Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News Five more vessels have been sunk by German submarines. Seventeen lives were lost when the Belgian steamer Menapier was sent to the bottom. Crews of the other four vessels were saved. * * * The Germans suffered a decisive check in a battle north of the Aisne that brought death to at least 2,000 of them. Besides reporting the finding of the 2,000 (german dead on the field, the Paris war office says the French captured 250 men and six machine guns. At Vauquois the French sprayed flaming liquid on the German trenches. * * * Official announcement was made at Paris by the admiralty that the French mine layer Casabianca has been sunk in the Aegean sea by the Turks. The commander and 64 members of the crew were picked up by a British destroyer. A death duel between a British monoplane and a German Zeppelin was fought over a mile in the air just outside of Brussels. The battle came to an end when the German monster of the sky was sent crashing upon a convent, 6,000 feet below, a crumpled and burning wreck. Thirty-two men were killed. * * * Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped by a Zeppelin on towns on the eastern coast of England killing five persons and injuring forty others. Two fires also were caused. Four German submarines were captured in the Firth of Tay, east coast of Scotland, in a recent raid, according to officers of the liner Cameronia, from Glasgow. These crafts were caught in nets spread by the port authorities. The crews were captured. The Cologne correspondent of the Amsterdam Tijd says a report is current that Austria and Germany soon will announce their conditions of peace, in which emphasis will be given to the declaration that the Germanic allies are not engaged in a war of conquest, but seek only to insure the security of their territories. The allied troops on the Gallipoli peninsula have been driven back with heavy losses, according to an official statement issued by the Turkish war office at Constantinople. * * * The king of Roumania has signed a decree ordering general mobilization, It is believed that this move signifies that the date of the entry of Roumania on the side of the allies has been decided on and that hostilities will begin without delay. Official announcement was made by the admiralty at Paris that the French mine layer Casabianca has been sunk in the Aegean sea by the Turks. The commander and 64 members of the crew were picked up by a British destroyer. An additional 173 German army officers have arrived at Constantinople to make good the losses incurred in defending the Dardanelles. Domestic Fire which broke out in the plant of the John W. Bunn Wholesale Grocery company at Springfield destroyed the upper floors of the building. The damage was estimated by the owners to exceed $50,000. Control of the state court of Illinois was regained by the Republicans in the downstate elections, which returned their sitting justices and seated W. W. Duncan in place of Justice A. Watson, Democrat. Justice w. M. Farmer, the other Democrat seeking re-election, was successful. Three Republicans, Orrin N. Carter, F. K. Dunn and James Cartwright were re-elected. With the election of four Republican justices and one Democrat the vote on the bench will stand four to three. The arrival of the Roosevelt party at Pass Christian, Miss., was accompanied by a request for quiet because of Mrs. Roosevelt’s illness. The party will start on a tour of the islands this week. j* • • Frank Thompson of Carpenter, Wyo., was killed instantly and Theodore Poelman, a lawyer, was badly injured when an automobile driven by Thompson skidded over an -embankment into i a creek near Beloit wis. * * * A St. Louis and San Francisco pas, senger train was wrecked 19 miles west of Enid, Okla., and 50 persons injured, eight probably fa.tally. The train rolled down a 25-foot embankment. * * * Capt. John J. Knapp, recently in command of the battleship Connecticut, and now a member of the naval •xaminlng board, was appointed by Secretary of the Navy. Daniels commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard.

Seven were killed and many injured when Milwaukee passenger train No. 5, which leaves La Crosse. Wis., at 5:05 p. m., ran into a freight and wrecked bridge at Amherst Junction, ' two miles above Lake City, Minn. * • • Evely Block, twelve, and Bessie i Block, eight, were killed and their ; sister Helen suffered a broken leg ‘ and other injuries while driving home j from school gradhation exercises at ! Mount Pleasant, Mich. The horses | pulled the wagon into the path of a ! motor train. * * * The arrival at New Orleans of the | steamboat Steel City, from La Salle, 1 111., with a cargo of merchandise shipped to New Orleans by Chicago j manufacturers, marked the beginning j of what is expected to be a regular i freight service by water from the | great lakes to the gulf. I —' * * * 1 Two-slight b*t distinct earthquakes were felt generally throughout San j Francisco. No damage was reported, j * * • According to the monthly crop re-! port of the secretary of state’s offices, j at Lansing, Mich., the fruit crop of ’ Michigan received a severe blow from i frost in May. * * * John Umphress was killed instantly, | his wife and two daughters and Mr. | and Mr:;. F. P. Reese of Huntington, : Ind., injured when an M. B. & E. i traction car the Umphress automobile near Warren, Ind. * « * A voluntary increase of 15 per cent in the wages of employes of the zinc sniop i s of Bartlesville Was announced at Bartlesville, Okla. The Ha:w ll & Baker car building plant at Michigan City, Ind., has resumed operation at full time for 3,000 men. - * * * One man was killed, three children probably fatally injured, and four ( other persons slightly hurt in a collision between a trolley car and an automobile at Dutch Neck, N. J. * • • Personal Harry P. Darlington, a director of Armour & Co., dropped dead while playing golf at Chicago. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Darlington was sixty-five years old. * * * Dr. William Sayman Cummings, eighty-tliree years old, principal of the Guildhall School of Music from 1896 to 1910, died in London. He was noted as a singer, teacher, author and composer. - . * * • * Rev. Dr. Jesse Burgess Thomas, theologian and author, pastor emeritus of the Baptist temple of Brooklyn, is dead at Brooklyn. He was eighty-twS years old. * * * Dewitt Clinton Blair, eighty-one years old, senior member of the banking firm of Blair & Co., died at New York of pneumonia. Blair’s personal fortune is estimated conservatively at $20,000,000.

Mexican Revolt S. P. Jones, a British citizen, was killed and an Englishman, woman and child probably fatally wounded when they got within the range of fire when a Villista force captured Tuxpam, Vice-Consul Bevan at Tampico reported to the state department at—Washington. * * * Secretary Bryan received messages at Washington from Vera Cruz confirming reports of the defeat of Generals Villa and Angeles at Trinidad by the Carranzista forces under command of General Obregon, after five days of continuous fighting. * * * Thousands of hungry men, women and children are crying for food in Mexico City. Washington William Jennings Bryan submitted his resignation as secretary of state to President Wilson. Robert Lansing, present counselor of the dcpartment of state, automatically becomes secretary of state. The resignation resulted from differences of opinion over the note about to be sent to Germany. Germany, through a special Dutch envoy, is asking President Wilson to transmit proposed terms of peace to the allied powers. The envoy is Jonkheer van Gheel Gildermeester, a member of the court of Queen Wllhelmina of the Netherlands and connected with banking circles in Holland. He arrived at Washington Friday. * * * A necklace consisting of a chain of 117 diamonds and a diamond pendant, making 202 diamonds in all, will be the wedding gift of the house of representatives at Washington to Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, daughter of the speaker. * * * President Wilson and his cabinet at Washington considered the known fact that German interests, reported backed by the German government, are negotiating for the purchase of the great gun and munitions-of-war plants of this country. Secretary McAdoo laid the matter before the cabinet. He had information from secret service agents. It may become necessary, it was suggested by the attorney general, to prevent such a sale on the ground of public welfare, because of strained relations with Germany.