Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News JMeager reports reaching London from various sources estimate The dead on the torpedoed Italian liner Ancona as high as 356, of which as naany as twenty-seven were Americans. •* ■ * The news of the Occupation of the coast district as far west as Kemtfiern means that defenses of Riga have been further improved, says a message from Petrograd. The Russian line now runs northwest, opposite Kemmern, across the marsh land, past Lake Babit to the River Dvina. The Overseas News agency of Berlin announced that the liner Ancona had been sunk by an Austrian submarine, "The Ancona attempted to escape and thus forced the submarine to use its guns." added the statement. • • • Seven thousand Serbian soldiers and fifty cannon were captured by the German troops who took the Serbian arsenal town of Kruxvac, the war office announced at Berlin. • • • Newspapers of Berlin, according to the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company at Amsterdam, say the allies have landed 300,000 men at Saloniki, Greece, and that the transports are still coming in. • • % At a recruiting meeting held at Toronto, Gen. Sir Samuel Hughes, minister of militia, announced that when the big drive for German territory started he Intended to lead the Canadian forces on their march to Berlin, which would start sooner than was at present dreamed of. * • * The Italian steamer * Ancona, bound from Genoa for New York, has been sunk in the Mediterranean by a sub marine flying the Austrian flag. The Ancona carried 422 passengers and a crew of 60, says a dispatch from Rome. Two hundred and seventy survivors have been landed at, Bi/.erta. on the North African coast Some of them were severely wounded. About 150 passengers have been lost. • » * Recapture from the Bulgars of the Serbian city of Veles, 30 miles southeast of Uskub. on the Nish-Saloniki railroad, is announced in a dispatch from Saloniki to the London Times. * * * The French steamship Yser, formerly the American steamer Dacia, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Algerian coast. The Dacia was purchased by Edward N. Breitung. a New York millionaire, and sent to Germany with a cargo of cotton. She was confiscated by France.

British steamers Buresk of 2,278 tons and the Glenmore of 1,636 tons have been sunk. The crews were saved Copenhagen reports the steamer Birget was sunk by a German submarine. * • * The small German cruiser' Undine Berlin admits, was torpedoed and sunk ,by a British submarine off the Swedish coast. The Undine was of 2,672 tons. Nineteen of the crew went down with the Undine and ‘ \ died later of wounds. * * * Domestic That justice for American citizens is more important than a desire to restore peace in Europe or keep the United States out of war, was the doctrine laid down by the executive council of the American Federation Of Labor in its report to the convention at San Francisco. * * * The injunction issued by Circuit Judge Claire Edwards of Waukegan, 111., restraining the state board of live commissioners from slaughteri Guernseys Durand was ignored and the catUeSlarin. under orders issued direct by Governor Dunne. • • * The supreme court at Topeka. Kan., held that the Webb-Kenvon and Ma- ' hin acts are constitutional, that their exercise is not a delegation of interstate commerce power. The decision means that the names of persons receiving liquor shipments in prohibition j Kansas are public property. •* * * i With returns from all counties in ; Kentucky totaled A. O. Stanley (Dem.) is elected governor by 366. Contests by Republicans in two counties involved 307 votes. By losing them the Democrats have won by 59 votes. * * • William R. Gray, assistant postmasj ter at Mount Morris, 111., was sen- ! teneed at Freeport. 111., by Judge K. M. Landis a year and one day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., on guilty plea of misappropriation of funds, • * • The senate of the Georgia legislature completed its part of the prohibition legislation by passing the antiadvertising bill which makes it unlaw- ' fwl to advertise liquor in any way in the state or solicit liquor orders.

Twelve persona were killed and more than one hundred injured, many of them seriously, in a cyclone which swept through the residence section of Great Bend, Kan. » • •' The Chicago & Northwestern railroad has granted an increase in wages and improved working conditions to station agents, telegraphers and lever men in interlocking plants, it was announced at Chicago. * * • With only the charred skeleton of No. 4 machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel company, at South Bethlehem, Pa., standing as the result of a fire, officials of the company began planning immediately for the extension of their capacity to its former figure. Estimates of the loss placed it in the neighborhood of $4,000,000.

Jewelry to the value of $20,000 belonging to Gen. Francisco Villa was seized at El Paso, Tex,, by customs officers. A charge of smuggling was entered against Jose Castro. • * • Foreign Yoshihito was crowned emperor of Japan at Kyoto in_a glittering ceremony which combined all the pomp of the modern world with the weird and impressive rites come down from the dim beginning of the national life. The emperor has really ruled since July 31, 1912, the day after his father, Mutsuhito, died. • • • A decree dissolving the Greek chamber was published at Athens, according to a dispatch to the London Daily Chronicle. • • • Nine hundred Irishmen who intended to sail from Liverpool for New York on the Cunard line steamship Saxonia were prevented by the steamship company from taking passage. Crowds took the view that able-bodied men should not be permitted to evade liability to milß -y jservice. */ • » M. Skouloudis, new premier of Greece, has declared his intention of observing an attitude of very benevolent neutrality toward the entente powers. * * * Personal Dr. Edward Lee Greene, perhaps the best known of American botanists, died in Providence hospital at Washington. He was for years connected with the Smithsonian institute in Washington and was a member of the faculty of Notre Dame university. Doctor Greene w r as seventy-two years old, having been born in Hopkinton, R. 1., in 1843. * * • Miss Adelaide Walsh of Chicago has been chosen to represent the Illinois State Association of Graduate Nurses at the National Red Cross meeting in Washington December 7. * * * Mrs. Thomas ,T. Dockery, a wellknown club woman in Missouri and a leading figure nationally in the Women’s Relief corps, is dead at her home in Kirksville, Mo., after a brief illness..

Peter A. B. Widener. veteran financier and for years a dominant factor in the street railways systems of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, died at Lynwood hall, his home in Elkins Park. Mr. Widener was eighty one years old. * • • Washington About twenty-seven Americans are believed to have been lost on the Ancona, according to a cablegram received by the state department at Washington from American Ambassador Page at Rome. Alexander Pattattivo, his wife and four children of New York and Mrs. Frances Mascola Lamura and about twenty unnamed third-class passengers perished. : 'V. * ■■ Secretary of State Lansing confirmed at M ashington press reports that M. DeleVal, counsel of the American delegation at Brussels, had been removed office as a result of a protest by the German government. * * * President M ilson and his advisers at Washington contemplate a special tax on munitions manufactured for export to raise funds for support of the administration program for preparedness, which is to cost $1,000,000,000. * * * In a note made public by the state department at W ashington, Germany makes emphatic denial that her government agents have manufactured fraudulent American passports. * * * X nited States Ambassador Page has been instructed by Washington to make a formal request for information from the British government relative to the action of a British cruiser in forcibly searching the American steamship Zealandia, while that ship was lying at anchor in the Mexican harbor at Progreso. * * * Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has been instructed by Washington to protest to the German government against detention of the American sailing ship Pass of Balmaha, which, after being seized by a British warship, was captured with the prize crew aboard by a German .submarine. * * * American marines have captured Fort Capois, Haiti, Admiral Caperton reports to the. navy department at Washington. He said there were no American casualties, but made no mention of Haitians..