Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 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 GLANCE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic, That Have Interest for Busy Read-, ers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News Most of the Germans north of the Vistula have retired across East Prussian frontier before onrush of Russians, but south of that river, between the Bzura and the Pilica, the Germans continue advance. Crossed branches of Bzura and Rawka rivers at many places. * ♦ • Dispatch from Budapest to Berlin says Austrians preparing final blow against Servians. • » * French claim that German attacks near St. Hubert failed answered by Berlin with statement that Germans took 800 prisoners In these attacks, exterminating utterly Ninth batallion of French Chasseurs. * ♦. ♦ Officially announced in Berlin Lieutenant Prondzynski, German aviator, dropped bombs at Dover. He reconnoitered position of English fleets ♦ * * ' On French right important gains were made against the forces formerly commanded by the German crown prince, according to report from Paris. Invaders driven back from right bank of Meuse in first important attack made by French forces on that side of river. * * * Great masses of German infantry and other German troops are reported passing through Aix-la-Chapelle en route to Flanders from Poland. The North German Lloyd liner Aachen has been converted into a cruiser and is now engaged in very hazardous work, it is announced at Bremen. * ♦ * A special correspondent of the. Amsterdam Tijd telegraphs from Sluis that the Germans have evacuated Middelkerke, Westende and Westroobeke, and adds that these towns have been visited by French and British patrols. • • • Germany’s troops made four successive assaults on the allies’ line in front of Lihons in a determined effort to recapture trenches that had been wrested from them. All attacks repulsed, says French war office. * *. * It can be stated positively that no definite agreement has been reached whereby England will refrain from searching ships which leave American ports with statements from English consuls that they are carrying no contraband. • • • Great Britain, France and Russia have given guarantees to Athens and Bucharest that Bulgaria will not attack Greece in the event of latter country assisting Servia and will not attack Roumanla should that state actively participate in war. This is taken to foreshadow the approaching participation of Roumania and Greece. • • • Latest casualty lists issued in Berlin increase the German losses in killed, wounded and missing to 800,000 men in both eastern and western theaters of war. These lists cover only part of November. • * * Skierniewice, an important railroad center 40 miles from Warsaw, has been captured by the Germans, says a dispatch from Berlin.

• • • A report that the British dreadnaught Thunderer was sunk in the North sea on November 7 by a mine or a torpedo was brought to New York by a passenger on the steamship StLouis from Liverpool. The German has completely recovered and returned to the front. Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s army, which is advancing on Warsaw over a wide front between the Vistula and the Pillca rivers and which on Friday occupied Lowicz, reached the new Russian positions along the Bzura river and southward to Rawa and another big battle is in progress. • • • The left wing of General von Hindenburg’s army in Poland has been defeated. The German force 75 miles northwest of Warsaw is retreating over the borders into Germany, according to an official announcement made at Petrograd. *■ • • A dispatch from Amsterdam, says: “The Germans have evacuated Dix- - mude.” , .J.,,-; / ■ .■? ■■ .<'■ According to a report from Warsaw, that city was bombarded by a Zeppelin. Ninety persons were killed. * * • Domestic Twelve of the thirteen of the 1913 general assembly charged with presenting false claims were acquitted by Judge Markey of the criminal court at Indianapolis. Ind.

West-bound Union Pacific limited No. 19 collided with an east-bound California fruit train at Baxter, Wyo. Engineer Edward Hagan of Rawlina was killed and his fireman badly injured. None of the passengers Were killed. f • » » A mob took Tom Smith, a negro, from the city jail at Ruleville, Miss., drove with him four miles to a deep hole in a creek, tied a rock around his neck and threw him in. Smith was held on a charge of mayhem. * * * Mrs. Elizabeth Porter of Chicago shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Kathryn M. Spring, proprietor of a beauty parlor. Mrs. Porter alleged Mrs. Spring refused to stop receiving attentions of husband. Said Mr. Porter spent money on woman and she and babies were starving. ♦ ♦ ♦ . I ?■■ Harry K. Thaw sent from Manchester, N. H., SSOO to Howard Barnum of Beacon, N. Y., who was gateman at Matteawan when Thaw escaped. Says Barnum is victim of prejudice through no fault of his own and would like to assist him. Barnum lost position when Thaw escaped. ♦ * » Wted upon to face trial on a serious charge, Frank Blanchard, wealthy manufacturer of Janesville, Wis., killed himself by inhaling gas. * * * The largest corporation fee ever received by the state' of Indiana was paid at Indianapolis, when John B. Cockrum, attorney for the New York Central lines, handed Secretary of State Cook a check for $300,000. It w r as paid on account of the consolidation of all the subsidiary railroads of the New York Central lines in Indiana Into the $300,000,000 New York Central corporation. ♦ ♦ ♦ George H. Alexander, former president of the George Alexander & Co. State bank of Paris, Ky., pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. • » • Washington Hobson resolution to submit a constitutional amendment for national prohibition to the state legislatures was defeated in the house at Washington, 197 members voting for and 189 against it. An affirmative vote of twothirds was required to adopt the resolution. Debate lasted ten hours. ♦ * * Export figures for the last four months given out‘ at Washington are: August, $19,400,000; September, $16,341,722; October, $56,630,650; November, $79,299,417. ♦ ♦ * The Supreme court of the United States at Washington ruled that Harry Kendall Thaw must be delivered up to the state of New York to be tried on the charge of conspiracy to break out of Matteawan insane asylum, or be recommitted to the asylum, or both. Thaw’s fight for liberty is therefore ended for the time being. • • • Colonel Goethals, governor of the Canal Zone, according to information to the British embassy at Washington, which was communicated to the state department, has found that the British collier which was thought to have violated the neutrality of Panama Canal Zone waters by sending a wireless message, actually had no wireless equipment. Alimony is fixed income and the pays-it must withhold any amounts due under the Income tax This decision was announced by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborn at Washington in a synopsis of rulings on the law. • • • Mexican Revolt Trip of General Carranza from Vera Cruz to Isthmus of Tehuantepec interrupted by Zapata forces, who captured Soledad and sent wild locomotive into his train. Neither Carranza nor any of party injured. * ♦ * Gen. Guilermo Aragon, a member of the Aguascalientes convention, and Col. David Berlanga, secretary of that convention of military chiefs, were executed in Mexico City. • • • A crushing blow has been delivered to the constitutionalist army of the Carranza government by Villa’s troops at Puebla and Apizaco, say official advices reaching Washington. _ • • • Consular Agent Carothers telegraphed the state department at Washington that Governor Maytorena, commanding the Villa forces besieging General Hill’s garrison at Naco, Sono ra, was preparing to withdraw his troops to a point twelve miles from the border. • • •

Personal George Yule, last of "old guard” of manufacturers who made Kenosha, Wis.> V famous as industrial center, stricken with paralysis at Los Angeles. Mr. Yule is ninety years old. Yule is president of Bain Wagon company. ♦ * » Daughter of Gen. Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, -Was married to. General Quiros, General Huerta’s aid, at Barcelona, Spain. * • * . Eugent Zimmerman, former president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad and millionaire, died suddenly at his club at Cincinnati from hemorrhage of the lungs. • • • Lieut. F. J. Gwerstner, observer of army aeroplane No. 29, was drowned off Ocean Side, Cal., and Capt. Hollis G. Muller, pilot, was saved.