Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News Text of British government’s reply to the American protest against British interference with the American commerce made public at Washington. Britain refuses all claims made by United States. Prize court will hear all protests. Civil war cases cited in reply by Sir Edward Grey. Refuse to accept responsibility for situation of American commercial and industrial interests. j. * * * Ambassador Gerard transmitted to Washington complete reply of Germany to recent note sent by United States inquiring as to what precautions Germany would take for neutral shipping in its submarine warfare against England.

The German blockade of the British Isles is on. The war zone established by the kaiser’s government became officially effective at midnight, February 17. * * * British steamer collier Dulwich, was torpedoed by a German submarine 20 miles northwest of Cape de la Heve. All but two of the Dulwich’s crew of ,31 were saved. ♦ * * German submarine 1G sank French steamer Ville de Lille off Cherbourg. The crew was saved. * * * Emperor William will apologize personally to James W. Gerard, the American ambassador to Germany, for the hostile demonstration which occurred at a Berlin theater on the evening of February 9, according to a telegram received from Berlin. ,* * * Ffench war office announces at Paris: “Our aviators have bombarded the railway station of Freiburg Im Breißgau.” This German capital is in Baden, ten miles from the Rhine. * * * The correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken reports that a Zeppelin dirigible exploded over the Danish Island of Fanoe, off the west coast of Jutland. • * * Captain Erdman, commander of the German cruiser Bluecher, who was among those rescued during the battle between British and German squadrons in the North sea January 25, died at Edinburgh of pneumonia. * * *

The total losses of the Russians in the Dubla pass battles in the Carpathians, reports from Berlin say, were at, least 50,000 killed. * * * Official statement from Berlin says Plock and Biesk are said to have been captured and 1,000 of the enemy taken prosoners. • * * Forty British and French a|p craft raided Belgian towns now used by Germans as army bases; damage to positions reported. * * * ’ Germany has notified the United States government, throiigh. Ambassador Gerard, that a stafe of “Strained relations” exists between the two nations. United States, in a note, requested assurances from Germany that American citizens and their vessels will not be molested by the naval forces of Germany around the British isles. Germany has declined to grant those assurances and reiterated the danger from submarines and floating mines to neutrals traversing the “war zone.”

Russians claim to have checked the troops of kaiser advancing from Lyck and have inflicted heavy losses upon them. In addition, it is asserted, Russian successes in the Carpathians have more than offset the temporary gains of Germans in North. Petrograd says $13,000 Austro-Germans were captured. * * * Domestic m The woman suffrage national amendment passed the house of the Massachusetts legislature by a vote of 196 to 33. It will now go to Governor Walsh for his signature. * -* * Increased demand for iron resulted in another blast furnace being lighted at the works of the Illinois Steel company at Gary, Ind. * * * An analysis of official export records issued at New York by the national automobile chamber' of commerce asserted that exportation of motor trucks in 1914 increased more than 4*12 per cent in value over 1913. Valued at $28,507,464. * * * The bill for a six months’ residence for divorcees passOd the Nevada senate, 12 to 10. , ■ * * * Eastern Ohio coal operators decided at Cleveland, 0., to open their mines under qn “open shop” system. v.* ' * [7 The senate of the New Jersey legislature passed the woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, 17 to 4. Question will be submitted to voters for acceptance or rejection in September, *

Six persons are dead and ten severely injured in a Are which destroyed the boarding house of the C. A. Smith Xumber company at Marshfield, Ore- .. v- ■ • * Seven men %ere killed and nine ethers seriously burned in a gas explosion in the Prospect colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Wilkesbarre, Pa. * * * Rev. James Morrison Darnell, former Kenosha “marrying pastor,” was arrested by federal operatives at Chicago on a charge of white slavery—violating the Mann act. Charge was transportation of Miss Ruth Soper from Owatonna, Minn., her home and his former pastorate, to Chicago, and then to Kenosha. Darnell had obtained a license in Crown Point to marry Miss Soper. * * * Three men were instantly killed by' a boiler explosion in an electric light plant at Menlo, la. The dead are: Erma Willey, M. A. Beaman and Frank Fay. \„• * * * As a result of a fight which took place at Panama, in which several Panamaian policemen and American soldiers were killed and many persons wounded, Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards sent a report to Major General Wood. Report recommends disarming of Panamaian T»oltce’and the polking, of zone with troops. Foreign

A British prize crew was placed onboard American steamer Wilhelmina. at Falmouth, England. Wilhelmina is loaded with foodstuffs bound for Germany. * * * China rejected demands of Japan twenty-one in number, and told her far eastern neighbor that she must take by force w r hat she -wants if she gets it at all. In the event of trouble the Peking government will turn to the United States for aid. * * * The Spanish government at Madrid has made applications to the powers in order to obtain joint action to end what is termed to be a state of anarchy in Mexico. Jose Caro, the minister of Spain to Mexico, is an involuntary fugitive on board the American battleship Delaware, in the harbor of Vera Cruz. Expello£ from the country by General Carranza. ♦ * * Mexican Revolt Virtually all foreign diplomats ins Mexico City have been instructed by their governments to use their own discretion about leaving the capital. Such was an announcement made by Secretary Bryan at Washington.

Sporting Joe Sherman of Memphis had at. shade on Tommy Gary of Chicago at the conclusion of ten rounds of savage slugging in a ten-round whirl at Kenosha, Wis. * * * Jimmy Anderson of Indianapolis failed to connect in his bout at Grand Rapids, Mich., with Freddie the champion. Andefson lasted through the six rounds by constant holding. * * * Bantamweight (Champion Kid Williams easily outpointed Jimmy Murray in a -six-round go at Philadelphia. * * * Personal Raymond Dupy was promoted tc the vice-presidency of the Virginian, railway, according to reports received at New .York. Francis B. Sayre of Williamstown, Mass., son-in-law of President Wilson,' is under consideration by the manager of the University of Wisconsin to succeed Dr. H. Bumpus, now president of Tufts college.

Washington There is no shortage of wheat in. the United States and no danger of s. wheat famine, according to an official; statement issued by the department of agriculture at Washington. * * * The government ship purchase bill was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 215 to 121. The measure will now go to the senate. Nineteen Democrats voted against the bill, 'Measure limits experiment to a period terminating two years after the close of the European war and provides that no ships of belligerent nations shall be purchased under circumstances which would “disturb the conditions of neutrality.” * * * * Representative Cooper of Wisconsin introduced in the house at Washington a bill appropriating $500,000 to reimburse cattle owners for expenditures caused by the quarantining of cattle at the National Dairy show in Chicago. *• * ( The Palmer bill to bar products of child labor from interstate commerce was passed by the house at Washington by a vote of 232 to 44. The bill now goes to the senate. * * * Foot-and-mouth disease quarantine regulations were extended by the department of agriculture at Washington so as to include all the territory east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee in a restricted area out of which no shipments of live stock, evcept for slaughter within 48 hours, will be permitted to the south or west. * * * United States, in effect, intimated to Great Britain that Wilhelmina’s cargo ought to be released, presenting evidence it was food intended for German non-combatants.