Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — Summary of Most Important News Events [ARTICLE]

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News Three Japanese warships, under command of Admiral Nakayama, with six colliers and supply ships, manned altogether by about 4,000 men, were recently in Turtle bay, Lower California, which is Mexican territory, Standing by the stranded Japanese cruiser, Asama. Turtle bay is said to be the best harbor north of Magdalena bay, the west coast rendezvous bf the United States navy. No effort Is being made to float the Asama. It is reported the Japs have mined the bay. * * * The Russian staff at Petrograd has called to the colors additional classes of reserves which will almost double the present army strength. The Hungarian civil authorities have evacuated Ungvar, the immediate objective of a Russian column which has crossed the ridge westward of the Uzsok pass. • • * The Carpathian campaign which was started in January has cost Russia 50,000 men killed and 10,000 taken prisoners, according to a Venice dispatch, which quotes a Budapest newspaper. • • * '■ After a twelve-hour battle the Russians have captured another section of the mountain barrier between Galicia and Hungary, according to a dispatch to London from Lemberg. This report tells of a Russian attack on the Austrians at Mezolaborcz, in the East Beskids. The Austrian forces were forced to give ground. * * * Zeppelins made raids on the British coast towns of Blyth, in Northumberland; Tyne, Wallsend, Seaton Burn and Cramlington, dropping bombs in each place. The bombardment OC> curred in the evening. One man was hurt. Propertv Permission to enter drydock was given Commander Thierfelder of the German raider Kronprinz Wilhelm by United States officials at Newport News, c.. • * * “After prolonged negotiations,” says the London Daily Mail's Rome correspondent, "Italy has agreed with the entente powers to support Serbia’s claims to an outlet on the Adriatic coast.” : . ♦ * ♦ Reuter's Tenedos correspondent says: “The British torpedo boat destroyer Renard entered the Dardanelles on a scouting mission and ran up the straits for moFe than ten miles. A heavy fire was directed at her, but the destroyer was not hit.” ♦ * * The British collier Newlyn landed 120 survivors at Falmouth from the liner Wayfarer/Injured by a mine or torpedo sixty miles off Scilly Islands. ♦ • * Bulgarian forces are . continuing their attacks on the Serbian frontier. They assailed a Serbian blockhouse at Zancka and forced the Serbian troops to retire at Malechi. • * * Five hundred and fifty Zeppelins and aeroplanes have been assembled by the Germans for a raid over England In June, according to information just brought to Paris.

Last of Germany’s sea raiders, the Kronprinz Wilhelm, scourge swept, her crew facing starvation, her bunkers empty, barred from New York harbor by the perpetual guard of British cruisers, sought sanctuary at Newport News, Va. The cruiser had been at sea 255 days, during which time she sank 14 merchantmen. The ships and cargoes were valued at $7,000,000. It is believed the raider will intern. * * * Lord Kitchener of England has called on Canada for a second expeditionary force. The news was given parliament at Ottawa, Ont., by Premier Sir Richard Borden. Three months ago Kitchener was informed that the force was ready in Canada to board ships and sail for Europe. • * * Domestic Thirteen persons are dead and twen-ty-seven injured as the result of a collision between a street car and a freight train at Detroit, Mich. * * * The estate of Peter D. Martin, a capitalist of San Francisco, who died at Santa Barbara, Cal., April 3, is bequeathed to the widow, Mrs. Lily Oelrichs Martin, and Charles O. Martin, eleven-year-old son. The value Is said to be more than $1,000,000. ♦ * * August H. Frederich, elected president of the St. Louis board" of aidermen, was indicted and arrested on a charge of forgery. Frederich has said he would resign his public office at once. He was elected on the Republican ticket. Democratic national leaders in a vigorov defense of the accomplishments of the administration at the annual dinner of the Jefferson club of Philadelphia put President Wilson in the field as an active candidate for re-election.

