Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS [ARTICLE]

DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS

EPITOME OF THE BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A GUNGE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic, That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News President Poincare of France had a narrow escape from death when a German aviator attempted to drop a shell on him while he was visiting General Joffre at Romllly. Frantz a French aviator brought the German down and was decorated with Legion of Honor by Poincare. * • • In East Prussia a renewed attack by the Russians, in an effort to make an encircling movement at Schlrwlndt, has been repulsed, the Russians losing 1,500 prisoners and 50 guns, says a report from Berlin. • • • Willis R. Peck, American consul at Tsing Tao, together with the women and children, will leave the German concession at Kiauchau. • • * The occupation of Ostend has not been officially reported in London, but there is no doubt in London official circles that it will be accomplished .within a very short time. Ypres is occupied by the allies. A further victory on the allies’ left is announced from the war office, at a place not named. It is stated that the Germans were forced back. • • • Dispatches to London from Lisbon and Madrid Indicate that before many days a tenth nation, Portugal, w-ill have become involved In the European war. Her treaty with England will line up the new republic, if she goes to war, among the foes of Germany, increasing the number of allies to eight. A Reuter dispatch declares mobilization will be ordered at • • Official announcement was made at Bordeaux, France, that the Belgian government has been transferred from Ostend, which is menaced by the Germans,, to Havre, France. King Albert will remain with his army. This announcement indicates that the allies have little hopes of being able to keep Ostend out of the Germans’ hands. « • * It is reported that the Germans have arrived at Selzaete, near Ghent, and the commander announces the village must provide quarters for 6,000 soldiers. • • * Thousands of refugees awaiting boats for England are lining the quays at Ostend, Belgium, and pathetic 1 scenes are witnessed aboard and ashore as the ships cast off • • * It is announced officially by the commander of the Russian naval forces in the Baltic that two German submarines were destroyed during the attack on the Russian cruiser Pallada.' * • * The 44 lists of losses in the Prussian army which have been published contain a total of 211,000 killed, wounded and missing, according to a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam. The lists do not Include losses among the Bavarians, Saxons and Wurtemburgians. * ♦ ♦ Great Britain announces that part of the forces of the Union of South Africa have rebelled. The revolting troops are those under Colonel Maritz and they have been stationed in the northwest of the Cape provinces, supposedly close to German Southwest Africa. It is understood that the mutineers are mostly Boers and that they have joined the Germans. Martial law has been declared. » ♦ • Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland, is threatened by German forces and may fall at any moment, according to an official dippatch to the American government from one of its consuls. » • ♦ The following official communication was Issued in Berlin: “It Is officially reported from Vienna that 40,000 Russians'were killed or wounded near Przemysl. The Germans now possess the whole of Poland west of the Vistula. The Russians occupy only Warsaw.”

• • • Montenegrins are attacking .Ragusa, an Austrian city of Dalmatia, and its fall is believed to be imminent. • • • b Germany has imposed a fine of 20,000,000 pounds sterling (1100,009.000) on Antwerp as a war indemnity. * *. * General Rqndony, commander of the Third brigade of French colonial troops, and General Marcot, have been killed at the front. Two nurses of English Red Cross corps were killed by a shell. x see Reports are current In Berlin that a large fleet of Zeppelins, now numbering 80, but which is constantly Increasing, is gathering at Klei to await the kaiser's orders to begin an attack against England.

! A dispatch to the Nieuwe Courant 1 from Hulst, Holland, quotes a Belgian officer as saying that the total number of soldiers who hare crossed from Belgium into Holland Is about 26,000. Berlin newspapers are distributing posters announcing that ths civil population is leaving Belfort, France, in fear of a bombardment. • • • The Anglo-French fleet oft Ragusa. Dalmatia, Friday sunk two Austrian torpedo boats, one of which was escorting a steamship laden with munitions of war. Their crews were saved. • • • Two German aviators threw a rain of bombs upon Paris. It Is officially announced that 20 projectlies were thrown. Four persons were killed and 20 Injured. • • • News has been received at Bordeaux that King Albert of Belgium marched out of Antwerp at the head of a portion of his army. The Germans are bombarding Antwerp furiously. Added to the terror caused by the heavy bombardment is the fear of Zeppelin raids. Six of the craft -dropped bombs, -which. killed 20 persons and destroyed seven houses. • • » Maj. Gen. Augustus Zelman was killed In action, says the forty-third German casualty list, issued in Berlin, which contains 10,000 names in dead, wpunded and missing and is headed by the name of Major General von Walter, who was wounded at Tarnovka. Russian Poland. Washington Justice Mcßeynolds, the new member of the U. S. Supreme court, took the oath of office at Washington when the court convened the October term. * • • The house committee on banking and currency at Washington rejected the Henry bill, proposing a $500,000.000 government loan to national and sta'te banks to move the cotton crops. Only three members of the committee, Representatives Eagle, Ragsdale and Wingo, voted for the bill, which was tabled by a vote of 10 to 3. • • • Foreign 1 he Haitien rebels have won a victory over the troops of the government at a point near Llinonade. on the north coast. The president of Haiti is retreating In the direction of Grande Riviere. Other government forces are returning to Cape Haitien. • • • . Mexican War General Felix Diaz, in a message from the Villa headquarters at Juarez to the Villa agency at Washington, conveyed word that General Carranza had put in his resignation as provisional president to the Aguas Calientes convention. The resignation w'as accepted. Antonio Villareal, president of the convention, was nominated. • • * TTre Arizona National Guard was ordered by Governor Hunt to be in readiness to entrain at a moment’s notice for Naco, where bullets and sheila fired by Mexican forces in battle across the border have been falling in American territory for many days. • • • Carranza officials at El Paso. Tex., received an unconfirmed report that Adolfo de la Huerta, private secretary to Rafael Zubaran Capmany, Carranza ‘agent at Washington and later one of Carranza's special envoys to Sonora, has been killed by Villa officials at the Aguas Calientes conference. • • • Domestic Iva von Claussen, recently sentenced to six months in jail for sending a threatening letter to Charles Strauss, a New York lawyer and president of tfie board of water supply of New York was committed to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Mattea wan. • ♦ * The board of arbitration to settle the wage and working conditions dispute between 98 Chicago railroads and their. 65,000 enginemen will meet in Chicago November 9, it‘was announced here. Both the men and the managers have chosen their representatives. The Boston Braves are the world’s baseball champions of 1914. They defeated the Philadelphia Athletics at Boston by the score bf 3 to 1, winning the series with four straight games, the champions of the American league not capturing a contest. Rudolph hurled for Boston and Shawkey and Pennock for the Athletics.

• • • Circuit Judge Jones sustained the validity of the new school tuition law at Jacksonville, 111. The decision la of state-wide Importance. » * • John Cross, aged seventy, was killed, and J. W. Hoadland was injured near Buckatown, south of Johnstown, Pa., when the tduring car in which they were riding was upset at a turn in the state pike. Other members of the party escaped Injury. _ Harry Woods, secretary of state of Illinois, killed himself in a garage behind his home at Springfield. He had been worrying, it is known, about his personal and political affairs, and it is believed that his mind had been affected. Bank examiners report his accounts O. K. • • • Personal Christabel Pankhurst, militant suffragette* leader of England, came unannounced to New York aboard the Red Star steamer Finland. t z '