Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS, ■'vi ' .* :.;v ■■ —• — ARRANGED FOR BUS^READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington The senate at Washington ratified j the convention signed on January 20 last by the international conference on safety of life at sea at London, to which Senator Lewis was one of the American delegates. * * President Wilson exemplified the i human side of himself which he described in a talk to newspaper men a [ few days ago by motoring to the Washington home of Senator Stone of Missouri, who has been ill, and having a chat about official business. • * • President Wilson sent the senate at Washington the names of eight Illinois postmasters, as follows: W. V. Lambe at Wheaton; Alonzo E. \Verts, Abingdon; Charles C. Westcott, Chillicothe; Anson I. Graves, Dwight; Nelson B. Tyler, Gibson City; Frank A.; Winter, Highland; Carl Montag, Mascoutah, and William H. Ryan, Minonk. Other nominations were: Indiana —George W. Smith, Albion; Frank L. Ferguson, Shelburn. * * ' After a vigorous partisan contest the house at Washington passed a bill to bar foreign convict-made or paupermade geode from competition with the products of American free labor. *' * * Opening of Alaskan coal lands undear a leasing plan was proposed in a bill agreed upon by the senate public lands committee at Washington, which combines several measures that have been under consideration. * * • A nine-year-old boy, dying of heart trouble, was brought to the White House at Washington to have his desire to see and bu smiled upon by the president of the United States granted. He is Harry Winthrop Davis, son of Mrs. A. L Davis of Sewickley, Pa. * • * Preliminary steps were taken by the post office department at Washington to perfect its plan for reducing the cost of living by having the parcel post carry farm products directly to the dpor of the consumer. Ten cities were seletced to begin the work of establishing direct connections between producer and consumer.

* * * Elihu Root’s attitude toward South America combines the idealism of Henry Clay and the utilitarianism of James G. Blaine and has come to be i generally accepted as the foreign policy of the United States in this hemisphere, said Robert S. Bacon, former ambassador to France. * * *. Domestic Judge Sanborn of St. Louis approved the agreement by which the receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad cancel an indebtedness , ( >f nearly six million six hundred dollars against the road and relinquish ownership of two subsidiaries in- Louisiana to the syndicate that promoted them. * * * For the purpose of bringing about comprehensive work on the roadways of Illinois, Governor Dunne issued a ! proclamation designating Wednesday, ! April 15, as “road day.” '** * A The steam whaler Herman has started from San Francisco for the Arctic ocean in search of the exploration ship Karluk, which has been lost for several inonths. * * * l Richmond, Ind., voted “wet” in the local option election. The total vote in 25 of 30 precincts was 3,218 “wet,” and 2,042 "dry." • • * Members of the Democratic state committee were told in speeches by William Church Osborn and Governor Glynn at Albany, N. Y„ it was their duty to the party to work for a constitutional convention in 1915 at the referendum election on April 7. Charles F. Murphy occupied a front seat at the meeting, but he did not meet the governor. • • • Simultaneously with an agreement that wfll insure industrial peace in the bituminous coal fields of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsylvania came the announcement at Chicago of a strike of brick passers in Cook county. • * * * John Norris, widely known newspaper man, long business manager of the New York Times and leader of the American Newspaper Publishers’ association’s campaign for free paper and wood pulp, died at his home in Brooklyn. * • * The inter-island steamer Maui Is reported to have blown up off Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. The entire crew of 12 lost their lives. Tugs have left port to search the coast The Maui bad a cargo of explosives.

In reply to reports that he intended to retire, Judge Emory Speer of the United States district court of'Georgia declared that if the oommittee which investigated his judicial Conduct withdrew the charges he might accept retirement on the same terms as on reaching the age limit—seventy. * * * The Missouri Athletic club, whose building was destroyed by fire with a loss of 37 lives, lias reorganized under the name Missouri Athletic association. A new building is to be erected. *• • i Detention of women in police stations and in the various New York city prisons will be done away with by the building of a $45,900 detention home and court for women, plans for which were made public by Katherine B. Davis, commissioner of the department of corrections. * * ■■ * Mexican Revolt The war department at City of Mexico reports that the rebels under Villa were routed at Torreon with great slaughter. The rebel losses in dead and wounded are reported to be 2,000. Eight hundred men under Gen, Joaquin Maas and Gen. Javier de Moure arrived at Torreon opportunely from Saltillo to aid the federals under General Velasco. * * * False reports that seven-year-old Warren McCarrick, who disappeared 13 days ago, had been found caused a large crowd to congregate in froht of the boy’s home In Philadelphia. The reports had it that the boy had been found in gipsy camp near Pemberton, N. J. An investigation proved them groundless. • • * : According to an pfficlal report from Captain Winterburn, commanding United States troopers along the border near Del Rio, Tex., only two of his men bad a part In the battle with a federal force of 300 men at McKee’s crossing, Texas, in which six of the Mexicans were slain and several wbunded. Neither of the American soldiers was hurt. • • • Personal Charles Killman. a professional strike breaker, who confessed that he planted dynamite to incriminate leaders of the teamsters’ strike at Seattle, pleaded guilty of conspiracy and was sentenced to six months In the county stockade. • Manuel Joseph, a former customs guard, testified in the United States district court at San Francisco that he had planned to .purchase a ranch for SII,OOO, which he had accumlated by smuggling opiumi

1 A cable message confirmatory of previous reports that Theodore Roosevelt had met with no mishap in Brazil was received at the American Museum , of Natural history at New York in response to an inquiry sent by the museum to United States Consul Pickerell at Para. • * • Dr. Amos P. Wilder, former United ; States consul at Shanghai, China, says the Chinese republic will not last unless it has foreign supervision of the finances. * • * Emil Seidel, former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, and Gerhard Bading. ( Present mayor, were renominated in ! the race for the mayoralty nomination. David S. Rose was third. • # • F. L. Brier of the Eighth district of Indiana and R. E. Moss of the Fifth j district were nominated for congress, i Both are Democrats. * * * ■ After a week’s freedom “Mother” j Mary Jones again is a military prisoner in the Colorado strike zone. * # • A gift of $50,000 from John D. Rockefeller to the International Young Men’s Christian Association college at Springfield, Mass., has been announced a|. Boston. • • • Foreign Women from many parts of Canada organized the National Organization of Woman Suffrage societies of Canada at Toronto. Mrs. Gordon Wright of London, Ont., presided. • • • The British government has withdrawn the guarantees of Colonel Seely, secretary of state for war, that military force will not be U6ed to crush political opposition to the policy or principles of the home rule bill. This guarantee was made to Gen. Hubert Gough and the withdrawal of it leaves General Gough and his 59 comrades who sent in their resignations in a state of suspense. Colonel Seely offered his resignation as secretary of war, but it was refused by Premier Asquith. • 1 * • Great Indignation is' 1 expressed by the Unionist press of London at the attack of the Laborites on the king In parliament for his interference In army affairs in Ulster. England has not witnessed in a hundred years such an obviously hostile criticism of the throne, which has traditionally kept out of party controversies. • • • Natives in the north of Malekula island of the New Hebrides group have murdered and eaten six natives, teachers from the Walla island mission station.

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