Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 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 Couri-ry and Abroad That Are of L jitinrate Interest to A the People. Washi on A res;. censuring Representative Jan: McDermott of Chicago for “acts : rave impropriety’’ was recommeu for adoption In the ■house at A ington by a subcommittee of the ’ ise judiciary committee In its ref er: The subcommittee also recommen ' . chat the National Association of Manufacturers and its officers and agents be Censured. In a report to the war department In *■ Washington Adjutant General Forbes of the National Guard of California has officially recognized an allegel plan of “General” Kelley’s unemployed army to seize the federal arsenal at Rock Island, 111., in order to equip an army? of 506,000 men with arms and ammunition for a revolution. : • • • ' John F. and Horace E. Dodge of Detroit, manufacturers of autos, filed a bill in the supreme court of the District of Columbia against William H. Osborn, commissioner of internal revenue, in which they attack the constitutionality of three different provisions of the income tax law * * ♦ Under the new ruling of the postoffice department at Washington, put into effect here,., books are now accepted for transmission by the parcel post. The rates are the same as on other articles, except that books weighing eight ounces or less are to cost of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof.

* ♦ ♦ Elijah N, Zoline, counsel for Frank >l. Ryan, former president of the In teriiationai : Association of Bridge- and Structural Iron Workers, and his 23 associates, whose conviction in the federal dynamite cases were affirmed by the Supreme court last week, is in W ashington to .ask 1 ’resident. WI Ison to pardon'the convicted num \ • * * . Congress will begin at once t > outline. a comprehensive scheme to carry Out the recently announced policy of the administration for river regulation and water power ' Onitol A bill, however, may not R passed ut t - session. Domestic . The Kentucky senate, by a vote of 18 to 15, kiiied a bill to submit to a vote of the, people the question of dispensaries, to replace sa’loons. ■ .' ■■ ♦ •' ; ... ' ■ An explosion at the E juit.-.ble Powder company’s plant in Alton, 111., shook territory in Illinois within a distance of one hundred miles. Henry Miller, night Watchman, wks killed. * * '» Two hours after Dallas Shields, a negro barber, had shot to death Constable Joseph Gaines at Fayette. Mo., he was lynched by 250 citizens in the. courthouse yard in the center of tow n, * * * Verdicts Of guilty were returned in the federal district court at Chicago before Judg" Geiger against John F. Jelke arid eight other defendants in the oleomargarine ease. The offense Charged was that the John F. Jelke company sold uncolored oleomargarine to dealers.

* * * The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America won a victory in the federal court at New York which, according to its officers, gives the fompany almost complete control of the field of wireless telegraphy. The company won an infringement suit against the National Electric Signaling company of Pittsburgh, involving basic patents, _ « • • ' More than sixty thousand women registered in Chicago. The exact figures as given in the police returns is 60,119; 218,043 represents the total eligible to vote at the aldermanic election in Apri) T The total number of men and women now registered is 693,624. Chicago has the largest voting poulation of any city in the Vnited \ States. Fifty of the seventy unemployed New York men brought to Fonda, N. Y., in Governor Glynn's campaign to place the jobless on upstate farms, were lodged in the village engine hpuse. Only 20 accepted offer of work with farmers. v • ■ ♦ * -■ . ' Dr. Charles Albert Gobat, who in 1902 divided the . Nobel peace prize with E. Bocommun, another Swiss, died of apoplexy at Berne, Switzerland, while presiding over a peace conference. 1 ] • * ■ • Weldon Cooks, an Oakland aviator, has applied to the Panama-Pacific ■exposition for a franchise to carry passengers by aeroplane between Oakland, OaL, and the fair grounds in 1»U.

At least three persons were killed, 15 were buried under debris and ten were injured in the collapse of the seven-story west wall of the Missouri Athletic club building at St Louis, wffi.ich burned a week ago with the loss of 30 lives. A high wind wrecked the wall, which crashed through a four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company, razing it to the second floor. . • • The state supreme court in session at Philadelphia declared the non-par-tisan ballot law valid. Judge Elkin wrote the opinion. • • • Three children w’ere burned to death w’hen the home of Granville Massey at Monroe, S. C., was destroyed by fire. Mexican Revolt Forced by the increasing seriousness of the situation, President Huerta at last appears to be ready to resume negotiations with John Lind. The minister of foreign affairs is said to have been directed to reopen the unofficial diplomatic exchanges at Vera Cruz, Mex. . • • •

Judge Edward Meek, in the federal district court at Fort Worth, granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the 5,000 Mexicans held as. prisoners by the United States government at Fort Bliss, El Paso. • • • General Carranza’s commission appointed to Investigate the death of William 6 Benton completed taking testimony at Juarez, Mex. The evidence Indicates that Benton was slain by Major Fierro, personal friend of Villa. Gustav Bauch - was slain by rebel troops at Juarez and the arrest of officers at Juarez garrison is recommended. • • * Oscar Allen, an American, has been murdered by Mexicans at Pearson, Chihuahua. His head was split with an ax. This was reported to Consul Thomas Edwards at Juarez who at once began an investigation. Although no proclamation was issued, martial law prevails along the California border for miles each side of Tecate following the burning of the U. S. postofflee and customs office there and the murder of Postmaster Frank Johnston. Three Mexicans committed the double crime. AntlMexifan feeling was aroused to fever heat in the vicinity of Tecate. Foreign

With her 11 passengers and crew of 3f> saved, the steamer City of Sydney, which ran on the Sambro rocks, 25 miles east of Halifax,' was abandoned and is' expected to become a total loss. * ' • A ..C' Not since the Dreyfus affair has any event in French -lustory so stirred the people of Paris as the shooting of Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, by Mme. Caillaux. wife of the minister of finance. The immediate effect is a tense political situation, all the greater in view of the imminence of the elections. • • * Yoshida, said to have been the intermediary between officials of the Siemens & Schuckert company, a German electrical firm, and Japanese naval officials, committed suicide in prison at Tokio, Japan. * » * The postponement is announced at Santiago. Chile, of the fifth PanAmerican conference which was to have been held here in September, it. will not take place before the end of November. ■.

• • • Kuban in southern Russia reports damages of several million dollars as a result of the hurricane that detroyed villages on the Sea of Azov. The floods were followed by fire. • » ♦ A northerly gale caused numerous waterspouts off the coast of the Sea of Azov in southern Russia, caused the deaths of 1,500 persons, and the shore from Yoish to the Strait of Kertsch, a distance of about five hundred miles, was flooded and six villages damaged. • * • A serious eartquake occurred in the prefecture of Akita, Island of Hondo. Japan. Many persons in the city of Akita were killed and several houses destroyed. In the village of Kowakubi. which was ruined, there were many casualties. * « « Personal , Charles Herbert Thomas, for nine years associate secretary and treasurer of the Chicago National league baseball club, was elected at Chicago president to succeed Charles Welch Murphy. •• • i "Mother” Mary Jones, noted woman strike leader, who has begn a military prisoner in San Rafael hoepiial at Trinidad, Colo., since January 12,was put aboard a train quietly and sent out of the coal strike district. * ♦ • Mrs. Robert Goelet, prominent in society of New York and Newport, IL 1., was granted a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. ■ 1 • * • Mrs. Josephine H. Muth, mother of 15 children, six of whom are Catholic nuns, died at Baltimore, Md. She was born in Germany 70 years ago. • • • Mrs. Louisa R. Lindloff, convicted of the murder of her ?on, Arthur, died of cancer Ip the hospital of the county fall in Chicago, protesting her Innocence to the last.