Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — Summary of Most Important News Events [ARTICLE]

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News Fifty thousand Turks were slain in the last week of fighting in the Caucasus. The attempt of the Turks, under German commanders, to flank the czar’s forces, was an absolute failure. Two army corps were slaughtered. England cannot accept U. S. certification as an absolute guaranty of the nature of cargo in case any vessel leaves America. In other words, the right of search cannot be waived, because of the possibility of shifting cargoes at sea. '• • • Russian advance into Hungary Is gaining strength rapidly. Already more than two hundred thousand Costacks are reported to have penetrated the Carpathian passes and to be following the railway and highways south toward Budapest. ♦ • * The Hodeida incident growing out of the violation of the Italian consulate at that place by the Turks is becoming complicated. Turkey has refused to accede to the demands. Italy has sent a note insisting that its demand be complied with and that it will nottolerate any further delay. • • * All Roumanians in Switzerland liable to military service have been ordered to return to their country before the end of January; -1. T The German official statement from Berlin declares that fighting east of Steinbach resulted in French being driven back. French attacks repulsed in Argonne and near Arras. - J-1 |L ■ Official announcement was made at Berlin that German aviators had conducted a successful raid upon the British ammunition storehouses at Rosendale and Gouderkarque, near Dunkirk. One hundred British soldiers were kjljed or wounded by bombs. Ammunition stores were set on fire and vilwere also fired. - - - ♦ * ' Official announcement at Petrograd of a big Russian victory ov-er the Turks at Sarykamysh and Ardahm in the Caucasus was followed by details of the battles. Turkey apparently has suffered the worst defeat of the war. Besides the annihilation of the Ninth Turkish army corps and the rout of the Tenth at Sarykamysh, it is stated that the repulse of the First corps at Ardahan has been almost as complete a victory.

• ♦ • • Advices to London from Las Palmas, Canary islands, say that the German cruiser Karlsruhe has sunk four more merchant vessels owned by British and French concerns and sent their crews into port on a German convoy steamer. ’ • • • ' ‘ A wireless dispatch received in London from Berlin gives a report received in the German capital from Athens that the Dardanelles fortresses have commenced a bombardment of the blockading Anglo-French fleets, and that one torpedo boat has been slightly damaged. ♦ ♦ • Defeat of the Turks and the capture of 5,000 prisoners by the Russians are announced in an official report received at Petrograd from the headquarters at Tiflis. * * >• Kaiser Wilhelm’s impatient Insistence to be in the thick of the fighting despite the precarious nature of his health has brought about a relapse as a result of exposure on his return to the front in Flanders, according to a dispatch from Maastricht to Amsterdam. ../ » » * Germans at night shoved pontoon bridges across the Bzura river and started across. Not until last man had landed did Russians act. Not a single German in the expedition escaped. Those not killed or wounded were taken prisoners, says a statement from Petrograd. Domestic Joseph Boyer, ex-convict, and Harry Shepley, his brother-in-law, escaped from Sheriff Mackey and a posse of Ogle county citizens from thycottage on an island in the Rock rjver near Oregon, 111.,, in which they were barricaded for more than twenty-four hours. A new American altitude record for passenger-carrying biplanes was established by Lieut. Joseph Carberry, carrying Lieiit. Arthur R. Christie as passenger to a height of 11,690 feet at Sair Diego. The old record is 9,000 feet.- . -.• • • Mrs. Alice Ronalds, wife of the eccentric Mattoon (Ill.) physician, came to her death from Beechwood creosote concealed in a quantity of wintergreen, Coroner’s Chemist McNally reported to Coroner Hoffman of Chicago! ♦ • * One person was killed and 12 were injured when a crowded elevator dropped to the basement of the California Pacific building at San Francisco. Several- of the injured may die.

■me worst accident in tne ten years* history of New York’s subway occurred during the morning rush hours when 700 passengers in two stalled trains were stricken with panic in the darkened tubes by the dense smoke and acrid fumes from a short-circuited cable. Two hundred persons were injured, one—a woman—fatally. Others were overcome and were rescued. • * ♦ The government filed suit at Columbus, 0., against the Capital City Dairy company, asking judgment of over nine million dollars. Allege that this amount .is due representing difference between one-fourth of a cent a pound for uncolored oleo stamps and ten cents a pound for colored oleo, which the company did not pay. • • « ii A mucky pavement caused a tractordrawn fire engine to skid into a crowd in Trenton, N. J. Two men were killed. Three men and a woman were badly injured. « • • The fast Des Moines southbound passenger train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis road was wrecked at Emmons, Minn., by a defective switch. More than a score of passengers hurt. Fourteen thousand dollars’ wo£h of jewelry belonging to Adolphus Bdseb*111 and his wife was stolen from their home in St. Louis, according to a report made to the police by Mrs. Busch, • ♦ * Attorneys representing the Federal league have asked United States District Judge K. M. Landis at Chicago to grant an injunction declaring the National Baseball commission a trust, forbidding its members from continuing in business and voiding all its acts and contracts with players. » * * * The three Progressive members of the Illinois legislature announced at Springfield their intention of affiliating with the Republican party. Medlll McCormick of Chicago and H. S. Hicks of Rockford, the two Progressive members of the house, accepted a formal in-, vitation to participate in the caucus of the Republican representatives. George W. Harris of Chicago, the single Progressive senator, similarly took part in a conference of Republican senators. Senator Canaday of Hillsboro was nominated for president pro tern of the senate by Democratic caucus. ♦ ♦ • Scott Stone, who killed his wife and four children so that he could marry a young woman, was reported as dying from remorse in the jail at Champaign, 111. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mexican Revolt ■ A. firing squad finished the career of ex-Huertista General Andreu Almazan, who commanded the Vlllista garrison at Buebla, which was retaken by General Obregon’s division of Carranzista troops.

« * • Foreign The British response to the American note on shipping seizures has been drafted in London and will be presented to Washington soon. Swedish steamer Carma lost in North sea with her chew of 20 men. * * * Personal B. Fulton French, a famous feud leader of Kentucky, uSkd through the French-Eversole feud, in which scores were slain, died at his home in Winchester, Ky., of asthma. • • * Horatio Taft, cousin of William Howard Taft, who bore a 'remarkable resemblance to the former president, died suddenly while in a taxicab at Rockford, 111. * * * It became known at New Haven, Conn., that Charles S. Mellen, formerly president of the New Haven railroad, is to withdraw' from active business life. His health has not been robust. • • * William R. Shimer, a resident of Indianapolis for more than seventy-five years, is dead. He was born in Zanesville, 0., in 1825. * $ 1 ♦. Washington Ip a resolution declaring the federal reserve system_is a “legalized money trust,” and that “money trust managers and their agents w'ere selected to control the 12 federal reserve,, banks,” Representative Lindbergh" asked for d special congressional committee at Washington to investigate. *• • , Military preparedness of the United States was the subject of r.n administration conference at the home of Secretary of War Garrison at Washington. Cabinet officers and leaders in congress who participated declared that no definite conclusions ha'" been reached. One of the participants said everyone present had conceded that every possible effort’should be exerted in congress to bring the army and navy up to the highest standard of eilciency. * * * With some of the returns yet to be made, the department Of commerce at Washington estimates that the excess of exports over imports for the month of December was $110,000,000. •• ♦ . The Supreme court of the United' States at Washington affirmed a judgment of $252,130.92 obtained by D. E. Low r e & Co. of Danbury, Conn., agar 186 members of the Hatters’ unicn to* damages under the Sherman antitrust law alleged to have been caused by the hatters’ boycott against Lowe & Co.’a hats