In an Interview with a reporter in New York Victorlano Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, was quoted as saying he would return to Mexico. Elihu Root was boosted for president by Governor Whitman, Lieuten-ant-Governor Schoeneck, W T illiam Barnes, Jr., President Pro Tern of the Senate Brown, and all but himself at a complimentary dinner given by the upper house members of the legisla-* ture at Albany, N. Y. ♦ » • The Wisconsin corrupt practices ■ act was held to be constitutional by the supreme court at Madison, Wls. ♦ ♦ * Secretary David F. Houston of the United States department of agriculture made the presentation speech when a beautiful statue of Thomas Jefferson, done in bronze by the late Karl Bitter, was unveiled at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va. The statue is a gift from Charles R. Crane of Chicago. • » Mayor Donn M. Roberts, one of the 27 men convicted by a jury in federal court at Indianapolis for participation in the conspiracy to defraud the government in the election in Terre Haute on November 3, 1914, was sentenced by Judge Anderson to six years in Leavenworth prison and to pay a fine of $2,000. In all 116 men, 80 of whom pleaded guilty, were sentenced. • • • Three men were/drowned and two others narrowly escaped death in the waters of Chequamegon bay when the United States mail boat plying between Bayfield, Wls., and Lapointe was crushed by ice floes. ♦»• , ■ Work on three large submarines for the United States government will begin at the Seattle Construction and Drydock company’s yard within thirty days. The boats will cost $1,500,000. « • • Disgusted because Berrien county has gone dry and harassed by numerous lawsuits now ready for trial in the circuit court at Benton Harbor, Mich., “King” Benjamin in a public statement issued from the executive office of the House of David announced that- he was ready to sell all his holdings and quit the sonynunity. • • «" - Cotton went up a dollar a bale in an active and excited market In the first hour of trading on Saturday at New York. Values soared to sls a bale more than the low prices of last December. ”♦ • • ■ « «♦ ._ _LriA r --■ Washington Conspiracy to defame and damage the Riggs National Bank of Washington was charged against Secretary of the Treasurer McAdoo and Comptroller of the Currency Williams in a suit filed in the District of Columbia supreme Court. The allegations cover 37 instances of alleged improper use of official power. The bill asks an injunction to restrain McAdoo “from usurping powers” of the treasurer of the United States. * * * ■’ The cruiser Des Moines was ordered by Secretary of the Navy Daniels at Washington to proceed immediately to Santo Domingo to protect Americans and their interests there. New political disturbances have developed in the republic and the presence of another warship was desirable. ♦ ♦ * Officials at Washington are considering a plan to send an army transport to Tampico to bring back to the United States some three hundred Americans who have appealed to the state department for transportation from Tampico. They are out of work and without funds.

Secretary of the Interior Lane at Washington announced the selection of the Seward-Fairbanks route for the government railway. At the same time he made public the fact that the government had purchased the property of the Alaska Northern Railway company for $1,150,000 already constructed over the first stage of the journey from Seward. * » • Personal Edwin Bliss, well-known writer of fiction, dropped dead in the Hotel Vanderbilt, in New York. He was thirtysix years old and a member of a prominent St, Louis family. Heart disease caused death. * ♦ • Ex-President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt met at New Haven, Conn., for the first time in four years. They acted as pallbearers at the funeral of Prof. Thomas Lounsbury of Yale. * * * : Mexican Revolt . Information from Carranza officers and soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, i says that 350 Villa soldiers, who suri rendered after a battle between Villa and Carranza armies near Huisachito, ■ as well as a number of Mexican worn- ■ en, estimated at between ten and eighteen, were summarily executed by the Carranza forces. ♦ ♦ ♦ Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, commanding the American forces on the Mexican border, is en route from San Antonio to Brownsville, Tex., to take personal charge of the situation there, which has again become threatening. Foreign Great denionstrations in fa ror of Italian intervention in the war led to serious disorders at Rome. Many were arrested.