Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

European War News ~ i"' Capture of the firs Wine positions over a front of 800 meters to the west of Vimy was reported by the war office at Berlin. Paris announces the repulse of a German attack in this region between Hill 119 and the Neuville road. * * * Two German sea planes raided the coast of Kent, dropping several bombs. No casualties have been reported to the war office at London. * • The number of Serbian troops which have reached the Island of Corfu Is estimated at 75,000 by a correspondent of the Petit Parisien, who says that In two days 100,000 Serbians will have arrived there and the evacuation of Albania will have been completed. -* * • The British liner Orissa, bound from Chilean ports to Liverpool, has been captured by the German commerce raiders, according .to information that reached Boston marine insurance writers. The German sea raiders have raised havoc with British shipping. • • * A total of 1,429,171 military prisoners are held by Germany, according to the Overseas News agency at Berlin. In addition, 19,700 cannon, 3,000 machine guns and 1,300,000 rifles fit for use. , ; a-: • * * The announcement in London that Earl Kitchener had been superseded as chief strategist, for the British army by Sir William Robertson, now chief of staff, was followed by reports that the hero of Khartoum 1b to leave the war office. Sir Robertson will remain in absolute charge of the direction of the expeditionary forces. « • * Domestic OasTeceipt of government flood and avalanche warning the Great Northern railroad discontinued operations of trains in the Cascade mountains, it was announced at Seattle. *- * • Restriction of immigration was indorsed by the Chicago Federation of Labor as its idea of “preparedness against foreign invasion" of tho United states.

Three workmen were blown to pieces when the gelatin-mixing plant at the DuPont powder mills near Tacoma, Wash., exploded. No trace of the three men has been found. , *■ * * Josiah V. Thompson, former millionaire coke and coal operator, was indicted at Pittsburgh. Pa., by the federal grand jury on 17 counts. The indictments grow out of Thompson’s alleged manipulation of the funds of the First National bank of Uniontown, which was wrecked last year. « * * * ' German Consul General Frapz Bopp was indicted in Sail Francisco by a federal grand jury in connection with the so-called Crowley plot to blow up munition plants and interfere with interstate commerce in munitions of war, according to a report received at the department of justice at Washington. Others indicted were::Baron E. H. von Fchaek. vice consul of Germany, and Maurice Hall, the Turkish consul general.

oer aid in e Farr a r .op era sin ge r, ari d . Lou Tellegen, actor, were married at New York at the home of Miss Farrar’s parents. Mr. arid Mrs. Sydney Farrar *• * ' Two trainmen were killed when the engine and tender of a Big Four passenger train plunged into the Wabash river. The dead are Engineer Frank Lancaster and Fireniari Oliver Hazelton, both of Mount Carmel, 111. * » • The Most Rev. George W. Mundelein came into his own as archbishop of Chicago amid what was declared to be the most, gorgeously brilliant ceremonies ever held in this Roman Catholic archdiocese. • • * A general strike of the jewelry workers in New York city was called at a meeting attended by more than 1,000 members of the union. The jewelers demand an eight-hour day. The diamond setters earn SIOO a week. * • * Big packing houses are behind powerful interests which he charges are manipulating t ie live stock market of the country, is tho belief of Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas, as expressed by him in an address before the Kansas Life Stock association at Wichita.

Representative Slemp made public at Washington a letter from Justice Hughes declaring: “I am opposed to the use of my name in connection with tho nomination and to the selection or Instruction of any delegates in my interest directly or remotely.’’ * • . Edward Holler, Alexander Aczell, Charles Houghton, Joseph O’Mara and Gjeorge Sovern, former city officials Of Terre election conspiracy case, were released from the Leavenworth (Kan.) penitentiary.

S. Mota, a Japanese navy steward, is being held at San Francisco as a witness at the court-martial of Lieut. H. former commander of the destroyer. He was on board the Hull when the code book disappeared. * • • The United States navy possesses the most effective torpedo in the world, according to an announcement at a meeting of the naval consulting board held at New York. There was also promised an aeroplane engine that is said to represent the last word in engine construction of that kind. * • • Foreign Dr. Anton Van Gijn has been appointed minister of finance for Holland. *.. • • Mails of the Dutch steamer Medan, which arrived at Rotterdam from New York, \frere taken off and held in England, sdys a dispatch to Amsterdam. * * * The factory in which Austria has been manufacturing the famous 305millimeter howitzers, was demolished by an explosion in the Skoda works at Pilsen, Austria’s principal arms factory, according to a dispatch to the Messagero at Rome. The casualties number 195. * • • Personal The death at Poland Springs, Me., of Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, for fifteen years one of the leading woman golfers in this country, was announced at Boston. Mrs. Wheeler was formerly Miss Mary B. Adams. * * • Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, former president of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, died at his London residence. He became president of the road in 3895. Sir Charles was finance minister of Egypt from 1877 to 1879. He was born in 1831. * * • John S. Sheehan, one-time leader of Tammany Hall and former police commissioner of New York, died at New York at the age of sixty-seven years. • • • Eugene Ellison, president of the Insurance Company of North America, dropped dead at Philadelphia. He was seventy-one years old. • * # Maj. Frederick H. Erbstein, receiver of taxes and a veteran of the Civil and Spanlsh-American wars, died at New York, aged sixty-nine. * * * William Peters Hepburn, former congressman, died at Clarinda, la., Mr. Hepburn was stricken with a sudden attack of heart and kidney trouble. Eighty-two years old and a member of congress from the Eighth lowa district from 1889 to 1909, Mr. Hepburn was famed as the author of the national railroad antipass law. ♦ * *

Washington The senate foreign relations committee at Washington voted unanimously to recommend ratification of the treaty establishing a protectorate over the republic of Haiti. • * * A cable dispatch left the state department at Washington directed to F. C. Penfield. ambassador at Vienna, instructing him to demand the punishment of another submarine commander. This time the offense charged against Austria is assault and robbery committed upon an American merchant steamer'on the high seas. The steamer is the tanker Betrolite. * * * Grave charges against I amis 1): Braudels, nominated by President Wilson as Supreme court justice, wero made in a public hearing before a subcommittee of the senate at Washington. Clifford Thorne, chairman of the lowa railroad commission, made the charge's. ■ * * ♦ Representative King introduced in the house at Washington a bill appropriating $300,000 for ail arms plant at or near Quincy, 111., for the manufacture by the government of firearms for the army. :* * * Private armor plate manufacturers notified the senate naval committee at Washington they would raise the price of armor plate S2OO a ton if congress decided to erect or purchase armor-plate factories for the government. The committee voted nevertheless, 9 to 3, to report favorably Senator Tillman's bill to authorize the secretary of the navy to provide an armorplate factory. The bill would appropriate $11,000,000. * *■ * Naval affairs were debated in the house at Washington for the first time and the Naval academy increase bill was passed by a vote of 175 to 0. The house also authorized the immediate use of $500,000 to equip Mare Island navy yard to begin building a dreadnaught and the expenditure of SIOO,000 to enlarge the facilities at the New York yard. Speaker Clark and Republican Leader- Mann took part in the debates, each favoring the naval bills. * * . Baron Zwledenik, Austrian charge d’affaires, called on Secretary Lansing at Washington and discussed the question of armed merchantmen. AustriaHungary objects to vessels entering and clearing from U. S. ports carrying mounted guns, * * • Complete control and supervision of the affairs of Haiti by the United States are provided for in the treaty negotiated by tho state department at Washington following American armed intervention to quell the insurrection in the negro republic last falL