Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS

TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News An agreement was signed in London for the loan of £5,000,000 ($25,000,000) to Roumania. Will use the money for the purchase of war materials. ♦ * * Reporting the Germans left 1,000 dead in fighting west of Craonne, French war office claims successes for allies all along battle line except at one spot, where a landslide imprisoned two companies of French. Germans made them prisoners. Allies announce German lost 1,500 men at Ypres. .. . •'' • • The capture of nearly a mile of French works in the Craonne region and French support southeast of St. Mihiel is announced in an official Berlin report. Saxon troops captured 865 wounded Frenchmen. ♦ * ♦ Turk menace to Suez canal; Hodeida incident and occupation of Avlona bring Italy on verge of joining alites in war; Turkish advance force defeated by British Suez canal. * ♦ * Austrians after three days’ fighting take Uzsok pass in the Carpathians by storm, routing Russians; czar’s forces begin new drive in East Prussia. ;

Aeroplane raids and bomb-dropping expeditions, the Carranza agency announced at Washington, are to be conducted against Mexico City. General Hill’s army has joined General Obregon for the march on the capital. .** _ « Austro-German forces have occupied Kielce, Russian Poland. Kielce is the capital of the Russian province of that name.. ♦ ♦ ♦ The British battle cruiser Lion was struck below the water line and had to be towed to port by the cruiser Indomitable, one British destroyer was struck and tpwed to port, one officer and 13 men were killed, and three officers and 26 men wounded in the Helgoland naval battle in the North sea, according to additional reports given i out by the official press bureau at London.- ' •t * 'A The German cruiser Gazelle was torpedoed by a submarine in the Baltic, according to information received at Malmoe, Swedeh. The Gazelle was able to return to the port of Sassnitz. - . ♦ ♦ ♦

The committee of the radical party at Rome has unanimously adopted a motion declaring Italy’s participation in the European conflict is indispensable to the satisfaction of her aspirations and the protection of her interests. The Radicals of Padua voted for Intervention and denunciation of triple alliance. ♦ * * Reported in Berlin that the German cruiser Karlsruhe during the past fort--night has sunk 11 merchant ships flying the flags of the allies. ■ * ■ *' ■ * ' Armed British merchant vessel Viknor, missing for several days, believed lost with her entire crew. A number of bodies have been found on the north coast of Ireland. It is believed she foundered or struck a mine. ♦ ♦ ♦ That one of the British warships engaged in the North sea battle with the German fleet was damaged, though not seriously, by the German fire was reported by the master of the Dutch steam trawler Erica, which has just arrived at Ymuiden.

♦ * ♦ Domestic The, New York board of education voted, to reinstate Mrs. Bridget Peixotto, a teacher who was dismissed after she absented herself from her duties to become a mother. . With only one of its members opposing, the committee in charge of the woman suffrage bill in the Texas legislature favorably reported that pleasure to the house. * * * Harry K. Thaw pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy and his trial was set for February 23. Meanwhile Thaw is to remain in the Tombs in New York. ♦ ♦ * John Young, former auditor of the Farmers’ Deposit National bank of Pittsburgh; died in the western penitentiary at Pittsburgh, Pa., of tuberculosis. Young was convicted of stealing $1,050,000 from the institution in 1908. William Travers Jerome was removed from his position of special deputy attorney general of the state of New York by Attorney General Woodbury, and at once ceased his fight to have Thaw sent back to Matteawan. . “ Percy B. Sullivan, convicted in the federal court of using the mails to defraud, was sentenced to two years and six months in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, at Springfield, 111. Sullivan was head of a fire insurance company.

Mother Jones, friend of the mfn--1 ers, after an interview with John D. Rockefeller. Jr r in the offices of the , Standard Oil company in New York, declared Rockefeller has always been misunderstood and that he promised to help the miners. Rockefeller ended his testimony before the federal commission. plate manufacturers from all parts of the, country are holding a conference at Pittsburgh, Pa., to discuss with representatives of their employees proposed changes in the wag© scale. * • ♦ Woman x suffrage passed the West Virginia legislature at .Charleston. The vote in the senate was 28 to 1, and in the house 80 to 6. The measure will be voted upon by the people at the next election. A boy robbed the Guarantee State bank of Houston. Tex., of $5,000. was killed before going half a dozen blocks. ♦ • * John Haley, Michael Norris, John Miller and James Lynch, labor officials were indicted .by the federal grand Jury. Five counts charge both a conspiracy and a combination in restraint of interstate commerce. .* * ♦ Schooner yacht Idler owned by J. P. Jefferson of Warren, Pa., lost on Diamond shoals. It is believed Capt. Robert H. Harding and his crew of 14 men perished. * - ♦ ■» fl": ■' Mexican Revolt Provisional President Garza of Mexico and his government left the capital for Cuernavaca, where a new seat of government will be established. The army of occupation, the Carranza force, lingers on the outskirts of the city, but is expected to enter soon. ’fl .’fl'* ' *a " ■■ Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico, has been captured by the Carranza forces after several days of severe fighting with the Villa troops. * » * Foreign General Noriel, insurgent leader, and two aids convicted of the murder of a political enemy in 1912, were hanged ajt Manila, P. I. “We must maintain under the colors our entire army, for at any moment incidents are possible which may render it necessary for us to make an appeal to arms,” said P. W. A. Van der Linden, premier of the Netherlands to the Dutch parliament. * * * Violent bread riots are reported to have broken out in Croatia and Bohemia in AuStro-Hungary. At Aram riots have been in progress three days, it is said. .♦ • • Parliament of Iceland passed a measure forbidding the sale of alcoholic liquors. • » ■-a --fl--' The Portuguese ministry, of which Hugo Joutinbo was premier, resigned. • • • Personal Senator Penrose is confined to his home at Philadelphia by a bronchial affection. • ♦ * George Foster Peabody of New York has declined appointment to the federal trade commission. Dr. James Henry Parker, former president of the New York Cotton exchange, died after an operation on his knee. His widow is president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. • * * Mrs. Helen Kelly Thomas, formerly the wife of Frank Gould, inherited estate of her second husband, Ralph Hill Thomas, when his will was filed at Mineola, L. I. * ♦ * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., told the United States committee on industrial relations at New York that his father contributed $200,000,000 to philanthropy. „ * > »" •' < . Washington A summary of increases in ocean freight rates show a total of $311,864,000 yearly extra toll on American exporters should the present, rates continue. President Wilson approved the recommendation of Secretary Daniels and Superintendent Fullam of the naval academy, that Midshipman Leonard Kirby, Jr., of New Jersey be dismissed. Kirby’ was charged with placing a flask of liquor in a classmate’s locker. » » » “Legal fiction” of a private corporation will not save the United States from the consequences of its participation in the purchase of ships, according to Senator Root, who attacked the ship purchase bill in the senate at Washington. “I am not going to argue against buying a ship, but against buying an international quarrel with every ship.” ’ ♦ * » Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who had been ordered to take a complete rest for ten days on account of an attack of indigestion, w*as reported at Washington as not seriously ill. • * * By a strict party vote, the senate commerce committee at Washington adopted a favorable report on the Fletcher substitute for the ship purchase bill and Jay the same vote rejected the Lodge declares that no Interned shipsrof belligerents shall be'purchased.