Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — WEEKS NEWS [ARTICLE]

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Washington President Wilson learned at Washington from Dr. Henry Van Dyke, minister to the Netherlands, and Henry White, former ambassador to France, recently returned from Europe, that peace was not in sight and the time had not come for the United States to renew or emphasize peace offers to the heads of the belligerent nations. • • • Secretary of Agriculture Houston at Washington told more than a thousand boy corn growers from Ohio that they should stay on the farm. The secretary pointed out that although the population has increased 23,000,000 there has been no increase in the production of corn, and he urged the boys to continue their efforts to increase the yield. * • » A telegram was sent out by Internal Revenue Commissioner Osborn at Washington to collectors all over the country, making it plain that the government has no Intention of prosecuting anybody subject to the war tax who shows that he is willing and ready to make the required payment. • • * More than one hundred thousand men were injured in American mines laet year, while 3,631 were killed outright, according to figures given in the annual report of Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the bureau of mines at Washington. • ♦ • President Wilson, after discussing with Secretary Garrison at Washington the request of Governor Ammons of Colorado that federal troops be withdrawn from some of the Colorado strike districts, decided that nothing should be done at this time. * * • ' Proposed increases in freight rates extending throughout the middle West and West, affecting many classes of freight, were suspended by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. • Resumption of the parcel post service between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary was announced by Postmaster General Burleson at Washington. • • * President Wilson announced at Washington the appointment of Seth Low of New York, Charles W. Mills of Philadelphia and Patrick Gilday of Clearfield, Pa., as a commission through which future differences between operators and miners involved in the present Colorado coal strike may be settled

European War News Germans turn on Russians in Poland, check advance, and resume offensive on new front; claim 80,000 unwounded prisoners during maneuvers. • • • With one dissenting vote, that of Herr Liebknecht, Socialist, the reichstag at Berlin, voted a new war credit of 5,000,000,000 marks ($1,250,000,000). Doctor von Bethmann-Hollweg, imperial chancellor, said: “We must and will fight to a successful end our defensive war for right and freedom.” The chancellor blamed Russia for the conflict, but said the real responsibility was Great Britain’s ♦ • ♦ It is officially announced that General De Wet, Boer leader who headed the late revolt against the British government of the Union of South Africa, has been captured. * * * The success of the Germans in cutting their way out of the trap laid by the Russians has i cost General Rennekampf his command, according to a dispatch from Petrograd. • * * Though it seems clear now that the German army in Russian Poland, or that part of it which the Russians almost surrounded near Lodz, narrowly escaped annihilation, the Germans fought with such fury that the cordon encircling them was broken, and as German re-enforcements are coming up the issue is not yet decided. • * » It is announced at military headquarters in Berlin that Emperor William is with the German army in the East. * ♦. * Belgrade, capital of Servia, occupied by Austrians after Servian army had evacuated city. »* * * Allies ready to take offensive in western zone; Paris statement tells of advance made at several points. ♦ * * Lieutenant General Couiit von Moltke, says a Berlin dispatch, has recovered his health and is returning to the front. • * • It is reported that the German fleet again has steamed into the North sea. The eighty-eighth and eighty-ninth Prussian casualty lists, Issued in Berlin, contain of 7,397 officers and 10,292 men killed, wounded and missing, w;hich brings the total of Prussian casualties to 644,762.

According to a Berlin message to the Telegraaf, Cairo reports that 76,000 Turkish troops under Izzet Pasha are marching against the Suez canal. • • • It is reported in Rotterdam that the crown prince is about to take over the German' command on the western war front. The re-ehforcements which arrived in Belgium last week are estimated at 30,000. Arrangements have been made for the Immediate reception of 120,000 more. * • • Personal Brig. Gen. Frank P. Wells, commanding the Second brigade, I. N. G., was placed on the retired list and Lieut. Col. Henry R. Hill of Quincy was named to succeed him. • * • Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, retired, the noted naval expert and writer, died of heart trouble at Washington. • • • J. Borden Harriman, the retired New York banker, died at Washington, after an illness of several months. He was fifty years old. Lucius Tuttle, former president of the Boston & Maine railroad, died at Brookline, Mass. Death was due to angina pectoris. * • ♦ Katherine Alexander Duer, formerly Mis. Clarence H. Mackay, and Dr. Joseph A. Blake were,married by the mayor of, the sixteenth arrondissement, Passy, France. Doctor Blake's wife obtained a divorce in the United States last week. • • * Myron T. Herrick, the retiring American ambassador to France, accompanied by Mrs. Herrick and the members of his family, departed from Paris to New York. * * ‘ Mexican Revolt General Villa entered the City of Mexico at the head of about twentyfive thousand troops. He will not enter the main part of the city until the arrival of Provisional President Gutierrez. • • • Private Caine of B troop, Ninth United States cavalry, was shot in the head and probably fatally wounded. Four Mexican children were wounded, one seriously, on the American side in the siege of Naco, Sonora. ♦ * *

The city of Pachuca, where Gen. Pablo Gonzales, Jacinto Trevino and other constitutionalist chiefs, with their respective brigades, had taken refuge. Was taken by Villa's troops. • * * Gen. Pablo Gonzales, one of the leading division generals of the constitutionalist army of Mexico before it was divided by factional strife, has declared himself prnvislona.l president of Mexico. This makes at least three claimants to Diaz' power. • • • Domestic An industrial commission to serve without compensation as the panacea for the Industrial ills of the coal fields to which his administration will be heir, was suggested by Gov.-elect George A. Carlson of Colorado before the federal commission on industrial relations at Denver, Colo. Six hundred men resumed work in the Iron Mountain railroad shops at Argentine, Ark. * * • Thomas J. Hill, an aviator, twentyfive years old, was killed near Venice. Cal., while looping the loop. • * * “Love, not dreadnaughts and siege guns, is to bring peace to warring Europe.” Secretary Bryan took this for his text when he spoke before Presbyterians of Chicago. “The nations of the world have dealt with each other on the basis of fear,” Mr. Bryan said. “Why don't the nations learn that the only foundation on which nations can dwell together is love?” * * * William Eliza Williams ot Pittsfield, 111., Democratic congressman at large, was re-elected by a plurality of 1,733 votes over J. McCan Davis, Republican, according to official returns from all counties in Illinois, which were available for the first time. Davis won on the unofficial returns of 3,250 votes. B. M. Chiperfield, Republican, is the other newly elected congressmen at large, running ahead of Both Williams and Davis. Senator Y. Sherman’s official plurality over Roger C. Sullivan is 17,258. ♦ ♦ ♦ Unable to pay its employees, the United States Metal Products company filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy at New York, giving the assets as $3,700,860 and the debts as $1,008,550. Commercial organizations in 25 Illinois cities interchanged telegraphic greetings on > Thursday on the occasion of the ninety-sixth anniversary of the state’s admission to*the Union. A daring ‘‘wire-tapping” swindle was brought to light in Chicago when John G. Schafer, formerly a wealthy farmer of Morris, Minn., reported to the detective bureau that he had been fleeced out of $1«2,000 by two men he met in Chicago. ■* * ♦ One hundred and eleven dead and 162 injured is the hunting toll In 17 states of the Union and one province In Canada for the season which ended November 30. Wisconsin has a total of 33 dead and 36 wounded and Michigan 27 dead and 42 wounded.