Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — WEEKS NEWS [ARTICLE]

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European War News Preparations are being made by the Germans for a grand assault against 'the British and French troops defending Ypres in West Flanders. Berlin reports further gains in Flanders. The British are said to be in retreat and suffering heavily. .' * * * The London Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Rome asserts he has most reliable information both from Austrian and Italian sources to the effect. thaf.a. run! ure.pf the relations between those countries ’is inevitable. * ♦ ♦' , The Berliner Tageblatt announces the death of Gen. Hugo von Seydewitz, commander of brigade No. #9, who was killed in action on the eastern front. ' ■ ♦ * ■ * Thirty thousand Russian soldiers, 22 cannon and 64 machine guns were captured in the battle of West Galicia, according to official statements given out in Vienna and Berlin. Petrograd admits that the Aus t ro-German arm ies crossed the Dunajcc river in Galicia. ♦ It is officially announced at Berlin that a German airship dropped bombs >n several English submarines in the North sea. One submarine was sunk. Three more British boats, two trawlsrs and a steamer, have, been torpedoed by German submarines in the North sea. Six lives AVere lost, ’ « « • Five towns taken by the Germans in their latest offensive in the western, theater of war are Zovencote, Zonnebeke, Westhoek, Polygonwald ind Nonneboschen. ♦ ♦ » The American oil tank steamer Gulflight, which was torpedoed off the Scilly islands, was attacked without warning by a submerged submarine, according to Second Officer Paul Bower of the Gulflight, whose is in Chicago and who arrived at Plymouth. England, with thirty-two members of the crew.

Domestic Theodore Roosevelt again went on the witness stand in the supreme court at Syracuse, N;j Y„ after many witnesses, including a son and also a former secretary of the late Thomas C. Platt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, had testified in his behalf.' 1 * ♦ ♦ Farm dwellings and barns were leveled and several persons received severe injuries when a tornado touched near Grand View, la. ■ ; ♦ ♦ * Danville, HI., was voted dry by the ■ity council for the first time in the listory of the city. Seventy-three saoons were put out of business. At least one death ahd great property loss are reported at Atlanta, (la.. as the result of a tornado which swept through the southern section of the state. *♦* ■ ■ Judge Orrin N. Carter of Chicago was renominated for election to the supreme court at the convention of Republicans representing Ijike, Will, Dupage, Kankakee and Cook counties. * * * Charles W. Bryan, brother of William J. Bryan, secretary of state, was elected one of the five city commissioners of Lincoln, Neb. * ♦ Tom Martin, an employee of a coal company, who left Rockport with S3OO to meet a pay roll, was later found dead on the road with three bullet, wounds in body and the money gone. . * * * District Judge F. A. Geiger ruled at Milwaukee that marriage nullifies the government’s case against white slavers. The decision was in the case of Eugene Kuentzre and Edward Klopoeznski, accused of bringing Clara Stigra to Milwaukee from Beloit. It was testified that the girl had married Kuentzre before there was a federal warrant issued.

* * * Mrs. Susie Wodjik of Milwaukee, wife of a sailor, admitted, the police assert, that she choked to death her six-year-old son, Adam, several days ago. * * ♦ The United States consul at Lyons, one of the passengers aboard the steamship Sant Anna, which has arrived at Naples from New York, is reported to have committed suicide during the voyage by leaping overboard. • * • Governor Rye of .Tennessee vetoed a bill designed to abolish the death penalty, explaining in his message to the legislature that he feared the enforcement of such a law would increase mob violence. The governor also vetoed an antitipping bill. * ♦ ♦ The jury returned a verdict at Trinidad, Colo.; pronouncing John R. Lawson, labor leader, guilty of murder in the first degree, fixing penalty at life imprisonment, for the killing of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, in a battle with strikers October 25, 1913.