Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LA3T ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings Tn This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to Ail the People. Washington The resignation of William L. Day as l cited States judge for the northern district of Ohio was received by Attorney General Mcßeynolds at \\ ashington. lie is a son of Justice \\ illiam R. Day of the Supreme court and wag appointed in May, 1911. ** * ’ Whether or not eastern railroads shall make a general increase in freight rates nihy be decided by the inj terstate commerce commission at Washington within a month. ** * \ The Sims bill, repealing the toll exemption provision of the Panama canal act, was received by the senate at Washington and referred to the senate committee on interoeeanic canals, of which Senator O'Gorman of New York, who is leading,the fight the repeal, is chairman. « • • Senator La Follette introduced a bill in the senate at< Washington to make unlawful any attempt to influence a proceeding before the interstate commerce commission except in accordance with its regulations. * * * Brig. Gen. William W. Wotherspoon will becoine chief of staff of the army on April 22, when the term of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, the present chief of staff, expires. Secretary of War Garrison made this announcement at Washington., * • • Pensions for widows and minor children of the officers. and men who served in the Spanish war, the Philippine insurrection and the boxer uprising in China would be authorized by a bill which passed the house at Washington by at vote of 276 to 54. • • * President Wilson has promised Mies Mattie Tyler, granddaughter of President Tyler; to investigate her case personally and to do what he can to con-

tinue her as postmistress at' Courtihhil, Va. Postmaster General Burleson recently appointed B. A. Williame, who has his commission, but has not taken charge of the office. I.* * # : Competitive examinations for fourthclass postmasters will be held in six states during May, it was announced by the civil service commission at I Washington. Beginning May 2 and : continuing to the 16th, examinations will be held in New York, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah and Montana. ' * * * -V That the discharge of 25,000 employes by the New York Central railroad and of 15,000 by the Pennsylvania lines may be part of a plan devised to arouse popular support for the five per cent increase in freight rates sought by the carriers was suggested by Clifford Thorne, lowa railroad commissioner,'who is in Washington. * • • . Domestic G. Edward (Rube) Waddell, in his time one of the greatest southpaws in | the history of baseball, died at San ; Antonio, Tex., of tuberculosis. His mother was at his bedside. x * * * The Western Federation of Miners, at a district meeting at Calumet, Mich., decided to continue the copper strike indefinitely and to supply tents to any families evicted. * • l : A movement to get a Carnegie hero medal for Mrs. Bertha Magill, who saved more than thirty lives in the recent Missouri Athletic club fire at St. Louis, was launched. She refused to let her husband, manager of the club, carry her out of the building until she had awakened many guests. * * * Seven hundred ti;ees will be planted along seven St. Louis streets as the result of a tree planting campaign conducted by the Civic leagne. „ ** * | Spring floods have set in through the i valleys of the state of New York and, j already much property damage is ported. Two persons have lost their lives. V * # Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is reported to be near death in his New York home. It became known that the veteran soldier and diplomat suffered a stroke pf paralysis three weeks ago, following the death of his housekeeper, Mrß. Wflmecding. • * • A lone robber -looted the express l safe of the Seaboard Air line train No. 2. Tampa to New York, at Columbia, S. C., taking one package said to be of small valne and jumping from the train as it slowed for a crossing.

Torreon has not yet fallen into the hands of the rebels, but it is doomed. Col. Victor Huerta, son of President Huerta, was among the federal dead. * * * Foreign Premier Asquith took over the duties of minister of war in his cabinet in addition to those of the head of the ministry and has resigned from the | British parliament to stand for reelection. This dramatic culmination of the army and navy crisis was announced by the premier in the house of commons. Generals Ewart and I French refused to reconsider their resignations. * * * The killing in Korea of Dr. Edgar de Mott Stryker, formerly of Raritan* N. J., is being investigated by United )■ States Vice-Consul Raymond S. Cur- | tice. Doctor Stryker was killed by a | Japanese ex-convict. * ■* * I Sir Edward Gray, British foreign secretary, in the house of commons at London, denied the published allegations that the action of President Wilson in regard to the question of Panama canal tolls was the result of an understanding between the governments of the United States and Great Britain. * * * /. Eleven workmen were drowned when a suspended cattle car fell into a lock of the Kiel canal at Brunsbuettel, Germany, while they were crossing from one side to the other. \ '• * . * Three uniformed Ulster volunteers were attacked near Garrick Hill, in Belfast, by nationalists. The police dispersed the attacking party and there were no further disorders. One of the volunteers was injured seriously. * * • The Grand National steeplechase, I held at Liverpool, worth $20,000 to the I winner, was won by Sunloch, with Frienton and LutteUr second and third in the order named. Twenty ran. ■. • * * * Personal The resignation of Douglas I. McKay as police commissioner of New York is, in Mayor Mitchel’s hands. There is a report that the mayor’s secretary, Arthur Woods, once deputy police commissioner, will be appoitned to the vacancy April 15. ** * / Randolph McCoy, nonagenarian and leiader in the famous McCoy-Hatfleld feud, fraed at the home of his grandson at Pikeville, Ky., of burns received last fall. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.