Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — NEWS NOTES OE GENERAL INTEREST [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES OE GENERAL INTEREST

;KERNELS CULLED FROM THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS. STORIES FROM OVER GLOBE Items From Happenings of World Arranged In Their Briefest and Most Succinct Form for the Busy Reader. European War News The Russian resistance to the Austrian advance into Poland is increasing in strength, says a dispatch to Vienna. S’. . ♦ ♦ ♦ According to the official report from the war office at Berlin the town of Arras has been shelled and set on fire and the cathedral, built in 1775, containing many art treasures, is in flames. * * * According to an official appeal issued by the French Relief society, the French casualties from the beginning of the war up to June 1, 1915, total 1,400,000. Of this number, 400,000 are reported killed, 700,000 wounded and 300,000 taken prisoners. * • • Petrograd, in an official statement, says that a flank attack on Archduke Joseph’s army has resulted in a severe check for the Teutons and has brought a halt to its northern movement. Two thousand were killed and many prisoners taken. • ■ • • ? A German submarine was sunk by the government trawler Notre Dame de Lourdes near Boulogne, the Paris war office announced. ■♦ ■ * The Teutonic allies have pierced the Russian front at Krasnik and split the Russian armies defending the Lublin railway, Brest-Litovsk and Warsaw. ' •.'/ * ♦ ♦ , ■ A British airship squadron, accompanied by cruisers, that attempted to attack the German naval base on the North sea was defeated by a detachment of German warships and forced to abandon the attempt, according to an official statement issued at Berlin. * * * The Italians are again bombarding the summit of Stelvio pass. Many fashionable tourist hotel's in that section of the Alps are being destroyed by the artillery fire, says a dispatch from Rome. The Italian Third army, advancing in four cor; s. on the lower Isonzo, was repulsed with terrible losses, according to an official report from Vienna. * * * German army headquarters gave out the following statement: “An English attack north of Ypres and a French alack against Souchez were repulsed with sanguinary losses.’’ Preparations are being made in Constantinople for a siege of the town, which is expected soon, says a dispatch to Athens. ■ ♦ ■■■* • The big British steamship AngloCalifornian limped into Queenstown harbor, a veritable floating shambles after having outrun a German submarine. Captain Parslow and eleven members of the crew were killed. She was laden with transport animals for the British army. • * * • Domestic Ludlow, Ky., was practically wiped off the map by a tornado. More than a hundred persons were killed and many injured. ♦ ♦ ♦ Anxiety over the safety of the two transatlantic liners Saxonia and Philadelphia, on which Frank Holt confessed placing bombs before they sailed from this port for Liverpool, was not wholly relieved by wireless reports to New York from the two vessels that the cargoes had been searched and no bombs found. * • * The issuance of a writ for the arrest of Mrs. Eyelyn Nesbit Thaw for contempt of court was issued at New lork. * ♦ ♦ Fifteen persons were killed and fifty injured by a tornado that swept Cincinnati, 0., twenty buildings were demolished. A Pennsylvania train w r as wrecked at Plainfield, 0., as a result of the storm and eight persons killed. * '• * Forty persons are reported to have been killed at St. Peters, Mo., by tornado. Town was practically destroyed. • * * Indianapolis was visited by a cyclone and three persons killed. *♦ ♦ ■ A national conference of bankers and farmers was held in the Hotel La Salle at Chicago. The session was devoted to agricultural educators, addresses being made by the heads of agricultural departments in various state universities. * * ♦ Thomas R. Marshall, vice-president of the United States, has been threatened with' death in more than a dozen anonymous letters which he has received during the last six weeks, j Vice-President Marshall made thfk statement at St. Louis.

