Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1915 — WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

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European War News Gen. Weber Pasha, German commander of the forts in the Dardanelles, has died of wounds, according to the Cairo correspondent of the London Times. . . ■ • ■ * • - The attack in Peremysl by the allied Austro-German forces has begun. Defeated and demoralized, the Russians have been pushed along in (Jalicia, leaving their dead in their wake. Berlin military experts assert that this victory ranks higher in importance _than that of the Mazurian Lakes. —_ Dispatches from Mytilene to London assert that the Turkish fort of Kilid Bahr on the European side of the Dardanelles at the end of the narrows nearest Constantinople, has been silenced by the allied battleships, and the fall of Nagara, opposite, is imminent.-! » * • Lieutenant General Count Gadbrna, Italian chief of staff, has arrived with his staff at Vicenza, near the Austrian frontier. All railroad lines in Italy have been seized for use of the army. Prince von Buelow, German; ambassador at Rome, arrived at Chiasso, Switzerland. The British admiralty reports at London that the British steamer Dumfries was torpedoed. The steamer is still afloat. Fifty-two members of the crew were landed. Two were killed. • • « The formation of a nonpartisan cabinet for England for the period of the war is an established fact. The spokesman for the two great rival parties, Premier Asquith Bonar Law, made to the house of commons at London statements confirming the reports of a coalition ministry. • • Roumania’s entrance into the war will follow that of Italy, says a dispatch from Bucharest, The Roumanian army is on a war footing, and will strike at Austria through Transylvania.

• ♦ ♦ Dr. von. Bethmann-Holl weg, the imperial chancellor, speaking in the reichstag at Berlin, said that the Vienna cabinet in a sincere effort to insure enduring peace between tlie'dual monarchy and Italy had resolved on far-reaching concessions to Italy of a territorial nature. ■s * * * Lord Kitchener, secretary of war, speaking in the house of lords at London . in d ica ted th e in tent ioh of the allies to use poisonous gases against the Germans. At the same .time he made a demand for 300,000 more men, * * - ♦ A Zeppelin airship was destroyed near Alost while engaged in a battle with the allied air squadron. The wrecked airship fell 3,000 feet and the entire crew of sixty was instantly killed. Two allied aeroplanes were destroyed by the Zeppelin and the pilots killed. ! A dispatch to the London Morning 1 Post from the north of France says: I "There are signs that the Germans : have reached the limits of their available re-euforcements. They are said to have a casualty list of 150,000 in connection with ‘the last battle of Ypres alone, and their extraordinary I heavy losses altogether have upset 1 their plans for a renewed onslaught. ♦ ♦ « News that the Salandra ministry Is I to be retained has swept all over Italy iand united all factions in a great cry for war. A demonstration, such as ; 1 Rome has not seen since the days of J tho; revolution, occurred. The crowds ! sffrged through the city, acting much l as if wfir had been declared already, 1 " . . ■ . • • ♦ ! '• •> battle fought 11,000 feet over ’, the English channel a Zeppelin was severely damaged by a fleet of British aeroplanes and driven out to sea, * » » ’ j Genera! von Mackensen’s victorious ! ■ armies are within striking distance, of , i the Galician fortress of Przemysl.

Several thousand subjects of enemy countries of a military age were sent to internment camps in England, the majority of them being men who voluntarily surrendered. • • • The London Morning Post correspondent at Petrograd says: “Never since the war began has any one day brought so grave a bulletin as that which reached us late last night. The Russians are retiring on the Vistula river.” * ♦ ♦ A dispatch to the London Central News from Rome says: “The Giornale d’ltalia announces that Prince von Buelow, the German ambassador, and Baron von Macchio, the special ambassador of Austria, have demanded their passports?’ Some change in the government of England is believed to be at hand. It Is anticipated the expected change is aimed at a closer cohsolidation of all the parties for the purpose of carrying the war to a successful issue.

