Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 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 Note* Covering Happening* In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington The house judiciary committee at Washington recommended that Congressman McDermott of Illinois be censured for his lobbying activities. Congressman Nelson, in a minority report, demanded McDermott’s expulsion. The committee decided against censuring agents and officials of. the National Association of Manufacturers.

Personal E. Fred Gerold, former city treasur er of East St. Louis, IIL, was sentenced jo a term of from one to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Benjamin W. Pope, the court overruling a motion for arrest of judgment. Gerold was convicted of withholding city funds. He will appeal. « • • Maggie Kenna, aged five, was killed and Steven Hantz, aged ten, was injured when a fright* ned horse dashed into a crowd of children at South Bend, Ind. • • • Andrew G. Campbell, charged with receiving deposits on a bank after it was Insolvent, was found guilty by a jury at Natchez, Miss. He is sixtyfour years old and was president of the bank. • . • ’ • :. 7 foreign Pirates attacked the British steamer Jason, bound up the West river, north of Macao, China, and set fire to the vessel, which was burned to the water’s edge Incoming steamers rescued 158 of the crew, but it is reported that 180 passengers and the British chief engineer are missing. The Jason was 4,800 tons register. * ■ ■■■♦ ■ The Japanese government has decided officially to participate in the Sah Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition. • * * Three regiments of infantry will start from Dublin and the Curragh* camp for Ulster. There is a report iii circulation that this is preliminary to the establishment of martial law in Belfast and other pans of Ulster. ♦ ♦ • Domestic Federal cavalry was ordered Into the Colorado mine strike zone by President Wilson. By proclamation issued at Washington he commanded all persons now disturbing the peace of that staCti to disperse to their homes on or before April 30. By his sending of troops and by his proclamation he announced that he regarded conditions at the coal mines as insurrectfon.

A body exhumed from the Rockport cemetery, near Cleveland. O-, was Identified as that of Rev. Lewis Patmont, formerly of Milwaukee, who disappeared from Westville, 111., on April 1. The coroner decided that a murder had been committed. Prior to his disappearance Patmont had been holding a revival meeting in Danville, 111. An option campaign was then being waged, and It is said that he was driven from town by partisans. » • • With eight dead in the Forbes camp of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company in Colorado, an officer of the hospital corps killed at Walsenburg while dressing the wounds of a comrade, and the blackened ruins of mines dotting the hills of Las Animas and Huerfano counties, the first detachment of United States troops to arrive in the strike zone failed to bring peace in Colorado’s mine war. « • « Flood stages in practically all rivers and creeks In north Texas with torrential rains continue. « * • The steamer Benjamin* Noble is lost off Duluth, Minn., and 20 men are dead. Not a man reached :hore, so far as known. * • • Upton Sinclair, his wife and three other women were arrested after demonstration at the offices of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in the Standard Oil building, 26 Broadway, New York. They had gone there to protest against the Colorado coal miners’ strike. “'» » » ( One boy was killed, six white persons Injuerd, 20 negreas hurt and property damaged to the extent of $25,000 when a cyclone struck west of Murfreesboro, in Bike county, Arkansas. Two of the injured probably will die. Sixteen houses were demolished. * • * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York told Representative Martin D. Foster, chairman of the house committee on mines and mining, that he jfr. Rockefeller) was In no position, to arbitrate the labor troubles In the Colorado coal fields.

Flames and great clouds of smoke pouring from Mine No. 5 and Mine No. 6 of the New River Collieries company at Eccles, W. Va., drove back heroic rescuers and all hope was abandoned of rescuing any of the 187 miners still entombed there as a result of the explosion. All are believed to be dead. Illinois coal operators In joint conference at Peoria, Hl., with the scale committee of the United Mine Workers Issued their ultimatum to the workers. They absolutely refuse the four per cent increase the miners are demanding In the southern field and also refuse to submit any dispute to sub-district conventions for settlement, except the operators and miners In that district agree upon the plan. C, Hunter Raine, defaulting president of the defunct Mercantile bank of Memphis, Tenn., was released from Shelby county jail on $50,000 bond signed by three of his personal friends and men whom he had aided politically. Two hours after his release he was on his may to New York. “I am going East,” he said, “to make a fortune in stocks. I am confident there is a fortune awaiting me on Wall street.” • • » Maj. Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon, chief of the staff of the army, has ordered all officers attending the war college at ashington to return to their commands. * • • A fire that destroyed a block of residences at Portland, Ore., also cost four lives, it was learned. The bodies were found In the ruins. . ■ • • * . The towns of Louisville, Lafayette ;ind Marshall-, in the northern Colorado coal fields, have been attacked by striking miners with machine guns, Louisville being on fire. It was reported. by Sheriff Jeff Farr of Huerfano county that four men had been killed in a battle between 75 mine guards and strikers at the Walsen mine. * • • General Manager H. C. Bales of he New River Collieries company at Eccles, W. Va., announced that the 180 miners ,entombed in mine No. 5, wrecked by an explosion, are dead. Mr. Bayles said the disaster was due to a dust explosion.

Pleas against the inclusion of Nebraska In the federal reserve banking district of which Kansas City is the center were made at a meeting of the Nebraska delegation in congress at Washington. Senator Hitchcock said that if an appeal to the organization committee failed the fight would be carried to the federal board. Nebraska bankers, he added, prefer Chicago to Kansas City. , * * ♦ Mexican War Gen. Aureliano Blanquet, minister of war, announced at Mexico City he had received from Gen. Jose Maria Mier a telegram stating that the port of Manzanillo, on the Pacific coast, was bombarded by an American warship. A dispatch from Oaxaca says American marines landed at Salina Cruz. Secretary Daniels said Washington he didn't believe the report. • « « The government of Vera Cruz, Mex., was hapded over by the United States navy to Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston of the American army with formal ceremony. * * * General Carranza, chief of the constitutionalists,. formally accepted the principle of mediation as presented to him by the South American envoys. This acceptance was received by the ambassador from Brazil and the ministers from Argentina and Chile at Washington. • • • The mediators at Washington asked the United States and General Huerta to agree to an armistice by which all aggressive military movements would be suspended pending the outcome of negotiations. Both sides are expected to accept this proposal. * * * Thd scout cruiser Salem, one of the greyhounds of the United States navy, which left the League Island navy yard for Vera Cruz, has passed out to sea. . \ . • « • Robert J. Kerr of Chicago and Mexico City has been appointed civil governor of Vera Cruz, Mexico, under American occupation, according to a dispatch received at the war department at Washington from Admiral Fletcher. • • • The Tramways company of Mexico City, a Canadian corporation, has been seized by the federal government All the foreign officers of the street car lines have been replaced by Mexicans. » * » Three American women refugees at Galveston stricken with smallpox. Companions held. United States permits 316 persons fleeing Mexico to land. Freedom for 700 more soon. * • * Officials in Vera Cruz report arrival of many American refugees. Hundreds. sail for New Orleans aboard relief ships. Congress at Washington to Back Wilson to limit in any plan he may suggest to bring about peace in Mexico; members divided on possible result of mediation proposition. Thirty Americans and. other foreigners taken from train by mob; troops prevent massacre, but hold them pri»onera.