Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LABT ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In Thte Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. ___ t L ■ Washington President Wilson in his message to congress at Washington urged that the exemption clause in the Panama canal toll act, favoring American coastwise ships, be repealed and says it is in violation of treaty with Great Britain. * • * John Bassett Moore resigned as counselor for the state department at W ashington. Rumors have been current that friction had developed between Mr. Moore and Secretary of State Bryan. • • • Governor Cox of Ohio told President Wilson at Washington he heartily indorsed Representative William G. Sharp of Ohio for the ambassadorship to Russia. The president has practically made up his mind to name Mr. Sharp ♦ • • Secretary Bryan of the state department at W ashington has accepted an invitation extended by the government of Chile to visit that country during the fifth pan-American congress, which will be held at Santiago about the middle of next September. • * * The charges of David Lamar, “the wolf of Wall street,” that the United States Steel corporation received $75,000,000 in illegal rebates from railroads in the last six years collapsed before the interstate commerce commission at Washington. * • * Secretary of State Bryan of Washington became a grandfather for the sixth time when Mrs. Richard L. Hargreaves of Lincoln, Neb., his daughter, gave birth to an eight-pound girl. * • * Simultaneously with an investigation by the house committee on rules at Washington of charges of grain swindling by the Chicago board of trade and the Minneapolis chamber of commerce, the senate has begun the consideration of the Met-umber bill. • • * It has been estimated at Washington that the income tax would bring In about $50,000,000 and that about 400:000 individuals would pay.

* • * MaJ. Beecher B. Ray of the quartermaster's corps of the army at Washington received a setback in his efforts to compel the secretary of war to send his nomination to the senate as a lieutenant colonel. The court of appeals uphed the secretary of war in jumping another officer over his head. * • *■ The Supreme court of the United States at Washington dismissed the appeal of the Waltham Watch company from a decision of the second federal circuit court of appeals in favor of Charles A. Keene, a New York Jeweler, when the company sued for selling Waltham watches below the regular retail prices fixed by contract agreement. * ** By a vote of 14 to 47, the senate at Washington decided to take up for immediate consideration the senate resolution for a constitutional amendment for woman’s suffrage. * * • Domestic John A. Hennessy of New York, former Governor Sulzer’s prober, was sued for $50,000 on a charge of libel by Henry A. Rublno, attorney for the Warne-Qulnlan company. The complaint alleges that Hennessy accused Rubino of paying $20,000 to John H. Delany to have a specification for road making changed In the interest of his company. • • • Of 700 federal liquor licenses held in Memphis, Tenn., 676 were surrendered to the county attorney general when the “nuisance act” went into efTect, ending the day of the open saloon in Tennessee. • * • In a race with death C. W. Post, the multi-millionaire food manufacturer of Battle Creek, Mich., left Santa Barbara, Cal., on special train for Rochester, Minn., there to be operated on for appendicitis. * * * On condition that the common council of Little Falls, N. Y., adopts resolutions forbidding smoking In the public departments of the building, David H. Burrell, a leading business man, offered to contribute $50,000 to build a new city hall. It * * * Hiram C. Gill has been elected mayor of Seattle, Wash., over James D. Trenhome by a large majority. Gill was elected mayor in 1910, recalled a year later for permitting an "open town,” and defeated for reelection in 1912. * • • Legislation to permit the formation of land banks in the state is urged by Governor Glynn in a special measure to the New York legislature. A system of amortization loans, which would be Issued by a large central bank, was given strong indorsement.

The sword of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, commander of the Irish brigade, was presented to the University of Notre Dame at Notre Dame, Ind., to rest near the body of Father Corby, the chaplain who, with hands uplifted, gave in the midst of chot and shell the final absolution to the soldiers of the brigade on the battlefield of Gettysburg. * * * An “army of the unemployed” started from San Francisco on a ’ to the national capital. There are 2,150 men in all. * * * The Ward line steamer Esperanza arrived at New York 24 hours late, owing to rough weather. Forty-eight hours after leaving Havana the Esperanza experienced gales with a velocity of 90 miles an hour and great sea& smashed hatches and disabled the wireless so that communication waa cut off. • • • *Five deaths were caused in New York by the storm, which swept the Atlantic coast, isolating Boston from communication with the west, except by cable to Nova Scotia. • * • Thirty years in prison for stealing a kiss from a white woman was the sentence imposed on Charles H. Guyton, a young negro at Los Angeles. • • * Thirteen members of the crew of the Norwegian bark Tasman perished in the North sea when the bark was capsized. * * » The Union Labor Hospital and Training School association at San Francisco closed a lease' whereby it takes over the McNutt hospital for ten years at a total rental of $105,000. General patients will be treated, but special arrangements will be made for union labor men. An indictment charging Everett P. Fowler, the so-called Tammany bagman, with extortion was dismissed by Supreme Court Justice Davis in New York. Fowler, it was charged, obtained a political contribution of $260 from Seneca P. Hull of Cortland, N. Y., who was competing for state highway contracts. * * * • ■ ’’’ ' * ' ' Mexican Revolt A commission to investigate the Benton case was appointed by General Carranza at Nogales, Sonora. * * * Great Britain’s pronouncement through Sir Edward Grey that the United States was in no way responsible for the execution of William S. Benton and that the American government would not be asked to resort to force as a result of the tragedy at Juarez was the chief factor in the Mexican situation and served to relieve the tension at Washington. “ • * * Contending that Texas has not sacrificed Its right to protect its citizens and repel invasion, Governor Colquitt of Texas in a letter to Secretary of State Bryan defends the right of the state to send a force of rangers across the border in pursuit of brigands and marauders. • • • Foreign Following the evacuation of Epirus by the Greek troops, a revolt was started under the leadership of Zografos. The leader hoisted the flag of a republic in several villages. * * ♦ Representatives of Japanese newspapers presented a petition to the mikado of Japan asking for the impeachment of Home Minister Keihara. • * * A mass meeting of persons connected with Bremen tobacco interests was held at the bourse there to protest against the growth of the AngloAmerican tobacco combination in Germany. • * * One man was killed and 17 men were injured in a riot at the garrison of Escorial, Spain. Peasant conscripts attacked a number of students of the government engineering college, who are doing military service in the same regiment with them because the studnte refused to treat the peasants to a drink. • • * It is said that as soon as he has recovered from the injuries sustained | recently by being thrown from hie horse, King Albert of Belgium will go to France and take an examination for a military aviator’s certificate. • • • Lord Roberto, Viscount Milner, Baron Balfour of Burleigh, Rudyard Kipling, Prof. Albert Venn Dicey, Sir William Ramsay and 20 less prominent persons issued an appeal at London to fellow countrymen to follow their example in signing an antihome rule declaration.

* • • Personal While "looping the loop” at Santa Barbara, Cal.Ji Lincoln Beachey, the aviator, lost control of his biplane and fell 1,600 feet, but managed to right himself 400*feet from the ground and escaped with slight injuries. • * * J. C. gtuart, vice-president and general manager of the Erie railroad, died at Garden City, L. I. * * * Col. James O'Shaughnessy, father of Nelson O’Shaughnessy, charge d’affaires for the United States In Mexico city, died at New York. * • * Cardinal George Kopp died at Troppau, Austrian Silesia. Meningitis was the cause of death. The prelate, who was in his seventy-seventh year, was the highest dignitary of the Roman Caiholic church in Germany.