Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News Erzerum, the great Turkish strong hold and key to Armenia, has fallen before the Russian Caucasus army un der the command of Grand Duke Nicholas. Unofficial dispatches to Petrograd say that the Turkish defenders, numbering 160,000 men, are in flight A large Russian army is pursuing the Turks. German field marshal, Baron von der Goltz, in command at Er zerum with 80,000 men, is reported cut off. • • » % Three hundred and seventy-four lives were lost when the French cruiser Amiral Charner was sunk off the Syrian coast. Dispatches from Paris confirming the loss of the cruiser said that only one man out of 375 aboard was saved. • * * Turkish troops advancing on the British port of Aden, the “Gibraltar oi the East,” inflicted a severe defeat upon British troops and forced them to retire at some points to the protection of warships’ guns, according tb advices received at Berlin. ♦ * * Nearly half a mile more of French trenches in Champagne were captured by the Germans, making an advance of a mile front in a violent battle lasting 48 hours. In addition to this the Germans captured 400 yards of trenches in the Vosges. » » * An Austrian aeroplane made a raid over Ravenna and the neighboring towns of Codigoro and Bottrighe, in northeastern Italy, near the Adriatic.; A Havre dispatch to Paris from Rome ; says 15 persons were killed and a 1 number wounded. • • * One of the forts of Erzerum has been captured by Rusians. An ofii \ cial report issued at Petrograd an ■ Bounces the first breach in the de, 1 senses of the Turkish stronghold of the Caucasus. ! . « * Domestic Former Senator Elihu Root s keynote” speech as temporary chairman of the state convention at New York to nominate delegates-at-large to the { Republican national convention, point ed to President Wilson s foreign pol- 1 icy as the main issue in the forthcom-! ing national campaign. The speech was demoted almost entirely to an at-! tack upon Mr. Wilson s record in his! ilealings with Mexico, and ttle Euro-! pean belligerents. *' » » I A t» niporary injunction restraining tiie Nebraska slatd railway cominis-, sion from interfering with a proposed increase in interstate passenger rates by the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific railroad was granted at Omaha, Neb., by a court in chancery consisting of three federal judges. ♦ ♦ .* I The battieship Oregon; “bulldog, of the navy." went on the retired list when she was turned over without formality to the naval militia of California at the Mare island navy yardDr. M'illiam Hiram Foulkes, general secretary of the Presbyterian board of ministerial relief and sustentatibn, wliicl is engaged in raising a fund of 510,000,000 for the pensioning of retired ministers, at Philadelphia the receipt of an anonymous gift of $75,000

President Wilson visited Portress Monroe and inspected the great guns that guard the entrance to Chesapeake bay. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, he landed from the naval yacht May flower. Nine persons were burned to death and fifteen people injured when a fire destroyed the opera house at Mexia, Tex., where the public schools were holding an art exhibit. Most of those burned to death were children caught in the panic. Professor Burton and Superintendent of Schools Weisner died while trying to save the children. * « « Mrs. Rose Wood, a young married woman, was shot and instantly killed on a crowded interurban car at Huntington, W. Va., by Mrs. Leonard Defoe, who declared Mrs. Wood had alienated her husband s affections. \ * ♦ * Fire in the Proctor hospital at Peoria, 111., threatened for a time to destroy the building. One hundred patients , were removed to places of safety. No one was injured and the property damage was small. -■♦ « « Fire which attacked the business district of Fall River, Masa, withjn an hour had destroyed fifteen blocks in the principal commercial section ol the city. The flames spread to the residential sections. ■• r - .••• - - 1 An agreed jury of only 11 men re turned a verdict of second degree murder against Mrs. Ida Meyer, sixty, at Winterset, la., who was charged with Complicity in the murder of het daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer.

Two city blocks in Fall River, Mass., were destroyed by fire. Sixteen buildings were burned. The loss was estimated at >2,000,000. • * • ■ New York will send its delegates at large—its Big Four—unpledged to the Republican national convention in June. The Big Four, selected in the Republican state convention in Carnegie hall, are: James Wadsworth, Jr., Charles S. Whitman, Frederick C. Tanner, Elon B. Brown. The platform advocates: “Complete preparation for the common defense." It condemns the administration’s policy in Mexico. It denounces the Philippine bill and demands revision of the tariff. ♦ • • r Authorities are investigating the causes of the mysterious >5,000,000 fire in 'the Atlantic basin, Brooklyn. Three large ocean steamships, chartered to carry munitions of war to the allies, were partially destroyed. * • • '■ •; ■,■

Twenty-one dead and missing sums up the extent of the fire that visited the depths of the Pennsylvania mine, one of the properties of the Anaconda Copper company at Butte, Mont. ♦ * * While en route from Babcock to Colquitt, Ga., in his automobile Claude Mathis, postmaster at Babcock, was so badly injured when the car turned turtle that he died ♦ • • The attempted assassination by poison of Archbishop Mundelein and 300 guests at the University club in Chicago was part of a world-wide plot of destruction by an anarchistic organization of tremendous power. These startling things became known to Captain of Detectives Hunt through translation of a number of letters found in the possession of John Allegrini, held on charges of conspiracy to murder. The Chicago campaign of fifteen local members included razing of big office buildings and churches. ; ■ ♦ ' • ■ Foreign Sari Petrass, the beautiful Hungarian actress, has been shot in Budapest as an English spy. This information was received via wireless by residents of Cleveland. • « • Pope Benedict has issued a decree at the Vatican in Rome to priests in all countries that hereafter at Sunday mass, after reading the evangel in Latin they shall repeat it in the language of their hearers. « • • Personal John Townsend Trowbridge, w r ho thrilled youths of the United States for 56 years with tales of adventure, died at Arlington, Mass. Mr. Trowbridge was born September 18, 1827, at Ogden. N. Y. * * •

Washington Two pension bills passed the house at Washington proposing in all the , addition of more than $2,500,000 annually to pension expenditures. One would grant pensions to the widows ’ of Spanish war veterans and the other bill would give S2O a month to survivors of Indian wars. \ I Sidney W. Winslow, president of the United Shoe Machinery company of Boston, admitted at the senate hearing at Washington that he has been actively hostile to Louis I). Brandeis for years; i* ♦ » The Lusitania case is held up and the entire question of submarine warfare reopened as a result of the German and Austrian declarations that armed merchantmen shall be sunk without warning, it was declared by a high official of the state department at Washington.

All hope for nation-wide suffrage legislation at the present session of congress at Washington was dispelled when- the house judiciary committee by a vote of 7 to 9 postponed until December 14, in the next session, all consideration of the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage constitutional amendment. Hi President Wilson formally gave his consent that his name be used as a candidate for reecmination. In a letter to the secretary of state of Ohio the president stated that he w’as unwilling to enter a contest for the nomination but was ready to permit the use of his name in the coming primary in order that the Democrats of Ohio might make known their preference. ♦ ♦ * Postponement of Philippine independence several years was the compromise plan put before congress at Washington. ♦ ♦ » Census bureau experts at Washington estimated that the population of the United States on January 1 last was 101,208.315 and that by July 1 it would be 102,017,302. ♦ * ♦ United States Ambassador George T. Marye, at Petrograd, Russia, has broken down under the war strain. He has decided that he must retire from the diplomatic service. Confidential advices received at Washington shy that the ambassador has resigned. * * * -By a vote of 39 to 23 the senate at Washington went on record as favoring congressional’ inquiry into the advisability of government ownership of public utii.'ties as against government regulation and control.