Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 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 Mort Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Moat Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. European War News Sonnlno announced in parliament at Rome that Italy had signed the London pact of September 5, providing for no separate peace, and that assistance would be sent to Serbia. These announcements were greeted with tremendous cheers. » » » An official report given out at the Bulgarian army headquarters says: "Bulgarian troops, after a short and decisive engagement, took Prisrend and made prisoner between 16,000 and 17,000 Serbians. They also captured 50 cannon." • » • Monastir was formally surrendered to the Bulgarians, according to an Athens dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. • • •' The Vienna war office communication says: “On the Italian front it becomes clearer that the Italians will, at all costs, force a victory near Goritz if it is at all possible to do so.” ** . * British casualty lists published in London during November total 1,232 officers and 45,184 noncommissioned officers and men in all fields of war. bringing the total since the beginning of hostilities up to approximately SOu,000. ♦ ♦ ♦ While the entente cause in the Balkans received a serious blow in Roumania’s reported decision to bar Russian activities against Bulgaria, the advance of the Teutonic and Bulgarian continued on both fronts in Serbia. Bulgarian forces have captured Prisrend.

German submarines in the Mediterranean sank the French steamers Algerien and Omara, and the British steamer Tunis. Twenty-nine persons are missing. • ♦. ♦ The American oil tank steamer Wico, which sailed in July from Philadelphia for Stockholm, was seized by a German warship in the North sea and taken into Stettin, where her cargo of oil was discharged, says a cable to New York. Domestic William F. Walker, former treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain, Conn., who was sentenced to prison for embezzlement of about half a million dollars of the bank's funds, was paroled by the board of pardons. * * • The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway passenger train No. IS was wrecked by a broken rail a mile east of Freeman, Wash. One brakeman was killed and three passengers were injured. • • * New York city now has 5.257,885 inhabitants. These figures were made public as the result of the census recently undertaken by the police department at the request of.the health commission. * • * A man with sixty-five feet of fuse wrapped around his body was arrested at Penns Grove, N. J., in the vicinity of the Qjrney’s Point plant of the Du Pont Powder company. The authorities are holding him for investigation. • • * Thirty masked men entered the jail at Henderson, Ky , took Ellis Buckner, a negro who was arrested for detaining Mary Hardin, and carried him down to the river front, where he was hanged. •.-■ * ,* Grain trade of Canada is paralyzed, as the Canadian government has commandeered all No. 1, 2 and 3 northern wheat in terminal elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur, some 20,000,000 bushels, and, it is understood, will extend seizure to other parts of western and eastern Canada. Action was taken at the request of the British government. The object of the seizures was to stop speculative price fixing. The price has been fixed at $1.04. • • • The hunting season has closed With a death list of 59. Statistics covering 18 states show that 66 were injured during the year. The fatalities were only half of what they were a year ago, when the final score showed 111 dead and 162 wounded. • • • Andrew Strutzel, proprietor of a garage in the heart of the business district at Joliet, 1111., was injured perhaps fatally and property damage of more than SIOO,OOO was done by a fire which followed a gasoline explosion in the garage. • • • Seventy-two saloons of Hibbing and Chisholm in Minnesota must close at once as a result of the denial of a temporary injunction restraining agents of the federal Indian bureau from enforcing the treaty of 1855.

A recess adjournment has been taken by the Illinois legislature until February 23. The legislature cleaned up all the emergency appropriation bills. • • • Thirty men were killed and seven persons injured fatally in an explosion in the Pellet packhouse of the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours powder factory at Wilmington, Del. • • • Washington It was officially announced at the state department at Washington that this government has cabled Ambassador Page at London, requesting him to ask the British foreign office if it is true that Britain intends to requisition American ships before prize courts have passed on their seizure. • • • Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois was re-elected unanimously ‘‘whip" of the Democrats in the senate at Washington by the caucus of Democratic senators. President Wilson has received at Washington assurances from congressional leaders that there will be no serious opposition to a general revision of the neutrality laws of the United States. • • • The interstate commerce commission at Washington made final its order for big eastern railroads to divorce themselves from their great lakes steamship lines by refusing the request of the trunk lines for a rehearing. • • • Announcement was made by the papal legation at Washington that at the next consistory the pope would appoint Rt. Rev. George William Mundelein, bishop of Brooklyn, archbishop of Chicago to succeed the late Archbishop Quigley. The consistory is to be called soon, probably before Christmas. Rt. Rev. Mgr. George W. Mundelein, S. T. D., is forty-three years old. He was born in Brooklyn in 1872 and comes of an old American family.

The German embassy at Washington, according to information from an authoritative source, resents the accusations which are understood to have been made against Capt. Karl Boy-Ed, German naval attache, in the trial in federal court at New York of officials of the Hamburg-American line. • • • At the conference of senate Democrats at Washington, Senator Kern of Indiana was re-elected chairman of the senate caucus committee and floor leader by unanimous vote. Senator Pittman of Nevada was -elected secretary. • • » Personal Charles Edward Rucker, seventythree, a member of Maximilian's expedition from Austria, died at San Diego, where he had lived since the overthrow of Maximilian’s regime. He was born in the United States. » » * William F. Clark, seventy-four, the oldest prohibition editor in the United States, is dead at Indianapolis from heart disease. A widow and three children survive him. • • • ' William E. Bemis, multimillionaire, vice-president and director of the Standard Oil company, died suddenly of heart disease at his summer home at Glenspey, N. J. • • • Jane Addams is seriously although not critically ill in the Presbyterian hospital at Chicago. Miss Addams has been actively interested in various plans for peace and has been under considerable strain. • • • William P. Hepburn, congressman from the Eighth lowa district from 1889 to 1909, is reported dangerously ill from heart and kidney troubles at his home in Clarinda la. Mr. Hep-f burn is eighty-two years old. • • « Sporting Elmer Oliphant, a western man who learned all his football at Purdue university, won honor and glory for West Point at the Polo grounds in New York by defeating the Navy eleven in their annual game, 14 to 0. Oliphant scored all the points for his team.