Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

PIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Event* of Moment In All Parts of the World—. Of Interest to All the People Everywhere. European War New J Germany’s submarine war against British shipping was opened on scheduled time. Before noon word reached London of the torpedoing of two merchantmen. They were the Thornsby, 1,782 tons, and the Malvina, 1,244 tons. All the members of the crew of the Thornsby were killed. * * * Germany has sent an ultimatum to Portugal, demanding the restoration within forty-eight hours of the German ships recently seised by that country, according to a dispatch from Madrid to London. A German declaration of war against Portugal 1* imminent. • • • More than 900 lives were lost in the Kinking of the French auxiliary cruiser La Provence, formerly in service as a transatlantic liner, in the middle Mediterranean. Four hundred survivors were landed at Milo, while 296 of the crew have arrived at Malta, according to an official statement issued at Paris. It is believed the liner was torpedoed. • • * Germany's second and greatest submarine campaign opened on March 1. It will be directed against armed merchant ships of the entente powers. Naval officials in Berlin expressed the belief that it would be even more successful than the campaign which opened a year ago. • * * Italy’s act of requisitioning thirtyfour of the thirty-seven German ships interned in Italian ports, as announced in the house of commons at London, is interpreted as corroborating a report that the Italian cabinet has decided to declare war on Germany, • -* * The Turks are hastily evacuating the important Black sea port of Trebltond and neighboring citie* before the Russian advance, according to Tiflis dispatches at Petrograd • * « British casualties in all the uar areas for the month of February showed a total of 739 officers and 17,847 men, It was announced at London. • • * The loss of part of another important position protecting Verdun, a posh tion almost as important as Fort Douaumont. is admitted in the official report given out In Paris. Part of the Cote de Poivre (Pepper heights) hss been seized by the kaiser’s troops. * * * Nuri Bey, brother of Enver Pasha, Turkish war minister, was killed in the battle between British South African troops and Turkish-led tribesmen In western Egypt, according to a report of the fighting received at Lxm .don. '■ ■ • ' ♦ The sinking of the hospital ship MarechiE.ro near San Giovanni di Medua, Albania, is reported in a dispatch to London. The vessel struck a mine. There were numerous victims, < ♦ » ♦ The Peninsular and Oriental line steamship Maloja, 12,431 tons gross, was sunk in the Straits of Dover by a mine. Qhe hundred Arid fbrty-seven persona perished, of whom 117 were Lascars, The steamship Empress of Fort William, while attempting tc rescue the survivors of the Maloja, struck another mine and sank in less than a half hour. The crew was saved. * » * Austro-Hungarian troops took full possession of the Albanian port of Durazzo, according to an official announcement made at Vienna. Romo dispatches reported that all Italian troops have been withdrawn from Durazzo. ♦• » ■ Domestic A letter was sent to Secretary of State Stevenson at Springfield, 111., by Theodore Roosevelt's secretary at New York, announcing that the colonel's name must not appear on the presidential primary ballot in Illinois. • • ♦ President Wilson's policy, especially as regards the European war, was eulogized by former Governor Glynn of New York In an address to the Democratic state conference at Syracuse, IT. Y. •• * • The condition of Dr. James B. Angell, aged president emeritus of the University of Michigan, who has been ill at Ann Arbor, Mich., for several weeks, became critical. Physicians practically have abandoned hopes of h’ 4 recovery. * • • ; A sleejtipg sickness in a new form lots developed at Oconto, Wls., but Xkwra Henderson, the victim of the loosest sleep on record tn Wisconsin, hit recovered. Five others have been 01 of the earns mysterious complaint, three died.

A co-operative committee representing women’s organizations tn Minneapolis, announces after an investigation that recent startling revelations of vice conditions in that city “only skim the surface of actual conditions.” . • • • Plans of United States fortifications have been found in the possession of Richard von Arend and Rudolph von Kracht, two young Germans arrested at New York on a charge of operating the malls to swindle, according to Assistant United States District Attorney E. W. McDonald. • • • Henry Siegel, New York banker and department store merchant, whose tenmonths’ sentence in Monroe county penitentiary expired, was rearrested at Rochester, N. Y. Three men were injured when a compression air tank which they were testing aboard the new U. S. dreadnaught Nevada at the Fore River Shipbuilding company's plant at Quincy, Mass., exploded. Two were killed and two fatally hurt when an automobile struck a street car at Milwaukee. Doctor Eisen and Hans Streader were killed. •' • • A quantity of paste oil in the dock in which the superdreadnaught Nevada was lying at Quincy, Mass., caught fire and flames shot up 100 feet about the warship. The Nevada, however, was undamaged. • •• Mayor Thompson of Chicago, who swept into office eleven months ago by a plurality of 147,000 vates, was unsuccessful In his effort to sweep the “Rebel Nine” out of the city council. • • • Thirteen men are dead and fifty-two have been brought safely from mine No. 42 of the Davis Coal and Coke company, near Kempton. W. Va., where a dust explosion occurred. • • • The robbery of four valuable registered mall packages became known at New York. The packages were stolen from mall pouches. One of the stolen packages contained $200,000. * * • Two men are dead as a result of a fire which consumed a construction camp tent at Cleveland, O. • • » Mrs. Katherine Vance Harrison, fif-teen-year-old bride of Charles Harrison, nephew of United States Sena tor Charles Culberson of Texas, is alleged to have confessed that she shot and killed W. R. Warren, a hotel proprietor at Fort Worth, Tex., claiming that he had wronged htfl- before her marriage, . * • * • Robert N. Walters, chief gunner's mate, and B. M. Bixby were drowned when a rowboat was dashed against a pier in Lake Michigan at the United States Naval Training school at North Chicago, DI. More than 100 men at the Edison phenol plant went on strike al Silver Lake, N. J., for five cents more per hour. They were employed in the carbolic department. ♦• • • Mexican Revolt

Brig. Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of: Porfirio Dlaz. lißs landed a military expedition in Mexico, according to a state nient made by a close personal friend of General Diaz at New York. Gen oral Diaz is now at the head of a force in the field against General Carranza. » • • Washington With Germany's inaugurating her new program of sinking all aimed merchant ships without wa tiling, President Wilson put the maiLrof American tights at h‘-a up to congress at Washington. In a letter to Repre-' sentative Pou the president urged an early vote on the resolution proposing to warn Americans not to sail on armed merchantmen. ♦ • * Federal Steamboat Inspectors Robert Reed and C. C. Eckltff, who placed the government’s O. K. on tbe illfated Eastland, and who were suspended some time after the excursionboat horror at Chicago, were ordered reinstated by Secretary Redfield at Washington. Germany and Austria Hungary have answered President Wilson’s letter, to Senator Stone by a note presented to the state department at Washington by the German ambassador and concurred in by the Austro-Hungarian charge d'affaires, announcing that their submarines will sink on sight armed merchantmen encountered upon the high seas. Rear Admiral Austin M.- Knight, president of the navy war college, in outlining steps necessary to make the United States fleet the strongest afloat by 1925, at Washington, said the entire shipbuilding facilities of the nation should be immediately set to producing enough vessels to round out the fleet. • • • The senate at Washington unanimously ratified the Haitian treaty which gives the United States a virtual protectorate over the “black republic.” Under the treaty the United States will organize a constabulary in the republic and will administer the finances of the nation. Foreign The Norwegian ship Ander, laden with coal pit props, has gone ashore in Blyth bay and is a total wreck. Four lives were lost.