Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News

The visit of Emperor William to Wilhelmshaven to inspect the German fleet is. thought to mean that the long-awaited naval battle in the North sea and a serious attempt to land a great "briny on the shores of England are at hand. ** * ; With a successful Russian advance on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians behind the sources of the San river, the period of elaborate reconnaissance is over and the southern army has taken the offensive along the entire front from below the Dukla pass to the east of the Beskld mountains. The Austrians are yielding imI portant positions. ' ♦ ■ ♦ ... Seventy-eight officers and 4,065 men of lower rank in the Austro-German armies operating in the Carpathians were captured by th® Russians, it is officially* announced at Petrograd. Germans are. making anbther attempt to move on Warsaw.

Werner Van Horn, who dynamited the railway bridge over the St. Croix fled from Canada into Maine, was arrested. He immediately proclaimed himself an officer of the Ger - man, army and set up a claim that he had committed an act of war and, having fled to a neutral country, could not be legally surrendered to an enemy of Germany. . * * ■' British transports are to be the next target of the German submarines, according to word from Berlin. * * • Lieut. Egop von Kluck, aged twen-ty-eight, eldest son of General von Kluck, commander of one of the German armies in France, was killed at Middlekerke, in Belgium, during a bombardment of that port by British warships. ” The batteries in Admiralty harbor protecting Dover opened, fire on what was thought to have been another German raid, but whether by Zeppelins or submarines, or both, has not been ascertained. The raid didn’t occur. * * ♦ Germans have followed up their ■submarine attack on shipping in Irish sea by a similar exploit in English channel, where steamers Tokomura and Icaria were torpedoed and sunk. Steamers Kilcoan, Ben Cruachen and Linda Blanche sunk in Irish sea. Crews rescued. • Domestic The jury in the trial of Malcolm Gifford, Jr., the Hudson county youth charged with the murder of Frank J. Clute, reported a disagreement at Albany, N. Y. * * * • William Gibbs of Denison, Crawford county, la., was killed on the Boston & Albany road in West, Springfield, Mass.

Damage from flood was reported from Logansport, Ind., where the Eel river flooded business and residence districts. * * ♦ William Black of Bellaire, 0., a traveling lecturer, and John Rogers, a contractor, are dead, and John Copeland, bank cashier, is not expected to live as the result of a shooting affray at Marshall, Tex. Black, who claimed he formerly was a priest, delivered a lecture in which he attacked the Catholic church.

State Engineer E. E. Haslan of Pennsylvania issued warnings to residents of the Shenango valley to prepare for a flood worse than that of March, 1913, at Evansville, Ind. With the Ohio past the 30-foot mark, the flood stage of 35 feet is expected and a stage of at least forty feet is probable from the water already in sight. * ♦ ♦ The steam suction dredge Eastern, at anchor in Long Island sound. New York, was blown over and four of her crew of 11 men, penned fast in the bunkhouse, were drowned. * * * Woman voters gave Joliet, 111., the commission form of government. Their majority 0f.552 in favor of proposition offset male majority of 175 cast against It. ♦ ♦ ♦ The “shipping trust” won a victory in the United States district court'at New York when a decision was handed down dismissing the government’s petitions brought under the Sherman antitrust law against the Prince line and three other steamship companies. ♦ » ♦, .By 42 to 10 the lower house of the Nevada legislature voted to repeal the law requiring a whole year’s residence in the state before divorce proceedings can be begun and to pass the bill requiring only six months’ residence. Salt river, ordinarily a small stream which runs through several Missouri counties opposite and below Quincy, 111., is now a raging torrent four miles wide. Many of the farm buildings have been washed away.

Three persons are dead and several injured in a tornado that struck San Francisco. The storm came after 48 hours of almost Incessant rains. It was the worst storm in 12 years. Chicago's registration yielded a rec-ord-breaking poll list. “New” names numbering 134,747 were added to the books. Qf these 58,864 were names of feminine voters. The men registering were 75,883. hives Chicago a total of 690,720 men and women who can casptheir ballots at the primaries Fifteen round boxing bouts would be legalized in Delaware by tjie passage of a bill introduced in the lower house of the Delaware legislature. Foreign Three of the conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrain throne, were executed in the fortress at Sarajevo, Bosnia. The men put to death were Veliko Cubrllovic, Mieko Jovanovic and Danelo Die. • * * Dr. Tonio Riedemann, director general of the German-American Oil company at Hamburg, in an interview denounced not only the American government but the American people as “a pitiful sfst of weaklings” because of what he called the truckling of the United States to Great Britain! over the petroleum and other, embargoes.

The oil tank steamer Romana, flying the American flag now, but recently under Roumanian registry, loading with cotton at Philadelphia, 'is to be seized by the British cruisers should she sail for Bremen, as planned. ♦ ♦ ♦ Paul Preusler, who, left Dresden, Germany, 11 years ago to walk around the world, arrived at Hoboken, N. J., after walking 102,900 miles. He left Dresden with 11 companions. Eight died Of fever, two were murdered and another wa,s killed accidentally. * * * Pope Benedict’s efforts to bring about an agreement between the warring powers to exchange invalid prisoners have come to naught, Vatican diplomats reported at Rome. V♦♦ ♦ A ' Sporting Egg and Verri- captured the Chicago revival of six-day bicycle race. Moran and McNamara were second, and Corrj- third. A new world’s record of 2,804 miles and 8 laps was established by Egg and Verri, beating the old record by 12 miles and ten laps. * ♦ * Mexican Revolt Roque Gonzales Garza, the conventionalist provisional president of Mexico, has been executed by the Zapatistas at Cuernavaca, it is reported at El Paso, Tex. ♦ * * Francisco Villa has proclaimed himself in charge of the presidency *of Mexico. Villa appointed three ministers to take charge of the civil government. • * * * \ Official reports of the capture of the city of Guadalajara were received at General Obregon’s headquarters in Mexico City. The battle 'occurred January 20. Five hundred of Villa’s men were killed, Including the three generals, the report says. Villa is reported to have died. ♦ ♦ • Gen. Jesus Carranza, his son, Abelarso, and Ignacio Peraldi, members of his staff, were executed by General Santibanez, former constitutionalist general, who defected to Zapata. Washington

“There is a shortage of food in the world now. That shortage will be more serious a few months from now than it is now. It is necessary that ■we should plant a great deal more. It is necessary that our land should yield more per acre than it does now.” In these words President '•Wilson addressed the people of the nation" through business men attending the conevntion. of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States held at Washington. • * Reappropriation of $1,000,0D0 of an unexpended balance to the credit of the navy department for aeronautics under former appropriation bills was cut down to $500,000 in the house at Washington after a long argument on an amendment by Representative Mann. * * * Secretary Bryan made public at Washington a reply to the recent German protest against the sale by an American manufacturer of hydroaeroplanes to belligerents as an unneutral act. The state department dissents from the German view that “hydroaeroplanes' must be regarded as war vessels.” ..• S • Ambassador Page at London cabled the state department* at Washington that the British fleet had been ordered to treat cargoes of grain and flour destined for Germany or Austria as conditional contraband, subject to seizure and confiscation. * * .♦ The United States supreme court decided at Washington that a woman transpprted for immoral purposes in violation of the Mann white slave act may, if a guilty participator, be convicted as a conspirator with the person who caused her to be transported.