Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS

TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News The British-owned steamship Armenian of the Dominion line was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-38 20 miles west of Trevose head, Cornwall, England, and 19 Americans were lost. The official count says that 29 men were lost and ten injured. » * • After fighting' for days to break down the stubborn resistance of the Turks in the Dardanelles districts, the allied forces are again advancing and the success of the expedition seems nearer than at any time since it was launched. This information Is given in official reports issued in London. Six thousand Turks were killed. • Premier Asquith made reply in the house of commons at London to the question asked as to whether the government would state terms upon which peace would be possible. The premier said: “It would not be in the public interest to add anything to what I have already publicly stated on this subject.” ■ • * Tomaszow, in Russian Poland, has been captured by the Austro-German forces, according to announcement made by the Austrian war office at Vienna. North of Kamionka the Austrians repulsed a Russian attack which was made in great force. • • • Montenegrin troops have occupied Scutari, the largest city of Albania • • • Unofficial dispatches received at Petrograd indirectly from the Russian front place the number of Teutonic casualties in the Galician campaign at 750,000, divided equally between the Germans and Austrians. * • * Announcement was made at the French ministry of war at Paris that, according to the Italian press, Italy has broken diplomatic relations with Turkey. Italy, it is added.-will stud, troops to the Dardanelles. •m ♦ ♦ Two members of the lunacy commission appointed by the federal courts of New Hampshire in December. 1913.1 testified at New York that Harry K. I Thaw was not now suffering from I paranoia or any other form of insanity, as alleged in his second trial for the murder of Stanford White Domestic Enraged dver the story told by his wife that Stanley Hague, a young post office clerk, had hugged and kissed her against her will, Amos E. Roberts of Chicago shot and killed Hague. * The United States submarine H-3 was pulled off the rocks at Point Sur, 20 miles from Monterey, Cal., by the United States submarine tender Cheyenne. • • * Laden with a cargo of 4,000 old-style j Springfield rifles and 1,000,000 dumdum bullets, according to the captain, the three-masted schooner Annie Larsen arrived at Hoquiam, Wash., short of provisions, and was seized by Deputy Customs Collector R. L. Sebastian. * • • The grand jury returned indictments charging riot against the 26 men arrested by state guards in the vicinity of former Governor Slaton’s home at Atlanta, Ga. • • • After a shutdown of 18 months the rolling of steel at the Carnegie Steel company’s Sharon (Pa.) plant has resumed, giving employment to 500 men. * * * Artillery, cavalry and infantry of the state militia stood guard all day at the home of John M. Slaton at Atlanta, Ga., who retired as governor of the state, surrendering the office to Nat E Harris. Twenty-six men were arrested by the militia near the Slaton home. • • # President Wilson will not visit the San Francisco exposition, making political speeches en route. An intimation to this effect was given by White House officials. The president will return from Cornish, N. H., about July 1, when he probahly will receive the German note. * • • That Harry K. Thaw never was Insane, at the r time he killed Stanford White, or before or after that act, was the declaration at Thaw’s hearing In New York or Dr. Charles P. Bancroft, superintendent of the New Hampshire State Hospital for the Insane. • * • Mrs. Ida Purcell died from the effects of taking poison at Mattoon, IIL Mrs. Purcell attracted widespread attention when the mysterious death of Mrs. Alice Ronalds, wife of a physician, occurred New Year’s day. • • • The building material dealers oit Chicago closed their plants in a campaign to force all unions having strikes to arbitrate. Ten thousand persons directly employed by the dealers were laid off.

The Missouri supreme court sustained the demurrer of the Chicago & Alton railroad, against the suit of the state to recover $2,000,000 In alleged excess fares. • • • Porter Nelson, a Montgomery county, Arkansas, farmer, saw his wife, eighteen-month-old baby and his niece, Miss Wilson, drown. • • • Rev. Frank W. Westcott, fifty-six years old, an Episcopal clergyman, fwormerlv of Skaneateles, N. Y., strangled himself in his room in Columbus hospital at Milwaukee, Wis. * • • Sporting Dario Resta is the speed king of the world. He drove an automobile for 300 miles at a pace faster than it was ever driven before. He shattered world records, won prizes aggregating $-3,000 and crossed the tape an easy winner of Chicago's first auto derby, held at Speedway park. Resta traveled the 500 miles in five hours, seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds. His average was 07.60 miles an hour. Once he circled the course at 107 miles an hour. Porporato, driving a Sunbeam, was second, and Rickenbacher third. Grant finished fourth. He never stopped once. • • • Personal Judge John Clinton Gray, suffering from paralysis and pneumonia, is in a precarious condition at Newport, R. L • • • Mexican Revolt Desperate conditions in Mexico City, with unchecked mobs and looting, are described in dispatches cabled to the United States government at Washington from Vera Cruz by a courier who left the Mexican capital last Friday. June 25. Chihuahua reports that a temporary armistice has been declared near Encarnacion. south of Aguascalientes, between Villa and Carranza. • • • Col. Jesus Aguilar and Maj. I. A. Garcia arrived in Cornish, N. H., to arrange a conference between President Wilson and General Angeles. The president told Dr. Carey T. Grayson to explain to the Mexicans that he is On a vacation and is seeing no visitors. # * . * Mexico’s revolutionary pot is again boiling oven A reign of terror affecting the 24,000 foreigners in Mexico City is imminent in the capital, according to official advices received at Washington The Carranza forces under Gen. Pablo Gonzales have been driven back from Mexico City by the soldiers of General Zapata, numbering 25.000. • • • Gen. Victoriap© Huerta, former dictator of Mexico, and Gen. Pascual Orozco, the famous Mexican leader, were arrested at Fort Bliss, Tex,, On a federal warrant charging them with violation of neutrality. The arrest was made on orders of the United States district attorney at San Antonio, presumably acting under instructions from Washington. He was proceeding to El Paso to attend the big junta of Cientificos to be held in that" city. * * * Foreign lhe Holland American line steamship Nieuwe Amsterdam, having 1,500 persons on board, bound from New York for Rotterdam, was run down in a fog by an unidentified steamer while anchored in the Downs. • * • Dr, Anton Meyer-Gerhard, special envoy of Count Bemstorff to the kaiser, in an article published in Der Tag at Berlin, says the United States is not hostile to Germany and that America and Germany misunderstand each other. He urges that both nations be friends. • • • The British government announced at London its intention to pay SIOO,000 as the first installment in settlement of the claims of the owners of the American steamship Wilhelmina, seized by the British while carrying foodstuffs from New York to Germany. • • * Great crowds of students and citizens gathered in Potsdam, Germany, and tendered an ovation to Queen Victoria of Sweden, en route to Stockholm, following a visit with her mother, the grand duchess of Baden. • • • Washington The United States is seriously considering taking over the wireless station at Sayville, L. 1., one of the two great plants by which direct communication between the United States and Germany is maintained. The other station —at Tuckerton, N. Y.—already Is under government control. Evidence of alleged violations of neutrality at Sayville has been gathered by the department of commerce at Washington. • • • Evidence accumulated at the state department at Washington that concrete plans are in process of formation between the United States and Germany to reduce to a minimum the dangers to American life and property in the German war zone. • • * ... * Dispatches to the state department at Washington from Ambassador Gerard indicate that good feeling is prevailing in Germany as to the character of the reply which should be made to the United States on America’s last -note on the submarine warfare.