Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — DIGEST OF WORLD'S IMPORTANT NEWS [ARTICLE]

DIGEST OF WORLD'S IMPORTANT NEWS

EPITOME OF THE 810 HAPPEN* I MGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A BURGE Items. Both Foreign and Domeatlo, That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience.

European War News The United States has made peremptory demand upon Great Britain that she immediately release the American tank steamship John D. ’Rockfeiler. seized by a British warship and detained at Kirkwall, Orkney islands. The Rockefeller was bound from Philadelphia to Copenhagen with a cargo of illuminating oil. Britain claims oil is contraband of war. Two other American ships have been seized by England. • * * Berlin newspaper estimates of the English, Russian, Belgian aud French casualties and prisoners are now 760,000. • * * Fighting continued throughout the day with unabated fury in West Flanders from the North sea across the French frontier A terrific battle raged along three fronts with a total line of 45 miles. Reports were received that the English fleet was bombarding Ostend. occupied some days ago by the Germans, but no mention of this was made in the official communique. •• • \ There is no change of importance in the positions of the troops in the Franeo-Belgian theater of hostilities, it was officially announced by the war office in Berlin. • * * The German government states that formal protest has been sent to France and to neutral nations against alleged violations of the rules of the Geneva convention by French. It is charged that both noncombatants and soldiers in th« French army were guilty of acts of cruelty against the Germans. » * * The entire civil population is in full flight from Warsaw because of the approach of the German army, and an attack on the city is imminent, according to reports from the Eastern front received in Berlin * • * A British casualty list of noncommissioned officers, under date of September 17, reports 95 wounded and fiOO missing, of whom over six hundred belonged to the Royal Munster fusiliers. Another casualty list, dated October 16 and October 18, reports five officers killed and 12 wounded. * * * The newspaper Nord Maritime of Dunkirk says that the allies have driven 5,000 Germans out of Bruges and are now in possession. *• • ■ Verdun appears to be doomed The French fortified position which is the main support of the French right wing army has been under constant bombardment for more than three weeks, and several of tire forts in the outer ring of the city’s defenses are reported in official dispatches from Berlin to have been reduced. • * * Seven distinct and violent attacks of desperate character were directed by the Germans along the whole battle line, extending from the Meuse to the sea, in a tremendous effort to relieve the constantly increasing pressure of the allies’ front, but all their efforts were repelled, according to reports from the battlefront.

In the field of the great battle for German ascendancy on the North 6ea coast the invaders were repnlsed by tlie Belgians. * * * j. An Austrian official announcement given out at Vienna says: "The battles to the east of.Chyrow and Pr?bmysl were very successful for Austria. The flgffflag near Mlzynieo was especially mmm* The Magiera heights of the Russians are now occupied by Austrians.” * * * The Army Gazette, official organ of the Russian military establishment, states that 18,000 Germans killed in the conflict along the Vistula have been buried by the Russians. • • * British steamer Exford has been captured by the German cruiser Emden off the Malabar coast. A Lloyd's dispatch reports the sinking of the BritIsh steamers Chilkama, Trollies, Benmohr and Clan Grant as well as a dredger off the Colombb coast •* * ' Of the 150,000 Belgian refugees In England, 100,000 are penniless. The remaining 50,000 have little money and they, too, will soon be without ,funds. Hundreds of Belgians have signified their Intention of emigrating to the United States. • • • The London Dally Mail’s Rotterdam .correspondent says three Zeppelin airship sheds are being built at Brussels and' four at Antwerp. The correspondent adds that bridges have been erected over the Meuse between Liege and

Official announcement was made by the German admiralty at Berlin that the new British submarine E-3 was sunk on October 18 by German warships in the North sea. This announcement helped relieve the deep regret felt throughout Germany as the result of the news of the fate suffered by the German torpedo boats S-115, S-117, S-118 and S-119. » •" •

The troops who are arrayed against each other between Arras and Roys are still driving with shot and shell, and probably with bayonet, and In this district the, allies have advanced at several points, reaching as far In some Instances as the wire entanglements which constitute part of the German defensive works. • • • Washington Confidence is the only thing needed to restore business prosperity, President Wilson told directors of the federal reserve banks whom he received at the White House at Washington. The president declared he thought business men were more nervous than wasn ee ess ary ; - —— -- - * * * Word was received at Washington of the death in Romancek, Upperville, Va., of Capt. Robert E. I.ee, the youngest son of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He will be burled in Washington and Lee University cemetery beside his father. ,* * * Declaring lie once was a lawyer but “had reformed,” President Wilson opened the convention of the American Bar association at Washington, delivering the address of welcome. Former President Taft, head of the association, in introducing the president, said the members of the association felt a “deep personal confidence in his ability to guide the ship of state in the present troubled waters and we give him our earnest support.” : * * • ' Tim United States Supreme couth at Washington advanced the bearing of the Harry K. Thaw extradition case to December 7. * * • .V Former President Taft visited the White House at Washington and chatted for a half hour with President Wilson.

The American Red Cross at Washington sent SI,OOO to buy corn and beans for starving thousands in the vicinity of Acapulco, Mexico. Secretary of the Navy Daniels arranged to send the supplies to Acapulco on the naval collier Nero. Federal reserve bank directors from all over the United States met at Washington to discuss all the details of the organization of the various federal reserve banks. • * • Foreign Oire man is dead, four are injured and a pile of debris that once was a tenement house is believed to hold other bodies, as a result of an explosion in Montreal. * * • The superdreadnaught Normandie, one of the most powerful battleships ever built by France, was successfully launched at St. Nazaire-shr-Loire. It will be placed in commission as soon as possible for service against the German fleet. * * * A Reuter dispatch to London from Petrograd says that the czar has ordered that all German and Austrian subjects granted the honorary rank of councillor of commerce be deprived of the title. * • • Mexican War Prompt withdrawal of the American forces from Vera Cruz was foreshadowed by the approval given by the Mexican national convention at Aguas Calientes to the requests of the American government for protection of Mexicans who served the United States and other desired guarantees. • N • • General Villa has issued an ultimatum at Chihuahua in which h« announced that unless Carranza "is removed from his self-appointed position as the de facto president of Mexico. I propose, with the consent of my commanders and my people, to go to Mexico and remove him by force.” • • * Domestic Celia Coleman, maid for Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, on trial charged with the murder June SO of Mrs. Louise Bailey in Doctor Carman’s office at Freeport, *N. Y., testified at Mineola that Mrs. Carman after the shooting told her that she “had shot him,” This is in conflict with testimony that the maid gave previously. *** 1 . / Eight men were drowned in the Mußkingura river at Beverly, 0., when a barge loaded with rock sank in midstream. Eleven men were on the barge but three were rescued. Five of the bodies have been recovered. • • • A daring raid was mad& on the First National bank of Sedro-Tooley at Bellingham, Wash., by six masked robbers, who escaped with more than twenty thousand dollars in currency. • • • Exhaustive efforts are being made by authorities at Keokuk, la., to locate Henry Gates of that city, who is wanted to clear up the mystery of the disappearance of Belle Thomas, to whom he was secretly married In Waterloo One month ago and whose was found in the Mississippi river.