Fifteen' persons were killed outright and three died later of injuries when an international railway trolley car jumped the track on the last curve at the boat landing and crashed into a tree, near Queenstown village, Ont. All the victims were Toronto people, who were part of three Sunday school picnics to Niagara Falls. Forty persons were hurt. Lawrenceville, Ky., was visited by a terrific windstorm and two persons were killed. * • • Frank Holt, the Cornell professor who shot J, P. Morgan in his home at Glencove, N. Y., committed suicide by? jumping from a jail window to courtyard. Holt ended his life after he knew that positive proof had been obtained that he was Doctor Muenter of Harvard, the wife-murderer, and that the house in Central Park, L. 1., where he had .stored 200 pounds of dynamite for the manufacture of bombs had been located and searched by the police. ■ _ * ■ Four expert cracksmen blew open the vault and safe at Midway Gardens, Chicago, after overpowering two watchmen, and escaped with $20,000. George Riddell, mayor of Grand Rapids, Minn., shot and killed himself at his home, according to announcement by the coroner. May6r Riddell was forty-five years old. He is survived by his widow and one child. By court decision the Bache-Denman Coal syndicate of eleven companies lost its $1,250,000 damage suit at Fort Smith, Ark., against union miners for destruction of mine property in the Prairie Creek mine riots. * • * The town of Wilmanock, Lancaster county, Virginia, was wiped out by Are, the loss exceeding $150,000. » * ♦ Paul Franzen, mechanician for William Carlson, a driver in the 250-mile Montamarathon race held on the speedway at Tacoma, Wash., was killed. Guy E. Ruckstell finished first in two hours and fifty-seven minutes. ♦ ♦ • A bomb was exploded adjoining the basement of the police headquarters at New York, directly under the detective bureau. Five prisoners were "hurt. ♦ » * The dedication of the $50,000 Royal Arch Mason hospital brought Masons to Sullivan, 111., fropi nearly every city in the state. Twenty thousand attended the dedication. . * * * Twenty-five thousand advocates of temperance gathered at Atlantic City for% war councils on the campaign -against the liquor traffic in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League of America and the Catholic Prohibition league are meeting separately, but these two bodies have similar aims and work together. i • • '• - Personal John M. Studebaker, only survivor of the five brothers who founded the Studebaker corporation at South Bend, Ind., has retired and has been sue-, ceeded by Frederick S. Fish as chairman of the board. Mr. Studebaker was president of the company. • * * Gen. Porfirio Diaz, former president of Mexico, died at Paris. Colonel Diaz, Jr., in announcing the death of his father, expressed the opinion that the ’cause was a complication of diseases, due to advanced age. Diaz was bom at Oaxaca September 15, 1830. For 35 years he ruled Mexico, all of that time, with the exception of four years, as its president. He remained in office until his resignation in 1911. * • • / Mexican Revolt Hand-to-hand fighting, spitting salvos of machine guns, cavalry charges, and the slaughter of many woman camp followers are revealed in dispatches carrying details of the battle between Villa and Carranza forces near \ ilia Garcia, midway between Paredon and Monterey. • ♦ * Foreign Seven men are dead after a cordite explosion at the plant of the Canadian Explosives company at Beloeil, Que. Ten persons were severely injured. ■ ■■ ♦ * • Premier Asquith announced in London the engagement of his eldest daughter, Violet, to Maurice Bonham, Mr. Asquith’s principal secretary. ♦. ♦ • Washington A deficit of over $10,000,000 In postal revenues is forecast by Postmaster General Burleson in a statement issued at Washington. ♦ • • An explosion caused slight damage in the public reception room of the senate wing of the capitol building at Washington. . The damage, which is confined almost exclusively to the reception room, was estimated by Superintendent Woods of the capltoj at about six hundred dollars. ■ * * ♦ ■■ ■ The Sayville radio station on Long Island will be taken over by the United States government and will be operated by the navy department in the interest of American neutrality, probably until the end of the war in Europe, it was announced at Washington. * * * The railroads traversing what is known as “Western Classification Territory’’ will receive practically all of the advance in rates for which they asked, it was announced unofficially at Washington.