Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 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 President Wilson sent to the senate at Washington the nomination of Harrington Brown to be postmaster at Los Angeles, Cal.; John T. Brew, to be postmaster at Erie, Pa.; George W. Zlnky, to be postmaster at South Bend, Ind.

To detect evaders of the income tax law Secretary McAdoo at Washington directed Commissioner Osborn to secure information relative to the holdings of all citizens and residents of the United States. Blank forms are being prepared to secure a complete return of tho Information desired. * ♦ * The third international congress on the Welfare of the Child opened in Washington. » * ♦ The twenty-third continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution opened in Memorial hall, Washington, President Wilson delivering the first address. • • • Personal The brokerage firm of Gay & Sturgis of Boston failed. It was one of the largest in the city. ♦ • ♦

"Mr. Astor is doing splendidly,” was the report received concerning Vincent Astor, who is ill at the country home of Robert P. Huntington, the father of Mr. Astor’s fiancee, on the Hudson. It was added that the patient seems to be on the road to recovery. * * * , - Fainting Bertha” Lieoke, known throughout the country as a diamond thief, was arrested at Rock Island, 111., charged with the theft of a set of diamond-studded cuff links from a local jewelry store. A fine of S2OO was suspended on her promise to leave the ctty» * * »

Clarence M, Smith, a Ndw York promoter. was sentenced to serve six months in the penitentiary for using the mails to defraud investors in the bonds of the Oxford Linen mills of North Brookfield, Mass Jane Est, a young woman follower of the Industrial Workers of the World, was found guilty in the New Ytfrk women’s court for distdtbing the Easter services in the Madison Square Presbyterian church. She was remanded for sentence. * ♦ * 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 Nelson Page. American ambassador to Italy, were married at Fairfax, Va. * • * Former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks was slightly. injured when, the speakers' platform collapsed at the Arbor day celebration at Frankfort. Ind.

Domestic The Fidelity Title & Trust company of Pittsburgh was granted a citation on Harry K. Thaw to show cause why there should not be a suspension of proceedings regarding the distribution of $160,733-income from the estate of William Thaw until the court issues further orders. ■ ■ -♦ The annual meeting of the Associated Press and 'the convention of the American Newspaper Publishers’ association began in New York. * * » Six mine employes are dead and two missing; three men, two women and a baby reported to be entombed in a burning mine; several mining camps destroyed and others riddled with bullets—this was the situation when the sun set upon the third red day in the southern Colorado labor war. Every branch of service in the Colorado National Guard was mobilized and ordered to entrain for the Trinidad strike zone at once. i * * * Brooding over the fact that he was a member of a jury which convicted Joe Eagle on a charge of manslaughter, Levi Barge became suddenly insane just as the jury was discharged from duty and was placed in the state asylum at Lexington, Ky. ♦ • * News was received at (Jharlesfton, S. C., by wireless that the cruiser Tacoma, bound for Tampico from Boston, had suffered the loss of a propeller blade and had turned hack for Charleston for repairs. * • * Illinois has begun active preparations for its offering to the cause of patriotism. Governor Dunne has received offers of volunteers estimated at 50,000, in addition to tlia National Guard.

It 1b reported at San Franclaoo on reliable authority that Governor Tnhn•on will order out the National Guard in southern California to protect the water supply of San Diego and the Imperial valley. • • • The quadrennial genera! conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held at Saratoga. N. Y„ in 1916. • • • An open air meeting In Park row, opposite the city hall in New York broke up in a riot when a former United States sailor attacked a speaker representing the “Anti-mllltary conference,” who had shouted at top of his voice: “The American flag is not fit to defend." • * • Helen Seibert was Instantly killed and three other persons seriously, if not fatally, injured in a collision between a taxicab and an east-bound trolley car at Buffalo, N. Y. » • • Under a decision of the appellate division of the New York state supreme court a railroad company is responsible for the loss of property of a passenger asleep in a sleeping car. ♦ • • The Supreme court of the 'United States held that fire insurance is a matter of public business and therefore may be regulated by legislatures. A law of Kansas to limit and regulate charges made for policies by fire insurance companies was declared constitutional. \ .

One man, was injured and more than forty guests fled in their night clothing when fire partially destroyed the Smedley hotel at Teyson, Md. The jury in the case of Dr. Joshua E. Sweet, the University of Pennsylvania professor charged with wanton cruelty to dogs in failing to care for them properly after vivisection, was discharged at Philadelphia after the foreman reported to the trial judge that an agreement could not be reached. ~.

Foreign The aviator Francois deßoy and Marcel Dablin, who was making a flight with him, were burned to death as a result of a collision in the air at Buc, France. • • • Militant suffragettes renewed the campaign of the firebrand in the north of England. The big grandstand at Hull football grounds was burned. ♦ • Five hundred miners were thrown out of work and ssoo,Ovedaiiiage .was done by a fire which destroyed the plant of the TrieukaSiE, near Charleroi, Brussels. • • • Mexican War Twelve Americans killed and 20 wounded marked the complete ihvestment of Vera Cruz by the United States forces. Albert W.,Kimber7paymaster of the British cruiser Essex, was wounded on board his ship by a "sniper” ashore. It became apparent at Washington through an extraordinary message sent by General Carranza of the Mexican revolutionary faction to the president of the United States that America will have to fight both of the main factions of the Mexican forces. General Carranza holds that the United States, by landing troops at Vera Cruz' and seizing the port, has virtually declared war. . Wi . » » • It was reported at Washington that the army and navy board had recommended the restoration of the embargo on arms at the Mexican border, and'that the matter had been taken up with Secretary Bryan, who now has it under consideration.

The second section of the morning train from" Mexico City, filled with refugee Americans, and a special train of refugees have been held up along the road to Vera Cruz, presumably by General Maas. ♦ Representatives at Washington adopted by a vote of 337 to 37 a joint resolution authorizing President Wilson to use the armed forces of the United States to force amends from President Huerta of Mexico. ♦ » ♦ President Wilson aroused tremendous excitement in reading before joint session of congress at Washington a message asking for authority to proceed with armed forces against Huerta. American women flee to vessels in Vera Cruz harbor, following warning of United States Consul Canada to depart from danger zone. Naval commanders order American merchant vessels to quit harbor. .1 * * • At Washington the navy department announces that Admiral Badger, who is on the flagship Arkansas, has been ordered from Vera Cruz to Tampico. Rebels are reported about to attempt the capture of Tampico. ■; >' •: • ■ ; “I’m sorry, terribly sorry,” were President Witeon’s first words when news reached Washington of the loss of life in taking Vera Cruz. The president was sad and disheartened. As he walked slowly to his office through the White House, his head was bowed and his face a study in deep feeling and gravity. ■ ♦ • • The war department at Washington has instructed officers on the border to hold up all shipments of arms and ammunition, whether destined for the federate of the constitutionalists.