Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — DIGESI OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT HEWS [ARTICLE]

DIGESI OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT HEWS

EPITOME of the big happen INGS OF THE WEEK, TO BE READ AT A GLANCE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic That Have Interest for Busy Read* ers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News The war office at Petrograd says that the Teutonic troops have been defeated in a six-day battle on the Dniester river front, the Russians taking more than five thousand prisoners * * * The press bureau in London announced the execution of the German spy, Muller. He was shot to death. The execution took place in the Tower of London. * • • The British admiralty, through the official press bureau, announced at London that the cruiser Roxburgh was struck by a torpedo in the North sea. The damage was not serious. • • • * Two German successes are chronicled in the latest reports of the fighting in France. On the heights of the Meuse the Germans recaptured their second line of trenches and in the Vosges mountains they wrested hill No. C3l from the French. • • * Thirteen hundred Turks have been killed in an all-day fight for a Turkish position at the Dardanelles, says an official bulletin from Cairo. • * * The city of Lemberg has been recaptured by the combined Austro-Ger-man armies. Sixty thousand Russian troops and nine cannon fell into the hands of the triumphant army in the drive on the Galician city. Lemberg was taken only after one of the most desperate battles of the war. * * * The Handelsblad of The Hague says Japan was prevented from sending 300,000 troops to Europe as the result of an unofficial hint to Great Britain from Washington that such an expedition would be undesirable. * * * Germany claims the French have suffered heavy losses in attacks on the Hilden range, in the Champagne district to the west of Perthes and to the northwest of Dixmude on the western bank of the canal. * * * w A statement given out by the German admiralty at Berlin to the effect that the German submarine U-20 had been rammed and sunk by a British tank steamer after the vessel had been ordered to stop is expected to have an important bearing on the German-American negotiations. \ '* • * A Reuter dispatch from Petrograd says it is estimated that there are 2,000,000 Austrians and Germans on the 100-mile front from the lower Tanew to Nikclaiew and 450,000 along the Dniester front. The number of Germans and Austrians from the Baltic to Bukowina is placed at 4,000,000. • * *' ’ - J \ British steamer Carisbrook was sunk by gunfire from, a German submarine 40 miles north of Kinnaird's head. Thirteen of the crew are missing. . - • * * * News of the successful bombardment of Monopoll, Department of the Puglie, in southeastern Italy, by an Austrian torpedo boat and of the damaging of the railway stations at Bari and Brindisi by Austrian naval aeroplanes is contained in the official Statement issued in Vienna. * * * Rawa-RuSka, thirty miles northwest of Lemberg, was captured by the Germans. The Russians are reported falling back all along the Lemberg Rawa Ruska line. * * * The French have carried Metzeral, in Alsace, by assault and have driven the Germans back toward Meyerhof to the east in their drive toward the Rhiherdays London. The-Germans admit evacuating Metzeral. • * * Domestic The Carnegie Steel company at Pittsburgh, Pa., ordered the Homestead, Duquesne North works in Sharon, Pa., and Edgar Thompson plants to resume operations in full. • # * Five murderers were condemned to die August 6 by the Mississippi supreme court. • • , thirteen witnesses, including Thaw himself, testified at New York that they believed Harry K. Thaw is sane. * * * Governor Slaton, who commuted the sentence of Leo M. Frank, was hanged In effigy at Marietta, Ga. A life-sized dummy strung up to a telegraph pole bore an inscription, “John M. Slaton, Georgia’s traitor governor,” •* * i Mrs. Drusilla Carr was given title to 143 acres of land Just east of Gary, IjtfL, worth perhaps 11,000,000. She squatted there 40 years ago. The case has been in courts over five jratrs. 1

Sharp earthquake shocks from time to time centered the anxiety of Imperial valley settlers on the head gates of the great irrigation system which has transformed nearly 250,000 acres of intolerable desert into one of the most fruitful areas in the world. Several girls were killed at Mexicali, Mex. • * • Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman for Indiana; Mayor Joseph E. Bell, Samuel V. Perrott, chief of police, and 125 others were indicted by the Marion county grand jury at Indianapolis on Tuesday, charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, through violation of I election laws, bribery and blackmail. * * * The Imperial valley in California from end to end was rocked by a series of. earthquake shocks and the damage done will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. El Centro, Calexico, Mexicali, Heber and other smaller places report buildings destroyed. Many- persons, however, were injured. Two persons lost their lives. Holtvllle was swept by fire. * * * Twenty-Six sticks of dynamite attached to a time fuse were found under the rear of the Windsor armory. The discovery was made after a violent explosion partly wrecked the manufacturing plant of Peabody company, Ltd., in Walkersville, cashing damage estimated at from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. * * * Ten thousand of the leading advertising men of the country, whodirect every year the spending of $300,000,000 on advertising, met at Chicago for the first business session of the eleventh annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. * • • Foreign That the German foreign office at Berlin desires to avoid anything likely to interfere with a peaceful understanding with the United States was the interpretation placed on the suspension of the Deutsche Tageszeitung. The ban was ordered because of an editorial. * * *■ . The house of commons at London adjourned aßer unanimously giving a first reading to the bill providing the new chancellor of the exchequer, McKenna, with a blank check which may amount at a maximum to £1,000,000,000 ($5,000,000,000). * * * The Anchor liner Cameronia, which reached Liverpool from New York, reports that she was attacked during the voyage by a submarine, which the captain believes lie rammed and sank. * * * Washington Secretary of State Robert Lansing denied a report at Washington that the United States had in any way, and particularly by a suggestion to Groat Britain, prevented the use of Japanese troops on the continent of Europe. * * * The British memorandum dealing with the seizure by Great Britain of American goods consigned to neutral European ports, reached the state department at Washington, it was officially announced. * * * President Wilson announced at the White House at Washington that Robert Lansing of Watertown, N. Y., had been Offered and had accepted the position of secretary of state, to succeed William Jennings Bryan. • * * Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo at Washington named the American members of the international high commission on uniformity of legislation authorized at the recent PanAmerican financial conference. * * • Further representations are to be made to Great Britain by the United States government on misuse of the American flag by British merchant ships, it was reported at Washington. ■ ■ * , * * Mexican Revolt General Carranza lias informed the United States government, in dispatches to the state department at Washington, through John R. Silliinan at Vera Cruz', that he will not treat with General Villa or General Zapata. ** * ■ The remnants of Gen. Francisco Villa’s army are fleeing before the victorious forces of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, who during the day occupied Villa’s important base at Aguas Calientes. * * • President Wilson left Washington for Cornish, N. H„ where he will spend the next two weeks at the summer White House. • * * Governor Maytorena’s first troop train sent into the Yaqui valley in Mexico was attacked at Jori and retreated with a loss of 40 dead, wounded and missing, Consul Simpich at Nogales reported to the state department at Washington. i. ... * * • The Mexican authorities In the state of Sonora, where Americans are threatened with exterminatlbn by the Yaqui Indians, have served a practical ultimatrim on Admiral Hoxvard, who has gone to the rescue, that he must not land his forces on Mexican soil, says a dispatch at Washington. * * * Dispatches reaching Galveston, Tex., say Carranza has prepared to flee from Mexico. He has taken with him to his secluded fortress al! valuables and baggage and will embark WbfiU ti a anom loa ontn** 4Via nl*»