Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

European War News Italian troops have begun landing on Albanian territory to go to the help of Serbia, according to a Chiasso dispatch to the Journal La Suisse. The Italian fleet is bombarding Dedeagatch. ♦ * ♦ Serbian forces rallying at Mount Zetovaty in central Serbia have inflicted a serious defeat upon the Bulgars and opened the way to Leshovac, according to a statement by the Serbian legation at Paris. • • • Notable progress for the Germans in the region southeast of Prishtina, Serbia, with the capture of 9,500 Serbians, 44 cannon and 22 machine guns, was announced by German army headquarters at Berlin. • * * Ten thousand Bulgars have been killed and wounded in fighting for Monastir. • • • Beaten by Turks, a British force of 170,000 has been thrown back from Bagdad, it was learned at Berlin. The British were within ten miles of Bagdad, threatening a railroad terminal on which the Germanic allies were depending for an offensive later against the British in Egy pt by way of Suez. • * « The unbridled fury of the battle for possession of Goritz and the heavy loss of life occasioned thereby are emphasized by advices received at the Swiss frontier from Laibach, Austria. It is said thousands of dead or wounded men are lying between the Austrian and Italian lines.

• • • A Turkish transport with 500 troops on board has been sunk in the Sea of Marmora with the loss of a majority of those on board, according to a Central News agency dispatch to London from Zurich. The troopship was sunk by’a mine. •: » • • • A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Rotterdam says: “One of Germany’s newest dreadnaughts struck a mine in the Baltic and went to the bottom. All the members of the crew were saved except thirty-three, who were drowned." • • • Copies of the Persian newspaper Hovbehar, received at Berlin, says a Persian force of 4,000 strong recently attacked the Anglo-Indian troops at Bulvar, near Bushire, and killed 550. • • • According to special reports from the front to Berlin the number of Serbians made prisoners during the last week was 26,000. The Serbians lost more than 500 cannon. German troops of the army of General von Koevess have occupied Novipazar, Serbia. ■ ' ■' • * • The complete commercial anlTeconomlc blockade against Greece, it was learned in London, was the first step taken by the allies to force compliance with the demand made by Earl Kitchener on King Constantine that Greece either join the allies, in accordance with her treaty obligations and promises, or demobilize her army at once. • • • Austrian aviators threw 15 bombs on Udine, Italy, killing twelve people and wounding twenty-seven, according to an official announcement made by the Italian war office at Rome. Another squadron of aeroplanes dropped bombs on Verona and Vicenza, in the Italian province of Venetia and on Grado. - Domestic Ten thousand telegrams bearing the signature of Miss Jane Addams, president of the Woman’s Peace party, were sent from Chicago as the first step in a mothers’ movement for a conference of neutral nations in the interest of international peace. • • • Captain Boy-Ed, naval attache to the German embassy, was accused in federal court at New York of being the dispenser of German funds in this country and riding rough shod over the laws of the land. The accusation was made by Assistant United States District Attorney Roger Wood at the opening of the trial of four officials of the Hamburg-American line. • • • The trial of William Lorimer, former United States senator, in connection with the wrecking of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, will begin January 15, it was announced at Chitego by Maclay Hoyne, state’s attorney. • • • Capt. P. D. O’Brien, chief of detectives of Chicago, was suspended following a preliminary investigation by the civil service commission of a police slush fund purported to have been collected for the defense of John J. Halpin. ,• • • Announcement was made at New York by the National City bank of the formation of a $50,000,000 company to develop the foreign trade of the Unjt'ed States. Back of it are the most ij* werful banking interests of this CUtunijr feliU itMucib 1U UiUttf iiiiaa

Five so-called night riders and two private detectives were wounded in a pitched battle fought in the center of a marsh a mile southwefet of Clarkton, Mo. Seven of the night riders were captured. The night raiders are tenants and farm laborers who demand higher wages and lower food prices. • • • Ten persons are dead and twelve were injured as the result of a collision on the Central of Georgia railroad about eight miles from Columbus, Ga. Passenger train No. 2, from Birmingham to Macon, collided headon with a special train carrying the Con T. Kennedy Carnival company from Atlanta to Columbus. • • • . Four officials of the Hamburg-Amer-ican line went on trial before Judge Howe in the criminal branch of the federal district court at New York. They are charged with making oath to false clearances and manifests. The government alleges the real purpose of the defendants was to coal and supply German commerce raiders. • • • Seven votes majority for prohibition out of a total vote of nearly 3,000 was announced at Alexandria, La., as the result of the official canvass of Tuesday’s local option election in Rapides parish. • • • Judge W. W. Clemmens, former state’s attorney and city judge of Marion, 111., committed suicide on Friday as a result of neuritis. He shot himself to death. Judge Clemmens was seventy-six years of age. He was a first cousin of the late “Mark Twain."

The selection of Newark, N. J., for the 1916 convention of the National League of Compulsory Education Officials and the unanimous re-election of all officers featured the closing session of that organization at Milwaukee. William L. Bodine of Chicago retained the office of president. • • • A contract for the manufacture of $26,000,000 worth of rifles for the Russian army has been practically closed by Cleveland capitalists and New York munitions brokers, according to an announcement made at Cleveland. “Guilty, as charged in the indictment,” is the verdict of a jury which has been trying Charles B. Munday at Morris, 111., for conspiracy to wreck the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings bank and its affiliated institutions. His punishment was fixed at five years’ imprisonment. • • • ■■ The Illinois Manufacturers' association, believing the psychological moment has arrived for active co-opera-tion with congress, has called a tariff conference for December 7, to be held In Chicago. • • • Sporting Johnny Kllbane, featherweight champion, had an easy time in ten rounds with Packey Hommey of Milwaukee at Toledo, O. • • • Foreign Bad blood between the Thirty-third battalion, Canadian expeditionary force, and the London, Ont., police culminated in serious rioting. For three hours squads of police fought hundreds of soldiers. Several soldiers and five policemen were injured. • • • The Ribe-Stifts Tidende of Copenhagen says the huge new Zeppelin Z-18, while being inflated at Tondern, exploded and was totally destroyed. One workman was killed and eight wounded. The explosion was caused by a lighted cigar. * ♦ • A Serbian major made an unsuccessful attempt against the life of Premier Pachitch of Serbia at Raska, according to the Budapest newspaper Ahlllas. The major was tried by courtmartial, sentenced to death and executed. ♦ • • Washington Henry Ford, with Louis Lochner of Chicago, called on President Wilson at the White House in Washington in support of the movement for a neutral conference to attempt to end the European war and establish a permanent peace. He told the president he considered Christmas the best time for such a movement and asserted that there was material evidence that a conference would be successful. • • * President Wilson’s next annual address to congress, it was learned at Washington, will be devoted primarily to a discussion of national defense and the subject of revenues, though it will refer to other legislative questions which the president expects congress to act on. Secretary Daniels of Washington disapproved the findings of the general court-martial which acquitted Rear Admiral William N. Little, retired, of charges of negligence in connection with his duty as inspector during the construction of the submarine K-2. • • « An unceasing watch has been kept on the railway tunnel under Capitol Wil, leading to Washington’s $18,000,000 Union station, used by all railways entering and leaving the national capital. The tunnel is being guarded as a precaution against bomb plotters. » » • Orders designating 1,875,000 acres in California and 830,000 acres in South Dakota for entry in the enlarged homestead act were approved by Secretary Lane of the interior department at Washington The act permits entry in 3zu-acre lots.