Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS [ARTICLE]

DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS

epitome of the big happenINGS OF THE WEEK, TO BE READ AT A GLANCE - , •'•••. Items, Both Foreign and Domestic, That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News During the month of May the Germans captured 300,000 Russian privates and 1,000 officers as well as 251 cannon and 576 machinq guns in the southwestern theater of war (Galicia), according to a Berlin dispatch. * * * British troops renewed the offensive against the Germans northeast of Ypres, they stormed the Chateau Hooge, near Zonnebeke. The Germans were thrown back and the attackers seized the chateau, London says. * * * Milan newspapers print the report that a new- Italian force advancing along the coast and aided by a strong naval contingent has arrived within sight of Trieste.

General von Pritvitz, commander of the German forces holding Libau, has been wounded and taken prisoner by the Russians while motoring in Courland. General von Pritvitz’s escort was killed. The prisoner is now detained at Mitau. : - ' * * * The force* of General Cadoma captured the important position of Storo, to the north of Lake Garda, making one more step in the move upon Trent. * * * Tremendous gains against the Russians are announced at Berlin. These include: Storming of three forts before Przemysl. Russian evacuation of Radom in Poland. Capture of Stryj, south of Lemberg. Capture of 24,700 prisoners north of the Niemen in May. Total prisoners taken yesterday on eastern front, 10,582. ,'•* - .* • .. As a result of the Zeppelin raid the anti-German rioting broke out again in London. When it was officially announced that German flyers had dropped 90 bombs, killing four persons, injuring others and starting many fires in the attack, angry mobs destroyed shops owned by Germans. * * ■*, With the capture of the important Austrian mountain fort of Pasubio, which dominates the entire Vicenza valley, the Italians are now in possession of all the Austrian first-line defenses on the Trentino front, Says a dispatch from Rome.

* * * Forty-four German soldiers were killed and thirty wounded in a raid on the German aerodrome at Gontrode, between Ghent and Brussels. The raid was carried out by two of the allies’ aviators. . . . • • . • The steamer Dixiana, American owned, but flying the British flag, was sunk by a German submarine off Ushant, on the French coast. Her crew of 26 men were rescued and landed at Barry, Wales. * * * Tw«j steamers, both neutral, were torpedoed and sunk by German submarines. They are the Danish steamer Soborg and the Portuguese steamer Cysne. The crews of both were saved. * * * The Italians now hold thirty-seven villages in the Ampezzo valley alone, jyreording to a report from Rome. • * * The suggestion lias been made in the London Evening Standard by Fred T. Janes, the naval author, that the steamer Princess Irene was blown up by a German wireless device. The Princess Irene was destroyed with a loss of over 300 lives.

It is officially announced at Rome that an Austrian submarine was sunk by Italian torpedo boats in an engagement. • * * Domestic The American fishing launch America arrived at San Diego, Cal., speckled with bullet , holes received, the crew said, at Punta Banday bay, Lower California. • • « Joel M. Foster, a millionaire poultry man of New Jersey, through attorneys entered a plea of guilty to a statutory charge in court at Mobile, Ala., and was fined SIOO. Foster was arrested in 1914 at a hotel in company with Delitah Bradley. * * * John, Neal, Herman and Ben Boner, brothers, who are charged with the murder of Roy Wliitehead, son of the sheriff of Johnson county, were brought from Vienna, 111., to the Harrisburg, 111., jail to avert threatened mob violence at the former city. * * * The board of pardons of Arizona granted at the last moment a respite to all five Mexicans who were condemned to die on the gallows at Florence penitentiary Friday. The respite is not to exceed nine weeks. The men will be hanged .separately.

Twenty-eight schools at Joliet, 111., felosed their doors to 8,700 children upoin orders from Dr. C. E. Crawford, state health inspector. He charges city-wide violations of the quarantine regulations imposed in a two weeks’ campaign to check an epidemic of scarlet fever. »• • ■ “We have no inclination-nor have we the ability to engage in war, but we should prepare as rapidly as possible, so that if we are obliged to defend ourselves we cannot be overcome.” This statement was made by Judge ElDert H. Gary in an address delivered before 500 members of the American Iron and Steel institute at New York.

Sporting Leach Cross took Ad Wolgast, the Michigan wildcat, on for ten rounds at the St. Nicholas rink, New r York, and incidentally handed the old champion a terrible trouncing. c- ■ * *- • ■ Ralph De Palma won the fifth annual revival of the International Sweepstakes 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis. De Palma’s time was 5:33:55.50, an average of 89.84 miles an hour. Close behind De Palma came Dario Resta. Gil Anderson was third. Cooper took fourth. Personal At New York Princess Evelyn Engalitcheff, daughter of C. W. Pardridge, the Chicago merchant, filed in a suit for divorce against Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff. The complaint asserts the prince has had many love affairs. Gne Jane Hathaway is the only co-respondent named.

* * * Mexican Revolt President Wilson served warning on the leaders of the various factions in Mexico “to act together and to act promptly for the relief and redemption of their prostrate country” or the United "will be constrained to decide what means should be employed in order to help Mexico save herself and serve her people.” * * * Bread riots continue in Mexico City and the situation is growing more desperate, according to foreigners reaching Vera Cruz from the capital, Consul General Silliman reported to the state department at Washington. ** ■ * President Wilson issued an appeal at -Washington to the American public to relieve the general distress and suffering in Mexico caused by famine conditions. An authoritative announcement was made that the president may in a few days issue a statement “on the present situation in Mexico.** * * » Foreign

! Giovanni Giolitti, ex-premier of Italy, who led the pacificists daring the crisis before Italy’s declaration of war, has fled from Italy in fear of his life, according to a statement in the ' Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin. ** * . The list of honors conferred on the occasion of the king’s birthday, which was issued at London, was unusually long. The list is headed by Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, who received the Knighthood of the Garter. * • * The British foreign office announced at London that Sir Edward Grey, secretary.for foreign affairs, has been ad- | vised by his physician to leave his 1 work to rest his eyes, as his sight has been failing. Lord Crewe has taken charge of the foreign office, assisted by Lord Lansdowne. * * * | Washington President Wilson, notified Ambassador von Bernstorff at Washington that he would expect an assurance of se- ! curity for innocent human life on the high seas from the German government and promised not to dispatclf his reply to the German note until the answer had been received. Count Bernstorff sent a resume of the iyfsi idert’s requirements and observations ; to Berlin.

r* * * Germany withholds its final decision on the demands advanced by the United States government in coni nection with the sinking of the Lusi- | tania until the receipt of an answer from the United States to the note which Herr von Jagow, the foreign minister, has delivered to Ambassador Gerard in reply to the American note received by the German government on May 15. * # * Secretary Daniels has taken the initial step in the direction of developing for the United States the greatest submarine flotilla service in the world. In line with the adoption of the policy, he announced at Washington the selection of Capt. A. W. Grant to take Charge of the submarine service. '* * * As a result of the discussion of the German situation at the cabinet meeting held at Washington President Wilson will send a courteous note to Berlin. The entire cabinet agreed that the German answer was ‘'unsatisfactory.” * • * The conviction of a Lowellsville (O.) liquor dealer for taking orders in Hettsville, Pa., in violation of Pennsylvania law was set aside by the Supreme court at Washington as an improper interference with interstate commerce. *