Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Moat Succinct Form for Quick Cansumption. European War News The Swedish minister in London has delivered to the British government a sharp protest against the perpetual molestation of Swedish commerce. Norway and Denmark support the protest • • • An official report issued at Paris announces progress for the French over a wide territory In the Argonne. A German statement issued at Berlin claimed the French had been defeated with a loss of 2,581 men as prisoners. • • • The Italians have captured two miles of Austrian trenches In the Carnic Alps, according to a dispatch received at Rome. In the house of lords at London the marquis of Lansdowne, a member of the cabinet without portfolios, stated that twenty-two or twenty-three British divisions (approximately 440,000 men) were now in France and Belgium. ■ V t * * The German emperor, according to the London Times, in a speech to bankers who had insisted on an interview in order to point out the financial difficulties attending the pursuance of the campaign through another winter, stated that the war will end In October.

• * * A squad of 35 French aviators dropped a total of 171 bombs of great size on the German station and the structures about it at Vigneulles-les-Hattonchatel. The aviators escaped. ♦ ♦ * The German protected cruiser Koenigsberg, 3,348 tons, which late last fall took refuge from the British fleet in the Rufiji river, in German East Africa, has been destroyed by British river monitors, according to an official announcement by the admiralty at London. * * » Germany is willing to make further proposals fb safeguard American travelers in the “war zone,” according to the foreign office at Berlin. ■■♦ • ♦ German troops have won a victory at Souchez cemetery after- a sharp conflict in which they made use of poisonous , gases to open the way to victory. ♦ * * All vessels belonging to the Messageries Maritimes which have been engaged in far eastern traffic are being transformed into transports to carry Russian troops to the Dardanelles. Domestic

I “Wiscohsin has been the ‘poison squad', long enough; the schemes have cost too much,” said Gov. E. L. Philipp of Wisconsin in addressing the State Bankers' convention at Milwaukee on “The Business Man and Politics.’’ Governor Philipp pleaded for greater interest in legislative matters on the part of business men. * • * I Wililam Hedrick, the father of .Mrs. Margaret Pease and George Hedrick of Des Moines, la., was not murdered by bandits in Taylor county, Captain L. S. McCoum declared at Bed- , ford, la. Instead he was shot by a squad of Union soldiers in 1862 who 'suspected the Missourian to be a spy of the Confederates inside their lines. ♦ * * I Under lowering skies that threatened rain during most of the cerel mony, the Illinois division of the Dixie highway was formally dedicated at Watseka, 111. • ♦ * Robert Hill, chief of police of Sesser, 111., died from injuries inflicted by an Italian named Campbello, when he attempted to get on a wagon loaded with ’beer. * ♦ *

A posse of citizens and officers shot and killed Peter Jackson, a negro accused of killing three white men near Cochran, Ga. * ♦ ♦ j Harry Kendall Thaw was declared sane by a jury in the supreme court at New York before Justice Peter Henl drick. Justice Hendrick will announce whether the commitment shall be vacated, thereby giving to the slayer his liberty. I*, * * ♦ John R. Lawson, labor leader convicted of murder in connection with strike disorder, was denied a new trial by Judge Granby Hillyer in district court at Trinidad, Colo. Lawson was sentenced to spend the remainder of his life in the state penitentiary. ♦ * * A tornado struck the grand stand at the Decatur (Ill.) baseball park. The entire roof of the grand stand was torn off, and a portion of it fell upon the crowd below. Many persons were badly bruised.

Post office inspectors seized account books and records of the Florida Everglades Land company at Chicago. An. Investigation is under way to learn if there has been a violation of the federal postal laws. '■ V; ■■ . ♦ • • More than 1,000,000 Catholics of Chicago and vicinity took part, directly or indirectly, in the funeral ceremonies for the Most Rev. James Edward Quigley, archbishop of Chicago. • * * Two thousand miners are on a strike in Belmont county, Ohio, after working only two months following a strike that lasted over a year. * • • The grand dodge of Elks opened Its session at Los Angeles, Cal., with the election of officers, a mere formality, which Installed James R. Nicholson of Boston as grand exalted ruler. • • • A fire within ten feet of 9,000 pounds of powder on the battleship New Jer-. sey at the Charlestown navy yard was extinguished by quick work of 75 of the crew. /.* . * Thomas E. Edison of West Orange, N. J., has accepted an invitation from Seretary Daniels to head an advisory board of civilian inventors for a bureau of invention and development to be created in the department. • • • Three men are known to be dead and four are hurt as the result of an explosion at the powder plant of the United Safety Powder company, near Jeffersontown, Ky * ♦ * A demand for “world peace’* to restore war-shattered Europe was voiced at the session of the Christian Endeavor world convention, held at Chicago, bj - a rising unanimous vote. '/• ' ♦ Daniel Leßoy Dresser, brother-in-law of the late George W. Vanderbilt, and once a noted financier, ehot himself in the head in the Delta Phi fraternity house of Columbia university at New York. ■• * * One hundred workmen, 20 guards and the Bridgeport police reserves took part in a riot at the new plant of the Remington Arms company at Bridgeport. Conn., where small arms for the allies will be made. * • * <■ ,

Foreign Despite the action of the govern- ' ment in applying the munitions of war i act to the coal mining industry it is I practically certain that a large num- ! her of men will stop work in South Wales, England, thus curtailing the supply of coal for naval vessels. *...*■* News from Athens and Sofia to i Rome says that the sultan has been dead several days and that the Young | Turks are hiding the news, fearing ' political complications. * ♦ * It is announced in London that Miss Violet Asquith, daughter of the premier, is ill with typhoid fever. It is hoped her illness will not prove serious enough to interfere with her marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter. *..*■* Flight Lieutenant Riley was killed while flying from Brighton, England, to the Shoreham aerodrome. A passenger /who accompanied him was injured. • * * ; Washington | Representations will be made by the ‘ state department at Washington to Great Britain asking that the thirtyone shiploads of American meat and meat products held up in British ports on their way to neutral destinations in Europe be either released or purchased. .// ' * • * Secretary Garrison announced at V ashington acceptance of the resignation of Lieut. Col. Odus C. Horney of the ordnance department and Maj. William A. Phillips of the infantry, each of whom is to enter the service of private concerns engaged in the manufacture of munitions of war. * • • Orville Wright is scheduled to join Thomas A. Edison among the members of the civilian advisory board of inventors Secretary Daniels is organizing, it was understood in navy circles at Washington. • • • The first official announcement of the immediate plans of President Wilson for dealing with the situation that has arisen between Germany and the United States came in a telegram from Cornish, N. H, to Secretary Tumulty at Washington, stating that the president would return soon to lay the entire subject before his cabinet • • *

Sporting James A. Gilmore, president of the Federal league, will remove from Chicago to New York within two weeks. This announcement means that thp warfare against organized baseball by the new league will center in Gotham. It also foreshadows the entrance of the league into the metropolitan district. • ♦ ♦ ' Personal Broken-hearted over the failure of his last book, “The Open Door to Independence," to come up to expectations, Thomas E. Hill, eighty-three years old, author and agriculturist, died at his home in Glen Ellyn, 111. • • • Joseph Austin Holmes, director of the federal bureau of mines at Washington and a widely kflown geologist, died at his home at Denver, Colo., of tuberculosis.