Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED OOWN 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 Frederick William Lehmann of St Louis, former solicitor general, probably will be the representative of the United States, or one of the representatives if more are named, in the mediation of the Mexican dispute. Congress will adjourn at Washington July 10 whether or not the president’s program for trust legislation and rural credits has been passed. This was decided upon at a conference at the White House between President Wilson, Senator Kern of Indiana and Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. The 'Washington administration’s two battleship program for the next year in the naval appropriation bill was sustained in the house when the one battleship proposal was voted down, 91 to 148, and a motion to strike out the two battleship provision was rejected by a vote of 41 to 152. • . ♦ Announcement was’ made at Washington through Secretary of State Bryan personally in behalf of the mediators that they and the representatives of the United States and Mexico would begin their conference at Niagara Falls, Canada, May 18. * * • The Hobson resolution providing for national prohibition by constitutional amendment was reported without recommendation by the house judiciary at Washington. * • * President Wilson has completed the roster of the federal reserve board which will inaugurate the operation of the banking system provided by the recently enacted currency law The first selections are; Richard Olney of Boston, former secretary of state; Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago, merchant and banker; Paul Warburg Of New York, banker; W. P. G. Harding of Birmingham, Ala., banker; Dr. A. c. Miller of San Francisco, authority on finance. ‘ • • • The house of lords rejected the woman’s suffrage bill by a vote of 104 to 60. ' V . * # * The National bank to thq Haitian government $62,000, the

amount of the indemnity claimed by a Mr. Peters, a British subject, whose sawmill was destroyed by fire during the Leconte revolution. • • ♦ Mystery surrounding the identity of the steamer which has been on fire in the west-bound transatlantic steamer lane south of Sable island for 48 hours was solved when wireless messages from the Cunard liner Franconia told of the burning of the freighter Columbian and the rescue of 13 members of her crew from a small boat. Nineteen others are missing. • • • Two hundred and fifty Mohammedan Albanians, captured by the Epirote invalers at Hormova, were crucified in the orthodox church at Kedra. The Epirotes set fire to the church afterwards and allowed the bodies to burn. ~<■? ?? * ;?',•* ? lives were lost and nearly a million dollars in property was swept away as a result of the flpods .on the South Canadian and Cimarron rivers in western and southern Oklahoma. • • • Consul Rarlden at Batavia reported to the staate department at Washington that the condition of Mme. Nordipa, the opera singer, who is 111 there, is hopeless. -■* ?■ • * ? Domestic A launch loaded with mine-planting equipment and manned by five soldiers was swamped in a heavy sea at the mouth of the Columbia river, near Port Stevens, Ore. Corporal Klempe and Private Price of the Thirty-fourth company,' Coast artillery, were drowned. The other three tyere saved. ♦ * * Fire totally destroyed the plant of Carroll Bros.’ Foundry company at Houghton, Mich., principal industry, with a loss estimated at $500,000. In eluded in the loss was the historic lathe built by Capt John Errickson to turn the turret of the Monitor. • • • One of the biggest ammunition orders ever obtained from the war de partment was received by the Frank-; Tort arsenal at Philadelphia, which is! to supply the government with 100,000 three-inch shrapnel shells. • * • The second trial of Charles Becker, once convicted aud sentenced to death for plotting the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, began before Justice Samuel Seabury in the criminal branch of the supreme court at New York. * * * The return of a captured battle flag to a delegation of Ohio Union veterans featured the first day’s session of. the United Confederate Veterans’ twenty- j fourth annual reunion at Jacksonville Fla. . One man, a motofman, was killed, four passengers were fatally injured, and 22 others were seriously injured in a collision of street cars at Detroit, i * * * The Colorado legislature met in' 1 special session at Denver in response to the call issued last week by Governor Ammons, to consider matters

connected wfth the great coal strike in the state. The Democratic caucus selected J. H. Slattery as speaker, by a vote of 23 to 13. This is regarded as a victory for Governor Ammons. • • • That there are no differences in the Colorado coal strike which cannot be arbitrated and that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., cannot evade responsibility for refusing to arbitrate were the declarations on Saturday of Congressman M. D. Foster of Illinois, chairman of the house committee on mines and mining at Washington. Orders to quadruple the force of federal cavalrymen in the Colorado strike regions were issued by the war department at Washington. • • • John F. Jelke of Chicago was sentenced to serve two years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and fined SIO,OOO-for conspiring to defraud the United States government of taxes on colored oleomargarine. Seven associates or former employes of the “oleo” manufacturer were fined $2,500 each. Personal It is reported at London on good authority that Sir James Barrie Is engaged to marry Lady Scott, the widow of Capt Robert Lalcon Scott, who died In the antarctic. Barrie was one of Scott’s intimate friends and the godfather of his son Peter. Hazel Guy of Huntington, Ind., believed her fiance about to take another girl for a buggy ride and took poison. When the fiance, John Harding, drove I up to Miss Guy’s home he was informed that she was dead. • • * News in part reassuring and still showing Mme. Lillian Nordica is a very sick woman, came to George W. Young,, her husband, who is in New York, from Batavia, Java. ♦ ♦ ♦ General Daniel E. Sickles, hero of Gettysburg, died at New York of cerebral hemorrhage. At his bedside were his son, Stanton, and his wife, from whom he was estranged for 29 years. Mexican War Three Carranza armies totaling 44000 men will converge on the City of Mexico within one month, according to a report to Washington. * ♦ ♦ ' Two Americans, named White and Williams, were killed and three others wounded at the El Favor mine in the Hostotpaquilla district of Jalisco by anti-American mobs, according to refugees from Mexico City. ♦♦ » i General Funston reported from Vera Cruz that under the authority given him by Secretary of War Garrison to extend his lines to the west of Vera Cruz as far as necessary, he has advanced his outposts about a mile beyond the pumping station. He has thrown up breastworks of sand bags and taken other precautionary measures. ■. / * ■' ♦ ?•■ • ' .; '" /■ A report was current in Vera Cruz that Quarters had been ..held several

days on a foreign cruiser for a hign Mexican official coming from the federal capital, perhaps Huerta or General "Blanquet, or both. There was a persistent rumor that Huerta was preparing to flee. • • • Information came, from Vera Cruz to the war department at Washington that the Mexican federal troops had mined the railroad from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in preparation for the utter destruction of the line with dynamite if the American forces should attempt a march on the capital. • • • Shots were exchanged between a force of Mexicans and the American outposts at the waterworks at El Tejar, nijie miles from Vera Cruz. The Mexicans threatened to “attack immediately unless the Americans surrendered their position at the water plant in ten minutes,’’ but no general attack was made when the American troops failed to retire. General Carranza, chief of the rebels in Mexico, has formally declined the suggestion of the mediators that he cease hostilities against Huerta pending the outcome of the efforts at mediation. • * • The policy of the United States is to maintain its present position at Vera Cruz without advancing Its lines. Brigadier General Funston, commanding the American force, has been directed to hold the city and the waterworks, but not to take any aggressive steps and to Are only when attacked. • * • Another warning was received by the Brazilian minister from 'William W. Canada, American consul at Vera Cruz, who advised the remaining Americans in the federal capital to •«ave without delay.