Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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 Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington & the result of an altercation in which Attorney General Mcßeynolds Virtually ordered Interstate Commerce sOTnmlssionei- McChord and Joseph W, Folk, solicitor of the Commission, from his office In Washington, there is war between the railroad regulating body and the department of justice over the investigation of the New Haven scandal. The commission anndunced that It would continue its inquiry. • • • It Is believed that the senate at Washington cannot reach a vote on the proposed repeal of the tolls exemption clause of the Panama canal act for at least ten days or two weeks. * ♦ ♦ The naval appropriation bill was reported to the senate at Washington by the naval affairs committee, with an Increase of $1,182,000 over the bill as It left the house. In all the bill carries $140,990,833, or $3,500,000 less than the estimates for the coming year. *•■ • ■ ■ A national board of mediation and conciliation to deal with all strikes and lockouts that may involve the federal government is provided in a bill prepared by the industrial relations commission and made public at Washington. • • • Contempt sentences imposed by the District supreme court upon Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, labor leaders, were set aside on Monday by the United States Supreme court at Washington for the second time, as barred 4 by the statute of limitations. Justice Holmes said that contempts were not to be treated as conspiracies. * * • President Wilson through the war department at Washington instructed Col. James Lockett, commanding federal troops in southern Colorado, to permit no importation of strike-break-ers and announced that a time limit would be set at once within which delivery of arms must be completed. Personal

Mme. Lillian Nordica, the famous opera singer, died at Batavia, Java. Mine. Nordica had been ill since the steamer Tasman, on which she was a passenger, went ashore on Bramble cay December 28 last. Nervous prostration was followed by pneumonia. • • • Domestic Lieuts, R. W. Benedict and S. J. Damme, of the Colorado National Guard, testified at the trial of Maj. Patrick .1. Hamrock before the general court-martial near Golden, Colo. Ma jor Hamrock is being tried on charges of murder, manslaughter, arson and larceny growing out of the battle between strikers and state troops at Ludlow on April 20. The two officers swore the battle was started by strikers. * * * Jewels worth $1,000,000, including some that are world-famous, were disposed of by Mme. Lillian Nordica, who died at Batavia, Java, in a will made on January 1. Her husband, George W. Young, and three sisters, it is understood. are the chief legatees. • * ♦ Five strike-breakers were deported by the United -States military authorities at Aguilar. C010.,' when they applied for work in the Royal-mine. • • * The fire loss in St. Louis last year was $12,G<j5,385. according to the report of Fire Chief Swingley. Insurance paid amounted to $12,561,469. ♦ * * John M. Advocate on Governor Blease's staff, was shot dead at Gray Court, S. C., by Joseph G. Sullivan, a political leader in his section, as a sequel to a quarrel that arose during the trial of Sullivan’s brother in a magistrate’s court. Sullivan was placed in jail. Two tanks, containing approximately 90,000 barrels of 811, the property of the Pierce Oil corporation near .Tulsa, Okla., fired by lightning, are burning, and efforts to extinguish them have been abandoned. The loss, is estimated at $50,000. * * * Stretched across the graves of his two babies, the body of Anthony Mett earn, aged sixty-six, a retired railroad engineer, was found in Holy Cross cemetery at Indianapolis. A bottle that had contained carbolic acid was lying beside him. , * * * A resolution calling for an absolutely thorough probe of the coal strike by a committee named to complete Its work before- the next general assembly in Colorado in January was Introduced by State Senator Barney Napier.

An earthquake of a little over a second’s duration occurred at Ogden, Utah, causing excitement in tall buildings and breaking large windows In the business district. • • • A general lockout in the building trades industry in San Francisco was ordered by the Building Trades Employers’ association. This action was caused by refusal of union painters to call off a strike for higher wages current for a month. About 25,000 men are affected. * * • Many rioters were hurt in a melee when' Bouck White and ten followers from the Church of the Revolution descended upon the Calvary Baptist church at New York, of which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is a member, to challenge Rev. Cornelius H. Woelfkin, the pastor, to debate on “Did Jesus Teach the Immortality of Being Rich’” • • • Foreign “Death to Americans” was written in Spanish in large black characters across the stone doorstep of the United States embassy offices in Paris, France. The authorities have posted three policemen on permanent duty In the vicinity. • * • Tazza, a French military aviator, was one of the principal factors in the victory of the French troops over the Moors at Teza, Morocco, which gave the French command of the eastern approaches to Fez. • • ♦ Rescue parties, surgeons, Red Cross attendants, soldiers and * priests worked among the ruins of the villages on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, which were devastated by the earthquake. The list of known dead is placed at 200 and 1,000 injured, but it is believed that many are still under the wreckage of houses. • • • Mexican War Seventy-five thousand people honored the two sons of Philadelphia who died at Vera Cruz. George McKenzie Poinsett of the battleship Florida and Charles Allen Smith of the New Hampshire. • • * More than 100 women were trampled upon and injured in a stampede which accompanied the efforts of thousands to view the body of Corporal Daniel W. Haggarty, one of the heroes of Vera Cruz, as it lay in state in the armory at Cambridge, Mass. * ♦ *

The Mexican federal troops under command of General Zaragosa evacuated Tampico leaving many wounded. The constitutionalists under General Gonzales and General Caballero, with 7,000 men, entered the city. For five' days the fighting has been, most severe afid many have been killed and wounded on both sides. „ * ♦ ♦ Unsuccessful efforts were put forth by General Huerta’s delegates to the mediation conference to obtain from him a written promise of his resignation prior to their departure for the United States. • • • Gen. Gustavo Maas has been relieved of the command of the Mexican federal forces outside Vera Cruz by General Huerta, according to advices reaching Washington. Official sources report that he has been superseded. ♦ ♦ * The British government ordered the light draft cruiser Bristol to reinforce the British squadron in Mexican waters. The ship carries a crew of nearly four hundred men and its draft would permit it to run up the Panuco river to Tampico and if necessary land men to protect British oil wells. • • * Huerta has Informed the mediators he considers the seizure of Lobos Island by the United States an act of war. He has demanded that the United States leave the island, and Jet the light on it remain dark, or he will withdraw from the mediation. Secretary Bryan sent an answer to the effect that the United States had not seized the island, but additional information forced him to admit that it was taken by force.

Funeral services for 17 sailors and marines killed al Vera Cruz, whose bodies were brought back by the cruiser Montana, were held aftTßrooklyn navy yard. President Wilson delivered the address and delegations from the senate and house were present. • • * From Mexico City come late reports that large numbers of men and boys are drilling in the streets. A few nights ago a mob gathered before the Brazilian, legation and demanded that Luis d’Antin, an attache of the American embassy, be delivered over. Threats were made to kill him. The Brazilian minister notified, the state department that he would surrender d’Antin only in case he was overpowered by the mob. ♦ ♦ * All Americans who are willing to depart from Tampico have been removed fro tn the. battle, zone, according to a message received by the state department at Washington from Admirhl Mayo. ♦ • » Anarchy threatens Mexico City. Held in awe for months by a strong garrison, the populace, it is feared, is about to turn against President Huerta. The garrison, weakened by drafts of troops for Huerta’s “last stand’’ in the north, is too weak to resist an uprising.