Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — Summary of Most Important News Events [ARTICLE]

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News Field Marshal Count von Moltke’s son has been killed In the fighting at Esternay. • • • According to an offlcial statement issued at Berlin, the Russians lost 342,000 men in battles with the Germans near Tanneburg, East Prussia. Of these, it is stated, 150,000 were killed and 92,000 captured. * • • Messages from Berlin asserted that the offensive spirit of the allies is weakening, that the center is retreating, and that the fortress of Verdun is being successfully bombarded. • • • The great battle between the allies and the Germans continues without decisive advantage to either side, and military experts here predicted that it may be several more days before the result is made definite. Paris announced that the allies had advanced on the western wing and had repulsed German attacks on the eastern wing • • • Soisson in Franca has been subjected to a furious German bombardment for nine day 3. The cathedral and other buildings have been greatly damaged. Noyon also is suffering from the German gunfire, but the fine cathedral up to the present has escaped. • • • The casualty list published in Berlin shows the death of two German generals In the western campaign, Generals von Wroohem and von Arbou. Major General von Throtha Is also given as killed, his death having occurred on August 30. Among the lightly wounded are two lieutenant generals, Von Willisen and Von Kuehne. The list contains 5,895 names. • • •

Sir Oawaine George Stuart Baillle. lieutenant in the Scots Greys, has been killed in action. ("apt Hon. Alfred Henry MaUland of the Cameron Highlanders, third son of the earl of Lauderdale, is reported killed, sir Roland .Litres Corbet, second lieutenant in the Coldstream guards, and Charles Movick are among the wounded whose names appear on the latest list in London. • • * Three British cruisers were torpedoed and sunk by German submarines in the North sea. The British rank two of the submarines. Seven hundred English sailors were rescued and !.r>6.'» were lost. ' -•» • % The senate at Washington passed the substitute rivers and harbors bill, carrying $20,000,000 for the preservation and maintenance of existing rivers and harbors work. • • * The battle that has been progressing for several days near Kroupanl, on the Drina river, has pnded in complete disaster for the Austrian army. * * • Russian troops have occupied the fortified Austrian position of Jaroslau. The Russian flag is now flying over the town. * * • The French report that they have made progress in the territory between Reims and the Argonne forest. On their left wing they have reached the heights of Lassigny. * * * British casualty list shows that 797 officers are among the killed, wounded and missing, a high percentage of the total losses. * * • Lieutenant General Kamio. com-mander-in-chief of the Japanese armies that are moving on Kiauchau, reports that he met and repulsed a German detachment on September 18. * * • Guards were placed about the Austrian and German embassies in Rome and every precaution W(as taken to prevent any demonstration against the envoys of these two countries. • * • According to a message which reached the Telegraaf at Amsterdam the troops of the German empire, who were in Brussels, have left that city for the French and Russian fronts. The army occupying Brussels is now Austrian, and has with It several heavy siege guns.

• • • Two squadrons of British naval aim men made a daring raid from Belgium against the German Zeppelin airship bases at Dussendorf and Cologne. The attack upon Dusseldorf was officially reported as having been successful. * • • General Steinmetz of the .German artillery was killed in France September 15. * * • The Japanese lost a second torpedo boat outside Kiauchau. Vessel sunk by German cruiser. * • • Wounded soldiers from the region of Craonne describe the battles there Sunday and Monday as haying been deadly for the Germans. A superior officer among the 'weuhded estimated the German losses In this engagement alone at 7,000.

Three German army corps (120,00* men) are marching on the Russian stronghold of Grodno after cUpturfng the towns of Augustowo, Szozucyn and Grajevo. Eastern army continues successful. • • • The French minister of the interior, Louis J Malvy, announced at Bordeaux that the famous cathedral of Notre Dame, Reims, had been destroyed and all the other historic and public buildings either laid in ruins or seriously damaged during the bombardment of Reims by the German artillery. * * • It is reported that a number of Russian warships have arrived at Helsingfors from the Baltic Sea damaged. A great number of wounded were landed and taken to hospitals. • • * The German offensive movement in eastern Prussia has been checked, according to an official announcement from Petrograd. The Germans have retreated at several points. • • • The offlcial statement from tb4 chief of general 6taff issued at Petrograd says that the Russians are bombarding the fortress of Przemysl, the artillery of which has opened fire. The -Austrian troops which attempted to check the Russian advance in front of Baranow and Ranichow (in Galicia) were repulsed with heavy losses. • * * Jules Vedrines, the noted French aviator who won the James Gordon Bennett cup at Chicago a few years ago, engaged in a courageous fight in midair with a German aviator whom he brought to earth. The German was daringly reconnoitering the position of the allies. * * • Washington Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo announced at Washington that he had refused to deposit government funds for the moving of the crops in ten southern banks because he is informed that many banks refused money for this purpose and also are charging unreasonable interest rates. * . * Plans for a two-cent letter postage rate throughout the Western hemisphere are being considered by Postmaster General Burleson. While a sacrifice of revenue would be involved. Mr. Burleson said strong arguments have been advanced in favor of the proposal. • • •

The federal reserve board at Washington approved of the plan for a SIOO.i'OO.oi in gold f un( i to meet the obligations of this country in Europe . *: • • Personal t'apt Rhees Jackson, Ninth United States infantry, died at the post hospital at Laredo, Tex., as a result of injuries received when he was thrown from his horse. * * * The mysterious woman who attempted to commit suicide at Salem, Wis., by cutting the arteries in her wrists, is Miss Esther Crawford of Missouri Valley, la. Miss Crawford is a well-known teacher of Weston, la. She is fifty years old and is a daughter of James Crawford. • • * Domestic Virginia will join the other “dry states November 1, 1916, a majority of the voters of the state having cast their ballots in favor of state-wide prohibition. Anti-liquor forces carried the electiou by not less than 25,000. The cities of Alexandria, Danville, Norfolk and Richmond were the only ones that gave a majority against state-wide prohibition. * * * A. J. Cooper of Bennington, Vt., who was nominated for governor at the Progressive convention, has refused to run, according to a letter he sent to Dr H. Nelson Jackson, the newlyelected state chairman of the party. * * * Hudson Maxim, inventor of maximite, emerged unscathed from a terrific explosion that destroyed the laboratory in the rear of his handsome home on Elva Point, N. J. ♦ * *

Police and private detectives are searching for a pearl and diamond pendant valued at $50,000 lost or stolen from Mrs. Henry M. Flagler at a hotel in Asheville, S. C. • * * Tommy White, twenty-one years old, confessed at Great Bend, Kan., that he murdered Miss Mayme McQuillan, Lee Morgan and Clarence McGuin at the Morgan home, near Heizer, September 11, according to assertions by officers. He said, according to the statement, that Morgan caused the downfall of his sister when she was thirteen years old. • * • Robert T. Janiel of Georgia was unanimously elected grand sire for the coming two years at the Sovereign) Grand lodge, I. O. O. F., convention. * * * An 1 order issued in the orphans’ court at Pittsburgh. Pa., provides for the payment to Harry K. Thaw of $142,124 due him from the coke trust created by the will of his father, William Thaw. • • * Foreign Gen. Francisco Villa is expected to be named to succeed General Carranza as supreme chief of the constitutionalist party in Mexico when the generals and governors meet In the capital on October 1.