Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 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 It was said at the department of justice at Washington that consideration of the application of the labor war dynamiters for a pardon would not be completed in time to prevent the defendants from going to prison in accordance with th© mandate of the United States circuit court at Chicago. * • « Rebuffed by President Wilson, who declined to receive him, Robert J. Kerr of* Chicago and Mexico City, who was civil governor of Vera Cruz for a brief period during the American occupation, left Washington for Chicago, where he will remain for a month or six weeks before returning to Mexico City. * * * Federal district reserve banks at eight Cities were organized by the signing of the certificates of incorporation forwarded from the organization board at Washington. There are 12 districts, , Chicago being number seven. Representatives of five banks in the Chicago districts met at the Chicago clearing house and affixed their signatures to the certificates. ♦ • * President Wilson nominated B. O. Sweeney of Seattk:, Wash., to be assistant the interior at Washington. • • • Personal Representative Underwood of Alabama, majority leader in tlje house, left Washington for Hot Springs, Va., for a short vacation ordered by his physician. Mr. Underwood has been suffering from bronchial trouble. ♦* . * Col. Theodore Roosevelt arrived in New York from Para on the Booth line steamer Aidan, The former president showed plainly that he suffered greatly in his recent illness. John Lawrence Seaton, professor of philosophy at Dakota Wesleyan university, has been chosen president of the College of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal. ■ . • • • John R. Early, the .leper, has escaped from the federal quarantine at Diamond Head, near Port Townsend, XX ash. • Early was last seen in Vic-, toria, B. C. * . • * John Lewis Griffiths, th.* American consul general at London, died suddenly of heart disease. ”■ * * * A. G. Bqckley, a prominent business man and former mayor at Baraboo, 'Vis., attempted suicide by cutting his throat and stabbing himself 13 times. Physicians say he probably will recover. * • * John G .raha m, .1 r., of the Royal Liverpool Golf club, won the St. George's cup at Sandwich, England, defeating the stars of both England and America. Graham's score for the two days’ medal play over the 36 holes was 146. '• ' * Domestic That Nelson W. Aldrich, while a member of the United States senate, was instrumental in selling Rhode Island trolley system to the New Haven for between $19,000,000 and $20,000,000, “twice the value of the properties," was the testimony of C. S. Mellen, former head of the New Haven railroad, before the interstate commerce commission. In the trolley system Mr. Aldrich was a stockholder. ♦ ♦ ♦ A seat on the New York stock exchange sold for $45,000, a decrease of $5,000 from the la.test previous sale and $40,000 under the highest price of the year. • • * Two robbers held up five passengers on the California limited train of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad a few minutes after It left the Dearborn station In Chicago. ♦ * * Life imprisonment was the sentence imposed at Opelousas, La., on W. C. Walters, -convicted of kidnaping .five-year-old Robert Dunbar. The jury had found Walters “guilty without capital punishment.” Notice of appeal was given. * * * Unless John D. Rockefeller lists his property for taxation in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, within the next day or two it will be placed on the duplicate by the deputy state tax commissioners. ♦ * *’ Three hours after their wedding George H. Higgins and his bride were drowned In the drainage cabal near Lemont, 111. They had eloped and Fad started on a honeymoon trip id a canoe.

The annual congress of the national society, Sons of the American Revolution, at Syracuse, N. Y., closed with a banquet, attended by 250 members and their Mends. President-General R. C. Ballard Thruston was re-elected to the supreme command of the order. . ,1 * ♦ « Six persons were killed near Ashville, 0., in a collision of a Scioto Valley Traction car with an automobile at a crossing. Among the dead are: XV. M. Miller, president of the Citizens’ bank and Ashville's wealthiest resident, and Mrs. Miller, wife of the banker. ♦ • * I | 1 hree members of one family were killed, three others probably fatally injured I 1 and one was severely hurt at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, when an Indiana Union Trac- ; tion car struck an automobile. Thomas O. Stout, his son, Claude, and his son-in-law, J. C. Shafer, were killed. Mrs. Claude Stout, her son. Kenneth, four years old. and William Stout, a brother of Thomas, were probably fatally injured. Frank M. Ryan, president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, and 19 other members of the organization must report June 6 to resume the serving of their sentences in Leavenworth penitentiary for conspiracy to transport dynamite on passenger trains, accord-, ing to a decision handed down by the United States district court at Chicago. The explosive was used to wreck bridges and buildings erected by non union labor. .♦♦ * . The United Miners of Ohio issued a call at Columbus, 0., for a general strike throughout the state. Strike benefits will be received by 45.000 miners In Ohio. • * • Mexican War Here is the plan of the mediators for the pacification of Mexico, as submitted by them to the delegates at Niagara Falls, Ont., representing the American government: Elimination of Huerta, Carranza and Zapata from the government of Mexico. Creation of a -provisional,government of a commission character in which shall be represented all the factions to the present conflict. Agreement for a cessation of hostilities. Au election to be called and held under the aus pices of the provisional government, at which none of the leaders'of the factions now contending shall b<> candidates. Plans for she withdrawal of a part of the naval forces now in Mexican waters were considered at the navy department at Washington. » • * Gen. Francisco Villa, leading 4,000 constitutionalist troops, won the first important engagement of the Saltillo campaign May 17, when he defeated 4,500 federals retreating from Monclova to Paredon. A general and 32 Offi-, rials were captured, and all were executed. , .* . * * , i The steamship Atlantis, which left Galveston, Tex., for Tampico, has gone ashore on the Mexican coast ! 100 miles north of Tampico. The bat- ; tieship Connecticut has taken off the | 100 passengers. . . .. Hooted and jeered by a small mob of Mexicans and called an assassin by i one who alleged that his brother had been killed by order of the ex-minister of the interior, Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, who held that office and was once Huerta’s most trusted counselor, was ' arrested for the second time at Vera ■ .Cruz. Dr. Urrutia had fled from I Mexico City to escape the wrath of ; Huerta. . . • * * President Wilson told the American commissioners, who left Washington for the mediation conference at Niagara Falls, Ont.- that the United States government regards the settlement of the Mexican problem in a definite form as a prerequisite to the withdrawal of the American forces from Vera Cruz. ' ♦ * ♦ President Huerta’s elimination from pow,er in Mexico through his own delegates to the mediation conference in Niagara Falls was deemed a certainty after the delegates had explained their attitude to personal friends at Washington and departed for New York on the way to the peace meeting. • * « Activity of Mexican forces beyond the American lines at Vera Cruz has increased during the day. Refugees appeared within the American lines and declared that Mexican cavilry was approaching from the northeast. The refugees expressed the opinion that the Mexicans were preparing to attack the city. i • • * The mediation conference arranged bv the A.-8.-C. group of South American powers opened at Niagara Falls, Ont. ■'* * * It is feared that an uprising will occur in Mexico City within a few days. The resignation of the minister I of communications, Jose Maria Lozano, has been accepted, but his successor has. not been named. • • * • Foreign King Gustave of Sweden, who is recovering from an operation for ulcer of the stomach, opened the riksdag. He seemed weak and walked with difficulty, but he read his fepfeech in a strong, clear voice.