Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS

TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News Two German submarines, the U-28 and another, have added two more British steamships, the Flaminian and Crown of Castile, to their list of victims. There was no loss of life on the Flaminian and Crown of Castile. , * * * Emperor William and Field Marshal von der Goltz of the Turkish army, together with high Gerigftn government officials, opened a 'war council" in Berlin. The council is tb discuss theDardanelles situation and \ the fall of Przemysl. * * * The'German official statement issued at Berlin announces serious reverses to the Russians in East Prussia, with a loss qf 1,000 men taken , prisoner by the Teuton forces in the capture of Taurcggen. and the killing of 2,000 Russians at Krasnoppl. * * * Official announcement is raatfe in London that among the missing passengers of the steamer Falaba, which was sunk by a German submarine, is Leon Chester Thrasher, an American engineer, who had been living for the past year on the Gold Coast, British West Africa. » * • Nearly ope hundred and fifty lives were lost in the sinking by -German submarines of the African liner Falaba and the British steamer Aguila, bound from Liverpool for Lisbon. The Falaba carried a crew of 90 and about one hundred and fifty-one passengers, and of this total only 142, were rescued. Eight died from exposure. * * * Bombs thrown by English aviators in their raid upon the submarine building plant at Hoboken, hear Antwerp, completely wrecked ' one submarine and- damaged another badly Three hundred workers were injured. * * * General von Kluck. noted German army commander, has been slightly wounded while inspecting the advanced positions of his army. He was struck by bits of shrapnel, the war office at Berlin announced, but his con- | dition is satisfactory. • * • The battles of Bukowlna are assuming a more violent character. The population of Bukowina suffers so much from hunger and the continued change of regime that a revolution is feared. • • • Domestic Ong of the strongest evidences of the confidence American bankers have in the present and future financial position of the United States was reflected in the action taken by the New York Stock exchange when the governing committee abolished minimum trading prices. These were established as a safeguard against liquidation on December 15 last. * * * A jury in Federal Judge Carpenter’s court at Chicago found Dr. Louis P. Wfheburg of Ligonier, Ind., guilty of violating the Mann white slave act. Doctor Wipeburg was accused of having transported Miss Grace Belle Locher to Chicago from Kalamazoo. Mich. He denied charge ' 4 •