officials, on trial at Mays’ Landing, N. J., for frauds at the 1909 election, brought in a verdict of not guilty. • • * Nearly 1,000 residents of Grove City, Pa., are suffering from a strange malady which physicians are unable to name. The disease resembles winter cholera and is contagious. Many persons were stricken in church Sunday and were removed to their homes. * • • Systematic robbery by a “syndicate” composed of Philadelphia teamsters, who are accused of stealing goods valued at $30,000, was revealed when four men were arrested on charges preferred by a hardware concern. • • •

Six persons are dead and ten seriously injured as the result of the burning of the Kellcher hotel at Kellcher, Minn. • * • Approximately 1,000,600 women and children—about one-half the entire population of the city—took active part in the greatest religious demonstration in the history of Chicago. The ”Go-to-Church” Sunday campaign was responsible for the 600,000 increase, • * * The presence of smallpox in Pecatonlca, 111., caused Dr. C. E. Crawford, state health officer, to Issue orders for a general vaccination bee in the village. • • * Chicago women proved to the world that they are going to take advantage of the right to vote. A grand total of 15,3,897 suffragists went to the polling places and registered. * * * l Fines aggregating $28,000 were imposed at Juneau, Alaska, on six corporations which pleaded guilty to discriminations in restraint of trade and conspiracy to mopolizo wharf facilities at Skagway. * * • The Aero club of America announced at New York that it had given its sanction- to an aeroplane race around the world, to he started from the PanamaPacifiC exposition grounds in San Francisco in May, 1915, and to be completed at the same place within ninety days. The first prize will be $10(1,600. * * » Swift & Co. and three railroads were indicted at Chicago by a grand jury before Judge K. 7,1. Landis in the United States district court on charges of rebating and soliciting rebates. The packing firnv alone faces a possible maximum fine of $1,200,000 on the charges. ‘ * * * Dr. Charh s F. Akod, on.ee pastor of the Rockefeller Baptist church in New York, but since then pastor of the First Congregational church at San. Francisco, announced to his congregation that he favored the new religion of former President Eliot of Harvard. The auditors were amazed at his declaration.

* * * Mexican Revolt President Huerta of Mexico in a message said that lie had an army of 135,000 and would increase it 50,000 "with the pacification of the republic as the intention.” His policy, he concluded, was solely to establish peace. Charge Nelson O’Shaughnessy was instructed to inform all foreigners, as well as Mexicans in the City of Mexico, of the lifting of the embargo against the importation of arms from the United State®. Americans are fleeing to Vera Cruz as riots against foreigners are feared. * * * “The Mexican war will not last much longer,” said Gen. Francisco Villa, at Juarez, and other rebel leaders, on learning that President Wilson had lifted the embargo against the shipment of arms and ammunition into Mexico. * • • Personal Maj. Bluford Wilson of Springfield was elected president bf the Chicago, eucceeding John P. Ramsey. • • * Henry M. Pindell of Peoria, 111., who was recently nominated and confirmed by the, senate at Washington as ambassador to Russia, has declined the appoiii talent. * * * Gen. James Grant Wilson, soldier, editor and author, died in New York. * * * Foreign President Guillermo Billinghurst of Peru, who asumed office in the fall of 1912, was taken prisoner by military revolutionists headed by Dr. August Durand and removed to Callao, from which port he will be sent into exile in a foreign country. * * * Paul Schmitt, an engineer in France, has constructed an Aeroplane of great carrying power. In a recent flight he took a ton and a half 6,000 feet high in half an hour.