Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1915 — WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

WEEK'S NEWS

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European War News The American steamship Nebraskan was torpedoed Or hit a mine off the south coast of Ireland. She was flying a large American flag and was in water ballast. The vessel was towed to Liverpool. None of the crew was injured. . ' ■ ♦ ♦ » Striking rapidly at the Austrian frontier positions, the Italian army is winning all along the front, according to an official report from General Cadorna, the Italian commander in chief, issued at the war office at Rome. Extending its activities against Austria, the Italian government declared a blockade of all ports on the AustroHungarian coast. .• • * The British battleship Triumph has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the Dardanelles, according to an official announcement made at London. Most of the officers and men ■ Were saved. ’;; ■ * • • King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has assumed supreme command of the army and navy forces and has left incognito for the Italian headquar- - ' - * • * Successes in the fighting with Italian troops are reported in an official announcement made at Vienna. In the rear of Paden pass, northeast of Warmolafa, the Italians fled when the first shots fell among them. On the Corinthian frcr.der the Austrian troops repulsed several attacks, inflicting heavy losses on the Italians. West of Ploecken the enemy fled, leaving his arms behind. * • ♦ The secret understanding on which Italy joined the allies involves remaking not only the map of Europe but a regrouping of all the nations on tliat continent, according to information given a correspondent at Washington by an American who has been in Rome since the war started. Renewed German offensive north of Prz&nysl, with the capture of six fortified villages and 21,153 men and officers, and a counter attack by the Russians which forced the German right on the Dniester river back fifteen miles with the capture of 18,000 Germans, are announced from Berlin and

Petrograd respectively. « * « Fighting on land, on the sea and from the air between Italy and Austria has begun. The offensive rested with Austria. The attackers were defeated by the troops, warships . add aeroplanes cf Italy, according to an official statement given out at RomeIt is reported that the Italian fleet engaged the Austrian I! et and that three small Austrian ships Were sunk and two captured. * * * Reports which have been received at Rome that Baron Burian. the Austrian foreign minister, has resigned are generally accepted; His reported fall is attributed to the failure of the Austro-ltalian negotiations. It is declared Count Tesza, Hungarian prenrQr, will succeed him. • « * A report received at London from Sir John Trench says that the Germans attacked east of Ypres under cover of poisonous' gases and forced the British troops to evacuate some of their trenches. The Germans penetrated the British line at two or three places. ♦ ♦ ♦ An official report received at Athens says a submarine penetrated the Sea of Marmora and sunk three Turkish transports. Four thousand Turkish troops were drowned. *■ * * The Russian battleship Panteleimon has been sunk with 1,100 men in the Black sea, says a statement issued at Berlin. ♦ * * Victories of the allied forces over the Germans at many points in France and Belgium are reported at London. -♦ ♦ * The German war office at Berlin virtually conffirmed reports that the Aus-tro-German forces have temporarily ceased their violent attacks around Przemysl. * * ♦ Domestic Unless former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of New York secures a stay he will die in the electric chair for the murder of Herman Rosenthal during uie week beginning Monday, July 12. * * * A cloudburst between Tulsa and Osage, Okla., accompanying a terrific wind storm, resulted in great damage to crops, live stock, oil fields and railroads. Mine No. 1 of the Smokeless Coal company at Johnstown, Pa., was blown up. There are nine men in the mine and all are thought to have been killed. » • • » Two persons were killed and six injured when fire gutted the SBO,OOO Hotai Raleigh, at Peekskill, N. Y.

Ex-President Taft in an address attire annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at New York severely criticised the Clayton act and the federal trade commission act as “detrimental to the business interests of the country’’ and denounced the leaders of the American Federation of Labor. i -■ • ' • < • ■. Miss Lottie Burlow, eighteen years old, of Colton, last week’s graduate of the Liberty Center school, was drowned at Napoleon, 0., when a rowboat was upset in the Maumee river. Two persons were killed near Span fling, Neb., by a tornado. Much damage was done to property. • '- * * The Dutch liner Ryndam, which sailed from New York for Rotterdam with seventy-seven passengers and a million-dollar cargo, was badly damaged in a collision fifteen miles southwest of the Nantucket shoals lightship with the tramp freighter Cuneo. The battleship South Carolina rescued 250 persons and landed them at New York. James Morrison Darnell, until recently pastor of a church at Kenosha, Wls., was received at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to serve a three-year term for white slavery. He has been assigned to a clerkship. ♦ • • Reduction of the bonds of 11 of the convicted Terre Haute politicians who were sent to the federal prison at Leavenworth by Federal Judge Anderson of Indianapolis, was refused by the United States court of appeals at Chicago. ■ ■ '■ • • •? J The boxing bill, put to the final test in the house of the Illinois legislature, fell five votes short of a constitutional majority. The vote: Yeas, 72; nays, 67, A majority is 77. The senate last month defeated the Carroll bill.

• • • Rear Admiral Beatty, commanding the “Red” or enemy fleet in the naval war game, was declared the victor In his contest against the entire Atlantic battleship fleet, commanded by Admiral Fletcher. The attacking ships passed into Chesapeake bay while the defenders cruised fruitlessly about waiting for a dash against Boston or New York. * * » Governor Dunne's waterway bill passed the house of the Illinois legislature, after a day of hot debate, by a vote of 107 to 41. The bill now goes to the senate. ••♦ * * ■ Reports received at Chicago from various sections of the United States show' that in all industrial centers more men are being employed and at an advanced scale of wages- - < ♦ ♦ » Elmer A. Kiel, the St. Louis mayor’s twenty-year-old son, and Miss Marie A. Budde. St. Louis society girl, “mo-li.r-clopi.D into Chicago. A judge in tlie county court made them man and wife. ... * ■*'»./ Tlie state of Illinois sent out Warrants from Springfield for an even $1,000,000 to reimburse live stock owners for losses of cattle in the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic. ’ » • ~''T Washington The proclamation of neutrality on the part of the United States in the war between Italy and Austria has been issued at Washington. ♦ ♦ » President Wilson declared that a proud distinction might fall upon the nations of the three Americas— North, Central and South i America —that of showing the way to permanent peace. In an address at' the Pan-American Financial conference at . Washington he predicted that great results would arise from it and that it might be influential in restoring peace to warridden Europe. ‘ ♦ ♦ » Foreign The duke of Aosta, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel and commander of one of the Italian armies sent against Austria, was hurt when thrown from his automobile near Mestre, Italy. * » « A radical shake-up in the British cabinet was announced at London. The most interesting change is the transfer of Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, to the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster, Arthur J. Balfour, the former leader of the opposition, taking the admiralty portfolio. David Lloyd-George has been appointed minister of munitions. Lord Kitchener retains the post of secretary of war. Asquith retains the premiership and Sir Edward Grey the ministry of foreign affairs. • • • It is reported at Rome that the kaiser intends personally to command the army operating against the Italians. One of the most disastrous wrecks in the annals of British railroading took place on the Caledonian railway at Gretna, near Carlisle, England, when three trains came into collision. One hundred and sixty-five soldjers and many civilians were killed. * ♦ * Lord Northcliffe’s attacks on Earl Kitchener's, conduct of the war office at London have failed to win popular support. Newspapers not controlled by Northcliffe have come to the support of Kitchener, and have bitterly assailed his enemies.