Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 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 f x Ihe senate at Washington passed the bill raising to an embassy the United States legation to Argentina. The bill had already passed the house and now goes to President Wilson, who approves it. • • • Although there has been no formal announcement from the White House at W ashingten as yet of the date for the wedding of Secretary McAdoo and Miss Eleanor _ Randolph Wilson, friends say Friday, May 8, has been tentatively selected. The affair is expected to be private. • * *. E. P. Holcpmbe, chief supervisor of the Indiana bureau at Washington, shot and killed himself In a room of a hotel. Holcombe’s associates believe despondency over his physical condition led to the suicide.

Unqualified disapproval was expressed by President Wilson at Washington of the proposal in congress to curtail the anti-trust legislative program for this session. Later members of the house judiciary sub-com-mittee declared that an effort would be made to report out quickly a single measure embodying the substance of all the separate tentative trust bills. • • • Contracts for the construction of two colliers intended primarily to transport coal to the coaling stations at the terminals of the Panama' canal, but so designed and fitted as to be available also for use by the navy In time of w r ar, have been ordered by Secretary Daniels at Washington for 1987,500 each.’ • • • Domestic Harry K. Thaw has won his fight for a writ of habeas corpus. Federal Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United States district court of New Hampshire handed down his decision on the petition of Thaw asking that he be discharged from the extradition proceedings under which the state of New ork has been trying to force Thaw’s return to Matteawan. The American and National leagues on Tuesday started the struggle which will determine the 1914 of the respective organizations. On Monday Ift Baltimore the Federals, the third major league, had its opening and 30,000 wild, shouting Marylanders saw their team win the inaugural dash. ♦ • • Fire at Edinburg, 111., wiped out a block of brick structures. The loss is estimated at |BO,OOO. De Lloyd Thompson “looped, the loop” eight times at Los Angeles, breaking Lincoln Beachey’s record as a trick aviator. • • *

The International Society of Surgery began in New York the first meeting ever held by it outside of Brussels, with distinguished surgeons from many countries in attendance. • * * The two wage scale committees of the Illinois miners and coal mine operators have concluded the task of hearing the 700 demands and referred the subject as a whole to a sub-com-mittee composed of 12 men. The wage scale committee will not meet before the sub-committee is ready to report. * • • Seven persons lost their lives—five women, a man and a two-year-old baby —during a fire which swept through five floors of the Melvin, a fashionable apartment house, in Boston. M. O’Brien, engineer of a Lake Shore passenger train, flagged a speeding east-bound Pere Marquette flyer at Indiana Harbor and prevented a collision with his own train, which had been derailed. The heroic action of O’Brien prevented a second and more serious wrick. Several persons were hurt. ♦ * * Full discussion of the responsibility of parents to see that their childreh are trained in good citizenship has been provided for in the program of. the third international congress on' the welfare of the child, which will open at Washington April 22. • * • Laurence Drke, a nephew of James B. Duke, the millionaire tobacco manfacturer, will settle for $3,500 the suit brought against him at Seattle by Alvin Simmons, whose father he killed by running him down in his automobile.

Rev. Otis IX Spurgeon of Des Moines told the grand jury at Denver, Colo., how he was dragged out of a hotel by kidnapers 24 miles away and flogged. Afterward six men were indicted on charges of kidnaping growing out of the deportation.

"I did not do the shooting. The men who fired the shots were Gyp, Louie and Vallon. I wus miles away. It was a gamblers’ fight Becker had, nothing to do with the case.” Epitomized, this is the “confession of Frank Cirofici, alias “Dago Frank,” who with three othpr “gunmen" was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. • * * Investigation by a federal grand jury at Philadelphia of alleged custom frauds was completed when the jury recommended that the government proceed to recover the duty losses suffered because of alleged Irregularities in the importation of personal goods by Wanamakers. ' * ■ • . • ■’ Following a struggle In which her man companion got away, Mrs. Helen N. Wilson, alias Mary Ryan, sixty years old, a former member of the Sophie Lyons band, was arrested in her rooms at Los Angeles, Cal. The police say she is the widow of Jack Prince, bank robber, killed in Chicago, and in the last 16 months has robbed Los Angeles stores of more than sixteen thousand dollars’ worth of goods. Foreign Militant suffragettes renewed the campaign of the firebrand in the north of England. The big grandstand at Hull football grounds was burned. • * ♦ Desiderio Arias, leader of the latest revolution in the northern provinces of the Dominican republic, has been declared an outlaw and removed from his government office. • • • The German aviator Relchelt carried a woman passenger with him on a flight near London. At a height off 200 feet the motor exploded and the! monoplane shot blazing to the earth.. The woman , was dead when extri-, cated. Reichelt died at a hospital. • • • Mexican Revolt

Armed intervention in Mexico has practically begun. With the majority of the ships of the American navy proceeding or under orders to proceed at once to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico, the United States government gave General Huerta final warning that unless a salute was fired to the Stars and Stripes within a reasonable time to atone "for repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of the United States” serious eventualities would result. • ♦ • President Wilson told Senators Shively and Lodge and Representatives 1 Flood and Cooper at a White House conference at Washington that he Intended to take drastic steps to force Huerta out of the presidenoy of Mexico. .• • • ■''' Under orders to proceed to Tamptoo as speedily as possible, the Atlantic battleship fleet In command of Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, command-er-in-chlef, steamed out of Hampton Roads. • • ♦ All information that reached Washington from Mexico City tended to show , that Huerta was unconvinced that the United States was in earnest. He thought the Washington government wa» bluffing. Some anti-Ameri-can demonstrations at Vera Cruz and other points were reported. •' ♦ ♦ * A United States naval demonstration on the Pacific coast of Mexico was ordered by the secretary of the navy. Many Americans are leaving Mexico City for Vera Cruz in. the belief that that city will not be a safe place for them. * * * General Huerta submitted to an executive session of the Mexican senate at Mexico City the demand of the American government for a salute to the flag. No answer to the demand reached the Washington government* however.

Personal Jane Est, a young woman follower of the Industrial Workers of the World, was found guilty of disorderly conduct by a magistrate in the New York women’s court for disturbing the Easter services in the Madison Square Presbyterian church. She was remanded for sentence. * • • Vincent Astor is seriously ill with, pneumonia at the country place of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Huntington in NewYork, whose daughter, Helen, he is to marry on April 30. • • * Mrs. T. Monpure Perkins, one of the famous Langhorne beauties, died suddenly while visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, in New York. * • ♦ Gustave Hamel, an aviator, at Hendon, England, beat his own record of 21 loops by executing 22 at a height of 4,000 fefet in a monoplane. • • • ■ Norman Gaynor,, second son of the late Mayor Gaynor of-New York, and . Miss Elizabeth B. Page, daughter of Dr. Frank Page and niece of Thomas J Nelson Page, American ambassador to ; Italy, were married at Fairfax, Va. • • • Maj. Benjamin M. Koehler of the coast artillery corps has been sen* fenced to dismissal from the army by the court-martial which tried him on charges of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,” according to an announcement from Washington by Secretary of War Garrison.