Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News The congress of representatives of the nobility, now holding its annual sessions in Petrograd, unanimously adopted the following resolution: “The vital interests, of Russia require full possession of Constantinople and both shores of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the adjacent islands.” ♦ » * A force of allied troops was landed on the peninsula of Gallipoli from transports in the Gulf of Saros. * ♦ ♦ Five allies’ aviators bombarded German shipyards at Hoboken, three miles south of Antwerp, dropping bombs on German submarines. The works were set afire and heavy damage was done. • ♦ • The London Times’ correspondent at The -Hague, in a dispatch concerning recent seizures of Dutch steamers by a German submarine, says: “The government of Holland has received no reply from Germany regarding its request for an explanation concerning the Batavler V. and the Zaanstroom. The situation arising therefrom is considered grave.” ♦ » * The capture of 3,000 more Russians by German troops Is announced in the official report from the general staff at Berlin. Five hundred were captured by the Germans pursuing the Russians who were driven from Memel, while 2,500 were taken west of Ostrolenka. * • « The Russian town of Krottlngen, about twelve miles north of Memel, has been captured by German troops pursuing the Russians who were forced to retreat; "three thousand civilians were from prison. ♦ • ♦

“Seventeen Belgians, most of whom were young peasants, were shot at daybreak in Ghent barracks, after having been found guilty by a German court-martial of espionage in the interest of the allies,” says a dispatch, to the Exchange Telegraph company at London from Amsterdam. * * * The size of the garrison at Przemysl and the number of men who surrendered to the Russians greatly exceed all estimates. The garrison originally consisted of 170,000 men, of whom 40,000 were killed. Thousands more succumbed to disease. Just under 120,000 surrendered when the fortress capitulated. The Russians captured 2,400 guns, of which 1,000 are heavy cannon. ♦ * • Land operations on a grand scale are about to be undertaken by the British and French forces in the Dardanelles. ' • • ♦ . Domestic The house of the Michigan legislature was thrown into uproar through the introduction by Charles D. Symonds of a resolution assailing Charles Cunningham, member of the state railroad commission, for “publicly upholding the appeal of the railroads for a higher passenger rate.” • ♦ ♦ After hearing arguments for both sides in the senate ’ election contests in the Oak Park and Englewood districts in Cook county, members of the senate elections committee of the Illinois legislature voted unanimously to seat the Republican contestants, Percival G. Baldwin and Henry W. Austin. Republicans will have a majority of "one vote. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is in Chicago trying to adjust the trouble between the building trades unions and employers. • • * Scores of fashionable visitors from the North, including Speaker Champ Clark, Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve Clark, escaped uninjured when flames destroyed Lynne castle, a renowned hostelry at Pass Christian, Miss. ■/ *■

A silent battle for life that did not even wake her year-old baby girl sleeping in a crib by her bed ended when the pretty nineteen-year-old wife of Samuel Kovich of Chicago lay dead under the hands of a strangler in her room. The murderer vanished after robbing the body. *•* • ' ' Richard Randolph, president of the Torchon Lace company and the Central Merchandise company of St. Louis, was assassinatel mysteriously in the offices of the company. His widow, who recently was sued for divorce by her husband, was arrested. ♦ • • Chief of Police John J. Finnell and Detective Sergeant Charles Grawell were shot and instantly killed when they questioned Edward Westervelt and “Jack” Cramer concerning a recent series of burglaries in Elmira, N. Y., Westervelt was captured. * • * Passengers and crew of west-bound steamer Denver, which was leaking badly and in Imminent danger of sinking, 1,300 miles from New York, were rescued by the liner Manhattan. Once more the wireless proved the salvation of many lives at sea.

The bill intended to provide pensions for widowed mothers passed the assembly of the New York legislature 129. to 8. It previously had passed the senate and now goes to the governor for signature. The governor said he was undecided whether he would sign the bill. . r • • * , Because his wife refused to kiss him good-by Matthew Webster, a vaudeville actor, known as “the Dancing Webster,” shot her to death and then committed suicide at Quincy, 111. • * » iiThree bodies were recovered from the ruins of the county infirmary near Muncie, Ind., which burned. Thirteen are missing and are believed to have perished in the fire. Loss $60,000. * • ♦ Matthew Bradley, twenty years old, son'of Mrs. Anna Bradley, who shot and killed Arthur Brown, former United States senator from Utah, at Washington, in 1906, died at Price, Utah, of knife wounds inflicted in a quarrel by Arthur, his half-brother, fifteen years old, who is a son of the former senator. ♦ • Reading of the Bible and recitation of the Lord’s prayer at the opening of the public schools in Caddo parish is prohibited under a decision of the supreme court of Louisiana just announced at New Orleans. “ ♦ * * Approximately 100 of the 611 saloons in Kansas City, Mo., will close “for the mofal good of the community” as a result of action taken by the board of police commissioners. • * * Police officials of Monmouth and Peoria, 111., obtained a confession, according to police, from Annie Marie Knight, a negro woman of Monmouth, that it was her husband, John Knight, and Lovey Mitchell who murdered William E. Dawson and family at Monmouth September 30, 1911. This was one of the famous ax murders. ♦ * ♦ February exports at the port of New York were $113,203,000, an increase of $9,117,000 over the month of January. This was the largest for any single month in history. ♦ * * Mexican Revolt t Leonard Worcester of Jefferson, 0., employed as foreman by the Granby company, St. Louis, is being held ,for $9,000 ransom by General Villas' forces and is in prison in Chihuahua, Mexico, according to word received from Mrs. Worcester.

♦ * • Gen. Lucio Blanco has been executed by a firing squad of Villa troops after trial on a charge of treason to the convention government of Mexico. • * • The first important battle in General Villa’s march against Tampico took place near Montgomery, Mex., and resulted in a defeat for the adherents of Carranza. Two thousand Carranza troops were captured. * * * Arthur Pierce, British consul, and Estaban Ailloud, French consul, have been expelled from Yucatan by order of General Carranza. The former arrived in Galveston with 214 other refugees. Mr. Ailloud is said to have gone to Havana. * * ♦ Despite assurances given by the Zapata government in Mexico City that the soldiers who killed John B. McManus, originally of Chicago, „would be punished, none of the men has been arrested or punished, said officials of the state department at Washington. ♦ S -♦

Personal Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson, widow of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, the famous Confederate leader, better known as “Stonewall” Jackson, died at her home at Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Jackson had been in failing health for a number of years. • ♦ * Mrs. Sarah Ellen Richards Smith, sixty-five years old, wife of President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church, died at Salt Lake City, Utah. ♦ * ♦ Judge L. S. Roan of Atlanta, Ga., presiding judge at the trial of Leo M. Frank, died at the Polyclinic hospital at New York, following a long illness due to cancer. • • ♦ Rear Admiral Michael C. Drennau, U. S. N. (retired), died suddenly-of heart disease at Easton, Pa. He entered the navy in 1863. ♦ ♦ * Washington A total of 30,053 bills and joint resolutions were introduced and seven hundred were passed during the Sixtythird congress at Washington. * ** • V Proposed increases in lake and rail freight rates, bbth east and westbound, Were Suspended by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for investigation of their reasonableness.

* * * The condition of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is “very serious,” it was stated at his office in Washington. The secretary suffered a relapse following his removal to his home from Providence hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis. ♦ ♦ ♦ Attorney General Gregory at Washington instructed the United States district attorney of Porto Rico to institute libel proceedings against the German steamship Odenwald, which attempted to leave San Juan harbor without clearance papers.