Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — Summary of Most Important News Events [ARTICLE]

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News The French armored cruiser Leon Gambetta, commanded by Rear Admiral Feriet, was torpedoed twice by the Austrian submarine U-5 in the Strait of Otranto. The vessel sank with 578 of her crew of 714. One hundred and thirty-six officers and men were rescued. * • • The British war office announced at London that the allied troops established themselves across the end of Gallipoli peninsula from a point northeast of Eski Hissarlik to the mouth of the stream on the opposite side. They have beaten off all attacks and are steadily advancing.’ „ - » » * Halil Bey, former president of the Turkish parliament, who is now in Berlin, received a telegram from Constantinople stating that 8,000 French and British soldiers had been driven to the sea and that 12,000 had been captured by the Turks near the Dardanelles forts. • » « Telegrams to Berlin from Czernowitz, the capitahof Bukowina, say that the Austrians have stormed and captured the town of Bojan, to the east of Czernowitz. “Our operations In connection with the French have definitely stopped the .German attack.” In these words Field Marshal Sir John French announces the conclusion of another German attempt to break through the allied lines around Ypres. * » » The Overseas News agency gave out a dispatch at Berlin from Amsterdam stating the British consul there had. given notice that all English ports had been closed to foreign vessels.

• • » The Italian ambassadors at Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin have been summoned to Rome to confer with Foreign Minister Sonnino. This action is regarded as preliminary to the announcement of a grave and important decision on the part of the Italian government. • • * It is officially announced at London that a British warship has captured the German trading steamer Elfriede, which is believed to have been the last German ship free in the Pacific • * » The Grimsby trawler Recolo was destroyed in the North sea and the Swedish steamer Centric was blown up off the Aland islands in the Baltic sea. Lord'Kitchener in the house of lords at London said British prisoners had been maltreated by Germans. * * • The kaiser’s third drive for Calais has been checked. German attacks on Ypres have been repulsed and the allies have,.taken the offensive. French troops have retaken Het Sas on the Ypres canal, the British war office announced. • • *

Among the casualties reported at Berlin was Major General von Seydewitz, commander of a reserve infantry regiment, who was killed April 25. ♦ ♦ * Land, sea and air forces of the allies have begun a general attack on the Dardanelles. Two hundred thousand men were landed after the Turks were repulsed. “Italy will not participate in the war. By remaining neutral she will win a greater victory than would be possible were she to enter either one of the hostile camps.” This statement was made by an official of the Italian go vern merit. Domestic Edward J. King, cashier of the State bank of Dugger, a mining town ten miles from Sullivan, Ind., is missingp and is alleged to have taken $15 ; 000 of the bank’s money with him. » ♦ * e Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s fight on William Barnes in the Saratoga convention in 1910 was undertaken at the request of Gov. Charles E. Hughes, according to testimony given by Roosevelt in redirect examination in the $50,000 libel suit brought by Barnes at Syracuse, N. Y. ■** ■ * . Max Kleist’s $250,000 damage suit against his millionaire father-in-law, Edward N. Breitung, for the alienation of his wife’s affections, came to a sudden end when Judge Hough of the federal court at New York dismissed the case. ■* » * Methodist Episcopal ministers from all parts of th? United States gathered in Chicago for the, national convention. The object of the convention is to give impetus to the campaign to raise $lO,000,000 for the support of retired Methodist preachers. \ * * * Louis Umverick, twelve, is dead and his father, Charles Umveyick, is dying as the result of burns received when fire caused by an overturned lamp partially destroyed the Umverick residence at Cleveland, o.

Henry W. Legleltner, one of the dynamiters convicted at Indianapolis In 1912 in the ironworkers’ conspiracy case, was paroled l>y Attorney General Gregory of Washington. President Thomas McClelland announced at Galesburg, 111., a gift of SIOO,OOO to Knox college from Ellen Browning Scripps of La Jolla, Cal. Miss Scripps was graduated from Knox college in 1859. The college is trying to raise a half million endowment. It was announced in federal court at Milwaukee that James Morrison Darnell, Kenosha’s passionate parson, would be put on trial on -charges of violating the Mann act on May 11. * ♦ ♦ The inheritance tax on the estate of the late C. W. Post has been computed at Battle Creek, Mich., to be $112,000, which is the largest in the history of the state. » * * Four bills establishing nonpartisan state elections in California were signed by Gov. 11. W. Johnson. They represent the chief legislative wist of the_administration. Under them —no candidate will carry a party label, except candidates for representative .or United States senator. * * * Sam Bell, a young cattle buyer of Morrillton, Ark., shot and killed four members of his wife’s family and escaped. Bell’s wife had divorced him and gone to live with Richard Fryer, her father. . ' ♦ * * Eighty-two contractors, corporations and firms and 18 labor union business agents were indicted by the federal grand jury at Chicago. The indictments were based on charges of conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce, fixing of prices and restraining outside. competition, and combinations and contracts whose objects were to interefere with interstate commerce. The cases-of Mrs. Hattie O’Neil and H. Clay Moss, charged with vote buying in the recent city election at Paris, 111., were called in the court. Moss was held to the June session of the grand jury. Mrs. O’Neil was discharged.

* * • Mrs. Kathryn Brown Decker of New York, a well-known actress, sued her husband, Henry E. Decker, a grandson of the milk millionaire, for absolute di vorce. A prominent actress is named in the bill, it is said. ’ Eugene N. Foss, ex-governor of Massachusetts, announced at Boston his withdrawal from the Democratic party. He urges Charles Sumner Bird to seek a nomination "for governor as a “Progressive Republican,” with state-wide prohibition as his chief platform plank. ■ • ♦:: ' " ■ Elkhart (Ind.) wets were victorious in the option election, winning by a majority of 108. Elkhart has twentytwo saloons. • * * Personal Federal Judge A. B, Anderson of Indianapolis, who was stricken with ptomaine poisoning at Evansville, Ind., continues to improve. ♦ * ♦ John Bunny, whose antics on the screen have made millions laugh, died at his Brooklyn home. Overwork caused his death. Bunny was fifty-two years old and was born in New York. « ♦ • Edward C. Wall, aged seventy-one, former president of the Milwaukee chamber of commerce, leading business man and politician, died at his home in Milwaukee due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Wall was born in Milwaukee August 11, 1843. * * * Charles Boucher Green, aged fifty, treasurer and registrar of Lafayette college, died suddenly at Easton, Pa. ♦ ♦ ♦ George R. Downer, for years superintendent of the Outa- : gamie county asylum, committed suicide at Appleton, Wis., by leaping into the' Fox river. Washington Secretary Daniels announced at Washington the selection by President Wilson of Capt. William Shepherd Benson as chief of naval operations.

* * * The interstate commerce commission at Washington rejected the proposal of railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio to establish a ninety cent scale of class rates on rail-lake-and-rail traffic from New York and the east to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The eighty-three cent scale was ordered to be maintained. ♦ * * President Wilson expects to become a grandfather again within a month, as a happy event is anticipated at the home of Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. William G. McAdoo, who is the second daughter of Mr. Wilson. * * * The state department at Washington made representations to the Turkish government regarding reported massacres of Armenians in Turkey urging that steps be taken for prevention of further outrages. Secretary Bryan acted upon request of the Russian government. A * * * Collector of Customs Hamilton at Newport News, Va., telephoned Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Peters at Washington that Captain Thlerfelder of the German cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm has decided to intern.