Washington Ambassador Gerard notified the state department at Washington that the German note would not be ready for at least a week. It probably will be ten days, therefore, before the note is made public in Washington. ♦ ♦ ♦ Director of the Census Sam L. Rogers reported at Washington the wealth of the United States to be $187,739,000,000. This means $1,965 for every man, woman and child in the country. The estimate is made for the year 1912. • ♦ ♦ Two United States submarines engaged in the war game off the coast were disabled and were taken in tow for Newport, R. 1., to be repaired it was announced at Washington. * * * The first positive and direct news received by Secretary Bryan at Washington from Ambassador Gerard reports Herr von Jajow, the German minister for foreign affairs, as stating emphatically that his government will not comply with the American demands relating to the Lusitania and Falaba. '■ * • • Record-breaking cargoes passing through the Panama canal in March, according to war department statisticians at Washington, would have filled aproximately 1,800 freight trains of 20 cars each. ....... • ♦ ♦ • ■■■. Miss Constance D. Leupp, the suffrage and settlement worker, was married to Laurence Todd of California, a newspaper man, at Washington. * * « Personal Judge James Phelan, one of the most prominent jurists of Michigan, died at Detroit of pneumonia. * * •

i 1 Foreign Sir Edgar Speyer has sent a letter to Premier Asquith at London resigning his privy councilorship and requesting also the revocation of his baronetcy. The letter declares that Sir Edgar was led to take this step after nine months of charges of dis- • loyalty to the British government by the newspapers. * * * Mexican Revolt Gen. Antonio Villa, brother of Gen. Francisco Villa, was shot in the head and mortally wounded in a duel in Chihuahua. Colonel Pulido, a well-known Mexican commander, was killed and several others were struck by Hying ! bullets. ■ * ♦ • * Domestic i The United States must arm imme- ; diately if it is to keep place among the ; nations, Secretary of War Lindley M. i Garrison told the pacifists gathered at i Lake Mohonk, N. ¥., for the annual i conference on international arbitration, in a brilliant speech. " ' ■■ ■ ■ Edward J. King, the absconding cashier of the Dugger State bank at Dugger, Ind., after 24 days of torment and anguish while living the life of a i fugitive from justice, surrendered himself to Fred F. Bays, prosecutor. • * * The Merritt bill prohibiting the 'giving of tips and aimed at the alleged ‘‘tip trust” in Chicago hotels ■ and restaurants was passed by the house of the Illinois legislature. * * ♦ President Wilson delivered a patriotic address at New York on the American flag and the protection it carries for Americans at a luncheon given in his honor by the citizens’ committee for the reception of the Atlantic fleet. The 'navy of the United States, the president said, “expresses our ideals. The great thing about America is that it,,wants no territory and questions no other nation’s honor. We stand for humanity and for the things that humanity wants.” * ifc * Ralph Guthrie is dead and Charles Nobel is dying as result of injuries received when their automobile went off a bridge over Edwards river near Aledo, 111. * * ♦ Russell Peth’rick, twenty-two years old, grocery delivery boy, confessed to the police at Chicago that he killed j Airs. Ella Coppersmith and her two- | year-old son, John, 7100 Lowe avenue, 1 in their home May 6.

A heavy frost at Plainfield, Wis., killed strawberries, apples, currants, blueberries and all fruits. No damage, however, was done to gardens, or field crops. Ice formed on tubs of water. * ♦ ♦ John Bassett Moore, formerly American counsellor of the state department, presiding at the opening of the twenty-first annual conference on international arbitration at Lake Mohonk, warned against relying too far on arbitration, His words were, taken to urge the United States to preparedness for wars which peaceful methods may not prevent. * « * Judge Kinne directed at Ann Arbor, Mich., a verdict in favor of the defendant in the $25,000 slander suit of Mildred Everest, a former student in the State Normal college at Ypsilanti, against the head of that institution, President Charles McKenny. The suit grew out of the dismissal of Miss Everest. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Illinois Daily Newspaper association in session at Chicago unanimously indorsed President Wilson’s note to Germany protesting against the torpedoing of the Lusitania.