Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 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 The administration Alaskan railroad bill, authorizing the president to construct a $35,000,000 railroad from Alaska’s coast to its great coal fields, was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 230 to 87. »■, • • Secretary McAdoo of the treasury and Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture, as the committee on organization of federal reserve districts under the new currency law, will not decide on the location of regional reserve banks until they have made careful study of the information gathered on thier five weeks’ trip through the country, it was announced at Washington. • • * President Wilson s plan to repeal the Panama tolls exemption came in for its first senate debate at Washington and was characterized by Senator Bristow, Republican, as an aid to transcontinental railroads. Senator Lodge and Senator Owen defended the president’s position.

Reports that President Wilson would veto the immigration bill if it is sent to him from congress at Washington with the literacy test provision amazed members of the senate immigration committee. » » • ■ Funeral services for the late Senator Bacon of Georgia were held in the senate chamber at Washington. A committee of 14 senators will accompany the body to Macon. Ga., and attend the funeral there. * » * Commissioner Caminetti of the immigration bureau at Washington in his report to Secretary Wilson wants Japanse women barred from entering the United States as "photograph'’ brides —women married by proxy while in Japan to men in America- lest they compete with American labor and ultimately people this country with great numbers of Japanese who must be regarded as American citizens. ♦ • * Domestic Prof. Barrett Wendell, head of the English department at Harwood, has declined appointment as exchange professor to the University of Berlin. He gives poor health as the reason. • » • By a vote of 74 to 19 the San Francisco Church federation refused to accept the resignation of Rev. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the First Congregational church, as president of the organization. ♦ ♦ • Testimony showing that the American Sugar Refining company is not a monopoly because it does not control half of the sugar business of the United States was offered at the resumption of the hearings held at Chicago on the government’s suit to dissolve the "sugar trust” under the Sherman anti-trust law. * * * Fire starting in a chimney destroyed the University Avenue Methodist church at Syracuse, N. Y„ with a loss of $160,000. • * * The pitiable spectacle of thousands of wild ducks dying of hunger aroused the residents of Sayville, Islip, Brookhaven and Long Island towns on the Great South bay to action and daily they are taking large quantities of food over the ice covered bay to alleviate the sufferings of the fowl. • • • Promotion of Charles N. Whitehead from assistant to President C. F. Schaff of the Missouri. Kansas A Texas railway to a vice-presidency of that road was announced at St. Louis. Mr. Whitehead is thirty-six years old and entered the "Katy” service as a messenger in 1893.

• • • For six hours the liner Roma, with 418 passengers and a crew of 100 was reported in a precarious condition on the rock shoals of No Man’s I .and The vessel was floated and proceeded to Providence. • • • Mies Theresa Hollander of Aurora, 111., twenty years old, was brutally slain near her home Monday night Her bodj' was thrown across the head of a grave In St. Nicholas’ cemetery, where It was found by her father’ A former suitor Is held as a suspect • • • Thomas Cox, former county treasurer of Brown county, 111., died in a hospital at Galesburg, 111., from Im juries received when he fell off a train. Cox faced forgery charges in Mount Sterling involving |1,600, and a deputy sheriff had come here to arrest him. Five men, including Capt Guiseppe Garva of the Italian bark Castagna, perished before the vessel struck on the outer bar of Cape Cod. a mile and a half south of the Cahoon’s Hollow lifesaving station off Massachusetts.

An unknown man entered the office of the Adame Express company at Farmington, 111., near here, slugged the express agent, C. L. Brown, and escaped with a package of currency containing 16.400 consigned to the National Bank of the Republic at Chicago. Brown may die. Four persons were killed, five probably fatally injured and 25 others hurt at Indianapolis on Wednesday when an ouVbound English avenue street car was crushed between two heavy traction cars. The accident occurred at Virginia avenue and South sereet and was caused by slippery rails. • • • The jury at Hancock, Mich., in the case of John Gross, James Cooper and Arthur Davis, Waddell-Mahon detctlves, and Deputies James and Polkinghorne, charged with murder In the second degree in connection with the copper strike shooting, returned a verdict of manslaughter against all the defendants except James, who was declared not guilty. • • • Fifty masked men held up an Illinois Central train near Love Station. Miss., “covered” the crew and all passengers with revolvers and shotguns, took from the Desota county sheriff two negroes, both accused of killing J. K. Ingram, lynched Johnson and turned Phillips loose. • • • Mexican Revolt An unverified report to El Paso says Gen. Jose Yuez Salazar, leader of Mexican federals, was killed by an American soldier. Salazar was trying i to escape from the Fort Bliss deten- ' tion camp. • | • • • Foreign A bill for the enfranchisement of women in the Union of South Africa, which was introduced into the house I of assembly at Cape Town, was defeated on the first reading by the nar- | row majority of 43 to 42. • • * An earthquake shock of about 30 seconds’ duration was felt at Reno, Ney. The tremors passed from southeast to northwest. ,

Because of the illness of the defendant, the suit of Dr. Ernest Villien Appleby, formerly of St. Paul, Minn., against Baroness May de Pallandt for $50,000 damages was postponed indefinitely at the king’s bench at London. « • • King Gustave has approved the selection of Dr. Knut Hammarskjoeld for the new cabint, in which he himself will be premier and minister of war. K. A. Wallenberg has been chosen for the ministry of foreign affairs, M. Brostroem marine and M. Vennersten finance. The lower house at Tokio, Japan, was the scene of unprecedented disorder and adjourned after midnight. The members of the opposition destroyed the ballot box in order to prevent the adoption of the business tax, which the masses wish abolished. • • » Two militant suffragettes arrested In the recent wave of violence which attended the opening of parliament at London, were released because of 111nees brought on by a hunger strike. They gave the names of Warren and Pearson. • • • The Mississippi, the first motor liner of 5,000 tons, built for the Atlantic Transport line, was launched at Glasgow. The vessel is 383 feet long and is fitted with two engines of 1,600 horsepower each and two auxiliary engines. • • • Immigration to Canada during the first ten months —April to January—of the current fiscal year was 356,430, made up of 135,179 British, 93,939 Americans and 127,313 from all other countries.

♦ * » A fiery threat of civil war In Ireland if the home rule bill Is passed at the session of parliament in London which is now in session, was made by RL Hon. Walter Long, who was chosen by the opposition in the house of commons to lead the fight against the home rule bill. Personal Mr. and Mra. Clarence H. Mackay have adjusted their marital troubles through the courts of Paris, which granted to them a mutual divorce. • • • Miss Margaret Wilson at Washington avtbcrized Secretary Tumulty to deny the published report that she la engaged to be married to Boyd Fisher of Now York, formerly of Kansas City. • • • Viacount Siuso Aokl, privy councilor and formerly ambassador to the United States, died at Toklo, Japan, after a short Illness. He was Japanto foremost statesman. • • • King Alfonso has sent an autographed portrait and letter of thanks to Andrew Carnegie for the dlplodocus cast which Mr. Carnegie recently presented to the Madrid Museum of Natural History. • * * John H. Harjes, for many years a partner In the banking firm of Morgan, Harjes A Co., died at Grasse, France. • • • Dr. Roswell Park, aged sixty-two, surgeon, died at Buffalo, N. Y. The cause of death was heart failure. Doctor Park had charge of President McKinley after that executive was shot • • • Lieut J. McMurty of the U. 8. naval aviation corps, was Instantly killed when his machine plunged 800 feet Into Pensacola bay, off Florida.