Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. European War Mews One thousand volunteers going to Italy to serve in the army were passengers on board the steamship Dante Alighieri, sailing from New York Wednesday for Naples and Genoa. • • • Extraordinary activity, in which the allies are taking the offensive, has been renewed along the Belgian coast. According to a dispatch from Amsterdam, a French warship has bombarded Zeebrugge, the German submarine base. • • • The Russians are delivering strong counter-attacks with great forces on practically every important front In the eastern theater, and the German gains, despite the arrival of large reenforcements of men and material, have been small, says a London cablegram. • • • According to a London dispatch Wednesday, German submarines, swarming British waters in a renewed campaign to sweep ships bearing food and supplies to England from the" seas, have sunk 25 vessels within the last two days. * * • While the battles from the Baltic provinces to Galicia continue with unabated fury, the Austro-Germans have been able to make little progress in the past twenty-four hours, says a London dispatch. At many points the Russians have turned, and by means of counter-attacks are keeping the Germans busily engaged in holding the positions they have gained. * * • By the conquest of a system of strongly fortified German hilltop trenches which overlooked the position of the French on the slopes of tke ridge stretching from Lingskopf to Barrenkopf in the Vosges, the French dominate the principal valley of the Feeht, according to a London cable • * * A dispatch from Villach, transmitted via Laibach and Geneva, states that Italian troops have captured two miles of the fortifications around Gorki ' . i.d are encircling the city after driving the Austrian defenders beyond the bridge in a violent combat. • • * The destruction of the American steamer Leelanaw, which was torpedoed by a German submarine while eh route ffotu Archangel to Belfast, is viewed in Washington as a violation of sacred treaty obligations imposed upon the German government by existing treaty stipulations between the United States and Prussia. * * • Within 48 hours after the German foreign office had received President Wilson’s latest note on submarine warfare, says a London dispatch, a German undersea boat torpedoed and sank the American steamer Leelanaw off the coast of Scotland. Her crew was landed at Kirkwall, Scotland. * * * The total casualties suffered by the Canadian expeditionary force in Europe was officially announced at Ottawa as 10,380, divided as follows: Killed, 1,822; wounded, 6,641; missing, 1,917. * ' * .* Monte San Michele is now almost entirely evacuated by the Austrians and occupied by strong lines of Italian infantry, according to a Milan report. The Italian batteries now can command nearly all the Austrian lines of communication behind Goritz. ; * * Five thousand dollars each, for the first ten dirigible balloons destroyed, while in the air, is the prize offered to the British airmen by Baron Michelham of London. * • * Domestic All beverages containing any proportion of alcohol will be refused shipment into Arizona by an agreement of all railroads entering the state, says a San Francisco dispatch. * * *■ Secretary William C. Redfield of the department of commerce arrived in Chicago Tuesday and will take charge of the Inquiry which his department is making into the Eastland disaster. He came to Chicago upon suggestion of President Wilson. * * • Investigation of the Eastland disaster by State’s Attorney Hoyne and Coroner Hoffman, at Chicago developed proof that approximately 3,000 persons were aboard the excursion steamer when she turned over and sank in the river Saturday morning. • • • Gov. Charles S. Whitman at Albany, N. Y., who now alone has the power to save Becker from the electric chair, declared that the convicted former police lieutenant must go to his death Friday morning.

The coroner's jury at Chicago, investigating the Eastland disaster, ordered six men held to the grand jury on the charge of manslaughter. Two of the men are officials of the boat company, two officers of the ship, and two government inspectors. They are: Walter K. Greenebaum, William H. Hull, Robert Reid, Charles Eckliff, Harry Pedersen and J. W. Erickson. * * » A hurricane passed over the northern part of Richland county, Wisconsin, Thursday, totally destroying West Lima and half of Bloom City. John Piazzeke was drowned trying to cross a bridge. • • * Property loss estimated at $300,000 was sustained at Rock Springs, Wyo., when a flood resulting from a cloudburst rushed through the city. • • • Extensive damage was done near Olean, N. Y., Thursday by a severe storm. * * # The Standard Oil strike at Bayonne, N. J., was broken when 1,800 men returned to work. The other 2,400 strikers, who have been out for a week, probably will go back in a day or so. The home of a foreman of Dallas, Tex., saddlery, making a half-million dollar order for the British, was dynamited Tuesday night. He and his son were badly injured. • * • Divers abandoned their work on the Eastland wreck in the Chicago river Tuesday night. At that time the identified dead numbered 825, the unidentified dead four and the Western Electric company listed 488 as missing, making a total of 1,317. Work of floating the boat was begun. • • * Foreign News from Berlin says the American embassy is specially guarded since the latest American note, the authorities fearing a hostile demonstration. * * * American marines were landed at Port au Prince, Haiti, Wednesday to protect the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners. * * • Many persons have been drowned and considerable damage was done by floods on the Island of Hokkaido in Korea, according to a Tokyo cablegram. *■ * * The Norwegian steamer Avers, tim-ber-laden from Frederikstad for England, has been captured by a German submarine and taken into Cuxhaven. * * * The sailing of the Red Star liner Lapland, from Liverpool for New York, has been postponed. The Lapland was scheduled to sail Wednesday. « * * Sporting W. A. Lenders of Chicago, national amateur motorcycle champion, was killed at Sacramento, Cal., Sunday afternoon while racing in the 25-mile amateur championship event under the auspices of the Federation of American Motorcyclists. e * * Personal D. Russell Greene, the last of the family that founded Truax, Greene & Co., of Chicago, was killed Tuesday night when his automobile skidded while speeding on a road near Dyer, Ind., and turned over ** • ■ Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford Dictionary, died at Oxford.

Mexican Revolt Capt. Silva Villa, an officer of the Nogales, Sonora, garrison, shot and killed Capt. Manuel Murillo, Governor Maytorena’s paymaster, in a case at Nogales, Mex. Villa was arrested. * * * Two million rounds of 30.30 caliber ammunition passed through the American customs house at El Paso, Tex., Sunday for General Villa’s army. The ammunition was immediately shipped to Torreon on a special train. • • • William A. Lamkey, formerly attached to the United States aviation corps, was killed while flying over General Obregon’s forces Tuesday morning, according to a dispatch from Aguascalientes. * * * Washington Great Britain’s reply* to the American note of March 30, protesting against enforcement of the orders in council which restrict neutral commerce, was received at Washington. It holds that the orders are within international law, although they may involve a new application of principles, and argues that it is proper to await a judicial interpretation. A Washington dispatch says a general investigation of the steamboat Inspection service is to be made under the direction of. Secretary Redfleld of the department of commerce as soon as the pending inquiry of the Eastland .disaster is completed. >*■ • . • According to a Washington dispatch the formation of an initial army of defense of 500,000 to 600,000 men is the subject of frequent conferences between officials of the army war college and war department experts.